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Do you have a friend who constantly links terrorism to Islam? Who even thinks that violence is in the DNA of Islam?
You might give that friend the gift of a new book by the noted church historian, Philip Jenkins. It's called: Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years.
I interviewed him on "Interfaith Voices" this week. He recounted the violent struggles from the 5th to the 7th centuries over questions revolving around the divinity and humanity of Jesus. I asked him how such questions -- hardly at the top of our radar screens today -- might actually lead to violence. He said Christians of that era saw a need to "defend the honor" of Jesus. That sounds like the culture of "honor and shame" in much of the Muslim world today.
I was fascinated as he compared some early medieval monks to some contemporary mullahs -- both of whom led or lead militias. And he reminded me that -- while Muslims may have "fatwas" (decrees of various sorts, some -- but not all -- condemnatory), Christians have "anathemas" which were often deadly in the early Middle Ages. (As Catholics, we know that "anathemas" are not exactly extinct!).
We say: Charlottesville reveals the weeping wound of racism. What do we, the American Catholic faith community, do next? Read the editorial.
The point is simply this: any religious tradition, especially when it gets mired in literalism and dogmatism, is capable of horrific violence. And history provides plenty of evidence.
If you want to listen to the interview, go to minute #45 at Interfaith Voices
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Chennai, July 9 (IANS) The central government's department of disinvestment (DoD) has decided to meet the officials of Tamil Nadu government Thursday to discuss the modalities of the state buying five percent stake in Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC), said a top company official.
"The disinvestment department has called a meeting July 11 to discuss with the Tamil Nadu government the five percent divestment of centre's stake in NLC," NLC chairman and managing director B.Surender Mohan told IANS over phone from Neyveli.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa had earlier suggested that the state government undertakings are ready to buy the five percent stake through an institutional placement programme (IPP).
The union finance ministry discussed the matter with market regulator SEBI, which was of the view that the proposal could get covered within the guidelines on IPP.
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Meanwhile the strike by over 27,000 workers, regular and contractual, belonging to various unions at NLC, continued.
Police arrested hundreds of workers who tried to picket a power plant and later released them.
According to Mohan, the lignite situation is comfortable and the company is generating around 2,300 MW power out of total capacity of 2,490 MW at Neyveli.
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Le 11/05/11 06:34, Phil Steitz a écrit : > On 5/10/11 9:18 PM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: >> Great! >> So we are more or less back to my initial proposition (see >> corresponding wiki). >> To sum up, we will define a new interface, called LinearOperator >> (should we make it RealLinearOperator? That would be consistent >> with the hierarchy AnyMatrix/RealMatrix), with the following methods >> LinearOperator >> +- void operate(double[] x, double[] y) >> +- int getDomainDimension() >> +- int getCodomainDimension() >> >> NOTA: I thought that operate(x, y) should *not* create the vector >> y = A.x, in order to avoid memory allocations for very large data >> sets. Is it a good idea? > Why, exactly? The memory has to get allocated at some point anyway > - either when you create the vector to pass in or when the operator > creates its output. I think it is more natural and consistent with > the rest of [math] to represent it as it is: double[] > operate(double[x]). It is probably best to also have a version that > operates on and returns RealVectors. In answer to the name question > above, yes, it should probably be called RealLinearOperator. If we > ever have need for a more general linear operator that works on > Complex or other vectors, we can define a base LinearOperator that > operates on FieldVectors (resp FieldElement[]). This allows reusing previously allocated vectors. I'm using these solvers with large data sets (eg tomography), and I'm worried about the GC being too heavily sollicitated if I keep allocating new vectors. For example, each iteration of the iterative solver calls operate(x, y). If we had it create a new vector, then a new double[1024*1024] (say) would be allocated at the begining of the iteration, and garbage collected at the end. Although I've never done any monitoring, I feel that it's not very efficient. Am I wrong? I might well be, because the GC seems to be such a clever piece of work... I actually would like to have some time to do some proper monitoring on this issue... Some people go for the mixed solution double[] operate(double[] x, double[] y) which actually returns y! This allows chaining calls, but I think this is HORRIBLE, and leads to error prone code, so I personally gave up on chaining calls. As for operating on RealVectors, you're right, I'll do that. >> Regarding exceptions, we would have two new exceptions >> NonAdjointLinearOperator >> +- double[] getFirstOffendingVector() >> +- double[] getSecondOffendingVector() >> +- double getThreshold() >> >> NonPositiveDefiniteLinearMapException >> +- double[] getOffendingVector() >> +- double getThreshold() >> >> Since LinearOperator no longer extends AnyMatrix (or any daughter >> classes), I no longer feel the need to create a base exception >> from which NonAdjointLinearOperator and NonSymmetricMatrix would >> be derived. What do you think? Same goes to NonPositiveDefinite >> LinearMap/Matrix. > +1, but for consistency, maybe in the second exception name, > s/Map/Operator My mistake... Of course, it will be LinearOperator. >> Thanks for this very constructive discussion. I now need to work >> on my code before I can submit it. > Thanks! > > Phil >> Best regards, >> Sebastien >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com >> For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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During the first year of your baby's life, every day is an adventure. From baby's first smile to his first steps, there are hundreds of special moments you will want to document. Assembling a customized baby scrapbook is a wonderful way to create a keepsake from this time in your child's life.

Essential Scrapbook Supplies

As a sleep-deprived new parent, you may think the selection of supplies available at craft stores such as Hobby Lobby and Michaels seems intimidating. Fortunately, you don't need to buy all of these items to start making a baby scrapbook. Creative layouts can be made using just a few basic supplies.

Necessities for scrapbooking include:

12x12 scrapbook album

Patterned paper, purchased by the sheet or as part of a coordinating package

Cardstock in neutral colors and colors that match your patterned paper

A paper trimmer large enough to cut 12x12 paper

Acid-free glue sticks

Photo corners

Pen with archival safe ink to use for journaling

Stickers, rub-ons, charms, and chipboard embellishments are fun to look at, but these items aren't necessary for the beginning scrapbooker. Many of your baby scrapbook layouts can be decorated with memorabilia such as ribbons from the gifts at your baby shower or fabric scraps cut from some of your child's first outfits. Plan to purchase embellishments for your baby scrapbook on an as-needed basis.

If you don't want to purchase your scrapbook supplies individually, buying an all-in-one baby scrapbook kit is an option to consider. Kits include everything you need to make an album, including supplies for baby boy or baby girl scrapbook themes. Depending upon the manufacturer of the kit, the cost may be lower than buying items separately. You'll have less flexibility when creating a baby scrapbook using a kit, but the added structure may make the project seem more manageable if you're pressed for time.

Baby Scrapbook Freebies

When starting your baby scrapbook layouts, don't overlook the value of online resources. Websites offering free clip art are a good source of accents for your baby's scrapbook. Free fonts can be used to dress up your favorite baby scrapbook sayings for page titles, photo captions, and journaling. Digital scrapbook freebies can be printed onto acid-free cardstock and cut apart to use like your favorite traditional scrapbook supplies.

Organizing Your Baby Scrapbook

Staying organized is the key to making great baby scrapbook layouts. Many new parents find it is most effective to assemble page kits for each layout in their album. File your photos by the month they were taken, then add a note card with key details from each event. Place the photos and any coordinating cardstock, patterned paper, and embellishments you wish to use in a large envelope. When you find a few free moments to work on your scrapbook, all you'll need to do is grab an envelope and start creating.

If you're having trouble deciding how to arrange your photos on the page, consider printing a few scrapbook sketches to use as a reference. Sketches are diagrams that show where to place your photos, page titles, embellishments, and journaling. The magazines Creating Keepsakes and Scrapbooks, Etc. both feature scrapbook sketches each month, but you can also find a nice assortment of free sketches online at Becky Fleck's Page Maps website.

Scrapbook Page Ideas for a Newborn

The pages you include in your baby's scrapbook will likely fall into one of three categories:

Milestones such as arriving home from the hospital, meeting relatives for the first time and celebrating each holiday

Diaper changes, nap time routines, snuggling with Mommy, and other small daily activities that are important parts of your baby's life during the first year

The moments that make parenting difficult, such as illnesses and tantrum

Here are some important baby development milestones that you can document in your scrapbook. This layout will help make your baby scrapbook an accurate reflection of your child's first year.

Bringing Home a New Baby From the Hospital

Bringing home a new baby provides many opportunities to take pictures for your scrapbook. You'll likely be too tired to create a baby scrapbook layout immediately, so jot down a few notes that you can refer to at a later date. You may also want to have other family members write a few words about bringing home a new baby that you can use to supplement your own journaling.

The First Real Baby Smile

When do babies start smiling? New parents aren't always sure, but as a general rule of thumb most infants can smile socially at between six and ten weeks of age. These cute smiles are sure to be the subject of many baby smile scrapbook pages. Remember to zoom in with your camera to get the full effect of that cute baby smile.

Rolling Over

Your child rolling over is an important step in the process of him learning to walk. Celebrate this occasion by making a layout that captures his sense of accomplishment. Include multiple pictures to help capture the action of your child rolling over.

Starting Your Baby on Solid Foods

Starting baby on solid foods provides plenty of cute baby scrapbook page ideas. From bananas to strained peas, a baby eating solids tends to have very definite opinions on what foods he likes! Try to get pictures of your baby eating some of his favorite foods, as well as shots that showcase his reaction to foods that weren't a hit. If older siblings are around to help feed the baby, these pictures can be good additions to a starting baby on solid foods scrapbook page as well.

Pictures of Your Crawling Baby

A crawling baby loves to cause trouble! Despite your best babyproofing efforts, your little one will probably still manage to cause some mischief. Keep your camera handy so you can take lots of baby photos for your "Baby Start Crawling" scrapbook page.

Baby's First Tooth

Baby's first tooth gives his smile a new look, which creates a chance to reflect on how much he has grown in such a short time. You'll also have some special infant teething memories to include on this page in your baby scrapbook album.

Baby's First Steps

Document baby's first steps with a scrapbook page that includes footprint embellishments and journaling about how your child handled the process of learning to walk. Whether your baby worked on his first steps for several weeks or suddenly decided to walk across the room for a favorite toy, this is one memory you won't want to forget. If you managed to get video of this milestone, tuck a DVD with baby's first steps into an envelope made from coordinating patterned paper,

Sleeping Through the Night

Of all the important milestones baby reaches during the first year, sleeping through the night is the one that exhausted parents tend to be the most eager to celebrate. Once you've figured out a good baby sleep schedule, scrapbook what tips worked best for developing a productive bedtime routine. If you're not done adding to your family, you may need these sleeping through the night tips at a later date!

First Haircut

After his first haircut, your baby will look more like an active toddler than the sweet little newborn you look home from the hospital. Remember to take plenty of pictures for your baby's first haircut scrapbook page. If you practiced giving your child a pretend haircut to help prepare for the experience, you may also want to include these pictures on your baby's first haircut layout.

Learning to Talk

There's no strict timeline for learning to talk, but most babies stay their first words around one year of age. Learning to talk is an important baby development milestone since it allows your child to better communicate his needs. Thanks to modern technology, you can now even include a recording of your child's voice on your "My First Words" scrapbook page.


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Since outpatient prescription drug use is not covered by Medicare, it is a major source of out-of-pocket expenditures for the elderly. By one estimate, severely disabled elderly persons spend more than half their out-of-pocket health expenditures on outpatient prescription drugs. What makes this financial burden all the more daunting is that half the elderly population has no insurance coverage for prescription drugs.
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Among the elderly who used prescription drugs in 1990, a large fraction of drug cost (67 percent) was paid for out of pocket. As a result, the elderly spent an average of 3.1 percent of their household income on prescription drugs. Some elderly households, however, have much higher levels of expenditures and financial burden than others. For instance, 3.4 percent of elderly persons had total annual expenditures that exceeded $2,000, and 1 percent spent in excess of $2,000. The resulting distribution of financial burden is highly skewed. Although 55 percent of elderly persons who used prescription drugs spent 1 percent or less of their household income on them, the "tail" of the distribution is long: 7 percent spent at least 10 percent, and 1 percent spent over one quarter of their household income. For those in the tail, such expenditures are potentially catastrophic.
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Those without private insurance bear nearly three times the burden of those with it. Similarly, elderly persons in poor, near-poor, and low-income households have much higher levels of burden than those in middle- and higher-income households. On average, lower-income individuals have burden levels more than three times as high as middle-income elderly people and almost 10 times as high as the high-income elderly. This is related not only to income but also to the presence of private health insurance, since the likelihood of having private insurance that covers drugs rises as income rises.
Finally, drug expenditures and burdens vary by whether the elderly have a chronic medical condition, such as diabetes. Those having one or more such conditions bear 2.5 times the burden as those who have no chronic medical conditions. The presence of a second common chronic condition, while raising total expenditures, has little additional effect on out-of-pocket expenses or burden levels.
Using multivariate analyses, the researchers showed that insurance coverage, income, and health status primarily determine the financial burden. Insurance coverage decreases the fraction of household income spent out of pocket by 50 percent once these other factors are controlled for.
How Does Coverage Affect Demand?
While insurance coverage for drugs decreases the financial burden on the elderly, it may also increase spending on drugs. Since half the elderly have no insurance coverage for drugs, such an increase could be important in estimating the effects of adding coverage to the Medicare budget. To understand this issue, the researchers used multivariate analyses to examine the role of insurance coverage in using drugs, as well as the amounts spent for them. They found that persons with insurance coverage were more likely to have any use of drugs. However, among persons with use, insurance coverage did not increase the total amount spent for prescription drugs. Thus, overall, insurance coverage increases expected spending on drugs, primarily by increasing the number of persons with any use.
How Much Would Adding Coverage Cost?
Given this demand response, the researchers conducted policy simulations to determine the potential budgetary effect on Medicare if prescription drug benefits were added to the program. The policy simulations assume that elderly persons without prescription drug coverage will receive drug coverage similar to the average private benefit. The groups with prescription drug coverage now (either through private insurance or Medicaid) have no change in insurance coverage in the simulations.
Overall, providing drug coverage under Medicare would increase expected annual spending on prescription drugs by $83 per elderly beneficiary in 1990 dollars, but this effect is significant only at the .10 level. The likelihood of having any use of prescription drugs across all beneficiaries would rise by 4.8 percent, which is significant at the .01 level. Given the approximately 31 million elderly beneficiaries in 1990, the expected spending for prescription drugs would have increased by $2.6 billion if all elderly persons had had insurance for drugs. Since expenditures for prescription drugs among the elderly were approximately $12.4 billion in that year, total drug spending, including the effect of this increased demand, would have been $15.0 billion. This represents approximately a 20 percent increase in overall spending on drugs by the elderly. Compared to the $89.6 billion in Medicare outlays in 1990, total spending on drugs if all beneficiaries had insurance coverage would represent approximately 17 percent of existing program outlays. The actual budgetary effect would depend on the structure of the benefit, including the size of potential copayments, deductibles, or annual limits on benefit amounts. Medicare would also be likely to negotiate discounts on drug prices, which would lower total program outlays relative to the estimates presented here.
Although the policy simulations show only a 20 percent increase in overall spending on drugs for the elderly, the largest shift would be from elderly households to Medicare, since (as shown earlier) the elderly paid 67 percent of their drug costs out of pocket. Such a shift would significantly decrease the financial burden associated with prescription drug purchases among the elderly.
Given the high burden of paying for prescription drugs, some form of Medicare expansion seems almost inevitable. However, with the Medicare budget already strained, policymakers may want to consider targeting benefits. This research shows that aside from insurance, health status and income are the most important determinants of the financial burden. Thus, those with low incomes and those in poor health would benefit the most if drugs were covered under Medicare.
RAND research briefs summarize research that has been more fully documented elsewhere. This research brief describes work done in RAND's Labor and Population Program as part of the Center for the Study of Aging, supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging. Research results are described in detail in two articles: Jeannette Rogowski, Lee A. Lillard, and Raynard Kington, "The Financial Burden of Prescription Drug Use Among Elderly Persons," The Gerontologist,Vol. 37, No. 4, 1997, pp. 475-482; and Lee A. Lillard, Jeannette Rogowski, and Raynard Kington, "Insurance Coverage for Prescription Drugs: Effects on Use and Expenditures in the Medicare Population," Medical Care,Vol. 37, No. 9, 1999, pp. 926-936.


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Forgive a newcomer for getting right to the point: I need some advice as I am thinking of getting my first ereader. Ive been reading a lot on this forum and others, but Im only getting more confused as to what I should do.
What I need is a device with a decent screen, preferably of the larger types since 6 is a bit too small for me, that is good for reading Word and text documents as well as jpg and png. To simply be able to load up a memorycard or similar with my extensive Word library and manga collection and plug it into the device is also rather important.
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'Earnest' play comes to Bemidji
BEMIDJI -- Although school children in the Bemidji School District know Jesse Whiting as a substitute teacher, his friends in the arts community know him as a gifted young actor and political activist.
And that's why the Bemidji Community Theater board decided to help mentor the young actor to directing a well-respected literary play his own way, "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Whiting, who was last seen in "Arsenic and Old Lace," another studio works presented by BCT, thought it would be fun to stage a comedy penned with bon mots to spare as well as political satire.
"The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, presented to audiences across the globe for the past 118 years, cost Wilde his literary career when it closed at the St. James Theater in London after only a mere 86 performances. Satire, even then, was a difficult vehicle to utilize because many of those one wished to "poke fun at" were the same literati an author would have wanted to reach and be financially supported by. "Earnest" in itself is a play on words; it refers to being serious and honest but exposes the duplicity of Victorian manners that were anything but earnest for the young men of the time. Young men were entitled to "play the field" and the young women fell victim to their "playing."
And that inconsistency is the focus of Whiting's staging of this production, for he hopes to bring a freshness in switching the gender roles of the characters. Or as Whiting wrote in his program notes: "As characters cross the gender line, characteristics evolve with them; what was once haughty in a woman is now cruel in a man. Perhaps we ought to ask ourselves what this suggests to us about our modern standards of gender norms and expectations."
Another BCT actor who has been seen in plays as recently as Cecco the pirate in "Peter Pan," jumped at the chance to be production manager and Dr. Chasuble, the local vicar in the very proper Church of England. Kristine Cannon, a semi-retired Bemidji lawyer, is known for her behind-the-scenes magic in makeup design. Her innovative theatrical exploits like the fairy wings made by the cast and crew and sold during "Peter Pan" netted more than $1,000 for children's hospitals in Minnesota.
"I was delighted to be asked to be production manager for Whiting's debut as a director in Bemidji," Cannon said, "because I truly enjoy the backstage details and firmly believe that they add to Chasuble in that a 'he' is being played by a 'she' and it gives me insight into gender roles and expectations."
Cannon is just one of a number of BCT people who urged Whiting to appeal to the entire board for funding and mentoring in this initial production of The Exciting Play Society. This first studio works project of BCT was the successful summer camp for youngsters who aspire to "do theater." Underwritten by the Region 2 Arts Council, the summer camp offered two weeks of classes and final performances at Bangsberg Fine and Performing Arts Complex at Bemidji State University. Because of the underwriting of the camp, the tuition was minimal ($50) for two weeks with theater and teaching professionals.
"When Whiting came to us with his idea, the board overwhelmingly approved the venture, which has a budget of $2,000 and a far cry from the $12,000 to $15,000 that BCT spends on the big musicals like 'Peter Pan' and 'Oliver,'" said board president Ernie Rall, who added that BCT board member Julie Kaiser is the stage manager for the production, and Derrick Houle is a cast member.
In keeping with its mission statement "to provide an opportunity for people to pursue their interests in theater through acting and stagecraft support activities, in productions by and for community members," the BCT implemented the Studio Works system to help mentor people who want to gain experience in the various aspects of theater, officials said.
What: "The Importance of Being Earnest," a satirical comedy by Oscar Wilde acted by the Exciting Play Society, underwritten by Bemidji Community Theater.
Times: 7:30 p.m. , Aug. 16, 17, 23 and 24; 2 p.m. Aug 18.
Location: Main Stage of Bangsberg Fine and Performing Arts Complex, 14th St. and Birchmont Drive N, Bemidji.
Tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for students 17 and younger at the door 45 minutes before curtain time. Tickets available at Iverson's Corner Drug and Shannon's Art and Soul in downtown Bemidji and K.K. Thompson at the Paul Bunyan Mall.


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Someone posted a headshot image of Melanie Harrison. Since it looks copyrighted I've removed it from this page pending further investigation... — Morder 08:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've sent Ms. Harrison a mail and asked about the upload of her headshot. Let you know when I'll get an answer. And btw, she linked her MA article on her official site. ;) – Tom 09:23, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Nice. Glad to see people acknowledge this site :) Wish more who were in production did that. Hopefully it was her but I'd rather err on the side of caution :) — Morder 09:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- You would be surprised to know how many people who worked on aStar Trek production know about Memory Alpha and their articles. ;) – Tom 10:06, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've received a fast reply from Ms. Harrison. She indeed created an account here and uploaded her headshot for use on her article. So I think there is no problem when we use it on her article. – Tom 12:59, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- I renamed it something 'unique': File:Melanie Harrison headshot.jpg. While it is really cool they contribute, it would really be nice if they followed though and identified themselves on here, and such. --Alan 13:13, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


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Lone Star officials say campus will remain open as regularly scheduled.
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ISRAEL has given the green light for developers to go ahead with controversial plans to build 1500 settler homes in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
Interior ministry spokeswoman Efrat Orbach says a planning committee has told the applicants to trim their request to build 1600 new housing units at Ramat Shlomo to 1500 and resubmit it "for final approval".
The Palestinian leadership responded by saying it will seek a UN Security Council meeting on the Israeli plans to build the new settler homes.
The leadership is about to take "important and necessary measures against Israel's settlement building, including recourse to the UN Security Council, to prevent implementation of these decisions", President Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said.
The Israeli plan caused a diplomatic rift with Washington when it was first announced in 2010 as US Vice-President Joe Biden met top Israeli officials in Jerusalem to boost Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
It has lain dormant since August last year but two weeks ago the ministry said it had been revived.
Orbach said that at a meeting on Monday, the committee heard public objections and ordered changes.
"It reduced the plan from 1600 to 1500 and now the plan has to be resubmitted and meet the conditions in order to get final approval," she said.
"It could take months more, or years."
Ramat Shlomo is a Jewish settlement in the mainly Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem which Israel seized in 1967 and later annexed in a move not recognised by the international community.
Monday's announcement will only add to international discontent caused by a separate Israeli decision to plan 3000 more settler homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem after the Palestinians won upgraded status at the United Nations last month.
Some of that construction is to take place in a controversial corridor of land east of Jerusalem called E1, which critics say could effectively cut off the northern West Bank from the south, and ultimately threaten the territorial contiguity and viability of a future Palestinian state.
Last week, Abbas warned that the Palestinians could pursue Israel at the International Criminal Court if it builds the new settler homes in the highly sensitive E1 area.
The Palestinians' newfound UN status could potentially give them access to the ICC, sparking fears they could sue Israel for war crimes - particularly over its settlement building.
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With foreign intervention in Libya now formally over, after the UN vote yesterday, military strategists and diplomats are trying to make sense of the conflict. Here in Washington, there is a feeling that it was a "close run thing" (as Wellington once said of Waterloo). Military victories often take on the aura of inevitablity, after the event, but US officials are acutely aware how stretched the Nato alliance was by the Libyan war. Read more
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AROUND 75 people came together on Poole Quay yesterday to celebrate the birthday of the founder of Scouting.
Young people from Poole District Scouts were joined by their scout leaders and members of the public at the statue of Lord Robert Baden-Powell on the Quay to commemorate the anniversary of his birth in 1857.
The mayor and mayoress of Poole, Cllr Phil Eades, and his wife, Helen, also attended the special ceremony and placed wreaths over the statue's head.
Brian Woolgar, district chairman for Poole District Scouts, said it was something all Scouts felt was important to celebrate and recognise every year.
He said: "After I introduced the mayor of Poole and he had placed caplets around Lord Baden-Powell's neck, I read a poem, entitled The Magic Pipes by Hubert Blore.
"It starts with the line, 'A tiny flame on Brownsea, just an idea', which appears to touch on the creation of Scouting on the island.
"The mayor of Poole also awarded Natalie Annels from 1st Lilliput Port Cub Pack with her Silver Award, which is the highest accolade you can achieve as a cub."
Brian also said that Cllr Phil Eades also spoke about Scouting and his own experiences as a young man and how Lord Baden-Powell met his wife, Olave, who was from Poole.
"Our numbers are growing every year that we meet on Lord Baden-Powell's birthday, since the statue was unveiled on Poole Quay in 2008, which is great to see."
Poole District Scouts have around 1,500 members based across the town, ranging in age from six up to 25.
For more information on the Scouts in Poole, go to Poole-scouts.org


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FARMERS are set to use more organic methods as they face rising costs amid growing food demand, a meeting has heard.
Cumbria Organics, the county's organic farmers network, held a lively discussion on sustainable food production at its an-nual meeting at Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency, Penrith.
Newcastle University professor Carlo Leifert spoke about 'sustainable intensification' and said data showed organic practices better met the challenge of higher input costs.
Outgoing chairman Liam McNulty said: "The talk was about the efficiency of farming methods looked at in the whole – conventional farmers and organic farmers input a lot of fertilisers and a lot of feed and if you factor all those things in, how does it look in a sustainable context?
"He asked if the food globally could continue in that way and his view was that it could not."
Mr McNulty said Prof Leifert was encouraged by methods used by the group in Cumbria and, in terms of sustainability and efficiency, thought organic farming was better.
Cumbria Organics believes growing demand and climate change will put organic farming 'at the forefront' of future food production.
Mr McNulty said more farmers would be 'pushed towards' organic methods.
"We have massive respect for conventional farmers but the data seems to show that trying to recycle nutrients naturally is a much more sustain-able system," he said.
"I don't think it will take more people down the 'certified organic farmer' route but farmers are feeling the pressure at the minute and the principles that underpin our farming methods make us more resilient to outside factors over which we have little control."
Mr McNulty added: "Practices place greater emphasis on first reducing inputs rather than maximising outputs, meaning although organic farms may appear less produc-tive, their efficiency is often better.
"Effectively, this could force conventional farm-ers closer to organic methods. Politicians want to encourage efficient, low-input farms that still produce quantities of good-quality food - that's exactly what organic farming is about."


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Tom Friedman: Michele Bachmann Is 'Flat Out Nuts' Thinking We Can Have $2 Gas Again
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) caused quite a stir last week when she said if elected president she would bring back $2/gallon gasoline prices.
On CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman - without supplying any economic data to support his claim - called Bachmann's pledge "flat out nuts" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Tom Friedman, among the things that you have written about -- in fact, you've written books about it -- is economics, international economics. In the presidential campaign we have Michele Bachmann the other day saying that she will make sure that America gets $2.00 gasoline once again. She didn't offer a lot of specifics. Her Web site says, well, she's going to ease restrictions on drilling, roll back federal regulations on the shale gas industry.
Is that a responsible pledge for a candidate to make, $2 gas?
TOM FRIEDMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: It's flat out nuts. There's no way that that's going to happen. We're heading just -- I wrote a book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded." OK? And I often hold it up when I'm going to talk about it.
KURTZ: You're trying to sell it.
FRIEDMAN: No.
KURTZ: You can sell it right now.
FRIEDMAN: Yes. I don't need to sell anymore. And I often say to audiences who don't believe in climate change, oh, you don't believe in hot? OK. Anybody done your research (ph) out there? Let's take hot off. But you better believe in flat and crowded.
What does it mean? It means more and more people out there can see how we live, in a flat world, aspire to how we live, and live like we live: American-size homes, driving American-size cars, eating American-size Big Macs. That's going on in Brazil, India, China, now all over. So the world is getting flatter and flatter, middle class is growing everywhere, and there are just more people.
Now, when you put flat and crowded together, more people and more people want to -- and able to live like us -- energy prices are only going to go one way, and they're not going to go toward $2.00 a gallon.
KURTZ: But, in fact, you don't think there should be $2.00-a- gallon gas, even if it could be achieved.
FRIEDMAN: Not at all.
KURTZ: You want more expensive gas, or a gas tax --
FRIEDMAN: Absolutely.
KURTZ: -- because you think we need to discourage consumption. That's not a very politically popular stance, which probably has something to do with the fact that it hasn't happened.
FRIEDMAN: And that's why she's playing to that. But it's so unrealistic.
And at the end of the day, let's think about it from the jobs point of view. If the world is getting flat and crowded, what's going to be the next great global industry?
It's got to be clean energy that can satisfy that huge growing middle class market. So do you want to be actually telling Americans, let's keep investing in this old technology and this fuel that's a diminishing resource, or should we be looking to actually create this whole new industry?
Let's do what neither Friedman nor Kurtz did, namely, look at some facts.
According to the Energy Information Association, crude oil inventories are currently higher than they've been throughout most of the past 30 years with some exceptions:
As for gasoline inventories, these are currently at about their average for the last 30 years:
As such, the rise in oil and gas prices over the past eleven years has nothing to do with the American supply of either.
But obviously, this is a global market. Therefore, what might be quite surprising to most readers is that according to the EIA, total world crude reserves have more than doubled since 1980. In fact, they go up virtually every year.
As a result, the international reserves to production ratio has stayed rather static for the past 20 plus years (interactive chart):
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What this means is despite increasing international demand for oil, producers are constantly finding more of it to match the increase.
Meanwhile, according to EIA, total world oil demand has declined since its 2007 peak, and likely will continue to do so if Europe and America go into a double-dip recession.
Add it all up, and apart from speculation and the weak dollar, there is absolutely no supply/demand reason for oil and gas prices to be as high as they currently are.
Even with such factors, U.S. retail gas prices were at $2/gallon as recently as May 2009, just a little over two years ago.
Why Friedman thinks this is impossible to return to is likely based more in his own biases than facts.
He did admit to Kurtz that he wants far more expensive gasoline to inhibit consumption. So why should his view of this natural resource be taken at all seriously?
As it pertains to Bachmann's pledge, any change in posture towards domestic oil drilling in America would further impact the supply/demand equation putting additional pressure on prices. Combine this with weaker demand caused by a slowing economy, and $2/gallon is easily attainable.
Finally, isn't it funny to hear Friedman discouraging investment in "this old technology" while pushing for "clean energy?"
I guess he hasn't gotten the memo that the whole idea of green jobs has been a total failure and that one of the reasons Texas leads the nation in employment gains since the recession "ended" is due to "this old technology."
And his colleague at the Times, Paul Krugman, wonders why voters are so ill-informed.


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Twist of fate led Tatrn to hall of fame coaching career
When Rick Tatrn returned from the University of Kansas and secured a physical education job at Deer Lakes in 1969, he joined the school's varsity football coaching staff as an assistant.
Tatrn, a talented tight end/linebacker at East Deer-Frazer and a scholarship player for two years at Kansas, envisioned himself as an eventual candidate for the head coach position.
He applied for the job multiple times but never was awarded it.
"Eventually, I just ran out of gas trying to chase it," Tatrn said.
Dreams of a prolonged football life faded for the 1965 East Deer-Frazer graduate. Fortunately for Tatrn, volleyball — a sport he had never played competitively — delivered enough joy during the next several decades.
A man in charge of Deer Lakes boys volleyball since 1971, Tatrn has guided the team to two PIAA championships, four WPIAL titles and 11 section banners. His longevity and loyalty is unparalleled in the state, which partially explains why the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him into its Hall of Fame in December 2011.
Tatrn adds another distinction this spring. Because of his coaching achievements, he is a member of the Alle-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of Fame's Class of 2013.
When he took over the team, Tatrn had no volleyball experience and had no plans to build a hall of fame legacy. Only after some begging from two Deer Lakes juniors — one of whom was Tatrn's cousin — did Tatrn agree to take the job.
Joe Tatrn and Joe Guiciardi approached Rick Tatrn while he was selling tickets for a girls basketball game during the 1970-71 season and asked for him to help the team, which desperately needed a coach to replace Dave Stuckley.
"I said, 'You'd better keep looking,' " Tatrn said. "I didn't want to bother with it. I had my desires on football and maybe a little basketball.
"Then they conned me into doing it, so I said, 'Well, I guess I'll do it for two years.' I figured they'd graduate, and I'd move on. … Then it became a challenge, and I enjoyed what I was doing, and I was successful. I just wanted to stay with it."
In June of 1976, Tatrn drove to Denver for a week-long international coaching clinic where he met experts from the college and national levels. Then in July, he attended the Summer Olympics in Montreal and acquired tickets to as many volleyball events — men's and women's — as possible.
"I saw as much as I could, and I took mental notes," he said.
Tatrn, who took three players with him to Montreal for the Olympics, made a habit of taking his Lancers to top-level events around the country. He appreciated the way parents and school administrators supported his efforts to introduce players to exceptional volleyball.
In time, he surrounded himself with former players: Guiciardi joined him as an assistant in 1997; 1978 graduate Terry Gaston and 1998 graduate B.J. Reiher joined the staff a few years later.
"I have to give them a lot of credit for what they've done for me since 1997 or 2000 or whenever," Tatrn said. "I think without B.J., for one thing, I don't know how long I'd have stuck around here."
Tatrn doesn't count the years — including the many falls he spent as a girls volleyball coach at Deer Lakes and Pine-Richland. The wins and losses, the titles, specific figures do not matter to him.
"I've stopped putting a number on things," Tatrn said. "It's not important. What is important to me is who's playing volleyball this year, what kids are going to come back, what kind of interest we have coming up, what kind of enthusiasm we have coming up. That, to me, is more important than getting the resume going for the next job."
Bill West is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @BWest_Trib.


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Abraham Lincoln told us the American government should be of the people, by the people and for the people.
We all grew up thinking that meant "all" the people — until now. Now the super-rich have taken over control of the Republican Party and begun their attempt to control all of us.
The wealthiest Minnesotans pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us.
When the DFL controlled the Minnesota legislature, they passed legislation to increase taxes on incomes over $500,000. That money would have gone to reduce property taxes for "all" the people. Pawlenty vetoed it.
Now that Republicans control Minnesota's legislature, they've refused to increase tax rates on the wealthy. Instead, they raised rural Minnesota property taxes, cut renter's credit, tried to raise hunting and fishing fees and took away the gas tax rebate for low income earners. That's intentional, not unintended consequences.
Our ancestors left countries where the wealthy controlled everything. They came here and established government for the people, by the people. Look at what Republicans LeMieur and Gazelka voted for. You'll see they're helping to make Minnesota for the wealthiest, by the wealthiest. Let's stop their plan in November. — Roman Witucki, Morrison County DFL chair, Little Falls


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This article was published 16/5/2012 (1917 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In the network-TV business, this is about as logical as it gets: If you have the most viewers, you need the fewest new shows.
That's the case once again for CBS, the ratings-race-leading U.S. network that unveiled its 2012-13 schedule on Wednesday in New York. The Eye net will introduce only four new series -- three dramas and one comedy -- this fall in a lineup that boasts 19 returning titles, including two of its rookie offerings from 2011-12.
Not returning to CBS's prime-time roster are CSI: Miami, A Gifted Man, Unforgettable, How To Be a Gentleman and mid-season additions Rob and NYC 22.
CBS's Monday-night schedule remains a comedy-driven affair, with How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly all returning. The new sitcom Partners, which follows two lifelong friends and business partners (played by David Krumholtz and Michael Urie) whose relationship is tested when one of them announces he's getting married, joins the comedy block, which is followed by returning drama Hawaii Five-0.
On Tuesday, CBS's ratings-dominating tandem of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles is joined by newcomer Vegas, which is NOT a remake of the late-'70s Aaron-Spelling-produced ABC series (Vega$) that starred Robert Urich, but rather a gritty '60s-era period drama about the early years of Sin City, starring Dennis Quaid as a rancher/sheriff trying to maintain order as mobsters from the east (including one played by Michael Chiklis) try to turn Las Vegas into a gambling mecca.
Wednesday is a status-quo night on CBS, with Survivor, Criminal Minds and C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation all in their familiar slots. Thursday's schedule includes returning shows The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men (which relocates from its long-held Monday slot) and Person of Interest, followed by the new drama Elementary, a time- and geography-shifted spin on the Sherlock Holmes saga that stars Jonny Lee Miller as the great detective -- who, in this re-imagining, has been forced to restart his life in New York after a drug scandal scuttled his London career -- and Lucy Liu as his reluctant crime-solving companion, Dr. Joan Watson.
Friday on CBS will see two familiar dramas -- CSI:NY and Blue Bloods -- wrapped around a new hour-long legal thriller, Made in Jersey, which stars Janet Montgomery as a young lawyer with working-class roots who fights her way to the top of a prestigious Manhattan firm.
CBS, like most of its U.S.-network competitors, continues to use Saturday as a dumping ground for repeats (Crimetime Saturday) and newsmagazines (48 Hours Mystery). The veteran Sunday lineup includes 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race, The Good Wife and The Mentalist, which moves from its familiar Thursday slot.
CBS also has three new titles in the on-deck circle for use as mid-season replacements -- Golden Boy, a drama that takes a looking-back perspective on the career of New York City's youngest-ever police commissioner (Theo James and Chi McBride star), Friend Me, a sitcom about a pair of Indiana-born best buddies trying to fit in with L.A.'s social-media-obsessed twentysomething set, and The Job, a reality-TV series produced by Michael Davies (Who Wants To Be a Millionaire) and Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) in which talented young competitors are given a chance to compete for dream jobs at some of America's most prestigious companies.
Undercover Boss will also return at mid-season.
The U.S. networks' week-long frenzy of upfront ad sales and fall-schedule announcements concludes Thursday with the CW's rollout of new and returning shows.


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Janet Jackson hospitalized – and I know why!
Janet Jackson was rushed to the hospital last night when she "got suddenly ill" before her concert in Montreal, according to the AP. No information was given on her condition, but Janet's already rescheduling the show so it can't be too serious. Of course, I already knew that having read this item from Page Six which will drop a hint right in your lap:
The other night, Dupri and his squeeze, Janet Jackson, went to Tenjune, where, spies say, they shared bottles of Jay-Z's Ace of Spades Champagne and Patrón tequila with Ne-Yo, Busta Rhymes and Ice-T – until Dupri "vomited in Janet's lap. Ms. Jackson bolted out of the scene and sped off in her chauffeured Maybach." A rep for Jackson and Dupri didn't return calls.
I'm pretty sure getting puked on my Jermaine Dupri isn't exactly good for your health, but I've been wrong before. Like that time I thought I thought Brooke Hogan was a girl. Ha! I was way off.
Thanks to James who can not only hold his liquor but several assorted meats and cheeses as well. True story.


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Apple Maps app is powered by TomTom
0. phoneArena posted on 12 Jun 2012, 04:47
Today, TomTom announced that it has partnered up with Apple. Of course, the reason behind this partnership is Apple's new Maps application, which will replace Google Maps in iOS 6. While most of the technology behind the new app is courtesy of Apple, apparently, TomTom will be providing the map data...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. mercorp (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
2. KissyQueeny (banned) (Posts: 17; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
If the new maps app is entirely powered by Siri, then, how will the users whose language isn't yet supported by Siri, be able to use it? I'd prefer it had the Siri as well as the menus and buttons option.
3. dickwyn (Posts: 621; Member since: 07 May 2012)
its supported by most of the main languages now. should cover more when iOS 6 launches
5. KissyQueeny (banned) (Posts: 17; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
unfortunately, I'm not from a country where such a "main" language is spoken. Plus, if Siri ever speaks Croatian, I don't believe it will do it as smoothly and correctly as it does English. So, until they update Siri, the maps app will remain useless for many croats (for example)...
6. OMHwhoGIVesAF (Posts: 1; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
OMG than don't buy it than... DUH!!!! nobody cares if YOUR language is supported or not
7. KissyQueeny (banned) (Posts: 17; Member since: 12 Jun 2012)
Ignorant douche. You make it sound as if only one language wasn't supported... NOBODY cares? And who do you think you are? Everybody? Everybody who doesn't speak one of the few "main" languages will clearly agree with me.
4. lzsbleach (Posts: 155; Member since: 20 May 2012)
Damm TomTom Is one of the best GPS money can buy, so that means the GPS on the iphone is going to be real good.
8. sprockkets (Posts: 1611; Member since: 16 Jan 2012)
...unless it keeps telling people to keep to the right every 400 yards.
btw google maps accepts input via voice as well, and so do most new gps'es, big deal.
9. miguel6632 (Posts: 21; Member since: 25 May 2012)
tom tom its hurting i guess later they will get bought out by apple but we will see. i ave a tom tom in my car and i always use my android navigation its just way more accurate


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I made a scratch chocolate chip cake last night. The cake was great, but it was too crumbly. I want to try to improve upon the recipe. Should I try adding another egg or increase the butter? I've read too much cake trivia and too many recipes. I can't remember what strengthens cake structure.
I would think either another egg, pudding or both would help out.
I made a scratch chocolate chip cake last night. The cake was great, but it was too crumbly. I want to try to improve upon the recipe. Should I try adding another egg or increase the butter? I've read too much cake trivia and too many recipes. I can't remember what strengthens cake structure.
Mmmm, scratch cakes can be tricky and I have heard from chefs that it can be close to if not as exact as a science. Altering the recipe by adding or subtracting may not give you good results. I would try to find another recipe that calls for more eggs or that sounds more firm. But to alter an existing recipe, I am not so sure about.
I'm compulsive. I can't help messing with a recipe. The individual cake slices held together. The cake just had excessive crumbing when sliced. I think the recipe is good. It could just be better.
My mom used to add puddings to cakemix. I find that the puddings are now so intensely flavored that they over power the taste of the cake. I probably won't get back to this recipe for another week. I'll let you know how it goes.
Marialovescakes is right in that scratch cakes is a science and altering one ingredient can affect another or affect the entire outcome. They're not as easy to add ingredients to because they don't contain emulsifiers like box cakes. The emulsifiers give the cakes "tolerance", making them able to withstand various additions. If you do play around with it, let me know what happens...
I also recently made a scratch chocolate cake that I've made before that came out extremely crumbly. It's a recipe from the Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum so I emailed her to see what she thinks may cause that. I'll let you know when I hear a response, if you like.
Thanks, but I enjoy baking and do not fear a failed cake.
I am my no means an expert LOL but I have made a lot of scratch cakes and done a lot of reading on the subject. One of the biggest variables in the ingredients is the weight of the flour. The best way to get consistent results is by weighing your ingredients instead of measuring. The amount of flour you get into your measuring cup varies widely depending on how you put it there(as much as 1-2 ounces).
Mixing also makes a difference in the cake structure. There is a post on egullet about the perfect butter cake. The recipe is from the person who runs the baking911 website(Sarah Phillips I believe). She is very specific in her instructions on mixing the cake-mix on x speed, x minutes,etc.
White and yellow cakes seem the hardest to make with good crumb and be moist.
That could be it, I really need to get a kitchen scale and go by weight. It would make things a lot more consistent.
Bubblez, more power to you! If you find something that works, please post it.
Thanks, but I enjoy baking and do not fear a failed cake.
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I know the cake bible author insists everything should be weighed. I can just see my grandma shaking her head in disgust at the thought of me using a scale to measure baking ingredients. Grandma didn't even measure ingredients let alone weigh them.
Even though I absolutely love the cake bible, I think her recipes are just tempermental. I know from watching my grandma that you can achieve PERFECT results without measuring a thing. My mom said that grandma used to make perfect souffles but stopped because my mom thought they were icky.
Lots to do this week with my inlaws coming to visit. I'll let ya know how the tres leches cake turn out.
Wouldn't it be easier to buy a box mix and doctor it up?
Bubbles, funny you mention that. I love the book because it's been very informative for me when it coems to baking and the science behind it. It helps you understand everything that is baking.
But a few of the recipes are what you called "temperamental". Like this chocolate one. I was so surprised at how crumbly it was, I would like to see what she says. I love her white chocolate recipe and it's usually pretty consistent. I have yet to weigh anything so I'll see if I notice the difference when I get a scale.
Ashiana, thanks for the tip with BBB, I always get those coupons in my mailbox.
I made a chocolate cake this weekend using a doctored cake mix and it was the best I've made in awhile. Very chocolatey and moist. I think I'll try that Hershey's one again.
Just finished making the tres leches and it is awesome! I used the recipe on MexGrocer. It is a butter cake batter that you fold egg whites into. It creates a cake that acts as a sponge for the milks. It's similar to angel food cake, but without the tough texture.
The milks give a light sweet taste to the cake. I did not pour all of the milk on the cake as I did not have enough heavy cream and had to sub some regular milk. It is amazing how much milk the cake can absorb. The recipe I used did not say to refrigerate the cake. I would refridgerate the cake for a couple of hours to let it absorb the milks. I waited an hour and then skipped making the meringue topping because we were dying to try the cake!
A fresh fruit topping would go well with the light, sweet taste of the cake.
Yes, making a box cake would be easier, but I've been making those since I was 10. I really want to expand my baking skills. Plus, I figure by the time I add extra eggs, butter, milk, pudding, extracts and sourcream to a box cake.....I might as well make the darn thing from scratch.
I agree it may be the flour.
Do you "fluff" the flour and then scoop and scrape??
What kind of flour do you use?
Try cake flour if you aren't using that already.
Cake making and baking is definitely a science.
Before adding anything more, try these suggestions for troubleshooting a too crumbly texture:
1. Overcreaming batter.
2. Excessive leavening.
3. Excessive shortening.
I made a chocolate cake this weekend using a doctored cake mix and it was the best I've made in awhile. Very chocolatey and moist. I think I'll try that Hershey's one again.
Would you mind sharing what recipe you used?
You can pm me if you'd like.
Thank you!