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Vietnamese Spring Rolls-Cha Gio
These are Vietnamese Spring Rolls or aka Cha Gio. These deep-fried spring rolls are crispy and they are great appetizers. Simply wrap the spring rolls with some lettuce leaves, fresh herbs, and then dip-it lightly into the dipping sauce. Delicious!
Recipe adapted from Pleasures Of The Vietnamese Table by Mai Pham
Cha Gio
2/3 lb Ground Pork
1/3 lb Cooked Crab Meat, picked clean, or coarsely chopped Raw Shrimp
1 Medium (2/3 Cup) Yellow Onion, minced and squeezed gently to remove excess liquid
1 Taro/Yam Root, peeled and finely grated (about 1 cup) or 1 cup grated carrots
1 1/2 oz (50 g) Cellophane Noodles (Bean Thread), soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, drained and cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
3 Scallions, cut into thin rings
6 Dried Wood-Ear Mushrooms, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes, drained, trimmed chewy stems and finely chopped (about ¼ cup)
2 Tbsp Fish Sauce
2 tsp Minced Garlic
¼ tsp Sea Salt
2 tsp Sugar
3/4 tsp Ground Black Pepper
2 Large Eggs, lightly beaten
2 quarts Warm Water
2 Tbsp Sugar
30 (6 or 8-inch) Dried Rice Paper Rounds, plus extras
Vegetable Oil for deep-frying
Vietnamese Dipping Sauce
Table Salad for serving
In a large bowl, combine the pork, crabmeat, onion, taro root, cellophane noodles, scallions, mushrooms, fish sauce, garlic, sea salt, sugar, and black pepper. Using a fork, gently mix all the ingredients until well blended. Then add the beaten egg and toss to coat.
To make the rolls, fill a large bowl with warm water. Add the 2 Tbsp sugar to the water and stir to dissolve. (This helps the rice paper turn golden when fried and crispier texture) Quickly dip the rice paper into the warm water and turn to moisten the sheet completely. Lay the sheet on a damp kitchen cloth before using.
Spoon 1 heaping Tbsp of the filling on the bottom third of the sheet. Using your fingers, press the filling gently and shape into a small cylindrical shape. Lift the bottom edge over the filling, and then fold in both sides. Roll into a small cylinder, about 2/3 inch wide and 2 inches long. Place the seam side down. Do not stack the rolls. Cover lightly with plastic wrap to prevent from drying and continue to make the rolls with the remaining filling and paper in this way. If a wrapper has a tear, reinforce it by patching it with a small piece of dampened rice paper.
In a wok or a large skillet, heat 2 inches of vegetable oil to about 350˚F (180˚C). Test the temperature by carefully placing a spring roll in it. If the oil foams but not too vigorously upon contact, it is hot enough. Add the rolls without crowding, and fry until crisp and golden brown, about 5 to 6 minutes. (Cook in batches) Remove the spring rolls with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Serve the spring rolls immediately with the dipping sauce and table salad.
Makes 30 Rolls
Note: Vietnamese Dipping Sauce: Mix together 2-3 Thai Bird's Eye Chilies chopped), 2 cloves Garlic (sliced), 3 Tbsp sugar, 2/3 cup warm water, 1 1/2 Tsp Lime Juice, 5 Tbsp fish sauce and 2 Tbsp shredded carrots.
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Ohhh, thank you so much for this recipe! I adore Cha Gio (pronounced cha-yo) and have since the first time my Vietnamese co-worker brought in a platterful for a workplace potluck. Be sure and let people know that the "table salad fixin's" are of prime importance. Fresh, crisp romaine leaves, mung bean sprouts, sliced jalapeno, cucumber sticks, basil and mint leaves and of course, the dipping sauce. I'm off to explore the link you included; thank you so much! Gorgeous pics!ReplyDelete
Ooops, I forgot the shredded carrot and lime; and I always have sriracha on the table too!ReplyDelete
Harika bir lezzet!ReplyDelete
I love these. Is a must order for us each time we went for our Pho noodles. I tried making this once but I can't seems to get it to brown evenly and the wrappers get soft and sticky after it cools down. Do you have the same problem?ReplyDelete
@ICook4Fun: Likewise! As for the wrapper, mine remains crispy even after they cool down. I think the method of adding sugar to the water actually works. The wrappers browned evenly too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2010 at 6:22 PM
These spring rolls look so good! Going to try to make them when weather is cooler. It's 35C in Sydney :)ReplyDelete
Yes, I think the sugar in the water will browned the wrapper evenly. Great tip. Thanks Angie :)ReplyDelete
i love spring rolls...it takes time to prepare it but its super delicious..nice recipe :)ReplyDelete
Hi! Just a random reader. I don't mean to sound like a spazz, but I actually just had a discussion about this with a Dutch friend a few weeks ago (I'm studying abroad in Japan and when I was complaining about missing Spring Rolls, she got confused). Aren't these actually called egg rolls? I always thought Spring rolls are the ones that aren't fried because all the fillings (lettuce, herbs, bean sprouts, shrimp, pork, etc) makes the roll look like Spring time. Your recipe doesn't require that many eggs, but usually eggs are used to help with the fluffyness of the taste (and so a lot are added), and when using "Egg Roll" paper (instead of frying Spring Roll Rice paper) egg is used to help the ends stick. Anyway, I just wanted to say that. I hope I don't sound like a know-it-all, but since it was fresh on my mind, I thought I could ask.ReplyDelete
@Gee: Thanks for the comments. I think you might have mistaken with the Chinese egg roll recipe. Vietnamese spring rolls used dried rice paper to roll the Cha Gio and spring roll rice paper for fresh spring rolls or also known as summer rolls.ReplyDelete
Hi, I'm new to frying spring rolls. How do you ensure that the pork filling is thoroughly cooked?ReplyDelete
Thanks! Love your blog btw. =D
yummy I always wonder if this spring roll use the same rice paper as the non frying one. thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2011 at 7:27 PM
great blog! I am Vietnamese and love to make cha gio with the spring roll wrapper but I can never get them to turn a nice golden brown like yours even after adding sugar to the water for dipping. Ive tried many spring roll wrappers too! can you tell me the brand you used? a picture of it would be great if possible, email firstname.lastname@example.com
@Wendy @ Obesebaby: They are not the same.ReplyDelete
@Anonymous: Thanks for the comments. Sorry, I can't remember the rice paper brand. However, I will be making some soon; will let you know by then.


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The blogosphere and fringe media is full of misinformation and downright lies. If I tried to set the record straight everytime some blogger claimed that DDT is harmless to people, endosulfan is "soft on bees," or that feeding the world requires GMOs then I wouldn't have time to do anything else. And so even though it registered a strong reading on my BS detector, I decided to simply ignore the new article on the American Enterprise Institute's website claiming that triazine herbicides (the class that includes atrazine) are the only thing keeping California almonds free of deadly toxins. But then the Huffington Post reprinted it, and people actually read HuffPo (unlike aei.org), so now here I am, setting the record straight.
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Consider the case of California almonds. A natural chemical, aflatoxin, is found in 15 percent of this crop and on other nuts as well. If the aflatoxin is not eliminated before the nuts are consumed, people could die; and the most effective way to eliminate aflatoxin in nuts is with pesticides -- triazines, such as simazine and atrazine, which have been found safe at levels up to 1,000 times or more what humans might be exposed to. But many environmental campaigners, citing controversial studies on amphibians, lobby for a ban of triazines.
Aflatoxin is a terrifically cancinogenic toxin produced by fungi of various Aspergillus species. And it is certainly true that almonds can harbor aflatoxin. But what set off my BS detector is that idea that atrazine has some role to play in keeping almonds aflatoxin-free. Afterall, one wouldn't expect an herbicide to have much of an effect on fungal growth. Nor does it seem likely that treating aflatoxin-laced almonds with atrazine would do anything to detoxify them.
And so I looked up pesticide use statistics for California almonds, and guess what? In 2009, California growers produced 1.4 billion lbs of almonds on more than 700,000 acres of almond trees without using a single pound of atazine or simazine or any other triazine. None was used the previous year either. In fact, in the 20 years that the state has been tracking pesticide use, less than 200 lbs of atrazine have been used in almond orchards. What's more, as a first line of defense against aflatoxin, both the Almond Board of California and the University of California recommed cultural practices to control the fungi that produce the toxin and the insect vectors that spread the fungi.
What's particularly ironic about this bit of misinformation is how it's being used. The author, Jon Entine of "Statistical Assessment Service" — a think tank with a history of shilling for corporate polluters that's funded by deeply conservative foundations — is trying to argue that scaremongering by environmentalists is resulting in an irrational fear of chemicals, a "chemophobia." And yet Entine himself is trying instill a fear of environmentalism by inventing a phony toxic threat, namely that a ban on atrazine would somehow lead to sky rocketing aflatoxin contamination of almonds. Ban atrazine, and "people could die."
No, people won't die if atrazine is banned, nor will corn farmers — who use more atrazine than anyone — go out of business. In debates on chemical safety, plenty are guilty of scaremongering. But the biggest offenders are the corporations and their apologists with their doom and gloom predictions about the effects of banning or restricting their products.
If you would like to have a rational dialogue on the relative risks and rewards of chemical pesticides and herbicides, that would be great. I hope that's the case, but your ad hominem attack and distortion of the facts above raises integrity questions. Stick to the issues please.
As for the use of chemicals on nuts, they are used and they are effective. As I wrote in the piece:
"Consider the case of nuts. Natural fungi known as mycotoxins are know to effect up to 25 percent of the world's nut supply. One strain, aflatoxin, infects up to 15% of California's crop. The most effective and efficient containment strategy is to control insect crop pests with insecticides, which would otherwise injure the nuts, seeds or grains, thus providing points of entry for the fungal pathogens to infect the mature or harvested crop. Yet environmental campaigners adamantly oppose that method of control, in effect ignoring a natural chemical while taken an inflexible stand against a synthetic one. That trade-off means that consumers invariably will be injured and some will die."
You may agree that directly injuring people is a reasonable trade-off for limiting the use of chemicals that scientists and health officials believe are safe--with health and safety buffers of 1000 times or more. I don't. I just people over hysteria.
As for the use of triazines such as atrazine and simazine, which PAN has been attacking relentlessly for years, scientists and regulators who use SCIENCE (rather than purely a fear-driven precautionary standard) are actually RELAXING standards rather than tightening them as evidence continues to accumulate of their comparative safety. The evidence for taking more extreme action is based largely upon one scientist's work, which no international regulatory agency believes is reliable or trustworthy.
As I wrote in my report:
"[Anti-chemical activists} also have launched zealous campaigns against weed killers that allow crops to flourish. The most common herbicides are triazines, such as simazine and atrazine, which have become central targets of anti-chemical campaigners. Yet, as one example, published studies show that legal limit on atrazine exposure has an extraordinary safety cushion -- up to 1,000 times or more what advanced scientific studies has determined is safe for humans. But many environmental campaigners, citing controversial and contested studies on amphibians, lobby for a ban of triazines, atrazine in particular.
Again, our perspectives suggest we have different values. I value food security--feeding the hungry, keeping food prices reasonable, and ensuring that farmers have a reasonable income. I'm sure you're a good person, but you're choosing to lower food output and put thousands, if not millions, if not tens of millions of lives at health risk. Why? Because you choose precaution over science. Again, you're welcome to your perspective. Others may choose. But please be honest in labeling it as a value/religious choice; it's not a scientific one.
IF you genuinely care about science and reasonable discourse, let's debate these issues in an open forum in Washington. I can arrange it. Let me know. Just email me.
I'd take your offer seriously and I'd be more inclined to take at face value your alleged concern for food security if you actually just admitted your mistake. I quoted your HuffPo article verbatim -- I simply cut-and-pasted it into my blog post here. It obviously links atrazine use to keeping almonds safe, but as I've shown, atrazine plays no role at all in almond production.
If you're going to try to claim the scientific high ground, you need to get this stuff right. You can't chastise people for scaremongering using more scaremongering.
To address some of your other points:
Europe banned atrazine use several years ago, and it has not bankrupted farmers or caused food prices to go up. In fact, yields have increased in many cases since banning atrazine. A small but growing number of farmers in the US have voluntarily foregone atrazine, and they are doing fine. And while Syngenta sponsored economic analyses have made claims that banning atrazine would cost thousands of jobs and dramatically increase corn prices, other analyses indicate a ban would have a negligible effect.
I'm reminded of the reaction to Silent Spring. Velsicol and other DDT-makers as well as some USDA scientists predicted the fall of agriculture if EPA banned DDT. Did it happen? No.
Or more recently many food manufactures warned that without trans-fats their products wouldn't taste as good or they'd be more expensive, or people just wouldn't want to buy them if they knew they contained trans-fats. And then FDA required that trans-fat content be put on labels. What happened? Food manufactures quietly reformulated their products, no one noticed any difference in the flavor of their HoHos or Twinkies, and everything was fine. Or BPA which is supposedly so essential: retailers, food packagers, and manufactures are starting to remove it from products in response to consumer demand, and have prices gone up or quality gone down for these products? No.
My point? The chemical industry has a long history of crying wolf.
As for the risks of atrazine: it's the most commonly detected pesticide in water in the US. The USDA found it in more than 90% of finished drinking water samples, in sampling focused on the Midwest. Human exposure is huge. Before exposing vast portions of the US population to it, you'd think we want to be absolutely sure that it was harmless and that it was providing a real benefit to society, wouldn't you? That's not the precautionary principle, which you're so averse to, that's simply common sense.
EPA's safe level is 3 ppb, but 2.5 ppb is enough to turn a male frog into a female frog. 0.1 ppb can cause ovaries to grow in a frog's testes. Granted, the evolutionary distance between humans and frogs is enormous, but if atrazine can have this effect on a frog, what might it be doing to a woman's unborn child? Epidemiological studies on people exposed to atrazine in drinking water have found increases in birth defects and other problem in people exposed to levels of atrazine far less than EPA's 3.0 ppb standard.
I agree that we often have to balance risks and benefits. For example, chemotherapy itself is very dangerous and can kill you, but if it's the only thing standing between you and certain death by cancer, then you might decide the risks are far outweighed by the benefits.
But the benefits of atrazine are small-to-nonexistent, and accrue mainly to the chemical companies that profit by selling it. Meanwhile risks, while uncertain, are endured by the millions of Americans whose water is contaminated with atrazine without their knowledge or consent.
What happened? Too afraid to discuss the SCIENCE of chemicals? It's great to strut before sycophants. How about actually engaging people on this very important issue. The position PANNA takes actually leads to hunger in the world. And you are won't discuss this? Surprise me. Surprise science. Engage the issue and the policy implications of your religious position. That would be honesty.
Jon Entine
Sure. Let's debate in a mainstream, public forum. And let's turn down the rhetoric, OK? I'm happy to talk about the science of atrazine and pesticides and the politics of risk assessment, but characterizing precaution as a "religious position" and readers of this blog as "sycophants" doesn't really help foster the "rational dialogue" that you claim to be looking for. Why don't you contact me via email (using the form at http://panna.org/contact) and we can work out the logistics.
You've raised several issues in your comments here, but you've still yet to address the matter that started this exchange, namely your invention of a frightening and totally phony consequence of banning atrazine. I look forward to correcting all of your distortions of science and policy (either here or in some sort of debate) but why don't we take things one at a time and start at the top, i.e. with atrazine and almonds. Once we get that sorted out, the we can talk about the relative merits of the European vs American regulatory schemes, the failures of industrial agricultural, the EPA's 3 ppb atrazine standard, and the structural inequities that allow near 1 billion people go malnourished while something on the order of 1/3 of all agricultural production is wasted.
I guess your reply means that you are refusing to discuss these issues in a public forum with science as the guide?
We can back and forth about who gets what right, but I'm not sure where that would get us.
Atrazine is indeed not used in Europe--for precautionary reasons, not for health or environmental ones. WHO sets the safe level for atrazine at 100 parts per billion. You don't find those concentrations in Europe or the US. The levels you cite breathlessly in the US--3ppb--are AS YOU KNOW, 1000 times lower than have shown the first signs of carcinogenicity in the most sensitive lab animals. As for the frog results, even if they did suggest potential human harm, have been rejected because the experiments were so poorly done--at Dr. Hayes refuses to release his data for EPA or independent review. That's not science Karl.
So...would you like to actually discuss these issues in a public forum. Chemical toxicity should be discussed at the level of science. I have criticized your analysis--you've twice questioned my motives and credibility. That suggests that you are not prepared to discuss the science. How about it? Let's inform, not demagogue.
I have worked in sciences throughout the defense and oil industries. There is nothing more dangerous than pseudo-science with a grudge, self interest, and lots of secret money. It is easy under such scenarios to paint nutty landscapes draped with apparently respectable drivel about 'the science' as though 'the science' is known, holistic, correct, or ignorant of mistakes.
The truth tends to favor the most well funded when 'stories' are confused with 'studies'. It seems obvious that Mr. Jon Entine has expertise in telling stories with his expertise in philosophy rather than 'hard science'. His blathering call out to the Panna writer, Mr. Tupper, is transparently self-serving, making me wonder about the sources of Mr. Entine's income.
I worked for the corporations once too. I know what passes for 'Ethical Corporations'. That dog don't hunt! Everybody knows what motivates corporate spokespeople. The 'truth' is not a concept which is absolute. Shades and shadows of the 'truth' are the smoke and mirrors of these paid corporate sycophants.
If he 'sells' the disjointed, carefully culled snippets of 'the science', read 'his science', of pesticides he gets his comissions, Thirty pieces of silver! His is not 'science' of any sort. Do not engage blathering. The answers to his 'the science' are already figured out to seven hundred decimal places with no science experiments, wow!!! There is no room for uncertainty, no chance of error, no mistakes, trust him. Why would he lie? thirty pieces of silver???
The problems with the study of toxicology is rife with special interest pseudo-science. It is very difficult to cull all the crud out there for real, independent science. Regulators have not helped by allowing so many bad works of pseudo-science to be promoted as 'the science' defining regulatory restraints. We REALLY need third party testing, with oversight.
I promote development of a testing science division of regulatory agents for all future regulatory testing, paid for by industry fees. Perhaps this could be a professional corps of dedicated, career scientists within the EPA, NIH, or other federal agency. Sort of like the FBIT, the Federal Bureau of Investigating Toxicants. Do not allow those scientists to 'revolving door' in and out of regulated industry.
There are lots of dedicated scientists willing to work for a fair wage to do honest science, disavowing the perks of the corporate world of 'the science'. At lease we would know who was doing the data. Do not allow these fellows to join the industry funded trade groups like the Society of Toxicologists either. There is far too much schmoozing going on at those soiree.
Ignore this ignoramus, this Mr. Entine.


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Governor Cuomo Announces $107 Million Available Through NY-Sun Initiative for Large Solar Power Installations
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that $107 million is now available through the NY-Sun initiative for a major solar power incentive program that will increase the amount of electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) systems throughout New York.
The NY-Sun Competitive PV Program, which is being administered by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), seeks proposals for large (more than 50 kilowatts) PV systems to be installed at businesses, factories, municipal buildings and other larger commercial and industrial customers. A new website, http://ny-sun.ny.gov/, has been launched to provide a one-stop-shop for applicants seeking funding through the NY-Sun program.
"The NY-Sun initiative has helped establish New York State as a leader in solar power, and these investments in photovoltaic systems will allow businesses and municipalities to put in place green, cost-effective electric generating installations," Governor Cuomo said. "In addition, these investments will further drive job growth in the state's clean power industry, and create economic development in communities across New York. I encourage all businesses and municipalities eligible for these grants to apply."
This phase of the program is available through the end of 2013 for PV projects in New York City and upstate New York at eligible customer sites. This is an expansion both in geographical territory and in funding of a two-year-old program that previously focused on large PV systems for the commercial, industrial and municipal sectors exclusively in New York City, Westchester County and the lower Hudson Valley. The awards announced yesterday by the Governor stemmed from this more limited 2-year-old program.
Through the newly established NY-Sun Competitive PV Program, $36.4 million will be available in 2012 and $70.5 million in 2013. All projects will require co-funding to best leverage state resources with funding capped at $3 million per project.
Proposals under the first round of the NY-Sun Competitive PV Program are due November 8 with the remaining two due dates for this program in the first and third quarters of 2013.
Francis J. Murray Jr., President and CEO, NYSERDA, said, "For the last two years, NYSERDA funding has helped spark interest in a wide variety of large solar-power projects in some of the most densely populated areas of the state. Governor Cuomos NY-Sun Initiative will expand and stimulate the growth and deployment of solar technology while at the same time reducing demand on the grid throughout the state."
Public Service Commission Chairman Garry Brown said, "Governor Cuomos NY-Sun Initiative will help further the growth of solar energy in the state. Not only will this help diversify our energy supply and improve our environment, it will help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and stimulate economic opportunities."
In addition to the competitive PV program, NYSERDA has also expanded its smaller-scale solar PV program (less than 50 kilowatts) under the NY-Sun Initiative. Monthly funding under this program has increased from $2 million to $3.5 million for the remainder of 2012 and will continue at $3.1 million per month in 2013. This standard offer, non-competitive open enrollment program provides funding for systems up to 7 kilowatts for residential sites and up to 50 kilowatts for non-residential sites.
Governor Cuomo launched the NY-Sun initiative to double the amount of customer-sited solar power installed annually in New York, and quadruple that amount by 2013 benchmarked against the amount installed during 2011. This initiative brings together and expands existing programs administered by NYSERDA, NYPA and Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), to ensure a coordinated and well-funded solar energy expansion plan.
For more information on the NY-Sun Initiative, please visit www.ny-sun.ny.gov. The NY-Sun Competitive PV Program solicitation can be found here.
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Carter to leave Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing President Bert Carter will be leaving the center next year and the board has begun a nationwide search for a new leader.
Carter has overseen major infrastructure upgrades in his six years at the school and center.
He has also led significant program changes as the Austine School and VCDHH assume a broader role in educating deaf and hard of hearing students, as well as students with multiple disabilities.
Carter is leaving for personal reasons.
"This is a great place to work. It offers a unique service and it has been a very interesting six years," Carter said. "I understood when I was hired that we would be expanding and I think we have been successful in responding to the needs of this community."
The Austine School opened in Brattleboro in 1912 and largely focused on educating deaf children.
As federal special education laws changed in the 1970s, deaf children were mainstreamed into regular classrooms and over the past few decades the Austine School has had to change its focus to survive.
In 1998 the Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing was established to provide statewide support for deaf programs, and since then the center has expanded in both its reach and in the programs that it offers.
During Carter's tenure that work has continued.
In 2010 the center opened the nation's first residential educational program for autistic children who are physically or functionally deaf.
Carter also expanded the school's early education center to allow deaf and hard hearing children to spend time with other students from around the area.
He also helped start a satellite office in Burlington to meet the needs of deaf and disabled students in the most populated part of the state.
"There are more options now for the deaf in education, and all over," Carter said. "We have been able to adopt to that. It is important to be able to stay ahead of the trends."
When Carter was a graduate student he did an internship at a deaf school in Massachusetts.
It was his first introduction to deaf culture and he has spent his entire career working at schools which specialize in deaf education.
VCDHH Board Chairman Tom Sonneborn said the board hopes to find a replacement for Carter before he leaves in June.
Sonneborn said the center will look for someone with a background in education and non-profit management who can continue to help the center grow and adapt to the changing landscape in deaf education.
"With the changing needs of deaf and hard of hearing students and adults it is essential that we identify a leader who can move us forward to meet those needs," Sonneborn said.
In an effort to stay relevant, the Austine School, which is a program at the Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, now educates more children with multiple disabilities.
Carter said technology has opened many opportunities for deaf children and adults, and the VCDHH has become a regional and national leader in staying ahead of the advancements and helping children and adults access the latest breakthroughs.
Over the past six years Carter has also led the school to significant upgrades to the 100 year old campus.
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A compelling case study: At Bay Area Drupal last year, I met Sean Larkin of ThinkShout who reported his work for a Drupal Distribution, Watershed Now, (http://drupal.org/project/
I want to explore this scenario further to illustrate how it could work in a codeathon. Representatives of the nonprofits can proactively form a consortium which will create specs RFP-style and release them as a project with a bounty. At the codeathon event itself, programmers will write the code and test the software. At the end of the process, the representatives of the NPOs will review the demos and act as a jury who award the bounty. It is preferable if the programmers coordinate their efforts–we don't want multiple versions of the same basic code–but in some cases, the same tool can be created in different programming languages or for alternative platforms. The jury will reward the tool which best suits their needs. Despite the judging, the codeathon is not about competition, rather its purpose is to create the best and most utilitarian Free Open Source Software. The codeathon is at heart a collaborative process which encourages organizations to pool resources effectively and to develop more widely applicable specs and products.
The panel could include more than representatives of the NPOs—for instance, design experts. What are your thoughts about a jury panel for a codeathon? How can the bounty process be made more collaborative? Please share them below in the comments.


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|I got your oxytocin right here! (source)
When I was watching the opening to season 3 this week, I couldn't help but think about how much the zombie apocalypse genre of television and cinema can teach us about oxytocin. That's right, we can learn more about the mislabeled "cuddle hormone" by thinking about both the benevolent and terrible things that people do in the name of survival.
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide of nine amino acids that is produced primarily in the brain (the hypothalamus to be exact) and released into both the brain and the bloodstream. Oxytocin has captured the interest and imagination of scientists throughout the world because it influences many systems of the brain and body. Oxytocin acts as a neurotransmitter, and binds to parts of the brainstem, hippocampus, and amygdala. It also binds to the spinal cord, influencing aspects of the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system that slows down the heart).
Early research on oxytocin touted its influence on social affiliation, trust, and compassion. Mothers tend to experience elevations in blood plasma oxytocin when holding their infants or when breastfeeding them. People higher in blood plasma oxytocin tend to be more cooperative--they give more money to strangers in laboratory interactions. Other more recent research suggests that people with larger numbers of the oxytocin receptor gene (e.g., more receptors in the brain for oxytocin to bind to) tend to be better able to read others' emotions in subtle micro-expressions surrounding the eyes relative to people with fewer oxytocin receptors.
This initial work led to an overwhelming surge in the popular and scientific communities suggesting that the secret to love, trust, and enduring social bonds had been discovered. Ultimately, it was argued by several researchers (probably too forcefully) that oxytocin is the single hormone responsible for sympathy in our species, and as Charles Darwin points out "Sympathy, will have increased through natural selection, for those communities, which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members, would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring." Using this logic, oxytocin seems to be the secret to our survival.
That's a nice and tidy equation: sympathy = oxytocin = survival. Unfortunately, reality is never that simple.
[Spoiler Alert: I will try to be vague in what follows, but there are some potential spoilers if you read on.]
|Shane and Rick (source)
Charles Darwin knew this as well, and he suggests further that survival isn't just about sympathy. Rather, Darwin argues that "groups with a greater number of courageous, sympathetic, and faithful members, who were always ready to warn each other of danger, to aid and defend each other... would spread and be victorious over others." For Darwin, survival is also about what is called parochial altruism--sympathy for and protection of people from one's own tribe or social group. Thus, parochial altruism might even lead individuals to engage in antisocial or aggressive acts toward strangers, all for the good of more vulnerable members of one's social group.
The idea of parochial altruism calls into question the usefulness of a "cuddle hormone:" being indiscriminately trusting and cooperative is the surest way to get oneself eaten by zombies! That's Shane's point of view throughout the entire second season of the Walking Dead.
Lucky for us, oxytocin isn't nearly as cute and cuddly as people make it out to be, especially when considered in judgments of out-group members. In a collection of several studies, Carsten De Dreu and colleagues (2010) administered oxytocin or placebo through nasal spray to male participants (oxytocin can induce labor in pregnant women, hence the gender restriction) and had them engage in a number of economic decision tasks with in-group and out-group members. The question here was simple: Would oxytocin increase uniform altruism, or parochial altruism--focused toward in-group members?
The results were unequivocal--oxytocin increased parochial altruism. In one study, participants contributed to a pool of shared resources for members of their group, or another group. Participants administered oxytocin contributed more money to the in-group and gave no more money than placebo participants to the out-group.
|Oxytocin and financial contributions (source)
In a second study, oxytocin and placebo participants played similar economic games (a modified prisoner's dilemma game) with a computer simulated out-group member, where both participants and out-group target could choose to cooperate or compete with each other--under conditions of low v. high fear. Specifically, if participants cooperated with an out-group member, who in turn chose to compete, the money earned for the participant would be either severely restricted (high fear), or slightly restricted (low fear). Basically, if I choose to cooperate with you and you compete with me, I either get 20 cents to your $1.40 (high fear) or 50 cents to your $1.10 (low fear).
In high fear conditions, oxytocin administered participants were significantly more likely than placebo participants to choose to compete with the out-group members, to say that they were protecting their in-group with these decisions, and to expect fellow in-group members to do the same!
As viewers watched Shane and Rick come perilously close to murdering each other in their continuing philosophical conflicts on the Walking Dead, I couldn't help but think about the mislabeled "cuddle hormone." It's not that Shane or Rick lack oxytocin, in fact, the opposite could be the case--after all, survival depends on hormones that enhance the protective instincts of individuals in competitive social encounters, as well as their altruism.
What are your blood plasma oxytocin levels, and are you concerned about the zombie apocalypse like I am? I'd love to hear more about what you think about the cuddle hormone (or zombies) in the comments.
De Dreu CK, Greer LL, Handgraaf MJ, Shalvi S, Van Kleef GA, Baas M, Ten Velden FS, Van Dijk E, & Feith SW (2010). The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328 (5984), 1408-11 PMID: 20538951


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The goals of the program are simple; to build strong, well-conditioned athletes who can perform to the best of their ability and to the expectations of the coach. Endurance and strength are keys to winning and go hand in hand with building a successful team. But, nothing could be more critical than staying healthy, one of the main goals of the strength and conditioning program. Lean muscle mass helps athletes avoid injury and heal more quickly if an injury does occur. When muscles are strong, they are prepared to support the whole body through rigorous and intense competition. That is why the training occurs long before the season begins.
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Five days after Gov. Deval Patrick directed state public health authorities to implement an immediate ban on the prescribing and dispensing of the painkiller Zohydro, which he said poses a "significant risk," state health authorities on Tuesday night formally conveyed instructions to doctors.
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON -- Five days after Gov. Deval Patrick directed state public health authorities to implement an immediate ban on the prescribing and dispensing of the painkiller Zohydro, which he said poses a "significant risk," state health authorities on Tuesday night formally conveyed instructions to doctors.
Declaring a public health emergency, Patrick last Thursday outlined steps to address an opioid addiction epidemic, banning any hydrocodone-only formulation, commonly known as Zohydro, with the administration saying it poses "significant risk to individuals already addicted to opiates and to the public at large." The ban will last until authorities determine measures are in pace to "safeguard against the potential for diversion, overdose and misuse."
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Medical Society, responding to a News Service inquiry Tuesday, said he was not aware of any subsequent communication about Zohydro to doctors from the state Department of Public Health. After the News Service inquired with DPH about how the ban has been communicated to doctors, a DPH spokeswoman late Tuesday said a "circular letter" would be going out on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, the spokeswoman confirmed the letter went out by email and was also being sent through the regular mail.
In the letter, Deborah Allwes, director of prescription monitoring and drug control at the Department of Public Health, specified that registered providers in Massachusetts providing care to a patient in another state may not write a prescription for hydrocodone-only extended release drugs to be filled in another state.
Allwes also reported that a physician in a hospital or extended care facility may not order hydrocodone-only extended release for an admitted patient under their care, and also said a pharmacy in Massachusetts may not fill a prescription for hydrocodone-only extended release from a neighboring state.
Patrick and Department of Public Health Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett announced the opiate overdose and abuse emergency at a 3 p.m. press conference last Thursday. At 10 a.m. Thursday, the state Public Health Council had convened an emergency meeting on Washington Street in Boston, where the council voted 12-0 to authorize the commissioner to take actions to address the emergency and 11-1 to approve an emergency amendment authorizing the use by first responders of Naloxone, known as Narcan, an opioid antagonist that can prevent deaths in overdose cases. Asked about public notice of the meeting, a DPH spokesman said it was posted on the DPH website.
In her letter, Allwes wrotes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration "recently approved a new medication which consists entirely of hydrocodone in higher levels than any currently available hydrocodone combination product" and said the product "is not in an abuse-deterrent formulation." Allwes said the department "is concerned about the high likelihood of misuse, diversion and abuse of the medication, further adding to the opiate abuse epidemic and increasing the likelihood of additional opiate-related overdoses."
Allwes reported that state authorities would provide notification when the ban on the new painkiller is lifted, saying it will stay in place "until such time as there are adequate safety measures in place."
The makers of Zohydro, the San Diego-based Zogenix, say its use is reserved for patients "for whom alternative treatment options (e.g., non-opioid analgesics or immediate-release opioids) are ineffective, not tolerated, or would be otherwise inadequate to provide sufficient management of pain."
In a statement, the company said Patrick's ban "only serves to unfairly restrict patient access to the only hydrocodone pain reliever available for long-term, daily, severe chronic pain patients who are obtaining relief with short-acting hydrocodone combination products, but who are at risk for potentially fatal liver toxicity due to their daily intake of acetaminophen. Ultimately, the ban on the prescription medication will add to patient suffering in the state."
The company said most other opioid medications on the market "are both equal to or more potent than" Zohydro and "available in higher strengths per unit-of-use than" Zohydro.
Saying it has taken steps to prevent misuse of Zohydro, Zogenix estimated that more than 360,000 prescriptions for extended-release opioids were dispensed in Massachusetts over the last 12 months.
Disputing claims that Zohydro is "more powerful" or "more addictive" than other commonly prescribed opioids, the company added, "We fail to see how banning the sale of a single new product will achieve the governor's policy objectives when all of the products that are currently part of the epidemic remain available for sale in the state."
In February 2012, nine state senators wrote to the Food and Drug Administration urging extreme caution as the agency considered approving what was described then as a newer form of Vicodin containing pure hydrocodone.
"As the elected representatives of a state in the grips of a growing opiate drug epidemic that was, we believe, touched off by the FDA's 1996 approval of OxyContin, we are very wary of the impact a new, powerful opiate will have on the Commonwealth's already high drug addiction rate," senators wrote in the letter to Janet Woodcock, the director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The letter was signed by Sens. John Keenan (D-Quincy), Jennifer Flanagan (D-Leominster), Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth), Jamie Eldridge (D-Acton), Daniel Wolf (D-Harwich), Stephen Brewer (D-Barre), former Sen. Katherine Clark (D-Melrose), Jamie Welch (D-West Springfield) and Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester).
The News Service reported at the time the new drug could contain 10 times the amount of hydrocodone as Vicodin. The lawmakers also suggested requiring that any new hydrocodone-based painkiller be manufactured in a tamper-resistant form like OxyContin , whose formula was changed causing it to form a "crumbly gel" rather than a powder when crushed to prevent pills from snorted by abusers.


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In his autobiography Up Till Now, Bill Shatner describes a pivotal moment in his early life that directly led to his career as an actor - it is a moment that may also be crucial in understanding the toupee (more on that later):
The first time I stood on a stage I made the audience cry...I was six years old, attending Rabin's Camp, a summer camp for Jewish welfare cases run by my aunt in the mountains north of Montreal. I wanted to box at that camp - hitting people seemed like fun - but my aunt instead put me in a play named Winterset. My role was that of a young boy forced to leave his home because the Nazis were coming. In the climactic scene I had to say good-bye to my dog, knowing I probably would never see him again. My dog was played by another camper, costumed in painted newspaper. We performed the play on parents' weekend to an audience consisting primarily of people who had escaped the Nazis, many of whom still had family members trapped in Hitler's Europe. So many of them had left everything they knew or owned behind-and there I was, saying good-bye to my little doggie.
I cried, the audience cried, everybody cried. I remember taking my bow and seeing people wiping away their tears. I remember the warmth of my father holding me as people told him what a wonderful son he had. Just imagine the impact that had on a six-year-old child. I had the ability to move people to tears. And I could get approval. Something in me always wanted to perform, always wanted the attention that came from pleasing an audience...
A very young William Shatner.
The unauthorized 1995 William Shatner biography Captain Quirk also describes this moment:
William Shatner discovered the power of acting when he was only six years old. It happened at summer camp in 1937. Camp in depression-era Quebec was not some privileged kids' retreat to Camp Coddle-Me. Summer camp meant fifty or so kids spending several weeks on a real farm, working hard at chores and playing hard in the outdoors. This particular farm was owned by Shatner's aunt and was located in the Laurentian Mountains, ninety miles north of Montreal.
Every Sunday, the campers would put on a play for visiting parents. In one of the amateur productions, Billy was chosen to play a little Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. To escape persecution, the child's family was abandoning their home, and the little boy had to leave behind his pet dog, who was played by another young camper. During the scene where Billy was saying goodbye to his dog, tears welled up in his eyes and he started to cry. The audience was profoundly moved by the portrayal of the sacrifices being made by their friends and families in Germany at the time. Many joined the boy and started sobbing openly.
From left to right: William Shatner, sister Joy, father Joe and mother Anne.
What the audience did not know was that little Billy was crying because he really wanted a dog of his own, not because he had any comprehension of the events in far-away Europe. He just wanted a puppy, but his parents would never allow it.
"All I remember was people were trying to take me away from my dog," Shatner said many years later. "I always wanted one, and my parents' argument was, in the muddy streets of Montreal, the dog would run around outside, come in, and dirty up the carpets and furniture. They'd say, 'You can have a hobby horse, but you can't have a dog!' ... and so I remember my crying on stage as a kid, 'Don't take my dog away from me!!!'"
"I didn't realize how powerful that play was. At the end, I looked up and saw everyone crying. At that moment, I had a firm feeling of being able to get hold of people's emotions. So from that moment on, I wasn't interested in anything other than acting."
The incident is also briefly mentioned in an E! True Hollywood Story profile of William Shatner:
So what we have here is a young boy who gains the approval and love of an audience - and his father, with whom he apparently didn't have the warmest of relationships - via a theatrical performance that was actually very real for Bill Shatner.
He wanted a dog, a furry friend, but his parents wouldn't allow him to have one. The boy then finally found a venue to express his pent-up emotions on the subject, one that was elevated outside of the everyday reality - a theatrical performance (Trek fans note: the play contains a character called Miriamne, rather similar to Kirk's big love Miramanee).
If we apply some rather deep Freudian psychoanalysis to this 1937 event, then we can perhaps find some important clues to understanding the toupee here: A young boy and parents who apparently don't understand his need for a dog; a representation of a dog (another boy wrapped in newspapers pretending to be a dog) and "I remember the warmth of my father holding me as people told him what a wonderful son he had". For a six-year-old mind, some important associations may have been formed that day: about love and where and how it could be found; about expression and about approval.
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Years later, as Bill Shatner's hair began to fall out, did the fear of potentially losing the love of the all-important audience bring back memories of this moment? "All I remember was people were trying to take me away from my dog," said Shatner of the tears he shed during the play. The loss of hair during his twenties may well have brought back this dog-related trauma: "Not this time - you won't take my hair away from me! Without it, I may not be able to move an audience anymore!"
Bill Shatner had defied his bald father who wanted him to take over the family clothing business, and instead decided to become an actor. But hair loss suddenly threatened to end the dream. The fear of returning home a failure, not the star he had dreamed of becoming, must have been overwhelming.
Many of you will have wondered, particularly during the very thick "TJ Curly" years, how Bill Shatner could have believed that we could think that his hair was real.
Are there actually two dogs in this picture?
But what if we're missing the point? What if at all times during his post-baldness life, Bill Shatner needed that dog that never was, that furry friend and companion, that close physical warmth he received the day of his emotional outburst, nearby (on his head)? Could it be that in some sub-conscious way, Bill Shatner's toupees are a complex memorial to a furry childhood friend?
Clues about a mythical dog in Star Trek: Generations (1994).
Since those days, Bill Shatner has been an avid dog-owner, particularly of his beloved and fiercely protective Dobermans. But that first love, that formative love, only ever occurred within the fictitious context of the stage. And the moment changed Bill Shatner's life.
If all this is indeed the case, then Bill Shatner could no more ditch the toupee than any of us could ditch our beloved pets. His first dog, with him throughout his entire life, providing warmth, love, approval and much, much more. Perhaps, every once in a while, late at night, Bill Shatner takes off the toup, strokes it, gives it a gentle kiss and whispers to it: "We made it. You and me. Always and forever together. I won't ever be separated from you again!"
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UPDATE: A reader correctly notes that the play Winterset (published in 1935, well before Hitler's most egregious anti-Jewish acts) is neither about Nazism, nor does it feature a boy and his dog. However, an adaptation to be performed by young children may have altered the original story of the Sacco and Vanzetti case into a highly simplified allegorical tale about the persecution of Jews in 1930s Europe. Anyone who has followed Bill Shatner will know that his bad memory is almost legendary, but his book had the benefit of numerous researchers and fact-checkers, so it would be quite something for the incorrect play to be referenced - but it isn't impossible, of course. Read about the play here.


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To force one to demonstrate one's skill in a particular area, usually in a grueling manner. Boy, they really put me through my facings at that job interview today—I had to give a mock lecture to a whole team of people! If my son wants a promotion, I'm going to put him through his facings so that he truly earns it.


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New parents Anders Persson and Aimee Sznewajs meet with lactation specialist Dawn Reidy to discuss breastfeeding their newborn Leo.
The report titled, "One Hospital at a Time: Overcoming Barriers to Breastfeeding," ranks UCSF number four out of hospitals throughout California based on their rates of exclusive breastfeeding, when the infant only receives breast milk. At UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, 88.7 percent of mothers exclusively breast fed their newborns, according to the report that cites 2009 data.
It also concludes that California hospitals need policies that support breastfeeding mothers to give children the best chance at good health from birth.
"The health benefits of breastfeeding are above and beyond anything else," said Dawn Reidy, RN, who is certified by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBCLC) and coordinator of lactation services at UCSF. "It really is the first step in preventative care for a child."
UCSF lactation specialists and experts have been building a robust lactation service for the last 15 years, implementing a lactation task force, hiring certified lactation consultants and educating obstetricians, pediatricians, residents and nurses to create a climate of support that is passed down to the patient.
"The medical center has supported a cadre of nurses who are lactation certified and that is their primary job to provide breast feeding support and intervention to every mother," said Carol Miller, MD, clinical professor of pediatrics and medical director of the Well Newborn Nursery. "In addition, that same group has taken on the job of providing education for all of the nurses so even the staff nurses are at least able to help mothers get started and clued into our philosophy and support so when things get challenging they don't go straight to the bottle."
Reidy tries to see all babies and mothers during the first 24 hours of life, educating them and addressing concerns. "It gives them an idea of what they should be feeling and look out for," she said. "It's a concerted team effort all around. The nurses, obstetricians and midwives are an essential team. If a baby can nurse in the first two hours of life, the likelihood of ongoing success is much higher."
All of the nurses are trained in breastfeeding assistance and all new nurses spend a day following a lactation specialist, a certification that requires more than 1,000 hours working with individual breastfeeding moms and babies. Residents in obstetrics and pediatrics must attend a lecture on breastfeeding and the intensive care nursery is staffed with its own lactation consultant.
Benefits of Breastfeeding
That education is then passed on to expectant mothers starting with their prenatal visits. "We work to get the mothers engaged in wanting to breast feed which has to happen prenatally and certainly we have a very supportive [obstetrics] group that has embraced that concept," said Miller. "We encourage women to breast feed with information about how important it is and benefits to not just the baby but the mother."
Lactation specialist Dawn Reidy meets with new moms within 24 hours of delivery to answer questions and provide breastfeeding support.
Breastfeeding is widely considered one of the most important preventative care measures for children's health, reducing risk for infections and chronic diseases including diabetes, asthma and obesity. It also reduces the mother's risk for type 2 diabetes and breast and ovarian cancers. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that women who do not have health problems exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of life to give maximum benefits to the baby.
"Breastfeeding was supported from the beginning of my pregnancy and immediately after delivery, without having to ask for more information," said Aimee Sznewajs, a fourth-year UCSF medical student who delivered baby Leo this month.
Her husband Anders Persson, PhD, an assistant adjunct professor of neurology and researcher in the Weiss Lab at the UCSF Mission Bay campus agrees. "The staff has been amazing all the way through. All of the people coming in make us feel really safe and supported."
Several forums are available to expectant and new mothers, including prenatal classes and one-on-one visits with lactation consultants. Established in 2005, the lactation task force oversees the coordination of all of these inpatient and outpatient efforts and protocols to create a continuity of care and philosophy.
"The task force provides a linkage with outside lactation consultants, provides prenatal courses and keeps abreast of research in lactation," said Sharon Wiener, a certified nurse midwife at UCSF Women's Health Center and a leader of the Lactation Task Force Committee.
The group meets once a month to "problem shoot, come to a consensus in our program, intervention and research," said Miller, the other task force leader. "We've created several forums to get mothers engaged so when they come to deliver they're receptive and we try to build on that."
The ongoing efforts are paying off, reflected both in the statewide ranking and in the experience in the hospital. "We're very proud to see the rates are at the high levels they are," said Miller. "We've worked really hard on this and it's about this culture we're creating and sustaining."
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Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas - South Plains cotton producer Brad Heffington almost couldn't contain his happiness as he looked at forecasts for rain over the next couple of days. The weather pattern expected to last through Tuesday is atypical for West Texas cotton growers this time of year. They often have too little rain, brisk, drying winds and blistering summer temperatures.
Up to 5 inches is possible in some areas of West Texas, National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Conder said Sunday. Extended rains are forecast for Lubbock, the Rolling Plains to the east and in San Angelo, Midland and Odessa. Some areas are forecast to get as little as an inch, he said. Heffington, who farms about 6,000 acres in Littlefield about 40 miles northwest of Lubbock, said he hopes the forecast for prolonged rains proves accurate. He was in his fields Sunday replanting irrigated cotton acres destroyed in June storms by hail, wind and sand. He's also planting other crops, such as black-eyed peas. "I'm sure hoping we can get some rain," said the 46-year-old farmer, adding that the South Plains is in the midst of its driest three-year span going back to 1895. "I hope we're not disappointed." Rains could be heavy and flash flood watches are in place for areas near Midland and Odessa, where as many as 5 inches could fall, Conder said. Cooler temperatures will accompany the upper low, which has slowed over West Texas. The low moved southwest out of Ohio and Missouri where it was the past couple of days. The mercury in Lubbock reached the mid-90s Sunday but was expected to cool to the upper 70s Monday and Tuesday. There will be some breaks in the rain through Monday but stretches of heavy rain from slow-moving thunderstorms may return to the region Monday evening. The system is expected to leave the region Tuesday evening. Residents and motorists should be prepared for flooding along low-lying roads. Those involved with cotton on the South Plains, the world's largest contiguous growing patch, are welcoming the unusual weather pattern. One forecast has lingering chances of rain through Thursday, said Mary Jane Buerkle, spokeswoman for Plains Cotton Growers, which serves a 41-county region on the South Plains. "It's not every day that we get to see a forecast with rain in it for five days straight," she said.


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How to use the same home partition for reinstalling a distro or using a new distro but wanting to use the same home partition (i.e. preferences, Documents…)
Before Installing
Find the user and group id's (uid and gid) on your current distro before reinstalling/adding new distro and write them down:
And the username of your regular user:
Get your home partition fstab entry:
grep home /etc/fstab
If your fstab uses a UUID, keep in mind that this will change if you change your partition map.
During the installation process the you will be asked about partitioning. You should not partition unless you know what you are doing. Some distro's will safely allow resizing and adding new partitions. Some partitions tools can safely shrink, expanded, and add new partition. If you need a new partition or a reorganization of partitions consider adding parted to the installer CD if it isn't already and partitioning with that.
When you got your disk partitioned, start the installer and manually set the partitions you plan to use. Don't use the dedicated home partition or the installer will likely erase it. Also during the install don't use the username from your previous install, likely the installer will choose a different uid and gid so this is best not to, later matching id's will be set. Finish installation and reboot.
After Reboot
Exit if automatically logged in and goto console Ctl+Alt+F1. Log in as root and find out what the newly created user uid/gid is.
id <new-username>
Keep a note of the groups the distro added and also be sure the new user didn't get the same uid as the one you already had.
Add a new user:
For username select your old username, for uid match the old one. If you'd like to prevent possible uid conflicts in the future, consider using a higher uid like 1050. Enter gid to match the one you are using on the new system. Then add the groups that match the user that the distro created.
You can also use the
useradd command but I find the former easier. For example (careful though as groups may vary from system to system):
useradd -d /home/user --uid 1050 -G adm,audio,cdrom,cdrw,fcron,portage,users,usb,video,wheel -s /bin/bash
Delete distro created user:
userdel <username>
And delete the folder in the home directory for that user:
rm -rf /home/*
This will delete everything in the home folder (it is not sane to mount a partition on an folder containing contents.)
Add home partition to fstab
Add the home partition to be loaded at boot (if already not added). For example:
nano /etc/fstab ... /dev/sda5 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
Besure to enter the correct filesytem type and settings.
Now reboot and login to your new user.
Match your home partition to your new distro ids
Mount the home partition and change to the directory of the dedicated home partition:
mount /dev/<home-partition> cd /mnt/<home partition>
Then change the old user and group id's to the new one:
find . -uid <old-uid-number> -gid <old-gid-number> -exec chown -h <username>:<usergroup> {} +
This will change permissions on all files/folders/links that have both the old uid number and gid number. Some (very few) files will not match but most programs will eventually write to them and update them. To update all file/folders/links:
find . -exec chown -h USERNAME:USERGROUP {} +/


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•Crista Teter, 39, Brush, was arrested for harassment and domestic violence at 439 Cambridge Street on August 15 at 2:16 p.m. Held without bond.
•Christian Delong, 18, Brush, was arrested on a warrant for assault at Cambridge and Edmunds Streets on August 16 at 4:40 p.m. Held on $1,000 bond.
•Maranda Swanlund, 26, Fort Morgan, was arrested on a warrant for failure to pay fines at 118 Carson Street on August 19 at 1:05 p.m. $140 bond.
•Roberto Hernandez, 33, Brush, was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs near the intersection of Clifton and Emerson Street on August 21 at 8:14 p.m. Held on a $1,000 bond.
•Aaron Simons, 27, Fort Morgan, was arrested for driving under restraint in the 100 block of Carson Street on August 21 at 11:49 p.m. Held on $1,000 bond.
•Micaila Fiscus, 21, Brush, reported a burglary at 616 Curtis Street on August 17 at 4 p.m.
•Alyssa Simon, 21, Fort Morgan, reported motor vehicle theft at 122 Curtis Street on August 17 at 7:19 p.m.
•James Marick, 46, Brush, reported a criminal mischief at 303 Clifton Street on August 18 at 9:07 p.m.
•Arthur Walter, 69, Brush, reported theft at 618 Custer Street on August 19 at 9:18 a.m.
•Brandi Mills, 23, Brush, reported fraud at 207 South Clayton Street on August 19 at 12:52 p.m.
•Vanessa Avilez, 23, Brush, reported criminal trespass at 115 South Colorado Avenue on august 20 at 10:07 p.m.
•Vince Meza 48, Brush, was contacted for dog at large in the 400 block of Custer Street on August 18 at 4:54 p.m. Summons issued.
•Brian Lucas, 57, Fort Morgan, was contacted for driving under restraint/denied and other related charges at Edison and Clayton Streets on August 20 at 9:17 a.m. Summons issued.
•Maureen Kelly, 37, and a juvenile female, 16, of Brush, were contacted for harassment and disorderly conduct at Brush Middle School on August 21 at 11:10 a.m. Summonses were issued.
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"The Americans were responsible for creation of a gangster state headed by an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders," – Sir John Troutbeck wrote in his letter to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin on June 2, 1948.
"Of course the people don't want war….but after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether, it's a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a Communist dictatorship," – Dr. Herman Georing, Hitler's propaganda minister.
The former British Minister of Environment, Michael Meacher, in his article titled The war on terrorism is bogus (Guardian, September 6, 2003) – wrote that the 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its world domination.
On February 7, 2001 – former CIA director George Tenet (born as David Cohen) eerily described to the Congress what did occured six months later: "Terrorists are also becoming oprationally more adept and more technically sophisticated (inside Afghanistani caves!) in order to defeat counter-terrorism measures…"
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), was a Zionist think tank, which during 1997-2006 – played a very significant role in reshaping the Middle East map by Washington which has made Israel is the greatest beneficiary of the so-called "War on Terror". Zionist William Kristol and Robert Kagan who founded the PNAC – urged Bill Clinton to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, though, both countries posed no military or economic threat to the US. The Jewish controlled mainstream media provided support to PNAC hoax by inventing propaganda lies of WMDs, Saddam's involvement in 9/11; his invasion of Kuwait, and his use of chemical warfare against Shias and Kurds – which all were carried out by western blessings. However, to sell their evil agenda against the Muslim world – they needed a "New Pearl Harbor" some horrible tragedy to happen on the very soil of America – which did happen on September 11, 2001. Nine days after the 9/11 (September 20, 2001) – PNAC sent a letter (authors included Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Scooter Libby) to Dubya Bush urging him to bring a 'regime change' in Iraq, while projecting Islamic Iran as "the future threat" to the US: "Over the long term, Iran may well prove a large threat to US interests in Persian Gulf as Iraq has. And even should US-Iranian relations improves, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be a essential in US security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region…"
The PNAC, after successfully completing its goal of destroying any possible threat to the zionist entity – closed down their shop in 2006 – and most of its members joined the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), another Jewish think tank with intimate links to the Likud Party in Israel.
Gideon Long (Reuters, May 28, 2003) quoting Amnesty International Report 2002, wrote: "Washington's war on terror has made the world more dangerous by curbing human rights, undermining international law and shielding governments from secrutiny…."
One of the other Zionist think tanks which plays an important part in American imperialism around the world – is The International Crisis Group . Its board members include Jewish billionaire George Soro, Morton Abramowitz, Kenneth Adelman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and former president of Council on Foreign Affairs, Leslie H. Gelb.
Mahboob Khawaja PhD in his July 14 article under the title The War on Terrorism that America lost, wrote:
The premise of the American led "war on terrorism" was based on the Nazis blueprint of flagrant lies and perpetuated "fear" to drain out all the positive and creative thinking of the American people and to enslave them for years to come while the Neo-conservatives dominated Bush Administration with overwhelming indoctrination of Nazism continued the militancy towards freedom of thought and conscience, human rights and legal justice denying America's own history and rich values. America lost the war the day it invaded Iraq. The American Empire had no purpose and strategy to fight Islamists and its delusion represents failure and self-defeat on all the fronts.
The overriding motivation for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are shielded by political smokescreen that the US and UK will run out of sufficient hydrocarbon energy supplies in 2010, whereas, the Arab and Muslim world would control almost 60% of the world oil producing capacity and perhaps more significantly 95% of the remaining global oil production capacity. The news media reports indicate that the US is predicted to produce only 39% of the domestic oil production in 2010, whereas in 1990, it produced 57% of its total oil consumption. The UK Government had projected "severe" gas shortages by 2005, and indicated that 70% of the electricity will be drawn from gas and 90% of gas will be imported. It is interesting to note that Iraq is said to have 110 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in addition to approximately 15 – 20% of the world oil reserves. In another research report by the Commission on America's National Interests (July 2000), it observed that the most promising new energy resources are found in the Caspian Sea, Central Asian region and it would avoid the US exclusive dependence on the Saudi Arabian oil imports. The report outlined the feasible routes for the Caspian Seas oil deliveries, one hydrocarbon pipeline via Azerbaijan and Georgia and another pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan would ensure the future strategic demands of the US government. To counteract the USSR influence in Afghanistan, Taliban group was created with active support of the US intelligence agencies and the Peoples Party of Pakistan under the former PM Miss Bhutto. The Taliban group was helped to form a government in Afghanistan and to ensure the future passage of a hydrocarbon pipeline via Afghanistan and Pakistan onward to the Arabian Sea. The leadership included Osama bin Laden, the close affiliate of the US sponsored war against the Soviet Union. For years, the US officials held discussion with these groups to finalize formal agreement for the passage of the oil and gas pipelines in Afghanistan. If the author of the Forbidden Truth has any credibility, the US and Taliban negotiators continued discussion of the possible pipeline until August 2001. After the 9/11 attacks, the US government was outraged and asked Pakistan's military leader General Pervez Musharaf to dismantle the Taliban government from power in Kabul. The US government never made any claim or evidence public to suggest that Taliban as a group were involved in the September 2001 attacks on the US.
After President Barrak Obama was sworn in as the new President, America looked morally exhausted and militarily lost, being unable to think of the much needed strategic change but more importantly, searching desperately for a navigational change in wars against the Islamists.
Gwynne Dyer, a well known British author ("The International Terrorist Conspiracy"), asserts that terrorism is not an ideology but a political technique and those groups willing to opt for violence in support of their goals, may resort to it. Dyer maintains that "there is no shadowy but powerful network waging a terrorist war against the West, the whole thing is a fantasy….there never was much of an Islamist "terrorist network" anyway – certainly nothing to compare the extensive cooperation between the extreme left-wing "urban guerrilla" of the developed world (Germany's Baader-Meinhof Gang, Italy's Red Brigades, the Japanese Red Army etc.)….."
Also See:
Video: Operation in Afghanistan is rooted in Israel
Video: 9/11 Missing Links – A Must Watch Documentary
Gallery Of Shame: Zionists, Israel And 9/11
The Protocols of Zion and 9/11
9/11 Truth: It Wasn't Muslims Video
Must Read: The Dajjal's War on Humankind
Video: Dajjal – The False Messiah
Horrific UN And US Death Statistics Expose Obama's Fake War On Terror
Operation Blue Tulsi: How India Approached Israel For Help Against Pakistan
Codename Operation Enduring Turmoil Exposed! – Zionist Plans for Pakistan and rest of the World
Israeli Terrorism = U.S Invasion Of Pakistan


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Motorola is ending the search for a buyer for its set top box and networking business, because it cannot find anyone willing to pay enough for the unit.
The company has spent the last two years trying to sell off its handset business, which has had a rotten few years, as well as its set-top box and networking division.
But bids for the set-top unit all came in the range $3bn to $4bn - rather than the $4bn to $5bn the firm was seeking. This shortfall, alongside better handset sales, has led the company to consider keeping the units under one umbrella, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The next round of bids were due in mid-February, but this could be cancelled - Motorola's board of directors will meet shortly to decide whether the sale goes ahead or not.
Any decision could see the sale put on hold for a few months, or stopped altogether.
Motorola has seen its previously decent market share for handsets shrink thanks new players like Apple and stronger competition from the likes of Samsung. ®
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text: We are weeks away from being fully immersed in the 2014 election cycle. Predictions abound, likening the 2014 cycle to 2010—when the House flipped from Democratic to Republican. Only this time, it is the Senate that has the potential to change. Twenty of the 33seats up in 2014 are currently held by Democrats—more than half of whom are in trouble.


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Why Madonna Had Hairy Armpits in High School
The Material Girl rebelled against beauty norms while growing up
Tom Munro for Harper's Bazaar
Today, she's untouchable: Madonna has her music career, an upcoming directorial debut, her pick of famous boyfriends and a soon-to-launch clothing line and fragrance. But growing up in the Midwest, life wasn't always easy for the Material Girl.
"The boys in my school would make fun of me," she reveals in the December issue of
Harper's Bazaar
. They called her "'hairy monster.' You know, things like that," she recalls. "And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits."
The singer says that hanging out in gay clubs as a teen helped her find herself. "Straight men did not find me attractive," she shares. "I think they were scared of me because I was different." But that obviously didn't stop her.
Tom Munro for Harper's Bazaar
Now a mother four times over, Madonna says she doesn't like her age associated with her work. "I find whenever someone writes anything about me, my age is right after my name," she muses. "It's almost like they're saying, 'Here she is, but remember she's this age, so she's not that relevant anymore.' When you put someone's age down, you're limiting them."
Age doesn't limit daughter Lourdes, who oversees the Macy's juniors line Material Girl with her mom. "She loves fashion and style," Madonna says of her daughter. "She helps design the collection. I just stand in the background and watch."
But like any good mother, she steps in when necessary. "I proofread her blogs and edit them," Madonna says. "I give her a hard time when I think she's being a lazy writer." For the full interview and more photos, go to harpersbazaar.com/Madonna.


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Verizon 4G LTE customers nationwide woke up Wednesday to find that the network that markets itself as the nation's "most reliable" was, well, not that reliable.
Customers from Oakland to Dallas to Delaware took to Twitter and Verizon support forums to complain about not being able to connect to their data networks beginning early Wednesday.
Support staff working the @VZWSupport on Twitter have been fielding a flood of tweets about the data outage this morning. Their message to affected customers was basically: "I don't want you to hate Verizon."
Verizon officials responded in a statement issued at about 11 a.m. Pacific time that service had returned to normal, but did not say how many customers were affected, how widespread the problem was and how long it lasted. Officials added that the 3G data network "operated normally" during the 4G LTE problem, and that 4G customers were also able to make calls and receive text messages during that time.
Wednesday's glitch came just two weeks after another network mishap. Customers using the 4G data network reported "intermittent or unavailable 4G service, or devices operating on 3G." Verizon officials claimed that 3G data devices operated normally, and customers could still make calls and send texts.


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Legendary comedienne Lily Tomlin will be joined by some of today's leading comedy acts including Orny Adams, Elayne Boosler, Rick Overton with emcee Bruce Vilanch at a private estate in Beverly Hills in a benefit event for Voice For The Animals www.vftafoundation.org on Saturday, August 7th from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $100 and $200 and are tax deductible. To purchase tickets and for more information go to www.helpbilly.org or call (310) 392-5253 ext. 6#.
The evening will commence with cocktails and fine vegan food on the grounds of a spacious private estate in Beverly Hills. Tomlin and friends will then take the stage in a knockout round of non-stop laughs. And while laugh-until-it-hurts is the objective, the benefit's cause is no laughing matter. Tomlin, a longtime friend of VFTA, hopes to draw attention and raise money to support VFTA's lawsuit to free Billy the Elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo-and close down the planned pachyderm exhibit.
"Lily has been instrumental from the start in helping us bring this issue to light. She loves elephants and wants Billy to go to a place where he can roam free on many acres with other elephants," says Melya Kaplan, founder and executive director of VFTA. "Our lawsuit against the Los Angeles zoo is scheduled to go to trial November 2nd." Celebrity supporters for the evening, though not attending, include James Cromwell, Kevin Nealon and Bernie Williams.
VFTA's lawsuit originated in 2007 and was filed on behalf of two plaintiffs including the late actor Robert Culp. The suit charges the Los Angeles zoo with cruel and unusual punishment of elephants (there have been 14 elephant deaths in the zoo's history, two in the past four years) and seeks to shut down the $42 million planned elephant exhibit the city council approved in January of 2009. It was the second time the council voted in approval of the exhibit in light of sufficient evidence that proves the care captive elephants receive constitutes civil and criminal abuse under California law. After a series of motions and appeals, the Court of Appeals finally ruled the case could go to trial.
"Lily and all of our guests understand the significance of the lawsuit, not only to save Billy from what inevitably will be an early death, but to send an even louder message," explains Kaplan. "These magnificent, sensitive and loving creatures belong in the wild. And if they've already been brought here, then they belong in wide-open sanctuaries designed to meet their physical and emotional needs."
Donations may also be sent to Voice For The Animals Foundation, 2633 Lincoln Blvd., #202, Santa Monica, CA; 90405-4656.
About Voice for the Animals Foundation
Founded by Meyla Kaplan, Voice for the Animals Foundation (VFTA) is a nonprofit devoted to empathy for animals through education, rescue, advocacy and legislation. Since it's founding in 2000, VFTA has implemented programs such as reuniting Ruby the elephant with her companion in the L.A. Zoo in 2004. In 2007, Ruby was moved to a free-roaming, natural habitat in Northern California. VFTA "Working Cats" program has successfully placed homeless cats in the Orchid Mart, Crossroads School campus and the Los Angeles Police Department Wilshire and Foothill divisions to repel rats. This has allowed the cats to live in cooperation with the businesses they help.
Georja Umano is an actress/comedienne and animal advocate.