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Banks have warned that interest rates will go up if they are forced to adopt International Monetary Fund recommendations to bolster their capital as protection against a financial meltdown.
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However, using modelling of Ireland's financial woes, the IMF study concludes Australia's big four banks would need to increase capital reserves to survive the full force of a major slump, which would lead to significant losses on commercial loans as well as mortgages.
The IMF warns Australia would be hit hard if any of the big four banks come to strife and it calls for tougher rules requiring
The recommendation was swiftly rejected by the Australian Bankers' Association, which warned that higher reserves would come at a price, forcing lenders to ration credit and slug customers with higher interest rates.
Economists said any such move could slow growth at a time of increasing unemployment. Treasurer
The IMF cannot impose rules on the big four, although its views can influence regulators.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority declined to comment but will examine the IMF report before deciding on any action.
In March APRA will consider the results of its own stress tests.
The IMF report says its stress tests "calibrated on the Irish crisis experience show that the [Australian] banks are largely able to withstand sizeable shocks to their exposure to residential mortgages".
"However, combining residential mortgage shocks with corporate losses expected at the peak of the global financial crisis would bring down the banks' average total capital ratio below the regulatory minimum," the report says.
"Given high bank concentration and market uncertainty, therefore, the merits of higher capital requirements need to be considered for systemically important domestic banks."
As Europe's troubles stoke concerns of a second credit crisis, the IMF has signalled that it will play a more interventionist role in the global financial sector, confirming last week that it would put the world's banks through another round of stress testing later this year, including the local big four.
However, the IMF's push for more stringent rules will be fiercely opposed by Australia's banks, which are already implementing new requirements to hold greater levels of capital by 2013 under the Basel III global reforms.
The reforms developed by the Swiss-based Basel Committee for Banking Supervision are being introduced to stiffen up the regulation of the world's financial system and prevent a repeat of the credit crisis.
But bankers have complained that keeping more capital in reserve limits the amount of money available for lending, thus curbing growth.
The Australian Banker's Association said it would oppose the IMF's push for further capital requirements above those already prescribed by the Basel reforms, warning there would be serious consequences.
"The bottom line is that capital is a good thing, but it comes at a price. And that price is that the more capital you are required to hold, the more reluctant you are to lend and when you do lend it is more expensive," ABA chief executive
"In Australia, we need to ensure we do what is right by our economy and balance the need to have banks that are willing and able to lend at reasonable interest rates with wanting to make sure they are resilient."
A spokesman for Mr Swan did not comment on the IMF's call for tougher rules but said Australia's banks were already well capitalised.
"Our banks came through the biggest stress test in 75 years during the global financial crisis, having benefited from years of tough supervision by our world-class regulators," he said.
"APRA has further stress-tested our banking system using very conservative downside scenarios and our banks have been shown to be very well capitalised.
"This is evidenced in Australia's major banks being among only a handful in the world still wearing the AA-rating badge."
Economists said higher capital reserves would give Australia's bank's a bigger buffer against global economic headwinds, but warned there could be a price to pay in the form of slower growth.
"If it strengthens the balance sheet of your banks, then it is a positive given one of the causes of the problems in Europe is a weakened banking system," JPMorgan chief economist Stephen Walters said.
"But near-term it can be a drag on the economy because rather than making home loans and loans to commercial businesses, the banks are preserving capital.
"In the long term it provides a bigger capital buffer if something goes wrong, as it has in Europe, but the cost of that is there is less credit available in the economy."
After Ireland was swamped by the global financial crisis, unemployment soared from 4.6 per cent in 2007 to 13.6 per cent in 2010, while property prices slumped by 46 per cent.
If Australia suffers the same fate, the banks' losses on home loans would be greater than their provisioning for defaults, forcing them to dip into their capital reserves, the IMF modelling has found.
Still, capital reserves would remain "well above" the minimum levels required by regulators, highlighting the resilience of the Australian banking sector. But if commercial loan losses escalate alongside home loan defaults, the banks could breach their capital buffers, the IMF warns.
Lending to the commercial sector accounts for about one-quarter of the total loan books of the local big four banks, which the IMF describes as sizeable.
The exposure of Australia's bank to "highly indebted households through residential mortgage lending" is one of their "main vulnerabilities", says the report, titled Bank Capital Adequacy in Australia and written by Byung Kyoon Jang and Niamh Sheridan.
"The major Australian banks could withstand sizeable shocks to residential mortgages.
"However, this exercise does not consider shocks to corporate and other lending, which should be considered."
The IMF report also says that: "The combined assets of the four major banks in Australia are about 180 per cent of GDP [gross domestic product]. This is towards the centre of the distribution for the sample of countries . . .
"Any distress among these banks could have a sizeable impact on the financial sector and the real economy in Australia and New Zealand. Moreover, they may be perceived by the markets as too big to fail, which implies they could pose a potential fiscal liability."
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Angelina Jolie Banned From Filming Controversial War Love Story In Bosnia
Angelina Jolie has bigger PR problems than fighting off the Jennifer Aniston Fan Club: Her filming permit application has been rejected by the Bosnian government because it was not submitted with a script, as required by law. The film, a taboo love tale about a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman during the war that took place between 1992 and 1995, has outraged victims of the war. It didn't help that rumors circulated claiming Angie's flick was a love story between a Serbian rapist and a Muslim victim. That's not true, but the Women Victims of War Association has accused the flick of "misleading history"; failing to fork over the screenplay when asking for a filming permit probably doesn't help. In the meantime, Angie's been filming in Budapest, Hungary. She may want to fix this little PR snafu before she pisses off all of Eastern Europe, though. [Us Weekly]


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MY favourite category of electronic gadgets is multi-functional, and one of the coolest in that category became even cooler with the updated Kingston MobileLite Wireless G2.
The device has a built-in USB port and an SD memory card slot that can be used to stream video, images and documents from your devices. It can also act as a bridge to transfer any of the digital files from a smartphone or tablet onto memory cards (with included adapter) or USB flash drives. The USB port also allows 3G dongle support for Wi-Fi bridging, enabling direct uploads to social media without a computer.
A built-in Ethernet connection lets it work as a wireless Internet router or a shared network (NAS) drive. The built-in battery (4640 mAh) is good to give your portable device a few charges. A feature that makes this even better gives tablet and smartphone users access to extend the onboard device storage and even stream and share content with other users. While this might seem like a complicated device, the setup is incredibly simple. Download the free MobileLite app, make your wireless connection, and you're ready to roll. An example of how it can work: If you're on a summer vacation, take the memory card out of your camera, and now you can browse your digital photos on your smartphone or tablet. If your iTunes library exceeds the storage on your device, no problem, just store it on a flash drive and then play your content using the MobileLite G2 as a bridge.
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WHETHER you're forgetful with your keys or wallet or you just want to keep track of the whereabouts of an item while on vacation, the Nio Tag from Bluenio is the gadget you need.
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SARC-2002-01 (May 2, 2002)
At its meeting held on April 22, 2002, the Supervision Appeals Review Committee (Committee) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) considered the appeal filed by [Bank] (Bank). In its appeal, the Bank contested certain material supervisory determinations contained in the safety and soundness examination, dated August 6, 2001 (Report), prepared jointly by the FDIC and the Alabama State Banking Department. In accordance with the Guidelines for Appeals of Material Supervisory Determinations, the scope of the Committees review was limited to the facts and circumstances as they existed at the time of the examination. Facts or circumstances that occurred after the examination, and any subsequent corrective actions the Bank may have taken, will be reviewed during future on-site supervisory activities.
The Committee found that the ratings assigned at this examination were not inappropriately influenced by outside factors such as pending lawsuits or communication with regulators. The Committee found that the conclusions in the Report were supported by facts presented within the Report.
Upon careful consideration of the issues raised in the appeal, the Committee determined that the component and composite Uniform Financial Institution Ratings assigned at the examination were appropriate. Also, Superintendent of Banks Maria B. Campbell of the Alabama State Banking Department, who was provided with a copy of the Banks appeal, has advised the FDIC that she considers the ratings assigned at the examination appropriate.
The Committees rationale for the decisions rendered in the Banks appeal is presented below.
Capital Component Rating
Asset Quality Component Rating
Management Component Rating
Earnings Component Rating
Liquidity Component Rating
Sensitivity to Market Risk Component Rating
Composite Rating
As the Committee upheld the Reports rating of all components, the Banks overall condition was deemed to warrant a 4 composite rating. This conclusion was not reached upon a calculation of a numerical average but was a result of the consideration of the key Report findings relating to each of the components.
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Andrew Solomon's monumental work, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity," (Simon and Schuster) began as an assignment from the New York Times to write a piece on deaf culture.
"I was very struck as I worked on the Times article about the parallels between the deaf experience and the gay experience," Solomon, who is gay, said during a telephone interview from his home in New York City. "Then, many years after the article was published, I had a friend of a friend who had a daughter who was a dwarf and was facing questions again. How much do you give your child a separate sense of identity. Or if you're different, here's how we dealt with it and here's how to get her to integrate with the rest of the general population."
It was at this point that Solomon, a 2001 National Book Award winner for "Noonday Demon," a chronicle of his battle with depression, realized these experiences must happen in other "different" cultures, too.
After 11 years of intensive research and hundreds of interviews with families who are raising "different" children, Solomon's ground-breaking 960-page book was published in November of 2012 and it landed on almost every critic's "best of" the year list.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, including deaf, dwarf, autism, transgender, down syndrome, prodigies, crime, rape and multiple severe disabilities.
While the subject matter seems heavy and dark, Solomon – and his readers – have found sources of light and strength running through its pages.
"Dealing with the topics in the book gave me a sense of resiliency and the bountiness of love; and it gave me a greater certainty than I ever had that I could love whatever child I might have," Solomon reflected. "It's not a book about everything that can go wrong. It's a book about love and joy that can be in the experience when everything goes wrong. That is what I felt."
The book begins with deafness and works its way up to the more difficult chapters.
"I feel like the support for deafness is stronger than the support for multiple severe disabilities," he said, explaining the book's structure. "I felt it was a better way to build the argument."
The book has already won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, won an award from Books for a Better Life and was named one of The New York Times' best books of 2012. In addition, it has won the J. Anthony Lukas award; the Anisfield-Wolf Award; Yale University's Research Advocacy Award; the GRASP Friend and Benefactor award; the Fountain House Humanitarian Award; the Mike Wallace Award of the University of Michigan; the Columbia Gray Matters Award; and the Distinguished Achievement Award in Nonfiction of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Kim Burlingham, a Winnsboro pediatrician, says the book has made her a better doctor.
"As a general pediatrician I have had but a handful of deaf children, a bigger handful of Down Syndrome kiddos and children on the autism spectrum and actually one deaf, autistic child who has Down Syndrome but never enough of each group to build and master the rich tapestry of each issue," Burlingham said. "For example, I had never understood why several of my deaf patients opted to 'turn off' their cochlear implants. I thought it was just an individual choice but now I can empathize with the deaf culture, and I actually 'get it.' In several chapters it was like being a fly on the wall of some of my personal patients' homes, seeing what I did not get to see in the walls of my medical office."
Solomon's been a guest on ABC's Katie Couric show, has been invited back for a second show and is in high demand as a speaker.
I attended his lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth last month. He held the capacity crowd in the palm of his hand for more than an hour, but it seemed like a mere 10 minutes, so elegant was his speaking manner and so complete was his knowledge of his subject matter.
"When you're up on stage, time does seem to fly," he noted of an earlier public appearance at the New York Public Library prior to the book's publication.
Solomon's format is to give a lot of data about a particular condition and then share stories from interviews he did with the parents, children and family members. The data can be overwhelming at times to a lay person, but the personal anecdotes drive the reader forward.
One of the more striking stories in Solomon's book comes in the chapter on crime.
The author had the opportunity to interview Tom and Sue Klebold, parents of Dylan Klebold, who, along with Eric Harris, went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, killing 13 and wounding 23, before turning their guns on themselves.
The Klebolds didn't leave the Denver area after the tragedy. They kept on with their lives, as best they could, but refused to speak to the press.
Then, Sue Klebold attended a lecture Solomon gave at a mental health association gathering in Denver.
"After the event, one of the organizers said, 'There was someone here who doesn't really come out that often and we were surprised to see here,'" Solomon explained.
Turns out that someone was Sue Klebold.
"I was in the middle of writing a chapter of how families dealt with having children who committed crimes, so obviously, my ears perked up," the author said.
No one at the event had the Klebolds' contact information, so Solomon wrote the couple a letter.
His first attempts to connect were rejected.
"They wrote back and said, 'No, we don't want to do this,'" he said. "I asked them to reconsider. We went back and forth and back and forth. Finally, they agreed to meet me one day for 15 minutes for a cup of coffee."
Once they met, Solomon became aware of how badly they wanted to tell their story, but understood their reluctance to trust anyone.
"I said, 'Look, I'm open to telling your story as clearly and as honestly as I can. That's as much as I can promise. I am not here to be a destructive force in your lives,'" Solomon said as he related the events. "It was a long process about how learning to communicate with each other before they really understood I was trustworthy."
Solomon went to the Klebold house determined to ferret out what went wrong. Instead, he grew even more puzzled how such a troubled child could have come from such a lovely home.
"They are really wonderful people,"Solomon noted. "I just don't understand where it came from. This is getting even more bewildering. After years with them, I can clearly and definitively say, it's who they really are."
Solomon said it's hard to pinpoint what happened with Dylan.
"There are kids who have snapped because they felt they had no privacy and their parents were so intrusive," he states. "It's difficult to say which is the worst mistake."
The Klebolds were unaware of their boy's troubles.
"I used to think I could understand people, relate, and read them pretty well," Sue said. "After this, I realized I don't have a clue what another human being is thinking."
While visiting in their home, Solomon asked the couple what they'd want to ask Dylan.
Tom said, "I'd ask him what the hell he was thinking and what the hell he was doing!"
Sue looked down at the floor for a minute before saying quietly, "I would ask him to forgive me, for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head, for not being the person that he could confide in."
Solomon's compassion and accepting nature obviously gave the Klebolds – and others who feel disenfranchised – a safe place to discuss the impact that being different has on their lives.
Another chapter in the book deals with child prodigies. One of them is jazz pianist Christian Sands. Sands, 23, and his parents had no difficulty opening up to Solomon.
"He was very easy to talk to," Sands said during a telephone interview from his home in New York City. "He was very nice."
Sands began playing the piano before he learned to walk.
He was enrolled in music classes by age 4 and was composing by age 5 and released his first record, "Footprints," at age 12. At the 2006 Grammys, he performed an unscheduled piano duet with the late, great Oscar Peterson, who got up out of a wheelchair to play with the youngster.
Sands is currently touring, teaching and working on his masters from Manhattan School of Music.
When people ask him how long he's been playing, he says, "Well, since I've been breathing because that's what it is to me. It's breathing. I wasn't like other kids."
But Sands says he didn't know he was different.
"The funny thing is – we've never used the word prodigy," he said of his upbringing. "It's something I've always done. People don't think it's normal, but this [my life] is just normal."
The McKerrow family from Helena, Montana, also found their way into Solomon's book. On first blush, they seem as normal as white bread.
Loren McKerrow, was an eye doctor. His wife, Carol, is a former Miss Lake Whitney USA. The family adopted a son, Marc, and almost immediately Carol found herself pregnant with another son, Paul. Then a second biological son, Todd, joins the family.
Paul was quarterback of the football team, voted "best looking" and was valedictorian of his class.
In his 20s, however, Paul transitioned from a male to a female through gender reassignment surgery. He changed his name to Kimbery Reed and became a filmmaker.
Kim Reed's award-winning documentary, "Prodigal Sons," chronicles her first trip home – as a female – for a class reunion. It also details the struggles of her adopted brother, Marc, who finds out he is the biological son of Rebecca Welles. His biological mother was the daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. They never knew about their grandson.
Reed met Solomon at an artists' retreat in upstate New York.
"It was at about the same time that I was almost ready to go show my film," Reed said during a telephone conversation from her home in New York City. "The first time I showed the film in my hometown was actually at [our] church."
Solomon accompanied Reed to Helena because, as she says, "It was a great way to meet my family and to see me in the context of my family. There had been some pretty tough stories about transgender people in the book and I think he was interested in having a happy ending story."
Reed, who has also appeared on Oprah with her mother – her father died – was happy to have Solomon include her in the book.
"I wouldn't choose anybody else to be at the helm," she said. "Andrew is just such a good spokesperson of all of this. He handles himself magnificently."
Reed also credits Solomon's work in "Noonday Demon" with moving her toward a clearer understanding of Marc, who suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident and battled his share of demons until his sudden death in 2010.
"The book really helped me understand what my brother was going through," she noted. "It's easy to find guilt and judge people and hold them responsible for a busted brain the same way we would hold them responsible for a busted ankle."
According to Reed, Solomon's work is extraordinary because "a lot of times nonfiction comes across as work that is very scrupulously researched and meticulous and impressive in its scholarly work. And then other times you find works that have a really big heart. It's exceedingly rare to find works that combine the two, especially in the way Andrew does. He raises the bar. The fact that he can combine such a huge heart with such immense respectable scholarship is very inspiring in and of itself."
During the writing of his book, Solomon himself became a parent. He fathered two children, a boy who lives with him and his husband, John, and a girl who lives with her mother in Fort Worth.
"A lot of people have said to me, 'It's so surprising that you chose to have a family in the middle of writing this book about everything that can go wrong,'" the writer commented. "The resiliency of these families was impressive. What I found was empathy and compassion."
In addition to parental longing, Solomon says his decision to have children was impacted by how far we've come.
"My son is in a class that has another two-dad family," he explained. "My daughter had someone with disabilities in her class and we talked about it and how important it is to be nice to that person and have them as a friend. It's a more inclusive world. Any of the people in the categories I describe in my book are better off than they would have been 25 years ago."
Solomon, whose other books are about Russian artists and a novel about his mother's death, is pleased with this book's reception.
"I feel like it's a very important conversation to be taking place and I feel privileged to play any role in it. We are at a moment in our social development when people are actually contemplating the idea that perhaps difference isn't all so terrible. Perhaps there is a validity in experiences different from one's own."
Then, Solomon grew thoughtful.
"The theme in all four of my books is managing to find strength in adversity. I'm trying to convert a painful experience into an occasion for dignity."
Job well done. Bravo!
To watch the official trailer for "Far From the Tree," visit
To hear Christian Sands and Oscar Peterson at the 2006 Grammys, visit
To hear Kimberly Reed tell her story, check out http://youtu.be/U2LePWwkZzg
For more information on the book, visit www.farfromthetree.com
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Even from the beginning in the Garden of Eden with the forbidden fruit, food has been an important part of religious scriptures. Whether rich in spices or rich in significance, meals shared in the Bible can give us a picture of what times where like then. The Biblical Passover Seder festival meal was celebrated by Jews to commemorate the mercy of God sparing them from the plague of the death of the first-born son in Egypt and subsequent freedom from slavery. Quite literally, it celebrated that God "passed over" the doors of the Israelites who had covered the doorframes to their homes in blood from a sacrificial lamb and allowed them to live. The Last Supper was a Passover Seder meal that Jesus Christ and his disciples ate to celebrate this event. Jesus taught his disciples that the wine and the bread at the meal signified that he would become the sacrificial lamb by which sins are forgiven and reconciliation with God can occur.
Fruit Salad (chopped apples, figs, dates, with walnuts or almonds)
Parsley dipped in salt water
Matzah (tortilla-sized, crispy, unleavened bread)
Horseradish or Bitter Herbs dipped in Charoset
Roasted lamb
Red wine
The temperate climate and soil made for excellent growing conditions for many fruits such as pomegranates, figs, dates and apricots. Date honey, which we might today recognize better as date syrup, was made by boiling dates, straining them through a cloth, and further reducing the remaining liquid. Fiber and antioxidants from fruits like this would have been protective against diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diverticulitis and diabetes.
Parsley (or another green vegetable) was dipped in salt water at the beginning of the ceremony as a symbol of the hyssop branches that were used to apply the lamb's sacrificial blood to the doors of the Israelites in Egypt. The green of the parsley symbolized spring or youth, a reminder that God saved the Israelites by parting the salty waters of the Red Sea to allow them to escape from Pharaoh when they were still a young nation. Parsley is rich in vitamin K and antioxidants such as vitamin C and luetolin which prevent damage to cells in the body that often lead to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and asthma. A small amount of salt would've been important to help maintain proper fluid balance and regulate blood pressure.
The egg is symbolic of life and resurrection, and of the sacrifice that was offered in the Temple on the first morning of Passover. Eggs have very high quality protein which aids in muscle strength, and nutrients such as choline (beneficial for brain functions) and lutein (helpful for preventing macular degeneration and blindness).
In remembrance of the Israelite slaves leaving Egypt in such a hurry after being freed from Pharaoh that they did not even take time for the bread to rise (Exodus 12:39), they removed all leavened bread products from their homes during this special feast, a tradition that continues today among Jews. Unleavened bread (similar to the taste of a cracker), or matzah, is a good carbohydrate source, providing fuel for the body that gives you energy.
Bitter herbs symbolized the bitterness of slavery in Egypt (Exodus 12:8). Horseradish, chicory and radishes were used for this. These herbs were dipped into a sweet, fermented paste made from fruits and nuts called Charoset (often made from apples, grapes, dates, figs, cinnamon and almonds). Phytochemicals in these herbs and fruits aid in digestion and promote intestinal health. These foods are also rich in vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant, to protect against disease.
Lettuce symbolized the change in the Egyptians' attitudes towards the Jews. At first their attitudes were sweet, like baby lettuce. Then they became bitter, like lettuce left in the field too long. Lettuce is rich in vitamin K which has a role in bone health and vitamin A which is essential for vision.
Although the lamb was an integral part of the meal, it was not the main course and the portion would have been quite small (maybe even just a few bites), especially compared to today's standards. A lamb was used in an offering of thanksgiving because God passed over the houses of the Israelites whose door frames were coated with lamb's blood during the plague of the first-born of Egypt. Besides beef, people also enjoyed wild gazelle, chicken, peacock, quail and pheasant (the most expensive after beef). However, it was not common for most people to eat meat every day. Small servings of red meat such as this would've been rich in iron and zinc, helpful for growth, mental focus and healing from injuries.
Olives were likely on the table, along with olive oil for dipping the matzah (Mark 14:20). Olives contain antioxidant flavonoids which help protect the body from free radicals, chemicals that damage cells and can lead to cancer and heart disease. Even though olive oil is a fat, it's mostly monounsaturated fatty acids which are considered heart healthy and can normalize blood clotting and may help control blood sugar levels.
We deduce that the wine was most likely red rather than white based on the numerous Biblical passages connecting wine and blood (Ezekiel 19:10, Isaiah 49:26). Perhaps the best known example of this symbolism is when Jesus raised the glass of wine at the Last Supper with the words, "this is my blood" (Matthew 26:27-28). Another hint about the color of the wine comes from a Hebrew word used for wine — hamra — which comes from the word for a shade of red. Wine was sometimes sweetened with raisins, honey or fruit juices such as pomegranate juice (Song of Solomon 8:2). Red wine is known to have heart-healthy benefits because of a positive effect on the good cholesterol in the blood when consumed in moderation and with a healthy diet and regular physical activity. People would've walked many miles to and from Jerusalem to participate in the Passover Seder, so getting physical activity was certainly not an issue for them.
Estimating portion sizes from Biblical times is challenging, but the following amounts per person were considered as typical: ½ cup chopped apples, ½ cup chopped figs, 1 tablespoon walnuts, 2 sprigs of parsley, a dash of salt, 1 medium boiled egg, 1 matzah cracker, 1 tablespoon raw chicory greens, ¼ cup fruit salad (charoset), 4 lettuce leaves, 1 oz cooked lamb, and 12 ounces (4 cups of 3 oz each) red wine.
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|720 calories
|% Fat
|Dietary Fiber
|7 grams dietary fiber
|Vitamin K
|57 mcg vitamin K
|Vitamin C
|19 grams vitamin C
|4.5 mg iron
|300 mg sodium
Written with the assistance of Rabbi Judith Z. Abrams, PhD (maqom.com). Special thanks to Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, PhD and Joe Parle, PhD for their expertise.
Ref: Feinberg Vamosh, M. Food at the Time of the Bible: From Adam's Apple to the Last Supper. Abingdon Press, 2004.


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BBC News - Young girl speaks of sex abuse by 100 men over 2 years18 March 2011 Last updated at 20:28
Young girls in Derby have been targeted and sexually assaulted by organised gangs. The ringleaders of one of the gangs which groomed and abused teenage girls were given indeterminate jail terms in January.
As part of a Comic Relief documentary for Radio 5 live, Helen Skelton visited the Safe and Sound charity that helps young victims of abuse to get back on their feet.
Here, Helen speaks to Emma from South Yorkshire. She was raped once a week by 100 men from the age of 13 for over 2 years. She's now a campaigner for Safe and Sound.
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Calvin Klein's Latest Raunchy Ad, Duh, Offends Many
There is a large piece of advertising space on Houston Street in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. For as long as I can remember, that particular wall has been THE place to put your advertisement if you want to ignite controversy. It's large, it's in an extremely prominent area, and it does not go unnoticed by anyone. Calvin Klein has put many an ad here and all of them have pissed people off, including his latest, which has some residents crowing about pornography. The ad features Eva Mendes and Frisky Crush Of The Day, Jamie Dornan, posing barely clothed, and she is in the beginning motions of removing his underoos. To be honest, it is sexy, but it's a lot tamer than some of the ads that have occupied the space, including one which implied a massive orgy! And now I am going to hop on the subway, so I can see Jamie at 1,000 times life size in person. Ciao!


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by Staff Writers
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Mar 21, 2016
One may expect a creature that darts around its habitat to be capable of perceiving rapid changes as well. Yet birds are famed more for their good visual acuity. Joint research by Uppsala University, Stockholm University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) now shows that, in small passerines (perching birds) in the wild, vision is considerably faster than in any other vertebrates - and more than twice as fast as ours.
The new research findings are published in PLOS ONE.
In behavioural experiments, the scientists have studied the ability to resolve visual detail in time in three small wild passerine species: blue tit, collared flycatcher and pied flycatcher. This ability is the temporal resolution of eyesight, i.e. the number of changes per second an animal is capable of perceiving. It may be compared to spatial resolution (visual acuity), a measure of the number of details per degree in the field of vision.
The researchers trained wild-caught birds to receive a food reward by distinguishing between a pair of lamps, one flickering and one shining a constant light. Temporal resolution was then determined by increasing the flicker rate to a threshold at which the birds could no longer tell the lamps apart. This threshold, known as the CFF (critical flicker fusion rate), averaged between 129 and 137 hertz (Hz).
In the pied flycatchers it reached as high as 146 Hz, some 50 Hz above the highest rate encountered for any other vertebrate. For humans, the CFF is usually approximately 60 Hz. For passerines, the world might to be said to be in slow motion compared with how it looks to us.
It has been argued before, but never investigated, that small and agile wild birds should have extremely fast vision. Nevertheless, the blue tits and flycatchers proved to have higher CFF rates than were predicted from their size and metabolic rates. This indicates an evolutionary history of natural selection for fast vision in these species.
The explanation might lie in small airborne birds' need to detect and track objects whose image moves very swiftly across the retina - for blue tits, for example, to be able to see and avoid all branches when they take cover from predators by flying straight into bushes.
Moreover, the three avian species investigated all, to a varying degree, subsist on the insects they catch. Flycatchers, as their name suggests, catch airborne insects. For this ability, aiming straight at the insect is not enough. Forward planning is required: the bird needs high temporal resolution to track the insect's movement and predict its location the next instant.
The new results give some cause for concern about captive birds' welfare. Small passerines are commonly kept in cages, and may be capable of seeing roughly as fast as their wild relatives. With the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs for reasons of energy efficiency, tame birds are increasingly often kept in rooms lit with low-energy light bulbs, fluorescent lamps or LED lighting.
Many of these flicker at 100 Hz, which is thus invisible to humans but perhaps not to small birds in captivity. Studies have shown that flickering light can cause stress, behavioural disturbances and various forms of discomfort in humans and birds alike.
Of all the world's animals, the eagle has the sharpest vision. It can discern 143 lines within one degree of the field of vision, while a human with excellent sight manages about 60. The magnitude of this difference is almost exactly the same as between a human's top vision speed and a pied flycatcher's: 60 and 146 Hz respectively.
Thus, the flycatcher's vision is faster than human vision to roughly the same extent as an eagle's vision is sharper. So small passerines' rapid vision is an evolutionary adaptation just as impressive as the sharp eyesight of birds of prey.
Anders Odeen, the lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of Ecology and Genetics who headed the study, puts the research findings in perspective.
'Fast vision may, in fact, be a more typical feature of birds in general than visual acuity. Only birds of prey seem to have the ability to see in extremely sharp focus, while human visual acuity outshines that of all other bird species studied. On the other hand, there are lots of bird species similar to the blue tit, collared flycatcher and pied flycatcher, both ecologically and physiologically, so they probably also share the faculty of superfast vision.'
Jannika Bostrom, Marina Dimitrova, Cindy Canton, Olle Hastad, Anna Qvarnstrom, Anders Odeen (2016) Ultra-rapid Vision in Birds, PLOS ONE
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"This time of year there are a lot of rumors involving coaching openings," Grantham said. "Because of the terrific recruiting class we are assembling and the juniors that have communicated to me their desire to come back to Georgia I felt it important to address some of these current and any future rumors. I've had discussions with Coach (Mark) Richt and (AD) Greg McGarity and we are on track to finalizing details on a contract extension."
Georgia ranked fifth nationally in total defense, holding opponents to 277.21 yards and 20.57 points per game in 2011.
The combination of what the unit returns (nine starters, including safety Bacarri Rambo who passed at the chance to turn pro Wednesday) and the current recruiting class the staff is assembling, including latest commit five-star defensive end Jordan Jenkins, has Grantham's focus solely in Athens.
"My family enjoys Athens very much," he said. "I love the passion and excitement of our fans. We have the program headed in the right direction and I want to be a part of bringing Georgia a championship. My desire is to be at UGA for a very long time."
Grantham previously coached for a decade in the NFL with the Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys.
He has one year remaining on a three-year deal that pays $750,000 annually. The contract negotiations Grantham referred to in the statement are expected to produce a three-year extension and annual raise.


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A second difference is "permeability," or the degree of influence by external events. Public agencies are less insulated from social and political crosscurrents. A third difference is instability, resulting from political policy changes. An election may drastically alter the demands that the top political leadership imposes on public agencies; private firms are rarely subject to such drastic changes. Finally, public agencies are not subjected to competitive pressures. Thus, four main external differences are identified between public and private management environments (Boyne, 2002, p. 100).
In addition, the same study identifies three internal differences. Public agencies have more bureaucracy; that is, more highly structured organizations. As a byproduct of bureaucracy they have more red tape; that is, their complex structure imposes greater "friction" or delays in taking action or responding to new situations. Finally, public agencies tend to have lower managerial autonomy. Thus, public management is seen as differing from private management in three distinct if related respects (Boyne, 2002, p. 101).
Previous studies, however, have shown little emperical evidence for these presumed differences (Boyne, 2002, pp. 116-17), though the author of the study cited notes that an inadequate research base exists for reaching firm conclusions
(Boyne, 2002, p. 118). Nevertheless, with that proviso, the assumed differences between public and private management do not appear to stand up well to close examination.
The reason is that the presumed differences outlined above are by no means so stark as often believed. In speaking of "private management," it is generally considered to be used in regards to management in relatively large firms, not the corner shop. Large firms, with thousands of employees, are not simply and directly responsive just to their top managements, and still less to some large and usually passive bo...


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Principles of the Swimming Fish Robot
February 6, 2001 by Koichi Hirata
We can say that fish swim with pushing water away behind them, though fish swim by various methods. As the well-known categories for the swimming fish, a zoologist, C.M. Breder classified into the following three general categories based on length of a tail fin and strength of its oscillation (see the figure to the right).
(a) Anguilliform: Propulsion by a muscle wave in the body of the animal which progresses from head to tail like the Eel.
On the other hand, several analytical methods for the swimming fish, such as a changing wave propulsion, a slender body theory and an oscillating wing theory, were published by researchers.
In this report, we discuss the following four general categories in the viewpoint of the mechanical design of a fish robot, based on the above classification and analytical methods.
(a) Changing Wave
Fish using this method are propelled by a muscle wave in the body of the animal which progresses from head to tail. This causes the fish to be propelled by the action of its body upon the water. In order to get propulsive force, it is needed that velocity of the wave is faster than forward speed of the fish, and amplitude of the tail part is bigger than that of the head part. We find that most of these fish can reverse this wave motion, thereby enabling them to swim backwards in a similar fashion. Normally, these fish have a long body or a long fin like a ribbon.
A fish robot using this method needs smooth motion of the whole body with many hinge joints and so much complex control system for the joints. However the fish robot can realize delicate motion, and work well in narrow water area like a coral reef, when a high quality control system is completed.
(b) Body Foil
Trout and Salmon are fish typical of those using this swimming method. These fish push water away behind them with using both oscillation of a tail fin and motion of a body. (a) of the figure to the right shows pressure distribution by the motion of body conceptually. There are positive and negative pressure gradients, or we may have to say them action -reaction force, their total force then becomes propulsive force.
We can consider the characteristics of this propulsive method with aspect ratio which is often used to estimate the performance of a wing, defined the ratio of span of a wing, c and chord of a wing, b. When we consider the body to be a wing as shown in (b) of the figure boldly and extremely, the wing has low aspect ratio. Low aspect ratios are often associated with high lift devices, jumbo jet wing flaps, multi-purpose aircraft wings (utility, trainer), towing propellers, and multi-purpose boat propellers. Because it performs well at low and medium speeds and wide range of the attack angle, it is used to multi-purpose. It can travel far but needs a bit more fuel to go great distances. Also a wing with low aspect ratio is not suitable for high speed and high propulsive efficiency, because it has large drag for a surface area of the wing. However the wing is expected to get huge propulsive force, because the wing has large surface area remarkably for a size of the fish robot. As the result, it is considered that the fish robot with the low aspect ratio can accelerate well from stationary position. As the other excellent characteristics, it is expected to have good turning performance with changing the direction of the propulsive force, and it has no concentrated force at hinge joints with dispersing of the driving power to the whole body.
On the other hand, fish using this method such as Trout and Salmon have a triangular tail fin generally. The fish propel by the oscillation of the tail fin with the same principle of the Oscillating Wing described below. It is very interesting from the viewpoint of hydrodynamics that the triangular tail fin has lower aspect ratio than that of the Oscillating Wing.
(c) Oscillating Wing
Fish using this method derive nearly all of its propulsive force from an oscillating wing-shaped tail fin. The motion of the oscillating wing is combined heaving motion and feathering motion of the tail fin, and has about 90 degrees of phase angle between the heaving and the feathering of the tail fin. Tuna and Bonito use this method. Cetaceans also use this method, although they wave their tails up and down, not left and right. These fish has a crescent and wing-shaped tail fin. As its span is long and its chord is short, the tail fin has high aspect ratio. High aspect ratios are associated with very high lift performance in wings, propellers, helicopter rotors, high-speed motorboat propellers and hydrofoils. A wing with high aspect ratio has the great characteristics such as low drag and strong lift for a surface area of the wing. Thus, the Oscillating Wing gets the great performance, when a high performance tail fin in hydrodynamics, a streamlined body and a slim peduncle are combined. The body with few drag and strong propulsive force by the tail fin obtain high-speed swimming. The energy for driving the tail fin is a few, because the surface area of the wing is small for a size of the fish robot. Then the oscillating wing propulsion can get high propulsive efficiency. But the fish robot with this method does not expect to get good accelerating performance from stationary position, because the propulsive force is somewhat small for the size of the fish robot. It also is important that we should design the joint at the tail fin in careful, because the strong force is concentrated at the joint.
(d) Oscillating Plate
Fish using this method oscillate only a tail fin alike a plate without moving the body. The direction of water pushed by the Oscillation Plate may disperse to left or right, not behind the fish. As the result, this propulsive method has weak points at swimming speed and propulsive efficiency. But the method is expected high mechanical efficiency, because it has a few hinge joint with small mechanical loss. Also from the simple structure of the mechanism, it is considered that the method is the most suitable for a small-size fish robot. In addition, it is considered the elastic tail fin of this method obtains somewhat stronger propulsive force, because the direction of the pushed water may become to behind similarly.
Above four propulsive methods are classified in the viewpoint of the mechanical design for a fish robot. Thus they may not correspond to the swimming nature fish and rigorous hydrodynamics. However we can discuss design points in detail with the consideration of the classification.
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A Justice Site
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CSUDH - Habermas - UWP
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Created: March 1, 2002
Latest Update: March 4, 2002
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Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, February 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.Subject: Rock on!
Aha! You've sought comfort in ambiguity!
Friends at Pulp Culture might comment!
Kants aesthetics?
Oh, Ricoeur, help!
Gadamer's idealism unfit!
"Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other"
Is it here?
Such study of thought!
Pulp Theory bustin ass!
Ambiguity in art!
Dig the music!
Ever sculpted with oils?
Or put watercolors on canvas?
Dig the music!
F****'in A!
Comfort? sure!
in this turbulent world
they tell me is in competent hands
like Enron
Dig the music!
Sculpt with oils
of course I've done
and admit that transcendence
wasn't half bad
Chastised, I search
your sources
postmodern symbolism?
and lo! I find
Adorno knocking rock and roll
Dig the music
Sculpt with oils
mix with sand
WEIRD transmogrified!
We've won!
You're learning
and Adorno didn't get it
neither did we!
we never had the answers
no need
answers smother and kill
just dig the music
and sculpt!
References in the interest of Any clarity
that might exist
- Pulp Culture"What is "pulp culture," anyway?
pulp culture, n. Those genres of popular fiction -- such as science fiction, fantasy and horror -- that have their modern roots in the fiction magazines of the '30s, '40s and '50s.
- WEIRD! Animated gif from Pulp Culture because I didn''t know they gave such a fancy name to those awful things I read when I was a kid. jeanne
- Theodor Adorno Meets "Lo-Fi" Rock by Samuel Jeffries. May 1996."Rock and roll is not about structural innovation. One could apply "structural listening" to rock and roll, but it would be like using a microscope to read a magazine. The structure is already given, and is easily discerned. Rock and roll creates its effect through repetition (both across and within individual songs) and slight variation. The established forms and styles of rock trigger emotional responses, responses which are historically prescribed. By triggering the pleasure-effects of established styles, and at the same time introducing variations within its standard structures, rock and roll inspires both the comfort of the familiar and the thrill of the new.
"Adorno recognized all this, and spared no harsh words for the formulaic nature of popular music. For him, this "variation-within-a-structure" formula is the worst kind of musical production. It leaves the listener expecting and desiring nothing new, and, at the same time, remaining content with pre-ordained "deviations" in place of real change. In other words, the structure of popular music, along with the diachronic "constancy" of each pop-music form, directly interpellate the listener into the "false consciousness" of capitalist ideology."
Adorno's rejection of rock and roll wrote shoulds to what must always remain interactive with the subject. Seyla Benhabib and her version of universalism filtered through postmodernity. Benhabib.


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Probably the best book on marriage is David Schnarch's, Passionate Marriage. Here's just one quote: Crucibles are always interlocking. When one partner goes into his crucible, the other partner goes into hers– or gets out of the marriage. I apply this to any relationship, including yours with the church or any community. Your life task, if you choose to accept it, is to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. If your relationship with a community is increasingly strained by your t … [Read more...]
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Anyways, I brought up this conversation to his mother (my mil) and she flat out told me its none of my business, if he didn't directly come to me for help I need to keep my nose out of it. She also told me he's really just acting out because he hates his dads new gf. And she left it at that.
I'm sorry but if someone brings it to my attention that someone else might possibly be suicidal, I think the issue needs to be addressed.
If she's a heavy drinker, it could easily be affecting her judgements. That's sad but entirely too common for many families. :(
Sorry for all of this. Family drama can be stressful.
Quoting Anonymous:
We were always pretty close until the divorce was final. Dh is closer to his dad so we spend more time with him. She took it as I chose a side and it was the wrong side. But she still has the same relationship with my dh. She is very self centered and I think that has a lot to do with it. Also she drinks and I'm afraid that's causing poor judgement when its concerning her children
Quoting Lizardannie1966:
Have you always had a distant relationship with MIL? Has she always attempted to make you feel like an outsider?
I wouldn't have left it at that and I would have said something further to the effect of, "I'm simply concerned and wondering if as a family, if there is anything we can do to help him?"
She sounds aloof and totally unaware of potential problems with her son.
It happened to my bosses son, except it wasn't in his words but his action, first the separation, they each found new mates, but they forgot about him, his grades in college were slipping, his girlfriend dropped him, then when he came home for the Christmas holiday break, both parents were taking separate vacations of course with their respective new mates., they dropped some cash on him as a gift and told him to have a good holiday.and when my boss came home to park her car, he was in his, doors locked, windows up car running him dead he did leave a note, it was determined suicide, the note analyzed that he had a fatal case of depression. had they talked to him instead of brushing off his mood change they would have known to act to get him help. when a person tells someone, they are closer to the means of how to do it.
Unfortunately, the sil brought it to her, this is how she became involved in the first place.
sorry, I'm military, and suicide hits me hard. if you have any idea that he may be considering it, don't let any one but him stop you from helping him. if he has a church, get his pastor/preacher involved. fuck people who think it's not your business. that's your family.
But my in laws are very open. I wouldn't want it any other way.
Suicide is a personal choice.
MIL is right, stay out of it.


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I looked at the hot tub and thought "I'm totally reserving this for me and my girlfriend" :P.
Then I found this one:
The one with the moat is already booked, I have emailed the other asking if they'll do a single night stay for a large group.
I don't think we really want to do a single night, especially with people coming from afar.
I think we should book for Fri and Sat nights (that way, we can have stuff going on throughout Saturday), and make sure we can stay until a reasonable time on Sun.
Also, we really need to shout about this on mumble and get a good idea of numbers before going too far with contacting places.
Wheatacre Barns' reply -
"I do have availability for the weekend request in November but I do a weekend break which runs from Friday – Monday (3 nights). You can of course stay for less time as requested but the prices are for that set period.
I have in total 8 converted barns on site so your numbers of 20 would be a combination of barns which sleep up to that number. I have listed below the barns available and numbers which they accommodate and prices for the weekend commencing Friday, 8th November 2013:-
Mallard Barn (sleeps 7) £440
Coot, Widgeon & Teal Barns (Each sleep 6 in large spacious properties) £415 per barn
Snipe & Woodcock Barns (Both sleep 6 but smaller property than above) £395 per barn
Pheasant & Partridge Barns (both sleep 2 with many added extras) £325 per barn.
Full details, descriptions and images can be found on our website www.wheatacrehallbarns.co.uk .
If you did wish to proceed with a booking I would require a 25% deposit with the remaining balance required 56 days before the let commences. Upon receipt I would confirm the booking to you in writing. I do accept either card (just ring through card details) or cheque (payable to E S Burroughs & Son) payment."
I'm happy to pay that, but it ain't cheap. I'd imagine we should look for somewhere a little cheaper.
Important thing about any set of cottages/barns/etc is that they have a big, sharable social space I think.
Some seem to, some not.
An annoying amount of the really big options on some sites are in Devon/Cornwall or Snowdonia (occasionally lake district), neither of which are great for accessability. Eg this place which other than being in sodding Exmoor seems pretty good http://www.independentcottages.co.uk...ages/thecleeve
Vauge options so far:
https://www.welcomecottages.com/cott...16165?adult=20 - Ugly inside and out, but accessible, and has another big place n site if we need more.
Price is not really an issue for me really, unless it goes beyond like £100-150 per head. I guess others may have differing opinions, though.
Whatever happens can we all agree that there will be copious amounts of Daft Punk and that Jag brings a mix tape
I'm in a similar position to EsotericReverie, both in terms of budget and availability. I expect to go but haven't sufficient clarity over my availability to make a meaningful contribution to the poll of dates.
I'm perfectly happy to do a Friday/Saturday night stay-over (drive over after university on Friday, home Sunday evening). Stoopiduk's barns seem to come out to around £30 a night per person, which is actually highly reasonable. If I have to pay for Sunday night too, I will do so, even if my particular circumstances mean I can't be there.
tl;dr - Wheatacre Hall Farm looks good
It does make it flexible that people can arrive on the fri if they need to, and leave the monday as well. Just so long as everyone understands it's the same price, i think that's fairest.
Also, if we go for Wheatacre I'd be happy to get one of the two person barns for me and Terena. Be a nice break for the two of us as well!
A biiiiiiiiiig table and a place to sleep and store my beer and I am happy. Pick one :p
Alas I cannot come, just had a lovely vacation in Finland. But I can recommend some of the Hotline Miami songs for your playlist(especially MOON - Hydrogen).
I actually live in eastern finland , but who knows when i happen to be in Helsinki for some concert or something.
I would be up for this. Where do I sign?


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By Pfc. Bailey Anne Jester, 1st BCT PAO, 1st Cav. Div.July 27, 2010
FORT HOOD, Texas - Twenty Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division spent time with children during the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Seminar at Meadows Elementary School, here, July 23 and 24.
Created in 1994 by Bonnie Carroll, the widow of Brig. Gen. Tom Carroll, TAPS is designed to support families of fallen warriors.
"I know what it's like to lose someone very dear to you, and feel as though no one is there to support you," said Anchorage, Alaska native Carroll. "TAPS helps survivors learn how to cope with their loss and to live a life that honors their loved ones."
TAPS provides ongoing emotional help, hope, and healing to all who are grieving the death of a loved one in military service to America, Carroll said, explaining the TAPS mission. It meets that mission by providing peer-based support, crisis care, casualty casework assistance, and grief and trauma resources.
TAPS has supported more than 300,000 surviving family members and friends since the organization's inception.
Activities for the children and their mentors varied according to their age group, but consisted of the same general idea. Activities included arts and crafts, games and "sharing" time, where the children shared how they feel about their situation.
"The children are great," said Houston native, Spc. Jonathon Long, an infantry Soldier assigned to 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div., who served as a mentor. "I am glad that I was able to help out the way I did, it was a very fun day."
TAPS Survivor Seminars, according to the TAPS homepage, "Provide an opportunity to join together with survivors for a powerful time of support, care and hope."
The seminar concluded with a balloon release, where hundreds of balloons were released in remembrance of their fallen, loved ones.
For more information on TAPS or to find the next outreach event, check out their website at http://www.taps.org/.


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San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm
The San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm is situated in Zamboanga City, Philippines. It was established to house the Muslim rebels and prisoners opposing the Spanish leadership. The prison is right in front of the Jolo sea and is sprawled within a 1, 414-hectare property.
Brief History
It was on August 21, 1869 when the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm was built. Decades later, when the Americans took over the country, the Bureau of Prisons was created under the supervision of the Department of Commerce and Police.
Due to the havoc wreaked by the Spanish-American war, the penal farm was destroyed. In 1907, it was then re-established and started to house prisoners from Mindanao. By 1915, it was placed under the protection of the Bureau of Prisons.
Because of the establishment of the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm, a barangay named after it, was also formed. At the present, the prison also attract many visitors and foreigners because of its beauty and breath-taking view.
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By FAITH HUFFMAN | News-Telegram News Editor
May 2, 2007 - Sandra Billodeau was officially awarded the superintendent's contract at Como-Pickton Consolidated Indpendent School District during a special board meeting Monday night.
An assistant superintendent was also chosen, and a secondary assistant principal was named to replace Joe Ryzman, whose resignation was accepted at the meeting.
Lydia Walden was appointed as assistant superintendent. Walden will be assuming Billodeau's old post, left vacant when she was first asked to serve as acting superintendent when Bryan Neal resigned after being accused of misusing district funds and arrested for fraud in January. Billodeau was offered the superintendent job at the regular April board meeting, but state law required a 21-day waiting period before a superintendent could be formally hired.
Billodeau expressed confidence in Walden's abilities to fulfill the assistant superintendent's duties, describing her as a "very competent person."
Walden will be assistant superintendent of special programs, which includes special education, federal and gifted and talented programs.
She will also work closely with Billodeau as part of the administrative team for some grants, and will work with teachers and other staff on others.
Penny Armstrong was promoted to assistant secondary principal under Secondary Principal Jeanne Lay. Armstrong has served as the math curriculum coordinator, tutored students, and was the content math curriculum director. As assistant principal, she will add a few other duties.
Armstrong replaces Joe Ryzman, who was reassigned from athletic director to assistant secondary principal and weight lifting coach by Neal at the end of the first semester.
Ryzman submitted his letter of resignation, effective at the completion of his contract for the 2006-07 school year. In the letter, he thanked the board and administration at the school "for the opportunity to work with the students of Como-Pickton CISD."
"I, as always, measure my worth and success as a professional on the positive impact that I have had on my place of employment. I am leaving Como-Pickton believing that through my efforts the athletic department is a better place than when I arrived here," Ryzman wrote in the resignation letter.
Aimee' Ryzman, Joe Ryzman's wife, also submitted her letter of resignation to Billodeau and Elementary Principal Kay Chance on April 27. She noted that she would be resigning as elementary secretary as of June 20, when her contract expires.
"Working here for the past 4 years has been an amazing experience for me. I will take with me many new skills learned along with precious memories. Our children, John and Molly, have benefited greatly by attending Como-Pickton school," Aimee' Ryzman wrote in her letter of resignation.
"I have enjoyed working with the administration, staff, parents, and students. You have a wonderful community and it will be missed," she concluded.
The board accepted both resignations as well as that of Debbie Carden, a member of the custodial staff who resigned on April 20.
In looking toward the future, Billodeau noted that once things get settled a little more, other tasks will be divided up and assigned based on need, position and staff strengths.
All of the district's teachers were approved for rehire in March by the board for new contracts for the coming school year. Everyone should have picked up their contracts by May 11.
"Our district may have some budget issues, but our greatest resource is our teachers. We need to ensure people don't forget that," said Billodeau, emphasizing how diligently each staff member works to ensure students' educational needs are met with the resources available.
Billodeau said the school's most immediate plans will be getting ready to celebrate the accomplishments of the students and staff at the school with banquets and awards programs slated throughout the month.
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The Twin Cities are the lucky guinea pigs for Comcast's new high-speed internet
Verizon's FiOS fiber broadband connection is currently the only option for United States Internet surfers to wander about the world wide web while downloading content at up to 50 Mbps and uploading data at up to 20 Mbps. However, Verizon's FiOS service is limited to a few areas at this time, even though roll-out is being performed slowly but surely.
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Currently, Comcast is running its broadband service aalong the DOCSIS 2.0 protocol, or the second generation of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications. This protocol tops out with a maximum downstream bandwidth of 42.88 Mbps while the maximum upstream bandwidth tops out at 30.72 Mbps.
For Comcast to increase its bandwidth, it will have to begin using DOCSIS 3.0 compliant hardware. The initial DOCSIS 3.0 specs will utilize four channels over cable; which allows the compatible hardware to serve twice the amount of data per second than DOCSIS 2.0's dual channel design.
Through the 4-channel design, DOCSIS 3.0 compliant hardware will allow a maximum of 170 Mbps and 123 Mbps downstream and upstream bandwidth respectively. To achieve this higher bandwidth, Comcast must upgrade its back-end infrastructure to to hardware complaint with DOCSIS 3.0 and must also provide upgrades to customers' leased modems or offer new hardware that is capable of supporting DOCSIS 3.0.
The high-bandwidth options from Comcast are in trial in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota but Comcast states it will begin mass rollout once the design has been finalized and ready for use over its nationwide infrastructure, which Comcast's president of marketing and product development states may be by 2010.
Meanwhile, Verizon has brought its fiber-based broadband connection to a number of markets in the U.S. If Comcast goes through with these speed increases, we may hopefully see some long-awaited price wars in the broadband industry.
Pricing for the 50/20 Mbps download/upload package is stated around $150 and is only planned for the residential market. Business owners may have the option for a higher-bandwidth package in the future, however, no pricing information has been made available at this time.
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Schizophrenia May Be Diagnosed By Testing Nerve Cells From The Nose
A report on the study is due to be published in the July 2013 print issue of Neurobiology of Disease, a version of which is already available to view online.
At present, schizophrenia can only be confirmed physiologically through sampling the brain during an autopsy. So diagnosis relies on psychiatrists giving patients batteries of psychological tests, and interviewing patients, their families and their friends.
In their study paper, Noam Shomron of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, and colleagues, describe how they developed a potential way of diagnosing schizophrenia by testing microRNA molecules in neurons removed from the nose via a simple biopsy.
Shomron says in a statement released this week that he and his colleagues anticipate this could lead to a "more sure-fire" way of diagnosing schizophrenia than ever before. It could also lead to earlier detection of the disease, which could vastly improve treatment.
Before this study, the only way to test for biomarkers for schizophrenia was to sample cells taken from the brain, which could only be done after death.
But then Shomron and colleagues had a hunch that perhaps olfactory neurons located in the upper part of the inner nose might also offer some biomarkers.
For their study, they collected olfactory neurons from patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and a control group of individuals without the disease, and ran them through high-throughput sequencers that can scan the microRNA molecules in the cells. MicroRNA molecules don't code for proteins but they help to regulate gene expression.
The results showed that nose neurons from the schizophrenia patients had much higher levels of one particular microRNA (called miR-382) than those taken from the unaffected controls, as Shomron explains:
"We were able to narrow down the microRNA to a differentially expressed set, and from there down to a specific microRNA which is elevated in individuals with the disease compared to healthy individuals."
After some more research, the team found that this particular microRNA molecule regulates the expression of genes that are involved in the creation of neurons.
A clinical test based on this method would involve taking a small biopsy using a local anesthetic. This could easily be done as an outpatient procedure, says Shomron.
And with today's microRNA sequencers, the profiling could be ready in hours.
The researchers say their method could lead to a simple, quick and accurate test for a complicated illness.
Although Shomron has high hopes, he says there are still some questions to answer with further studies before we can be sure such a test is viable.
For instance, it is not clear whether the changes to microRNA expression begin before schizophrenic symptoms show, or after. If it happens before, or near the beginning of the timeline of the disease, then the test would be an invaluable diagnostic tool because it would help early detection, which would mean earlier treatment.
It could even, perhaps, increase the chances of delaying symptoms. For instance, in people with a family history of schizophrenia, such a test could show whether they also have it.
And while such early warning doesn't mean a cure is imminent, it does help patient and doctor prepare for what may lie in store.
The study also shows there could be potential for using nose neurons as surrogates for brain neurons in other types of research.
In another recently published study, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center suggest that an excess of the brain neurotransmitter glutamate may trigger psychosis in people who are at risk for schizophrenia.
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