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Governor Patrick visited Springfield's Zanetti Montessori Magnet school celebrating their academic improvements. When the event was over Patrick turned to discussing the repeal of the computer tax he had signed earlier in the day. When asked how he planned to plug the resulting estimated 160 million dollar hole in the budget the governor said he's already made numerous suggestions and now it's up to the legislature."We've met with them together with the industry, leaders in the industry made a whole lot of suggestions and the leadership kept taking things off the table.
I think it's on them now to come up with a way to plug the hole. Now the good news is that revenues are performing well so far this fiscal year, but it's early."
Still lawmakers hope that growth in tax revenues beyond budget expectations so far will go a long way towards making up for lost revenue. The initial measure would have placed a tax on certain segments of the computer service industry. But eventually Patrick and democratic legislative leaders were persuaded, after the tax was signed into law, that they should repeal it. Patrick said it represented a "serious blot" in a state known for hosting a significant technology sector.


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So there's been a few queries, admin requests regarding the Saxton Hale server. It's a fun game mode, but not without it's problems, bugs and balance issues aside, the major issue I see is there's some kind of set of unwritten communal rules that have come into existence for whatever reason.
Unwritten rules
1. Capping is bad
2. Taunting can also sometimes be viewed as bad
3. Surviving seems more important than actually attacking/damaging Hale
Now I don't understand the reason behind those viewpoints, embracing them however is definitely a bad idea.
1. Capping is bad
Is it viewed as bad because it ends your run as Hale, or in the other cases, Hale didn't chase down and kill you individually? The reason I'd suggest capping should be encouraged is to speed up the game. Whilst it may be fun for Hale and the few spies or scouts he's chasing at the end, it's really really boring for the 20+ people watching and waiting for their turn to play.
2. Taunting can also sometimes be viewed as bad
I don't think this is a widely held view or rule, but it seems like it arises because if a player is good at being Hale, taunts make it very easy to win. This is only the case if you are against an unorganised opposition, a couple of pyros, medics, scouts, soldiers, engineers working together well can prevent you from killing anyone by airblasting, air juggling, stunning and ubering. The taunt/stun prevents a good team from forming a solid defensive block that you can't break.
3. Surviving seems more important than actually attacking/damaging Hale
Maybe it's some players not understanding how the game mode works, or they just claim they won by being the last one Hale killed but I often see players hiding in hard to reach places and not seeking out Hale or trying to damage him. The thing is, if you don't do enough damage to Hale at the start, then you won't stand a chance at stopping him from capping if he chooses to, which he should be.
How the game should be played
There's 3 phases.
Phase 1
Hale vs 20 or 30 players. In this part it's the job of the players to deal as much damage to hale as possible, whilst staying alive. Hale has roughly about 1000 hp per player, so if you can deal 1000 damage you've done your job and die happy. Doing 1000 damage isn't too difficult, it's landing about 7 sniper shots, 10 to 20 rockets, a couple of good sticky traps, a backstab or two, a few pistol clips etc. Hale's job is to get the player count down to something manageable and take out key classes or players earlier on whilst avoiding too much damage.
Phase 2
When the player count is reduced enough it goes two ways. Either Hale has taken a lot of damage and will have to be more careful, or the players haven't done enough damage and they'll need to be more careful. Either way the game is often decided by this point. Why? If you haven't dealt enough damage, then it's just a matter of time. Either Hale is competent and knows how to use taunt at which point it's just about building up enough rage, catching a player out, repeat until phase 3. Or Hale is incompetent and it's going to take several minutes or more of peppering/damaging him to kill him whilst avoiding the taunt/punches. Both those situations are pretty dull.
Phase 3
When the point opens up for capping it's basically signalling the end of that round. If you've done enough damage to Hale, you stand on the point and force him to come to you, hopefully having enough knockback and damage to finish him off before he can just stand on the point and win. If you haven't done enough damage to Hale, then guess what, Hale is going to win because there's no way you can get him off the point. Good luck dealing 19000 damage as 5 scouts.
1. Set the point to be capture-able after x minutes (where x is about 4 to 5). This gives an incentive to deal as much damage to Hale as possible early on, because if you don't, then he's just going to be able to walk onto the point and win. This also prevents stalemates where it's Hale vs a few scouts and spies, but the point hasn't opened up yet.
2. Rewarding players for damage/capping. It might be possible to add a damage/cap count which gets converted to queue points. So that way people playing the game as intended get more queue points to actually achieve the objective rather than waste time. This would require a bit of coding and changing of the mod, so it's unlikely to happen soon.
3. Set a max roundtime limit, after which everyone gets slayed/round ends.
4. We could try a different version of the mod (http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Freak_Fortress_2)
So as the game playing public, what are your comments, feedback?


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Spread: North Carolina -10.5
The Ohio Bobcats are the least likely of the Ohio based teams to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. I am totally rooting for these guys but I think it is fair to say that their path to get to this point has been less than torturous. To continue their magical run to the Elite Eight they are going to have to get by big bad North Carolina. There is no quit in the Bobcats and they will probably have a nice run sometime Friday night but this is going to be a really tough game for them.
Is any player more important in the Sweet Sixteen than Ohio guard D.J. Cooper? This week stories are coming out how big programs tried to poach this player away a couple of years ago and it is easy to see why. Cooper may be just 5'11 but he is the heart of this team and the one player who seems completely unafraid of the big stage. He has gotten help which is why they are here this week, but without him they wouldn't be representing the MAC right now.
North Carolina
I can't remember an injury being of such concern in the NCAA tournament. All we are hearing about right now is point guard Kendall Marshall and how his presence or absence will influence the Tar Heels championship chances. He might not be their best player but as the engine that makes them go he might be their most valuable. I don't know how he can have surgery and suit up 4 days later.
And the Heels has just seemingly recovered from the injury to power forward John Henson. After sitting out the ACC Tournament and the first round game all Henson did was score 13 points with 10 boards and 4 blocks in the win against Creighton. Henson is a very good player but at least they had some reasonable backups for him. If Marshall is out this weekend will the Tar Heels really lose to Ohio. It seems too unbelievable to me.
Spread Pick: Ohio +10.5
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The man charged with murdering his half-brother has been found incompetent to stand trial.
A court ruled Wednesday that Brandon Henslee, 22, is not able to mentally stand trial. He was charged with murdering Tyler Hanks back in August.
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Back in August the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department arrested Henslee after Hank was reported missing on August 26th. Hanks body was found in an open field just a mile from his house in Cambria.
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So I've role-played on numerous sites in the past but recently I simply couldn't be bothered with it. But, now I've realized that without Roleplaying, I grow steadily more bored. So, now I'm coming back to it. New name, new site and new test subjects... I mean, people. So, here's the deal. I have a couple of ideas that I'll list, but if any of you have had any ideas that have failed miserably, then try me. I'm quite happy to attempt anything.
A little about me and my roleplaying habits:
- So, I'm a guy but I can play both genders. Of course, I'm more familiar with the male psyche but I'm always willing to attempt the intricate workings of the female mind.
- When it comes to to romance in RP's, I kinda feel it necessary, especially with 1X1. I mean, I can go without, but I kinda enjoy it. Also, and this isn't something I'm particularly proud of, playing same gender relationships kinda weirds me out. I don't know why, it just does. So I would politely ask that for the purpose of the RP, we keep relationships MxF.
- Genre wise, I'm quite happy to do anything. I like to try things, regardless of what it is. That's pretty much all there is to say on that topic.
- One of the most important things for me in an RP is OC's. I don't like to play anyone else's characters, only mine. So, if the RP is fandom based, then then I would prefer that our characters were our own. Also, I like sticking to teenage characters. Old people bore me slightly, there just seems to be less chance to be spontaneous.
- Lastly, please have some content. My grammar and spelling are atrocious a lot of the time, but I always try to spew out at least one decent paragraph. I know that sometimes its hard to keep it up permanently, but I appreciate the effort at least. So, keep the short posts to a minimum please.
So, here is a list of the RP plots I have and the Fandoms I enjoy.
- Doctor Who
- My Little Pony
- Harry Potter
- Supernatural (Although I've only just finished season 4...)
- Pokemon (I do really enjoy Pokemon RPs and would like to do one if someone is interested.)
- The Hunger Games.
In terms of original plots, I only have two. But if you have your own, just suggest them and I'll think about it. Anyway, My plots -
- Generic Zombie Apocalypse.
Our characters are two teenagers at the very beginning of a zombie apocalypse. Neither characters really have a clue what they're doing but receive news that scientists somewhere are working on a cure that will be distributed in three months time. They know how long they have to survive, but the world as slowly collapses around them there are ever fewer safe places.
So, I want the Rp to be less about the fighting (Although there will be plenty of it) and more about the fear. Our characters will be completely average, no specialty in martial arts or previous weapon training. Neither of them will have a clue about how to handle their situation. So, the Rp will focus on them scavenging food and doing their best not to flee in terror.
-A slightly less generic fantasy story.
So, this one has been in the works for a while now so it's a lot more in depth.
The two nations of Synndra and Alboria have been at war for centuries. No-one can remember the reason behind the war, all that anyone cares about is that it's a complete stalemate. However, our characters, were beckoned by three men, previously thought to be mere legends, and told that the war is about to come to an end. Alboria has created a weapon that will win the war. however, what they don't know is that it will also destroy them in the process. Our characters have to work together in order to save the entire world. However, our characters come from rather different backgrounds. One is a duelist from nobility and the other is an orphaned thief.
The most important feature in this RP is the world. Alboria is a world of science while Synndra is a country founded on the use of magic. Magic can't be harnessed by a person, instead has to harnessed in an object that can then be used by a person. An artifact can only hold one ability and the process of creating them was lost in the early days of the war, making them valued collectors items. Science is achievable through a special mineral called Priorium. It can harness infinite energy and can power anything. Science is mainly military, meaning that it is still a primarily fantasy setting, but there are infinite possibilities with the devices.
So, that is all I have to say. I look forward to roleplaying here.


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The MAROON Vol. 65, No. 5 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 September 26, 1986 State legislation tabled; highway funds to be cut By Hank Stuever Staff writer HOW OLD IS TOO YOUNG? Next Wednesday, Louisiana will pay for being one of the last states in the union where an 18-year-old can purchase an alcoholic drink. On that day, Louisiana will lose $15.2 million in federal highway aid for the 1986-87 fiscal year. These facts have local college students concerned, bar owners worried and state politicians confused and angered. In 1984, Congress passed a law saying that any state that did not raise its drinking age to 21 for all alcoholic beverages by Oct. 1, 1986 would lose 5 percent of its highway funding. The cut doubles in 1987 and again in 1988, meaning Louisiana would lose more than $60 million before 1989. For the state's residents and students aged 18-20, it could mean a different way of life. During the state Senate's 1986 session, a bill was introduced by Sen. Richard Neeson, D-Shreveport, to raise the drinking age to 21. At the same time, a similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Margaret Lowenthal, D-Lake Charles, and James J. Donelon, R-Metairie. The House bill failed, but the Senate bill passed, 25- 12. From there, the Senate bill went to the House, where it failed in the last few days of the session. The 51-43 outcome was just two votes shy of a majority. The 1986 session adjourned, and the already-weakened Louisiana economy prepared to suffer another loss. Unless Gov. Edwin W. Edwards calls a special session, the drinking age will not be decided until the legislature's next regular session in April 1987. During the House session this summer, Donelon and Lowenthal's bill was amended to include a "grandfather clause," which would make the photo by Mary Degnan Unopposed SGA candidate protests procedure By Raul X. Resales, S.J. and Mary Caffrey Staff writers A student who ran as an unopposed candidate for freshman law representative has filed a thirteen-point complaint concerning election procedures with the Student Government Association's Court of Review. Wade P. Richard, law freshman, presented his complaint to SGA President David Kramer at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Richard protested the poor organization of the elections, lack of a detailed election code and actions by SGA Vice President Connie Kringas prior to the election. Richard pointed out that Kringas swore in two unopposed congresspersons-at-large and an unopposed business president but neglected to swear in several unopposed law school candidates. "What I'm trying to do is have the Court of Review uphold the right to vote," Richard said. "I want them to determine what value they will place on a person's right to vote and what respect the main campus will give to law school." Kringas defended her decision to swear in the three delegates who became automatic members of the Ways and Means committee. She explained that not all committee members could be present at certain times during the budget hearings. "Without them we would have had three people deciding all the budgets," she said. During the SGA meeting Tuesday, SGA President David Kramer was upset because so few members of congress volunteered to sit at the polls. Kringas said she had to leave the law school poll to attend class at one point, and she is not sure what time her replacement arrived. Kringas said this incident may explain the unmanned poll charge in Richard's complaint. Answering Richard's charge of unfair treatment to unopposed candidates, Kringas said initially there were four candidates for the position of law freshman representative. Kringas said she did not purposely overlook the law school candidates. At press time, Kringas said she had not spoken to Richard about his complaint that students had been denied the right to vote, and she said she did not understand his specific allegation. Richard explained that at various times during the scheduled hours of the election the law school polls were either closed completely or left unmanned with either the ballot box or the box and the ballots unattended. The Court of Review began hearing testimony on the complaint Thursday at 7 p.m. They have 72 hours after the time Richard filed his complaint to reach a decision. In addition to Richard, law freshmen Isidro Deßojas and James Dill and law upperclassmen Eileen Comiskey and Ann Novick were elected to congress. Jason Caniglia, Michael Kelly and Dartanian Thomas were elected freshman representatives from the College of Arts and Sciences. Dena Rodenbeck and Christi Watson will be in a runoff for the final position. Pat Long and Brian McGonegal were elected freshman business representatives and Michelle Freeman was elected freshman representative from the College of Music. Sexual harassment policy approved by Faculty Senate By Mary B. Cross Staff writer A long-delayed statement of university policy and procedure on handling complaints of sexual harassment was approved on Sept. 11 by the Faculty Senate. The senate approved the policy by an overwhelming majority. The policy was constructed by a 40- member Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Harassment. The committee, which includes faculty from all departments of the university, was created by the senate to revise the sexual harassment policy rejected last year because of its loose wording. The new statement is designed to meet three objectives: to protect the rights of someone subjected to sexual harassment; to protect the rights of someone accused of sexual harassment, and to protect the university from unnecessary litigation arising from sexual harassment cases. The policy statement reads as follows: "Loyola University of New Orleans, consistent with its Goals Statement and Character and Commitment Statement, fosters respect for the dignity and worth of all members of the Loyola community, and is committed to maintaining an educational and working environment free of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is immoral and illegal, and will not be tolerated. "Sexual harassment may occur within a variety of relationships. Some relationships involve unequal authority, as between supervisors to employees supervised; faculty members to students; residence hall See Drink/page 5 See Policy/page 7
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MARTIN, Tenn. – It was announced today that The University of Tennessee at Martin men's basketball team will play host to the Longwood University Lancers in the Ramada Worldwide BracketBusters series on Saturday, Feb. 23. Tip-off time from the Kathleen and Tom Elam Center will be announced at a later date.
The Skyhawks are 3-4 all-time in the BracketBusters event, which features 122 teams featuring 15 collegiate athletic conferences in its 11th and final year.
Although the Skyhawks and Longwood have never met on the basketball court, the two programs are linked by former UT Martin head coach Cal Luther. Luther served as head coach at Longwood from 1981-90 and is the school's all-time winningest coach – posting five winning seasons while going 136-105 as bench leader for the Lancers. Less than a year after leaving Longwood, he was appointed UT Martin's head coach in December 1990 and led the team until 1999, ushering in the school's Division-I/Ohio Valley Conference era. He won conference coach of the year honors at both Longwood (1987-88) and UT Martin (1995-96).
The Lancers are currently 3-20 overall with a 0-9 Big South Conference record. Located in Farmville, Va., Longwood is guided by head coach Mike Gillian, who is in his 10th season at the helm.
Longwood is led by Tristan Carey, who averages 14.6 points per game. The 6-4 junior guard also leads the team in three-point field goals made (51 of the team's 109) and steals (2.2 per game). Inside, the Lancers feature 6-9 freshman forward Michael Kessens, who scores 12.5 points per game and leads the squad in field goal percentage (.551), rebounding (8.7 per game) and blocks (1.3 per game). Kessens recently picked up his third Big South Conference Freshman of the Week accolade this season after posting back-to-back 20-point performances last week.


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On the afternoon of Oct. 25, Kim Meline said goodbye to the two men in her family, concerned about each of them.
She was leaving for Barcelona, Spain – a bucket list trip with her mother, who had recovered from open-heart surgery. Kim was leaving husband Rob and son Jonathan in their central Tacoma home.
Jonathan, 29, is a troubled young man who'd spent 10 years in and out of jail and mental institutions. He was diagnosed at 19 with schizophrenia.
At one point, the Melines had filed a restraining order against their son. But on Oct. 25, he was living with them.
"Jonathan hugged me. I told him, 'Take care of Rob,' and he got this odd little smile and said, 'Oh, I will," Kim said.
It had been a difficult summer in the house. Three of the four Meline daughters were uncomfortable around their brother. Rob had begun having nightmares about his son and was sleeping with a baseball bat beside his bed.
Rob and Kim Meline, both teachers, had been together since college. That afternoon, Rob drove his wife and mother-in-law to Sea-Tac airport.
"I told him to be careful, to watch Jonathan closely," she said.
Kim and her mother, Evy McNeal, flew to Spain. After arriving at their hotel, they were told they had a message: One of Kim's sisters asked that they call her. Evy called, then screamed. She told Kim to sit down.
"Jonathan has killed Rob," she told her daughter.
Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Lindquist heard about the murder before Kim Meline did.
"My first reaction was to wonder why this obviously mentally ill individual was loose in the community," Lindquist said. "One of the answers was because this was a 'gap' case – another example where the defendant had been found incompetent to stand trial, but was also deemed safe to be released."
Jonathan Meline had threatened his parents for years. He told Tacoma police in 2008 that Kim and Rob were not his real mom and dad.
"A police officer called us. He said he wanted to make sure we knew that Jonathan was convinced we had killed his real parents," Kim said. "He said Jonathan told him it would only be fair if he killed us."
Late in 2010, Jonathan was arrested for robbery, charged with stealing a Jeep from a Tacoma dealership and trying to run down a salesman who attempted to stop him.
Jonathan was declared incompetent to stand trial in April 2011, after six months committed at Western State Hospital.
Dr. Gregg Gagliardi testified at that hearing, and among his conclusions was this: Jonathan, "as a result of a mental disorder, presents a substantial likelihood of repeating similar acts."
Jonathan was returned to Western State. There, two contrary forces came into play between law-enforcement and mental-health professionals.
"Our function is to see justice is done, but that's not the doctors' job," Phillip Sorensen, a deputy prosecuting attorney, explained in a recent interview. "Their purpose is to make people better. For them, the best-case scenario is to get them healthy enough to be back in the community."
In August 2011, a judge dismissed the criminal case after being told Jonathan's competence could not be restored. A month later, he was civilly committed for a period of up to 180 days.
For Kim and Rob Meline and their family, it seemed to mark progress toward having Jonathan permanently committed after a decade dealing with his mental illness.
"We thought he was close to being committed for life, and he was ready," Kim said. "He told us he was more comfortable in the company of other mentally ill people – that he wasn't the outlier."
The year he turned 19, Jonathan Meline dressed all in white – shoes, sweatsuit, cap – and walked down to the Tacoma Narrows and into the water below the bridge. People who saw him go in called the police.
Nearly halfway across, exhausted and chilled, Jonathan climbed aboard a boat, was taken into custody and sent to Puget Sound Hospital, then to Western State.
It was the beginning of an odyssey that today finds Jonathan back in the forensics unit at Western State, being evaluated yet again to determine whether he's competent to stand trial – this time, for murder.
The last horrific chapter began in January of this year, only about 90 days into Jonathan's commitment for the incident with the car dealer.
The Meline family got a telephone call from the Lakewood-based hospital.
"They called us and said 'we're releasing him. Take him home or he'll be on the street,'" Kim recalled.
"It was January, it was freezing. We brought him home," she said. "The girls were against it. Rob had reservations. I thought at least we'd be able to watch him."
But because of federal privacy laws, the Melines were not told anything about Jonathan's condition, his treatment or the medications he was supposed to take.
"A counselor who'd worked with him before called and said he wouldn't work with Jonathan again," Kim said. "Then he said: 'You should be terrified of him.'"
For months, there was an uneasy peace in the Meline house. Jonathan had no outbursts of rage but was often uncommunicative, spending hours on the computer in his small upstairs room.
"There was an incident in June when Rob asked 'Did I really hear him say that?' because he thought he'd heard Jonathan say he was going to kill him," Kim said. "He asked Jonathan what he'd said, and he said he'd just been talking to himself."
From that time on, Kim didn't sleep well.
"The last few months, Jonathan would wake up every night about 2 a.m. and I'd hear him walking down the hallway, then hear him pause at the top of the stairs, right outside our room," Kim said. "I'd listen and wait, and then he'd go downstairs.
"The night he killed Rob, it was about 2 a.m. I've wondered how many times he stood outside our room thinking, 'I could do it now ...'"
About 2 a.m. on Oct. 26, Kim Meline was over the Atlantic Ocean. According to court documents, Jonathan told police he awakened and walked into his father's bedroom, began scrounging in a backpack for a hatchet he'd purchased in June – the day after he'd told Rob he was going to kill him.
Delusional, Jonathan had come to believe his father was killing children and his mother was allowing it.
When he began striking his father in the head with the hatchet, one of Jonathan's sisters, Kristina, awakened in a bedroom directly below. She was the only other person in the house at the time. She told police she heard her brother screaming: "Die! Die!"
Kristina Meline walked with her brother more than a mile so he could surrender to Tacoma Police.
Kim hasn't seen Jonathan since her husband's death. She won't see him again until a competency hearing scheduled for Dec. 28.
"I want my family protected. Our fear is that there could be a slip-up again and Jonathan could be out," she said. "I don't think he's done."
Sorensen, the deputy prosecutor in charge of the Meline case, said Kim Meline isn't being paranoid.
"Is it possible he could be released? Yes," Sorensen said.
"Our position: If they're healthy enough to be released, we're presuming they're competent"
That, however, is not the law.
"If he's found incompetent to stand trial, we can't proceed with a trial," Sorensen said. "There would be a restoration period in effort to make him competent. If between six months and a year he's found competent, we could proceed.
"If not, by statute, we're forced by law to drop the case," he said.
Kim Meline said the system doesn't do enough to protect those closest to the mentally ill.
"There's so little protection for families – for anyone in these cases – and you read about more of them all the time," she said.
With frustration, she notes how the law doesn't allow family members to commit an adult child to a mental hospital.
"When you have mentally ill people who become time bombs, the mental health system seems to fail families," she said. "That system leaves it to police and families to deal with, and the police can't do anything until something happens."
Prosecutor Lindquist is not only sympathetic, he's also trying to change the law.
"I agree, the system failed her," he said. "There are two different standards involved in these cases – one for competency, one for release. The current release standard is when there is no longer a substantial likelihood of repeating similar acts based on mental illness.
Lindquist said he's working with state Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, and Sen. Jim Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, to broaden the standard. A person could be released if declared "no longer a continuing risk to repeat criminal behavior."
Citing privacy laws, Western State officials would not answer questions about the Meline case for this column. But when it released Jonathan Meline in January, the hospital was complying with the law. He had no charges pending against him, and it was determined "the patient has progressed to the point where the person is appropriate for treatment in the community," according to a statement Western State released this week.
But sometimes it takes a high-profile case like the Melines' to highlight a bad law.
Pedersen expects to introduce legislation in the session that starts next month.
"Some people with mental issues can't be convicted of crime but cannot be civilly committed, either," Pedersen said. "We want to shrink that gap between those two standards – have fewer dangerous people released."
Kim Meline has lost her husband, lost her son, and sold the home where she lost them both.
"Jonathan was in one hospital after another for 10 years, and they always released him," she said. "The (Tacoma) police knew him by sight and would bring him home – he'd walk into traffic, annoy bystanders, climb trees and yell.
"There are too many families caught up in these tragedies with nowhere to turn. I'm angry, and that's what I'm angry about," she said. "I'm angry at Jonathan, too. He told us we weren't his parents ..."
What would she say to him if they talked again?
"That he's not my son. That my son could never have done this, crazy or not," Kim said. "He reads the Bible a lot, but he broke two of the Ten Commandments – 'Honor thy Father' and 'Thou Shalt Not Kill.'"
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Platforms: | Homepage: visit | ||
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2.5/5 (2 votes)
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The Housing Advocacy Committee (HAC) seeks to positively influence affordable housing and homeless issues. We focus on how Architects and other designers might be key players in helping address these important social issues.
As a HAC member, you may assist in planning our annual events, including our annual Design Charrette,
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We are always looking for passionate volunteers to join the committee, if interested please contact Mary Larkin.
Chair: Jennifer Hilla Schlag, AIA and Ben Ptacek, Assoc. AIA
AIA Staff Liaison: Mary Larkin
Meeting Date: Meet the first Tuesday of the month at noon in the AIA Minnesota office. Summer break for June & July - then back to the regular schedule.
2013 Search for Shelter
Friday, February 8 to
Sunday, February 10, 2013
University of Minnesota
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The Search for Shelter Design Charrette celebrated its 27th year helping local and regional affordable housing organizations envision beautiful, innovative design solutions to projects that previously existed only in written form. This program has allowed organizations to have a powerful visual tool to present to key players in order to get the project up and running, such as the community and funders.
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Committee members enjoyed volunteering on Saturday, May 11 to help the Hawthorne Neighborhood Council, Urban Homeworks, University of Minnesota's College of Design, Accenture, HandOn Twin Cities, and many members of the community, to build and develop designs for the Kwanzaa Community garden and storage/work shed at 21st Avenue and Dupont Street.
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Two AIA Minnesota committees - the Housing Advocacy Committee and the Committee on Design - were instrumental in working the McKnight Foundation to create the annual AIA Minnesota/McKnight Foundation Affordable Housing Design Award.
Cermak Rhoades Architects, representing the Higher Ground – Homeless Shelter & Permanent Housing Project, located at 165 Glenwood Avenue N. in Minneapolis, was selected as the 2012 AIA Minnesota/McKnight Foundation Affordable Housing Design Award Recipient. The Higher Ground affordable housing project was selected from 20 award submissions made by 13 Minnesota architectural firms. Click here for more information on the award.
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2013 Project Boards
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2012 Search for Shelter Charrette Project Boards
Team 1 - Asian Medis Access
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Team 3 - Homeward Bound
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Team 5 - Urban Ventures
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2011 Search for Shelter Charrette Project Boards
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Urban Homeworks (PDF) (12MB, 7 pages)
Alliance Housing, Inc. (18MB, 5 pages)
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--- Good episode. Truthfully, it felt a little anti-climatic. Yes, lots of shit goes down, but at the same time everything felt a little too well wrapped. Even the cliffhanger ending seems like a very obvious set-up for getting Merle into the prison (this was helped by the images shown for the next episode). It was still a well paced and well executed episode, and the development for Andrea, Michonne and the Governor was quite good. Maybe I'm just a little numb since I have to wait a month before I can see the next episode?... Whatever the case, 80/100. |
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Damn what a good episode. Hell, it's pretty much perfect. Episode 12 of Season 3 just might be the best episode of the entire series. The story is stripped to the barest bones as Rick, Michonne and Carl all head back to Rick and Carl's home town in hope of looking for some guns and ammo needed to fight the Governor. There are no cutaways to the prison and Merle's constant douchebaggery, Woodbury or the Governor, not even the ever-stupid Andrea. Just three characters looking for supplies at the end of the world. And it is perfect, especially what they find once they get back to Rick and Carl's hometown (I won't give anything away since I don't want to use spoiler tags). Great character development and drama, wonderful pacing, great action, some true tension, and even humour abound. Walking Dead has never been so good. 90/100.
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I'm still trying to decide on a title so for now I'll just call it "Valentine's Day"
Chapter Two
Madison was selling.
Sitting on top of her desk, arms extended, showing the bracelets off of her wrist to everyone who wanted to buy. Sales were doing great. She already had sixteen orders and 19 other people had boughten some of the bracelets that she had put on her wrists.
"I want the pink and gold one," Jenny said. "And the blue and black one." She held out four quarters. Madison gave her the bracelets and took the change. She stuffed it in her pocket right as the bell rang. That was when Thomas entered the room, casually flipping his hair.
"Hi Thomas!" she said. "Do you want to buy a bracelet for fifty cents?"
Thomas looked at her wrists. "Who would want to buy that?" he said.
Madison was hurt. He had already hust her feelings this morning. She had hoped that he would have bought one. But not because she liked him...
No, wait....it was because she liked him.
She scowled at him, and then slid into her seat and started playing with the shoelaces on her Vans.
It was then that a teacher entered the room. He looked at Madison and said, "Miss Madison, may I buy one of those bracelets in Arkansas colors?"
Madison looked down at her wrists and slid one off. The teacher handed her two quarters, and she handed him the bracelet. "Thank you," he said. "I understand that you're selling these all day."
She nodded.
"Then I'll buy another one later," he said.
Madison beamed and opened her computer. She looked at the screen and started chatting with Jenny online.
"Alright, class," the teacher said. "Open your Mesopotamia notes to section three, we're going to start with the monotheism of Israel...can anyone tell..."
His voice dragged on, and Madison continued to look at the screen.
But then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Thomas looking at her. He was smiling.
Matt was hiding.
In the janitor's closet, that is. He had run off after he saw Ada crying out of the corner of his eye as he had left homeroom that morning.
It must have been something about that card, he thought to himself. I wonder what it said...
And then he saw it through the crack in the door. There was a single, crumpled-up pink card in the middle of the hallway. He so desperately wanted to read it, but he didn't want to get caught outside his classroom.
So carefully and quietly, he reached his arm out as far as possible and touched the corner. He tried to pull it to him, and it took several times before he grabbed it.
He crept his hand back into the closet and turned on the lights. Then he shut the door.
He opened the card. It read:
Back off Matt. He's mine.
Matt couldn't believe it. He had just realized two things. One: Ada may like him. Two: Jess was jealous. Matt couldn't imagine Jess being this mean to anyone. Especially Ada. What was there to be mean about? She was so nice...
But so was Jess.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, though, he had this feeling that.....well....maybe Ada was better for him.
Wait! Hold up, Matt! You have a girlfriend, he thought. You can't like Ada.
"I can't like Matt," came a voice. It came from the other side of the wall. "He has a girlfriend." They were talking about him.
"You can still like someone with a boyfriend," another voice said. Matt was sure this was Madison Black's voice.
"I know," the other voice said. "But I think it would be, you know, mean to Jess."
"You hate Jess, though."
Their conversation stopped because they heard a crash.
That crash happened to be Matt crashing into a bucket of water, face first. He had just realized that it was Ada talking, and had tripped.
"What was that?" Madison said.
"I don't know," Ada said. "C'mon. Let's do our homework now."
"Okay," Madison said.
Matt sat up, face drenched, just in time to see the door open, and his angry social studies teacher staring down at him.
"Detention," he said.
Jenny was mixing.
She sat in her seat in the science lab, safety goggles over her glasses. She was measuring how much of the solution was in a graduated cylinder.
Science had always fascinated her. What didn't fascinate her was that James was in this class.
Sitting across from her.
Being her partner.
Well, he was occupied with talking to Thomas.
Jenny carefully studied the graduated cylinder for number eighteen. She wrote down the answer for cylinder eighteen: citric acid and water. That was the last problem.
"Done!" she said happily.
Thomas looked up. "Great," he said. "Now let's compare answers."
"What took you so long?" James mumbled. Jenny scowled and ignored him.
"Okay, what did you guys get for one?" Thomas asked the two of them.
"Four and fifty six hundredths," Jenny said. James mumbled the same thing.
"Same here. Okay...number two...." Thomas went on. The three got the same answers for the next twelve problems. And then they reached problem fourteen.
"5.98745 mL," Jenny said.
"No," James said, not mumbling this time. "It's 5.88745."
"No, I think my answer is right," Jenny said, rising from her seat slowly.
"Um, I think I have the right answer."
"Um, no, you don't."
"Yes, I do."
"Yours isn't correct!"
"Yours isn't! You're such a WART!"
"A wart?!"
"Yeah, a Wrong Answer Reaching Toad!"
"That's so dumb, James!"
"Yeah, like YOU!"
Jenny raised her eyebrows and smirked. "Is that another acronym?"
"No," James said. "But I can make in one! You Overrated Umbrella!"
"That's even stupider!"
"Kind of like your face!" And then James threw his hands in the air, knocking over seventeen bottles of mixtures and solutions over. They all shattered, and the liquid squirted all over Jenny's white polo.
The whole class gasped. Jenny's mouth was open in astonishment as she stared down at her ruined shirt.
"Oh my God," James said. "I am so sorry!"
Thomas looked at Jenny, and then at James. "That totally ruined your chances, man," he said.
Jenny was furious. She looked at James with a scowl, and the bell rang.
"Jenny dear," the teacher said. "Go to the front desk. They'll have another shirt for you." The teacher looked at James. "James, go with her so that you can get another shoe."
James and Jenny walked out of the room, avoiding eye contact with each other.
"I am so sorry, Jenny," James said.
"Guess what?" Jenny said, her voice full of fury. But then she realized how mean she was being. "Just forget it, okay?" Her tone lightened. "Pretend like it didn't happen."
"I'll still make it up to you, though," he said. "Look, I know we're partners tonight. How about I buy you a smoothie of your choice when the thing is over?"
Jenny looked at him, and for a second she thought she saw the old James, the one that she had met on the first day of school a while ago, before they had become enemies....
"Okay," she said. On the outside, she had a smile. But on the inside, she was confused.
Had James just asked her out?
Thomas was laughing.
About the James and Jenny situation, even a period later. His Bible teacher got on him about breaking out in a fit of laughter randomly in the middle of class.
When the bell rang for lunch, Thomas was the first out of the classroom and weaved his way through other people to get to his locker. He was stopped by Matt about halfway there.
"Did you hear?" he said.
"Yeah," Thomas said. "Real mess they got into, right? And to think, he liked her..."
Matt shook his head. "No, not that," he said. "Although, that was kind of funny..."
"You were saying..." Thomas said.
"Oh, right! The Greek Festival is tonight! I'm thinking of going to their restaurant..."
"I thought the Greek festival was in October..." Thomas said.
"They're having a second one. There's going to be souvlaki, gyro, tsitsiki sauce..."
"Where are you learning these words?"
"Madison. She loves Greek stuff."
"What's tsitsiki sauce?"
"Cucumber sauce," Matt explained.
Thomas gagged.
"But I really think you should go," Matt said. "I know for a fact that Jack's going, and..."
"I've got it!" Thomas suddenly blurted out. "I'll ask Madison to go with me!"
"Um," Matt said, looking like he didn't know what to say. "Good luck with that."
"Thanks!" Thomas said, and ran to his locker. He stuffed his computer case in it and ran down the hallway and through the doors.
He was so excited. Now he had an excuse to ask her out....now that he knew that she liked Greek stuff....
And it would be a DATE!
He was so excited that he tripped over one of the short brick walls and landed face-first in the grass. He was feeling dazed.
He didn't even notice that Madison walked by and smiled at him.
James was eating.
Well, eating and writing at the same time. He was in the cafeteria, finishing up a Language Arts assignment that he had forgotten to do last night because he was on Buzz until 11 AM.
Suddenly, someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around.
It was Ada.
"Hey," she said.
"What do you want?" James said. "He personally thought that Ada was kind of annoying.
"I'm giving out valentines," she said, and the took a blue one out of her pocket. "for other people. They give them to me and I give them to the person that they're for.
"Do you know who this one's from?" James asked, twirling the blue valentine in his fingers.
Ada shook her head. "No idea," she said.
"Oh," James said. "Thanks."
"You're welcome," she said, and then skipped off down the table aisle.
James looked at the card, and then opened it. Inside, there was a drawing of bottles of chemicals, and words in messy handwriting:
James almost choked on his pizza. Jenny had accepted his 10,000 apologies!
And he stared at the words. What did they mean?
Was there a possibility that Jenny liked him back?
Ada was skipping.
Around the playground, delivering valentines. She had just finished delivering a group from Abbie, the most popular girl at school, to a couple of boys playing ultimate frisbee. They had been extremely happy.
And so was Ada. She was spreading happiness around the school. She had almost forgotten about Matt...
And then he walked up to her. "Hey, Ada!" he said, and waved.
Ada shyly waved back. "Hi," she said.
He smiled. "Can you deliver this valentine for me?" He handed her a beautifully created card with gorgeous hand-drawn flowers on every inch. In the middle was "Happy Valentine's Day!"
"Make sure you deliver it last," he said. "I don't want it to get in the way of your other deliveries."
"Okay," she said. "I will."
"And don't look at the name yet."
"I won't."
He smiled. "Good. See you around," he said. And then he took off toward the pavilion, where she could see Thomas and James.
He's so cute, Ada thought.
Then she continued with her deliveries. She had about twenty more before she delivered Matt's. She wanted to hurry so that she could look at who Matt's pretty valentine was for.
Luckily, Madison had taught her to run very fast, and she was able to deliver all of the valentines except for Matt's before the bell rang.
And as she walked back to the junior high building, she looked on the inside of Matt's valentine to see who it was for. On the inside were a few words.
U R Beautiful.
She gasped. It was not because of those words, but because at the top of the page, clear as day, were the best words that Ada had ever seen, and she jumped for joy.
To Ada
Chapter Three
Madison was walking.
"Hey, are you going to the Greek festival tonight?" came a voice behind her.
She turned around. It was Matt.
"I don't know," she said. "Maybe."
"Do you think it sounds interesting, though?" he asked.
"Yeah," she said. "But I don't have enough money to buy a ticket."
"Yeah. The food is my favorite part."
"By the way, thanks for teaching me those Greek food words."
"You're welcome. Why did you want to know them, anyway?"
"Greece unit in Social Studies."
Madison raised her eyebrows. "That's not until the next six weeks," she said. She knew he was lying. "And we're studying ancient Greece."
Matt ran off without saying a word.
"Boys," Madison muttered. Then she followed Matt. She knew he was up to something now.
Thank goodness this period was a free period. She could not miss a class.
She followed him around the corner and out across the quad (a large area of bricks in between the junior high and high school buildings), until he walked up to a bush. Madison hid behind a nearby tree, watching.
And out from the bush came Thomas.
She listened to their conversation.
"She says she wants to go," Matt said. "but she doesn't have enough for a ticket."
"They're seven bucks," Thomas said. "What girl doesn't have seven bucks?"
"She doesn't," Matt said. "So you'd have to buy her ticket. It'd be a nice thing."
"Do you honestly think that I have an extra seven dollars on me?"
"Then how in the world would I buy her ticket?"
"I'll loan you some...as long as you pay it back."
"Thanks, man."
She saw Matt slip Thomas some cash.
"Now go ask her out."
Madison gasped and ran off from behind the tree, hoping that neither of them saw her.
She was smiling and laughing now. The guy that she liked liked her back! She jumped up and down and then pulled out her iPhone and texted Jenny.
Thomas is gonna ask me out!!!
Jenny's response: Really?
How do u no
overheard him tlkng
kool but u said u didnt like NE1
i may have lied. g2g
But I have to pretend like I didn't overhear him when he asks me, Madison thought to herself.
So instead of dancing to her locker, which she would normally do in a situation like this, she walked sophisticatedly.
But inside her head, there was a celebration.
Matt was planning.
He knew that Jess was mean, but he had still promised to take her on a date tonight. Maybe he would break up with her there. Although...it would be kind of mean to break up with someone on Valentine's Day.
Nah, Ada was worth it.
He smiled as he thought of Ada opening the card and seeing the message that he had written....she was rather pretty.....
Matt, get ahold of yourself! You're planning a date with another girl! Stop liking Ada! he thought to himself.
Here was his plan so far (he had written down):
Step One: Show up at her door with flowers (lilies)
Step Two: Take her to her favorite restaurant (Mellow Mushroom)
Step Three: Take her to the fireworks display at Medlock Park.
Step Four: First Kiss (hopefully)
He was still a little nervous about step four, though, because he knew that it would make him give up completely on liking Ada.
Was it worth it?
No, it would hurt Ada too much. He knew that she liked him now, and if he were to stop liking her (she knew that he sort of liked her via the card), she would burst into tears and ruin her happy streak.
That would be awful. Because a day without Ada is like a day without happiness.
And as soon as he thought that, he knew that Ada was who he really liked.
Jenny was tying.
Her shoelaces, actually. They had come undone.
She was on her way to Media Literacy, her second to last class of the day, with Ada. She and Ada were somewhat friends, they always talked, but they weren't best friends like Jenny and Madison.
"So James kind of asked you out?" Ada said.
"Yeah, I guess," Jenny replied. "He offered to buy me something after church at McDonald's."
"But wasn't that just to make up for spilling those chemicals on you?" Ada asked. She giggled.
Jenny giggled. "I guess," she said.
"Wait," Ada said, and stopped where she was. "You sounded dissapointed when I said it wasn't a date. Hold on."
Jenny swallowed hard. Did Ada figure out her secret.
"Oh my Gosh," Ada said, and a smile came across her face. "You like him!"
Crud, Jenny said inside her head.
"So what if I do?" Jenny said, speeding up her pace a little. They were going to be late now.
"Nothing," Ada said. "I just think it's surprising."
"Well you like someone," Jenny said.
Ada's smile faded. "How do you know that?" she asked.
"I observe people carefully," Jenny said, which was true. She had followed Ada's dreamy gaze towards Matt earlier that morning.
"Oh," Ada said.
Jenny felt bad. She had taken the brightness out of Ada. She put a reassuring hand on Ada's shoulder. "Don't worry," Jenny said. "Your secret's safe with me."
Ada smiled. "Thanks, Jenny. I knew I could rely on you."
Thomas was eager.
Now was his chance to ask out Madison. He spotted her in the hallway.
"Wait!" Thomas called, running down the hallway. "Madison!"
Madison turned around, almost smacking her bag into the wall. "Yes?"
"Can—um—I buy a bracelet?" Thomas said nervously, twisting his shirt collar.
"You wa
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As the new year approaches, it's time to assemble the documents and details necessary to make obligatory reports of hunting and certain fishing activities.
Both Puget Sound personal-use crabbers and most hunters will have to submit first, but at the end of January waterfowlers also will have to tell the piper what they did or did not bag in the fall months.
In these matters for hunters there's a carrot, but crabbers will want to avoid the stick.
Some opportunity remains for razor clammers and crabbers.
The final coastal beach razor clam dig of 2012 has been green-lighted by state health officials and shellfish managers have unveiled 2013's winter razor openings list.
Local crabbers have a straight through (every day) option from now to the end of the year to close out the 2012 fall winter season with all gear due to be pulled no later than sundown New Year's Eve.
At least one new regulation governing Columbia River personal-use anglers takes effect New Year's Day.
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Busting The Quinoa Myth
Originally published on Wed July 17, 2013 3:05 pm
If you're part of the health-conscious foodie crowd, there's a good chance you eat quinoa.
Five years ago, a lot of people couldn't pronounce it and had never heard of it. But a boom in the popularity of this so-called Andean "super-grain" is pushing demand sky-high.
As Americans eat more of it, there are suggestions that people who live closest to quinoa — the indigenous people of the Andes — are being deprived of the food because the price has gone so high.
But NPR food and health correspondent Allison Aubrey says that's actually a myth.
- Allison Aubrey, food and health correspondent for NPR. She tweets @adaubrey
If you are part of the health-conscious foodie crowd, there's a good chance you eat quinoa, or quinoa as I used to pronounce it. Five years ago, a lot of people couldn't pronounce it either. They'd never heard of it. But a boom in the use of this so-called Andean super-grain is pushing demands sky-high. And as Americans eat more quinoa, there are suggestions that people who live closest to it in South America are eating less of it because it's too expensive. Is that true? Should we stop eating quinoa so those who grow it can eat it?
NPR's food and health correspondent Allison Aubrey joins us to answer that question. But first, Allison, for those who are not familiar with it, I've got some salads right in front of me. So here's some quinoa salad. It's this sort of nutty grain but also some sliced veggies. So you carry on while I taste this.
YOUNG: What is so important about quinoa?
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Well, quinoa has a lot going for it. It's thought of as a grain, and it cooks like a grain, very similar to rice. But it's really more of a seed. It's small. It packs a lot of punch when it comes to good nutrition. So it has decent amounts of fiber and a lot of phytonutrients, and that's just sort of fancy term meaning beneficial plant compound. And it's also fairly high in protein.
And here's the big thing. You'll hear it referred to as being a complete protein. And this means it's got all of the essential amino acids that the body needs. So it makes it a good replacement for meat, and this is very appealing to anyone who's trying to eat less meat either for environmental or ethical or health reasons.
YOUNG: You've explained this further that, for instance, when you have rice and beans, the beans are often - because the rice in itself isn't enough protein, but with quinoa you get more.
AUBREY: That's right. When you hear that quinoa is a complete protein, what that means it's got this full complement of the essential amino acids that the body can't make but needs. So often when we eat rice, we'll have rice with beans because it's the combination of those two things that make the complete protein, while quinoa does that all on its own. That's why it's got some good appeal here.
YOUNG: Yeah. Well, OK, so what is true about the fact that more and more people are eating quinoa? You can get it in cereals too, and that that demand has pushed up prices and that maybe quinoa farmers in South America can't afford it.
AUBREY: Well, it's kind of a complicated story. Quinoa is typically grown by small farmers up in the highlands in countries including Bolivia and Peru. And what's happened over the last five to 10 years is that as demand has escalated, these farmers have started to grow a lot more of the crop, and they're also selling it for higher prices. There are estimates that between 2006 and 2013, quinoa prices tripled. And so this means that farmers, by and large, are making more money. Their incomes are going up, which is a good thing.
But over the last year, there have also been news reports suggesting that there's a downside here. That basically all of the global demand for quinoa, largely being driven by us, is depriving local people in South America of an important nutrient-dense food.
YOUNG: Well, is that true?
AUBREY: Well, it's complicated. I mean food prices in general have gone up around the world over the last several years, and that includes prices in places like Bolivia. The AP has reported that quinoa costs about three times as much as white rice in markets in La Paz. That's Bolivia's big city. So, yes, of course, this is going to put quinoa out of reach for many of the poor people in the city. But out in the rural areas of Bolivia, the picture is a little bit different, especially for quinoa farmers.
I spoke to a distributor of quinoa, a man named Edouard Rollet, who runs a company called Alter Eco Foods. They buy quinoa from small farmer cooperatives in Bolivia and sell it here. And he told me that when he visits these farms up in the highlands, the farmers that he's buying from are still setting aside about 10 percent of their crop. Here's what he told me when I talked to him on the phone that they're basically stacking it in bags in their living rooms or in their homes so that they can eat it - so that they can eat it themselves throughout the year.
EDOUARD ROLLET: So the farmers who work with the other farmers who have been eating quinoa traditionally have been eating quinoa. And on top of that, because they get much more revenue, then they were able to now afford tomatoes and salads and veggies and food that they weren't able to afford before.
AUBREY: So he's basically making the case here that many of the people who have grown and relied on this food for thousands of years are still eating plenty of it.
YOUNG: And meanwhile, you tell us other countries are starting to produce quinoa. So that will do what? I mean, if there's more flooding the market, maybe the price will go down.
AUBREY: That's the thought. I mean, supply and demand are kind of out of whack now because, you know, demand has risen much faster than supply. So in addition to increased production in Bolivia, Peru is also planting and producing more quinoa. Ecuador is producing quinoa. And there's also production outside of South America. Farmers from Canada to Australia are planting quinoa. And here in the U.S., as we have reported on our blog, The Salt, there is a small amount of production in Colorado.
YOUNG: Why Colorado?
AUBREY: Well, it's really the Rocky Mountains that might be attracting the people growing it there. It's another area where it's high elevation, where you tend to get the cooler nights and the warmer days, and that seems to be the conditions that quinoa thrives best. But there are people who are convinced it will grow well here and grow well in lots of places. And it's fair to say that there's a lot of experimentation, a lot of interest in breeding this crop and a lot of interest in expanding production.
YOUNG: Allison Aubrey, NPR's food and health correspondent, contributed to The Salt blog. We link you at hereandnow.org. Allison, always great to talk to you. Thank you.
AUBREY: Thank you, Robin.
And, Robin, I'm guessing that you are one of the few people who loves some good healthy quinoa, and then goes and downs a bottle of Coca-Cola.
YOUNG: OK. And your question is what?
YOUNG: You know, it is awful. But I'm one-a-day, I hide it from children, and I am cutting back.
HOBSON: I don't know about one-a-day but maybe.
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Portfolio update for tapestry artsist, Louise OppenheimerWeb Design2013
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Authors » Matt Price
Matt Price
Matt Price was a journalist for twenty years, working in newspapers and television. From the late 1990s he worked for The Australian, as both a political and sports writer. In 2002, he won the inaugural Paul Lyneham Award for excellence in Canberra Press Gallery Reporting. He died suddenly in 2007.
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Whisky Charlie Foxtrot Reading
Annabel Smith's Whisky Charlie Foxtrot was shortlisted for the 2013 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The winner, Fish-Hair Woman was announced on Friday night. Here's a reading Annabel prepared for her presentation at the Wheeler Centre award ceremony.


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Students from elementary schools learned about sustainability and environmentally friendly practices, as well as about what the EH division does in Salt Lake County.
Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams and hundreds of elementary students engaged in hands-on activities to learn how the environment affects our health.
Mayor McAdams appeared on ABC4 News to explain how the county is being proactive and practicing "green" policies.