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Bend's Equine Outreach wins $10,000 ASPCA grant
One of five winners in 'Help a Horse Day' contest
The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) announced Thursday the five winners of the 2014 ASPCA Help a Horse Day Celebration contest, a nationwide grant competition for equine rescues and sanctuaries to raise awareness about the life-saving year-round work they do to care for at-risk horses.
The winning groups – each of which receive a $10,000 grant to support their efforts – are Begin Again Horse Rescue (New York), EARTHEART (California), Equine Outreach (Bend, Oregon), Mylestone Equine Rescue (New Jersey), and STAR Ranch (North Carolina).
"We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and creativity of the equine rescue groups participating in our Help a Horse Day Celebration contest," said Jacque Schultz, senior director of the ASPCA Equine Fund. "The commitment to horse welfare from both the participating groups and their community supporters made it difficult to select only five winners.
"While there are so many deserving equine rescues across the country, we are thrilled to award a total of $50,000 to these winning rescue groups, who embody the spirit and hope behind the ASPCA's Help a Horse Day."
Contestants were judged on the creativity of their events, as well as their success engaging their local communities. The winning groups' events included a town parade down main street featuring local elected officials, rescued horses and community members impacted by the equine group's work, the creation of a "Pass It Forward" program encouraging community members to help their neighbors struggling to care for their horses, partnerships with local artists and businesses, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion of Phase I of a barn raising. The rescues also worked to recruit new volunteers, expand their support base and collect donated supplies, as well as find permanent homes for adoptable horses.
More than 80 equine rescue groups held events across 32 states on April 26 – a date chosen for its significance to the ASPCA's long history of horse protection. In 1866, ASPCA founder Henry Bergh stopped a cart driver from beating his horse, resulting in the first successful arrest for horse mistreatment on April 26 of that year. The protection of horses has been a core part of the ASPCA mission ever since, including legislation, advocacy, rescue and targeted grants.
In 2013 the ASPCA awarded $1.4 million in grants to support equine rescues and sanctuaries in 43 states and the District of Columbia. The grants were primarily awarded as part of the ASPCA Equine Fund, which provides life-saving resources – including financial help, in-person and online training, and sharing of best practices – to non-profit equine welfare organizations in the U.S.
For more information on the ASPCA's efforts to protect horses, please visit http://www.aspca.org.
About the ASPCA®
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) is the first animal welfare organization in North America and serves as the nation's leading voice for animals. More than two million supporters strong, the ASPCA's mission is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA is a national leader in the areas of anti-cruelty, community outreach and animal health services. For more information, please visit www.ASPCA.org, and be sure to follow the ASPCA on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.


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UPDATE on Life-Threatening Injuries Associated with the ShoulderFlex Massager: FDA Safety Communication
Date Issued: December 21, 2011
- Consumers who have purchased or use the ShoulderFlex Massager
- Businesses that sell the ShoulderFlex Massager
- Health care professionals who recommend the ShoulderFlex Massager to their patients
Medical Specialties: Physical Therapy, Orthopedics, Physical Medicine
The ShoulderFlex Massager, importeded by King International in Beaverton, OR and sold by various companies, is a personal massage device designed for home use to provide deep tissue massage to the neck, shoulder and back while the user lies on a flat surface. It consists of a massage unit that sits beneath the neck, a handheld controller, a memory foam pillow and a machine-washable sleeve. The device contains a rotating bar with removable massage "fingers" that may be adjusted by the user to customize the massage area and depth.
The purpose of this Safety Communication is to urge consumers and health care professionals to stop using the ShoulderFlex Massager because of the risk of strangulation or other serious injury.
The FDA is issuing this update to notify the public about King International's recall of its ShoulderFlex Massager and to provide information about the recall.
Summary of Problem and Scope:
The FDA is aware of reports to the Consumer Product Safety Commission of one death and one near-strangulation associated with the ShoulderFlex Massager. These incidents occurred when a necklace and clothing became caught in a piece of the device that rotates during use. The FDA is aware of two other reports of incidents involving clothing and hair becoming caught in the device.
The FDA is concerned that the ShoulderFlex Massager presents serious health risks. Hair, clothing, and jewelry can become entangled in the massage device and cause serious injury or death.
King International has distributed 11,934 devices since Oct. 18, 2003. The devices were sold at various stores and online retailers in the United States.
Recommendations for Consumers:
- Do NOT use the ShoulderFlex massager.
- Dispose of the device components separately so that the massager cannot be reassembled and used:
- Dispose of the power supply separately.
- Remove the massage fingers and dispose of them separately.
Recommendations for Health Care Providers:
- Advise your patients NOT to use the ShoulderFlex massager.
FDA Activities:
- On August 31, 2011, King International issued a press release notifying the public about the recall of its ShoulderFlex Massager.
- On Dec. 21, 2011, the FDA issued a press release notifying the public that during a recent compliance audit, the FDA discovered that the firm had gone out of business. Before closing its doors, King International failed to follow through with appropriate recall procedures and the 1-800 phone number established by the firm to handle this recall is no longer in service. The FDA is concerned that consumers may not be aware of the risks posed by the ShoulderFlex Massager and may still purchase or use this dangerous product. Many of the companies that sell this device may not be aware of the recall or may not have properly notified customers who purchased the massager.
Reporting Problems to the FDA:
Prompt reporting of adverse events can help the FDA identify and better understand the risks associated with medical devices. If you suspect a problem with the ShoulderFlex Massager, we encourage you to file a voluntary report through MedWatch, the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting program.
Contact Information:
If you have questions about this communication, please contact the Division of Small Manufacturers, International and Consumer Assistance (DSMICA) at email@example.com, 800-638-2041 or 301-796-7100.
This document reflects the FDA's current analysis of available information, in keeping with our commitment to inform the public about ongoing safety reviews of medical devices

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Childish Charity
I hate to say it, but I don't really do much "for the kids." I've never volunteered at a children's hospital or even knowingly contributed to a children's charity. It's not that I don't care, really. I might even hit up Friday's 2008 Race for the Kids Gala at Lone Star Park, just to prove it. What's that you say? Individual tickets are $95? OK, perhaps I don't care quite that much, but if you've got the cash to spare and a heart of gold, by all means head out for an evening of live and silent auctions, dessert buffets and Lone Star Park opening weekend excitement, including a concert by country star Gary Allan. It all benefits Dallas Challenge, Inc., an organization dedicated to "help youth stay in school, off drugs and alcohol, and out of the criminal justice system."—party poopers. Call 972-566-4680 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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UPA govt insensitive, says Sarabjit Singh's sister
Dalbir Kaur said had Indira Gandhi been the prime minister, she would have dealt with the case in a better way.
Kolkata: Calling the UPA government insensitive to getting Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh released from a Pakistani prison, his elder sister on Tuesday said had Indira Gandhi been the prime minister, she would have dealt with the case in a better way.
"I wish Indira Gandhi was the prime minister when my brother Sarabjit was imprisoned in Pakistan. She would have dealt with it in a better manner. She would have paid much more attention to the issue of mistaken identity of my brother and would have dealt with it swiftly. The present government is not so sensitive," Dalbir Kaur said at a book release here.
She also criticised former prime minister late P.V. Narasimha Rao for not doing enough when news of Sarabjit's incarceration in Pakistani jails filtered out in the early 1990s.
"If Rao had paid heed to the matter during its initial stage and taken solid steps, my brother would have been home by now," Kaur said. She said Rao had given assurances that steps would be taken for Sarabjit's release, but nothing was done.
Sarabjit is currently imprisoned in Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan since 1990.
His family claims Sarabjit had accidentally strayed across the border from his village on the border in Punjab into Pakistan Aug 28, 1990. He was caught by Pakistani troopers and was convicted by the Pakistani authorities for his alleged involvement in the 1990 serial bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 people.
Pakistani authorities alleged he was Manjit Singh.
He was given the death sentencein 1991, but the hanging has been repeatedly postponed. Five mercy petitions have been filed on his behalf, in which Sarabjit maintains he has served 22 years in prison for a crime he has not committed.
"The papers for his release are ready. They are with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. I hope he will take the matter into due consideration and sign them before March when his term ends," said Awais Sheikh, Sarabjit's lawyer in Pakistan.
Sheikh was in Kolkata to launch his bi-lingual book "Sarabjit Singh: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Sarabjit Singh ki Ajeeb Dastan)".
"When Sarabjit was arrested, Manjit disappeared. The FIR did not have Sarabjit's name in it. It said Manjit Singh and it became imperative for me to find out who Manjit Singh was," said Sheikh.
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Got pulled over this morning. I saw it coming. I had the foresight last week (Thank God!) to get my 2-month expired tag renewed. Even though I have had a good week to put it on, I got out of my ticket by showing the nice officer my new license plate and kindly explaining that to put on the new tag requires a power tool. And, really who has one of those just sitting around?
He had a good laugh. Tommy did too.
Guess who now has a little motivation to change the tag?
And, on a completely seperate note...I am also very motivated to get this new housekeeper. But, really have no idea where to begin (yes, I can Google ; ) but would like like to get a recommendation. So far I have looked up Clean Freaks...anyone used them? Anyone else? Hmm...this might be a potential business venture for someone -- an online housekeeper referral service.
Fab Find: Dollar Aisle Men's Socks
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Belgian Shepherd Groenendael
I have read multiple articles which talk about how the BSG sheds heavily only twice per year. When exactly are these two sheddings supposed to happen?
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The Belgian shepherds shed heavily during summer time and winter. Extra coat care is needed during these time of the year.
Member 1107927 answered on 6/25/12. Helpful? / 0
Please bear in mind, he will shed..a lot...every day of the year. Blowing coat happens twice, at the times the PP mentioned..but it can take days to fully get the undercoat out.
BSGs are a lot of dog..so shedding should only be a minor consideration when getting one. They are not a dog for novice owners. Please research carefully & prepare for 3 years of exasperation before he matures.
Member 904338 answered on 6/25/12. Helpful? / 1
Wiley is quite right about the Belgian.
They are a double coated dog and will shed all year long. How badly they blow their coat also depends on how often you bathe & brush the dog out.
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Passenger and other Ruby frameworks
Traffic for our Passenger (mod_rails) preview site has increased three fold ever since RailsEnvy and weblog.rubyonrails.org (thanks David) linked to us. We've received quite some emails from interested people. 🙂 One of the questions that we receive most is:
"What about other Ruby frameworks, like Merb, Camping, etc?"
There is the following saying: jack of all trades, master of none. At the moment, our goal is to make Passenger a great deployment system for Ruby on Rails, one that is matched by none in terms of ease of use and low maintenance overhead.
But some people ask:
"What's wrong with mod_ruby?"
- For one, look at its website. Last release was from 2006. I'm not sure whether it's still maintained anymore.
- Nobody (or almost nobody) uses it in production. This fact alone says a lot.
- The Rails wiki page for mod_ruby lists a pretty bad limitation:
mod_ruby uses a shared interpreter per Apache process, which means that multiple Rails applications on the same Apache setup with mod_ruby would share the framework classes. This doesn't work well with the Rails model of using class-level configuration attributes, so it's considered unsafe to use mod_ruby and Rails with more than one application running per Apache setup, because different applications may start sharing the classes.
Granted, these are implementation problems and not conceptual problems, so they can be fixed. So some people ask:
"Why didn't you just make a solid mod_ruby implementation?"
First, we must agree on the premise that Rails is a more popular framework than other Ruby frameworks. Wait, hold your flame thrower, this is not the reason. 😉
Next, try thinking from the point of view of a new Rails developer. He's introduced to lala-land: Don't-Repeat-Yourself, convention over configuration, stuff that's supposed to Just Work(tm).
Then he deploys his Rails app and finds out that he has to setup a Mongrel cluster (1 command but usually with 3 or 4 options that he'll have to look up), configure Apache to proxy to the cluster (about 5 or 6 lines that he'll have to setup), configure init.d/daemon tools/monit/god/whatever so that his Mongrel cluster is started at system startup, etc.
Oh, and you need to repeat this for every single Rails app.
Ouch, is this the proper Rails experience? I don't think so. This is Passenger's philosophy: deployment should be in line with the Rails philosophy. In other words, it should be brain-dead simple. Just imagine the money that you'll save on health care for your system administrator if he doesn't have to worry about all that stuff anymore. 😉
Of course, the Rails philosophy doesn't prevent deployment of other Ruby framework apps from being easy. So what's holding us back? Well, here's a few things that Passenger does but mod_ruby doesn't:
- Remember the screencast that we showed you? You can deploy a Rails app to a virtual host without any Ruby-specific or Rails-specific configuration! From this fact one can deduce that Passenger somehow automatically detects Rails applications (and yes, this autodetection can be disabled). Autodetection heuristics are framework-dependent. We'll need different heuristics for each framework.
- Passenger preloads framework code and application code in order to reduce startup time and to reduce memory usage. Preloading logic is framework-dependent.
- Look at Troubleshooting obscure errors with mod_ruby. Notice the word "obscure errors" – errors should never be obscure or hard to track!
We've seen many people failing to deploy Rails apps because of errors during application startup. Lighttpd's FastCGI implementation redirects those errors to /dev/null. Not good, this fact bit me 2 years ago — when I was deploying my first Rails app — and made me wonder why the thing wouldn't work. Mongrel prints errors either to stderr or to its log file. But people who are new to Rails deployment don't know that they should be looking in the log files (or that there are log files in the first place). Plus, looking into the log file is yet-another-step. Wouldn't it be great if you can see startup errors right in the browser?
Passenger provides user-friendly error pages. If a Rails app failed to start, then Passenger will tell you what happened. A few possible error pages are:
- Whether a (specific version of a) system-wide Rails framework failed to load. Passenger will even tell you the correct command to (re)install it.
- Whether a vendor'ed Rails framework failed to load.
- Whether the app failed to start because of a syntax error, or a missing gem. Passenger will suggest solutions.
- Whether a database error occured during startup. Passenger will tell you to check your database.yml and to run 'rake db:migrate'.
Here are previews of typical error pages:
As you can see, a lot of these error pages are framework-dependent.
As you may have noticed by now, we've put a lot of work into making sure that deployment is dead-easy. This is only possible if Passenger has knowledge about the frameworks themselves. We have a tight schedule and we only have 2 developers working on Passenger. Rails is more popular so it has more priority. We're working around the clock to get this thing released.
Or we can get rid of the autodetection/preloading logic and just provide generic configuration options. But would you really want that? By no means should we force the system administrator to configure things. By default, stuff should Just Work(tm) out-of-the-box.
Hope this clears things up.


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If you don't know about Black Milk Clothing you will now.
Derek Vincent Smith, better known as the artist Pretty Lights has collaborated with Black Milk Clothing for some interesting new pieces.
Browsing my Instagram feed yesterday I had to do a double take when I noticed the photo of the Black Milk office with Derek from PL.
Black Milk Clothing is fairly new company, founded in 2009 by James Lillis in Australia. Their items are all hand made quality apparel which gives them a fairly hefty price tag. Well known for their vivid galaxy print leggings, they have successfully infiltrated our very unique fashion culture.
The body contour dress and signature leggings have been designed and inspired by Pretty Lights 2012 single release 'So Bright'. This Instagram photo I snagged just doesn't do them justice, but with yesterdays epic Lord of the Rings release additional photos have been hard to come by.
No release date has been scheduled for the Pretty Lights pieces. Since they typically have a themed release I am curious if this is part of a larger music theme or if this is a one-off creation.
Either way I love Black Milk Clothing and Pretty Lights, I'm ready for some Pretty Tights!
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Listen: So Bright by Pretty Lights


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Who Are The 'Peacocks' In These Relationships? Housewife Jill Zarin Can Pick Them Out In A Flash!
"It is a rule of nature" that only one person can be the attention grabber in a couple, says Jill!
In every relationship, there can be only one person who spreads their feathers demanding the spotlight. The Real Housewives of New York City star Jill Zarin terms these individuals "peacocks" in her new book Secrets of a Jewish Mother. "It's like the A and B personality. Two A's together is more difficult and more challenging, an A and B together is clearly better!" she tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively.
BFFs — we have pulled out four super hot Hollywood couples for you to examine. Tell us — who do you think are the peacocks in these relationships? Vote!
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Poor administrative practices and the lack of education, tools, and controls combine to leave the average system vulnerable to attack. Research promises to alleviate the inadequate supply of tools and applicable controls. These controls, however, tend to be add-on controls. There is a need for the delivery of secure systems, rather than the ability to build one from parts. The average administrator has little inclination to perform these modifications, and no idea how to perform them.
The joint NIST/NSA Federal Criteria project holds the most promise to drive the creation of reasonably secure systems. By building upon the various criteria projects that precede it (the TCSEC, the ITSEC, and the Canadian criteria), this project intends to address security requirements for commercial systems in a meaningful way. The initial version, which will focus on criteria for operating systems, will include extensions/enhancements in integrity, communications, and other areas. Future versions will address criteria for distributed systems.
Extensive connectivity increases system access for hackers. Until standards become widely used, network security will continue to be handled on a system by system basis. The problem can be expected to increase if and when the Integrated Systems Digital Network (ISDN) is implemented without appropriate security capabilities.
A promising note for the future does exist. Multiple sets of tools do not need to be developed in order to solve each of the potential threats to a system. Many of the controls that will stop one type of attack on a system will be beneficial against many other forms of attack. The challenge is to determine what is the minimum set of controls necessary to protect a system with an acceptable degree of assurance.


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I'm currently in the process of implementing a first prototype of a broadband sonar for my subsim.
Have a look at this picture:
I'm currently struggling how to best implement the background noise (random noise of the ocean, in the picture those are the dark grey random points)...I'm sure there are standard algorithms/maths to do that.
Can anybody help me here ?


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Aba Kovner
Hebrew: אבא קובנר
|Sevastopol', Sevastopol' city, Ukraine
|Died in Ein HaHoresh, Israel
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|Ein HaHoresh, Israel
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Son of Israel Kovner and Rachel Roza Kovner
|משורר / Poet
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About Abba Kovner
Abba Kovner (1918-1987) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebrew poet, writer, and partisan leader. He became one of the great poets of modern Israel. He was a cousin of the Israeli Communist Party leader Meir Vilner.
A quotation by Abba Kovner, displayed at the entrance to Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv Abba Kovner was born in the Crimean Black Sea port city of Sevastopol but soon moved with his family to Vilnius, Lithuania) where he grew up and was educated at the secondary Hebrew academy and the school of the arts. While pursuing his studies, he joined and became an active member in the socialist Zionist youth movement HaShomer HaTzair.
World War II
In June 1941, Nazi Germany attacked Vilnius, which was by that time in Lithuanian SSR, after the illegal annexation/occupation of Lithuania 21 July 1940 (and the other Baltic States) into the Soviet Union in 1940. After occupation established the Vilna Ghetto. Kovner managed to escape with several friends to a Dominican convent headed by Anna Borkowska in the city's suburbs, but he soon returned to the ghetto. He concluded that in order for any revolt to be successful, a Jewish resistance fighting force needed to be assembled.
At the start of 1942, Kovner released a manifesto in the Vilna ghetto, twice repeating the phrase "Let us not go like lambs to the slaughter!" that later became famous. The manifesto declared that Hitler had decided to kill all the Jews of Europe and that it was best to die fighting. It was the first time such a notion had been declared in Europe—nobody at that time knew for certain of more than local killings—and many received it with skepticism, however for many this proclamation represented a turning point in an understanding of the situation and how to respond to it. The idea of resistance was disseminated from Vilna by youth movement couriers, mainly women, to the ghettos of Poland, Lithuania and Belorussia. Kovner and others formed the United Partisan Organization, one of the first armed underground organizations in the Jewish ghettos under Nazi occupation. Kovner became its leader in July 1943, after Yitzhak Wittenberg was named by a tortured comrade and turned himself in to prevent an attack on the ghetto. The FPO planned to fight the Germans when the end of the ghetto came, but circumstances and the opposition of the ghetto leaders made this impossible and they escaped to the forests.
From September 1943 until the arrival of the Soviet army in July 1944, Kovner commanded a partisan group called The Avenger in the forests near Vilna and engaged in sabotage and guerrilla attacks against the Germans and their local collaborators. His was one of four predominantly Jewish groups that operated under the command of the Soviet-led partisans.
After the occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Red Army in July 1944, Kovner became one of the founders of the Berihah movement, helping Jews escape Eastern Europe after the war.
At the end of the war, Kovner was one of the founders of a secret organization Nakam (revenge), also known as Dam Yisrael Noter ("the blood of Israel avenges", with the acronym DIN meaning "judgement") whose purpose was to seek revenge for the Holocaust. Two plans were formulated. Plan A was to kill a large number of German citizens by poisoning the water supplies of Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, and Nuremberg. Plan B was to kill SS prisoners held in Allied POW camps. In pursuit of Plan A, members of the group were infiltrated into water and sewage plants in several cities, while Kovner went to Palestine in search of a suitable poison. Kovner discussed Nakam with Yishuv leaders, though it is not clear how much he told them and he doesn't seem to have received much support. According to Kovner's own account, Chaim Weizmann approved the idea and put him in touch with the scientist Ernst Bergmann, who gave the job of preparing poison to Ephraim Katzir (later president of Israel) and his brother Aharon. Historians have expressed doubt over Weizmann's involvement, since he was overseas at the time Kovner specified. The Katzir brothers confirmed that they gave poison to Kovner, but said that he only mentioned Plan B and they denied that Weizmann could be involved. As Kovner and an accomplice were returning to Europe on a British ship, they threw the poison overboard when Kovner was arrested. He was imprisoned for a few months in Cairo and Plan A was abandoned.
In April 1946, members of Nakam broke into a bakery used to supply bread for the Langwasser internment camp near Nuremberg, where many German POWs were being held. They coated many of the loaves with arsenic but were disturbed and fled before finishing their work. More than 2,200 of the German prisoners fell ill and 207 were hospitalized, but no deaths were reported.
Kovner joined the Haganah in December 1947, and soon after Israel declared independence in May 1948 he became a captain in the Givati Brigade of the IDF. During the Israeli War of Independence he became known for his "battle pages", headed "Death to the invaders!", that contained news from the Egyptian front and essays designed to keep up morale. However, the tone of the pages, which called for revenge for the Holocaust and referred to the Egyptian enemy as vipers and dogs, upset many Israeli political and military leaders. His first battle page started a controversy that still continues today when it accused the Nitzanim garrison of cowardice for surrendering to an overwhelming Egyptian force.
From 1946 to his death, Kovner was a resident of Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh. He was active in Mapam as well as in HaShomer HaTzair, but never took on a formal political role. He played a major part in the design and construction of several Holocaust museums, including the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv. He died in 1987 of cancer that had started in his vocal chords, perhaps due to his lifelong heavy smoking. His wife Vitka Kempner, who had also been a partisan in the forests of Lithuania, survived him.
Kovner's book of poetry Ad Lo-Or, ("Until No-Light"), 1947, describes in lyric-dramatic narrative the struggle of the Resistance partisans in the swamps and forests of Eastern Europe. Ha-Mafteach Tzalal, ("The Key Drowned"), 1951, is also about this struggle. Pridah Me-ha-darom ("Departure from the South"), 1949, and Panim el Panim ("Face to Face"), 1953, continue the story with the Israeli War of Independence. Kovner's story is the basis for the song "Six Million Germans / Nakam", by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird. Kovner testified about his experiences during the war at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Awards and honors
In 1968, Kovner was awarded the Brenner Prize for literature. In 1970, Kovner was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.
Abba Kovner's Timeline
March 14, 1918
Sevastopol', Sevastopol' city, Ukraine
September 25, 1987
Age 69
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Ein HaHoresh, Israel


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· MTV's self-explanatory I'm With Rolling Stone is the wrong show for the wrong audience in the wrong year. Apart from that, I've got no complaints about it. With the honourable exception of Almost Famous, movies and TV have given the grubby world of the music press a wide berth. Rightly so, as those who regard scribbling for freebies and plus ones as their vocation tend to be shambling, unkempt clumps of hair and flesh (and as for the guys...).
But had MTV, back in the early 1990s, back when The Real World was in its infancy, made a mutually beneficial pact with Rolling Stone to hand out summer internships to a bunch of telegenic rookie writers, the results may have meant something to the audience. Think about the early 1990s: no internet, no downloading, rock and rap sales still thriving, rock magazines still faintly influential. To that early 1990s audience, a show following enthusiastic neophyte journalists as they fight to get access to artists, to get a coherent interview, to meet their deadline and see their piece in print might have been inspirational, might have elicited a rebellious "screw college, I've got album reviews to write!".
But it's not the early 1990s any more. Rolling Stone figurehead Jann Wenner probably thinks he's displaying a delightfully self-deprecating sense of humour by taking part in the opening scene where he calls his new interns to inform them of their golden opportunity only to be met by apathy or, in one case, the baffled reply, "Sorry, what was your name again? Did you say Ian?" As someone who put in a few years toiling for an American rock magazine (not Stone, I was with the number two - in every sense - rival, Spin), the various pitfalls facing the plucky hacks - getting lost on the way to interviews, losing tapes, having brilliant pieces killed by idiot editors - ring painfully true. But I'm hardly the target demographic for this show. The audience it is aimed at are completely disinterested. MTV's spent years pumping out cheap reality shows where drunk, dumb adolescents celebrate their irresponsibility. Now they're supposed to tune in to watch a series about deadlines?
· For a certain podgy, pallid, socially maladroit section of the population, comedian Sarah Silverman supplants Jean Grey, Lara Croft, Cylon Number Six and Zhang Ziyi as imaginary girlfriend material. Her geek-aphrodisiac credentials are unsurpassable: she's a pretty girl who gravitates towards the slobby wardrobe and schlumpy posture of a bloated slacker. Her sugary sing-song enunciation adds honeyed tones to torrents of scatological and brutally confrontational humour. Add to that the fact that she exclusively dates comics almost as physically unprepossessing (although, obviously, many times richer) as her couch-bound admirers and it's obvious why she's revered by the pockets of society who normally shun contact with non-pixellated females. But in the world of American TV where audiences are used to their funny women - of both the sitcom and stand-up varieties - bemoaning their weight, their age and the shortcomings of the other gender, Silverman has long been a smirking square peg.
The news that, after years of aborted HBO pilots, The Sarah Silverman Program was debuting on Comedy Central was a cause for celebration. Sponging off a support group that includes her real-life sister Laura (whose vagina she compares to Cat Stevens' face) and two burly gay neighbours, Silverman prepares viewers for the thoughtless scorn she will come to pour on minorities, the homeless and the disabled by, early in the series, meeting and speedily hopping into bed with God. God, played by a dignified black actor, proves, the next morning, to be overly needy. After Sarah bruises his ego by trying to get rid of him with an obvious lie, she frets that she's come off as racist. So for now, if only for the fact that she's not whining about shoes or being single, Sarah Silverman has left behind the geeks and ascended to being every comedy fan's imaginary girlfriend.
· I wouldn't go as far as saying that The White Rapper Show makes up for Birth Of A Nation but, in terms of filmed atrocities perpetrated by members of one race against another, it comes pretty damn close. White Rapper is an extended burst of malicious laughter at the continued existence of rap's longest-lasting punchline. Remember Eminem had that lyric prophesying "20 million other white rappers emerge" in his wake? Well, they didn't. They didn't because they'd automatically be putting themselves in a position where they would eternally be desperate for respect and credibility, careful to censor everything they say and always looking for approval.
White Rapper plays on all these insecurities, selecting a disparate band of Caucasian rhymers, tossing them into a flophouse and making them jump through hoops for a cash prize. Under the aegis of MC Serch, late of 1980s duo 3rd Bass and himself once the epitome of the deadly earnest white guy who tried too hard, the contestants endure innumerable agonizing rites of passage: freestyling on the streets of Harlem, participating in gameshows where they're quizzed on the depth of their black culture knowledge and deflecting derision from rap nerd icons like Brand Nubian and Prince Paul.
Even though The White Rapper Show rarely lets up in its efforts to mock its participants, it leaves room for a little sympathy. As much as the cast are selected for their oddball personalities rather than their abilities (step forward John Brown, the self-styled king of the suburbs, who so infuriates another white rapper that she pummels him in the face with a dildo), there's no denying their sincerity. Midway through the series it becomes evident that the remaining contestants' biggest problem isn't so much their pigmentation as, in common with most contemporary rappers, having nothing to say and nothing that makes them different from anyone else.


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RE: sending child to French school
Although my answer is not completely related to the French American school, here it is. We speak Romanian at home and we sent our daughters to preschool when they were two years old without them having any prior knowledge of English. They both learned to understand and speak (in this order) English very quickly (2 months) and they adjusted perfectly. Children do pick up foreign languages very quickly and easy. They have a wonderfully large capacity of learning that we don't usually feed enough. I'm thinking of sending my daughters to the French American School not only because of the French language and culture but also because of the european school curriculum that is applied there. I spoke to the teachers and they told me there are several trilingual students there that do just fine. I know a couple of examples too. Good luck. Simona


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Range report on two SIGs!! Very nice. This qualifies you for double SIG snob status. (just jealous because I be SIG-less)
I know what you mean about the sights and lighting. I did not have that issue when I was younger, and I was a much better shot. People post of their 25 yard shooting......hah!! I can't see the target at 25 yards, much less put rounds on paper at that distance. This getting older thing blows.....but the alternative is much worse.


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Well I'm looking to build as much muscle mass as possible, and from my understanding the rep ranges of 3-6 are more strength hypertrophy, while 8-12 are more muscle volume based hypertrophy. Obviously you'd see mass gains from strength rep ranges and strength gains for volume rep ranges, just each range prioritizes what gets developed. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
Good questions for sure...
I know what has worked best in the past for me is pyramid training (for example 10-8-6), which takes away the 10-10-10 for instance... I can pick a weight that I can get 10 on the first set, but as I am fatigued when I go for the same weight on next set, I can only get 8... or if I feel I can still get 10 I go up in weight. Should I change the rep scheme to a more pyramid based one?
My personal opinion is that those rules apply mainly to advanced trainees moreso than beginners. A solid compound linear progression will put more mass on a novice trainee than anything else, in my opinion.
I think you're short changing yourself with reverse pyramid training. It's just a lot of wasted reps in my opinion. I'd personally rather see a heavy 5x5 or 5x3 with more rest than all these higher rep sets with a bunch of reps at lower weights.
Gotta remember that a lot of these programs are written by people that are very advanced yet they write stuff on their website and everyone that reads it assumes that was the single program that got those people to the place they are currently at when in reality they used all sorts of beginner, intermediate and advanced programs to get them there.
Your goal at this point should be to add mass and add strength so you can get to a point much more quickly where an appearance based program will benefit you much more so than it will now.
All just in my opinion of course and if appearance is your main goal you could modify a linear progression program from a weekly cycle to a 10 day cycle so you have a few extra days for arm days or back days and an extra day of cardio.
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Permanent Occupation
By Rep. Barbara Lee September 29, 2005
If you are inclined to believe the president, we will be in Iraq, in his words "as long as necessary, and not a day longer." Members of the Bush administration, including the president, have been at pains to dispel any notion that they have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq.
On April 13, 2004, President Bush said, "As a proud and independent people, Iraqis do not support an indefinite occupation and neither does America."
On February 17, 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, testifying before the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, said, ''We have no intention, at the present time, of putting permanent bases in Iraq.''
The circumstances on the ground, however, tell another story. On March 23, 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported on the construction of 14 "enduring bases" in Iraq. The May 22, 2005, Washington Post described the military's plan to consolidate military personnel in Iraq into four massive "contingency operating bases." According to the Congressional Research Service, Emergency Supplemental funds appropriated for military construction in Iraq for fiscal years 2001–2005 total more than $805 million, with the vast majority, more than $597 million, coming in the 2005 fiscal year.
Anyone familiar with the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) should be skeptical about the administration's claims that it does not have plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq. PNAC, many of whose founders, including Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, went on to serve in the Bush administration, published a document in 2000 titled "Rebuilding America's Defenses." It plainly cites the objective of an increased U.S. military presence in the region as a rationale for invading Iraq: "While the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification [for U.S. military presence], the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein."
In discussing the 14 "enduring bases" then under construction, Army Brig. Gen. Robert Pollman, chief engineer for base construction in Iraq, raised the question, "Is this a swap for the Saudi bases? I don't know," he told the Chicago Tribune. "When we talk about enduring bases here, we're talking about the present operation, not in terms of America's global strategic base. But this makes sense. It makes a lot of logical sense."
No one disputes that many of the installations under construction are of a physically permanent character. The issue revolves around the policy question of whether Iraq will be under permanent U.S. military occupation.
That is why I introduced H. Con. Res. 197, which would make it "the policy of the United States not to enter into any base agreement with the Government of Iraq that would lead to a permanent United States military presence in Iraq."
This commonsense measure does two very important things. First, it explicitly states that the United States has no plans for a permanent military presence in Iraq and thus help to defuse the insurgency and improve the security situation on the ground.
Larry Diamond, former advisor to Paul Bremer, then head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, is a Hoover fellow and author of Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. He writes:
We know from a variety of sources, private as well as public, that intense opposition to U.S. plans to establish long-term military bases in Iraq is one of the most passionate motivations behind the insurgency. There are many different strands to the violent resistance that plagues Iraq: Islamist and secular, Sunni and Shiite, Baathist and non-Baathist, Iraqi and foreign. The one thing that unites these disparate elements is Iraqi (or broader pan-Arab) nationalism--resistance to what they see as a long-term project for imperial domination by the United States. Neutralizing this anti-imperial passion--by clearly stating that we do not intend to remain in Iraq indefinitely--is essential to winding down the insurgency.
Second, this bill allows those who have opposed this war from the outset to define one of the most critical components of an exit strategy--namely, that our troops actually exit. The Bush administration's unwillingness to acknowledge their intentions in Iraq, coupled with the growing disapproval of their handling of the war and the increasing public support for withdrawing our troops, offer an immediate opportunity to define this debate.
Members of Congress disagree about when, and under what circumstances, our troops should be brought home, but you are not likely to find any member of Congress who would dare to publicly come out in support of staying in Iraq permanently.
It is a question that supporters of the president should be forced to answer. If they don't support being in Iraq permanently, they should co-sponsor my bill, and put themselves on record. It is that simple.
Rep. Barbara Lee is a member of the Progressive Caucus and represents California's District.
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>U.S. General Says Iraqis Will Need Longtime Support From Air Force
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 - The Air Force's top general said Monday that American warplanes would have to support Iraq's fledgling security forces well after American ground troops eventually withdraw from the country.
Gen. John P. Jumper, who is to step down this week as the Air Force chief of staff, predicted that American fighter and reconnaissance aircraft would continue flying missions over Iraq for a long time, until Iraqi forces are capable of fighting insurgents on their own.
In an interview earlier this month, General Jumper was even more explicit when asked about the Air Force's future in Iraq. "We will continue with a rotational presence of some type in that area more or less indefinitely," he said. "We have interests in that part of the world and an interest in staying in touch with the militaries over there."
I'm sure the Repuglinazis, their Republicrat allies (Lieberman, Biden et al), and their corporate masters will be disposed to witdraw the American military and "our" (government-paid) mercenaries in 10 years or so, when the Iraqi and Middle East oil resources have been fully depleted.
You're stuck on stupid conspiracy theories. If we only wanted oil, we would just invade Venezuela.
The local Boeing in Mesa, Arizona is crowing about having received a government contract to build 13 attack helicopters between now and the year 2010 at a cost of 27 million dollars.
Doesn't sound like there are any plans to withdraw troops from Iraq anytime soon to me.
Tom Fox, Electronic Iraq, 27 September 2005
The draft constitution for Iraq that has been published in
the Western press has been widely reviewed and commented
upon by many individuals. There have been ongoing
revisions to the constitution. The most recent version was
released internally on Sept. 13th. This version has not
been disseminated to either Western or Iraqi press or to
the Iraqi public. CPT Iraq was sent a copy by a contact in
the government. While much of the document is similar and
most changes are more in terms of replacing a word or two
there are some significant differences.
Perhaps the most dramatic change is the omission of a
section of the "Transitional Provisions."
The published draft reads:
1. "It is forbidden for Iraq to be used as a base or
corridor for foreign troops."
2. "It is forbidden to have foreign military bases in
3. "The National Assembly can, when necessary, and with a
majority of two-thirds of its members allow events stated
in #1 and #2 to take place."
This provision is completely missing from the current
unpublished version.
Perhaps a more subtle change is in the "Fundamental
Principles" section. In the published draft, Article 2
states: "No law can be passed that contradicts the
undisputed rules of Islam." In the unpublished current
version, the article reads, "No law that contradicts the
established provisions of Islam may be established." Now
this may be splitting hairs but Iraqis have said that
"undisputed" would imply Islamic law that is recognized by
both Sunni and Shi'a. The word "established" would imply
that law that exists in one branch but not the other would
be considered the basis of national law. This could create
serious tensions if a Sunni or Shi'a were required to obey
a national law that is outside of their particular faith
Financial issues play a major role in the constitution and
there is a significant contradiction in two sections of
the unpublished current version. In the "Powers of the
Regions" the second clause of Article 117 states, "Regions
and governorates shall be allocated an equitable share of
the national revenues [as a clarification oil revenue is
considered national revenue] sufficient to discharge its
responsibilities and duties." But there is an addition to
the unpublished current version in reference to oil and
gas revenues that states, "A quota shall be defined for a
specific time for affected regions that were deprived in
an unfair way by the former régime or later on." In other
words the Kurdish region or a new Shi'a region in the
south could get the lion's share of oil revenues for years
while the Sunni central region gets but a pittance.
This document is not available to the people of Iraq at
this time (Sept. 24th) and yet they will be asked to go to
the polls and vote on it in 23 days. Is this democracy or
yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of sectarian and
religious divisiveness in the country?
Why are you "people" still JAWING ABOUT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT
We're tired of this crap that's going on.
When "Junior (Bush)" can send a private army into one of our
cities to "control" our own fellow Americans, I SAY E N O U G H!!!
It's now time to either s--- or get off of the pot.
Thank you!
Groups like After Downing Street have done an excellent job making the public realize the pitch for the war was based on lies.
Now we have to do what the GOP and most Democrats are afraid to do: Answer Cindy Sheehan's question about the real causes.
The primary goal now should be to make the public aware of the real goals, Iraq's oil and hegemony over the whole oil region.
This would serve a could of crucial purposes:
Make the phony reasons look even more hollow, pathetic, and embarrassing.
Innoculate the public against the arguments that are already brewing for going into Iran.
I have a lot of respect for Congressmen like Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and John Conyers who dare to tell the truth in the face of the current assault not only on Iraq, but on our reputation in the world and our democracy at home.
Give it up! The Iraq War is not a "conspiracy." It's part of the war Islamic terrorist declared on America on September 11. You're stuck on stupid conspiracy theories. If we only wanted oil, we would just invade Venezuela.
Instead of supporting an anti-American Leftist like Cindy Sheehan, you should be sending letters of thanks and care packages to our fine, brave soldiers. People like you are pathetic, and embarrassing to America!
You should study history. American troops will be in Iraq for a very, very long time. Sixty years after WWII, we still have tens of thousands of troops in Japan and Germany.
And, if we only wanted oil, we would just invade Venezuela. Pleeeeeeeeease!
I've seen reports from Iraq that the permanent bases are going up. It is the oil there that we (Big Oil) want. I suspect too that since water is so scarce there that it too will become an extremely valuable commodity.
So I think it is oil and water that we want to control there in Iraq and surrounding countries. I have no doubt that the USA will invade Venezuela as well, as soon as a convenient excuse can be made up. Let's see, um, Hugo Chavez visited Cuba, thus he will be turning his people into commies. Thus, to prevent the possible Domino Effect, we will have to snuff him out and install a Big Oil loving puppet regime in his stead. I am sure the propaganda machine in Wash DC is coming up with believable stories. Maybe they're already filming "News Releases" for the all too gullible American public.
Congresswoman Lee seems to always be on target! I would add that the USA has had bases in foreign lands for most of our history, Central America, The Phillipines, Texas (look it up), not to mention Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, the list goes on and on. These bases have been used not only to keep the areas they are in under control but also to threaten the surrounding neighborhoods. Ringing the Soviet Union with TAC bases, using the marines to protect United Fruit in Central America, or Guantanamo as a torture center, corporate America has always managed to use American troops to further their expansionist goals. I don't believe that the bases being built in Iraq are only for occupation, as reprehensible as that would be. I am convinced that these forward bases will be there for future corporate adventurism.
These representative is fantastic, and I have asked my congresswoman, Julia Carson, to stand with Barbara. I am so happy that mine voted against allowing the war in Iraq, and has apologized for voting for the Patriot Act. Continuing democracy is a lot of work, but so is life, and both are WORTHWHILE.


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The Top 75: Juice Pharma Worldwide
"Last year was about staying true to vision and not giving into fear," Moran says. "We've always been bold and courageous, and we want to be a source of courage for clients. Everybody knew times were tough and tougher times were coming. We had our eye on 2008 and beyond. We were financially planning for 2009 and choicefully deciding about how to continue to diversify."
When contemplating "the new pharma model," Moran adds that the partners consider extremes. For example, how to launch a product if there are no reps. "We've challenged ourselves to think beyond all the norms in this industry for many years," Moran says. "We want to take all the handcuffs off, forget all the norms and…think in new and different ways."
The partners note that clients increasingly want one point person to help them more easily navigate multichannel needs. Macrone notes that this has been a strong focus since the agency's founding six years ago. "Clients have a lot on their plate," she adds. "We want to do whatever we can to make their days more efficient. Solidifying our offerings…allows us to be a source of consistency to execute through whatever platform with fresh ideas."
Last year, the agency became interactive AOR for all of its clients, which was an important goal. Win highlights include an Elan/Wyeth biologic for Alzheimer's treatment and a pain therapy for Pfizer (plus preferred supplier status in the pain therapy category).
The agency's relationship with Wyeth expanded to include its complete hemophilia franchise and all interactive work. Similarly, long-standing client Merck & Co. increased work on Gardasil and Zostavax to include interactive, and it assigned new consumer-focused initiatives. The agency stopped working on Novartis' vaccine Menveo when it parted ways with the company.
Juice joined Worldwide Partners Inc, a global network of independent agencies, last May. The partners believe true global capability is essential now and going forward. Last year the agency's name changed from Juice Pharma Advertising to Juice Pharma Worldwide to reflect its "globalness."
Headcount held steady at 85, and it's projected to top 100 this year. There are currently openings in account and copy.
Moran notes that almost all clients are "acutely" focused on customers now, and they all need to ensure offerings are relevant while meeting business goals.
The agency introduced the term "bigtique" last year to encapsulate its ability to provide all the services of a big agency with specialized, hands-on talent and fresh thinking. It's continuing to live by this tenant.
"We do especially well staying true to our vision and not getting pulled left and right with distractions that could occur monthly, weekly, daily," Moran adds. "We're not reactive, we're methodical."


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Google still wants to make your website load faster. The company started on its web optimization quest with the Page Speed browser extension, then it moved the Page Speed tool online with an API and now Google is offering up the Page Speed Service.
Google's new Page Speed Service is invite-only at the moment, but if you'd like to request access, head on over to the sign up page and drop your e-mail and URL in the form.
Google's new Page Speed Service is one part optimization tool and one part content distribution network (CDN). Google essentially grabs your website, caches it and serves it from the company's extensive network of servers around the world. The best part about Page Speed is its simplicity — all you need to do is point your DNS to Google's servers. After that Google handles the rest and you don't need to worry about minifying your JavaScript, compressing images, caching, gzipping, or any other web performance best practices.
For your site's visitors everything works just as it always has, the page load times are just shorter. At least that's the theory. In reality, how much the Page Speed Service will speed up your site varies considerably depending on how well optimized your website is to begin with.
The Google Code blog reports that, on average, pages served from Page Speed are between twenty and sixty percent faster. If you're curious to see how Google's Page Speed service stacks up against your current setup, you can compare load times through WebPageTest. I ran my site through the test and the Google optimized version was roughly 40 percent faster, though judging by the screenshots it didn't quite render properly.
The rendering problems may have been WebPageTest's fault, though the Page Speed Service documentation seems to indicate that not every page is going to render properly. The Page Speed Service offers a tool to blacklist any specific pages you don't want Page Speed to serve up because it doesn't render them properly.
It's also worth bearing in mind that, while a 40 percent speed boost did shave over half a second off my site's page load times, most of the performance gain came from Page Speed's heavily cached CDN. If your site is already well-optimized, but lacks a (somewhat expensive) CDN, Google Page Speed isn't going to help you out any more than existing services like Amazon's CloudFront or any other CDN.
The Page Speed docs explain some more in-depth methods of testing your website using various browser proxy add-ons so you can perform your own, more thorough speed tests before you commit to using the Page Speed Service.
For now the Page Speed Service is free, but don't expect that to last. Eventually, when Page Speed opens up to everyone, Google plans to start charging for it. For now the company isn't committing to actual prices, saying only that Page Speed will be "competitive." Presumably that means something in the ballpark of Amazon's S3, CloudFront and similar services.
See Also:
- Speed Up Your Site With Google Analytics New Page Speed Tools
- Speed Up Your WordPress Site With Google's New Page Speed API
- Google Page Speed Now Works in any Web Browser
- How to Speed Up Your Site With YSlow and Page Speed


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"The most important thing in the Olympic games is not to win but to take part ..." So begins the Olympic creed (www.olympics.org.uk/olympicmovement/olympicmovement.asp). With three days to go to the start of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, teachers might get pupils to reflect on this principal throughout the 17 days of fierce competition. The sporting event also has enormous cross-curricular potential.
Luge? Nordic combined? Many of the winter sports may be unfamiliar. Let students dig for details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/sport_guides/default.stm and ask groups to concentrate on one sport or event. As well as coming up with a combination poster and Q/A for display, ask them to make the case for their sport being the must-see event in Turin. The image bank at www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/gare_e_programma/fotogallery.html will be helpful, and details of competing UK athletes are at www.olympics.org.uk/teamgb/teamgb.asp.
Location, location, location
Use the winter games to improve understanding of the geography of the Alps. Encourage pupils to investigate the route of the Olympic flame around Italy www2.fiammaolimpica.it/ asking them to work out a route around the UK for 2012.
The series of official films www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/spirito_olimpico/filmati_1.html provide a rich source of information about Turin and the games.
Contrast this pristine environment with National Geographic's www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0602/feature6/index.html story behind Europe's winter playground. The piece argues that if temperatures continue to rise, half of the region's 600 or so ski resorts will close by 2050. There is information at www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/alps/area/problems/index.cfm
The Olympics are an ideal vehicle for studying Ancient Greece. The site www.museum.upenn.edu/new/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml explores some of the traditions, including the occasional lack of sportsmanship that marred even the original events. Combine these insights with the information on the Learnthings' newsdesk www.learnnewsdesk.co.uk/User/frmSearchBrowser.aspx?P1=1&Id=1726 .
World-class athletes will also be gathering in Italy for the ninth Paralympic Winter games (March 10-19). The history of the Paralympics is fascinating and represents a barometer of attitudes to people with disabilities: www.paralympic.org/release/Main_Sections_Menu/Paralympic_Games/ and www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=399119 . Get students to read interviews with athletes at www.paralympicgames.torino2006.org/ENG/ParalympicGames/sport_ed_atleti/interviste_1.html.
For media students, highlights from interactive and online facilities are at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/schedule/4581754.stm which has the first use of StroMotion, which breaks down a sports move frame by frame into stationary images.
For background information on the commercialisation of sport see: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/history/influencesrev3.shtml and www.olympics.org.uk/links/links_mini.asp?LinkMajCat=sponsors%20partners . Follow the links to the sponsors and analyse how association with the Olympics might help build the identity of brands.
No oasis from politics
Major sporting events like the Olympics are powerful political vehicles. Stephen Spielberg's portrayal of Munich in 1972 provides the perfect justification to explore the ways in which past games have been hijacked and a chance to debate the supposed purity of the games in modern times (www.easynet.net/teamgb/education/lessonplans/gcse_politics.asp)
Ask students to consider the security concerns of major sporting events and what plans they would make to protect London in 2012 (http://football.theguardian.com/News_Story/0,,1689916,00.html).
Pupils can go on a London 2012 virtual walking tour and look at a live webcam of the construction for the games at http://olympics.newham.gov.uk/index.htm.
Students can explore the Olympics in this week's news in focus: a complete keystage 3 lesson on learnnewsdesk www.learnthings.co.uk's children's news website from the Guardian.
Curriculum links
Key stage 2
Art and design 1a-c, 5a-d;
PHSE & citizenship 1h, 2a-b, 3c;
English (En1)1a-f, 3a-e, 4a-c; (En2)2a-c; (En3)1a-f, 2a-d;
Geography 3a-g, 4a-b, 5a-b;
History 1b, 4a-b, 12
Key stage 3
Art and design 1a-c, 5a-d;
Citizenship 1h, 2a-b, 3a;
English (En1)1a-g, 2a-f, 3a-e, 4a-d; (En2) 4a-d, 5a-d; (En3) 1e-h;
Geography Ia-g, 3a-e, 4a-b, 5a-b;
History 13
Key stage 4
Art: Project; study of ancient Greek art in context;
Citizenship 1h, 2a-b, 3a;
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Steamboat Springs The story of affordable housing in Steamboat, say some developers who have built what they believe constitute affordable housing projects in the area, is one not of a lack of opportunities but of missed opportunities.
Ken Gold, a realtor with Re/Max in Steamboat, believes he has offered the residents of Steamboat ample opportunity to own property in town. He teamed up with development company Wintergreen Homes in 1996 to build an affordable complex of "townhouse-style condominiums" called the Villas at the corner of Whistler Road and Walton Creek Road.
Wintergreen Homes had built similar projects in towns such as Basalt, Avon and Carbondale and had much success selling them, Gold said. Gold made sure to advertise locally and set up a booth offering information on the complex at an affordable housing expo. The condo units began at $129,900 for a two bedroom unit with one bathroom and a garage. Gold worked with banks to secure 97 percent financing with the seller paying the closing costs. Later, he was able to get the buyers 100 percent financing, if need be. He also emphasized the ability of buyers to co-sign for the properties.
He said he was prepared to give the little fish a chance in a market where they were increasingly getting pushed out of the water by bigger fish with bigger bank accounts. But when he dropped the hook into the water with what seemed to be an appealing worm, he got almost no bites.
"Wintergreen and I were both thinking we would have a flood of interest just like in the other communities and then we had virtually nothing," Gold said. "It was amazing to me that nobody was responding."
Only about 15 locals took advantage of the 108 opportunities to buy, Gold said. When they tired of waiting for the locals, the developers started selling to second-home owners, who now own a great majority of the units.
Debora Black, a resident of the condominium complex who spends much of the year in Steamboat, said she likes the location but couldn't see herself bringing up a family in the condo.
"Maybe it's because I grew up in a bigger home, but if I had a family here I would feel scrunched," she said. She added the homeowners at the complex are currently in a dispute with Wintergreen Homes over what they believe is an improper drainage system in the complex.
The Villas' units are not deemed suitable affordable housing by Regional Affordable Living Foundation Executive Director Rob Dick, because they also allow the owners to rent out their property on a nightly basis. Nightly rentals, Dick said, appeal primarily to a tourist clientele and are not appropriate for families with children. The Villas also makes its residents pay monthly association fees another problem, Dick said. Gold said the fees come out to about $150.
Gold said only about 20 of the condo units are offering nightly rentals. He added that because the complex offers a playground and open space, it is definitely suitable for families with children.
Jon Peddie, another local developer, said he had teamed up with Dick three years ago to build Sunburst Townhomes, a moderately priced project off Meadow Lane. Those units sold for about $125,000 to $165,000. About 75 percent of the 21 townhomes were sold to locals, he said.
Peddie is also building Willowbrook Homes, which is currently under construction and will sell for an average of $255,000 for a single-family home, he said.
"If you were here for 20 years and didn't buy property, you can't blame the market or developers," he said. "People don't tend to act. And when they don't tend to act, they see the market move ahead of them."
He also said RALF board member Karen Beauvais built an affordable housing complex called Mountain Vistas, which not many locals took advantage of.
Beauvais countered by explaining that in the 120 days during which those units were available only to locals, the most inexpensive units sold out in two weeks. Those two-bedroom units each sold for about $163,000. Out of 54 total units in the project, some of which cost up to $223,000, about 20 sold to locals over the 120 day period, she said. That project is under construction now.
"If developers offered those kinds of prices for those units again, they'd be all gone," Beauvais said.
Dick said the Sunburst homes were good examples of affordable housing but are not enough to meet the demand. He has a waiting list of 100 people looking to own a home in West End Village, his most recent project, which is scheduled to go before the Steamboat Springs Planning Commission Thursday.
He said the city needs to provide between 700 and 1,000 units of affordable housing just to address the current demand. Those are his estimates of the number of people in Steamboat using more than 30 percent of their income to pay for housing.
That's where he believes the excise tax comes in. The RALF board initially proposed an excise tax on new development, or Referendum 2A, to the City Council, which voted July 11 to begin drafting language for a ballot question on the matter. An excise tax would be levied on new construction on a per-square-foot basis with the revenues dedicated to purchasing land and leveraging loans for affordable housing projects.
The opposition, however, is strong and well-prepared.
Some people, such as local realtor and developer Herald Stout of Elk River Realty, complain that the tax would unethically place a burden on people who have not yet moved to Steamboat or those who have already spent years building up the equity to buy a house. Those people, some of whom have pinched every penny to afford to buy a dream house, would be subsidizing their neighbors, say the members of the "No on city Referendum #2A Committee."
Some believe the working people who have not been able to afford a home in Steamboat should start small and build equity instead of trying to buy a single-family home in one fell swoop.
But, counters RALF, with the price of land escalating 49 percent in the past year, according to the Steamboat Resort Chamber, the time to buy land for affordable housing may be running out.


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I used to scoff at the exception my Southern-born friends would take at my suggestion of having a summer barbeque. What I wanted to do was simply throw some patties and hot dogs on the grill, over some Kingsford charcoal. What they wanted to do was smack me upside the head for suggesting that what I was doing was anything more than just plain "grilling." And until I began to barbeque in earnest, I mean really barbeque, I refused to admit to my own ignorance.
You cant really blame us New Englanders for getting our phraseology wrong. We grew up in a world where smoke-shacks and pits are, for the most part, a novelty. Until relatively recently, New England Barbeque was a myth, whispered in corners of Massachusetts and even Southern Maine but unrecognized by the South. Down there, smoking and slathering is unquestionably part of the social fabric that has been woven for more than 200 years. So when Mainers cook steaks over fire and smoke in our backyards, its as close to real-life barbeque as many of us get in a lifetime.
But, history aside, I guarantee you one thing: If you ever take the time to actually smoke some ribs, chicken, or brisket in your backyard, mopping the blackening meat with baste and simmering some sauce with 125 ingredients over the stovetop, youll see what those offended Southerners mean. Its a culinary project, a study in relaxation, and a social function all in one. Smoking some ribs takes about four hours; a brisket takes from six to 10. So start early. Invite your friends. Get a case of whatever fermented beverage you want and break out the lawn chairs. And save the grilling for the hamburgers . . . youre dealing with real meat now.
Smoking, originally used for preservation, has been around for longer than written history can tell us. The smoke itself is an amazingly complex material made up of around 200 chemicals, acids, alcohols, toxins, and even trace carcinogens. Its precisely these compounds that destroy harmful bacteria and settle into the absorbent fat of the cooking meat, preventing spoilage through oxidation. Smoke also imparts complex flavors that vary depending on what wood you are using: hardwood, like hickory and mesquite, burns long and has strong, distinctive flavors, and serves hardier meats. Fruitwood, like the ubiquitous applewood, cherry, and plum, imparts lighter, sweeter flavors and is best used for chicken or fish. Also used are corncob chips, grapevines, lilac clippings, and juniper boughs . . . almost anything that produces distinctive and nice-smelling smoke.
There are two types of smoking methods: cold smoking, where the meat is smoked at 70 to 90 degrees for up to 30 days (for a huge hunk of meat); and hot smoking, which burns between 100 and 250 degrees for a much shorter time. For backyard smoking, stick with the hot kind, or else your guests might resort to cannibalism after week three.
As far as meats go, pork is a favorite because its rich meat absorbs the flavor of the smoke so well. Chicken is great if smoked for about two hours, and a nine-hour beef brisket might be the disputed champion (there isnt much in barbeque that isnt hotly debated) of the smoker. In barbeque, its best to use the cheapest, toughest cuts of meat. The slow and low cooking melts the fat and hard stuff (like a self-basting turkey), and the result is fall-off-the-bone tenderness. Stick beef tenderloin in a smoker for four hours, and you have the most expensive jerky this side of anywhere. And heres a tip: When getting ribs, skip the baby backs. Their popularity resides solely in yuppie kitchens and Chilis commercials. Get St. Louisstyle ribs, the big ol messy-looking racks. They smoke better than those other ones do, and usually cost significantly less.
For my back yard, I have a water smoker. It looks like R2-D2, with a grill down bottom to keep the burning charcoal and woodchips, and a grill up top to keep the meat. In between sits a pan of water, which steams and keeps everything nice and moist. You can get these for pretty good prices at lots of hardware stores around here. If you dont want to get new equipment, you can also use your old kettle grill for smoking by just building the fire off to one side, and keeping the meat on the other for indirect cooking putting the meat over the flame for that long a time will surely burn it.
I highly suggest you purchase a real-deal barbeque book for sauce and dry-rub recipes and more detailed directions (head up to Uncle Billys BBQ for their own cookbook), but heres basically how it goes: Start a charcoal fire in your smoker, using lump hardwood charcoal. Soak five or six handfuls of woodchips in water for about a half hour. Throw a handful of chips on the embers, and the ribs on the grill. Keep the temperature so that you can hold your hand above the grill for about five seconds before it getting too hot. Keep the embers going by tossing more chips and charcoal on every hour or so. After four hours of intermittent peeking and boozing, remove the whooped-out (the worse looking the better) ribs from the grill, and serve to drooling onlookers.
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Throughout the history of this country playing the role of a global power, the United States has faced down threats of fascism and communism. The country is now in the throes of a war against terrorism.
However, on ABC's Nov. 22 "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," a panel consisting of Washington Post columnist George Will, Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe, University of California, Berkeley professor Robert Reich and Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of The Aspen Institute, warned the next ideological battle facing the country is that which China practices - an authoritarian market society or authoritarian capitalism.
"For 37 years, every administration has bet, since Nixon went to China, on a theory, and the theory was that capitalism, market economy, which requires a judicial system to enforce promises, which are called contracts, needs a vast dissemination of information and decision-making that capitalism by its mores and working would subvert the regime, that you could not have an authoritarian market society," Will said. "It's the Starbucks fallacy. It turns out to be a fallacy, that if the Chinese have a choice of coffees, they'll want a -- they'll demand a choice of political candidates. We may be wrong. It could be you can have an authoritarian system."
Isaacson was skeptical if this Chinese system would last in the era of easy-to-access information. He argues once people have choices, they will demand more information, which China lacks.
"Yes, but we may be right," Isaacson said. "That is, actually, you know, there's some great truth to that. And in the long run, you're not going to be able to sustain an economy where you allow people all sorts of choice when they're trying to do their business, but don't allow them the free flow of information. It won't work in the information age."
Coming off of President Barack Obama's recent trip to Asia, Cheney insisted that Obama would have to project a stronger, more vocal presence if he wanted to reinforce the idea of "freedom and democracy."
"As an American president ... you can demand, when you go into China and you're going to have a press conference, you can say, 'We're taking questions,'" Cheney said. "I mean, there are very clear things, steps you can take to send the message that we actually believe in freedom and democracy."
And Reich, who tends to be an apologist for Obama's policy decisions and falls on the left-of-center end of the political spectrum, agreed with Cheney. He alluded to Obama's failed effort in Copenhagen in October.
"I agree with Liz. I think that -- that in preparation for this trip, as in many others, even the trip to Europe to try to sell Chicago as the Olympics, there needs to be more thought about the appearance of weakness or strength that may come out of the trip," Reich said.
But Reich emphasized the threat of an authoritarian market society and admired the efficiency of the Chinese model.
"But I want to go back to, George [Will], your point, because I think the big issue over the next 10 years and the big contest is going to be between authoritarian capitalism, a la China, and democratic capitalism, a la the United States. And it's not clear to me that authoritarian capitalism is not going to win. That is, it -- there is so much efficiency. The Chinese say, 'We're going to build 10 new universities. We're going to build this. We're going to build this.' And, boom, it happens."
"I am betting on Democratic capitalism," Reich added. "But I think that the -- authoritarian capitalism, we cannot understate the threat to the way we go about our -- our business, the way we think about the world."


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Express Vanline, out of Las Vegas EXTORTION, Fraud, Liars, Criminals.. what else can I say! I have never experienced such extortion tactics before Las Vegas Nevada
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This moving company is an extortionist scam. They gave me a "guaranteed not to exceed" price, which was a reasonable but not cheap price to move from AZ to UT. I signed a contract but it was not what was described in the phone conversation. The contract was a set-up. When the driver arrived on moving day he immediately demanded an additional $500 because he claimed that a tractor trailer could not come up the road to my house so he had to rent a 26' truck and charge me for fuel as well, which was supposedly "waived" in the contract. He then charged me overpriced fees for additional packing. Then, after loading 1370 cubic feet in the truck, he tries to charge me additional $990 for additional space when my contract stated I was paying for 1000 cubic feet. Okay, this goes on and on about how bad this was. The whole "cubic feet" thing is part of the rip off because they knew they under sold me space and then they jack it up when loading. I did not not know it was going to be a "cubic feet" job.. Do not ever do that! By the end of the day they were trying to charge me over $5000 to move one 26' truck from AZ to UT. I had also contracted them to move furniture from a storage unit that was next to the house at the destination. They were to load that furniture after unloading the truck and unload the furniture in to the house. This is a 10x15' unit and I paid for this but they did not do it because they wanted the more money. This is after they had charged me $4400 to move that one truck. My quoted price for the entire move, the one truck from AZ to UT and the local storage unit in UT was $3400. What I got was the one truck moved and delivered for $4400 and they did not do the local storage unit even though I paid for that. So now I am stuck paying another month for the storage unit and stuck finding a way to come up with the money to get help unloading and delivery of that stuff in to the house. If I had not fought them as much as I did on the moving day, they would have charged me around $5400! It was extortion as I had to move out on this day and had no other options. I have moved about 9 times in the past 8 years and never had anything like this happen. I know what it cost to move, and with good movers because I've done it so many times before. This was a total rip off scam. I feel like I was held up at gunpoint. . The only thing I can say good about it was that the labor they contracted did a good a job and I feel bad that I could not tip them due to the extortion of Express Vanline. I looked them up for reviews and now realize I was looking at reviews for "Express Moving Vanlines" who has great reviews. Kicking myself for that!
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"Express Vanline" out of Las Vegas just totally extorted me on a move. Alex Sadeghi, Jason Morgan and Josh __ ? Unfortunately when I looked up reviews for the company I was looking at Express Moving Vanlines who had great reviews. I wasn't paying enough attention. I've moved so many times and never had a bad experience so I was not on guard enough. They contracted good labor and I felt bad for not tipping the labor but after Alex wore me down for more more money, took hours and I had to get on the road, I had nothing left to tip on either the load or unload. THEN, he did not finish the contracted move and left me with a storage unit full that I now have to pay for and find money to get another mover to take care of.. after I paid Alex for this, and it excess due to the extortion tactics. I would join a suit for sure! There are many complaints I'm now finding and it should be done.
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Outdoor GFCI circuit. This powers a transformer connected to a string of walkway lights mounted in a masonry knee wall that forms the front wall of a 40' long planter box, having a masonry fence wall as its other side. Planter was washed with hot road patch tar to waterproof the planter, which has a french drain about 3.5-3 feet down from the soil surface, over which is 8"-10" of gravel, over which is about a foot of soil, and is fully planted and has an automatic irrigation system. Transformer and GFCI are surface wall-mounted away from the planter area and not exposed to irrigation, but are in direct sunlight. We're in hot desert climate - Scottsdale, Arizona.
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It was a risky culinary experiment to roll sautéed kale in sheets of phyllo dough and then hold it for 24 hours before baking. Would it become soggy? Or would the roll bake up golden with a crisp outer shell? This game of speculation is what passes for entertainment in my home.
In a constant pursuit of make-in-advance recipes, experimenting with textures and preassembled dishes is what has us holding our collective breath. If the experiments work, weeknight dinners are delicious. If they don't, we still eat them, and only two complaints allowed per person.
Turns out you can preassemble phyllo-wrapped entrées and bake them 24 hours later without affecting texture.
As for Middle Eastern Spiced Potatoes, this recipe can also be prepared in advance and baked prior to your meal. It makes an excellent potluck side. Or just cook up a batch for yourself and stuff the leftovers into a breakfast burrito the next day.
Kale Spanakopita Roll
Serves 4
2 Tbs. olive oil plus 2-3 Tbs. more for painting
1 Tbs. minced garlic
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
2 bunches lacinato kale (dino kale), destemmed and coarsely chopped
1/2 tsp. dried dill
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
lots of freshly ground black pepper
1⁄3 cups chopped scallion (mostly white part)
8 sheets phyllo dough, thawed
1/2 cup crumbled feta (optional)
Heat a large skillet or wok. Add 2 Tbs. olive oil. When oil is shimmering, add garlic and red pepper. Sauté 30 seconds. Add chopped kale. Sauté 1 minute. Add dill, salt, nutmeg and pepper. Cook, stirring over medium heat, for 2 minutes. Stir in scallions. Remove from heat and cool.
Place a large square of parchment paper on a flat surface. Place one phyllo sheet on top of parchment. Paint phyllo with olive oil. Add another sheet of phyllo. Paint with olive oil. Repeat so you have 4 phyllo sheets stacked on top of each other. Paint the top layer with olive oil.
Spoon 1/3 of kale filling 2 inches from the short edge of the layered phyllo. Pull the 2-inch lip over the filling and cover kale in phyllo. Stop rolling. Place half of remaining kale filling in a line next to the encased kale, and roll phyllo once over that as well. Place remaining filling in a line alongside the encased phyllo, and tightly roll into a tube. The idea is to segment kale within the roll (thirds separated by phyllo walls) so the roll doesn't get soggy. Set the roll aside.
Place one phyllo sheet on top of the (now cleared off) parchment. Paint with olive oil. Repeat so you have 4 sheets of phyllo stacked on top of each other. Paint top layer with olive oil. Place the kale roll at the edge of the new stacked sheets, and roll tightly in phyllo. Paint the outside of the roll with remaining olive oil. Bake immediately or wrap tightly in parchment and then plastic wrap, refrigerate, and bake uncovered the next day.
To bake, preheat oven to 375. Place Kale Spanakopita Roll (uncovered and free of wrapping) on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 20 minutes. Cool 10 minutes, slice in wide pieces, and serve sprinkled with feta if desired.
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Serves 6-8
2 1/2 lbs. small yellow potatoes, quartered
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. granulated garlic
1 Tbs. zatar spice blend
plenty of fresh black pepper
1 Tbs. freshly squeezed lemon juice
Preheat oven to 425. Arrange potatoes in a 9×12-inch baking pan. In a small bowl, mix together olive oil and seasonings. Pour seasoned oil over potatoes and toss thoroughly. Bake 40-45 minutes. Cool slightly. Squeeze lemon juice over cooked potatoes and serve.
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