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Too Much or Too Little: Communities Adapt to Extreme Weather Conditions in Odisha
A UNDP partnership with the government of Odisha supported by the Australian Agency for International Development is enabling communities in Puri district to adapt to extreme weather events. As a result of efforts to strengthen community water management systems, crop yield has increased more than three times despite flooding, villages now have piped water supply and incidences of water-borne diseases are declining.
- UNDP's partnership with the govt of Odisha and supported by the Australian Agency for International Development is helping communities in Puri in Odisha adapt to extreme weather events
- Community water management systems introduced as part of the partnership have increased crop yield more than three times despite flooding
- Drainage systems have enabled farmers to start farming earlier in the year
- Close to 2,100 hectares of land was cultivated in 2012, more than three times that of 2011 in Bambarada village of Puri
- Villages have piped water supply and incidences of water-borne diseases are declining
For people living in the floodplains of the Mahanadi river delta in the Indian state of Odisha, life is one of extremes. For six months in a year (July-December), miles of paddy fields, roads and homes are flooded with water. Three months later, water is in short supply as villagers combat water scarcity, affecting everyday life and crop yields.
As weather extremes become more apparent, three villages in the Satyabadi Block which is about a 30 minute drive from the popular beachtown of Puri, came together to identify their most pressing vulnerabilities and ways by which they could address the misery brought by an increasingly erratic rainfall.
As a first, the villagers identified the need to improve flood-water drainage from their fields. They renovated the Kharbar canal, a 12 km long drainage channel that snakes through the villages of Bambarada and Dokhandapur. Built 30 years ago to irrigate fields, the canal had not been used for a long time. It was cleaned out and reconnected to the river, and its progress was monitored by a committee of farmers. The results have been remarkable.
In an area which receives as much as 1500 mm of annual rain in just 15 days, water now drains out much faster and rice fields no longer remain water logged for months. In 2012, farmers were able to plant the paddy crop a month earlier than expected because water receded much faster from their fields. In the summer months when rain is in short supply, the flow can be reversed providing much needed water for irrigating crops.
The Kharbar canal renovation was part of an adaptive water management project supported by a UNDP and funded by AusAID that aims to build the resilience of poor women and men to climate change and reduce their vulnerability to disasters.
Lise Grande, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, India says, "This partnership demonstrates that when communities in high risk areas manage their own water resources the impact can be very significant. Farm productivity increase, children have clean drinking water and women who would ordinarily have to travel a long distance in search of water have easier access. "
"The drainage system has allowed us to start farming earlier in the year. The possibilities of being able to grow a Rabi crop (summer crop) and easily drain away water has provided us with hope and strength" says 68 year old Kunja Bihari Sahu from Bambarada. Close to 2100 hectares of land was cultivated in 2012, more than three times that of 2011.
In Dokhandapur village, the UNDP-AusAID partnership supported the village in establishing a rain water harvesting pond. Connected to a small filtration plant, piped water is now supplied to the village in an area where the nearest source of clean drinking water was two kilometres away. Better access to clean drinking water will reduce the high incidence of diarrhoea amongst children caused by excessive water logging in the area.
According to Russel Rollason, First Secretary, AusAID "Changing rainfall patterns are forcing villages to change their farming methods and systems. A more holistic community based approach to adaptive water management will help build climate resilience for poor rural communities."
In nearby villages, communities are improving the quality of water in the village pond by growing vegetables around the pond to prevent the area being used for open defecation. The two adjacent villages now manage the fish pond and garden and in the first 6 months of activities, the villages earned INR 12,000 from the sale of fish and vegetables. The villagers have established a common bank account and the funds are used to buy seed and other necessary inputs to sustain these activities.


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Now it all makes sense.
At his annual "state of the tournament" address this past April, Billy Payne was asked repeatedly why Augusta National didn't have any female members. To the surprise of almost everyone who saw it, Payne's response was, at best, inartful and at worst, political malpractice.
"All issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members, and that statement remains accurate and remains my statement," Payne said.
This was very un-Billy-Payne-like. After all, this was a man who pulled off one of the greatest upsets of all time in getting the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., instead of the birthplace of the Olympics, Athens, Greece.
In doing so, he pulled the most disparate and divergent groups together in a way no one could have imagined. And he reengineered the Olympic Games in a way that made economic sense for a city. The Olympic stadium, long considered a symbol of waste in cities like Toronto, Munich and Seoul, was converted into what is now Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves. The Olympic Village became dormitories for Georgia Tech and Georgia State University. And Centennial Olympic Park became a focal point of urban revitalization in downtown.
Payne even got the IOC to agree to have golf in the Games, and he convinced Augusta National – a club he did not belong to at the time – to open in the summer as the venue. Jesse Jackson squelched the idea by claiming that Augusta's optics did not project a diverse enough image for such an international event. But the seed that will bear fruit in 2016 in Rio was planted by Billy Payne in Atlanta in 1996.
He had also turned Augusta National in a kinder and gentler place in his short tenure as club chairman. Kids were made to feel welcome. Coverage was more robust. And everyone from the sandwich vendors to the security guards seemed friendlier and more eager to help.
All of this added to people's dismay over Payne's obfuscation.
We should have known that he was five steps ahead of everyone all along.
By waiting until the end of the major championship season to announce the addition of Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to the Augusta National membership rolls, Payne moved the club where it needed to go without appearing to succumb to outside influence or undue pressure.
This was important. Augusta National's last brush with women's membership didn't end well for either side.
As everyone involved in the game remembers, in 2002 Martha Burk, head of the National Council of Women's Organizations, sent a letter to then-chairman Hootie Johnson that obliquely threatened the club if it did not become more "enlightened" and offer a green jacket to a woman or two.
Johnson's response was one for the ages:
"Our membership is single gender just as many other organizations and clubs all across America," Johnson wrote in a letter that was made public. "These would include junior Leagues, sororities, fraternities, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and countless others. And we all have a moral and legal right to organize our clubs the way we wish…There may well come a day when women will be invited to join our membership but that timetable will be ours and not at the point of a bayonet."
The L.A. Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the New York Times devoted more than 50 stories to Augusta National and its membership with the New York Times giving the subject four front-page spots above the fold. In hindsight the coverage was overkill. Even former Times editor Howell Raines, who was ousted in some small part because of the paper's overreach on the Augusta issue, admitted that they might have taken things a bit too far.
Martha Burk must have felt the same way. While Mike Weir was winning his first Masters, Burk led a protest in a nearby field that attracted no more than 80 people including a clown on stilts and a Ku Klux Klansman.
Ten years later, the issue resurfaced when IBM named Virginia Rometty as the new company president and CEO. Previous IBM presidents were Augusta National members, so members of the press – with the New York Times leading the charge again – wanted to know why Rometty was not afforded the same accommodation.
That was when Payne gave his head-scratching answer, repeating his position of not speaking on membership matters regardless of how the question was asked.
At the time, this seemed nonsensical. Now it seems brilliant.
"We are fortunate to consider many qualified candidates for membership at Augusta National," Payne said in a statement on Monday. "Consideration with regard to any candidate is deliberate, held in strict confidence and always takes place over an extended period of time. The process for Condoleezza and Darla was no different."
Like other Augusta National members, Rice and Moore love golf, can hold their own at the card table, and can talk football with the best of them. They are more than token add-ons designed to squelch uncomfortable political questions. They are members who went through the same process as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Lou Holtz and Payne himself.
Still, it is an important move, one Payne was quick to recognize.
"This is a significant and positive time in our club's history," he said. "On behalf of our membership I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome them and all of our new members into the Augusta National family."
To anyone who still wonders how Billy Payne -- the child of teenagers who grew up poor and became one of the game's most influential figures -- got where he is: there is your answer. The man is still on top of his game.
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Review: Zerophilia
(A scene from the film).
As Zerophilia opens, we find Luke (Taylor Handley), a teen insecure about his masculinity, losing his virginity to a middle-aged British woman who invites him for a roll in the hay in the back of her RV parked on a campground on the edge of the forest.
The deflowering proves to be more than a little unsettling for the sexually inexperienced college student, because the encounter is the first indication that he suffers from a rare genetic condition.
That mythological malady, Zerophilia, causes a carrier to change gender whenever he or she makes love. And with Luke just heading off to college with raging hormones, the prospect of turning into a woman after seducing the girl of his dreams is the last thing he needs. But that's precisely the predicament he finds himself in when he woos Michelle (Rebecca Mozo), a cute coed who triggers his seemingly irreversible transformation into a female.
This novel point of departure provides the screen fodder for Zerophilia, a surprising compelling sitcom, given the silly-sounding premise. Blessed with an endlessly elliptical script layered with lots of surprises, the movie succeeds due to the efforts of a talented cast, which seriously sells the idea that what we're dealing with is an uncommon, but medically diagnosed condition.
Freaked out by the loss of chest hair and his simultaneous sprouting of breasts, Luke eventually has to adopt a feminine persona, Luca (played by Marieh Delfino), while trying to figure out what the heck is happening to him. Luke/Luca is lost, not knowing whether he/she's straight, bi, gay or some other undetermined preference? Help arrives in the person of Dr. Sydney Catchadourian (Gina Bellman), a sex therapist who has treated several Zerophiliacs before.
The Doctor encourages Luke/Luca to consummate with Michelle and thereby turn himself totally into a woman, because if he mates again, he can switch right back to a man. But what Luke wasn't banking on was the possibility that as Luca, he might suddenly find himself more attracted to Michelle's brother, Max (Kyle Schmid), than to his new girlfriend. As one can easily imagine, this development complicates matters significantly, as does the discovery of others suffering from the same affliction.
Written and directed by Martin Curland, Zerophilia is as ingenious and as expertly executed a feature film debut as you could ever hope to find among the artsy, micro-budget offerings. For this sexual identity adventure even delivers a tender message that in this transgendered age of sex change on demand, "You can't figure out who you are, until you accept who you might be.�
Excellent (4 stars). Unrated. Running time: 90 minutes. Studio: Microangelo Entertainment Â
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BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer shot and killed a woman who police say grabbed his Taser and used it on him, moments after she seemed to say "I'm pregnant" in an altercation captured on video.
Pamela Turner was shot around 10:40 p.m. Monday at an apartment complex in the Houston-area community of Baytown, police Lt. Steve Dorris said Tuesday. The department has learned that Turner was not pregnant, said Dorris, who declined to elaborate on how police know that. Autopsy results have not been released.
The lieutenant said the officer was patrolling the complex about 25 miles east of Houston and tried to arrest the 44-year-old African American woman because he knew she had outstanding warrants. The officer, who is Hispanic and an 11-year veteran of the department, had previous dealings with Turner, but Dorris did not provide further details about the interactions or Turner's warrants.
The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, Dorris said.
Turner and the officer engaged in a struggle after he sought to arrest her. The officer opened fire after Turner grabbed his Taser and struck him in the groin with it, shocking him, Dorris said.
The officer wasn't seriously hurt, the lieutenant said.
In the video, which is circulating on social media, Turner is heard saying "You're actually harassing me" and "I'm actually walking to my house" before falling to the ground. While on her back, she appears to struggle with the officer, saying "Why? Why?" and then "I'm pregnant." Turner then appears to reach up towards the officer and, moments later, he fires five shots, killing her.
Dorris said Turner was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators are trying to contact whoever recorded the video, because the person was a witness to the shooting, the lieutenant said.
"It's a tragic event for everybody involved," Dorris said. "Of course, our hearts go out to the family of the deceased as well as our officer."
Bleiberg reported from Dallas.
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The Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet of Brazil will perform at Hope College on Friday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet (QGQ) is widely acclaimed as one of the top contemporary classical guitar ensembles. Over the past 20 years, the ensemble of Brazilian guitarists Chrystian Dozza, Fabio Ramazzina, Thiago Abdalla and Sidney Molina has established a broad canon of original pieces and bold arrangements, in which various Brazilian composers, including Egberto Gismonti, Almeida Prado, Paulo Bellinati, Sérgio Molina and Marco Pereira, have collaborated with the quartet.
The quartet first attracted the attention of international critics in 1998, after it was awarded the Ensemble Prize at the International Guitar Contest of Havana. According to the "Los Angeles Times," "an aura of purity pervaded the concert of the Brazilian guitar quartet... [it]... met all the requirements with equanimity and intelligence in its California debut."
Quaternaglia's discography includes the albums "Quaternaglia," "Antique," "Forrobodó" and several others, as well as a DVD recorded live. In 2008, Quaternaglia made the Brazilian premiere of Gismontiana, a concerto for four guitars and orchestra written by Leo Brouwer and conducted by the composer himself in his first visit to the country.
The musicians of Quaternaglia Guitar Quartet utilize three six-string guitars and one seven-string guitar custom-made by the renowned Brazilian guitar maker Sérgio Abreu.
Tickets are $10 for regular admission, $7 for senior citizens and Hope faculty and staff, and $5 for students and are available at the ticket offices in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse (222 Fairbanks Ave.) and the Events and Conferences Office located downtown in the Anderson-Werkman Financial Center (100 E. Eighth St.). Both offices are open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St., between College and Columbia avenues.


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The Best Spirits of 2012
New brands and bottles you should know.
While my life may not have much in common with Bilbo Baggins, my experiences in the spirits realm are much like his in Middle Earth: fruits of an unexpected journey. 2012, for me, was a year full of novelty, surprises, and sips that took my palate to unexpected places. As I think back of the best spirits I tried this year—for my review series and for extra-curricular 'research', it wasn't necessarily the smoothest bourbon or the smokiest Scotch that sprung to mind. It was the unique and the novel booze, the under-rated and the foreign, that truly made the year for me. Here are 6 of the year's standouts from where I'm sipping.
Green Spot
Style: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey
Green Spot is the unicorn of the Irish whiskey world—rare, delicate, ethereal, and pure magic. I was finally able to track down a bottle in Killarney while on vacation last year, and anxiously awaited an occasion worthy of the whiskey. When the appropriate time finally arrived, I was simultaneously excited and anxious. Could the legend possibly live up to the hype? Had I missed my chance at transcendence by not downing the bottle on the emerald isle in a thick wool sweater under a rainbow while dancing with a leprechaun?
On the first sniff my worries evaporated on a gust of apples and honey. Fresh, fruity, impossibly smooth, with a hint of nuttiness from the sherry casks, it rolls over the tongue like liquid gold. Although not bold enough to stand up to a decadent dessert or a cigar, it's more of a ray of sunshine in a glass. It's distilled by the Irish Distillers for Mitchell & Sons, who have recently released Yellow Spot, Green Spot's 12 year old big brother, but the first batch sold out across Ireland. There's currently a strict limit of one bottle per customer at most online retailers, and no plans to distribute to the USA at this point, but if you're flying through Dublin keep your eyes peeled at the duty free—and pick me up a bottle, please!!
Style: Blended Whiskey: Bourbon, Scotch, and Rye
The newest release out of the constantly innovative High West Distillery is a frankenwhiskey of the highest order, blending three of our favorite styles of the dark liquor into one frighteningly consumable bottle. Campfire is completely unlike anything I've ever tried. At first sniff, there's the smoky, peated Scotch doing a jig with fresh green spicy rye notes, while the bourbon brings dark cherries and a touch of oakiness.
The wonderful thing about this whiskey is that it keeps shifting. One moment Scotch is on top with smoky malt, then the rye fights back with sharp spices and grassy notes, and all the while bourbon in the background with brown sugar and wood sweetness. Each sip is a new revelation, as one whiskey takes center stage the others recede and share the spotlight. Despite the fluidity, no one spirit dominates or speaks out of turn; it's a remarkably harmonious blend, and the whole is somehow greater than the sum of its parts. Quite simply, there's nothing else on the market that tastes like this, and it tastes good. Highly recommended if you're into brave new imbibing experiences.
Full review here.
Parker's Heritage Blend of Mashbills
Style: Blended Bourbon
This year's offering of the Parker's Heritage Collection (an annual limited release by Heaven Hill of hand-picked barrels by Parker himself) is a bold entry into mixing whiskeys. It's a blend of two different bourbon mashbills—one rye-based, and one wheated. Selected from 11 year old barrels, blended, and bottled at cask strength (a huge 132 proof) without chill filtering, it's a unique offering of what is in a sense a four-grain Kentucky Strength Bourbon Whiskey (corn, malted barley, rye, and wheat).
The nose is assertive and snappy, with cinnamon, oak, and baking spices prevailing. The sweetness of the corn and the softness of the wheat are held in check by the brash and spicy rye. On the palate, and with a fair dash of water, this is thick nectar. So chewy you'll think it's a caramel candy—this is where the blend of mashbills really shines. The sweetness of the corn and the softness of the wheat are held in check by the assertive and spicy rye. A wonderful new approach to blended America whiskey from a major distiller.
Full review here.
Leviathan I
Style: American Single Malt Whiskey
Smoky, peaty whiskey only comes from Scotland, right? Wrong! Lost Spirits Distillery of Monterey, California, decided that the highlanders didn't own exclusive rights to peat. They've embarked on a journey of discovery to test the terroir of peat. Their Leviathian I is a peat monster—at 110 ppm, it's right up there with the bad boys of Islay. Using California-grown barley smoked over Canadian peat, aged in oak casks used to age late harvest Cabernet, it's a completely novel beast.
This is powerful stuff, but not as smoky as you would expect. Make no mistake, there is peat on the nose, but without the medicinal tang common in heavily-peated Scotch, it's earthier, muddier. There is also a swampy aroma mixed with dark berries that I found off-putting at first, but have come to crave. Once you taste this dark, dark whiskey, it's swirling campfire and dark chocolate, with malt sweetness and more of the berries from the Cabernet balancing and rounding out. Honestly, it's a bizarre profile, but I can't even get through writing this paragraph without wanting a dram. Pairs perfectly with gingerbread and a fire in the fireplace.
Pacific Rum
Style: American White Rum
Sometimes spirits sneak up on you through cocktails. For me, this summer was the year of the daiquiri, sipped ice cold on sweltering Brooklyn rooftops with nary a palm tree in sight. It's perhaps appropriate, then, that my love affair with Hemingway's drink featured a rum made far from Caribbean plantations and pirate ship wrecks. Made in Portland, Oregon, Bull Run Distilling Company's Pacific Rum is double-distilled from fermented organic cane juice before getting aged for at least four weeks in ex-bourbon barrels. It's distinctly different from its molasses-based relatives.
Pouring a very light straw color, the Pacific Rum smells sweetly grainy and sorghum-esque, but with banana bread dancing in the background. It's luxuriously soft and oily on the palate with a hint of sugar sweetness, definite oak, and cacao nibs. Overall, it's a wonderfully balanced white rum experience, more than worthy of a sipping snifter for those in the mood. And it's made me a daiquiri drinker for life.
Full review here.
Yoichi 10
Style: Japanese Single Malt Whiskey
Some spirits are made more memorable by the setting, some occasions more memorable by the tipple. In rare, wonderful moments, the two come together to make an unforgettable evening. Nikka's Yoichi 10 had been on my radar for quite some time as a standout of Japanese whisky achievement. Unfortunately, Nikka wasn't available in the US, so I had to wait for the appropriate opportunity in a country with more civilized liquor laws or pay 30 pounds in shipping, no thank you (there's some good news, though, for Japanese whisky lovers in the States—stay tuned for a Serious Drinks Japanese whiskey roundup covering some exciting new imports in January!)
When I found myself in a bar in Reykjavik on the first night of an Icelandic excursion, and the Yoichi 10 appeared on the drinks menu, AND my newly-met host was buying, well, the stars aligned. I don't remember every aspect of the evening in detail (ahem), but I scored a bottle at the duty free to bring home and remember snowy nights on that magical glacier/volcano island. The whisky lives up to the memory—it's a Japanese maritime malt from the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido, lightly peated, delicately floral, and incredibly round and whole. Sophistication and class that you could sniff all night and remember all day.
Ok, enough about me. What were your favorite bottles of 2012? Which spirits (new and newly-discovered) impressed you this year?
Samples of Campfire, Parker's Heritage, and Pacific Rum were provided for review consideration.
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These handmade pages by American artist Samantha Cotterill {aka mummysam} make me want to dust off the old sewing machine and roll out the bobbin thread… except that I haven't even thought about sewing since I was forced to make a pair of Bermuda shorts in ninth grade Home Ec. Hm, maybe I'll just covet these instead. Yes… much better plan.
{Now that I have you in a sewing kind of mood, come on over to sfgirlbybay and see the newest addition to 'the house that jealousy built'…}


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This article was originally written in English. Text in other languages was provided by machine translation.
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By default the DateChooser in Flex shows the English UI. You need to set the dayNames and monthNames properties to localized strings so that it shows the language you want. But do you know that all these localized names are available in the flash.globalization package? Here's how to get the localized names.
First, create a DateTimeFormatter object with the locale you are interested in the <fx:Script> section
Alternatively, if you feel more comfortable with MXML than ActionScript, you can use a MXML DateTimeFormatter in the <fx:Declarations> section.
Second, create a vectorToArray function for type conversion in the <fx:Script> section, we will explain a little more in the next step.
Third, in your <mx:DateChooser> component, set the dayNames and monthNames properties.
And since you are using the DateTimeNameStyle enums, you want to import them in <fx:Script>
Here, the getWeekdayNames and getMonthNames methods give the localized names as a vector of string. And vectorToArray function is used to convert them to array before assigning them to the DateChooser. The getFirstWeekday method gives the first day of the week for the locale. For example, many european locales use Monday as the first day instead of Sunday.
That's it. Now run your app and you will see the DateChooser UI is showing in Chinese.
Change the locale to British English (en-GB) and Arabic, Saudi Arabia (ar-SA) to see how the locale changes the first day of week.
Think that this doesn't save time than hardcoding? Such as:
It is true if you just need to localized to your language. But imagine you need to localize in multiple languages, or languages you don't know, or you want language switchable by users at run time. Using flash.globalization is more scalable.
To learn more features provided by flash.globalization package, check out the ActionScript API documentation.


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With Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, you can design and build robust SharePoint applications that include a rich set of data sources, customer-facing views and forms, highly customized workflows, and more. Once you've built your business solution site, you can start using it right away in your SharePoint environment. Or, you can turn your solution into a template and deploy it in another environment, make it available to users so they can create new sites from it, or hand it off for further development in Visual Studio.
Turning your customized site or business solution into a template is an extremely useful and very powerful capability in SharePoint 2010. Once you start to package your solution as a template, you begin to realize SharePoint's potential as a platform for business applications.
This article describes SharePoint templates, what they're used for, how to turn your site into a template, and how to activate that template on the server.
In this article
What is a SharePoint site template?
SharePoint site templates are pre-built definitions designed around a particular business need. You can use these templates as they are to create your own SharePoint site and then customize the site as much as you like. You're probably familiar with the default site templates, like Team Site, Blog site, and Group Work Site as shown here.
In addition to the default templates, you can create your own site template based on a site you've created and customized in SharePoint. This is a powerful feature in SharePoint that allows you to create a custom solution and then share that solution with your peers, the broader organization, or outside organizations. You can also package the site and open it in another environment or application like Microsoft Visual Studio and further customize it there.
When you save your site as a template, you create a Web Solution Package, or WSP. A WSP is a CAB file with the solution manifest. The solution you create gets stored in the Solution Gallery for the SharePoint site collection. From there, you can download a copy of the solution or activate it on the server.
Note: The WSP you create is a partial trust user solution that has the same declarative format as a full trust SharePoint solution. However, it does not support the full extent of feature element types that are supported by full trust solutions.
What gets saved in a template
When you save your SharePoint site as a template, you're saving the overall framework of the site – its lists and libraries, views and forms, and workflows. In addition to these components, you can include the contents of the site in the template, for example, the documents stored in the document libraries. This could be useful to provide sample content for users to get started with. Keep in mind that this could also increase the size of your template beyond the default 50 MB site template limit.
Most of the objects in a site are included and supported by the template. There are a number of objects and features not supported however. The following table provides a quick summary of what's in and what's out of a typical site template, or solution.
Included in user solution WSP
Not included in user solution WSP
What can you do with SharePoint templates?
Saving a site as a template is a powerful feature because it offers so many different uses of custom sites in SharePoint. Here are the immediate benefits you get from saving a site as a template in SharePoint.
Customized SharePoint sites can be deployed as solutions immediately Save and activate the template in the solutions gallery and let other employees create new sites from this template. You don't need Visual Studio to create your solution, and you have to access the server directly and run server administrator commands. Just save the site as a template, activate it, and off you go.
Customized SharePoint sites are portable – In addition to deploying a custom solution in your environment, you can download the .wsp file, take it on the road, and deploy it in another SharePoint environment. All of your site customization is conveniently stored in one file.
Customized SharePoint sites are extensible – As a Web Solution Package, you can open your customized site in Visual Studio, perform additional development customization to the template and then deploy it to SharePoint. SharePoint site development, as a result, can go through a site development lifecycle that includes SharePoint Designer 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio, and the browser.
As you begin creating custom sites in SharePoint, you'll discover even more benefits to turning your site into a solution that can be made portable across the organization.
Saving a site as a template
You can save a site as a template at any time using the template option (Save site as template) on the Site Settings page in SharePoint. SharePoint Designer 2010 makes it easy by providing a Save as Template option in the ribbon, which takes you to this page in SharePoint. Once you save the template, a solution file is created and stored in the Solution Gallery where you can download or activate the solution.
To save your site as a template using SharePoint Designer 2010, perform the following steps:
Open your site in SharePoint Designer 2010.
On the Site tab, in the Manage group, click Save as Template.
This takes you to the Save as Template page in SharePoint.
Specify a name to use for the template file in the File name field.
Specify a name and description for the template in the Template name and Template description fields.
To include the content of the site in the site template, check the Include Content box.
Note: Including the content of the site can increase the size of the template significantly. Keep in mind that the default size limit for a site template is 50 MB but may be less in your organization.
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James Beard Foundation 2008 Cookbook Awards: Cookbook of the Year Award!
James Beard Foundation 2008 Cookbook Awards: Single Subject Category Winner!
"Droll, learned Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has done the meat-eating world a big favor with The River Cottage Meat Book . . . The perfect book for mindful carnivores."—Boston Globe
"Fearnley-Whittingstall confronts both the moral and gustatory issues surrounding carnivorism and provides 150 excellent recipes."—New York Newsday
"Fearnley-Whittingstall asks us to take grown-up moral responsibility for the act of eating meat—certainly enough responsibility to inquire about how the animal lived and died. All this is spelled out at fervent (and deserved) length before we get near a bit of cooking instruction. Luckily, Mr. Fearnley-Whittingstall turns out to be as zealous a cook as he is a reformer, equally able to appreciate the simplicity of Irish stew or a good beefburger, or to lead people through the intricacies of pork pie or cider-cured ham."—New York Times
"Those who find that calves' livers and pig's trotters are best contemplated at a distance should keep well away from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Those of us with the opposite problem worship him as a god. This is not a case of macho posturing over a barbecue pit: There is more cooking know-how in Fearnley-Whittingstall's little finger than you will find in the graduating class of any cooking school in the country. His book is stuffed with wit, erudition, and one slow-cooked, lovingly constructed recipe after another."—NPR.org Holiday 2007
One of the Year's Best Cookbooks: "Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a brilliant, argumentative British cook and food writer . . . his recipes happen to be terrific."—Gourmet
#1 Cookbook of the Year—Amazon Editor's Picks in Cooking—Food & Wine
100 to Taste List—Food & Wine
"This is one to read and cook from during barbecue season—and to get inspired by the rest of the year."—Bon Appetit
"A book to help us truly understand the philosophical and pragmatic aspects of the meat on our table."—Boston Globe
"The ultimate reference for the serious carnivore."—New York Daily News
"This guy gets physical with meat . . . A trencherman's manual of meat that includes recipes—from down-home steak-and-kidney pie to more exalted fare like a salad of seared pigeon breast with pan-juice vinaigrette—and graphic how-tos on buying and butchering, plus answers to questions you maybe never asked . . . More than you can digest? No doubt. More than you want? No way. Fearnley-Whittingstall's down-in-the-trenches humor and tone of earthy authority keep you coming back for another slice."
"His big, impressive meat book . . . has now been Americanized . . . Fearnley-Whittingstall is passionate and opinionated but not heavy-handed, and his sense of humor is evident throughout . . . A good companion to Fergus Henderson's The Whole Beast, this unique title will be important as both a reference and a cookbook."—Library Journal Starred Review
"Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that the animals we eat deserve respect, both for their sake and ours."—Conde Nast Traveler


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The ginormous Jesus statue that burned down near Cincinnati was such a homely piece of work, I'm thinking the lightning strike that destroyed it may not have been a coincidence.
The ginormous Jesus statue that burned down near Cincinnati was such a homely piece of work, I'm thinking the lightning strike that destroyed it may not have been a coincidence.
The $250,000 sculpture, which depicted a 62-foot savior jutting out of a man-made lake, had several nicknames, including "Touchdown Jesus," in homage to the famous statue at the University of Notre Dame.
But Fighting Irish Jesus looks like he actually could run a post-pattern. They didn't call Ohio's chunky version "Big Butter Jesus" for nothing.
I'm thinking TV town crier Glenn Beck may reach the tipping point on Aug. 28. That's when he plans to speak at and host a "Restoring Honor" tea party rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — the site of, and on the anniversary of, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
Beck has every right to do it, but anyone who fashions himself a student of history, as he does, knows why his actions will be seen as a tasteless and a disingenuous slap at one of this country's finest moments.
I think that if the Cleveland Indians get any worse, the grounds crew simply will stop mowing the grass.
I think LeBron James will stay. Fans in Chicago and New York are utterly unfazed by superstars, and their sports media markets are tougher than a $2 steak.
But I also think the weekly "Please Stay, LeBron" begging parties have gone from passionate to embarrassing and won't make a whit of difference in his decision.
As if Americans needed another excuse to run screaming from the World Cup, I think that a referee's suspiciously bad call that robbed the U.S. team of a victory over the weekend may just do it.
I think the Cleveland Browns will be better than everyone expects. Don't wake me up.
Charita Goshay writes for The Repository in Canton, Ohio. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Today I have got my new Arduino Duemilanove (2009) board (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDuemilanove), and started running the example programs. Everything is so easy and simple! I was little bit curious about their Programming architecture in C/C++. It doesn't use the traditional main() function. Instead of it, Arduino uses two functions: setup() and loop(). How is this working?Are they using any interpreter to interpret Arduino-standard code to traditional C (AVR GCC)?
Before using Arduino, I was using my own designed ATmega8/ATmega168 Board (http://robotalk.codecake.com/2008/09/14/atmega8-development-board/) and AVR Studio 4 with AVRISP mkII. The reason I have jumped (not really jumped; just for curiosity) to Arduino is it's easy-to-use software library.Is it possible to run Arduino Code on my own custom board (specified the link above)?
Will it work if I just burn the HEX file to the ATmega168 on my custom board? Does the hardware need to be changed then?
I was writing code using traditional AVR GCC (not C++), which is a big hassle comparing with the easy programming technique of Arduino. That is why I need to switch to their Library, and off course, without using their Hardware.Is it also possible to mix up both programming style: the regular AVR GCC and Arduino C/C++?
As far I know, AVR GCC only supports C-style code, not C++. Please, correct me if I am wrong.Finally one more question:Is it possible to write an Arduino Library using AVR GCC? Or, do I have to use their style of Coding to build a new library?
Binary sketch size: 1124 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0002 0x5a != 0x34avrdude: verification error; content mismatch
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Haven't you always wanted to cozy up with an NES? Okay, well, maybe not so much. They do have a lot of sharp edges, and do you even know where that controller has been? I swear I saw the dog licking it yesterday, and then your little brother—
Well. Over at her shop Felt Sew Good, crafter Lucy Sparrow has made a whole line of retro gaming cushions that you can—nay, should—curl up with. It's like the 1980s, reincarnated in pillow form. The original Game Boy, the NES, the SNES... they're all here, soft, cuddly, and quite a bit larger than life. There's even a ZX Spectrum, if you're feeling particularly old-school.
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The south west of England is filled with vibrant centres of culture, heritage and ancient monuments that rise up out of sweeping moorland and overlook dramatic coastlines.
This is where England's tumultuous past shakes hands with its demure present, where tasteful modern architecture sits side by side with the half-timbered heritage of Tudor times, and Georgian elegance complements the inimitable skill of medieval masons. Visitors travelling by train are rewarded with breathtaking views, fresh seafood and independent shops that warmly celebrate English individuality and eccentricity.
By using the First Great Western trains from London-Paddington railway station, you'll be able to visit several landmarks and towns of South England.
London > Oxford
Start in Oxford (1h trip from London), best known for its world-famous university, which is split into a number of architecturally sumptuous colleges, each steeped in history and an impressive roll-call of famous writers, thinkers and scientists. We recommend guided tours of Trinity and Christ Church colleges in particular. Next, spend a little time exploring the city centre's excellent range of shops before heading to the Cherwell Boathouse for an afternoon's punting on the River Isis.
Our tip: The delightfully atmospheric Holywell Music Room is the oldest concert hall in Europe, and holds classical concerts year-round.
Oxford > Salisbury - Stonehenge > Bath
Catch the train from Oxford and before long you'll see the spire of Salisbury Cathedral soaring up out of the city of Salisbury (1h48 trip). Be sure to take a closer look when you arrive. However, Salisbury's star attraction is Stonehenge, a short bus ride away. Spend an hour or two marvelling at the stones, before heading to Bath, where you'll be treated to a spectacular view of Bath's honey-coloured Georgian architecture as your train pulls into this remarkable city – a UNESCO World Heritage Site (54 min trip). Take a walking tour around its top sights; the Roman Baths and the Royal Crescent are among the most famous. Be sure to spend some time browsing Bath's fine selection of markets and boutiques, and then get in touch with your literary side in the Jane Austen Centre.
Our tip: When in Bath, round off the day in Thermae Bath Spa, Britain's only natural thermal spa, and relax after your hard day of exploring.
Bath > Bristol > Exeter
Bristol (32 min trip from Bath) is a thriving mix of contemporary art, music and fashion with fascinating heritage in a delightful coastal setting. The feats of one of Victorian England's greatest engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, take centre stage here, from the lofty Clifton Suspension Bridge dramatically straddling the Clifton Gorge to the SS Great Britain in the harbour. See both in the morning, then explore Bristol's harbour-side area by boat with the Bristol Ferry Boat company for striking views of the city from the water.
In the afternoon go to Exeter (1h25 trip). You'll love the scenic train journey southwest from Bristol Temple Meads to Exeter St David's, through the sumptuous greens and golds of the Devonshire countryside. While Devon is best known for its vast moors, verdant countryside and delicious cream teas, the medieval cathedral city of Exeter is perhaps its crowning glory. It combines the kind of character that only centuries can bestow with a cutting-edge flourish of arts, music and excellent nightlife. The nearby great estate of Killerton House will give you a taste of country luxury.
From Exeter, you can return to London (2h30 trip), or if you have more time you can continue to the extreme south western part of England.
Our tip: Stop for a drink at Bristol's oldest pub, the Llandoger Trow, in the Old City. For a completely different perspective on Exeter, take a guided tour of the network of 14th-century passages that run for miles beneath it; they're the only passages of their kind in Britain.
Plymouth > Truro > Penzance
Plymouth (1h10 trip from Exeter) is one of England's maritime honeypots, so don't miss the city's historic Barbican: the city's old port. You'll be treated to real seaside character, with cobbled streets, unique boutiques, art galleries and chic cafes tucked between Elizabethan storehouses. The Wheel of Plymouth will offer you a good look at the whole city and out to sea as it carries you up to 60 metres, as well as spotting any places you'd like to check out. If you love the water, then the Mountbatten Watersports Centre has windsurfing, waterskiing, scuba diving and all kinds of other aquatic delights. Otherwise the train will take you to your next destination - Truro (1h13 trip) – located in the Cornwall, a county which is famous for its dramatic coastline, captivating fishing harbours, spectacular beaches, diverse landscapes and much more.
Winding cobbled streets and Georgian architecture lead the eye up to the three soaring spires of Truro cathedral, which stands just a stone's throw from the River Truro. Truro's a city for markets, and its farmer's market is a major draw for visitors with an eye for some good local grub. Lemon Street Market, on the other hand, is wildly varied, with everything from delicious coffee to art and organic flowers.
As the day is nearing its end take the train to Penzance (42 min trip), which features an attractive promenade on its sea front. The town has beautiful beaches as well as historic houses. Why not try one of the various restaurants on the Western Promenade road to have a romantic dinner. As a result of cuisine specialities from all over the world, Penzance claims to have more eating places per resident than New York City!
The trip back to London from Penzance will last approximately 5h20.
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Our target audience are the downstream oil, natural gas and chemical markets--generally the smaller companies. We are targeting the decision makers, who are usually male engineers in middle-management. They're generally interested at looking innovative, but are worried about the bottom line.
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Sophomore E.J. Reed battled foul trouble throughout and played just 10 minutes, but scored 15 second-half points as the Blackbirds rounded out their non-conference season with a victory to improve to 5-8 on the year.
LIU's defense was impressive down the stretch, holding the Bobcats to a 1-for-7 performance over the final three minutes and closed the game forcing Texas State into 38.1 percent shooting.
LIU Brooklyn opens Northeast Conference play on Thursday, Jan. 9 at borough rival St. Francis Brooklyn at 7 p.m.
In the game prior to the victory, an All-American performance by senior point guard Jason Brickman nearly helped an undermanned LIU Brooklyn men's basketball team to a road victory at Sam Houston State.
Brickman scored a career-high 26 points and dished out 13 assists, but the Blackbirds saw a second-half lead evaporate down the stretch in an 82-78 setback.
Brickman continued his milestone-reaching season, becoming the 33rd player in LIU Brooklyn history to score 1,000 points in a career, and with his 13 dimes moved past former NBA guard Pooh Richardson and Notre Dame guard Chris Thomas into 22nd place on the NCAA career assists list with 839.
The Blackbirds (4-8), who once again had just eight scholarship players available due to injury, led by as many as 10 points in the first half with Brickman running the show to near perfection.


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welcome and enjoy being a part of this happy christmas family.
welcome and enjoy being a part of this happy christmas family.
Welcome Ashley and Mazzy! Have fun!
Ashley -where in NY do you live? I am currently in Sloatsburg (Rockland County) but I used to live upstate (Oneida, Binghamton, Oneonta and Ithaca)
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Since 2006 our Foam Flowers are hand made and are formed out of the best quality foam sheet and spray-brushed with the finest acrylic paint individually by hand.
We assemble our products by hand in Hawai'I to create our "Hawai'i Inspired" Looks Like Real Flowers ™ Products.
We feature foam, silk, and clay flowers like the Plumeria, Vanda Orchid, Dendrobium Orchid, Cymbidum Orchid, Gardenia, Pikake, Spider lily, Lily, Tiare, Hibiscus, and other flowers.
Vist our Gift Store for other Gift Products. These are Inventory clearance items.
OUR FLOWERS are HAND MADE. We assemble our finished products in Hawai'I and use other hair accessories from the Philippines, Thailand, China and France to create our "Hawai'i Inspired" Looks Like Real Flowers™.
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Kundalini Yoga with JoAnn
Kundalini Yoga with JoAnn Mermis
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Join us for this healing, strengthening Kundalini Yoga. All ages and levels of practitioners most welcome. This Yoga will soothe your soul and awaken your spirit while it supports and rejuvenates the body. Small class size and peaceful transformative music creates a unique environment that will leave you feeling renewed. $10. Lots of free parking.
Healing mind, body and spirit
All Levels and All are Welcome
Bring Balance to Whole Body while empowering the feminine divine within into balance with male energies
It is the Yoga of Awareness. Kundalini Yoga is the uncoiling our blocked energies that inhibit our creativity. Creativity is our divine birth right. It is not enough to have knowledge and intellect. Without wisdom, they are not powerful. When we become aware of our inner wisdom that resides in us all, we are free to create healthy, happy, and wholly lives. Experience your inner wisdom through the Yoga of Awareness. All levels of Yoga practice welcome. Come and release the stress of life. Take care of yourself. Release blocked energy so that you may be more creative in work and relationships. The fast-paced age of information is upon us. We need to remember the value of love and unity with ourselves and with others. Come treat yourself to one hour of benefits for a more productive life.
Jo Ann Mermis has been a practitioner of Kundalini Yoga for over a decade, and a top producer in real estate sales for over 26 years. She has a Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis on consciousness, Health and Healing. Her innovative teaching skills integrate the teachings of Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga into busy lives while maintaining health, productivity, creativity and wealth.
Colleen McCarthy-Evans has been practicing Kundalini Yoga since 2011, and credits this yoga technology with profound healing following a back injury and surgery. Colleen is also an award-winning writer, illustrator and board game inventor. A lifelong seeker of truth, her world view has been strongly influenced by multiple sacred cultures and spiritual traditions. She's a co-founder of the Santa Barbara Charter School (est.1993), whose mission it is to teach Conflict Resolution along with Academics and the Arts. She lives in Santa Barbara, California with her husband and dog,
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The rare character and beauty of Harris Tweed is made by truly traditional methods. Hundreds of distinctive patterns developed over the centuries, each unique but unmistakably Harris Tweed with its characteristic subtle designs in complex natural shades.
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Should Facebook be wary of Pinterest? The social media startup that gives users digital pinboards to share is now deciding to make money and its first move is hiring Tim Kendall, Facebook's former director of monetization.
While Pinterest has no ads as of yet, it's working on it because businesses see more purchases from the site, according to Fortune.
Katia Beauchamp, CEO of Birchbox, has already seen that. Pinterest is among the top 10 traffic drivers to the site, which sells beauty products as well as sample-sale subscriptions. It doesn't yet drive as much traffic as, say, Facebook, Beauchamp says, but it results in more direct sales. At this point, businesses can't spend money marketing on Pinterest even if they want to; Silbermann is not ready to talk about how he plans to make money off it. Targeted ads seem like a no-brainer, and new hire Kendall is sure to have some ideas for how to help companies better reach consumers on the site. But Pinterest also could become a platform for would-be entrepreneurs seeking to cash in on their hobbies, much the way eBay unleashed a new class of mom-and-pop vendors.
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So does this mean Pinterest will be siphoning off some of Facebook's market share? You bet. While some may denigrate Pinterests effete interests, it appeals to those strongly attracted to those interests -- which is far more than the hit-and-miss ads at Facebook. Unfortunately, this may also mean the end to Etsy and similar crafty purveyors as Pinterest crushes them beneath its pinboards.


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"But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king's choice
food or with the wine which he drank..." Daniel 1:8 (NASB)
The Daniel Plan is a healthy lifestyle program framed around abundance, not deprivation. You will enjoy eating delicious whole foods; food grown on a plant, not man-made products created in a plant. Start by bringing in the good, and with every healthy choice, you will begin to feel better. Focus on all the amazing food you can enjoy. Visit The Daniel Plan Cafe to get inspired!


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DOVER — Second graders of Woodman Park School listened intently Friday afternoon as Youth 2 Youth character Samantha Skunk shared her tale of how cigarettes affected her life, turning her into a "sickly, smelly, smarmy," and "slow" green skunk.
Introduced as a bright, upbeat, magenta-colored animal, Samantha Skunk, played by Angelina Picitello, 12, told the youngsters she decided to try smoking one day to impress her peers.
"Maybe if I try smoking, I'll have more friends," she told students.
Youth to Youth presented the skit, now in its 15th year, as an educational and preventive measure to warn children of the dangers of smoking.
This years campaign titled, "Love Your O's" got students excited about the benefits of being able to breathe easy, having energy for things such as recess and exercise and, for their studies, to be able to think.
"'O's' are in the air all around us," MJ Champagne, 12, said. She helped to narrate the skit, getting the audience excited with a chant that would be shouted throughout the play.
"What do you know about smoking?" she asked, as one side of the room answered, "Smoking stinks!" as loud as they could.
Answering back was the alternate end of the room shouting, "It slows you down!"
In unison, all the students took a deep breathe before shouting together, "I love my O's!'"
Though Samantha Skunk began the skit telling students she was proud of her bright magenta color, believing it was given to her for a special reason and knowing her mother loved her dearly, the allure and perhaps peer preissue of smoking took hold on the friendly, energetic skunk.
Eventually, Samantha's bright, lively color turned an "icky green." Green Samantha Skunk was played by Bethany Smith, 12.
As the story unfolded, Samantha learned that smoking was not the way to make friends especially since she already had some who cared about her and urged her to stop smoking. In her dreams at night, Soloman the Parrot, played by Avery Munoz, 13, would visit Samantha assuring her she knew the right thing to do- quit smoking- and helped her realize the habit was not benefiting her life.
Ultimately her friends, Pat the Penguin, played by Stephanie Pixley, 12, and Penny the Panda, played by Grace Roy, decided not to shun Samantha the Skunk, but to let her know that she was loved, helping her kick the habit by letting her know they wished her to be "healthy and fast again."
The friends ran together, helping Samantha regain her running speed and with each step, she regained her vibrant magenta color and happy demeanor.
Joining the cast this year was Samantha Russo, reigning Miss Souhegan, getting the word out to students. As she pursues the crown of Miss New Hampshire, her platform is Kick Butts: Tobacco Education and Prevention.
She said she found Youth to Youth online after searching for something that would match her cause to get involved in regarding stopping children from smoking. From Nashua, Russo, said this youth group really caught her eye.
'"I think that they're awesome," she said of the students participating in the group.
Meeting at least weekly and making Youth to Youth a priority in their lives the students were role models, even to Russo.
"When I was in middle school, I would not have made the same commitment," she said, adding that each of the students are also really intelligent about the dangers of drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and effective prevention.
"They're just really dedicated to it and really inspiring," Russo said.
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Biography and Memoir
June 2018
Recent Releases
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon
What it's about:
In his signature stylish prose, Pulitzer Prize winner (and father of four) Michael Chabon reflects on parenting and his relationship with his own father in this breezy collection of essays.
Don't miss:
"Adventures in Euphemism," about how Chabon grappled with racial epithets during bedtime readings of Mark Twain.
Want a taste?
"You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky, they even on occasion manage to understand you."
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
Yunte Huang
What it's about:
In 1829, c
onjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker immigrated from Thailand to America, making careers as "human oddities" in sideshow attractions around the world. Their lives offstage were just as sensational: they married white sisters (inciting racist tabloid gossip) and fathered 21 children between the two of them.
Read it for:
Yunte Huang's timely examination of "otherness" as inseparable from American identity and history --
much like the Bunkers' own conjoined existence.
True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age
Christine Lahti
What it is:
a bawdy and intimate collection of essays from actor Christine Lahti, touching on her fractious childhood, her feminist awakening in college, parenthood and aging, and career highs and lows.
Did you know?
Lahti is an Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award winner, and was famously in the bathroom when she was awarded the Golden Globe in 1998.
Chapters include:
"What I Wish I'd Known About Love Scenes;" "Dear Pregnant Women of a Certain Age."
Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World
Eileen McNamara
What it is:
an insightful portrait of the Stanford-educated Kennedy -- the 5th of Joseph and Rose's nine children -- whose efforts helped advance the disability rights movement.
About the author:
Eileen McNamara is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and director of the Journalism Program at Brandeis University.
Why it's significant:
a light on an overlooked member of the Kennedy dynasty, McNamara argues that Eunice's political legacy rivals that of her more famous brothers.
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
Harold Schechter
What it's about:
In early 1900s Indiana, Norwegian American widow Belle Gunness lured as many as 40 men to their deaths at her "murder farm," becoming one of the most prolific female serial killers in history.
What's in a name?
Newspapers at the time described Gunness as "a modern Lady Macbeth," "Lady Bluebeard," and "Indiana Ogress."
Reviewers say:
"A fascinating and dramatic page-turner that will be a new favorite among true-crime fans" (
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Focus on: Pride Month
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage...
Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell
What it is:
a moving, suspenseful account of the plaintiffs and legal teams involved in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
About the authors:
Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Jim Obergefell was the plaintiff in the landmark case.
Why you might like it
Love Wins
' timely, empowering narrative makes it an ideal book club selection.
Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank
What it's about:
In this sharp and engaging memoir, former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank candidly reflects on his four-decade political career, including his decision in 1987 to come out as gay (becoming the first member of Congress to do so).
Topics include:
Frank's role in voting rights campaigns in the 1960s and the 2010 repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell;" his reflections on the Iraq War and the fight for marriage equality.
Logical Family: A Memoir
Armistead Maupin
What it's about:
After brief stints in law school and the military, beloved author Armistead Maupin (
Tales of the City
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schewed his conservative Southern upbringing for the freewheeling San Francisco of the 1970s, finding a community in the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movement.
Is it for you?
With a nonlinear yet nuanced narrative,
Logical Family
will appeal to Maupin's fans and general readers alike.
Want a taste?
"Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us."
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock
What it is:
a courageous memoir from trans activist Janet Mock, foregrounding her transition and coming-of-age against the larger societal plight of trans women of color.
Reviewers say:
"An enlightening, much-needed perspective on transgender identity" (
Kirkus Reviews
Further reading:
Mock published a follow-up memoir,
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr
What it is:
an intimate biography of the astronaut and icon, whose heavily guarded personal life remained a secret until her death in 2012, when her obituary revealed her as a lesbian survived by her partner of 27 years.
What sets it apart:
ritten with the cooperation of Ride's partner, family, and colleagues, journalist (and longtime friend of Ride) Lynn Sherr's sensitive, thoroughly researched portrait celebrates Ride's life and legacy.
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Actress and Humanitarian Serinda Swan Joins the Fight Against Malaria
Nothing But Nets' Newest Champion Swan Travels With United Nations Foundation Delegation To Help Distribute Life-Saving Bed Nets To Refugees At Kakuma Refugee Camp In Northern Kenya
Kakuma, Kenya
June 21, 2012
Alexis Krieg
As the newest Champion in the fight against malaria, actress and humanitarian Serinda Swan recently joined a delegation from the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to visit Kakuma Refugee Camp to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets to refugees. The trip was tied to Nothing But Nets' nationwide appeal to send 100,000 bed nets to refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan.
Since last June, more than 130,000 refugees — and counting — have entered South Sudan and neighboring countries to escape fighting in the region. 75,000 more are expected this year. As the situation worsens, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is providing food, water, and shelter. In a country where malaria is the leading cause of death among children under five, refugee families in South Sudan also need life-saving bed nets.
The diverse group, which included UN Foundation Vice President Elizabeth Gore and Nothing But Nets Director Chris Helfrich, met with UNHCR and other officials and camp leaders. The delegation also visited a school, a hospital, a vocational training center, and a computer learning center. Swan met mothers and children, sat with children suffering from malaria and malnutrition, and listened to their stories.
"Meeting these refugee mothers and children was humbling and inspiring," Swan said. "Their patience, strength, and grace in the toughest circumstances are incredible. These families deserve to sleep safely at night, and everything we can do to help, like delivering life-saving bed nets, matters."
"This experience visiting Kakuma Refugee Camp with the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign is just the beginning of my support for this important cause," Swan said. "I am thrilled to lend my voice to the movement to end malaria. We've got amazing momentum — we can eliminate malaria deaths in this generation."
Kakuma Refugee Camp, about 75 miles from the South Sudan border, has seen an influx of families from South Sudan. Kakuma is home to more than 94,000 people, one-third of whom are from South Sudan. As the rainy season approaches, the risk for malaria in the camp grows, worsened by poor drainage and standing water — prime breeding grounds for deadly mosquitoes. Last year, about one-fifth of the people living in Kakuma had malaria.
Every 60 seconds, a child dies of malaria. Yet progress is being made against the disease, thanks to hundreds of thousands of supporters joining the movement against malaria. In five years, malaria has dropped from the leading cause of death among refugees to number five. With bed nets and other low-cost solutions, 11 African countries have cut malaria rates in half in less than three years.
In addition to her support of Nothing But Nets, Swan is a founding ambassador for Friends to Mankind, which works to connect people with good causes worldwide. She has cycled across Cambodia and skydived to raise awareness about child sex-trafficking. Swan stars in the A&E series "Breakout Kings," and was featured in the show "Smallville," and the films Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and TRON: Legacy. She recently finished shooting a feature film, The Baytown Outlaws, co-starring Eva Longoria and Billy Bob Thornton. Swan launched her big-screen acting career in 2009 in the romantic comedy The Break-Up Artist.
Joining Swan in Kakuma were Nothing But Nets friends and supporters Brian Gott, publisher of Variety, and his wife Audra Gott; Tim Gray, Variety editor in chief; tech entrepreneur Ryan Allis; photographer Michael Muller; and Bryant Barr, Director of the BUZZKILL Foundation, which supports Nothing But Nets.
The world's newest country, South Sudan is roughly the size of Texas, and families escaping the fighting are moving into safer zones, away from the violence concentrated near the border. More than 130,000 refugees have fled fighting on the border of Sudan and South Sudan since last June; observers expect 75,000 more this year. Malaria is a leading cause of death among refugees and the number one cause of death in South Sudan among children under five—bed nets are an easy, cost-effective tool to keep families safe.
To date, Nothing But Nets has raised more than $40 million to distribute more than 6 million insecticide-treated nets to families throughout Africa. To learn more, visit www.NothingButNets.net
About Nothing But Nets
Nothing But Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by sports columnist Rick Reilly, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the campaign that was created by the United Nations Foundation in 2006. Campaign partners include the National Basketball Association's NBA Cares, The people of The United Methodist Church, and Major League Soccer's MLS W.O.R.K.S. It only costs $10 to provide an insecticide-treated bed net that can prevent this deadly disease. Visit www.NothingButNets.net to send a net and save a life.
About The United Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation builds public-private partnerships to address the world's most pressing problems, and broadens support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. Through innovative campaigns and initiatives, the Foundation connects people, ideas and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The Foundation was created in 1998 as a U.S. public charity by entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner and now is supported by global corporations, foundations, governments, and individuals. For more information, visit www.unfoundation.org.


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THOMAS Muller's hat-trick thrust Germany into centre stage in this thrilling World Cup as Joachim Low's side demolished Portugal, their strongest Group G opponents, in Salvador.
Portugal were already 2-0 down before they imploded completely with Pepe, always the man most likely to lose his head, shown a straight red card for a light head-butt on Muller.
Germany, utterly dominant despite playing without a recognised centre forward, went on to win 4-0 with a hat-trick for Muller - the golden boot winner at the last World Cup - and a thunderous header from Mats Hummels.
It meant a hugely disappointing result for world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo, who had declared himself fully fit from his knee injury.
Portugal face a real test now in a strong group with USA and Ghana where goal difference is likely to prove crucial, and to make matters worse lost another key defender, Fabio Coentrao, to a nasty-looking injury.
Strangely, Portugal had dominated the opening exchanges and Ronaldo inspired the first real chance of note as he played in Hugo Almeida but the moustachioed Portugal striker's effort was weak and easy for Manuel Neuer to claim.
Neuer then came to the rescue again as Ronaldo threatened once more. Miguel Veloso caught Philipp Lahm in possession and with the Portuguese outnumbering the German defence sent Ronaldo racing in on goal but he hammered his shot straight at Neuer from a tight angle.
After that, however, and partly aided by some shocking defending, Germany assumed the early control.
Sami Khedira had already missed a golden opportunity when Portugal keeper Rui Patricio cleared the ball straight to his feet, and though he was 35 yards out the Real Madrid midfielder should have done better with the empty goal beckoning.
That was a let-off for Portugal but Germany were not to be denied.
Joao Pereira pulled back Mario Gotze as he twisted in the box and the Portuguese defender was lucky to be only booked by Serbian referee Milorad Mazic.
Muller did not look for a second as though he would miss the penalty, and he buried it emphatically to put the Germans ahead with 12 minutes gone.
Nani sent a shot skimming over the crossbar as Portugal tried to respond, but it was Germany who struck again.
Gotze had been denied by a last-ditch block after excellent work by Mesut Ozil but from the corner, taken by Toni Kroos, Hummels crashed home a header despite the attentions of two defenders.
Eder headed over from a corner as Portugal tried desperately to get back into the game but then came Pepe's moment of self-destruction.
Muller went down claiming he had been caught in the face by Pepe's arm, but the Real Madrid defender's reaction was to push his head into the German forward's.
It may have been the lightest of head-butts but it was pure stupidity Pepe, who has previous for this kind of thing, and he was given his marching orders.
Muller effectively ended any contest just before the break, firing in off Rui Patricio's body as Portugal's defence gave way again.
Ozil was denied a one-on-one with the keeper, with Muller missing a hat-trick chance with a header from the rebound.
Portugal had a penalty claim of their own turned down after Benedikt Howedes appeared to catch Eder as they challenged for the re-bound from Nani's shot, before Germany finally wrapped it up.
They had made heavy weather of getting the fourth, Gotze in particular being wasteful, but finally Andre Schurrle crossed low and Rui Patricio merely palmed the ball to Muller to poke him from close range with 12 minutes left.
Ronaldo's influence was strictly limited, only a blistering free-kick right at the final whistle and brilliantly saved by Neuer hinted at what might have been.


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Three 'nauts have made it home from the International Space Station in time for Christmas, landing in Kazakhstan early this morning.
Expedition 33 commander Suni Williams and flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide landed northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 1.53am GMT after 127 days in space. The trio set off in a Soyuz capsule after undocking from the station's Rassvet module at 10.26pm.
Crewmates Kevin Ford, Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy remained onboard the ISS. NASA 'naut Ford has taken over command to start Expedition 34.
Williams has spent 322 days in space during two missions on the orbiting station and strolled through space for a total of 50 hours and 40 minutes, including three spacewalks during Expedition 33.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 'naut Hoshide was on his second trip into space, having also served as a mission specialist on space shuttle Discovery in 2008.
The longest serving 'naut on Expedition 33 was Russian Malenchenko, who was on his fifth flight, bringing him up to 642 days in space. He's now number seven on the all-time space endurance list; his first launch was in 1994 to the Russian space station Mir.
The ISS will run with a crew of just three for now until the second lot of Expedition 34 flight engineers - NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko - launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on December 19 and dock with the station two days later. ®
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'European Football Weekends is a perennial source of pleasure' The Guardian
Sunday, 13 June 2010
ITV misses goal
6 comments:
- Ali said...
that is shocking, why are they showing adverts during the game?
- 13 June 2010 at 13:42
- Danny Last said...
I won't trust ITV to give a full explanation Ali so have a look at this:
- 13 June 2010 at 13:46
- Halftime Whistle said...
Typical tripe from ITV. I just put myself through half an hour of James Corden's World Cup Live AGAIN. Why oh why did I not learn from the fifteen minutes I saw last night? My soul has just died.
- 13 June 2010 at 22:19
Thanks for posting this ITV "boner"!!
…I had read about it and looked for clips...and all needed to do was check in with good ole EFW!
It would have been more considerate if ITV had missed the USA goal
…at least to the Green family…
Did u hear about the Brit announcers of the US broadcast of the Mex/SA match not understanding the Mexican offsides that nullified their goal off the corner?
They claimed it was an outrageously bad call and we American assumed Mexico had been robbed and riots were taking place south of the border…
- 14 June 2010 at 03:53
- football gifts said...
unbelievable, they did the same when Everton scored against Liverpool in the FA Cup a couple of seasons ago.
- 14 June 2010 at 07:25
- Danny Last said...
@Halftime Whistle - Don't do it again old chap. That programme should carry a government health warning.
@Chaz - EFW Public service! What is the coverage like over there in general? ESPN are showing it right?
A report in the Guardian today re. ITV:
ITV yesterday apologised for a clanger almost as big as England goalkeeper Robert Green's after 1.5 million fans watching the World Cup clash with the USA on the broadcaster's HD channel missed Steven Gerrard's fourth minute goal because of a "transmission error".
The company apologised "unreservedly" for the "unacceptable interruption" to the game when human error led to high-definition viewers missing about 20 vital seconds of football.
They instead had to watch an ad for Hyundai cars, one of the station's two multimillion sponsors for its coverage of the tournament.
ITV immediately switched HD coverage to standard definition already being watched on ITV1 to avoid any other possible disruption to the broadcast.
The audience peaked near the game's end at 9.15pm, attracting 20.1 million viewers, 73% of the total TV audience, on its two channels.
As an investigation got under way, ITV blamed Technicolor, its transmission supplier.
When the blunder happened, an estimated 15 million viewers were watching the match in standard definition and were unaware that 1.5 million others were missing out. At half-time, presenter Adrian Chiles gave only the mildest hint of the calamity, when he said: "Apologies for those watching in HD, I believe there was some interruption in your coverage."
A statement from ITV said: "An error by ITV's transmission providers, Technicolor, meant that ITV1 HD's coverage of the England v USA match was interrupted for approximately 20 seconds. ITV1's standard definition coverage was unaffected.
ITV immediately investigated this issue and a preliminary report has indicated that the cause of the problem was human error at Technicolor, in London.
A spokesman said: "We are in dialogue with Hyundai and we have apologised."
ITV had about 1,000 complaints when a similar mistake – going to an advert – meant viewers missed Everton's winning goal at the end of extra time in a fourth round FA cup replay with Liverpool in February 2009, a glitch ITV called at the time "unprecedented".
There were also repeated complaints about the broadcaster's coverage of Formula 1 – now back with the BBC – because of ad breaks which viewers felt led to them missing important parts of the races.
In May this year, a "technical problem" led to some viewers missing the last six seconds of the first airing of Nike's three-minute World Cup ad.
The National Grid reported an electricity surge at half time of 1,140 megawatts, the equivalent of the power consumption of a city the size of Newcastle. At full-time, there was a 1,100MW surge, equivalent to 440,000 kettles being turned on.
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