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Old Train Depot Open house at Lake Junaluska
|Arts & Entertainment
|1799 S. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska
|Jul 01, 2013
Train Depot Open House, 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, July 1, 1799 S. Lakeshore Dr. Free. Imagine this: Back in 1913 during the Lake's first gathering, attendees would take the Southern Railway train from Waynesville to the Tuscola Depot, located near Lake Junaluska. A one-way trip from Waynesville cost 25 cents. The train would make four trips a day, ferrying visitors back and forth to Waynesville for meals and accommodations since there were none at the lake back then. From the depot, visitors would walk across the dam to Stuart Auditorium. As train travel waned in the 1960s, the depot closed and was moved to Lakeshore Drive and turned into a private residence. The 100-year old structure still has its original tile roof, red wood, ticket window, and 13-foot ceilings. Now owned by Dr. Donald and Charlotte Mosely, the former depot still gets visitors curious about its past. The Mosleys will open their home during the Centennial to help celebrate its past as an important link to the lake's success.


text: I have searched all old threads and im confused. One person says dig out the pitch when your taking out the dirt and the other says to set string lines at the pitch and bring base to it to get the proper pitch. So i should dig it out flat and set pitch with string lines. How do you guys get the base level if your working with say a 12x12 patio do you screed the base before you screed stone dust or sand (whatever you use). Im just curiuos on how all you guys do it?

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Hello creative people! I hope you all are doing awesome…
I have a suggestion of a possible specialized item for photographers that may sell very well. I'm saying this because I'm a photographer myself and also do web design mostly for photographers.
I've been looking for a script, template that works as a image stock site. I've found a couple of interesting items in TF and also here, but all of them are not targeting the photography industry which I think is really looking up to Envato for web development solutions. Again, I'm saying this as I work in the photography industry also.
I spent one week testing different scripts but all of them lack something the other script has. Let me explain the scenario:
1. Photographer does a job for a client.
2. Client wants to buy prints from photographer.
3. Client ask photographer which has no idea how to do it. Photographer works mostly with Lightroom / Aperture (a photo image editing software)
4. Photographer sells prints in different sizes (4×6, 8×10, 11×17, etc)
5. Photographer will upload images through ftp or some desktop uploader (in an easy way) and script should generate a gallery containing those pictures.
6. the gallery should be password protected or client must register to see their gallery. You want your clients to have access only to their pictures.
7. Gallery integrates a shopping cart, with the option to select photo printing size.
8. Gallery / photo shop should work with most common payment gateways like paypal, etc.
9. Client access the gallery and order the prints he/she wants. Photographer receives order and process the order, once the payment is confirm, etc. Client recevies notification of the printing order with a receipt of payment.
10. Photographer has access to an admin panel / dashboard where he can upload / delete / edit images, add users (clients) and assign passwords to them.
11. A bunch of photographers are using flash websites, but this script works as a side link to the main website, so html, or even a wp pluging will work nicely.
Some of the scripts I tested may do the job if the author do some tweaks and submits a new item for sale in the marketplace, specifically targeting photographers
You can promote this item on websites like phototuts.net and other photography websites through alliances, etc.
After a lot of research, I found a php script this company is selling as an extension for Lightroom for a couple of bucks. It was very hard to find this company, so again, this script may sell very well here. If you need the link to that script (to check it out) or any author is interested in developing something like this and need more feedback, just send me an email to dr[at]inventusmediagroup.com
have an awesome day!
nice idea Daniel, I have planned something similar to this to launch next month or so… with istockphoto like image watermark system , custom size and a backend .. .. points noted
5thSenseLabs said
nice idea Daniel, I have planned something similar to this to launch next month or so… with istockphoto like image watermark system , custom size and a backend .. .. points noted
awesome kid! I'm really looking forward to your item. The simple the script, the better. You can tweak or have different versions of your script also, and give your customers here different scenarios on how it works for different purposes.
same problem here! i'm a event photographer, mostly weddings. i use lightroom to edit 500+ and to show i use lightroom templates.. how do clients order? they type.. yeh.. sad. i'm also in search something that helps me sell, but simple and elegant templates for lightroom are hard to find.. pid or for free.. i use slide show pro and slide show pro director… beautiful, easy perfect.. until i needed to sell! no selling option, no private galleries.. and no perspective to do so. the search continues: i've found this non flash http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/gallerysamples/LRGOne/ it uses paypal and a dropdow menu with different sizes and prices are easy to edit, but there's no navigation! its an ok template for 10 photos but 100..
but that have they a flash version http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/gallerysamples/LRGFlashSlideStripPayPal/ the one in the site is not working, but it works! (i make a menu with the event timelime and use frames to help the client navigate better) BUT its not elegant. and i'm still searching..
5thSenseLabs said
nice idea Daniel, I have planned something similar to this to launch next month or so… with istockphoto like image watermark system , custom size and a backend .. .. points noted
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... kumquat and lemon trees and, of course, olive trees. Many of the olives were to small to be harvested--but some of the trees already had black netting laying under them so that the ripe olives could fall on them and be easily gathered. Olives don't get picked--the growers rely on gentle winds to blow them off the trees. They must be picked up within just a few days or it is too late to use them because they rot.
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By request. Sound of lightbulb dying. Used a frequency modulation to approximate the sound of filament burning up. Second sound is a pencil eraser tapped near the base of a 40W light bulb.
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For the items you sell on CC (especially for the Wordpress plugins), what you use on the preview website: a free or a premium wordpress theme?
I mean which one is allowed?
Both is allowed, does not matter.
I use default twenty eleven theme. From now on I'll use TwentyTwelve
Thanks. I was confused by all these stories about wordpress banning codecanyon members from WordCamp…I wanted to make sure, but still…I am not so sure if themes from wordpress.org are free for both personal & commercial use. I just decided I will ask for permission to theme's developer, maybe that's the safest way to do that.
You can do whatever you want with themes from wp .org You can even sell them.


text: NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: World home appliance manufacturers http://www.reportlinker.com/p01098119/World-home-appliance-manufacturers.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Small_Appliance What is the business? The market for household appliances includes major durable household goods (white goods) and smaller appliances for domestic use (brown goods). Depending on their degree of integration, appliance manufacturers specialise either in design and conception (original design manufacturers), production (original equipment manufacturers), or marketing and sales (original brand manufacturers). […] -Who are the key players? Home appliance manufacturers analysed in this report include most market leaders by sales value and also reflect the growing weight of emerging country manufacturers in Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle-East. Leading market players can be separated into three main groups: white goods pure players, durable goods specialists, and diversified consumer electronics conglomerates. […]Leading home appliance manufacturers analysed in the report include WHIRLPOOL, ELECTROLUX, BSH (Bosch & Siemens Hausgeräte), LG, GENERAL ELECTRIC, TOSHIBA, ARCELIK, MIELE, INDESIT and HAIER. How intense is competition? Competitive rivalry is intense and fuelled by several factors such as weak product differentiation, low market-entry barriers, fragmented supply and strong customer bargaining power, among others. These factors contribute to the industry's price-based competition and low profit margins. To offset competitive pressure, manufacturers focus on brand value, energy efficiency and technological innovation to differentiate their products and build customer loyalty. […] What are the main markets? Manufacture is concentrated in North America, Western Europe and Eastern Asia, where leading industrialised countries still hold important shares in global shipments. In Europe, Eastern European and Turkish manufacturers are gaining important market shares because of lower domestic labour costs and their proximity to key European and Eurasian markets. Meanwhile, China has become both the largest Asian market and the leading global supplier for household appliances. […] Table of Contents 0. Conclusions 1. Market fundamentals


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TAVERNIER -- The owner of a historical Tavernier hotel is remodeling a room that once served as the town's Standard Oil gas station.
Craig Hunt, a Key West businessman who also owns the Conch Harbor Marina, said the small building, which is available to disabled guests of the Historic Tavernier Inn Hotel, needed renovations, so it was the perfect time to restore it.
"This is something we wanted to do and now seemed like the right time," Hunt said. "We wanted to do it properly."
The building was run down a bit and there were lingering problems with the shower, he said.
The renovation comes to the delight of Alice Allen, a longtime Tavernier resident and chair of the Monroe County Historical Preservation Commission, which must approve changes to historical buildings.
"He should get a pat on the head," Allen said of Hunt.
Allen said she is happy the hotel property will reflect its original state. The main building previously was the Tavernier Key Theater before later becoming the Tavernier Hotel. The gas station was built by Oliver M. Woods in the 1920s and later belonged to Hugh "Mac" McKenzie, who also owned the theater, according to local historian Jerry Wilkinson.
"It will be like I remember it," Allen said.
Completion is still a few weeks away and Hunt said he is planning a celebration, when he hopes to place an antique gas pump outside the hotel. Hunt is trying to track one down within a reasonable price range, he said.
Hunt said he has not applied for any grant money to try to offset the renovation costs.
"But the good news is the hotel is doing very well." Hunt said.
Nightly rates at the hotel last weekend ranged from about $99 to $110, according to its website.
Hunt, a former Holiday Inn executive who says he bought the Tavernier hotel property as a retirement project, said future renovations at the property are likely.


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Rockaway Man Makes FBI Most Wanted List
The FBI has been searching for Jaime Alberto Macias, 49, for nearly 20 years, and has now added the Far Rockaway man to their "Most Wanted" list.
Macias is wanted in connection with the murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter. He allegedly beat the girl to death while he was babysitting for her at the mother's Far Rockaway home on July 30, 1993.
An autopsy at the time found that the little girl had suffered a severe beating in the abdominal area, causing damage to her liver, heart, pancreas, stomach and lungs.
In April of 1994, Macias was indicted in Queens Criminal Court on charges of second degree murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a minor. Although he was indicted, he has never faced prosecution because he fled the jurisdiction. In 1999, he was charged in federal court with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Federal officials warn that Macias should be considered armed and dangerous and a flight risk.


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Thoughts On NYC Government
Dear Editor,
Does the New York City Charter assign any responsibilities to the Council Speaker to organize boycotts of restaurants? Recent pictures of NYC Council Speaker and aspiring 2013 Mayoral candidate Christine Quinn handing out flyers near McDonald's on West Third Street in Manhattan urging citizens to boycott the local McDonald's made a great photo op for her, but missed the bigger picture. It is not the legal responsibility of any business to patrol and protect citizens on public streets outside their establishments. They would be subject to legal liability and potential litigation if their employees violated the civil liberties of citizens on a public sidewalk.
My wife and I periodically shop and dine at a number of restaurants in the Village. There are many other establishments that customers patronize used as a base of operations for illegal activities. If the consumption of marijuana and prostitution were both legalized, there would be fewer "incidents" at this McDonald's. With our regular police force already overstretched, it might make more sense to ask for Auxiliary volunteer police officers to patrol periodically outside this McDonald's.
Mr. Carmen Paulino and other Mc- Donald's franchise owners are actually role models for others to emulate. They have assisted our community, which faces an 8% unemployment rate. This does not count the 7% of New Yorkers who have given up looking for work. Each new McDonald's provides work for construction contractors and their employees. The Mc- Donald's in NYC provide jobs for thousands of New Yorkers and more for suppliers. All pay taxes and are our neighbors. Working and middle class residents along with students and retired people have a reasonably priced place to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner. Many New Yorkers also own stock in McDonald's.
More than anyone else, Mr. Paulino is interested in a crime free safe store. Why would he want to drive away potential valuable customers?
The free enterprise system has made our nation great.
Economic growth and the creation of wealth come from millions of small businesses such as his, without the assistance of "Stimulus" taxpayers dollars
NYC has a municipal budget of $65 billion with over 200,000 employees. This is greater than most states and many nations.
Ms. Quinn has never built a business, created jobs, met a payroll, reduced the municipal $60 billion long term debt, found jobs for 8% of New Yorkers out of work or managed any significant agencies with large numbers of employees.
Her ego, like those of predecessors Gifford Miller and Peter Vallone Sr. is using this office as a stepping stone to run for Mayor. She brings no real qualifications for the second toughest job in America.
Perhaps Ms. Quinn should try her hand at managing an evening shift at McDonald's to see what life is like in the real world instead of grandstanding for political gain.
To those who would dictate to women manner and means for living their private life, a message: Leave women alone.
Let Susan rest in peace.


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MEETING IN BRIEF: Crystal Township
Name of board: Crystal Township Board.
Meeting date: Aug. 8.
Reporting official: Clerk Bob Naumann.
Action items:
1. Approved the agenda as presented.
2. Approved minutes of the July 11 meeting.
3. Approved township bills.
4. Approved the treasurer's report.
5. Approved sewer bills.
6. Voted 3-2 to adopt a rescission of Ordinance 15A (Crystal Township Lake Acess Ordinance). Supervisor Charlie Braman and trustees Curt McCracken and Jerry Stone voted "yes." Clerk Bob Naumann and Treasurer Dennis Lance voted "no."
7. Approved appointing Richard Walthorn and Bob Muscott as township representatives to the Duck Lake Improvement Board.
8. Approved adopting a resolution to reclassify Greg Bellingar as a full-time assistant wastewater operator.
9. Approved a 25 cent per hour increase for Bellingar effective July 1.
10. Decided not to accept a proposal from Michael Astley and Brian Allen for use of the gym and a classroom in the Crystal Community Center.
11. Approved a bid from CMS Internet for $1,750 to connect the Crystal Community center via 100 MB of underground fiber with CMS.
Discussion items:
1. Lance will contact two tree-trimming companies to assess trees in the park.
2. Naumann will contact someone regarding the sale of the carousel.
Members present: Supervisor Charlie Braman, Clerk Bob Naumann, Treasurer Dennis Lance and trustees Curt McCracken and Jeremiah Stone.
Next meeting: 7 p.m. Sept. 12.
For more information: Call Clerk Bob Naumann at (989) 235-4800.


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SOBERING SITUATION: Drugs and alcohol far too easy for young people to find
Fifteen-year-old Heidi had no idea what it was when her mother opened her palm and told the teenager to "try this." But as the drug reached her bloodstream, she didn't really care what it was.
She was hooked and she spent the next two years struggling with methamphetamine addiction.
"I liked it," said Heidi, a Montcalm County resident, now 20. "I liked seeing the look of my body, because I was a little overweight as a child, and I liked how it made me feel."
Up until that point she had never tried drugs, other than a few attempts at cigarettes. But after that, she delved deep into the world of meth.
She dropped out of school to live with her mother out of state and drifted further away from her Michigan father, who had raised her.
"It changed me a lot," Heidi said.
Now three years sober and back in Michigan, Heidi said it was far too easy to fall into a drug addiction as a young teenager, something law enforcement officials say is a harsh reality.
Although Heidi's experience was with a more heavy drug, teenagers are more likely to abuse the more readily available substances, officials said. The things that can be found at home in the cupboard or medicine cabinet.
"The thing that is easy and we see a lot of is alcohol," said Amy Buckingham, coordinator of YOUTHINK Montcalm Coalition, formerly known as Drug Free Montcalm. "Alcohol is still the overall leading cause of harm and it's so engrained in our society.
"What's easy to take? Alcohol is everywhere."
According to a 2012 Michigan Program for Healthy Youth (MiPHY) survey of anonymous students in Montcalm County, 24 percent of high school juniors admitted to using alcohol within the past month. Twenty-six percent of ninth graders and more than five percent of seventh graders said the same.
And officials said they believe the number to be higher, based on the thought that despite the survey is anonymous, some students don't admit use.
Why is it so prevalent?
Whether it comes from an older sibling, a friend with a fake ID or even a parent, "it's one phone call, one Facebook message or one text (from being obtained)," said Edmore Police Chief Luke Sawyer.
For Montcalm County resident Charlotte, who began drinking and smoking marijuana at 13, it was never a problem finding a way to get alcohol, most often from an older friend.
At such a young age, she said she began drinking socially, before it turned into a vice.
"A lot of my friends were doing it. It got pretty bad. I was pretty much constantly doing it," Charlotte said. "As soon as I got home from school I would start drinking and smoking. On the weekends, I was pretty much constantly under the influence."
She got into it as a way to have fun, but after the divorce of her parents and multiple other life events, the then teenager began to need the alcohol.
"It all started with experimenting, trying something new. I was always super shy and it helped me not be so shy. Then I struggled with depression and it became a self medication," said Charlotte, now 22 and sober.
She began experimenting with marijuana and then large doses of dextromethorpan, an ingredient found in cough and cold medicine.
Buckingham said it's common for youth, and even adults, to resort to substances to self medicate, because that's what our society has led them to do.
"Even just caffeine, we have no energy so we take caffeine. Then we get a headache from the caffeine and take medicine for the headache," she said. "The problem is, 'I hurt so I need to take something.' We like to demonize the drug, but the real problem is the gateway attitude, in that we solve our issues by taking a drug."
Another issue, according to Buckingham and Sawyer, is adults have become desensitized to the effects of alcohol, especially on teenagers, whose brains are still developing. She said some parents feel they are protecting their children by allowing them to drink, but only at home under their supervision. But the physical affects as well as the message it sends, she said, are still a cause of concern.
"Alcohol itself isn't an evil thing, it's what we do with it," Buckingham said. "You're setting a kid up for a lifetime of problems if you let them drink."
Sawyer agreed.
"I think as adults we kind of keep our heads in the sand in regards to substances and substance abuse," he said. "Part of it is changing the perception we have of it's not in our community. It really is going to require a big shift in our thought process as adults and parents."
For Heidi and Charlotte it took the self realization of their problems for them to make a change. Heidi said it was her faltering relationship with her father, which stemmed from the anger she had while taking meth, for her to strive to become clean.
Charlotte said it was finding out she was going to be a mother.
"As soon as I found out I was pregnant I changed my friends and I changed everything. I stopped cold turkey," she said, noting it saved her life. "I have no idea where I'd be if I didn't stop … no idea where I would be."
Editor's note: Both Heidi and Charlotte are fictitious names as both women preferred to remain anonymous in telling their stories.


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MP3: Jessie Ware – 'Running'
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Our love for PMR signee Jessie Ware runs deep, frequenters of this platform will know this. She has a certain 'cool' that isn't hype nor corny, not to mention her voice is ice cold and her songs are swag-as-f*ck. I said it. Her debut single 'Strangest Feeling' remains one of our most re-loaded of 2011 and this, her latest release entitled 'Running', is looking likely to have the same impact.
80's power balladry in full effect here. Thundering drums, reverbed guitar riffs and badass vocals from our girl. This is smash. Produced by Julio Bashmore and Dave Okumu – if this is any indication of where the album is going – we're probably even more excited than we were before.
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Re: re: st: Package -r2c- now available in SSC
Nick Cox <email@example.com>
Re: re: st: Package -r2c- now available in SSC
Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:46:44 +0000
There is generic discussion at
FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . User-written programs and Stata version
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
7/11 I have a certain version of Stata and have come
across a user-written program that is apparently
written for a later version of Stata. What are
my options?
In a nutshell, the question is whether -r2c- really needs 12.1 or was
just developed under 12.1. You could live dangerously and clone the
program with a different -version- statement, but at your own risk. I
make no recommendations except suggesting that you read the FAQ above
if interested.
I note in passing that -r2c- evidently feels free to use the variable names
mu mumean wt _est_full counts alpha
so that it will -drop- any previous instances and then overwrite them
with new ones. This is not documented so far as I can see. Correct me
if I am wrong, such practices are widely regarded as dangerous Stata
programming style. Some of these names look highly likely to appeal to
people fitting count models.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Simon Falck <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> The -r2c- package is only available for users of Stata 12.x.
> I would be great if this interesting package will be made accessible to users of previous Stata versions (I am a user of Stata 11.2). To the wish list.
> Simon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Ariel Linden, DrPH
> Sent: den 5 februari 2013 17:00
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Subject: re: re: st: Package -r2c- now available in SSC
> That is very helpful information, Joe... thanks!
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 08:06:49 -0500
> From: Joseph Luchman <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: re: st: Package -r2c- now available in SSC
> Hi Ariel,
> Certainly. To my understanding, -countfit- is mainly helpful for selecting a count model and uses the information criteria and predicted probabilities to do so.
> I see the -r2c- as useful mainly for explanatory purposes following model selection and estimation and, although there is a statistic reported for negative binomial models (i.e., the DP r-square) that is intended to compare models, -r2c- is not intended for model selection purposes (though it can be used for that purpose if the analyst desires).
> The indexes reported are all r-squares (of different flavors, though several lack properties such as "boundedness" between 0-1, that an r-square should possess) the recommended statistic, the deviance r-square is based on the model log likelihood and so it uses the same information as the AIC and BIC reported in -countfit-. For what it's worth, the -r2c- also incorporates probability weights, an exposure/offset (both in the main count model, and the inflate model for zero-inflated models), and incorporates more of Stata's built-in count models (truncated counts, generalized negative binomial).
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The Diocese of Little Rock's seminarian count is getting back to levels it enjoyed in the 1960s.
For the first time since 1965, the diocese boasts 41 seminarians, up 27 percent from 2012 and up 56 percent in the past 10 years.
"We have a very different future than we did eight years ago," said Msgr. Scott Friend, vocations director.
In 1960 the diocese had its own high school and college seminary and educated 64 seminarians, with five ordinations. It jumped to 69 seminarians in 1961 with two ordinations. The numbers slowly dropped until 1965 when the diocese had 40 seminarians. From 1970 to 2009 the diocese never had more than 30 seminarians.
Msgr. Friend said he believes the diocese needs to enroll at least 40 seminarians a year in order to ordain more priests each year.
"Ideally it would be nice for us to have five ordinations a year," he said.
The presbyterate is getting more diverse. Since Bishop Anthony B. Taylor arrived in 2008 he has ordained 12 priests, with several of them being native Spanish speakers. The average age of an active diocesan priest is also lower.
"We need to be providing our own priests for our diocese," he said. "We have to sustain that. … There is a lot more ministry we can be doing if there are more priests."
Msgr. Friend insists that Catholics in the diocese must continue to pray for vocations and believe that more vocations are possible.
"It's very important for us to believe. Some people want to say this is too good to be true. This is just a spike. Incredulity is very bad for vocations and for that matter being a Christian."
With the increased numbers, the seminarians' presence at one seminary is standing out. Nearly half of the 41 seminarians will be attending St. Meinrad Seminary in Indiana for their master's level pre-theology and theology classes. The Diocese of Little Rock is the most represented diocese on the campus with 19 students.
Msgr. Friend said the diocese has sent men to the Benedictine seminary since St. John Home Mission Seminary in Little Rock closed in 1967.
"They have an excellent program," said Msgr. Friend, who graduated from St. Meinrad in 1987. "The thing for me is, what is the best program for our seminarians?"
Msgr. Friend said it is more efficient for the diocese to send most of its theology students to one seminary. It is cheaper and it makes it easier for Msgr. Friend and Bishop Taylor to make their regular visits to the seminary to talk with the formation staff and seminarians.
"We don't abdicate our responsibility of fathering guys into the priesthood," Msgr. Friend said. "We do that in collaboration with the school, but it is up to the bishop and myself… We have been charged with that responsibility to form our guys for the priesthood."
More importantly, 19 seminarians in one place mean that they can form better friendships with each other.
"There is a real sense of fraternity and brotherhood that develops between them," Msgr. Friend said. "They are going through the experience together. Wherever we have our seminarians, they are noted for their sense of fraternity, they are noted for being men of prayer, they are noted for being leaders. … We have solid young men studying for the priesthood, very talented and very bright, very service-oriented."
The diocese is also expanding its undergraduate philosophy program at the House of Formation in Little Rock. Nine men can live at the house and currently seven of them are studying at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock or Pulaski Technical College for their core classes as well as attending the Little Rock Theology Institute one weekend a month for some philosophy and theology courses. Through an agreement with St. Gregory University in Shawnee, Okla., seminarians will also be taking virtual classes with St. Gregory instructors in order to earn their bachelor's degree.
"It is a lot cheaper plus the guys stay here, which is better for them," said Msgr. Friend, who lives at the House of Formation with associate directors Msgr. Richard Oswald and Father Ruben Quinteros.
Finances are often on Msgr. Friend's mind with the increase in seminarians. His office budget has increased to $2 million, and most of those expenses go to seminarian education. He said more funds from the Holy Thursday collection and Taste of Faith dinners are helping the diocese pay for some of those expenses but more is needed.
This fall nine new seminarians were welcomed by the Vocations Office.
They are:
Three seminarians were accepted in January. They are:
Other returning seminarians are:
Cigainero, Guido and Hobbs are scheduled to be ordained priests May 17 at Christ the King Church in Little Rock.
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Dear Statalist
I have a panel data set with some missing values which I would like to
impute using Stata's mi command. However, over time, subjects in my panel
An example of the type of pattern I observe is:
Subject 1: M M M O O O D D D D D D
Subject 2: O O O O O M O O O O O D
Where M is 'missing', O is 'observed' and D is 'dead'.
In the exchange between Yulia Marchenko and Jibonayan Raychaudhuri
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-08/msg00388.html), Paul
Allison's (2001, page 74) approach to dealing with missing values in
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Matilda (1996 film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Danny DeVito
|Produced by
|Screenplay by
|Based on
by Roald Dahl
|Narrated by
|Danny DeVito
|Music by
|David Newman
|Stefan Czapsky
|Edited by
|Distributed by
|TriStar Pictures
Release date
Running time
|98 minutes[1]
|United States
|$36 million[2]
|Box office
|$62.1 million[3]
Matilda is a 1996 American children's fantasy comedy film directed by Danny DeVito, who also produced with Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, and Lucy Dahl. It was written by Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, based on Roald Dahl's novel of the same name. Mara Wilson, DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, and Pam Ferris star. The film is about a young genius named Matilda, who uses telekinesis to deal with her parents, who do not value education, and Agatha Trunchbull, the oppressive principal of Crunchem Hall Elementary School.
The film was released in the United States on August 2, 1996.
Matilda Wormwood is a genius, but her parents, Harry and Zinnia, ignore and mistreat her. At the age of 4, she discovers the local library and walks there every day to read while her father is at work, her mother is playing bingo, and her older brother, Michael, is at school.
At age six-and-a-half, Matilda begins to lose patience with her parents, expressing a desire to go to school. In retaliation for her father constantly berating her, she adds hydrogen peroxide to his hair tonic, turning his hair an unhealthy blonde. He takes his children to his workshop, where he reveals that the cars he sells are faulty. Matilda accuses him of being dishonest and he belittles her, so she responds by putting super glue on his hat, forcing Zinnia to cut it off his head. She reads a borrowed library copy of Moby-Dick, which Harry rips up while her family is watching television. When he forces her to watch with them, she becomes increasingly angry and causes the television set to suddenly explode.
Miss Trunchbull is the tyrannical principal of a rundown elementary school, Crunchem Hall. Harry enrolls Matilda there, where she befriends several children and learns of Trunchbull's violent nature and overtly harsh punishments of the students. Matilda's teacher, Jennifer Honey, is a kind woman who adores her class and takes an immediate liking to Matilda. She requests to Trunchbull that Matilda be moved up to a higher class, but Trunchbull refuses. That night, Miss Honey pays the Wormwoods a visit to encourage them to spend more time with Matilda, but they snub her. Meanwhile, Matilda discovers that her family is under surveillance by FBI agents Bob and Bill due to her father's illegal dealings, but her parents refuse to believe her, as Zinnia thinks they are speedboat salesmen.
Trunchbull goes to Miss Honey's class for a weekly "checkup" to belittle the students. As a prank, Lavender, one of Matilda's friends, places a newt in Trunchbull's water jug to frighten her. Upon discovery of the newt, Trunchbull accuses Matilda, whose anger at the injustice leads her to telekinetically tip the glass over, splashing water and the newt on Trunchbull. Afterward, Miss Honey invites Matilda to her house for tea. On the way, they pass Trunchbull's house, and Miss Honey reveals a secret of hers: When she was two, her mother died, so her father, Magnus, invited his stepsister-in-law, Trunchbull, to live with them and look after her. However, Trunchbull regularly abused her. When Miss Honey was five, her father died of an alleged suicide. Eventually, she moved into a small cottage. Matilda and she sneak into Trunchbull's house while she is out to obtain some of Miss Honey's belongings, but Trunchbull's unexpected return leads to a cat-and-mouse chase, with them only barely escaping without revealing themselves.
When Matilda's telekinetic powers manifest again during an argument with her father, she trains herself to use them at her own will. She returns to Trunchbull's house and uses her telekinesis to wreak havoc in an attempt to scare her away. She almost flees, but Trunchbull finds Matilda's hair ribbon and realizes that she was there. The following day, Trunchbull visits Miss Honey's class again to get Matilda to admit her guilt. Matilda uses her powers to write a message on the blackboard, posing as the ghost of Magnus, accusing Trunchbull of murdering him. Trunchbull goes berserk and attacks the students, but Matilda keeps them out of harm's way with her powers, and together they force Trunchbull out of the school permanently. Miss Honey subsequently moves back into her true home.
The FBI finally uncovers enough evidence to prosecute Harry, and the Wormwoods prepare to flee to Guam. They stop by Miss Honey's house to pick up Matilda, but she refuses to go with them and suggests Miss Honey adopt her. In that moment, a remorseful Zinnia laments not understanding her daughter better. She and Harry subsequently sign the adoption papers that Matilda had kept for a long time. They escape and Matilda lives a happy life with Miss Honey, who becomes the new principal of Crunchem Hall.
- Mara Wilson as Matilda Wormwood
- Alissa and Amanda Graham, Trevor and James Gallagher as Matilda – newborn
- Kayla and Kelsey Fredericks as Matilda – 9 months old
- Amanda and Caitlin Fein as Matilda – toddler
- Sara Magdalin as Matilda – 4 years old
- Danny DeVito as Harry Wormwood
- Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood
- Embeth Davidtz as Miss Jennifer Honey
- Amanda and Kristyn Summers as Miss Honey – 2 years
- Phoebe Pearl as Miss Honey – 5 years
- Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull
- Brian Levinson as Michael Wormwood
- Nicholas Cox as Michael – 6 years
- Paul Reubens as FBI Agent Bob
- Tracey Walter as FBI Agent Bill
- Kiami Davael as Lavender
- Jacqueline Steiger as Amanda Thripp
- Kira Spencer Hesser as Hortensia
- Jimmy Karz as Bruce Bogtrotter
- Jean Speegle Howard as Miss Phelps
- Marion Dugan as Cookie
- Emily Eby as Maggie
Two songs are featured in the film. One of them, "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root, is played twice: when four-year-old Matilda is left alone at her house, making pancakes, and at the end of the film, set to a montage of Matilda and Miss Honey playing at Miss Trunchbull's former house. The other song is Thurston Harris's "Little Bitty Pretty One", played when Matilda is learning to control her telekinetic powers. The film's original score was composed by David Newman.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Matilda holds an approval rating of 90% based on 21 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Danny DeVito-directed version of Matilda is odd, charming, and while the movie diverges from Roald Dahl, it nonetheless captures the book's spirit."[4] In the United States, it earned $33 million in contrast to its $36 million budget.[2] It fared better during its worldwide release and ended up earning back nearly double its original budget as well as on home video and television.[3]
Roger Ebert praised the film's oddity, giving it 3 out of 4 stars, writing: "Trunchbull is the kind of villainess children can enjoy, because she is too ridiculous to be taken seriously and yet really is mean and evil, like the witch in Snow White. And since most children have at one time or another felt that their parents are not nice enough to them, they may also enjoy the portrait of Matilda's parents."[5]
Home media[edit]
In 2013, Wilson and her costars from the film had a reunion to celebrate its 17th anniversary and it being released on Blu-ray.[6] The reunion scene was featured in the Blu-ray release.[7]
Awards and nominations[edit]
- YoungStar Award
- Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy Film — Mara Wilson
- Cinekid Lion Audience Award
- Best Director — Danny DeVito
- Oulu International Children's Film Festival Starboy Award
- Best Director — Danny DeVito
- Satellite Awards
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical (Danny DeVito)
- Young Artist Award
- Best Performance in a Feature Film — Leading Young Actress (Mara Wilson)
- Best Performance in a Feature Film — Supporting Young Actress (Kira Spencer Hesser)
The film was submitted for an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score but wasn't nominated.
- ^ "MATILDA (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. August 14, 1996. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
- ^ a b Matilda at Box Office Mojo
- ^ a b "Matilda (1996)". worldwideboxoffice.com.
- ^ "Matilda". Rotten Tomatoes. August 2, 1996. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (August 2, 1996). "Matilda". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ^ "Matilda reunion: Former child star Mara Wilson catches up with Danny DeVito and Embeth Davidtz". MailOnline. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
- ^ "Mara Wilson On 'Matilda' Reunion: It Was 'Just Heartwarming'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
External links[edit]
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- Matilda at the Internet Movie Database
- Matilda at the TCM Movie Database
- Matilda at the American Film Institute Catalog
- Matilda at Box Office Mojo
- Matilda at Rotten Tomatoes
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- English-language films
- 1990s comedy films
- 1990s fantasy films
- Matilda (novel)
- American films
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- American fantasy-comedy films
- Films about dysfunctional families
- Films about teacher-student relationships
- Films based on children's books
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By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY
NEW YORK - Millions of readers and moviegoers know far more about psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who likes to dine on parts of his victims, than about the shy, polite and utterly pleasant Southern gentleman who created him.
Author Thomas Harris would rather write than talk.
So when Harris' grisly novel Hannibal hit bookstores Tuesday, there were no TV interviews, no author tours, no book signings - just bookstores opening at midnight to accommodate the readers who'd waited 11 years for the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.
Delacorte, a division of Random House, says it's printing 1.3 million copies. Based on advance orders, Barnes & Noble vice president Mary Ellen Keating predicts Hannibal will be this year's best-selling novel. That means outselling The Testament by John Grisham and Hearts in Atlantis, out in September from Stephen King, who raves about Hannibal in The New York Times Book Review next Sunday, calling Lecter "the great fictional monster of our time."
Amazon.com reports that Hannibal was the hottest book for a week before it was published and reviewed. On-line orders began piling up as soon as it was announced in March that Harris had turned in his manuscript. His contract (two books for $5 million) calls for no editing, which helped speed Hannibal into print.
As for the mysterious author, he's a former reporter who is friends with writers and reporters but hasn't done an interview in nearly 20 years, shielding himself from the obvious question: "Don't you have to be a bit of a psychopath to write so convincingly about psychopaths?"
Consciously or not, Harris' public silence has become part of the Harris mystique.
Even his age - 58 or 59, depending on whom you ask - isn't readily known.
In an era of celebrity confessions, when writers sell themselves like politicians, Harris has no use for such publicity. He tells those who persist, "I thank you kindly for your interest, but I wish to allow my work to speak for itself."
He may be an anti-celebrity, but he's no recluse. Harris likes small parties, football and cooking for friends (he's taken cooking lessons at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris). He poses for photographers. Just don't ask him to talk.
"What you see (of Harris) is definitely what he wants you to see," says Stephen Byers, a writer and former editor of Men's Journal who has been to several small dinner parties with him. "If you've read his books, he's unexpected. He's polite, civilized, reticent. But he doesn't give much away."
Byers adds: "He knows if he started doing interviews, some aggressive journalist would eventually find out something that he may not want everyone to know. And he's too shy and too smart to let that happen."
Southern Gothic
Harris spends his summers in Sag Harbor, on the eastern end of Long Island, and winters in Miami. If he's extravagant beyond that, it's apparent only in his personal fleet: He owns a Jaguar and a Porsche.
What's known about his life lacks the rich details that saturate his chilling fiction. He's divorced and has a daughter, Anne, who works for his publisher and shares his distaste for publicity. For 20 years, he has lived with a woman, Pace Barnes, who used to work in publishing and is as outgoing as he is quiet.
An only child, Harris grew up in Rich, Miss., population 100, in the Delta, just off Highway 61. His father was an engineer who turned to farming. His mother taught high school chemistry and biology.
Harris majored in English at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, enthralled with the works of Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner. He moonlighted as a police reporter at The News-Tribune and wrote true-crime stories for magazines like True.
In Waco, Harris showed the first glimpse of an obsession with evil. He dived into a story about a Mexican prostitute ring that enticed young girls from the barrios who later turned up dead. Harris was most interested in a villainous old woman who dressed in black, rode in a limousine and offered gifts to the girls and their families.
After graduation in 1964 and travels around Europe, Harris went to work as a local reporter for The Associated Press in New York, mostly covering crime and politics, "nothing glitzy at all," says a colleague from those days, Nick Pileggi, who went on to write Wiseguys. "But we all wanted to do something more."
Trying out terror
In 1973, Harris and two other reporters, Sam Maull and Dick Reilly, on the 4:30-p.m-to-12:30-a.m. shift at AP, laughed at Naked Came the Stranger, a sexy novel that 25 reporters at Newsday wrote in a kind of literary relay race.
"We said, 'Hell, we can do that,'" Maull says.
A year after Palestinian terrorists attacked the Munich Olympics, the three would-be novelists came up with a plot about Palestinian terrorists and a crazed Vietnam vet attacking a packed football stadium on Super Bowl Sunday. Harris thought of using a Goodyear blimp to deliver the explosives aimed at 100,000 spectators, including the president.
"The idea was to share the writing, but after 50 pages, Tom took over, which was obviously a good thing," Maull says, "Dick and I did the research. Tom did the rewrite."
Black Sunday, published under Harris' name, got mixed reviews (too predictable, said several critics), but the book and the movie were hits. Maull says the royalties and film rights were divided three ways, "without a cross word."
Harris quit AP to write novels. Red Dragon, his second book, got better reviews and introduced Lecter.
Then came the novel that made Harris' reputation. The Silence of the Lambs, about the search for a serial killer who makes bodysuits from human flesh, was a hit even before the 1991 movie with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
Now Lecter is back, out of the basement of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The movie rights sold for $10 million.
Far from Hollywood, Harris does his homework, doting on details, working at making the bizarre believable. He's done time at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Va., studied a videotaped interview with serial killer Ted Bundy and attended the 1994 trial in Italy of a farmer accused of murdering couples and cannibalizing their sex organs.
In Sag Harbor, Byers remembers Harris' intense interest in Byers' engraved Browning B-25 shotgun. "He fondled it and broke it open and admired the grain in the French walnut on the stack and talked about the fine checking on the wrist. He knows guns."
But every now and then, another side to Harris surfaces, beyond the Southern gentleman, beyond the scholar.
Byers may have glimpsed it at a birthday party, when the testimonials dragged on. From the back of the room came a growl - "a voice like the demon girl in The Exorcist."
Byers swung around. "It was Tom Harris flashing a grin. It was weird."
© Copyright 2002 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.


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One of the consequences of the culture of Speed in our societies has been to give primacy to the automobile in our urban environments. There's a funny essay about an Alien race coming to observe Earth who assume that the cars are the dominant species of the planet and humans are their slaves because of the way cars dominate the cities and the way that humans pamper them and defer to them.
Cars are the ultimate symbol of consumerism for humans and over the 20th century, it does seem like cities were redesigned to accommodate the needs of the vehicle and not the people. Freeways slice through the hearts of cities in rivers of concrete, parked cars choke the streets and pedestrians dive for cover as time stressed drivers careen through crosswalks. Like our Titanic example of getting things wrong, cars were envisioned as a form of efficient personal transport that would enrich our lives and provide us with more leisure time but the result has become people who spend huge portions of their day in a crawling commute, living spaces fouled by exhaust pollution and 100's of 1000's of traffic deaths each year.
Neurological tests prove that Speed is in fact, an addiction. Moving fast releases epinephrine and other chemicals which stimulate our brains, rather like the effects of sex on our nervous systems. It makes us feel good. So in some ways it's natural that people want to drive fast but Speed is also the cause of most road deaths, both for the occupants of the car and for the unwary pedestrian. There is a curious psychological self-justification that seems to happen to the speeding driver where he or she feels uniquely entitled to go fast and when the opportunity is denied them – by traffic congestion or by a too slow pedestrian in a crosswalk – the result is often road rage, which usually just makes things even more dangerous.
Studies in England have shown that a neighborhood street jammed with parked cars actually inhibits a sense of community amongst the people that live there. It creates barriers between them. When the parked cars are removed to an off-site location, then the neighbors start to talk to one another, start to share experience and create a better place to live.
So, one of the Slow City movement's main objectives is to separate the human living spaces from the automobile. Cars are put away out of sight in back areas in the neighborhoods and are banned outright from the public spaces around the community centers which are exclusively pedestrian only zones. The results in those places which have embraced the Slow City concept have been an impressive rise in the sense of shared life with their neighbors. People walk everywhere, stop to talk, get more involved in the life of the community. Strong friendships are shaped when you know your neighbor. People there say that this style of life is much more fulfilling then the car-centric existence they lived before and it has proved to be a boon for business with many local enterprises which cater to the particular community flourishing.
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In Othello, when does Emilia choose to be silent and when does she choose to speak up?
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Emilia is silent when Desdemona wonders aloud where her handkerchief is, and Othello questions Desdemona about it. Emilia knows that she has stolen the handkerchief and given it to Iago. But she has no idea what Iago is planning to do with it. When Desdemona worries about the lost handkerchief, Emilia probably considers it a "trifle" and remains silent (Act 3, scene 4). In Act 5, it is Emilia's revelation that she was the one who stole the handkerchief at Iagoa's request that unravels Iago's scheme and exposes Iago for the villain that he is. Throughout the play, Iago has cautioned Emilia to hold her tongue. At the end of the play, Emilia disobeys him. This disobedience costs her her life, but she does not die in vain.
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The Hoover Moratorium was a public statement issued by U.S. President Herbert Hoover on June 20, 1931, which he hoped would ease the coming international economic crisis, as well as provide time for recovery. Hoover's proposition was to put a one-year moratorium on payments of World War I and other war debt, postponing the initial payments, as well as interest. Many were outraged by this idea. This statement was met with disapproval from France, as well as many US citizens. Despite this negative reaction, it went on to gain support from fifteen nations by July 6. The moratorium was approved by Congress in December.
However, this program did not do much to slow the economic downturn in Europe. Germany was caught in a major banking crisis, Britain deserted the gold standard (the US would also follow suit in 1933 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal) and France would make sure to quickly re-address the issue after this year suspension ended.
A small number of former Allies continued to make payments to the United States after the moratorium expired. But, in the end, only Finland was able, and willing, to meet the obligations fully.
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This is a delicious staple to have on hand during the summer grilling season. Use the flavorful sauce to baste chicken or to top hamburgers and hot dogs right off the grill.
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- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup vinegar
- 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- Few drops hot pepper sauce
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- In a saucepan, cook onion in butter until tender. Add remaining ingredients. Simmer, uncovered, for 20-30 minutes or until sauce reaches desired consistency, stirring occasionally. Use as a basting sauce when grilling hamburgers or chicken and/or use as a condiment. Store in the refrigerator. Yield: about 1-1/3 cups.
Originally published as Barbecue Sauce in Reminisce July/August 1993, p51
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"It was way too "vinegary' for me! I counter-balanced that with some baking soda and then it cam out really nice. I also added a bit of liquid smoke. I will make it again but I will half the vinegar amount. (it was apple cider vinegar). We used it on our grilled pork chops. There were none left, so it wasn't horrible!! ;)"
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"I made this sauce for pork chops. I substituted "vinegar" with cider vinegar and it was so tasty! Big hit with the entire family. I was able to make the sauce ahead of time and then put it in the fridge until I was ready to cook the pork chops. I ended up having the cook the pork chops longer than 20 minutes, but using a thermometer helped me determine when they were done (160 degrees)."


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Yachtmaster training continued last week with a long distance passage, building skills and sea miles for a coastal skipper exam next week.
Last week was interesting to say the least. Our old crew of myself, Richard, Steve and Ally joined 42ft yacht Miss Reality in brisk breeze, which built up to force 8 gusting 9 at times during the week. Swinging and bobbing in the boat made everyone feel more or less queasy for a day or two, but soon the symptoms disappeared and waves didn't look that big anymore.
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The Benefits of Probiotics
By Ben Hewitt, Joyce Hendley, M.S., "The Power of Probiotics," November/December 2010
For years, Sandor Katz has been fermenting foods, convinced that the probiotics they contain are keeping him healthy despite his compromised immune system.
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What's more, says Katz, fermented raw vegetables (as well as other cultured foods, such as yogurt and kefir, or fermented milk) offer unique health benefits by infusing the gut with healthy bacteria and also by increasing the bioavailability of minerals and vitamins. "As fermentation progresses, it creates lactic acid," explains Mingruo Guo, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Vermont's Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. "This makes minerals more soluble.
It also produces enzymes that help break down proteins and fatty acids, which can help digestion."
Clinical evidence supporting the health benefits of probiotics—particularly in supplement form—is mounting. For example, a study published in the journal Pediatrics last spring showed that taking probiotic supplements can reduce fever incidence due to colds and flu in children by nearly 73 percent. That's all well and good, but as Katz says, "Why would you pay a lot of money to get your nutrients in a [supplement], when you can get them in your food for next to nothing?"
But are fermented vegetables (uncooked, unrefrigerated) safe? "I truly believe that fermented vegetables are safer than raw," says Katz, who ferments his kimchi in a 55-gallon wooden barrel that once contained Jack Daniels. "You're creating a competitive situation that protects you from pathogens, so even if you ended up fermenting a cabbage leaf that had E. coli on it, the good bacteria would overwhelm the bad and you'd never get sick." A bit of an oversimplification, says food-safety expert Douglas L. Archer, Ph.D., associate dean for research at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida in Gainesville. "E. coli 0157:H7, as well as the Salmonella family of bacteria, are quite stable in acidic environments," says Archer. "While fermenting may lessen the chance of illness, it is not foolproof."


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Global Governance: Critical Perspectives
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BeschreibungIn recent years, the role of global institutions such as the United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has never been more important to the lives of individuals throughout the world. This edited book provides critical perspectives on the role of these institutions and how they use their policies, procedures and practices to manage global political, socio-economic, legal and environmental affairs. In contrast to previously published books on this subject, Global Governance is organized thematically rather than by institution. Each chapter examines core issues such as labour, finance, the environment, health, culture, gender, civil society, poverty and development. It should be essential reading for undergraduate students of international politics, international political economy and international economics.
InhaltsverzeichnisForeword Craig N. Murphy List of figures, Tables and Boxes List of abbreviations About the Contributions Acknowledgements 1. Global Governance: a preliminary interrogation Rorden Wilkinson Global Financial and Development Governance 2. Reforming the International Financial Architecture: the new political agenda Randall D. Germain 3. The Mother of all Governments: the World Bank's Matrix for Global Governance Paul Cammack Global Environmental, Cultural and Health Governance 4. Global Environmental Governance Lorraine Elliott 5. Global Governance, Human Rights and the 'Problem' of Culture Stephanie Lawson 6. Global Health and Governance: a conceptual review Richard Dodgson and Kelly Lee Human Security and Global Governance 7. Global Governance and Human Security Caroline Thomas 8. Global Governance and Poverty Reduction: the case of microcredit Heloise Weber Organised Labour and Global Governance 9. Coming in from the Cold: Labour, the ILO and the international Labour Standards Regime Steve Hughes 10. International Labour and its Emerging Role in Global Governance: regime fusion, social protection, regional integration and production volatility Nigel Haworth Civil Society and global Finance 11. The Contours of Courtship: the WTO and Civil Society Rorden Wilkinson 12. Lessons from Greenham Common peace camp: an alternative approach to Global Governance Lucy James Indexes Index
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-Thomas G. Weiss, Editor, Global Governance and Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunche, Institute for International Studies, The CUNY Graduate Center.
"Rorden Wilkinson and Steve Hughes have produced the best collection of essays yet available on the important, but notoriously slippery concept of global governance. Their aim was to interrogate the contemporary practice of global governance from a variety of theorectical and institutional perspectives and in that they have unquestionably succeeded. lo-Professor Tony Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield."
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Verlag: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL
Erscheinungsdatum: Mai 2005
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PITTSBURGH â" A former western Pennsylvania dentist was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill an FBI agent because the mentally ill defendant believes the government is thwarting his efforts to have Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrested for computer hacking and other fanciful wrongs.
"He's hacking the Internet beyond belief," Anthony Dinozzi, 45, insisted when Senior U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose asked Dinozzi if he wanted to speak before he was sentenced. "I can prove all this and no one will listen to me. My life is on the line, your honor."
Dinozzi's federal public defender, Tara Allen, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking declined to comment on Dinozzi's mental illness or how he was found competent to plead guilty and be sentenced, despite his ongoing delusions.
On Wednesday, Dinozzi seemed to understand that he was being sentenced and why, though he asked Ambrose to include a notation on her sentencing order that he's sincere in his beliefs.
"Whatever you give me, just please put on the note that I'm not lying," Dinozzi said.
Dinozzi was arrested in January after he left an obscenity-laced voicemail message for Gregory Heeb, an FBI agent in Pittsburgh. Among other things, Dinozzi threatened to kill Heeb, have the Hell's Angels "get" Heeb and to have the agent imprisoned after which Dinozzi would pay inmates to "torture you alive."
Dinozzi left the message because he was upset that Heeb had called Dinozzi's mother to let her know that her son had once again made threatening calls to a federal judge in Washington state, to the FBI office in Seattle and to police in Medina, Wash., the suburb where Gates lives.
Heeb originally encountered Dinozzi at Pittsburgh International Airport in February 2011. Dinozzi was claiming to be a federal marshal and wanted to board a flight to Seattle, claiming his ticket had been booked by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. At the time, Dinozzi claimed Gates was sending waves through Dinozzi's computer that were harming his brain.
Dinozzi wasn't arrested and was allowed to leave the airport with a warning. Days later, he called to apologize to Heeb and say he was being treated for mental illness. When the calls to the Washington authorities resumed months later, Heeb called Dinozzi's mother, who has been cooperative in trying to get her son mental health treatment.
Dinozzi told the judge that's what set him off and prompted him to threaten Heeb in January.
"He called my home and made my mom furious," Dinozzi said. "I'm 45 years old. He didn't have to call my mom."
Ambrose said she wasn't entirely happy to be sentencing Dinozzi, but told him it was necessary for him to understand the seriousness of his actions.
"This poses a real puzzle. There you were with all the promise in the world," Ambrose said of his education. "It is sad for me to see that is gone from your life."
"My sentence has to deter you from acting this way in the future."


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Mid-Missouri man tells struggle with the VA system
MOBERLY, Mo. - A Moberly man remembers his dad's struggles with the Department of Veterans Affairs system.
Gary Hargis Senior served his country when he was called upon. However, when he called upon the government for service he needed, he was denied.
Hargis Senior served two tours in Vietnam.
"He was a very very patriotic man. However, at the end of his life he did get very bitter about the way the government and the VA treated him," said Hargis Junior.
In 2011 Hargis Senior was diagnosed with lung cancer.
"This was a type that is in relation to Agent Orange that the government has recognized," said Hargis Junior.
He was treated at Truman VA hospital, in Columbia. But getting his service-connected disability for his cancer, was a challenge.
"He told several people that, 'no they are going to deny me and wait until I die,'" said Hargis Junior.
Hargis' Senior premonition came true.
For three years he appealed his denial for a service- connected disability with the help of his doctors writing letters to the government.
The more than $100,000 he should have received over the years in disability turned into less than $2,000 applied to his funeral costs.
Although Hargis Junior's father cannot enjoy the benefits he earned in battle, his family feels his story needs to be told.
"This is bigger to me than my father. This is bigger than the money. It is about taking care of the people that took care of us." said Hargis Junior.


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When I started eating a healthier Paleo diet I thought that my Baby Cakes donut maker was going out to pasture, but luckily there are lots of yummy recipes out there that still make it a useful little gadget to keep around! I found this gluten free donut recipe over at Smashed Peas & Carrots, and I love Maggie and all of her recipes, so I knew this one would be a hit!
I have made these a couple of times and have only modified them slightly. They are really light and fluffy, and I have found they make the perfect fondue dipper. They don't have a huge amount of sweetness, just a bit, so dipping them in chocolate is a perfect match.
Paleo Coconut Donuts
Adapted from Smashed Peas & Carrots
- 1/2 c. of coconut flour
- 1/2 c. of melted coconut oil, or grass fed butter
- 5 eggs
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 TB vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- *optional 2-3 TB cocoa for a chocolate version
- *optional 1 cup of melted Enjoy Life Dairy Free Chocolate Chips for "icing"
- Cream the oil and honey together.
- Add in vanilla and one egg at a time.
- Using a sifter, slowly add in coconut flour and baking soda. (I have found that sifting makes a huge difference in the texture of my recipes when I use coconut flour)
- Pour batter into a zipper storage bag, zip and cut off the tip.
- Squeeze batter (it will be thicker) into donut maker, close and wait for your donuts to be done!
- If you want to have icing on them dip them into the melted chocolate chips and put them on a plate to cool…
- …enjoy once cooled, or enjoy your paleo coconut donuts hot, just don't burn your tongue!
Try this too!
- Sub out coconut flour for 1 cup almond flour, and instead of using 5 eggs, only use 3. I really liked this modification when I make the chocolate donuts. Yum.
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The Tate Britain in London is holding an exhibition on Francis Firth Photographs.
Firth (1822-1898) made several trips to Egypt and to the Near East and was one of the first to experiment with glass negatives.
"The photographs displayed here are not enlarged, but the actual size of the glass plates from which they were printed. This allowed him to capture both the expanse and the detail of Eastern subjects. Each photograph took a few minutes to create, eliminating temporary and moving things. Frith prepared and fixed the photographs in a tent or ancient tomb, despite the danger of using explosive materials such as liquid ether and gun cotton in the desert heat".
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One Laptop Per Child Canada
we invite you to visit www.olpccanada.com
Launched at TBSF in 2010, OLPC Canada strives to empower Aboriginal youth to play an active role in their own education through access to learning centered technology. Canada's first National One Laptop per Child program, OLPC Canada has provided more than 3600 laptops to Aboriginal youth 6-12 years of age in rural, remote and urban communities in 7 provinces and 2 territories.
It is the mission of TBSF to incubate innovative programs confronting global challenges, when they have established a proven track record, set them up as standalone organizations with new partners to reach the next level. We are proud that OLPC Canada is now following this path and will continue to grow and reach its full potential as an independent not-for-profit organization.
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The 3-year-old, who is slated to compete in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 7 at Belmont Park, walked around the paddock shortly after 6 a.m. before standing in a stall for approximately five minutes. He then proceeded through the tunnel and onto the main track where he jogged clockwise to the half-mile pole before commencing his usual counter-clockwise two-mile gallop.
Alan Sherman said California Chrome likely will school in the paddock multiple times next week before he gallops. The chestnut colt owned by Steven Coburn and Martin Perry will not school in the paddock in the afternoon.
"We don't do a lot of schooling in the afternoon, hardly at all," said Sherman. "We always school in the morning. It's just something we do. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't know. It's just the way we do it."
"I just don't like to interrupt his feeding, his dinner," Sherman added. "I'd just as soon in the morning. We'll do it a couple more times throughout the week."
California Chrome is scheduled to school at the starting gate at 6:30 a.m. on Friday. His Saturday breeze is now scheduled for 6:30 as well, according to Sherman.


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A man has been charged with murdering his wife at their home in Oxfordshire.
Andrew Parsons, 38, is accused of murdering his wife Janee at their home in Lucerne Avenue, Bicester.
He will appear at Oxford Magistrates Court today, Thames Valley Police said.
American-born Mrs Parsons, 31, was found by police after they were called to her detached home on Saturday.
Despite attempts by officers and ambulance staff to resuscitate her, she was declared dead at hospital.
A post-mortem examination found that the mother-of-two died from multiple incised wounds, police said.
Detective Chief Inspector Joe Kidman, who is leading the investigation, said: "We are are keen to speak with anyone in Lucerne Avenue who may have important information to help us establish the circumstances of this tragic incident."
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Dr. Sharfi Sarker, a Loyola surgeon who specializes in gastrointestinal and minimally invasive surgery, talks about weight-loss surgery. These operations often can be done with a minimally invasive approach.
In the video, she talks about how weight-loss surgery is a lifelong commitment and patients must be sure to follow their doctors' instructions afterward. Physicians will always first guide patients toward nonsurgical weight loss, such as dieting, exercise and lifestyle changes. She also talks about how important patient follow-up is for successful weight loss. Even after you lose weight, it is important to develop good exercise and diet habits to keepthe weight from returning.
For more information on the Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care, please call (800) 355-0416. You can learn more by enrolling in one of our free informational seminars.