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Some consider it the ultimate Primal ground – a terrain unapologetically wild and forever untamable. It's the last place a man or woman can live out every deep seated instinct and inclination with no interference from cultural authorities, no entanglement with others and their needs or opinion. I'm talking of course about dreams. (Those titles ruin all the mystery, don't they?) Yes, I mean those baffling vignettes that take over when we think we've finally let go of the day and retreated to peacefully impervious hours. The brain, however, has other plans and sets out with its own agenda. Sometimes we wake unaware of the fictional muddle we've witnessed the night before. Other times we're roused in a cold sweat, physically and emotionally gripped for hours by some bewildering, miserable ordeal. On a few lucky occasions, we're treated to the good stuff, a stream of reverie worth luxuriating in if it weren't for the cursed alarm clock. What's the deal with all this drama anyway? The Primal Blueprint [1], of course, extols the importance of adequate quantity, high quality sleep. But what is sleep without dreams? According to research, not much.
Our need for sleep as a whole to this day confounds experts. What a waste of 33% of a day! The useless extravagance, the vexing inconvenience, the staggering vulnerability of this state stuns. Is this some kind of massive evolutionary flub? Add in the nightly circus of often incomprehensible dream segments, and it can seem like some genetically orchestrated joke.
But sleep, as we know, is the professional organizer of our daily experiences. Without it, our brains would reflect an overflowing mental mess analogous to an episode of Hoarders. And as for our emotions, we'd live along a continually ragged edge of psychic strain if it weren't for the role of dreams.
Just as sleep allows our brains to process information, to file and discard extraneous detail, REM sleep (i.e. dream sleep) reconstitutes difficult emotional experiences. As research [2] demonstrates, dreams regularly engage the emotionally charged memories of our day and compose them into more psychologically manageable narratives. Scans of study participants has revealed [3] that the same brain areas involved in acting out particular experiences during waking hours also operate during dreams about the same content. (The researchers used so-called "lucid" dreamers who can consciously control and steer their dreaming. Radical stuff, eh?)
In other words, the brain essentially relives our most poignant experiences in order to organize them. There's a key difference, however, as researchers have found [4]. During dreaming, the brain can retrieve and process emotional experiences with the body's stress response in low mode.
Yes, as illogical as dreams may seem, they actually process our memories more rationally because of the simultaneous reduction in neurochemical reactivity. Professor Matthew Walker, senior author of the University of Berkley study explains [5], "By reprocessing previous emotional experiences in this neuro-chemically safe environment of low norepinephrine during REM sleep, we wake up the next day, and those experiences have been softened in their emotional strength. We feel better about them, we feel we can cope." Some dreams, as mentioned, are so emotional that we wake up clearly feeling like we've been through the wringer. Nonetheless, we've still benefited from the significantly dampened neurochemical backdrop for processing whatever experiences inhabited these particularly vivid dreams.
Underscoring the difference normal REM sleep makes, we find the influence of sleep disruption on psychological conditions like PTSD and depression. Although these conditions don't begin with sleep disturbance, the characteristic disruption of sleep becomes part of a persistent, vicious cycle. Professor Walker explains the PTSD connection that guided his research on the role of reduced norepinephrine in normal REM sleep. Another doctor from the local V.A. hospital shared the success he'd had treating patients who suffered from PTSD with a blood pressure drug, which Walker noticed also reduced levels of norepinephrine. The patients, as a result of the drug, were able to experience more normal REM sleep, which helped alleviate their PTSD symptoms.
Add to this, of course, the overall benefits of sleep. Among the primary theories behind our need for sleep is synaptic homeostasis. During our waking hours, our synapses respond to the myriad of stimulation we encounter. (The more "enriched" (or stressful) our days, the more the synapses grow.) But we can literally only take so much stimulation. Our brain's synaptic activity accounts for some 80% of its overall energy usage [6]. In other words, over the course of a day we literally drain our brain. Sleep allows the synapses to return to their baseline measures. The result? We wake up better able to deal with whatever happened the day before and more capable of meeting the challenges of the present day. The whole of our sleep experience, it turns out, has both profound psychological and physiological impact within our brains.
In traditional societies, sleep – and dreaming in particular – was associated with healing and access to a deeper dimension of insight inaccessible during waking life. Theorists like Anthony Stevens and Carl Jung have suggested that dreams contain shadows of evolutionary instinct [7], "phylogenetically ancient structures" that help us "rehearse" life scenarios and even problem solve by accessing intuitive wisdom unrelated to conscious rationality. As Jung wrote [8], "Go to bed. Think on your problem. See what you dream. Perhaps the Great Man, the 2,000,000 year old man, will speak. Only in a cul-de-sac do you hear his voice."
Jung's quote, for me, is a kind of grand metaphor. It makes me think about how many sources of feedback we tend to devalue in modern life – the roots of intuition, the connection between the emotional and physiological, the benefits of sleep [9], the processing of dreams.
In a modern 24-7 world, it's easy to cheat on sleep and dismiss the messages the body gives us. During busy times a full seven to eight hours can seem like an absurd obligation that we either grudgingly fulfill or reject in the name of bigger fish to fry. Science, however, warns us otherwise as does practical experience [10] if we're willing to learn from that sort of thing. In our attempts to live and work more "efficiently," we end up short changing our overall well-being. The body has its own model for emotional and physical efficiency, much of which we can't fathom. It's a bigger and much grander picture than we give it credit for.
Thanks for reading today. Let me know your thoughts on sleep, dreaming, and that enigmatic 2,000,000-year-old man.


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The Emotional Fashion Hair Collection Le Monelle FW 2008 / 9 made from a very strong historical reference: the women of the late fascist period
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Thoughts on the Fifth Estate
Oso Raro has a thought-provoking, if maddening, piece up – check it out – on the changing role of the Student Life side of the house, or what he calls The Fifth Estate. In his telling, as I understand it, what he calls the Fifth Estate of Student Life professionals represents a liability-driven resource suck, a sort of brainless parasite growing fat on the diverted resources of its increasingly dessicated host. As he puts it,
They [once] seemed a vague presence on the edge of more important things: the machinations of evil administrators, the follies of faculty, the striving of clerical staff. But increasingly, the Student Life professional represents a new cadre in the academy, one imbued with considerable power and influence over the structuring of students' social lives and, consequently, some of their relationship to the dynamics of the classroom.
A new cadre is on the rise! The barbarians have breached the gates! Circle the wagons!
He elaborates...
This is a dangerously missed opportunity, for two reasons: firstly, Student Life services are here to stay. They are a competing power centre in the institution, and they tend to be allied directly or indirectly with the concerns of administration, which are mostly about maintaining control, period. Secondly, in their disinterest, faculty have unintentionally abandoned aspects of their traditional precincts of teaching to an administrative arm of the institution that arguably is not as concerned with intellectual enlightenment as it is in enforcing the rules. Did you know there are now degree programs in Student Life services and academic administration? Student Life is a growth industry, even as tenure-line faculty positions go the way of the loon.
This is one of those times when I have to decide where to start.
I believe, having read his stuff faithfully for years, that OR is well-intentioned, very smart, and trying to do the right thing. His insights on the contrasting attitudes of Gen X'ers in our student days, and the Millennials now, are recognizable, humane, and funny, if a bit overdrawn. And I won't deny – hell, I've written myself -- that many 'diversity training' programs are actually much more about avoiding legal liability than about actually teaching something or provoking thought. They can be staggeringly banal, which must be particularly galling if that's your area of scholarly expertise. All of that, granted.
(At Proprietary U, the HR department made the management folk watch "Remember the Titans" during work time. I think that, as a general rule, if a given piece of art works well as an HR demonstration piece, it fails completely as art. But that's another post.)
The loaded language doesn't help -- "machinations of evil administrators" who "are mostly about maintaining control, period," a new "cadre" that forms a "competing power centre," etc. I think it derives from the old "total institution" school of analysis, which assumes that any given institution – colleges, hospitals, prisons, whatever – can be understood as a freestanding polity unto itself. If someone other than faculty is getting resources, the only possible explanation is a sort of agonistic competition. It couldn't possibly be that, say, there are other tasks that need doing, or other constituencies to which the college has to answer.
Except, of course, that there are.
From this piece, you wouldn't know what Student Life (or Student Affairs, or Student Services) offices actually do. Put differently, the point of Student Life offices isn't to dumb down political discussion, to centralize administrative control, or to devalue faculty. It's to take care of the necessary and important things that faculty don't do.
On my campus, as an example, the Student Life area includes such new and cutting-edge functions as the registrar, the Admissions office, financial aid, student clubs and organizations, athletics, and counseling. I'm not sure which of these is supposed to be sinister; they all seem pretty useful to me. One can always argue about the best uses of limited resources, I suppose, and I certainly won't say that I've agreed with every decision I've encountered from those quarters. But they aren't competing with the faculty. They're doing other things, and those other things need doing.
Without adequate 'back-office' functions, colleges lose their accreditation, and faculty lose their jobs. (The recent demise of New College in San Francisco is as good a test case as any.) Without a vigorous Admissions office, the college goes out of business. Without adequate student record-keeping, everything falls apart. Without financial aid, the most disadvantaged suffer the most. Without clubs and athletics, students get a one-dimensional educational experience (not to deny that some of them are okay with that) and are less likely, statistically, to finish their degrees. Without counseling, faculty are left to their own devices to handle student mental health issues and all their legal and ethical complications.
There's no such thing as a total institution. The college is not a self-contained unit. We have to comply with the ADA, so we need people to provide services for diagnosed learning disabilities. We have to comply with Title IV, so we need people whose job it is to make sure we follow all the financial aid regs. Our ERP system is off-the-shelf, and it takes very smart people a lot of time to figure out how best to bend it to our (and our students') needs.
Some of those issues are deadly boring to lively academic minds. But 'boring' and 'unimportant' are not the same thing. My paycheck arrives with boring predictability every other week, and I'm glad it does. In some parts of life, 'boring' is good. And to assume that those things just happen, without someone making them happen, is just magical thinking.
On the complaint that much of the public programming offered by the Student Life folk happens without faculty input, I'll offer an incredibly simple response. Volunteer. (Or 'infiltrate,' if that makes you feel better.) Make the outreach yourself. Call the external events person – or whatever the local title is – and make yourself available. At both of the colleges at which I've deaned, the folks over there have always been short of ideas for programs, and eager to enlist volunteers. I have personally volunteered at both, and have personally done presentations for students and for the community. (I started in my faculty days, before a deanly title was even part of the equation.) The reason my college has a debate club is because one of our faculty got tired of students' political apathy. He got some funding from SL and became the advisor to the club. If you can lead a more thoughtful and useful discussion of 'diversity' than the usual consultants do – and you almost certainly could – then *%&^#% do it. And list it as "college service" on your P&T forms.
If it doesn't count for much, the issue isn't with Student Life.
When I've talked with my colleagues in SL about their interactions with faculty, I've always received two responses. "They always blow us off," but "we'd still love to work with them." The former is iffy, but the latter has consistently proved true.
Rather than viewing the Fifth Estate as a "competing power centre," I see it as helping us help students. We're here for the students. That's the point. To the extent that the SL folk help students get their stuff together sufficiently to sit in your classes and glory in scholarly nuance, everybody wins. To view the SL folk simply as competitors for fixed resources is just narcissistic. The college doesn't exist for the faculty. (Put differently: it's not about you.) It exists for the students, and their needs go beyond the classroom.
There are real enemies out there. Don't go after the folks who make your job possible. Engage with them, and the students – the reason we exist in the first place – will benefit. If we replace "Remember the Titans" with something reflecting actual thought, if we supplement role-playing game clubs with debate clubs, you'll see eventual benefits in your classes. It's not about keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. It's about knowing which is which.
As for your claim at the end of the post, that faculty should volunteer and work with the student life people, and finally this statement: "There are real enemies out there. Don't go after the folks who make your job possible." All I can say is 1) at least at my institution, students drive what gets funded through Student Life (as they should), so while I as a faculty member would be able to give of my time to their efforts (with little payoff for me personally), I wouldn't have any sort of decision-making ability or real voice in, say, choosing a speaker to bring to campus. I would be told to go back to my department or to my college for funding. Now, there's more than enough service to go around at my institution. So if I blow Student Life off, I do so because I get more resources and more personal satisfaction by spending my service time elsewhere. 2) I don't know how else to put this: student Life people don't make my job possible. They may not be the enemy, but come on. Or maybe you were talking about administrators there? Hmmm. Again, I don't think administrators are the enemy, but to set it up that they make the faculty's job possible, it privileges their role in ways that preserve antagonism between faculty and administration. One could just as easily say that without faculty there would be no university, and administrators wouldn't have jobs. Note: I'm NOT saying that, but one could, because it has the same kind of logic. The point isn't who makes whose job possible. The point is that we need to acknowledge the competing interests within colleges and universities, note who has power and over what. I thought that was the point of Oso Raro's post, ultimately, and I think that is obscured by your interpretation of it.
BUT. In my experience, SL folks have at my school have taken faculty's historical dismissal of their role for present reality, and don't even attempt to engage the faculty now-- and rebuff faculty's own efforts at interaction. When faculty *do* try to get involved, they're treated as interlopers for trying to bring some intellectual content to SL's programming, or trying to sync up SL stuff with classroom activities. The result is that we have a kind of "separate spheres" thing going on, which --at the very least-- doesn't maximize benefits for students. At the worst, it advertises two very different sets of expectations for students: most of the SL folks here are fully committed to treating students as *children*, whereas most faculty are constantly trying to get them to act like adults.
I'm not saying this is a universal condition. I've heard rumors about places where SL and faculty work closely and productively together to provide an integrated and rich experience for students. But I don't think Oso is wrong in saying that in places where a dysfunctional relationship has developed, the rise of this "fifth estate" *is* something to be taken seriously.
1. Student Life programs and staff get infused with a better understanding of the centrality of the academic mission of the university.
2. Faculty get a much better sense of the whole of the student experience and that can only make us better teachers, mentors, and advisors.
Yes, yes, yes. There's a lot of SA-faculty conflict on my campus, and it has very little to do with funding or status or who has the administration's ear, except to the extent that SA uses those advantages to make faculty feel as if they're being cruel to expect a little responsibility from their students.
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I can certainly see what Dean Dad is saying about SL people serving a complimentary function in shaping and enhancing a student's overall experience. However, as in all things, that function performed poorly will likely yield some of the outcomes with which previous posters have expressed frustration or dissatisfaction.
In the particular school of the Big Prestigious U that I attended, in my opinion, that Dept was completely useless in adding any meaningful quality to student experience and when and where they might possibly have served as advocates on our behalf, it seemed as if they did not want to touch that task with a bezillion foot pole. Instead the opted for programming, which was filled with all sorts of social events such as theatre or museum outings, massage sessions during mid-terms and finals week, etc. Considering the demographic at this school this type of programming seemed absurd to me, and amounted to the "treating students like kids" that Maggie alluded to above. After a while I came to believe that SL types seem to thrive on this kind of stuff, whether or not it is relevant to the populations they're serving.
Speaking of which, last month I attended a program in honor of Martin Luther King. I believe last year's program was sponsored in conjunction with a faculty department and was truly inspiring and informative. This year's program was sponsored in conjunction with the school's SL office at the graduate and undergraduate levels. I don't know about other attendees, but I found this year's program to be at best, inappropriate to that particular holiday and rather insipid. Had I known beforehand that would be the case, I would not have bothered and will be cautious about future programs under their auspices.
So did you all dance around the breakroom singing Motown? Cause that's the definition of racial harmony in that movie. That said, the one time I've been subjected to HR, the diversity training was the only legitimate part.
More on topic--haven't read Oso Raro yet, but what you quote sounds like he agrees with you. "This is a dangerously missed opportunity." The reference to Fifth Estate connotes the faculty as aristocracy who refused to compromise and forced the French Revolution, no?
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Maria, Giovanni and Antonio - thank you for all your hospitality during our
holiday in your apartment. It was too short. If you want to put the following
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Many thanks to a very friendly family, Signora Maria Persico and her sons Giovanni and Antonio (who both speak excellent English), for a delightful holiday in their villa in the hills above Massa Lubrense, close to Sorrento. We stayed for one week in June 2001 and enjoyed every minute. The apartment was spacious and modern and fully deserved the description "of optimal quality". Outside, the terrace was thankfully well shaded and the Bay of Naples with the island of Capri was just visible through the olive and lemon trees.
The roads are very narrow and access would have been difficult for anything but the smallest car, but public transport is easy if you are prepared for a little walking. Fifteen minutes down to Massa, and then buses about every hour to Sorrento, costing 1 euro for the single journey. Giovanni very kindly ferried us and our luggage between Sorrento and the apartment. From Sorrento we visited Pompeii and Capri with ease on the train or hydrofoil. There are many well-marked local walks, and we enjoyed one of them which took us from near Massa's semi-detached small port, up a hill overlooking Massa itself and then down into the town. In common with the rest of the coastline, the port was rocky and had no real beach, but this didn't stop people from sizzling in the sun on the big flat slabs of stone laid along the shore.
There were several reasonable restaurants and plenty of small grocery, vegetable and delicatessen shops. We much appreciated the artichoke hearts bottled by the mother of one of the shopkeepers and the local red wine we tasted was enjoyable, although the only bottle of white we bought was poor. The one time we would have been grateful for a car was when carrying our bulk purchase of water and wine up the hill!
We hope to return in a few years to do some more of the walks, see the amazing Pompeii again, visit Naples and Vesuvius, admire the Amalfi coast, and enjoy again the hospitality of Maria, Giovanni and Antonio. Oh yes - and buy another bottle or two of Maria's smooth home-made limoncello.
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Salvage Saturday at Petticoat Junktion
Horse Chows Down On Chest Of Drawers
Yep, that's what I said!
You'll believe it when you see the photos.
When I purchased this chest of drawers it was in one piece.
While loading it in the truck the top section separated from the bottom.
That could have been really bad.
I always worry when moving and loading furniture.
My husband and I and a lot of people we deal with aren't spring chickens.
I would be really upset if someone was injured while moving furniture for me.
Thank goodness this time the only one injured was the chest of drawers.
Now in two pieces.
Pretty bad.
Apparently part of it's history includes being stored in a barn…..occupied by a horse…..who thought the chest was his personal chew toy.
The pictures do not show the devastation caused by the horse.
The molding around the top is a mess.
It's eaten up and has lots of sharp edges and hunks of missing wood.
Oh, but It was calling my name. The details are awesome.
I have no idea the age of this piece but it's solid wood everywhere, and it is heavy.
The purchase price was $95. Much more than I usually spend for a chest of drawers.
I was sucked in by all those details.
I see potential.
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LA Zoo Announces Global Fusion Music Night, 7/27
The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) presents a rare opportunity for an after-hours visit on the second and concluding evening of "MUSIC IN THE ZOO" 2012 under the stars with GLOBAL FUSION NIGHT on Friday, July 27, 2012. Performances take place throughout the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens while guests view more than a few animals staying up past their bedtimes. Picnics are permitted, and a tempting array of food and beverages offerings are available. The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m., with animals seen until 8 p.m.
GLOBAL FUSION NIGHT offers world music bands, among them Rocky Neck Bluegrass Band, Marieve Herington Band (French), Paddy's Pig (Irish), Wicked Tinkers (tribal Celtic), AK and Her Kalashnikovs (Slavic), Bandidos de Amor (California rumba), Tropical Punch (Calypso), Shaya and Rafi (Mediterranean), and Kenny Hudson and World Beat (African).
Food stations set up around the Zoo both nights offer an array of dining options, including Street Tacos with Pickled Slaw and Zoo Chili Sauce; Banh Mi Pork Belly Sandwiches on Ficelle Roll; Chicken Andouille Sausage, Maersenbier German Bratwursts; Dry Aged Angus Beef Burger; and BBQ Pulled Pork Slider with Bacon Coleslaw and "Sassy and Spicy" BBQ. Also served at Zoo dining areas are specialty burgers and sandwiches, summer salads, Southern fried chicken tenders, Jodi Maroni mild Italian sausage, hand- carved sandwiches, ice creams, popcorn, Lindie's Almonds, kettle corn, and filled fancy churros (chocolate, caramel and raspberry sauces). Local micro brewery Golden Road and Eagle Rock beers are available as well.
"Music in the Zoo" is among many programs presented by the private, non-profit Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA), founded in 1963. For nearly five decades, GLAZA has funded exhibits, plant and animal species conservation, capital projects, and education and community outreach programs at the Los Angeles Zoo, an international leader in the preservation of endangered species and a conservation center for the care and study of wildlife. GLAZA also builds and invests endowment funds and operates five essential departments on behalf of the Zoo, including development, publications, membership, volunteers and oversight of the Zoo's food/retail concessions. There are currently 73,000 GLAZA member households representing more than 300,000 adults and children, the largest membership base of a cultural organization in Los Angeles, and a volunteer corps of over 700.
Admission to "Music in the Zoo" for GLAZA members is $15 for adults and $10 for children ages 2-12; general public prices are $20 for adults and $15 for children ages 2-12. Children under age 2 are free.
The Los Angeles Zoo is located in Griffith Park at the junction of the Ventura (134) and Golden State (5) freeways. Tickets for "Music in the Zoo" may be purchased at the Zoo or in advance by phone at (323) 644-6042 or online at http://www.lazoo.org.


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Once again, the stealth Muslim Obama stands up for Islam. Once again, he denies that Islam is not party to Jihad. Once again, Obama speaks of Islam as a religion that is peaceful, yet in the Quran – that book in which Muslims read from every day – Mohammed instructs Muslims to follow the teachings of Islam with no room for other interpretation.
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Mexico landslide reports all over the map
Mexican officials said 11 people were missing, and the Associated Press reported that there were no confirmed deaths.
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OAXACA, Mexico - So maybe this nation caught a break for once.
Early reports Tuesday of 300 houses buried in a landslide, with hundreds and possibly thousands of villagers swept away in a landslide, appeared by early evening to have been wildly wrong.
"The toll is four dead and 12 missing. Three or four houses buried in the mud," Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz said upon returning from a final attempt to reach the stricken village, Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, by helicopter. "There may be more, but I don't expect the number to rise much."
At a later news conference, Ruiz said 11 people were missing, and the Associated Press reported that there were no confirmed deaths.
State and federal officials had been alerted to the supposed disaster by calls from panicked village official at 4 a.m., who reported the mudslide had buried much of the village.
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WOLVES have a commanding lead at half time but with a bit more luck they could have been out of sight.
As it is, even after Wolves' highest scoring first half of the season so far, Salford are still very much in this Super League round five encounter.
Wolves lost the ball in the act of scoring three times in the opening 11 minutes on a bitterly cold night at the AJ Bell Stadium.
Centre Chris Bridge, loose forward Ben Westwood and winger Joel Monaghan all faltered under pressure from Salford's scrambling defence.
And then urgent work from scrum half Richie Myler, winger Gene Ormsby and centre Ryan Atkins forced a similar act from former Batley Bulldogs threequarter Jason Walton at the end of Salford's first threatening attack in the 13th minute.
The deadlock was finally broken six minutes later, Bridge pouncing on a loose ball after Wolves' high kick had been dropped by Salford's former Parramatta full back Jake Mullaney.
It was Bridge's 100th career try, his 90th for Wolves.
Full back Stefan Ratchford was unable to convert from wide out but had no problems four minutes later when hooker Micky Higham darted over from dummy half to make it 10-0.
And it was from a scramble after another kick that Ormsby was able to bag his second try in as many matches to put Wolves, with Ratchford's added conversion, 16-0 to the good after 30 minutes.
Salford mustered a 33rd minute response through Wigan loan winger signing Dominic Manfredi from a Junior Sa'u offload after Wolves had gifted Salford territory with a spillage on their own 30-metre line. Mullaney was wide with the extras, leaving it at 16-4.
Red Devils: Jake Mullaney; Greg Johnson, Jason Walton, Junior Sa'u, Dominic Manfredi; Theo Fages, Tim Smith; Adrian Morley, Tommy Lee, Lama Tasi, Matty Ashurst, Andrew Dixon, Harrison Hansen. Subs: Martin Gleeson, Tony Puletua, Shannan McPherson, Jordan Walne.
Wolves: Stefan Ratchford; Joel Monaghan, Chris Bridge, Ryan Atkins, Gene Ormsby; Gareth O'Brien, Richie Myler; Chris Hill, Micky Higham, Roy Asotasi, James Laithwaite, Simon Grix, Ben Westwood. Subs: Michael Monaghan, Matty Russell, Glenn Riley, Ben Evans.
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'Year after year, the Sabres bring up young players for a few games, then return them for more seasoning. Right wing Mark Mancari, left wing Marc-Andre Gragnani and defensemen Mike Weber and Mike Funk are among the prospects who have gotten a taste of the NHL. Clarke MacArthur (56 games) and Patrick Kaleta (47 games) no longer have NHL rookie status, but are other examples of players the Sabres have brought along slowly and who more than likely will wear the Buffalo uniform this season.'
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Unfortunately, as I have discovered while talking with the women in our community, many of us have limiting beliefs about money. These beliefs prevent us from finding the financial independence that we deserve in the best years of our lives.
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Playstation Plus is an awesome investment especially if you are looking to build a game collection. It features new and niche games and also amazing ones like Batman: Arkham City and Vanquish, and when you consider the amount of value it offers, it's no surprise that it has grown 290% for Sony since it was introduced.
Need to check out the service before paying? You can get a 30 day trial. There are games for the Vita as well, and the service was introduced for the system this month, offering games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss to Gravity Rush.
Ultimately, you can have over 45 games in the 12 month period if you have a 1 year subscription. Pretty cool right?
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields was admired for her gentle, humorous but forgiving analysis of the human condition.
In such books as The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party and Small Ceremonies, Shields' delicate prose, wit and compassion invited comparisons with the work of Jane Austen and John Updike.
One critic described reading her books as like "watching busy human ants through a magnifying glass", in which Shields brought us humanity, "revealed in all its mundane, wonderful glory".
Writing about real women
Born in Chicago in 1935, Carol Shields enjoyed a relaxing childhood, feasting on the novels of Austen, Virginia Woolf and Graham Greene.
She married early, to Don, an engineering student she met in Scotland, and settled in her husband's native Canada with their growing family.
She resolved to write about the real women she knew and, after the publication of some poetry, her debut novel, Small Ceremonies, appeared in 1976.
Shields took several academic posts in Canada. She was a professor in Ottawa, a chancellor at the University of Winnipeg and, until recently, a teacher of literature in Manitoba.
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In addition, she enjoyed increasing success with the publication of The Box Garden, Happenstance and the Republic of Love.
Shields reached an international audience in 1995 with The Stone Diaries, the story of one Daisy Gooldwill Flett.
She followed this success with the novel Larry's Party, which won the Orange Prize in 1998, and was later adapted for the stage. The same year, Shields was diagnosed with breast cancer, but resolved to continue her work prodigiously.
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As well as a collection of short stories and a biography of her beloved Austen, she went on to produce Unless. A darker novel than her previous work, Unless was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2002.
She said: "When men write about ordinary people, they are thought to be sensitive. When women do it, they're called domestic."
Nevertheless, in contrast with Daisy, her mournful heroine, Carol Shields claimed to have no regrets.
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"I threw away my Legos after playing this well done game."
I wish I could give this an 8 and 1/2 because it really deserves it. Only a few technical flaws keep this game from achieving nirvana.
Stronghold is an ingenious blend of real time strategy (RTS) like Warcraft and castle building and maintenance similar to, well, um, a game where you build and maintain things. Stronghold is great because these two features blend so well. For example, building the strongest fortress in the world will mean nothing against invading armies if you don't have the troops to man the castle's defenses. Putting archers on the walls could mean the difference between breeches and victory. But archers alone will not save the day (or castle). That's where your foot soldiers come in. There is nothing like the experience of having your mounted knights charge forth from the gates while arrows wiz above them and intercept the enemy before they reach the castle walls. Will it hurt? You betcha! But boy is it satisfying.
Stronghold takes this formula and adds plenty of depth to keep the gaming strategist thoroughly entertained. A powerful strong hold requires an equally healthy economy which will have you scouring the land for food, wood and stone. However, the micro-management of your economy rarely causes any headaches since the game has a pretty intuitive resource management system. Once the appropriate buildings are made, the game takes care of collecting resources and depositing them to their appropriate location. The only thing you have to worry about is supplying a population to work, and this can only be done by expanding and keeping safe your acquired territory.
The Campaign mode is good fun and the game does have plenty of other modes of play like strictly economic games (which I find boring) and siege games (which I love). Whether its storming a castle or building one, there is a lot of fun to have with this game. The best feature, however, was the campaign building mode. This mode allows you to create your own little scenarios. You can create the natural terrain, place troops, build castles or towns, and let the chaos ensue. I made a whole bunch of maps with this feature and love challenging myself with smaller castles and troops against nearly invincible invaders. Good fun, indeed.
The only problem is that the isometric view (though I love it and think it suits the game perfectly) can affect the building of your dream castle. You can't build anywhere and you might often find yourself limited (or aided) by artificial boundaries (like the edge of the map). Who needs a wall when enemies can't leave the map? Look past this, and other minor graphical problems and you have one great game.
I can't comment on multiplaying because I don't swing that side of the tree. I like single player games and try not to waste my dime on internet connections. However, I can say that the game AI is plenty smart and defeating your enemies is a rewarding experience.
In conclusion, don't be fooled by what others say. This game is more realistic than most RTS games out there (walls here make a difference). Considering that you can find this cheap now-a-days, there is really no excuse not to get this game.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 07/15/03, Updated 07/15/03
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Notebook Addict of the Week: Brenda Susan
This week's addict blogs at Walking Butterfly, where she shows off some of her journals:
She says:
"I have filled dozens of personal journals over the years. I kept diaries when I was in school and continued all through college, single life, and early marriage. Then when I was pregnant with my first child I bought a pretty blank book and really began to record my thoughts, prayers, complaints, inner conversations and questions.
I still have all those diaries, spiral notebooks and journals full of my scribbles. These are me. My stories of parenting, pastoring and finding out who I am. As a new mom I knew that the special moments were just that. Just moments. So I wrote word pictures of our life together. I described the dirty soap left behind in my boy's bathroom, the leggos in the fridge and the stress of carpooling 5 junior high boys.
My great idea? Every once in a while I am going to randomly pick up a journal and open it without looking and then write about whatever is on that page…."
Read more at Walking Butterfly: My Brilliant Idea!
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- "Welsh-born. Lively young voice, very good range. Specialist in kids' voices."
- —Castaway description
Rhys Swinburn is a voice actor who provided the voice of a Snatcher and a Wizard in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.[1]He also provided a voice (or voices) in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game).
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POLICE in Wiltshire are currently investigating the theft of a substantial amount of money which is believed to have been part of a Christmas thrift fund collected by the landlord of the Royal Oak Pub in Shrewton.
Additionally, police are investigating the disappearance of the landlord Malcolm Levesconte, 59, who was last seen at the pub on Sunday 9 December.
Police are aware that Mr Levesconte booked tickets and boarded a ferry at Portsmouth that evening bound for St Malo in France.
At this stage, officers are treating this as a criminal investigation but also as a missing person enquiry.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Mr Levesconte is asked to contact Salisbury CID on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information can be left anonymously.
Anybody concerned about money they have paid in to the thrift club should contact the Royal Oak pub where their details will be recorded and passed to the police.


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Kandiyohi County praised for driver safety enforcement
WILLMAR — An eagerness to embrace and enforce a road-safety campaign has earned the Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office praise and a new piece of equipment from the state's "Toward Zero Death" program.
Tom Kummrow, the Toward Zero Deaths enforcement liaison with the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety, said Kandiyohi County Sheriff Dan Hartog and his team of law enforcement officers have a good history of using grant dollars to operate high-visibility programs, such as targeting impaired, speeding or unbuckled drivers.
But he said the county has also used its own initiative, time and officers on its own and "not just when they're on the state dollar."
Kummrow said some sheriffs shy away from that kind of proactive enforcement out of fear of not being re-elected.
"Thank you for allowing law enforcement to happen in Kandiyohi County," said Kummrow, who nominated Kandiyohi County for the award. "It doesn't happen in every county."
During a presentation this week to the Kandiyohi County Board of Commissioners, Kummrow said Kandiyohi County has made a commitment to using methods to educate people about safe driving practices that can decrease injury accidents and fatalities.
"It's on the front burner here," said Kummrow, who presented Hartog with a sleek, new speed radar gun that's valued at about $3,000.
He also praised Hartog for using state grants to team up with law enforcement in Swift County for the Toward Zero Deaths projects.
Kummrow said eventually they may be a blurring of lines between counties and municipal law enforcement agencies in an effort to continue to send a message about the importance of safe-driving practices.
He said a new educational and enforcement practice that some communities are starting to use includes posting large signs alerting drivers that they are entering a seat belt enforcement zone. The signs, and stops for violators, can be a big promotional tool, said Kummrow.
Kummrow said the Toward Zero Deaths initiative has been effective in lowering the overall number of fatal car crashes in Minnesota, but he said there are still too many.
Kandiyohi County averages about five fatal car crashes each year. Last year there were 11.
Of the 25 fatal crashes in the last five years, six of them were alcohol-related — which is below the state average — and four were unbelted, which is also below the state average, said Kummrow.
On another law enforcement issue, Hartog said the state's Department of Corrections is once again experiencing over-crowding in its facilities and is looking to house some prisoners in the Kandiyohi County Jail.
A one-year contract, which the state capped at $50,000, was approved on Tuesday.
Hartog said the county will be able to accommodate that limited number of state prisoners without hiring additional staff and without opening up a closed pod in the jail.


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Seems to me like its a no brainer...to have this? down side?
What's the Take On: ON-Q® PainBuster® Post-Op Pain Relief System
Doctor Answers 8
Pain pump for Mommy Makeover
Learn more: http://www.jjrothmd.com/procedures/tummy-tuck-abdominoplasty/
Pain Pump for Mommy makeover Procedures
I use the pain pump on every tummy tuck surgery I perform. This helps with post operative pain. It's a continuous drip for 3-5 days (depending on the pump) which helps the patient during the most difficult days of the recovery. You will still need to take your oral pain medication as the pain pump is not enough by itself. The feedback I hear from patients is that they were happy that they had the pain pump.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_mommyMakeover.htm
Pain pump after tummy tuck
As you can see, there are many surgeons who use the pain pump, and are happy with the results. Although I have used the pain pump in a few cases, I generally find that the patients do not have a great deal of pain after the tummy tuck, especially if the tummy tuck is done without drains (which, in my experience, cause more pain than the tightening of the muscle. The pain pump would not help with the pain due to the drains).
Also, as the other surgeons indicate, management of the pain pump does add an extra level of complexity for you after the surgery, and they do not eliminate the pain anyway. The pain pump tubes do provide an extra pathway for bacteria to potentially enter the area of surgery, and potentially cause an infection.
Further, it has always made me a little nervous sending the patient home with that much anesthetic -- if the pain pump were to malfunction and all of the anesthetic be delivered at one time, the results would probably be very bad (although I have absolutely no knowledge of any case where that has happened, it is the kind of thing that keeps a surgeon awake at night).
All in all, the pain pumps pose additional complexity, keep the incisions open to bacteria, open the possibility for a catastrophic failure, and do not eliminate the pain anyway. Not a no-brainer, in my opinion.
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Pain pumps and TT
These help - somewhat. We've used them for our tummy tucks - and honestly, I had hoped that they would do more than they do, for pain relief.
Don't expect to be "pain free"...you'll still need prescription-strength pain meds. But the pain pumps - regardless of the brand - do help somewhat for the first few days.
Good luck with your surgery!
On-Q Painbuster is Great for Mommy Makovers
The On-Q Painbuster, or any pain pump for that matter, will help you A LOT with pain control after surgery. The pain pump catheters are placed in areas of the most pain after your Mommy Makeover- typically the breast area and where your tummy muscles are tightened. The pain pump doesn't get rid of all of the pain, but it does get rid of a lot of the pain.
Since you're in less pain, you usually don't need as much pain medicine, or narcotics, by mouth. As you probably know, narcotics may cause drowsiness, constipation, nausea, and other side effects, so the fewer narcotics you can take, the better you will feel.
Make sure you talk to your plastic surgeon about pain relief after surgery. Best wishes with your Mommy Makeover!
Mommy Makeover and Pain Management
The use of the On-Q pain pump, along with provided pain medication, should effectively control discomfort so that the patient can move about and sleep as needed. We have been using the pain pump for many years with tremendous patient approval. Good luck.
Learn more: http://www.sanfranciscocosmetic-surgery.com/mommy_makevoer_faq.html#6
On-Q pain pump for less post op discomfort after tummy tuck
We have been using the On-Q pain pump for several years with tummy tucks (abdominoplasty). It works by slowly infusing numbing medication such as lidocaine into the surgical site for about 3 days, so patients need much less narcotic pain medication and recovery is faster. The disadvatage is that sometimes patients are more active than they should be, and the infusion may mean that drains need to be in a day or two longer. Even with the On-Q, drains typically come out by day 5 because we also use progressive tension sutures which help minimize fluid buildup.
Pain pumps for Mommy makeover
I use a pain pump with every tummy tuck I perform with a muscular repair. When used properly they greatly reduce the pain. The risk is that if too high a flow rate is chosen seromas can develop. I have not had a problem in this regard however.
On Q is one brand of the product that I have used and works well. There are other pain pump makers as well.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Lior Jacob Strahilevitz
Lior Strahilevitz received his BA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, graduating with highest honors. He received his JD in 1999 from Yale Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law in Seattle before joining the law school faculty in 2002. He was tenured in 2007 and served as the Law School's Deputy Dean from 2010 to 2012. In 2011, he was named the inaugural Sidley Austin Professor of Law. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2015. He is a two-time winner of the Law School graduating students' award for teaching excellence and has served as the Director of the David M. Rubenstein Scholarship Program since its inception.
His teaching and research interests include property and land use, privacy, intellectual property, contracts, law and technology, and motorist behavior.


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Rutter's Farm Introduces New Food Items
Wings, corn dogs, Tornados comprise chain's "munchy menu" of mid-afternoon snacks.
YORK, Pa. -- Rutter's Farm Stores has introduced boneless chicken wings among several new food-service items now available in each of its 50 locations in central Pennsylvania.
Made from whole white-meat chicken, the wings are breaded and fried. The two recipes -- Original and Hot-and-Spicy -- come with a choice of sweet and sour, barbecue or honey mustard sauce. A quarter-pound of wings (four pieces) sells for $1.99.
The other new items include:
* Whole white-meat chicken breast, which is breaded, fried and served on a Kaiser roll with cheese and bacon. It sells for $3.99.
* Corn dogs, which feature an all-meat hot dog wrapped in a corn meal batter coated with honey. Corn dogs are 99 cents each.
* Two Mexican items called Tornados, which are flour shells filled with sausage, egg and cheese for breakfast and chicken, cheese and sauce for lunch. They sell for 99 cents each.
Jerry Weiner, vice president of foodservice, said the wings, corn dogs and Tornados form the basis for Rutter's to offer a "munchy menu" of mid-afternoon snacks priced between 99 cents and $1.99.
"If you've already had lunch, no one wants a big sub at three in the afternoon, especially if you're having dinner in two hours," Weiner said. "These 'munchy menu' items offer a nice snack alternative to chips or candy."


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About the Book
Once upon a time, a happy little Christmas gnome wakes up and seeks out happy dreams of the holiday, but instead finds dirty dishes and bills. What has happened to Christmas? The story told in simple words and photography is appropriate for the entire family.
The characters of Grim Happy Christmas, Red Hob and Green Hob, were cherished vintage ornaments handed down from family and became the centerpiece of this book during a particularly skint holiday.
Christmas Gnomes (Tomten, Nisse, or Hobs) were Christmas kitsch ornaments Made In Japan during the 1950s of hand painted hard plastic faces topped by flocked paper hats. Arms, legs, and hair were chenille, and the bodies and feet were made from spun cotton.
Mr. Bumble Bindlegrim was a collector of holiday literature, and is said to have lived his later years among wild rabbits and mossy apple trees of an orchard on the San Juan Islands of northwest Washington.
Robert Aaron Wiley ( author of The Pumpkin Dream) is also an avid fan of holidays. He is known to explore the arts via writing, illustration, photography, design, digital media, music... as well as the history of vintage ephemera and kitsch.
About the Creator
Hello! My name is Robert Aaron Wiley, and welcome to the holiday world of Mr. Bindlegrim! An alter ego, if you will, for myself who never had much restraint when it came to holidays - always starting too soon, or too late (as evidenced by my parents confiscating that obnoxious 70s Halloween vinyl, I was playing over and over well after the holiday was done). Later in life, 2004 to be exact, I rediscovered my interests in these traditions, exploring them through art, writing, and music. You can read more about the most current photography book "The Grim Happy Christmas" or the Halloween illustrated poem "The Pummpkin Dream" (both books from the library of Mr. Bumble Bindegrim) at my holiday blog (http://bindlegrim.blogspot.com), or visit the holiday art website at (www.bindlegrim.com).
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Cufflink by Helen Bingham
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"Cufflink" is a knitted beaded bracelet that makes an amazing gift for a special friend. This pattern will give you virtually instant gratification, plus you can use lots of your stash for this project.
All you need is about 15 yards of a DK weight yarn. I used Bashful Fibers DK (50%silk/50% merino wool with 200 yards) Color: caramel plus 200-230 size 6 seed beads by Bead Biz (6/0 in Autumn Mix; www.beadbiz.org). The US 2 needle can be dpn's, circular or straight (your preference). The finished measurements are: 1" x 6".
Hope you like the pattern. xo
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Who Performed the Best on the Rachael Ray Show?
Last night on the Next Food Network Star the contestants had to perform a live demonstration with children on Rachael Ray's daytime television show. For the first time, I thought all of the contestants did surprisingly well. However, I thought Kelsey, whose interaction with the girl scout was wonderful, performed the best. The judges disagreed and she was in the bottom two. Did you watch?


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Activities at the October 22 Wednesday Strategy Lunch chaired by Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK).
Andrea Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition discussed S. 869/HR 1858, the Homosexual Quota Bill, for which Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT) intends to hold hearings shortly. According to the bill's text, it is designed "to provide a comprehensive federal prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation [and] to provide meaningful and effective remedies for employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation." "Sexual orientation" is defined in the legislation as "homosexuality, bisexuality, or heterosexuality, whether the orientation is real or perceived."
Sheldon discussed and made available written information on why passage of this legislation would, under current employment law and practice, lead to quotas for homosexuals. She also noted that this proposed law is broader in scope than any other enacted civil rights law. It was also noted that: 1) The law would require employers to invade the privacy of their employees because, in order to be certain that homosexuals were sufficiently represented in their workforce, employers would have to quiz employees on their sexual behavior; 2) The law would place employers in the crossfire between claims from homosexual or bisexual advocates and employees with religious or moral beliefs about homosexual or bisexual behavior; 3) The law would require employers with religious or moral opposition to homosexual or bisexual behavior to suppress their opinions, as acknowledging their own beliefs would demonstrate an illegal animus against employees participating in homosexual or bisexual activities; 4) The law would require employers and employees to suppress personal opposition, when it exists, to behaviors that are illegal in many states; 5) Legal actions brought under this law could require the wholesale invasion of privacy of an entire workforce so an employer's record of treatment of employers based on the employee's sexual activities could be discerned in court proceedings; 6) Some small companies could go bankrupt even if they won a case brought under this law, as costs for winning when charges are dismissed in civil rights cases average between $5,000 and $25,000; for winning in summary judgements $25,000 to $75,000 and for winning at trial $150,000 to $250,000.
Sheldon asked participants to contact Senator Lott about this legislation. For a handout or more information contact Andrea Sheldon at 202/547-8570.
Peter Roff of GOPAC noted that Members of Congress are arranging, with interested constituents, to visit over 30 Internal Revenue Service offices this November 15 as the IRS hosts "Open Houses" in select locations. IRS "Open Houses" will be held in: Phoenix, Laguna Nigel, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Denver, Hartford, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Chicago, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, St. Paul, St. Louis, Newark, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Manhattan, Greensboro, Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Richmond, Seattle and Milwaukee. Roff also distributed copies of GOPAC's new bumper sticker: "Support the IRS: Vote Democrat." Contact Peter Roff at 202/484-2282 or [email protected] (www.gopac.com).
Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) discussed two issues: 1) Legislation he has introduced, with Rep. Bill Paxon (R-NY) to end the current tax code by the end of 2000 ("We can do it by the end of 2000 and start the great debate over what we replace it with."); and 2) Hearing his subcommittee will hold November 6 on the impact of violent music lyrics on youth. Witnesses will include C. Delores Tucker, chairman of the National Political Congress of Black Women and Hilary Rosen, President of the Recording Industry Association of America. Contact Senator Brownback at 202/224-6521.
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) and Peter Roff of GOPAC discussed the President's opposition to, and likely upcoming veto of, Senator Paul Coverdell's legislation to permit parents to save money tax-free for their children's education. Contact Susan Hirshmann at 202/225-0197 or Peter Roff at 202/484-2282 or [email protected] (www.gopac.com).
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) discussed "Fast Track" legislation (which would give the President authority to negotiate an unamendable trade treaty). DeLay said that Fast Track would be brought to the floor for a vote when there are 70-90 Democrats voting for it. Noting that 95 Democrats voted for NAFTA, DeLay said "We're going to have a hard time getting 150 Republicans to vote for Fast Track. We're going to need at least 70 Democrats." As a Fast Track supporter, DeLay also criticized President Clinton (who also is a supporter) for inactivity on this issue: "The President has done nothing. He's just started making phone calls 1-2 days ago, after most of the Democrats' votes were already set." Contact Susan Hirshmann at 202/225-0197.
Myron Ebell of Frontiers of Freedom briefed participants on problems property rights activists and conservatives have with S. 1180, the Kempthorne-Chafee "Endangered Species Recovery Act." He noted that the bill was largely written by Kempthorne and the offices of Senators Max Baucus (D-MT), John Chafee (R-RI), Harry Reid (D-NV), along with Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, and that advocates of property rights were essentially shut out of deliberations and not permitted to testify during Senate hearings. Following a discussion of policy aspects of the legislation, he distributed an information kit. Contact Myron Ebell at 703/527-8282.
Bulletin Board: Publications, statements, activities and plans of conservatives in Washington.
Author Dinesh D'Souza has just completed an engaging new biography, scheduled to hit bookstores in November, "Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became and Extraordinary Leader." Chock-full of anecdotes, the book covers Reagan's youth and family life but is especially powerful when it re-creates Reagan's successes in Washington, noting with insight the powerful obstacles he faced and the at times novel ways he overcame them. Author Tom Wolfe says about the book :This marvelous book... convincingly demonstrates Ronald Reagan's moral, political and -- Yes! I'm afraid so! --intellectual superiority... The judge? The only objective one: History." Contact Dinesh D'Souza at 202/862-5800.
The American Policy Center is calling on opponents of making
the UN's Climate Change Protocol American law to stop what they
are doing for one hour on December 5 to protest the treaty. Says
APC: "During that hour attend an old-fashioned Fourth-of-July-type
celebration of liberty. Can't leave work or the house? Wear a
red, white and blue arm band or wrap it around your tree. Turn
on your car lights, honk your horn, call the newsmedia, Congress
and the White House... Bill Clinton is going to Kyoto, Japan to
sign a treaty that will severely damage the U.S. -- for no reason.
Spend one hour to save your nation. Strike for Liberty!"
Contact John Meredith at 703/925-0881 (www.americanpolicy.org).


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JERUSALEM (Jan. 31)
Informed sources said here Friday that United Nations Secretary General U Thant and UN Mideast emissary Gunnar Jarring intend to propose the early removal of the Jarring talks from the UN site in New York to a city in the Middle East. The sources said this information had been conveyed to them by Thant. He and Dr. Jarring also reportedly want to propose that the level of the indirect Israel-Arab talks be raised from the ambassadorial level to that of foreign minister. Both proposals were initially made by Israel and rejected by the Arabs who insisted on New York as the talks' site.
Their demand for an ambassadorial level was reportedly motivated by the wish to downgrade the talks as much as possible from any status as negotiations. Israel accepted the Arab demands last summer to get the talks, proposed by Secretary of State William P. Rogers, underway and named Foreign Minister Abba Eban as its official delegate. He still holds that appointment but Israel's UN Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah was named as Eban's deputy.
It was also learned here that, contrary to reports appearing in New York, the Nixon Administration has not asked Israel for any concession as the price for extension of the present cease-fire, scheduled to expire Feb. 5. The sources said the Administration has in fact expressed "great satisfaction" with Israel's attitude on the Jarring talks and is unwilling to yield to any Egyptian pressures to demand a political gesture from Israel. It was also reported that if peace can be reached with Jordan, Israel would be willing to yield part of its sovereignty over Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the area in the old city on which the Herodian Temple once stood. Part of that area now is the site of the Dome of the Rock and the El Aksa Mosque, which together constitute the third holiest place of the Moslem faith. According to a plan, reportedly worked out at the highest Israel Government levels, Israel would cede to Jordan sovereignty over the two mosques and a road from the mosques to the Jordanian border once a peace treaty with Jordan is signed. The rest of the Temple Mount would be leased to the Jordanian Government.