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|About Elsi
Editors, Elk, and Encouragement
Tom and I presented our book/software package to several editors today, and came away excited and encouraged. Some of the editors liked the concept, and one seemed to fall in love with it! She's taking it to her Tech Team with high hopes … our hopes are high, also.
Lady and I went walking to the campground store over the lunch break today. She's so old that she wasn't really aware of the herd of elk hanging out nearby; I, on the other hand, was keeping her close to me so as not to startle the wild creatures. At one point a doe elk approached us, and I started taking pictures. Then I realized she was glaring at us (a hunter and a wolf, I suppose?) … and stamping her front feet rhythmically, left right left right left right. Now, this is my story, and I'm sticking with it: Lady and I retreated with grace, dignity, and a fair amount of speed.
In my last class, I spoke with a woman who wants to join the church writing group. And another who thanked me for speaking up about the Columbine comment yesterday. I needed that encouragement, and I praise the Lord for it.
My Cat Can Count to 10
Summer afternoon storm
Look at my map!
"Yo ho ho, the wind blows free" in Mystic, CT
Ed Mathieu, moose whisperer
Trust …
A New Song
Moose plans!
Resurrection Day, 2013
"angels unaware"
one last camping trip!
TCA iPads!
Sunday blessing
Blue moon
"Then sings my soul …"
A Delightful Trip
Going on a bat?
BCBC youth—a long time ago
My friend Shannie
fun at Safeway
morning fun!
Buffalo Wesleyan Church
Cascades National Park, homeward
"wherever I lodge"
the view
Cascades National Park
Guardian beagle?
Lewis and Clark Caverns
Let's get this show on the road!
Book signing at Mardel
Bubbles and Bibles
Though the Bud Be Bruised
Graduation season
Happy camper!
Maggie Hope
God's Crayon Box
Israel Miracles
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved
My yard …
He is not here!
jet lag
Garden of Gethsemane
Where …
The Great I AM
Abraham's Tent
Wednesday—Jordan River
Caesarea, Zippori, Nazareth, Megiddo …
Israel—1st day
Tomorrow … tomorrow!
Beautiful feet
Wings of the morning
Countdown …
King of Glory
17 more days!
This is why I write!
the power of words
Love Letters from the Heart
Pilgrims, Elephants, Buffalo—what is real?
Israel factoids
God is our Savior!
Happy Chinese New Year!
God is!
Praise the Lord—a BVCC Sunday school psalm
Write from the Heart
Going to Israel
Christmas Eve 2011
Christmas Eve sky
Advent acrostics
another BookCrash review
Ho ho ho!
busy … busy … busy …
Student advocacy …
Save the date!
Trick or Treat?
fall color?
Where Can I Go?
Mitchell, SD
Books galore!
Blessings, by Laura Story
Inspiring: From Orphan to Physician
My room
Good morning, Lord!
Wagon of Fools
BCBC retreat (2)
Precision Repair in Big Timber, MT
Scenic byway
Writing as Art
"The Very Heart of Worship"—Cypress Ministries
Mr. Awana, by Art Rorheim
Cross it out!
fretting …
Braden Wild
production error?
"The Lord planted a garden …"
A writer's viewpoint on the Bible
God Hater by Bill Myers
Does God like fun?
too long between posts!
a blessed, merry Christmas
Peak-to-Peak's Christmas concert
Let there be lights
Friends, Truman, and books
Rescuing angels
tune: "Fairest Lord Jesus"
Niagara Cave, Harmony, MN
Synesthesia 2
Truth Christian Academy teaching
Worship night, BVCC
BCBC retreat thoughts
Shooting stars
New friends from Alberta
Journey in the Write Direction
Nevada morning
Use it and pack it
fireworks—soggy, glorious!
Going …
I'll rest content, when my trip is done!
Red River Zoo, Fargo, ND—nice!
Whether the weather …
An island, just for me?
A delightful day
Sing praise!
Unexpected kindness
If I were a moose …
CCWC in Estes Park
We thank You, Lord, from A to Z!
Flamingo in a snowbank
An abundant week, part 2
An abundant week, part 1
God and Dog
Low mood …
Carry your cross …
Bleak mid-winter …
St. Patrick's breastplate
Emmanuel—God with us!
"Since My Divorce"
Thanksgiving and all
Thanksgiving acrostic
"What is in your hand?"
Northwest haven
Early in the morning
Oh, yawn!
My friend Shannie
GOOD cat!
Visiting Camp Lake Hubert
Oh, fun!
Dog rescue
Highway dangers
The Bible … sort of …
If you don't like math, ignore this
"Up" from Disney/Pixar
Flag waving
Laramie, WY
Me? Media?
Art and Soul signing
Roy and Denise on KPOF
Where am I closest to God?
Name game
A Bible character you relate to …
Women's Retreat
from Psalm 136
Year of the Ox
the Main Thing
New leaders
Proverbs 31 woman
The Many Days of Christmas
Christmas Eve
"Oh, come, let us adore Him!"
Three birthdays
Does God know?
Good Guys in White Hats
Beginning of Advent
"With heart and hands and voices!"
Thanksgiving Eve
"Boy in the Striped Pajamas"
Forgiveness …
Songs in the night
Fund Raising?
Two oxen and a plow
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas!
More clicker training
Clicker training
Really Living Life
Meet Sallie!
Beagles galore
A hint of fall in the air
Hands lifted high
Job list
What a day!
Goodbye to my Lady
A good conference
OCW—almost over (sob!)
Oregon Coast Aquarium
My plans
Worship style?
Support group
Heaven …
In a mirror?
My friend Flora
EN-ER-giz-ing …
Reflections …
Editors, Elk, and Encouragement
Loving the unlovely
Pretend friend
God's schedule
My attitude …
Expelled—no intelligence allowed
Communion meditation on prayer
What's in my hand?
Making a list
Resurrection Day
Spring holidays
Boulder Footwash
Pi, Talents, and Holy Week
Jesus' love language?
"Hiding Place"
A Weekend of Fellowship and Fun
God's armor
TCA's spring program
Joy to the world in February
Vacation planning
Uno, the winningest beagle
Remember …
Every good gift …
Valentine's Day, next week
"Repent"—house church Communion
Kingdom of heaven, further thoughts
Kingdom of heaven
Communion at house church
Planning, planning …
House church
"not my woods"
Russ Hawkins
Run and Hide (after)
Last straw …
Run and Hide (Tuesday)
Run and Hide (Monday)
Corrie Ten Boom
9 ladies dancing …
Happy New Year!
Home again
wags and purrs
Caroling, caroling
Listen carefully …
Almost Christmas
Light of the world!
Lights, and another child …
A child's point of view
Jesus in Boulder
Why Jesus is special
cough … sniffle … whimper …
Snowed in (sort of)
At the middle school
Laughter and tears
I want to see Jesus!
Just moosin' around …
I was created to make Your name … glorious!
Manger Throne
Woman at the Well
Book signing
Thanksgiving, 2007
Difficult Thanksgiving Choices
Radio interview
Choir rehearsal
Operation Christmas Child
Laughing hysterically
Evidence of God's grace
Lots of little praises
Lighted water?
I know that my Redeemer lives!
Feeling old and baffled …
Faith In A Box
November …
Lion and the Lamb …
Escaped cat
Spiritual disciplines
My cane
Christmas choir
hibernating moose?
singing praise
"children of all ages"
Signing books
A wasp and "Jesus prays"
My identity in Christ …
Launching the Lamb's Lunch
"against You only have I sinned …"
Sandwiches, cookies, and cake … oh, my!
New energy
House church
My old Lady
Testing, testing …
Layers of mountains
Bible reading
Hands lifted high
To this I cling:
Trying to process …
The system …
Please pray
Following Jesus
Hey, want to hear a story?
A New Song?
Youthful exuberance?
Thinking about Psalm 130:7-8
What a blessing!
Obedient or absurd?
my youth group!
NEED and Total Forgiveness
Songs and choices
Drive-by Church—God's Plan
Trials and Tribulations … Plus Mercy Galore!
Trust …


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After early start, worst of flu season may be over
NEW YORK - The worst of the flu season appears to be over.
The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu going around, U.S. health officials said Friday.
The season started earlier than normal, first in the Southeast and then spreading. But now, by some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least four weeks in much of the country. Flu and pneumonia deaths also dropped the last two weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"It's likely that the worst of the current flu season is over," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said.
But flu is hard to predict, he and others stressed, and there have been spikes late in the season in the past.
For now, states like Georgia and New York - where doctor's offices were jammed a few weeks ago - are reporting low flu activity. The hot spots are now the West Coast and the Southwest.
Among the places that have seen a drop: Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in Allentown, Pa., which put up a tent outside its emergency room last month to help deal with the steady stream of patients. There were about 100 patients each day back then. Now it's down to 25 and the hospital may pack up its tent next week, said Terry Burger, director of infection control and prevention for the hospital.
"There's no question that we're seeing a decline," she said.
In early December, CDC officials announced flu season had arrived, a month earlier than usual. They were worried, saying it had been nine years since a winter flu season started like this one. That was 2003-04 - one of the deadliest seasons in the past 35 years, with more than 48,000 deaths.
Like this year, the major flu strain was one that tends to make people sicker, especially the elderly, who are most vulnerable to flu and its complications
But back then, that year's flu vaccine wasn't made to protect against that bug, and fewer people got flu shots. The vaccine is reformulated almost every year, and the CDC has said this year's vaccine is a good match to the types that are circulating. A preliminary CDC study showed it is about 60 percent effective, which is close to the average.
So far, the season has been labeled moderately severe.
Like others, Lehigh Valley's Burger was cautious about making predictions. "I'm not certain we're completely out of the woods," with more wintry weather ahead and people likely to be packed indoors where flu can spread around, she said.
The government does not keep a running tally of flu-related deaths in adults, but has received reports of 59 deaths in children. The most - nine - were in Texas, where flu activity was still high last week. Roughly 100 children die in an average flu season, the CDC says
On average, about 24,000 Americans die each flu season, according to the CDC.
According to the CDC report, the number of states with intense activity is down to 19, from 24 the previous week, and flu is widespread in 38 states, down from 42.
Flu is now minimal in Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

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Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are calling it quits. Their critics land on Anderson Cooper's RidicuList.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
Filed under: The RidicuList
I'm not surprised at all.Kris didn't know anything about Kim.
Really did you expect something else?
Anyway either she was too short for him, or he was too tall for her, take your pick.
I think her whole family is great and everyone seems interested in what they're up to. He will come out of this a little better then most.
Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN.
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Euphorbia serrulata Thuill.
Quick facts
|Threat status Europe
|Not evaluated (IUCN)
|Protected by
|1 international agreement
Legal status
Mentioned in the following international legal instruments and agreements
|Legal text
|More information
|Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Annex II: (a) all species which, although not necessarily now threatened with extinction, may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to strict regulation in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival; and (b) other species which must be subject to regulation in order that trade in specimens of certain species referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph may be brought under effective control.
|This species or synonym as such is not listed in CITES, but whole Genus Euphorbia is concerned by Appendix II. (Succulent species only except Euphorbia misera and the species included in Appendix I. Artificially propagated specimens of cultivars of Euphorbia trigona, artificially propagated specimens of crested, fan-shaped or colour mutants of Euphorbia lactea, when grafted on artificially propagated root stock of Euphorbia neriifolia, and artificially propagated specimens of cultivars of Euphorbia 'Milii' when they are traded in shipments of 100 or more plants and readily recognizable as artificially propagated specimens, are not subject to the provisions of the Convention). Designates all parts and derivatives, except: a) seeds (including seedpods of Orchidaceae), spores and pollen (including pollinia). The exemption does not apply to seeds from Cactaceae spp. exported from Mexico, and to seeds from Beccariophoenix madagascariensis and Neodypsis decaryi exported from Madagascar; b) seedlings or tissue cultures obtained in vitro, in solid or liquid media, transported in sterile containers; c) cut flowers of artificially propagated plants; d) fruits, and parts and derivatives thereof of naturalized or artificially propagated plants of the genus Vanilla (Orchidaceae) and of the family Cactaceae; e) stems, flowers, and parts and derivatives thereof of naturalized or artificially propagated plants of the genera Opuntia subgenus Opuntia and Selenicereus (Cactaceae); and f) finished products of Euphorbia antisyphilitica packaged and ready for retail trade.
Common names and synonyms
|Common Name
|Steife Wolfsmilch
|Korneck, D., M. Schnittler & I. Vollmer
|Euphorbia stricta
|L., nom. illegit.
Other resources
|Global Biodiversity Information Facility
|ITIS search
|Interagency Taxonomic Information System
|NCBI search
|National Center for Biotechnology Information
|PESI (Synonym)
|Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
|Species+ by UNEP-WCMC


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Narragansett goes big to celebrate anniversary
Narragansett Beer has developed a following in the past few years by doing simple styles well.
But, Narragansett's new beer will be their most ambitious release yet, the Imperial IPA.
The beer is being brewed to celebrate Narragansett's 122nd anniversary.
The beer will be bottled in a 22-ounce bomber, and will have 122 IBUS. It will be brewed with Summit, Northern Brewers, Hallertau, Tettanger and Sazz hops.
"We have a number of reasons to raise our glass this year," Narragansett CEO Mark Hellendrung said in a release. "Each anniversary is a reminder of where the brand has been and where we're headed. It is an amazing feeling to help revitalize a cultural icon such as Narragansett and to watch it thrive again.
The Imperial IPA was brewed under the supervision of Sean Larkin of the Trinity Brew House in Providence.
The 8.6 percent ABV Imperial IPA should retail for between $5.99 and $6.99 and will be on shelves soon.


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On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled "Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future." To read an article summarizing his remarkable presentation, see "Jeff Sachs Speaks for the Voiceless at Harvard Law School."
The Situationist will be posting a loose, unofficial transcript of his remarks over the next couple weeks. Here's the first part.
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Good morning everybody. What a pleasure to be here. This is actually a room I know well. I taught classes here for many years with Roberto Unger, who you know is now minister in the government of Brazil and working on problems of sustainable development. So, good things happen in this classroom, and I expect many of you to go out and be leaders in the future, and it's especially a privilege to speak to you at the beginning of your law school experience.
My main message to you is whatever they might do in teaching you in the next three years, don't let anybody beat out of you the enthusiasm for seeing law as a instrument of social change, and as a mechanism for solving human problems. That I think is the most important role that we need to play in the coming years, and I believe, as I'll emphasize, that places like Harvard have unique responsibilities that are not being fulfilled right now, and because of that are putting us at unnecessary risk. Or to put it another way, Wasilla is just beating the stuffing out of Cambridge right now, and we've got to get our act together and to speak out and start working and doing what we believe to be possible, which is the reason why we're here. And that is the idea of applying intellect and learning and science and knowledge and history to human betterment, and we're facing a massive reaction in this country. It says none of that's possible, that none of you care, that we're all a bunch of elitists out to denigrate the rest of the country and the rest of the world. It's a bunch of crap, if I can use a technical term. But we better get our voices together, and we better start acting on our beliefs, and we better start communicating better than we are.
And the reason is, this world's in a lot of trouble — despite and, ironically in part, because of our wealth and technical capacity. The world is not reliably running on the rails, or running on the fiber optic cables right now. The world is at an unusually high risk of spinning out of control. And I think it's our greatest challenge to try to help insure that that doesn't happen. And it will require special kinds of action and knowledge and commitment – a kind of mix of knowledge and the work that you're going to learn and the skills that your going to develop in the next three years combined with an ethical commitment which won't come from your classes necessarily; you're going to have to find it yourselves and in other ways, although I'm sure your teachers can help to impart it if they're doing their job properly.
But it's going to have to come also through a lot of reflection, internally about what you want to do and how you want to use the skills that you're developing. My job is to worry you today. If I weren't worried, I would not be doing what I'm doing. There are plenty of other things that I'd like to do more if I felt that it was really possible. But I feel a little bit compelled to do what I'm doing right now which is trying to understand these challenges of poverty or environmental degradation or profound inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflict or a geo-politics that's gone crazily awry or a country like ours which is seemingly absolutely incapable of serious discussion right now – under almost any circumstances. I'd rather be doing other things. But I'm doing these things because I think that they actually are important.
Why am I worried? I'm worried because I think that the world is in a very dangerous, unprecedented and poorly understood situation and the two concepts that for me are extremely important in thinking about this – one I use in the subtitle of my book Commonwealth: Crowding, Economics for a Crowded Planet.
I think we're in each other's faces globally as never before. We haven't adjusted to the realities of a global inter-connected society of nearly 7 billion people now. And with those numbers rising by nearly 80 million a year, and I know that that crowding is leading to incredible marginalization of hundreds of millions of people in an extremely dangerous way. People you don't see that we would not naturally think about that are pundits and editorial writers and our government officials no nothing about.
And it's only because of my accidental luck personally to have gotten involved in very marginal communities and places in the world in marginal and an economic sense that I've been able to understand this because I never would have from what I learned across the parking lot in Littauer where I studied or when I was teaching because I didn't know what I was talking about frankly. For many, many years of teaching because I hadn't seen these things with my own eyes. So one part of this is crowding and that's a term which for me means a number of things which I'll explain, but it basically means a world that is not coming to grips with it's interconnectedness, it's diversity, and the pressure's on the weakest and the most vulnerable in the planet which include more than one billion people.
The other big risk, very much interconnected with the first is related to a term that I like very much – coined by an atmospheric scientist who was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize for discovering the chemistry that underlies the threat to ozone depletion. A scientist named Paul Crutzen who coined the phrase for our age "the anthropocene." That's a geological sounding term which he means to substitute for the technical term of our geologic epoch which is called the Holocene. That's the post ice-age era in which civilization has developed and now 6.7 billion of us live.
And what Crutzen said out of his deep awareness and deep understanding of the science of our time, is that humankind, the Anthropos, has taken over the earth's physical systems in ways that we barely understand, but which are a profound threat for survival even. And he should know because it was only by accident that while looking a possible implications of supersonic transport technologies in the early 1970s, he and others started to think about how certain chemicals – the chlorofluorocarbons which were felt to be inert, safe, clever ways to get your deodorant under your arms through aerosols, would actually threaten the planet. So it was an accidental discovery that CFC's would actually become chemically active as they rose through the stratosphere and the chlorine atoms then would decompose the ozone level. And it took brilliant, completely accidental sleuthing by a number of scientists to uncover this.
We happened then to have a massive satellite up in the sky that could take a picture of the ozone hole over Antarctica which became one of the most famous pictures of the second half of the 20th century. And the combination of the science and the ability to measure it and confirm it led to a series of global agreements that for a change, actually, have more or less delivered what they promised showing that it is possible to reach global agreements on these issues.
I find this example pregnant with all sorts of important meaning. First, the ability of humankind to fundamentally disrupt the biosphere. That's pretty good of us. That's not so easy to do. Second, the fact that massive, major things can happen without any awareness and it's only an accidental scientific discovery. Whether it was the chain of effect of DDT through the food cycle but Rachel Carson made famous in Silent Spring, or the far more important effects of CFC's on the ozone level. But these were things that were not understood. There was no search for their effect, they were only accidentally discovered. And, third, the fact of the matter that what we're doing ecologically, is at such a massive and growing scale, and so multi-dimentional, so multi-faceted, so far beyond our measuring systems, our technical knowledge right now, so unprecedented in extent, and of course, not exactly the burning issues of our "drill baby drill" campaign right now, that we're not exactly on top of this.
When you put these two facts together – a crowded world experiencing still massive technical change, and massive increases of natural resource use and an environment already under pervasive threat only poorly understood, and politically almost not in anybody's focus. And with most of the world including most of this country are not even aware of it. I say we've got a massive problem, and I think it's going to be intra-connected set of challenges that will be your generations leading challenges. Not the ones we talk about every day. But these are going to be the challenges that will become the centerpiece of the global reality whether they ever become the centerpiece of our politics or not.
I see three fundamental problems then that need addressing and they're all interconnected . . . .
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Part II of this series will pick up there. To watch the 90-minute video of Professor Sachs's remarks, click here.


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An Advanced Beginner
Sam Elias has lit up the probable third ascent of Red Bull (M11), Vail, Colorado, after only mixed climbing for roughly one season, and only climbing three years total.
Sam Elias has lit up the probable third ascent of Red Bull (M11), Vail, Colorado, after only mixed climbing for roughly one season, and only climbing three years total.
"I believe the route is rated M11 without heel spurs," says Elias, but I have no idea what this really means. He says, "If I had to rate it in rock grades, based strictly on physical exertion, it would probably be 5.13a."
Red Bull, in the Rigid Designator Amphitheater, is a two-pitch line that is done in a single 45-meter stretch. Eric Malmgren, of Grand Junction, Colorado, originally bolted it. The first pitch tackles a popular 60-foot M8. The second pitch adds another 50 feet of upside-down technical dry tooling, and then finishes on the area classic The Fang (WI 5). Malmgren sent the route through all the business, but fell off trying to gain the final 30 feet of ice, he never returned to redpoint the route. Hari Berger and Ines Papert are credited with the first and second ascents, the Europeans ticked the line during a two-day trip to Vail.
The Red Bull redpoint took Elias, 25 and from Glenwood Springs, Colorado, fewer than 10 tries over about as many days. Elias, like Papert and Berger, climbed Red Bull spurless.
Elias is one of only a few North American climbers to have sent both 5.14 and M11. In fact, the only other known North American to tick M11 (or harder) and climb 5.14 is Ryan Nelson. The M11/5.14 distinction may seem arbitrary, but it highlights how few North Americans are sport-mixed climbing, especially considering there are so many climbing 5.14. In fact, Elias says that during all his time at Vail, he rarely saw other people mixed climbing, and when he did, it was only on the area's moderate routes.
"Ice and mixed climbing are really intimidating," Elias says. "You have to have so much gear. It's expensive to get into, and sways people away from it naturally. How do you even know if you're going to like it?"
Sam Elias, originally from Michigan, first touched rock at a Colorado outdoor camp at about 12 years old. There, he cleanly toproped a 5.10a for his first route ever. Upon returning home, Sam was stoked about climbing, but spent his high school and college years competitive ski racing, training for the slopes 12 months a year.
"When I graduated college, skiing was over," says Elias. "I got a job at the climbing gym, and pretty soon, found myself driving to the Red River Gorge every weekend. Then I quit my job and just moved there. By the end of his first season in the sport, he had redpointed 5.13c and I don't know how many 5.13a's."
Toward the end of his second year of climbing, then living at Rifle, Elias sent his first 5.14a, Zulu. Elias is noticeably cool and composed when he climbs, often dispatching with routes quickly. Last fall, at the Virgin River Gorge, Arizona, Elias onsighted the 100-foot Joe Six Pack (5.13a), and then sent 130-foot Fall of Man (5.13b), second try, both routes are beta-intensive and extremely technical, while the latter is runout and heady. He credits his background in ski racing for this mental strength.
From training for all those competitions, I feel pretty confident most of the time in my abilities. I feel like I can make things happen just because I will them to.
Elias got into mixed and ice climbing this year through his friend and mentor Tony Angelis, a top-notch ice climber who had less practice in the sport-mixed arena. Angelis taught Elias how to swing the tools, while Elias taught Angelis about how to project and push himself on harder routes. The two trained at Vail every weekend this season, culminating in the Ouray Ice Comp, which Elias entered at the encouragement of his friend.
Though Elias did not make the finals, he did come in 16th place out of 32 competitors (only 12 advanced).
"The comp was really fun and unique," says Elias. "I felt I could've done a lot better than I did, but that's something to look forward to next year."
"Asked what's next," he says, "I feel like I have a lot more to improve physically than mentally. I definitely don't feel anywhere near my potential."


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Oprah, Malcolm Gladwell, and Dr. Anthony Greenwald discuss the race-based Implicit Association Test and why some people show an unconscious bias in favor of White people over Black people.
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World finance leaders issue sober assessment
'Uneven recovery is emerging,' IMF statement says
WASHINGTON — World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven, with growth and jobs in short supply.
The steering committee for the 188-nation International Monetary Fund issued a final communique that called for decisive action to bolster growth. However, the major economies remained at odds over the best mix of policies to pursue.
"An uneven recovery is emerging but growth and job creation are still too weak. New risks are arising while several old risks remain," the IMF group said.
"The commodity that is in shorter supply now is confidence," Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the chairman of the IMF panel and Singapore's finance minister, told reporters. "We need to regenerate optimism and confidence."
Extreme poverty
The World Bank announced that its policy committee had approved a proposal to establish a goal of eliminating extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.25 per day, by 2030. It is estimated that there are still 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for more than one-third of the world's extreme poor.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called this goal "an historic moment" for the world. "We are no longer dreaming of a world without poverty. We have set an expiration date," Kim told reporters at a closing news conference.
Emma Seery, a spokesperson for Oxfam, the anti-poverty group, said while the World Bank's target was welcome "we are concerned that it will duck the tough choices needed to reach it."
The spring meetings of IMF and its sister lending agency, the World Bank, on Saturday followed two days of discussions among finance leaders of the Group of 20 nations, composed of traditional powers such as the United States, Japan and Germany and fast-growing developing nations such as China, Brazil and India.
Sharp differences
The finance leaders sought to project an air of cooperation even though they were unable to resolve sharp differences that have arisen following an initially botched bailout of Cyprus in March.
The banking troubles in the small Mediterranean island country renewed fears that a prolonged European debt crisis still poses significant risks to the global economy.
U.S. perspective
The United States was represented at the finance meetings by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The administration pushed for European nations to moderate their austerity programs of spending cuts and tax increases in favor of more stimulus to bolster growth and combat painfully high unemployment in countries such as Spain and Greece.
"'Strengthening global demand is imperative and must be at the top of our agenda," Lew said in his remarks to the IMF. "Stronger demand in Europe is critical to growth."
But this push was met with resistance from countries such as Germany and Britain, which believe that heavily indebted European nations must reduce their deficits to give markets confidence and keep government borrowing costs low.
Bridging differences
In the end, the finance leaders sought to bridge the differences by issuing economic blueprints that left room for both the growth and austerity camps to claim victory.
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the head of the Eurogroup, encompassing the 17 finance ministers whose countries use the euro currency, told reporters Saturday said that European nations needed to keep pushing to reduce huge budget deficits but "we can and will adjust" the speed that the deficit cuts are implemented to take into account economic conditions.
The G-20 nations did reject proposals to issue hard targets for reducing budget deficits, a victory for the United States and Japan, who had argued for more flexibility.
The G-20 joint statement singled out the recent aggressive credit-easing moves pushed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, saying they were intended to stop prolonged deflation and support domestic demand.
Those comments were viewed as giving a green light to Japan's program, which has driven the value of the yen down by more than 20 percent against the dollar since October. That sizable decline has raised concerns among U.S. manufacturing companies that Japan's real goal is not to boost growth through increasing domestic demand but to weaken the yen as a way to gain trade advantages.
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Japanese officials said they were pleased with the support they had received at the Washington meetings for their aggressive efforts to lift the world's third largest economy out of a two-decade slump. "There has been international understanding" of our efforts, Huruhiko Kuroda, head of the Bank of Japan, told reporters.
Lew said in his IMF remarks that the Obama administration would keep working to gain approval of budget legislation that has been stalled for nearly three years in Congress. The congressional approval is the last major roadblock to implementing an overhaul of the IMF's governing structure to give more power to developing nations. The change is expected to shift two seats on the IMF's 24-member executive board from Western Europe to developing countries.
Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega blasted both the United States and Europe for the delay.
"America is unable and Europe is unwilling to follow through with agreed reforms," he said Saturday in his remarks to the IMF. "The institution's major shareholders are gambling ... with the IMF's legitimacy and credibility."


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Keeping Them Honest, Anderson Cooper reports on the truth about Mitt Romney's involvement in MassGAP, a program to appoint more women in government in Massachusetts.
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Why are you guys letting Fox News and the republicans keep rehashing the Bengazi incident? Does the President and the intelligence community have to give us a blow by blow on every national security incident.
Can't you guys see that this is more about the election than anything else, there will be no security if all the intelligence is placed in the news,
I find The Binder comment Governor Romney not as offensive as the notion that he can't find one qualified woman within his network or place of work as governor. He had to go to women groups asking them to find him ualified women...Unbelievable
How about a little analysis of the President and his crusade for equal pay for women?
Has there been any analysis of what women make in the Obama White House versus what the men make?
How about the number of women Mr. Obama has in top jobs in his administration versus the number of men?
If there is to be scrutiny of Gov. Romney and women working for him, why not the same scrutiny of President Obama? After all, he is the champion of women being paid equally to men, so let's see if he is walking the talk.
Also, I agree with equal pay for women as long as it is truly equal. There needs to be equal education, equal experience, equal willingness to put in the extra hours that might be necessary, etc. After all, a new person hired at McDonalds certainly should not expect equal pay as someone who has done the job for 2 years. the same should be true of women on any job. Equal means equal, including all the things that go with it.
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Your 2016 Republican Presidential CandidateComments
Marco Rubio in an interview with GQ.
GQ: How old do you think the Earth is?
Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.


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Ed Koch, the brash former New York City mayor who typically greeted constituents with a "How'm I doin'?" died Friday at the age of 88, his spokesman said.
Koch died of congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. The former mayor felt very tired Thursday morning and was admitted to the intensive care unit, Artz said. Koch lost consciousness that afternoon and ultimately passed away around 2 a.m. Friday.
The lawyer-turned-public servant was a U.S. congressman from 1968 until he ran for mayor of the city in 1977 He served three terms until David Dinkins defeated him in a Democratic primary.
New York City has lost "an irrepressible icon," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.
"In elected office and as a private citizen, he was our most tireless, fearless, and guileless civic crusader," Bloomberg said. "We will miss him dearly, but his good works -- and his wit and wisdom -- will forever be a part of the city he loved so much."
Koch told New York magazine in 1998: "I think my personality was helpful in this job. I always had a great sense of humor, though I am also pretty reserved personally. I mean, I don't go to chichi parties; never did. I don't like going to dinners other than small dinners at the homes of people. But I realized that if I was to harness the energies of the people of the city of New York and give them back their pride, I would have to become bigger than life. And I did."
After he left office, Koch -- whose ebullient personality made him popular nationwide -- practiced law, hosted a radio show, was a newspaper columnist and made countless appearances on TV series as himself. His cameos included "Sex and the City," "Spin City" and "Picket Fences."
For two years starting in 1997, he was the judge on the syndicated show "The People's Court."
He also reviewed movies online at The Mayor at the Movies site (mayorkoch.com).
In his later years, he became politically motivated again. In 2011, he grew upset after President Barack Obama called for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders, with land swaps, as the basis of a Mideast peace deal.
In his anger, Koch crossed party lines to support Republican Bob Turner in his bid to represent perhaps the most Jewish district in the country, which covers parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
Koch's endorsement was widely seen as a turning point in a race that few expected a Republican to win.
On the day of the special election, Turner won in an upset with 54% of the vote, with Koch standing next to him while he gave his victory speech.
"I like President Obama ... I helped get him elected," Koch said at Turner's election night party. "But he threw Israel under the bus."
But in September 2011, Koch said he was impressed with Obama's handling of the Palestinian bid for statehood at the U.N., where the president expressed support for Israel and called for more negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
"I congratulated him on his speech to the United Nations in which he acknowledged Israel's presence in a difficult neighborhood," Koch said, referring to a party he attended that was hosted by Obama and his wife, Michelle, in New York.
Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx on December 12, 1924. The family moved to New Jersey when he was 8. He went to the City College of New York until he was drafted into the Army in 1943. After he left the service as a sergeant in 1946, he studied law at New York University.
He began his public service life as a district leader in Greenwich Village in 1963; he also served on the New York City Council before running for Congress.
The New York Times said in a 2011 retrospective that Koch seemed an unlikely candidate for mayor in 1977.
"He was a geeky, relatively obscure congressman, considered too liberal to appeal beyond his Greenwich Village constituency," the Times said on its website.
His campaign manager, David Garth, came up with a slogan that helped Koch beat fellow Democrat Mario Cuomo, who many commentators viewed as the more dynamic character, and Republican Roy Goodman.
''After eight years of charisma and four years of the clubhouse, why not try competence?" was a slogan that spoke to New Yorkers who were disappointed by Koch's predecessors, John Lindsay and Abe Beame.
Koch was a popular mayor -- winning a second term with 75% of the vote and a third with 78% -- but as the Times put it: "With New Yorkers wearying of his in-your-face shtick and seeking a balm to racial polarization, Mr. Koch was defeated for the Democratic nomination by Manhattan Borough President David N. Dinkins."
Before he was defeated by Dinkins, he criticized the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a candidate for president in 1988, and some felt he angered many black voters. Race relations in New York were also fractured at the time, especially after a 1986 incident in Howard Beach when white teenagers attacked three black men, killing one.
Koch's third term was beset by corruption scandals involving his political allies. Koch himself was never directly tied to wrongdoing, but the scandals hurt Koch's image with voters.
Only three New York mayors were ever reelected twice -- Fiorello LaGuardia and Robert Wagner were the others -- and all three left office, as The New York Times put it in 2008, "drained, diminished and disdained."
Some new Yorkers thought Koch, who published an autobiography in 1984, had lost control of his ego.
Koch even said he lost because "voters got tired of me."
Koch, who never married, was often criticized by playwright, novelist and LGBT rights advocate Larry Kramer for not doing more to stop the spread of AIDS in New York.
"He was a closeted gay man, and he did not want in any way to be associated with this," Kramer declared to New York magazine.
"Listen, there's no question that some New Yorkers think I'm gay, and voted for me nevertheless. The vast majority don't care, and others don't think I am. And I don't give a (expletive) either way!" he told New York magazine.
There will be a funeral for Koch on Monday.


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True..i eat people poop.
Tastes like chicken
Hi. My favorite poop is cat poop from Idaho.
Tastes like chicken
Hi. I eat Philips poop. The dude lives in Colorado. He is a lazy bum.
His poop tastes like chicken
Hi. I am Hindu and from India.
Philip is my favorite gay boyfriend
Hi. I'm Fourniet.
I eat froggy poop. Soooooo good.
Tastes like chicken
Hey ya ll. Ok.
I eat kitty poop from Australia
Tastes like chicken
Lazy bums. Rather sit on their fat asss' watching tv than post here tonight.
B ss tards! !!
Raype Is the Hindu weapon cf choice. They raype their own doozies, they raype the minorities and they certainly rayped the living daylights out of Bangladeshis next door. Something wrong about how these Hindu mothers raise their sons.
Hi. I'm Canton. I have a favorite dish. I will share. I go to my neighbors lawn and scoop the dog poop. Bring it home and eat the magnificent brown poop. I add ketchup.
It is very good.
Tastes like chicken
Thank you. Sharing is caring. I eat pig sh it. It has a very strong oder. But i eat it anyway.
Tastes like chicken
Did it ever occur to you two that human poop is very good..better than animal poopie?
I eat man poop from Los Angeles California. Mmm good.
Tastes like Philips ass.
Well. Let me tell you. Philips asss tastes very good.
Kind of like monkey sh it.
I can confirm that. Phew
Hi. I'm DeSaulle. I eat guy poop from India and Colorado
Tastes like chicken
Hello folks. I'm back but only for a short while.
I eat cow and mule manure. I add ketchup. Really is good poop.
It tastes like chicken
Raype is deeply ingrained in hindu psyche and is the very fabric of Indian culture....sanctioned by cult hinduism if you will. Raype to India is what fish n chips are to Brits. A national sport!
Raype is the very s.pice of hindu culture that gives India all its flavor.
These child molesting/wife beating/domestic violence oriented Indian men are spread throughout the world and pose a danger to these societies in USA, EU and elsewhere. These raypist hindoos are potential sleeper cells of violence, if you will, similar to Al Qaeda.
Guess how fat and stupid the average US adult is now. (Not counting boys with boobs or fat house cats)
Hi. I'm Laura. I eat kitty poop from the state of Oklahoma.
It is good.
Tastes like chicken
I am a di ck.
I eat donkey sh it from Colorado.
It tastes like chicken
And i am Canton.
I have bull poop imported from India.
I eat it all.
Tastes like chicken
Howdy. I'm Polly.
I eat piggy poop. I beat off at night.
@Polly. Nailed it!
The 9/11 pilots were probably hindus from India . They were busy rayping in the cokpit and hit the buildings rather than flying to Bombay
I eat poop. I like to eat my own boogers too.
Nice and moist.
Tastes like chicken
In India, As soon as the door of the bus shuts, these Indian passengers take their shoes off. Now, coupled with upper and lower body odor the air becomes unbearable but there is nowhere to escape . Soon the curry in the tiffin box will be opened and the smell will permeate the air also. It is enough to jump out of the moving bus. But it is too late. They will chew betel nut and start spitting. Gang raype is next. And the journey has just begun.
Hi I'm Veronica.
I eat monkey poop all the way from India
Tastes like chicken
Mmm. Monkey sh it.
My favorite
80-year-old woman rayped in Tamil Nadu, India
SALEM (Tamil Nadu): In a shocking incident, an 80-year old woman was allegedly rayped by a 41-year-old man following which she was admitted to a hospital in a serious condition.
I eat kitty poop. I stick my fingers in my nose and take out my boogers.
I eat them. Nice and salty.
Tastes like chicken
They sent students to Bordeaux to study graypes. The Chinese learned winemaking. The Indian hindoos the art of raype.


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Abnormal blood pressure and some of the medications used to treat it are often a factor in some dental procedures, particularly if anesthesia is involved. But your dentist may also check your blood pressure for another reason: dental visits represent another avenue to screen for this condition that increases the risk of serious health problems.
Undiagnosed high blood pressure is a prevalent but often "silent" problem because the early stages of the condition may not display any symptoms. Many people first become aware they have an issue only after a blood pressure check at their family doctor, pharmacy or a health fair, for example. Otherwise, they could go months, even years without this vital knowledge about their health.
But while people may only visit their doctor once a year (or less) many see their dentist much more often, even twice a year, for routine cleanings and checkups. Including blood pressure screenings as a routine part of dental treatment could alert patients to a potential issue much earlier than their next doctor's visit.
In fact, one study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association looked at a group of dental patients with no reported heart disease risk and who had not seen a doctor in the twelve months before their dental visit. During their visit their blood pressure was checked. Of those then referred to a physician for an abnormal reading, 17% learned for the first time they had an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
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The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs turned over all of its records to us after we filed a public records request earlier in September. Those documents show that the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, already the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, essentially paid off another charity years ago after claims that it pirated logo design, wording for fund-raising direct mail letters and a host of other items before launching its own direct mail campaign.
The Chief Operating Officer of a charity called the Disabled Veterans Living Memorial Foundation wrote that "it appeared our proprietary information and intellectual property rights had been violated." So the DVNF, while it was just getting started, agreed to pay an extraordinary fee of $325,000 over three years to settle the dispute.
Moreover, DVNF sent a new mailing to 750,000 donors, each letter containing a one dollar bill. This, in the midst of both a U.S. Senate and State of Florida investigations.
Meantime, CNN has learned that Quadriga Art, LLC, the giant direct mail fund-raiser in back of DVNF and hundreds of other charities, is now under formal investigation by the attorneys general of both New York and California. Sources inside the company in a position to know, say both state agencies have received documents after formally requesting them from Quadriga.
Until recently, Quadriga Art officials have only communicated with CNN by email. But over the weekend, Quadriga CEO Mark Schulhof spoke to his clients in a video posted on the Internet.
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It would really be great to get a list of Quadriga Art's clients.... because now I'm giving nothing to the several "charities" I receive each day. Many have the "feel quilty" gifts included. The Quadrariga has got to be one of the most outrageous scams going. Is there any way we could get a list of Quadriga's clients???
My elderly parents are bombarded with mailing requesting donations. Instead of throwing them away, my dad insists to read each one and send money to many. Could I get a listing of the organizations that Quadriaga Arts represents?
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Fresh water pearl from China.
Free shape
Ideal as a stunning centre piece in a artistic pendant
Cultured -minimum treatment NOT dyed
Very high luster
Weight 14.45 cts app
Size 25 x 24.9 x 4.1 mm app
Note we have taken a photo of both sides of the pearl as it is covered in narc-one photo is on black and the other side is on sandstone.
In the USA the rules of the Federal Trade Commission offered acceptable and objectable treatment and improvements upon pearls. These standards are also agreed upon by European contries also.
BLEACHING : Only a general description can be given here. The Japanese harvest is certainly always bleached and the same is true of the Chinese Akoya production. Bleaching is an age-old method which was also applied to natural pearls. George Frederick Kunz wrote in 1908 that dealers in Bombay immersed their pearls in water-filled bottles and then placed them in the sun on their roofs.
The Japanese factories use a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide. In addition, the pearls are slightly heated over a prolonged period of time or are placed under an intensive light source which produces white, fluorescent light. Sometimes only a light source is used and sometimes this is replaced with ultraviolet light. The pearls are placed in wooden boxes which are painted white on the inside or are lined with an aluminum foil.
The bleaching process changes the color pigments contained in the organic substance. The time required is between seven to sixty days, and it is applied until the pearls have reached a uniform white color. A period of more than thirty days may prove damaging to the pearls, as they may begin to show cracks due to the progressive desiccation of the conchioline substance.
PINK COLORATION: About 95 per cent of all pearls in Japan are treated with a coloring agent after the bleaching process, producing a light even hue and a more or less pink overtone. The coloration is hardly perceptible and can be compared to a cosmetic treatment. The method was already applied before WWII when eosin a vegetable dye was used. The actual process may take up to sixty days and the pearls are usually heated slightly as well. Other coloring agents, as for instance cobalt salts, are probably used in place of eosin today, but information is kept strictly secret.
Both the bleaching and the dyeing processes require experience and knowledge and there is never a guarantee of achieving the required result. Different pearls react differently to the same methods of treatment and there is always a certain risk, although the techniques have been perfected over the last few decades and most factories can achieve the results they want.The pink coloration is more or less accepted in the trade as long as it is permanent, does not look artificial and cannot be recognized at the drill hole or the surface of the pearl.
ARTIFICIAL BLACK DYEING WITH SILVER SALT: Treatment with silver nitrate solutions (AgNO3) is applied since the nineteen thirties to Japanese Akoya cultured pearls. The method was used at the end of the 19th century in the mother-of-pearl industry and natural pearls were also dyed this way.
The pearls are immersed for a period of several days or weeks to several months in diluted silver nitrate solution (the dilution ratio is 3 to 4 per cent) and are kept in a dark room. After this, they are exposed to a strong light source (either sun light or artificial light) or they are treated with hydrogen sulphate. Both methods lead to the deposition of metallic silver in an extremely fine distribution in the pearl, causing the dark color. The method enables the production of lighter or darker hues, depending on the quantity of silver produced. An immersion period of several months is required in order to produce truly black colors while shorter periods lead to more brownish or grayish hues.
This means that the nucleus remains white, while the outer pearly layer takes on the dark color. The deposition of silver seems to concentrate in the conchioline layer which is often present between the nucleus and the pearly layer. The distribution of silver gets less towards the surface of the pearl. In the case of undrilled pearls diffusion of silver oxide starts however from the surface while in the case of drilled pearls the silver solution will more directly find its way to the border area between nucleus and outer pearly layer.
TAHITIAN PEARLS: Most Tahitian Cultured pearls are not treated the notable exception are "Chocolate" colored pearls
The method is also used for Tahitian cultured pearls, where light colored pearls of a low color range are dyed black (originally, white South Sea cultured pearls from other countries may have been used for the same purpose). Artificially dyed pearls are found in a variety of sizes and shapes, and they are above all seen in large, so-called circle shapes.
SOUTH SEA PEARLS: South Sea Cultured pearls are not treated the notable exception are "Golden" colored pearls Golden pearls are a natural South Sea color but some are dyed , The artificial coloration of South Sea cultured pearls is a more problematic issue, as it imitates yellow and golden hues which also occur naturally the coloration represents an improvement or even a deception and it cannot always be easily distinguished from natural colors.
Since 1994, a wholesaler from New York has offered artificially colored South Sea cultured pearls on the market. He uses un drilled pearls of an originally light green or light yellow body color and otherwise good quality factors and bleaches and subsequently treats them with a chemical dye. Another company from New Jersey applies a heat treatment.
Artificial yellow and golden colors now come mainly from Japan, where different methods are apparently used. Some companies are supposed to use organic dyes, which have the disadvantage, however, that they fade under strong light and tend to develop an irregular distribution of color. Other companies are reported to neither apply bleaching nor dyeing but to use a method which has remained undisclosed so far, but produces a permanent color change.
The sale of artificially dyed pearls is only a problem if the treatment is not declared. The artificial golden colors are therefore not really a danger to the market, but they are not good for the image of the South Sea cultured pearl, as they create uncertainty. The majority of treated pearls are sold without disclosure.
The lower prices do, however, reflect the facts and buyers should be on the alert. It cannot be denied that artificially dyed pearls of strong golden colors are occasionally offered on the market for the same high prices as natural golden pearls. This means that the consumer can only rely on the integrity of the jeweler and the jeweler is well advised to buy only from reliable importers and dealers.
CHINESE FRESH WATER CULTURED PEARLS: Freshwater Pearls come in white and pastel colors from pink to purple all other colors should be considered dyed. In 1997, artificially dyed black Chinese freshwater cultured pearls in round shapes and sizes of up to 11 mm were offered on the market in Hong Kong. Since then, large quantities have reached the international market, where they can be purchased at reasonable to low prices. They have an astonishing resemblance to Tahitian cultured pearls, as they almost perfectly replicate the green to purple overtones and are already called "peacock pearls" in the Asian pearl trade.
Several companies in Hong Kong offer the treatment and are often speaking of "laser treatment". However, this is not true and neither is irradiation used. Although the exact method has not yet been made known, it is probably correct to assume that silver salts and other coloring agents are used.
Other Coloration
Chinese freshwater cultured pearls in striking artificial colors have been seen on the market since the nineteen eighties. In addition to yellow, there are red, pink, orange brown blue green purple and lilac although rice crispies, baroques and flats were used mainly in the beginning; there have been more rounded shapes also over recent years. Intensely blue, green, yellow, pink, red and purple nearly round pearls, no doubt dyed with chemical agents, have been seen at international trade shows since the late nineteen nineties. No detailed information is available as to the methods used. The colors seem to be permanent and needless to say fall into the lowest price range
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Cubs getting better all the time
While it is uncertain if the Keystone Kops ever made it to Puerto Rico, Angel Pagan tried his best to revive their directionally challenged legacy Sunday.
But even while it appeared he was running what might have been a two-run double by Mark DeRosa into the oddest of double plays - essentially, right field to second base to home, minus the pickle-related relays - Pagan was being rescued.
"He was running with his head down, ready to go to third on the ball because he got a good read on it as it went over the right fielder's head," Lou Piniella said. "The only problem is, our lead runner was tagging up."
The solution was Juan Uribe, getting in the way near second base. The collision, though it didn't prevent Pagan from continuing toward a third base occupied by Pie, did result in an obstruction call that erased the ensuing outs.
For once, the out-of-luck Cubs lucked out, Pie later becoming an insurance run in their 3-0 win over the reeling White Sox.
"Yeah, we need a little bit of that, too," Cliff Floyd said. "Though we feel like we've got a good team, we do need some breaks, of course."
Maybe they're due. If you make your own luck, maybe the changes the Cubs have made over the last month or so are starting to pay off.
Contrary to what Pagan's follies might suggest, this is a club less prone to blunder than it was earlier in the season.
The Cubs made several strong defensive plays Sunday, from Cesar Izturis throwing out Paul Konerko after diving into the hole for a stop, to Derrek Lee and Sean Marshall combining to outscramble Jim Thome on a smash to first, to Alfonso Soriano throwing out Luis Terrero at the plate.
"And the catcher made a good play on that - it was a short hop, wasn't it? That's a tough play," Piniella said, certainly intending no offense to the departed Michael Barrett.
Perhaps now the Cubs can mount their long-anticipated charge on the lead in National League Central. They picked up a game Sunday on first-place Milwaukee and are alone in second, 7 1/2 games back, with the Brewers coming to Chicago next weekend.
"Forget Milwaukee," Piniella said, adding the Cubs have to get to .500. "Once we do that, we can start looking around."
The Cubs can't get to .500 by playing .500, which is what they've done since May 1.
They're 25-25 since then, an improvement over what went before, but maddening nonetheless.
Opening May, they won five straight. Then they lost four of five. And won two of three. Lost two. Won two. Lost three. Won two of three. Lost six. Won five of six. Lost three of four. Won three. Lost four of five. And swept three from the Sox.
"Slowly, we've been playing better baseball," Piniella said. "It hasn't really equated into the won and loss record, but you continue to play like this, invariably it will."
Bob Howry, who saved the last two games of the sweep, feels the roll coming.
"A month ago, it seemed like everything that could go wrong was going wrong, and it just kind of snowballed," he said. "Now, we've got guys diving all over the place, making great plays, the pitching's been good, the guys are getting clutch hits. It's just kind of contagious."
Maybe it's an outbreak we should have anticipated.
"I'm sure everyone in their life searches for stability and peace of mind," DeRosa said. "It's knowing what's expected of you on any given day. For the first two months, we were scuffling. The lineups were rotating, Soriano was in center field, I was at second.
"I think guys now have kind of settled into what their roles are going to be for the remainder of the year, barring injury. We're starting to accept it, and coming together as 25 guys just trying to win. I think peace of mind has sort of taken over here a little bit."
Time to start riding the peace train toward Milwaukee.
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I haven't seen Barbara Walters's new memoir, Audition. But when I was starting out in journalism and looking for ideas on how to get hard-shelled sources to open up, I read her self-help book, How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything. Walters offered this tip on talking with all the intimidatingly successful people you meet at parties or elsewhere: Ask them to tell you about their first job. I've taken that advice many times, and it usually works. The more successful people are, the more they seem to love to talk about their modest beginnings — as though the contrast between the past and present might make their achievements appear all the more impressive.
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