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In LeslieLand:
Leslie's campaigning for sex education for seniors because of the rising STD rates in that age group. She and Ann, Donna, and Andy are role playing being old people, asking Ann their "grossest sex questions." It's nice when they remember that Ann is actually a nurse.
When meeting with the seniors, we find Pawnee's seniors think the biggest danger of sex is your partner dying during it. When Leslie begins a demonstration with a condom and a banana, one gentleman in the audience inquires, "But what do you do when the banana is soft and mushy and doglegs sharply to the left?"
Right as Donna is about to demonstrate God knows what with a cucumber, two and a half bananas, and a pineapple, Chris comes running in and puts a halt to the proceedings.
Following on his heels are two clean cut-looking people, Marcia and Marshall, the town's "morality watchdogs." They're associated with "Society for Family Stability Foundation" and they are there to assert the "abstinence only curriculum."
Ann protests that's only for schools when Chris chips in that because of the way the bill was written, actually it does apply to any government employee talking about sex education.
Marcia and Marshall are on Perd Hapley's show "Ya Heard with Perd" to talk about the abstinence education program.
Ann thinks the abstinence education program is vital, but Leslie points out that public opinion is against changing the law.
Marcia and Marshall are meeting with Ann and Leslie and are giving them their pamphlet, suggesting they start with Chapter 3: There's a Party in My Pants And You're Not Invited.
Ann challenges Leslie that parroting the abstinence-only stance is not like her, that she's "Not acting like herself." Leslie says to Ann, "Really? You want to go there?" I guess now is a good time to mention that Ann first showed up in the episode wearing a cowboy hat and fringed jacket that was a gift from her boyfriend and is now wearing a Western shirt, also a gift from the boyfriend.
Ann says, "Go where?" So Leslie explains that Ann always dresses like whatever guy she's dating. (And if I remember correctly, the wardrobe department has done exactly that over the years. Nice continuity.) When Ann sputters out a feeble reply, she notes that she's "really off her comeback game lately."
Leslie walks off in anger and then Marshall swooshes by Ann and trills, "You look like Annie Oakley and Pippi Longstocking had a baby and I love it." So, yeah, the abstinence only husband is in the closet.
In his presentation to the seniors, Marshall, who looks a tiny bit like a Ken doll from the '80s, is "rapping" while accompanying himself on a synthesizer. After Leslie tells the seniors they should wait until marriage to have sex, they rebel, even explicitly asking for the condom demonstration again.
Leslie wrestles with herself and then BACK OUT COMES THE BANANA. The scene ends with Leslie throwing condoms at the audience. Still in their packets of course; it's not like they're balloons at a political rally.
Leslie ends up getting censured by the mayor. She asks Chris, "As my boss, what should my move here be?
Chris reminds her, "Actually, Leslie you're my boss now." Leslie replies, "That's right --Why am I still weirdly scared of you?" Chris explains it's because he's very confident and makes a lot of eye contact. He recommends, as city manager, that she should formally apologize and from now on stick to the letter of the law. He then adds, "But between you and me, as your best friend, I admire what you did up there."
Before Leslie's appearance on Perd's show, she and Ann make up. Then on the show, Leslie goes off message and declares the abstinence education "old fashioned." She proclaims she will wear the censure like a badge of honor, and uses her American flag pin to affix it to her blazer.
Later, Leslie's on the phone with Ben, telling him that "They're killing me in the press." She doesn't care; she's fired up. Ben admires her spirit and offers to read the new bill she's drafting. They exchange "I love yous" and Leslie asks, "What are you wearing?" Ben, still in his office, replies, "I can't do that right now." Leslie's dirty chuckle in response is ADORABLE.
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Tom is in court because of an accident, which he caused by tweeting while driving. The judge punishes him by taking all his technological devices for a month. He builds a "real life" Pinterest board by putting square pictures on a corkboard and a fake iPhone out of paper. Ron offers to let Ted go to his remote cabin ("So far away from civilization the electric company isn't even aware there's a structure there") to cope with the loss of screens.
At the cabin, Tom's chopping wood while Ron looks in. When a splinter flies into Tom's finger, he yelps, "I got stung by the wood." He starts rattling off devices he could use to look up how to get a splinter out, while Ron calmly pulls out his pocketknife and removes the splinter. Ron wants Tom to "purge" his system of all his electronic addictions, by talking about what he does on all these things with screens.
Later, Ron and Tom are in a canoe and Tom is still talking about his web activities. Then they're walking through the woods with shotguns and Tom is still talking when Ron shoots in the air. He may or may not be actually aiming at something.
As the sun sets and Ron is starting the fire, Tom's still talking. Then later, at night, Tom is still talking when Ron finally tells him to shut up. Tom says, "But you told me to purge." Ron replies "I didn't know how much you had in your system" and declares Tom an addict and tells him he needs to change.
Tom tells the camera, away from Ron, "I've downloaded every episode of 'Intervention'; I know what to do here." Tom then gives the standard rehab line, to which Ron responds, "I'm proud of you but I'm fearful we're verging on what I call 'feelings territory.'"
Later, Ron catches Tom in his car, sending out messages on a "burner" he bought at Best Buy. Ron, exasperated, drives them back to the city.
In Ron's office, Ron asks Tom why he has to be constantly distracted. Tom explains that a lot of stuff in his life hasn't been going great (RIP Entertainment 720 and his marriage) so he'd rather play Doodlejump than think about it.
Tom is moaning at his desk about how bored he is. Ron gives him a "non-electronic book made of paper from a tree." It's a 1982 auto repair manual. He's to read it and then help Ron repair his car. He also makes Tom promise in the future that if he's talking to another human being he looks at them instead of the screen. He concludes with, "If you ever need to discuss your problems with someone, find Leslie. She lives for that crap."
In AprilVille:
In DC, when meeting their boss Congressman David Murray, April introduces herself as "April Blart, Mall Cop." Murray, of course, doesn't notice and calls Ben "Pat."
Later, April is watching Murray and is convinced he's a robot because he's been staring into space all morning. She says that his thoughts are "1, 1, 0, 1. Must consume babies for fuel."
Ben scoffs and replies, "Why would a robot need to consume organic matter?" He immediately realizes what a nerd he is for that reply and apologizes. When Ben and April go in to talk to Murray and find out if he's watching a tv (he isn't) he repeats his earlier comment of "It's a hot one out there; stay cool."
Ben is asking one of the congressman's handlers about his robotic nature. The guy happily explains that it's great; that Murray can turn it on when he has to and otherwise he just sits there. He's almost gleeful when he adds that there are "no surprises." We see the personality "switch one" when he records a promo to air back in Ohio.
In the after-credits sequence, Ben does his best "robot" impression, which is so nerdy but so cute that even April responds to the joke.
Non-plot-related funnies:
-Jerry checks his email by opening Alta Vista and typing "Please go to Yahoo.com"
-Donna when asked how she likes Ann's new shirt: "It's not my favorite shirt, but it IS my least favorite shirt."
-At the beginning of her first talk with the seniors, Leslie asks, "Can everyone hear me ok?" and the crowd unanimously replies, "No." Cheap, easy gag, but it made me laugh.
-Perd when introducing an infographic on screen, "There are some statistics I'd like to share with you now and they ARE numbers."
-When discussing emojis, Tom says there is an Indian guy but he's wearing a turban, so that's a little racist.
-Perd calls his fans "Perdverts" because of course he does.
-Marcia paints a nightmare scenario that ends with "and then we have babies wearing thongs. Is that what you want?" To which Leslie quietly and sarcastically replies, "Yes. Yes, that's what I want."
-Marshall raps, "I waited 'til marriage and then some to do it."
-Perd's new segment is "Are You There, Perdverts? It's Me, Perd, Hosting a New Segment."
Overall, a funny episode and a good one for the Ann and Leslie friendship. This is one of my favorite female friendships currently on tv. I like that they fight like real friends but then make up like real friends. And the look Ann gives Leslie right before she rebels is a small moment but says much bigger things about how these two women support one another.
My only criticism of the show would be the running but unspoken gag that Marshall is clearly gay and in the closet. His ultra-camp gay man dates back to the days of JM J Bullock and there's nothing fresh or original about the joke or the performance. The only redeeming thing is that "Parks & Rec" at least trusts its audience enough that no one explicitly spelled it out for us in dialogue.


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Thunder hope to knot up series with Memphis
The Memphis Grizzlies seek a commanding series lead against the reigning Western Conference champion Oklahoma City Thunder when the two sides meet in Memphis for Game 4 Monday night.
The Grizz and Thunder battled in another defensive-minded affair Saturday in Memphis. The game was knotted at 81-81 with slightly less than two minutes to go and it came down to free-throw shooting.
Kevin Durant, who finished second to Miami's LeBron James in MVP voting, was a 90.5 percent foul shooter during the regular season. He missed a pair with 39.3 seconds remaining.
Memphis, which shot 66 percent from the free-throw line during the first two games of this series, made all six of its attempts to ice the game and win, 87-81.
"It's not always pretty. Tonight wasn't pretty, but it was pretty for us because we got the win," Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins said.
The Grizzlies only shot 40.5 percent from the field on Saturday, but it was enough. They were led by the Defensive Player of the Year, although it was mostly on the offensive side.
Marc Gasol scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half. He also pulled down nine rebounds, handed out four assists and blocked two shots.
Tony Allen and Mike Conley netted 14 points apiece. Jerryd Bayless added 11 off the bench.
It was an uncharacteristically bad night for the veteran starting forwards for the Grizzlies. All-Star Zach Randolph only managed eight points, but had 10 rebounds, and Tayshaun Prince shot 1-for-5 for two points.
But Prince did an admirable job in defending Durant. The NBA's second-leading scorer in the regular season netted 25 points in Game 3, but shot 9-for-19.
And now, the Thunder face a serious disadvantage. They are down in this series and without one of their best weapons, multiple-time All-Star Russell Westbrook, who injured his knee and will miss the postseason.
"We've got to stick with it. We can't get down on ourselves," Durant said. "We can't feel sorry for ourselves and nobody is. We've got to stick with it and keep fighting. We've played hard basketball for three games, tough basketball, defensive basketball, but some things didn't go right for us in these last two games. We'll see what happens in the next game."
No one has really stepped up in Westbrook's absence for the Thunder, not in Game 3 anyway. Reggie Jackson, who starts in place of Westbrook, had 16 points and Serge Ibaka and Kevin Martin chipped in 13 points each.
OKC believes it could be something as simple as making shots it has always made. The Thunder shot 36.4 percent in Game 3.
"This is a broken record, but I know we can hit shots," said Thunder head coach Scott Brooks. "I've seen the ball go in the basket many, many times with our team and I have confidence that that will happen and hopefully soon."
Game 5 will be back in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.

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History suggests that the celebration of the Magna Mater is the oldest known religious cult in the world.
From six thousand years we find Magna Mater known by various images and by various names, but in each situation, she is known for one common attribute: "The Mother of the Gods". She was known as Cybele in the region of the Aegean Sea, Damkina, Goddess of Fecundity to the Babylonians... fecundity referring to her 'marriage with the earth and sky'. Among the Euphrates she was called Koubaba, in Greece, Gaia or Gheea "Mother Earth". She was known as Terra, from the Latin 'Terra Mater', the goddess of miners in the Eastern area of Europe. Egyptians called her Isis; in Akkadia her name was Ishtar.
Magna Mater transcends world history: her mysteries and many presentations have inspired poets and artists, simple mortals or kings, with many kings dedicating her temples in great number. For many religions she is eternal, existing from the beginning of time, the bearer of the world and all life populating this planet (plants, animals and humans). The Romans identified this Goddess with the Greek Rhea, and gave her the name Magna Mater, the Great Mother.
It is not just Newtonian physics that has blinded us in this day.
It is the common corner street light. I doubt you can find a current urban dweller that even knows what the Big Dipper is, let alone be able to tell you how to find it. (I will give you a hint. You go out in the dark and look up.) In this day of instant communication, when things 24 hours old are "so yesterday," the concept of something 25,000 years plus in scope is beyond us.
But we have lost more than we realise. We now see ourselves as separate to all that it is, instead of an integral part of it.
Cognito wrote:Conversely, when we have those fleeting moments where "out there" and "in here" merge, the experience is life altering. Some use drugs to achieve that mental state, others train themselves, and yet others stumble upon altered reality quite by accident. I think I am in the third category.
This book is the ultimate book for understanding the beliefs and practices of Shamanism, written by one of the world's foremost experts on religion and sociology. I cannot stress to you enough how thoroughly Eliade manages to cover the subject. A good portion of the book focuses on the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia, the heartlands of Shamanism. Amongst the Mongols, Yakut, Chuckchi, Saami (Lapps) and other people of that region Shamanism was first observed, and is stil practiced today in many regions. Eliade goes into great depth about the beliefs and symbolism, about the clothing and ornamentation, about the meaning of ritual tools and amulets and much more. Everything from the axis mundi to ecstasy and trance states to helper spirits to Shamanic ideas of death and illness is covered in superb detail. But Eliade goes far beyond a simple survey of Shamanic beliefs and practices, almost literally taking you into the world of the Shaman. After reading this book, you will understand the Shamanic mindset and world view far more than you ever thought.
And, as I said, Eliade goes far beyond the traditional forms of Shamanism in Siberia and Central Asia. In this encyclopedic work, Eliade explores the Shamanic traditions of the Americas (North and South), Australia, Indonesia, Oceania, Tibet, China and beyond. Even the Shamanic traditions of the ancient Indo-Euorpeans, such as the Greek myth of Orpheus, Persian views of the after world and the Germanic God Odin, are given treatment.
This book is very lengthy, well written, extensivily bibliographed and filled with detailed accounts and accurate information on virtually all facets of Shamanism. I cannot recommend this book enough. Even after all these years, "Shamanism" remains perhaps the definitive book on Shamanic beliefs and thought. To truely understand Shamanism and its role in Siberia/Central Asia, you must read this book.
Cogs, I don't want to worry you, but the third kind is how shamans have traditionally been trained for thousands upon thousands of years.
The vivification of the Mundane Egg is allegorically represented in the temple of Daibod, in Japan, by a nest egg, which is shown floating in an expanse of waters against which a bulb (everywhere an emblem of generative energy, and prolific heat, the Sun) is striking with his horns.
Near Lemisso, in the Island of Cyprus, is still to be seen a gigantic egg-shaped vase, which is supposed to represent the Mundane or Orphic Egg. It is of stone, and measures thirty feet in circumference. Upon one side, in a semi-circular niche, is sculptured a bull, the emblem of productive energy.
...Many other nations of the ancient world, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Phœnicians, and the Indo-Scythiac nations of Europe participated. They not only supported the propriety of the allegory ... from the perfection of its external form, but fancifully extended the allusion to its interior composition, comparing the pure white shell to the fair expanse of heaven; the fluid, transparent white, to the circumambient air, and the more solid yolk to the central earth.
Even the Polynesians entertained the same general notions. The tradition of the Sandwich Islanders is that a bird (with them it is an emblem of Deity) laid an egg upon the waters, which burst of itself and produced the Islands.
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Does this mean I can use the argument that if we don't make love the sun might not come up?
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A small detail; the book of Enoch did not make the cut for being in the Cannon. At least not in the Western, or Roman. I will have to check on the Eastern.
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"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10
Instead of letting an inordinate amount of fear set in that night, I should have repeated this verse to myself and to others around me.
A midwife, OB nurse, and EMT arrived around midnight after the quake, so they were hard at work when Ashley and I returned at about 7 or 8am, after a brief attempt at sleep. They were continuing to suture patients, place IV's, pass out pain meds (we only had Ibuprofen, Tylenol and IV Diclofenac), and clean wounds. Different people brought more supplies throughout the night and have continued to do so up until now.
Memorable moments of the day:
Soon after I arrived, Ari told me that Erta had been found. "Alive?" I said. "Yes, alive, but is injured. We don't know how bad." Ari and I hugged and cried. Erta had called her dad at some point that morning and he had called Marlval. Again, Marlval went out to look for but wasn't able to get close enough to her location due to either debris or traffic. Later that afternoon she came hobbling in, supported by her mom. "I wasn't going to leave that school without her," her mom said. So, she'd walked around the area of the school and found her sleeping at a park. Soon after her school collapsed, Erta had climbed her way out of the rumble, found her brother, and they walked to a nearby park to sleep with some other classmates. Erta said she'd "seen a light and followed it out." She'd only managed to sustain a sprained ankle! Oh, and her hair. It looked like she'd stuck it in an electric socket. Being the friend that I am, I of course teased her about it for the rest of the day, as well as hugged her repeatedly and told her that I had cried the most for her out of anyone else. Thank you, Jesus, for this beautiful, funny, smart friend of mine!
An Haitian orthopedic surgeon showed up to aid us. Oh, how excited and thankful we were! Most of the injuries we saw from here on out were broken bones or open wounds on arms or legs (especially open ankle wounds) and we especially needed this doctor to treat these patients. The number of people with head lacerations significantly decreased after day one.
I was sitting inside with Daphne, whose leg had been placed in traction by a former EMT currently living in Haiti, when I heard a commotion coming from the front gate at around 10 or 11pm. I left a crying Daphne in a room with other pediatric patients to find out what was occurring. Ashley told me that some people had run by the open gate of the boys' home yelling in Creole, "There's water coming!" The doctors, who had just finished operating on one arm of a woman with compartment syndrome, but had yet to bandage her arm, were discussing whether to believe the words of the people running by and yelling. The doctors informed us that the radio had been warning people that a Tsunami would next hit Haiti. The orthopedic surgeon's wife, our neighborhood's Minister of Health, insisted that they leave. The anesthesiologist working with him wanted to check on her dad who lives nearby, so she ran out of the clinic right after our surgeon left. Ashley, appearing to know about Tsunami's, insisted that a tsunami would have followed immediately after the earthquake, not a day later. Also, where would the water come from? The ravine just down the street only has a stream running through it at best. Someone from the visiting team from the states walked in, heard the commotion, and began to insist that we get all of the MdL kids up to the roof. There is no roof top that all our kids can fit on at the boys' home, so the next best thing was the guest house. Would it fall in with more than fifty people walking on it? While the kids were woken up (they all slept in the "bens", the sport court connected to the boys' home), marched between the scared patients and down the street to the guest house, Marlval was screamed at by Ashley and I (sorry, man) to wake up Bill and Susette to find out what they knew about the tsunami scare and what decisions they wanted to make for our kids. Neither Ashley nor I wanted to make that decision, let alone figure out what to do with our patients if there was a tsunami coming. I briefly imagined Daphne and I huddled together and dying in a flood. Hands down this was the scariest, worst night of my life. We all let fear rule us that night. I think I thought that if an earthquake had occurred, we had turned the boys' home into a hospital and surgery was being performed there, why wouldn't another crazy thing like a tsunami hit us now?
Robert grabbed a flashlight and walked down the street to see if he could see more people or "water." I learned later that when the kids arrived at the guesthouse, the roof was vetoed as not safe for that many people and Cindy (bless her- we all agreed later she was right) thought the idea of a tsunami was ridiculous and based on fear. Apparently the visitors thought differently as they all decided to hang out on the roof for a bit. Marlval either was afraid to wake up Bill and Sue when he got to their house or the guard wasn't too keen on waking them up. Either way, they heard the stories the next day. Our wonderful patients never uttered a peep about the fear seizing us- they just stared at us with wide eyes and I'm sure felt fear of their own- i.e. how am I going to get up to a roof with two broken legs or my arm open to the muscle? The kids were walked back to the bens, hopefully having no idea why their crazy American friends were walking them back and forth. Robert found no water and very few people in the area. Soon our doctors returned and resumed their work on the lady's arm. However, Ashley and I were deeply shaken and found it difficult to place an IV for another lady. I don't remember now how she got her IV. At around 1 or 2am I laid down on a mattress next to Daphne, Ari, and Erta. Daphne had an adverse reaction to a small dose of Vicodin (some nice person had shared a bottle with us!) I had given her earlier that day, so I was up most of the night with her while she experienced hallucinations and major itching.


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Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, cause organizations, social enterprises, businesses, brands, bloggers, social media managers, individuals.
This is the part of our ongoing series on how organizations can get the most out of Twitter. Please check back weekly for the next installment, and see below for other installments in this series.
By Lindsay Oberst
Socialbrite staff
Twitter has become an increasingly vital tool for businesses and nonprofits of all sizes. Now that you've had a chance to get more familiar with the social media platform, build up your following and even measure your level of influence against other organizations, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty of using Twitter. We're talking Twitter apps, people. There are hundreds of Twitter apps that exist, and rather than weed through them by trial and error, we've compiled a list of 10 apps we recommend to help nonprofits get serious about getting results with social media.
CoTweet: Proactive marketing solution
1 CoTweet is a powerhouse for Twitter accounts when you have multiple team members tweeting. It allows for scheduling, tracking and adding notes. Nonprofits can manage up to six Twitter accounts for free using the Standard edition. The ability to track past conversations is a great utility to remind you where you stand with each contact. You can also assign specific people to on-duty status. The Enterprise edition costs about $1,500 per month and is worth it for medium to large organizations. With this edition, you can manage campaigns, assign tasks and integrate the tool with third-party apps such as Salesforce.com. On the other hand, the interface is lacking and the analytics could be better. It also allows for Facebook management.
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Platforms: Web-based, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile
MediaFunnel: The app for team tweeting
2 Media Funnel allows for more of your staff to be involved with the tweeting process. It supports multiple user types — admins, publishers, contributors and guests — and tweets can be placed in a queue for editorial review by a publisher or administrator. Scheduled tweets, brand alerts and tweets via email or SMS are supported. This tool also integrates with Salesforce.com, Zendesk, Twilio and Klout. The free plan allows for two users and no brand monitoring, while the standard plan offers many features and costs $1 per user per month or $1 per social media account, whichever is greater.
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Platforms: Desktop, iPhone, Android, Blackberry
Timely: Make your tweets count
3Timely analyzes your past 199 Twitter updates to determine what times during the day people are most likely to read your posts. You can schedule tweets to go live at those times and can use the bookmarklet to tweet links without leaving your current page. You can tweet right away or add the message to your queue. It's free.
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Platforms: Web
Klout: Measuring online influence
4 Klout offers a daily summary of your organization's or team members' social media influence, with a ranking that factors in your reach and impact on Twitter (metrics such as retweets, follower counts, list memberships, unique mentions), Facebook and LinkedIn. Klout has an open API that's integrated into many Twitter apps: More than 750 partners use Klout data, including Hootsuite, CoTweet and Attensity 360. For the end user, its analytics platform is rich and easy to use, even if the methodology used in spitting out a Klout Score is a bit opaque.
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Platforms: Web-based, iPhone (Social Score), Android
Twylah: Branded pages for your Twitter account
5Twylah creates one page that sums up your nonprofit brand. This custom page automatically organizes your tweets into topics that you tweet about most often. Users can interact on your page by retweeting and responding to messages. The biggest benefits this tool brings are for SEO. Google no longer indexes tweets, but it does index each Twylah page and the tweets within it, giving your tweets a longer life. It also offers PowerTweets, which creates a separate landing page for your tweets with other recommended messages. It's good to use this for blog posts, but if you do it too much, you might annoy your followers.
Rating: ★ ★ ★
Platforms: Web
Qwitter: Find out who unfollows you
6Qwitter lets you know when someone stops following you after your last tweet, so you can identify what might have made them unfollow you. This free tool automatically e-mails you when someone unfollows you. If you're a nonprofit and you tweet about sports and then three people immediately unfollow you, you might want to keep your messages more on topic.
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Concern over what corn varieties are approved for the European Union (EU) have quieted, at least for now.
ConAgra, in a joint marketing agreement with Monsanto, recently announced it will identity preserve and accept corn not approved for EU export for no additional fee. The corn will be used elsewhere, including the domestic market that consumes 80% of U.S. corn production.
Unfortunately, the EU now purchases very little corn from the U.S. USDA figures show U.S. corn exports to the EU went from 3.1 million metric tons in 1994-1995 to a current 137,000 metric tons for 10 months in 1998-1999. EU exports dropped from 5% of U.S. total exports to just 0.36% of the current year's total corn exports.
Soybean growers dodged the EU approval concerns because seed companies withheld sales of soybean varieties not approved for EU export.


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World Bulletin / News Desk
Marxist rebels and the Colombian government adjourned their latest round of peace talks on Thursday with no major advances toward ending their long conflict and said they had significant differences to overcome despite some areas of agreement.
They said they agreed that the lives of the country's rural poor must be improved, which is the key issue in their 50-year-long war, but not on how to go about it.
"The conversations advance in a climate of respect and of broad dialogue," government lead negotiator Humberto de la Calle said after leaving Thursday's negotiations in Havana. "There are similarities in the desire to transform the countryside, although there remain notable differences."
The government and the FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, are in their third month of talks to end the conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced several million others over the decades.
The FARC is Latin America's longest-running leftist insurgency. A vestige of the Cold War, it was founded in 1964 as a communist agrarian movement to fight Colombia's long history of social inequality, particularly the concentration of most of the country's land in a few hands.
The government and the FARC both believe it is important for the rural poor to have land to work, but FARC lead negotiator Ivan Marquez said the rebels would like to get it from cattle ranchers.
He told a news conference that ranchers had 40 million hectares of land, or almost 100 million acres, half of which could be given to the poor.
"From this big balloon of land, at least 20 million hectares (50 million acres) could be taken to give to the peasants, the displaced (and others)," Marquez said.
But the government has said it wants to give the poor the land that has been abandoned or taken over illegally by drug traffickers or other illicit groups. It says the right of private property must be protected.
"In this (negotiating) round, we have addressed in all aspects the issue of access to land, within the constitutional framework. That is to say that it will not weaken the guarantee, the right to property acquired legitimately," de la Calle said, reading from a prepared statement.
The two sides will reconvene on Jan. 31 in the Havana convention center where the talks began on Nov. 19.
After land reform and rural development, they have agreed to discuss other thorny topics, including the political future of the FARC and the legal future of its leaders, virtually all who have criminal charges hanging over them due to the group's history of kidnappings, extortion and illicit drug trafficking to finance its activities.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos initiated the talks betting that the FARC had been so weakened by a decade-long, U.S.-backed offensive that it was ready for peace.
But the FARC is said to have about 9,000 troops and can still inflict damage on the infrastructure of Latin America's fourth largest economy.
Santos, facing re-election next year, wants a peace agreement by November.
De la Calle has said the talks need to move more quickly, but one of the rebel leaders, Jesus Santrich, said he thought they were speeding along like a fast-paced Latin dance.
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Alaska oil producers say tax cuts must be 'meaningful'
JUNEAU — The Alaska state Senate's oil-tax reform bill slogged through another day of hearings Wednesday, this time with testimony from representatives of the three big Alaska producers who all said the tax cuts in the measure were too miserly to spur additional development.
The Senate bill's "minimal decrease" from the current tax program on oil and gas, known as ACES, "has an immaterial impact" for industry, said Bob Heinrich, vice president of finance for Conoco Phillips Alaska.
"That's not to say that the numbers don't seem big on a dollar basis -- our industry works in big numbers," he added. If oil were selling at $130 a barrel, about $25 more than now, "the reduction is almost $300 million to producers, but in the context of the total taxes paid at that price point of nearly $15 billion, it's immaterial," Heinrich said.
Gov. Sean Parnell and the Republican-led majority in the House say that ACES -- Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share, a cornerstone of Sarah Palin's administration -- is encouraging the oil industry to look elsewhere to invest its money. The progressive tax structure of ACES accelerates the state's take as prices rise, leading industry to complain that its investments here are not yielding the same profits at current high prices as they would in another region of the country or world. From their perspective, it would even be worse if prices continue to rise.
The House gave industry much of what it wanted when it passed House Bill 110 last year. The word "meaningful" has come to be used by Parnell, industry and its supporters to describe those cuts.
The bipartisan coalition controlling the Senate is much more skeptical. Its own measure, Senate Bill 192, would tax less at high prices than ACES but not make deep cuts of the House measure. It also provides some tax incentives for oil from new fields and imposes new reporting requirements to hold the industry more accountable.
The Senate has been studying the issue with testimony from hired experts, state officials, industry representatives and residents. Sen. Bert Stedman, a financial services professional and Republican from Sitka who co-chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said Wednesday the studying will continue at least into next week.
BP and Conoco Phillips had weighed in on Senate Bill 192 before, coming to Juneau last month to testify before the Senate Resources Committee, the bill's first stopping place.
Exxon Mobil didn't appear before the Resources committee, sending instead a letter. That led to an increasing chorus of questions: Would the company, a partner in Prudhoe, support or veto the pledges of the other companies to invest at least $5 billion if the "meaningful" tax cuts of the competing House bill were passed by the Senate?
On Wednesday, the bill's venue was the Senate Finance Committee, and this time, Exxon Mobil sent its top Alaska official, production manager Dale Pittman.
"For the record, Exxon Mobil fully supports both of our operators, Conoco Phillips at Kuparuk and BP at Prudhoe Bay, in their continued commitment to invest in Alaska and to pursue all additional opportunities and investments that become viable with meaningful tax reform, because we do think that's important, and we are here for the long term," Pittman said at the opening of his testimony.
Did that represent a commitment to back the $5 billion pledge? Stedman, one of the chief authors of the Senate bill, said later it didn't sound like one to him.
Pittman himself declined to speak when asked as he started down the steps from the Capitol's fifth floor to a meeting somewhere else. Exxon Mobil's lobbyist, Kevin Jardell, a former official in the administration of Gov. Frank Murkowski, tried to use his elbows to prevent a reporter from approaching Pittman to ask the question, saying Pittman was late for the meeting, then directed the question to an Exxon Mobil official in Houston, David Eglinton, who replied in an email:
"Here's our comment. Per today's testimony, Exxon Mobil fully supports both operators, Conoco Phillips at Kuparuk and BP at Prudhoe Bay, in their continued commitment to invest in Alaska and to pursue all additional investments that become viable with meaningful tax reform."
Pittman spoke to the finance committee for about 30 minutes, answering questions but declining to say how the company would respond in the field to specific changes in the tax code.
"I do feel we're woefully behind in attracting that new investment, new development, and without significant changes, we're going to continue on something rough to the same decline (in production), unabated," he said. "At today's oil prices (and) a fiscal policy that encourages development, we should be near record levels of activity in Alaska -- but we're not seeing that."
While some of the other oil company officials got into greater detail, they still stopped short of giving the committee all the information it wanted.
"Can you help us define what 'meaningful' is and 'significant' is?" Stedman asked Damian Bilbao, head of finance for BP Exploration (Alaska). "Can you help us with that, zero us in on the issue?"
"Mr. Chairman, you'll know it's meaningful when you get the results you want -- the results are going to be increased investment, increased production," Bilbao said.
Stedman and other members of the committee agreed that the tax rates in the Senate bill needed fixing, at least when oil prices are high. Stedman suggested that somewhere around $130 to $150 a barrel, the tax rate should stop increasing. That way, oil producers would keep a greater share of the money at those prices -- something like $4 billion a year, said finance co-chair Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, if the cutoff was at $130 and the price rose to $150.
"Yes," said Bilbao, "$4 billion is a significant amount of money."
But he and the Conoco Phillips representatives said they wanted to see the change at $100 or less, not $130. Stedman said he wasn't inclined to go down that far. One of the state's consultants said that Prudhoe Bay and other fields were plenty profitable at current tax rates and prices, he said.
Nearly all the testimony and questions dealt with matter of tax, investments, production and the like. But just before the Conoco Phillips representatives concluded their testimony, Sen. Donny Olson, a Democrat and physician from Nome, changed the subject: The committee shouldn't lose sight of what oil from state lands provides for the people of Alaska through oil taxation, especially for its poorest citizens and especially as oil prices rise.
"What I have been told by the constituency that I represent is that as the price of oil goes up, we need more and more help for what the state has the responsibility to give to us," Olson said. "They should look at things like water and sewer, where a significant percentage of people out there still don't have a flush toilet that they can go to. When you have airport maintenance, public safety, education, and the schools, including the clinics for the health care delivery system out there, their mandate to me is, make sure you keep progressivity in place because as the price of oil gets higher and higher out here, we can only afford to buy stove oil in small amounts because we can't afford a full tankful, you make sure we have the ability to have those social services that the state is responsible for out there. That's the reason they're so adamant that progressivity is unchanged, and I think they're correct."
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I just want to give a shout out/thanks to my buddies who have been reading my blog this whole time i've been in China. Knowing that you're reading keeps me going and sometimes makes me do things that i might otherwise not do simply because i think it will make great blog material. Thanks Richard G, Karol, Debbie, My Momma, Bob, My dad maybe? does he read this? He Does read it!, Allen Ying, Akari, Eugi, Yoon, Jung Eun, and i forgot Michael Zahner and if there are any other of my buddies that read this frequently then let me know because I just listed all the ones i know about! don't be shy to leave comments, I do get them!
Thanks to My Buddies that Read my blog
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5 comments:
- Dad said...
Yeah I f*ing read your blog.
What the He!!.
I'm going to have pancakes!
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- Micaela Zahner said...
I am a dedicated Jason's-blog reader :)
- November 8, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Kristen said...
Your dad is awesome!
- November 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM
- Jung Eun said...
you are welcome
it's fun to read your blog
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At a meeting hosted at the Palo Alto VA Hospital Monday, an auditorium full of veterans, their children and spouses spoke candidly to Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jackie Speier and Palo Alto VA Director Lisa Freeman about their experiences with the VA, some lauding the Palo Alto medical center and others decrying long wait times and a lack of communication.
One of the first speakers, whose wife is a veteran, called the Palo Alto VA "a shining example of what the VA system should be." Another man said that in 15 years he's never experienced any wait times. Sandra O'Neill, a former Navy nurse, said she has had three hip replacements within the local VA health care system since 2006 and has received "beyond-call-of-duty kind of care."
"I've gotten just excellent, quality care and timely care," she said. "I'm especially happy that they have a special women's veterans center, and I believe that this medical center pioneered that concept and made it available to women veterans."
Such positive experiences contrasted sharply with those of a man who said he waited 13 months to get an appointment so instead sought outside treatment; a Marine Corps veteran who said he waited six years for a hip replacement and called the process "inhumane"; a Vietnam War veteran who has been coming to the Palo Alto VA for 20 years and criticized the Patient Advocacy Program as "a listening post and not an action post."
Director Freeman acknowledged the institution's difficulty with wait times, processes and "a culture of compliance." She said the Palo Alto VA Health Care System in May had two groups of more than 20 veterans on electronic wait lists, which are designated for those who have waited for more than 90 days for care. The two groups were neurosurgery and dental, with more than 200 veterans waiting for dental appointments. Freeman said the entire neurosurgery backlog has been worked down to zero, but she would only say that the VA had reached out to almost all of the patients in need of dental appointments and knew that fewer than 70 had not been seen yet but were on track to receive care.
Freeman also admitted that Palo Alto VA's scheduling software, now 30 years old, is antiquated and must be updated. She also acknowledged the need for an updated, state-of-the-art phone system but said a limited budget and government-imposed red tape make it difficult for individual VA's to make necessary purchases, however large or small.
Another common concern raised was communication. One man, speaking for his father, a 90-year-old World War II veteran, said his father was not aware of the full spectrum of services he could access at the VA. He said he lost his hearing the Battle of the Bulge in the mid-1940s and spent "thousands of dollars" on hearing aids and treatment at local clinics because he didn't think the VA would cover his care.
"(Veterans) don't like talking about what happened in the service," he said. "They're very proud. They think they can take care of themselves. ... I have never seen an effort by the VA to let the veterans, whether it's the older veterans or the new veterans, know of all the things that are available for them."
Freeman said she completely agrees that the VA needs to improve its outreach efforts, though she did not offer specific remedies.
"We could do a much better job of advertising what the VA offers and who it offers it to," she said. "I have had the same experience with my uncles who are both World War II veterans (and) who just thought the VA is for anybody but them."
Speier and Eshoo, sitting at a table at the front of the room next to Freeman, continually probed the VA director on the hospital's efforts to reach homeless veterans, its funding challenges and the division between internal and external care, among other issues raised. Eshoo said all the processes need to be more "seamless" and reflect how patients live their daily lives and need health care.


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Vintage has a big sister! Berroco has introduced a larger gauge version of their popular easy to care for yarn.
Cascade 128 Superwash Multis Yarn is a similar yarn: machine wash, bulky (12-15 sts/4 in), 3.5 sts / inch, 100 gram, and on size 10 US needles. You may also like Berroco Vintage DK Yarn, which is another similar yarn: acrylic, machine wash, 100 gram.
What about yarn that have the same look and feel? Find more yarn with a smooth / uniform texture, a medium twist, and is machine dyed.
You may enjoy taking a look at the Berroco Vintage Chunky Ravenna Jacket, Berroco Vintage Chunky and Vintage Ferry Hat, Berroco Vintage Chunky Fitzgerald Cardigan, and Berroco Vintage Chunky NoBo Jacket kits all using Berroco Vintage Chunky Yarn.
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Being afraid of bangs if you have a round face is silly. Find out which types of bangs work best for round faces and which hairstyles will flatter your features for a great look you'll be keen to try. Blunt or heavy bangs/fringes do you no favors if you have a round face shape. When cut right, bangs can add sophistication to your hairstyle, but only if they're used to compliment your face, not enhance its rounded shape. Side-Swept Bangs for Round Faces By far the best option when looking for the best bangs for round faces co... Read More


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If your nail polish chips asap after a mani or if the tips of your nails peel, you're going to want to keep reading.
I recently learned a killer nail tip from Cosmo's deputy beauty editor Jessica Matlin, who got the tip from Niki Chi, lead manicurist for Spa Chicks On The Go.
Niki told Jess that if you coat your entire nail (not just the cuticle) with cuticle oil, it will help increase the health and strength of your nail, causing it to peel less and your polish to stay on longer.
That's all I needed to hear. I immediately got my hands on the Londontown Kur Nourishing Cuticle Oil, $25, londontownusa.com, which is pumped full of essential oils and vitamins (not to mention it's vegan, gluten- and cruelty-free), and started dousing my nails. Note: Any cuticle oil will work, but this one isn't greasy and absorbs quickly.
And since I've learned this little nugget of information (thanks, Jess!), applying cuticle oil has become part of my daily beauty routine. I have a bottle sitting at my desk and one next to my bed, and I paint it on quickly whenever I get the chance. The cool thing is that you can paint cuticle oil on over your polished tips and the formula will penetrate the lacquer. So there doesn't need to be this whole production of taking off your polish and then applying the oil, etc. Love that.
Just curious, have I converted you to be a cuticle oil user or what? If you start swiping it on religiously like I have, let me know how you like it.
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Keep your halyards securely in place with sailing clutches or line jammers. Clutches allow for easy release under load with a non-slip grip. Jammers are for high load situations where using the winch for release is a necessary safety function or lower load situations where a cam cleat just won't do it.
Holt Clutches:
The Holt Nautos XR Clutch range has the patented Xtreme Release clutch system to easily release under high loads. This makes these Holt Allen Clutches great for inexperienced sailing crew or fast releases on racing sailboats.
Lewmar Clutches:
Lewmar Rope Clutches are available in the D1 Rope Clutch or D2 Rope Clutch model. Lewmar Superlock clutches have a special domino clutch and release mechanism for a larger hold area for better holding, reduced wear, and controlled release.
Spinlock Clutches and Jammers:
Spinlock Rope clutches come in many configurations. The Spinlock XAS Multi Role Clutch is available with a full line of XAS Clutch replacement parts. Great for racing yachts, the Spinlock XTS Clutch features a secure handle lock and is suitable for a wide range of line diameters. For larger sailboats, the Spinlock XCS High Load Clutches work great. The Spinlock XX Power Clutch feature a special 3D wedge action and are great for highly loaded line applications on high performance racing yachts.
Spinlock Mini Jammers are smaller than the Spinlock Clutches making them great for small keelboats in applications where cam cleats won't do. The Spinlock ZR Jammer is designed for safer handling and high load technology. High performance yachts use the Spinlock ZS Alloy Jammer or Carbon Jammer. To save weight, try the Spinlock BRS Jammer Blocks
Clutch replacement parts and accessories for all of your Spinlock Clutches. Available for the XAS Clutch Parts, XTS Clutch Replacement Parts, XCS Clutch Replacement Parts, XX Power Clutch Replacement Parts and Powerjammer ZS Replacement Parts.
GlowFast Clutch Labels:
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Page Title: The Jack Nicholson Party
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The Jack Nicholson Party
Your Face Is In Our Way, released 22 April 2014
1. Where's Johnny
2. Drive, I Say
3. Your Face Is In My Way
4. A Murder a Day
5. Code Red
6. Kick the Bucket List
7. It's Chinatown
8. Love You Like Murder
9. I'll Be Waiting
10. A Letter to Ndugu
11. The Nicholson Always Stabs Twice
12. Jack Nicholson Went Down to Mexico (And Almost Died)
13. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
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I have been busy writing all weekend – working on a new blog post that I was hoping to have finished by Monday for you – but no such luck. Needing a diversion, I thought I would catch up on some blog reading, when I noticed that my friend Olga Granda-Scott from Coral Gables, Florida had finally posted pictures of her new house. You remember Olga, right? I ran into her and her husband at Round Top where they had a booth. At home in Coral Gables – they help run the family antique business - Alhambra Antiques HERE – one of the better antique shops in their city. They had packed up a huge truck, filled with all kinds of beautiful things to sell, and headed from south Florida to Round Top, Texas – not an easy drive. Olga wrote about the trip HERE and HERE. Luckily she spotted me in the crowd (who could miss me with the ridiculous blue boa?) and came over to say Hi. Olga is absolutely adorable and I was so surprised to see how young she is. She looks like she is about 15 – but with three children, I'm guessing I'm off a few years.
Here are just a few of the antiques Olga sells - to give you an idea of their look. French, Swedish, Italian – they carry it all and then some. I've been lusting after their crowns – they have a wonderful collection of them. In fact, Olga is wearing one in the picture of us if you look close enough.
So, tonight while I am trying to ignore the blog post that has been making me slightly insane all weekend, I see that Olga has finally put up pictures of her new house.
You see, they just sold the house they bought when they one child. Today with three, they need a little more room. So after spending many years fixing up this charming house that was built in the 20s – they are moving on. They sure don't build houses like this in Texas – it's so adorable!! Olga and her husband put in all the lush landscaping during their remodeling.
This is their new house (well, old house – it's a 1926 Spanish style stucco) – as they found it – overgrown and in need of some new paint and a good landscaping trim. I think it looks pretty cute as is. But wait until you see what they did with the inside. After I pulled my open jaw off the keyboard – I thought you would love to see how beautifully Olga has decorated her new house. Makes me wish I owned an antique store too! You will too, I promise. To read Olga's story about the house's redo, go HERE.
When you walk through the front door – this fabulous antique clock greets you – along with a marble topped scrolled Baker's table. The floor here is river rock – so great looking! As with most antique dealers, their furniture is always changing. On Olga's blog, the pieces that are for sale are linked to the store's web site. Hmm – the clock is pretty hard to resist!!!!
Every entry hall needs two clocks, don't they? Of course they do, especially when they are this beautiful. Here a Danish tall clock rests next to the front door.
The living room – you can see the dining room through the two arches. Notice how thick the arches are – they don't build houses like this anymore. The table is a vintage Italian gear with an added glass top. Scattered throughout the house are industrial pieces, along with all the French and Swedish antiques. Maximize your view setting to see the entire picture.
Looking the other direction – there's a beautiful pier mirror and two chairs. The cow hide rug was bought at Round Top! I love the fireplace – it's gorgeous.
A close up of the carved stone mantel perfectly accessorized with an assortment of antiques.
In the dining room, an antique Spanish table with painted chairs is mixed with a crystal chandelier, painted console and another industrial piece – just out of view. I love the pop of the red shades here.
Upstairs in the master bedroom, Olga hung two Italian fragments instead of using a headboard. The bed is made with French linens and is flanked with two different night tables. The gilt framed chair adds the glamour.
A collection of Royal Vienna porcelain stands on the night table. The lamps were made from an iron gate found in an old church. Be sure to read Olga's blog story for all the details of the furnishings HERE. With three children and a business to run, Olga doesn't get to post to her blog that often, but she promises she is going to show her yard soon. Olga, don't make us wait too long!! OK, I'm back to work on my post.