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We all change at our own pace. One such vegan has changed blogs. You may know her as a contributing author on Mojo Central, but Cat McDonald has moved to Vegans Eat Plants.
A little about Cat, Cat McDonald is a content strategist and tree hugger seeking clarity, community, and organic produce. Below is her article on how to be vegan on a budget, who can't use this info? Please feel free to share this article and follow Cat on her adventure through her blog, Pinterest, and Twitter.
Welcome back Cat!
How to Be Vegan on a Budget
You need to figure out how to be vegan on a budget. Because if you can't afford it, you won't keep it up.
When you first go vegan, you'll probably go wild exploring new foods, but then you might look at your wallet and feel oh so sad. Take a deep breath, because here's what I know: Being vegan does not have to break the bank.
Make a list
Plan your meals in advance and make a list of what you'll get in which stores. And remember to bring your list with you when you shop! Use the Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists to help you decide which produce you plan to buy organic. Decide in advance the maximum total amount you'll spend.
Compare prices on staples and shop around.
In the course of a week, I'll usually make the rounds to different grocery stores, trying my best to stick to buying only the things that are priced best in that store.
In my area, Trader Joe's has great prices on oils, coffee, tea, mushrooms, frozen fruit, and nuts. Whole Foods has the best organic produce (particularly in the winter months when the farmers markets are inactive) and fairly good prices and on quality staples like olive oil, canned coconut milk, and non-dairy milks. And my local food co-op has the best prices on bulk items like nutritional yeast, spices, flours, pulses, beans, and grains.
Visit international markets for select "specialty" items.
I get my seaweed, umeboshi plums, Thai basil, sesame seeds, rice noodles, and more at local Asian markets. I get some frozen fruits, spices, and other staples at Latin supermarkets.
Buy farm market produce in season.
First, do a quick walk-through to see what looks good and which stands offer the best value. Bring cash. Stick to your list, but flex if you can swap out an item out if you find a better deal.
Buy only as much as you'll eat.
You might have to shop more often. If, like many Americans, you're used to shopping once every week or two, this will be an adjustment. Tubers such as sweet potatoes last a week, maybe two, but you'll want to eat fresh fruits and green produce within two to four days of purchasing them. Over time, you'll get better at judging how much you'll really need.
If you're working a lot or if you have a baby in the house, try using a delivery service like Safeway's Peapod.
Brown bag it.
You'll have more control over your menu and your spending when you commit to making your own lunches.
Invest in a nice (lead-free) lunch box and a few lock-tight glass containers to make your lunch spill-proof. You really don't want your lunch spilling all over your morning newspaper!
Make your own.
Although it's easy enough, it does take time and forethought to cook beans. So I keep canned beans on hand for when I'm pressed for time. But when I do have time, I soak beans overnight, cook them in the slow cooker, and freeze any extra for future use.
It's also economical to make your own vegetable stock. During the week, collect your carrot ends, kale trimmings, teeny garlic cloves and other trimmings in good condition in a container in the fridge. And then on the weekend, throw them on the stove with chopped up onion and celery, cover with fresh cool water. Simmer for a couple hours.
Make extra and freeze for later.
Make plenty of vegetable stock, cooked beans, spaghetti sauce, and the like. These come in handy when you're pressed for time. Be sure to label and data it before you put it in the freezer!
Do you have other tips on how to eat vegan on a budget? Leave a comment below!
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Residents of those 23 Special Wards ("ku") had zero say in the decision. The decision was unanimously reached by the Assembly of Mayors of the 23 Special Wards, and the decision was quickly welcomed by the Tokyo Metropolitan government and the project of burning the disaster (radioactive) debris from Onagawa-machi in Miyagi Prefecture immediately started in December with the test incineration.
After the so-called "explanation" to the residents was done in the Special Wards, now the formality has been over. It's time to burn the debris no matter what. The first containers arrived at Chuo Waste Management Plant in Chuo-ku on March 2.
The governor of Tokyo and the mayors of the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo are so eager to "help out" people in the disaster-affected areas in Tohoku (where the radioactive fallout also landed) that they are willing to burn the disaster debris with radioactive materials, toxic chemicals, arsenic, asbestos, and no one knows what else, in the incineration plants with no special facilities to treat radioactive materials. These plants are often located in the middle of crowded residential/commercial areas with single-family homes, apartments, shops, schools, hospitals, small factories. When they are located on the landfills on Tokyo Bay, they are often close to public facilities like parks, schools, hotels.
These plants are not even for industrial waste; they burn regular garbage from households.
From Google Maps, some of the incineration plants in Tokyo's 23 Wards. The first two are the lucky two to receive the first batch of tsunami-soaked wood chips from Onagawa for the month of March:
Friday, March 2, 2012
Tokyo Starts to Burn Onagawa Debris in Earnest at Incineration Plants for Regular Household Garbage in 23 Special Wards
39 comments:
- Anonymous said...
This could very well be a crime against humanity. Will the World Court please investigate!?
- March 2, 2012 at 7:56 PM
- netudiant said...
Is there no preliminary triage of this material?
It would seem hugely irresponsible to just "burn it all'.
Separately, is this not simply a PR stunt?
I seem to remember debris estimates around 20 million tons, not sure if that includes all of it, that seems way more than can be shipped to Tokyo. Is Tokyo simply trying to nudge other regions into accepting the debris, leading by example so to speak? - March 2, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
Test was done, twice, by mixing in the household garbage. If Onagawa debris was burned all by itself, the fly ashes from the debris burning would have tested with higher level of radioactive cesium than the fly ashes from the garbage burning in Tokyo. Part of Tokyo may be more contaminated than Onagawa, but most of it is less contaminated.
No it's not PR. If he can get it, Tokyo governor would want ALL of debris to Tokyo and burn. He would get more tens of millions of dollars (several billion yen) for receiving debris. He would need money, as his government's investment in TEPCO hasn't turned out so well. - March 2, 2012 at 8:41 PM
- mike in tokyo rogers said...
Anything for money as local government is strapped for cash. Damn the consequences...
- March 2, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
But all the garbage treatment plants in Tokyo have been burning radioactive garbage for one whole year already, right?
- March 2, 2012 at 9:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
Right. And as the existing contamination in Tokyo declines, the government is bringing in more. Didn't you read this? It was posted and translated on ex-skf. http://mytown.asahi.com/iwate/news.php?k_id=03000001202290001#cnt Local officials in the disaster zones have said they'd rather keep the debris and the jobs it creates there. They also say it is not in the way. They have much more room to store it than Kobe did and Kobe handled its debris locally. There was never any discussion of doing otherwise in 1995. It's ridiculous to spend the money to move it. There's talk of shipping it to Okinawa! That's absurd! The government's purpose is to provide public funds to favoured firms. It's ridiculous to further pollute the largest city in Japan, the city that wants to hold the Olympics, but is spraying its own skies with caesium carried in from elsewhere. The IOC needs to hear this.
- March 2, 2012 at 10:47 PM
- enoughalready45 said...
The more the radiation is spread around the more widespread the cancer and other negative health consequences will be spread. Then as the years go by the "spike" in cancer from areas closer to the accident will look less like a spike and more like a "bump".
I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is the backroom plan of the IAEA. You know the IAEA and the WHO (World Health Organization) have an agreement not to contradict each other. For a number of years the IAEA did more "research" in the Chernobyl area than the WHO did.
Think about it...why would the IAEA, an organization tasked with promoting nuclear energy worldwide be the main organization in Chernobyl...Coverup anyone?? - March 2, 2012 at 11:39 PM
- kintaman said...
Holy sh*t I lived very near to the very one shown in the Setagaya-ku screenshot. I have many friends and even family near there. FFS. STOP!!! Un-freaking-believable!
- March 2, 2012 at 11:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
>Right. And as the existing contamination in Tokyo declines, the government is bringing in more.
I doubt anything they could bring from Onagawa would be as contaminated as the the stuff they have been burning already, and no one has detected any increase in radiation around the plants.
About Iwaizumi's mayor, the guy probably owns the processing plant there. What I can tell you is that Setagaya-ku doesn't need a few extra yen for processing disaster debris, and the mayor there is antinuclear and has started giving public electricity contracts to companies other than Tepco. - March 3, 2012 at 12:07 AM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
Except for fly ashes at several incineration plants in 23 special wards in Tokyo, fly ashes from Onagawa is more contaminated than those in Tokyo.
People have detected increase in radiation around the plants.
I don't have any info about Iwaizumi Mayor owning processing plant or not, but I do know that thanks to him, 88 elementary school children in one of the districts in his town were able to escape from tsunami. Mayor had demanded and gotten the change of the emergency escape route. The escape route was rigidly determined by the national government, and the mayor said no way. - March 3, 2012 at 12:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
Can I see that data from Onagawa fly ashes? Cause checking the data of fly ashes from Tokyo processing plants, which are from July, I can only imagine the amounts of cesium that were being burned during April or May: http://www.union.tokyo23-seisou.lg.jp/topics/data/shokyakubai-230726.pdf
And this, "People have detected increase in radiation around the plants" is not true. The groups that are actually measuring radiation and getting equipment have moved on months ago and now they are focusing on measuring food.
Safecast have some drive maps around incineration plants and they haven't detected anything:
http://maps.safecast.org/drive/150 - March 3, 2012 at 12:44 AM
- Chibaguy said...
@anon 12:44
Saying something is not true does not make it so. Radiation levels around the Tokyo bay have increased. A thing called a gieger counter told me this. Driving around every once in a while is not evidence. Don't get me wrong as I appreciate their contributions. Measuring every single day at the same spot is trending and from this a conclusion can be inferred. It is just not once a day at one location to further clarify. - March 3, 2012 at 1:07 AM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
Sorry I'm not about to translate into English. - March 3, 2012 at 1:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
Chibaguy 1:07, I support "Saying something is not true does not make it so" which is worth reinforcing and your comment is appreciated.
- March 3, 2012 at 1:38 AM
- Chibaguy said...
@ ex skf, I have ran across many people that will not believe anything that is not in English so I feel your pain.
- March 3, 2012 at 2:29 AM
- kintaman said...
@ ex-skf. Totally off topic but is there any chance you might consider changing the site banner on both your english an japanese sites? The ultraman banner is so very tall and is very distracting. If you could make it a shorter (1/3 or 1/2 the current height) it would look much better. I feel bad for blocking it but is very distracting and many people I have sent this site link too dismiss it right away as not being a serious site due to the banner image and size.
I mean no offense of course and keep up your great work. - March 3, 2012 at 2:36 AM
- Darth3/11 said...
I love the Ultraman banner. It gives me a lift every day. Please don't change it. If Kintaman is unhappy with it, just drop your eyes lower into the blog. Let Laprimavera decorate his site as he wishes.
To more important points: I wonder just how much money the mayors of Tokyo and the other wards are making from this? Of course, I wish the debris was left where it was. Doesn't burning it just release dangerous and radioactive particles into the ecosystem helter-skelter? So distressing. - March 3, 2012 at 3:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
Asbestos is a mineral. It is not burnable. According to http://www.city.meguro.tokyo.jp/gyosei/keikaku/torikumi/shizen/haikibutsu/h23singikai/23dai2kaisingikai/files/siryou7saigaihaikibutu.pdf a test was made with a 20% disaster trash, 80% usual "gomi" mix and the fly ash and dioxin tests etc. were below the legal limit.
- March 3, 2012 at 4:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Good, I hope everyone breathes in deeply, all the radiation they can. Especially the mayors!
They can all "help" the Globalists by dying off..... - March 3, 2012 at 5:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Whether asbestos burns or not, it is not something I want to increase my children's exposure to. There is a consortium of incinerators that actually determine what the incinerators burn and profit thereby. It's not really the mayor's decision and its not the municipality that profits. Trucking companies, JR, heavy equipment rental companies, construction companies that operate heavy equipment, and the incinerator consortium members all stand to make money from this. What independent source is monitoring this incineration? The Tokyo government made a show of "testing" the first batch for radiation by waiving a wand around, but did not allow reporters to check with their own equipment. Since they started incinerating in Tokyo, private monitors near the bay and in the near west suburbs have been showing consistently higher radiation readings. It depends on which way the wind blows, but the readings from a number of private sources have been consistently higher. There is a relatively finite amount of radioactive material from Fukushima now in Tokyo or Kawasaki or Osaka. Bringing in more will increase the amount of radioactive material in Tokyo or Kawasaki or Osaka. Whether that amount is dangerous or not can be debated. But adding to it will add to it. The same goes for dioxin. If Tokyo burns the normal quantity of Tokyo rubbish, Tokyo will experience the normal amount of dioxin emissions. If Tokyo burns Miyagi rubbish and the normal amount of Tokyo rubbish, Tokyo will experience the normal amount of Tokyo dioxin, plus the amount from Miyagi. 1+1 does not equal 0.
- March 3, 2012 at 5:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
Apologies, I intended to write 1+1 does not equal 1. I do not know if the increased amounts of toxic substances are dangerous, but I do know that increasing their quantities will increase their quantities.
- March 3, 2012 at 5:52 AM
- Anonymous said...
The incineration business is big money. The dumb sheeple who voted for Ishihara won't know the difference anyway. They all deserve what they get. That includes me since I live in Tokyo! Ironically, it is true that what Tokyo sowed is what it will reap, given that they are broke due to their decadent and profligate ways, so they need to pimp their health for a little fix of cash, even if it means contaminating the city of 35 million people to do it.
The level of consciousness about this issue, I can tell you as a personal observation and having lived here for many years, is close to zero.
Well, that is not entirely true, three hundred thousand people signed the petition to end nukes and I am sure they oppose the incineration, but that is still a small number compared to the vast majority of brain dead morons in this city. - March 3, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
@laprimavera, that link you gave compares ashes from mid-December. I posted a link from July, and most likely radiation levels were much higher in April or May.
What I'm telling you is that the incineration facilities have been burning radioactive stuff for one year, there is one facility per district (as you show in the maps), or more if we include the sewage treatment plants, and no one has found any increased radiation levels around them. I mean, if anyone can show me a link with proper data showing higher levels around them, good, but apart from some vague references I haven't seen anything.
Not that I care that much about the people from Miyagi, though, it's just that the whole campaign against the tsunami debris sounds like pure superstition at this point. - March 3, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Anonymous said...
Another cute article from Spiegel, my summary below:
"It's safe to return and you can even drink the milk, cuz the radiation level in the exclusion zone is as high as in some places in Bavaria. Too bad the silly students of this reasonable teacher just don't feel like studying."
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,815549,00.html - March 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
@anon at 7:56AM, yes that's from December, and that's the garbage that they mixed with Onagawa debris. The point was that by December the radioactivity of Tokyo's garbage was much lower than Onagawa's disaster debris that's been exposed to radiation. In April or May, radiation level was higher throughout Kanto and Tohoku, not just Tokyo, including Onagawa.
Superstition is this insane push by the government that everything is safe.
@anon at 10:59AM, thanks for the link. 40 microsievert/hour radiation in the forest in Namie doesn't compare with the Bavarian forest, I guess. - March 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
I cannot believe that money is the driving force here. Maybe I am naive, but I cannot believe that people would willingly & knowingly bring cancer, disease or contamination to their ancestral homeland, to their families, and to their friends in exchange for money. I feel it must be something else. Perhaps there is a sinister shadow govt. at work. This seems to be happening world-wide. We are treated like "useless-eaters"; like cattle. We are slowly becoming powerless; slaves.
- March 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM
- Anonymous said...
Are they really burning the radioactive debris without some kind of scrubber system? That would be insane. I can see burning the debris to shrink it down, but without some kind of scrubber system is just crazy! :- "
- March 3, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
As far as I know, they don't have scrubber systems. The governments large and small all claim bag filters would do the job, which they don't. But bag filters are all they talk about, as if nothing else matters.
- March 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- arevamirpal::laprimavera said...
@kintaman, I've been considering the banner change, but haven't decided what to do. I hear two opinions from my readers - ditch it and keep it, there is no in between, obviously. There are many readers, particularly in Japan, referring my blog as "ultraman blog".
As to being not taken seriously, well I don't know what to say. There are many serious-looking, legit-looking Fukushima-related sites that spew crap and rumors. I guess many readers go to these sites because they look serious, and consider the posts at those sites as "serious" even when they are absolutely not.
Don't know what to do yet. - March 3, 2012 at 2:11 PM
- Sickputer said...
Let me also suggest a resized banner...perhaps make the .jpg to a .gif also. He is pretty Ultra at 939 by 441 pixels. No offense also...you are ten times the webmaster I am.
I just wanted to give you my impression also and I have been on the Internet for 23 years and all of the years of the WWW.
on-topic remarks...
No scrubbers...just bag filters that are highly ineffective.
Also... stow the indignant reactionsfrom all the folks in North America, Europe and elsewhere. Incinerator bureaucrat idiots exist everywhere. Some sort of naked ape death wish I guess.
Hospitals and municipalities all across North America burn nuclear waste crap like it there is no tomorrow (and there may not be one day).
The average large municipal burners produce 92 tons of metal particle emissions...extremely fine and easily absorbed into the lungs and digestive tracts of carbon form beings. Burning produces entirely new elements that may have toxic consequences beyond current medical research.
The walking dead living around the radioactive waste burners may soon become the laying dead.
Here's an incineration article from last year that has plenty of information that will make anyone living next to one of these monsters give pause to what it means to stay rooted in your current neighborhood.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5485 - March 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Politicians and bureaucrats have since childhood heard an extremely filtered message about nuclear power and radiation. It would take the equivalent of a religious conversion to change their minds. Furthermore, politicians obtain donations and votes from nuclear power interests and bureaucrats receive post retirement sinecures directly in the power industry or in construction firms that build and service power plants. They must convince the people that even this terrible disaster is of little consequence, whatever fell from the sky is not dangerous so let us vapourise it in the largest city in the nation. The government is saying that the amount of pollutants in Tokyo will not increase. If they mix it with other rubbish, it might not increase the amount of extremely dangerous substances that these facilities are already sending into children's lungs each day. But to the extent that radioactive materials from Fukushima in Tokyo are finite, Tokyo would have completed burning radioactive material from Fukushima on a certain date. Mixing extra materials with local materials will prolong the period of incineration, thus prolonging children's exposure to airborne radioactive substances. We need to keep in mind that this plan comes from a Japanese government that is urging families to return to areas 4 times more radioactive than the mandatory evacuation levels of the Soviet Union, a regime not noted for excessive concern regarding its civilian population. Furthermore, the Japanese regime is paying agents to post comments in its favour on internet venues. Finally, the entirety of the debris from the Hanshin earthquake, concentrated in a much smaller, much more urban area than Tohoku, was processed locally with no concerns or complaints whatsoever. The area in which the Tohoku debris now lies experiences frequent tsunamis, three since 1896, is in danger of future tsunamis, and should not be heavily rebuilt. Therefore the debris cannot be hindering reconstruction.
- March 3, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Many municipalities in the Tokyo area do not have any place to store the radioactive ash from their own incinerated rubbish, let alone take on more from Tohoku. The government of Tokyo is turning Tokyo Bay into a nuclear waste dump, but other localities don't have this option.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120303003721.htm - March 3, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- Atomfritz said...
Please be aware that it's not realistic to expect much of the contamination of the stuff burnt there to land in Tokyo itself.
It's more of a wide range distribution.
Just an example:
The giant Vockerode brown coal power plant, erected 1937, site of the world's first commercial HVDC project (to supply 100-mile-distant Berlin with electricity), was a constant bone of contention between West and East Germany because the fumes from the extremely sulphuric coal it burnt were distributed many hundred miles via its 140 meter high chimneys, far into West Germany.
This often caused bad smog in very distant areas, depending on weather conditions.
So it can be well assumed that the Tokyo incineration emissions will hit Korea more than Tokyo itself, for example (depending on wind direction).
> He would need money, as his government's investment in TEPCO hasn't turned out so well.
LaPrimavera, I really love your sarcasm :D
> 40 microsievert/hour radiation in the forest in Namie doesn't compare with the Bavarian forest, I guess.
Maximum radiation measured (out of 484 samplings) in spring 1986 in Bavaria was 2 microsieverts.
( http://www.gesundheitsamt.de/alle/umwelt/physik/strahl/ion/ra/tsch/07.htm )
Highest recently measured contamination of wild meat in Bavaria was 65,000 Bq/kg, according to German Radiation Protection Ministry.
( http://www.bfs.de/de/ion/nahrungsmittel/pilze_wildbret.html )
@anon 10:59
The man this article reports about probably got deceived, see above.
Actually, his story could be an interesting topic for psychologists.
> Don't know what to do yet.
Personally I agree with Darth 3/11...
When I discovered your site last year, I first felt the banner somewhat "unusual", but I quickly got accustomed :)
I have to admit I like it more and more as time passes, because it is so symbolic. In this mess of lies, disinformation and rumors about the disaster your blog is a real ray of hope. Symbolically it's like the superheroes in the comic strips. (By the way, thank you again for all this, keep on please!)
As this is not my affair I really hesitate to interfere. I'd just like to say "Es kommt nicht auf die aeussere Schale an, sondern darauf, was drinnen steckt!" (don't know how to translate that idiom well, but you said you know some German... maybe you understand what I mean.)
Actually I believe I'd be a bit sad if you'd change the logo to a meaningless, non-symbolic one, or concentrate on externalities that distract from the content like neat formatting, nice icons and such things that actually don't matter.
The only suggestion I have would be to add a small translation line below the Japanese text, as this message actually not only matters to your Japanese readers.
Anyway, it's not my affair. Please just do what you think is best.
(By the way, that was the reason why I didn't say anything when you recently asked your readers whether you should mark some all-caps guy's verbal vomiting comment as spam. And you did the right thing imho...) - March 3, 2012 at 9:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
This is such a stupid idea. As if radiation from debris weren't enough, they're going to burn it so that it's airborn in the ashes too? They better not cry about the regret when they get cancer, coz it'd be too late then.
I mean I understand that getting rid of radiation is time consuming and costly, but there is an entire population of people that depends on this. And Japan can still ask for aid with the process, I mean it's not like other countries are just going to say "deal with it yourself, Japan. You've got enough robots." - March 4, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- mr ridiculous said...
those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make stupid.
- March 4, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
"...it's not like other countries are just going to say "deal with it yourself, Japan. You've got enough robots.""
You mean the ones with a circuit board, right? - March 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM
- Yosaku said...
arevamirpal::laprimavera @ 1:38 PM,
The Minato-ku incinerator, at the very least, has scrubbers and catalytic reactors in addition to bag filters: http://www.union.tokyo23-seisou.lg.jp/koujou/minato/er2010.pdf. - March 4, 2012 at 8:45 PM
- Ernie Elliott said...
The follow to this story IS that from February 1st 2013 Osaka city will be doing exactly the same. This is truly a crime against humanity.The central government are PAYING Osaka city a LOT of money to burn this iradiated debris....so much for helping your fellow Japanese !!.
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One of the most contentious issues within Islam today is the role of women in society. Conservatives endorse a narrow reading of Islamic texts to justify restrictions on women's mobility, legal rights and access to the public sphere, including health care, education and the workplace. Extremists among them use violence to impose their views. Moderate Muslims, on the other hand, find plenty within the Qur'an to support a full role and equal rights for women.
Born in Iran and now based in London, Ziba Mir Hosseini, an anthropologist by training, is one of the most well-known scholars of Islamic Feminism. She is the author of numerous books on the subject, including Marriage on Trial: A Study of Family Law in Iran and Morrocco (l.B.Tauris, 1993) and Islam and Gender, the Religious Debate in Contemporary Islam (Princeton, 1999). She is presently associated with the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand she talks about the origins and prospects of Islamic feminism as an emancipatory project for Muslim women and as a new, contextually-relevant way of understanding Islam.
Egypt's women have already made inroads into several one-time domains of men. But a suggestion to allow women to recite Islam's holy book the Quran in public has triggered sharp differences among Muslim clerics in this country recently swept by a wave of Islamism.


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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that leads to abdominal pain and cramping, changes in bowel movements, and other symptoms.
IBS is not the same as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In IBS, the structure of the bowel is not abnormal.
It is not clear why patients develop IBS. Sometimes it occurs after an infection of the intestines. This is called postinfectious IBS. There may also be other triggers.
The intestine is connected to the brain. Signals go back and forth between the bowel and brain. These signals affect bowel function and symptoms. The nerves can become more active during stress, causing the intestines to be more sensitive and squeeze (contract) more.
IBS can occur at any age, but it often begins in the teen years or early adulthood. It is twice as common in women as in men.
About 1 in 6 people in the U.S. have symptoms of IBS. It is the most common intestinal problem that causes patients to be referred to a bowel specialist (gastroenterologist).
Symptoms range from mild to severe. Most people have mild symptoms. Symptoms are different from person to person.
The main symptoms of IBS are abdominal pain, fullness, gas, and bloating that have been present for at least 3 days a month for the last 3 months. The pain and other symptoms will often:
People with IBS may switch between constipation and diarrhea, or mostly have one or the other.
For some people, the symptoms may get worse for a few weeks or a month, and then decrease for a while. For other people, symptoms are present most of the time.
People with IBS may also lose their appetite.
Most of the time, your doctor can diagnose IBS based on your symptoms, with few or no tests. Eating a lactose-free diet for 2 weeks may help the doctor check for a possible lactase deficiency.
There is no test to diagnose IBS. Tests may be done to rule out other problems:
Some patients will have colonoscopy. During this test, a flexible tube is inserted through the anus to examine the colon. You may need this test if:
Other disorders that can cause similar symptoms include:
The goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms.
Lifestyle changes can help in some cases of IBS. For example, regular exercise and improved sleep habits may reduce anxiety and help relieve bowel symptoms.
Dietary changes can be helpful. However, no specific diet can be recommended for IBS, because the condition differs from one person to another.
The following changes may help:
Talk with your doctor before taking over-the-counter medications.
No one medication will work for everyone. Medications your doctor might try include:
Therapy may help in cases of severe anxiety or depression.
Irritable bowel syndrome may be a lifelong condition. For some people, symptoms are disabling and reduce the ability to work, travel, and attend social events.
Symptoms can often be improved or relieved through treatment.
IBS does not cause permanent harm to the intestines, and it does not lead to a serious disease, such as cancer.
Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome or if you notice a change in your bowel habits that does not go away.
Spastic colon; Irritable colon; Mucous colitis; Spastic colitis
Irritable bowel syndrome. NIH Publication No. 07-693. September 2007. The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC).
Talley NJ. Irritable bowel syndrome. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2010:chap 118.
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I'm down at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, where Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is facing capital charges for the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. Nearly 13 years later, we're here for what are still pre-trial motions. The Gitmo trials, restarted by President Obama in 2011, have been marked by secrecy, snafus, and endless delays. After having followed Gitmo for years, this is my first visit.
The trip to Guantanamo Bay, my first, begins at Andrews Air Force Base at six in the morning. We board the plane, a Miami Air charter, in a strict pecking order: media at the very back, interspersed with observers from law schools and the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, then military commissions personnel, attorneys, then finally, the judge and victims of the bombing and family members (VFMs, in commissions parlance).
As we descend into Guantanamo – skirting Cuban airspace, our flight captain reminds us – I can't see much from my aisle seat, but it's drier and browner than I expected, the water a beautiful blue-green. It's hard to tell where the ultimate border of the U.S. base is. The hills are dotted with fences and guard towers. Dusty tracks give way to paved roads as we approach the beige buildings around the airport. The mountains in the background seem to be definitively Cuba, in shadow as they are.
Off the plane, we are scooted into the receiving line, a shaded porch-way with "no photos" on the fences. Our passports are checked (alas, there's no special stamp) at a podium shaped like a guard tower. Our on-base public affairs officers meet us. They are cheerful and friendly, though each of them is being shadowed by their replacement, due to an upcoming tour rotation. There's a greater than one-to-one ratio of officers to media almost everywhere we go.
Our constant minders herd us into a van and onto a ferry, where I stand near the back leaning on a big truck as we go across the bay, past some green marshes, past the mouth of the bay, traversed by a small barge and patrol boats.
Again we head into the vans, and to the Media Operations Center, in a giant white hangar: a lovely building, white and covered in gridded windowpanes. On top of a hill is the only building we're allowed to photograph from the outside, the SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) where trials were once held, and which now functions as a watchtower. The courtroom is now housed in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, pronounced "elk." ("Expeditionary," we are told, because it could be picked up and moved, should, say, Gitmo be closed.)
Outside we see the trailer from which a QRT (Quick Response Team) watches the hearings -- without audio -- in case there is a "disturbance" and they have to storm the courtroom.
Then into a chain-link fence corridor covered in black fabric. Metal wheeling restraint chairs are lined up in a row. Then a mini shingled wooden barn, the kind sold at roadside expos of yard sheds and gazebos, in which sit two metal-detector chairs designed for "non-invasive orifice searches" for contraband. The officer in charge sits on one, but says the chairs must be off, as something in his hip usually sets it to beeping. Then the holding cells – five now, for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks, underscoring how specific all this is to the crime. The cells are two-roomed trailers, heavily bolted up.
In the first, a chair, a sink, a TV for watching court proceedings. In the interior room, a desk molded into the floor, a cot, a Tupperware containing a prayer mat, cap, and beads, towels, blankets. An arrow on the ground indicates the direction of Mecca. A metal circle welded to the floor is a "hard point," for shackling. There are no windows but some dotted holes for vents in the back wall.
Then we see the camera-lined courtroom. Chain comes out of the ground by the outer edge of each of the defense side tables, under chairs without wheels, then also under the center of tables at the defense side, an adaptation from when detainees decided to represent themselves. Compliant detainees, we're told, are not shackled. The wires of computers and microphones run through the furniture so that, our guide says, they cannot be used as a weapon.
We see the soundproof gallery from which we will watch the proceedings on a controversial 40-second audio delay, meant to protect against the disclosure of classified information.
The extreme secrecy surrounding so many aspects of the trial is a constant battle between the government, the defense, and the media. There's a motion on the docket for this week so secret it doesn't even have an unclassified name. The judge is hearing arguments this week on whether Nashiri himself will be allowed to know, even in general terms, what it's about.
The government also takes the position that anything related to detainees' time in CIA custody is still classified, despite the fact that the program has been acknowledged, ended, and much about it is in the public domain. So everything that the detainees say is presumed classified, since they are in a position to reveal classified information -- hence the 40-second delay. (A defense attorney in the 9/11 case has challenged that stance, as have the ACLU and media organizations.)
There is a big red siren light on the classification authority's desk in the courtroom to indicate white noise. The light went off mysteriously during hearings in the 9/11 case earlier this year. No one knew who had pressed the button to censor the courtroom. The government later said it was an "original classification authority," presumably the CIA.
We're told they no longer have the power to cut the feed. That controversy, along with the discovery of a monitoring device disguised in a smoke detector in the rooms where defense attorneys met with their clients overshadowed this winter's hearings. (The judge ordered those smoke-detector microphones disabled in February.) Then there was the April revelation that defense emails had been improperly accessed and files disappeared (the government maintains it was a technical glitch, and no emails were read.) The defense will try to bring all of this front and center in the week ahead.
Correction, June 12, 2013: This story previously said Guantanamo Bay's courtroom is housed in the "Expeditionary Legal Center." In fact it's housed in the "Expeditionary Legal Complex.


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Join me at my new website here. Not that hard. Just drop the blogspot. :-)
(sniff) Bye old site:
Thoughts of an Ordinary Barbarian
Here is a look at some of Obama's assertions in his address to the nation Monday, and how they compare with the facts:
OBAMA: Seeking to justify military intervention, the president said the U.S. has "an important strategic interest in preventing Gadhafi from overrunning those who oppose him. A massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across Libya's borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful - yet fragile - transitions in Egypt and Tunisia." He added: "I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America."
THE FACTS: Obama did not wait to make that case to Congress, despite his past statements that presidents should get congressional authorization before taking the country to war, absent a threat to the nation that cannot wait.
"The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation," he told The Boston Globe in 2007 in his presidential campaign. "History has shown us time and again ... that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the legislative branch."
Obama's defense secretary, Robert Gates, said Sunday that the crisis in Libya "was not a vital national interest to the United States, but it was an interest."
OBAMA: "And tonight, I can report that we have stopped Gadhafi's deadly advance."
THE FACTS: The weeklong international barrage has disabled Libya's air defenses, communications networks and supply chains. But Gadhafi's ground forces remain a potent threat to the rebels and civilians, according to U.S. military officials.
Army Gen. Carter Ham, the top American officer overseeing the mission, told The New York Times on Monday that "the regime still overmatches opposition forces militarily. The regime possesses the capability to roll them back very quickly. Coalition air power is the major reason that has not happened."
Only small numbers of Gadhafi's troops have defected to the opposition, Ham said.
At the Pentagon, Vice Adm. William Gortney, staff director for the Joint Chiefs, said the rebels are not well organized. "It is not a very robust organization," he said. "So any gain that they make is tenuous based on that."
OBAMA: "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action."
THE FACTS: Mass violence against civilians has also been escalating elsewhere, without any U.S. military intervention anticipated.
More than 1 million people have fled the Ivory Coast, where the U.N. says forces loyal to the incumbent leader, Laurent Gbagbo, have used heavy weapons against the population and more than 460 killings have been confirmed of supporters of the internationally recognized president, Alassane Ouattara.
The Obama administration says Gbagbo and Gadhafi have both lost their legitimacy to rule. But only one is under attack from the U.S.
Presidents typically pick their fights according to the crisis and circumstances at hand, not any consistent doctrine about when to use force in one place and not another. They have been criticized for doing so — by Obama himself.
In his pre-presidential book "The Audacity of Hope," Obama said the U.S. will lack international legitimacy if it intervenes militarily "without a well-articulated strategy that the public supports and the world understands."
He questioned: "Why invade Iraq and not North Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur?"
Now, such questions are coming at him.
These videos demonstrate the fraud that was intentionally created and promoted by the Palin.
This Video, "Happy Anniversary Todd and Sarah" demonstrated the attempt to create the impression of a perfect couple. I guess that "fire in her belly to serve Alaska" burned out??!!!
These videos reveal the original impression created by the National Enquirer Story that was quashed by the fraudulent and misleading Press Release of the APD.
Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father....
Not surprisingly, Ayers retreated into irony as he ended the session. "Yeah, yeah," he said after confirming again that he wrote Dreams, "And if you help me prove it, I'll split the royalties with you. Thank you very much."
With his final comment, the Ayers-friendly audience laughed in relief. The media will laugh nervously upon seeing the video as well. The White House will not.
It just doesn't look like that to me. But hey, I could be wrong.As was obvious in his speech at Montclair, Ayers does not like the application of force in Libya, and this may have been his own way of retaliating. Consider it a shot across Obama's bow. The White House will.
June 1974, the Weather Underground released a 151-page volume titled Prairie Fire, which stated: "We are a guerrilla organization [...] We are communist women and men underground in the United States [...]"


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Even if B.C. teachers walk out before they are locked out for the final days of the school year, final exams will be delivered and marked for graduating students, Education Minister Peter Fassbender promised Thursday.
Facing a 10% pay cut for refusing some of their regular duties and preparing for a third week of rotating strikes around the province, members of the B.C. Teachers' Federation are to vote June 9-10 on whether to resort to a full strike before the school year ends.
Fassbender said the logistics of delivering and marking tests in a strike have not yet been worked out, but he committed the government to make sure they are completed.
BCTF president Jim Iker said Wednesday the union executive decided to hold a new strike vote before the Labour Relations Board ruled that the employer can impose the pay cut. If union members authorize a full walkout, it would mean more field trips will be cancelled and report cards may not be completed in full, Iker said.
The LRB essential services order specifies supervision outside classroom hours if management staff are not available, and any emergencies as determined by school districts, but does not refer to exams.
The LRB has legislated authority to define as essential services "those facilities, productions and services that the board considers necessary or essential to prevent immediate and serious disruption to the provision of educational programs."
Fassbender said the BCTF's latest reduction to its wage proposal isn't nearly enough to bring it in line with other settlements with provincial employees.
The latest BCTF wage proposal is a total increase of 9.75% over four years, plus cost-of-living adjustments in each year depending on inflation. The BCTF has estimated that with inflation, the total increase would be 12.75%.
The B.C. Public School Employers' Association, representing the province's 60 school districts, has proposed a 7.5% wage increase over six years, and recently added a $1,200 signing bonus for an agreement by the end of the school year.


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Coffee Quality
Origin & Quality
Sometimes it's good to be fussy
Taste, aroma, even the way a bean looks all count towards its quality. And at NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto®, we like to think we know a great bean when we see one, which is why we only work with the best coffee suppliers in the world.
Actually, that's not the only reason. Our little coffee wizard is a bit picky too, so only carefully selected beans get in – great news for coffee-lovers everywhere.
Harvest & Handling
Every bean is like a festival of flavor
Take a sip of your NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto®, coffee and you might just find a broad grin spreading from one ear to the other. You know why? Well, once upon a time, there was a little fruit and inside that fruit was oodles of flavor and mountains of aroma. Then one day, that little fruit turned into a delicious coffee bean thanks to our roasting process.
And while many beans dream of becoming authentic NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® beans, only a few make the grade. They're picked to perfection, dried in the sun, fermented and peeled before they get anywhere near your cup, all to guarantee a very happy ending.
Delicious Roast & Ground coffee – there's a whole lot of loving going on
It's during the roasting process that the delicious aroma and 'body' of the coffee is revealed. Fortunately, our coffee-loving experts are a clever bunch. They are roasted at temperatures to suit the exact kind of coffee they're roasting for. Now that's dedication.
We also take extra special care when grinding our selected roasted beans. With a delicious range of quality Roast & Ground coffees packed into every pod, you can really taste all that extra effort – and when you love coffee as much as we do, it's worth going the extra mile!
It's not all about coffee…
With NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto®, you can enjoy all the taste and texture of freshly frothed milk, without having to spend ages getting the milk, frothing the milk, then pouring the milk. Phew! Way too much effort. That's why we designed our fantastic milk pods.
High quality powdered milk has been sealed into each and every NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto®, milk pod just for you! And if you're the sort of person who gets giddy when you taste real chocolate, then boy, have we got a treat for you! Our deliciously indulgent chocolate drinks are made with only the finest fine cocoa beans. Yum scrum.
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Coffee machines need pressure to keep them ticking. And the higher the pressure, the better the coffee.And 15 bar pump pressure is a sign mark of coffee shop quality. So guess what, our nifty machines deliver a whopping maximum 15-bar pump pressure for delicious, café-style coffee every time!
After all, these are no ordinary coffee machines. Thanks to our wonderful coffee-loving experts you can enjoy delicious, café-style coffee in the comfort of your own home, whenever you like! Thanks guys.


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India Passes WEEE & RoHS Regulations
July 5, 2011
The government of India last month passed Rules 2011, regulations that cover the restriction of hazardous materials in electronic and electrical components and equipment. Rules 2011 covers the equivalent of the European Union's WEEE e-waste regulations that guide the disposal of electronic and electrical equipment, as well as the restrictions on hazardous materials in electronic and electrical components, much like the EU's RoHS directive.
Rules 2011 applies to producers and distributors involved in the manufacture, sale, and processing of electronic and electrical equipment or components. The restrictions also affect waste collection centers, product dismantlers, and recyclers.
The waste-related provisions will be enforced beginnng May 1, 2012. The RoHS-related hazardous materials provisions will go into effect May 12, 2013.
Last month, India's Ministry of Environment and Forests released a notification spelling out the new WEEE and RoHS rules.
As expected, there is considerable similarity between India's regulations and the EU regulations. Batteries and radioactive waste are not dealt with under the Rules 2011, as they are already regulated by existing Indian laws. As with the EU RoHS directive, there are 39 substance exemptions.
There are some variances between India RoHS and the EU RoHS, but they are slight. "The hazardous materials and limits are the same as EU RoHS today, but encompasses a more limited scope," says Michael Kirschner, president of Design Chain Associates, a San Francisco firm that consults on environmental compliance, in an interview. "The EU RoHS exemptions in place today are the same for India RoHS except that unlike the EU, exemption expiration dates are not included."
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BOULDER,COLO. -- A patent-pending process designed to help plastic waste decompose within three years in landfills is the idea fueling Inviroment LLC, a group led by students from Brigham Young University.
The firm plans to use a trademarked product called PlasTek to treat plastic waste and has been entering various business-plan contests. They earned $100,000 in a regional contest of the Department of Energy's National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition held in April at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Inviroment will join other regional winners June 11-12 in the national competition in Washington.
PlasTek, according to the company's website, is a chemical solvent made from naturally occurring compounds.
"PlasTek is sprayed onto trash as it is deposited in landfills. PlasTek catalyzes a reaction that causes the breakdown of waste plastics in a matter of months, vs. hundreds of years for untreated plastics," the site says.
The result can cut trash volume in landfills by 13-20 percent annually, according to Inviroment, and the resulting methane can be sold as renewable energy.
The company, according to President Nathan Parkin, was formed in January and has five partners — Parkin and Brock Bennion, both seniors at BYU; Devan Bennion, a BYU sophomore; and Nate Alder and Stephen Boyd.
Parkin said the idea came about after he and his roommate Brock Bennion returned from living in Sweden.
"We saw Sweden was extremely clean and very recycling-friendly. We came back to the U.S. and it was starkly different. We started talking about ways to change that," said Parkin.
As impressed as they were with the way the Swedes used all sorts of bins in apartments to recycle, they thought there had to an easier way, Parkin said. That's how they came up with the idea of an eco-friendly treatment that could be applied to plastics at the landfill. He said did not want to disclose its makeup while its patent is pending.
The company name was picked to take advantage of search engines — the word "environment" brings up plenty of results, but they felt the different spelling would provide a more unique search.
Inviroment is still in the concept phase, but the partners are building a website and participating in various contests to meet with possible investors.
More R&D and is still ahead, but they are planning a pilot test at a landfill probably in the fall and hope to have the product ready by middle of 2014.


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ST 4U 155: Loading GLORP Support in VA
Today's Smalltalk 4 You gets started with GLORP for VA Smalltalk. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:
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Today we'll get started with GLORP for VA Smalltalk - for our examples, we'll be using the ODBC support and PostgreSQL, but it's going to be the same for any other database (such as DB2) at this level. To start with, let's load the support in from ENVY. Open up the load/unload features tool from the launcher:
Just hit "Ok", and let it spin - you'll have GLORP support loaded shortly.
Next time we'll start taking a real look at GLORP itself.
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The provincial government says it won't be investigating the source of a deadly virus that has led to numerous rabbit deaths in the Nanaimo area.
After a number of dead rabbits were reported in the Rotary Bowl stadium area in late-February, the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development issued a statement warning of the "extremely infectious and lethal" rabbit hemorrhagic virus. Six rabbits from Nanaimo were tested and all were positive, it said.
Helen Schwantje, a wildlife veterinarian with the ministry, told the News Bulletin the virus is native to domestic rabbits of European origin and pet rabbits were at risk.
In an e-mailed statement, the ministry said "an investigation is not feasible and results would very likely be inconclusive, as previously experienced through investigations where outbreaks have occurred in other parts of the country."
The ministry said tests were conducted on 17 rabbits from a number of areas, including Nanaimo and Comox, with 12 being feral (wild, but descended from domestic rabbits) and five domestic (pets). Eleven of the feral rabbits tested positive, while all five domestic rabbits were negative.
Feral rabbits submitted from regions where the disease has been confirmed are no longer being tested, said the ministry. A vaccine will be available for rabbit owners in the coming weeks, it said.
- RELATED NEWS: A dozen dead rabbits discovered at Rotary Bowl
- RELATED NEWS: Rabbit owners in region warned about deadly virus
- RELATED NEWS: Nanaimo animal control says 300 dead rabbits recovered
Carley Colclough, Nanaimo Animal Control Services' pound coordinator, estimated that animal control services has recovered between 450 to 500 dead rabbits since late February, but it has been slowing down.
"We're getting a lot of calls about one or two rabbits at a time instead of 15 to 20 at a time, and I think that's because it's probably moved through the larger populations and now we're finding just the odd one in someone's yard or on the sidewalk or something like that, but we're not getting nearly as many calls from Beban Park or Westwood Road where there had been previously big populations," said Colclough.
Colclough said the highest concentration of dead rabbits was in the Beban Park area with approximately 20 to 30 a day during the second week of March. She also expects that many infected rabbits crawled into their burrows and died as well, although there is no way to know for certain.
Leon Davis, branch manager for Nanaimo's B.C. SPCA, said a moratorium on accepting bunnies remains in place.
"I think animal control is still picking up rabbits daily and we're still finding them sporadically and until we get more information from the ministry to how long it can persist in the environment, we're not transferring out any animals at all so our vehicles don't spread anything … we're just trying to do our best to limit any impact we have," said Davis.
Anyone who sees dead rabbits is asked to contact animal control services at 250-616-0233.
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Got my figures last week as a delayed birthday gift. Haven't opened the boxes yet (busy, busy, busy) but I do like how they look in person! Got them from CDJapan, both were reasonably priced there. Usually a good place to get SH Figuarts before they sell out for a good price.
All in all, can't wait for Robin Mask and Neptuneman in June!


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Hooke's law
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Hooke's law, law of elasticity discovered by the English scientist Robert Hooke in 1660, which states that, for relatively small deformations of an object, the displacement or size of the deformation is directly proportional to the deforming force or load. Under these conditions the object returns to its original shape and size upon removal of the load. Elastic behaviour of solids according to Hooke's law can be explained by the fact that small displacements of their constituent molecules, atoms, or ions from normal positions is also proportional to the force that causes the displacement.
The deforming force may be applied to a solid by stretching, compressing, squeezing, bending, or twisting. Thus, a metal wire exhibits elastic behaviour according to Hooke's law because the small increase in its length when stretched by an applied force doubles each time the force is doubled. Mathematically, Hooke's law states that the applied force F equals a constant k times the displacement or change in length x, or F = kx. The value of k depends not only on the kind of elastic material under consideration but also on its dimensions and shape.
At relatively large values of applied force, the deformation of the elastic material is often larger than expected on the basis of Hooke's law, even though the material remains elastic and returns to its original shape and size after removal of the force. Hooke's law describes the elastic properties of materials only in the range in which the force and displacement are proportional. (See deformation and flow.) Sometimes Hooke's law is formulated as F = −kx. In this expression F no longer means the applied force but rather means the equal and oppositely directed restoring force that causes elastic materials to return to their original dimensions.
Hooke's law may also be expressed in terms of stress and strain. Stress is the force on unit areas within a material that develops as a result of the externally applied force. Strain is the relative deformation produced by stress. For relatively small stresses, stress is proportional to strain. For particular expressions of Hooke's law in this form, see bulk modulus; shear modulus; Young's modulus.


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I spent a lot of time during Longhorn's early days debunking fake screenshots people had created of Microsoft's then-next-OS. It's happening again with Windows 7, of course. And while I'd like to keep this kind of thing to a minimum, this video is fake.
Not just fake. Fake, fake, fake. Really fake. Obviously fake. Stupidly fake. The "screen capture" part shows off SnagIt, a third party application I use nearly every single day. This is "didn't even try hard" fake.
So please don't email me about it. But please do feel free to ridicule and/or ignore those who weren't savvy enough to figure it out.
Moving on....
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Ice Damage
Make way for spring! It's time to put an end to Old Man Winter.
Direct Link to YouTube video
Previously: Ice Towers
10 comments:
- Unknown said...
There's something about smashing icicles that's just plain fun! SMASH!
- February 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Gordon Napier said...
Well that broke the ice...
- February 20, 2011 at 3:07 PM
- Larry said...
Paints right handed, bats left handed. Cool.
BTW, forecast calls for snow tonight in the north east. - February 20, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- Unknown said...
I see you are doing research again.
- February 20, 2011 at 7:08 PM
- Claire Vrabel said...
Good clean fun! ...And the mess just melts away... :)
- February 20, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- David Glenn said...
You don't like ice do you?
- February 21, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- Steve said...
Larry got to my comment before me: paints right, bats left. I do too. The main time being mildly ambidextrous meant anything was during my three summer career as a house painter. I could park the ladder in the center of the windowsill and paint the trim on either side of the window without moving the ladder.
- February 21, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Dave 'Diamond' Merritt said...
Hi James. Ever think of posting a post on discipline? As a career artist, I still find it difficult to motivate myself. Love your work, and does smashing icicles help kill the February blues?
- February 21, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Eric Braddock said...
HAHAHA! Very awesome. I like your take on beating old man winter. A baseball bat.
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At first I thought this was maybe reference for a painting of exploding ice..but no.
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Pollution by phosphorus and nitrogen isn't just bad for lakes, streams and other bodies of fresh water. According to researchers at Kansas State University, it's also bad for Americans' pocketbooks.
Freshwater pollution impacts individuals on a level as basic as how much they spend on bottled water, said Walter Dodds, professor of biology at K-State. If you worry about what's in the tap water, you might be shelling out more money for the bottled variety, he said.
If your municipal water plant has to spend more money to treat the water coming through your tap, your water bills will increase. If you own a house on a lake that is becoming increasingly polluted, your property values likely may drop. If that lake is a recreation destination, your local economy could take a hit, too.
"Monetary damages put environmental problems in terms that make policymakers and the public take notice," Dodds said.
He and the K-State researchers looked at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data on nitrogen and phosphorus levels in bodies of water throughout the country. Nitrogen and phosphorus are nutrients that are applied to plants as nutrients.
Dodds said that the majority of this type of pollution is from nonpoint sources --that is it's not flowing into a lake or stream like sewage outflow coming from one pipe. Rather, the nitrogen and phosphorus are reaching the water from various points, such as, for example, runoff from row crop agriculture across the surrounding countryside.
The researchers calculated the money lost from that pollution by looking at factors like decreasing lakefront property values, the cost of treating drinking water and the revenue lost when fewer people take part in recreational activities like fishing or boating.
The researchers found that freshwater pollution by phosphorus and nitrogen costs government agencies, drinking water facilities and individual Americans at least $4.3 billion annually. Of that, they calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution.
"We are providing underestimates," Dodds said. "Although our accounting of the degree of nutrient pollution in the nation is fairly accurate, the true costs of pollution are probably much greater than $4.3 billion."
The research appears in the Nov. 12 online issue of Environmental Science and Technology. Co-authors include current K-State students Alyssa Riley, doctoral student in biology, Manhattan, Tyler Pilger, master's student in biology, Wichita, and Wes Bouska, master's student in biology, Brookings, S.D.; as well as Jeffrey Eitzmann, May 2008 master's graduate in biology; Kristen Pitts, August 2008 master's graduate in biology; Joshua Schloesser, August 2008 master's graduate in biology; and Darren Thornbrugh, December 2007 master's graduate in biology.
Dodds said he anticipates the research being used by policymakers because it documents the extent of the nutrient pollution problem in the United States and one facet of why it matters.
"Putting environmental problems in terms of dollars allows people to account for the actual costs of pollution," Dodds said.
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With the holiday season in full swing, many of us are thinking about the meals we'll soon be sharing with family and friends. Whether it's turkey and egg nog, or latkes, or a New Year's buffet, food is always a central and cherished part of the festivities. Of course, we all know that a necessary ingredient for any meal is food safety.
When the President came into office, he said that "protecting the safety of our food and drugs is one of the most fundamental responsibilities government has." He pledged to strengthen our food safety laws and to enhance the government's food safety performance.
To help accomplish that goal, the Administration worked with Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, and a broad coalition of industry and consumer groups, to enact the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA. FSMA is the most sweeping reform of our food laws in more than 70 years. It will apply modern scientific methods to target and prevent the most significant hazards and hold importers accountable for the safety of the food they bring into this country. FDA is working towards a release of proposed rules to implement FSMA and to build a modern new system of food safety oversight that harnesses the best available practices.
To oversee all of the Administration's food safety efforts, the President created the Federal Food Safety Working Group, led by our two departments. Partner agencies include the FDA and CDC.
We're pleased to say that the Working Group's just released report shows that this Administration has delivered substantial results in the area of food safety. These include stricter standards to prevent contamination of food with dangerous bacteria, stronger surveillance to detect contamination problems earlier, and more rapid response to illness outbreaks.
FSIS announced tougher and new standards to prevent as many as 25,000 illnesses annually from Salmonella and Campylobacter. FSIS will soonprohibit any raw ground beef found to contain six additional types of E. coli bacteria from being sold to consumers, preventing additional illnesses and deaths.
FDA established an egg safety rule that is expected to help prevent 79,000 illnesses and save one billion dollars each year. And its new "Reportable Food Registry" requires the food industry to file electronic reports about food safety problems. The Registry already led to the recall of products that presented a risk of Salmonella.
CDC, along with frontline state and local disease detectives coordinated the response to over 20 outbreaks across states and tracked more than 200 clusters of suspected foodborne illness. Many illnesses were prevented and lives saved by prompt action taken by Colorado and other states during the recent Listeria outbreak.
These are significant accomplishments, but our joint New Year's resolution is that you'll see many more great things in 2012. Among these next steps, the FDA intends to further strengthen food safety prevention efforts. We will take even greater strides on this front when the FDA issues proposed rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act.
And we all need to do our part to keep food safe. Keep hands and work surfaces clean. Separate raw meats, eggs and seafood from other foods. Refrigerate any food that should be refrigerated, including pie, within two hours. Don't use unpasteurized eggs or egg products for any recipe calling for raw eggs, and cook foods to a safe internal temperature. Use a food thermometer to ensure that meat, poultry, and fish achieve a safe internal temperature; turkey and stuffing should both be 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
Make sure food safety is at the top of your holiday list - it's the best gift you can give those who will gather around your table for the holidays.
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Teaching macroeconomics after the crisis
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"As Paul Krugman has pointed out many times, recent developments have in many ways been a vindication of the basic Keynesian model that lies at the heart of any undergraduate macro course. Indeed, I would go even further. The mess we are currently in is due in part to policy makers ignoring this basic macroeconomic analysis."
I must ask you, are you speaking of the IS-LM model? For there is nothing truly Keynesian in it. Hicks already had it in mind at least 5 years before Keynes wrote the GT and Keynes in fact rejected his analysis in a private letter to Hicks. The IS-LM is not Keynesian but "fiscal-neoclasscial".
Second, we're in this mess because macroeconomists ignored the effects of private debt and bank-credit. And politicians ignored the risk of too much private debt because economists told them it would be OK since "one's debt is another's asset." So the politicians probably "remembered basic macro theory" as you wanted them to. The problem was that the basic macro theory was, well, limited.
One question regarding the changes in the curriculum: have you added Minsky into it?- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 10:08
"...I imagined economics might be like a physical science, where knowledge of bygone theory added little to our understanding of the world today."
Where did you get this idea? As a physicist I can tell you this is completely wrong. The old physics is crucial in understanding the new models, and it is the first that is taught, extensively. Without classical electrodynamics you cannot understand quantum field theory. Without classical field theories you cannot understand general relativity. And string theory is just an application of quantum field theory and general relativity in a different context. Modern condensed matter theory is an application of quantum field theory. Really, many of the mathematical methods developed in the last centuries (most in the 19th) are the basis of just more sophisticated models of modern physics. Moreover, quite often a lot of modern problems can still be tackled using (very) old physics (much of astronomy uses Newtonian physics, while general relativity is almost ready for its 100th birthday). Perhaps the biggest difference is that now you can do huge simulations on powerful computers, but that's also just a new way of using old theories.
Apparently unlike economics, physics is not at all as a replacement of old theories with new theories. It is a layering of new theories extending the reach of old theories. But the old theories still hold their importance, and therefore it is essential that they are taught. It seems that this lack of amnesia should be the most important lessons for macro economics coming out of this crisis. This is an excellent reflection. I hope everyone teaching economics, at any level, conducts some similar thinking. This alone would represent a significant change in economics teaching.
It is also good to hear economists state that "the mess we are currently in is due in part to policy makers ignoring this basic macroeconomic analysis", but maybe you don't stress enough that it is "basic" that matters the most.
Basic economics is simple, useful and relevant, as the recession loudly reminded us. The usefulness and relevance of fancy modern economics looks much more debatable. And when fancy economics cannibalizes the basic one (as you state it does at the master level), it becomes counter-productive.- Anonymous23 June 2012 at 21:33
Economists are bad at defining economic variables. Economist statisticians are good - but economists aren't. Did you know, for instance, that non-profits serving households (the soccer club, the National Trust(http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/membership/)) as well as jails are part of the sector households? More attention to this is needed to enable the students to understand the metrics, starting with the 'old school', chartalist double entry definition of money, as used by the statisticians of the ECB. Every month, the ECB press release clearly shows the 'money=debt' relation. Students have to know about this. You can't define money without talking about debt. And even when you do not accept this double entry accounting, chartalist point of view - the students have to be able to read the press releases of the ECB (the neo-classical divisia definition is at least a little more advanced than the standard textbook definitions (see the Blanchard and Bernanke textbooks!) - but it still leaves out that money and debt are siamese twins and that debt is as essential a feature of out monetary system as the pound.
Merijn Knibbe Dear Prof Wren-Lewis,
I've a little question for you:
Can you or any economist explain why the graph on http://www.philipji.com/item/2012-06-23/has-the-great-contraction-begun mirrors the US economy so well over the years?
The graph could not be simpler. It takes M1, adds sweeps and subtracts industrial and commercial loans. Even on the scale at which the graph is drawn you can see the crash of 1987, the moderation during Bill Clinton's presidency, the wayward expansion during the first half of the first decade of this century and much else. For the latest period you can see a contraction.
I am sure no economist can really understand this graph. And this inability lies at the heart of the confusion that besets macroeconomics at present. Economics carries a century of misconceptions regarding money.You should teach the history of macroeconomic thought AND economic and financial history. Otherwise, you will teach what I was taught, which was all theory and no evidence. Undergraduates come to economics without much sense of what it is that needs explaining and you need to give it to them.
ReplyDeleteAnyone wanting to understand what's happened over the past five years should read the General Theory?
I'm not sure about that. The General Theory isn't a layman's guide. My guess is it's comprehensible to first-year undergrads with an A-Level in econ.
Mankiw might be more suitable. His new edition includes a clear explanation of the causes of the credit crunch, though I've seen some claims that it's not well balanced.
There's also the problem that we're too close to events to understand them. Indeed, anyone claiming to teach definitively the causes of the GR is in error, to my mind, since events haven't yet played out. While setting out current theories, one would still need to express uncertainty.- Anonymous26 June 2012 at 12:14
Three points;
The economic decisions made by the current Govt are determined by political motives not economic understanding.
My reaction to what I take to be the typo referring to Osborne's 'principle' advisor is that the poor devil isn't having much success in that area either.
Thank you for your reassurance that the teaching of Economics in the home of lost causes isn't responsible for the crude simplifications and inaccurate soundbites that sum up current Govt policy Prof.
Could we tempt you to comment on the history of the PPE?
There seems to be this great swathe of PPE graduates across the UK's political class.
And few of them seem to show much appreciation for the (E) part of the course.
This ranges from the knee-jerk anti-Keynsian attitudes through to general incoherence about how the economy works.
Strangely, it seems from anecdotes by Chris Dillow amongst others, that this wasn't exactly a function of the teaching. Yet if we're to accept the reality of the PPE as the finishing school for our rulers, it would be good to understand what directions it is pushing their minds in.- Anonymous2 July 2012 at 13:01
The undergraduate course in Money and Banking has also been completely revamped (just before the crisis i think) and includes lots of up to date material and references on the crisis, unconventional monetary policy etc.
ReplyDelete Olakar your statement that Keynes rejected IS-LM in a private letter I've never heard-that doesn't mean it's right or wrong just I've never heard it.
I thought Skidelsky has written the most authoritatively on Keynes and according to him Keynes in his own life time chose not to fight IS-LM for pragmatic reasons.- Misaki15 July 2012 at 02:51
>Indeed, I would go even further. The mess we are currently in is due in part to policy makers ignoring this basic macroeconomic analysis.
56% of the population thinks that higher taxes and spending would lead to growth.
Only 42% want the government to create jobs. Politicians know perfectly well what would create jobs, but economists have not been supportive of job creation without higher government spending, inflation, bubbles, or trade barriers: http://jobcreationplan.blogspot.com/
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August 26, 2013 - September 2, 2013
BRAF's presence at Burning Man
Each year, BRAF returns to our source of our inspiration, to that city where interactive art is everywhere you look: Black Rock City. We eagerly look forward to our stay on the playa as an opportunity to connect with our supporters, to inspire others to instigate interactive artworks in their hometown and to educate about our mission and our projects.
We Are Everywhere!
Once again, Burning Man outreach and affiliate groups (Burners Without Borders, The Black Rock Arts Foundation, Black Rock Solar, The Burning Man Project and The Burning Man Regional Network) have teamed up to create a unified presence on the playa: the "Everywhere" pavilion.
Everywhere is housed under one large pavilion (which might look familiar… it's one of the pavilions that surrounded the Man in 2007 and 2008!) This year, our space will again take on the appearance of a large world map, with continents cut out of wood, set up at table height. We invite you to plant a tree or add a leaf in your city or region, sharing about your year-round activities.
We will be located at the intersection of the Center Camp outer ring, 6:30, and the Esplanade.
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Please visit BRAF any day of the week to learn more about recent projects and future endeavors, and to add to our community-created art installation. We will be lounging in the shade from 10:00am-6:00pm, sipping lemonade and conspiring to bring interactive art to communities beyond the playa.


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One of the leaders of the Russian Zionists; born in 1863 in Dubrovna, government of Moghilef (Mohilev). In 1871 he went with his parents to Moscow. He studied the Bible and Talmud in the ḥeder till he was thirteen years old, and then passed successively through the professional and imperial technical schools, graduating from the latter in 1889 as an engineer. Since 1891 he has resided in Yekaterinoslav.
In addition to his secular instruction, Usishkin obtained a thorough Jewish education, and he has a good knowledge of the Neo-Hebrew literature. His public activity began while he was yet at school. He was one of the founders of the Bilu, the Jewish national students' organization, which formed the first Jewish colony in Palestine (see
Usishkin is a strong opponent of the Uganda project, and stands at the head of the party in Zionism which believes that the regeneration of the Jewish people can be accomplished in Palestine alone. In the twenty-four years of his activity as a leader of the Zionist movement he has contributed to the Jewish magazines many articles on different questions relating to Zionism; and his latest work is an account of the Zionist program, published by him in five languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German, and English). See Zionism.


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I started drinking loose leaf tea in the spring of 2013 (why do we feel compelled to mark the date of tea drinking somewhat like addicts counting their sobriety days?)
Never been much into tea before. Growing up in Romania, tea was something mom made for you when you were sick. As an adult, my hot beverage of choice has been coffee, both flavoured and regular. I've recently stumbled upon Teavana and DAVIDs TEA and quickly got addicted to the latter. Then came steepster and all else followed.
Formerly a mathematician and insurance adjuster, I gave up the corporate world and am now a professional chef. I drink wine and sometimes cheat on it with tea.
I lean heavily towards flavoured black teas. I've started to crave the occasional straight oolong and green but so far unflavoured black teas leave me unimpressed.
I'm learning so I drink them all. Am even introducing myself to pu'erh. So far I can do fine with the sheng cause frankly, they don't taste like pu'erh to me. The shou is another story.
Note*: The virtual cupboard does NOT contain any of the samples I hold since most of them are one-cup quantity.
Note**: My partner, our home improvements, gadgets, mortgage, travel, wine and food have budget priority over tea.
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