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Community Wish List 2010
Lend a hand to these central Illinois organizations this holiday season.
Animal Protective League (APL)
1001 Taintor Road
(217) 544-7387
The Animal Protective League (APL) is a private, not-for-profit animal welfare organization, funded by donations. It operates an animal shelter, a low-cost spay/neuter clinic and maintains numerous programs that benefit members of the community. APL services individuals and other animal welfare groups and animal control facilities within a 90-mile radius of Springfield.
Wish list:
- Monetary donations to spay/neuter and medical
- Canned cat food, baby food—meats only
- Laundry detergent
- Spray bottles
- Small food dishes
- All sizes of litter pans
- Q-tips
- Sharpies, pens, Index cards (3x5), manilla folders, White Out
- copy paper, letter or legal size
- Staples and staplers
- Paper towels
- Small dog collars
- Bleach
- Leashes
- Wash rags
Catholic Charities
120 South 11th Street
Springfield, IL 62703
Serving the community since 1925, Catholic Charities provides foster care, intact family service programs and adoption services while also operating numerous other community service programs. Additional programs include the St. John's Breadline, Holy Family Food Pantry, Crisis Advocacy, St. Clare's Health Clinic and MedAssist Program.
Wish list:
- Large 12x12 kid friendly carpet for our visiting room utilized by the foster care program
- Upright Freezer for the Holy Family Food Pantry
- 4 - 6' or 8' folding tables for the Holy Family Food Pantry
- Toys and food donations for the Christmas Holiday program
- Industrial toaster for the Breadline
- Microwave (Breadline)
- Vacuum Cleaner (bag less) Breadline
- Coffee for the Breadline
- #10 cans (vegetables and fruit) for the Breadline
- Industrial can opener (Breadline)
- Scanner for St. Clare's Health Clinic
- Adult and Children's tooth brushes - St. Clare's Health Clinic
- Floss – St. Clare's Health Clinic
- Toothpaste – sample size – St. Clare's Health Clinic
- Christmas gifts for our foster kids Christmas Party
- Bunn Commercial 12 cup Coffee Brewer – Pour Over
- 3 - Bunn 64 oz Easy Pour Decanter – Orange Handle
- Carpet cleaner
Central Illinois Community Blood Center (CICBC)
1134 S. Seventh St, (217) 753-1530
Central Illinois Community Blood Center (CICBC) is the provider of life-saving blood for 12 hospitals throughout central Illinois. A division of Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center (MVRBC), CICBC and MVRBC collect 165,000 units of blood annually and serve a total of 75 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Wish list:
- We need more healthy individuals commit to donating blood regularly.
- Facts about donating blood:
- It takes approximately one hour.
- Most donors can contribute every two months – an annual commitment is for 6 hours a year.
- Must be 17 years of age (or 16 years old with parental permission)
- Appointments to donate can be made by phone or online.
- Corporate blood drives are welcome; blood mobile unit at your facility.
Grace Lutheran Food Pantry
714 E. Capitol Ave
The Holiday food Basket Project is a ministry of Grace Lutheran Church. Three times a year we provide food baskets to local schools to help families who tend to "fall through the cracks." In addition, families from the Lutheran Children and Family Services Foster program receive Food Baskets at Christmas. While each basket provides the ingredients for the holiday dinner, extra items are included to assist school age children who will not receive breakfast or lunch during the school break.
Staffed only with volunteers, this ministry served 613 Adults and 785 children in 2009. Food or cash donations are welcome. Drop off items at 714 E. Capitol Ave between 8:30-4:30.
Wish list:
- Ham
- Instant Potatoes
- Canned Sweet Potatoes
- Gravy Mix – Jar
- Stuffing
- Canned Vegetables
- Jello
- Cake Mix
- Canned Frosting
- Macaroni & Cheese
- Peanut Butter
- Jelly
- Saltine Crackers
- Pork and Beans
- Chili – Canned
- Canned Cranberry Sauce
Extras for Holiday School Breaks (Items children can prepare by themselves)
- Cereal
- Granola Bars
- Spaghettios
- Fruit Cups
- Instant Macaroni & Cheese
Haitian Development Fund
4043 Guilford Drive, Springfield, IL 62711-8040
Founded in 2002, the Haitian Development Fund operates a medical clinic and elementary school in inner city Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Its medical clinic treats 14,000 patients each year and its school educates 45 co-ed students.
Wish list:
- Funds to cover shipping costs
- Unopened over-the-counter drugs
- New or used walking canes
- People to sponsor a student @ $25/month x 12 months
- Postage stamps
- New/used (in good working order) laptop computer
Helping Hands Of Springfield
200 S. 11th Street Springfield, IL
Helping Hands of Springfield is a non-profit organization whose mission is ". . . to shelter the homeless, provide support, promote independence and work with others in the prevention of homelessness in the community." Helping Hands provides its clients with the basic necessities as well as rehabilitative programs to help those who are able to move out of poverty and homelessness to lives of independence, self-respect and hope.
Wish list:
- Toilet paper
- Paper towels
- Paper plates
- Kleenex
- Styrofoam cups
- Napkins
- Coffee
- Creamer
- Sugar
- Disposable utensils
- Deodorant (Individual use size or spray type)
- Shampoo
- Shaving Cream
- Razors
- Feminine Hygiene Products
- Hand Lotion
- Toothpaste
- Toothbrushes
Inner City Mission
720 N. 7th Street - 217-525-3940
Inner City Mission was established in 1984 to serve homeless women, children, and families in the capital area. The mission provides a residential housing program that allows individuals to move from a place of chaos to joy and peace. Currently serving 35 homeless people, the mission is forced to turn away people in need daily due to lack of space. ICM is exploring options to remodel/update the facility.
Wish list:
- New roof for shelter facility
- New roof for administrative facility
- One-time or ongoing financial support
- Gift Cards to buy supplies
- Canned goods
Little Angels Child Care Center
101 East Allen, Springfield Il 62704
Little Angels Child Care Center is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide quality care to children ages preschool to five years old and ensure all children are prepared for Kindergarten. Little Angels has been in operation since 1995 serving low-income families with teen parents, working parents or parents pursuing higher education and training.
Wish list:
- Pampers
- Wipes
- Similac baby formula
- Hats
- Gloves
- Tennis shoes
- Sweat shirts
- Sweat pants
- Coats
MERCY Communities Child Care Center
Donation Locations:
M.E.R.C.Y. House 1111 So. 19th Street, Springfield IL 62703 - 744-1126
M.E.R.C.Y. Communities Furniture Store, 1650 Wabash 62704 - 787-7488
Since 1999 M.E.R.C.Y. Communities has been providing housing and supportive services to foster the independence of homeless and at-risk families with dependent children.
Wish list:
- Mentors to guide, support and encourage our families
- Church, business or civic groups to "Adopt an Apartment" , i.e. to furnish a designated apartment each time a new family moves into it
- Groups to provide snacks and supplies for family holiday parties & family dinners
- Tutors – computer literacy, academic subjects, GED prep
- Respite childcare providers Monday or Thursday evening 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
- Volunteers to transport participants for special events, to doctor appointments, etc.
- Volunteers to assist with fundraisers or special events
- Church, business or civic groups to assist with seasonal yard and building work
- Used cars for program participants
- Used furniture and household goods
- Volunteers to help with sales, furniture staging, special projects at MERCY Communities Furniture Store
- Help stocking our "incentive store" with product not available for purchase with food stamps, to include:
Household/ Cleaning Supplies /Paper Products/Personnel Hygiene
- Laundry Supplies: *Detergent, Fabric Softener, Bleach
- Cleaning Supplies: Swiffer's, Brooms/Dustpans, Dishwashing Soap, 409, Lysol, Oven Cleaner
- Paper Products: Toilet Paper/Kleenex/Paper Towels
- Kitchen Linens: Dish towels, Washcloths, Potholders
- Kitchen Utensils: silverware, dishes,*pots/pans/*drinking glasses
- Small Appliances: microwaves, coffee pots, toaster, vacuums
- Trash cans/Tall kitchen trash bags
- Bath Linens: Towel Sets, Shower Curtains, Rugs, Bowl Brushes
- Bed Linens: Mattress Pads, *New Pillows, Comforter, Sheets
- Personal Hygiene: Shampoo, Conditioner Deodorant, Combs/Hairbrushes, Hand & Bath Soap & •Lotion, Toothpaste/Toothbrushes
Baby/Children Supplies"
- Crib & Toddler beds and linens
- Disposable Diapers & Pull-ups (all sizes)
- Diaper Rash Ointments/Diaper Wipes
- Baby wash, shampoo, lotion
- Baby wash cloths/towels
- Crib sheets/mattress pads/ blankets
- Sippy cups
- High Chairs, Swings, Mobiles, Stimulating activity equipment
- Children's Activity Items: crayons, washable paints, markers, craft idea books, board games, DVD's, toys appropriate for infancy through age 18
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Mini O'Beirne Crisis Nursery
1011 N. 7th St., 525-6800
Donate accepted M-F 8am-4pm
Started in 1989 with a mission to prevent child abuse and neglect, the Mini O'Beirne Crisis Nursery provides free emergency, temporary care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for children from birth through age 6, who may be at risk of abuse or neglect or whose parents are experiencing some type of crisis. In addition to crises care, the nursery offers continuing support to families, in-home visits, crisis counseling, parenting classes, and referrals to other agencies.
Wish list:
- Size 4 and 5 Diapers
- Canned Fruit/Fruit Cups
- Canned Vegetables
- Copy Paper
- Tempera Paint
- Kitchen Trash Bags
- Liquid Dishwasher Detergent
- Laundry Detergent
- Toilet Paper
- Light Bulbs
- DVD Player
- VCR Player
- Liquid Lysol
- Juicy Juice
- Gift Cards to Supply Stores
- Volunteers!
Phoenix Center
109 E. Lawrence Avenue, Springfield IL
The Phoenix Center has been a part of the Springfield community since 2001. Initially the Center was formed as a meeting place for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning) youth and young adults. Over the years the programming has expanded to include free HIV testing, prevention education, and outreach – supportive transitional housing for homeless men and women who are HIV , individual and group counseling for those who are HIV , and the Center is Central Illinois' LGBTQ community center, where the youth and young adult groups are still meeting as well as other groups, classes, and events.
Wish list:
- HIV Housing Clients
- Youth Group
- Personal hygiene products for men and women
- Board games / video games
- Laundry soap
- Snacks
- Bath & kitchen towels
- Art supplies
- Paper towels & toilet paper
- Leaders for art projects
- Disposable razors
- Videos & books for residents
- Basic, inexpensive dvd players for residents
- Non perishable food items
- Copier paper
- Silverware (forks, knives, spoons)
- Stamps
- Mini fridges (for medication)
- Yard waste bags & stickers
- Toys (3-5 year olds)
- Gloves & hats
- Volunteers to help with painting client rooms & yard work
Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault
3 W. Old State Capitol Plaza, Suite 206, Springfield, IL 62701
Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault was founded in 1975. They are funded through state and federal funding, United Way, and grants. Their mission is three fold: to support and advocate for men, women, children and families who are affected by rape and child sexual assault; to offer compassion and ensure justice for victims; and to reduce the prevalence of sexual assault in our communities. The Vision of PCASA is to create, through leadership and action, a community that is free of sexual violence.
Wish list:
- Journals
- Angels or inspirational stones/trinket items that clients can hold in their hand while testifying in court
- Personal care services- massage, haircut, manicures, yoga, etc
- Gift Cards- coffee shop, restaurants, book stores, gas, Build A Bear, etc.
- Clothing for Survivors to wear home from the E.R: *Specifically— New non-logo adult and youth shirts, sweatshirts, sweat pants, and shorts in neutral colors (grey, black, tan, white) in all sizes. New flip flops (sandals) in all sizes. New women's, girls, and boys underwear in neutral colors (grey, black, tan, white) in all sizes.
- In-Kind Printing- for newsletters, special events and community trainings.
- Sponsors for 2011 Walk a Mile In Her Shoes event scheduled for April 16, 2011.
- Financial support for the "Hug Away The Hurt" children's project in partnership with Build-A-Bear.
- Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Committee Members- This committee plans and implements the organization's annual Walk a Mile In Her Shoes fundraising and awareness event in April.
- Raffle Items- gift certificates, electronic items, gift baskets, etc.
- Bus Tokens/Passes and Taxi Vouchers
- Crisis Accommodations- Hotel gift certificates and/or vouchers to provide a short term safe place for victims of sexual assault.
Project Returns
2600 S. 5th St. Springfield, Illinois 62702
Donate 9am-1pm M-F
Project Return's mission is to help incarcerated mothers reintegrate into the Springfield community by matching each returning mother with a team of trained, supportive and supported volunteers for one year. We also educate the public about the barriers these women face as they seek to make a successful re-entry into the community. We help the mother with both immediate challenges (complying with the conditions of parole, reconnecting with family and resuming parental responsibilities, etc.) and more long-term problems (finding permanent housing, finding employment and child care, working on recovery from addictions, etc.).
Project Return was initiated in 2003 by Luther Memorial Lutheran Church with support from three other Springfield-area Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) congregations. Generous funding assistance has come from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, Wheat Ridge Ministries, Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Women of the ELCA, Sangamon County Community Foundation, and many Springfield church congregations, to name a few of our supporters. Project Return was incorporated in 2005 and matched its first partnership team with a retuning mother in 2006. She graduated in 2007.
Volunteers and those with questions can call 788.8002 for information.
Wish list:
- Volunteers
- Towels and washcloths
- Laundry detergent
- Dishwashing liquid
- Paper Towels
- Toilet paper
- Household cleaning supplies
- Toiletries (not travel size)
Rutledge Youth Foundation
534 West Miller Street
931 North Rutledge Street
(217) 525-7757
Rutledge Youth Foundation was founded in 1952 as a Boy's Farm. Their mission is to assist abused and neglected youth in becoming productive, independent members of society. We serve approximately 250 abused/neglected youth and their families annually. Programs include foster care, group home, independent living, home based wraparound, stabilization, and achieving academic success services.
Wish list:
- Charcoal Grill
- Grill tools
- Microwave
- Electric griddle
- Pots/Skillets/Pans/Roasters
- Silverware
- Kitchen towels/pot holders
- Kitchenware
- Board games
- Video game system and games
- DVD player
- DVDs
- Bicycles
- Sheets and bedding
- Personal hygiene supplies
Salvation Army
530 N. 6th St.
Springfield, Illinois 62702
The Salvation Army started in Springfield in 1886 and will have served Sangamon County for 125 years next year. We have a homeless shelter, food pantry, free health clinic, youth groups, senior fellowship, social workers on staff and more. We provide housing, meals, clothes, jobs and counseling. We provide this to these men at no cost. We assist people with a 'hand up' instead of a hand out.
Wish list:
- Canned goods for our food pantry
- Hand soap, shampoo, deodorant toothbrushes, toothpaste, combs, brushes for our shelter residents
- Coats of all sizes
- Volunteers to provide a nightly mean for our shelter residents (i.e.: groups that could feed 50 people)
- Job opportunities for our shelter residents
- Office supplies
- Volunteers to ring bells to help us raise needed funds for daily operation
- Cash donations
- Snow blower
- Pick-up truck
Sojourn Shelter & Services
1800 Westchester Boulevard
217-726-5200 (24-hour hotline)
217-726-5100 (office)
Sojourn Shelter and Services, Inc. was founded in 1975 to provide a safe place to help victims of domestic violence. Sojourn currently provides 24-hour emergency shelter and hotline services, court advocacy, prevention and education, volunteer opportunities and operates Sojourn Westside Fashions. Each year Sojourn assists approximately 1600 victims of domestic violence and their children.
Wish list:
- pillows, blankets, twin sheet sets
- wash rags, towels
- laundry supplies, paper products, cleaning supplies
- diapers, wipes, infant/children's medicine,
- cold medicine, cough drops, pain relievers, thermometers,
- bus tokens, pre-paid phone cards
- hats/gloves, umbrellas,
- alarm clocks
- food items
- cash donations
- donations of gently used clothing to the Sojourn Westside Fashions
Special Olympics
413 E. Adams Springfield, IL 62705
Special Olympics Illinois Area 17 provides training and competition events for intellectually disabled athletes in Sangamon, Menard, Morgan and Macoupin counties. Their oath is "Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." Volunteers are needed to help make this happen.
Wish list:
We have six large-scale athletic events and two major fundraisers in 2011 and there are 1,001 jobs that need to be done at all of them. You don't need to know anything about sports, but you DO need a cheerful and encouraging attitude.
United Cerebral Palsy Land of Lincoln
101 N. 16th St.
UCP was founded in 1957and affiliated with United Cerebral Palsy, a national organization in 1968. The mission of UCP is to provide innovative strategies to connect people with disabilities to their communities. Of those currently served, 40% have cerebral palsy and 60% have other developmental disabilities.
Wish list:
- Puzzles with no more than 25 pieces
- Board games
- Any kind of toy with lights or sound
- Computer software
- Batteries of all sizes
- Any toy out of the Toys R Us Differently-Abled Catalog:


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Today, I attended a hearing on Capitol Hill hosted by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that focused on viable strategies on Afghanistan. It was entitled: Perspectives on Reconcilation Options in Afghanistan.
Panelists included former Ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, Zainab Salbi of Women for Women International, and Dr. David Kilcullen of the Center for a New American Security. All were very knowledgeable and experienced, offering their unique perspectives on what should be done to create a stable Afghanistan.
The source of strife in Afghanistan was discussed among the panelists. All generally agreed that the Taliban is not the only source of instability. Along with the Taliban, government corruption and a lack of economic development are factors that contribute to the creation of a breeding ground for insurgency. Due to such a cycle of instability, Dr. Kilcullen emphasized that efforts in Afghanistan should not only focus on counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism, but also on stability efforts.
Because of the many factors contributing to instability, the panelists generally agreed that a solution to conflict in Afghanistan cannot be merely military in nature. A political solution is needed, one that focuses on empowering civilians and reforming the government.
Security of civilians must be ensured, and the only way to do so is to have a more capable and less corrupt government. Unless a credible and legitimate government that is capable of ensuring law and order is established in Afghanistan, the Taliban will keep resurfacing.
Basic rights and access to economic resources are also crucial to achieving stability, as Zainab Salbi stressed. She argued that if Afghans, especially women, have access to jobs and education, they would not pay heed to the Taliban. In addition, she argued that Afghans also desire an end to human rights abuses, as well as access to justice. The reason the Taliban has leverage is because it offers the people financial support and protection, in exchange for patronage. When another source of support emerges, the people will no longer have to rely on the Taliban.
However, such stability efforts are long-term goals, and may take 12-15 years. As the U.S. is seeking to withdraw troops in July of 2011, a more immediate solution is desired. Amb. Crocker discussed the idea of negotiating, from a position of strength, with all interested parties. He commented on the international dimension of the instability in Afghanistan and the need to engage other countries that have an interest in the stability of Afghanistan, such as Pakistan. He believes the partnership with Pakistan needs to continue for the sake of security efforts.
And with Afghanistan becoming more nebulous and the insurgency continuing, members of the committee voiced their concerns about U.S. involvement in the issue. A worried Chairman Senator Kerry asked the panel why Afghans, if they do not like the Taliban, could not fight the Taliban themselves. The bottom-line answer from the panelists was that in order to quell the Taliban, Afghans need support to become powerful enough to counter the Taliban. While the Afghans may not like the Taliban, they prefer anyone who can offer them stability.


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Ingrid Fliter dazzles with Chopin
Hear a clip from her disc of the complete waltzes here
Complete Waltzes
Ingrid Fliter (piano)
EMI 698 3512 69:54 mins
'Her playing magically combines a personalized poetic impulse with an exhilaratingly choreographed virtuosity' Tim Parry
Audio clip: Chopin: Waltz No. 1 in A flat, Op. 34
A full review plus star ratings is published in our Christmas 2009 issue
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3 Things to Expect on Dancing with the Stars This Season
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Are you ready for Season 22?! Dancing with the Starsreturns Monday and in breathless anticipation, TVGuide.com caught up with producer Rob Wade on what to expect this go-round the parquet. Some things stay the same You know the saying, "If it ain't b… Read more


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It seems paradoxical to say that climate change is uncertain but not in doubt. At this point, we can be highly confident that greenhouse gases are disrupting the climate system and that the disruption will be very serious unless we act. But there's considerable uncertainty about the magnitude of climate change and its local impacts. A second paradox is that the uncertainty is far from comforting — instead, it just aggravates our problems.
In terms of the uncertainty, recent research suggests that local impacts are even harder to model than we thought. Real Climate reports on a new study showing that "regional temperatures and precipitation for the next 50 years may be less predictable due to the chaotic nature of the large-scale atmospheric flow." The findings suggest that that "while some regions could experience almost zero warming over 50 years, this will be compensated by substantially stronger in other regions (because they also find that the global mean temperatures to be largely insensitive to the different model initial conditions)." In other words, impacts may be unpredictably spotty and locally severe.
The uncertainty about local impacts makes adaptation planning much more difficult than it would be if regional forecasts were more reliable. For example, one of the graphs shows that over the next half century Seattle could get 2º F warmer on average or 7º warmer. (Forecasted global change in this model was about 4.5º F).over the same period.) Because of the uncertainty, adaptation will probably be less successful — an additional reason to invest in mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gases in the first place. It also means that our adaptation strategies will need to be more nimble so they can be readjusted as we get additional information about how local conditions develop. And the new findings are a reminder that we need to worry about both average impacts and the extreme impacts in some times and places.
In short, we can't expect a future world in which we have (say) 5º F warming. Instead, we may well end up with a world that also has 0º in some places, 2º in others, 7º elsewhere, and 10º still elsewhere — but without being sure in advance where those places will be. That's an even bigger problem than evenly distributed 5º F change.
The bottom line: uncertainty compounds our problems rather than reducing them.


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Xenia Deli says she's not dating Justin Bieber, he encouraged her to connect with God!
She's the lucky girl who starred as Justin Bieber's lover in his music video, What Do You Mean?
But Xenia Deli is insisting that not only are they just friends, but that Justin encouraged her to connect with her faith.
In an interview with People magazine, the 25-year-old model put the romance rumors to rest while recalling how Justin 'taught me a lot about God.'
"This is actually a funny moment because we're not dating and we went to dinner as friends. There's nothing between us, but it's just funny how people make up stories.
"I wasn't actually surprised because he taught me a lot about God – he was teaching me I should learn.
"What's so amazing to me is that he's so young, but already having those kinds of thoughts…I feel that he has a very deep soul and it's not empty. He told me to remember one thing: that God is love…He doesn't get upset, he doesn't punish us for anything. He's only about love. He loves us how we are."


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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenyan poachers squeezed by more effective wildlife protection have found work in the regional illegal charcoal trade run by the Islamist group al Shabaab to fund its terror-related activities, Kenyan and international police officials say.
"The al Shabaab-controlled charcoal trade is emerging as the new security threat facing the country's biodiversity," Henry Wafula, a district commissioner in eastern Kenya, said in an interview with Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Charcoal worth more than 140 million Kenya shillings (about $1.7 million) is being shipped out of eastern Kenya illegally every month, Wafula said. The lucrative trade involves cutting down and burning mature trees, particularly in protected wildlife areas. The loss of trees reduces cover for wildlife and worsens soil erosion.
In 2013, the annual report of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia estimated that al Shabaab's charcoal exports from eastern Africa could be as high as 24 million sacks per year, for an overall international market value of $360 to $384 million.
Laws passed by Kenya in 2013 impose tough punishments on illegal logging and related activities, but concern about al Shabaab's possible use of charcoal trade revenue has drawn INTERPOL, the world's largest international police organisation, into an alliance trying to stop the trade, though there is scant evidence it is used for terror-related operations.
"We have reports linking illegal charcoal trade in Eastern Africa to terrorist activities in the region. But this is not something governments are responding to," David Higgins, of INTERPOL's environmental crime programme, told a recent media briefing in Nairobi.
He did not give details of the activities, but said he has information, mainly from non-governmental organisations, that there are links between the charcoal trade and terror cells operating in the region.
INTERPOL began taking an interest in the charcoal trade soon after Kenya passed the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2013, which spells out penalties up to life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of logging, clearing land or setting fire to vegetation in protected wildlife areas.
"Habitat destruction through charcoal burning is a threat to wildlife and Kenya's security," Paul Mbugua, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) spokesman, told Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Kenya Forest Service officials acknowledge that timber cutting is a big problem, but that problem has been dwarfed by a rise in poaching of animals including elephants and rhino in the past few years, which has drawn international attention.
Kenyan security personnel say that as operations to stop poaching become more effective, poachers are abandoning the search for ivory and joining Somalia-based al Shabaab as charcoal couriers serving the booming Middle East export market.
"Criminals do all kind of things," says Paula Kahumbu, head of WildlifeDirect, a Kenyan non-profit that aims to end poaching of elephants in the country. "One cannot separate wildlife and forest crimes because they are committed through the same criminal networks."
Julius Lokinyi, a reformed poacher who lived in the bush for more than 20 years, said it was easy to carry out wildlife poaching in the Samburu and Turkana territories for many years without being caught..
"The people who are involved in wildlife and environmental crime are very well organized and have networks all the way from the villages linking them to tycoons and important people in government," said Lokinyi, now a livestock trader in Isiolo town in northern Kenya.
Government officials denied his allegations.
Poachers use camouflage to elude the authorities, he said in an interview. "I could easily change the colour of my body by applying ochre (a natural earth pigment ranging in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown) to adapt to the jungle terrain," he said. "If I fell sick I would use herbs to cure myself so that I did not have to go a hospital."
Lokinyi, who said he has given the authorities the slip many times, says criminal networks have established escape routes into neighbouring Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia and Southern Sudan.
"I could survive in the jungle for more than 40 days without food and water supplies," he said. "When the authorities were too close to catching us when poaching, we would turn to other activities like trafficking charcoal."
Conservationists say charcoal burning is now on the rise because al Shabaab pays its workers well, and poaching was reviving as well because of the high level of youth unemployment and a shortage of security agents such as community scouts.
The advocacy group Kenyans United Against Poaching (KUAPO) says that security personnel tackling environmental crime are poorly equipped and work long hours for meagre salaries.
"They are poorly paid, have no gear such as boots and uniforms, shelter under trees, and most live on a diet of rice and beans," said Raabia Hawa of KUAPO. "On the other hand, al Shabaab is known to fund its illegal activities very well, and is able to lure criminals to work for it."
Kagondu Njagi is an environmental writer based in Nairobi.
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Recently purchased The Skeptics Annotated Bible. Best 20 bucks I've spent religious literature.
I read the annotations are too small to be read, how true is it? Amazon's preview option is not very informative in that regard.
There's always the website, too.
In any case, this picture is a good zinger for the double standard they engage in.
As Richard Dawkins points out, the mere fact that we are selective about what we choose to follow in the bible proves our morality does NOT in fact derive from the Bible. Otherwise we wouldn't filter it, having no higher standard to filter with.
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Selective morality? Isn't that what the priests of the Catholic Church engage in with alarming frequency?
@Ed. They do, and I agree with that observation. But I don't see how it connects with my point (other than the word "selective"), which was that people pick and choose which parts of the bible to follow--then assert that it is the basis--the touchstone of morality. If it were, they couldn't ignore parts of it, because they'd have no criteria to use to judge what parts should be ignored.
They reject slavery, even though it is in the bible, as being wrong. But if the bible is the basis of morality, how can they know that slavery is wrong? They really have another, unnamed basis for their morality, and use cherry-picked bible references to somehow validate it. Intellectually sloppy to say the very least.
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Realistically the Bible possibly has enough twistable info to answer most any question. If the Bible doesn't have a passage that is close enough, one can become a metaphor, or some cherry picking preacher will invent one concluding that goats should kill pigs because . . . No one seriously reads the KJV--it is far too gimbledepeg to be taken seriously.
The KJV has roughly 1200 pages that include among the gibberish some 31,173 scriptures. Thus if i ask the question "How can a pig kill a goat?" someone can come up with a Biblically based (biased) response that will give us all we need to know--right?
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The Boston Globe got its hands on this old photo from Mitt Romney's days as founder of Bain Capital and it is only a matter of time before it starts showing up in attack ads everywhere.
The Globe reports that the picture was taken during a photo shoot for the company's brochure. After the official photo was taken, Romney and his Bain associates hammed it up for this memorable shot, a decision Romney surely regrets now that he is running for president amid grim economic times and a burgeoning anti-Wall Street movement. It certainly puts his comments about being "middle-class" into a new light.
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St. Patrick's Day Recipe Ideas
Now, I know a lot of folks make all kinds of crazy dyed food on St. Paddy's Day, but I'm not big on green colored foods - unless they were intended that way by nature of course - and I'm not much crazy about green beer either, though I suppose I drank my share of them on St. Patrick's Day at places like Mary Mahoney's and the Fiesta... back in the day.
Well, the Fiesta nightclub is long gone, and while Mahoney's restaurant is alive and well, they sadly do not have the big SPD party anymore, though downtown Biloxi has revived it and every year the Hibernia Marching Society has a parade. But, as far as food goes for St. Patrick's Day in the United States, one thing is certain. You're not likely to see a whole bunch of what folks in Ireland would consider to be "authentic" Irish foods, but... since it's an American celebration for St. Patrick's Day, that is okay!
Any number of dishes that are green in color, are shaped like a shamrock, include Guinness beer or sauerkraut, or are made of cabbage or potatoes, will work for your menu. I have a few other recipes I like to share especially for St. Patrick's Day - like Irish Soda Bread, Colcannon and Irish Champ Potatoes, Potato Soup and Irish Stew, made with lamb shanks - just in case you'd like to try them - and those are actually pretty authentic Irish foods
Although there is always an argument every year that corned beef isn't a "traditional" Irish meal, it was certainly made popular with hard-working Irish immigrants arriving in this country with limited means and to low paying job, because corned beef was cheap and affordable back then. Since cabbage with bacon is certainly a popular dish in Ireland even today, and since corned beef isn't a far stretch from bacon, I think it's safe to say that corned beef is fitting for an American celebration of St. Patrick's Day. I've included my corned beef cabbage hash and my shortcut corned beef and cabbage for these very reasons.
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Smothered Potatoes and Cabbage
Potatoes, cabbage and onions, simply seasoned and smothered down in broth with a spicy andouille sausage, is definitely a favorite in the Deep South.
Irish Soda Bread
Creamy Potato Soup
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Colcannon Potatoes
A traditional Irish dish of simply seasoned mashed potatoes, mixed with cabbage and butter, Colcannon is a favorite of mine. For more mashed potato options, click right here.
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Corned Beef and Cabbage Hash
Cabbage, caramelized onion, corned beef and pan fried potatoes make a delicious hash.
Irish Champ
Mashed potatoes whipped with a green onion infused milk.
Southern Style Shortcut Corned Beef and Cabbage
I am not a fan of corned beef brisket, but this is my favorite way to do a corned beef and cabbage, using a shortcut of canned corned beef and my basic fried cabbage recipe.
Noodles and Cabbage
Noodles and cabbage aren't traditional Irish fare, as far as I know, but I do think this is a fitting side dish for any St. Paddy celebration, so I've included it in our American line-up.
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by Mark Garcia October 15, 2013
Tips for Measuring for a Spa Cover
This is peak season for replacement spa covers. Spa owners tend to either replace their cover in the fall, or in the spring.
If you are looking to replace your spa cover, here's some practical tips on measuring correctly, so that your new spa cover fits like a glove.
You'll need a measuring tape for taking measures A and B. For measurement C, the corner radius, you can use a carpenter's square or use two rigid measuring tapes, rulers or yard sticks.
Spa Cover Measurement Tips
- For overall size, bigger is better. Round up to the nearest inch.
- For corners, smaller is best, round down on your corner radius.
- A spa cover that snugly fits the spa shell is best for heat retention.
- If the old spa cover is a good fit, measure it to verify your spa shell measures.
- Indicate any preference in the hinge location, or how you want the cover to fold.
- You know what they say - 'measure twice, cut once'.
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- If your spa shell is raised above the cabinet, measure from cabinet to top of spa shell.
- If your spa shell sides are flush with the cabinet, measure the raised shell, and add 1-2 in.
- If your spa shell is below cabinet sides, or is and inground or in deck spa, no skirt is needed.
Spa Cover Corner Measurement Tips
If your spa cover has angled corners, you will measure all perimeter sizes. Use an ink pen to make a small mark on the cover or spa corners, so you are measuring the start and finish of a side at the same exact point.
To measure a radius of a rounded spa cover corner you would use two measuring sticks, or a carpenter's square to find out where they intersect. Don't guess at this measurement, or you may end up with corners that don't fit properly, like this spa in the picture!
There is a small amount of judgement used when you locate the start of the radius. You have to make a determination on where the curve begins.
It is best to round up on your radius measurements, rather than rounding down.
Most radius corners for spa covers are even numbers, 4, 6, or 8 inch - up to 12 inch radius corners are common on spas and hot tubs.
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In early 2013 the LEGO Group announced plans to build and operate its own production facility in Jiaxing, China. Today, April 27th the construction of the factory which will supply products for the growing Asian market was initiated by the Queen of Denmark as Her Majesty revealed the founding stone of the new factory which is planned to employ 1,500 people by 2017.
The participation from the Queen and The Prince Consort was a part of a state visit from Denmark to China. Among others Dan Jørgensen, the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark and Friis Arne Petersen, Ambassador of Denmark to China participated, while China was represented by the Governor of Zhejiang Province.
"Since the founding of the LEGO Group in 1932 it has been the vision of the founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen, his son Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and his grandson - the current owner - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen to develop and manufacture play materials of the highest quality. All the LEGO® bricks we make live up to the strictest global safety and quality standards – and at the same time they deliver endless hours of fun and creative play to children all over the world," said Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, President and CEO of the LEGO Group to the hundreds of participants at the site of the factory, where a huge LEGO model of the new factory was also revealed.
Close to the consumers
The factory is being built in the city Jiaxing, right in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta and located approximately 100 km from Shanghai where the LEGO Group will have its central distribution center for Asia.
"We believe the location is perfect in regards to both recruiting and securing the best environment for future LEGO employees. The new production site which will include moulding, decoration and packaging facilities provides us with a long term supply base for future growth in Asia," said Michael McNulty, Senior Vice President, Asia Manufacturing, adding:
"The three digit million Euro investment in the factory sends a strong signal that we see Jiaxing and China as a long-term manufacturing base for the LEGO Group together with the other LEGO factories around the world."
The Jiaxing facility is designed and will be built to the same global standards as all LEGO factories in the world and with a high focus on integrating sustainable solutions where possible - from recycling and reusing waste and water to minimizing the energy consumption.
"In addition, we focus on creating a very safe work environment. We believe that our employees all over the world should be able to come to work and return home to their families safely, and we want highly engaged employees who see our values and culture in action every day. This also goes for the many new LEGO colleagues who in time will work in Jiaxing," said Michael McNulty.
Product quality and safety are top priorities
LEGO products are developed in Denmark by more than 180 designers of more than 24 nationalities at the LEGO Group Headquarters in the town of Billund, where the company was founded in 1932. However the products are manufactured globally at LEGO Group owned and operated factories.
"Having this full control of the entire production process is essential to deliver products of a consistent high quality and safety and in harmony with our values," said Bali Padda, Executive Vice President and COO of the LEGO Group.
The new factory in China will be an addition to the LEGO Group's current production facilities in Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic and Mexico, and it will be built and run with the same technology, automation and standards for product quality.
"Every LEGO brick we manufacture lives up to the strictest safety standards globally – no matter if it is made in Denmark, Hungary, Mexico – or in future here in China. The new factory in Jiaxing will ensure that we can deliver high quality and safe play experiences to even more children in Asia in future," said Bali Padda.
Facts about the factory
- The first phase of the factory is planned to cover an area of approximately 165,000m2.
- The land where the factory is being built is 315,000m2.
- 45,000m2 area for packing. Several million LEGO sets to be packed every year.
- 25,000m2 manual warehouse.
- 10,000m2 area for decoration and assembly.
- 35,000m2 moulding facility – to have several hundred moulding machines by 2017 with a production of several billion LEGO bricks annually.
- 6,500m2 automated high bay warehouse. 24 meters high with a capacity of more than 400,000 storage boxes.
- There is room for further expansion in the future – with a potential to double the moulding capacity.
- The investment amounts to a 3 digit million Euro amount, as a complete LEGO factory will be established including molding, processing - and packaging facilities.
- The new packaging facility is expected to commence operation in 2015.
- By 2017 the factory will be fully operational and is planned to have approximately 1,500 employees.
- A strong focus on establishing a strong LEGO culture and LEGO values among new LEGO employees.
- A high focus on integrating sustainable solutions where possible - from recycling and reusing waste and water to minimizing the energy consumption.
Note to editors: These numbers depend on the growth and demand for LEGO products in Asia and can be adjusted.
- Jiaxing has a population of 5 million and a catchment area of approximately 15 million.
- There are two universities and numerous technical colleges located in the city.
- Jiaxing is ranked 25th in the city ranking of "100 best cities for foreign investment" and has earned the titles of 'National Civilized City', 'Chinas outstanding Tourist City', 'National Health City', 'National model city for greening', 'National garden city' and national innovation pilot city.
- Jiaxing is right in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta. There are numerous multinational companies located within Jiaxing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
- Jiaxing is located approximately 120 km (1.5 hours) from Shanghai.


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2013 Haunted America Conference
Friday & Saturday, June 21 & 22, 2012
Haunted Lincoln Theater in Decatur, Illinois
Join author and host Troy Taylor as he returns by popular demand to the haunted confines of the historic Lincoln Theater in Decatur, Illinois for another great year of America's Original Ghost Conference! Built in 1916 on the ruins of the burned-out Arcade Hotel, the Lincoln Theater is the perfect setting for our ghostly event, boasting a long history of spectral sightings, weird happenings and ghost events -- including dozens of paranormal encounters during past conferences! Join us for another weekend of ghosts, hauntings, monsters and the unexplained and experience the spirits, scandals and sins of Decatur -- one of the most haunted cities in the Midwest -- for yourself!
America's Original Ghost Conference (founded in 1997 and often imitated, but never equaled) is back for our 17th year and will be held over the weekend of June 21-22, 2013 at the haunted Lincoln Theater in Decatur, Illinois. Join us as we return to one of the most haunted places in America and present new and returning favorite speakers on ghosts, hauntings, monsters, the supernatural and the unexplained.
The 2013, Post-Apocalypse Event will include lectures and presentations, the return of the "Monster Panel," haunted tours, ghost hunts, workshops, a newly revamped "Strange Stuff" and much more!
Join us in Decatur and explore this historic and haunted region with our many weekend events, including your chance to hear lectures and workshops on ghosts and ghost hunting; listen to presentations on paranormal phenomena and investigating the unknown; take part in discussions and questions & answer periods; visit haunted locations; take part in haunted workshops; experience ghost tours, late-night investigations, and much more! This is our 17th year for the Haunted America Conference and another chilling weekend at our most haunted venue, the Lincoln Theater! As with our other events, guests will be able to gather research on ghosts and hauntings that they won't get anywhere else; meet other ghost hunters from all over America; and visit Decatur -- a place that teems with both history and hauntings! It might be the end of the world as you know it if you miss out on this amazing event!
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LONG BEACH, Calif. – Although Tito Ortiz forced Bellator MMA to abandon plans for its first pay-per-view event, the promotion's chairman and CEO said he'll give the fighter another chance.
That doesn't mean there won't be any worries about the future, though.
"Sure, I'm worried about it," Bjorn Rebney said following Saturday's Bellator 106 event, which took place at Long Beach Arena in California. "But it's Tito, and I've known him for a long time, and I made a commitment to him that we would try to give it another run.
"This went s–tty, and the assumption is he'll heal and we'll give it a run. He's had injuries, but he hasn't made a career of pulling out of fights. He's as disappointed as anybody, but if he heals as anticipated, we'll schedule another fight."
Ortiz (16-11-1 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) was scheduled to fight former training partner Quinton Jackson (32-11 MMA, 0-0 BMMA) in Bellator 106's headliner, but a fractured neck suffered in training forced him to withdraw eight days prior to the event. The promotion then switched gears from pay-per-view and secured a spot at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Spike TV, whose parent company, Viacom, owns a majority stake in Bellator.
Immediately following the withdrawal, plenty of conspiracy theories floated around about the supposed real reasons behind it, including collusion between Ortiz and his former boss, UFC President Dana White, and Bellator pulling the PPV plug when ticket sales lagged.
But Rebney said the evidence can't get any clearer when it comes to proving Ortiz was unfit to fight.
"I could give you ridiculous smart-ass answer after smart-ass answer about the other guy on the grassy knoll, and Oliver Stone having a hand in it," he said. "It's ridiculous. I actually have real X-rays from Tito's real neck that showed it wasn't fractured before and it is now."
Rebney said it's a 12-minute trip from the Bellator offices in Irvine, Calif., to Ortiz's gym in Huntington Beach, and prior to the injury, he felt confident about putting the injury-prone fighter in another headliner after watching him train.
Following his latest ding, however, some have called for the 38-year-old Ortiz to hang up his gloves for good, like he was expected to do this past year following a losing effort against Forrest Griffin at UFC 148.
Rebney, though, said he's not ready to declare Ortiz's career over.
"Who are we to tell Tito Ortiz when he can and cannot stop fighting?" he asked. "He had a fracture in his neck. I spoke to a top-level specialist who did the neck surgery on Tito. The reason he couldn't fight is because it was fractured, and if he got dropped on his head the right way, it could splinter and go into his spinal cord and paralyze him.
"But it's a fracture like a broken arm. Once it heals, there's no more likelihood that it might fracture into your spinal cord than you or I. So when he gets well, if he wants to fight, we'll figure it out and make it work."
Among the conspiracy theories, there is the idea that regardless of the reason (or reasons) for Ortiz's withdrawal, it ended up being a positive for Bellator in drawing much-needed attention to the promotion, which has struggled to escape the shadow of industry-leader UFC.
"Well, it sure does look like that now, doesn't it?" Rebney quipped to MMAjunkie.com.
With an epic rematch between Michael Chandler and Eddie Alvarez taking center stage and delivering big, Ortiz's withdrawal certainly looks like the best possible course, even if four out of the five main-card fights went to the scorecards.
"I think the thing I'm most thankful for is that so many people got to watch this fight for free on TV, and it speaks to how awesome the first one was," Rebney said. "I think the shining light off this is however many people would have watched it if it had been the co-main on a pay-per-view, this was open to everybody. Hopefully, the numbers were big and people on the East Coast stayed up to watch it because they didn't go into the cage until, like, 12:01 a.m. (ET), or something like that.
"The plan was we were going to get clean at 25 before the end of the hour, and Mike and Ed would go in and finish out the hour strong, and by midnight, we'd be clean because [viewers] drop off like crazy after midnight. So we'll see what the numbers are, but people are going to watch it. We're going to run it again and again."
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When we need to categorize people by sex/gender — for the Olympics, for example — what is the right way to do it? The quote above is from an op-ed by Jennifer Finney Boylan.The quote struck me because what's in someone's heart seems to me to be a terrible test, because it demands another test — the test of what is in a person's heart — and people lie. Certainly, some athletes will lie.
But even if we could accurately see the contents of your heart the way we can see the contents of your pants and your chromosomes, would we want your subjective beliefs to determine who you get to compete against? It's one thing to leave people alone as they live their private lives, quite another to set up an athletic competition where there will be winners and losers.
How does Boylan propose to look into hearts?
A quick look at the reality of an athlete's life ought to settle the question.Absurd! Where is this picture of "the reality of an athlete's life" for us to take a "quick look" at? And even if there was such a picture and it could not be faked, what aspects of life are female and what are male? You can't answer the question without using sexist stereotypes that are not only offensive but have very little application to high-level athletes. Obsession with sports and competition is stereotypically male. If we took Boylan's laughable test seriously, there'd be no athlete left in the female category.
Boylan has an alternate conclusion:
Maybe ... Olympic officials have to learn to live with ambiguity, and make peace with a world in which things are not always quantifiable and clear.It's fine to recommend that we appreciate ambiguity, but athletic contests need rules and those who enforce them have to make decisions. It's funny how Boylan wants us to believe in her "quick look" at lifestyle test but wants us to accept that biology is endlessly ambiguous.
That, if you ask me, would be a good thing, not just for Olympians, but for us all.
There may be some difficult cases at the biological level, but rules should be devised to deal with those cases fairly. As Boylan notes, the Olympic rules permit individuals who have gone through sex reassignment surgery to compete as the sex the surgery has modeled them after. Whether that rule was a good idea is another question. It seems to be accepted because the treatment degrades athletic ability, so the former man does not have the usual advantage a man would have competing with women. But there is no reason to devise a rule that allows men to compete with women because they feel like women.
Boylan is the author of "She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders," described by Booklist here:
In this autobiography, she details her lifelong struggle with her burgeoning femaleness and the path she followed to become a female, both physically and mentally. For 40 years, the author lived as a man, seemingly happy and even marrying a woman and fathering two children. At a certain point, though, she realized that she couldn't suppress her desire to live as a female and so eventually went through all the steps to become female, including sexual reassignment surgery. There is something troubling about Boylan's lighthearted tone, and while she hints at it, there is no really clear depiction of the havoc this transition must have wreaked on her married life (Boylan's wife was clearly devastated) and on her children (who at times refer to her as boygirl or maddy).


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I hope you find peacefulness looking at my pictures.
I've been climbing rocky mountains and walked for twelve hours straight
Cut my knee on broken glass and needed help thru the emergency gate
Once I pinched my nose when I stumbled into a ditch
don't ask how it happened but sometimes life is such a bitch
Fighting for my life in a murky swamp with water up to my chin
realized that I'm not a character in the book of Huckleberry Finn
Struggling on skies in the middle of the night in heavy snow
yeah, you better believe that was some kind of show
Carrying heavy backpacks combating mosquitoes to my bitterness
camping in extreme temperatures long way out in the wilderness
Lying on a bed of beautiful flowers finding out that red ant bites
Promised my self never again walk thru thorny bushes in a pair of thin tights.
So what in the world makes me do all this foolish shit
Well, I am addicted, I have to admit
The great mother of earth is the only one who knows what my next step will be
I am the photographic wanderer and love my way of life, you see.
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First, a lesson in fish oils. Our holistic veterinarian, Dr. Sanderlin, recommends fish oil as a daily nutritional supplement for all pets. Fish oils contain high levels of EPA and DHA Omega-3 essential fatty acids, which are excellent nutrients for healthy skin and coat, eyes, joints, brain development and cardiovascular function.
In addition to our very popular Pure Icelandic Salmon Oil, we now offer:
Jack, one of our office Goldens, gets Salmon Oil with every meal.


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By Jennifer Wadsworth
Coffee is probably the most socially accepted drug in the Western world. Yes, it does intoxicate.
The bitter brew that kickstarts so many early mornings and fuels so many drawn-out workdays causes withdrawal and cravings. Some of them debilitating. It's safe to say that if you can't last a day without juicing up on java (or Diet Coke or some other caffeine-infused stimulant), you may be an addict.
That's why the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lists caffeine withdrawal and intoxication as mental health disorders that hurt someone's ability to function.
Critics say the manual makers shouldn't medicalize every little issue, stick a label on every anomaly to the point where we're all labeled in some way (which doesn't sound like a bad idea in the name of understanding how we tick). After all, doesn't caffeine have some health benefits?
Perhaps. Not unlike a glass of wine. But, let's be honest, who stops at the recommended daily allowance?
Those in support of the caffeine addiction classification say the signs are too evident to ignore. People tell their doctors of withdrawal headaches, irritability and fatigue often enough that it's "clinically significant" and, in some cases, debilitating. A legit diagnosis might go a long way in helping doctors advise patients with other disorders (like anxiety, insomnia, high blood pressure and diabetes) to steer clear of the substance.
To be diagnosed with withdrawal, you have to show at least three of the following five symptoms in the day you abstain: Irritability, headaches, trouble focusing, nausea, flulike symptoms or muscle pain. Signs of caffeine intoxication consists of minimum five of a dozen symptoms: Restlessness, nervousness, muscle twitching, arrhythmia, flushed face and racing thoughts and speech. But those symptoms have to cause significant impairment to be considered a medical issue.
To find out if you're a caffeine junky, take this quiz.
Experts interviewed by the WSJ say the best way to avoid the addiction is to drink coffee at irregular intervals. Like with other drugs, it works and feels better that way anyway.
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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March 20, 2012
On Tuesday, March 20, all NISD schools and offices will open at regular times. There may be some delay in some bus schedules. Use caution in getting to school.
The Northside ISD Special Olympics Track & Field Meet has been canceled for Tuesday, March 20th, and Wednesday, March 21st due to inclement weather. The events are rescheduled for Thursday, March 22, and Friday, March 23rd at Gustafson Stadium, Loop 410W @ Culebra Rd. For more information, call the NISD Special Olympics office at 210-397-2406.


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Swipe your mouse to cut ropes, click on buttons, springs and more to activate things. Your goal is to get to the top.
Coolmath top picks
Checkmate! Play the classic strategic board game. You can challenge the computer, a friend, or join a match against another online player.
Wait...Not yet...Go! Bounce the candy at the perfect time to get through the moving obstacles.
Ever played the classic game Snake? Slither around and eat the apples to grow your snake as long as possible. But don't hit the wall, or eat your own tail!
Activate the power bounce! Can you find a way over the spikes and past the guards to jump into Basket?
Hop in your helicopter and join this strategic multiplayer game. Specialize your copter, build a base, and conquer the map!
Launch zombies out of a cannon and into the happy faces in this crazy sequel. Take aim and let those rag dolls fly!
Run through the maze and obstacles to get to the burger stand. You only have 60 seconds, so you better start running!
Slice the jelly blob into pieces so that no pieces have more than one star. Try to do it in as few moves as possible!
Hey you, stop! And you, drive! Wait...no...stop! You're going to crash! Take control of the roads to keep traffic moving. Be careful or you might cause a 10-car pileup.


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Visitors respond to an exhibition on death
In 2003 the Museum held an exhibition about death - here's a selection of what visitors thought about it.
In 2003 the Australian Museum staged an exhibition on the difficult and potentially confronting topic of death, called death – the last taboo. The aims of the exhibition were, in an overall sense, to talk about a subject that was not often discussed while answering many questions people are reluctant or scared to ask. Other purposes of the exhibition were to demystify death, especially as it is so sanitized in a Western society, and to provide an opportunity for people to consider death at a time and place removed from it. Visitors were recruited to participate in focus groups and asked how they remembered feeling and thinking at various sections as well as their responses to some of the more confronting material.
Here's what they said:
I'm coming to terms with death as an old lady and coming to this [exhibition] was part of that, accepting it and so on.
When you're at the crematorium the curtains close and that's the end of what you see and you always wonder what happens now? This [exhibition] shows you what happens behind the curtain.
[the personal stories section] was fascinating and so unexpected to see in an exhibition. It showed what you actually get reduced down to and it was reality. It was somebody's story.
It spurred me on to think about death because at my age we don't think about death. I never really considered what kind of casket I'd like.
I liked the part where the guy killed himself and they actually showed a picture of where he did it and the lady who was killed in a car crash and the charred remains of her belongings and how her relatives didn't know what to do with them.
And finally,
I think I'm more capable of dealing with death now than what I was before I went in there just because I know so much more about it.


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News Desk
Mips to Be Carved Up
It's being acquired for $60 million by UK-based Imagination Technologies
By: Maureen O'Gara
Nov. 14, 2012 09:00 AM
Mips Technologies, the RISC chip pioneer, is getting carved up.
It's being acquired for $60 million by UK-based Imagination Technologies, which is partially owned by Apple and Intel and makes GPUs for Apple's iPhone 5 and iPad 4 as well as Intel's CloverTrail-based Windows 8 tablets. Meanwhile an ARM-led consortium, dubbed Bridge Crossing, is buying 498 Mips patents and patent applications for $350 million.
ARM will contribute $167.5 million for the IP and Imagination will get ownership of 82 key Mips architecture patents along with royalty-free rights to the rest of the kit and caboodle.
With an eye to taking on ARM, Imagination CEO Hossein Yassaie said in a statement, "I believe that the combination of our existing...CPU technologies...with MIPS' capabilities will help us to create a new force to be reckoned with in the CPU IP market."
Mips widgetry supports Android and Imagination has visions of establishing an integrated business of enhanced scale on several fronts and a new power in CPU development and licensing.
According to ARM the deal "presents an opportunity for companies to neutralize any potential infringement risk from these patents in the further development of advanced embedded technology." Bridge Crossing will license the patents to companies that aren't members of the consortium.
Who else besides ARM is in the consortium is a mystery.
Nowadays Mips, whose processor was supposed to run Windows NT back in 1993, is supplying power-efficient chips for Cisco routers, Motorola set-top boxes and Sony game machines.
Despite the 700 million parts it collected tribute on last year from its 56 royalty-paying licensees it still couldn't make a profit. In the fiscal year ended in June it lost $9 million on revenues of $60 million. It recently launched a new performance- and area-efficient Aptiv generation of cores.
The acquisition should close in Q1 and Imagination expects it to be accretive in fiscal 2014.
Mips' RISC-based 32-bit and 64-bit CPU applications processor architectures are said to complement Imagination's existing Meta 32-bit embedded CPU IP product family. The architectures have similar philosophies in several key areas including hardware multi-threading as well as complementary capabilities. Imagination figures "the resulting combined CPU IP offering will become one of the industry's strongest and most comprehensive."
The first public rumor of Mips' potential sale trace back to April.
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Since my old computer conked out I have been busy trying to transfer all of my papers and photos onto the new one although I'm sure I have done something wrong as somewhere on the computer it says I have 36,000 photos!
I decided to scrapbook my eldest son's last day at junior school. It was nearly three years ago now but I remember it like yesterday....
We fitted so much into the day that I created a huge pocket along the bottom of the page to keep all of the details. It started with a picnic in the school grounds, followed by an afternoon at the local adventure park. Finally we all met up in the evening at our local chinese restuarant.
I love using Picasa for my photo editing, its free and so easy to use. I created a collage of photos of the day to put in the pocket and placed it with the programme for his last Speach Day and Prize Giving.
His certificate for acheivement in Mathematics and a photo of him when he received it.
I then made a little book to keep some very special memories and decorated it with cut outs from the same paper stack. He received such a lovely letter from one of his teachers that I wanted to display it and use it in the best way possible so I made use of all of the folds in the paper.
A good luck note from his music teacher...
A note from me telling how proud and excited I was for him. I can still remember those feelings now, proud that he had done well at junior school, excited that he was entering the next stage at senior school and worried that he would be ok, settle in and make friends etc.
My note was written into the fold of the teachers note so once unfolded, it shows her letter to him.
The papers are from Ellen School Days by Me and My Big Ideas, yes I know it is bright, busy and loud but that did kind of sum up his last day! The small photo in the bottom corner shows him with his leavers shirt, all signed by his friends and teachers and his special leavers tie. So cute!
I hope that you are all having a wonderful week, the weather is great in the my neck of the woods and my youngest is already finished school for Easter so more scrapbooking photo opportunities are on there way!
Tracey x


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Vitamin B and fish oil fail to prevent cancer
Among more than 2,500 people in France with a history of heart disease, taking B vitamins or omega-3 fatty acid supplements did not reduce the risk of developing cancer in a new study. In fact, for a small group of women, fish oil was linked to higher cancer risk.
"We had expected to find a benefit of the supplements on cancer risk," said Valentina Andreeva, the study's lead author and a researcher at the University of Paris. "Instead, we found no effects in men, and some evidence of adverse effects in women."
Previous research has hinted that B vitamins might help protect people against cancer, especially colorectal cancer, though not all studies have agreed.
The original aim of Andreeva's trial was to test the effect of taking omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B or both on cardiovascular disease in people with a history of heart attack or stroke.
To better understand whether the supplements might have additional effects, the group also collected information on how many trial participants developed cancer.
The researchers had split the study subjects into four groups: one took two vitamin-B pills a day, another group took two pills of omega-3 fats, a third group took both supplements and a fourth group took fake pills that resembled the supplements.
The B vitamins were a mixture of 3 mg of B6, 0.02 mg of B12 and 0.5 mg of folic acid.
The participants assigned to take the omega-3 fats got 600 mg a day, with the supplements containing twice as much EPA as DHA.
For about five years Andreeva and her colleagues at the French national medical research institute, INSERM, tracked cancer diagnoses among the study subjects.
More than 2,000 people finished the study, and of these, 174 developed cancer and 58 died of it.
Those in the two groups that took B-vitamin supplements had the same risk of cancer as those who took the placebo pills.
These are in line with the findings of an even larger study of heart attack survivors, which also found B vitamins to be ineffective at reducing their risk of cancer (see Reuters Health story of June 22, 2010).
Similarly, men who took the omega-3 pills had the same risk of cancer as the men who took the placebo.
However, among women who took the omega-3 pills, the risk of cancer was three-fold.
There were 21 cases of cancer in the fish-oil group, compared to eight cases in the placebo group.
Andreeva's team also found that women were more than five times as likely to die of cancer if they had taken the omega-3 pills than if they had taken the fake supplements.
"The dietary supplements that we studied are in fact active substances that, when taken over a long period of time and without a physician's advice, might have adverse effects in some populations," Andreeva told Reuters Health in an email.
But she cautioned against interpreting her statement or her group's findings as meaning the fish oil pills were to blame for the increased cancer risk.
The study's numbers are small and its design, intended to track heart disease, cannot show direct cause and effect regarding the cancers.
If anything, the group writes in the Archives of Internal Medicine, early cancers and pre-cancerous growths might have been missed when participants were recruited, and those might have been fueled in some way by the supplements.
A more recent and much larger observational study - which also cannot prove cause-effect -- found that women who took fish oil pills were a third less likely to develop breast cancer than women who didn't take the supplements (see Reuters Health story of July 8, 2010).
"Our findings must be confirmed by other studies before we could formulate or refine public health recommendations on this topic," Andreeva said.


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Come along to find out how you, your kids and your community will be better off with TOP's policies. The Talk will go for about half an hour. Following on from that we will have 45 minutes of Q & A, where you can voice opinions, concerns and all things in-between about The Opportunities Party to Gareth.