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Pasteurizing colostrum: the next step to controlling disease
Calves Absorbed MORE immunoglobulins When Colostrum was Pastuerized.
by Jud Heinrichs and Coleen Jones
The authors are a professor and research associate in the department of dairy and animal science at Penn State.
Pasteurization has been shown to be very effective at killing a variety of pathogenic bacteria including: Salmonella, E. coli, Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis, Mycobacterium californicum, Mycobacterium bovis, and Listeria monocytogenes. With proper pasteurization, these bacteria are reduced in both waste milk and colostrum. If you are using pasteurization for waste milk to control the spread of disease, feeding fresh, unpasteurized colostrum represents a break in the system that could allow organisms to spread to your replacement herd. Pasteurizing colostrum can eliminate this weak link and may also improve blood IgG levels and calf health.Bacteria can get into colostrum through contamination from milking dirty udders, reservoirs in dirty milking equipment or colostrum storage containers, and by direct shedding from the udder. We are learning that pasteurization can be used for colostrum in a similar manner as it is used for waste milk. However, there are distinct differences in the way colostrum is pasteurized compared to waste milk.
First, we must remember that the nutrient density of colostrum is different from whole milk. Solids such as fat and protein affect how heat is transferred through colostrum or milk. The fat content of colostrum can often be at least two times that of milk and may be much greater. Protein is often four or more times greater in colostrum versus whole milk. In addition, colostrum has high levels of immunoglobulins that require different heat levels and treatment than those used for milk. Early attempts at pasteurizing colostrum using the same time and temperature used in pasteurizing whole milk were largely unsuccessful due to the large reduction in immunoglobulin levels or the creation of a thick, pudding-like mass that was hard to feed and even harder to clean out of pasteurization equipment.
In the past few years, research has studied how to best pasteurize colostrum while maintaining its quality. Since colostrum can be quite varied from cow to cow, it is unlikely that a single definition of time and temperature can be found for true pasteurization for all colostrum. However, a study using a wide variety of colostrum samples conducted at Penn State and published in the Journal of Dairy Science early this year showed that, on average, heating colostrum at 140°F for 30 minutes is the optimum combination to reduce bacteria counts without affecting colostrum IgG levels or viscosity. Other research from the University of Minnesota showed that if higher levels of disease-causing organisms are present in the colostrum, heating to 140°F for 60 minutes will give a more reliable kill of these harmful bacteria; however, slightly more IgG may be lost in the process.
Based on the different characteristics of colostrum compared to waste milk, researchers have determined that batch pasteurization is the only way to successfully pasteurize colostrum. In addition, consistent heating is critical, because once temperatures get over 140°F (60°C), IgG proteins coagulate and IgG levels in the processed colostrum drop. Therefore, a reliable pasteurizer that has good temperature controls is recommended. An unexpected finding of the research studying pasteurized colostrum was that calves fed pasteurized colostrum absorbed more IgG. In a Minnesota study, 24-hour serum IgG was 22.3 mg/mL in calves fed pasteurized colostrum compared to 18.1 mg/mL in calves fed raw colostrum. Apparent efficiency of IgG absorption was also improved in the calves fed pasteurized colostrum (35.6 versus 26.1 percent). This phenomenon was observed in two different experiments at Penn State, as well. In one study, calves fed colostrum heated at 140°F for 30 minutes had serum IgG of 22.6 mg/mL at 24 hours compared to 19.6 mg/mL for calves fed raw colostrum. The higher blood IgG levels remained for the first five weeks of age. Absorption efficiency was 33.2 percent for pasteurized colostrum and 27.7 percent for raw. In a second Penn State study, calves fed pasteurized colostrum had blood IgG levels of 26.7 mg/mL compared to 20.2 mg/mL at 24 hours of age for calves fed unheated colostrum. Efficiency of absorption was 43.9 percent and 33.9 percent for pasteurized and raw colostrum, respectively.
In these three studies, feeding pasteurized colostrum increased 24-hour serum IgG levels by 25 percent and absorption efficiency by 28 percent compared to feeding raw colostrum. Improving absorption efficiency can have huge impacts on calves as they are able to attain significantly higher blood levels of IgG when fed the same quality of colostrum. Based on past research, we know that increasing 24-hour blood IgG levels can
have significant positive effects on calf health.
On a practical basis, colostrum from the cow that calved today will have to be harvested, pasteurized, and cooled down before feeding. As a result, most calves probably will not receive colostrum from their dam. Instead, pasteurized colostrum will be stored (refrigerated if a large herd, frozen if a small herd) to be used for the next calf that is born. Calves will still be fed colostrum produced by cows from your herd which
should ensure that antibodies specific to the organisms found on the farm are passed to calves.
Results of colostrum pasteurization research suggest that heat-treating colostrum may present an excellent opportunity to reduce bacterial populations in colostrum and increase IgG absorption, thereby reducing the percentage of dairy calves that experience failure of passive antibody transfer. The explanation of why IgG absorption is improved when colostrum is pasteurized is not yet clear, although it may be due to changes in colostrum components when they are exposed to heat or possibly to reduced competition between proteins for absorption. Past research has shown that bacteria introduced into the gut before colostrum feeding can reduce the amount of IgG absorbed by calves. But, in a recent Penn State study, calves fed colostrum that contained a high bacterial load (measured by standard plate count and coliform count) absorbed similar amounts of IgG as calves fed colostrum with a low bacterial load.
Although further research is needed to explain why IgG absorption improves, it seems clear that heating colostrum does offer advantages in providing cleaner colostrum for calves along with improved IgG absorption. This could be particularly helpful in herds working to limit the spread of Johne's.


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At one point, the government's case against John Edwards seemed open and shut: The disgraced former presidential candidate must surely be guilty of something for using a wealthy donor's six-figure checks to hide a mistress and a love child during the 2008 presidential campaign.
This week, a jury decided just the opposite, concluding in interviews after deadlocking on most of the charges that "the evidence wasn't there" to convict Mr. Edwards, a former senator and once-favored Democratic presidential candidate, on six counts of election fraud. The jury returned a not guilty verdict on the key charge and deadlocked on the other five.
While the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, which helped prosecute the Edwards case along with a team of North Carolina lawyers, wins far more cases than it loses (it has 161 guilty verdicts since 2009, mostly for bribe-taking), the collapse of the Edwards case hits particularly hard, in part because of the questions now being raised about why the government brought what some legal analysts say was "a lousy case" in the first place.
"I think it's a very difficult area in the law, and there was just so much background noise in this case, such difficult witness issues, that it's frankly not surprising to me that this is where they ended up," says Peter Zeidenberg, a former Public Integrity Section prosecutor who now works for white-collar defendants in Washington. Given that, "I think that they obviously miscalculated the strength of this case."
To be sure, in announcing the charges last year, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer came out swinging, declaring the case was about "campaign integrity." And by most accounts, prosecutors handled the long, complex trial itself with aplomb and professionalism, helped along by favorable rulings from Judge Catherine Eagles. And more generally, the difference between a foolish exercise of discretion in bringing a losing case and a conviction on the part of courageous prosecutors can be whisper-thin even in the best of cases.
But for DOJ campaign investigators reeling from the fallout from the botched prosecution of the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, where a judge threw out a guilty verdict after finding out that the government withheld exculpatory evidence, the rubble of the Edwards verdict holds some key lessons, legal analysts say.
One of the central ones is that the prosecution was faced with trying a unique case where the jurors, in one sense, were among the victims — in other words, defrauded voters. "If the public is the victim, then the jurors are victims, too, and they could basically say, 'I don't care, that happened three, four, five years ago,' " Mr. Zeidenberg says. What's more, given that the Federal Election Commission had decided not to sanction Edwards, the prosecution had few clear legal precedents for trying Edwards.
The prosecution was also faced with using vague laws to take aim at a campaign finance system that, at this point, has become a moving target. Though the alleged crimes happened in 2008, the jury was deciding Edwards' guilt after the landmark 2010 Citizens United case, where the Supreme Court equated cash money with free speech. The fact is that had the same scenario played out in 2012, the transfer of funds may not have been even close to illegal — a notion that has begun to seep into not just appelate judge chambers, but the national zeitgeist.
Moreover, to many Americans, even those disgusted by Edwards's decisions, it seemed like overkill. Edwards was no longer a politician, and his career and family have paid a high price for his infidelities, indiscretions and, as he said, "sins." "Disgraced" has been among the softer adjectives used to describe him, "scoundrel" among the gentler nouns.
But he was still a guy in a suit in a courtroom, who declared, surrounded by his family after the verdict, that he, and he alone, bore responsibility for what he had done.
Zeidenberg, the former prosecutor, says the most obvious cautionary tale for the government is that it appears to some, at least, that politics played a role in the prosecution — never a good sign in a free country.
The main investigator, a North Carolina Republican named George Holding, left the case immediately after charges were announced to run for a US House seat — a move that Zeidenberg says failed to raise enough eyebrows. And although the chief prosecutor, Lanny Breuer, a Democrat, ultimately made the decision to go forward, he had his own political considerations to consider: If he didn't proceed, the conclusion that would likely be drawn is that he was protecting a fellow Democrat.
"It's unfortunate to say this, but there's a definite possibility that it was politically motivated to begin with, and it makes it really hard not to ask some questions about that," says Zeidenberg.
Once the trial got underway, the prosecution caught every break, with the judge agreeing to motions to suppress some key defense testimony and giving the jury a wide berth in how to assign guilt to Edwards.
But prosecutors also had to contend with a shaky star witness, former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who wrote a tell-all about the whole affair, at one time proferred an alleged sex tape, and who ended up using some of the money to build a fancy home.
"I think the credibility of the witness was something that was of utmost importance to us,'' Jury foreman David Recchion said.
The Edwards trial was decidedly high-profile and high-stakes, and can still be held up by the Department of Justice as a model for what can happen if a candidate attempts campaign finance shenanigans. And few Americans really want prosecutors to be shy about pursuing miscreants just because there are some weaknesses in the case.
At this point, a retrial of Edwards on the five deadlocked charges appears a non-starter.

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Here at the label, in addition to our 200 copies on red w/blue splatter and 400 regular translucent red vinyl, we also have 50 copies of the half red/half blue tour edition and 50 copies of the white vinyl retail edition. And since we only have that limited amount of those, we wanted to do something really cool for them. So we're offering this preorder package deal where you can order every color from us, or the "4-Pack", if you will :) But only 50 of these package deals are available through us, as the remaining copies of half red/half blue tour edition and white vinyl retail edition will only be available through the band and through retail stores October 16th. The 50 "4-Packs" from us will come to you housed in a special 8" x 8" polybag that includes a screen-printed, hand-numbered insert. To clarify one more time - this 4-Pack collectors set is limited to 50 total hand-numbered packages, 25 have the blue insert and 25 have the red insert. When you order this 4-Pack you also receive an Aeges promo poster from The Bridge and an Aeges frisbee fo' FREE!
This 7" features a remastered version of the ripper Southern Comfort (stream above) from The Bridge, and the previously unreleased B-side, Stars. We opted for a classic foldover 7" gatefold jacket with a heavy gloss finish. Artwork was once again handled by Jason Craig (as was The Bridge) and includes photography by Danielle Hardy. And like The Bridge, this 7" was mastered by Mark Chalecki at Little Red Book Mastering (Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Goatsnake, Megadeth). This 'lil fella will spin at 45rpm for maximum fideltiy and come in four different vinyl colors. Lets look at how the colors will break down:
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Maryland State Police investigate inmate death
Suspect's name withheld in inmate death
A prison inmate was found dead in his cell Friday evening, according to Maryland State Police investigators.
The victim was identified as Jason T. Wallace, 29, who was an inmate at the Western Correctional Institution.
The medical examiner's office has ruled Wallace's death a homicide. An autopsy revealed that Wallace died from blunt force trauma to the head.
The preliminary investigation indicated that shortly after 9:30 p.m., during the inmates' recreation period, correctional officers were notified of an unconscious inmate in a cell.
Officers found Wallace lying on the floor. The officers immediately attempted to render aid and notified prison medical personnel. They were not able to revive him, officials said.
A suspect has been identified and is an inmate at the same facility. Once charges are filed, the suspect will be identified publicly, said officials.
The inmate's body has been taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.
According to prison officials, Wallace was incarcerated on robbery charges.
Maryland State Police homicide investigators were called by prison officials to investigate the inmate's death.
Homicide investigators, members of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Service, Maryland State Police Criminal Enforcement Division and state police crime scene technicians are assisting with the investigation.


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Montana State Athletics is Asking for $1.1 Million From the School
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) - The Montana State University's athletic department is facing a budget crunch that has it raising ticket prices and asking the school for another $1.1 million to replace aging equipment, buy new exercise machines and stabilize the department's budget.
Athletic Director Peter Fields says even though athletics is bringing in more money than ever, in part because of an expansion of the football stadium, other costs such as travel, medical insurance and scholarships have risen rapidly.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports season ticket prices are going up $30, or $5 per game, for the 2013 season and the cost of memberships in the Bobcat booster club is increasing by 20 percent.
MSU's Budget Council was scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider 104 proposals from all over campus for a share of $2 million.
Does it surprise you that the athletics department is in need of money? We are interested to read Bozeman's thoughts in the comments below.


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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A newspaper in Ohio is asking the state Supreme Court to force the release of an investigative report on the investment scandal that engulfed the state in 2005.
The Blade in Toledo filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking the inspector general's office to release the report.
Inspector General Randall Meyer pledged in 2012 to complete the report left unissued by his predecessor who oversaw the investigation into the scandal involving former coin dealer and Republican fundraiser Tom Noe (NOH'-ee).
A message seeking comment was left with the inspector general's office.
The newspaper (http://bit.ly/1eai8jY) says the report should be released because the investigation is complete.
Noe was convicted of stealing from a fund he oversaw for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. The scandal led to 19 convictions, including then-Gov. Bob Taft.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Basque ing in the Sunshine
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Dash, I needed this post! I was so ready for a get-away from the Pacific Northwest. . .thanks for taking me along with you. Loved your photos!ReplyDelete
there is nothing quite like the basque country...the spanish or the french side.ReplyDelete
thanks for taking me back to the place i lived and where my son was born...
Ah, now we are talking. As you might remember, I also had a jaunt to the sea this weekend, but rather than serve it up nicely as you have (although I will eventually) I decided to write a poem and publish some entirely gray photos about the rain! Heehee. That will charm them, won't it? Will I ever learn...ReplyDelete
And how well I can imagine the apero followed by the lunch washed down with "loads of wine"--I only wonder why I wasn't there?
Gros, gros bisous and a bear hug,
How gorgeous! I can't imagine how many photos I would take if visited here....kinda scary! Thank you for the little travel from my own chair at home!!ReplyDelete
oh for a long afternoon in a cafe with a stack of european newspapers and a grand cafe creme!ReplyDelete
thank you for the daydream.
The Basque Country is the #1 vacation destination choice of Parisians and those from the Grand Sud-Ouest…obviously for good reason. Although the weather has "turned on us" the last couple of days, I still believe I am extremely lucky to live in this paradise called the Basque Country with my Sheepfarmer :)ReplyDelete
What a delightful day trip to St Jean de Luz. I have not visited in years. I loved it, Dash. Thank you for sharing with us. There is nothing quite like the sea shore on a sunny day at the end of the long winter, is there? Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDelete
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Fresh off her recently announced engagement, Bristol Palin is already thinking about child number two. But don't expect any new additions in the immediate future.
"I'm going to wait a while, definitely," she told People in an interview. "I'm not going to rush into having another kid."
The 19-year-old recently reconciled with on again, off again beau Levi Johnston after spending more time together for the sake of their 18-month-old son, Tripp. The couple revealed their engagement in the most recent issue if US Weekly.
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Palin, used to being around lots of children due to her large family, revealed that she might want to recreate that atmosphere for her kids.
"I miss my home because I've got my little brother running around there. I've got all my little sisters, and I just miss that," she says.


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An analogy occurred to me recently:
Imagine that your best friend is quitting smoking. This is something you've really wanted her to do for a long time, as you've seen the teeth darken and heard the hacking cough for too long now.
So after much soul searching and commitment on your best friend's part, she takes the first step on their journey. She reduces the number of cigarettes she smokes per day by three! She has been smoking a pack a day.
It has required more effort and commitment than she ever thought she was capable of before. She is proud of what she has done for this first step and this is what she knows herself to be capable of right now.
As your friend tells you about this, you balk, "Only 3 less per day?! Why aren't you using the Nicorette [an anti-smoking medication]? That's what's going to help you really quit!"
How would your friend take this?
You have now negated what she was able to accomplish, which was a big difference to her, even though it was not up to your expectations.
The question: How often does this happen in aid partnerships, especially those with local organizations and on-the-ground implementing partners?
In my experience, much too often.
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CRS: House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure, March 13, 2007
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Wikileaks release: February 2, 2009
Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: House Committee Markup: Amendment Procedure
CRS report number: 98-335
Author(s): Judy Schneider, Government and Finance Division
Date: March 13, 2007
- Abstract
- The essential purpose of a committee markup is to determine whether a measure pending before a committee should be altered, or amended, in any substantive way. Of course, committees do not actually amend measures; instead a committee votes on which amendments it wishes to recommend to the House. How a panel conducts the amending process in markup for the most part reflects procedures used in the Committee of the Whole, as possibly modified by an individual committee's rules. There is also a widespread feeling that the level of formality in a markup often reflects the level of contention in the measure being marked up.
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Although the Bush Administration sought to avoid judicial review [of war-on-terror-related policies], lawyers were front and center in White House decision-making. According to Jack Goldsmith, faced with concerns about the possibility of another terrorist attack, and fear of being blamed for not avoiding it, the president could only justify the failure to take protective action if he had a good reason. "A lawyer's advice that a policy or action would violate the law, especially a criminal law, was a pretty good excuse." The White House was "haunted" by 9/11, Goldsmith argues, and "obsessed with preventing a recurrence of the expected harsh blame after the next attack." Because of this, "the question, 'What should we do?' ...often collapsed into the question 'What can we lawfully do?'...It is why there was so much pressure to act to the edges of the law." The central role played by lawyers had limitations, however. Lawyers "look to legal sources to find the answers," said 9/11 Commission Executive Director Philip Zelikow. This left out other important factors, such as the impact of a policy on U.S. foreign relations and on domestic public opinion.
The essay also places war-related policies in the context of a broader legal agenda. The essay is not at all comprehensive, however, since essays for this book -- intended for a broad audience -- have to be short. But working on this causes me to think that historians will have much to say about the Bush years for a long time, and one of the moves historians will bring to the table is an effort to contextualize administration actions -- first by beginning the story before 9/11, and finding continuities, and second by setting the Bush years within the broader trajectory of the history of legal conservatism.
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The Bush administration has been criticized for departures from the rule of law, but within the administration law was not ignored. Instead it was seen variously as a tool and as a potential threat to the operation of the executive branch. Two narratives compete for attention. In an era when the legality of torture was openly debated, the deployment of law in wartime seemed the most immediate issue. At the same time, however, a decades-long conservative movement to change American law was both significantly furthered and complicated, as Supreme Court appointments moved the Court to the right, but the lack of a common jurisprudence hampered the consolidation of a new conservative constitutional vision. More conservative courts might seem a safe haven for the president, less likely to challenge executive branch actions, but the Bush administration had a complicated relationship with courts. The administration sought out the courts to further aspects of a social policy agenda, such as restricting abortion rights and gun control. But when it came to challenges to the executive branch itself, the Administration used creative means to avoid court jurisdiction, including constitutional theories about executive power. Law was both a sword and a shield: it was a tool used to further some conservative objectives, and it was a shield intended to protect executive autonomy.


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Panic and Prayer: The Christian Right Responds to Archie's Death
It's been a rough week for traditionalist comic book fans.
First it was announced that Captain America would sprout wings. Next, it was revealed on "The View" that the Norse god Thor would become a thunder goddess in upcoming issues. But reactions to those revelations weren't nearly as visceral as the Christian right-wing's response to the news that Archie, the beloved freckle-faced comic book icon, would die taking a bullet to save his gay friend.
Tuesday, the Associated Press reported Archie Andrews would meet his demise this week in an installment of "Life with Archie" when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. Andrews' death, which was first announced in April, will mark the conclusion of the series that focuses on grown-up renditions of Andrews and his Riverdale pals.
In "Life with Archie," Keller is a married military veteran and newly-elected senator who's pushing for more gun control in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting."We wanted to do something that was impactful that would really resonate with the world and bring home just how important Archie is to everyone," said Goldwater. "That's how we came up with the storyline of saving Kevin. He could have saved Betty. He could have saved Veronica. We get that, but metaphorically, by saving Kevin, a new Riverdale is born."
Not everyone seems to share Goldwater's sentiments however.
Larry Tomczak writing for über right-wing homo hating panic machine Barb Wire had this to say about Archie's death.
This tragic example from Archie Comics is but one of many alarming developments in our society. We can either throw up our hands in despair or respond to the current wooing of the Holy Spirit to pray and get engaged in courageously bringing the gospel and truth to this generation.
Like those who partied on the Titanic, many Americans are unaware of the disaster looming ahead.
Naturally, message boards on conservative news outlets are blowing up over this news.
Readers on infowars.com wrote:
Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not Archie!!!!!!?I grew up with this comic. Now I really know it is the end of days.?Why does everything that was once just simple entertainment have to always be modernised and then used for political messages and preaching of some sort whether it be about the environment or about racism or the gay agenda. Bleugh @#$%?why can't they just leave things the way they were, the way you remember them being as a kid. I feel sorry for today's kids, there is so little simple pleasures left, everything has to be politically motivated. RIP Archie, and Betty & Veronica you really wasted so much of your lives fighting over this goof ball.
Quite frankly it's just another brick in the wall of the entertainment industry trying to 'pussify' America. They have killed off Superman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Archie, and announced yesterday, the hammer wielding SON of Odin, Thor has had a sex change and is now a woman. Since there have been 2 Thor movies in recent years, should make the next one interesting as to who will play him/her?
Readers of World Net Daily were similarly apoplectic. Comments to their posting of the Associated Press article included:
I am vomiting right now! This is gay social engineering at a whole new level. And considering it is about a comic book character.... shows the sickening depths that the gay-lesbian crowd will go to try and validate a sick, perverse and filthy lifestyle . God, help us.
In the only sense I could see this happening is Archie is saved by grace and knows his Homosexual friend is not. So he takes the bullet meant for his friend knowing he, Archie, is going to life everlasting to be with GOD while hoping that his Homosexual friend heard the messages Archie kept trying to give him on accepting Jesus into his heart and becoming Born Again through the Grace of GOD.
Talk about reading into things.
Perhaps Rev. Dan Vojir summed it up best in an opinion piece written for OpEd News:
It could be worse: Archie could be saving a single immigrant lesbian adoptive mother from Pastor Gary Cass.
Farah, Beck, Starnes and Bachmann may even sniff 'conspiracy'. ??Whatever the reaction, the next days may prove to be even funnier than the "funny papers" that generated Archie.


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I am a bit confused with the ANA rule in the Quran.
I am a bit confused with the ANA rule in the Quran. I believe that all ANA'S should made short even though there is an Alif next to the letter Noon. I also believe there are exceptions such as ANA SIYYA, ANA MILA which the Noon is made long. It would be grateful if you can advise me on the rest of the ANA'S in the Quran that can be made long.
Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh
The rule for the word is only for this word by itself meaning "I", and not for anytime the combination of letters occur in other words.
You will notice the symbol over the alif. This symbol indicates the alif is pronounced when stopping, but dropped when continuing.
In the other words listed in the question, the words contain the combination of hamzah with a fathah, a , then an alif without any symbol over it, but they are part of words and do not mean "I", instead are part of the make up of another word, so the alif is pronounced with a two count lengthening, that of a natural medd.
Wa iyyaakum
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... Its been three months since the first terror attacks on Mumbai on Nov26 last year which was a haute topic of debate for the media ; certainly not a day easily forgotten. It should'nt be forgotten until justice is done either. By the time our Republic day dawned two months later, the heat reduced to glowing embers and it seemed that we would have to live with a failed police and judicial system, yet again.Even though the Indian prosecutors managed to get their act together yesterday, with the Mumbai police filing a 11,280-page charge-sheet in the 26/11 attacks case, naming 35 Pakistanis as wanted suspects out of the 47 chargesheeted for terrorism ; I wont be alone holding my breath (literally) on this one, despite the public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's promise of justice in 3-6 months.
The 284 VOIP calls the terrorists made have been traced to a serving Pakistani colonel but there are also news reports of an Italian link while the Japanese were into nuclear business with Pakistan which is intent on being as uncooperative as possible by raising polemic questions :
Pakistan has sought an explanation, for example, why the terrorists' maritime movements did not come to the attention of the Gujarat and Maharashtra governments and how their ship escaped the attention of India's costal radar defences.
Given that Pakistan's investigators are well aware that the terrorists reached Mumbai in a hijacked Indian fishing boat — a fact India's dossier of evidence makes clear — the question is mystifying.
Its no secret that the US army is training Pakistan with a number of US military advisors but the USA has virtually no control on how the Pakistanis use the training against them (like the 26/11 attacks) a fact acknowledged for many years now. Even the FBI is going to find it hard to get Pakistan to unravel its terror networks, especially when terrorists are intent on razing their home.


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SAVANNAH - Across from a paved lot where the Port of Savannah stacks empty cargo containers stands a living link to the time before Georgia's first settlers arrived - an ancient live oak tree more than 7 ½ feet in diameter with massive branches extending up to 70 feet from its trunk.
One expert estimates the giant oak and another roughly the same size less than a mile away are more than 360 years old. That would mean they took root at least 80 years before Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe arrived in 1733 and founded Georgia as the 13th British colony.
On Friday, celebrated nationally as Arbor Day, officials from the Georgia Ports Authority made a formal promise to protect and preserve the pair of ancient live oaks - and 24 of their younger cousins - from the rapid development and growth that's made Savannah the fourth busiest container port in the U.S.
"These trees and others on our land are not going to be destroyed," said Curtis Foltz, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority. "We're going to be sure our business protects and respects them."
The decision means roughly 9 acres of land is being spared from development at the port's 1,200-acre Garden City Terminal, which handled just shy of 3 million containers of imports and exports last year.
Many of the younger live oaks were planted when the land was part of Whitehall Plantation, a rice plantation started in the late 18th century. The state purchased the land for the Savannah port in 1960.
Port officials hired an arborist, Shannon Baughman, to estimate the age of the oldest oaks and devise a plan for preserving them.
Baughman said there's no way to tell the trees' ages for sure. Even taking a core sample from the truck that would allow the oaks' rings to be counted would be pointless, he said, because in some cases live oaks are capable of growing two new rings in a single year.
Baughman said he consulted other foresters in coming up with a formula that assumes a live oak in coastal Georgia's climate will grow one inch in radius every eight years. Two live oaks on the port property have a trunk radius exceeding 45 inches.
"These are certainly hidden gems within the city of Savannah," Baughman said. "I never come across trees this size."
Experts say it's rare to find live oaks on the Atlantic coast older than 250 years, though it's possible for some to reach age 500.
According to the Savannah Tree Foundation, a tree known as the Majestic Oak in one of the city's south-side neighborhoods is believed to be 300 to 500 years old. Its trunk exceeds 8 ½ feet in diameter.
Baughman said his firm has spent the past year working to give the Savannah port's oldest live oaks their best chance of survival. Thick vines than hung to the ground and covered their leaves - making photosynthesis more difficult - were trimmed back and some dead limbs were pruned.
Mulch was spread over the soil to help contain moisture and keep competing plants from growing. And a copper wire was run from the top of the trees to a grounding rod 2 feet underground to protect them from lightning.


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Hardee's bucks trend, rolls out another big burger
May 14, 2008
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- At a time when many restaurant chains are counting calories and cutting portion sizes, leave it to Hardee's to launch another in its line of Thickburgers -- and its most expensive yet.
The St. Louis-based fast-food chain's latest menu addition, available as of Wednesday, is the Prime Rib Thickburger. The sandwich -- 780 calories and 48 grams of fat -- will have a suggested price of $4.49, or $6.49 with fries and a drink.
"We've never been ones to follow the fast-food herd mentality," said Brad Haley, vice president of marketing for Hardee's.
The Prime Rib Thickburger is almost health food compared to some Hardee's offerings -- the chain offers four sandwiches with more than 1,000 calories, most famously the Monster Thickburger with 1,420 calories and 108 grams of fat.
The Prime Rib Thickburger is the latest installment in the company's meat-as-condiment line that began with the Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger's introduction two years ago. It features a one-third pound beef patty topped with thinly sliced prime rib, horseradish sauce, Swiss cheese and grilled onions on a ciabatta roll -- with a cup of au jus for dipping if requested.
The sandwich arrives at a time when many fast-food chains are promoting value menus with smaller, cheaper, lower-calorie options. Even casual dining restaurants now offer menu items lower in size and calories, and at reduced prices.
T.G.I. Friday's introduced its "Right Portion, Right Price" entrees last year after its research found that half of Americans wanted smaller portions. The dishes are roughly one-third smaller and one-third cheaper than full-size entrees. They now make up about 15 percent of total orders.
Quiznos introduced its $2 "Sammies" in November, smaller sandwiches on flatbread featuring a variety of meats and just 200 to 300 calories each. The company has sold 5 million Sammies since, and they now make up 16 percent of sales.
But Andrew Puzder, president of Hardee's parent CKE Restaurants Inc., said other chains are promoting "bottom-feeder food" while customers -- especially Hardee's demographic of men 18 to 34 -- really crave bigger, meatier sandwiches.
"The way we sell quality is this is a burger you'd probably pay $15 to $20 for someplace else, and at Hardee's you pay about $4.50," Puzder said. "We're not out there trying to convince people to eat food that I wouldn't eat if I went to a restaurant myself."
The Center for Science in the Public Interest has referred to some Hardee's menu items as "food porn." CSPI senior nutritionist Jayne Hurley noted that Prime Rib Thickburger contains nearly a day's worth of sodium and saturated fat.
"People don't have any clue anymore about a normal serving size," Hurley said. "The problem isn't the occasional bad burger. The problem is the giant scones and Frappucino for breakfast, the big burger for lunch and pizza for dinner."
The Prime Rib Thickburger is available through the end of summer at all Hardee's restaurants and at all Carl's Jr. restaurants starting June 18, Haley said. The item could become a permanent menu fixture if sales are strong, he said.
Carpinteria, Calif.-based CKE operates 3,067 restaurants (1,926 Hardee's and 1,141 Carl's Jr. restaurants) in 42 states and 13 countries.
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Where is 'home base' for Citadel?
Home base is UNCENSORED! BBS, at uncensored.citadel.org.
You can reach the system using the Web, telnet, or Citadel client software. Citadel files may be found in the /pub/citadel directory.
That's about all I can think of at the moment. If you have other questions, info, comments, suggestions, bomb threats, etc., please visit the BBS or send e-mail.


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As an additional privacy measure, you can prompt fingerprint lock when you open WhatsApp on your phone. When this is enabled, you'll have to use your fingerprint to access the app.
This feature is only available on Android devices with a fingerprint sensor running Android 6.0+ and isn't supported on the Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, and Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
In order to use fingerprint lock, you'll need to have it enabled in your phone's settings.
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"The Bisons won their first conference doubles point, which proved pivotal in their win against the Eagles," men's assistant coach Mike Sherman said. "The guys should be proud of themselves for coming out from the very beginning of the match, firing on all cylinders. We are halfway through the conference season and cannot wait for the matches ahead."
The Bisons secured the doubles point with a sweep over FGCU, the first doubles point Lipscomb has taken so far this season in conference play.
Senior Joe McArdle and freshman Oliver Strecker posted an 8-6 win over Carlo Checchia and Dean Tsamas at No. 1, while sophomore Colby Shaw and freshman Miguel Cortez defeated Collin Brown and Matthew Rock 8-5 at No. 2.
At No. 3, sophomore Tanner Brown and freshman David Salazar posted the Bisons' third doubles win over Steve Binninger and Acierno with an easy 8-2 win.
The Bisons held a first time 1-0 lead heading into singles play, which proved to be an advantageous element to the Bisons' win.
The Bisons picked up their three singles wins at No. 1, 2, and 5.
At No. 1, Strecker steadily defeated Rock 6-4, 6-3, while Salazar rolled past Binninger 6-0, 6-2 at No. 2. Cortez recorded the Bisons final point with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Brown at No. 5.
At No. 3, Bisons' junior Chad Pierron fell 6-2, 6-1 to Checchia. At No. 4, Brown retired in a match against Tsamas after losing the first set 4-6 but holding a 3-0 lead in the second.
Shaw lost at No. 6 to close out the match. After winning the first set over Mitchell Lvovsky 6-0, Shaw fell in the second and third sets to lose 0-6, 7-5, and 10-8 with a super tiebreaker acting as the third set.
The Bisons return to Nashville, where they will face North Florida in their next A-Sun match up at the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center on Friday, March 25 at 2 p.m.
Joe McArdle and Oliver Strecker (LIP) def. Checchia and Tsamas (FGCU), 8-6
Colby Shaw and Miguel Cortez (LIP) def. Brown and Rock (FGCU), 8-5
Tanner Brown and David Salazar (LIP) def. Binninger and Acierno (FGCU), 8-2
Oliver Strecker (LIP) def. Matthew Rock (FGCU), 6-4, 6-3
David Salazar (LIP) def. Steve Binninger (FGCU), 6-0, 6-2
Carlo Checchia (FGCU) def. Chad Pierron (LIP), 6-2, 6-1
Dean Tsamas (FGCU) def. Tanner Brown (LIP), 4-6, 3-0, retired
Miguel Cortez (LIP) def. Collin Brown (FGCU), 6-1, 6-1
Mitchell Lvovsky (FGCU) def. Colby Shaw (LIP), 0-6, 7-5, 10-8
Written by Ashlan Williams, student assistant in athletics media relations.


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Place 1 cup roasted soy bean flour in a mixing bowl. Place the syrups, Edensoy, peanut butter and sea salt or miso in a small sauce pan. Bring almost to a boil, reduce the flame to low and simmer for 7 to 8 minutes until the syrup becomes thick and does not drip from a spoon. Stir frequently while the mixture is cooking. Pour the hot mixture over the soy bean flour and mix thoroughly. Form into a ball of dough. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of soy bean flour in the bottom of the mixing bowl. Roll the dough in it and knead for 2 to 3 minutes until stiff. Divide the dough into 4 equal size balls. Roll each ball into a long cylinder shape. Place on a plate and freeze for 5 minutes. Remove and slice into 1 inch rounds.
Roasted sesame seeds, or 2 tablespoons of roasted, chopped nuts or currants can be mixed into the dough for different flavors. The cylinders can be rolled in roasted sesame seeds as a coating on the outside.
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David Copperfield is used to performing death-defying escapes. But even he was a little worried about this one.
The famed magician was flying from Las Vegas to New York City Monday morning to appear on the Today show when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Peoria, Ill., after a disturbingly "loud noise" was heard during the flight.
The 56-year-old Copperfield chronicled what he called a very "scary" situation on his Twitter page.
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David Copperfield makes secret daughter appear
"Everyone is ok. Emergency landing in Peoria, Illinois. So scary," he tweeted.
He later posted twitpics of the plane's diverted flight path from his in-flight television screen as well as himself in the airport terminal, adding, "Happy to be on the ground and safe."
As the old saying goes, the show must go on, and while the illusionist was unable to make it in person on "Today," he did appear via Skype and offered more details about what happened.
Ashley Olsen's Airplane Engine Explosion? Flight Delay Less Dramatic, Due to "Electrical Odor"
"We were 37,000 feet in the air and I recorded [the noise] because it was lasting for a long time,'' Copperfield told Matt Lauer and company. "I heard this [crackling] sound and it wouldn't stop. I felt kind of freaked out and they told us we have to it go back for our descent. We were going in a spiral with G force, and we finally got to the ground...and it turned out there was snow all around."
After getting his bearings, Copperfield also kept his promise to perform a trick for the gabfest, albeit an impromptu one that he recorded in a hangar.
And for good measure--and no doubt appropriate in this case--he conjured up an airport grounds worker out of thin air.
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I dunno. Maybe back in '54, guns hadn't been vilified so much. Maybe they hadn't been painted as dangerous vehicles of murder like they have now... you know, by all those murders people used them for.
Right after the surprise of seeing the ad, I had to scan the copy to see if it's a pellet gun or some realistic but non-functional collectible. Nope. Line one: "This is not an air or CO2 gun." It's also not a Luger. Luger was a German company that made the pistol by the same name. Lots of American soldiers came home (the ones that DID come home) with Lugers taken from German soldiers or by other means. The gun was famous and has a bit of a following. Looking up the name Luger now shows that they're now based in Connecticut, and have been since 1949. I wonder if they bought the name from the German company? I dunno. For more information, ask your local World War Two nut.
Misspell the name, and you're what we call "lawyer-safe". You can do whatever you like with the resulting name and you can't be sued by the non-"Kr" company. Ever see cheap electronics by the name "Coby" in a font that looks a LOT like "Sony". Same thing. The look alike trick is something my friend calls the "grandma store version", meaning that there's a store somewhere where grandmas buy gifts for grandchildren. Grandma can't keep all the names straight and will buy anything that sort of looks like the right name. She may come home with "Space Wars" figures or some other not-even-close approximation of the thing you actually want. The grandma store is a fiction used to explain a real world phenomena: cheap knockoff products.
But three dollars for a real gun! That's $24 in today's money. Talk about your cheap murder! Of course, you could be buying the thing to shoot imitation clay pigeons or empty cans from "Bambell's Soup". Who was the market for a dirt-cheap gun? The recently unemployed? Children? The recent gun hobbyist who's not sure if "this whole gun thing" is for him? The ad was run in Popular Science, so I guess the market was disappointed technology fans who wish they could be real scientists. Guilty as charged, but I don't want an imitation Luger. If ever I actually DID want a gun, I think I'd want a really good, proper gun. When you're buying a thing that sends bullets whizzing around, you definintely want one that's reliable, so the bullets whiz in the right direction. I'd imagine that a poorly made gun would stand an even chance of just exploding your fingers off or missing the intended target by a country mile.
Look at the smaller picture in the ad. It's a serving suggestion showing you how the gun goes in your hand. It'd be great if they had a picture of a doofus using the Kruger to itch inside his nostril, with a big "NO" sign across it. In any case, the Kruger company seems to be aiming at the velcro-closure shoes types who need tips on how to point a gun. Maybe the picture is intended to show that the gun is full size, and not a miniature model? Naw... the hand could be miniature too. The photo proves nothing.
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Articles in this month's Angry Drifter magazine:
-Kruger Pistol Review: Felony on a Budget
-The "Report" Report: How Loud is Too Loud?
-Murder: Know When to Say When
-Anger Management: Keep the Fires Burning
-Planning Your Next Multi-State Crime Spree
-Eyebrow Management: Going for that "normal" look.
-"Am I Unstable Enough?": Our fifty question quiz will tell you!
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The European Parliament is calling for stricter rules on companies that export surveillance or so-called "dual-use" technology.
The Parliament on Tuesday night approved proposals put forward by Dutch parliamentarian Marietje Schaake that would require the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive branch, to regularly update a list of restricted products and countries.
Dual-use products can be used for civilian purposes but also by police or the military. "In the wrong hands certain technologies can become effective weapons," said Schaake in an address to Parliament Tuesday. Dual-use technologies used by repressive regimes too often wear the "Made in Europe" label, she said.
The global surveillance industry is worth about US$5 billion a year, according to Privacy International. "The capabilities of surveillance technology have grown hugely in the past decade -- in the hands of a repressive regime, this equipment eradicates free speech, quashes dissent and places dissidents at the mercy of ruling powers as effectively as guns and bombs," the organization said in a blog post.
Parliamentarians want stricter control on dual-use items to prevent them falling into the hands of repressive regimes and dictatorships. Companies would be required to ask for export authorization if they have reason to believe that certain exports might harm human rights.
"In countries like Ethiopia, Sudan and Cuba this use of ICTs for repression is rampant. Iran is building a 'Halal-internet,' disconnected from the World Wide Web. The required technology, infrastructure, know-how or operational support should no longer come from within the E.U.," Schaake said.
Fellow member of parliament Bernd Lange agreed. "Technological progress allows us to constantly review the international control lists for dual-use items. An upgraded E.U. control system will guarantee that the E.U. knows whether something potentially dangerous is being sold - and to whom," Lange said Wednesday in a statement.
A study by the OpenNet Initiative earlier this year found that political censorship is pervasive in seven countries including China, Syria and Burma, and is widespread in many others.
In the past year, Irish company Cellusys and Italian company Area SpA were reported to have sold dual-use technology to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. Meanwhile, questions were asked in the Dutch parliament about which countries Netherlands-based surveillance companies Group 2000 and Digivox sell to.
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The anticipation of starting life as a college freshman can leave even the most confident student with unanswered questions before move-in day. Here are freshman year survival tips shared by NBC viewers on Facebook and other experts.
Before You Go...
Mary Jo Mason, director of counseling services at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, said that in the coming weeks before college parents can help provide a smooth transition for their students by giving them more responsibilities.
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Get Enough Sleep — Dust Off That Alarm Clock
"If there was only a small bit of advice I could give to students it would be get enough sleep, eat correctly and get some kind of exercise," Mason said.
At-home routines may fall to the wayside, so Mason encourages students to use their phones to stay organized. But use a real alarm clock to wake up for morning classes, she said.
"I know all kids these days use phones as an alarm, but you can turn that off in a heartbeat and never even act like you heard it," she said.
And for those freshmen prone to pressing snooze, "don't sign up for those 8 a.m. classes" said NBC Bay Area viewer Todd Legate, a graduate of California State University, East Bay. "You're kidding yourself if you think you're going to go."
Time Management is Key
Mason says to use any free time constructively by planning assignments or attending group meetings. Students who can't manage their time may have a harder time adjusting.
"Students who are not very good at managing their time struggle because [they think] 'Oh I've got plenty of time to do this,'" and could eventually fall behind or procrastinate with school work.
Organizing and planning for assignments will ease the academic transition. But NBC Bay Area viewer Mollie Pedigo says if a student is struggling in class, "don't be afraid to ask for help."
"Take advantage of your professors' office hours," said the graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. "They set aside those hours specifically to be there to help their students."
Allison McComb, director of the First Year Experience at the University of California Los Angeles, said that students not only make new friends by joining clubs, but find a sense of community while acclimating to college life.
"Finding a place where they feel really comfortable is incredibly important to their overall success," McComb said. "It is well known that students that connect have a better sense of themselves and a feeling of community."
NBC Bay Area viewer Noelle Richard Mayor, a graduate of Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, advises students to join as many clubs as possible, even if that means stepping out of a comfort zone.
"It's a great way to meet friends and feel more at home," she said "Clubs like the Hawaiian club, which I joined even though I'm not from Hawaii, allowed me to experience some fun parties and events."
McComb encourages students to be open-minded to the different types of personalities and backgrounds they encounter. No matter how different people think they are, "there is a base level of understanding that everyone's going through an experience, and just trying to figure it out," she explained.
Before leaving home, a student's nerves and first-year jitters may seem to define their personality. Not so by the end of the second semester.
"I think they come in and they still kind of look and sound "high school," but by the end of the year they're talking like old pros. They realize how to navigate," she said.
Telissa Kidwell, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Study abroad for a semester, and take advantage of internships that give college credits!"
Monika Regete Hege, Mission College: "Talk with a school counselor every semester to ensure you are on track. Cultivate the relationship. They should be your advocate if a problem"
Andria Jimenez, Jose City College: "Avoid fast food!! No matter how stressed you are or how cheap it is."
Alison Crowley Short, Dean College, "Meet and hangout with people from outside the town you come from. Some may be friends for life."
Sara Sanger, Sonoma State University, "Don't get those easy credit cards they offer students!"
Amanda Aldama, San Jose State University: "Familiarize yourself with the campus resources (I.e. Career center, counseling, print shop, cultural center, computer labs, writing center, etc.) as soon as possible. Sign up for their e-newsletters if they have them."
Tiffany Orozco Vierra, San Jose State University: "I highly recommend taking a careers/counseling class your first year. Especially if you are not sure of a major."
Mellissia Franklin DeFilippis, University of Phoenix: "Stay focused on the reason you're there."
Dawna Houston, University of Maine: "Be prepared to pay for laundry! Learn how to do laundry before you head to college!"


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Alluring Aarhus
Big village, small city: The 2017 European Capital of Culture has great architecture, museums and lots of friendly, smiling people
Dong! Spherical and deep, the Gong reverberates through the new city library. Speaking from a dais, city architect Stephen Willacy interrupts his eulogy to the new Aarhus in mid-sentence: "I smile every time I hear that." He cocks his head and listens.
It sounds about 12 times a day – every time a child is born in Aarhus. The tubular gong, a 7.5-meter, three-ton bronze giant, which was cast in Austria, is set off a couple of kilometers away at the city's university clinic. Right after a birth, the midwife hands the parents a tablet computer and asks them to swipe the screen: Dong – the birth becomes an acoustic experience for the entire city. The very idea tells you a lot about the Aarhus soul.
The youngest citizen of the world has picked a good place to be born. Aarhus is Denmark's new hip city, the second-largest in the country with a population of 260 000 and the most important in Jutland, the big peninsula in the west. Aarhus used to stand in Copenhagen's shadow, but some believe it will soon outstrip the Danish capital.
In recent years, hefty investments have been made in architecture and culture. The Aarhusians like to call their hometown the "largest village and smallest metropolis in the world" – a claim now finally substantiated in the former docklands where the Isbjerget (The Iceberg), a complex of 200 apartments, has gone up on the waterfront.
The buildings jut into the sky, arranged to give almost every apartment a view of the water. In a suburb south of the city, the new Moesgaard Museum resembles a huge wedge flung into the landscape.
Full of information about the early history of Denmark, it features swords and battle-axes pulled from nearby marshes and prehistoric barrows, as well as an astonishing number of combs, indicating that the Vikings had a bit of a vain streak. Another jewel is Dokk1, the new city library, where Willacy has just finished his speech.
Addressing a small group, Willacy talks about how Aarhus's selection as 2017 European Capital of Culture marks a highlight in the city's incredible evolution, and explains how he was involved in it, agonized over it and helped to shape it.
As a young man, Willacy fell in love with a Danish medical student and left his native England for Aarhus, where he spent months knocking on doors in search of a job – without success. Back then, Aarhus was an unattractive seaport.
Finally, Willacy found an opening and worked his way up to become a partner with a respected firm of architects, Schmidt Hammer Lassen. He is now the city's architectural advisor, and his job is to guarantee the quality of its urban development.
"When I arrived in Aarhus, the city had no clear identity. You drove along the coast and had no sense of the sea," says Willacy, 58, a doer with a full, pepper-and-salt beard. Warehouses and industrial buildings blocked the view of Aarhus Bay.
"But in the early 90s, the idea arose of finally reuniting the city with the water." The Aarhus Å, the river that flows from the city center into the bay and the waters of the Kattegat, had been diverted through underground pipelines in the car-worshipping 1930s.
Huge efforts have been made to correct that mistake and return the river to the surface. Now, the last stretch flows freely into the sea and its banks have become a popular promenade between the city and the waves. Finally, Aarhus is playing its trump card: the city's unique waterfront location.
As industry dried up in the docklands and Denmark's largest container port relocated, space was freed up for new buildings, such as Dokk1, the biggest public library in Scandinavia.
In summer 2016, just one year after opening, the International Federation of Library Associations, IFLA, named it the "world's best library." But don't go thinking this building is devoted only to books. Dokk1 is more, much more than that.
Aarhus had no clear identity: You had no sense of the sea
Some 4000 visitors come here every day, the fewest for a book. A dream of modernist architecture, the building is designed along the lines of an ancient Italian piazza; it is a public space, a place for everyone, inclusion expressed in architecture.
Step inside and you will see groups of mothers and fathers chatting in the toddlers' play areas. In the lobby, two elderly gentlemen are playing giant chess, while students with laptops sit in conference rooms discussing their next group presentation. For less bookish teenagers, there are sofas and PlayStations for a quick game of virtual soccer.
"It's not for us to decide which media are worthwhile," a librarian explains, "the important thing is to be open to people from all walks of life. We aim to be a democratic, urban space." Most of the people here are simply strolling through the building, their faces open and friendly as they eagerly take in their surroundings.
Outside, ships glide slowly past the gigantic glass facade and cranes swoop across the panorama. On the bottom floor, there's the secret highlight: Europe's first fully automatic parking garage. Here, you drive your car into a box, tap a touchscreen and watch it sink below ground. At Dokk1, it's easy to picture the future – because it's already arrived.
What is Aarhus' secret? How has it achieved what many cities only dream of? One of many answers, and possibly the best, has to do with the people who live here. Aarhus is a young city, and every year it grows by 4000 inhabitants, most of whom come as students.
Some 56 000 people – that's nearly a quarter of the population – either teaches or studies at the university. "All these young people give the city its special drive," says Willacy. Many graduates stay on after uni and some have even become members of the city parliament. Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard, a social democrat, took office at just 35.
The Internet generation co-governs Aarhus, creating a climate of openness and innovative dynamism, a spirit of ambition, of new and even alternative culture that's unusual for a small place like Aarhus. Young people breathe life into the city with their start-ups.
A container village now occupies the site of the former Godsbanen freight depot, a hub for over 60 designers, filmmakers and creative minds. Ride a bike through Latinerkvarteret, the Latin quarter with its lively cafés, restaurants and bars, and you encounter youth, beauty and friendliness everywhere.
"City of Smiles" is another apt Aarhus slogan. Visitors from dour Copenhagen are constantly surprised by how friendly people are here. For instance, as I was studying the menu outside a restaurant, a woman came over and with a smile said: "Go on, everything tastes great there."
This joie de vivre and easygoing attitude inspired Ólafur Elíasson to create an installation on the roof of the ARoS, one of the largest art museums in northern Europe. Your Rainbow Panorama, a circular walkway 150 meters long with glass walls shimmering every color of the spectrum, has been in place since 2011. It's like looking at the city through different sunglasses.
Marianne Grymer Bargeman, 42, Director of Learning and Interpretation at ARoS, is responsible for keeping visitors coming back. "We don't want one-night stands," she says with a grin, "lasting relationships are far better." Some 30 000 visitors hold a season ticket for the museum; about 5500 of them are under 30.
Such numbers that are the envy of other cultural institutions. This fall, Bargemann opened a new ARoS multimedia center where visitors can use eyetracking to see how others perceive an artwork, where they look first, where not at all,
where their gaze lingers. You can project your own reflection onto works, discuss them, and send videos via social media.
"We want art to get people thinking and talking," says Bargeman, "Museums are good if they're not temples, but mind gyms."
Bargeman is the prototype of the new Aarhus citizen: culturally creative, intellectual, bold, with a sense of humor and inspired by the desire for change – and a mother of two, as well. She sent her two sons (11 and 14) off to the open-air museum Den Gamle By for the summer vacation. That's one place you have to see, she commands. All right then.
It's like a journey back in time to 19th century Denmark. Gamle By is a town within the city, 80 old buildings that have been taken down in different places around the country and re-erected here to recreate the past. Children watch the blacksmith at work, their parents pick medicinal herbs in the apothecary's garden, and on one narrow street, a family steps over a pile of droppings left behind the horse-drawn carts rumbling over the cobbles. The contrast between here and the new Aarhus with its cool new architecture could hardly be greater.
Rasmus Christiansen works at the historical fairground. His eyes twinkle behind his wire glasses, and when he raises his felt hat from a thatch of blond hair in greeting, the teenagers thus addressed climb giggling into a brightly painted swingboat. Christiansen is studying cultural science at Aarhus University and this is just a sideline he evidently enjoys.
"After graduating, some of my classmates went to Copenhagen and Berlin, but I don't like big cities; you miss out on a lot." In Aarhus, everything is within cycling distance: the campus of Denmark's top university, the pristine beach and Den Permanente, the timber beach bath, where the lifeguards remind bathers to use sunscreen, and the Riis Skov city forest which smells of wild garlic in the spring. "And there's always a party with familiar faces somewhere," adds Christiansen.
He's spending his semester break in the city. During the day he works at the museum, in the evenings he plays in the Latinerkvarteret with his bossa nova band. Rasmus has just turned 23. "A great age," he says. "You've discovered who you are and where you want to go. The future lies ahead and you can shape it!" It seems like Rasmus Christiansen isn't just describing his own attitude to life, but that of the whole city.
Futuristic Aarhus: a tour
1 Library Dokk1
2 Residental Project Isbjerget
3 Museum Aros
4 Riis-Forest
5 Culture Center Godsbanen
6 Open-Air Museum Den Gamle By
7 Beach Baths den Permanente


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Here's our list of the top ten ads that played during the Super Bowl. Is your favorite on the list?
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Categories: Beauty, Health and Safety, House & Home, Kitchen, Managing stress, Office
(Continued from part 1, part 2, and part 3.)
Stearns Youth Life Vest (photo from Amazon.com). I'd been too scared to take the kids to any body of water other than a swimming pool, because I couldn't imagine keeping track of them all at once in water that didn't have walls and lifeguards. I'd be okay with the older two swimming around, but not the younger three: they still sometimes sink and thrash during their swimming lessons. Near the end of last summer I bought a life jacket to see if it would help the situation (I didn't want to buy three and find out they weren't any good), and it was one of the best purchases of my entire life. This summer I bought two more. We went to the lake, and the three little kids swam around to their hearts' content, and I barely freaked out at all.
The sizing on this says 50-90 pounds, but notice that many of the reviewers strenuously object to that. The three little kids at my house are 6-8 years old and weigh in the 45-55 range, and these vests fit them just right with some room to grow (and fit Henry well last summer when he was 5)—but it's hard to imagine the vests still fitting at 90 pounds.
Spinbrush Electric Toothbrushes (photo from Amazon.com). These are inexpensive enough (about $7 on sale at Target) that I have one for each of the kids. A 2-pack of replacement heads goes on sale for about the same price as the toothbrush. There are several different types of these; I try to get ProClean rather than ProWhitening, but I think we've had some of each without me noticing a difference.
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Stugan vid bergets fot (The cottage at the foot of the mountain)
John Bauer
John Albert Bauer (4 June 1882 – 20 November 1918) was a Swedish painter and illustrator. His work is concerned with landscape and mythology and is best known for his illustrations of early editions of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales.
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