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Trisha Yearwood on making jerky, bacon straws and wontons
NEW YORK (AP) — Trish Yearwood is a collard greens kind of gal, but her husband, Garth Brooks, is definitely not a collard greens kind of guy. So she had to be a little sly when it came time to perfect her Collard-Stuffed Wontons.
When the country star and her collaborator and sister, Beth, made them the first time at her Nashville home, they didn't tell Brooks and his buddy what was in them when the two men came into the kitchen after working on their farm.
"I said, 'You try this.' Didn't tell them what it was. And they ate them all. They were like, 'These are amazing!'" Yearwood recalls. "And then I told him he ate his collard greens for the day."
The quirky South-meets-Asia wontons are a feature of Yearwood's fourth cookbook, "Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family," which has 125 recipes that blend her knowledge of soulful Southern cooking with influences from China, Italy and Mexico.
Yearwood says the last five years hosting her Emmy-winning Food Network series "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" has helped boost her kitchen skills and expand her recipe development.
"I've entered into a really cool phase and I really attribute the show for just giving me confidence to try new things. And now they've become kind of family favorites and they feel like things that have been in the family forever," she says.
Yearwood is open to ideas, even asking at restaurants how the chefs make favored dishes. She walked away from a sushi restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with the origins of Garth's Teriyaki Bowl, which uses marinated chicken and steak.
That same restaurant inspired her Steak & Avocado Rolls, which use soy wrappers to mimic sushi rolls. Neither Yearwood nor Brooks are fans of raw fish — "we're sort of roll-it-in-flour-and-fry-it people," she confesses — but their girls are, so the recipe is a compromise.
Yearwood also leaned on several family recipes for dishes in the new book, including some from her dad's mom. Her grandmother was a dessert specialist but none of her recipes seemed to have survived until the family recently found a little book with handwritten recipes, including one for Hundred Dollar Cupcakes. Trisha and Beth also recreated a dish that was never written down, Jack's Fried Pies, named after her father.
Jerky turns out to have a special place in her kitchen, and yet she has learned that she doesn't need fancy equipment or a dehumidifier to make her BBQ or teriyaki jerky. She just turns on her oven.
"It's really a low and slow in the oven, like at 200 degrees for hours. It's not expensive to do. You can get a really inexpensive cut of meat and slice it yourself, or you can have your butcher slice it in the strips for you and then you marinate it and then you just slow bake it. Then it can be as tender or as tough as you like," she says.
Other nifty recipes include one for Camo Cake she made for her nephew's birthday that uses food coloring to mimic the look of camouflage, and Chicken Potpie Burger, which combines a classic chicken potpie with a bun.
"Everything that's in the book is the way she really is and the way she really cooks. And it is a reflection of her life and her personality," says Deb Brody, vice president and publisher of adult trade at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. "It's not just a celebrity putting her name on a cookbook. She actually cooks this way."
Though Yearwood includes plenty of vegetarian options, bacon plays a key role in "Trisha's Kitchen," including a breakthrough in snack technology called Bacon Straws: twisted bacon strips brushed with maple syrup and red pepper flakes and sprinkled with cheder cheese.
"When I'm cooking, if there's bacon going on a burger or something, anybody at my house walks by and they're going to take a piece of bacon. We all just want the bacon, like, it doesn't have to be on anything," she says. "So this was that idea of making it its own thing, making it an appetizer and it's crunchy and crispy. You just walk by and grab one — or 10."
The pandemic accelerated the book's creation, with Yearwood's touring scheduled stilled and lockdown forcing her into her kitchen. Easy comfort food was a natural way for her to cook her way out of quarantine.
"I did a lot of sitting on the couch and drinking coffee and going down the rabbit hole of depression. But then — I think it was getting close to a few months in — I was like, 'This would be a perfect time just to write a new book,'" she says.
"It kind of had been knocking on the door, almost like when you need to make a new album. In a way, it was really therapeutic and cathartic for me to be able to focus on something like that, because food really does bring us together."
Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits


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The Tomorrow People 1×15 Promo "Enemy of My Enemy"
The Tomorrow People 1×15 "Enemy of My Enemy" – Julian (guest star James Mackay) is back and angrier than ever, but when he gets caught by Ultra he is forced to strike a deal that could cost his and Stephen's (Robbie Amell) lives. John (Luke Mitchell) once again disobeys Cara's (Peyton List) orders when he learns the Julian has discovered the location of the Tomorrow People's lair. Meanwhile, Astrid (Madeleine Mantock) is plagued by nightmares after her near-death experience and turns to her new friend John for some comfort. Mark Pellegrino and Aaron Yoo also star. Steve Adelson directed the episode written by Phil Klemmer and Ray Utarnachitt (#115).

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When most people think of volcanoes, they think of a tall mountain with a crater on the top, maybe a little snow at the summit and some trees scattered around the base. There are many volcanoes like this, but volcanoes exist in many other forms as well. Each type of volcano has characteristic features that distinguish it from other types. Volcanoes differ in appearance because of the composition of their magma and the processes that originally created them.
The tall cone shape you usually think of when you think of a volcano describes a composite volcano, one common form of volcanoes. Other types of volcanoes include the shield volcano, the cinder cone, and the supervolcano.
Lesson Objectives
- Describe the basic shapes of volcanoes.
- Compare the features of volcanoes.
- Describe the stages in the formation of volcanoes.
Strato-volcano or Composite Volcano
The picture below shows Mt. Fuji, a classic example of the strato-volcano also known as a composite volcano (Figure 8.21). This is the type of volcano many people think of when they imagine volcanoes. These volcanoes have broad bases and sides that get steeper and steeper as you get closer to the top. They frequently have a large crater at the top created during its last eruption.
Composite volcanoes are also called stratovolcanoes because of the alternating layers, or strata, of which they are made (Figure 8.22). The magma that creates stratovolcanoes tends to be more viscous, or thick. Viscous lava creates greater pressure which, in turn, tends to create explosive eruptions. In addition, the viscous lava cannot travel far down the sides of the volcano before it solidifies. This viscous lava thus creates steep sides on stratovolcanoes.
When a stratovolcano erupts, it ejects a great deal of pyroclastic material into the air, which then settles back down on the Earth. After an initial explosion, lava then flows from the volcano creating a second layer of material. As these layers solidify, they create alternating levels, or strata, of material. Ash from the volcanic eruption is also present between the lava layers along the edge of the volcano. Composite volcanoes are common along the Pacific Ring of Fire and other major tectonic plate boundaries where the presence of water in the magma chamber creates explosive eruptions.
Shield Volcanoes
Shield volcanoes get their name from their shape—a huge shield laid on its side. Figure 8.23 shows the Mauna Loa Volcano. You can see that shield volcanoes do not have the steep mountainous sides of composite volcanoes. They have a very wide base and are much flatter on the top than composite volcano. Although they are not steep, they may be very large. The Mauna Loa Volcano has a diameter of over 112 kilometers (70 miles) and forms a significant part of the island of Hawaii. The Mauna Kea Volcano, also in Hawaii, is another shield volcano that is over ten kilometers (6 miles) high from its base below sea level to its peak.
Shield volcanoes are more common at spreading centers or volcanic hot spots in the middle of tectonic plates (Figure 8.24). The magma that creates shield volcanoes is less viscous, so it flows much more easily. For this reason, the eruptions of shield volcanoes are non-explosive. In addition, the less viscous lava spreads out more, which makes shield volcanoes much larger and flatter than stratovolcanoes. Although shield volcanoes are built by many layers over time, the composition of the layers do not alternate between ash and lava, as they do in stratovolcanoes.
Cinder Cones
Cinder cones are both the most common type of volcano and also the smallest. The cinder cone resembles a composite volcano but on a much smaller scale. They rarely reach even 300 meters in height but have even steeper sides than a composite volcano. They usually have a crater at the summit. Cinder cones are composed of small fragments of rock piled on top of one another. These volcanoes usually do not produce streams of lava.
In 1943, a farmer in Mexico witnessed the first eruption of a cinder cone in his field (Figure 8.25). Within a year, the cinder cone Paricutín grew to 336 meters high. By 1952, it grew to a peak of 424 meters tall, and then stopped erupting. This rapid growth and single eruption cycle is characteristic of cinder cones. For this reason, cinder cones do not reach the sizes of stratovolcanoes or shield volcanoes. Often, cinder cones appear near larger volcanoes, but they also may be found away from all other volcanoes, as was the case with Paricutín. The exact composition of a cinder cone depends on the composition of the lava ejected from the Earth.
In certain areas of the world, huge calderas have been found to be the remains of volcanic eruptions of enormous scale (Figure 8.26). These calderas are volcanic features that are formed by the collapse of a huge amount of land due to the powerful eruptions. Caldera comes from Latin word, meaning cauldron. Calderas are generally circular shaped geographic formations like the picture in figure 6. These are not singular mountains but entire geographical areas. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is another caldera that has blown about a hundred times in the last 16 million years.
Supervolcanoes represent the most dangerous type of volcano. An eruption from a supervolcano could change life on Earth as we know it for many years. Supervolcanoes were not even accepted in volcanology until this millennium. Many supervolcano eruptions are thought to have occurred, the most recent in New Zealand less than 2000 years ago. That explosion was thought to have ejected about 100 cubic kilometers of material. A supervolcano eruption near what is now Colorado was thought to have let loose over 5,000 cubic kilometers of material millions of years ago. In comparison, the Mt. Saint Helens eruption ejected about 1 cubic kilometer of material.
The eruptions from supervolcanoes can be so large that the ash ejected into the air blocks the Sun and lowers the temperature on the entire planet. The lowered temperatures caused by these eruptions is called a volcanic winter. A supervolcano eruption at Lake Toba in northern Sumatra may have annihilated about 60% of the world's human population about 75,000 years ago. One can only imagine how such a huge eruption would change the world in modern times.
The largest supervolcano in North America is the Yellowstone caldera, which had three super eruptions at 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago, and much more recent smaller (but still enormous) eruptions. Long Valley caldera, south of Mono Lake in California, is the second largest supervolcano in North America, erupting extremely hot and explosive rhyolite around 700,000 years ago. An earthquake swarm in 1980 alerted geologists to the possibility of another eruption in the future, but the timing of such an event is unknown.
Supervolcanoes are a fairly new idea so the exact cause of supervolcano eruptions is still debated. However, scientists believe that an entire and very large magma chamber erupts in a catastrophic explosion. This enormous eruption creates a huge hole or caldera where the surface area collapses.
Lesson Summary
- Composite cones, shield volcanoes, cinder cones and supervolcanoes are some of the types of volcanoes formed.
- Composite cones are tall, cone shaped volcanoes that produce explosive eruptions.
- Shield volcanoes form very large, gently sloped volcanoes with a wide base.
- Cinder cones are the smallest volcanic landform. They are formed from accumulation of many small fragments of ejected material.
- A caldera forms when an explosive eruption leaves a large crater when the mountain blows apart.
- Supervolcanoes are tremendously devastating types of volcanoes that could destroy large areas when they erupt.
Review Questions
- Rank the four types of volcanoes in order from smallest to largest in diameter.
- What factor is most important in determining the type of volcano formed in a given area?
- Which type of volcano is most common?
- Why do you think that cinder cones are short-lived?
- If supervolcanoes are so big, why do you think it took so long for scientists to discover them?
- caldera
- Circular-shaped geographic features formed from a massive eruption of an ancient volcano, and the subsequent collapse of the volcano back into the ground.
- cinder cone
- A smaller volcano that grows rapidly but only erupts over a short period of the time. Cinder cones are composed of small rock fragments piled on top of one another. They rarely are more than 300 m in height.
- composite volcano
- A volcano with a broad base, steep sides, and often a crater at the top. The volcano is composed of alternating layers of ash and lava flows. Also called a stratovolcano.
- strata
- Layers of rock that are similar in composition to one another.
- supervolcano
- A massive volcanic eruption that is rare but incredibly powerful. Thousands of cubic kilometers of matter can be ejected, and the dust and ash from their eruption can cool the world's climate for years.
Points to Consider
- Composite volcanoes and volcanic cones usually have craters on the top. Why are the craters not always circular, but sometimes "U" or horseshoe-shaped?
- A shield volcano is relatively flat, and a composite volcano is relatively steep because of the type of magma that creates them. What process might create a volcano that is more steep than a shield volcano but not as steep as a composite volcano?


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Hi everyone. So, after working on the last lesson, are you still with me? I hope so, `cause here's the second part of Chopin's Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus No.2.
Chopin's mastery of harmony is quite evident in this section. He starts off by modulating to the key of C, the relative major of Am. (This type of modulation became popular during the Baroque period.) After that, the fun begins. Notice the clever way Frederic briefly modulates to the key of Gm-he approaches D7 (the V chord of Gm) chromatically from below before resolving to the actual Gm chord. He then repeats this move a whole-step up, chromatically approaching E7 (the V of Am) before resolving to Am.
In measures 12-13, Chopin relies on the tritone substitution principle (in which a dominant-seventh-type chord can be interchanged with another dominant chord a diminished fifth above or below). Notice how Eb7b5 is used as a substitute for A7 (the V of D) and how F7b5 is used to replace B7 (the V of E). This type of move (very common in jazz) only underscores how harmonically ahead of his time Chopin was.
And now some performance notes:
In this section, Chopin introduces the appoggiatura-a melodic device in which a chord tone is approached from either a half-step above or below. You can see great examples of appoggiaturas in measures 1, 3 and 5. Notice how, over the C chord in measure 1, Chopin begins the melody with Db (the lowered second) before resolving a half-step down to the "target note," C. He then continues with B, this time resolving a half-step up to C. An identical contour is applied to the embellishment of the D note in measure 3 and the E note in measure 5.
In measures 14-17, Chopin forgoes the chromatic scale for the first time in this piece. Instead, he finishes this passage with a series of descending seconds using primarily the A Aeolian scale (A B C D E F G). Again, notice Chopin's precise targeting of the chord tones on the downbeats.
Pay careful attention to the left-hand position shifts in measures 12-13. To properly execute these speedy shifts, move your entire left hand to the next position instead of stretching into it with your pinkie or index finger. Refer to the tablature for the proper fingerings.
Remember, practice this piece with a metronome. Start slowly-one measure at a time-and work your way up to speed. Good luck with this passage. I know it's tricky, but it's very rewarding once you've mastered it. I'll see you next time with the grand finale.
This lesson originally appeared in Guitar World as part of John Petrucci's "Wild Stringdom" column.


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When Lonnie Liston Smith made the transition from sideman to leader in 1973, it was the beginning of a fusion/crossover/post-bop band he dubbed Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes. The acoustic pianist/electric keyboardist, who was born in Richmond, VA, on December 28, 1940, should not be confused with soul-jazz/hard bop organist Lonnie Smith. This Smith would have had an impressive resumé even if he had never formed a band of his own. In the '60s or early '70s, he had been a sidemen for, among others, Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gato Barbieri, singer Betty Carter, and trumpeter Miles Davis. In fact, Smith was still in Davis' employ when he signed with producer Bob Thiele's RCA-distributed Flying Dutchman label and recorded his first album as a leader, Astral Traveling (which Thiele produced). Nonetheless, the Cosmic Echoes were a major step forward for Smith -- the improviser had a lot more time to devote to his own compositions and he was free to concentrate on a very spiritual type of fusion that had a variety of influences. The post-bop of model explorers like Coltrane, Sanders, Kirk, Yusef Lateef, McCoy Tyner, and Charles Lloyd was a heavy influence on Smith's composing since all of those artists shared the Cosmic Echoes' spiritual concerns. But the Cosmic Echoes were hardly jazz purists. Their instrumental fusion combined those post-bop influences with funk, pop, and rock, and some of their best-known vocal numbers (which include 1979's "Space Princess" and 1983's "Never Too Late") were outright R&B. It was on April 24, 1973, that Smith recorded Astral Traveling and led his first Cosmic Echoes lineup, which included George Barron (soprano and tenor sax), Joe Beck (guitar), Cecil McBee (bass), David Lee, Jr. (drums), James Mtume (percussion), Sonny Morgan (percussion), Badal Roy (tabla drums), and Geeta Vashi (tamboura). Astral Traveling was entirely instrumental, but it wasn't long before Smith added a vocalist to the Cosmic Echoes: his brother Donald Smith. Although Donald Smith had helped his brother put together the Cosmic Echoes' first lineup, he isn't actually employed on Astral Traveling -- 1974's Thiele-produced Cosmic Funk was the first Cosmic Echoes album that featured him on vocals. From 1974 on, the Cosmic Echoes' albums were typically about 80 percent instrumental, but included a few vocal offerings. Subsequent Cosmic Echoes projects included 1975's Expansions, 1975's Visions of a New World, 1976's Reflections of a Golden Dream, and 1977's Renaissance, all of which were on either Flying Dutchman or RCA proper. Along the way, the Cosmic Echoes had more than their share of personnel changes. When the group recorded a live album for RCA in 1977, the lineup included Smith on piano and keyboards, his brother Donald on vocals, Dave Hubbard on tenor and soprano sax, Al Anderson on electric bass, Ronald Miller on electric guitar, and Hollywood Barker on drums -- a lineup that, except for Lonnie Liston Smith himself, is totally different from the Cosmic Echoes lineup heard on 1973's Astral Traveling. It was in 1978 that Smith and his Cosmic Echoes left RCA and moved to Columbia to record Loveland, which was a respectable seller (at least by jazz standards) and fared well among fusion, crossover, and quiet storm fans. Smith's next Columbia album, Exotic Mysteries, gave us the single, "Space Princess," which featured Donald on lead vocals and became a minor hit. Although Exotic Mysteries was primarily an instrumental fusion album, "Space Princess" wasn't jazz at all -- the tune is funk-disco but still has that mystic Cosmic Echoes vibe. Some people felt that when Smith and his Cosmic Echoes were recording for Columbia in the late '70s and early '80s, they became too slick and commercial -- nonetheless, the group still had integrity and was still enjoyable and interesting during its Columbia period. Donald Smith temporarily left the Cosmic Echoes after Exotic Mysteries and on 1979's Song for the Children, he was replaced by singer James "Crabbe" Robinson (who is also employed on 1980s Love Is the Answer). And Robinson wasn't the only person who passed through the Cosmic Echoes in the late '70s or early '80s. Others who came on board during Smith's Columbia period included guitarist Abdul Wali, bassist Pee Wee Ford, drummer Lino Reyes, and percussionist Lawrence Killian -- like Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes could be a revolving door. Donald Smith ended up returning to the fold in the early '80s, which is also when the Cosmic Echoes were reunited with Thiele (who signed Smith to his new Doctor Jazz label). One of songs that Smith's Cosmic Echoes recorded for Doctor Jazz was the urban/quiet storm vocal number "Never Too Late," which was released as a single and became a minor hit. In the mid-'80s, the Cosmic Echoes unofficially called it quits and Smith moved on to other things. But the pianist/keyboardist (who turned 60 in 2000) returned to a Cosmic Echoes-minded approach in 1998, when he was reunited with his brother Donald and featured him on the album Transformation (which came out on Smith's own label Loveland Records). In 2002, Sony's reissue-oriented Legacy Recordings looked back on the Cosmic Echoes' late '70s and early '80s output with a two-CD retrospective titled Explorations: The Columbia Years.
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Sony KDL-55HX853 55in 3D LED TV
Flagship Bravia with the Olympics in mind
X-Reality check
While effective, such processing typically introduces unwanted smudgy motion artefacts around moving objects. However, the HX853 is remarkably free of these. Indeed, I might argue that with the set's Motionflow on Clear (interpolation with backlight blinking and backlight control) this set delivers the best, uncompromised motion clarity currently available, and it's certainly an improvement on last year's KDL-HX923 flagship.
Picture perfect? In two dimensions, it's getting that way
Sony has also upgraded its 3D offering, using 3D Super Resolution image processing tech. This Active Shutter 3D screen certainly pulls scads of detail from dimensionalised BDs, however, that doesn't resolve the basic problem of crosstalk.
This may be a sprightly 200Hz panel, but it still clearly suffers from double imaging, and the viewing experience isn't helped by 3D glasses which are extremely intolerant of viewing deviation. To cock your head left or right is to invite colour shift and ghosting. There are no 3D glasses supplied in the box, they're an optional extra.
Freeview EPG
On the plus side, the HX853 delivers astonishingly involving 2D images; Freeview HD channels look great and Blu-rays are even better. William Hurt's face proves to be a Google map of detail, in The Incredible Hulk, a test disc chosen for its fast moving action scenes and challenging colour palette.
The results are quite a validation of Sony's latest image cocktail, dubbed X-Reality Pro, which are served from the powerful new XCA-7 IC. It's not just broadcast and packaged media that looks good. This X-Reality chipset has also been optimised for low-resolution, internet delivered content, so everything from YouTube to streamed movies from Sony's VoD service look sharper.
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Contrast levels are outstanding too. A pronounced black makes short work of a 20/20 step B&W scale. However, brightness needs to dialled back to no more than 40 on the sliding scale, to keep things balanced.


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Cartoon Network Announces Anti-Bullying Campaign
via Cartoon Network press release:
Cartoon Network Announces Anti-Bullying Campaign,
Empowering Youth Bystanders to Take Action
Advisory Board Partners Include Renowned Bullying Prevention Experts, US Departments of Health & Human Services, Justice and Education, and Project Change-MD
CNN to Participate with Anti-Bullying Campaign Through Editorial Features Covering Key Issues & Prevention
Cartoon Network will leverage its influence among kids this fall with a brand new campaign aimed at educating and empowering bystanders to take action to reduce/prevent bullying. The on-air and online initiative will launch in October 2010 to coordinate with the fifth annual National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week (Oct. 4 -10), sponsored by the National Center for Bullying Prevention. Cartoon Network will create a new series of PSAs that will premiere on Friday, Oct. 1, at 9 a.m. directing viewers to key online resources at CartoonNetwork.com developed in coordination with its recently established Bullying Prevention Advisory Board. CNN, sister station to Cartoon Network within Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., also will present a series of editorial features on bullying to provide better understanding and response options for victims, bystanders and adults.
"This has been a growing and critical issue and we knew we had to find the right way to not only engage our audience and others but to also give them the proper tools and knowledge," said Stuart Snyder, president and chief operation officer of Cartoon Network. "The research we started last summer inspired us to seek out nationally recognized experts to advise us on what, if any, positive steps could be taken to help reduce its occurrence. Our ongoing discussions eventually led us to create a campaign directed at the bullying 'participant' who has the most power to affect change—the bystander."
"Research has shown that 75-85% of students in schools are considered witnesses to bullying," added Alice Cahn, Cartoon Network vice president of social responsibility. "Through our work to date with bullying prevention experts we learned there are proven tactics bystanders can use to interrupt and even put an end to a bullying situation. Our goal is to help teach these tactics, as well as to spread awareness of multiple resources kids and adults can access should they find themselves or someone they know in a bullying situation."
Comprised of renowned educators and researchers, as well as private organizations and government agencies, the Cartoon Network Bullying Prevention Advisory Board includes Dr. Ronald Slaby, senior scientist, Education Development Center, Inc. & Center on Media and Child Health, Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School; Dr. Susan Limber, Clemson University, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life; Dr. Duane Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, Applied Psychology & Human Development Division; Dr. Anthony Peguero, Miami University, Department of Sociology; Captain Stephanie Bryn, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration; and Robyn Glass, Founder and Executive Director of Project Change's You Have The Power, a peer mentoring program where high school students teach bullying prevention tactics to middle and elementary school students.
"Bullying can be prevented," said Slaby, co-author of the Eyes on Bullying Program. "Our challenge is to prepare ourselves and our children to show respect for others, protect the vulnerable and speak out against bullying."
"Bullying is more prevalent than many adults believe," said Limber, co-author of the internationally renowned and researched Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. "It can have a toxic effect on children and youth, their families, their schools, and other settings where children gather. The good news is that there is lots that can be done to help prevent bullying before it starts and to stop bullying if it does ocur. Children and youth have critical roles to play, together with adults, in these efforts to stop bullying."
Within online curriculum being created at CartoonNetwork.com in partnership with Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) "Stop Bullying Now!" (stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov) and through key links to partnering organizations, kids and parents alike will be presented with engaging materials providing researched and recommended response actions to a variety of possible bystander circumstances. The material will include tactics bystanders can use to interrupt and address bullying, techniques for turning passive bystanders into active bystanders, further information about the impact bystander behaviors can have in bullying situations; and suggestions for what kids can do proactively to help stop bullying from happening in the first place.
Coinciding with the campaign will be on-air and online reporting on CNN, HLN, CNN.com and CNN Student News to augment the country's awareness of bullying prevention issues through a series of editorial reports. Projected news stories will cover such issues as its psychological affects on children and families, its presence both on school campuses and on popular social websites, and political issues involving state mandated response from teachers and other authorities when bullying reports are filed. CNN's award-winning iReport, where people take part in the news with CNN, also will be collecting first-hand stories around the country this summer from victims and/or witnesses of bullying scenes describing what happened and how they responded to the situation.
About Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (CartoonNetwork.com), currently seen in more than 97 million U.S. homes and 166 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s ad-supported cable service now available in HD offering the best in original, acquired and classic entertainment for kids and families. Nightly from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., Cartoon Network shares its channel space with Adult Swim, a late-night destination showcasing original and acquired entertainment for young adults 18-34. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.
About the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services & Health Resources and Services Administration
The Health Resources and Services Administration is part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. HRSA is the primary federal agency responsible for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. For more information about HRSA and its programs, visit www.hrsa.gov.
About CNN
CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world's most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.


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Mac Pro
Brand | Apple |
Model | Mac Pro |
Processor | 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 |
Colour | Black |
Condition | Refurbished |
Grade | Enquire |
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Refurbished Apple Mac Pro
- Originally released December 2013
- 3.5GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5
- 16GB memory
- 512GB PCIe-based flash storage
- Dual AMD FirePro D500 3GB RAM
- 1 Year Warranty
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Mac Pro is the professional desktop computer reinvented from the inside out. Arranging the most advanced technologies available around a unified thermal core allowed us to make this the most powerful and expandable Mac ever, yet also unbelievably compact and quiet.
Dual workstation-class GPUs.
Mac Pro comes as standard with two workstation-class AMD FirePro graphics cards, enabling powerful GPU-based visualisation and compute capabilities in every system. Both GPUs are connected internally via x16 PCI Express gen 3 lanes for massive bandwidth. The FirePro GPUs in Mac Pro enable video output through both the Thunderbolt 2 ports and the HDMI 1.4 port, enabling you to connect up to three 4K displays or up to six Apple Thunderbolt Displays.
Every component in the new Mac Pro is optimised for performance. That includes a four-channel DDR3 memory controller running at 1866MHz. It supports up to 64GB of memory and delivers up to 60 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which means you can fly through even the most computer-intensive tasks in no time. And since it's ECC memory, your render job, video export or simulation won't be stopped by transient memory errors.
Powerful multicore processors.
The new Mac Pro features the latest Intel Xeon E5 processor, with up to 12-core processing power and a four-channel memory controller providing up to 60 GB/s of memory bandwidth, all on a single die. And with 40 lanes of PCI Express gen 3 throughput, up to 30MB of L3 cache and over 500 gigaflops at peak performance, you'll never be at a loss for speed.
Faster PCIe-based flash storage.
There's flash storage, and then there's next-generation PCIe-based flash storage. We're talking storage that's up to 2.4 times faster than the fastest SATA-based solid-state drive and up to 10 times faster than a 7200-rpm SATA hard drive. Most flash storage systems connect via SATA buses designed for slower-spinning hard drives. But we designed the new Mac Pro around new PCIe-based flash controller technology to deliver the fastest solid-state drives available as standard in a desktop computer.
Thunderbolt 2.
Thunderbolt combines PCI Express and DisplayPort into one high-speed, versatile I/O technology. And with Mac Pro, we're jumping even further ahead. Thunderbolt 2 delivers twice the throughput, providing up to 20 Gb/s of bandwidth to each external device. So you're more than ready for the next generation of high-performance peripherals, without being limited by the number of expansion slots inside your computer. You can connect massive amounts of storage, add a PCI expansion chassis and work with the latest external displays — including 4K desktop displays and peripheral devices capable of broadcast monitoring in 4K. And since each Thunderbolt 2 port allows you to daisy-chain up to six peripherals, you can go all out by plugging in up to 36 external devices via Thunderbolt 2 alone.
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What is now Columbia International University exists because of the power of prayer. Thanks to the prayers of a Sunday school teacher and her friends, CIU has been a catalyst for preparing students for ministry and missions.
The Power of Prayer
Emily Dick – concerned for the spiritual needs of Columbia's mill workers and their families – attended Moody Bible Institute in 1913 to better learn Scripture. Five years later and now back home; she and her circle of six other "praying women" saw their dream of a local Bible school come true. The man of God who would lead the new work was Robert C. McQuilkin, CIU's first president.
"What a mighty power for missions and for soul-winning evangelism the school may be!"
When Classes Began
The school began classes in the fall of 1922 in rented rooms at the former Colonia Hotel in downtown Columbia and at the YMCA, and officially became Columbia Bible School in 1923. Two hotel rooms served as the classroom and the office, and the hotel's sunroom was used for popular Friday evening classes open to the public.
The School's Name
In 1929, the school's name changed to Columbia Bible College and six years later, the school began offering graduate courses. The college moved to its current location on Monticello Road in 1960 and the name was changed again in 1994 to Columbia International University.
Quick Facts
The Basics
- Founded: 1923
- Location: Columbia, South Carolina
- Our motto: "To Know Him and to Make Him Known."
- Religious Affiliation: Multidenominational
- School Colors: Blue & Gold
- Mascot: Ram
Student Body
- 2,273 students
- 51/49 male/female ratio
- Undergraduate student body is 65.9% Caucasian, 19.6% African-American, 4.2% international.
- Seminary/Graduate student body is 33.4% Caucasian, 14.1% African-American, 22.7% international
- More than 70 undergraduate majors, graduate and seminary programs, professional certificates, and convenient online programs for working adults
- CIU offers degree and certificate programs
- Accreditation from SACSCOC, ABHE and ATS.
- 16:1 student to professor ratio
- Average class size:18
- Consistently ranked a Top Southern Regional University by U.S. News & World Report
- A top Best Value University in the South by U.S. News & World Report
- A Best College for Veterans in the South by U.S. News & World Report
- Ranked #5 for Social Mobility in the South (among the best in making sure a student succeeds) by U.S. News & World Report


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You will not find this education at you brokers how to section. Most likely you will not find this information anywhere on this book section on any other book store. I have paid thousands of dollars on exclusive groups and paid forums to collect the information presented in this book. As you can imagine these are the highly guarded secrets of the elite of the FOREX traders, no one gives their living away, unless you pay them a price worth their living. However I have decided to make this information for ridiculously low price, because I am fed up with the brokers and the big banks taking advantage of the regular retail trader. Let me ask you a question? When was the last time you make money with FOREX? Even further more how much money you are willing to lose, until you give up? How long you will continue to give your hard earned money to the broker?
Just like you I started 5 years ago with high hopes of quitting my job and leaving the live I deserve with FOREX. My hopes and aspirations were quickly crashed and my dreams went to the dump. First I lost 1000, then 5000, 10k , how much longer I could continue like that, how much longer I could endure the ridicule the jokes of my family and the frown on the face of my wife. It was painful, sitting all day in front of the computer, until you can't see any longer and everything including the platform and your mind become blurry. I know the pain I have been there. This continued for year, until one morning I was ready to quit, I was going to give it a last try and throw that FOREX staff in the garbage, out the window.
I stumbled on a rear tread, which since then has been banned, by the broker that was holding the forum. Luckily the tread continued under the broker's radar for while, and gathered a bunch of comments an support. Finally the tread from the trader X was discontinued. I was in dis pare, that was the only hope and light, I have seen for a long time. I was applying the advice from the trade and things were starting to work for me. Fortunately I was able to PM the trader and begged him to agree on a 20 min conversation on the phone. Trader X was not a guru, not your regular internet promoter mojo. He was quietly raking in thousands of dollars a month for years, he was not excited about the next trade, his heart beat was not raising before he pooled the trigger. See, he has been doing this trading staff for so long it has become a boring procedure, rather a morning an afternoon chore, something like putting the garbage out on garbage day. He explained that he learned from the MASTER, I did not proceed to ask him who was the MASTER, since I mainly was concerned with him teaching him every little bit of what he knew about trading. He didn't not agree to spend time teaching me on our first conversation, regardless of how much I offered to pay him. See, for him money was not a issue. Finally on my third approach he agreed to show me what the MASTER had thought him many years ago. What is comprised in the pages of this book will be worth pure gold to you.
This book is down to the ground no no sense, real trading knowledge. It gives step by step instructions with real trade examples. This book is not your regular hog wash advice that you will find from your broker and the other magic bullets and seven step series that you see on this site. This book teaches you how to trade like the pros. Shows you how the big banks and foreign nationals and institution trade. The book opens your eyes to how to piggy back on the big institutional traders and win. Ninety Five percent of the people that trade the Forex market lose money and give up. The market is continually replaced by fresh blood like yourself. Don't become part of the statistics, read this book and get a map to success in FOREX. You can make a success in FOREX if you know what you are doing. Yes you can make a living with FOREX and quit your job. You can achieve your dreams. Buy this book and find out How?
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The City Record and Boston News-Letter Christmas Tree, December, 2006.
I'd like to wish all of my readers a happy and joyous holiday season.
City Record readers are invited to a Christmas Eve Service at First Parish Church in Dorchester (Unitarian Universalist), 6 P.M. This will be a singing and readings service in a classic New England meeting house. There will be instrumentalists: guitar with the choir on "What Child Is This", flute accompanying "Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella" and a candlelit "Silent Night". There will be cookies and hot chocolate to follow and I will be giving tours talking about the history of First Parish Church. Children and welcome and encouraged.
Did you know that Unitarians had an important role in popularizing Christmas in the mid-19th century? I'll be happy to tell you all about it, as well as Puritan attitudes towards Christmas. As is oft repeated at this time of year, Massachusetts Puritans outlawed Christmas celebrations in 1658, passing an order "For preventing disorders arising in several places within this jurisdiction, by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other countrys, it is therefore ordered by this Court and authority thereof, that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labour, feasting, or any other way, upon such accounts as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shillings, as a fine to the county."
Map to First Parish Church in Dorchester.
As a gift to my readers, I am making available the file to produce the map seen below, which is one of my favorite maps of downtown Boston from the late 1800s. The file is rather large (around 2 MB) but you can click and download it to your computer and print it or simply open it up in your favorite image viewer. The resolution is high enough to support some close viewing, so be sure to use the zoom function to discover long gone streets and buildings! I will post the file until my bandwidth is exhausted and if that happens, I will email the file to those requesting it.
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BARCELONA, Spain – Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the 73rd minute to send Barcelona to its first loss in 55 home games and put Real Madrid on the cusp of breaking the Catalan giants' three-year hold on the Spanish league crown with a 2-1 win Saturday.
Sami Khedira opened the scoring in the 17th minute with Madrid's league-record 108th goal of the season. Ronaldo sealed the victory with his league-record 42nd goal moments after Alexis Sanchez tied it for Barcelona.
Madrid's 19th league game without a loss lifted it seven points ahead of Barcelona at the top of the standings with four rounds to go.
"This was a crucial step forward, now we have to finish it off," Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso said. "We barely suffered. We controlled the game to perfection."
After managing only a single win in nine previous games against Barcelona since joining Madrid, coach Jose Mourinho finally guided his team to a long-coveted victory in this stadium.
This was Madrid's first victory at Camp Nou since 2007 and Mourinho's first career win in the stadium in 10 visits with three different teams. Barcelona's previous home defeat was 2-0 to Hercules on Sept. 11, 2010.
The game had been hyped as a duel between Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Madrid's Ronaldo, but this time the Portugal forward came out on top and moved one goal ahead of his Argentine rival in their duel to see who is the top all-time scorer in a single Spanish league season. Messi's usual incursions through the middle were bottled up by Madrid's disciplined defense.
"Those of us who work with (Ronaldo) every day are not surprised at him coming through in the key moments," said Madrid assistant coach Aitor Karanka, who spoke in place of Mourinho. "For me, he is the best player in the world."
With the score suddenly even and the crowd roaring, Ronaldo showed again that Madrid is one of the best counterattacking clubs in Europe. He used his speed to race free and beat goalkeeper Victor Valdes with little angle from the right flank.
Madrid went ahead in the first half after a pair of defensive errors by Barcelona, and Khedira poked the ball across the line to silence the home crowd. Madrid broke the league record the club had set with 107 goals in the 1989-90 season.


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VIDEO: Brawling Senior Citizens, Kapp And Mosca, At Football Reunion
Five days later, video of two 70-plus year old guys trading blows on stage during a Canadian Football League alumni luncheon in Vancouver is still getting clicks and still drawing lots of attention from the cable news networks, blogs and websites.
In case you haven't heard, as The Vancouver Sun explained, it seems that former quarterback Joe Kapp and long-retired defensive lineman Angelo Mosca still don't seem to like each other very much.
Kapp, who would go on to quarterback the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL, played for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian league in the early '60s. Mosca was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. In the 1963 Grey Cup game (the league's championship), Hamilton beat B.C. 21-10 and Mosca became famous (or infamous) for what his rivals say was a late hit on Lions running back Willie Fleming.
Friday at the reunion, the pugnacious Kapp tried to give the equally feisty Mosca some flowers. Mosca didn't like them being waved in his face. He swatted at Kapp's hand. Kapp slapped Mosca's arm. Mosca started swinging his cane. And then things really got wild, with Kapp punching Mosca in the face — sending Mosca tumbling.
There are many copies of the video on the Web. Here's the most-viewed as of now. Note: Mosca does tell Kapp where he can put the flowers, and as you can imagine it's not a vase. So if you don't want to hear a common expletive, don't click play.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that Kapp says he apologized to Mosca afterward and says he's not proud of what happened. "I did not start it," Kapp told the newspaper. "I never started a fight in my life. Quarterbacks are supposed to be smarter than that. And I didn't start this one."
From Hamilton, though, TheSpec.com quotes Mosca as saying Kapp was needling him well before the fight. Prior to the luncheon, according to Mosca, "I said 'how are you doing?' He says 'go (expletive) yourself.' "


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"If you want an increase, you must ask for it. And the way you ask is by building a case, as a lawyer would build a case, for your getting the amount that you want to receive. Instead of saying that you need more money, as most people do, you have a different strategy. You put together a list of the jobs that you are now doing and the additional experience and skills you have developed. Show the financial impact of your work on the overall operations of the company and the contribution that you are making as a top employee….."
The techniques listed below are used by the highest-paid and most successful people in our society to get paid more money for what they do and get promoted faster to higher levels of authority and responsibility.
When you begin to use them yourself, you put your entire life and career onto the fast track. You will make more progress in the next couple of years than the average person makes in 10 or 20 years. Here are 7 ways to get started:
1. Find a High-Growth Industry
You can make more progress toward getting paid more and getting promoted faster in a couple of years in a high-growth industry than you might in five or 10 years in a slow-growth industry.
Once you have identified a high-growth industry, do your homework. Research and find out what companies in that industry are growing the most rapidly. Remember, 20 percent of the companies in any industry make 80 percent of the profits. They have better leadership, better products and services, better technology, and a better future. These are the companies where you want to work.
2. Select the Right Boss
Choosing the right boss is one of the most important decisions that you ever make. It can accelerate your career and enable you get paid more and promoted faster than almost anything else you do.
You should look upon accepting a job as if you were entering into a marriage, with your boss as your spouse. He or she is going to have an enormous impact on how much you get paid, how much you enjoy your work, how rapidly you get promoted, and every other part of your work life.
When you are looking for a job, you should interview your potential boss carefully to make sure that he or she is the kind of person you would enjoy working with and for. This should be someone whom you would respect and look up to, someone who is friendly and supportive and on whom you can depend to help you move ahead as rapidly as possible. Whenever possible, you should talk to other people who work for that boss.
3. Develop a Positive Attitude
"A person with a positive attitude looks for the good in every person and every situation. He or she looks for something positive or humorous. The positive person tends to be constructive rather than destructive. And the good news is that a positive attitude is something that you can learn by practicing it, every single day, especially when it is most needed."
Fully 85 percent of your success in work, no matter how intelligent or skilled you are, is going to be determined by your attitude and your personality. Your overall success, how much you are paid, and how fast you are promoted will be largely determined by how much people like you and want to help you.
Research shows that a positive, cheerful person is more likely to be paid more and promoted faster. This kind of person is more readily noticed by superiors who can accelerate his or her career. In addition, a positive person is supported by his or her coworkers and staff. There seems to be an upward pressure from his or her peers that drives a positive person forward at a faster rate.
The critical determinant of a positive attitude is how well you function under stress. Anyone can be positive when things are going well. But it is when you face difficulties and setbacks that you demonstrate to yourself and to everyone else what you are really made of. You've heard it said that "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
4. Create a Positive Image
It is absolutely amazing how many people are held back, year after year, because no one has ever taken them aside and told them how important their external appearance is to getting paid what they are truly worth.
The first rule is that you should always dress for success in your job and in your company. Look at the top people in your industry. Look at the top people in your company. Look at the pictures in newspapers and magazines of the men and women who are being promoted to positions of higher responsibility and pay. Pattern yourself after the leaders, not the followers.
5. Start Earlier, Work Harder, and Stay Later
Develop a workaholic mentality. There is nothing that will bring you to the attention of the important people in your work life faster than for you to get a reputation as a hard, hard worker.
Everybody knows who the hard workers are in every business. The hardest workers are always the most respected in any company of value. They are always paid more and promoted faster for a very simple reason: They are more productive. They get more work done in a shorter period of time. They are more valuable to the company. They set a better example, and are the kind of people bosses are proud of and want to keep more than anyone else.
The rule is that two extra hours of work each day are all you really need to invest to become one of the most successful people of your generation. You can get these extra two hours by coming in an hour earlier and staying an hour later. In most cases, this will expand your day slightly but it will expand your career tremendously.
The top people in every field work more hours than the average people. In fact, the top 10 percent of money-earners in the United States work 50 to 60 hours per week. In addition, remember that they work all the time they work. They do not waste time. When they arrive at work early, they immediately start in on important tasks.
This must be your goal as well. Work all the time you work. Do not play on the computer all day, make personal phone calls, read the newspaper, or chat about the latest football game or television program. The average person today works at less than 50 percent of capacity. Only about 5 percent of people in the world of work today actually work the whole time. Everyone else is functioning somewhere below their potential, in many cases far, far below.
6. Push to the Front
One of the most important ways to come out ahead is for you to continually ask for more responsibility. Volunteer for every assignment. Go to your boss at least once every week and ask him or her for more responsibility.
Most people in the world of work do only what is asked of them. But this is not for you. Your job is to keep asking for more, and, whenever you are given a new responsibility, to fulfill it quickly and well. Remember: You want to develop a reputation for being the kind of person who is given the responsibility whenever someone wants to get something done quickly.
Do you want a promotion? Getting one is very much under your control. The fact is that you promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility. You will eventually rise to the level of the responsibility you are willing to accept. There are no limits. And there are fewer things more important in helping you get paid what you're really worth than for you to develop a reputation for speed and dependability. Be the kind of person your boss can count on to get the job done fast. Whatever it takes, treat every assignment you receive as if it were a test upon which your future career depended.
A young man in a large company told me this story: One year he volunteered to head up the United Way campaign in his company. All of the other managers had avoided this responsibility because it was so time-consuming. As a result of the success of the campaign, the president of the company was given a special award and was written up in the newspapers as one of the top executives in the community. Within six months after the campaign ended, this young man had been promoted twice.
7. Ask for What You Want
This is one of the most important success principles you will ever learn to help put your career onto the fast track: The future belongs to the askers. The future does not belong to those people who sit back, wishing and hoping that their lives and their work will become better. The future belongs to those people who step up and ask for what they want. If they don't get it, they ask again and again until they do.
Present this information to your boss, in writing, and tell him or her that, based on all of this, you would like an increase of a specific amount of money per month and per year. In many cases, you will get the increase simply by asking for it in an intelligent way. In some cases you will get less than you requested. If this happens, ask what you will have to do to get the rest of the increase that you asked for.
If your request for an increase is turned down, ask exactly what you will have to do to get the increase you requested at a later time and exactly when that increase will be payable. Be specific. Be clear.
And don't be afraid to ask.
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Runaway Golf Cart At Cowboys Stadium Makes Best Tackle Of The Day [VIDEO]
A Cowboys Stadium sideline cart made a break for it this past Saturday and plowed into a group of people on the field following a Texas 5A Division II game.
Fox Sports Southwest caught the entire accident on video as the cart crashed through a group of coaches and field staff during a celebration of Spring Dekaney High's 34-14 win over Cibolo Steele.
Seven of the men hit by the cart were treated for minor injuries. One suffered some leg abrasions and was brought to a hospital as a "precautionary examination."
We're glad that no one was seriously injured but it's hard to ignore the fact that this is the most dynamic rushing display at Cowboys Stadium this season.
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The unquenchable fire in Burmese hearts
| New York
Eleven hundred years and counting. That's the cumulative time in prison sentences given last month to a handful of people expressing political dissent in Burma(Myanmar).
The news gives me particular pain.
In August 2007, the Burmese regime eliminated fuel subsidies, causing the price to rise by 500 percent. Food costs spiked enormously overnight. A few weeks later, Buddhist monks took to the streets in nonviolent protest and many of them were shot or beaten by the junta. Understanding the significance of these events, I felt compelled to visit so I could bear witness.
What struck me as much as the horror of their stories was the fact that the Burmese people were willing to tell them. This was in stark contrast to my previous trip in 2004, when no one dared to speak about anything remotely political. Now, emboldened by the world's gaze, there was the hope that by sharing their stories they might keep that window of attention cracked open a little longer.
Much of what I learned, I heard from taxi drivers, flower vendors, waiters, students, housekeepers. Our conversations posed a difficult riddle: Each time I let anyone confide in me, I potentially endangered them. As one of the few white faces to arrive in Rangoon, just postprotests, there was strong reason to believe I was being watched.
Yet despite my caution, it seems I was sought out everywhere I went – people felt the need to express themselves at last. Behind closed doors with the shades pulled down and the music turned up, I sat with a group of students cross-legged on the floor. I pressed them before we began, "Are you sure you want to speak?"
Aung Soe (not his real name), a slender man in his mid-20s, jumped at the question. He shook his fist in the air.
"If we don't talk to you maybe we are cowards. I was downtown where the monks were shot just outside our Sule Pagoda. I was marching, too. In some ways it was the best day of my life. They can't take that away from me. From now on I speak the fire in my heart!"
By the time I returned home in November 2007, Burma had faded fast from the news.
Then, tragically, cyclone Nargis hit this past May and again the troubled nation held the world's attention. Yet despite repeat visits by UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambiri, negotiations with the junta's generals have been a dismal failure.
Today, the sentencing in Burma reads like ticker tape: 65 years, 45 years, 20 years, 2.5 years, 12 years, 14 years, extending its reach beyond the "Generation 88" student activists (leaders of the 1988 protests against the junta that resulted in thousands of deaths) to include comedians, poets, bloggers, even a rap star.
It is my belief that the Burmese with "fire" in their hearts will continue to speak out and plan further protests despite the terrible price it is exacting. Yet the success of their sacrifices seems tragically compromised as long as there are countries that support the junta's oppressive regime by selling it weapons. That's why these three actions must be taken:
•First, the US Senate must immediately confirm Michael Green to fill the newly created position of Special Envoy to Burma. Having a regional specialist installed in a dedicated post will bring focus to what has been a largely uncoordinated effort by advocacy, human rights, and UN groups.
•Second, the US delegation to the UN Security Council must pressure China, India, and Russia to uphold the arms embargo against Burma that is already observed by the European Union and the US.
•Third, we will all need to press President-elect Obama and his future administration to honor the platform that he ran on, which included strong support for human rights.
Just a month ago at the UN, 147 states voted to move forward on the creation of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Only the US and Zimbabwe voted against it. The US must not only reverse its vote but also work to ensure that the ATT includes language curbing arms sales to countries that commit egregious human rights violations against their own people. This would be a giant step forward in honoring Mr. Obama's commitment and would reassert America's role as a leader in the promotion of human rights.
By taking these steps, we could begin to usher in change for the people that, in the words of Mr. Green, "languish in the shadows as the rest of the world concentrates its energies elsewhere."
And we could satisfy the plea of my own Burmese friends, one of whom implored: "Please, Sister, do not let the world forget us." As Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate, once said: "Please use your freedom to promote ours."
• Karen Zusman is a New York-based writer who travels to Burma as a student of Theravadan Buddhism.


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Fat Is Beautiful
by Crystal Hartman Author
Thoughts, articles, and reprints about America's fat-phobic, sizism, and pointing us toward fat acceptance. A beautiful jumping off point for those interested in the subject—articles from Marilyn Wann about embracing yourself and reclaiming the word fat, personal health, some thoughts about the learning (and unlearning) processes of fat acceptance, numerous surprising facts, historical quotes about fatness, as well as an excerpt from Nomy Lamm's Big Fat Revolution, and information about fat women being more likely to enjoy sex even! A fat liberation manifesto! Statistics of fat women based on their class background! There is a true wealth of information on the subject and Crystal promises there is even more on the way! Let us unlearn our media-induced responses to fatness! Uplifting and empowering.
Comments & Reviews
- Allison Tunis 1/30/2019
I received this in the Body Love subscription box recently, and loved it so much that I ordered 3 more copies for the community centre I volunteer for. this is a super compilation of thoughts, art, articles, and resources and is great to show people who are new to Fat Activism. Thanks for making this and sharing it with the world!
- katlyn 2/17/2008
Julian, I noticed that a lot of what you've said about overweight people also applies to people who are a "normal" weight. The vast majority of people in America, thin or fat, have a poor diet that consists of a lot of junk food with high calorie intake. I think you don't understand the problem our society has when associating body type with health. To us, thin = healthy and fat = unhealthy. But common sense should tell you that many thin people have poor diets, usually eating high-fat foods with not enough fruits and vegetables. I have a friend who is probably a size 1 in jeans, but her diet consists of pizza, soda, cookies, chocolate and not much else. I know many overweight, or "obese", people who eat much healthier than she does AND exercise. That is what fat-positive activism tries to make clear and that people of all sizes should be respected. There's a lot you can do to keep people healthy without dissing fat people.
- fat & beautiful 4/18/2007
Of course some fat people are unhealthy, people of all sizes can be unhealthy, but fat in and of itself is NOT unhealthy. Misconceptions about fat (such as written in the comment by Julian) are exactly why this zine is so important. There has been more recent research proving that fat is not unhealthy and many health problems originally thought to stem from fat - actually are caused by dieting and eating disorders. You should read this zine before you decide to criticize it.
- Julian S. 3/25/2007
I take issue with the fat-centered activism that is gaining in popularity as the worlds waist band grows. I feel it necessary to preface this comment with the fact that three years ago I was an unhealthy 350 pounds and lost that through excersize to find myself to be a happy 179.
While I agree that their is a problem in the way the public views size, and that the rail thin beauty standard is ludicruous. But to embrace an obese or even overweight body beauty standard is just as ludicruous. As well as just as unhealthy.
I understand that there is a small percentage of people who suffer from glandular issues, but the vast majority of people do not. These people eat poor diets of trash and nutrient devoid food and food substitutes. Or, if not diets stated as such, they eat entirely too much with calorie intake at astronomical proportions with little to no excersize. This is unhealthy.
The health care costs of people who are overweight to obese are astronomical, as these people pay more for health care for health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and stroke. In the U.S., doctors' visits, hospital visits, medicine, and other health care treatments related to being obese and/or overwieght cost $51.6 billion in 1995. So, an anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist activist or theorist has to come to terms with the idea of perpetuating the division of labor that is the health care industry.
On average, obese people had $585 in prescription costs for a year, compared with $333 for non-obese people. (1995 statistics) People found to be obese are more likely to be hospitalized, and at younger ages. Their hospital stays tend to last about as long as those of non-obese people however obese people had an 80% higher chance of having a claim for professional services (like doctor visits).
I believe that heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and stroke are not beautiful, regardless of the inner beauty found in these people.
I find the fat-as-beautiful movement to be a reaction to the low self esteem of people suffering from from obesity, and in despiration they wish to feel at ease with their bodies.
Shapely people are wonderful. If that is healthy for them and their bodies. I am a proponent of the idea that Healthy Is Beautiful.
I have not read this zine, but I have read items like this.
- jessaruh 6/2/2006
I loved this zine, and I'm not afraid to say so. I really hope another issue comes out soon.
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It may have taken a little bit of prodding — a little 'you-want-me-to-do-what?' and a lot of faith — but in the end, Congressman John Lewis agreed to go along with staffer Andrew Aydin's out-of-the-box idea. The result: March (Book 1) — the first of a three-part graphic novel autobiography chronicling Lewis' life and the Civil Rights Movement.
"The story of the movement that we tell is very much John Lewis' story in this first book," Aydin said. "It is a story of him growing up poor, on a farm, and it builds to a climax of the national sit-in movement."
Lewis certainly has a lot to tell. He and other activists famously were beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965 during an attempted march for voting rights — an event that became known as "Bloody Sunday." He served as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the height of the movement, spoke at the historic March on Washington alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Aydin, who co-wrote the book with Congressman Lewis, and illustrator Nate Powell sat down with Sojourners to explain how the series came about and why it is such an important story these 50 years later.
The book has already received advance praise from President Bill Clinton, who noted the historical significance of the story:
I'm so pleased that [Lewis] is sharing his memories of the Civil Rights Movement with America's young leaders. In March, he brings a whole new generation with him across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.
The book releases on Aug. 13, about two weeks before the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
Aydin and Powell recently accompanied Lewis on the Faith and Politics Institute's Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama, where the pair was able to immerse in the movement's scene. There, they heard first-hand accounts from civil rights luminaries, witnessed the Chief of the Montgomery Police Department apologize to Lewis on behalf of the department, marched with Lewis and Vice President Joe Biden across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and toured historic sites like King's parsonage.
"I guess one of the most powerful experiences I was having in relation to his story and to the script was just the reality check — was that 10 or 15 years separating our lifetimes is nothing," Powell said.
Now a whole new generation — and a new demographic of graphic novel enthusiasts — has access to the Civil Rights story.
"I know that [Lewis] won't be around forever, but I hope these stories are because they should never be lost. They're too important to our society, for our culture, and to our nation's identity," Aydin said.
Sandi Villarreal is Web Editor & Director of Online Media for Sojourners. Brandon Hook is Online Assistant for Sojourners.
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Today much-lauded German bass maker Warwick has announced two new models, one of which we got our first glimpse of at NAMM in January. Check out the press release below for full details.
PRESS RELEASE: Warwick Basses' long-standing reputation for innovation of musical excellence continues to grow with this year's launch of the Starbass II Single Cut and the upgraded Thumb Bolt On Bubinga.
The new designs are proof of their unwavering triumphs in consistently producing groundbreaking and quality instruments.
Starbass II Single Cut Special Tigerwood
Introducing the Starbass II Single Cut Special Tigerwood. Made of a unique wood grown from the Etimoe species, Special Tigerwood is a growth defect that gives the unrivalled instrument a one-of-a-kind texture. The new model is built from red-brown heartwood with dark green veins running through it.
This eye-catching and tonally exquisite wood is extremely limited; in fact so rare it is never to be restocked. The Starbass II Single Cut will also be made from Flamed Maple.
"We take pride in our meticulous attention to detail," says Warwick's Vice President, US, Deborah Malave. "The striking wood selection fused with the vintage look, and the modern features create a one-of-a-kind instrument."
The hollow body bass model comes loaded with MEC Passive humbuckers instead of the single coils used on the Starbass II. Whether in Flamed Maple or with the look and sound of the Special Tigerwood, this edition will be one of Warwick's most sought after instruments.
Thumb Bolt-On Bubinga
How do you improve on the most popular bass and work of art in Warwick's 28-year history? Rather than try, Warwick has designed an alternative version of the Thumb Bolt-On, replacing the Ovangkol wood body with the beauty of Bubinga.
Thanks to Warwick this tight-grained, bold tonal wood, once ignored by luthiers, is now getting the justice it deserves.
Known for its distinguished and full-bodied sound, the Thumb's quintessential design has become a symbol of the company's celebrated craftsmanship. For the deepest growl, Warwick fashioned a Ovangkol neck to compliment the body. The guitar is bolstered by MEC's Active J/J pickups so every exquisite tone is channelled through your amplifier.
Now, with the look, feel and sound of the rich Bubinga wood, the Thumb's legacy is reborn and its name continues to resonate around the world, reaffirming that drastic design changes can't compete with the sound of wood.
"While the new version is closer to its big brother, it offers its own distinct sound," affirms Deborah Malave.
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The Stones of Fossa
The stone structures of England and France are very famous. But, one can also find stone rings, tombs, and dolmen structures in present-day Italy. One such megalithic structure is a site in Fossa, Abruzzo. At the Fossa site, you'll find Menhir or upright stones. The stones are arranged in circles and straight lines. They are also arranged in terms of height, from largest to smallest, so that the line of stones looks like a descending staircase.These megalithic structures were likely put into place by the ancient Vestini tribe somewhere between 1,000 - 800 B.C. This period is considered the early Iron age.
Archeologists have found human bones at this site leading them to think it was used as a burial ground for the Vestini tribe. The stone slabs that are set in straight lines are aligned East to West. Some think that this alignment might have been both astronomical and religious. These ancient people would have seen the Sun cycle over and over again, with the Sun rising in the East and setting in the West. If these people believed in a sort of after life or reincarnation they would have hoped for a similar cycling of human soul as they buried people here. And so we see that these people might have related their culture and religion to the movements of the Sun in the sky.
Besides human bones, archeologists also found pottery, bronze vases, weapons and ornaments. These artifacts were probably buried with the original owners upon their death.


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Something strange is happening to the oceans. As coral reefs wither and fisheries collapse, octopuses are multiplying like mad. As soon as they perceive weakness, they will amass an army and invade the land, too.
Giant Australian cuttlefish (Sepia apama). Image: Wildlife Photographer Scott Portelli
OK, that last statement is probably pure paranoia. But it is a bit unsettling that cephalopods — squids, octopuses, cuttlefish — are booming, and scientists don't know why. An analysis published today in Current Biology indicates that numerous species across the world's oceans have increased in numbers since the 1950s.
"The consistency was the biggest surprise," said lead study author Zoë Doubleday of the University of Adelaide. "Cephalopods are notoriously variable, and population abundance can fluctuate wildly, both within and among species."
It was one such wild fluctuation that inspired the new study. A few years back, the giant Australian cuttlefish, pictured above, experienced a sudden and dramatic population crash. "They almost disappeared completely," Doubleday told Gizmodo, adding that one of her co-authors had the idea to look at boom-bust cycles across other cephalopod populations to see if there were any patterns. "We didn't know how much data would be out there, but we managed to get quite a bit together," Doubleday said.
Pulling together fishery data and previous scientific surveys, the team managed to assemble a time series of population information on 35 species or genera of cephalopods, spanning all major ocean regions from 1953 to 2013. While there was substantial year-to-year variability, and a small number of species declined, overall, many cephalopod populations in many parts of the ocean have increased in numbers. (The giant Australian cuttlefish has also begun to recover.)
So, why are cephalopods kicking butt when pretty much everything else in the oceans is dying? Doubleday and her co-authors are still investigating, but they suspect it has to do with rapid population turnover rates. "Cephalopods tend to boom and bust — they're called the weeds of the sea," Doubleday said. "If environmental conditions are good, they can rapidly exploit those conditions because they grow so fast."
One reason environmental conditions might have improved is that humans are picking off cephalopods' main competitors — predatory fish. Other large-scale changes like global warming could also be playing a role. "I don't think it's any one single factor," Doubleday said. "But something's changing on quite a large scale that's giving cephalopods an edge."
As the oceans continue to change, the long-term fate of all marine organisms remains uncertain. For instance, early laboratory evidence suggests that ocean acidification might impair the development of some cephalopods. And as squid and octopuses become a larger part of human diets, we're harvesting more cephalopods from the sea than ever before.
Another strange possibility is that cephalopods will become too weedy and run out of food. If that happens? "They're highly cannibalistic — they might start eating each other if they overgrow," Doubleday said.
In short, it's too early to predict whether octopuses will continue to boom or whether the oceans will devolve into a frenzied cannibalism fest. Still, if an intelligent race of tentacled underwater beings winds up outmanoeuvring us and taking over the planet, we can't say there weren't warning signs.


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The email then links to a website designed to look like TV Licensing's own website with a form for victims to enter their details. In reality the website has been set up to look authentic but the form steal victim's bank details, giving the fraudsters the chance to steal the victim's savings.
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NEW YORK -- The District of Columbia's online health insurance exchange -- one of 51 set up under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law -- will be unable to perform two key functions when it opens on Oct. 1, exchange officials announced on Wednesday.
The District joins Colorado and Oregon on the list of "Obamacare" exchanges hobbled by problems with information technology (IT), contributing to expectations that Obama's signature domestic achievement will get off to a slow start when the exchanges go live next Tuesday.
The "DC Health Link" web-based marketplace, where residents of the nation's capital who do not have other coverage will be able to purchase policies, will lack the ability to calculate whether someone is eligible for Medicaid. It will also be unable to calculate the size of federal subsidies, if any, that a customer qualifies for.
Although numerous online tools created by nonprofit and other groups have offered subsidy calculators for months, "calculating subsidies for real is admittedly more complicated," said one expert. "For example, you have to make sure the family isn't eligible for Medicaid, and you have to collect more detail about their income. That said, I am frankly a little mystified why they couldn't get this right in time."
Under the law, someone whose income is less than four times the federal poverty level, or $45,960 for an individual and $110,280 for a family of five, can receive federal subsidies in the form of tax credits to defray the cost of monthly insurance premiums.
Subsidies are key to making the policies fit the budgets of many uninsured Americans, a primary goal of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Without subsidies, sticker prices for an individual average $328 but can reach hundreds of dollars higher. But with them, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, an estimated 6.4 million people will be able to purchase policies for less than $100 per month.
Not being able to learn how much of a subsidy one qualifies for could therefore be a significant deterrent to applying for coverage.
"DC Health Link is not currently deploying the function that makes new Medicaid eligibility determinations and calculates tax credits," Mila Kofman, executive director of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, said in a statement. The reason, she said, is "a high error rate discovered through extensive systems testing."
People who might qualify for Medicaid coverage or tax credits will be able to submit an online application for coverage if they are willing to do so without knowing what they'll be paying. Experts will determine their eligibility off-line and applicants will be notified in early November, Kofman said.
Her statement emphasized that DC Health Link "will open for business October 1" and said, "We are excited to announce that ... almost all functionality is operational for individual consumers." Only two sentences buried in the nearly 800-word statement mentioned the glitches.
D.C.'s setback is even more severe than other states'.
On Monday, employees running Connect for Health Colorado told board members that the exchange would not be able to calculate federal subsidies either, at least for the first few weeks.
Instead, Coloradoans who wish to buy a policy and learn their eligibility for subsidies will be directed to call customer service representatives, who will do the calculations manually.
Connect for Health Colorado was not "completely satisfied" with the accuracy of the tax credit calculations, said Ben Davis, an outside spokesman for the exchange. "There are 100,000 scenarios they want to test for" - combinations of income, family situation and other factors - "and it takes X amount of time. We just did not have enough time to test."
Colorado will therefore spend two more weeks testing the system "to make sure every possible scenario has been accounted for and providing an accurate response," Davis said.
Connect for Health Colorado will have 187 customer service representatives at its call centers throughout the enrollment period, which ends on March 31.
In another potential glitch, Oregon's exchange reported on Wednesday that its IT problems were causing information about policies that insurers plan to sell on Cover Oregon to appear incorrectly on a test site. As a result, crucial details such as deductibles are incorrect.
"We are in a validation process with our carriers," executive director Rocky King said.
State-based exchanges being run by the federal government reported similar display problems last month.
HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters played down the IT snafus, saying in a statement that "there will be a marketplace open in every state and D.C. on October 1, where families can comparison shop for quality, affordable health coverage."


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Siemens has been awarded a contract by New Jersey-based Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G), one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., for the design, engineering, manufacturing, installation, testing and commissioning of an indoor 230-kV, 4000-A, 80-kA gas-insulated substation (GIS) and associated gas-insulated bus (GIB). The GIS is an expansion of the existing Bergen switching station located in Ridgefield, New Jersey. The new infrastructure will help provide additional load capability and enhanced system reliability all in a small footprint. Commissioning of the substation is scheduled in stages beginning at the end of 2012 through April 2013.
"Siemens is pleased to partner with PSE&G on increasing transmission reliability to its customers in New Jersey," said Frank Petraglia, Vice President and General Manager of the High-voltage Substations business of Siemens Energy, Inc. "The compact design of the substation, coupled with minimal maintenance requirements, ensures a long service life for PSE&G." PSE&G previously contracted with Siemens for three 550-kV gas-insulated substations, one of which will begin operation in 2012.
The Siemens scope of supply includes the design, engineering, installation, testing and commissioning of the GIS and associated control and protection buildings, as well as the GIS breakers in a breaker-and-a-half arrangement. The GIS technology allows construction of a substation in a significantly reduced space compared to conventional air-insulated substations (AIS). GIS is also considered a more reliable solution with very limited maintenance and less sensitivity to potential external environmental factors. It is equipped with a state-of-the-art gas density monitoring system in order to continuously monitor SF6 density. The system's partial discharge sensors also predict potential partial discharge in the system, alerting the utility in advance of an irregularity that might trigger a maintenance operation.