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Emir Sanusi: Northern #Nigeria Needs Economic "Marshall Plan"
Interview with the new Emir of Kano Muhammed Sanusi II (AKA Sanusi Lamido Sanusi) about the Boko Haram insurgency in northern Nigeria.
Key points made by Sanusi:
- Islam "preaches education for all adherents".
- Marrying young Muslim girls off at a young age is actually a cultural (not Islamic) practice "that is not consistent with the teachings of the (Muslim) religion)".
- Poverty level in northern Nigeria provides a fertile breeding ground for militancy. Says the same thing happened in the Niger Delta.
- Boko Haram insurgency must be tackled via an economic "Marshall Plan" for northern Nigeria.
- Says insurgency calmed down in Kano because of investment in infrastructure there.
- "As long as people as gainfully employed they are not likely to jump into the bandwagon of insurgency".
Nigeria Implements "Infra-Red" Test to Check Spread of #Ebola
African Churches and British Christianity
A look at the rise of pentecostal African churches in England such as the Redeemed Christian Church of God and Kingsway International Christian Centre.
Photographing Northern Nigeria
This is an excellent interview with Glenna Gordon who has spent much time in Kano in northern Nigeria taking photos of the locals, weddings, and other settings. Glenna is an American who takes it upon herself to photograph "ordinary" people in their local communities, away from the more sensationalist discourse about Nigeria such as Boko Haram, corruption, the Niger Delta etc.
The interview can be accessed at the link below:
Nigerian Government Ready to Negotiate with Boko Haram
Making Sense of President Jonathan's New Military Appointments
|Chief of Defence Staff
|Admiral Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim
|Air Marshal Alex Badeh
|Chief of Army Staff
|Lt-General Azubike Ihejirika
|Major-General Kenneth Tobiah Jacob Minimah
|Chief of Air Staff
|Air Marshal Alex Badeh
|Air Vice Marshal Adesola Nunayon Amosu
|Chief of Naval Staff
|Vice-Admiral Dele Ezeoba
|Rear-Admiral Usman Jibrin
There has been a lot of "noise" in the Nigerian media about President Goodluck Jonathan's supposedly controversial appointment of new military service chiefs for the army, air force, and navy.
To cut a long story short the main talking points are:
- The new heads of the army, air force, and navy appointed by President Jonathan are (respectively): Major-General Kenneth Minimah, Air-Vice Marshal Adesola Amosu, and Rear-Admiral Usman Jibrin. They replaced Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika, Air Marshal Alex Badeh, and Vice-Admiral Dele Ezeoba (respectively). Badeh is actually still employed though. Although he was replaced as Chief of Air Staff, he was promoted to replace Admiral Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim who was also retired. Net effect = one promotion and three retirements.
- Expect the following rank promotions shortly: Badeh to Air Chief Marshal, Minimah to Lt-General, Amosu to Air Marshal, and Jibrin to Vice-Admiral. Promotions at this level of the armed forces usually require the heads of the army, air force, and navy to be three star generals (or equivalent), and the chief of defence staff to be a four star general (or equivalent). Badeh is currently equivalent to a three star general, and Minimah, Amosu, and Jibrin have two stars. Those ranks will probably change shortly.
Prior to the current appointments, the new men held the following posts:
Air Vice-Marshal Badeh – Chief of Air Staff
Major-General Minimah – Commander of the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps, Jaji.
Rear-Admiral Jibrin – Director of Training at Defence Headquarters.
Air Vice Marshal Amosu – Air Officer Commanding Tactical Air Command, Makurdi.*
*The statement announcing the new appointments by President Jonathan's spokesman Reuben Abati actually messed up Amosu's post by simultaneously claiming he was the head of the presidential air fleet, AND Air Officer Commanding, Tactical Air Command of the air force! Obviously Amosu could not have been in two different posts simultaneously.
People are literally foaming at the mouth with rage for a number of reasons. Namely:
- The new Chief of Army Staff Major-General Minimah is from the Niger Delta, like President Jonathan. Minimah is from Rivers State – right "next door" to the President's home state of Bayelsa. The President is being accused of ethnic favouritism.
- Apparently over 30 (or 50 depending on who you believe) senior officers were bypassed in order to appoint Minimah. These officers will now be retired as they cannot serve under Minimah, who is junior to them.
Minimah graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in 1981 as a member of the NDA's 25th regular combatant course. Amosu is also a graduate of course 25, while Jibrin is slightly senior to Minimah and Amosu, and is a graduate of course 24. The new Chief of Defence Staff Badeh was a graduate of course 21.
What do all these references to various courses mean? The military is a hierarchical institution. It is not a hospital or manufacturing plant. When people get promoted, life does not just go on as normal. In a country like Nigeria which was under military rule for 28 years, military promotions have national security AND political implications. Heads of state have been assassinated and coups staged as a result of the mismanagement of military promotions. Therefore there is a well-established tradition that when a military officer is promoted to head any of the armed services, any officers who are senior to him are retired or removed from his operational command. This nips potential disaffection (and political crises) in the bud. It has been happening for several decades.
We do not know why President Jonathan appointed Minimah (maybe because he is a star, the best, he's comfortable with him, he trusts him, because he's from the Delta…). Whatever the reason, once Minimah (an officer from NDA regular course 25) got appointed to replace Ihejirika (an officer from course 18) – lots of officers from courses 19-24 had to go.
This has happened lots of times before. Several senior officers were retired to make way for Minimah's predecessor Ihejirika! When former President Obasanjo retired Chief of Army Staff Lt-General Victor Malu (a course 3 graduate) in 2001, Obasanjo retired a lot of officers to make way for Major-General Alexander Ogomudia (also from the Delta – and four intakes below Malu) to become the new chief of army Staff. As far back as 1990 President Babangida also ignored lots of senior officers like Major-Generals Nasko, Duba, Useni, Nwachukwu, Haladu etc in order to make way for Salihu Ibrahim (who was junior to all of them) as the new chief of army staff. Lots of fine officers had to retire to make way for Ibrahim.
Military appointments in the General ranks are effectively political appointments because of the visibility and political sensitivity of such appointments. President Jonathan is currently embattled and is facing attacks on multiple fronts from his political opponents. Senior members of his political party are defecting and next year he is facing a mammoth presidential election against an opposition that is resolutely determined to get rid of him. However these overarching political events should not overstate the significance of what in most other countries would be routine military postings.
Are we really surprised that the President retired men who have been in service for over 35 years, some of whom are close to 60 years old? They had already passed the mandatory service limit of 35 years for military officers and were due for retirement any day. Their continued presence in service was at the prerogative of the President (AKA the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces). What President Jonathan has done with these military appointments is not remarkable and is no different to what his predecessors have been doing for four decades.
Max Siollun
The Myth of Ethnicity in Africa
You are Not Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba
Most of you reading this identify yourselves as members of an ethnic group that your great-grandparents did not. It is very unlikely that your great-grandparents regarded themselves as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Ogoni, Tiv, Kanuri or [insert name of applicable ethnic group from the list of 250+] in the manner than you do today. When Nigerians engage each other in bitter ethnic battle, the extent to which the effects of colonialism still holds them captive becomes apparent.
Until the 19th and 20th centuries, many African 'races', 'tribes', or ethnicities such as the Yoruba, Shona, Igbo, Hutu, Tutsi and Ogoni did not exist in their modern form. Many African ethnic groups are fictional social constructs created by the departed colonial masters. Colonial authorities did not just create the nation called Nigeria, they also "created" many of the ethnic groups inside its borders.
The existence of Igbos, Yorubas, Ogonis, Hausas etc as centuries old, ancient, stable, ethnic groups, each with their own homogeneous culture and unambiguous identity, is nothing but a myth. Nigeria's governments have also bought this colonial lie of ethnicity hook, line, and sinker. Today ethnic riots often break out over "ethnic groups", "indigenes", and "settlers" that did not exist before 1900. Prior to colonialism, there were numerous groups of people with cultural and linguistic links who later became Ogoni, Yoruba, Igbo etc. However 200 years ago, people from Ogbomosho and Abeokuta did not regard themselves as part of the same ethnic group. Neither did people from Owerri and Onitsha.
People who currently self identify as "Yoruba" did not do so until around approximately 110-115 years ago. The Yoruba phrase originally applied only to the group of people in modern day Oyo. Even the famed Oyo Empire was not a Yoruba empire as such. It incorporated areas of modern day locations that are regarded as Nupe-land or Ebira-land (as well as modern day Benin Republic). Even Transatlantic slaves taken from (modern day) Yorubaland and emancipated by the British in the early 19th century did not identify themselves as Yoruba.
Pan Yoruba consciousness grew in the early 1900s when trading, migration, religious conversion and education drew various related groups in modern day south-western Nigeria into contact with each other. Neighbouring groups who are today regarded as Yoruba (such as Ekiti, Ondo, Ilesha, Ijebu etc) subsequently adopted Yoruba identity. These groups thus acquired collective identity and designation under a common name.
The pre-independence nationalist agitation for independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe's pre-eminence in the Igbo State Union and National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) amplified pan-Yoruba identity. This encouraged the creation of a pan-Yoruba movement to compete against other ethnic groups (especially Igbos). This phenomenon later manifested itself in political form via the NCNC/Action Group political party rivalry.
Early European arrivals in Africa had a tendency to observe their African hosts through European tinted binoculars, that automatically correlated geographic location with language, identity and race (as is the case in Europe). Colonial authorities' use of maps and geography assigned unique ethnic or tribal identities to Africans living within a certain area – where no such identities had existed before.
The myth of large African ethnic groups compartmentalised within neat geographic boundaries, was reinforced by colonial bureaucracy's arbitrary use of borders and maps to demarcate and classify where one ethnic group's 'turf' ended, and another group's began. Remember the British division of Nigeria into three regions? Is it not odd that such geographic division just happened to coincide with the notion of a country dominated by 'three major ethnic groups' (whose geographical boundaries just happened to coincide with the intra-country regional borders created by the British?).
Colonialism was not the exclusive vehicle for the creation of ethnic identity. Religious missionaries also unwittingly contributed. Lost in a breath-taking matrix of African languages, and eager to communicate with, and spread the word of the Judeo-Christian God to newly 'discovered' populations, Christian missionaries were prone to compiling 'standardised' versions of several local dialects they encountered. They thereby transformed these standardised versions into 'authorized' or 'official' versions of the other/related languages spoken nearby. For example, Christian missionaries translated the bible into the Oyo/Egba dialects and designated the dialect of the Oyo kingdom as 'standard Yoruba'. These translations and their teaching in schools also perpetuated pan-Yoruba identity. The same phenomenon was observed among the Igbos with missionaries' translation of a "Union Igbo" bible.
By compiling and translating new grammars from one among a diversity of variant local dialects (usually that spoken around the mission station), missionaries frequently transformed a local dialect they encountered into the 'authoritative' version of the language of a whole 'tribe' and propagated it through their schools.
Lazy European anthropology also played its part. Anthropological observers would often spend time researching an isolated group, then issue 'authoritative' academic treatises identifying that group's customs and culture as emblematic of a much larger group of people in that area. This is turn encouraged the lopsided recording and standardisation of local histories and customs. The practices of a group near a mission station or anthropologist's base, would often be incorrectly propagated as being the customs of an entire region or ethnic group.
Since religious conversion often came with the added bonus of literacy attached, various sub-groups had an added impetus to attach themselves to, and identify with, the modified ethnic identities that were being created by the Europeans in their midst.
Education, literacy and the recording of religious texts into local languages added to this pattern of 'standardised' grammar and language. Since the "standard Yoruba" and "Union Igbo" came wrapped with the enticing benefits of education and literacy, it became first a social, then an ethno-linguistic group. The demarcation of Nigeria into federal units also accorded political benefits and relevance to those who 'belonged' to this Yoruba group (and encouraged such belonging).
A modern example of constructed ethnic identity are the Ogoni. The people who today identify as Ogoni originally spoke what one academic described as a 'cluster' of languages (such as Khana, Gokana and Eleme), one of which could be further sub-divided into different dialects. As recently as the 1930s, there was no great pan-Ogoni consciousness. The efforts of colonial and post-independence governments to create states for minority ethnicities, encouraged pan Ogoni nationalism and identity. This was motivated by a desire to form a new state separate from the Eastern Region, which minorities wanted to leave in order to rid themselves of Igbo domination.
So before the next time you suggest breaking up Nigeria into its "component ethnic nations", or express frustration at your inability to understand or get along with your "Aboki", "Ngbati", or "Nyamiri" neighbour, or your "Mai Guard", consider that you are playing a game created by a colonial referee that has long since left the playing field…
Max Siollun
A Nigerian Book Review by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo
An author's peep into Nigeria's military years
HISTORY matters and history well told, in an engaging manner devoid of academic encumbrance, matters even more, especially when it is about Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, which is set to celebrate the centenary of its existence next year, 2014. At this point when the younger generation of her over 160 million large population is contemplating the future of their country, a proper knowledge of the past, where the rain began to beat, as a popular Igbo adage will say, is imperative to ensure that the future is a different story, for as George Santayana once noted, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Brilliant historian, Max Siollun, satisfies the yearning of many, Nigerians and non Nigerians alike, who have long sought an insight into what really went wrong during what was undoubtedly Nigerias most important years in his book, 'Soldiers of Fortune,' which captures the major political events in the country from 1983 to 1993, an uninterrupted period of military rule characterised by coups, rumours of coups and draconian decisions, some of whose consequences the country still grapples with.
As many historians have identified, the foundation for Nigeria's under-development was laid in its colonial history. What the British handed over at independence was an administrative liability, a country which was expected to fail. After the euphoria of independence had died down, the task of fostering development in the country fell squarely on the shoulders of leaders who were in many ways representatives of regional interests. The internal disarticulation and disunity which colonial rule promoted created problematic imbalances and engendered a situation where ethnic domination became an obsession, even from the very inception of the country.
It was not long before the young nation came crashing with the 1966 coup, a counter coup same year and a bitter civil war (1967-1970) in which over a million people, mostly Igbos from the South-East of the country, are said to have lost their lives. A brief period of democracy was experienced between 1979 and 1983, a period during which Siollun noted, the military essentially acted as a government-in-waiting. Populated at its top echelon by the same persons who had been members of the last military government and indeed, the core team of officers mostly of northern Nigerian origin, who had executed the counter-coup of 1966 and fought the civil war. The military was already too politicised that it found it difficult to stay away from civil affairs. For example, Siollun noted that during this period, some senior military officers drafted a list of government ministers they wanted President Shagari to sack and presented a list of their own as replacement.
The politicians on their part helped create an atmosphere that justified the return of the military to power for the ten years stretch of military dictatorship that 'Soldiers of Fortune' covers. As General Babangida was quoted in the book to have claimed, every coup feeds on the frustration of the people with the current government and following the nationwide disquiet evoked by the 1983 elections, the military staged a comeback, bringing in General Muhammadu Buhari and they would remain in control until 1999, when a conclusive democratic transition to civilian rule was effected.
Siollun in this book, a sequel to his Oil Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966-1976) captures the downward slide Nigeria witnessed in all spheres of her national life under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida (who ousted Buhari from power in 1985 and ruled until 1993.) The book captures the defining element of Buhari's regime, a draconian approach to anti-corruption, which in the process muzzled the press, promoted inhuman decrees and failed ultimately in bettering the economy which was the most important yearning of the people. Babangida's stay on the other hand witnessed the glorification of corruption which reached a level Siollun described as 'spectacular'; the creation of a power cartel some of who continue to enjoy massive influence even in retirement today and a long expensive but inconclusive transition programme.
Soldiers of Fortune reads like a novel, like a thriller with familiar characters some of whose actions you are already familiar with and others which you might scream out in disbelief about.
Readers are sure to pause and wonder at various points while reading this book at how a handful of gun toting rascals with an exaggerated image of themselves held and decided the fate of an entire country. While the narration is not academic, there is no doubt a scholarly attention to the detail and judicious backing up of claims with verifiable facts, making the book a refreshing and engaging read. Siollun's well researched analysis provides interesting details on the inside story behind most of the critical happenings during the period under review including many of which the absence of information over the years have made to appear like myth. Among this is the way Babangida quelled the Dimka coup, the Diplomatic Baggage story involving ex Minister Umaru Dikko, the Vatsa coup story and the circumstances surrounding the annulment of the June 12, 1993 Presidential elections.
Soldiers of Fortune reveals that the Nigerian military was not as united as most of the people assumed, that the actors were not as powerful as we believed they were, that they had their moments of fear and insecurity like other mortals, that the people, the media and notable personalities alike were accomplices in whatever harm the military succeeded in imparting on the country during their reign.
Importantly, Siollun, in this book, shows explicitly that military rule in Nigeria embodied everything that is antithetical to development and should never be allowed to happen again in the country. An understanding of this, I hope, will ensure that the younger generation, who are today aspiring to positions of leadership, will guard the nation's democracy jealously and lead the country back to the prosperity envisioned by her founding fathers at independence. The book is thus a recommended read for every Nigerian and all those who love Nigeria.
Soldiers of Fortune is published by Cassava Republic Press.


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For many years, people have come to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park to experience bright color and shapes against an autumn sky. To celebrate the 15th Annual Kite Festival, the park is adding a new concept; fourteen regional artists have been invited to paint a kite in their own unique style for the event.
The artists' kites will be flown from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday Oct. 23 at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park's Quarry Hill, along with New York Kite Enthusiasts member kites and anyone else who would like to fly a kite.
Artists include Karen Bakke, Anne Novado Cappuccilli, Todd Conover, Robert Dacey, Barry Darling, Ada Hettig, Bradley Hudson, Denise Stillwaggon Leone, Lisa Portnoff, Dorothy Riester, Lynn Schwarzer, Joe Sosnowski, Lynette Stephenson and Leigh Yardley.
The artists' kites will be flown during this free kite fly and will be available for purchase in a silent auction exhibition the following Saturday. The kites painted by artists are handmade by David Tuttle of Binghamton and Thom Shanken of Waterloo - officials in NYKE. All paints were generously supplied to the artists by Golden Artist Colors.
Children can buy and decorate a pre-made kite at the Children's Kite Workshop for $5. All of these kites will fly.
The parking cost is $5 per car.
The rain date for this event is Sunday, October 24.
The artists' kites will be part of a one day kite exhibition from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 30 in the John and Virginia Winner Memorial Art Gallery at the Art Park. There will be a silent auction for all of the artists' kites. Winners of the kites will be announced at 4 p.m.
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Rangana Herath, the leading wicket-taker for 2012, has not yet mastered self-belief. If his numbers are anything to go by, it is time he began counting himself among the world's best
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December 22, 2012
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Among the current Test crop, Rangana Herath is perhaps cricket's least likely athlete. Barely 5'7" with a physique better befitting a shopkeeper, at a glance, or at first meeting, no one would guess he was 2012's most successful bowler.
He has piled up 60 wickets at 22.03 this year, and with only one more Test to play before year's end, he will remain atop the list. His name may barely register in a conversation about the best bowlers in operation, but he will not be irked by that. It is not that Herath takes no pleasure in personal achievements; he knows his international tally by heart, and has a firm eye on the Test bowler's rankings, where he is fourth. But he is aware of his own limitations - sometimes to a fault.
Despite having surpassed Graeme Swann's 2012 haul with a second-innings five-for on a barely helpful Hobart surface, Herath named Swann the premiere spin bowler in the world in the lead-up to the Boxing Day Test, citing Swann's consistency over the past two seasons. The numbers do not bear Herath's modesty out.
It is almost natural to wish to apply a caveat to the volume of Herath's recent riches, given his seemingly pedestrian method. He does not impart a great deal of spin on the ball, and he lacks Swann's height or Saeed Ajmal's trickery. He is said to be the father of the carrom ball, but in that, he is like Buddy Holly or Nikola Tesla - the man whose genius inspired a swathe of better presented, more successful imitators. He removed David Warner with that ball in Hobart, but even Herath does not seem taken with the delivery, especially in Tests, where it is often out of sight. As such, it is difficult to reconcile Herath's harvest with the apparent skill on display, and the most obvious criticism to hurl is that his plunder has been reaped on a buffet of turning home tracks.
Though that may be true, the others high-up on the wicket-taker's list have also played on pitches that suit their bowling. Swann has played 14 Tests to Herath's nine, and has also bowled in two more Tests in Asia than Herath. Three matches were in the UAE, where Ajmal and Abdur Rehman so brutally laid bare England's susceptibility to spin. He played twice in Sri Lanka, before taking on West Indies and South Africa at home. And the four Tests in India to finish the year were largely on tracks even more tailored to suit spin than is normal in the subcontinent.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad are also in this year's top five, but they have played more Tests and have significantly higher averages, and although Vernon Philander has also only played nine matches, New Zealand, England and Australia are hardly daunting destinations for bowlers of his ilk. Only Saeed Ajmal, who has played six Tests, all in Asia - and whose haul in the three-match series against Sri Lanka was identical to Herath's - can hope to claim parity with the left-arm spinner on statistical grounds. It is also worth noting that in three fewer Tests, Ajmal is 21 wickets shy of Herath's tally.
Herath may not lack in awareness of his own game, which he has built upon the pillars of flight, dip and subtlety. He has filtered those qualities almost to a formula that spin bowling coaches might buy by the bottle, to gift to a burgeoning generation of youngsters more occupied with the mystery and variation that is valued in Twenty20 cricket. But Herath has not yet mastered self-belief, and if his numbers are anything to go by, it is time he began counting himself among the world's best.
In his first match in Australia, he has already achieved what Muttiah Muralitharan could not in five attempts; a five-wicket haul. Yet in the first innings in Hobart, Herath's bowling was defined by its restraint. There was little turn on offer, but perhaps such rigid service to economy and accuracy does not befit Sri Lanka's primary match-winner. He prefers to have men on the fence throughout his spells as well, but he has been effective across all formats when batsmen have tried to attack him, and past evidence suggests he will become even more of a threat if batsmen are tempted to hit him aerially. For now, though, he remains unambitious when the pitch is still ill-suited for spin.
"Whatever the situation, you have to react to it," Herath said. "In Australia in the first day and second day, you need to bowl a bit tight and help others. Especially the fast bowlers - not like in Sri Lanka. That's how wickets behave here. When I got some assistance in the second innings, I got five wickets. There's something different in the first and second innings."
In the four matches Sri Lanka have won since Murali's retirement, Herath has thrice delivered the game's most telling contribution. During the recent series against New Zealand, the captain Mahela Jayawardene nominated Herath the second-best Sri Lankan bowler he has encountered in all his years in the game. With 41 wickets in 2011 as well, Herath has made more breakthroughs than any other bowler in the last two years. At the MCG, if he can play like the bowler who owns that record, perhaps a pace attack lacking penetration will have less to do, and Sri Lanka could be that much closer to that maiden Australian win.
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Farmington Hills, Mich. (April 3, 2014)---Hospitals tend to keep quiet about violence in emergency centers and other areas; however, Botsford Hospital's Director of Security Michael Geldmacher openly addresses safety and security issues. To honor his ongoing and effective efforts to strengthen the hospital's safety and security, Botsford has named Geldmacher as a recipient of its Safety Award. Botsford's Safety Award recognizes employees' contributions to the hospital's safety initiatives. Safety is a pillar on which Botsford has built its clinical care.
Responding to employees' concerns regarding their physical security, Geldmacher expanded the video surveillance system throughout the hospital. In addition, he developed procedures to help ensure critical areas of the hospital can be locked down during emergency situations.
Geldmacher took the initiative to develop policies and training programs to allow security officers to carry Tasers for use in select emergency situations. He has also instituted new authoritative-looking uniforms for his officers, which increase their visibility, act as a crime deterrent, and allow them to move more freely when they are engaged in physical activity.
Botsford's Canine Security Program has enjoyed a successful rollout after Geldmacher's selection and training of a security officer-dog team. Moreover, he has fostered strong relationships with the Farmington Hills Police Department to facilitate emergency response drills and training for Botsford on a regular basis.
Geldmacher is known for sharing the onus of responsibility for a safe and secure hospital environment. Under his B.O.S.S. Program (Botsford Observation for Safety & Security), hospital employees, physicians, and volunteers are empowered to be Security's eyes and ears. When someone sees something or someone that looks wrong, he or she places an immediate call to the hospital's Security Department. Officers are dispatched immediately. His frequent "Quick Tips" columns in the hospital's newsletter for staff have included reminders about securing their valuables while at work, not leaving their hospital ID badges in their vehicles, and cutting out corridor clutter.
With vision and leadership, Geldmacher has contributed greatly to the well-being of Botsford Hospital's patients, visitors, and employees.
Botsford Hospital is a multi-specialty 330 bed hospital and verified trauma center located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The campus also houses an imaging center and a comprehensive care cancer center. Botsford Hospital is also home to an extensive medical education program and is part of Michigan State University's statewide campus system. Botsford Hospital each year cares for approximately 16,000 inpatients and more than 60,000 emergency and trauma patients with a team of 2,500 employees, 300 volunteers and more than 600 physicians. A not-for-profit hospital, Botsford provided almost $10.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year.
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Yes, in under one week everyone who had a problem with the ending off Mass Effect 3 will be satisfied or even angrier.
First things first, what's the best way to play Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC?
Thankfully the folks at Bioware are a helpful bunch and they answered some questions.
How do I get the Extended Cut?
- The Extended Cut can be downloaded from Xbox LIVE, Origin on PC, and PlayStation Network at no additional cost.
What save game should I load to play the extended cut?
- To experience the Extended Cut, load a save game from before the attack on the Cerberus Base and play through to the end of the game. The Extended Cut endings will differ depending on choices made throughout the Mass Effect series, so multiple playthroughs with a variety of different decisions will be required to experience the variety of possibilities offered by the new content.
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- Pancakes: 1 four-inch pancake topped with 2 tbsp. fat-free sour cream, 1 tbsp. marmalade,
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Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching
Goldberg keeps students first despite busy schedule
Amy Goldberg directs one of the busiest and most highly regarded trauma centers in the region, yet always finds time to counsel and listen to medical students and residents.
Students are so appreciative, they've honored this professor of surgery and director of the surgery residency 12 times, including with the Golden Apple, the W. Emory Burnett Award for Teaching Excellence and the Russel C. Moses Memorial award for excellence in clinical training. This year, she adds the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching to her list of accolades.
After graduating from Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, performing a residency in surgery at Temple University Hospital and completing a fellowship in traumatology and critical care at the University of Maryland, Goldberg returned to Temple to join the faculty in 1993.
She quickly ascended the academic ladder, all while maintaining an extremely busy clinical schedule and rapidly developing into one of the most outstanding teachers at the school.
A fellow faculty member attributes her success as a teacher "to the fact that she allows the character of her personality to come through in her teaching."
"It's important for me to make a connection and get to know students personally," Goldberg said.
"One of the best things about working with Dr. Goldberg," one student said, "is that she always knows where her students and residents are, what they are doing and how they are doing. She teaches, guides and protects us, all the while expecting the best of us. We don't want to ever let her down or be less than how she sees us."
Students cite the contagious spirit, humor and energy that infuse her teaching, whether during emergency surgery on a trauma victim or medical rounds in the hospital.
"I could never imagine working at a hospital that didn't have students and residents because teaching is so much of what I consider my purpose and mission. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a coach. Coaches make you do more than you ever thought you could.
And now I see that I have become a coach, letting students know I believe in them and that they can do it. Students have to know you have their best interest in mind so that when you push them, they understand," Goldberg said.
Goldberg's students also admire her way with patients, who, she says, must always come first.
"Anyone who has rounded with Dr. Goldberg cannot help but be moved and inspired by the compassionate, honest way she speaks to patients," said a resident. Combined with her technical proficiency in the operating room and dedication to education, Goldberg is not only inspiring but captivating."
Goldberg, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, was inducted as a charter member of the Academy of Distinguished Educators in Medicine in 2004.
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A Wheel of Time fan blog! Mostly posting the Old Tongue and artwork from the WoT RPG book. Sometimes I'll find something else cool and share it.
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Campaign report from the ground: Just put in three hours volunteering at the Organizing for America office in Little Havana / Miami, FL
What a group of fantastic young people who are the paid workers for the campaign, and us volunteers are a veritable melting pot. Three people were speaking French and Spanish in the same conversation! A couple of expats who live in Spain came to Miami for 4 months just to work on the Obama campaign. We make calls from a list that has lots of stale landline numbers, but it's a start to purge the list and talk to some people.
Here in Florida, the name of the game is voter turnout. In Miami, turnout is pretty much crucial to winning Florida. The governor is trying to purge voter rolls, suppress the vote, and who knows what they're planning to do with the Diebold machines. Only way to combat this is with a massive turnout!
Over 1 million people in Florida right now are disenfranchised. Nearly 1 in 3 of them are African American men. If these people were able to vote, Florida would no longer be a swing state.
Desmond Meade of the nonprofit Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, putting into words the evil truth of Governor Rick Scott's relentless attack on voting rights. One of his first acts in office was to overturn his predecessor's executive order restoring the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions.
When the hell did it become the purview of a governor to do everything in his power - and beyond - to prevent people from voting?
Governor Scott makes a habit of ignoring any outcomes that don't play to his advantage. A fair and impartial judiciary is our last defense against politicians who will be satisfied with nothing short of absolute power.
Miami attorney Elizabeth Hernandez, president of the group Defend Justice from Politics, hitting back on Florida
dictator Governor Scott's attempt to remove three judges who don't rubber stamp his draconian policies.
(Source: blogs.orlandosentinel.com)
Scott talking to the Palm Beach Post in November 2011: "It's my job, if it's the law of the country, to be ready when it's the law … when it's the law of the land, we'll implement the law."
Scott's spokesman in a Florida Today story earlier this month: "We will follow the law, but we're not going to make any movements until that unlikely day comes."
Gov. Scott on a conference call 10 days ago: "If it is the law of the land, then we will comply …"
And now, today?
Rick Scott says he will not "implement Obamacare."
Your vote's always going to count. They just said I got to vote on a provisional ballot. So my vote still counted.
Florida Governor Rick Scott, lying through his ignorant teeth yet again when telling the story of a mistake with his voter registration in 2006 (he was dead). Provisional ballots are NOT counted unless and until there is a recount. How can a voter have two days to produce evidence of his eligibility if the votes are counted on the night the polls close, you schmuck?
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Rick Scott gets trashed on The Daily Show.
"The governor's welfare drug testing program saved the state…………negative forty five thousand dollars."
This new program is therefore legally unenforceable in the five covered [under the VRA] counties in Florida unless and until preclearance is obtained. Please immediately take the steps necessary to comply with these preclearance obligations under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Excerpt from letter to Florida Secretary of State, Ken Detzner, from U.S Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez. I don't see how Perez controlled himself from saying "You ignorant, arrogant prick, you're in blatant violation of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. Did you get your law degree from Liberty University?"
Please sign petition asking AG Eric Holder to sue the state and block Florida's voter purge program because of how it harms Latino voters
May I add prosecute and imprison teabagger governor Rick Scott for violating federal law.
I recommend that Supervisors of Elections cease any further action until the issues raised by the Department of Justice are resolved between the parties or by a Court
Ron Labasky, general counsel to Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections. All 67 county supervisors have now stopped processing the voter purge lists they received from Governor Skeletor.
I tweeted the CREDO petition for DOJ clamp down on Florida's abuse of the Voting Rights Act, and voila! Obama for FL starts following me. They rock!
Let's get this straight: in the midst of a technology revolution, with a shortage of engineers and computer scientists, UF decides to cut computer science completely?
Steven Salzberg, Forbes magazine. The column goes on to say that eliminating the entire computer science department "saves" $1.7 million, even though UF's athletic department gets a $2 million increase.


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I just made this my iPad lock screen. I'm going to forget my password every time I go to use it aren't I? And maybe what day it is and even my own name… Oh Bruce.
I just made this my iPad lock screen. I'm going to forget my password every time I go to use it aren't I? And maybe what day it is and even my own name… Oh Bruce.
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They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticizing lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record… yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly.
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I'll die living just as free as my hair
Listening to Lady Gaga and dying my hair on my day off from work. I feel like this.
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Join me in my slight feeling of bittersweet nostalgia whilst listening to this playlist and wondering where the hell the year has gone.
Merry Christmas
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I know, I know, I hate when Christmas music is played too early and you can't escape it's stupidly infectious charms but, like, THIS ARIANA GRANDE COVER PEOPLE.
- Hazel
I love Christmas music. All year round.
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Me right now because I've got two whole weeks off work and I'm going to Americaaaa
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After a hard day of training in Liverpool today I felt I'd earned my tea at Camp & Furnace so I indulged in the 'dirty' burger with chips, pickle and ginger beer to wash it all down. Safe to say I am now stuffed and extremely satisfied. Love the ambience at C&F but this is the first time I've properly tried the food and I was impressed. Now I'm seriously looking forward to trying out one of their food slam fridays.
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Summary: Those extraordinary little events in your life happen for a reason. A coincidence-sometimes a silly little thing-changes the course of your day . . . or even your life. Is it chance, or is God communicating with you? When God Winks at You is packed with true stories demonstrating that God does communicate with us, making incredible things happen in our lives every single day. As you read the riveting accounts of everyday and famous people-including Tim Conway, Rudolph Giuliani, Billy Graham, and Don Knotts-you will begin to recognize the godwinks in your own life, both past and present. Through these tangible signposts from God, we receive personalized messages that reassure us, stop us from worrying, chart our path in life, and help us keep the faith. When God winks, He is reaffirming that there is absolutely nothing about us that He does not know-our every hurt, our every desire. And that to me is very comforting. -SQuire Rushnell God Winks® is a registered trademark of SQuire Rushnell
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He scored 1879/2200 marks and a total of 460 UCAS points.
He was awarded a Gold medal in the Senior Mathematics Challenge and a Bronze I medal in the 2009-2010 Physics Olympiad (round 2).
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|Fusion nucléaire – Edge Localized Mode – Champ ergodique – îlot magnétique – Perturbation magnétique résonante – Magnétohydrodynamique – Iter – Jet – Mast – Diii-d
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|Non linear modelisation of transport in a tokamak in the persence of edge localized.
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|The control of Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) is a capital question for the future ITER tokamak. The present work is dedicated to one of the most promising methods of control of the ELMs, based on a system of coils producing Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs! ), the efficiency of which was first demonstrated in the DIII-D tokamak in 2003. Our main objectives are, on the one hand, to improve the physical understanding of the mechanisms at play, and on the other hand to propose a concrete design of ELMs control coils for ITER. In order to calculate and analyze the magnetic perturbations produced by a given set of coils, we have developed the ERGOS code. The first ERGOS calculation was for the DIII-D ELMs control coils, the I-coils. It showed that they produce magnetic islands chains which overlap at the edge of the plasma, resulting in the ergodization of the magnetic field. We have then used ERGOS for the modelling of the experiments on ELMs control using the error field correction coils at JET and MAST, to which we participate since 2006. In the case of JET, we have shown the existence of a correlation between the mitigation of the ELMs and the ergodization of the magnetic field at the edge, in agreement with the DIII-D result. The design of ELMs control coils for ITER was done principally in the frame of an EFDA (European Fusion Development Agreement)-CEA contract, in collaboration with engineers from EFDA and ITER. We used ERGOS intensitvely, taking the case of the DIII-D I-coils as a reference. Three candidate designs came out, which we presented at the ITER Design Review, in 2007. Recently, the ITER management decided to provide a budget for building ELMs control coils, the design of which remains to be chosen between two of the three options that we proposed (or close to the ones we proposed). Finally, in order to understand better the non-linear magnetohydrodynamics phenomena taking place in ELMs control by RMPs, we performed numerical simulations, in particular with the JOREK code for a DIII-D case. The simulations reveal the existence of convection cells induced at the edge by the magnetic perturbations, and the possible screening of the RMPs in presence of rotation. The adequate modelling of the screening, which requires to add more physics into JOREK, has been started.
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|Edge Localized Mode – Ergodic field – Magnetic island – Resonant magnetic perturbation – Magnetohydrodynamics – Iter – Jet – Mast – Diii-d
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As I said in part one of this series of guides, you really don't want to get a cheap first guitar just to save a few bucks. The advantages to buying a cheaper guitar are FAR outweighed by the disadvantages.
This list comprises a number of quality guitars that are still reasonably priced. Any one of them will make a fantastic first guitar and should give you the best possible introduction to your new hobby. I think £200/$300 is a good budget in order to ensure we get something respectable, so all of these guitars weigh in at under this price. Obviously they can be had for much less second hand. These guitars will all hold their value well as they are all from well known, respected brands.
Enough talk! Show me the guitars!
Here's the list so far, keep checking back as I plan on updating it periodically.
Yamaha Pacifica 112 Left Handed Guitar
My first decent quality guitar! The Yamaha Pacifica was designed by Yamaha's USA team, primarily by ex-Ibanez designer Rich Lasner, the 112 first appeared in 1993 and not only overtook all previous (and subsequent) Pacifica models in terms of sales, it actually proved a benchmark for quality and specification. The Pacifica 112 is not only the perfect start-up guitar for the serious student, but also a solid, reliable choice whatever your age or ability.
New From : £145 / $?
Epiphone Les Paul Special II Left Handed Guitar
What's so special about the Epiphone Les Paul Special II Electric Guitar? The super-low price for starters and that's not all. It gives you all the essential elements of a Les Paul. Made with a mahogany body, bolt-on mahogany neck, smooth 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, this baby is every bit as handsome as its uptown cousins. Features 700T/650R open-coil humbucking pickups that deliver long, singing sustain and true Les Paul tones. The LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece add more sustain and make string changing easier.
New From : £120 / $184
Vintage Left Handed Guitars in General
This one's probably only for European guitar players as this UK brand will be hard to get a hold of in the USA. Vintage is a brand that is gaining huge momentum in Europe for the quality of their guitars so buy them now before they explode in price! In particular check out their V100 Les Paul style guitar, I have one and love it! If you don't want a Les Paul style guitar they also do Strat and Tele styles which are equally as good.
New From : £165 / $?
Agile Left Handed Guitars in General
Ok, so I've given one Euro exclusive brand, now let's take care of you Westerners. USA brand Agile is probably America's equivalent to Vintage guitars and make some absolutely stunning guitars at great prices. Living in the UK I have not personally had a chance to try Agile, but the reviews speak for themselves, these things are killer! One to look out for is the AL-2000 Les Paul style model.
New From : £? / $225
Squier Affinity Left Handed Guitar
The Squier Affinity Series Stratocaster Electric Guitar has a proud heritage and a sweet price. The contoured solid alder body is the same world-renowned style that fuelled the fires of Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, and thousands more. Pure vintage tone comes pounding out of 3 biting single-coil pickups, taking on flavor from a classic rocking tremolo and 5-way switching. Genuine die-cast tuners provide unprecedented tuning stability in this price range. The headstock is the classic '70s "big" style. The maple neck plays fast and feels great. When you trade up, your Affinity Series Strat will be worth far more than any no-name copy.
If you absolutely must have the Fender logo on your first guitar, you may be able to pick up a used Mexican Strat/Tele for under our £200 budget.
New From : £140 / $180
Epiphone SG G-310 Left Handed Guitar
The Epiphone G-310 SG Electric Guitar is an axe that delivers everything from warm distortion to all-out scream. Crafted with alder body, bolt-on mahogany neck, and rosewood fingerboard with dot inlay. Also has chrome LockTone Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece for more sustain and easier string changing, and LockTone tuners.
New From : £170 / $265
Left Handed Guitar Kits
Here's the best piece of advice you may gain on this page; do not buy a guitar kit! Some reputable brands make half decent guitar bundles for righties…lefties not so much! The only one that comes to mind off the top of my head is the bundle put together by Squier. It would not be a total waste of money.
If you feel I've missed any out leave a comment and I will add it to the list. As I said I will be continually updating this guide.
Any one of these will make a great starter guitar, but obviously if you are willing to drop a little more coin then things can only get better!
Part One : Important Tips Before You Buy
Part Two : Beginner Electric Guitars
Part Three : Beginner Acoustic Guitars
Part Four : Beginner Bass Guitars
Part Five : Amps
Part Six : Effects
Part Seven : Accessories
Part Eight : Lessons


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It's Friday. It's been a long week, you're sick of your coworkers, you're sick of your work, and you're done. What better way to release the week's tension by whacking the crap out of penguin with a giant spiky bat while dressed as a Yeti?
Enter Kill The Penguin, which as you could guess, involves...whacking the crap out of a penguin with a giant spiky bat while dressed as a Yeti.
This is an oldie but a goodie that I just rediscovered again after a few years of forgetting about it. Have a good weekend!
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Whoa. If you haven't quite gotten on board with him playing Christian Grey just yet -- get a load of these photos of Jamie Dornan filming Fifty Shades of Grey scenes in the rain in Vancouver.
He's dripping wet from head to toe -- and it's not all because of the weather either. Sure, he shot a few scenes in the rain, but since Christian is a dude who likes to keep himself in shape, it looks like we'll have the pleasure of seeing him partake in a bit of jogging in the film as well.
Guess the bedroom isn't the only place he'll break a sweat.
But let's get back to the pics where he's just standing there in the rain. Something about them has me buying into him as Christian a little more for some reason. He just looks so mysterious, and kind of lost ... like he has a ton of heavy stuff on his mind. He looks like a dude you definitely don't want to mess with, well -- unless you're Anastasia Steele, of course.
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And while seeing a guy dripping wet in a mixture of rain and sweat isn't necessarily the biggest turn on, this is Christian Grey we're talking about -- which definitely lends a certain element of "OMG he's so freakin' hot" into the mix.
Please excuse me while I go back and stare at the rain pic a bit longer. As hard as I try, I can't seem to look away.
Are you getting excited for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie?
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Take your pulse, ladies. You might actually be dead!
Actually I think Jamie will be fantastic! No one looks good in a soaked hoodie, but take that sweat shirt off and there is no denying he has a fantastic body...not to mention a handsome face. I worry about Dakota though. She is so far from the Anastasia in the book that it's difficult, if not impossible to get past her. Plus she looks too old for Christian.
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I put a little away at a time
I cut corners until I can afford it
Save? Who has money to save?
I plan to put it on my credit card and love the benefits of the reward program


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Vt. town's road signs stolenMay 13,2013THETFORD Officials in a small Vermont town say more than half the towns road signs have been stolen over the past few months.
Thetford Public Works Director Scott Knowlton said 50 of the towns aluminum signs identifying the names of roads have been pilfered, possibly for to sell as scrap metal, but none of the towns traffic signs have been stolen.
The Valley News reported that the town on Thursday ordered 27 replacement signs from the states prison system, where inmates produce them, and expects to order more in the coming weeks.
Police Chief Jim Lanctot said the thefts could potentially cause problems for emergency response vehicles responding to calls and for out-of-towners who arent familiar with the town.MORE IN This Just InStaff Report Full StoryBENNINGTON — A local man was killed in a one-car accident Saturday. Full StoryMONTPELIER Drivers who use hand-held cellphones and other electronic devices while driving... Full Story
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - Local farmers could lose thousands of dollars if a proposal by President Barack Obama is passed. The proposal will end direct government payments to large U.S. farmers.
How this proposal works is if farmers make $500,000 or more in annual sales then direct payments from the government would be cut off, and this would be bad news to hundreds of farmers here on the South Plains.
Wally Darneille has been in the cotton industry for more than 30 years. "Our farmers create employment they create export and they take tremendous risks that require tremendous capital so limiting them on the basis of gross sales is, as I said in my speech in Washington, I think un-American," said Darneille, president and CEO of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association.
Darneille is not too pleased with President Barack Obama's new proposal. Currently, farmers receive various forms of payments and one is a direct payment from the government. This is received regardless of the amount of crop that is produced. Obama is proposing to end direct payments to farmers whose annual sales are $500,000 or more. "$500,000 in gross sales represents about maybe 1,500 bales of cotton and that's not a huge amount," said Darneille.
In fact, Darneille says this would affect 126,000 farmers nationwide.
"In the government payments that come those farms, of course, it's going to affect their bottom line profitability and the ability to make a living," said Darren Hudson the Larry Combest Chair of Agricultural Competitiveness.
Hudson with the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Texas Tech says this would affect 100 farmers alone in Lubbock County. "What's happening here is you're just picking a group and excluding them from receiving government payments. There is no benefit. None of the other farmers get more payments none of those trade-offs exist, basically what is happening is the Obama Administration is looking for dollars in order to fund some its other programs," said Hudson.
Hudson adds the average Lubbock County farmer makes $80,000 a year and $25,000 of it is a direct government payment.
Both Hudson and Darneille agree they see this as just a proposal. "It's already gotten a lot of criticism from both democrats and republicans," said Hudson.
"I just think it's very counterproductive to come to farmers who get a very minuscule amount, bear in mind we are talking about a very small amount of money in the greater scheme of things so I don't think that this will succeed," said Darneille.
If Obama's proposal passes, then it would counteract the current farm bill. Right now, farmers are under a five year bill that congress passed last year which does include government direct payments.
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Juggling the rising cost of textbooks, tuition, food and rent is a little more manageable now for rising University of Maryland, Baltimore County senior Keyerra Jeter, thanks to a June 1 raise in starting pay to $9 per hour for Gap Inc.'s 65,000 employees.
"It was difficult, with everything being so expensive all the time, to budget for everything on a minimum-wage salary," said Jeter, an employee of the Old Navy in Waugh Chapel. "I'm just thankful the increase has let me better meet the needs that I have."
Gap Inc. brands — Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, Athleta and Intermix — are among a growing group of major U.S. retailers now paying more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour for entry-level employees. Others include Ben & Jerry's, Costco, Ikea and Whole Foods. Paying workers more reduces turnover and hiring costs, the businesses say, because it makes for happier employees who stay longer and better serve customers.
In Maryland, the companies are ahead of the gradual curve of a new law that will raise the state minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by July 1, 2018. In January, the current minimum of $7.25 — defined by state and federal law — will increase by 75 cents to $8 per hour, with periodic increases scheduled through 2018.
Companies that fought the increase said increased overhead costs would lead to shuttered storefronts and job losses. The Maryland Chamber of Commerce said businesses in a struggling economy can't afford more overhead.
"Whenever there is a nonmarket force dictating the expense side of the ledger, it's tough on businesses, tough on employers, and that requires businesses to take a look at all the other expenses, including how many people they can employ," said Brien Poffenberger, president and CEO of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.
But, others say, higher wages can also bring some cost reductions.
Paul Villareal, manager of the Old Navy store in Waugh Chapel, said he's saved money by slowing high employee turnover rates common in the industry. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, monthly retail turnover reached 4.8 percent in April, up 20 percent from the previous year.
"Paying more to attract talent, it gets stability in the store," Villareal said. "In retail, there's a high turnover rate. With a better wage, you can slow down talent and keep them longer. Some employees never thought they could be worth this much to a company."
New Gap employees must undergo a six-month "apprenticeship," during which they earn less than the $9 per hour minimum. The training program, which also started in June, allows the company to gauge the fit of a new hire, Villareal said.
David Cooper, an economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, said companies paying more before they are required by law get to choose from the "pick of the litter" when it comes to hiring.
"What you're seeing with these companies that are choosing to get out ahead of the mandated increases is that they're recognizing that this is smart from a business perspective, because it will let them hang on to good workers, but it also allows them to attract more workers now before the wages go up," Cooper said.
Since Aaron Moon started working for Old Navy fresh out of Bowie High School in 2011, the Waugh Chapel associate said he's been waiting for the "well-deserved" pay bump.
"It shows a sense of performance value," Moon said. "The managers and the head of the company have been looking at you and deciding what your work is really worth, and now you get it."
Raising wages differentiates Gap stores from the competition, said Paula Conhain, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco-based retailer.
"We really see this as an investment like any other investment that we make. This is an investment in our people," she added.
Such investment in employees makes them happier, according to Sam Park, Whole Foods Market's Mid-Atlantic regional vice president.
Maryland employees of the grocery store chain earn a starting wage of $10 per hour. After a probationary period, employees working more than 20 hours per week are eligible for benefits, including health and dental plans.
"Whole Foods Market is proud to offer one of the most comprehensive and competitive compensation packages in the grocery industry, which is in keeping with our core value of supporting Team Member happiness and excellence," Park said in an email.
The 3,000-strong nationwide network of businesses and executives, Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, said benefits of a wage raise can be seen by looking past the increased labor cost to the "long-term savings in the big picture."


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At approximately 5:20 am on February 14, 1986, a resident on the 4200 block of NE 37th Avenue noticed someone lying face down in the snow near the northeast corner of Wilshire Park. Police were called and discovered Eddie Lathan, a 22-year-old African-American male, deceased at the curb line. An autopsy determined that Mr. Lathan had been shot to death. Investigators determined that he had not been murdered at this location, but rather his body was dumped.
Mr. Lathan was reported to be a street-level drug dealer who dealt mostly marijuana. Mr. Lathan was last seen on the night of February 13, near the intersection of NE Grand and Alberta Street at approximately midnight.
If you or anyone you know has any information regarding the murder of Eddie Lathan, you are encouraged to contact CrimeStoppers at 503-823-HELP.


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Men Like Mitt Romney Because They're Better Informed Than 'Other People,' Says Herman Cain | Jezebel
Former Presidential candidate and alleged serial grabber of 'other people' Herman Cain has a theory about why presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney is much more popular with men than he is with women. Men, you see, support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama because they are more informed about policy than, uh, some other people. You guys— I think he means women.


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Incorporating Children Into the Decor
Remember the post we did a while back regarding the NY Times article and incorporating children into the decor? We really loved hearing everyone's comments. My own philosophy falls somewhere between the two extremes of absolutely no toys outside of the designated play area and toys in every room of the house. The September issue of Dwell Magazine featured some photos that, for me, struck the perfect balance of toys and decor.
We love to see a nice looking play kitchen and kids' artwork in the dining room. Kid-sized table and chairs in the kitchen makes perfect sense. A well-designed play garage looks great displayed in an empty space. Rather than work against the decor, all of these photos show how seamlessly childrens' things can be incorporated into the decor. Check out the full article and more photos here at Dwell.
Tell us if you think this is too much of childrens' things invading the "adult" spaces in the house.
(Images: Dwell Magazine/Shawn Records)
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The Creativity Area of the feng shui bagua is associated with Children as well. You can especially enhance that area in your home by exhibiting your kid's art work or storing their toys there. Or hang photos of yourself as children if you don't have any.
I assumed this post was going to be about using your children as structural supports or as curtain rods. What a surprise!
I don't have a problem with kids areas/toys in different parts of the house, but I have found that the toys from one room end up in another and so on throughout the house, making clean-up a bear. So, we have a combined playroom/office and ALL the toys have a designated place there. That way, when they end up in other rooms, which the always do, I can throw them in a basket and carry them all back to the one room. I also find that less toys end up around the house because the tend to stay in the playroom.
We have toys in four rooms: our kid's bedroom, bathroom, living room, and dining room. Our dining room is casual and it's where her play kitchen and easel are, and we have closed storage for art supplies. We have closed storage in our living room where toys go, as well as one tub out in the open. Having designated areas where the toys go makes clean up so much easier. Of course, as joyluck76 said, they always end up elsewhere, but clean up is a breeze. And when things are tidied, you can clearly see we have a child, but toys aren't the focus of the room.
The kids aren't invasions nor are the toys. The trick is to keep the number of toys in control, then you don't have to worry about toy overload or clutter.
Near our kitchen, I have my daughters play kitchen (once, an old bathroom shelf w/ cabinets found at garage sale) so while I cook, she cooks. Next to our bookshelf, is her miniature bookshelf and in our living room is a handmade book sling and basket to put random books or toys that creep into our living space. ( I can clean up so fast) If she wants to join in what were doing, its there for her.
LOL, JudiAu!
We proudly display toys in our living room -- we have a red Togo sectional, a Finnish MCM turquoise rocker, and a long row of very low white drawers (which also function as a playing surface, and tv stand), pieces that I put together to look good with kid stuff.
It is not a very formal living room -- we leave the dining room for our more formal get-togethers. The toys that are out though, are particularly attractive, and work almost like sculptures: a wheely-moo and wheely bug; a dozen hand puppets on a puppet stand ( http://www.toyday.co.uk/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=3403 ), and a fleet of wooden Dylan Freeth vehicles from Habitat -- a London bus and cab, an ice cream truck, a tuk tuk, an Indian truck, a fire truck...
We've arranged the furniture to create a little play area which is partially hidden behind the sectional; there is a white table and a couple of bright chairs for drawing, and space on the ground to set up train tracks. The other toys are hidden away in the white drawers -- other vehicles, play dishes and kitchenware, play instruments and puzzles, etc., etc. I'll be sad when my kids outgrow this set-up...
Does anyone have pictures of their spaces? We are moving into a new house next month and would love to be able to incorporate our daughter's stuff into our stuff so that our house isn't taken over by toys.
Can Ohdeedoh do a special on mschatelaine's place? I'd love to see photos -- it sounds absolutely fabulous!
If the toys are beautiful, by all means put them in every room.
We have a wooden play kitchen in our kitchen, instead of having an eat-in area. Our son cooks while we're cooking (or throws his kitchen stuff at the dogs, depending on his mood), and it helps keep him occupied and a little engaged in what we're doing.
Most of the other toys live in either our son's nursery or in the playroom. His wheely bug cow looks really nice in the living room, so I leave that out there.
I have a spot in the living room where I intend to put some shelving and bins for more of his items, but for now our dining room and living room areas are almost entirely free of toys. It's a little too kid-clutter-free, really, so I like seeing these posts with good looking toys incorporate into decor. It helps to have beautiful toys and thoughtful kid-art displays, so I'll keep that in mind.
Ding, ding, ding! I need to put the play kitchen back in the kitchen! I used to have it there in our old apartment, but since moving to our home, with a dedicated playroom, it has become sadly neglected in said playroom. I bet if I move it back to its natural habitat, it will be well-loved once more.


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Asparagus Breakfast Strata
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- 3 cup(s) skim milk
- 2 cup(s) egg substitute
- 1 tablespoon(s) Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoon(s) dried basil
- 1 teaspoon(s) salt
- 2 tablespoon(s) butter, melted
- 2 tablespoon(s) all-purpose flour
- 2 cup(s) (8 ounces) shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
- 1 10-ounce package(s) frozen cut asparagus, thawed or 2 cups cut fresh asparagus, cooked
- 2 cup(s) sliced fresh mushrooms
- 10 cup(s) cubed reduced-calorie bread
- • In a large bowl, beat the milk, egg substitute, mustard and basil. Gently stir in remaining ingredients.
- • Pour into a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish coated with cooking spray. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
- • Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1 hour or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting.
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Asparagus Breakfast Strata Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Breakfast/Brunch
- CONVENIENCE: Make-Ahead
- CUISINE: New American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Rice/Grains
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
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