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St. Croix
National Scenic Riverway
Wisconsin & Minnesota
Free flowing and unpolluted, the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers flow through some of the most scenic and least developed country in the Upper Midwest. Today 405 kilometers (252 miles) of these rivers are preserved as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, which includes the Namekagon, was established in 1968 as one of the original eight rivers under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway was added to the system in 1972. Together they form a Riverway that offers outdoor enthusiasts achance to enjoy a wilderness-like experience and a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities within easy reach of a major metropolitan area. On the upper St. Croix and Namekagon Rivers rapids challenge the canoeist, although none of the Riverway's waters are classified as whitewater. At the lower end, where the river widens out as Lake St. Croix, power and sail boating are popular. Campers, picnickers, swimmers, and birdwatchers enjoy its variety of scenes throughout. Anglers are attracted by the variety of fish lurking in the rivers, from trout and bass to muskellunge and sturgeon. The Riverway is managed through the cooperative efforts of
- the National Park Service,
- the Minnesota and Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources, and
- the Northern States Power Company.
Upper St. Croix and Namekagon
The upper St. Croix and Namekagon part of the Riverway offers varied canoe environments on 322 kilometers (200 miles) of rivers. The Namekagon River begins at Namekagon Lake dam. It lies entirely in Wisconsin, flowing 158 kilometers (98 miles) south and west to join the St. Croix River near Danbury. The Namekagon begins as a narrow trout stream closed in by forest and meanders through a wide valley for much of its length. The river occasionally widens into marshy or swamp-like areas popular for waterfowl watching. The lower Namekagon passes through an area of high sandy banks with many sharp bends. This stretch offers canoeists a wilderness-like experience because there is no development visible from the river. At four areas, dams form lake-like stretches called flowages. You can end canoe trips above these flowages, to avoid the slack water, or sort below the dams, to avoid having to portage.
The St. Croix River is designated as the St. Croix River National Scenic Riverway starting at a dam near Gordon, Wisconsin. It flows southerly for 164 kilometers (102 miles) to the dam at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. It lies in Wisconsin for its first 40 kilometers (25 miles) and then becomes the border river between Minnesota and Wisconsin until it flows into the Mississippi River. The St. Croix begins as a small spring. It is narrow and shallow until joined by its major tributary, the Namekagon, 32 kilometers (20 miles) downstream. It then becomes wider, deeper, and slower. For most of its length it flows through a wide valley with low banks, formed by the glacial activity that shaped both rivers' watersheds. The St. Croix passes two Minnesota State Parks that provide developed camping areas. (The Namekagon and upper St. Croix offer primitive sites). The upper Riverway's last 16 kilometers (10 miles) are the Indianhead Flowage created by the 18-meter-(60-foot) high St. Croix Falls hydroelectric dam. Most canoeists take out upstream of the flowage to avoid the slack water. Small powerboat activities such as water skiing and deeper-water fishing take place on this flowage.
Many low and medium hazard rapids and a few high hazard rapids exist on the St. Croix and Namekagon Rivers, but they are not considered whitewater rivers. Recreation here includes fishing, hunting, inner tubing, picnicking, and canoeing, with small powerboating on the flowages. Most camping is at canoe-access primitive sites. Recreational vehicle camping areas can be found within the state parks or private campgrounds located near the Riverway.
Lower St. Croix
The Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway covers a narrow river and shoreline corridor for 84 kilometers (52 miles) from St. Croix Falls dam to Prescott, Wisconsin, where the river joins the Mississippi. The lower St. Croix is wider, deeper, and slower than the upper, its flow controlled by the hydroelectric dam at its upstream end. Downstream of the dam are the high cliffs of the Dalles, which formed as meltwaters from retreating glaciers cut a deep, vertical-walled gorge through bedrock. For about 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) here the St. Croix, in places 21-30 meters (70-100 feet) deep, flows its fastest. The Dalles mostly lie within two Interstate State Parks. Both offer short hiking trails to geologic features, and developed campgrounds, swimming beaches, picnic areas, and boat launch ramps. On the Minnesota side you can rent a canoe or take a boat tour to see the scenic Dalles from the best vantage point, right on the water.
As it leaves the Dalles, the river becomes wider and shallower and passes between high banks for the next 32 kilometers (20 miles). Although development is visible from the water for 24 kilometers (15 miles) on this stretch, it is popular with canoeists. The shallower water, lack of rapids, and absence of large powerboat waves make it suitable for beginning canoeists.
About 35 kilometers (22 miles) below the dam the Apple River flows into the St. Croix, creating a large sandbar. Near here the river becomes deeper and slower-moving. Large powerboating becomes the major use. Forty-three kilometers (27 miles) downstream the valley widens still more and, for the last 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Riverway, the river is known as Lake St. Croix. Here you enter the state-administered area. From near Stillwater, Minnesota, the Riverway's largest city, south to Afton, Minnesota, shoreline development is more visible and the area is classified recreational. Near Hudson, Wisconsin, south of Stillwater, the river reaches its maximum width, 2,255 meters (7,400 feet) and sail-boating predominates. Further south the river passes two developing state parks, one on either side.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album has not been prepared for this park.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
St. Croix National Scenic Riverway still has much to learn about the Riverway and the species that inhabit it. Park staff and researchers set up studies to establish baseline inventories and monitor population trends. Inventories are a snapshot in time of a particular population. Monitoring looks at those populations and track how they change over time.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
NPS Geology and Soils PartnersAssociation of American State Geologists
Geological Society of America
Natural Resource Conservation Service - Soils
U.S. Geological Survey
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


text: Got home from work tonight and had a message on my answering machine, that my county will be doing aerial mosquito spraying tomorrow. So I covered my hives up with a bedsheet, is that all I do? Do any of you have to deal with Mosquito spraying? How long do you think I should leave them covered? Steve

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Alec Baldwin is still in NYC.
Umm, your guess is as good as mine when it comes to Britney Spears.
Chloe Sevigny out and about and looking for work. Probably. I told you her show wasn't very good. The ads are way better than the result.
Eva Longoria and those bangs are back.
Yeah, even Elisabeth Moss gets a laugh out of them.
Emmy Rossum goes see through.
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I have a 50 by 36 hand hewn barn frame for sale the frame is still standing with roof, would like to sell as a frame or I will have to knock it down to salvage the beams. The original pre-civil war barn part is 50 by 24 with large 10x10 posts, 10x14 swing beams, and a 11 by 11 50 foot summer beam. I also have the siding, floor joists, and 2" flooring for sale Pleas call me (937) 763-0147. I will sell items cheaper if I do not have to store them.
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Explored some of Merced, did our first shopping!!
Mariposa was an unexpected delight - just a small strip of stores in the middle of nowhere but some of the buildings were old - 1901 and there was even an authentic place to "hitch your hoss" when you rode into town. We stopped for a light snack at the Yosemi Tea tearoom which specialised in different loose leaf teas from around the world - I opted for a vanilla rooibos which was delicious
The drive onto Merced was hot, dusty and increasingly arid. Fields were brown and crispy and we marvelled as to how they supported any wildlife as the landscape looked very barren and inhospitable. Merced was a town of contrasts, both visually and economically with some areas run down and charactererised by cheap shops and cafes. In contrast, other areas were manicured, well tended and appeared affluent.
We stopped off in a mall to do some shopping (and enjoy the air conditioning) and found a Target - a great shopping spot we knew from our Florida trips.
Our B & B was another surprise, we knew that Jackie and Jerry kept chickens so we thought they would be in a rural spot but Serenity Gardens was on the end of a cul-de-sac. They were very hospitable hosts and Jackie was understandably proud of her lovely garden, just over an acre, with 35 hens in an enclosure at the back of the vegetable patch
Jackie and Jerry have two dogs, Spot and Bonita, so it was good to have a doggy fix and they were certainly pleased to see us.
Have to say that the ongoing canasta tournament is not working in the Reynolds favour, the Goldsmiths seem to be on a winning streak much to my chagrin.
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text: 23/05/2017, CANYON Giro d'Italia Rory Sutherland's Giro Journal, Part 3 The final week of a Grand Tour is when it can all start to fall apart for some. For others, it's now that they truly begin to hit their stride. Despite riding strongly for the entirety of the Giro so far, Movistar Team still face an uphill task if Nairo Quintana is to finish the race in the Maglia Rosa.


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Training camp report: Good timesThursday, September 30th, 2010
NEWPORT, R.I. — Day three at Salve Regina and things remain loose for the Celtics at training camp. Nate Robinson spent the last half-hour of the session wearing Shaquille O'Neal's size 22 sneakers, running sprints and trying to dunk (funny for the first five minutes, then it turned into a fake-laugh fest. Also wearing sneakers three times your size is probably not the best way to avoid an injury). A fan — a dead ringer for Frenchy from "Goodfellas" — somehow walked into a back door to the gym and was met by Shaquille O'Neal and Kevin Garnett, who both hugged and danced with the guy for about 30 seconds. It's been that kind of scene so far at Rodgers Recreation Center.
"A lot of personality in our practices, I can say that," Doc Rivers said Thursday.
"Really, really loose and fun," said Ray Allen. "But we know when that has to end."
"Chemistry has been very good, needless to say," said Garnett, who later added. "It's a loose environment around here. That's until we hit the floor and all hell breaks loose."
Rivers wouldn't exactly confirm reports that his son Austin — considered to be the top high school player in the country by many — has committed to Duke, but he got about as close as you can without actually confirming. Make sense? How about I just give you the quote:
"He's leaning there [Duke]," said Rivers. "Most likely he'll commit in the next few days, but it's not official yet. I'll wait and let him do it."
Local TV Guy: Hey Shaq, get a chance to hang around Newport at all?
Shaq: I went to the Barking Crab — I got the fish, went around the other day, looked at a couple of the yachts. Tried to steal one but I couldn't find the keys.
Local TV Guy: You know how to drive a yacht?
Shaq: Of course. What do you think?
Rivers was asked about the new guidelines for technical fouls. This season, referees have been instructed to call a T for making aggressive gestures anywhere on the court, hitting his own arm to demonstrate how his was fouled, running at a ref to complain about a call and excessive inquires, even if there is no yelling or foul language.
"We're going to set the record this year," joked Rivers about his team, who have led the NBA in technical fouls in each of the last two years. "Last year we fell short of the technical record, we're going to go get it this year. Gotta have a go."
Rivers said that he hadn't talked about the new rules yet with his players, instead choosing to wait for the league officials to show the tape that will demonstrate what is no longer permissible.
Same as Tuesday and Wednesday, Delonte West was the last Celtics player to leave the gym, shooting jumpers a good 20 minutes after most of his teammates had left.
(Paul Flannery has a look at what is really a mulligan for Delonte in Boston this year.)
Always wondered if it peeved O'Neal that Christian Laettner was the college player chosen for the Dream Team in 1992. This was a chance to play with Bird, Magic and Jordan, after all, and a case could have been made that Shaq was more "Day One" ready for that level of play. So, 18 years later, I have my answer:
"Coming out of college Laettner was probably a better player than me. I was more dominant. A lot of guys are masters at certain things, Christian Laettner was a fundamental [expletive, something about a mother if memory serves]. But I was more dominant, I was more mean. I wanted to be picked, yeah. But no one told me, I don't even know if I was next after Laettner. I was just at home one day and my dad came in pissed. He broke a lamp and said 'How'd they pick that [same expletive] over you?' I was like 'What are you talking about?' He said 'They picked Laettner over you.' He was pissed. But it was cool. I was happy to be picked for Dream Team 2 and keep it going."


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text: Like almost everybody here with a truck I want to level my 2011 Silverado, but I dont want to lift the front to achieve the leveled look. Has anyone lowered the rear of their truck to level it out? If you did what method did you use i.e. custom airbags and suspension, shackle kit, shackle relocation, spring replacement, axle over spring? I'm looking for ideas and observations on what worked best. The end goal will be to level the truck but leave it capable of towing at most a 4K trailer (factory towing is 6500lbs/1000lb cargo). I know I might sacrafice some load capability lowering the truck depending on method used but if I have to I'll use a set of Firestone 500c's and a VIA Air compressor to bring the rear up for heavy loads since towing will be limited most times to less than 5 miles. Now heres info I know or dug up from past experience. Axle over: This will drop the rear about 3-3.5", I only need about 2" and I dont want a prerunner or to have to mess with lowering the front suspension. Air bags: This method will achieve exactly whatever height I want with an onboard compressor, but it's expensive and means chopping up the rear suspension to accomplish. A possibility but only as a last resort. Shackle kit and Shackle relocation: Relocation is more work but the end result is more of a factory ride and done correctly it shouldnt have a negative affect on the springs. Kit with replacement shackles is not hard to do, I havent seen a lowering kit for these trucks yet but then again I havent looked very hard either. The problem with different length shackles is they change the ride quality and depending on length can act against the springs to flatten them out or make them sag faster than normal. I'm lazy I really dont want to have to put new springs on in a year or two. Spring replacement: At this point this looks like the best option due to the fact I can retain factory ride quality without sacraficing load capability. And on anyone of these I could use the 500C airbags but then I start running into investing $$ into something that should be easy and inexpensive to accomplish, I really want a symple sytem that wont take anything other than normal maintenance.


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A fetus thrown in the garbage after a home coathanger abortion. Usually performed by young crackheads and various other female drug addicts.
I was going to name my band dumpster fetus, but figured it would be hard to book shows or sell records with a name like that.
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The Ossuary pics are amazing! Were they short of other building materials?
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Kutn� Hora and in particular the Sedlec Ossuary. I remember seeing this place in books when I was a small child. Situated in Bohemian paradise the Ossuary was not easy to find the route I took. Once found it was awesome!
A small former church turned into an ossuary for upwards of 40,000 human remains. Many used as decorations through the structure. The human bone chandelier was magnificent. It is a bit gloomy and depressing but some of that is taken away with other tourists walking through
The Southern Bohemian countryside is absolutely gorgeous. However it is full of a lot of rolling hills. The ascent added up again and I was exhausted by the time I reached my destination of Třeb�č.
Třeb�č was an interesting place. The hostel was very nice. After the obligatory shower I went in search for food. it was now almost 8:00pm. Everything was closed other than some bars and restaurants. I mean everything. Not even a convenience store. I walked for quite awhile and could not even find a gas station. The bus depot did not even have a convenience store!
It was a simple town with some older buildings but all I could think of was food. I went to the restaurant connected to the hostel. Without any English on menu or from waitress I noticed the word schnitzel - get that it has meat!
After I finished and had a couple beer I realized I was drunk from said two beer but still hungry.
She retrieved the other waiter who knew slightly more than she did. I think they thought I was asking where I could buy food other than the restaurant. In the end I think the reason they would not let me order another meal was that the kitchen was closing. Either way I went to bed confused, sad and hungry.
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But for now, watching the passengers bustle toward the gate at Newark on the crystalline morning of September 11, 2001, in Paul Greengrass's United 93 (2006), or hearing Daniel Pearl chat happily to his Karachi cab driver in Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, we find ourselves — in the immunology of anxiety — at the mercy of an entirely fresh strain. We know that the plane, after much struggle, will become a hecatomb in a field in Pennsylvania, and we know that the reporter from the Wall Street Journal will be abducted and then decapitated. We know all this, yet foreknowledge offers no defense; a different sense of possibility is at work here, one in which our unease feels limitless. Heaven gapes over Newark; Karachi hisses and sprawls around Daniel Pearl. There will be no closure on these events that we can foresee: history, awoken with a thunderclap on 9/11, is not about to put itself back to sleep.
"If you're filming in a normal way," says Winterbottom, curled around a glass of mineral water in a room at the Eliot Hotel, "the kind of conversation you keep having is, 'What does this mean? Where does it fit in? How does it connect with what went before?' But I'm more interested in the moment itself, rather than its relationship to the moments around it. Because, in reality, something happens and then it's followed by something completely different, with a completely different set of reactions. Continuity is not the main thing, if you know what I mean."
It is Winterbottom's head for the discontinuous that has fitted him for the job of quintessential post-9/11 filmmaker.
Reality itself at stakeA Mighty Heart is Winterbottom's third film to be set recognizably in a world in which the Twin Towers have fallen, in which continuity has been broken and the protagonists are obliged to deal with the switchbacks and mood disorders of a radical new reality. The first, In This World (2002) followed the progress of two young Afghans from their refugee camp in Peshawar, on the Pakistani frontier, as they moved illegally through Iran, Turkey, and into Europe, en route to a destination in London. The journey — wintry mountain passes, stifling industrial containers — is real (Winterbottom made it himself before returning to Peshawar to reconnect with his cast), the dialogue is unscripted, the two leads are playing themselves. Only the situations in which they find themselves are to some degree engineered. "We couldn't tell them what to say, culturally or linguistically or whatever," says Winterbottom. "So we'd set up the situation, the bus journey or getting stopped somewhere, and they'd just respond to it as it happened. It was a hands-off approach, almost like an observational film, because that seemed to me to be the only way [there was] of getting it right and accurate from their point of view. It was in their hands, really."
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Weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise always seems to be one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. But good intentions only go so far. So just as many people flock to their local gyms right after the New Year's holiday, by March, most have not stuck to their resolutions. (Rick Hickman / American Press)
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Weight loss and maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise always seems to be one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. lists.
But good intentions only go so far. So just as many people flock to their local gyms right after the New Year's holiday, by March, most have not stuck to their resolutions.
Anna Theriot, manager of Anytime Fitness (it has locations in Lake Charles, Moss Bluff and Sulphur) said employees at Anytime's facilities are used to seeing an influx of new customers in the first few weeks of the year — followed by a steady decline.
"Business always picks up around the second week of January. Right now, everyone's still recovering from the New Year but by next week, we'll have a splurge of new people. They'll show up for six to eight weeks and then we won't see them again for a year probably. We want them to keep coming back, to stay on the workout wagon and we do our best to keep them motivated and excited about a lifestyle change, but sometimes they fall through the cracks," Theriot said.
GiGi Kaufman, owner of GiGi's and GiGi's Downtown, said she was surprised to see how many residents came to the gym during 2012's resolution rush and then stuck around for the remainder of the year.
"You always see a rush of new people during this time of year, and I've been in this business for 35 years; I know how it works. Interestingly enough what I've found this year that there were more people who actually stuck with a routine gym schedule. Because of the rising costs of healthcare and prevention, they now know they have to take care of themselves," Kaufman said.
Kaufman said her gym will soon to begin to cater further to its members — new and old — with revised opening hours and new classes.
"We're adding more hours at our downtown location and adding new equipment strategically as needed. We try to stay away from diet and exercise fads and gimmicks though. I like to stick with the basics of what I know is going to last, there's always something new out there but that doesn't mean it's going to be beneficial for our clients. You have to stick to the basics and educate yourself on the facts to see lasting results, it's a lifestyle," Kaufman said.
For those looking to stick with their resolutions, Theriot said there are a few tips to help everyone be able to stick to their goals and eventually be successful.
"Set a realistic goal for yourself. Don't tell yourself you'll workout every day as you'll just be setting yourself up for failure. Get yourself a workout partner, someone to hold you accountable. You also shouldn't try to jump into something too strenuous too soon; start out slow and work your way up. Anything is better than nothing. Most of all, don't get frustrated. Ask questions; we're here to help you achieve your goals, not just to take your money," Theriot said.


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Chocolate lover? Ditto here at the Global Exchange.
That's why cocoa is the current focus of our Fair Trade Campaign. It's a tasty way to get Fair Trade-savvy. Plus, chocolate companies have a nasty tendency to use child and forced labor in their cocoa farms. Let's end that, with Fair Trade.
Corporate Campaigns
Global Exchange is actively challenging the entire cocoa industry to stop using child labor and start using Fair Trade certified cocoa, through our corporate campaigns.
- Raise the Bar Hershey Campaign [1]
- We Want More from our S'mores Campaign [2]
- Fair Trade your Halloween [3]
- World's Finest Chocolate Campaign [4]
- Ghirardelli Campaign [5]
Global Exchange's Sweet Smarts Chapters (Teachers, Kids, and Parents)
Be part of Global Exchange's amazing programs to empower youth to learn the issues, speak out in support of their peers in cocoa growing communities on the other side of the world, and gain the skills to become the next generation of social justice and environmental leaders.
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The tooth fairy might be working overtime this year. According to the largest government dental study in 25 years, tooth decay in baby teeth has risen from 24% to 28% in children ages 2 to 5 since 1999. Before that, tooth decay had been on the decline for 40 years.
Food for Thought
Experts believe that this new trend might have something to do with kids' eating habits. "Parents are giving their children more processed snack foods than in the past and more bottled water or other drinks instead of fluoridated tap water, " said Dr. Bruce Dye, of the National Center for Health Statistics, who lead the study.
Bottled water often does not have the right amount of fluoride. Fluoride is a substance that is found naturally in water. Research has shown that at certain levels, it strengthens tooth enamel and helps prevent tooth decay. Many communities add fluoride to their water supplies to tap into this cavity-fighting power.
Processed snack foods tend to be loaded with sugar. Sweet, starchy foods stick to the teeth, forming a film. If that film is not brushed away, it can lead to tooth decay.
Children have 20 baby teeth. Most kids start losing their baby teeth when they are about 6 years old, but some fall out earlier. Dentists are calling for parents to take kids as young as 1 year old to the dentist to help prevent cavities.
A Reason to Smile
Thankfully, not all the news is bad. The study found that kids age 6 to 11 have fewer cavities. Experts think this might be due to the fact that more dentists are using dental sealants, or plastic coatings that are applied to teeth to prevent decay.
Adults can also share in the good news. A serious form of gum disease called periodontitis has decreased by 50% in adults 20 to 64 years old. "Overall, we can say that most Americans are noticing an improvement in their oral health," said Dye.


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As I said in my review last year of Pirate Cinema, a Cory Doctorow YA novel is as much a treatise as a story. His latest, Homeland, is no exception.
Homeland is the sequel to the well-regarded Little Brother, an updating of Orwell's 1984 set in a post 9/11 San Francisco, where a terrorist attack on the Bay Bridge turns the country into a police state in the blink of an eye. In Little Brother, a group of tech-savvy teens manages to undermine the new totalitarian government by creating its own internet using old gaming consoles.
Homeland follows the hero of the earlier book, Marcus, now a college dropout looking for work after his parents lose their jobs in the recession. In his spare time, he hangs out at Noisebridge, the local makerspace, and learns more about hacking and avoiding electronic surveillance. A trip to Burning Man with his girlfriend Ange leads to more trouble, as Marcus witnesses the kidnapping of Masha, a former government snitch, by Carrie Johnstone, the same sadistic agent who imprisoned him after the bombing of the Bridge.
But Homeland, as you might expect, is not really about Marcus and Ange, or even Masha and Johnstone. They are just a means for Doctorow to educate his audience about how governments keep a tight grip on the populace, and how hackers work to subvert their efforts.


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Second Amendment: A House resolution, as futile as it may be, represents growing opposition to another administration bow to the U.N. encroachment on U.S. sovereignty at the expense of its laws and even our Constitution.
Treaties are ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate, and the final version of the U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) may likely be signed by this president and ratified by this Senate, especially if presented as a "sensible restriction" on international arms trafficking with no impact on our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
But some House members are not going to let it happen without a justified protest.
Before the House left for the Thanksgiving break, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., unveiled a resolution to make the treaty not binding and let no federal funds implement it unless the Senate consents and Congress passes implementing legislation.
The resolution is co-sponsored by 76 other House members, including some Democrats.
"There is considerable cause for alarm regarding the U.N.'s renewed efforts to forge an Arms Trade Treaty that could trample the constitutional rights of Americans and seriously compromise our national security and the security of our allies, whom we will be less able to arm and less quick to defend due to the restrictions placed on us by the ATT," Kelly said.
One of their key objections is with the requirement in the July draft of the treaty — which will be the starting point for final negotiations — for each member state to keep records on "end users," or gun purchasers, for a minimum of 10 years.
Hence, Americans who purchase an imported firearm may have to be registered in the country of origin. Ammunition could also be tracked and logged the same way.
We have argued, as do Kelly and his colleagues, that even if it applied only to transfers of small arms between nations, would that mean restrictions on our ability to aid allies such as Israel and Taiwan?
Would we be forbidden from aiding resistance movements around the world rising up against the very dictators who support this treaty?
The treaty establishes a bizarre moral equivalence between countries that trade arms to defend freedom and those that do so to suppress and extinguish it.
In June, 150 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warning that the treaty is "likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights."
We have noted that a paper by the U.N.'s Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA) says that arms have been "misused by lawful owners" and that the "arms trade therefore be regulated in ways that would . .. minimize the misuse of legally owned weapons."
Is defending your home against intruders a "misuse"? Could our Second Amendment rights be eroded under this treaty? U.S. courts that would settle such cases have increasingly cited international treaties, laws and precedents in their decisions.
This resolution, which asks the president to not sign the treaty and the Senate to not ratify may indeed be all bark and no bite.
It adds that if the ATT were signed but not ratified by the Senate, an unlikely prospect, "no federal funds should be appropriated or authorized to implement the Arms Trade Treaty, or any similar agreement, or to conduct activities relevant to the Arms Trade Treaty, or any similar agreement."
Perhaps the only hope is that enough freedom-minded Americans contact their senators to say their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms will have to be pried from their cold, dead hands.


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#1 Sat 03 Feb 07 12:47pm
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still can't find pasta flour
does anyone know of a shop in central London that sells it?
i do my grocery shopping online with Sainsburys and they don't have it. I have also looked in my local Sainsbury, Safeway and M& S - still no joy.
#2 Sat 03 Feb 07 2:07pm
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Re: still can't find pasta flour
Just use plain flour. Sift it a few times and you should have no problems.
All the Italians I grew up with here in Australia used it and their pasta tasted great. I don't really taste the difference. The eggs are what put the flavour in the pasta. Make sure you use the best eggs you can get.
#3 Sat 03 Feb 07 2:16pm
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Re: still can't find pasta flour
I've seen it in my Sainsbury's, in the shelves around the deli bit, however a lot of the 'speciality' things available in store aren't online. If you're in London, go to Speck in Holland Park or Marylebone High St., or even any Carluccio's.
#4 Sat 03 Feb 07 8:31pm
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Re: still can't find pasta flour
Hi Femurs,
If there is a Tesco's near you go there. They sell Doves type 0 pasta flour (its organic too). Good luck.
Keep smiling,
#5 Mon 05 Feb 07 3:59pm
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Re: still can't find pasta flour
Hi I shop at Tesco and Sainsbury's and they both sell Tipo 00 flour (pasta flour).
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Re: still can't find pasta flour
I wish i could find 00 flour here. the one italian specialty shop in town that did carry it has stopped because they couldn't turn their stock over fast enough... I am not sure how much difference it makes in fresh pasta but it makes an unbelievable difference in pizza or foccacia dough. Adding a small amount of high gluten flour (strong flour)to the All purpose may help a bit. It still doesn't have the same consistency which i think is due to the 00 being milled much finer.
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Re: st: RE: Statalist FAQ revised
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Re: st: RE: Statalist FAQ revised
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:30:28 +0100
Good question.
I'd rather not personalise this in terms of what I, Nick Cox, prefer. The FAQ is intended to codify a consensus about what is good practice. At one extreme, the FAQ lays down some indisputable facts (e.g. you can't post unless you have subscribed); at another extreme, we are in essence just making suggestions -- and goodness knows, people are going to ignore those suggestions when they forget or don't agree or think them inappropriate, and often quite rightly.
You do put your finger on a small dilemma. Lots of little thank you messages could clog up the list and are likely to be even less interesting than the original question to many readers. (But then Statalist is like a newspaper: however much you respect the paper, almost all of it is just not interesting or useful.) For this reason, "Thanks in advance" is often recommended -- and used -- as a way to signal impending gratitude once and for all in a thread. There are several objections to that, perhaps the most important of which is that it may encourage some posters to think they have discharged their responsibilities and can just sit back and wait for the answers.
However, it does seem to me -- and from many on-list and off-list discussions over the years I know I am not alone -- that one of the most frustrating things about this list can be poor closure of threads -- or even a failure to answer secondary questions. Everyone's time was wasted by any question that went nowhere.
More positively, one of the best things about the list is when
someone says, "Solution X works for me. Solution Y looks good too, and it should be a useful thing to remember. Thanks to Tom, Ricardo and Harriet for their suggestions.", or whatever.
That kind of response to me mixes informativeness and courtesy in good measure and is what I would like to encourage.
Sometimes of course, a thread is closed definitively by an answer: "You left out a comma", or whatever. In that kind of case I won't disagree that a message to the effect that someone is grateful for that correction is dispensable. Sometimes, gratitude can just be assumed.
Further, separate "Thank you"s are not a good idea. Thank everyone at once.
In general, nothing in the FAQ should be incompatible with general good sense.
Dupont, William
I did have one question about private responses. If I post a question
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Your "Don't walk away" bullet appears to suggest that you prefer public
thanks. Is this correct?
Bill Dupont
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Few Female Bylines in Major Magazines
By Erin Siegal | March 6, 2012
(Columbia Journalism Review) It's appropriate that the red, the color of passion and anger, represents the female male slice of the pie in latest set of charts created by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.* The infographics reveal an ugly, unchanging truth: in 2011, the number of articles published by women in top thought-leader magazines was significantly less than the number of articles published by men.
For those unfamiliar with "The Count," as VIDA calls it, the numbers are shocking. At The Atlantic, women wrote 64 articles in 2011, while men wrote 184. The overall percentage of female bylines dropped 1.5 percent from last year, when the numbers were 52 to 158.
At The New Yorker, whose byline disparity was covered by CJR in 2005, men wrote 449 articles in 2010, while women wrote 163—or 26.63 percent of the total. In 2011, that percentage slid to 26.44 percent. At Harper's, the number fell to 16.66 percent from 21 percent. Female bylines in the New York Review of Books comprised a mere 12.5 percent of the total in 2011, down from 14.6 percent in 2010. Women's bylines in the London Review of Books dropped to 13.88 percent from 17.74 percent in 2010. The Boston Review also slipped from 34.96 percent to 31.41 percent. Even progressive magazines like The Nation aren't gender-equal; in 2011, just 28.71 percent of Nation articles were written by women.*
Though a few outlets, like the New York Times Book Review and The New Republic, increased their female bylines, to 34.42 percent and 20.16 percent respectively, overall, in the past year, we've crawled backwards.
This is the second year that VIDA, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting female writers, has researched and compiled information on bylines by gender. Last year, after its' debut, "The Count" triggered a hailstorm of commentary, both on and off the web. Some blamed institutional sexism; others suggested that women simply needed to stop whining and start submitting more articles.
"The truth is, these numbers don't lie," VIDA member Amy King wrote in the original blog post last February. "It's time to begin asking why the 2010 numbers don't reflect those facts with any equity." Hundreds of comments piled up beneath her post; mostly pingbacks from outlets ranging from Forbes to Ms. Magazine.
Elissa Straus, of The Sisterhood blog, took editors to task for the gruesome disparity. Strauss wrote to editors at The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, and The Atlantic. All responded, except for The Atlantic. "It's certainly been a concern for a long time among the editors here," David Remnick told her. "But we've got to do better — it's as simple and as stark as that." Harper's editor Ellen Rosenbush told Strauss that she tried to have at least one female writer in every issue. Editor Robert Silvers rattled off a list of women who had written for the New York Review of Books without mentioning his publication's glaring gender discrepancy. The only editor to offer a thoughtful, in-depth response was Jonathan Chait of The New Republic, who ultimately chalked the inequity up to socialization.
Last week, VIDA released a statement in tandem with their findings for 2011. "…The publication numbers don't look markedly different than last year's," they noted, couching their grim findings in apologetic-sounding optimism. VIDA said they believe "things are in the process of changing for the better."
Are they really?
Since 2009, the Byline Blog, a part of the Op-Ed Project, has kept a "running tally" of the ratio of women in outlets including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and more. Their findings are similarly dismal.
Over at The American Prospect online, columnist E.J. Graff decried the fact that "time isn't making significant changes," and challenged women to stop talking and start doing. Ann Friedman, editor of Good magazine, began a popular Tumblr called Lady Journos. A few days ago, Friedman followed up on her 2006 article "The Byline Gender Gap" with a blog called "Promote Women: Use Your Network to Solve the Gender Gap." It concluded with actionable bullet points.
"I first wrote about this issue in my column's early days, like 14 or 15 years ago!" Nation writer Katha Pollitt told me via e-mail, after I asked women from the organization Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) to chime in. After last year's VIDA charts came out, Pollitt published a piece in Slate assigning blame to both editors and the general lack of participation from men in conversations about byline equity.
"If you really want more women writers, get more women editors," she wrote. "The phone works both ways, after all… It's naive to think that the fact that most top editors are men isn't part of the story." With the gender gap sustaining its staggering girth, one can only imagine how wide the chasm is when it comes to racial equity in bylines. Who's going to compile those figures?
I'd bet it won't be the white male editors who currently sit at the top of the media food chain. Better luck next year, ladies.
Through a Pilot Project, Fordham Cultivates its Public Intellectuals
By Janet Sassi | February 27, 2012
(Inside Fordham) Carina Ray, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, was a visiting scholar at Princeton University when she serendipitously crossed paths with Catherine Orenstein, a journalist and founder of the OpEd Project.
Orenstein shared statistics on public opinion voices in the media that painted a compelling story: at The New York Times, male authors write 68 percent of all op-eds; at the Washington Post it is 77 percent; and, at the online journal Salon, it's 80 percent.
Princeton was about to become involved with the OpEd Project's Public Voices Thought Leadership Program, a pilot project with universities to help increase the number of women's and minority men's voices on the op-ed pages of major publications and, thus, influence public thought on the issues of the day. Yale and Stanford Universities were also on board: was Fordham interested in joining?
"I seized the chance to bring it to our administration," said Ray.
Thanks to support from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Nancy Busch, Fordham College at Rose Hill Dean Michael Latham, the Office of the Provost and others, the OpEd Public Voices program got underway at Fordham last October. The yearlong program is supporting the efforts of 20 members of the Fordham faculty to cultivate their public voices, place op-eds with major news markets, and to build relationships with editors for future pieces.
"Op-Eds are front-door forums for putting ideas out into the world," said Orenstein, herself a frequent op-ed contributor to major news media. "They drive media and thought leadership at the highest levels.
"Statistically, women, including academic women, are far less likely than their male peers to submit their ideas to a public forum. So what is being cultivated—the ideas that are shaping the conversations of our age—is overwhelmingly white and male."
As one of Fordham's 20 Public Voices Fellows, Ray recently had her first major op-ed, "Gadaffi and the Mercenary Myth," published in the Huffington Post. Ray's success was soon shared with Greg Acevedo, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, whose essay on Puerto Rico, "Somehow . . . Someday!" appeared in HuffPo's Latino Voices section in December.
A third success story is Christiana Peppard, Ph.D., assistant professor of theology and science, whose op-ed, "Spewing Forth," was published in Catholic Moral Theology, and who has been invited to submit to Commonweal magazine.
The Public Voices program's formula is simple: professional journalists are assigned to faculty as mentors, providing feedback and helping faculty reshape their research and ideas in a way that is accessible to news markets. Participants convene regularly for seminars throughout the year, and attend a monthly call-in conference with a high-profile journalist or editor who is an industry insider; in December, the featured guest was Jody Kantor, author of The Obamas (Penguin, 2012).
For Acevedo, whose mentor was New York Times journalist and author Abby Ellin, the process changed how he looked at the media, as several iterations were needed to find the right voice for his market.
"As faculty we have the gatekeepers of peer review and tenure," said Acevedo, who wrote about a topic he feels strongly about—Puerto Rican statehood. "The media has its own gate-keeping. Evidence matters in both worlds, but there is a different way of presenting it for op-eds. It is still expert opinion but one doesn't have to hide the passion."
Fordham's OpEd program is being administered through the Rose Hill campus's Office of Research, headed by Faculty Development Director James Wilson. Since 2008, the office has been working vigorously to cultivate faculty research and to help shape research projects to garner external funding and prestigious publication. The OpEd program helps, he said.
"The skills that the OpEd sessions present for writing as a public intellectual dovetail with grant writing or putting together a proposal for a publisher," he said. "Faculty learn to prioritize those aspects of their scholarship that emphasize how their research is both novel and relevant. That exercise helps them engage not just the public, but funders, publishers and their students as well."
Wilson added that Fordham's social justice mission and its commitment to faculty diversity should contribute highly to the missions of the OpEd project: to promote diversity of thought and to move new faces into the public forum and beyond.
"It is one thing if OpEd changes the ethnic and gender demographic of those voices that appear in public intellectual fora, but if those voices are still coming from faculty at the same handful of institutions, I'm not certain the conversation will have been enriched as much as it could be. As a Jesuit university and as an institution outside the Ivy League, Fordham is a valuable partner in OpEd's efforts," said Wilson.
For Ray, who has two more op-eds in circulation, the project is more than a chance to promote diverse points of view: it is a way to vitalize the role of higher education—particularly in the humanities.
"In this moment of time when people are questioning the utility of a liberal arts education, we cannot remain isolated," she said. "We can position ourselves as people who can think critically about a range of issues, and show how the things we know relate to the pressing issues of the day.
"We owe it to ourselves to reach the wider public."
Melissa Harris-Perry show at MSNBC breaks more than gender, race barrier
By Courtney Martin | February 24, 2012
(The Christian Science Monitor) While watching Melissa Harris-Perry debut her own show on MSNBC last weekend, I found myself reacting with a sort of battered awe: A woman of color, hosting a serious show on a serious cable-news channel? Another glass ceiling, shattered.
Ms. Harris-Perry is the first African American woman to ever solo-host a news and politics show on a major television outlet. But here's another eureka coup: She's a tenured professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Her professorial credential is beyond unusual for a TV show host. It adds a welcome intellectual quality to a more diverse public conversation. In fact, her website advertises that – in addition to her show on Saturday and Sunday mornings – she will be teaching "Intro to African American Studies" and "America's First Ladies" at Tulane this spring.
According to the Higher Education Research Institute, women make up less than 20 percent of tenured faculty at America's colleges and universities. Women of color comprise only a miniscule 2.8 percent of tenured faculty.
Further, academic women on the whole are three times less likely to be a part of forums that constitute contemporary public debate, like op-ed pages at major online and print publications.
Katie Orenstein, founder of The Op-Ed Project, which aims to diversify public discourse, puts these numbers in context: "Academic institutions incubate knowledge – knowledge that has the power to change the world."
In other words, professors' express purpose, outside of educating the next generation to think critically and gain skills for being productive professionals and citizens, should be to harvest world-changing ideas.
It follows that the lack of diversity among professors is a problem, not just within the hallowed halls of higher education, but far beyond them. And when only 2.8 percent of a demographic that constitutes at least a quarter of Americans have the career security to think big thoughts, that's an even bigger problem.
In part, this emerges from the kind of institutional and interpersonal sexism and racism that can be found in any sector.
But it also results from the structure and expectations of academe itself. "Publish or perish" is still the dominant thinking among professor-hopefuls – making highly specialized academic journals the only safe outlets for their labored-over research, insights, and original thoughts. [Editor's note: An earlier version incorrectly stated that Harris-Perry was denied tenure at Princeton University. She was not.]
Indeed, Harris-Perry told Jennifer Pozner, founder of Women in Media & News: "I am completely clear that hosting a television show will not win me any professorial points. One of my Twitter followers wrote 'expect side eye in faculty club.' "
The threat of tattered collegiality, however, hasn't stopped this professor pundit; before her new show, she co-hosted MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, gave high-profile public speeches all over the country, and gained a healthy Twitter following – now nearly 70,000 strong.
Harris-Perry is an anomaly. After a decade of academic hazing, even tenured professors often find it difficult to stick their necks out into the wider world of public debate. Traumatized by years of policing from all-powerful advisers, they end up policing their own written and oral communication. This process, made more painful by sexism and racism, causes many a brilliant professor to shrink from opportunities that might make them vulnerable to scrutiny.
In part, their reluctance is understandable at a time when too much of public debate is built on the shaky foundation of sound bites and shouting. And yet, it's a case of chicken or egg with huge civic significance. If thoughtful, studied people don't enter the fray, the quality and tenor of public debate won't change.
That's why watching Harris-Perry last weekend was so satisfying. In a lead-in to discuss recent birth-control hearings last week, she did a short "lecture" on the history of regulating the body and its relationship to privacy in US history.
She waxed poetic: "In the 17th century conditions of colonial America, it is likely that nearly 40 percent of infants died before their first birthdays. A nascent country in need of people to populate their frontier quickly began to see pregnant bodies as a public matter."
Imagine most of the cable-news hosts setting the stage for a cantankerous debate with context like that. You can't, because they wouldn't, and herein lies the import of having public intellectuals like Harris-Perry taking over their rightful share of our airwaves.
The fruits of America's institutions of higher learning need to ripen under the light of the real-world stage. It will make this country's public debate more complex and contextualized, its policies more effective, and its citizens smarter.
Social or Cultural Entrepreneurship: An Argument for a New Distinction
By Courtney E. Martin and Lisa Witter | December 8. 2011
(Stanford Social Innovation Review) Cultural entrepreneurship is different than social entrepreneurship because it is primarily focused on reimagining social roles and motivating new behaviors.
This past September, as Georgia inmate Troy Davis' life hung in the balance, a coalition of anti-death penalty and criminal justice advocates across the United States joined forces to create the "I Am Troy Davis" meme, in which people sympathetic to what many saw as his abuse at the hands of the justice system tweeted and posted in solidarity on their Facebook and Google+ profiles. Although Troy Davis ultimately was executed, advocates argue that the effort sparked an expanded awareness of and renewed conversation about the death penalty.
Further north in Canada, a couple of fed-up young feminists in Toronto decided to take to the streets this spring after a police officer insinuated that a recent rape victim was "asking for it" because she wasn't dressed appropriately. They dubbed their effort "Slutwalk," in an attempt to reclaim the word "slut" and to make the no-holds barred argument that no woman—no matter what she's wearing—deserves to be sexually assaulted. The idea caught fire, and to date over 70 SlutWalks have taken place around the world, including most major U.S. cities, Berlin, Cape Town, New Delhi, and Mexico City. Debate over the word "slut" and the future of the feminist movement has exploded from the blogosphere to The New York Times.
And perhaps the most hyped gathering of all, the Oct. 30, 2010 Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the Washington Mall, hosted by beloved Comedy Central duo Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, was attended by over 200,000 people. Though Stewart and Colbert's approach was characteristically humorous, their message was dead serious: the tenor of our politics no longer reflects who we are as citizens.
All of these efforts—as disparate as they may seem—are pioneering what we believe is a new approach to social change: cultural entrepreneurship. Cultural entrepreneurs, who often rely heavily on new media tools such as Twitter and Kickstarter, use persuasive communications and peer influence to shift attitudes, beliefs, and behavior and, in doing so, change the world for the better.
Think of cultural entrepreneurship as social entrepreneurship's little sister. Social entrepreneurship has gotten considerable attention in the last decade in terms of resources, investment, and analysis—and deservedly so. Some of the most exciting new innovations in social change are happening under the ever widening big tent movement of social entrepreneurship, fueled by organizations like Ashoka, Acumen Fund, and Echoing Green. David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World, has founded the blog Dowser that focuses on "solution journalism," giving voice to innovators who pursue the much-coveted triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.
As social entrepreneurship has come of age as a field, it's become more and more apparent to us that a new distinction must be made between innovations that focus on changing markets and systems and those that change hearts and minds. Building on the work of entities like the Santa Fe, N.M.-based Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, we argue that cultural entrepreneurship is different than social entrepreneurship, because it is focused primarily on reimagining social roles and motivating new behaviors—often working with and in popular culture to reach the widest possible audience. Social entrepreneurs solve problems by disrupting existing systems, as microfinance has, or through breakthrough product design, like the solar powered lights from d.light design or Barefoot Power. Cultural entrepreneurs, on the other hand, solve problems by disrupting belief systems—using television shows like Glee to initiate viewers into the disability or GLBTQ rights frameworks or the Twitter campaign #mensaythingstome, designed to expose anonymous misogyny online.
To be truly useful, these two types of entrepreneurship need not be thought of as mutually exclusive. Some social entrepreneurs can be cultural entrepreneurs and vice-a-versa. Vitanna.org, for example, has created a college loan lending system through online giving for students in the developing world. The nonprofit is proving that there is a market for other institutional lenders, and is increasing hope and supercharging educational expectations among people in these communities. The former is more of a market innovation; the latter is an affirmation of people's potential.
Another recent example is the Girls Not Brides: Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Much discussed at this year's Clinton Global Initiative, the campaign is being championed by The Elders—an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela. Turns out that 10 million girls—that's 25,000 a day—are married before they turn 18. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of The Elders, said that he is as committed to ending child marriage as he once was to ending Apartheid.
Advocates of Girls Not Brides know that child marriage can't only be legislated away or solved through a product innovation. Laws can't always be enforced in distant villages and, more importantly, they don't change people's hearts and minds. Lasting generational change is more likely to happen through authentic and locally led community engagement. Cultural entrepreneur Molly Melching, founder of Tostan and a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, does this in West Africa, where she works within existing cultural practices to help villages educate themselves on the dangers of child marriage and the benefits of delaying marriage—often using traditional dance. Molly and other people working on child marriage are confident that the tradition can end in one generation.
Of course, shifting cultural norms has always been an intrinsic part of social movements. If one looks at the ways in which the anti-war, civil rights, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s functioned, it's undeniable that culture, as much as politics, were at the center of those world-changing efforts. But as the globalization of media—old and new—has taken hold and our cultural consumption patterns have shifted so dramatically, so has the relationship between social change and culture.
The speed alone at which an issue can gain attention is baffling now that social media plays such a large part in our lives. Consider this example from August 2011: after an outraged young woman spotted a t-shirt aimed at tweens in her local J.C. Penny that read, "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me," she started an online petition on Change.org and the social media ball started rolling. Within just hours of the Twitter frenzy, J.C. Penny announced that it was pulling the shirts from every US store. Corporate accountability and consumer advocacy is taking a completely new shape, thanks to cultural entrepreneurs across the Internet.
Social innovators have recognized that without definitive cultural shifts, their market-based interventions can fail. Another example from an innovator that we both advise: Katie Orenstein, founder of The Op-Ed Project and an Echoing Green Fellow, who has been working to diversify public debate by urging more diverse voices to contribute opinion editorials to the nation's newspapers. Orenstein recognized that she couldn't just teach women and others habitually left out of the Wall Street Journal to write op-eds; she also needed to convince them that their knowledge and experience were significantly valuable. The surface challenge was ostensibly a supply and demand problem—how do you get more women and minorities to submit op-eds and speak out? But the larger context was a cultural conundrum. After painstaking trial and error, coaching thousands of women and minorities, Orenstein and her staff have created a curriculum that doesn't just get people writing—it gets them thinking differently about themselves, their value, and their responsibility to the world.


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Advanced Technical Finishing Continues $10 Million Renovation
Plans include upgrading current anodizing line equipment to allow for increased capacity on Type I, II and III anodizing, new electroless nickel lines and a titanium Type II & III finishing line.
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Huntsville, Alabama-based Advanced Technical Finishing -- which serves the aerospace, defense, commercial, medical and transportation industries -- is undertaking a $10 million dollar facility revitalization by adding 16,000 sq ft.
Company officials say ATF has taken on this renovation in order to speed execution, decrease turnaround time and meet the increasing consumer demand for tight-tolerance, mission-critical work. Plans include the upgrading of the plant's current anodizing line equipment to allow for increased capacity on Type I, II and III anodizing, as well as installation of new electroless nickel lines and a titanium Type II & III finishing line.
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KENANSVILLE, DUPLIN COUNTY - Police said they are still deciding whether to file charges against the driver who hit a Kenansville Elementary teacher outside her school, seriously injuring her.
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When I was growing up in Long Beach, California in the 1940s and '50s, it never occurred to me that I would not be treated equal to my brother, Randy Moffitt, and would not have the same opportunities as boys to succeed. When I was 12 years old, I promised myself that I would commit my life to fighting for equal rights and opportunities for men and women, boys and girls.
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Washington Marriott at Metro Center places you in Downtown Washington D.C., within a leisurely stroll of popular sights such as Ford's Theater and White House. This 459-room, 3.5-star hotel welcomes guests with a restaurant, an indoor pool, and a fitness center. Located centrally in Washington, it's also close to Washington Monument and George Washington University.
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The Washington Marriott at Metro Center in Washington, DC is 4 blocks from the Washington Convention Center, the Verizon Center, and the National Mall. There are 3 light-rail lines that serve the adjacent Metro station, for easy access around the city and beyond.
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Washington Marriott at Metro Center offers 459 air-conditioned accommodations with coffee/tea makers and complimentary weekday newspapers. Beds feature premium bedding. Televisions come with premium digital channels and pay movies.
Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Washington hotel provides wired and wireless Internet access for a surcharge. Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Refrigerators and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
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Washington Marriott at Metro Center features an indoor pool on the third floor. The adjacent fitness center contains treadmills, stationary bikes, stair machines, and free weights.
Washington, DC's mile-long National Mall, 4 blocks south of the hotel, provides a tree-lined path for walking and running. Hains Point, 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from the Marriott, has an 18-hole course perched on the banks of the Potomac River. A 2-tier driving range is offered here, as well as a miniature golf course on the National Register for Historic Places.
Rock Creek Park, 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) from the hotel, is a 1,800-acre oasis with hiking and biking trails, a nature center/planetarium, and remnants of Civil War forts. Trail rides are available through the Rock Creek Park Horse Center. The park has 15 soft-surface and 10 hard-surface tennis courts; reservations are generally required.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
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