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by David Crary and Michael Rubinkam
For weeks, jurors in Philadelphia heard grim testimony about deaths and squalor at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic. While they listened, the murder case reverberated far beyond the courtroom, changing — at least for the moment — the tone of the national debate on abortion.
Groups supporting legal access to abortion, after major successes in the 2012 national elections, find themselves on the defensive as they distance themselves from Gosnell.
"All of us are appalled by the substandard illegal practices," said Vicki Saporta, who as CEO of the National Abortion Federation represents hundreds of U.S. abortion clinics. "But to make the leap to say that's indicative of the state of abortion care throughout the U.S. is absolutely false."
Anti-abortion activists, in contrast, are energized by the case, citing it in fundraising appeals and renewed efforts to expand state restrictions on abortion.
"It's very seldom we get such an opportunity to look at the realities of what's happening in abortion," said Dr. Donna Harrison, president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Gosnell, 72, is charged with killing five people — a patient and four viable babies that prosecutors say were born alive. Among scores of other counts, he also is accused of performing abortions after Pennsylvania's 24-week limit.
Jury deliberations began April 30 and are scheduled to resume Monday.
Anti-abortion groups have seized on the case as a chance to reach an audience beyond their regular followers. Those efforts were enhanced midway through the trial when abortion opponents used social media to accuse some national news outlets of a "blackout" of the case, resulting in increased news coverage.
Certainly, there's been national attention. Beth Burkstrand-Reid, a University of Nebraska law professor who teaches courses about abortion and gender issues, says her students have been coming up to her before and after class to talk about the case.
The horrific allegations against Gosnell — whose clinic was licensed but hadn't been inspected since 1993 — have prompted the abortion-rights lobby to repudiate him as a "rogue operator" employing practices far outside the norm.
"This was an incredibly horrible situation and when it came to light, he was somehow associated with the abortion community, which he's not," said Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a research group which supports abortion rights. "It's taking a long time for that message to get out. He does not represent abortion care in this country."
Anti-abortion groups are trying to make the case that he does, arguing that lax regulation and callous attitudes have allowed dangerous conditions to persist in many clinics.
They also contend there's little practical difference between what Gosnell is charged with — killing four babies who were born alive — and a late-term abortion.
The trial "shows people that abortion is about killing human beings that have arms and legs and in this case, a lot of attention has been focused on necks and spines that can be cut. They're alive and something has to be done to them to cause them to die," said David O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee.
One anti-abortion group, Live Action, has used the case to publicize the latest in a series of undercover videos it has made at abortion clinics.
"Gosnell Not Alone in Late-term Abortion Brutality," declares a news release about videos which, according to Live Action president Lila Rose, show abortion providers discussing possible outcomes of late-term abortions that she depicts as infanticide.
Another group, Americans United for Life, is using the case to bolster its promotion of state laws requiring abortion clinics to meet the same safety standards as outpatient surgical facilities.
"You are going to see legislators taking a look at this horrific situation in Philadelphia and say, 'We do not want this in our state,'" said spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick.
Anti-abortion activists were already feeling emboldened by the Republican electoral gains of 2010. Since then, GOP-dominated state legislatures have passed more than 160 restrictive abortion measures — more than in the seven previous years combined, according to a tally by the Guttmacher Institute.
In the 2012 election, abortion-rights supporters countered by accusing the GOP of waging a "war on women," and some anti-abortion Republicans lost high-profile Senate races.
Now the Gosnell case is providing abortion opponents with fresh ammunition as they seek tighter clinic regulations and additional restrictions on late-term abortions. For example, they are citing the case in urging Congress to ban abortions in Washington, D.C., beyond the 20th week of pregnancy, based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain at that age.
Eleven states already have so-called fetal pain laws, though only six are in force. Courts have blocked enforcement in three states, while in two states the measures have yet to take effect.
Late-term abortions are relatively rare. According to federal data, about 92 percent of abortions are performed at 13 weeks of pregnancy or earlier.
Some states are now targeting those early-stage abortions. New laws would ban most abortions after 12 weeks in Arkansas and after six weeks in North Dakota.
In Pennsylvania, the Gosnell case has already had a direct impact on policy.
A law that took effect last year raised safety standards for abortion clinics, including requirements for wider hallways and doorways, bigger operating rooms, and full-time nurses. The law also mandates unannounced inspections.
Since the law's enactment, five of the state's 22 abortion clinics have closed, according to the Health Department, though reasons for the closures vary.
Abortion-rights supporters say the Gosnell case illustrates the need for increased access to abortion services, not less. They argue that restrictions drive down the number of reputable providers and force desperate, low-income women to turn to unsafe options, as was often the case before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision established a nationwide right to abortion.
"The kinds of restrictions that the anti-choice lobby has been trying to put in place for years and years are the exact kinds of restrictions that keep people like Kermit Gosnell in business," said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "Peeking at Gosnell's clinic is like peeking into U.S. history pre-Roe v. Wade."
Dr. Anne Davis, who is medical director for Physicians for Reproductive Health and provides abortions as part of her practice in New York City, says abortion is among the safest medical procedures.
"There are always going to be bad actors in any profession," she said. "The harder it gets to access abortion, the wider the door for bad actors."
It's too soon to gauge whether the Gosnell case will sway public opinion and alter abortion politics over the long term.
Eric Ferrero of Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions in the U.S., said he took heart in national polls that consistently show most American support legal access to abortion. "I don't doubt that extremist politicians and activists will try to use the case to fan the flames," he said. "When two-thirds of the public is against you, you look for a game-changer at every bend."
President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights, waded into the debate on April 26, becoming the first sitting president to make an in-person address to Planned Parenthood.
Obama vowed to help fight against state abortion restrictions that he said are designed to "turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century."
The president did not mention the Gosnell case, but he attacked legislators in North Dakota, Mississippi and elsewhere who want to "ban or severely limit access to a woman's right to choose."
Pennsylvania lawmakers were among the first anywhere to approve restrictions on abortion. The state's 1980s-era abortion laws required women to wait at least 24 hours for an abortion and to receive information from a doctor about abortion risks and alternatives.
Yet in the case of Gosnell's clinic, enforcement was lacking. Prosecutors said Gosnell employed untrained, unlicensed workers in a deplorable facility with broken or unsterile equipment.
A Philadelphia grand jury report in 2011 said Gosnell routinely performed illegal, third-trimester abortions and cut the spinal cords of hundreds of infants born alive.
According to the report, Gosnell's clinic had not been inspected since 1993. It said the state Health Department stopped inspecting abortion clinics in the 1990s out of a desire to avoid "putting up a barrier" to women seeking abortions.
Claremont McKenna College professor Jon Shields, an expert in abortion policy, described the U.S. abortion system overall as "unusually permissive" compared to most Western countries.
"Most of the industry is self-regulated and generally that works pretty well," he said, crediting such groups as Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation with high standards.
"But then you get a lot of clinics that … are interested in cutting costs," Shields added. "We know a lot less about these clinics."
Follow David Crary and Michael Rubinkam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CraryAP andhttps://twitter.com/michaelrubinkam
Photo: DR. KEMIT GOSNELL (AP Photo/File)


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Multiple miscarriages are associated with the risk of ovarian cancer: results from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition
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While the risk of ovarian cancer clearly reduces with each full-term pregnancy, the effect of incomplete pregnancies is unclear. We investigated whether incomplete pregnancies (miscarriages and induced abortions) are associated with risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. This observational study was carried out in female participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition ...

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text: From DailyTech: NVIDIA replaced Intel as the graphics supplier with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M sporting 256MB of RAM shared with main system memory. Steve Jobs himself says that the new NVIDIA GPUs deliver five times the graphics power that the notoriously underpowered Intel X3100 integrated graphics system in previous generation MacBooks could muster. Despite Intel being replaced in the MacBook by NVIDIA graphics, Intel maintains that it's not out of the Apple fold altogether. CNET News quotes an Intel spokesperson saying, "Intel continues to have a strong relationship with Apple. Graphics is a competitive market and we compete for all new business. Intel's technology is integrated throughout Apple's product line but we didn't win this particular design." Intel may have been replaced by NVIDIA for graphics, but Intel still provides the processors for MacBook systems. Apple has picked the 45nm SSF Penryn processor for the MacBook Air to replace the 65nm SFF Merom used previously. The new processors will boost performance in part by adding cache memory. The 45nm Penryn CPUs have 3MB or 6MB of cache. Among the new systems introduced yesterday was a new aluminum clad MacBook. In addition to getting the new NVIDIA GPU, the notebook also received a storage bump to 120GB and a Mini DisplayPort connector. The old MacBook is still being offered at a price reduced to $999. Apple has also provided more details on its Brick manufacturing process. View: Article @ Source Site |


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Community Updates/2011-09-01
From Openmoko
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Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31
Welcome to the 2011-09-01 edition of the Free The Phone / Openmoko Community Updates. We are a loosely bound group of people originating from the developers and users of the pioneering Neo1973 and Neo FreeRunner products from Openmoko Inc. Nowadays most efforts are around free software distributions for a range of mobile phones, including the original Neo products. There are also several spin-off companies inspired by the Openmoko Inc's work.
- Video of the Freerunner_Navigation_Board_v3 production posted @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyhKr3yTO8
- Navigation board available from eg. http://www.handheld-linux.com/ and http://www.pulster.de/
- GTA04 has now several early adopter boards with UMTS and OMAP3 hardware functional. Stay tuned for this motherboard update to original Neo phones.
- Latest GTA04 status update and a call for kernel drivers help: http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-August/000230.html
- For those that haven't followed up FreeSmartphone.Org proceedings on other than Openmoko phones: Palm Pre has seen several updates to the FSO installer script (http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=utilities.git;a=tree;f=palmpre), and all in all there is some level of support to eight smartphones at the moment (http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=cornucopia.git;a=tree;f=fsogsmd/conf)
Distributions lists releases and other significant updates in distributions that have some support for the Openmoko devices.
Debian GNU/Linux
Debian is a universal operating system used on many embedded devices, servers and home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's ARM(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in.
Other distributions:
- Latest SHR testing release for Neo FreeRunner is called 2011.1rc4 from 20110513, and not in the usual shr-testing location: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-testing2011.1/images/om-gta02/
- Latest stable QtMoko release is v35 from April: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
- Latest MeeGo CE release for Nokia N900 is the "Summer Release" 1.7.2011: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900
New Applications
Aurora 0.1
Aurora is an UI for FSO2 middleware that tries to replace Zhone/Zhone2. It is currently primarily offered as
Application Updates
FoxtrotGPS 1.0.1
FoxtrotGPS is a tangoGPS fork adding multiple improvements
General News
Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc..
- Tiago Vaz blogged about his VoIP setup in Neo FreeRunner: http://tiagovaz.org/posts/VoIP_in_Neo_Freerunner_with_Qtmoko_and_Linphone/
- Timo Jyrinki blogged about free software smartphone distributions overall, MeeGo and FSO middlewares: http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/08/meego-ce-and-freesmartphoneorg.html
Event News
- 2011-11-11-13 FSCONS - one track is "Development for Embedded Systems". Last year there was a presentation about Neo FreeRunner's history.
- 2011-12-02-04 Open Hard- and Software Workshop(german) | Time and place of the third OHSW have been fixed.


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Synopsis: | Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 cult memoir arrives on the big screen about 20 years too late to have any meaning or much entertainment value. Director Gilliam, never one to shy away from weirdness, overdoes everything in trying to capture the wretched excess of the book. Thompson's screen alter-ego Duke (Depp) packs his Caddy with illicit drugs and his equally wasted lawyer (Del Toro), and heads for his next writing assignment--to cover a drug enforcement conference in Vegas. Depp does a great job of impersonating the completely wasted and unlikable Thompson, while Del Toro passes out and pukes a lot in the sidekick role. It's most definitely a one-of-a-kind trip, but not one that most people will be willing to take. |
Directed by: | Terry Gilliam |
Cast: | Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Christina Ricci, Gary Busey, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Cameron Diaz, Flea, Mark Harmon, Katherine Helmond, Michael Jeter, Penn Jillette, Lyle Lovett, Tobey Maguire, Harry Dean Stanton, Tim Thomerson |


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JOSH FUNK, AP Business Writer
OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett says the economy continues the steady improvement that began in fall of 2009 and he remains optimistic despite Russia's advance into Ukraine.
Buffett appeared on the business cable channel CNBC Monday morning after releasing an upbeat annual letter to his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shareholders over the weekend. Buffett is chairman and CEO of the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate.
Buffett said the reports he gets from Berkshire's 80-odd subsidiaries in a variety of industries show that the economy is growing at a moderate rate, despite swings in investors' mood.
"The American economy for five years has been moving at a fairly steady rate upwards —not as fast as people would like — but I think that absolutely continues now," he said.
But Buffett said he doesn't make investment decisions based on the economy or world events, and Berkshire continued buying an unnamed stock in the United Kingdom Monday. He said he focuses on the prospects of the business in which he's investing, and the price.
The Russian military advance into part of Ukraine over the weekend shouldn't prompt investors to sell stocks in good businesses in the United States, Buffett said.
"People react too much to short-term things in the stock market whereas they behave quite rationally when they get into other investments," he said.
Buffett addressed a variety of topics in the three-hour long television interview.
Buffett said it's clear that railroad tank cars carrying crude oil need to be updated because oil from certain regions is more dangerous than originally thought.
Berkshire Hathaway owns the BNSF railroad and a manufacturer of tank cars.
"There will be changes made and there should be changes made," Buffett said. "We have found in the last year that it's more dangerous to move certain types of crude certainly than was thought previously."
Buffett said the crude oil from the Bakken oil field in North Dakota and Montana and the Eagle Ford oil field in south Texas has proven more volatile than anticipated.
That volatility may have contributed to several fiery derailments in the past year, including one in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, last summer that killed 47 people.
Buffett reiterated Monday that he thinks it's a good idea to build the proposed Keystone XL pipeline TransCanada wants to construct to carry Canadian oil south across the Great Plains to connect to Gulf Coast refineries.
He said he doesn't expect that pipeline to reduce the amount of oil railroads are hauling significantly.
Berkshire's insurance and reinsurance companies often have to pay significant claims when natural disasters strike. But Buffett said the rate of disasters that Berkshire's insurance and reinsurance companies see hasn't changed because of extreme weather or climate change.
"I calculate the probabilities of catastrophes no different than a few years ago," he said.
Strong insurance results helped Berkshire earn $19.48 billion last year on $182.15 billion revenue. That's up from earnings of $14.82 billion on $162.46 billion revenue in 2012.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns roughly 80 subsidiaries, including railroad, clothing, furniture and jewelry firms. Its insurance and utility businesses typically account for more than half of the company's net income. The company also has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co., IBM and Wells Fargo & Co.


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DUBLIN, Ireland -- The debate over legalizing abortion in Ireland flared Wednesday after the government confirmed that a woman in the midst of a miscarriage was refused an abortion and died in an Irish hospital after suffering from blood poisoning.
Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he was awaiting findings from three investigations into the death of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian woman who was 17 weeks pregnant. Her case highlighted the legal limbo in which pregnant women facing severe health problems can find themselves in predominantly Catholic Ireland.
Ireland's constitution officially bans abortion, but a 1992 Supreme Court ruling found the procedure should be legalized for situations when the woman's life is at risk from continuing the pregnancy. Five governments since have refused to pass a law resolving the confusion, leaving Irish hospitals reluctant to terminate pregnancies except in the most obviously life-threatening circumstances.
The vast bulk of Irish women wanting abortions, an estimated 4,000 per year, simply travel next door to England, where abortion has been legal on demand since 1967. But that option is difficult, if not impossible, for women in failing health.
Halappanavar's husband, Praveen, said doctors at University Hospital Galway in western Ireland determined she was miscarrying within hours of her hospitalization for severe pain on Sunday, Oct. 21. He said over the next three days, doctors refused their requests for an abortion to combat her surging pain and fading health.
The hospital declined to say whether doctors believed Halappanavar's blood poisoning could have been reversed had she received an abortion rather than waiting for the fetus to die on its own. In a statement, it described its own investigation into the death, and a parallel probe by the government's Health Service Executive, as "standard practice" whenever a pregnant woman dies in a hospital. The Galway coroner also planned a public inquest.
"Savita was really in agony. She was very upset, but she accepted she was losing the baby," he told The Irish Times in a telephone interview from Belgaum, southwest India. "When the consultant came on the ward rounds on Monday morning, Savita asked if they could not save the baby, could they induce to end the pregnancy? The consultant said: 'As long as there is a fetal heartbeat, we can't do anything.'
"Again on Tuesday morning ... the consultant said it was the law, that this is a Catholic country. Savita said: 'I am neither Irish nor Catholic' but they said there was nothing they could do," Praveen Halappanavar said.
He said his wife vomited repeatedly and collapsed in a restroom that night, but doctors wouldn't terminate the fetus because its heart was still beating.
The fetus died the following day and its remains were surgically removed. Within hours, Savita was placed under sedation in intensive care with blood poisoning and he was never able to speak with her again, her husband said. By Saturday, her heart, kidneys and liver had stopped working. She was pronounced dead early Sunday, Oct. 28.
The couple had settled in 2008 in Galway, where Praveen Halappanavar works as an engineer at the medical devices manufacturer Boston Scientific. His wife was qualified as a dentist but had taken time off for her pregnancy. Her parents in India had just visited them in Galway and left the day before her hospitalization.
Praveen Halappanavar said he took his wife's remains back to India for a Hindu funeral and cremation Nov. 3. News of the circumstances that led to her death emerged Tuesday in Galway after the Indian community cancelled the city's annual Diwali festival. Savita Halappanavar had been one of the festival's main organizers.
Opposition politicians appealed Wednesday for Kenny's government to introduce legislation immediately to make the 1992 Supreme Court judgment part of statutory law. Barring any such bill, the only legislation defining the illegality of abortion in Ireland dates to 1861, when the entire island was part of the United Kingdom. That British law, still valid here due to Irish inaction on the matter, states it is a crime punishable by life imprisonment to "procure a miscarriage."
In the 1992 case, a 14-year-old girl identified in court only as "X" successfully sued the government for the right to have an abortion in England. She had been raped by a neighbour. When her parents reported the crime to police, the attorney general ordered her not to travel abroad for an abortion, arguing this would violate Ireland's constitution.
The Supreme Court ruled she should be permitted an abortion in Ireland, never mind England, because she was making credible threats to commit suicide if refused one. During the case, the girl reportedly suffered a miscarriage.
Since then, Irish governments twice have sought public approval to legalize abortion in life-threatening circumstances -- but excluding a suicide threat as acceptable grounds. Both times voters rejected the proposed amendments.
Legal and political analysts broadly agree that no Irish government since 1992 has needed public approval to pass a law that backs the Supreme Court ruling. They say governments have been reluctant to be seen legalizing even limited access to abortion in a country that is more than 80 per cent Catholic.
An abortions right group, Choice Ireland, said Halappanavar might not have died had any previous government legislated in line with the X judgment. Earlier this year, the government rejected an opposition bill to do this.
"Today, some 20 years after the X case, we find ourselves asking the same question: If a woman is pregnant, her life in jeopardy, can she even establish whether she has a right to a termination here in Ireland?" said Choice Ireland spokeswoman Stephanie Lord.
Coincidentally, the government said it received a long-awaited expert report Tuesday proposing possible changes to Irish abortion law shortly before news of Savita Halappanavar's death broke. The government commissioned the report two years ago after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Ireland's inadequate access to abortions for life-threatening pregnancies violated European Union law.
The World Health Organization, meanwhile, identifies Ireland as an unusually safe place to be pregnant. Its most recent report on global maternal death rates found that only three out of every 100,000 women die in childbirth in Ireland, compared with an average of 14 in Europe and North America, 190 in Asia and 590 in Africa.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...If you like old-fashioned sugar cookies, but hate to roll them out, you might want to try this recipe. It produces large, beautiful cookies with crackled tops that are a match for those found in the finest bakeries. There are several schools of thought regarding the chemistry that causes the tops of these cookies to crater. Some insist that it is caused by the carbon dioxide that is released when baking soda is mixed with cream of tartar. Others believe the surface of the cookies burst because the low-moisture dough with which they are made allows their exteriors to harden and dry before the interiors of the cookies have finished expanding. Yet another group believes that the sugar in which the cookies are rolled absorbs moisture that dries out their exteriors, causing cracks when the leavening agents in the dough continue to expand as the cookies bake. I have volunteered to be a taste tester for any further experimentation that might be done. Until then, I'll happily continue to make these cookies without giving much thought to why the tops crack and crater. I hope you'll follow my lead. This is a terrific cookie that I know you will enjoy. Here's the recipe.
Crackly Sugar Cookies...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of CHOW.com
1-1/4 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
3 large egg yolks, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease two baking sheets.
2) Cream sugar and butter together until light. Beat in yolks and vanilla.
3) Sift together the measured sifted flour, baking soda and cream of tartar then fold into the butter sugar mixture.
4) Form dough into walnut size balls. Place 2" apart on the cookie sheets. Do not flatten.
5) Bake for about 11 minutes until tops are cracked and just turning color. Cool on cookie sheet 2 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to complete cooling. Yield: 3 dozen cookies.
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Zack Greinke (4-2, 3.79) vs. Herman Q. Pettibone IV, Esq. (3-3, 4.14).
"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am Herman Q. Pettibone IV of Pettibone Estates. It comes to my attention that my great-grandnephew, one Jonathan H. Pettibone, will be pitching the base ball today on behalf of the city of Philadelphia. Of course, in my day the association was known as the Philadelphia Athletics; a bevy of scoundrels, they.
"And if you thought 'Phillies' was redundant and somewhat vulgar, look at the opposing association: the 'Dodgers,' apparently named after the riff-raff which used to slink and skulk out of the way of Brooklyn's trolleys. How, if you'll pardon the play on words, pedestrian.
"Well, here's wishing for a gentlemanly contest between both base ball associations. May the snootiest team prevail!"


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This is a transcript of one of the two main interviews during Radio Tahrir, a marathon looking back on the Arab awakening, the Indignados and the Occupy movement, live recorded at the Kaaitheather, Brussels, 11th of March 2012, conceived and moderated by Lieven de Cauter. An edited version (by Werner Trio) of the debate was broadcast as "Radio Tahrir" on Radio Klara, a week later. The first skype interview is with Tariq Ali, who shares his view on the developments in the Middle East, the second with Michael Hardt who is being queried on the Occupy and Indignado movement and the political ramifications for Western democracies. Members of the panel in the Kaaitheater are Rudi Vranckx, Sami Zemni, Yassine Channouf, Eva Brems, Christophe Callewaert, Linus van Hellemont, Eric Coryn and Thomas Decreus. Or listen to the program in English and Dutch.
Lieven De Cauter: Good afternoon, Mr. Ali, do you read me? Yes. Welcome Tariq Ali!… [applause] Very early on – I think it was even when Mubarak was still in power – you write ,in an article you say: "If Tunisia was a tremor, the Egypt uprising has become an earthquake, that is spreading throughout the region"… Now, my first, of course still a bit introductory question is: Why 2011? Why this constellation? How is your, sort of vision on this constellation?
Tariq Ali: I think that what happened in the Arab world in 2011, had been cooking for many years before. And in 2011, the boiling point was reached, and so the lid flew of the cauldron. And the reason for that is very clear: that the imposition on the Arab world of a set of tyrants and dictators, in most cases backed by the United States and the European vassal states of the United States, essentially meant that they were not interested in democracy and human rights. They kept these dictators as long as the dictators supported the neo-liberal economic system, which, of course, all of them did, because they benefitted from it: their families made money, they became corrupt, they didn't care about the poor. So, when the economic crisis of the Wall Street system began to slowly have its impact on the Arab world, all the grievances that had been building up – political, social, economic – exploded. And no one could have predicted the exact time, but the trigger was the Tunisians, and after the Tunisian dictator – who the French government tried to protect – fled to Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian masses said: this can't be the case, that the Tunisians have been the first, we have to do something now! And they did it! And they got rid of Mubarak … and once that happened, then the example spread throughout the Arab world. And in my first analytical essay, I described what was happening in the Arab world as an Arab 1848. It was very similar, in many ways, to the European upheavals, which spread from one country to the other, in 1848. And that is what is still going on, it is not over, all we have now is a set of extreme double standards, that where the West doesn't like a particular dictator, like Assad in Syria, or Gaddafi in Libya, they move to try and remove him, with sometimes, as we have seen in Libya, with disastrous results. But dictators, they lie, like the king of Saudi Arabia, or the king of Morocco, the rulers in Bahrain, they will not do anything and they tolerate massacre. So, it's this double standard that pervades the Western media and Western politics today.
LDC: Just a little, tiny question on this first big theme … how do the rising food prices fit in this picture? Is that an important factor for you?
TA: It's a very important factor, because, you know, if you live in the Arab world, you have such a huge gulf between the rich, the rulers, and the people at the bottom, who are quite large. And when it's not simply the people at the bottom, but also the people above them, who begin to get affected, then you have an explosive situation … And the thing you have to understand is that most of these Arab elites, whatever the country, are venal, corrupt, blinded by their own wealth, and they don't even look at the conditions of people who live in their countries – their own people! It's not just the Arab world. The same is true in Pakistan, India, many other countries… but in the Arab world the rebellions that started have become a big, big motor, watched closely by everyone, actually inspiring the Occupation movements. Even though we have not yet had a satisfactory solution to any of these uprisings so far, in my opinion. Because the lack of serious social alternatives, socio-economical alternatives, meant that even though you have a new government in power, in terms of the economy, no changes happen. And this is very dangerous for the new governments in Tunisia and Egypt, if they carry on like before. And the model which some of the moderates like – the so-called moderate Islamists – is the Turkish model. But the Turkish model is effectively a neo-liberal model, which is why the Turkish regime, is NATO's favourite form of Islamism. Because they do everything that they are told to do on the level of the economy.
LDC: My second question is very short, but very big: multitude or soft-power? Maybe I have to explain a bit, also for the audience, the concept multitude being of course, the crucial term of Negri and Hard which will sort of leitmotiv in our discussions, because this afternoon is about not only the Arab spring but also about the Occupy and Indignado movements – so multitude, I think, is an interesting term, this sort of networked, horizontal, rhizomatic if you want, inter-connected, creative producers linked by the new social media – etcetera. Sort of a new phenomenon. That's the one vision on Tahrir Square, the other vision, on the whole movement, is soft power. Instead of the neo-con strategy of invading countries and bombing them back to the(ir) Stone Age. Just let these countries disintegrate, and you have the same effect, in a sense. Destroyed fields, ended states, whatever you would call it. As is happening in Libya, as is maybe happening in Syria, et cetera. Of course, it's a very stark contrast, but I think you can do something with it. That I am sure.
TA: Look, the real question is this: What comes after? Mass uprisings are fine, mass mobilizations are fine, new forms of communication are fine, but one question which sometimes is avoided, is: the question of politics. Not just economics, but also politics. Or, if I can use this old phrase, political economy. What is going to happen to these countries, after these upheavals are over? Is it going to be a new government, a new and even elected government, but which does exactly the same thing? And here two questions arise: one is the argument sometimes put by some of the Negri-people: that effectively if you mobilize and create these networks, that in itself is a victory. They don't come up with any political programme – nothing at all. And that, I think, is very dangerous. Because, it's fine, we can all support these movements, but if these movements don't come up with even a minimum political-economic programme to take people forward, and, if necessary, to implement, then ultimately people say: this is going to end nowhere and the mobilizations and the people become demobilized. I'll give you a classic example of this, the Zapatistas, in Mexico. Wonderful people, I have many friends there, excellent what they did in their own province. But they decided they could not intervene in national party politics, they had no program, instead, they organized a march from their strongholds to Mexico-City. Impressive. But! After the march nothing happened. What did they think would happen? That just their marching, the strength of this example, would create a new social-economic structure? Doesn't happen like that!
And thirdly, the point which, I think, Europeans understand today, even better than the people in the Arab world, or elsewhere, is that the neo-liberal capitalist system is actually hollowing out democracy itself! What is democracy today? I have been arguing that what we have in the current phase of "democracy" (so-called) is an extreme centre. Not an extreme Left, you have an extreme Right, but it's not in par, the extreme Left is very weak; what is strong is an extreme centre. And this extreme centre encompasses both centre Left and centre Right – and it doesn't matter which group is in power. It matters only to the people who make money, and businessmen, cronies, but, in terms of the people it doesn't matter which group from the centre is in power, because they do exactly the same business. In which case: what is the point of democracy? This is a question many young Europeans are asking today. Especially, as they say Greece, and the conditions in which Greek people are being forced to live, and they say "Greece is run by a banker", and they say "Italy is run by a banker" and both these guys were involved in processes, which – in some cases actually working for Goldmann Sachs – which directly led to the Wall Street Crash of 2008 and these are the people, chosen now, to run countries, by the German elite and the European Bank, I mean, it is grotesque! So, in that case, why can't the Arabs, or other countries elsewhere just do the same: appoint bankers to run their countries. They would love to do that. Forget democracy, appoint a banker to run your country.
LDC: I agree [audible expression of general amusement], I couldn't more agree. Very impressive analysis, thank you very much. Last question before we move to the panel … a bit obvious question, after the revolution: a fundamentalist restoration?
TA: No! I think we have two processes going on. One, that Islam is not fundamentalist. You know, as anyone will tell you: the fundamentalists constitute a minority within Islam. They're more active, they can create more havoc, they have more nuisance value, if you like. But, in terms of the Islamists currents, the largest Islamist currents are what we would call the equivalent of Christian Democratic parties in Europe. The Brotherhood in Egypt, which is very strong, it's a socially conservative, moderate party. It is no longer radical, it should be regarded as middle of the road. Not so different from the Turks. And they're now doing something: they're having a big influence on Hamas, which is moving in exactly a similar direction in occupied Palestine. And you have a similar government in power in Tunisia. And hereto we have to ask: what will these governments do? In my opinion these governments will love to do deals with the United States and the European Union and just carry on being in power, like governments in Europa in power, or like Obama is. Fine, no problems. And that could then open up space for something much, much more radical. But what is important to understand is that the reason these parties have become powerful is because of the vacuum that was created at the end of the Cold War, with the collapse of the Left – of communism, official communism, but not only official communism: social democracy collapsed, and the Left collapsed, that was a huge, huge victory. But it left a vacuum. And in this vacuum most of the groups, that were politically radical, disappeared. Or collapsed, like what happened to the Italian communist party in Italy. Or to many individual intellectuals all over Europe who, after the fall of the Berlin wall, fell themselves on their own swords, and decided to shift to the right, to accept the new capitalist order. And in this vacuum, like in parts of Europe, we see far-Right currents developing, we see an ugly mood of Islamophobia – especially in your city of Antwerp – which can be quite frightening. The equivalent of that in the Islamic world has been minorities like the fundamentalists becoming stronger, but also people turning to the moderate Islamist groups, who have, in most cases, been fighting the corrupt secular dictatorships. That has created this mood. But I think it will not last long if new organizations, new social movements arise. So it's a big, big transition period in the Arab world which could last ten years or so.
LDC: Thank you very much. Now the panel, we have a world famous – at least locally – war journalist, Rudi Vrankx, we have a professor of Arabic Studies, Sami Zemni, and we have a young activist intellectual, Yassine Channouf, so they will now fire questions to you, or make remarks or even contradict you, or, whatever. Gentlemen, the floor is yours…
Rudi Vrankx: Can you see me? Yeah… Mr. Ali… hallo! I have a question for you. You made a comparison with 1848, as a European I understand it fully. Do you feel that what is happening now in the Arab world, is after the revolutionary phase, the contra-revolution is going ahead now, with what we see in a different way, in Bahrain by the Saudis, in Syria by the Assad regime, or even in Morocco by the king who makes it with a smooth hand? Is it now the contra-evolution going on?
TA: Well, yes. I mean, the whole point of using the analogy of 1848 was, that there were uprisings, but there were no big victories. The importance of 1848 in Europe, was that it created a new mood, and a new atmosphere and some of the victories and triumphs came many, many years later. So, I think what we are witnessing in the Arab world, is a two-pronged thing. One: as you rightly said, the traditional rulers are strengthening themselves, and where they are being defeated, they're being defeated – as in Libya – by NATO, rather than the local insurrection, which completely changes the character of these countries, as we know full well. And whether they will do the same in Syria remains to be seen. And in Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia the counter-revolution is fully entrenched and Egypt, and this is the second part of the thing, has US hegemony. Because this is the big Empire, like the Austro-Hungarians were in 1848. Is US hegemony being dented, anywhere in the Arab world, as a result of the uprisings? In my opinion the answer is: very little. So far. Very little indeed. And American diplomats and ambassadors and intelligence people are busy negotiating behind the scenes with all the Muslim parties to see what agreements they can reach as they are in Afghanistan, incidentally. So they will try and find a new deal. You cannot dent American hegemony simply by toppling a local dictator, you have to have an alternative programme.
Rudi Vrankx: I agree that change in the Arab world is going to take a long time. It's a long process. And we have seen that Arab Islamism has actually eclipsed the progressive powers, the local powers in the Arab world who started these revolutions. But how do you see – in the near future, I mean – the symbiosis between these two powers? Will we go for a compromise,, as we have seen inTunisia, where a Leftist Arab nationalist party agrees with a moderate Islamist party or will we see a confrontation, as we see in Egypt?
TA: I think there is no pan-Arab group at the moment. So you can say, this will act in a similar way. It will vary from country to country. In Egypt you have groups of the Left, you have a strong tradition of trade unions, in the factories, which were corporatized, incorporated by the regime, but never completely destroyed. And the fact that the structures of these trade unions existed in Egypt's factories, all the big industries, is a good sign, because now the old bureaucrats are being removed and young workers are now taking over these unions. And that is all positive. But when these young groups and the new groups in Egypt will be able to challenge the hegemony of the Islamists in Egypt, is a difficult question to answer. I think they will do it within ten years. Because, unless the social conditions improve, these people will become discredited. But, obviously we cannot compare Egypt to, say, Saudi Arabia.
What will be the form of the struggle? Against the most favourite regime of the United States and its Western allies in the Arab world, apart from Israel, it is Saudi Arabia. And the Saudi monarchy will be defended by the West till the very end. And so the struggle in that country will probably be sectarianized by the West. They will say it's the Shias who are making this farce. Like they are saying in Bahrain already. And so it will take different forms which are unpredictable and cannot be foreseen. We do not know, because these conditions in which people will have to fight, are fairly unique. In Syria we can say with certainty, that if Assad, or when the Assad regime goes, the moderate Islamists will take over. By the way in my opinion the Ba'ath are the most stupid and brutal party in the Middle East. It's their stupidity which is astonishing! You see a mass uprising against you, the obvious thing is to negotiate. If they had negotiated with the internal opposition when the uprising began, the opposition would have been prepared to make compromises and to agree to many things. They didn't do it! And now they are paying the price. But if you now have an election in Syria, the moderate Islamists will win a big, big majority, and then a lot of the minorities in that country are very fearful. There are reports coming out of Syria, in some areas already Christian minorities are being targeted by the Islamists. We don't know whether these are true. But certainly they are coming out. And that is the tragedy of the moment of the Arab world.
Sami Zemni: One movement, we have not discussed until now, is the Salafis. They are the biggest surprise, let's say, since the revolutions broke out, in the sense that, we knew that they were present in several Arab countries, but they were always very far from the direct political stage. And now, actually, they are entering politics, winning a lot of votes, and they are also very much pushing and trying to gain, let's say the public space. And they're infesting it. They're much more radical than those moderate political Islamists, the Muslim brotherhood type of organizations… And secondly, the question is a consequence of it, aren't we in the Egyptian case, instead of the Turkish model, much closer to the Pakistani model? Because in Turkey the army is a guarantee for secularism, and is, you know, some sort of making a balance with the Islamist government. But in Pakistan we have a completely other … well, you know Pakistan much better than I do, of course…. But that model, perhaps, is getting much closer to the Egyptian case, or not?
TA: Don't forget that: the key force in Egyptian politics today, despite the elections, is the army! This can come in whenever it wants, it works very closely with the United States, over the last twenty years, and with the Israelis. It has been a reactionary force on most levels, but it is not a religious army. The Egyptian army is more like the Turkish army, it is a secular army, at the moment. Whereas in Pakistan the army was made into a religious army when the United States decided to fight a Jihad against the Soviet Union, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It was a decision by Washington to use Islam and to use religion to fight against the Russians. And that is when the Pakistan army, which never used to be an Islamist army, was actually made an Islamist army from the top. Then they attempted to change it. So, all these things vary.
But I think the Egyptian army is still different and if the Salafis were to decide to do something completely crazy, they would probably be resisted, not simply by civil society, also by the moderate Islamists, possibly, and certainly by the army. Whereas in Pakistan, even as we speak, the Pakistani military intelligence is trying to organize all the religious parties into a strike force, called "Defend Pakistan", to contest the new elections which will happen next year. So these situations are quite varied. We shouldn't take the fact that the Salafis have come out into the open – in a strange way, that is not such a bad thing, because it is better to see them … It is better to have their representatives in parliament, it is better to argue with them in public, than to ignore them completely, or make them go underground, or ban, or outlaw them, which then will make them decide to drop bombs here, there and everywhere. So it is better that they are out into the open, and they should be taken on. And as you know, sometimes they unite with moderate Islamists in measures that discriminate against women in particular. All this is one key feature. Throughout the Middle East and in countries like Pakistan and India, this is the one thing that unites all the religious groups, because they have no concrete social and economic program. So they go on a cultural offensive, against women, against this, against that. To show they're doing something, which means nothing for the material conditions of the people. But you know, now, at least we have a situation where these things can be pointed out, and they can be fought and argued against.
LDC: Thank you very much, Tariq Ali. Let's give him a hand…[applause].
Lieven De Cauter is a philosopher, writer and activist. He teaches philosophy of culture (in Leuven, Brussels and Rotterdam). His latest books: The Capsular Civilization. On the City in the Age of Fear (2004) and, as co-editor, Heterotopia and the city (2008); Art and activism in the Age of globalization (2011). He is initiator of the BRussells Tribunal.
by Tariq Ali and Lieven De Cauter Source: Foreign Policy in Focus Tuesday, May 01, 2012


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Strawberry Shortcake Canadian Style |
We are asked by Jennifer of the Domestic Goddess to submit a dessert recipe that we feel goes back to our Canadian roots for the yearly Mmmm ..Canada event.
So what is Canadian?
Italian, French, Greek, Chinese and other cuisines are easily defineable. What all of the above cuisines have in common is that when they are preparing these regional dishes the cooks used ingredients that are available to them in their own country or region to create their every day foods. A cuisine is built on foods we eat on a day to day basis at home or what is available to us in restaurants. This is also true of Canadian cuisine. We use ingredients that we find in our local farmers markets but also depend heavily on our ethnic roots from province to province. Canada was built on its British and French roots which means you could be chomping down on Tart de Sucre in Quebec, Nanaimo Bars in British Columbia or Butter Tarts in Ontario.
Canada is a melting pot of diverse cultures that has heavily influenced our day to day foods in a big way from the Eastern shores of the Maritime Provinces to the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast. Living in British Columbia we have what we call West Coast cuisine which is essentially just utilizing the freshest local ingredients available ...just as they do in every province and territory across the country. If you asked a Canadian in Halifax, Nova Scotia or Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to define what they eat on a daily basis you would have two different answers. Ask your neighbour what they had for dinner last night and see what the ethnic influences are. Like everyone else we use what's in our backyard and cook with what's around us."
So what is the first thing that came to my mind when I was asked to make a Canadian dessert.....Strawberry Shortcake!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a Canadian version made with cake and not biscuits like our American counterparts. Where exactly the difference originated I have no idea but I do remember reading about it years ago (most likely in Canadian Living Magazine) about this fact. In Canada, as a general rule, we are given a British based short"cake" and in the States they make a biscuit out of "short"ening. Is it "short" or is it "cake"...who cares...both versions are delicious.
As a child strawberries became synonomous with the "Strawberry Social" fundraisers we attended in elementary school. Parents, teachers, brothers, sisters all together smoozing over strawberries and whipped cream on tender buttery cakes. The teachers would bake the cakes and the kids would spend the afternnoon hulling and slicing berries. Part of the strawberries appeal as always is that it's arrival marks the beginning of summer!!!!!!!!!!! Strawberry shortcake brings memories of lazy summer days, warm sunshine and childhood pursuits.
This is the simple, buttery cake I remember from my childhood.
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups whipping cream
2-1/2 cups cake and pastry flour
1-1/2 cups sugar
3-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
3/4 cup very soft butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add milk, butter and vanilla; beat at low speed just to blend. Beat at medium speed for 2 - 3 minutes, scraping down side and bottom of bowl twice. Add eggs, beat for 2 minutes at medium speed.Grease and flour a 9-inch square cake pan; line with waxed paper. Spread batter evenly in pan; Bake in 350 F for 45 - 55 minutes or until tester inserted in centre comes out clean. Let cool in pan on rack. (Cake can be stored in airtight container for up to 1 day or frozen for up to 1 month).Slice berries and combine with sugar; let stand at room temperature for 1 hour. Whip cream. Slice cake into 2 layers. Reserve 2 cups berry mixture for topping. Spoon remaining berry mixture over bottom layer, spread with about 1/3 of the whipped cream. Top with second layer, cut side down. Ice sides and top with remaining cream. Spoon reserved berries over each serving.
Serves 16
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It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.
Here's a sign of just how huge the housing and foreclosure crisis has been. Five big banks agreed to pay about $25 billion to people who've been harmed bank's abuses, plus an extra billion to settle a claim involving a mortgage company. And one of the first reactions is that all that money could not possibly be enough.
President Obama says the banks will spread the money around.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: They'll provide refinancing for borrowers that are stuck in high interest rate mortgages. They'll reduce loans for families who owe more on their homes than they're worth. And they will deliver some measure of justice for families that have already been victims of abusive practices.
INSKEEP: But think of that phrase: a measure of justice. The president means a payment for people who suffered foreclosure whether they deserved it or not.
NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on how the money breaks down.
RICHARD GONZALES, BYLINE: For the past four years, Jose Rodriguez has been working for a non-profit group helping homeowners in the San Francisco Bay Area stay in their homes when they faced foreclosure. Upon hearing the news of the settlement with the banks, he had one question.
JOSE RODRIQUEZ: How significant is the settlement that's going to actually reach the homeowner?
GONZALES: Rodriguez says he applauds the deal in which the banks agreed to pony up $20 billion in loan modifications, either through refinancing loans or reducing the principal owed. There's another $5 billion in cash, some of which will go the states and some to compensate homeowners who have already been foreclosed. But that comes to just about $2,000 for a former homeowner.
Jose Rodriguez.
RODRIQUEZ: What does $2,000 do for somebody? Two thousand dollars when you've been kicked out of what you thought was your accomplishment of the American homeownership dream?
GONZALES: Deborah Almeida of Galt, a city about twenty miles south of Sacramento, is skeptical too. She and her husband bought a house that's now worth less than half of what they bought it for in 2005. She says was making payments under a loan modification, but the bank foreclosed anyway. Only one element of the settlement agreement might help her, says Almeida.
DEBORAH ALMEIDA: Principal reduction but principal reduction at market value. That is the only way that I would stay in this home is if I got my house at market value, which right now is about $190,000.
GONZALES: Another homeowner, Jose Vega, father of two from Pittsburgh, is also underwater. Vega says he was making payments under a loan modification program when the bank foreclosed. The bank eventually backed off. But he says the bank is charging him for the cost of its legal fees. Now he's not confident the settlement will work out for his family.
JOSE VEGA: I've been lied to by the banks so much. They put you through all this. You talk to five people when you're dealing with them, you'll get five stories. So what that does is you lose trust. Because you think you're dealing with a corporation that's responsible? And you find out its not really that way anymore.
GONZALES: Vega says the only way he'll believe that the settlement is real is if the government keeps up its pressure on bank lending practices.
Richard Gonzales NPR News, San Francisco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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ST. LOUIS — According to a recent soy-checkoff-funded study, the overall oil levels in last year's U.S. soybean crop increased over the previous year, while average protein fell. United Soybean Board (USB) Customer Focus Action Team Chair Sharon Covert says U.S. soy's biggest users pay attention to those results.
"The oil and protein levels in our soybeans are very important to our customers," says Covert, a soybean farmer from Tiskilwa, Ill. "We should take every possible course of action to improve our soy oil and meal, which will help us protect and expand our markets."
Oil level
The results of the soy checkoff's annual U.S. Soybean Quality Survey found the oil level in the overall U.S. soybean crop rose by 0.3 point to 18.5 percent last year. And protein dropped a half-point to 34.3 percent. But for a crop baked by drought conditions for much of the year, that's pretty good, says the scientist in charge of the research.
Seth Naeve, Ph.D., who conducts the study, says the drought likely had a hand in holding protein levels down.
"Weather has a dramatic impact on soybean quality," says Naeve, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. "Last year, the drought affected different regions differently, so we weren't exactly sure how quality would play out. Overall, I think we're happy that quality was as good as it was."
New program
Beginning with the 2013 crop, the checkoff will be implementing a new program to monitor weather conditions in soybean test plots and correlate that information with quality outcomes and variety performance. This work will complement the Soybean Quality Survey. The checkoff uses the survey to give buyers a preview of protein and oil levels.
Naeve says he recently joined the U.S. Soybean Export Council in presenting the results to buyers in Asia, who want to know what U.S. farmers are doing to improve quality long-term. Animal agriculture consumes nearly 98 percent of U.S. soy meal, feeding the protein-rich meal to poultry, swine, fish and other animals. The food industry, which uses nearly 70 percent of soy oil, depends on an abundant supply of healthy and functional oil to use as frying oil or as an ingredient in many food products.
Improving quality
Naeve says variety selection is a farmer's best tool to improve soybean quality – even during a drought.
"In general, the highest-protein varieties tend to be higher-protein in most environments," he says.
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"I'm a much better grappler than striker, so it just takes more time for me to get the striking, but it's coming." - Demian Maia
Demian Maia isn't scared anymore. Admittedly, the submission wizard approached his first few fights in the UFC with a single-minded purpose: get the fight to the ground and finish it before his opponent or the referee could stand it back up. Nothing more, nothing less.
"In the first fights, I was so nervous to stand up that when I took the guys down, I was doing everything and spending all my energy to submit them because I was afraid to get the fight stood up," he said.
Early on, it worked like a charm. Five fights, five wins, five submissions of Ryan Jensen, Ed Herman, Jason MacDonald, Nate Quarry, and Chael Sonnen. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Nate Marquardt broke it, knocking Maia out in 21 seconds at UFC 102 in August of 2009. It was the Sao Paulo native's first pro loss, and while he had been training the rest of his game all along, now he knew that he needed to step it up even more.
"My plan since I started in the UFC was to be champion one day, and I know that to be a champion, you need to develop everything that you can," he said. "But when I first started in the UFC, I was very raw standup-wise and my game was basically jiu-jitsu. I almost didn't have any boxing – I had three months of boxing training. But I knew it was something I needed to work on because I knew one day I would need it. So I started at that time and kept growing."
In his next bout six months later, against Jersey-tough Dan Miller, Maia showed off the early stages of his evolution with a three round unanimous decision win. Fate would intervene next, when an injury to Vitor Belfort opened the door for Maia to step in and challenge countryman Anderson Silva for the middleweight title at UFC 112 in April of 2010.
If he hadn't learned his standup lessons, it would have been a short night, but instead, Maia went the distance with the pound-for-pound king before losing a unanimous decision. It was far from a memorable bout because of Silva's controversial showboating antics, but if you do look back at it, refer to Maia's gutsy charges in the last two rounds as he went far away from his gameplan in an effort to turn the fight around and actually make a fight out of it.
"I think that was the most important fight of my life," said Maia. "At the beginning, we had a strategy for the fight, me and my coaches. We were just gonna wait for him to come, and then shoot for the double or the single, or clinch for the takedown. But the problem was during the first three rounds, especially in the second round, he was controlling me very well with single jabs and single kicks, not combos. So it was very hard for me because he knows how to use his reach and his distance. But at one point I said my strategy's not working and I was not able to clinch, so I said 'okay, if I'm gonna lose, let's try my best.'"
In terms of his career, it was a game changer.
"In that fight, I learned that sometimes you have a strategy, but when you feel it's not working, you have to change, and you can't just stay in that strategy. And after that I was pretty confident that I was fighting against the best fighter in the world, but I knew if I could have changed my strategy a little bit, I could have done much better."
Despite his strong finish late, the negative connotations attached to the bout didn't exactly earn him the credit he deserved. But in his mind, Maia had turned the corner as a fighter, and going five rounds with Silva didn't hurt either.
"If I was a runner, I think I would be a long-distance runner, not like a 100 meter runner," he said. "So for me, there was no problem going five rounds. I think I grow better during a fight, and it was a good experience, especially with the best fighter in the world."
Thus began the road back, and since then, he has won two in a row, pounding out convincing, workmanlike decision wins over Mario Miranda and Kendall Grove. Saturday night in Vancouver, he looks for three in a row against his toughest foe since Silva, surging Mark Munoz.
"He's a tough wrestler and an experienced athlete," said Maia of 'The Filipino Wrecking Machine.' "He doesn't have a lot of MMA fights but he has a lot of wrestling matches, so I think he's a very experienced competitor. He also has very heavy hands."
It's a classic match of styles and one of the most highly-anticipated bouts on the UFC 131 card. Does Maia feel the weight of expectations on his shoulders?
"In the UFC, there's always big pressure, it doesn't matter who you fight," he said. "When you fight in the biggest event in the world, with the biggest crowd, it's always big pressure, but I know how to deal with that. It's not a problem. For me, it's just being prepared and ready for the fight. The rest I know how to deal with."
And now he can say that he can not only deal with fellow jiu-jitsu fighters and wrestlers, but with strikers as well. It's a pleasant development for the decorated BJJ black belt, who admits that he's enjoyed the entire ride from one-dimensional submission artist to well-rounded MMA fighter.
"Because I love to train, I don't think there's any difficult part," he said. "It's just a matter of time. I'm a much better grappler than striker, so it just takes more time for me to get the striking, but it's coming. I love this sport. I love to box, I love to wrestle, I love to grapple, so for me there are no hard things."
What he will say though, and he says it with a smile, is that he's been getting itchy to score his first submission win since the Sonnen fight in February of 2009. That's more than two long years, and he's feeling just about due.
"That (winning by submission) is what I want to do for sure and that's something I'm looking for," he said. "The thing is that I've been developing my standup game and I think something happened inside my mind. Now I'm much more relaxed when I go to the ground because if the fight gets stood up again, I will be able to fight standing up. But I know I will get the balance again and I will start to submit my opponents again."


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Im getting errors with recipient invalid when adding the "To" email address from a sql field.
It appears the To address is Blank. (see screenshots) I trigger the flow when a new record is created then use sql Stored procedure to update the email address. Ive added a delay (45 sec) to ensure the SP is complete before sending the email.
not quite sure why this is happening, except that maybe the email is running too soon ?
any help is apprciated.
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Hi @djoeg01 ,
As @yashag2255 asked, please share the run screenshot of the execute stored procedure actions in the run history and check if the email address is exist.
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Hi @djoeg01
Can you please add the screenshots again? For some reason those didn't come in and I am unable to look at it. This will help us better identify the issue and assist you with this.
I am guessing you have certain more actions related to sharepoint and you have added a delay to reference to the output of these. You can probably check the output from tehse actions if the expected values are being returned in the appropriate attributes.
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My Bad, forgot to attach screenshots.
Im not using Sharepoint only SQL and the Stored Procedures (SP) to update the new record to add the email address, I put in a delay to ensure the SP had completed before the email portion gets kicked off.
Hi @djoeg01
Can you expand the execute stored procedure actions in the run history and check what output you are getting? (are you getting the expected data there?)
Hi @djoeg01 ,
As @yashag2255 asked, please share the run screenshot of the execute stored procedure actions in the run history and check if the email address is exist.
Best regards,
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