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May 16, 2008
Spinach, Swiss and Vidalia Quesadillas
Yesterday for lunch I wanted something Mexican and the more I thought about it the more quesadillas kept popping into my head. I had some Swiss cheese, I had picked up some Vidalia onions the day before and I needed to thin out my spinach window box (you can't get more local than your own front porch!) so I decided to put them together, along with some whole wheat tortillas and make a quick lunch.
What You'll Need per Person:
2 whole wheat tortillas
1/4 of a Vidalia onion, cut into strips (Note: Any kind of onion will work.)
1-2 cups of baby spinach leaves, julienned
Extra virgin olive oil
A pinch of sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
A pinch of cayenne pepper
1 ounce of Swiss cheese, shredded
Preheat oven to 450 F.
Heat a large skillet over medium heat and sauté onion and spinach leaves in a little extra virgin olive oil with a pinch of sea salt, some freshly ground black pepper and some cayenne pepper until tender. Remove the sautéd veggies and set aside.
Wipe out the skillet and heat over high heat until hot. Spray with non stick spray and place a tortilla into the skillet. Cook for 1-2 minutes until the side down is golden browned and then remove from the skillet and place the browned side down on a cutting board. Give the skillet another spritz of non stick spray and repeat the procedure with the other tortilla.
While the second tortillas is cooking place the sautéd veggies on top of the tortilla that is resting on the cutting board. Top veggies with cheese. When the second tortilla is browned add it browned side up on top of the other tortillas. Carefully place the tortillas on a baking pan so as not to loose any of the filling and bake for 3-4 minutes to let the cheese melt and blend with the other ingredients.
Remove from the oven. Let sit for 2 minutes and then cut into wedges. Serve with sour cream and/or salsa.
Notes: You can add other things to the filling. Mushrooms work well, so do bell peppers. If you want you can add beef, chicken and/or shrimp. The filling is completely up to you.
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lOOK AT THAT CHEESE JUST WAITING TO RUN OUT THERE....iNDEED A LOVELY QUICK MEAL.
Posted by: nina at May 17, 2008 5:17 AM
They were really good. I'll be making them again soon I'm sure. :o)
Posted by: Dianne at May 17, 2008 9:50 AM
We always use the same cheese for our quesadillas. It's time for a change. Thanks for the inspiration.
Posted by: mickey at May 17, 2008 11:01 PM
I normally use cheddar or Monterrey Jack, but I was out of both so I thought I'd switch things up a bit. I really liked the way it turned out.
Posted by: Dianne at May 18, 2008 8:43 AM
Lavash bread is also really good for this recipe. Yumm
Posted by: BK at May 18, 2008 3:55 PM
Interesting idea! I'll have to try that. :o)
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I know you probably get these topics all the time and I'm sorry if I am just another one of those lol ... I have been in a LDR with Master for close to two years. From the very get go I had always stated that I wanted to be mistress of my house with only his as my master, he could use my pets when he choose to. He agreed to this and we talked about being able to love more than one person at a time which I have felt before. We are getting closer to me being able to be in the same state as him which would be awesome cos I cant see it working any other way. I am now really worried about his attitude towards everything. As I am his submissive I do serve him with my complete mind body and soul, but as I always say, thats why I want to remain a sub rather than slave to have my own thoughts and opinions ... Lately he has been saying things along the lines of "I am quite happy being single or not having LTR" He wants to live his way of having many female partners (I'm bisexual so I'm all for that) but now it seems that rather than the way I viewed it in the house with a strict D/s boundary that he wants it in vanilla terms, when he wants or I go .... his way or the highway. We have had one trust issue in the past that was my causing which i wont get into other than to say that I am totally over that now and moved onto a point in which I thought we were both thinking the same. I have tried explaining to him and he tells me his way is fine, but his comments and actions say different. I only have a few months left before I move and dont want to if I am still carrying all this fear. Fear that I am only being used to get what he wants, fear that I will be left alone, fear that the time I spend with him now will be much less in the future, fear that I will be just a thing ...
I want so badly to see my dream come true with him, and wish I could give it to him his way ... but I'm so scared, I hate the jealous feelings with a passion I dont like emotional stress at all ....
Please if you could direct me to some useful information, or if your story is similar I would love to hear it ?
I would personally say, consider if your life would still be better off in the new state you are moving to if the relationship was not a factor? Given the doubts you are expressing in your post- is it possible you are too carried away with the fantasy of how you want the relationship to be instead of facing the reality of how the relationship will likely go? And will you still be ok if you move and things go south? I think wanting and hoping are wonderful things, but keeping one foot firmly on the ground in reality and making sure you're not completely turning your life upside down for something you're not sure will be what you want and need is also a good thing. So maybe consider what happens if you move and things do not turn out the way you'd hoped? What can you do, plan for, to make sure that you will still be ok regardless?
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The Emirates Palace hotel that has been showing off an $11 million Christmas tree now says it regrets the overabundance of holiday cheer.
The Emirates Palace hotel said it regretted "attempts to overload the tradition followed by most hotels in the country" according to Gulf News.
"Putting the Christmas tree… is a tradition meant to share in celebrating occasions guests hold while they are away from their home countries and families".
Gulf News said the hotel stressed this was "within the framework of the UAE's policy which is based on the values of openness and tolerance."
Emirates Palace stressed that the jewels were on loan from an Abu Dhabi gallery which had paid all the costs of making and decorating the tree.
The jewels would be recovered by their owner at the end of the festive season. "The hotel is just a venue for exhibiting the tree," it said.
The tree holds a total of 181 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires and other precious stones provided by Style Gallery.
Emirates Palace hotel general manager Hans Olbertz said the tree, which he described as the "most expensive Christmas tree ever," will probably be an entry into the Guinness book of world records.
The 13-metre faux evergreen, located in the gold leaf-bedecked rotunda of the hotel, is not the first extravagant offering from the three-billion-dollar Emirates Palace.
The hotel in the oil-rich Gulf emirate bills itself as a seven-star establishment and has a package for a week-long stay priced at one million dollars.
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I've had symptoms of oversupply since DS was about 4 weeks old. He is now 11 weeks old and I've been nurse blocking this whole time. Over the past 7 weeks, I began with smaller nursing blocks and gradually worked my way to 10 - 12 hour blocks and also used chilled raw cabbage leaves a little before seeing improvement.
However, he is still suffering from gas pains at night (no improvement with gas at all...it's awful watching him in discomfort/pain night after night for almost two months now!) and his poop seems to go back and forth between healthy curdy yellow poop and watery yellow poop (though it used to be watery green). I don't know if this is any indication of anything but I do still notice a little redness around his anus. Is that irritation from lactose overload?
Do you think these symptoms have anything to do with my oversupply and just require a little more fine tuning? How do I know when to stop treating my oversupply? Do I start reducing the duration of the nursing blocks gradually until I'm back to one breast per feeding? Perhaps these symptoms are from a food sensitivity and I shouldn't be treating oversupply anymore? I've started eliminating dairy from my diet to see if there would be any improvement after two weeks, but meantime I'd hate to over correct the oversupply and end up with an undersupply!
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Project ID: 2008IN241B
Title: Poly Tanks on Farms and Businesses: Preventing Catastrophic Failures
Project Type: Information Transfer
Start Date: 3/01/2008
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Tanks constructed from plastic are commonly used on farms and commercial application businesses. These plastic tanks help to more efficiently manage the storage and transportation of water and a host of other liquids such as pesticide and fertilizer products. While the attributes of poly tanks are many, their use has a potentially serious drawback - at some point in time, they will fail.
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John C. Bean (BA, Stanford; PhD University of Washington) is a professor of English at Seattle University, where he holds the title of "Consulting Professor for Writing and Assessment." He is the author of Engaging Ideas; The Professor's Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, 2nd edition (Jossey-Bass, 2011). He is also the co-author of three widely used composition textbooks. Since 2003 he has researched and written on the development of institutional assessment strategies that promote faculty conversations about teaching , learning, and curriculum design. In 2001, he presented a keynote address at the first annual conference of the European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing at the University of Groningen and is currently working with faculty at German universities on incorporating writing assignments into disciplinary subjects. In 2008, he and his wife Rosalie (Kit) Bean conducted workshops on critical thinking for BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh and in 2012 for Ashesi University in Ghana.
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Jazz Racine Haiti
Jacques Schwarz-Bart's conflation of jazz with the voodoo music of Haiti is executed so seamlessly here that the background info he provides is somewhat superfluous, but here goes: Schwarz-Bart's mother was from Guadeloupe, her son absorbed the keening, spiritual chants associated with voodoo while growing up, and he's since found similar melodic properties between the genre and jazz that he believes are worth investigating. Schwarz-Bart, a 51-year-old French-born saxophonist and composer, has made numerous visits to Haiti, seeking ways to define that sweet spot, and Jazz Racine Haïti is his first full-length exploration of the relationship between the two. (Racine music, he writes, is "roots music from the countryside of Haiti.")
Good to know, but the results speak for themselves. Schwarz-Bart builds most of the 10 tunes, all of which he wrote and produced, around those common-ground rhythms and melodies. Dominant are two voodoo priests, vocalist Erol Josué and percussionist Gaston "Bonga" Jean-Baptiste, and two other vocalists, Rozna Zila and Stephanie McKay. The core music is provided by several jazz notables, including bassist Ben Williams, trumpeter Etienne Charles, pianists Milan Milanovic and Gregory Privat, drummer Obed Calvaire and bassist Reggie Washington.
The shared African roots of both jazz and voodoo music are exposed instantly as the lead track, "Kouzin," unfolds. A lone drum and Josué's chant are both timeless and ancient—very distant. Milanovic's piano and Calvaire's drums aren't subtle in their entrance, nor are the sax and trumpet, but the cultural hybrid is undeniably natural. Other tracks conjoin the two key elements more subtly, leaning more toward jazz tradition, but the Haitian underpinnings are never far from the surface. Not until the set winds down with the final track, "Legba Nan Baye," a conversation solely between Zila's voice and Schwarz-Bart's horn, are we again reminded in a more blatant manner of Schwarz-Bart's intent. It's a naked piece that drives home the connections, but by then Schwarz-Bart and his colleagues have already succeeded in their objective.


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Apple's iPhone Has Staged A Monster Comeback, Android Is Now Dead In The WaterApril 1st, 2012
In the past three months, Nielsen says, Apple has grabbed a 43% share of the smartphones sold in the U.S., versus a high-20s percentage a year ago.
Android's share has also increased versus a year ago — it still leads the market with 48% — but Android's share gains appear to have stalled. Android's "installed base," moreover–the percentage of the overall US smartphone installed base, not just recent sales–is also 48%.
Lastly, and also importantly, Apple is completely dominating the global tablet market, in which Android is basically nowhere (unless you count Amazon's Kindle Fire, but that's Android in name only.)
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Objective. To determine the variability in cost and surgical technique by geographic region and patient demographic.
Summary of Background Data. Some patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) ultimately require surgical treatment. The costs associated with hospitalization can be substantial, yet it is unknown how these vary depending on geographic region.
Methods. Patients aged 10 to 24 who underwent surgical fusion for idiopathic scoliosis from 2004 to 2006 were identified in a publicly available, searchable national database of insurance billing records for patients with orthopaedic diagnoses (PearlDiver Patient Record Database) by searching ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes. Inpatient hospital charges for the procedure, length of stay (LOS), and surgical procedure (anterior, posterior, anterior-posterior, posterior interbody) were recorded. Patients were stratified by geographic region (Northeast, South, Midwest, West) and age group (10–14, 15–19, and 20–24).
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Conclusion. PPAC and LOS varied by region. Although there was no significant difference in treatment type based on age or region, older patients tended to have more complex procedures and a higher LOS. This did not translate into a significant change in PPAC based on age. These data point to the need for further studies examining reasons for geographic variability in idiopathic scoliosis surgeries.
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Hot tunes in a cold country.
Was there actually anyone in the audience?
An actual picture of a psychotria elata:
It has other names, too.
Yes, for all you heads, it is, apparently, mildly hallucinogenic.
on the mississippi, in america, we call that a carny
charlie's guitar, understandably turned into a ukalele (hey mick)!
Reading an article about it and indeed there were:
"The former Busted frontman entertained a small crowd of curious locals gathered in snowy Oymyakon, Siberia to set a new world record for coldest concert."
That item about the Psychotria elata having leaves that look like human lips was fascinating. Note, however, that
"Believe it or Not" said 'leaves' instead of 'flowers.' I think that John Graziano could use a proof-reader.
Affectionately known as Hooker's lips, Psychotria elata with it's colorful red flowers attracts many pollinators including butterflies and hummingbirds. Also known in some circles as Mick Jagger's lips. Via FB
It reminds me of that, and the lips from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" opening sequence!
Kiss me Seymour.
"I think that John Graziano could use a proof-reader."
In point of fact, when I look at the picture supplied, I believe these are indeed actually leaves, the bracts for small flowers that are not apparent in the photo. I see a touch of green at the points, and unmistakable leaf-like veins within the red portion. Just because various online descriptions refer to them as flowers does not make it so. Lots of people refer to the red bracts of the poinsettia as the flowers of that plant, as well!
If I lived by the Tara river I would think twice before throwing the Frisbee out for my dog to catch..
I just saw the pic and the first thought was "Audrey II"
wow how did Charlie Simpson do it?!!!!!!…perform in cold temperatures??
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Earlier today US Airways announced an amazing 100% bonus on sharing miles that equates to purchasing miles at roughly 1.1 cents a piece.
I just received a targeted email offering a 100% bonus on purchased miles until October 31, 2012. Normally miles cost 3.5 cents a piece plus tax, but with this promo they come out to just about 1.9 cents each, which isn't as great as the share miles promo, but not a horrible option for those people who want to buy a small amount of miles so they can leverage the share miles promo- since you need existing miles to take advantage of that bonus.
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings will be coming to the Xbox 360 later this year. CD Project RED and GOG.com announced that The Witcher 2 will be coming to the system, and that it will not be compromised for quality in any way. According to the developers, the game will continue to look "awesome," will be complete and mature, and will feature the same 16 possible endings as the PC version. All of the recently announced improvements to the game will also be included in the Xbox 360 edition as well.
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This winter's deep freeze has put invasive insects on ice in dozens of states.
As much as 80 percent of emerald ash borers died when January temperatures dipped below minus 20 degrees in St. Paul, Minn., according to an estimate by U.S. Forest Service biologists.
Their estimates were affirmed when state researchers collected frozen ash borers from infected trees in the Twin Cities area last month.
But don't expect much of a reprieve in Ohio. Subzero temperatures chilled the state in recent months, but the insulation provided by trees kept the emerald ash borer warm enough to survive Ohio's winter, said David Shetlar, an entomologist and member of the Ohio Emerald Ash Borer Outreach Team.
Shetlar is expecting a mortality rate of about 15 to 20 percent this year, and he said that isn't significant, given the number of emerald ash borers plaguing the state.
"These things are really numerous, and that's really not going to do anything for the population," he said. "People who are thinking they don't have to treat are going to lose their trees."
Nationwide, other destructive pests are dropping dead, including the hemlock woolly adelgid, which preys on Christmas trees; the kernel-munching corn earworm; the citrus-destroying cottony cushion scale; and the gypsy moth.
Researchers in the Appalachians of West Virginia and Maryland found hemlock adelgids whose little, strawlike mouths were stuck to the pine needles from which they suck nectar.
"If you poke them with a stick, they'll normally move their little microscopic legs," said Patrick Tobin, a research entomologist for the Forest Service in Morgantown, W.Va. But not this winter.
At first blush, this appears to be great news, Tobin said. But invasive bugs are a breed apart. Built to last, they almost never experience extinction.
As for emerald ash borers, that Minnesota deep freeze affected only a limited number. Chicago also has ash borers, but temperatures there fell only to 17 degrees below zero and likely didn't faze the insects. Minus 20 is the point at which they start to die.
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The set of bound encyclopedias could be supplemented with a set of the Great Books of the Western World or the Harvard Classics. It was also common to buy sets of complete works of some authors by subscription, such as the works of Dickens or Balzac.
The sets of books were expensive and encyclopedias were sold by sometimes desperate and otherwise unemployed door to door salesmen who worked on commission. A set of the Britannica could cost from $500 up, depending on your choice of binding. Because bound books of current facts are obsolete as soon as they leave the press, buyers could also subscribe to annual yearbooks. We have several yards of shelf space taken up by encyclopedias and yearbooks. That 1953 edition is now of mainly historical interest.
Those halcyon days are now over. Instead of paying the current price of about $1,500 for a set of the Britannica, you can buy the whole works, the latest edition on a single DVD for $25 plus shipping and handling. Load it into your computers hard drive and its there on demand, complete with a search engine. But even the latest Britannica on a DVD is a dead thing compared to the latest internet development in research materials, the Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org).
Talk about a Marshall McCluen global village! Thanks to the Internet, knowledgeable people from around the world, in fact from over one hundred countries, providing over 500 administrators have put this together. The Wikipedia has currently 1.6 million articles in 200 languages, of which one hundred are active. So you dont have to know English to access it. The list of languages included is impressive.
That size of an evolving encyclopedia which may be added to, edited, and increased from one day to the next could put the prestigious Britannica to shame; but theres a caveat. As Ive often said, an undergraduate pursuing a bachelors degree doesnt learn all there is to know about a subject but does learn where to look it up. In graduate school you discover that the sources you looked up as an undergraduate may have been biased, incorrect, or even lying.
The Britannica is not written by a single god-like authority, but farms out the articles to experts in the field. Those experts, for all the care given in their selection, may be wrong or may distort or omit the content. As a living work in progress, the Wikipedia is even more susceptible to vandalism and mischief.
The Wikipedia is also uneven. As with anything that grows without a firm plan there are gaps. Look up Northern Express Weekly and youll find that it is the largest Michigan weekly newspaper distributed in 13 counties in up to 30,000 copies, but the entry doesnt include the newspapers address. The beauty of the Wikipedia is that the entry can be edited by a visitor to the site, adding something which may be in error.
The danger is that vandalism can occur. The Merriam Webster Dictionary includes words that do not exist, inventions inserted to protect the companys copyright, but the Wikipedia is susceptible to bogus articles. Whats to prevent some wag from inventing a mythical beast and writing a fake article? Or some malicious person to sneak in a subtle distortion or outright slander in a biography? You wouldnt have to do something obvious like calling a political figure a war criminal, but using loaded words can spin some readers.
You may remember Mark Twains retraction. Hed been called out, if I recall, because he said a woman was fat. He then apologized to the alleged Mrs. Xxx who claimed to be the etc. Its difficult to police such a huge work, for if printed the Wikipedia would be well over a million pages. Like any cooperative effort, the Wikipedia depends on the good will and good faith participation of all its contributors. A few gross errors or scandals can discredit the whole enterprise.
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Henry Junior Dodson, 83, of Inwood passed away Wednesday, April 17, 2013, at Winchester Medical Center.
Born June 12, 1929, in Berkeley Springs, he was the son of the late Henry and Lola Johnson Dodson.
He was a member of Westview Baptist Church.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a life time member of the American Legion Post No. 60 of Berkeley Springs.
He is survived by his wife, Wanda Jean Turner Dodson; stepchildren, Larry Shepherd, Gary Shepherd, Michael Foltz, and Dennis Foltz; grandchildren, Danielle Foltz, Megan Foltz, and Rhianaon Foltz; great-grandchildren, Jada Ross and Clarissa Foltz; and two brothers, Vernon Dodson, of Martinsburg and Homer Dodson, of Berkeley Springs.
He was preceded in death by son, Timothy Scott Dodson; one sister, Virginia VanGosen; and four brothers, James Dodson, Paul Dodson, Raymond Dodson and Ralph Dodson.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, April 22, 2013, with the Rev. Johnny Kelly officiating at the Brown Funeral Home South Berkeley Chapel in Inwood. Military graveside services will be held at Pleasant View Memory Gardens.
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Jeff Stoughton celebrates with lead Mark Nichols after winning the Capital One Canada Cup of Curling
Jeff Stoughton can finally exhale.
The Winnipeg curler won his first Capital One Canada Cup of Curling and booked his spot at the Roar of the Rings Olympic trials next December in his hometown with a 4-3 win over Glenn Howard Sunday at Mosaic Place.
"It's been a tough grind this last week and I'm really proud of the guys," said Stoughton. "I think it's going to hit us in the next week that we finally did it and we don't have to worry about anything at all for the rest of the year. Of course we want to go back to the Brier, but I think it's going to be less stressful because we've got this spot. So yeah, it's a relief."
Howard had overcome an 0-2 start to get to the final after beating Mike McEwen 9-6 in Saturday's semifinal.
Stoughton was the best team all week in Moose Jaw and earned a bye to the final after a 5-1 record in the round robin.
"It's great that we peaked and performed at the right time at the right place. It's a great feeling," said Stoughton who had never advanced to a Canada Cup final before.
It was a low scoring final as both teams made some great shots to limit their opponents chances at a big end.
Howard scored two in the seventh to tie the game 3-3 and in the ninth he forced Stoughton to make a superb final shot to blank the end to retain the hammer.
"We had our chances," said Howard. "To force him to one in nine would have been huge. He got his blank and Mark (Nichols) made two great pick shots in 10."
Nichols is Stoughton's lead and was the former third for Brad Gushue's Olympic championship team. He moved to Winnipeg and joined the Stoughton rink this season. In the 10th end he made a pair of perfect picks on a pair of guards to open up the house for Stoughton's final shot.
"As soon as we signed Mark on, we said our first objective was to win the Canada Cup," said Stoughton.
"When he makes those it makes my job a lot easier. Though now the pressure is really on me because I should hopefully have a pretty easy shot to win the game.
"Mark's been making those all year. He's been phenomenal. We've been keeping track and he's only missed it once."
Neither side missed many shots all afternoon. The Howard rink shot 88 per cent in the final and the Stoughton rink shot 87 per cent.
Moose Jaw set a new attendance record for the Canada Cup. A total of 33,160 spectators came to Mosaic Place over the course of the five-day event. That bested the previous record of 27,444 set by Yorkton in 2009.


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As July has nearly come to an end, it's time to think about college football.
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Jamie Dimon: Call Me Maybe?Paul M. Barrett
"Please hold for Mr. Dimon."
On a Monday morning in the fall of 2009, I received a phone call from the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase. Jamie Dimon, at the time the most admired CEO on Wall Street, had issues with a book review of mine published a day earlier in the New York Times.
Dimon decided to take time away from running the largest financial institution in the U.S. to express his displeasure personally. Four years later, as Dimon grapples with an array of scandals, our chat comes to mind.
I had reviewed Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase, a biography by Duff McDonald. Paraphrasing McDonald's flattering account, I wrote that Dimon exercised more caution than many of his counterparts in the several years leading up to the bursting of the housing bubble. Then Dimon acted boldly in March 2008 to scoop up the remains of the wrecked investment bank Bear Stearns in a government-orchestrated salvage operation that forestalled even greater panic. His generally savvy stewardship has left giant JPMorgan in a strong competitive position, and earned him McDonald's praise as a "hero," a "financial philosopher," and a "moral and managerial compass for both his industry and the country itself."
For all his success, being a moral and managerial compass "is a lot to live up to." I wrote:
After an era in which many private-sector financial leaders showed themselves to be unremittingly reckless, greedy, or incompetent—or all three—there's a natural desire to honor the exception proving the rule, the white knight who keeps his nerve and his humility. Is Jamie Dimon that paragon? Can he chart a more promising course for Wall Street, even while "swimming against the tide of an entire industry of overreaching CEOs," as McDonald puts it? The evidence the author himself marshals—though doesn't come to grips with —suggests that we cannot count on Dimon as a savior.
In our phone conversation, Dimon first demanded to know why, in general, I lacked McDonald's enthusiasm for his career. He seemed unable to weigh the praise I had echoed in my piece against the suggestion that he shouldn't be above criticism. This revealed a degree of self-regard impressive even by Wall Street standards. I had, after all, described him as a "brilliant but flawed winner" and acknowledged that he "may be the best of his breed."
He proceeded to march through my review, paragraph by paragraph, reading aloud passages that displeased him. He didn't like my interpretation of his tempestuous relationship with Sanford Weill, the merger-and-acquisition artist with whom Dimon built Citigroup in the 1990s:
McDonald convincingly demonstrates that Dimon matured into a far superior manager than his mentor. But the author perplexingly gives Dimon a pass for what he and Weill wrought in Citigroup: an ungovernable colossus that almost inevitably spun out of control.
Dimon protested that he was long gone from Citi—ousted by Weill—before it teetered on the precipice during the 2008 crisis. At JPMorgan, Dimon had proved himself a superb manager, he told me. He wasn't interested in the point I had emphasized: that he and Weill played a central role in pressing politicians to eradicate the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act separating investment banks from commercial banks. This and other deregulatory initiatives, combined with the formation of Citi, helped inspire a race for gigantism and risk-taking on Wall Street that contributed centrally to the crisis.
He moved on to his stewardship of JPMorgan, wanting to know why I didn't agree with the broad, positive consensus exemplified by McDonald's book. Well, I pointed out, I had acknowledged that Dimon "sensed before many others the dangers inherent in fraudulent home loans and the toxic securities Wall Street confected from them." What I added was that his minions "engaged in many of the deplorable practices that destabilized the financial system. They just stopped sooner and protected their bank from the fallout more effectively."
McDonald lauded Dimon for unloading huge volumes of subprime mortgages JPMorgan originated. That struck me as similar to "praising a corporate polluter for trucking his poisonous sludge into the next state. It doesn't solve the problem; it merely moves it elsewhere." Dimon said he was insulted by the comparison.
The larger theme of the review was that, while JPMorgan had emerged from the 2008 crisis less damaged than its rivals, Dimon's performance hadn't convinced me that the large banks were prepared to change their ways. His defensiveness on the phone reinforced my assessment.
Last week, on Sept. 19, JPMorgan agreed to pay $920 million to settle charges related to the notorious London Whale trade, a fiasco in 2012 that already had cost the bank $6 billion. On the same day, regulators announced nearly $400 million of additional fines and restitution the bank will pay to resolve accusations of pushing bogus services on credit-card customers. The $1.3 billion total for that day's mess came on top of a slew of other allegations involving energy-trading manipulation, mortgage-backed securities fraud, and failure to disclose suspicions about the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Was JPMorgan ever as well managed as many (including Dimon) claimed, or was it just less badly managed than most competitors? Has Dimon reevaluated his record? I'm only a phone call away.


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A Gathering of Old Men
Release Date: January 1st, 1987
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Following the death of a racist white farmer, suspicions fly about the murderer's identity. Soon, elderly black man Mathu (Louis Gossett Jr.), a local sharecropper, is pegged as the prime suspect. Concerned about the threat of a lynch mob, Mathu's kind boss, Candy Marshall (Holly Hunter), gathers his friends and co-workers together to protect him. When all Mathu's fellow old men confess to the crime, it makes the investigation by Sheriff Mapes (Richard Widmark) that much trickier.
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, Joe Seneca, Woody Strode, Papa John Creach, Julius Harris, Will Patton
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Genres: Drama


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The Aynokas: sustaining agriculture
The Andes region is one of the zones with the highest ecological diversity in the whole world. This diversity also exists at watershed level, which means that frequently very distinct agroecological zones can be found within the limits of a single community.
ILEIA Newsletter • 10 nº 2 • July 1994
Despite the often extreme ecological situation, about half of the Andean population lives in this mountainous area which covers only 20% of the country. To overcome the Ecological limits to production of food and goods, a high level of organisational, social and technological creativity is needed. The peoples of the Andes have developed production systems which seek a dynamic equilibrium between society and nature. Respect for ecological principles and integration of cultural, ethical and agrotechnical dimensions strongly contribute to this equilibrium. This explains the sophistication and sustainability of Andean "agri-culture".
The ayllu (administrative land unit) of San Antonio de Mujlli, in the department of Cochabamba in Bolivia, lies between 3700 and 4500 m above sea level. It has a surface of 18,415 ha on which about 270 families or 2400 Aymaran people live. The climate has a rainy season from December to April, the annual precipitation is about 700 mm and the average temperature is 8°C. The ayllu, which covers more or less a watershed, is subdivided into four parts or catchment areas. Each part is again subdivided into 10-13 vertical sections known as aynokas. Each aynoka has its own characteristics in terms of ecology, microclimate and production, intimately known by the inhabitants.
All land is communal property and decisions concerning access to land are taken at community level. The agricultural system of the Aymaran is based on a rotation of one year potatoes, followed by one year quinua ( Chenopodium quinoa) or canahua (Chenopodium pallidicaule), one year barley or oats and 7-10 years of fallow. Each year in a particular aynoka only one type of crop is grown. This means that all the families have to sow, for example, their potatoes, quinua or barley in the aynoka destined for that purpose. Barley and oats, which because of the altitude do not produce seeds, are used as fodder. During the fallow period, the aynokas are converted into communal pasture with free access for all the families year-round. Because of the huge ecological variability, the yields vary according to their location: the yields of potatoes vary between 5000 and 15,000 kg/ha, whereas quinua produces 800-900 kg/ha in prosperous years and canahua around 1200-1500 kg/ha.
Private complements common
The sequence of rotation of the aynokas is decided at community level. The rotation is generally consecutive unless climatical or agroecological characteristics, such as soil fertility reached during the fallow period, make it advisable to skip an aynoka. In each aynoka a family has the right to cultivate a minimum number of plots with different agroecological conditions. Depending on the ecological variability, the families use between 15 to 55 plots in one aynoka. As these plots are the same as they or their parents cultivated previously, the families consider themselves "owners" by way of a temporary right of usufruct.
The community can redistribute landuse rights yearly, to equip all the families of the community with sufficient land for food production. Although the total area of land per family varies, the area per family member remains relatively constant. Distribution of land is the task of the traditional authorities. These posts, which are occupied by the older, more experienced men of the community, are subject to annual rotation. Since ancient times, the families have not only cultivated the plots of the aynokas, but have also received other land from the community which is excluded from the aynoka rotation.
These lands, called sayafias, are usually close to the houses and are surrounded by stone or mud walls. They are used by the families to complement the production of the aynokas. Cultivation and rotation is free but, like the aynoka, the sayana can be redistributed if it is no longer used. Apart from complying with the crop rotation, the family has sole responsibility for crop production. This means that the family takes autonomous decisions regarding management, technology, use and destination of their production.
Social reciprocity and the market
Another characteristic aspect of Andean communities are the interfamily relations, which are based on the principles of reciprocity, complementarily and redistribution. A number of agreements exist which, in essence, mean a redistribution of productive resources, based on the family requirements as a function of its life cycle. If a family possesses more land than it can cultivate with its own labour force, it associates itself temporarily with another family which has an excess of labour force.
Thus complementing each other, both families can increase their production. The products obtained are then distributed between the two families. As soon as the fields are harvested, the dry and cold period begins, when agricultural activities become impossible. This is why most families pursue off-farm activities. Relatives and friends are visited in bordering, lower-lying valleys, where cheese manufactured in the rainy season is exchanged for maize, rice and coca leafs. Money can be earned by selling one's labour in the urban centres and agricultural industries, but as such work is available mainly during the cropping season, few people migrate to seek it. As families have access to products from other families and communities and labour force can be assigned for reciprocity, the need to participate in the market is reduced. Despite the links between peasant communities and the market, the logic of the market economy has only limited influence on the landuse system.
Built-in risk avoidance
As plots within an aynoka vary in elevation by about 200 m, each sector has a high diversity of microclimates. If the indigenous climatic forecast indicates a dry year, the plots are located in the higher parts where it is more humid. In rainy years, to minimise problems with fungal diseases, the lower plots are given priority, as they are warmer and drier. The difference in elevation between the lowest and highest aynoka is about 500 m. The inhabitants indicate that this characteristic must have been considered by their ancestors when they established the order of rotation. The highest aynokas are normally cultivated during the driest years, and the lowest aynokas are cultivated during the more humid years. There is a certain correlation between the cycle of rotation of the aynokas and the long cycle of macroclimatic conditions. By making use of the ecological diversity, climatic risks are minimised. The controlled rotation combined with long fallow periods is also a strategy to avoid losses caused by plagues and diseases. One of the most severe problems in plant health in the Andes are the nematodes, whose population is drastically reduced during the long fallow periods.
Crop-livestock integration
The integration of crop and livestock production is a factor which strongly influences the agroecological sustainability of the system. Raising livestock means a diversification of activities, which increases the food security .It actively influences the flow of nutrients and the dynamics of soil fertility. The accumulation and application of animal manure permits nutrient transfer from the pasture lands to the cultivated plots. In accordance with the level of fertility reached during the fallow period, each potato plot receives organic manure at planting time. The amount varies in quantity and quality, depending on availability and the requirements of the different varieties.
Figure 2 shows the nutrient cycle for a highly productive tuber crop. The nutrient balance shows that the applied organic manure not only covers the requirements of the first crop but also favours the following crops which are not fertilised. With regard to optimising the use of human and animal labour, the rotation of potato -Andean grains -cereals is the best option. After a fallow period of seven years, much energy is needed to bring the plots back into cultivation. After removal of the heavy vegetation, the land is ploughed. Harrowing must generally be done two or three times with plough and oxen. The plot is then ready to be planted with potato. As planting, earthing-up and harvesting the potatoes involves turning the soil each time, the land becomes sufficiently loose for sowing quinua/cafiahua in the following year.
Stock redistribution
Livestock-keeping is a family responsibility. The llamas, sheep, donkeys and some cattle graze freely in the whole territory of the community, except for the aynokas during the period when they are cultivated. A first analysis of animal ownership per family shows a marked differentiation. Some families have only 15 animals, while others have up to 120 head. However, if animal ownership is analysed in relation to the number of persons in each family, the degree of differentiation is reduced drastically.
This again leads to the conclusion that ownership and hence access to the common lands is, in the first place, adapted to the needs of each family. Redistribution of animals is not a communal decision, but takes place mainly by inheritance and gifts. When a couple forms a new family, the man inherits part of his father's land, while the woman receives some animals from her family and relatives. Thus, the young family has both land and animals. According to the growth of the family, it gains access to more cropland and the initial herd will multiply.
Strategies to control overgrazing
In many research studies, signs of overgrazing have been found. Demographic growth is the main reason for the increase in animal population. Unlike the arable land, the pasture land cannot be extended. This leaves two options to avoid agroecological deterioration in the medium term: either reduce the number of animals Dr increase the supply of fodder. The first would not be very viable because it would reduce the total production of each family. Therefore, same 20 years ago, the community autonomously started to grow barley and oats to increase the production of fodder. This has increased feed supply by about 12% (Jerez 1989). Lately, there has been a tendency to substitute barley by oats, as this produces more dry matter (5 t/ha rather than 2-3 t/ha). In a participatory research process which AGRUCO carries out in the zone, species with good feed quality are being tested as intercrop with barley and oats to accelerate the repopulation of the fallow plots with good pasture plants.
Privatisation reversed
In recent years, the traditional landuse system was put into question and called "unmodern", mainly by young community members. They proposed to subdivide the aynokas and to privatise land. But the questions as to who would receive how much cropland and where led to conflicts, and many plots of potato aynokas were not planted. Families became more or less dependent on the sayanas. Because of the different locations of the sayanas, some families could produce high yields, whereas the majority produced more or less low yields.
This experience demonstrated clearly how dangerous it is when production is restricted to a small privatised part of the territory and cannot be distributed over all possible microclimates in this mountainous terrain. For this reason, in February 1994, the community -with the agreement of young farmers -decided to stop all privatisation and to strengthen the aynoka system again. Until today in Bolivia, no alternative land- use system is known which has all the advantages of the aynoka system and also does not have its disadvantages. In regions where the aynokas have been given up in favour of "modernisation -privatisation", two tendencies can be observed:
- an intensification of production, which has led to disintegration of social, economic and ecological relations; within two generations this has shown irreversible ecological consequences;
- also in other communities where privatisation took place, this has been reversed to make communal land tenure possible again.
Sustainability maintained
The results of the study show that conservation and reproduction of the agrarian system are strongly conditioned by the community regulations concerning land use and socio-economic relations. Respect for nature, reflected in the cultural and ethical dimensions of the community and the limited need for integration in the market economy, has prevented the community from falling into the trap of modern agricultural development. As long as the traditional system of social and ecological ethics and community regulations functions and the community succeeds in adapting its farming system to population growth, it is expected that sustainability can be maintained.
Text: Stephan Rist, Agroecology Project University of Cochabamba (AGRUCO)
Casilla 3392, Cochabamba, Bolivia


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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the clinical course of patients with idiopathic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA).
Methods: A noncomparative case series of patients who had clinical symptoms and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography findings consistent with VMA. The VMA was graded based on the optical coherence tomography findings at initial and follow-up examinations. Grade 1 was incomplete cortical vitreous separation with attachment at the fovea, Grade 2 was the Grade 1 findings and any intraretinal cysts or clefts, and Grade 3 was the Grade 2 findings and the presence of subretinal fluid.
Results: One hundred and six eyes of 81 patients were identified as having VMA by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography at 3 retina clinics. The mean age was 73 years and the mean time of follow-up was 23 months. Forty-three eyes (41%) had Grade 1 VMA, 56 eyes (52%) had Grade 2 VMA, and 7 eyes (7%) had Grade 3 VMA. By the last follow-up, spontaneous release of VMA occurred in 34 eyes (32%), and pars plana vitrectomy was performed in 5 eyes (4.7%). Mean best-corrected visual acuity was 0.269 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution or 20/37 at baseline (range, 20/20–20/200) and logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution 0.251 or 20/35 at the last examination (range, 20/20–20/400).
Conclusion: In this selected patient cohort with mild symptoms, the clinical course of patients with VMA managed by initial observation was generally favorable.
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