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Warning Muslim neighbourhoods could face a backlash, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said police were patrolling near places of worship.
There have been reports of attacks to mosques in London, the Midlands, Merseyside, Yorkshire and Bristol.
Church leaders have pledged to stand by Muslim colleagues, saying terrorism affects all communities.
In the letter to mosques, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, head of the MCB, said unscrupulous elements of society, including in the media, were already using the London attacks as a means to undermine the position of Muslims in British society.
"We have been in touch with the police and have been informed that the police service have put into effect patrols and consultations to reassure and protect all people of the country."
Home Secretary Charles Clarke met Sir Iqbal and other faith leaders after the blasts to devise a plan to protect Muslims or other minorities in the wake of a bomb attack. That plan involves close co-operation between Muslims and other faiths, principally churches and Jewish communities.
But Sir Iqbal said: "Regrettably, it appears that some prominent media commentators well-known for their hostility to Islam and Muslims have also decided to take part in this mischievous campaign.
The MCB received approximately 30,000 hate e-mails immediately after the bombs. An analysis of the mail has led the organisation to believe it could be the work of just a small number of people who launched a "denial of service" computer program designed to crash the MCB's website.
While police say community relations are reassuringly calm, anecdotal reports from racism-monitoring organisations suggests there may have been an increase in random acts of verbal abuse of Muslims, or people who appear to be so.
Muslim organisations had reported a number of vandalism or criminal damage incidents at mosques around England.
On Monday afternoon Bristol police appealed for calm after two mosques in the city were targeted, one on Friday night and the second on Sunday.
Archbishop warning
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has already warned against the temptation to scapegoat Muslims for the attacks, widely believed to be the work of Al-Qaeda- inspired group.
The day after the bomb key faith figures from the East End of London, including Christians, Jews and Muslims, gathered near the Aldgate bomb site in a show of unity, a move then repeated on Sunday by national leaders of the three faiths.
Speaking at the Church of England General Synod in York, Dr Williams said he had heard of the blasts while visiting local Muslims in Batley, West Yorkshire.
"Routine friendship and co-operation remains the best hope we have in any conflict of finding ways forward," said Dr Williams.
"Nothing really can substitute for face-to-face encounter when even the sharpest differences of conviction, and no-one in Batley was out to deny these, can be held with respect."
Sir Iqbal said that Muslims should do all they can to counter claims that the London attacks were carried out by "Islamic terrorists", saying that such wording suggested that Islam as a faith was responsible for the bombings.
"Equally reprehensible are offensive statements by politicians of other countries seeking to demonise Muslims in Britain," said Sir Iqbal, referring to comments attributed to a number of Israeli politicians. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is reported by agencies to have told ministers not to comment on the attacks, other than to offer sympathy. Two ministers are said to have equated the attacks with Palestinian bombings in Jerusalem.
"Let us be absolutely clear: those who planned and carried out these heartless attacks - whoever they are and whatever faith they may claim to profess - are surely the enemies of all of us, Muslims and non-Muslims," said Sir Iqbal.
"It is the duty of all of us to help bring the perpetrators of this tragedy to justice speedily. It is quite possible that if they are not caught soon, these criminals may attempt to carry out yet more atrocities in the near future. They must be stopped."


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About the Book
The Unseen
Curated by Adela Leibowitz
Sept 17 - Oct 29
Noah Becker, Michelle Blade, Jonathan Cammisa and Nathan Caswell, Walt Cassidy, Center for Tactical Magic, Martha Colburn, VALIE EXPORT, Francesca Gabbiani, Sayre Gomez, Frank Haines, Michelle Handelman, Emily Noelle Lambert, Adela Leibowitz, Kirt Markle, Josh Peters, Kembra Pfahler & Katrina del Mar, Shalo P, Breyer P-Orridge, Yuval Pudik, David Ratcliff, Carolyn Salas, Kristen Schiele, Harry Smith
The Unseen, gonzo curated by New York artist Adela Leibowitz from a crowdsourcing project instigated by the TAM, is an exhibition that focuses on the use of esoteric symbols and contemporary visual uses of what has been described as "magick" by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, "Control disintegrates. Magick integrates. The idea is to apply the cut-up principle to behavior. The method is a contemporary, non-mystical interpretation of magick. Thee aim is reclamation of self-determination, conscious and unconscious, to the Individual. Thee result is to neutralize and challenge the essence of social control." Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, London, 1987. Excerpt from Thee Psychick Bible The term Gonzo, originating in relation to an article by Hunter S Thompson in 1970, can be used to describe any creative endeavor that privileges emotional responses, tone and style over facticity to achieve the flavor of something, rather than objectivity through factual information, for an edgier and more personalized report. TAM crowdsourced the request for an innovative exhibition theme through social media and selected the proposal that we felt introduced a new idea from a new voice - Adela Leibowitz 's The Unseen.
CITIES: visionary places
Curated by Camilla Boemio
Brian Cooper, Shaun Gladwell, Dmitry Gutov, Kiel Johnson, Jeremy Kidd, Aitor Lajarin, Susan Logoreci , Johanna Laitanen, Damir Ocko, Isidro Ramirez, Spencer Tunick, Klaus Thymann, Michael Wolf
Overexposed images of different cities are summed up in the Imagination, becoming parts of our memory, mixing with everyday visions. The city is a daily challenge in which ideas become feedback, visible energy: shared thought, Art, Creativity, Openness. Roads, construction sites, factories, non-places, buildings, bridges, piers, pillars, bridges, museums entrances and secret sights, surprising or reinterpreted, in which emotions converge. The colors of the architecture merge, the day and the night, the neon light that illuminates the facades, the patchwork of contaminations, parasites, layers from top to bottom, build geometric shapes in which to play and invent memories. The urban landscape is not only formally captured but also perceptually, its dynamics and features: into excess, in the immobile, in the archi-stars exaltation or in the unfinished. Migrations and transformations are self generated in these cities. We can see them as voracious bodies which reconstruct utopias. Seductive idiosyncrasies in which the imitation, the repetition, the symbol and the sublime are reconnected to the estrangement of modern alienation. Imagine yourself in these streets, between the blocks and the buildings, portrayed as an unexpected passer-by of the filmic flow of an unstable and polymorphic scenery.
- Camilla Boemio, Curator of Cities, 2011
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Standard Portrait, 8×10 in, 20×25 cm
178 Pages
- Publish Date Oct 29, 2011
- Tags Los Angeles, art, contemporary, museum, hipster, zietgiest, video, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, sex, death, magick
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Gwynne Dyer: The essence of apartheid in Israel
Hillary Clinton would never have used the word when she was U.S. Secretary of State, because she still has presidential ambitions. John Kerry, the current Secretary of State, has no further ambitions in that direction, which may be why he dared to use the words apartheid and Israel in the same sentence. Or maybe he just didn't realize that the world would hear about it.
Kerry spoke last week to a group of high-ranking officials from the U.S., Europe, and Japan known as the Trilateral Commission about the failure of his year-long attempt to revive the "peace talks" between Israel and the Palestinians.
Somebody at the meeting secretly recorded his comments, which were published by the Daily Beast on Monday, and suddenly he was in very hot water.
What he said was that the long-sought "two-state solution" was the only real alternative to a "unitary" Israeli-ruled state that included all the territory between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea—and ruled over millions of Palestinians in the territories that have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
Those Palestinians, most of whom cannot remember a time when they did not live under Israeli control, have no political rights within Israel. The two-state solution, under negotiation off and on for the past 20 years, would give them a state of their own, but most people had despaired some time ago of getting Israel to agree to an independent Palestine.
Kerry had not, so he was surprised and disappointed when his efforts came to naught. That was why he blurted out the truth that American politicians are never supposed to acknowledge. He said that without the two-state solution, "a unitary [Israeli] state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class [Palestinian] citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state."
It was clumsily phrased, but the basic idea is common in both Israeli and Palestinian political discourse. Even if Israel never formally annexes the occupied territories, it has been building Jewish settlements all over them for decades, and the Palestinian inhabitants are effectively controlled by the Israeli government.
If this situation continues indefinitely, and the Palestinians must live out their lives as mere residents without no political rights, then they are in the same position as the black South Africans who lived all their lives under white rule without citizenship or the vote. That was the very essence of apartheid.
Alternatively, of course, Israel might grant them citizenship and the vote: that's what happened when apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994. But there are already a great many Palestinians living under Israeli rule, and their higher birth rate would make them a majority in in that "unitary" Israel in less than a generation.
That might or might not be a state where Jews were happy to live, but it would definitely no longer be a Jewish state.
That's all Kerry was saying: if you don't accept the two-state solution then willy-nilly you get the one-state solution, in one of two flavours—an apartheid state in which the great majority of the actual citizens are Jews and the Palestinians have no voice in how they are ruled, or a more broadly defined state in which everybody is a citizen but Jews are no longer the majority.
Many Israel senior politicians who favour the two-state solution, including former prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, have made exactly this point, even using that same inflammatory word, apartheid, to underline the gravity of the choice.
Senior Palestinian politicians talk about it all the time. But senior American politicians are not allowed to talk like that about Israel.
State Department officials tried to defend their boss's comments for a few hours, but as the firestorm of protest by American Zionist organizations grew the Obama administration realised that Kerry had to be forced to apologise for speaking the truth. The story that they took him down into the White House basement and beat him with rubber hoses is probably untrue, but on Tuesday he recanted his heresy.
"I do not believe," Kerry said, "nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one."
Well, of course not. It's not an apartheid state now because the non-citizen status of the Palestinians for the past 47 years is technically only temporary, pending the creation of their own state.
And Israel has no intention of ever meeting the technical definition of an apartheid state, either, because that would be a public-relations disaster. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems convinced that he can avoid that outcome simply by hanging on to the occupied territories indefinitely but never formally annexing them, and many Israelis agree with him.
They might even be right, but John Kerry doesn't think so. Or at least, he didn't until his own people worked him over a bit.
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May 1, 2014 at 3:10am
Everything Mr. Dyers writes is true, but I don't think it's a complete truth. Nation building (or maybe renovation in this context) has a practical as well as a philosophical component.
On the philosophical component, this article is perfectly correct. The philosophical component is important. It's includes things like laws and constitutions which can then be weighed and analyzed. You can ask questions like "Is Israel's body of law democratic? Is it racist?"
But, the practical component is essential too. Egypt recently spent a long time discussing & debating their constitution. It was seen as the most important political process of a generation and there was a lot of commentary about how Islamic, Democratic it was going to be. How this things could work together, etc. Their constitution had been been suspended for 45 years under military emergency rule.
Their democratic Islamic government was overturned in a coup shortly after the constitutional discussion were taking place. Lebanon has been playing complicated versions of these games for 50 years. The practical reality of power, political culture & institutions can make a joke of the philosophical/constitutional debate.
The Israeli right has a patented tactic. Respond to claims like this with counterattack, listing the crimes of their adversaries. This is cynical partisanship, but it isn't without a core of truth. 2 cores, in my opinion.
The first core is the Palestinian and greeter arab counterclaims. Until recently Arabs and Palestinians' position is that there shouldn't be an Israel. Jews should go away or be driven away and The One state should be a Palestinian one. That is still the official position of the majority of Arab States and depending on how you define it, about half of Palestinians. That is, the status of So, the outcome of this conflict has always had a zero sum dynamic to it. Israel has never officially annexed the West Bank or Gaza. Palestinians have never made an official distinction between Gaza and Tel Aviv, both are Occupied Palestine.
Western mediators and the Israelis left have for 30 years been mock debating with a make believe Palestinain position. One that Palestinians might be sold on, but it is not the current position.
The second core is the practical state of political culture in the greeter Arab World. Dysfunctional doesn't cover it. The only stable orders are
I Chandler
May 1, 2014 at 8:05am
"peace talks" between Israel and the Palestinians. Somebody at the meeting secretly recorded his comments, which were published by the Daily Beast"
Somebody must have broke the Chatham House Rule or Mike Hayden's friends didn't like the remarks.
The trouble with Michael Hayden is that he probably leaked remarks selectively.
V. Stiviano is more trustworthy and would not leave out the juicy parts:
Stiviano's tape might have identified others that might have attended the meeting:
T.Blair rejected Kerry's false choice and described a Third Way that lets the dogs vote.
The Third Way might require a group of high-ranking officials like B. Obama, D.Sterling B. Mulroney and A. Scalia (after retirement) draft a new Israeli constitution for a United Israel:
Barack will be able to afford a library and a ball team - he might even get to play - if Sterling lets him. Mike Hayden might suggest that the NED can help rig elections using online voting or ask for S. Balmer help with tried and true E-voting machines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting#Documented_problems
B. Mulroney might have stated that he is not interested in the project,as the El Al airline has already been privatized - Mulroney will keep selling pasta machines. A. Scalia might have shared his ideas on suppressing the Palestinian vote. Or not voting at all...see - Palestinian National Authority's last election.
The tape might also have helped to identify others absent from the meeting:
Arafat and Castro could not make it - both had a bad case of indigestion (polonium).
They might have had some ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Abqg7iNab8&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=P...
I Chandler
May 1, 2014 at 8:27am
A unitary state would need use a new constitution. Confessionalism might end the apartheid:
An Israeli President, a Palestinian Prime Minister and a Christian Speaker.
May 1, 2014 at 11:27am
Excellent points I Chandler.
Yes last week Racists defending Sterling were all abuzz over the meme that the conversation was 'private'.
I am hoping that whatever passes itself off as Media sees this as a 'break' in the quarantine and rather than condescendingly TELL the public not worry about THEIR elected leaders meeting in obscure expensive hotels under high security having secret meetings with globalist banksters, they will start recording things like the Trilateral Commission or the Billyburger Ho'downs or the Grove or any of the bull sessions conducted by members of the Fellowship and PROVE we have nothing to worry about in these private discussions.
Although I Chandler, here a paranoid thought...Did the Repukes do it to move Bundy and Sterling off the media pages or to 'foreshadow' the inevitable fallout from Sterling's 'extended' comments (media censored of course) that not only makes a strong case that Sterling's racism is firmly rooted in Zionism, but basically underscores the point that it's not that hard to believe that if an American Jew has this attitude in Democrat America, former lifetime achiever of the NACCP (har har) about Israel, then the accusation of apartheid isn't that farfetched.
(go look...and then ask yourself...why was this part omitted in virtually every North America news report on the subject...how is it that all those independently run publication presumably in a competitive market all agreed to ignore that part? Not one tempting by clickbait?)
May 2, 2014 at 6:05am
Duck Test:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Alan Doud
May 2, 2014 at 7:08am
Apartheid applies to race segregation and since the Jews cross racial lines there is absolutely no truth in his statement or the suggestion by the writer. This article is another typical abuse of media and attempt to wiggle out of a prejudiced statement.
Gerald Montague
May 2, 2014 at 10:42am
Israel is, by definition, an apartheid state.
Every defender of 'The Jewish State' claims Israel cannot possibly be an apartheid state because the group THEY identify as 'Palestinians' has exactly the same rights as every other citizen, inside the original boundaries that purportedly define 'Israel'. By drawing that very distinction among the citizenry, they affirm the existence of a 'we' vs. 'they' dichotomy, inside the borders Israel refuses to accept.
By design, within Israel's whimsically-defined boundaries, the ethnic cleansing operations conducted by the Jewish terror groups (e.g. Irgun, Haganah, Lehi, the Stern Gang, etc.) who later morphed into the nice 'n legal IDF, ensured less than 20% of the population was not Jewish. Consistent with this original design, immigration and marriage policies ensure the Jewish population maintains this 4:1 majority in perpetuity, guaranteeing the non-Jewish population can NEVER wield any real political power in a 'representational democracy'.
Clearly this constitutes "...an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime", per the definition of 'the crime of apartheid', under Article 7 of The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
When they are not celebrating the miraculously unadulterated DNA shared by Jews from Ethiopia, Brooklyn and Eastern Europe, desperate hasbarists will outlandishly claim Israel's discrimination is not based on race. Be it on the basis of religion, ethnicity, or whatever it is that enables them to distinguish the Palestinian citizen from the overwhelming majority, the apartheid label sticks. Any claim to the contrary is naught but petty sophistry.
Gerald Montague
May 2, 2014 at 12:05pm
For independent verification of the 1979 NY Times content quoted below, go to google and search for the headline (no quotes) 'Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?'. The May 16. 2013 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz explains how Israel's first PM hid Israel's ethnic cleansing operations in Palestine using a massive propaganda campaign that is now unraveling. And Israel-firsters in the West have the unmitigated gall to sling bogus allegations of anti-Semitism with wild abandon!
Excerpt from "Israel Bars Rabin From Relating '48 Eviction of Arabs", by David K. Shipler, NY Times Oct. 23, 1979.
"A censorship board composed of five Cabinet members prohibited former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from including in his memoirs a first-person account of the expulsion of 50,000 Palestinians civilians from their homes near Tel Aviv during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war...
A copy of [Rabin's] manuscript was provided to the New York Times by Peretz Kidron, who translated the book from Hebrew to English...the manuscript continues.
"The population of Lod did not leave willingly. There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the 10 to 15 miles to the point where they met up with the legion…
Mr. Rabin's account … described "a calculated Israeli policy" to drive Arab residents from their homes, … many elderly people and small children died in the over-powering heat during the forced march…
Many left in panic after the Israeli massacre at the village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem… There, contingents of the extremist Stern gang and Irgun attacked the village and lined men, women and children up against walls and shot them, according to Red Cross and British documentation."
Nigel Pitkow
May 2, 2014 at 2:24pm
Some folks can use the word 'apartheid', and some folks cannot.
"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic," Barak said. "If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."
-- Ehud Barak, Israeli Defense Minister, Feb. 2010
May 3, 2014 at 7:11am
Great article, imo.


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San Francisco-based WideOrbit has acquired the assets of Google's radio automation business, the firm said today. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. WideOrbit provides software used by media companies to manage their broadcast and cable operations, including billing and sales proposal software. The buy includes Google Radio Automation, Maestro, and its SS32 automation products, which were all part of Google's ill-fated foray into the radio advertising market. Google shut down those efforts in February.


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The competition heats up when the chefs cook in head-to-head battles in a Quickfire Challenge with guest judge Jamie Bissonnette, where the victor wins bragging rights and $10,000. For the Elimination Challenge, the team of Quickfire Losers gets a chance at redemption as they cook off as a team against the Quickfire Winners. In another head-to-head competition, the chefs strategize the best dishes they can make on a lean military budget with Revolutionary War-themed battles that take place at the historic Watertown Arsenal.
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Like Bravo's fashion winner "Project Runway," the channel's promising "Top Chef" flaunts terms of art and insiderism to give it authority.The New York Times Full Review
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This article will advice you on rerooting your Barbie's hair. This means you will actually change the hair into new by sewing it in. In this tutorial we're using Katsilk Saran hair from Restoredoll.com (Click on the images to view them larger.)
|You will need: – Tweezers.– Bear-thread.(Or similar.) You will need thread that is fairly thick, and won't wear out while being pulled through holes.
– Doll needle. About 10 cm long needle, with the hole equally wide as the stem. Can be ordered online or bought at some local craft shops.
– Saran or Nylon doll Hair. Can be ordered online for example at RestoreDoll.com or dollyhair.com. RestoreDoll sells hair in one long roll, that you can easily cut to the length you want to use, while Dollyhair sells precut hair packages. (I prefer to cut my own because I don't necessarily know what length of hair I want on the day and on the doll I start it on.)
– A tray that you can easily move away when you want to take a break. The top lid of a shoe box works fine, metallic is ideal, for example the lid of box of cookies.
– scissors
|– Behead the Barbie. Be careful not to break the neck joint if you want to use the same body on the ready doll. The older the doll, the more brittle the neck will be. To make it easier, you can warm the head with hot water, it will soften the vinyl and will make it easier to pull out. The head itself is not brittle. Pull directly away from the neck, and don't twist strongly. If you do break the neck and have the joint suck inside the head don't panic! You will get it out by tying a loop of thread around the neck joint and a pen, that you can use as a handle to pull the joint out. You can find a new body on the doll later on.- Remove all hair off the Barbie's head by cutting it as short as possible and then pulling the rest out with a pair of tweezers.- Cut the hair to length and set it on the tray. I usually separate a smaller part of it to take the plugs one by one, to keep the hair tidier. If you take a plug by plug from the stack, you easily end up with a big mess in the end. If you are a first time rerooter, use about a half of what your instincts tell you for a plug. I use about 20 hairs per plug, (Katsilk saran) a little more for the plugs in the hairline, but little less will do if you want a more natural looking hair. (Using this method the amount of hairs will double per plug as the hair is on a loop.)- Begin operation reroot by making a big sturdy knot at the end of the thread as if you were sewing. Pull the thread through a hole in the top of the scalp (plan your route as the holes are in kind of an order). The middle of the head is a good place to start because you won't be blocking your way to the next hole like you would do starting from the hairline. (Been there, done that.) Usually you can find a spiral path starting from the middle of the head towards the hairline, broken by the part holes that go straight from the forehead towards the middle. Study the holes and plan your path.
|– Pull the needle inside out, like in the picture, and pull through until the thread stops. If you have to pull so hard that the head goes into a dimple caused by your plug, you've got too much hair. WAY too much hair. The hair should not cause stress to the vinyl.
|– Pull the thread to the side so that you can push the needle back through the same hole more easily.
|– Pull the thread through, but leave a loop. Take a small amount of hair (about 15-20 strands of hair) and pull that through the loop as shown in the picture. You don't need to count the amount of hair for each plug, I give you the number of hairs just so you get the approximate idea of how thick plugs we're talking about here. (The plug in the photo looks utterly too big by the way.)
|Pull the thread back into the head.
|… until the thread disappears and holds steadily inside the head.
|– Continue endlessly. In the photo you can see how to hold the already set hair out of your way as you work.
Common and not so common mistakes when rerooting Barbie:
– Using too much hair is by far the most common mistake, of course not necessarily a bad thing. When I first started rerooting, I used two punts of Saran hair for one head, the first time, I actually ran out of hair and had to use a second colour for streaks! Now, I don't use one whole punt, and I'm a lot happier with the result. To control your urge to use more hair, you can buy just one punt, divide it in 4 and keep in mind that after each quarter of the head you still need to have enough hair to finish.
– Starting from the hair line will seem like the right place to start at first, but the trouble with that is that as you get closer and closer to the middle, you have to navigate in a big bush of wild hair to get where you need to get. Not fun! 😀
– Not following the hole row will easily result into a malformed head. Imagine first putting a plug on the right side of the head, then putting one on the left. Tighten, and you've got a very narrow face on your doll. :p (Yes, I've done something similar!) To avoid this, when you have a break, always finish with the thread coming out of the head so you'll know where to continue when you get back to it.


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A refuge supporting people in Trowbridge who have learning disabilities has celebrated its 10th anniversary with a big party.
The Ordinary Life Project Association (OLPA) has run its residential centre, in Barton Lodge, since 2003.
To mark the milestone, Trowbridge town crier Trevor Heeks visited last Friday's party in Manor Court's lounge, attended by about 40 people.
Tenancy support team manager Ellen Little said: "Trevor helped get the party going, ringing his bell, making a jolly atmosphere and cutting the cake.
"The work we do is really important, as anyone who has a disability deserves to be part of the local community, just like the rest of us.
"We hope we give people the skills to live safely. All the local shops know the people who live here and we have a good relationship with Manor Court."
OLPA also has residential centres in Bradford on Avon, Melksham, Devizes, Chippenham and Semington and an outreach service.
For more information, visit www.olpa.org.uk.


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Christine A. Zawistowski, MD, HemOnc Today: A diagnosis of cancer is accompanied by a high degree of emotional stress.
Consequently, psychological interventions have become a vital and integral component of cancer care.
One example is mindfulness meditation, a form of meditation derived from the Buddhist practice of insight meditation. It is designed to develop the skill of paying attention to both inner and outer experiences with acceptance, patience and compassion. It focuses on experiencing life in a nonjudgmental way, in the moment.
The practice strives to help patients develop stability, inner calmness and non-reactivity of the mind. In essence, it tries to train …
Ferris Jabr, Psychology Today: While resisting pain only makes suffering worse, mindfulness meditation can help chronic pain sufferers.
Pain is necessary. It alerts us to threats, teaches us to avoid future risks, and makes sure we don't forget to help ourselves heal. Our bodies have evolved instinctive reactions to pain and injury—accidentally brush your hand against a boiling kettle and your arm will retract reflexively before you even realize why. Our minds, too, respond to pain in a characteristic manner: ever notice how even a minor wound can dominate your thoughts?
But what if you could manipulate your natural response to pain in …
Jill Sakai, Medical Xpress: With evidence growing that meditation can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body.
A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following a period of mindfulness meditation.
The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive mindfulness practice in a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including altered levels…
Sara Rae Lancaster, Kenosha News: Donna Mosca had practiced yoga for several years and taught it for five. But it wasn't until she took a mindfulness-based stress reduction course that she realized how much deeper her own yoga practice and teaching could become.
"We're constantly pulled away by the stuff going on in our lives," said Mosca, owner and teacher at Peace Tree Yoga in Burlington. "Adding in elements of mindfulness meditation made me look more closely at my choices, from the books I read and movies I watched to the people surrounding me and the foods I ate."
Like yoga, mindfulness meditation…
Rachel Nania, WTOP, Washington: Tara Brach has been teaching meditation for more than 30 years, and on Oct. 7 she will bring her expertise and insight on the practice to students, parents and teachers in Montgomery County, Md.
"The benefit of mindfulness is so clear that it enables people to reduce stress and make decisions from a much more rational mindset," says Brach, who is also an author and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
Brach defines mindfulness meditation as "the capacity to notice what is happening in the present moment without judgment," and she says the practice is proven to increase concentration and reduce…
ANI News: Washington, Aug 6 (ANI): Researchers have found that smokers trained with a form of mindfulness meditation known as Integrative Body-Mind Training (IBMT) curtailed their smoking by 60 percent.
However, subjects in a control group that received a relaxation regimen showed no reduction.
Studies of smoking usually recruit those desiring to quit or reduce their smoking. Researchers approached this study differently.
They sought volunteers interested in reducing stress and improving their performance.
In actuality, the experiment was designed to explore how IBMT-previously shown to improve the self-control pathway related to addiction-would impact smoking behavior.
Among the volunteers were 27 smokers, mean age 21…
eople suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma — in which psychological stress plays a major role — may benefit from mindfulness meditation techniques, according to a study by University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientists with the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction, originally designed for patients with chronic pain, consists of continuously focusing attention on the breath, bodily sensations and mental content while seated, walking or practicing yoga.
While interest in meditation as a means of reducing stress has grown over the years, there has been little evidence to support benefits specific to mindfulness meditation practice. This was the first study designed to … Read more »


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Please let both of these things not happen.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 15/3/2013 (1619 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg Grenadiers Lance Cpl. William Bell lived through the Battle of Hong Kong, was saved when a fellow soldier made the ultimate sacrifice by jumping on a grenade before it exploded, and survived extreme deprivation in the Japanese prisoner of war camps.
On March 12, his 96th birthday, the conditions he faced during his Second World War service finally caught up to him. Bell died after another bout of skin cancer, which his family says was because he was detained in a prisoner of war camp near Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
"He always talked about seeing the flash," his son, Dennis Bell, said.
"Three weeks ago, he had a large tumour taken off his back. So many of them suffered from skin cancer through the years," said Bell's other son, Bill.
"He was a very heroic person."
William Bell himself, in the story he told for the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association website, said "if it weren't for the atomic bomb, as horrible as it was, I would not have survived Japanese captivity," he wrote.
"Consequently, I would not be here today to write these memoirs."
Carol Hadley, national president of the HKVCA, said they know of only 43 Hong Kong veterans who are still alive. The Winnipeg Grenadiers and Royal Rifles of Canada deployed 1,975 soldiers to defend the colony.
"They are all in their 90s now," Hadley said. In Manitoba, there is one in Carman and six in Winnipeg.
Bell was born in Winnipeg on March 12, 1917. He joined the 38th Field Artillery militia, which later became the Fort Garry Horse Regiment.
When the Second World War broke out, he enlisted with the Winnipeg Grenadiers, along with his 19-year-old brother, Gordon.
Bell wrote that after basic training he and his brother were first shipped out with part of their regiment to Bermuda to do ship guard duties before they rejoined with the rest of their regiment in Jamaica. The regiment was assigned to Hong Kong, with the troops arriving there on Nov. 16, 1941.
A few weeks later, the Japanese army attacked and shortly after, while Bell was on a recognizance with two others, they were shot at by Japanese soldiers, killing one of them and wounding Bell.
On Dec. 19, Bell was one of about 65 Grenadiers under the command of Sgt. Maj. John Robert Osborn, who were surrounded by Japanese soldiers. He said he shot two officers while Osborn kept flinging back grenades the soldiers threw at them.
"There were nine or 10 of us together at this time," Bell recalled. "One of the grenades landed where John Osborn could not grasp it... in the ultimate sacrifice, CSM Osborn threw himself onto the grenade. He was killed instantly, but managed to save many of the men he was with, including me. It was the bravest thing we had ever seen."
(Osborn was posthumously honoured with the Victoria Cross.)
Shortly after, Bell said they surrendered and were incarcerated in prisoner of war camps for almost four years.
Bell said that's where he met his brother, Gordon, for the last time. Gordon later died at another camp.
Through the years of internment, Bell recalled many things: helping four fellow soldiers escape -- when captured, they were beheaded -- getting ill, sneaking rice into the ward where sick prisoners were, eating rats and dogs that strayed into camp, and helping slaughter a horse and cooking it.
On Sept. 6, 1945, Bell was able to send a telegram to his mother saying: "Have been rescued by Americans. Health good. Home soon, love William."
Dennis Bell said "they were the first soldiers to go into battle and the last to come back home."
During his years of service, William Bell suffered malaria, a gunshot wound to his hip, grenade shrapnel wounds, beriberi, rheumatoid arthritis, mouth ulcers, pellagra and stomatitis, dysentery and malnutrition.
Amazingly, he enlisted again when the Korean War broke out and was assigned to the Royal Winnipeg Rifles.
"But after going to Quebec they said because of everything he suffered in the war, his body wasn't good for anything anymore so they sent him home," Dennis Bell said.
Bell worked at Winnipeg Hydro until he retired. His funeral will be held March 23 at the Neil Bardal Funeral Centre near the Brookside Cemetery.


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Slightly off topic, but this has been driving me mad, and after wasting time with formulas, calculated fields, formatting as short date, today I found a nice simple solution.
This might be useful for anyone who wants to export and group data in Microsoft Excel by date – e.g. to quickly make sense of ranking results, Google Analytics exports or Basecamp time tracking data.
Pivot tables in Microsoft Excel are super useful, and sometimes you might want to sub total the information. There are so many directions you can shuffle the information in pivot tables, but it's not obvious how to do this simple sub total.
When you have the information you need in the Pivot table, right click over a date entry, and click 'Group'.
You will then have a list of grouping options for your dates.
Choose your grouping option, and you will be presented with your data in a neat high level view.


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Bemidji HS wrestling: Crosby, Doty, Johnson earn top seeds
Jake Crosby, Colton Doty and Alex Johnson all earned top seeds in their weight classes at the Section 8-3A individual wrestling meet which began Friday at St. Cloud Apollo and each lived up to the billing by winning his opening match.
Also collecting first-round wins were Logan Crosby at 119 and Kade Johnson at 145.
Those five Lumberjacks will begin today's second round in the championship bracket while eight teammates will be in the consolation round and will have to work their way through to a true-second match to earn a berth at the state meet.
Jake Crosby advanced with a pin victory at 125 as did Doty at 140. Al Johnson posted a decision win at heavyweight.
Logan Crosby defeated his foe 7-3 while Kade Johnson earned a 4-3 decision victory.
Both Logan Crosby and Kade Johnson were seeded fourth.
Dropping their openers were Tyler O'Bierne at 103, Michael Fogarty at 112, Ryle Masterson at 130, Craig Maas at 135, Kodi Kraft at 152, Tyler Molitor at 160, Brenden Fredrikson at 171 and Nick Maggert at 215.
Bemidji did not have a wrestler at 189.
Section 8-3A Individual Tournament
Friday's First Round
Bemidji's Results
103-Mittag (Willmar) pin O'Bierne 1:03
112-Miley (Willmar) pin Fogarty 2:50
119-L.Crosby (B) dec. Carlson (Willmar) 7-3
125-J.Crosby (B) pin Schilten (Alexandria) 1:31
130-O'Brien (St. Cloud Tech) dec. Masterson 20-4
135-Carpenter (Moorhead) dec. C.Maas 5-2
140-Doty (B) pin Howe (Rocori) 1:04
145-K.Johnson (B) dec. Shock (Moorhead) 4-3
152-Martin (St. Cloud Tech) dec. Kraft 8-2
160-Morlock (Moorhead) pin Molitor 5:13
171-Klaverkamp (St. Cloud Tech) dec. Fredrikson 10-2
189-Bemidji had an open weight
215-Kirchner (St. Cloud Apollo) dec. Maggert 8-2
Hwt-A.Johnson (B) dec. Cumberbatch (Alexandria) 12-6


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EdgeWave Wins Info Security's 2012 Global Excellence Awards in Social Media, Web Filtering and Content Security and Managed Security Services Categories EdgeWave Wins Info Security's 2012 Global Excellence Awards in Social Media, Web Filtering andiPrism Web Security and ePrism Email Security Suite Win Top HonorsiPrism Web Security and ePrism Email Security Suite Win Top Honors (March 15, 2012)
SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/15/12 -- EdgeWave (OTCBB: EWVE) (OTCQB: EWVE), a leader in Secure Content Management (SCM) solutions, announced today that iPrism Web Security and ePrism Email Security were named winners of the 2012 Global Excellence Awards by Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide. iPrism won for Social Media, Web Filtering, and Content Security, and ePrism won in the Managed Security Services category. EdgeWave President Dave Maquera said, "We are honored to receive this award, which recognizes product achievement for our iPrism and ePrism solutions. Our ability to deliver innovative technologies that protect organizations from Web and email threats, while virtually eliminating installation and support costs, is very important to our customers and the markets we serve. We sincerely appreciate this outstanding industry acknowledgement."
iPrism Web Security is an industry-leading Internet filtering and Secure Web Gateway appliance solution and ePrism Email Security is a suite of hosted email and data security solutions. iPrism protects organizations with robust policy-driven Web security that includes circumvention defense, social media controls, real-time protection from botnets and other criminal malware, comprehensive on-box reporting and hybrid remote filtering. The ePrism Email Security Suite offers proprietary zero-minute defense to block dangerous spam and malware, along with data loss and regulatory protection that includes DLP, Encryption, Email Continuity and Archive services. EdgeWave has millions of end users worldwide and across a broad spectrum of industries including education and government, healthcare, finance and manufacturing. EdgeWave solutions are known for their high performance, ease-of-use and low support costs. Their US-based technical support team boasts 94% customer satisfaction ratings*.
More than 50 judges representing a broad range of industry voices from around the world participated in the awards process. Their average scores determined the 2012 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners, which were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on February 29, 2012 in San Francisco. The 2012 security industry and peers annual awards program was sponsored by Office of the CIO, McAfee Inc., an Intel Company, Solutionary, Inc., CloudAccess, Welz & Weisel Communications, California State University of San Bernardino, 24/7 Consulting, Madison Alexander PR, and Info Security Products Guide.
"This year's Security Global Product Excellence Awards winners, including EdgeWave's iPrism and ePrism solutions, represent excellence-in-class across the security industry," said Rake Narang, Editor-in-Chief, Info Security Products Guide. "Our readers recognize that these companies are ahead of the curve when it comes to making businesses more secure and are helping to set a new standard in the industry."
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EdgeWave Inc. (OTCBB: EWVE) (OTCQB: EWVE) develops and markets on demand, on-premises, and hybrid Secure Content Management (SCM) solutions to the mid-enterprise and service provider markets. The EdgeWave portfolio of web, email and data protection technologies delivers comprehensive secure content management with unrivalled ease of deployment and the lowest TCO on the market. EdgeWave products and services include iPrism Web Security, a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution and the ePrism Messaging Security Suite, a fully-hosted solutions for Email Filtering, Email Data Loss Protection, Email Encryption, Email Continuity, and Email Archiving, which can be accessed from a single user interface. With thousands of customers and over 200 partners worldwide, EdgeWave strives to deliver simple, high performance solutions that offer excellent value.
Based in San Diego, California, EdgeWave markets its solutions through a network of value added resellers, ISPs and MSPs, distributors, system integrators, OEM partners and directly to end users. For more information about EdgeWave, visit www.edgewave.com
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Dry AMD is most common type of macular degeneration and affects 90% of the people who have the condition. In the dry form, there is a breakdown or thinning of the layer of retinal pigment epithelial cells (RPE) in the macula. These RPE cells support the light sensitive photoreceptor cells that are so critical to vision. When we look at something, the photoreceptors (rods and cones) gather the images and send them to the brain, where vision takes place.
The death or degeneration of these cells is called atrophy. Hence, dry AMD is often referred to as atrophic AMD. It is characterized by the presence of drusen (dots of yellow crystalline deposits that develop within the macula) and thinning of the macula. Dry or atrophic MD reduces the central vision and can affect color perception. Generally, the damage caused by the "dry" form is not as severe or rapid as that of the "wet" form. However, over time, it can cause profound vision loss. The more advanced stage of dry macular degeneration is Geographic Atrophy, where a patch of photoreceptor cells die off.
What Are Drusen?
Drusen are tiny yellow or white deposits in a layer of the retina called Bruchs membrane. They are the most common early sign of dry age-related macular degeneration. Drusen are made up of lipids, a type of fatty protein. They may be the result of a failure of the eye to dispose of waste products that are produced when the photoreceptors of the eye drop off older parts of the cell.
There are several types of drusen with different levels of risk. Drusen can be small, hard and scattered far apart from each other. They are round and distinct. This type may not create vision problems for a long time and may not even be an indication of macular degeneration.
How Did I Get Dry AMD?
There are many risk factors that contribute to age-related macular degeneration. Studies in large populations show that statistically a person's chance of developing a disease is increased by risk factors. In your case, it is probably a combination of things. Some of them are completely out of your control, like family history. Other factors relate to your own lifestyle and are things you can change.
Continue How Did I Get Dry AMD….
What Can I Do About Dry AMD?
There are things you can do to reduce the risk of macular degeneration and take charge of AMD. Research with large populations of people around the world has revealed a whole list of lifestyle risk factors that can be changed. If you are in the intermediate stage of dry AMD, certain supplements may slow the progression by as much as 25%.
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Treatment Options
At this time, there are no proven medical treatments for dry macular degeneration. There is one surgical implant that can help some people gain more functional vision. There are also some unproven treatments that you may have heard about.
However, there are a large number of research projects and clinical trials underway that show promise. If you are interested in staying up to date on these efforts, visit our Clinical Trials page.


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Home > About VIDL > VIDL Staff
VIDL Staff
Aidan Hoyal, Assistant Director for Production and Instructional Design
Aidan brings extensive experience designing and using digital learning resources, serving as a cross-divisional/inter-organizational liaison, and leading change in multicultural academic, nonprofit and government settings. Aidan comes to VIDL from Vanderbilt's School of Medicine where she was instrumental in the creation of video-based blended (hybrid) courses for Curriculum 2.0, as well as the development of a learning objects repository. Aidan also led training sessions for faculty in the effective use of technology in teaching and learning.
At VIDL, Aidan supports the design and creation of digital learning materials and activities for both on-campus and online learners. She has particular responsibilities for instructional design and preproduction, instructor orientation and training, advising on online degree and continuing education programs, preproduction quality assurance, and learning management systems. Aidan also closely monitors ed-tech industry trends and emerging technologies as she experiments with innovative ways to use technology in higher education settings. She hopes to share guidelines, standards, and best practices with the Vanderbilt community through VIDL.
Gayathri Narasimham, Associate Director
Gayathri received her Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. She has several years' experience teaching courses in psychology at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include exploring the viability of virtual reality technology in collaboration with cognitive scientists and engineers, young children's flexible problem solving, and perceptual and conceptual development. She brings her teaching and research experience to identify areas of research interest in digital learning, and explore the potential impact of Vanderbilt's online courses.
Gayathri oversees data management (capture, annotation, analysis, security, provenance, release, tracking) from Vanderbilt's massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) offered through COURSERA; consults on IRB assistance for Vanderbilt researchers interested in digital learning; tracks, synthesizes, and reports on University-wide scholarship in digital learning; coordinates support for relevant digital learning proposals by faculty; and participates with other VIDL staff on a number of other programs, such as the VIDL graduate fellows program.
Michael Martin, Assistant Director for Production
Mike comes to VIDL from the The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, where he was project manager for the Digital Commons, the online hub for The Commons. Mike has managed special projects, very notably the implementation of Vanderbilt's presence on COURSERA and production of VU's massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) to date.
Mike's enthusiasm for Vanderbilt's MOOCs, and digital learning environments generally, goes beyond the technical infrastructure, to the content of many of these courses, as well as epistemological, ethical, and cultural issues raised by digital learning generally.
At VIDL, Mike oversees most of the technical production and revision of Vanderbilt's COURSERA-hosted MOOCs, technical issues of storage and retrieval of video and other multimedia, development of efficient workflows for COURSERA courses, and overall technical scheduling on a variety of projects beyond COURSERA. Mike participates with other VIDL staff on a variety of projects, including coordination of learning management systems.
Ole Molvig, Assistant Director for Education and Research
Ole received his PhD in the History of Science from Princeton University. He was an assistant professor of History at Yale University before joining the Vanderbilt faculty, where he is an assistant professor of History and an assistant director at VIDL. Ole is also the curator of the Garland Historical Instruments Collection here at Vanderbilt. His research and teaching are in the history of science and technology, especially the social and cultural interactions of the modern physical sciences and technology.
Ole is very excited to bring his historical interests into the present day by helping to integrate innovative techniques and technologies into the practices of the university. He will work closely with faculty, staff, and graduate students on the development of online and other digital research and educational opportunities.
Jeffrey Shoup, Production Manager
Jeff creates multimedia and other technology and artistic solutions for online courses and other digital learning products. As VIDL's senior videographer, Jeff's work often involves shooting, editing, and aligning video and audio, but also includes graphics, web and mobile apps, and anything else that is dreamt up. He is on the front-line of technology developments and is a primary resource on this.
Jeff collaborates with other VIDL staff in creating efficient workflows that lead to the highest quality output with the shortest amount of production time, and on integration of technologies to design and produce outstanding instructional interactions.
Jeff comes to VIDL from the Student Life Center, where he has been involved in wide-ranging multimedia activities for the university, including production of Vanderbilt's COURSERA offerings to date.
Karisa Calvitti, Production Assistant
Karisa works within the VIDL production team to aid in the creation of Vanderbilt's online courses and other digital learning products. This work includes shooting and editing live action videos on location and in the VIDL studio with faculty and staff and creating animation and motion graphics. Karisa also helps maintain the self-serve studio, assists with training sessions and works on all the communications from the studio to its members. Karisa received her Bachelor of Arts in Digital Communications from Lycoming College, where she studied digital filmmaking, visual media, and business administration.


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Dennis Hopper is apparently losing his battle with prostate cancer as information from a court filing in his divorce case reveals that the 73-year-old actor is too ill to be the subject of deposition.
Dennis Hopper is on his deathbed according to information from a court filing in his divorce case with estranged wife Victoria Duffy. Hopper, who filed for divorce in January, can't be questioned by Duffy's attorney in deposition since the "Easy Rider" star is terminally ill.
Hopper's attorney revealed that the 73-year-old actor is too weak to undergo chemotherapy and he has dropped 100 pounds. However, he is allowed to attend his Hollywood Walk of Fame honor on Friday, March 26 because his doctor considers the event will be a positive experience for him.
Hopper filed for divorce from his wife of 13 years, citing irreconcilable differences. In early February, according to documents obtained by TMZ, the actor's doctor Dr. David Agus claimed that "the presence of his estranged wife is hampering Mr. Hopper's present cancer care." He added, "It is my belief and recommendation that the less Mr. Hopper has to do with his estranged wife at this time, the more likely he is to have his life extended."
Additionally, at a Los Angeles court hearing on February 11, Hopper's lawyer stated that Duffy "repeatedly subjected [Hopper] to severe emotional distress". The actor was then granted restraining order against her. Duffy is ordered to stay at least 10 feet away from Hopper and asked to move out from the actor's residence in Venice, California. However, the father of four is willing to pay Duffy a $5,000 monthly spousal support.
Dennis Hopper has been battling prostate cancer since 2002. He first revealed his battle with the disease in October 2009 after he was admitted to hospital for "severe flu-like symptoms." He further underwent treatment at the University of Southern California although doctors claimed that his cancer has spread.


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One of my most popular recipes is my sweet potato and sausage breakfast casserole. I love this dish so much, and it is perfect for feeding large families. Most of the time though I am cooking for just myself. I want to start sharing more recipes with smaller serving sizes because I know I can't be the only one out there cooking for one! I took my breakfast casserole and cut it way down. This serves two really hungry people, but you can easily cut the recipe in half for one. The breakfast casserole is packed with flavor from the sausage, sweet potatoes, onions and my special ingredient- nutmeg! Nutmeg is a seriously underrated spice. It actually pairs really well with meat.
Who is excited about fall TV? I don't watch that much television but I got totally sucked into The Blacklist and Agents of Shield last year! Those two plus New Girl, Downton Abbey and Revenge bring my TV show watch list to 5. Maybe that is a lot? I don't even know. I am the worst for watching shows live though. I always forget when the show is on or forget I'm in the central time zone now, which confuses everything! Anyways I've been seeing promos for the new show Gotham and I am super intrigued. I didn't grow up reading comic books, but I have to say I do love a good comic book movie. Are you looking forward to any new shows? Or excited about your old favorites coming back on?
- 1 tsp bacon fat or ghee
- 2 sweet italian sausage links
- 1 small sweet potato, peeled and shredded
- 1 candy onion, shredded
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 2 16-oz mason jars with bacon fat.
- Melt bacon fat in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Break apart and brown sausage in skillet.
- Beat eggs with coconut milk, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
- Stir in shredded sweet potato, onion and browned sausage.
- Set up a water bath for your mason jars in a 9x9 baking dish. You want the water to sit about 1/2 inch high on your mason jars.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes until inside of your casserole is set. Remove from oven and let rest for 2 minutes.
*For a quicker cooking time, you can use 4 8-oz mason jars. Cook for 20-25 minutes. *Tip: You can cook these in the oven for 30 minutes then finish in the microwave for a minute. I know not ideal but works if you are in a pinch for time!
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Less than a year after Blue Sky Network (BSN) declared at NBAA '01 its intent to provide general aviation with more affordable satcom technology, its CEO, Jon Gilbert, is in Orlando announcing FAA certification and deliveries of airborne equipment.
Gilbert, who flies his personal Cessna 414 out of San Diego's Montgomery Field, said last December in New Orleans that he founded BSN to provide a satellite phone service affordable to owner-pilots like himself, using off-the-shelf commercial telecommunications hardware. "I got tired of seeing almost everything priced three times higher just because it says 'aviation' on it."
Since then, Blue Sky Network (Booth No. 777) has gone from a concept to a full-fledged commercial operation, shipping its first customer equipment in July. Last week, it signed a partnership with Iridium Satellite LLC giving BSN clients access to "the highest level of Iridium options and support." The La Jolla, Calif.-based company is an end-to-end provider of satphone equipment and service plans based on Iridium-specific Motorola commercial satellite phone equipment and the global Iridium network of 48 L-band satellites.
Over the past nine months BSN has broadened its offerings to include five portable and fixed installation equipment kits ranging in price from $1,995 to $9,295, along with a quintet of voice and data service plans. The lowest priced kit, a portable system, includes a single-channel Iridium-tuned antenna, Motorola 9500 portable satphone, cabling and hands-free headset adapter for cockpit use with either cell or satellite phones.
The identical system, but with a Motorola 9505 portable phone, is $500 more. Dual-channel (two phone line) capability adds another $1,000. A fixed installation, single-line kit with a Motorola-made cabin console transceiver/phone unit modified to BSN specifications lists for $6,995. The top-of-the-line suite includes two lines and both portable and cabin-mounted phones.
The service plans provide from 10 to 800 monthly minutes for from $35 to $1,000, including a $20 monthly service fee. BSN will allow customers to change service plans during the one-year contract period to accommodate the need for more or less monthly minutes.
For seasonal users the company also offers a prepaid plan with no monthly service charge.
Blue Sky already has one satisfied user's endorsement. Erik Lindbergh, grandson of "The Lone Eagle," took BSN satellite-based equipment in his Lancair Columbia 300 high-performance piston single as he re-created his grandfather's epic 1927 New York-Paris flight in May. Afterward, he told Gilbert, "The Blue Sky equipment was absolutely central to the success of the New Spirit of St. Louis flight."


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Sunday, 6 April 2014
Portuguese Knitting
Most knitters in Western society are familiar with the two most common styles of knitting: English style, in which the yarn is kept at proper tension using the right hand; and Continental, in which the yarn is kept in play using the left hand. A number of knitters employ both, switching to either hand as the other tires, or using both hands when working with two different colours. But there is another common method you may not know about called Portuguese knitting.
Portuguese knitting, also known as Turkish Knitting, Incan Knitting, Andean Knitting and "around the neck knitting", originated among Arabic knitters. The technique gradually spread north from Africa and the Middle East to the Mediterranean, the Balkans (especially Bulgaria and Greece), the Iberian Peninsula and eventually came to South America via Spanish and Portuguese colonization. Knitters in these countries sometimes use hooked knitting needles but it's not necessary to do so as the Portuguese style of knitting is often practiced with the standard knitting needle.
When using the Portuguese knitting technique, the yarn in play is wrapped around the right hand, and then strung around the knitter's neck or through a pin fastened to the knitter's shirt or sweater, before continuing to the piece being knitted. It's a smooth, easy, fast technique involving only a flick of the left thumb to wrap the yarn around the needle for the next stitch, and it could be of great help to those who can no longer knit English or Continental style due to injuries to their hands. In the video above Andrea Wong demonstrates knitting and purling in the Portuguese knitting style.
Andrea Wong says in the above video that she uses knitting pins (such as the one above) "for comfort" rather than running the yarn around her neck, and she uses more than one pin if working in different colours. But I would be concerned about the holes it would create in my clothes.
There are also Portuguese knitting pendants available, which look like a better idea to me. These pendants can be strung on a cord and worn as a necklace, such as the one above, which is from Knitting Boutique.
Another option is to use a magnetic pin that can be fastened to your clothing (the magnet goes on the underside of the fabric) without risking any damage to the garment. This magnetic pin is from Etsy vendor Flighty Fleurs.
There are some very pretty knitting pins and pendants available on the net that could almost pass for jewelry, such as the pins above, which were made by Etsy vendor Lazy Cat Fibers, but if you just want to try out the technique before investing in some beautiful pins or pendants, you can always begin by simply stringing the yarn around your neck. If that irritates your neck, try making your own pin by fastening a bent paper clip to a safety pin, or making a Portuguese knitting pendant necklace by slipping a bent paper clip onto a cord.
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I am a Portuguese knitter and I have never used a pin . Every time I try it, the feeling is just completely different. The yarn over your neck allows much more control over tension, in my experience. But again, it is all a matter of getting used to it...ReplyDeleteReplies
I just relearned this technique on Saturday. Based on what you've said, I'm going to try the around the neck technique as I found tensioning my biggest problem. Thanks for the advice!Delete
I'm a recent convert and like using the pin vs. around the neck. I find it more comfortable as the yarn slides easier on the pin than the neck. While English is still my go to for speed and intricate patterns, Portuguese is a great method for my tendonitis plagued right thumb and never ending garter stitches.ReplyDelete
This is how my babas *grandma in Macedonian taught me how to knit. Both were wonderful and fast knitters.ReplyDelete
I've just picked up this technique on you tube, and I love it. Much easier and nicer end product.ReplyDelete
I go around the neck for simple or single colour patterns but pins make complicated two or three colour work much easier. My 50+ year old hands love this technique! I taught myself during a snowbound winter a few years ago and haven't looked back.ReplyDelete
My Portuguese mother taught me how to knit this way, I look at English stylevknitters and am blown away by the inefficient movements! Try this, it's fast and you can herd sheep while you're knitting;)ReplyDelete
I am new to this style and use it for simpler knits but until I get better at it will continue to continental for more complicated. I love the ease of this style over the other 2 more common styles.ReplyDelete


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Nicholas Fairbairn, a Conservative MP who joined in the demonstrations in Glasgow, said the Lord Provost, equivalent to a Lord Mayor, should resign. Leaders of Glasgow's 14,000-strong Jewish community also joined the dispute.
City Councillor Maurice Toshner said that if McCann had apologized it was "a damned disgrace and an affront to the Jews living in the city." Mrs. Use Schuster, one of the demonstration's organizers, said, "I can see why, as Lord Provost of Glasgow he has to be gracious but I don't see why he had to grovel."
Ponomarev, before leaving Glasgow, said that the Soviet Union's Jews wanted to live in no other country and enjoyed the same rights as other nationalities. "There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union," the 71-year-old Politburo member said.
The Soviet visitor was greeted by demonstrators in behalf of Soviet Jewry everywhere he went in England and Scotland. In the House of Commons, Conservatives failed in an attempt to have him ejected from the visitor's gallery. Labor MP Greville Janner, who is vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and two other Labor MPs tried to hand Ponomarev a letter signed by 40 Labor MPs protesting the imprisonment of Vladimir Slepak after last week's demonstrations in Moscow.
Prime Minister James Callaghan had earlier said that he has always raised the issue of Soviet emigration whenever he met with Soviet leaders and would do so again Janner said this was the most categorical confirmation a British Prime Minister had ever given about top level intercessions on behalf of Soviet Jews.
Ponomarev's visit was the subject of an internal Labor Party row. A right-wing group of Labor MPs urged Callaghan to condemn the visit. They said that Ponomarev's record was as "obnoxious" as that of Alexander Shelepin, the former KGB boss who visited Britain last year.
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is an internationally accepted mechanism that allows for the conditional
release of offenders from a correctional centre into the community prior to the
expiration of their entire sentences of imprisonment, as imposed by a court of
South Africa it is referred to as a placement option from prison into the
system of community corrections. This means that the offender is released from
prison prior to the expiry of his or her entire sentence of imprisonment to
serve the remainder of the sentence outside of prison subject to specific
conditions that must be complied with. This allows the offender to return
to normal community life albeit under controlled conditions under the
supervision of correctional officials.
an offender has to serve his full sentence, the Department of Correctional
Services realizes that, in the interests of successful re-integration of the
offender, it is normally not appropriate for him/her to serve the full period
of his/her sentence in a Correctional Centre. The possible parole
placement or conversion of sentence of each offender is therefore considered
individually on own merit according to progress with the sentence plan in order
to determine the most appropriate stage for placement. When consideration
is given to releasing an offender the potential risks related to such a
placement are thoroughly considered and specific measures are put in place to
ensure that the necessary control and supervision will be exercised over the
offender until expiration of sentence.
an offender has no right to be paroled, parole is an integrated part of the
penal system and where an offender has demonstrated during his/her
incarceration that he/she has been rehabilitated; that he/she is unlikely to be
a danger to society and that there is a full awareness of and a contrition for
the crime committed, the Board may approve/ recommended that a offender be
released on conditions. Parole therefore provides offenders with the
incentive to demonstrate their commitment to rehabilitation and correcting
offending behaviour which are important elements of them becoming productive
When an offender is not considered a suitable candidate for
conditional release as mentioned above, the release of the offender
occurs at the expiry of his or her total sentence and no conditions for release
can be set. This is the date when the total determinate sentence expires after
amnesty and/or special remission of sentence have been deducted from the maximum
date and is often referred to as unconditional release. This is the statutory
date on which an offender must be released from a correctional
placement is the conditional release of an offender subjected to continuous
good conduct and adaptation from a correctional centre after a minimum
prescribed portion of sentence has been served in the centre and under specific
conditions that allows for the offender's re-incarceration in the event of non
compliance of conditions of placement.
under Correctional Supervision is a community-based sentencing option by the
court which an offender serves under set conditions in the community. It also
refers to an option where the Commissioner may convert a sentence of
imprisonment after a portion has been served in a correctional centre under
certain set conditions.
Correctional Supervision and
Parole Boards are responsible for dealing with parole matters and matters of
correctional supervision.
The Correctional Supervision and
Parole Boards have decision making competency with the exception of decisions
regarding the granting of parole to people who are declared dangerous criminals
in terms of Section 286A of the Criminal Procedure Act, the converting of
sentences of imprisonment imposed in terms of Section 276 (A) (3) of the
Criminal Procedure Act into correctional supervision and decisions with regard
to those sentenced to life imprisonment. In such cases recommendations are
submitted to the courts a quo who in turn will make decision in respect of
conditional placement.
There are 52 Correctional
Supervision and Parole Boards country-wide. These Boards will be chaired by
community members who are regarded as suitable and capable of carrying out the
responsibilities. Intensive training in respect of the processes, legislative
implications and relative policies will be provided to them by the Department
of Correctional Services.
In addition, two members of the
community will also be appointed as members of the Board. The positions of
vice-chairperson and secretary will be filled by trained staff members of the
Department of Correctional Services. In addition, the Board can also co-opt a
representative of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and a representative
of the Department of Justice. However, if the representatives of SAPS and of
Justice are not co-opted to participate in a board hearing, the chairperson of
the Board may request such Departments to provide written inputs in respect of
specific serious crimes.
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is important to note that although the new parole boards will consider
submissions in respect of all categories offenders presented to it, the new
requirements in terms of minimum periods of imprisonment that must be served
before parole can be considered will only be applicable to offenders sentenced
after 1 October 2004. This implies that all persons sentenced prior to
promulgation of the new legislation will be dealt with in accordance with the
provisions of the existing legislation (Act 8 of 1959). In other words
offenders sentenced in the past and prior to the promulgation of the new
legislation need not fear that the new legislation will hold negative
implications with regards to the minimum periods that they must serve before
parole can be considered.
respect of offenders sentenced after 1 October 2004, the following minimum
periods of imprisonment must be served before they may be considered for
possible placement on parole:
respect of offender's who can be considered for placement under Correctional
Supervision or referred back to the court a quo for possible conversion
of sentence into Correctional Supervision the following periods must be served:
1/6 of sentence must be served prior to placement under
Correctional Supervision by the Commissioner. Sentence may not exceed 5
Normal term of imprisonment which may be referred to the court
a quo upon completion of 1/4
of sentence for possible
conversion of sentence in terms of section 276A (3). The portion of sentence
left to be served may not exceed 5 years.
Option of a fine as alternative to imprisonment where the sentence does not
exceed 5 years: As soon as possible after admission subject to certain
Option of a fine as alternative to imprisonment where the sentence exceeds 5
years imprisonment. Upon completion of 1/4
of sentence case may be referred to court
a quo for possible conversion.
During the
consideration of placement of an offender, specific attention is given to the
type of crime committed, the length of the sentence and the gravity thereof
which must be counterbalanced with other factors for consideration, including
circumstances surrounding the committing of crime, the victim etc. The conduct
of the offender, his/ her adaptation in a correctional centre and his/ her
progress on the way to rehabilitation and correcting offending behaviour will
also play an important role when considering possible placement.
consideration is given to releasing an offender the potential risks related to
such a placement are thoroughly considered and specific measures are put in
place to ensure that the necessary control and supervision will be exercised
over the offender until expiration of sentence.
Irrespective of the
period served, an offender would be found unsuitable for parole placement if
such a case it will be advisable that the offender preferably serve a greater
part of his/her sentence in a Correctional Centre. In order to be able to
monitor his/ her reintegration into the community, he/she should be placed
under parole supervision and under strict conditions for only a short period of
time. Only in exceptional cases offenders with poor prognosis are
released conditionally.
another significant departure from past practices and in a deliberate attempt
to empower complainants and victims of crime, the complainants or relatives of
the complainants of certain specific serious crimes now may make
representations to the Board and they may even be allowed to attend sessions of
the Board. This is regarded as a significant milestone in the quest to
establish and promote restorative justice as an acceptable and viable mediation
process. Directives in this regard has been finalised and is available on our
webpage. Correctional Supervision and Parole Boards can also be
contacted for more information in this regard.


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Purneswer Doley, subdivisional police officer of Biswanath Chariali, after visiting the tense area told this reporter from the spot over telephone that a group of people from Arunachal Pradesh from Bishal Basti, upper Bishal and Dipika villagers, suddenly attacked the Assamese people inhabiting in the disputed areas in East Kameng district under Seijosa Police Station of Arunachal Pradesh. The Assamese people alleged that the attackers even destroyed a temple in the area creating sensation among the people.
It is worth mentioning here that earlier on Friday, a 12-member group of Arunachalis threatened the villagers of Bogijuli asking them to leave the village immediately and assaulted one Tulshiram Gaur, who informed the police today.
The miscreants fled to Arunachal Pradesh following the incident without facing any resistance, taking with them a good number of livestock from the area.
When police from Assam reached Bogijuli, they found that considerable houses had been damaged and a number of Assamese inhabitants had been assaulted by the miscreants. The police also received complaints that two women, Janaki Saotal and Arati Mirdha, had been mercilessly assaulted and physically humiliated as well.
Meanwhile, the visiting police officer said that the situation has been brought under control.
Hundreds of families living in Bogijuli area have been rendered homeless due to the possibility of continuous threats from Arunachali villagers.
Our Correspondent from Biswanath Chariali adds: Situation has got tensed at Bogijuli along Assam-Arunachal border under Gingia police outpost in Biswanath subdivision since morning today following an attack by around 200 Arunachali people armed with lethal weapons on Assamese dwellings. They reportedly destroyed at least seven houses and a temple in the area. According to sources, the Arunachalis had come yesterday too, and warned the residents of dire consequences if they did not leave the area overnight.


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