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This week, John Kerry enters a crucial stage in his bid for the presidency. But is Teresa Heinz, the unglamorous Democratic candidate's colourful, controversial, enormously wealthy wife, his secret weapon or a loose cannon? By Lisa DePaulo.
After weeks of hoo-ha about Bill Clinton's autobiography, the spotlight in America is finally about to return to another Democrat, 60-year-old John Kerry. Or at least that is what his party hopes.
At the convention in Boston, which began yesterday, Kerry will officially accept his party's nomination for presidential candidate. Is he finally about to become the star of his own movie? Or will someone who has always been more exciting, charismatic and controversial once again get all the attention?
Well, yes, someone probably will. And not just Bill Clinton - who gave a primetime speech on day one of the convention - but also Kerry's wife, who, unusually for a candidate's spouse, is expected to have a prominent speaking role. But then Teresa Heinz Kerry is a most unusual political wife.
The rumbling in political circles is that she is a "loose cannon", too "outspoken", too "opinionated". Reporters call it "the Teresa issue". Of course, has there ever been an American first lady candidate who wasn't put through the wringer, either for saying too much or not enough? Yet, even inside the Kerry campaign, they're worried about things like her hair.
Compliment her fabulously unruly mane of coppery brown curls which, let's face it, not a lot of 65-year-olds can pull off and she replies, "That's not what (the campaign people) say!" She admits that "this is hardly the first lady's hairdo", but she likes it. (And styles it herself.) "This isn't exactly 'the rules' for first ladydom," she says. Perhaps the rules can be changed? "I have to get there first."
To that end, in January 2003 she also changed her voter registration. Her late husband, Senator John Heinz III, who died in a plane crash in 1991, had been a Republican and, technically, so was she, for more than three decades. But how do you explain that to the people of Iowa? "I'd rather just be independent," Teresa says.
"But then I couldn't vote for my husband John."
Then there is the matter of "the gaze". Despite being married to her second senator, she apparently missed the class where you learn how to do the fawning, doe-eyed wifely stare. Even Hillary got that one right. While Kerry delivers stump speeches, she often stands awkwardly beside him, fidgeting with a hairclip or her wire-rimmed glasses or the Chanel bag that always hangs from her shoulder, her expression suggesting she'd rather be in Pittsburgh.
Teresa Heinz and John Kerry at a campaign fundraiser in San Francisco.
She has also been known to tap him on the arm in mid-speech to correct him. This might be particularly dicey, because word on the Kerrys is that they fight like Taylor and Burton. "Fight or argue?" she corrects. "Debating" the weighty issues of the world, which is what she says they do, is "a good thing, no?"
And, in fact, when you see the Kerrys together, the intense bond between them not to mention the sexual chemistry is hard to miss. Quite frequently you'll see them nuzzling each other's necks in rapt whisper, his enormous paw around her shoulders, pulling her close.
But not always. At one recent fundraiser, two important donors separately remarked that she looked annoyed with her husband as she sat in a corner glowering while Kerry revved the crowd from the podium. "I was exhausted," she says. "They think I should always be looking adoringly at him." She sighs.
All of which raises the question: can Heinz Kerry be herself and conform to the expectations of a would-be first lady of the US? And should Americans really want her to?
It's been a long, tumultuous ride from that day last March when she made her campaign debut. Tumultuous for her husband, certainly; in less than a year he went from the Democratic Party frontrunner to being crushed by the hypedup tide of Howard Dean (remember him?), only to emerge victorious in a surprise finish for the nomination.
She will tell you her husband is best "when being shot at" and that definitely proved to be true in the Democratic primaries. But it could also describe Heinz Kerry, who was unfazed when rumours exploded in the press last February that Kerry had had an affair with an intern.
The gossip soon proved untrue but for a while all eyes were on her. Would she crumble? She wouldn't even dignify the rumours with a comment. Which was unusual, actually, because she remains blissfully blunt and unfiltered.
She has been a gift to the American press, tossing off lines such as this one to the style magazine W that the idea of being first lady sounded "worse than going to a Carmelite convent". Imagine such bons mots spewing from the mouth of the poised Laura Bush, who has yet to utter anything more controversial than the fact that she likes to read books.
Not surprisingly, it was Heinz Kerry, not Bush, who was the subject of a Newsweek cover headline that asked, "Wife a Loose Cannon Or Crazy Like a Fox?"
In fact, as John Kerry enters the final stage of the battle for the White House, two things are clear about his wife: she is not going to change, and she could be the most interesting and controversial first lady ever.
March 2003: As her private plane, the Flying Squirrel, lands in Newark, New Jersey, one of her aides is already on the ground and visibly nervous. On this day Teresa Heinz Kerry is not only trying out her new name, she's also making her maiden solo voyage on the Democratic presidential campaign trail for her husband.
"So what are we supposed to call her?" asks one event organiser. "Today? Mrs Kerry. Because she's on the campaign trail," Chris Black, her chief of communications, bluntly explains to the woman. "Good," comes the answer. "Because Mrs Heinz Kerry doesn't exactly roll off the tongue."
What does roll (and roll and roll) off the tongue is her speech. The Democratic women get their $125 worth as the candidate's wife covers everything from the problems to be faced in postwar Iraq (which she presciently says will be bad) to the Bush tax cut ("It benefited me. But I don't need it or deserve it.") to why a woman should buy Clinique sunscreen (it doesn't have the nasty ingredient octyl methoxycinnamate that, based on her research and she researches everything, sometimes late at night on Google is bad, bad, bad).
To listen to her is to get an education on all things great and small. (Did you know that "rabbit is the healthiest meat you can feed a child"?) Lately, the topics include prostate cancer, with which John Kerry was diagnosed in 2003 although it was her, not the doctors, who carefully monitored his prostate-specific antigen test results and recognised the problem. (The cancer was detected at an early-enough stage to be removed by surgery.) She urges the Democratic women to "nag" their men to get tested: "Be obstreperous! Take care of your men."
And, by the way, do they realise that "the number one cause of prostate cancer is food"? With that, she's off and running on one of her favourite subjects: "Eat organic! Eat clean! Drink green tea and eat lots of tomatoes."
Several yards from the podium, her communications boss lets out a sigh when it becomes clear that she has tossed away the speech her staff wrote for her, largely extolling the virtues of John Kerry, not green tea. Keeping her on the message is "an ongoing project", Black says with some humour.
The real problem is that she cannot be reduced to sound bites. She has lived a life almost unbelievable in its extremes extreme ill fortune and extreme good fortune. To appreciate her is to realise that everything she does, everything she is, is driven by both the losses and the loves. She is a person who can be at once hot and cold, modern and old-fashioned, beguiling and distant, selfless and self-absorbed, earthy and grand. She is also a person who would undoubtedly do great things if installed in the White House, because she would simply have to.
Friends say she has no "political agenda" for herself. In fact, she has already turned down a Senate race that she would undoubtedly have won: after her first husband died, the Republicans begged her to run for his seat in Pennsylvania (where she is called "Saint Teresa").
"She's not trying to be co-anything," her current husband says.
"She's my wife and she's helping, but she wants to pursue the things that define her."
She says she's "already checked" and, should Kerry win, she'll be able to continue her full-time job leading the Heinz philanthropies while using her new platform "to enable people".
But first she has to get Kerry elected. As she says, there are other things to worry about.
Newark, for instance. The funny thing about her meandering speech is that the women in the room are enthralled by it. When it ends, almost all of them jockey to greet her and ask her more questions. (What's that sunscreen again?) One woman asks her to sign a page in a book where she'd already obtained John Kerry's autograph. Without missing a beat, Teresa scribbles, under her husband's name, "Teresa Heinz".
Soon after, she is whisked off to the next event, at the Portuguese Sport Club on a Newark side street. The local Portuguese community, which has put out a buffet of homemade food, is thrilled that she has come to talk to them, as she is no doubt the only candidate's wife who can actually speak to them in Portuguese.
The former Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira speaks five languages fluently, but this is her native tongue. As she tells the crowd, she was born and raised in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese doctor whom she would accompany on weekends into the bush to treat the poor.
"He taught me how to be a human being in society," she says. Heated applause. We are lunching in her Georgetown home.
She has had her staff prepare one of her mother's recipes, a Mozambique curry, and the table is set with precious antique silver. She is wearing her uniform a Chanel jacket and trousers. Her style has been the cause of some consternation in the press and even among her staff. It has been noted that she wears the same clothes "over and over". She still wears her favourite (old) Chanels, but more recently she has been put through the wringer for the ubiquitous Hermes scarves she seems to wear more like armour than a fashion statement. Then there is the way her sheer bra always manages to peek out and the spectacular diamond crucifix that hangs in her cleavage.
She is both oddly unencumbered by the trappings of wealth and delightfully straightforward about the vanity aspect. Botox? Of course she has had a few treatments.
"In fact I'm going to need another one. Soon." Cosmetic surgery? Not yet, "but when I need it, I'll get it". She would like to do something about her nose, which has become "bulbier" with age.
On her left hand she's wearing the huge square-cut diamond engagement ring she got from Heinz and the simple gold wedding band she got from Kerry. But Kerry says he doesn't have an issue with the ghost of Heinz.
"I've never felt threatened by it. It would be cruel and insensitive if she didn't celebrate his memory. I've told her sons I'm not there to replace anybody, I'm there to be whoever I am."
And the same goes for his wife. Change her? Tame her? "Teresa's gonna be who she is. And I want her to be who she is."
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Even, if obese women manage to get pregnant, higher weight during pregnancy will significantly increase the risk of development of serious complications like preeclampsia and gestational diabetes. The other risks involved, when obese women conceive are:
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Low weight and infertility:
Not only overweight women, but also underweight women with a BMI of less than 18.5 will have infertility issues due to hormonal issues. These women also have irregular menstrual cycle and the ovulation gets impaired due to lesser estrogen production due to low fat storage in the body. However, the solution here is simple. Yes, underweight women can take foods with higher fat content for ovulation restoration and this will also eliminate the need for hormonal therapy.
Low weight during pregnancy:
Reports state that underweight women are 72% likely to experience miscarriage during the first trimester. But, the chances of miscarriage were brought down by about 50% among women, who took prenatal vitamins with rich folic acid content. Also, pregnant women, who are underweight, are more likely to deliver smaller babies and this can lead to long-term health problems in such babies.
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Falafel: It's Not Just for Israel Anymore!
Upon returning from a Kesher Birthright Israel trip, some people may be ready for a little break from falafel. This was not the case for my sister Allison and me.
Even though we had eaten falafel once a day while we were in Israel, we were far from sick of our new favorite meal. The days following our return home were spent investigating local restaurants that served "authentic" falafel, but each sample of American falafel ended in disappointment. Most of the falafel we found was too dry and lacked the appropriate toppings. Soon, we gave up on the fantasy of encountering a satisfying falafel at home and instead returned to consuming the usual Lone Star State cuisine of Tex-Mex and all things fried.
One day at work, my sister looked at me, literally on the verge of tears, and exclaimed, "I was just thinking about the fact that I may never have a good falafel again. It's so upsetting!" One of our coworkers, Ally, happened to overhear our conversation. She informed us that she had been to Israel and has since learned to make falafel that is up to the high standards of someone who has tasted falafel in the Holy Land. Ally offered to teach us how to recreate the meal we had so desperately missed, and of course, we jumped at the opportunity. We made plans to cook with her later that week.
At Ally's house, we made a variety of Israeli food, including tabouli, hummus, and, of course, our coveted falafel – with all of the proper toppings. Our friend was so kind as to share the recipe with us so we can enjoy this authentic falafel anytime we're missing Israel. Though nothing will ever compare to the delicious falafel we ate while on our Birthright trip, this is as good as we could ever hope to find in the states.
Here's the recipe we used, or you can try this recipe from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We hope all who try it enjoy it as much as we do!
- 1 pound (about 2 cups) dry chickpeas/garbanzo beans
- 1 ½ cups dried flava beans (optional)
- 1 small onion, roughly chopped
- ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley
- 3-5 cloves garlic (I prefer roasted)
- 1 ½ tbsp flour
- 1 ¾ tsp salt
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- Pinch of ground cardamom
- Vegetable oil for frying (grape seed, canola, and peanut oil work well)
Place all bean ingredients in food processor and process until the consistency is like coarse flour.
Slowly add other ingredients plus 1/2 cup water to processor. For "yellow" falafel, add 1 Tbsp. Tumeric. Do not over-process or it will be the consistency of hummus.
Remove ingredients from mixer and add to separate large bowl. In a separate bowl, add water to the near-dry mix and lightly stir. Allow to soak for 10 minutes and keep in fridge overnight for best results.
Ball and pan-fry.
Yield ~35 falafel
Jane Bernick is an alumna of Kesher Birthright, the Reform Jewish trip organizer for Taglit-Birthright Israel. As a participant on a summer 2013 trip, she traveled with group 639 to Israel. Jane is a junior at the University of Texas majoring in Public Relations. When she is not studying or teaching dance, she loves to spend time with her friends and family in her beautiful home of Austin, TX.
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A Kingsland, Ga., man pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor in relation to his production of numerous images of child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Kingsland Police Department.
Angel Luis Rivera, 41, pleaded guilty after evidence presented at the guilty plea hearing showed that on a number of occasions between 2009 and 2010 he sexually molested three children under the age of 14 in order to create pictures and videos of that conduct.
United States Attorney Edward J. Tarver said, "This defendant violated the innocence of children. His acts were despicable and they demand the severest punishment allowed by law. Swift aggressive prosecution of child predators will be one of the standards by which this United States Attorney's Office will and should be measured. Protecting this country's children is the highest priority for the Department of Justice and this United States Attorney's Office."
"While it is heart-breaking to discover evidence of innocent children being sexually exploited, it strengthens the resolve of law enforcement to investigate child pornography crimes," said Brock D. Nicholson, special agent in charge of HSI Atlanta. "I applaud the diligence and commitment of the Kingsland Police Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia in working with HSI to investigate this case and bring the defendant to justice. We will continue to dedicate our resources and track down those individuals who are involved in the underworld of child pornography." Nicholson oversees HSI activities in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Kingsland Police Chief Darryl Griffis added, "This investigation and subsequent conviction is an example of the Kingsland Police Department's continuing commitment and cooperation with federal law enforcement agencies to protect our most valuable community asset, our children."
Each count to which Rivera pleaded guilty carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, followed by at least five years of supervised release. Rivera will also be required to register as a sex offender. The date for Rivera's sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
The case is part of HSI's Operation Predator, a nationwide initiative to identify, investigate and arrest those who sexually exploit children, and Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a Department of Justice effort launched in May 2006 to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
As part of Operation Predator, HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-347-2423 or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators. Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, at 1-800-843-5678 or http://www.cybertipline.com.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Tiffany ( TIF) and Amazon ( AMZN) were among the best-performing stocks in the S&P 500 on Tuesday. The S&P 500 fell 4.23 points, or 0.3%, to close at 1,405.52.
Shares of Tiffany rose 6.68% to $73.27 on about eight times the stock's average daily trading volume of 1.9 million shares. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $178.4 million, or $1.39 a share, down from earlier earnings of $181.2 million, or $1.41 a share. Analysts, on average, anticipated a profit of $1.42 a share. Tiffany's 2012 outlook includes a projected 10% increase in global sales led by the Asia/Pacific region and the Americas and between a 16% and 19% increase in earnings per share to a range of between $3.95 and $4.05. Tiffany shares trade at an estimated price-to-earnings ratio for next year of 16.18X; the average for specialty retailers is 16.1X. Thirteen of the 23 analysts who cover Tiffany rate it at hold; 10 analysts give the stock a buy rating. TheStreet Ratings gives Tiffany a B grade with a buy rating and a $79.64 price target. The stock has risen 10.58% year to date.


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by Ayesha De Kretser
Paul Reynolds will vacate the
New Zealand board and be replaced as chief executive by Chris Quinn from June 1.
Paul Reynolds will vacate the
Mr Reynolds resigned in August of last year and Simon Moutter was announced as his replacement in April, slated to begin in September.
"Dr Reynolds will ultimately be replaced as CEO by Simon Moutter. Chris Quin is acting CEO of Telecom from 1 June 2012 until Mr Moutter commences," the company said in a statement.
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Dear All, I've released mzgtk2, based on the header files of Gtk+ 2.10.6. You should be able to compile mzgtk2 for Gtk+ 2.4.x and up. I'm inviting you all to test it out. More information on: http://www.elemental-programming.org/wiki/mzgtk2-mzgtk2-making.html Screenshots: http://www.elemental-programming.org/wiki/mzgtk2-screenshots.html Best wishes, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema
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The Legend of the Cherokee Indian Youth's Rite of Passage
In this week's Monday Motivation, I share one of my favourite stories about a Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage.
When the time comes for a Cherokee Indian youth to go through his rite of passage, his father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone.
He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.
He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!
Finally, after a horrific night, the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
Like the boy in this story, we too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.
If you liked this story, pass it on.
If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
The first time I had a spiritual connection with God in April 2008, God said to me, "When ever you are alone or in pain, just ask, and someone will show up." He sounded so gentle and so kind that His words moved me to tears. In that moment, I felt a kind of love so pure and so warm that no words in the human vocabulary could describe it. It was the kind of love that still move to tears every time I remember that moment.
God created us with free will. As such, He does not interfere with our lives unless we ask Him for help. Even so, He is always watching out for us. Every time you feel alone in the dark, remember this story and remember what He said to me. Ask for help and then be open to receiving it.
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With the main healthcare reform bill signed into law, Democrats say congressional efforts to reform Wall Street and the nation's financial regulatory system will soon top the Obama administration's agenda. A measure put forward by Sen. Christopher Dodd is being described as the biggest overhaul of financial rules since the 1930s, but critics have faulted the proposal for giving additional power to the Federal Reserve while gutting the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency and housing it inside the Fed.
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In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew in ambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish's verse to be both rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches for the universal and the human.
Born and raised in Libya, Khaled Mattawa immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He is associate professor in the English Department at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Tocqueville and Amor
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My friend and I are from England, near London, and have got tickets for Tomorrowland 2012, full 5 day madness pass plus camping. None of our other friends have been able to get tickets as of yet and so are just going as a two so would love some camping buddies and maybe even travel buddies to Belgium too. We're wanting to get to Belgium as cheaply as possible and might do some sightseeing beforehand if our budgets allow us to.
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Wilfried Zaha will miss England Under-21's last friendly before the European Championship finals because he has to go to the dentist — but he has already cut his teeth at that level after scoring his first goal for Stuart Pearce's team in Thursday's 3-0 victory over Romania.
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Just over a week after its last update, it seems Google Play Services is receiving another bump - this time up to 6.1.71.
Of course, Google hasn't posted an official change log for the update quite yet, but we've already got the APK and can point out a few differences. The most obvious one is of course the new launcher icon for Google Settings, which follows Google's yet unspoken launcher icon design guidelines
The various menus also have new L-style checkboxes on pre-L devices. We're still digging around to see what's new, so we'll add more details here as we find them.
In the meantime you can grab the APK for yourself. Like other recent updates, this APK behaves oddly on the L preview. The colors are dark, resources mismatched, and the overflow button causes a force close. It seems Google is holding back some updates (like the Play Store) from the L preview, likely due to API conflicts. Download at your own risk!
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- It seems that -7YZ builds became -4YZ with Google Play services 6.5. If you were on -7YZ before, you should now install -4YZ.
- Looks like -8YZ builds are for Android TV.
- -014 for Android <5.0 armeabi CPU 240 DPI device
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The APK is signed by Google and upgrades your existing app. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the file is safe to install and was not tampered with in any way. Rather than wait for Google to push this download to your devices, which can take days, download and install it just like any other APK.
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Basic crop tops are cute but button-down crop tops are even cuter. They are perfect for summer, very light and comfortable but sexy at the same time. I love showing off my tanned stomach.The loose, boxy fit is also very flattering. I found a bunch at forever, including this one in a tropical, 80's print. I also found a few sheer ones (my favorite), and a boxy, red and white striped one thats very slimming. Loves it!
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Police are looking for the man who they believe is responsible for 6 robberies in the last 10 weeks. Investigators are searching for a white man, about 5' 10'', weighing around 150 lbs, with a thin mustasche and goatee. He has been wearing jeans and a hoody during the robberies. Police say that he walks with his toes pointed out. He may be driving a 2005-2008 silver Dodge Dakota. If you can help call CrimeStoppers at (513) 352-3040 or the Boone County Sheriffs Office at (859) 334-2175.


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Hunc ducem secuti nequiquam reclamantibus tribunis in clivum Capitolinum erigunt aciem. Adiungitur et Tusculana legio.
Following him as their leader, despite the idle efforts of the tribunes to restrain them, they advanced up the Clivus Capitolinus, accompanied by the troops from Tusculum.
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from T. Livius: History of Rome (Volume II: Books 3-4), Loeb Classical Library Vol. 133, translated by B.O. Foster, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1922, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.


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HOLLADAY – The bustling in an old farmland patch here just goes to show that to build a garden, it takes a village.
Add to that a county, a school district, a neighboring city, generous donors and hoards of enthusiastic volunteers, and you've got what's being called the Mount Olympus Community Garden.
The wooden garden boxes, filled with rich, crumbly earth, will soon become a resource for public school students and refugees. The grand opening celebration is planned for May 4.
"It's just been a feel-good project," said Jani Iwamoto, a Salt Lake County councilwoman and prime mover behind the new garden. "It never would have been this scope without all the people."
Iwamoto was inspired to start school gardens years ago, after hearing about a similar project in California. Then, last year, things started coming together.
She found out about a weedy three-acre lot on 4500 South and 2700 East, across the street from an LDS ward house. It was owned by Salt Lake City and maintained by the City of Holladay.
Granite School District, which operates Howard R. Driggs Elementary just beyond the ward house and Olympus Junior High down the road, expressed interest in the project.
So did the International Rescue Committee, which collaborates with the Utah Refugee Coalition and Salt Lake County on the New Roots gardening program to help refuges transition into American society. With a new fire station sprouting up in its old garden space, the Mount Olympus garden is coming at a good time, said IRC's Grace Henley.
"We're able to use the site as a training ground," she said, "and to provide access to supplemental food to a large number of families."
New Roots is planning monthly workshops. It also will provide seeds, seedlings, tools and advice, to help the refugee gardeners make the most out of their new plots.
Donations from lumber suppliers, Zwick Construction and Tom Rosenberg's Dry Creek Charity helped secure materials for the plank-lined garden boxes. Iwamoto's son – with help from her husband – built a storage shed for an Eagle Scout project. And, not too long ago, a passer-by rolled in with a tiller to make additional garden space.
A pavilion is being built with volunteer labor and donated materials to provide shade.
Now there is ample growing space for the students to tend some of the boxes and for 27 refugee families to cultivate plots to sustain themselves and to grow their futures.
Paul Fetzer, a neighbor of Iwamoto's and an advanced master gardener at Thanksgiving Point, has been perhaps the most devoted volunteer so far.
Bundled against a spring drizzle and chill one recent morning, his wheelbarrow filled with soil boosters, he wore a smile of joyful satisfaction as he stopped to look over the neat rows of planting boxes, piles of soil additives, inherited fruit trees at the site's eastern edge and grand Mount Olympus beyond.
It was as if he already could see the rows filled with gardeners planting and weeding and harvesting "everything from asparagus to zucchini."
Besides elbow grease and expertise, Fetzer has supplied lumber recycled from the roof of his old cabin for benches. And donated redwood stumps will make fine seating.
"The garden can only be successful with volunteers," Fetzer said. "And showing up is the biggest qualification for a volunteer."
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Summer School is over
Have a look at the photos to get an impression of how exciting is was :-) Michael Frey and Stefan Grösbrink are the winners of the programming contest. Congrats!
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Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2012
The U.S. winter sports industry could face economic thawing if climate change goes unaddressed, a new report states.
Already, over the last decade, the $12.2 billion winter sports sector, which covers 38 states, has experienced an estimated $1 billion loss and the loss of nearly 27,000 jobs because of reduced snow fall, says the study released Thursday by Protect Our Winters and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Winter temperatures are projected to warm an additional 4-10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, resulting in reductions in snow cover area, snowfall and a shorter snow season, the report says.
In the West, snow depths could diminish 25 percent to 100 percent, depending on elevation and latitude. In the Northeast, the length of the snow season could be cut in half.
"In the many U.S. states that rely on winter tourism, climate change is expected to contribute to warmer winters, reduced snowfall, and shorter snow seasons," Elizabeth Burakowski, a researcher at the University of New Hampshire and co-author of the report, said in a statement.
"This spells significant economic uncertainty for a winter sports industry deeply dependent upon predictable, heavy snowfall."
December 2011 to February 2012 was the fourth-warmest winter on record since 1896 and the third lowest snow cover seen since 1966, when satellites began tracking snow cover.
A survey by the National Ski Areas Association indicates that last season, 50 percent of ski areas opened late and 48 percent closed early, with every region experiencing a decrease in overall days of operation.
"Ski areas have not been on the sidelines when it comes to climate change," association's President Michael Berry, was quoted as saying by The Salt Lake Tribune.
The association adopted a climate change policy in 2002, encouraging member resorts to record their emissions of greenhouse gases, retrofit buildings to be more energy efficient and promote mass transit use by guests and employees.
This year, nearly one-third of its 321 member resorts sent letters to Congress in support of clean-energy legislation, power plant carbon emissions standards and the wind energy production tax credit, Berry said.
Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability for Aspen Ski Co., said the new report provides the ski industry with the necessary information to lobby for tougher emission standards nationally.
He called upon the sector to "use the base of 21 million winter enthusiasts in the sports world to drive critical policy changes so we can ski for the next 100 years."
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This is an exciting new role for an experienced Salesforce Developer with a background in enterprise level implementations and an impressive track record of delivery, to join a systems team based in our clients London office. Our client is one of the leading innovators in the mobile industry, which provides products that other operators can only dream of - it's a fun and fast paced company that is going places.
Having made a big impression with their award-winning mobile apps, they have evolved into a full global mobile provider which is attracting some of the top names in business. They have an outstanding team spanning three continents who are ready to welcome other positive and hardworking people.
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Certified Force.com Developer/Advanced Developer
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The woman at the center of the NFL's investigation into the alleged workplace behavior of Vikings QB Brett Favre is out of a job.
Jenn Sterger, a former Jets game hostess when Favre played his lone season in New York, was regularly featured on the Versus show The Daily Line. The network announced that it has canceled the sports show for low ratings. Its last episode will air on Thursday.
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ALTRINCHAM made four changes from their last outing for this visit to Cambridgeshire.
Goalkeeper Stuart Coburn returned after missing six matches through injury, midfielder Chris Lynch was absent due to a family illness, Nicky Clee was sidelined by a rib injury and striker Jack Redshaw had left to join Morecambe.
So, as so often this season, it was an unfamiliar Altrincham line-up which was trying to overcome the club's bad run at Histon, where they had not scored a goal in four previous visits.
But, after a quiet opening, Altrincham broke their duck with a goal from James Lawrie, whose cross from out on the left wing evaded both the incoming Damian Reeves and the Histon keeper, Stadelmann before nestling in the back of the net at the back post, with just 14 minutes elapsed. The lead was short as Histon scored a well-worked equaliser through Taaffe just nine minutes later.
However, Damian Reeves fired Altrincham into a 2-1 lead after 27 minutes when he turned well and held off a challenge to score his 35th goal of the league season.
And, when James Lawrie's well-struck volley from Reeves's feed made it 3-1, eleven minutes before the interval, the outcome of this game seemed to be clear. Indeed, Altrincham totally dominated the period up to the interval, but, after the break, it was to be a different story.
Histon went at Altrincham and got the score back to 2-3, just three minutes after the break, when Taaffe headed home at the back post from a right-wing cross. It took two huge slices of good fortune to maintain Alty's lead.
Firstly, Sparkes's superbly struck free kick from the right came back off the inside of the post into Coburn's arms. And then substitute Dowie saw his low shot strike the inside of the other Altrincham upright before being cleared.
Reeves saw a fine save from Stadelmann deny him at the other end as Altrincham clung on to the three points from a game in which they had seemed to be coasting at half-time.


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Nicol Stephen was speaking after visiting the Pelmais wave power project in Portugal, which was set up by Edinburgh-based Ocean Power Delivery.
He said ministers planned to invest in a similar project at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.
Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoE) welcomed the announcement and the SNP said it was long overdue.
Following his visit to Portugal on Wednesday, Mr Stephen said he was determined to see similar devices operating in Scottish waters by next summer.
He said: "The Pelamis devices now being prepared for installation in Portugal are massive machines - over 120 metres long and weighing over 300 tonnes.
"They are the first commercial wave machines in the world - built using entirely Scottish technology.
"We have got to give strong support to this success. The opportunity now exists to create a multi-million pound industry based in Scotland, employing thousands of highly skilled people."
The minister said Scotland had an opportunity to be a world leader in the field and that he was finalising changes to the country's green credits system - the Renewables Obligation.
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FoE Scotland chief executive Duncan McLaren said wave and tidal power could supply a fifth of UK energy needs and that Scotland was ideally placed to generate a significant amount of that energy.
"We can tackle climate change without having to resort to polluting nuclear power if we ensure all forms of renewable energy, including wave and tidal sources, are used," he said.
"Ministers must do all they can to ensure this country fully taps into the free, clean marine energy sources we have just off our coastline."
SNP environment and energy spokesman Richard Lochhead welcomed the announcement, but said it was "a sad state of affairs" that it had taken the Scottish Executive seven years to realise wave potential.
"We can't forget that it was Nicol Stephen who allowed Portugal to take the wave power initiative in the first place," he said.
"It is hugely disappointing that this had to happen for Lib-Lab ministers to take action as wave devices could have been supplying energy to Scots homes by now if the ministers had not been so complacent and uninterested."
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At APCO 2013 Mutualink will demonstrate real-time multimedia interoperability for public safety using Google Glass. The demonstration will utilize Mutualink's advanced interoperable communications platform, selectively and securely sharing two-way voice and video between command and control, partner agencies, and officers in the field with Google Glass.
The technology interfaces with a FirstNet 4G LTE wireless broadband connection, demonstrating how critical multimedia information can be shared between public safety personnel in an emergency situation.
"Mutualink was very fortunate to be part of a select group of innovators given access to Google's new Glass technology," said Dr. Michael Wengrovitz, Mutualink's Vice President of Innovation. "We have leveraged our innovative interoperability platform and the Google Glass wearable hands-free device to create ground-breaking advances that enable anywhere, anytime communications and information sharing."
Through Google Glass' onboard audio and microphone, video camera and built-in heads-up display, it is possible for a user - such as a police officer or fireman - to use Google Glass to share live streaming video with other personnel and monitoring points, and simultaneously communicate with other partner agencies.
Mutualink's technology makes this possible even if the various parties have incompatible radio systems or other communications devices. Mutualink also enables multimedia file sharing, and when this is combined with Google Glass, first responders could receive and view documents, images and schematics in real time.
Examples of potential applications for this technology in the public safety arena include:
+ Firemen reviewing the schematic of a building before entering and while navigating a burning structure
+ EMTs triaging patients at the scene of an accident with current medical records of victims
+ Police being able to watch video feed from school security cameras in real-time during an active shooter scenario.
"The capabilities that are made possible by combining Google Glass and Mutualink can save lives in many crisis response situations," according to Joe Mazzarella, Senior Vice President of Mutualink.
"Though Google Glass is still in beta, we are quite enthusiastic to be at the cutting edge of technology, and taking a leading role with Google Glass and its novel implications from a societal benefit perspective."
The technology is enabled through Mutualink's secure and sovereign-controlled multimedia interoperability platform, which is unique in terms of protecting privacy and control. Mutualink's system maintains privacy and does not permit sharing of any media resources unless the agency controlling the media resource accepts a request to share their information.
All users manually control the sharing or un-sharing of their own media resources. Once disconnected, the session stops and there is no way for an outside party to access the media resources of others. There is no centralized intelligence monitoring point or cloud based big data repository with shared access vulnerabilities. Mutualink's solution is distributed and retains both logical and physical sovereignty at an agency level.
With regard to privacy issues raised regarding Google Glass, Mutualink's position is that Google Glass is no different from the many public and private surveillance systems already deployed that capture public activity.
"What we can do as citizens is begin the dialogue about the proper balance between privacy and community welfare from the public safety perspective. We believe there is a balance to be had, and we are strong advocates of purposeful, situational need driven information sharing within a secure and distributed owner-controlled environment.
"We don't believe that a centralized data sharing model is sound or ultimately privacy friendly. Cognitively aware information sharing is the state of the art and best solution to balancing legitimate interests of information sharing needs and privacy. In our world, thousands of discrete sharing decisions are made on an incident by incident basis, defined by need and relevance. This is a much better approach," states Mazzarella.
"We believe our approach is the key to enabling effective multi-agency cooperation and interoperability as well as allowing critical infrastructure partners to participate in a way that preserves legitimate privacy interests between private entities and government agencies," concluded Mazzarella.
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Don't worry Weezer fans, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. That's the title of the band's new Ric Ocasek-produced album. They finally shared the first concrete detail about the record in the latest entry in their series of weekly video teasers.
For the past few months, Weezer has been giving fans tiny snippets of what they can expect on the follow-up to the band's 2010 album, Hurley.
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Peppermint Ribbon Cake Recipe
- 1 package white cake mix (regular size)
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons crushed peppermint candies, divided
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 tablespoon 2% milk
- 1. Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Transfer 1 cup to a small bowl; stir in the extract, food coloring and 1/2 cup crushed candies.
- 2. Spoon 2 cups of remaining batter into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Carefully top with peppermint batter; do not swirl. Top with remaining plain batter.
- 3. Bake at 350° for 35-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
- 4. Combine confectioners' sugar and milk; drizzle over cake. Sprinkle with remaining crushed candies. Yield: 12 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 slice: 300 calories, 10g fat (2g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 312mg sodium, 49g carbohydrate (31g sugars, 0 fiber), 3g protein.
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"I love the easiness of this recipe, along with the great taste. A good holiday cake recipe."
"Very easy to make and everyone in the family enjoyed it. Will make it again."
"I should have read the reviews! This cake is super yummy... however, make SURE you grease and flour the pan heavily. I lost about a third of it due to sticking to the pan. Also, when I was smashing the last two candy canes, I found the perfect method: Triple bag them (one ziploc on the inside, then two plain sandwich bags around that. Lay them flat on a plastic cutting board and smash down with a saucepan. SO MUCH EASIER than trying to pulverize them with a wooden spoon! Enjoy!"
"I was a little skeptical at first about a peppermint cake. But it was quick and easy, and not chocolate, which I am allergic to, so I decided to give it a try. I'm very glad I did! This was very easy to make, and oh so yummy! I crushed up candy canes instead of mints, and omg, I loved it! I will be making this again! It's really good!"
"I have made this a few times. I have used green instead of red and it looks fine both ways."
"Made this for our ladies Christmas luncheon at church. They loved it, even though my top stuck some. That's what I get for not reading the reviews first. But I will definitely make it again, and grease and flour my pan more. If you use 20 pieces of peppermint Starlight candies the amount comes out perfect."
"I tried to make this cake twice and both times it stuck to the bundt pan and was ruined - so I thought! Instead I made a Peppermint Trifle out of the two cakes! I broke up the cakes and alternated layers of cake and Cool Whip in a large clear bowl. It was an awesome Christmas treat. I'm making it again this year - It was a big hit!"
"My granddaughter made this cake and brought it to our house for Thanksgiving. Everyone enjoyed it a lot. It was not only good, but was very attractive."
"easy and wonderful!"
"This is so yummy! It was a huge hit at my boyfriend's family's house during Christmas time that they requested me to make it again next holiday. And since I told my coworkers about it, now they, too, are requesting me to make it simply just because it sounds good! easy to make if you're not a baking-guru, or you need something simple and cute to the eye!"
"This recipe was very tasty, however, I don't know how anyone was able to get it out of the pan. I made it twice and both times, the crushed candies that were added to the batter, melted to the bottom of the pan and stuck there."
"Far better than expected. I used peppermint chips for baking instead of crushed peppermints and left out the peppermint extract and it was very good."
"My cake came out fantastic! Did not fall apart when taking out of pan. I did make my peppermint pieces much smaller and would make them even smaller next time. Love the peppermint."
"To make the icing drizzle, I had to add another tablespoon or so of milk. This addition produced a cake just like the pix!As I am aware some people dislike the peppermint flavor, I placed whole mints around the platter. Alas, for some people even this provided no clue until tasted!!"
"I made this for a Christmas potluck and got rave reviews! It was easy to make and perfect for the holidays. I did chop my peppermints a little smaller for the top than it shows in the picture. I added a little more milk to the glaze as it was a little thick to drizzle. No problems with sticking or with the ribbon falling to the bottom of the pan. I will definately make this one again!"
"I don't know what I did wrong. Maybe it wasn't cool enough when I removed it from the pan. It fell apart. Smells great and my kids will eat but now I have to bake something else for our party!"
"I added more peppermint by accident and it was still wonderful. My family liked and said could make again."
"Make sure you flour the pan. I didn't and the batter that was red/peppermint is a little sticky than the regular batter and sticks to the inner part of the bundt pan."
"I'm not sure what I did, but the peppermint fell to the bottom of the pan and stuck. I had a very hard time getting this out of the pan. When I took it out of the oven, the cake sat high in the pan, but shrunk down as it cooled. I used the icing to cover the spots that stuck. The taste was good, but I guess I would have to work with it more."
"I have made this before and it is delicious, beautiful, and easy."
"Wonderful cake. Will make again and again"
"YUM - looks and tastes great. It's not too hard, either"
"It's beautiful, tasty, and easy--what's not to like? I had to try this recipe for Christmas time this year as my son had already helped me with crushing peppermint candies for my first attempt at making peppermint bark. He pulverized half of it, so that peppermint powder is what I used for this cake. I substituted water for the milk in the icing and added more peppermint powder to it. If you don't have pulverized mints, you should add peppermint extract to the icing."


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Academy at the Lakes forward Andrea Mauger officially signed with Division III Franklin & Marshall College (Pa.).
The Tampa Bay Times' all-North Suncoast first-teamer, who also played on the softball team, averaged almost 18 points for the Wildcats, who advanced to the Class 2A state final last winter.
Mauger also finished with more than 1,500 points in her high school career.