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It has been one of the most public pregnancies ever. Daily some five million sharp-eyed viewers have been able to catch glimpses of Jane Pauley's maternal blooming as she scurried about the Today show set. Who can deny that she looked radiant? And if she wasn't saying much about what everybody could see—impending twins are hardly unobtrusive, after all—then Willard Scott could be counted on to say something waggish about the "little mother."
Until this week, that is. Just seven weeks away from her due date of Jan. 11,1984, Pauley has temporarily turned over her anchor's chair to Connie Chung to begin her (paid) maternity leave. "I'll be home sleeping late, watching TV or twiddling my thumbs," says Pauley, 33. But, like many other mothers past 30, she's not planning to stay out of the work force for long. "I know it's going to kill me to leave the babies at home when I come back to work in late February," she says. "But in this business I don't feel I have the luxury of taking a year off."
With the once-unchallenged Today currently running nip and tuck against the flashier Good Morning America with David Hartman, and CBS Morning News showing more showbiz pizazz with Diane Sawyer and Bill Kurtis, Pauley has a right to feel protective. But after a much-publicized miscarriage in 1981 and a second, little-known miscarriage in 1982, she is taking no chances with the health of her babies. "Twins are a high-risk pregnancy, by definition," she says. Noting that twins tend to come early, Pauley says, "The quieter I am, the longer I can keep them growing."
To maintain her strength, Jane has been swimming at least once a week. In addition, she's been attending weekly Lamaze classes along with her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau, 35, whose musical adaptation of his strip, Doonesbury, has just opened on Broadway. "He gets just as ashen-faced as I do when they talk about pain," Jane says. Trudeau's strip showed feminist Joanie Caucus and her husband, Rick Redfern, as expectant parents. "The pregnancy story is somewhat autobiographical," says Jane, "but Joanie and Rick are not identical with Jane and Garry."
Trudeau plans to be with his wife in the delivery room, where she hopes "to deliver with as few drugs as possible." Jane and Garry do not know whether the twins are identical or fraternal, nor does she know the babies' gender. (Since Jane is under 35, her doctor did not recommend amniocentesis.) "Most people want a boy and a girl—one of each—when they have twins," she says, "but Garry and I would prefer two girls."
Most of all, they would prefer no complications. Though the couple have turned one of the rooms in their three-bedroom Manhattan apartment into a nursery (painted yellow), Jane has not decorated the room with any of the hundreds of gifts (from twin pairs of booties to baby blankets) she's received from Today viewers. Superstitious, she has stashed the toys in her office for now and decreed "no baby showers" until after the infants are born. "I've seen so many parents left with a room full of toys after a miscarriage. Women don't realize how common miscarriage is—more than one out of 10 pregnancies. I don't want to tempt fate."
Pauley's 1981 miscarriage was particularly painful because it was public knowledge. When she was three months pregnant, she shared her good news with Today staff members. The report was leaked to columnists, and items about Jane's happy tidings appeared the same week that she lost her baby. "It was hard to have my private loss made so public at a time when I was grieving," says Pauley, who felt "an indefinable void" in her life. "Men and women both wrote to tell me how they had been through the same experience but had gone on to have other children. It was comforting to hear their stories." There was no press coverage of her second miscarriage—few outside her family knew about it. "It happened so early—at two weeks—that it didn't have the same impact," she says. "It was, in a sense, a good sign, because it told me I could become pregnant again."
When she found out in June that she was carrying twins, Pauley remembers, "I was thrilled and in shock. At that point I wasn't prepared to be the parent of one, much less two, but I've never been tempted to give one back." (Jane—whose great-grandmother was a twin—will neither confirm nor deny that she was taking fertility drugs before the pregnancy.) "This pregnancy does not have anything to do with the first," she says, "but after the miscarriages it seems only fair to have two."
Some of her associates at NBC believe that Jane gained a new maturity after the first miscarriage. "It was a terrible thing, but it made her a more compassionate person," says Steve Friedman, the executive producer of Today. "Before that, she had had this perfect life, with no problems."
Impending motherhood even seems to have benefited Pauley's on-air performance. When she was hired in 1976 to replace Barbara Walters on Today, the 25-year-old Pauley seemed controlled and edgy on-camera, as if determined to prove to her critics that she was not some inexperienced airhead. In recent months she has loosened up, cracking jokes with her male cohorts and reacting more personally in her interviews. "My life outside Today is so much richer that I'm willing to take more risks on the air," says Pauley. "I've been told by several NBC executives that I'm doing my best work ever."
Today film critic Gene Shalit agrees. "I've liked her from the beginning, but she's so radiant now that it's a pleasure to be near her."
Born Margaret Jane Pauley (she has an older sister, Ann, a nuclear engineer), the future anchorwoman was reared in Indianapolis. Her mother was a homemaker, her father a food-products distributor. A year after graduating from Indiana University with a degree in political science, she was hired—with no journalism experience—as a reporter for an Indianapolis TV station that was looking for a female staffer. She worked as the first female co-anchor of an evening news program in Chicago before being picked from 250 applicants to replace Barbara Walters on Today.
Pauley was derided as a triumph of corn-fed style over experience-bred substance. But, she says, "It was a different time for women in TV news. I had done more on-air work than more experienced journalists who were up for the job." Besides, she adds, "I was too naive to know what failure would mean to my career."
When Good Morning America co-host Joan Lunden was pregnant, in 1980 and 1983, GMA boosted its ratings with maternity stories featuring Joan. In contrast, Pauley did not formally announce her current pregnancy until shortly before she began her leave, though columnist Liz Smith had printed the news when Pauley was only two months pregnant. "Good Morning America exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air," says Jane. "The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy."
On a more serious note, Pauley recently became unsettled while interviewing a health expert about toxoplasmosis, a disease carried by cats that can infect pregnant women and may result in retarded infants. "I'm a cat owner," Jane explains, "and I suddenly recalled being ill a few weeks earlier. I took both the cats and myself for testing and was relieved to discover that there wasn't any problem."
Before she began her leave, Pauley had to make few changes in her rigorous work schedule. In the past three months she has been getting up at 4 a.m., as usual, for the show, then returning home for a noontime nap before putting in three more hours at the network in the afternoon. "From July on, I felt full of tremendous energy," she says, "although in the last two weeks I began to feel myself slow down to 15 mph." (Pauley, who normally weighs about 110 pounds, expects to have gained 40 to 45 pounds by the time the babies are born. "I've gotten used to having people on the street look me not in the eye but the stomach," she says with a laugh.)
The only bad time for Pauley came in June, when she suffered morning sickness. "I would often race for the bathroom after an interview," she says. "Tom Wolfe and Nora Ephron don't know how close I came to throwing up on them." Jane missed only two days of work during her pregnancy.
Pauley insists she's not worried about resuming her demanding job. "My work schedule allows me to come and go during the day, and my husband will be at home with the children." Trudeau, who has a studio in the apartment, began a one-year sabbatical from drawing Doonesbury last January, announcing that he wanted to bring his characters into the '80s. Says Pauley, "He's as eager to learn about parenting as I am." Helping the neophyte parents will be a nurse, who will live in for the first two months. "Art Ulene [the Today show's on-air physician] told me that twins never eat or need to be changed at the same time," says Pauley. "He said, 'I have only two words of advice for you: Get help.' "
Tom Brokaw, the father of three girls, says, "It amuses me to think how their lives will change after the babies. They'll have two 24-hour-a-day responsibilities. But they have a shared marriage, and they'll make it work." Brokaw brought the two together at a dinner party six months after Jane's arrival in New York in 1976. "Garry had asked me about Jane, and my wife, Meredith, thought that Jane needed a local boyfriend." Their common bond was frozen dinners. "We found that we shared an intimate knowledge of every brand," says Jane. They were wed in 1980.
Although he is married to a journalist, Trudeau never gives interviews. "It may seem odd," says his wife, "but he feels that his work shows his opinions. I value my privacy almost as much as he does, even though I work on television." According to friends, Trudeau is delighted and ready for fatherhood. He has passed muster with at least one grandparent. "He's got his feet on the ground," says Jane's father, Dick Pauley. At 68, he shares Garry's preference for girls. "Girls never get too old to sit on their daddy's lap," he says.
As she nestles in for the last weeks of her pregnancy, Jane Pauley is pleased to be "just another healthy, pregnant lady." She insists that she is not following the trend of celebrity motherhood and supermom chic. "Because our generation has waited so long to have babies, we feel we've 'discovered' something that women have been doing for thousands of years. I have no illusions that I will be in the same situation as the average working mother. I'm not trying to prove anything—I just want to have kids."


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Depressions is often described as a state of loss, sadness, loneliness or hopelessness that occurs over a longer than normal period of time and causes the depressed individual to have problems with managing their normal daily tasks in their lives by keeping them in a negative state of thought and/or emotion which the individual often feels is impossible to reduce or cure.
While the length of being in a negative mental and/or emotional state can vary and feelings of loss, sadness and loneliness are normal depending on the situation (such as when an individual losses a loved one or when a serious break up occurs) when it extends beyond a healthy amount of time and to a mentally/emotionally debilitating state it causes the individual to lose his or her ability to function normally within their life and can lead to number of different health and relationship issues such as:
- The loss of important relationships due to a lack of mental/emotional availability
- Loss of self esteem and self worth
- Inability to perform tasks and responsibilities at work
- Degrading mental and emotional health
- Lowered immune system which can increase the likelihood of getting sick
- Increased opportunity of acquiring osteoporosis, insomnia and a host of other medical conditions
- Difficulty having conversations or socializing with others
- Inability to concentrate
- Inability to experience pleasure
- Increased thoughts of suicide
And a host of other mental and/or emotional issues due to being in a highly negative state for an extended amount of time.
While depression is common it can be treated and cured with the right kind of medical, psychological and emotional care.
Everyone experiences a sense of depression at some point in their lives however those who are constantly in a state of depression or in a heightened depressed state may be considered clinically depressed at which point many healthcare provides will recommend seeking out a healthcare specialists who can help mitigate and/or eliminate the depression rather than having the individual try to handle the depression on their own.
Patients who choose to work with a specialist may choose to seek out a mental health care specialist or psychologist to help them understand their condition and develop healthier habits and treatment plans, obtain prescribed medications that can reduce the symptoms of depression and improve the ability to focus and lead normal lives and seek out a holistic care specialist to look for alternative methods of health care among other forms of treatment.
When treated effectively individuals will often be able to resume normal daily tasks without feelings of negativity and be able to have regular healthy conversations with others.
Effective treatment can also reduce or eliminate the dependency of stimulants and/or drugs allowing individuals to focus on what's important to them without having to rely on chemicals to keep them from becoming depressed.
In conclusion depression is a state of excess negative emotions combined with a sense of hopelessness that causes the depressed individual to feel as though they are unable to be happy and reduces his/her ability to perform regular daily tasks.
When treated properly depression can be significantly reduced or eliminated allowing the individual to focus on moving forward their lives and manage their normal daily responsibilities while also helping them regain their sense of self worth, happiness and ability to communicate effectively with others.

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Quake IV will be released for Linux
Timothee 'TTimo' Besset from id Software confirmed officially that the next sequel of the Quake series, Quake IV will be released for the Linux platform.
The dedicated server will be released around the same time as the Windows version. The linux client, might be delayed a week or two. Quake4 will use the Simple Direct Media Layer (SDL) backend for input and OpenGL on Linux. The low level sys code for Linux had been needing a good rewrite for several years, so it made sense to use SDL now.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ +16 years-old ] Tunisia, summer 2003. challat, a man on a motorcycle with a razor in hand, prowls the streets. Ten years later, after the revolution, when the truth seems to reach a stubborn filmmaker wants to keep track of challat, determined to uncover the mystery at all costs. You can watch Challat Tunes (Challat of Tunis) online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in French at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Runtime: 90 minutes
Jallel Dridi, Moufida Dridi, Mohamed Slim Bouchiha and Narimène Saidane.
90-minute film (full movie) directed by Kaouther Ben Hania.
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Screenplay written by Kaouther Ben Hania.
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Without commercial breaks, the full movie Challat Tunes (Challat of Tunis) has a duration of 90 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or French in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Alice Cooper: 'We should take New Year's Eve supershow line-up on the road'
Rockers Alice Cooper and Steven Tyler are keen to take their New Year's Eve (31Dec13) party on the road after ringing in 2014 for charity in Maui, Hawaii. The two adopted Hawaiians staged a star-studded show on the last night of 2013 for the Maui Food Bank, where they were joined by Sammy Hagar, former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, Weird Al Yankovic and actors Tom Arnold and Keith Carradine – and Cooper is still recovering from the big gig.
In a new blog on his Nights With Alice Cooper radio show website, the School's Out rocker says, "It was the best concert of 2014 so far and it was probably the best sounding thing ever.
"Steven Tyler and I talked about, 'We should take that thing on the road with the same bunch of guys."


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ATLANTA - Georgians got some glimpses during the just-concluded General Assembly session of how divided government can work.
Republicans and Democrats got together this year to preserve the HOPE Scholar-ship program, pass a K-12 education bill and make Georgia the last state in the nation to enact a felony child-endangerment law. Conservative Democrats primarily from rural Georgia joined their GOP colleagues to approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
But with the power in state government split between the Democrats running the House and the Republicans in control of the Senate and governor's office, Gov. Sonny Perdue's legislative agenda suffered some rough treatment.
Several of the governor's top priorities - overhauling Georgia's system governing medical-malpractice lawsuits, tightening ethics-in-government requirements and letting religious groups use state money to deliver social services - fell victim to partisan squabbling.
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''We did not get tort reform or ethics, (and) the governor's faith-based initiative didn't even get a hearing,'' said House Republican Whip Jerry Keen of St. Simons Island. ''This session demonstrated there are very specific differences between the two parties.''
Perhaps the ultimate example of the parties' inability to reach a consensus was the General Assembly's failure to adopt new legislative district maps, an issue suddenly thrust into the picture in February when a federal court panel overturned the current maps. The new districts, where lawmakers will be forced to run this summer and fall, ended up being drawn by the courts.
On the bright side
But late last week, in the days immediately following Wednesday's end of the session, Perdue was more interested in talking about how Republicans and Democrats put aside their disagreements to pass important legislation.
He cited the bills on education, HOPE, child protection and a measure calling for Georgia's first statewide water-management plan as key accomplishments. ''It may not have been a home run, but it was a triple headed for home,'' Perdue said.
Indeed, Georgia's experiment with divided government did fare better during the Republicans' second year sharing power with their political opposites than the first, said Senate President Pro Tempore Eric Johnson, R-Savannah.
Johnson noted that he, Perdue and House Speaker Terry Coleman, D-Eastman, are in just their second year in new leadership positions.
''Last year was a learning year for the House and the Senate and the governor,'' Johnson said.
Working together, Perdue and Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, a Democrat, steered the child-endangerment measure through the General Assembly, legislation Taylor had been pushing for several years. The bill also prohibits the possession or manufacture of methamphetamines in the presence of a child, a provision Perdue championed.
''To get the governor and lieutenant governor on board was what it really took to get the job done,'' said Taylor.
The two parties also worked hand in hand to approve legislation aimed at keeping the lottery-funded HOPE program financially solvent.
Based on recommendations by a study commission headed by a Republican and a Democrat, the bill sets up a mechanism for gradually reducing HOPE's coverage of books and student fees when and if the growth in scholarships starts to outpace lottery revenues.
Legislative struggles
However, Taylor found times during this year's session - particularly in its final chaotic hours - when divided government sputtered.
Partisan wrangling over a bill funding Georgia's new indigent-defense system resulted in the adoption of an unbalanced budget during the last hour of the session Wednesday night, prompting Perdue to announce that he would call a special session within the next few weeks.
Also, difficult negotiations over the governor's education bill kept it from squeezing through the Senate until just before the midnight deadline. It didn't clear the House until several minutes into Thursday morning.
''We came really close to not passing an education bill or a budget ... our most important job,'' said Taylor. ''That's not good.''
But Johnson said Georgia's new era of divided government actually may have helped the education bill get under the wire. The legislation, which addresses issues from truancy to charter schools to mandatory testing of third-graders, was too complicated for rank-and-file lawmakers to sift through when they were handed a conference committee agreement on it minutes before midnight.
Johnson said Republicans and Democrats alike voted for a bill they had barely seen because both parties had sent conferees to the bargaining table.
''One of the things that helped do that was that it was a bipartisan conference committee,'' he said.
Unfinished business
The education bill, however, fared better than Perdue-backed bids to reform Georgia's civil-justice system and the state's ethics-in-government laws.
Both efforts made a little more progress than last year. House Democratic leaders, who bottled up tort reform in 2003, got behind a bill this year that would have limited hospitals' liability for treatment in emergency rooms and tightened standards for expert witnesses in medical-malpractice cases.
But the legislation died after reform supporters, intent on placing caps on liability for non-economic damages resulting from medical negligence, rejected a bid to ''engross'' the leadership bill, which would have kept the caps provision out of the measure.
Perdue's ethics legislation, including tighter restrictions on campaign contributions and financial disclosure reports filed by public officials, made it through the House Judiciary Committee this year - unlike in 2003 - only to die in the Rules Committee.
Taylor blamed the volume of unfinished business left by the legislature in part on the time Republicans took pushing a socially conservative agenda that included the gay-marriage ban.
The House spent significant chunks of two days debating the proposal after it passed the Senate, falling three votes short the first time it came to the floor, then approving it on the second round.
The constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage will be on November's ballot.
Religious conservatives were unsuccessful, however, with the governor's faith-based initiative as well as several bills that would have authorized cities and counties to post the Ten Commandments as part of displays honoring America's religious heritage.
''Throughout the session, we warned them that we were wasting time on divisive issues,'' said Taylor.
Brandon Larrabee of Morris News Service contributed to this report.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, April 11, 2004.
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- 600 g salmon fillets, cut into four equal portions
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ground
- ½ teaspoon cumin, ground
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 cup cooked basmati rice
Mango salsa
- 1 avocado, diced.
- 1 red capsicum, deseeded and diced
- 1 mango, diced
- ½ red onion, finely diced
- ½ cup mint, leaves picked
- 1 lime, juiced
- For the jerk fish, place allspice, cayenne pepper, chilli powder, cinnamon, cumin, salt and pepper in a bowl. Mix to combine.
- Drizzle salmon with olive oil, then rub the spice mix into the salmon.
- Heat a large frypan on medium-high heat. Add fish to the pan and cook for 4 minutes each side, until salmon is cooked through (this will depend on how thick your salmon fillet is). You want the salmon to be still pink in the very middle as it will continue to cook when taken off the heat.
- For the mango salsa, add all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and toss to combine.
- Place one salmon fillet on a plate with ¼ cup of cooked basmati rice and a big handful of mango salsa to serve.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Today I turned 29. I hate birthdays. Though to my credit I also hate graduations, anniversaries, and other largely celebratory moving on moments. Since I was little I could only ever visualize my life to high school graduation - you do what you're told, you try things without repercussion, you get good grades, you perform well, you apply to college, and then you go to college. I've had trouble with everything that comes after that since, well, that.
Birthdays are an uncontrollable and I like control. Obviously. I mean clearly I've used food as a control for quite some time. So when July 17th hits I'm typically disappointed in being unable to control the fact that I've gotten older and yet simultaneously not be able to get excited that it's my birthday.
I know as you get older you learn to appreciate it. I know I'll look back and think, "how silly" of me to have taken all this for granted; but that doesn't change my here and now, which is something I really need to start taking more stock in. In fact, the birthday message delivered from SP this morning really resonated with me on this level. It opens by stating, "What matters most in life is often viewed as peripheral to the things that we usually focus on. Passion takes a backseat to production, wellness to working, and balance to busyness. The old adage that 'life is not a dress rehearsal' is so true, and yet we act to the contrary by putting off what is truly important or indulging in things that are not. On your birthday, stop focusing on your age and start meditating on your life at this exact moment." It continues, but I'll leave something to surprise, assuming everyone receives the same email on his or her birthday.
So my husband and I took the day and did what I felt like doing. Not because I was older or hate birthdays, but because I just wanted to live outside of my routine and be with me (well, and him). I've been flipping through our photos of today and saw three unique perspectives of myself.
This is what I saw:
Just nature. The calm water, my feet basking in the sun, and peacefulness. So I captured it.
This is what my husband saw:
His wife on a mission, enjoying the water, but also avoiding the camera.
And then there is what I appreciate in hindsight:
Me relaxed, enjoying the water break and smiling for a picture.
And the great strides I've made in 6.5 months. I am 67 pounds lighter literally and a good bit more confident and solid minded. So even though I'm still self-loathing on the birthday front, I can honestly say I am proud of the strides I'm making.
me! 29 will be good.
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Happy belated birthday! I've only kayaked once. My husband and I were in Jamaica on our honeymoon. I enjoyed it though. I hope you enjoy 29. You look great.
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Happy anniversary of your birth...
Remember on an anniversary a whole year has not just happened... you are just one day further along than you were the day before.
As for me, every day/year past the age or 42 has been a grateful bonus. My father died very young and I never expected to out number his years. My goal was to live to see my children into adulthood.
You may not be able to control events.. but you can control your attitude/viewpoint. You are looking great !! May you have a great many more wonderful days ahead.
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Happy Birthday! You're doing so great--congratulations and keep up the good work!
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Mike Krzyzewski, it turns out, has another Olympics in him after all.
Coach K will return as USA Basketball coach for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero and will coach the U.S. team in the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain, according to multiple reports. A press conference is scheduled for Thursday. Under the Duke coach, the U.S. men's team has won gold in the last two Olympics.
Krzyzewski never seemed certain to give up the gig, although he indicated differently right after the London Games. All it took was a little time.
"He was already having some withdrawal symptoms," Jerry Colangelo, president of USA Basketball, told USA Today on Monday. "So, as I read it, it was just a matter of in due course and in due time, he'll come to a decision. It had to be a decision that was right for him and his family and the university as well as USA Basketball. That's why I've given him all the time he needed."
Krzyzewski's return was first reported by SI.com's Pete Thamel, who wrote about Krzyzewski's impact on the program:
After USA Basketball's disappointing and dysfunctional bronze-medal performance in the 2004 Olympics, Krzyzewski did more than lead the Americans back atop the medal stand. He and Colangelo have built a structure that encourages the best young players in the country to compete for spots on the national team. The humbling defeats showed the Americans that they could no longer just show up and beat the best teams in the world, so Krzyzewski and Colangelo transformed USA Basketball from a series of random cameos for some top stars into a well-organized, competitive system.
Krzyzewski will coach the first mini-camp for this Olympic cycle in late July in Las Vegas. Changes are expected to Krzyzewski's staff, which included Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni and former Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan in London. Boeheim said on Saturday that it's "probable" he'll return to coach with Krzyzewski.
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Took this photo while travelling around Indonesia a couple of weeks ago. This was taken on an island just off the coast of Lombok.
I really like it and ~
That is......just wow O_O I wish I were there *Tear* XD nice Shot
thought it was another of your landscapes, awesome shot tough
I LOVE it, Beautiful and somber shot, the warm tones and lighting help to bring out the lonely and dramatic mood. The lone black silhouette figure appears small and almost insignificant next to the large, vast seascape which occupies most of the space and attention, this image rings my bells .....
wow love those clouds
LOL thought this was one of your digital paintings. Cool pic though
Amazing. Enough said.
aww more lovely scene than kuta beach XD
Was it the Gili Islands a few klicks east of Lombok? I was there a few years ago.
it is so beautiful that ot looks like a illustration.
Wich Camera?
Wich Camera?
Herm...that's not something he usually hears.
Well, I didn't knew what else I should say and I see that my english knowledge was also worst at that time. But I was interested wich photographic objective or camera he used. The photograph really is the definition of beauty in the nature.
gilli islses?
Wow this is beautiful. Looking at that picture nice and big is just surreal. But then I suppose that fits with the rest of your gallery Brilliant job.
Very nice, I really like the outlines of the people
Lol I was thinking how you get such fine details and realism before reading the description
what a good place, inspiring!!!
Very beautiful!
very cool-
Wow, i'm indonesian yet i've never been in lombok. i have to go there when i got the chance!
Beautiful scene! Love the colors playing against the almost-blacks, and the silhouettes of the people are a great touch too.
Stunning scene!
Beautiful shot.
Hard to make a shot that isn't when you're in Indo but.
Hard to make a shot that isn't when you're in Indo but.
this looks so beautiful....
Just awesome.
Wow that's beautiful! I love the black shadow against the orange/yellow. Mind if I use it for my desktop background?
beautiful sky
nasty beach
nasty beach
I'm impressed by you enough to thought you have drawn it by yourself in PS.
And still, I can't tell.
Both could be possible. The painting and the photogaph.
I'm impressed by you enough to thought you have drawn it by yourself in PS.
And still, I can't tell.
Both could be possible. The painting and the photogaph.
this would be beautiful to paint..
The colours are so beautiful and its very atmospheric moreso than than the majority of sunset based photos I've seen. 'd
Absolutely gorgeous.
Astonishing cumuli.
Lovely shot, Dan.
Yep Indonesia have a lot of beautiful places, this one is a great shot
Absolutely stunning. Love the sun
Beautiful shot! I need to post some of my beach sunset pics now!
This a beautiful shot with pretty details in the sky, looks great image also the contrast. Good work.
I thought it was a painting at first. I mean, it easily could be, what with your skill.


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text: Posted August 11, 2016 · Report post We just finished a week of challenges for our birthday week here at Scrapaneers. I thought the challenge to make a layout based on a mood board of random things looked like fun and even though the challenge is over, I'm going to try that. It's a new type of challenge for me. Before now I have always enjoyed doing a scraplift challenge and I don't much like the challenge where they give you something to add to your layout each day and try to throw a curveball at you. In the end, I want to come out with a layout I'm happy with. What kinds of challenges do you enjoy? Maybe we can include some in our monthly challenges. Quote Share this post Link to post


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Blood Meridian is the fifth novel by American author Cormac McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses, The Road, No Country for Old Men).
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Old Wild West.
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
This has to be one of the most shockingly violent and beautifully - if unconventionally - written books I've ever read. The character of the Judge is captivating and terrifying in equal measure, a definite read...


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Skanks Trailer (2014)
"A documentary about theatre and family." 22 July 2014 85 mins
In religion and football-obsessed Alabama, a group of actors bond while producing an original drag musical. In the winter of 2012 a community theatre in Birmingham, Alabama mounted an original musical, 'Skanks in a One Horse Town.' 'Skanks' follows the actors and creators from rehearsal through performance and after, at work, at their homes, and with their families. The cast of amateur performers bond to form a family of sorts while creating the unconventional show in a conservative Southern city.
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Practice-Based Learning to Predict Polyp Histology at Colonoscopy
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Most colorectal cancers arise from polyps. Most polyps removed at colonoscopy are small. New technologies such as narrowband imaging (NBI) offer the possibility of in differentiation between precancerous and unimportant small polyps. Use of these technologies could decrease the costs and potentially the risks of screening and surveillance colonoscopy.
Multiple studies have demonstrated the ability of experienced endoscopists to achieve high accuracy in differentiating polyp types using NBI.
The investigators hypothesize that community-based endoscopists can learn to identify polyp type at colonoscopy with the aid of NBI through the use of an introductory didactic program, followed by practice based-learning, and that their experience can serve as guidelines for wider dissemination.
The purpose of this study is to test an educational program combining a didactic program followed by practice-based learning that is designed to allow community-based endoscopists to become proficient at the use of NBI in the colon. This study will not affect the care of patients in any way. The research subjects will be the endoscopists, who will perform colonoscopy and polyp removal in the usual clinical fashion, with the addition of attempting to predict polyp type before resection.
|Colonic Polyps Adenomatous Polyps
|Behavioral: Ex vivo module Behavioral: In vivo practice-base learning phase
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|Practice-Based Learning to Predict Polyp Histology at Colonoscopy: A Demonstration Project in Community Practice
- Proportion of participants achieving 90% accuracy [ Time Frame: 6-12 months depending on when an endoscopist has assessed 50, 70 and 90 independent diminutive polyps ]Success for a participant was defined as achieving ≥90% accuracy in optical diagnosis of diminutive polyps. This was based on the last 30 consecutive independent diminutive polyps per participant at one of three pre-specified points (at polyp #50, 70 or 90).
- Learning curves [ Time Frame: 6-12 months depending on when an endoscopist has assessed 50, 70 and 90 independent diminutive polyps ]Leraning curves as a function of polyp batch, for sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and accuracy
- Surveillance recommendations [ Time Frame: 6-12 months depending on when an endoscopist has assessed 50, 70 and 90 independent diminutive polyps ]Agreement between NBI-aided surveillance recommendations vs. those based on pathology examination of all polyps
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|March 2011
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|March 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: All participating endoscopists
All endoscopists will undergo ex vivo training and will participate in in vivo practice-based learning.
Behavioral: Ex vivo module
Pre-test, ex vivo computerized training module, post-testBehavioral: In vivo practice-base learning phase
Prediction of polyp histology in real time, comparison to pathology reports, and review of cumulative individual performance.
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- Community-based endoscopist who performs screening colonoscopy
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- Inability or lack of willingness to provide informed consent
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01638091
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01638091
|United States, California
|Stanford University
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
|United States, Michigan
|Huron Gastroenterology
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48106
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|Stanford University
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|July 6, 2012
|First Posted:
|July 11, 2012
|Last Update Posted:
|July 11, 2012
|Last Verified:
|July 2012
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Narrow band imaging
Screening colonoscopy
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Colonic Polyps
Adenomatous Polyps
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Intestinal Polyps
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
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Historian and former presidential adviser Arthur Schlesinger thinks Osama bin Laden should be tried in public and his actions spelled out much the same as German Nazi leaders were at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.
But he doubts bin Laden will ever be captured.
"More likely he will commit suicide in some spectacular way. But if we should capture him, I hope we will bring him to public trial," Schlesinger told Yomiuri Shimbun correspondent Makoto Katsuta, in an interview published Wednesday in Japan. "One of the great advantages of the Nuremberg trials after World War II was that the horror of the Nazi rule was spelled out. I think the same would be true if we tried bin Laden publicly. I dislike secret trials and do not think we will lose anything by putting these fanatics on trial in public."
About the president, Schlesinger said: "I think Sept. 11 has, in a sense, been the making of George W. Bush because before Sept. 11, he was seen as an engaging and pleasant dope, really. And now he has suddenly become presidential and people take him more seriously. And I think he has responded rather well. He has said some dumb thing. But he has not done anything wrong."
The historian, 84, dismissed suggestions that U.S. support for Israel was behind bin Laden's attacks on the United States. "He is a Muslim fundamentalist. He hates the West. He hates the materialism of the West, the pornography of the West, the greed of the West, and so on. So, even if there were no Jews at all in the Holy Land, I do not think that would have stopped Al-Qaida's attack," he said.
Schlesinger was special assistant to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-64) and won two Pulitzer Prizes for history ("The Age of Jackson," 1946; "Thousand Days," 1966).
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The controversy over a recent CNN promo calling attention to a news anchor's sex appeal exposed a bundle of issues that ought to concern American news consumers -- but for some reason most observers can't seem to get their minds off the sex angle.
The promo -- which ran a handful of times before being yanked off the air -- referred to CNN new morning anchor Paula Zahn as "just a little sexy." It also praised her journalistic skills and professionalism, but the use of the word "sexy" was enough to anger Zahn, embarrass the CNN brass, and give the all-news network's rivals something to hold against them.
"It was offensive," Zahn told "Access Hollywood," a syndicated TV show that reports on the entertainment industry. "I've worked in this business for more than 20 years proving my credibility, and what you want to hear promoted is the strength of your journalism."
When the matter became a news story, new CNN boss Walter Isaacson bent over backwards to explain to the public that it was a big mistake and that it would never happen again.
Meanwhile, Fox News -- where Zahn used to work -- joined talk show hosts and TV critics in a chorus of ridicule aimed at Zahn's new boss. Fox's pugnacious commentator Bill O'Reilly went so far as to accuse Zahn of being politically correct -- and, by inference, insincere -- in her objection to the "just a little sexy" ad.
"If Paula Zahn doesn't think she's there partially because she's a good-looking babe, then she's in never-never land," said O'Reilly in a meeting with TV reporters in Pasadena, Calif., last weekend. He allowed as to how Zahn is an excellent broadcaster, but added that, "Eleanor Roosevelt is not going to be anchoring your weekend news, OK?"
O'Reilly makes a point -- that cosmetic considerations are an essential ingredient for success in TV news. There's just too much money on the table for news programmers to surrender any competitive advantage in the name of outdated notions of journalistic purity.
It wasn't so long ago that TV networks regarded their news divisions as special places where the major imperative was to inform the public and serve the public interest. Those days are gone, and news divisions are now seen as profit centers.
-- What do you think?
(Thanks to UPI Hollywood Reporter Pat Nason)
A federal grand jury probing the disappearance of missing intern Chandra Levy is now considering the investigation a criminal case, The New York Post reports.
Levy's disappearance April 30 had previously been considered a missing persons case by Washington police.
The grand jury also is taking a hard look at whether Rep. Gary Condit held back information or otherwise obstructed the police investigation, the Post said, quoting unidentified sources.
Levy vanished from Washington last spring as she was preparing to return to California after her internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons ended. Condit has said he knew Levy, who is from his district. Sources said a dozen FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers are focusing on whether Condit, a California Democrat, tried to derail the police investigation by covering up a reportedly romantic relationship with the 24-year-old Modesto college intern.
Condit -- who is married and running for re-election -- has not been named a suspect by Washington police, and the Levy disappearance has not been officially labeled a criminal case. The congressman has publicly denied any romantic involvement with Levy.
A separate District of Columbia grand jury subpoenaed bank, credit card and telephone records from Condit last November, which a source told the Post indicated that the overall investigation has not sputtered. "Everybody did a good job of playing it down at the time," the source said. "But it was the first sign that this grand-jury business is the real deal."
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Volkswagen denies a German magazine's report according to which the automaker will not meet its financial target.
"Volkswagen AG sticks with its statements on the future development of the company's business," the carmaker said.
Earlier this week German magazine Manager Magazin published a report based on anonymous sources, according to which VW's CFO Hans Dieter Poetsch has warned the automaker's managers that the company might not be able to reach its financial targets due to higher than expected costs for the new modular assembly architecture.
The report also said that several new models, including the Tiguan compact SUV and the Touran van are expected to be less profitable than the previous versions. The report affected the German automaker's shares which dropped 3.3% to 176,90 euro.
"The suggestion that Volkswagen isn't committed to its targets is false," the Wolfsburg-based carmaker said in an e-mailed statement. "Volkswagen completely stands behind its statements about the future development of the company."
Poetsch said earlier this month that the German automaker is forecast to increase its operating margin from 3.5% in 2012 to more than 6%. VW plans to make investments of 50.2 billion in its automotive division by 2015 in order to surpass Toyota and GM and become the largest automaker in the world by 2018.
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James GardinerPrint Page
A monument commemorates James (Jim) Lancaster Gardiner who was a swimming teacher, who also made a significant contribution to Ipswich through his teaching, coaching and swimming administrration.
|Griffith Road, Limestone Park, Ipswich, 4305
|GPS Coordinates:
|Lat: -27.622811
Long: 152.769611
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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|Saturday 6th September, 2003
Jim Gardiner B.E.M. 1903 - 1990
The grand old man of Ipswich swimming
In honour of James `Jim` Lancaster Gardiner B.E.M. 1903 - 1990
The father of Ipswich swimming.
"Let go of the side of the pool... now kick and stroke and stroke, Swim to me, you can make it, swim to me...
With those reassuring words, fiver generations of Ipswich children learned to swim from Jim Gardiner. And he never charged a penny. He did it for the love of the sport and to save lives.
Jim started out as a young man teaching swimming in the Bremmer River behind the Ipswich Railway workshops and continued on well past the age of retirement in the Olympic War Memorial Pool that was built on this site.
The City of Ipswich named this swimming centre in Jim`s honour in 1980.
An accomplished swimmer and rugby league footballer, Jim made a remarkable contribution to the social fabric of this city through his dedication to teaching, coaching and administrating swimming.
He was a life member of Vikings Swimming Club, Ipswich and Queensland swimming association. Jim was made Citizen of the Year in 1974.
People still proudly say today : I was taught to swim by Jim Gardiner.
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The London Development Agency (LDA) is preparing to overhaul its legal team and slash its panel from 18 firms to five as part of an efficiency drive.
LDA legal chief Debbie Adams is looking to recruit nine lawyers and cut £3m from the agency's legal spend in the run-up to large-scale projects such as the 2012 Olympics, the Thames Gateway development and Crossrail, as first revealed on www.thelawyer.com (27 February).
Adams is now interviewing for candidates for a new internal team to handle projects, planning and property work. That group will number five lawyers, with public law and commercial teams jointly comprising around four lawyers.
Adams told The Lawyer: "Currently a large part of that work is outsourced to our panel. As soon as the team's in place here we'll be reviewing the panel, cutting it down from 18 firms to five. It will be much more manageable."
Firms such as Bircham Dyson Bell, DLA Piper, Eversheds and Stephenson Harwood are on the LDA's panel at the moment and will be fighting for places on the revamped roster.
Adams intends to make more changes, such as standardising LDA contracts and putting them into plainer English to make them more user-friendly.
Once the standardised templates are in place Adams said she intends to outsource the bulk of the standardised contract work, leaving the in-house lawyers free to work on more bespoke and complicated contracts.
This will be a key factor in deciding which law firms will make the new panel.
The newly recruited LDA lawyers can also look forward to an expanded training programme.
"We're going to be putting on a considerable amount of training," said Adams. "Lawyers are always an overhead, so we have to be quick and efficient.
"I want to make sure the legacy for London is right, creating more jobs, more facilities and regenerating areas of the city."
Before starting work at the LDA last year Adams had stints in-house at infrastructure companies such as Eurotunnel and National Air Traffic Services. She has a wealth of experience when it comes to restructuring legal departments.
"I've done this before," she said. "In one place I worked contracts took 18 months, but by the time I left we got that down to 10 days. The cost savings are phenomenal."


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A weekly sports play program for children WITH and WITHOUT disabilities ages 2 through 7, designed to introduce them to the world of sports prior to Special Olympics eligibility at age 8. Children will develop physical, cognitive and social skills; skills that are important on and off the sports field.
Sign ups will be taken at the Claremont Community Center on the day of the program!
Multi Function Room B at Claremont Community Center
Beth Lemieux
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Friends of Casco Bay is working to raise the alarm on ocean acidification.
Ocean acidification is the result of carbon dioxide dissolving in the ocean. Scientists estimate that up to a third of the carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels is absorbed by the ocean. When water and carbon dioxide (CO2) mix, they form carbonic acid, which makes seawater more acidic. Ocean acidification impairs the ability of sea creatures, such as fish, clams, mussels, squid, sea urchins, and copepods, to grow, reproduce, and fight off disease.
Closer to home, in coastal waters like Casco Bay, the problem is compounded by polluted water runoff from shore. Runoff from city streets and fertilized lawns, emissions from smokestacks and tail pipes, raw sewage overflows, and treated sewage all send excess nitrogen into coastal waters. This nitrogen bonanza fertilizes algae blooms; when these ocean plants die and decay, carbon dioxide is released into the water and mud. This is called coastal acidification.
You can help ease the problem of coastal acidification by:
- Reducing nitrogen pollution by using fertilizers sparingly
- Planting borders of shrubs and trees, to hold back soil and stormwater runoff.
- Capturing stormwater runoff from roofs and lawns with rain barrels
- Scheduling regular maintenance of cars to prevent oil and gas leaking
- Burning less oil, wood, and coal
- Report mudflats that are covered in "green slime" to Friends of Casco Bay, which documents incidences of nitrogen pollution
- Tell your neighbors about the threat of increased acidification on Casco Bay—and the rest of the ocean


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Fun Facts
The Crown Point Courthouse, also known as the "Grand Old Lady" was built in 1878 and was said to be "one of the finest architectural expressions in Indiana."
Jerry Ross of Crown Point has logged more than 1,393 hours in space, and was the first human to ever be launched into space seven times.
The convergence of the Lake Michigan flyway on Lake County's northern border and the Kankakee flyway on the southern border creates some of the best Canadian goose hunting and bird watching in the nation.
Lake County is one of the nation's largest steel producers.
Wolf Lake in Hammond was recognized by the New York Times for its conditions as being one of the best lakes in the country for windsurfing.
Dr. Scholl, the famous foot doctor, started his practice in Cedar Lake.
Jean Shepherd, born in Hammond, co-wrote "A Christmas Story" which was based on his book, "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash." Every year, the Indiana Welcome Center celebrates Shepherd with the "A Christmas Story" Comes Home exhibit.
Albanese Confectionery, located in Hobart, is home to the world's tallest chocolate waterfall and award-winning gummies.
The "Grandfather of Aviation," Octave Chanute, built and tested the first successful heavier-than-air glider at Marquette Park in Miller Beach.
The Indiana Dunes State and National Parks welcome nearly 4 million guests each year.


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If you have done much debugging with XML data, you know how difficult it can be to look at a System.Xml.XmlDocument. They don't just show up in the debugger as XML. This is where this command comes into play. It will take a XmlDocument as input and will print out the entire XML for that document.
Note: It does not print out any XmlComments, XmlDeclarations, or other things at the top of the document.
The output from this command looks like:
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TDI Expands in Dayton
At a time when many companies are scaling back, Tech Development (TDI), a Dayton, Ohio manufacturer of turbine air starters and aerospace machinery has just completed a 49,000 sq. ft building addition to expand its manufacturing capability.
"We've experienced tremendous sales growth over the last five years," said Dave Rawlins TDI Site Manager, "We've needed the additional space for a long time to meet market demands from the oil and gas industry and marine industries, and now we have it."
The 49,000 sq. ft addition doubles the manufacturing floor space for TDI. "The additional space allows us to improve efficiencies by creating cellularized work areas and an overall better work flow in the plant," continued Rawlins. "As the space is fully operational we will have the room to conduct on site service training for our authorized distributors, increase throughput, shorten lead times, and strengthen our overall competitiveness in the market."
In 2008, when facility construction began, TDI was celebrating its 50-year anniversary. Over the last 12 months, the company has introduced nine new products and has plans for even more. "The completion of this building expansion is pivotal to TDI's growth strategy," said Rawlins. "It will allow us to deliver significantly more starters, expand our aerospace production capability, and continue our leadership by introducing new products for our customers around the world. Today is a milestone!"


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Green, planet-saving tech the next investment wave, but financial gurus advise caution
Ecological awareness, climate change, the rising prices of oil, and the instability in the Middle East are pushing a renewed investor interest in green technology. The top innovators and businessmen in the planet are espousing it to be the next big thing in investment. At the same time, financiers who always keep one eye on their stocks still advise caution in choosing companies and causes to put their hard-earned money in, most especially in tech.
Worth enumerates some of these technologies that are catching the eye of decision-makers and deep-pocketed stockholders all over the world. Richard Branson's Green Fund will sponsor to the tune of $25 million any endeavor that can remove or reduce significantly dangerous carbon emission.The UN Foundation has received more than $1 billion from CNN founder Ted Turner to protect species diversity while educating the next generation of children to be as equally protective and nurturing of their environment. The San-Francisco-based Climate Policy Institute has $1 billion in funding to discover cleaner and less oil-dependent energy resources.
Worth also sees a huge promise in China's Suntech Power, which plans to build photovoltaic cells that will harness solar power as the next producer of energy. Tech giant Google also intends to contend with when it comes to solar energy. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have committed one percent of their vast financial resources to make solar power as affordable as coal to the common man.
The Street's report looks past these famous investors to name Canadian Solar, one organization with a stock that is projected to rise 193 percent in 2016. One reason for this is the strides it has been making in the development of solar power. Canadian Solar's headquarters is based in Ontario while its China-based factories help to keep its costs low. Its "small-cap rocket" stock, which has a market capitalization of $1.07 billion, also makes it of lower risk than some of its competitors. Canadian Solar has also poised itself to align with the inevitable industrial developments in Europe, such as Germany's plans to transform its coal-driven power to solar and wind energies from 2022 to 2050.
The consequences of an oil-driven economy on nature and fears as to its sustainability have compelled investors to consider investing in companies that are developing newer, safer, and renewable energies. Environmental issues and the solutions they need are real and urgent; there is no mistaking that. However, the conservative investment approach remains a smart one, despite the interest that is being displayed by the big players. Each technology that is introduced into the market must still be sized up and studied before any investment is made, particularly when it comes to revolutionary "green tech."
Financial Planning suggests checking out how the competitor first, before taking the plunge.Learning the movements of tech and environment from news and business apps like Born2Invest, Yahoo News, BBC, and the Wall Street Journal is fast becoming a lifestyle and a necessity for investors. Another cautious strategy would be to gradually integrate the technology being invested in into the organization before launching it full-blast.
The billionaires above who are infusing huge amounts of capital into renewable energies did so after years of study, research, and strategic planning. As with any other enterprise, there were a lot of trial and error before hitting success. Any investor who wants to dabble in green tech would be wise to follow that path first before marshaling all his monies to become a sudden savior of the planet.


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A Kevn Kinney setlist is a compilation of all the songs Kevn Kinney has played live in concert. Many Kevn Kinney concerts have the same setlist, and sometimes Kevn Kinney setlists will vary from night to night. We've gathered together 2017 Kevn Kinney tour setlists as well as past Kevn Kinney setlists to give you a better idea of what you can expect at your local Kevn Kinney show. If you have a Kevn Kinney song list you would like to upload, please check back as that functionality will be added soon, as well as setlists for Kevn Kinney.


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Colorado climate
Colorado averages 296 sunny days a year. There isn't much precipitation in the lower elevations, but huge amounts of snow in the mountains. Most visitors booking Colorado flights take advantage of the winter months when snow falls heavy in the mountains.Winter starts in late November. In Denver and Colorado Springs, summer days are hot and dry and the evenings mild. Summer comes to the mountains in June, and the warm weather lasts until mid-September. Winter hits around mid-November, though snowstorms can start in the mountains in September.The climate from one area to another can be dramatically different due to the difference in elevation and the orientation of mountain ranges and valleys.
When to fly to Colorado
Peak Season:
Summer, Memorial Day to Labour Day, is the peak season with lots of crowds and high rates. The ski resorts peak again in winter, and they are as crowded in July as they are in February. Book Colorado flights and accommodations early if you plan to travel during the peak season. Most of the resorts book up fast and budget and economy travel is hard to find.
Off Season:
The closest you will come to off season are the fall and spring seasons. Cheap flights to Colorado can usually be purchased during these times, right after and before the winter ski rush.
The best time to visit is mid-September through October as the weather usually stays warm.
Getting around Colorado
Denver is a transportation hub for Colorado, both for entering and leaving the state and for finding transportation to other Colorado destinations. You can rely on public transportation during your stay in Denver. Taxis and shuttles are also available in other large cities and towns. To help you get around the state, there are commuter airlines and shuttle buses from the Denver airport. You can pick up other Colorado flights at the Denver airport, or one of the smaller airports around the state. Amtrak has a couple of routes through the state, and some say the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the southwest isn't to be missed.
A world-renowned destination for cyclists, interstate highway shoulders are open to cyclists (except in urban areas). The mountain roads are more demanding, and one of the most popular and challenging routes is the Million Dollar Highway.


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First Chance Foundation is an extraordinary organization! They collect toiletries and school supplies to provide to kids in need. These basic items are so important but often overlooked because they aren't "fun" to donate, but that doesn't stop First Chance! My favorite thing that First Chance Foundation does is throwing birthday parties for kids who otherwise would do without. They even tailor it to the child's (or teen's) taste in food, colors, and cake theme! First Chance Foundation also supports other child-focused nonprofits. They really have a far reach! Anyone who supports First Chance Foundation can be confident that his/her donation will really make a difference!
I am the director of a non-profit that houses 38 children in fostercare. For years, First Chance Foundation has come along beside our organization to provide unmet needs to our children. This year they have decided to provide a birthday party and gifts for each child on our campus. This is simply something that our children have NEVER experienced. And as if that wasn't enough, FCF has decided to completely renovate our recreation room so that the children have a place to go and relax and take a break from their daily routine. We are blessed beyond words to have FCF as our community partner!!
The First Chance Foundation is a wonderful organization doing great work to support children in need and serve the community. For the past few years, the leaders of FCF have kindly reached out to our organization in meaningful ways, including care packages to mothers and babies in need, as well as monetary support of our cause. Especially as a small non-profit organization with limited resources, we have been honored by the generosity and good example of the First Chance Foundation.
The First Chance Foundation is a phenomenal organization doing great work to better the community. They are compassionate and generous in their support of children in need. Year after year the Foundation has stepped up to help the abused, abandoned and homeless kids we serve. We could not do what we do without their ongoing, dedicated support.
info4firstchance 10/21/2013
The time you give to the children far outweighs our efforts, but what we do is to help you make their lives and your job a little easier. :) The cohesiveness we have with organizations such as yours makes the time we put into giving and assisting all worth it! Thank you for being on the front-line.
First Chance Foundation is a crucial resource for children in need in our community. As a leader in a non-profit that First Chance Foundation helps, I can honestly say they go above and beyond to serve. If we need something for our kids (abused, abandoned and neglected youth), they find a way to get it for us. First Chance Foundation is a top notch, well run foundation that follows their Mission with integrity.
info4firstchance 10/17/2013
We go above and beyond to help those that are on the frontline! Our job is easy, we just want to do our best to help make your job easier...though for you and the others on the frontline, it will truly never be easy. Thank you for the kind words and may we continue to have supporters that allow us to go above and beyond.


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"I LOVE spinach dip! Healthy alternative and fun way to eat tofu. I was going to make this today before posting this, but ran out of time. I'll give an update once I make it which if I can help it should be very soon! This is another one of my new recipes from Neva & Jim Brackett's 7 Secrets Cookbook to lose weight, lower cholesterol, and reverse diabetes. Cooking time does not include time needed for dip to chill which is 2-3 hours. Update: I know honey isn't vegan which is why I listed or sugar, but I personally don't mind using honey. So, if you want this meal to completely vegan for you, don't use honey. I did try this today and was happy to get that taste I'd been missing. :)"
Vegan Spinach Dip (Tofu)
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READY IN:15mins
YIELD:4 cups
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- 1 cup firm tofu or 1 (12 ounce) box tofu
- 1⁄3 cup raw cashew nuts (optional)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey or 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon mock poultry seasoning
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 -2 teaspoon salt, to taste
- water, as needed
- 1 tablespoon potato flour (optional)
- 1⁄2 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 (4 -7 ounce) can water chestnuts, chopped (amount depends on your taste, I personally like lots of water chestnuts!)
- 10 ounces spinach, thoroughly drained and chopped
- Blend the first eight ingredients until smooth, adding only enough water for all the mixture to go through the blades easily. Add potato flour if it's too runny and blend for 1 minute.
- Pour into a mixing bowl and add remaining ingredients.
- Chill 2-3 hours. Use as a dip or spread on crackers or bread.
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"I will never kneel before Yanacocha," says Máxima Acuña, respected land defender and winner of the 2016 Goldman Prize as respected environmental activist.
She is engaged in an ongoing legal battle with the US and Peruvian owners of the Yanacocha mine, one of the one of the largest gold and copper mines in the world. Máxima and her family, small farmers in northern Peru, are taking on the mining giant over ownership of the land in Tragedero Grande where she lives. She has braved violent attacks for refusing to leave and believes that campaign of intimidation and harassment, perpetrated by both local police and Yanacocha security personnel, is an organized attempt to drive her from her home so the mining company can use her land.
But she will not give in.
Police and security guards working for Yanacocha have attacked Máxima and her family numerous times. An attack in September 2016 was so bad that Máxima had to be rushed to hospital. In other attacks, police even beat her children. They damaged her house and took away vital belongings, including crops, food, cooking pots and beds.
Yanacocha claims to have carried out this most recent destruction of crops in exercise of their "possessory right to defence". This despite a court ruling in December 2014 that found the family to be not guilty of illegally occupying the land, as claimed by the company. The mining company challenged the decision and in March 2015 the Supreme court upheld the acquittal ruling.
The campaign of violence and intimidation against Máxima is emblematic of a disturbing trend. Women and men around the world who stand up to corporate power to defend their land rights face grave danger. Many are forced to pay with their lives. Máxima's community have united to try to protect her. We must join them.
It is time to say #MaximaNoEstaSola #MaximaIsNotAlone. It is time to speak out for action to ensure Máxima is able to defend her rights without fear of harm.
Dear Minister/Sr. Ministro
I am deeply concerned about the violent mistreatment of Máxima Acuña and her family at the hands of police and private security guards working for the Yanacocha mining company. It has coincided with Máxima's ongoing legal dispute with Yanacocha over land that a court has now ruled she has the legal right to live on.
Despite this ruling, the mining company has persisted with an organized campaign of harassment and intimidation intended to push Máxima and her family off their land. The family has suffered the destruction of crops, damage to their home, and physical assaults on both Máxima and her children. I fear for their safety.
Máxima Acuña is being targeted solely for her work as a land defender. I respectfully call on you to:
- Protect Máxima Acuña and her family from threats or attacks;;
- Initiate a thorough and impartial investigation into the compaints reported by Máxima about abuses committed by police and Yanacocha personnel so as to bring the perpertrators to justice.
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