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Nickname: "La Brujita"
Club: SS Lazio
- 2004-2006
Club: F.C. Internazionale Milano
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[spoiler]atk: mostly just sat back in the midfield and moved around there, pretty decent at finding space around the pitch when he did venture forward.
:def pretty shit.. offered little to def, v Wanted to go lower, but he was more defensivly inclined at inter.. so would be wrong to give him lower than lazio set.azio set.
resp: hardly pursued defenders or tried to intercept anything. He usually would have at least 1 shield protecting for him.. he wasn't there to defend.
passing: world class without doubht. Hesitant on giving him 90 sps but it can probably be taken. lpa never got any worse at this. lps needs a slight raise.
speed: awful in short distances, but due to his long legs.. he could reach a decent speed.
da: still classy, little loss there.
men: awful.. clearly had some stamina issues
shooting: not bad, but he just blasted them, didn't rely on placement at all... and never really had any.
tw: all that he needs to do what he did. move around in the midfield keeping play going. his playmaking ability is covered by playmaking* + passer + his huge passing stats.
unfortunatly little vids of him from inter days. heres a match video from 2 years after he left inter, so you can get an idea of the quality he still has in his passing.
- 2008-2011
Club: Estudiantes de La Plata
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In mid-2006, Verón made it known that he wished to return to his native Argentina for the 2006-2007 season. He received offers from Boca Juniors and River Plate, but chose his boyhood club Estudiantes de La Plata, of whom he is a declared fan and has made significant donations in the past to upgrade the club training facilities. Chelsea agreed to loan Verón to Estudiantes for a season, until the end of his contract with the English club. On 13 December 2006, he helped Estudiantes win the Apertura 2006 tournament, its first in 23 years, in a final play-off match final over Boca Juniors. Some rival fans booed him, arguably dating back to his sub-par performances during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, but Verón was ranked among the top three players in the 2006 Argentine League by sports newspaper Olé.
Following his donations to the club's training grounds, Verón was a decisive factor in the agreement with La Plata city hall to update Estudiantes' historic stadium to modern standards. Verón personally engaged then Argentine president Néstor Kirchner to kick-start the negotiations, which had been stalled by La Plata mayor Julio Alak. Verón indicated that he may run for Estudiantes president in the future.
Verón suffered from a string of minor injuries after his return from the 2007 Copa América, and missed a number of important games during the 2007-08 season. His fitness improved in time for the 2008-09 season, in which Estudiantes reached the finals of the Copa Sudamericana and secured a place in the 2009 Copa Libertadores.
In July 2007, Kevin Payne, president of Major League Soccer club D.C. United, met with Verón in Buenos Aires to discuss a possible transfer, but Verón decided to stay in Estudiantes.
In early 2008, several football personalities chose Verón as the best player in the Argentine league.
In 2009, he played in the Copa Libertadores for the second time, having seen Estudiantes eliminated in the round of 16 in the previous year by eventual champions Liga de Quito. After displaying his usual excellent level of play throughout the tournament, he found himself leading Estudiantes into the final for the first time since 1971. The Copa Libertadores has long been a special competition for Estudiantes and its fans, ever since the team won three consecutive titles from 1968-1970 with Verón's father playing a key role on the left wing. Verón certainly shared this affinity for the most prestigious title in the American continent, as evidenced by his declaration before the final: "I would trade everything I've won for this title."His dream came true as Estudiantes won the final, after an aggregate of 2-1. A 0-0 tie in La Plata and a dramatic 2-1 win away in Belo Horizonte against Brazil's Cruzeiro sealed el pincha's triumph. Verón was chosen by visitors to fifa.com as the best player of the 2009 Copa Libertadores.
Verón was twice elected South American Footballer of the Year (2008 and 2009) by Uruguayan diary El País, a title that is cited worldwide.
Well as he's retiring now in 4 matches I think that's time to prepare a set for him in these years where just impressive as he always been world class but he confirmed that in Estudiantes. He basically RE-founded the entire club, an hero for the fans and most important player of the club along with his father Juan Ramón Verón. Estudiantes was ruined when he came back in 2006 and since there they started to raise sin Veron's leadership and he got that remembered tournament stealing that to Lavolpe's Boca team in that final. Then came international amazing appearances, and finally in 2009 they got with a hell of team the Copa Libertadores. Then came the remembered and awesome performance vs the best team in the history.
Been re-viewing some moments of him in these years, and he's been a hell of player, personality, leadership and all combined with what a class...intact and in some aspects even better. Difficult to compare but I firmly believe that he's at the same level of Riquelme in terms of long passing, he was just insane in these years, for sure needs those values and I'm pretty satisfied how works in game. Just went with some Konami values but surprise for me were the same that I was thinking in before watch the default stats. He needs a set for these years as he was probably the best player in AFA with Riquelme in 00's, may be the most influential taking off Román. But what Verón did was pretty much more difficult, as he came to a ruined team and became it in an International club with awesome appearances.
I have to confess that he's one of my debilities, he's so incredible as player, too awful that in last year was plagued by injuries and he thought in retire 6 months ago but his teammates and the crowd asked him to continue by 6 months more, and despite being decided as he knew that his physique was in a clear decline; he due to his love to the club continued...the results weren't good, he played only 4 matches this tournament as he had reason. Takes a lot of time to recover after a game as he has a chronical injurie in his knee and he knows that more than nobody...but sometimes "Heart has reasons that even reason don't understand" and here he's.
A hell of player, an example to any player who love his club and give all for it...We'll all miss you Bruja
Some videos of him in this era...look at his passing skills and technique, it's just flawless:


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"Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it's a good idea. I'm happy that the president's willing to do something bad for the kids."
As usual, Krugman gets it right:
All of the famous Bush malapropisms — "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family," and so on — have involved occasions when Mr. Bush was trying to sound caring and compassionate.
By contrast, Mr. Bush is articulate and even grammatical when he talks about punishing people; that's when he's speaking from the heart. The only animation Mr. Bush showed during the flooding of New Orleans was when he declared "zero tolerance of people breaking the law," even those breaking into abandoned stores in search of the food and water they weren't getting from his administration.
What's happening, presumably, is that modern movement conservatism attracts a certain personality type. If you identify with the downtrodden, even a little, you don't belong. If you think ridicule is an appropriate response to other peoples' woes, you fit right in.
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I don't usually post anything on weekends… except when I promise something important on Fridays…
Thank God for Fridays…
This is Isaïe Sauvé.
This photo was one of the many photos my aunt had in her two plastic grocery bags stashed away in the back of her closet in her room on the second floor…
These photos will never find themselves among the trash in a garbage truck because I scanned them all.
When I scanned this particular picture in 2007, I never realized at the time that I was going to post it someday on a blog.
I did not even know what was a blog back then.
This is my 126th article on this blog on genealogy.
This is not that much when you compare how many articles I wrote on the French version of my blog on genealogy.
More than 800 articles more or less since January 2008.
So you see, genealogy can become somewhat compulsive or addictive…
There is so much to write about…
Like Isaïe Sauvé, Honoré's and Julie's pride and joy.
You learn so much when you search for information like Isaïe who got married three times.
Also, you might find who was present at Honoré Sauvé's and Julie Leroux's wedding.
Do you want to take a wild guess?
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Joseph Sauvé!
Odette's ancestor!
Here's the proof.
Joseph Sauvé was a witness to his brother Honoré's marriage, and probably his wife Mathilde Leduc who there to…
The marriage took place on November 8, 1842 at St-Ignace church in Coteau-du-Lac.
A view of St-Ignace church, it is located at 339 Le Fleuve road in the city of Coteau-du-Lac. The parish was founded in 1833, the first church was built between 1849 and 1854. It was destroyed by a fire on December 23, 1908. It was rebuilt and destroyed again by a fire on December 8, 1999. The walls survived and it was rebuilt with a different bell tower.
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That was 168 years ago.
168 years later, two Sauvé descendants meet on the Internet and team up to discover more about their ancestors…
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Chris Clawson, formerly the president of Matrix, has been named president and CEO of Johnson Health Tech North America Inc., which serves as the North American headquarters of Johnson Health Tech Co. Ltd.
U.S. sales for Matrix in the second quarter increased by 48.3 percent, and global sales increased by 41 percent over the corresponding 2007 period. Clawson attributes the domestic growth to an increase in the number of trade shows Matrix has been attending in 2008, including the Gold's Gym convention and the National Apartment Association Conference.


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WE HAVE just finished rewatching the original Brideshead Revisited on TV, being reminded just how ugly the 4:3 television aspect ration was.
Widescreen digital television transformed the medium, releasing it from the confines of the nearly square picture.
The change started some thinking about photography aspect ratios. Many cameras, like the Panasonic FZ60, have selectable aspect ratios not just for video capture (for which widescreen is the camera default) but also for stills. The FZ60 is typical in having 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 and 1:1 picture formats.
Some cameras set 3:2 as the default, perhaps because that is the aspect ratio of a standard 10 centimetre x 15 centimetre commercial print or because it is close to a 35-millimetre film frame. Others set the default at 4:3, which is good for a 10 inch x 8 inch print, but in this country the standard A4 paper is close to 3:2. The only paper size we regularly use approximating 4:3 is A3, usually measured as 13 inches x 19 inches.
Obviously, the 1:1 option is included to satisfy converts from 120 format cameras, which typically capture a 6cm x 6cm image, which is aesthetically pleasing in its own right. From long experience shooting six-by-six film, we would be more likely to get the composition perfect in the camera when shooting square, and this means less (or no) cropping in the printmaking. Square was also the format of most Polaroid media and it is still loved enough to be the shape of pictures pushed through tablet filter apps and uploaded to Instagram.
The 16:9 ratio is ideal for images to be viewed on a widescreen TV or Android tablet that has a 16:10 aspect. For the iPad, 4:3 nearly fills the screen.
Landscape looks good in 16:9 "landscape" mode but a portrait, with the camera held in "portrait" orientation, will look better in 3:2, 4:3 or 1:1.
We asked a fastidious photographer friend who worries over ISO, picture sharpness, exposure, noise and so on what aspect ratio he preferred and he said: "Whatever the camera default is. Anyway, I almost always crop the images in one way or another, so what does it matter?"
Obviously it matters to the fastidious snapper who cares about getting the framing and composition right in the camera. The great Henri Cartier-Bresson never cropped his images; to do so would be an admission of sloppy camera work.
Aspect ratio matters, and his preference was for 35:24 – which is about the format of 35-millimetre film.
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Dr. Randy Rhine was inaugurated as the 11th president of Chadron State College during an afternoon ceremony on the CSC campus April 26, 2013. Temperatures around 70 made for an enjoyable day as the Nebraska State College System officially invested Dr. Randy Rhine as the 11th president of Chadron State College. Rhine walked from Crites Hall to Memorial Hall led by a procession of faculty, administrators and special guests dressed in academic regalia. The procession was greeted by a fanfare from the CSC Brass Ensemble led by Dr. Sid Shuler.
Nebraska State College System Chancellor Stan Carpenter said that those in attendance were witnessing one of the system's most important events. He noted that there will be internal and external challenges ahead for Rhine, but that the new president's extensive experience in higher education in Arkansas, Montana and at CSC uniquely qualifies him for the post.
Officials from the Chadron State Foundation and Alumni boards greeted Dr. Randy Rhine during his inauguration as CSC's 11th president April 26. Jeanine Mohr, alumni board president, congratulated him on behalf of the alumni in attendance as well as over 17,000 CSC alumni, "there in spirit."
Mohr said she feels blessed to have a connection with an institution which values and encourages its alumni to remain engaged with its present and future goals. "Celebrating your inauguration provides a unique moment for all of us to reflect on our experiences with CSC and the profound contribution Chadron State has made to our lives, this community, and to society at large. The alumni enthusiastically join with the entire campus community to express our pride in this college and our shared aspirations for its future." Mohr told Rhine.
Even though the growing enrollment associated with Rhine's arrival at CSC increases the need for scholarships, Chadron State Foundation Board President Fran Grimes said she and the foundation board gladly accept the challenge. "Bring it on!" she proclaimed.
Carpenter said, "I have no doubt Dr. Rhine will continue his creative efforts to recruit students and build Chadron's enrollment, especially exploring ways to attract out-of-state and international students to rural Nebraska." He added that the NSCS Board of Trustees is pleased with Rhine's commitment and dedication to Chadron State, its students, faculty, staff, the community and the surrounding region.
Following the formal investiture performed by NSCS Board of Trustees Chair Cap Peterson, Rhine shared his comments with the audience, which included his wife, Ann, daughter, 1st Lt. Rachael Rhine-Millard, his sister, Sandy, and her husband, Johnny Williams, his mother-in-law, Wanda Egle, and other close friends and family members who had gathered for the festivities. In his characteristic way of focusing his attention on others rather than himself, Rhine took time to have the audience recognize his sister Sandy with a round of applause for recently received an award as the Outstanding Nurse of northwest Arkansas.
Rhine reflected on Chadron's history, beginning with its launch in June of 1911 and then he looked forward to CSC's second century. He emphasized his desire for CSC to explore and pursue visionary and innovative collaborations with public schools, community colleges, business and industry, and cities and towns in the Nebraska Panhandle and beyond.
Dr. Joyce Hardy, president of the faculty senate, complimented Rhine on his commitment to a common purpose of student success. Tenth president of CSC, Dr. Janie Park, addressed the audience, describing the 17 years she has known Rhine. Park said she knew when she first interviewed Rhine for a position at Montana State University-Billings that he would be a valuable asset to the organization. "I felt twice blessed when I was able to hire him again at CSC. Randy has an innate ability to lead," said Park.
Student Senate President James Bahensky said he has been personally touched by Rhine's leadership when Rhine served as the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Marketing and while interim president during the past year. Rhine has become a mentor, giving advice on student government and discussing current events said Morgan Nelson, former CSC student trustee. "Since I met him three years ago, I've had the utmost respect for him. He has always been a patient and admirable leader," she said.
"May our victories outnumber our defeats," said Kristol Cummings, president of the CSC support staff association, of the incoming Rhine administration. Chadron Mayor Karin Fischer added that Rhine's vitality and vibrant manner are among the exceptional qualities he brings to the office.
At the reception following the ceremony, over 25 student projects were displayed in the hallway and classrooms of Old Admin. Tours were also provided to the forensic lab, mock courtroom and The Eagle newspaper production area on the upper floors of Old Admin.
In an evening event, Rhine's son, John, who is an Army Sgt. deployed overseas with the Rangers, used Skype to thank his father for teaching him about leadership plus many hunting and fishing trip memories. John said of his father, "Great leaders build good leaders." Other speakers noted Rhine's qualities including listening to others and his ability to diffuse tense situations. Dr. Sandy Schaefer led CSC student musicians in providing an enjoyable evening of music in the CSC Student Center Ballroom.


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2014 Teen Choice Awards Nominees Announcedby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
The 2014 Teen Choice Awards nominations are in! There are a lot of regulars on the list, and many new contenders, and all of them are deserving of their honorable noms.
Our girls Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato are all up for awards, including Choice Female Hottie, Choice Single Female Artist and Choice Female Artist.
Some of our favorite fellas are also going to clean house this summer, too! Austin Mahone, Cody Simpson and Ed Sheeran all earned multiple noms, such as Choice Male Hottie, Choice Music Breakout Artist and Choice Male Artist.
Of course, we can't forget about the groups, either, who have all had an incredible year. One Direction, 5 Seconds of Summer, Fifth Harmony and the Vamps are in it to win it for Choice Summer Tour, Choice Music Group, Choice Male Hottie(s) and many more.
There are the big contenders, too, like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, OneRepublic and more. There are so many good noms this year!
Check out some of the nomination categories below, and for a full list of the nominees take a look at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards site here. Don't forget to head back to PopCrush on August 10 at 8PM ET for coverage of the awards!
2014 Teen Choice Awards Nominees:
Choice Male Artist
Jason Derulo
Pharrell Williams
Austin Mahone
Ed Sheeran
Justin Timberlake
Choice Female Artist
Miley Cyrus
Ariana Grande
Katy Perry
Taylor Swift
Choice Music Group
5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
One Direction
Choice EDM Artist
Martin Garrix
Calvin Harris
Choice Rock Group
Imagine Dragons
The Black Keys
Choice Female Country Artist
Jana Kramer
Kacey Musgraves
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Choice Country Group
Florida Georgia Line
Lady Antebellum
The Band Perry
Zac Brown Band
Choice Single Female Artist
'Dark Horse,' Katy Perry ft. Juicy J
'Fancy,' Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
'Let It Go,' Idina Menzel
'Problem,' Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea
'Team,' Lorde
Choice Single Male Artist
'Happy,' Pharrell Williams
'MMM Yeah,' Austin Mahone ft. Pitbull
'Sing,' Ed Sheeran
'Stay With Me,' Sam Smith
'Talk Dirty,' Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz
Choice Single Group
'Bo$$,' Fifth Harmony
'Me and My Broken Heart,' Rixton
'Rude,' Magic!
'She Looks So Perfect,' 5 Seconds of Summer
'Story of My Life,' One Direction
Choice R&B/Hip-Hop Song
'All of Me,' John Legend
'Fancy,' Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
'Na Na,' Trey Songz
'Pills N Potions,' Nicki Minaj
'Turn Down For What,' DJ Snake and Lil Jon
Choice Country Song
'Bartender,' Lady Antebellum
'Beachin," Jake Owen
'Play It Again,' Luke Bryan
'Somethin' Bad,' Miranda Lambert with Carrie Underwood
'This Is How We Roll,' Florida Georgia Line ft. Luke Bryan
Choice Rock Song
'Ain't It Fun,' Paramore
'Love Runs Out,' OneRepublic
'Maps,' Maroon 5
'Pompeii,' Bastille
'On Top of the World,' Imagine Dragons
Choice Love Song
'All of Me,' John Legend
'Boom Clap,' Charli XCX
'Not a Bad Thing,' Justin Timberlake
'Somebody to You,' the Vamps ft. Demi Lovato
'You & I,' One Direction
Choice Break-Up Song
'Amnesia,' 5 Seconds of Summer
'Break Free,' Ariana Grande ft. Zedd
'Miss Movin' On,' Fifth Harmony
'Really Don't Care,' Demi Lovato ft. Cher Lloyd
'Story of My Life,' One Direction
Choice Music Breakout Artist
Becky G
Austin Mahone
Rita Ora
Cody Simpson
Choice Music Breakout Group
5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
The Vamps
Choice Summer Song
'Fancy,' Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
'Really Don't Care,' Demi Lovato ft. Cher Lloyd
'Rude,' Magic!
'Summer,' Calvin Harris
'Wiggle,' Jason Derulo ft. Snoop Dogg
Choice Summer Music Star: Female
Ariana Grande
Iggy Azalea
Becky G
Demi Lovato
Nicki Minaj
Choice Summer Music Star: Male
Luke Bryan
Jason Derulo
John Legend
Sam Smith
Pharrell Williams
Choice Summer Music Star: Group
5 Seconds of Summer
Fifth Harmony
Florida Georgia Line
Choice Summer Tour
'On the Run Tour,' Beyonce and Jay Z
'The 20/20 Experience World Tour,' Justin Timberlake
'The Prismatic World Tour,' Katy Perry
'That's My Kind of Night Tour,' Luke Bryan
'Where We Are Tour,' One Direction
Choice Female Hottie
Selena Gomez
Ariana Grande
Kendall Jenner
Bella Thorne
Choice Male Hottie
One Direction
Zac Efron
Ryan Gosling
Liam Hemsworth
Austin Mahone
Ian Somerhalder


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Lyon Arboretum signs up to protect HawaiiUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species
The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is the first botanical garden in Hawaiʻi to adopt the "Codes of Conduct," a list of voluntary actions to help protect Hawaiʻi from invasive ornamental plants. New actions Lyon Arboretum plans include:
· Examine its vision, mission, policies and practices to ensure clear guidance to stem the spread of invasive plants.
· Use the Hawaiʻi Weed Risk Assessment, a screening tool that predicts a plant's potential to become invasive if planted here. The Hawaiʻi Weed Risk Assessment is like a "background check" on a plant.
· Review its entire collection using the Hawaiʻi Weed Risk Assessment, and work with the Oʻahu Invasive Species Committee to identify potentially harmful species that should be controlled before they spread.
"Having organizations like the Lyon Arboretum voluntarily take these proactive measures is extremely important—most people don't realize that it is perfectly legal to import almost any of the world's 200,000+ plant species into Hawaiʻi, without any sort of review process, even if they are known to be harmfully invasive elsewhere," said Christy Martin, Public Information Officer, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, said. "The Codes of Conduct go beyond what's mandated by law to protect Hawaiʻi's environment."
Dr. Christopher Dunn, the new director of Lyon Arboretum, was surprised that they were the first garden to sign the Codes of Conduct, but believes that more will agree to help once word gets out. "Although botanic gardens exist primarily to showcase the richness of the plant world, we must be mindful of the actual and potential impacts of non-native plants on our natural habitats. Signing the Voluntary Codes is just one way that Lyon Arboretum can mālama ʻāina," explained Dr. Dunn.
Lyon Arboretum is the only university botanical garden located in a tropical rainforest in the U.S. and covers almost 200 acres atop the Manoa Valley watershed. Its tropical plant collection focuses on native Hawaiian species, tropical palms, aroids, ti, taro, heliconia and ginger.
Established in 1918 by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association, Lyon Arboretum demonstrates the value of water restoration, reforestation and plant collection. Today, it is a branch of the University of Hawaiʻi and coordinates and conducts research, instruction and service activities using its collections and resources. Lyon Arboretum serves approximately 34,000 visitors a year.
More information on the Codes of Conduct can be found at www.lickhawaii.edu (click on invasive species).
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Mark Vivanco brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
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I am a fun person and would like the logo to reflect that. The personality of the site is going to be a place for both photographers and models to interact, talk about photography, share photos, experiences, etc.
Since the site is designed for glamour photography people are generally more comfortable with themselves and aren't stiffs.
Glamour photography ranges from Maxim type to some level of nudity however it isn't porn.
Our target audience will be both amateur to professional photographers and models. On the website will contain lots of photos, have contests, list of events, photography and modeling tips and a messaging forum. Photographers and Models will be able to search for each others as well. Photographers would go to the website to post their photos, update their status and write on the forum. Models would do the same. The site will be like a combination of Facebook and Blogging geared strictly towards Photographers and Models. So naturally there will be the ability to create friends with your account.
The logo must be scalable in size. Colors are not as important to me. Creativity is where logos will evaluated.
Branding is very important to me. I have toyed with the idea of people saying are you on "CMO"? By that they would be mean CheckMeOut.com. So that idea would mean both CMO and CheckMeOut.com would be in the logo. Other ideas I have had revolved around just having the logo read Check Me Out with no .com.
Since women go to sites for women and men go to modeling sites for women, I thought that having the logo somehow have an image, outline, something outlining a female figure might be the way to go.
These are ideas I have had but there are a ton of others I haven't listed. I am willing to entertain any design anyone comes up with. Don't let my ideas above limit your creativity.
I can tell you that I don't want anything "business like". I want a fun design.
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|Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
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Appendix 6.1 Elements of Radiative Forcing Concept
The principal elements of the radiative forcing concept are summarised below.
(A) The concept was developed first in the context of the one-dimensional radiative-convective models that investigated the equilibrated global, annual mean surface temperature responses to radiative perturbations caused by changes in the concentrations of radiatively active species (Manabe and Wetherald, 1967; Ramanathan and Coakley, 1978; WMO, 1986). Over the past decade, the concept has been extended to cover different spatial dimensions and seasonal time-scales (IPCC, 1992, 1994).
(B) In the one-dimensional radiative-convective model framework, the surface and troposphere are closely coupled, behaving as a single thermodynamic system under the joint control of radiative and convective processes, with a specified lapse rate determining the thermal structure. The stratospheric state is determined by the radiative equilibrium condition. The stratosphere and troposphere irradiances are together constrained by the requirement that the top of the atmosphere net total irradiance (i.e., radiative energy absorbed minus that emitted by the Earth's entire climate system) must be zero at equilibrium. In applying the forcing concept to arbitrary spatial and seasonal time-scales, as opposed to the global annual mean, it has been assumed (WMO, 1992; SAR) that the stratosphere is in radiative-dynamical (rather than radiative) equilibrium (see (D) below).
(C) The stratosphere is a fast response system which, in response to an imposed radiative perturbation, comes into equilibrium on a time-scale (about a few months) that is much more rapid than the surface-troposphere system (typically decades) (Hansen et al., 1997a; Shine and Forster, 1999). The latter is a slow response system owing principally to the thermal inertia of the oceans.
(D) When a perturbation is applied (such as increases in well-mixed greenhouse gases), there is an instantaneous change in irradiances that is manifest in general as a radiative imbalance (forcing) at the surface, tropopause and the top of the atmosphere. The rapid thermal re-equilibration of the stratosphere leads to an alteration of the radiative imbalance imposed on the surface-troposphere system (WMO, 1992), thereby yielding an adjusted forcing (SAR). The surface and troposphere, operating in a slow response mode, are still in a process of adjustment while the stratosphere has already reached its new equilibrium state. The SAR points out the clear distinction existing between the instantaneous and adjusted forcings.
For the arbitrary space and time mean stratosphere, there arises the need to evaluate the radiative flux changes with the stratosphere in a radiative-dynamical equilibrium. A classical method to determine this is the "Fixed Dynamical Heating" (FDH; WMO, 1995) in which it is assumed that the dynamical heating rate in the stratosphere is unchanged and that the stratosphere comes to a new thermal equilibrium in response to the perturbation through adjustments in the temperature profile, such that a new radiative-dynamical equilibrium is attained (radiative response; see Ramanathan and Dickinson (1979) and Fels et al. (1980)). The resulting adjustment process in the stratosphere makes an additional contribution to the forcing of the surface-troposphere system. When the stratosphere has adjusted to a new radiative-dynamical equilibrium with resultant changes to its thermal state, the change in flux at the tropopause and at the top of the atmosphere become identical. It is important that the stratosphere be in radiative-dynamical equilibrium and, as shown by Hansen et al. (1997a), it is the adjusted rather than the instantaneous forcing that is a more relevant indicator of the surface temperature response. The adjustment of stratosphere is crucial for some of the forcings, but not for all of them (Shine and Forster, 1999). In the case of some radiative perturbations, the stratosphere is hardly perturbed and the instantaneous and adjusted radiative flux changes thus tend to be similar (SAR). In other cases, there is only a small (20% or less) influence due to the stratospheric adjustment process. However, for the case of ozone depletion in the lower stratosphere, the effect of a strato-spheric adjustment could even yield a change in the sign of the forcing.
(E) As a direct consequence of the above, the forcing definition most appropriate for the response of the surface-troposphere system to a radiative perturbation is the net (down minus up) radiative (solar plus long-wave) change defined at the tropopause after the stratosphere has come to a new thermal equilibrium state. Thus, the level at which the tropopause is assumed in the models is an important aspect for the quantitative determination of the forcing (Forster et al., 1997), as is the model vertical resolution used to resolve the vicinity of the tropopause region (Shine et al., 1995). The classical radiative-convective model definition of the tropopause considers it as a boundary between a region where radiative-convective equilibrium prevails (i.e., troposphere) and a region that is in radiative (or radiative-dynamical, i.e., stratosphere) equilibrium. Such a distinction could be ambiguous in the case of the three-dimensional GCMs or the real world. However, radiative forcing appears to be relatively robust to changes in the definition of the tropopause in a GCM (Christiansen, 1999).
(F) A major motivation for the radiative forcing concept is the ease of climate change analysis when radiative forcing, feedback, and climate response are distinguished from one another. Such a separation is possible in the modelling framework where forcing and feedback can be evaluated separately e.g., for the case of CO2 doubling effects (see Dickinson, 1982; Dickinson and Cicerone, 1986; Cess and Potter, 1988; Cess et al., 1993). The consideration of forcing, feedback and response as three distinct entities in the modelling framework (see also Charlson, 2000) while originating from the one-dimensional radiative/convective models, has made the transition to GCM studies of climate (Hansen et al., 1981; Wetherald and Manabe, 1988; Chen and Ramaswamy, 1996a).
(G) A critical aspect of the separability mentioned in (F) is holding the surface and troposphere state fixed in the evaluation of the radiative forcing. For example, in the case of a change in the concentration of a radiatively active species, the term "state" implies that all parameters are held at the unperturbed values with only the concerned species' concentration being changed. Thus, in the strictest sense, temperature in the troposphere, water vapour and clouds in the entire atmosphere, and circulation, are held fixed in the computation of the irradiance changes at the tropopause, with only the stratosphere adjusted to a new thermal equilibrium state via the radiative response. In contrast to this prescription for calculating the forcing, the resulting changes in the meteorological and climatic parameters (e.g., tropospheric temperature and water vapour) constitute responses to the imposed perturbation (WMO, 1986; Charlson, 2000). In the IPCC context, the change in a radiative agent's characteristic has involved anthropogenic (e.g., CO2) and natural (e.g., aerosols after a volcanic eruption) perturbations.
It is important to emphasise that changes in water vapour in the troposphere are viewed as a feedback variable rather than a forcing agent. However, in the case of the second indirect aerosol forcing, the separation is less distinct. Anthropogenic emissions (e.g., aircraft, fossil fuel) or precursors to water vapour are negligible. The same is true for changes in water vapour in the stratosphere, except in the instance that the oxidation of CH4 provides an input. Changes in the condensed liquid and solid phases of water (i.e., clouds) are also considered as part of the climate feedback. The strict requirement of no feedbacks in the surface and troposphere demands that no secondary effects such as changes in troposphere motions or its thermodynamic state, or dynamically-induced changes in water substance in the surface and atmosphere, be included in the evaluation of the net irradiance change at the tropopause. (Note: the second indirect effect of aerosols consists of microphysically-induced changes in the water substance.)
(H) The foregoing governing factors reflect the fundamental recognition that, in response to an externally imposed radiative forcing, there is a shift in the equilibrium state of the climate system. This forcing of the climate change in the IPCC parlance is to be distinguished from forcing definitions initiated for other purposes, e.g., cloud forcing (Ramanathan et al., 1989), sea surface temperature related forcing during ENSO periods, etc.
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At 1:59 AM on Sunday morning most of us in the U.S., across Europe, and in several other countries around the world will be experimenting with time travel. No, it won't involve Deloreans or Morlocks or robots that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but when the second hand passes 59, we will get another crack at 1 a.m. as Daylight Savings Time comes to an end.
But why do we do this odd biannual ritual? And does it really save us money?
Contrary to popular belief, Ben Franklin did not invent Daylight Savings Time. What he satirically proposed was that to save money on candles, the hard-partying 18th century French try waking up earlier to use more daylight. Franklin also proposed that the Parisian dawn be greeted by cannon fire to ensure that its citizens were awake.
In fact the idea of Daylight Savings Time is ancient. Agrarian societies would simply adjust their sense of time to the sun. Roman Empire-era water clocks would have different settings for different months to account for the difference in the times of sunrise and sunset.
But the idea of Daylight Savings Time as we know it first required the standardization of time itself that came with the introduction of the railroads and their need for fixed schedules. It was first proposed in 1895 by New Zealand Entomologist George Vernon Hudson who wanted more sunlight after quitting time so he could add more bugs to his collection. The British construction magnet William Willett took up the cause, primarily because he was tired of cutting short his games of golf at dusk.
The first people to actually implement the idea however, were, in fact, the efficient Germans, who viewed it as a way to save coal during World War I. The Allies soon followed suit, and the U.S. shortly after, adopting the practice in 1918.
So beyond Franklin's Protestant work ethic and extending the after-hour hobbies of two Brits…are there any tangible benefits to the practice?
The theory behind Daylight Savings Time, particularly in the pre-electric days, was that during the summer too much daylight was being slept away. By shifting the clock forward in the spring, more sleeping was done during the hours of darkness and fewer candles would be burned in the evening due to the later sunset. One would assume that this same shift would apply to electricity usage.
But an interesting case study can be found in Indiana (this author's home state), which did not adopt Daylight Savings Time until 2006. In 2008 a survey was done of Indiana power consumption both before and after the adoption of DST. The study found that power consumption after DST adoption actually increased, primarily in the late summer/early fall as more heating was required in the morning and there was still some need for cooling in the afternoon. The overall cost to the Hoosier state was estimated to be $9 million, with an additional $2 million to $5.5 million in pollution costs.
Regardless of the costs or benefits though, tomorrow night most of us will go to bed treasuring a priceless commodity…one extra hour of sleep.


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Watch CNN's "AC360" at 8 p.m. for more of the interview with Michael Brown's parents.
(CNN) -- Twelve days after her son died -- a period marked by large, emotional protests but not the arrest of the police officer who killed him -- Michael Brown's mother didn't have faith in authorities.
But one day after meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, the top law enforcement official in the country, Lesley McSpadden held out hope that she'll eventually believe in those investigating her 18-year-old son's death.
"Just hearing the words come directly from (Holder's) mouth, face-to-face, he made me feel like, one day, I will," she said Thursday in an interview -- alongside the late teen's father, Michael Brown Sr. -- with CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I'm not saying today, or yesterday, but one day, they will regain my trust.
"But first I have to get to where I'm wanting to get to. And we haven't even begun."
Opinion: Black moms shouldn't have to have 'the talk'
Holder came to Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday to check in on the federal civil rights investigation into Brown's shooting as well as to talk to leaders, citizens and others in the middle of the prolonged, tense situation.
He met privately with Brown's parents, promising them "that it will be a fair and thorough investigation," according to McSpadden.
"You can read a person. And when you're looking at them and they're looking at you in your eyes, it puts some trust back there," she said.
That said, federal authorities aren't the only ones looking into the shooting. Plus, they have a higher standard than locals who are on the case, since the civil rights investigation requires proving that Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson exhibited "racial hostility" -- as explained by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin -- in the shooting of Brown. Wilson is white; Brown was African-American.
The case is more straightforward for the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch's office, which began presenting testimony in secret to a grand jury Wednesday. Those grand jury proceedings -- which McCulloch said could continue into the fall -- could lead to an indictment against Wilson.
"(We want) this guy to go jail, so we can have some type of peace," Michael Brown Sr., said. "(Wilson) is still walking around with pay; it's not fair to us.
"... We're hurt. And I can't tell what (Wilson) is doing, but he has his life. Our son is gone."
Opinion: We suffered same tragedy as Michael Brown's parents
Many Brown family supporters have demanded that McCulloch be taken off the case, given his relationship with the African-American community and their claims that he is biased toward law enforcement.
McSpadden has said that she did not believe that those those pressing her son's case will be able to achieve justice as she defines it -- with Wilson being charged in her son's death.
"Up until yesterday, I didn't," she said, crediting Holder with helping change her views.
That doesn't make it easier to accept Michael Brown's death.
Her son "was a teenager (who was) growing up, (who should have) had a chance to make a mistake and correct it, just like the officer," Lesley McSpadden said.
"... You had a choice, and he chose the wrong one. Was it really necessary? No. My son was only 18. Only 18."
She added later of her son: "He was special to me. He was ours. He was peaceful. He was humble. He didn't ask for that, he didn't deserve that, and it was wrong."
The parents expressed appreciation for those who have taken to the streets of Ferguson to support them, while criticizing those responsible for looting and violence for "doing nothing but causing more pain plus it's shaming his name," Brown Sr. said.
"If they're not for the cause, they need to just go back to you regular life, go back home to your family. Hug your son, hug your daughter, love our loved ones."
All things he'll never be able to do with his son again.
Police have 'a power trip problem,' Ferguson residents say
Within black families, hard truths told to sons amid Ferguson unrest


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Imaging Study of the Distribution of IL13-PE38QQR Infused Before and After Surgery in Adult Patients With Recurrent Malignant Glioma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00064779
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 15, 2003
Last Update Posted : June 6, 2011
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The experimental anti-cancer drug IL13-PE38QQR, which is being developed for the treatment of malignant brain tumors, is composed of parts of two proteins: the immune system cytokine IL13 and a toxin from the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The IL13 part of the drug binds to another protein, the IL13 receptor, when this receptor is displayed on the outside surface of cells. Cells with drug bound to the IL13 receptor take up the drug, and the toxin part of the drug then kills those cells. Since brain tumor cells display the IL13 receptor, they are potential targets that may be killed by this drug. This is a pilot study to visualize the distribution of IL13-PE38QQR infused into and around brain tumor tissue before and after surgical removal of the tumor in adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma.
Stored tumor tissue will be tested for presence of the receptor protein, which is required for study entry. Eligible patients will then undergo biopsy to confirm the diagnosis of recurrent malignant glioma. IL13-PE38QQR will be infused for 96 hours into and around tumor tissue through catheters that have been placed surgically. For the first 48 hours the drug will be mixed with a radioactive tracer, so that the distribution of the drug can be followed by a type of scanning called SPECT. Surgery to remove the tumor will be performed approximately 15 days after the end of the infusion. Catheters will again be placed surgically, and IL13-PE38QQR will be infused a second time for 96 hours. Radioactive tracer will be included in the infusion for the first 48 hours. For both infusions, SPECT scans will be taken at 6, 24, and 48 hours after the start of infusion. MRI scans will be taken within 90 minutes of the 24 and 48 hour SPECT scans. Patients will be followed closely with further scans and laboratory tests until completion of the study approximately 58 days after completion of the second infusion.
|Condition or disease
|Malignant Glioma Glioblastoma Multiforme Anaplastic Astrocytoma Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma Mixed Oligoastrocytoma
|Drug: IL13-PE38QQR Procedure: targeted fusion protein therapy Procedure: surgery
|Phase 1
- Assess the distribution of IL13-PE38QQR following continuous infusion via catheter(s) into recurrent malignant glioma prior to surgical resection and a continuous infusion via catheter(s) into brain tissue adjacent to tumor resection site after surgical resection. 123I-HSA tracer will be used as a surrogate for study drug distribution.
- Determine the toxicities associated with administration of IL13-PE38QQR as described above.
- Assess the effect on distribution of IL13-PE38QQR of varying the catheter type (up to 3) and flow rate per catheter, keeping the total flow rates constant, for the pre- and post-resection infusions.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot study to assess the distribution of IL13-PE38QQR delivered by intratumoral infusion prior to surgical resection and by interstitial infusion into tissue surrounding the resection site (peritumoral) after surgical resection. Prior to resection, catheters will be placed in the region of the solid contrast-enhancing tumor component. The volume of infusion, the duration of infusion, and the concentration of IL13-PE38QQR in the infusate will be fixed. For the post-resection infusion, catheters will be placed peritumorally into areas at greatest risk for residual or infiltrating tumor. The post-resection volume of infusion, the duration of infusion, and the concentration of IL13-PE38QQR in the infusate will be fixed. For the first 48 hours of each infusion, IL13-PE38QQR will be prepared with 123I-HSA tracer as the surrogate for distribution of study drug. The type and number of catheters utilized to deliver the pre- and post-surgery infusions will vary. To maintain a fixed total volume of infusate over 96 hours, the rate of infusion will vary depending upon the number of catheters utilized. Up to three different catheter types will be tested. However, only the same, single type of catheter will be utilized for the pre- and post-resection infusions for a given patient.
To allow assessment of the distribution of the infused material, the first 48 hours of both the pre- and post-resection infusions will utilize 123I-HSA in the infusate. For the last 48 hours of both infusions, the 123I-HSA will be replaced by non-labeled HSA. The distribution of the 123I-HSA tracer will be measured by Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scanning.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Up to 18 patients will be enrolled at a single site.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|18 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Pilot Imaging Study to Assess the Distribution of IL13-PE38QQR Cytotoxin Infusions in Patients With Recurrent, Resectable, Supratentorial Malignant Glioma
|Study Start Date :
|July 2003
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2006
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2007
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Archival tumor sample must express IL13Rα2 by immuno-histochemistry (IHC) analysis
- Must have prior histologic diagnosis of supratentorial malignant glioma (Grade 3 or 4), including glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma, anaplastic oligodendroglioma, or mixed oligoastrocytoma (excludes glioma of unknown grade). Patients with clinical/radiographic diagnosis of malignant glioma may be registered pending histologic confirmation.
- Must have undergone prior surgical resection and received external beam radiotherapy with at least 48 Gy tumor dose, completed at least 8 weeks prior to study
- Must have recurrent or progressive supratentorial malignant glioma compared with a previous diagnostic study
- Baseline tumor measured within 2 weeks prior to study entry
- Stereotactic biopsy at study entry must confirm the presence of glioma (malignant, unless previously documented)
- Recurrent or progressive tumor must have a solid contrast-enhancing region at least 1.0 cm and no more than 5.0 cm in maximum diameter. One satellite lesion is permitted if separated by 3 cm or less from the primary mass.
- Age 18 and over
- Karnofsky Performance Score of at least 70
- Absolute neutrophil count at least 1500/mm^3
- Hemoglobin at least 10 gm/dL
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
- PT and aPTT within institutional limit of normal
- Must be candidate for re-operation
- Must have recovered from toxicity of prior therapy. Minimum intervals required: at least 6 months after approved intratumoral chemotherapy (e.g. carmustine wafer), at least 6 weeks after nitrosourea-containing chemotherapy, at least 4 weeks after any investigational agent or any other cytotoxic chemotherapy, at least 2 weeks after vincristine or non-cytotoxic chemotherapy
- Must practice an effective method of birth control during the study
- Must understand the investigational nature of this study and its potential risks and benefits, and sign an approved written informed consent prior to performance of any study-specific procedure
- No patients with tumor crossing the midline (tumor involving corpus callosum is permitted if not crossing midline), more than two foci of tumor, or non-parenchymal tumor dissemination (e.g. subependymal or leptomeningeal)
- No patients with impending herniation (e.g. midline shift greater than 1.0 cm), uncontrolled seizures, or requirement for immediate palliative treatment
- No patients who have received localized therapy for glioma, e.g. focal single-fraction radiotherapy, brachytherapy, or intracerebral infusion of chemotherapy or cytotoxin
- No patients who are receiving any concurrent chemotherapy or any other investigational agent (corticosteroids are permitted)
- No patients with a known allergy to iodine or to contrast medium that may be utilized in scans required by this protocol
- Female patients must not be pregnant or breast-feeding
- No patients unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00064779
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
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|July 15, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 6, 2011
|Last Verified:
|June 2011
CNS neoplasms
Brain neoplasms
intralesional infusion
recombinant proteins
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue


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DUBAI, UAE (STORYFUL) -- Dubai Police announced the addition of a Maserati GranTurismo to their "luxurious patrol fleet" on May 14th.
The 454-horsepower Italian supercar is capable of speeds up to 186 miles per hour, according to the manufacturer.
The car was unveiled by Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai Police Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri. It increases the number of supercars in the fleet to 15, police said.


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Unflinching: Dramatic rescue at Moorman's
Peter Leddington seems uncomfortable with the suggestion that he's a hero. But when you leap into a burning car and rescue the driver moments before the car explodes, people can't help thinking the H-word.
Leddington left work early November 25 to go to a bicycle store with his son, who was home for the Thanksgiving weekend.
On their way back home around 4:30pm, they were about to head over the Millington Bridge at the Moorman's River, a point Leddington describes as a "Z turn" with a sharp right, then a sharp left.
A car coming from the opposite direction on Millington Road stopped, and a girl jumped out and screamed for help. "I saw smoke and flames," recounts Leddington. "My son said a car was in the ditch."
Flames were coming from under the car– and the driver was unconscious. "I jumped down the embankment and jerked him out," he recalls. "I didn't worry about hurting him because he didn't have long to live."
He couldn't get the victim, 18-year-old Eric Bilotta, back up the steep embankment quickly, so he and his son, Nicol, dragged the young man along the riverbank. "In the recesses of my mind, I knew the car was going to blow up," says Leddington.
He estimates that within 30 seconds to a minute after they got Bilotta out, the car "completely went up in flames." Leddington describes the explosion as different from the huge fireballs on TV, but a big explosion nonetheless, with flames shooting 30 to 40 feet high and a lot of bangs as the tires and windows popped. Even from 50 feet away, he worried the exploding glass would hit them.
Nicol Leddington, a freshman at VCU, had gone to Tandem with Bilotta, who's now a senior there. When Leddington fils saw the flames, his first thought was that it was a forest fire.
"It was one of those moments with so much to think about that time slows down and then you blank out," he says. "I tried to call 911. My father was already running down to the car. I wasn't thinking about trying to help Eric. I wanted to help my father get away from the car. I thought, 'My father could die today.'"
Peter Leddington credits Bilotta's passenger, Neil Powell, with making critical decisions: he cut off the ignition in the car and undid Bilotta's seatbelt. And he'd called Millington Stables, where the two were headed, for help.
Tony Bilotta arrived at the scene of the accident and initially didn't realize Leddington had saved his son's life. "Peter was so calm," says Bilotta. "I thought he was part of the rescue team. He said, 'He's going to be fine.' He was the only one who calmed me down. That was amazing."
It wasn't until he was in the ambulance that he learned Leddington was the rescuer.
Leddington continues to downplay his response to the danger. "The thing that occurred to me afterwards was that it could have been my son," he says. "I can't imagine anybody not stopping.
"I think it flashed through my mind we only had a few seconds. If there had been more time, I would have worried about injuring [Bilotta]. They tell you never to move someone."
Leddington, who runs an online company, autowarrantybroker.com, calls his role in the incident an honor. "You can go your entire life wondering how you'd react in that situation, and here at 59, I find out."
His son learned something too. "I thought about how selfless he was " says the younger Leddington. "I think I need to be more like my father."
Bilotta, who'd turned 18 just two days before the accident, suffered a concussion and five fractures in his face, and was in the hospital until December 1. His father is still shaken by his son's brush with death. "It was a horrible accident," says Tony Bilotta. "He could have died– and would have if Peter hadn't been there."
Peter Leddington at the scene of the accident on Millington Road, where the trees and bridge are scorched from the flames that nearly engulfed an unconscious young man down by the river.


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The lives of some 120 people affected by leprosy and other disease living in Mayo area in the outskirts of Khartoum are improved by the construction of 10 pit latrines that aim to provide much needed health and hygiene access. [On 16 June 2009] the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and partners from the Leprosy Mission of Sudan and the State Ministry of Health inaugurated the sanitation project, the first one of its kind, since the affected population moved first to the area.
The new latrines of $23,000 cost, were funded by UNMIS through its Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) unit, and were constructed in little over a month's time. "Over the years things have substantially improved for those living in the area. Homes were built, a water pump was put in and now with the help of UNMIS, 10 toilets have been added to the improvements", UNMIS Military Chief of Staff, Col. Oivind Christensen said during the opening ceremony.
Source: UNMIS, 16 Jun 2009


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Most of us have heard the admonition that "you can't have your cake and eat it, too," meaning that you can't have it both ways.
Most of us have heard the admonition that "you can't have your cake and eat it, too," meaning that you can't have it both ways.
But does it make sense? Obviously, you must have the cake to eat it, and you continue to have what's left of it until you've eaten all of it.
Part of the problem is that down through time the saying has been reversed. The original, cited in John Heywood's "Proverbs," first printed in 1546, was "Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"
Putting the consumption first makes it more logical. Of course, the point of obtaining cake is to eat it, so you wouldn't normally choose to have your cake unless you weren't hungry at that moment.
A similarly altered adage is "The proof is in the pudding." The original, which is found at least as early as the 14th century, is "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
Again, that's what food is for. You can make certain judgments about pudding by looking at it, perhaps by hefting or jostling it, maybe even thrusting your fingers into it when no one is looking.
But its true value is judged by consuming it.
Most phrases involving desserts have survived intact.
To "take the cake" comes from a traditional dancing and strutting contest in which the prize was a cake. The phrase now means "to be the prime example of" and usually is used "ironically, as to convey mild disapproval."
Such contests survive at school carnivals and other fundraisers as "cakewalks," where the participants walk to the music and take the cake if they're standing in the right spot when the music stops.
Reflecting this reduction is a required skill level, a "cakewalk" in general terms is something considered easy to accomplish or attain. The informal "piece of cake" carries the same meaning.
Cakes are still to be prized, though, as in the phrase "cakes and ale," meaning "the good things in life" or "worldly pleasures."
And the "icing on the cake" makes a good thing better.
For the ability to convey a range of values, you can't beat pie.
On the low end, no one wants to "eat humble pie." This phrase originally referred to a diminished social stature, and its use in that sense experienced a revival during the Great Depression.
Nowadays it usually applies to being humiliated by admitting mistakes and apologizing for them.
The phrase comes from an actual dish called "umble pie," made with the "umbles" of a stag — the heart, liver and entrails. Only the servants of a household were fed this dish, hence its association with lower classes.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is "pie in the sky," slang for "a promise of benefits or a reward in an afterlife or in the remote future" or "an unrealistically Utopian plan or project."
Perhaps pie's most valuable contribution to understanding numbers is the "pie chart."
Many of us have trouble with ratios, fractions, percentages and the like, but nearly everyone can grasp "your piece of the pie is bigger than mine."
In fact, it's "easy as pie."
The informal "apple-pie order" refers to things in "neat, orderly condition." Applied more broadly, the adjective "apple-pie" indicates certain generally positive values like "wholesomeness or decency, especially when regarded as being particularly American."
Unfortunately, "pie" is slang for "political graft," and some people in politics seem to "have a finger in every pie."
Whenever goodies are available, some people want to have more than their share.
I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles.
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I have been a hot mess over the pressure to do the rug. Been having several Lindsay Lohan episodes. I actually turned into the Piggly Wiggly to buy some Camel non filters..... luckily while on the aisle looking for the Boone's' Farm (which apparently they don't make anymore) I came to my senses. I did grab a Yoohoo & a Little Debbie Devil Square on the way out. It was a real blast from the past coping with pressure moment. Have even questioned if I am stable enough to get behind the wheel of a car..... seriously.
But I am making progress. Threw Lovie (my precious 83 year old Mama) in the car & flew down to Smithfield to the Carolina Pottery & got me a doable size faux sisal. As I worked on what room to do it in & played with the ideas for the custom border.... I know, right. Probably where the pressure came from as I did decide to go that route. Found a laminator so I can seal up the fabric to keep it clean.
If the rug were to go in my kitchen this border with the fabric below from my banquette is fab but then my stencil would clash.....
P Kaufman Paisley Fabric from my porch I think it will work OK but may have to consider another stencil.....
Also from the porch below is this lime indoor/outdoor Sunbrella, sorta' boring but won't have to laminate & the stencil is the star.
This yummy Lilly Pulitzer fabric goes with the fabrics for the guest room.
If you remember or not here they are below sorta' again.... The tray shown below is from Dana Gibson & she did the fabric for me in these colors; it is in the mail so I will show soon.... The taffeta is for bed pillows. More Dana Gibson news coming soon!
Playing around with the paint colors. Also have more stencil choices but truth??? didn't order the stencils until Sunday & they aren't here yet.....See why I feel like Lindsay?
Sidebar ~ while @ the Carolina Pottery saw great Halloween decor!
& bought some wine....
Linda from My Crafty Home Life has put together a great & more stable group of bloggers that are doing a grand job with their rugs. Check them out!


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|Countdown clock to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in
downtown Sochi!
|Kate Hansen, me, and Erin Hamlin watching the doubles in
downtown Sochi!
|My nephew Lucas preparing for Russia
We just wrapped up our international season, with our final competition of the year in Sochi doubling as our final World Cup and the test event for the Winter Games, which are quickly approaching. Mother Nature was not on my side getting to Sochi and I ended up arriving a day and a half later than my teammates, thus missing out on three of the seven training runs that were allotted to us. Missing runs, especially on the Olympic track, is disappointing and I surely could have used them. The track in Sochi is unique in design and layout. The track is long – 50-51 seconds from the women starts – and has three distinct uphill sections, so as you can imagine maximizing your speed is crucial. It isn't really a technically difficult track, but it is hard to find extra speed, and any small mistakes will cost you greatly. All of those combined are going to make for an exciting and close race next February. I finished 10th in the World Cup. Heading into the week, I was planning on a top-8 finish, but given my runs in training and subsequently the race, I am satisfied with my placing despite the driving mistakes I made. I am confident that with more training runs, which we will have next November at the international training week, this can be a great track for me and I can be a contender. But surely there is much to be done in the off-season to ensure I can continue with my success I have seen this year.
I am heading home to Maine now for a week, while our sleds are being shipped back to Lake Placid. My body is quite fatigued so I am looking forward to a one-week break. I will return to Lake Placid for two more weeks of sliding before I pack up my sled for the winter. There are some seeding races that are taking place in Lake Placid, but because of my performance this winter I am exempt from racing and am already qualified for next year's fall World Cup team. I will use these two weeks to test some of my equipment and see if there is any more speed to be found with minor adjustments to my runners. This week at home, I will take some time to reflect on my season. I had many highs and personal bests this year, including winning my first national championship title, my first World Cup medals (two silvers), and multiple individual personal bests on the World Cup tour on various tracks around the world. My results this season were 6th, 23rd, 22nd, 10th, 6th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 2nd and 10th. It was my most consistent season ever and I ended up sixth overall in the World Cup rankings as the highest U.S. athlete in any discipline.
My biggest disappointment came at World Championships, where I finished ninth. Don't get me wrong – after not competing for a year, a top-10 finish is great, but when you finish a race knowing you were capable of more, it is a tough feeling to shake. And I will use all of this information and data from my races this year to map out my training plan for this spring and summer. So much of my training last year paid off for me, but my biggest focus will be incorporating more sliding-specific workouts so that when I get back on the sled next October, I waste no time finding my rhythm. I am ending this season feeling quite satisfied with myself, and look forward to the daily grind coming up in less than a month as I prepare for the Olympic season.


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Even cynics were startled when former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper announced Tuesday that they were separating by mutual consent. While the rocky marriage of Gore's former running mate Bill Clinton to Hillary Clinton had long since become headline news, the Gores were best known for their famously passionate public smooch at the 2000 Democratic Convention.
High school sweethearts, journalistic colleagues, Tennessee royalty and, in 2000, very nearly president and first lady, Al and Tipper Gore had an amazing ride in their 40-year marriage. Why they've decided to split after all this time has become a topic of national discussion, and even within their inner circle.
Speaking with Meredith Vieira on TODAY Wednesday, People magazine's Washington correspondent Sandra Sobieraj Westfall said she interviewed a dozen Gore family friends in the wake of Tuesday's announcement. And those friends told her they might have seen the writing on the wall if they had looked close enough.
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"They hadn't seen it coming, but [said] if they thought about it more, maybe they should have," Westfall said.
"The two of them have been living incredibly separate lives — their separate schedules took them in different directions," she added. "They said they had just grown apart. Tipper loved life and wanted to have fun, and Al remained a very driven man with a lot of projects and irons in the fire."
Diverging paths
Indeed, since the curtain came down on the controversial 2000 presidential election, when Gore won the popular vote but lost out in the electoral college to George W. Bush, Gore has become a Renaissance man. A tireless environmental advocate, he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in warning the world of the dangers of global warming in 2007, and an Academy Award that same year for his documentary on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."
But while the 62-year-old Gore traveled the globe furthering his causes — while still finding time to serve on the board of Apple and as an advisor to Google — his 61-year-old wife was often left to her own devices. Tipper, who worked as a photographer for the Nashville Tennessean newspaper while Al served as a reporter there during the early years of their marriage, continued to follow her passion for photography while also spending considerable time with the couple's four children and three grandchildren.
Something had to give, and it ended up being their marriage. Still, friends expressed sadness and shock at the split decision.
"You never want to hear news like that from a friend and somebody you care about, but I think they've made it very clear they're good friends, that this is a decision they've come to together," Kiki Mclean, a former Clinton adviser and close friend of the Gores told NBC.
But Chris Downey, a close friend of Tipper's since they were young congressional wives, broke down in tears when told the news. "This is the least likely course of events I could imagine," she told the Washington Post.
Still, Karen Tumulty, a veteran journalist who has covered the Gores throughout their political life, says much had changed in the couple's marital dynamic. While Tipper was Al's secret weapon during his campaign battles — her fun-loving attitude helping soften the image of what was often a very stiff, robotic candidate — Al largely made his own way in the world after 2000.
"I think in recent years in particular, she was very, very much in the background," Tumulty told NBC.
'No third party'
While speculation has ran high that it was Tipper who pulled the plug on their marriage, nearly all associated with the story are adamant that it was something, not someone, that broke up the long union.
Westfall told Vieira that "with the epidemic of infidelity lately," it was the first question out of her mouth when talking to Gore confidantes.
"Everybody was saying there's never been a whiff of that, they firmly believe there is no third party involved here," she said. "This is just two people that, very amicably, drifted apart."
In their announcement Tuesday, the Gores chose their words carefully, saying, "We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought we have decided to separate. This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together, following a process of long and careful consideration."
But Vieira wondered aloud on TODAY why the couple decided to buy a $9 million home in tony Montecito, Calif., late last year if they were already on the path to parting. Westfall replied that both Al and Tipper are likely to use the estate as a home base for business in California as well a staging point for visiting their children, three of whom live in the state.
Westfall also pointed out that the couple got together with their children and grandchildren over Easter weekend for a family vacation. "I'm told that they expect that their lives will still be very intertwined around the family," she said.
Success or failure?
But if the Gores will still have family ties, it makes their marital split all the more puzzling. Speaking with Matt Lauer on TODAY Wednesday, psychologist Judith Sills said the couple may have found that disparate interests have pushed them apart.
"Separate lives can do that," she said. "We can have separate interests, but we're together and we're talking about them, and we're excited about them, and there's energy between us. [But] if he's in the dining room and I'm in the kitchen, and day after day goes by, there's not much happening between us, and that can go on for years."
Sills nonetheless could understand why so many people are riveted, and saddened, by the Gores' announcement. "It's troubling because we believed their narrative, that you could marry at 16 and basically live happily ever after," she said. "That was their romantic story, and we were invested in that story."
But the Gores may look at their split as an exciting new opportunity rather than just a sad end of a life spent together, she added. "It's sad that it can't go on forever, but it's courageous to say, 'I am stepping onto the stage myself and I've made a choice to let go of the hand I've been holding for 40 years.' "
Sills added it is wrong to look at a 40-year marriage as a failure. "The fact that we judge marriages as a success or failure by divorce seems false to me," she said. "The truth is, you have many marriages that in 40 years, you can have 25 years that are beautiful, and at the end of it, the life simply goes out of it.
"Then you make a different decision. [We shouldn't] judge it as a failure or success like a football game."


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Jewish World Review March 14, 2013 / 3 Nissan, 5773
The nation-building follies
By A. Barton Hinkle
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In a week, America will mark the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. That colossal mistake more than 100,000 killed in a war over nonexistent WMDs has cost America dearly: nearly 4,500 troop fatalities, and more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars.
Sixty billion of that sum has gone to rebuild Iraq. ("You break it, you own it," as Colin Powell famously said.) According to the final report from Stuart Bowen the inspector general overseeing Iraqi reconstruction much of that outlay, too, has been a colossal waste.
Hundreds of projects that were started years ago now sit unfinished and abandoned. Others that have been finished hardly seem worth the cost e.g., a $108-million waste treatment facility in Fallujah that will serve only 9,000 homes. The voluminous report is filled with details such as those concerning Anham, a defense contractor that billed the federal government $80 for a 4-inch PVC plumbing elbow which is "5,574% more than a competitor's offer of $1.41."
Small wonder, then, if audiences applaud at President Obama's frequent assertion that "it is time to focus on nation-building here at home" to "take the money we're no longer spending at war" and use it "to rebuild America."
Sounds great in theory. Just one small problem, though: America's record at domestic nation-building isn't much better.
Take disaster relief. Ten months after Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, The New York Times reported that reconstruction efforts had led to "one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes, and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion ... in fraud and waste." That sum represented "nearly 11 percent of the $19 billion spent to date." Even worse, the GAO estimated "as much as 21 percent" of direct aid to victims "had been improperly distributed."
"The blatant fraud, the audacity of the schemes, the scale of the waste it is just breathtaking," lamented Maine Sen. Susan Collins at the time. There was more to come. By 2009, the FBI reported upwards of 1,300 people had been indicted on Katrina-related offenses and more indictments were still rolling in.
But waste, fraud and abuse are not limited to emergencies. Improper payments for Medicare alone total $60 billion a year as much as the U.S. has shelled out in Iraqi reconstruction grants over the past decade. Even more remarkable, the $60 billion tab for improper payments is five times what the experts once predicted the entire Medicare program would cost. In 1967, forecasters expected Medicare to cost a mere $12 billion by 1990, according to Veronique de Rugy of George Mason University's Mercatus Center. The real 1990 cost was $98 billion and today it is five times that.
Such wild overruns are not at all unusual. Planners for Boston's Big Dig anticipated it would cost $2.6 billion. Final tab: more than $20 billion. The F-22 Raptor originally was budgeted at $139 million per plane. Today's total: more than $400 million per unit. In 2008, California's "bullet train" was sold to voters as a $33 billion project. Within three years the bill had reached nearly $100 billion.
Doesn't anything ever come in on time and under budget? Sure. It happens. But De Rugy cites an exhaustive, 20-nation study by Danish researchers that shows nine out of 10 public projects blow past original cost estimates.
And sometimes, all the taxpayers get for the voluminous sums is a giant goose egg. The Obama administration's bad bet on Solyndra will cost taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars, for instance. And that's chump change compared with the Carter administration, which sank $88 billion (almost a quarter- trillion, in today's dollars) into the ill-fated Synthetic Fuels Corporation. (History to Carter: You didn't build that.)
Liberals harp on the military boondoggles, holding them up as proof of the perfidy inherent in the military-industrial complex. Conservatives gloat over social-welfare fraud, treating it as proof that the entire system is a scam to rip off hard-working taxpayers. The larger truth is more sobering: Metastasis in government programs does not obey partisan boundaries.
In trying to explain what happened in Iraq, inspector-general Stuart Bowen last week said the reconstruction effort "grew to a size much larger than was ever anticipated," and "not enough was accomplished for the size of the fund expended." You could say the same about the federal government itself.
Bowen's report contains excerpts from interviews with those who were involved in the reconstruction of Iraq, such as Qubad Talabani, the son of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani: "You think if you throw money at a problem, you can fix it," Talabani says. It also quotes Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides: "Those in Iraq who developed and implemented the rebuilding program intended well, but good intentions don't always produce good results."
Maybe he should put that in a memo to the president. Because the lessons learned in Iraq should lead to a greater degree of humility when Washington contemplates its next big nation-building project whether overseas, or right here at home.
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Jon Dawson reviews 'Push and Shove' and 'Trilogy'
New album: Push and Shove
Artist: No Doubt
Label: Interscope
Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5
No Doubt hasn�t released an album of new material since 2001. �Push and Shove� may be attributed to No Doubt, but it sounds more like a continuation of lead singer Gwen Stefani�s successful solo career.
The pop world has changed immensely since No Doubt released �Rock Steady� in 2001 � which itself was a glossier affair than the band�s previous efforts. �Push and Shove� for the most part eschews the band�s trademark pop/ska sound in order to make way for shinier, radio-friendly tunes. Sadly, No Doubt drummer Adrian Young�s impressive musicality is mostly buried beneath layers of keyboards, treated drums and drum machines.
Unquestionably, the highlight of this collection is the song �Push and Shove.� Adrian Young is frustratingly kept under control while a tepid computer beat pulses along, but the vocal hooks and choice reggae guitar shapes almost make up for this oversight.
Restraint can be a virtue when it comes to music, but relegating Young to intermittent drum fills instead of turning him loose on this song is borderline criminal. Sometimes criticized for having a limited range, Stefani�s singing is still impressively nimble. Her performance on �Push and Shove� recalls the command she had on previous hits such as �Hella Good� and �Don�t Speak.�
�Settle Down� was supposedly the single that would pull the masses into the record, but the decision to use this track to reintroduce the band to the world ranks right up there with the time Coca Cola changed its recipe.
�Settle Down� is pleasant enough, but aside from a clever bass pattern and a few cute vocal phrases, the song leaves no impression. �Undercover� sounds like Lady Gaga sitting in with Coldplay, and the musically interesting �One More Summer is marred by lyrics straight out of an episode of the new Beverly Hills 90210.
With �Push and Shove,� No Doubt has crafted a perfectly fine collection of pop music that will undoubtedly (sorry) fare well on pop radio in 2012. Fans of the group�s original sound will be left scratching their heads, while those who thought �Holla Back Girl� was the bees knees will be delighted. Figure out which camp you are in and proceed accordingly.
Classic album: Trilogy
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Label: Rhino
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Throughout their long and winding career, Emerson, Lake and Palmer were equally praised and vilified. For every prog rock fan who deemed them the greatest band of all, there was a rock purist who demonized them for their classical indulgences. In the end, both camps were partially correct.
�Trilogy� was the third ELP release, hot on the heels of their landmark album �Tarkus.� �Trilogy� did contain some of the aforementioned excesses (see the somewhat meandering �Endless Enigma�); other tracks on the album were so brilliant, those trespasses could be forgiven.
Possibly the best known ELP track of all, �From the Beginning� is quite unlike the intricate, classically-tinged blitzkrieg that ELP reputation was built on. Instead of flashy solos and bombast, �From the Beginning� is a delicate almost-ballad driven by Greg Lake�s acoustic guitar and usually-spinning drummer Carl Palmer�s tasteful, delicate percussion.
Near the end of the track, Keith Emerson lets loose with a sparse Moog keyboard solo that sounds like a quiet storm slow jam beaming from a radio station on Mars. There are few perfect songs, but �From the Beginning� is one of them.
Elsewhere on �Trilogy,� ELP whip out a monumental rendering of �Hoedown� from Aaron Copeland�s �Rodeo� ballet. �Hoedown� would eventually become one of the most celebrated instrumentals in all of rock music. ELP�s ability to reinterpret classical pieces for the trio format simultaneously gave them an excuse to demonstrate their formidable chops and prove they could rock as hard as any of their peers.
The other diamond in this collection is the eight-minute �Trilogy,� which recalls the melancholic psychedelia of Greg Lake�s stint with the original King Crimson. Lyrically, the song �Trilogy� gets a bit schoolboy at times, but Lake�s delivery is so earnest it�s not a major deterrent.
The stomping �Living Sin� crashes in just in time to provide enough well-choreographed bluster to save the day, and the proceedings come to an end with Emerson�s regal �Abbadon�s Bolero.�
Most of the criticism ELP suffered over the years was unwarranted. Any band that can produce an album as sublime as �Trilogy� deserves a break.
Jon Dawson�s album reviews appear every Thursday in The Free Press. Contact Jon at 252-559-1092 or email@example.com. Purchase Jon�s book �Making Gravy in Public� at The Free Press office and at jondawson.com.


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3 operations in Weld County among 21 with Colorado OK on hemp, pot's non-intoxicating cousin
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) � Three Weld County applicants have permission to grow hemp under Colorado regulations that took effect this year.
In an article (https://tinyurl.com/mbavnvs ) Wednesday, The Tribune reported the three were among 10 commercial and 11 research-and-development applications approved by the state agriculture department.
Hemp cultivation for research and development has been authorized by Congress, but commercial cultivation remains illegal under federal law.
Hemp and marijuana are cannabis, but hemp doesn't contain enough THC to be used as a drug. Hemp has textile, food and other uses.
Colorado, which has legalized marijuana for medical and recreational use, is among 10 states that allow hemp cultivation despite federal drug laws.
Information from: The Tribune, www.greeleytribune.com


text: Save your sofa, drapes and pant legs by letting your cat take his or her big-cat instincts out on a designated abuse taker: a cat scratching post. Cat scratching posts come in a variaty of styles and features, but all are designed to be more attractive than any home decor items that you would prefer remain free from perforation. A proper cat scratching post is engineered to offer a semi-soft surface for your cats claws to sink into, and to have enough give to give your kitty the impression that she really is bringing down a gazelle on the African plains.


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News and images of the world food crisis have been hard to bear these last few months—skyrocketing food prices have provoked desperate rioting in many countries, including Haiti, Kenya, Mexico, and Pakistan. Millions of people are in trouble, and it's hard to know what to do.
Yet this catastrophe was almost entirely preventable. As Sojourners assistant editor Elizabeth Palmberg points out in her article "A Human-Made Disaster," this crisis isn't hard to understand when we untangle the factors that produced it. Some of those elements include our overreliance on fossil fuels in farming, trade policies that benefit rich countries over poor, the use of biofuels, and the ways in which corporate deregulation has enabled a few agribusiness giants to reap enormous profits. In short, these and other factors add up to a system that actually creates hunger—all this in a year of record grain harvests.
A global food system that's been designed by multinational corporations results in a system that is neither ethical nor democratic, writes Frances Moore Lappé in "The Shortage Isn't Food, It's Democracy." It also just doesn't make any sense. How can citizens regain some control over their food security? Lappé outlines seven actions we can take to begin to restore balance to our local, national, and international food systems. It's a good reminder that we have the power to create change—not just for ourselves, but for millions of people around the globe.
—The Editors