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Xiqu Centre , 22.02.2020 to 22.03.2020
In light of the current situation, Xiqu Centre Guided Tours (English) on 22 February 2020 (Saturday) and 22 March 2020 (Sunday) have been cancelled. Please click here for ticketing arrangements. For enquiries, please call (852) 2200 0022 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Did you know that Cantonese opera performers always greet each other with "Good morning" no matter what time of day they meet? Or that in traditional tea houses balcony seats cost more than those closer to the stage? To find out why, join our Xiqu Centre Guided Tour and learn about our new venue and the rich history of the art of xiqu. The 60-minute tours, conducted in Cantonese, English or Mandarin, help you explore the Xiqu Centre facilities, learn about the architectural and design features, and discover fascinating facts about the culture and stories behind the art of xiqu. Tours are supplemented with multimedia elements and are perfect for newcomers to the art of xiqu. (Please note, as the backstage area is an active working zone it is not part of the guided tour.) Group tours can also be arranged for schools and registered charitable or non-profit organisations on request.
The event schedule may be subject to change. The presenter reserves the right to change the programme.
Meeting Point:
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20 participants per tour
Age Limit:
Tours are suitable for ages 6 and above
$50 HKID card holders - Adults
$15 HKID card holders - Senior citizens aged 60 or above, wheelchair users and a companion, people with disabilities and a companion, Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients and full-time students
- The route of each tour may vary. As technical and production schedules may be subject to change, for safety reasons, access to the Grand Theatre and Tea House Theatre cannot be guaranteed for each tour. We regret that advance notice on changes in access will not be provided.
- Please assemble at the Xiqu Centre information desk 15 minutes before the start of the tour. Latecomers will not be able to join a tour that is already in progress, and will not be eligible for a refund. Each tour lasts 60 minutes. Participants will be standing and walking for this time. Wheelchairs are available on request at the information desk (subject to availability). All tours are fully accessible for wheelchair users.
- Suitcases are not permitted on the tour. As there are no baggage storage facilities at the Xiqu Centre, please plan accordingly. Participants with suitcases will be turned away from the tour and will not be refunded or rescheduled.
- Participants may take photographs and make videos during the tour. However, photography and video recording is not permitted in the Grand Theatre and Tea House Theatre if setup or rehearsals are taking place.
- Xiqu Centre Guided Tours (English) on 23 November (Satruday) is cancelled. Details of ticketing arrangements will be announced shortly. Ticketing Enquiries: (852) 2200 0022.
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Adverse Weather Arrangements:
If a black rainstorm warning or a typhoon signal no. 8 or above is in force three hours before the start of the event, the event will be cancelled.
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Other Xiqu Centre Guided Tours events
Xiqu Centre Guided Tours (Cantonese)
23.02.2020 to 24.03.2020
See also
Tea House Theatre Experience
12.03.2020 to 29.03.2020, Tea House Theatre, Xiqu Centre


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"I was painfully aware of him, each moment spent near him adding to my interest and my desire to know him better. Which, praise be to God, eventually came just a few months later…"
Mr. Gore came to our small town that May to take on a summer internship at our church.
A high school graduate now, I was nearly on an equal playing field with this young college boy, even though I still had the summer left before I would officially graduate from the youth group.
Thankfully, in the confines of our tiny town, he was forced to finally take notice of me, and before too long, he even knew my name.
And oh, how he could set my heart to beating!
It was difficult, being under his authority and tutelage, unable to even think about pursuing a relationship, yet wanting so badly to be noticed by him. Our youth group was full of attractive and wholesome young ladies, and at the time, though they would laugh at the idea now, many of my friends were also interested in this new boy; his presence that summer definitely sent a jolt of energy through the fairer members of our small town's youth group. In fact, I would say the matchmaking mothers were even more atwitter than I was…
But it wasn't too long before I noticed that, although a summer romance was strictly forbidden, there was an electricity between the two of us that surely I wasn't the only one feeling. He was admittedly a bit of a flirt…what young, single man would not have enjoyed all that attention?…but when our eyes would meet, we would both begin that tell-tale fidgeting, and although he had to leave me guessing that entire summer what he really thought of me, I could sometimes read in his eyes that he admired what he saw. (And well he should have, the little toot!)
Thankfully, I had a little help in my pursuit of this romance. My bosom friend, Misty, and I concocted a game that summer to gauge Mr. Gore's interest in me; both of us were back-up singers in our youth group's praise band, and when we were on the stage during church services and he was in the congregation, I would yawn while Misty kept her eyes peeled to see if he yawned, too. Because, you know, yawns are contagious. Neither of us were very good at math, but that game was genius, if you ask me!…
and I'm sure it didn't interfere with our worship. Not at all. We were super gifted at multi-tasking.
Anyhow, by summer's end, after a week-long mission trip to Seattle that pushed us closer and closer together, I would say that I had very much fallen in love with…my gosh, there is a lump growing in my throat!…this most amazing man. I don't think I could ever make a universal statement on the subject of soulmates and being "made for each other," but I do know this…my heart, before we ever even went on our first date, was his. Forever.
And so I was absolutely bereft when he returned to college that Fall without ever declaring any kind of love, or even interest in me. We were now very good friends, to be sure, but nothing else. We had even gone to dinner and a movie with a dating couple in our church…not that we actually sat by each other in the theater (and believe me, the awkwardness was palpable when we chose seats on either side of the couple rather than next to one another…how were we supposed to brush hands in the popcorn bag when we were 3 seats away from each other?!).
And for the first time in my life, I truly pined for a man. I didn't realize it at the time, but I became a bit listless, and even lost weight in his absence. Church became dim, no longer the place where I knew I would see him, but the place where he had been…
And so I can't tell you how touching and sweet is the memory of the day when I sat at the kitchen table, feeling so forlorn and lonesome, not even aware of my sad countenance or that anyone was watching me, when my Daddy spoke up from his place at the table's head. "Don't worry, Lester…he'll be callin'."
My head snapped up, his words pulling me out of a fog. I had no idea my Daddy even knew of my secret love; I had hardly discussed it with anyone. "You think so?" I asked, kind of breathless and embarrassed at the same time. "You betcha." he said, bolstering my spirit considerably, for my Daddy is the best judge of character that I know; if he thought Mr. Gore would call, well then, he would call.
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And I e-mailed him back.
And he e-mailed me again.
And I e-mailed him back.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Trauma Call
In response to a call for ideas, Mike asked about trauma. Specifically, he mentioned hearing that the most common cause of death in motor vehicle accidents (MVA) is injury to (and, presumably, exsanguination from) the femoral artery. He didn't hear it from me. (In fact, he admitted he heard it on an episode of "ER." That surprises me a little, because that show -- despite a completely inauthentic and distorted portrayal of emergency care -- didn't often give out-and-out false medical information. Or maybe they did. I stopped watching a few years ago.)
I'll admit I didn't look it up. But I can say that in several years working at one of the busiest trauma hospitals in the US, during training, and having cared for many MVA victims including fatalities then, and subsequently in my private practice, I don't recall seeing a femoral artery injury resulting from a car crash; certainly not a fatal one. By far the greatest number of deaths were from head and/or chest injuries, and I'd guess that is universally true.
During training, trauma care was the center of the world, the cauldron in which the steel of the surgeon was annealed. At every level of training, and especially as Chief Resident, my involvement in trauma care taught me more about surgery and surgical patients than any other time I spent in hospitals. I'm grateful and lucky to have put in several years, literally living there much of the time, at one of the (at the time, probably still) preëminent trauma centers in the country. Brilliant and tough, my teachers at SFGH (actually, when I was there, the emergency wing looked like this) gave me my sense of duty and commitment to my patients, the ability to make difficult decisions and to take responsibility for them, an understanding of the sort of "digital" thinking that a surgeon needs in the operating room. From them I learned a lot of technique, too; but the frosting on that cake I really owe to another, a decidedly non-trauma surgeon, Vic Richards, a legendary innovator, surgeon of singular intelligence (M.D. at age twenty, give or take), and a significant figure in my book.
But in real life, trauma was a pain in the ass. Unlike training, when we waited hungrily for the next case to roll in, in practice it was by definition a disruption. Destroying an operative schedule, crashing a full office, or robbing a night of sleep before a fully scheduled next day -- those were the least of the problems created by a call to the ER. It was the circus of managing a complicated and unexpected case in a hospital not primarily devoted to such things. It was dragging in a bunch of reluctant other surgeons (depending on the problem) -- orthopods, neurosurgeons. And the worst were the MVAs, for that very reason: multiple organs, multiple docs. If I had to come in to see a trauma case, give me a tidy gunshot or stab wound every time.
And I DID see a few injuries to femoral arteries from those causes. And to much bigger and bleedier vessels than that.
Once I got over the frustration at having been called (I'm an orderly sort of guy), it was never hard to be swept into the torrent. There is unequaled immediacy to trauma care, a series of "yes-no" decisions, absent "maybes." Real time, instinctive, urgent in the extreme, it's invigorating. There's nothing like the intrusion of certain death, turned around and sent away by the coming together of everything you know, to give a sense of purpose. There's nothing like slashing into a dead man's chest, sticking a finger into his heart, and watching him awaken even as your hand is beyond the wrist into him.
And I can do without it just fine.
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- OU Pre Med said...
I just started doing an undergrad internship at a large public hospital. All of the interns in the program, including myself, spend everyday hoping for a trauma. We volunteer in the ER but we also get to go in the trauma slot and observe. One thing I noticed on my first trauma experience was the relatively calm (and even lighthearted) mood of the staff as they tried to resuscitate a patient. I think I will always remember that. Another great post. Glad to see you are blogging again.
- Bongi said...
i think in the end i enjoy trauma, except for the fact that it is often after hours. it is usually quite simple, and can be rewarding. i am much less of an adrenaline junkie than i was in the old days though.
ou pre med i think maintaining calm during the otherwise volatile situations is essential, but that's just me.
- Spiny Norman said...
So why don't all the scolds who like to get up in your s%%t if you so much as ride down your driveway without a bicycle helmet wear chrash helmets when they get into their cars?
Thanks for addressing it.
- Sid Schwab said...
Mike: thanks for the suggestion.
S'Norm: well, of course the same "scolds" have insisted cars have shoulder harnesses with penalties for not using them; and there are air bags, ABS, anti skid systems. My training time was before any of those. And lots of the injuries are in people who refused to wear their harnesses.
Interestingly, and sort of off the subject, I'm in Portland at the moment, a city ranked among the most bike-friendly and bike-savvy. I've never seen so many people on bikes in the city, and so many not wearing helmets. I don't bike as much as I used to but I always have worn a helmet, and would feel stupid -- not to mention highly vulnerable, like a featherless bird -- without one.
No mention of the changes in how trauma is handled? The discovery that most patients do better hanging out in the ICU for a while instead of trying to patch them up in the OR immediately has really eviscerated (sorry) operative trauma. Nowadays it's more like 95% babysitting and 5% operating, and there's no babysitting quite as bad as trauma patient babysitting.
- Sid Schwab said...
It's a good point, and a good subject: the extent to which various conditions are more likely to be observed now. Certainly another reason why it's a pain for the general surgeon.
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- SeaSpray said...
Interesting post Dr S.
Have you ever wondered why some patients in seemingly smaller accidents die and why others in horrible ones come through alright... some injuries but go home in a couple of days?
I've known people in much lesser accidents...and they died. A patient was in a fender bender of sorts and brought in joking and talking with staff. Ended up medivacced down to trauma facility and died in OR due to a lacerated liver.
Did you ever feel concern that someone you knew would come through the doors when you were on..or did that ever happen?
I suppose those could be post ideas. ? The seeming inequity of life vs death with patients and/or what it's like to be faced with someone you know in a trauma/medical situation.
I was getting bored with ER about 3 yrs ago too but kept watching it. I loved this last season. they really improved the stories and I was sorry to see them go off the air. Too bad they stopped writing like that previously.
woohooo, you're back!
- Sid Schwab said...
For a minute there, BIMA, I thought it was a legit comment, even mistakenly referring to me as an EMT. In the end, though, it was just self-promoting spam. Lame.


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White liked the smaller venue. "It was much more intimate and exciting than a larger space that would have looked half-empty. And our producer, Jenny Baker-Strasburg, was fantastic."
Baker-Strasburg, who'd been on the committee for last year's show, used to work for designer Liz Claiborne and is married to AEG Live vice president Don Strasburg.
The show featured day, casual and evening looks from Goldyn, Mariel and Moda. Wilhelmina Denver provided the models; hair and makeup were by the Oxford Club Salon & Spa.
The 300 guests started filtering in at 7 p.m. to enjoy hors d'oeuvres from Suite 200's sister club, Chloe, complimentary Voli Vodka cocktails and sweets from Happy Cakes. Volunteers circulated with trays of candy bars from Sugarlicious that could be yours for a $10 donation. Inside the wrapper were prize certificates for items ranging from Southwest Airlines tickets to AEG Live concert tickets.
Emily Tarleton, president of the Volunteers of America Guild, was among those enjoying the show from one of the seats lining the catwalk. Anne Donley, who'd been the special events manager for Nordstrom before moving to Wichita, was there with fiance Tom Smith. They'd come back to Denver to visit Anne's family and do some wedding dress shopping; that the VOA show was happening the same weekend was a bonus.
Other familiar faces in the crowd were Mandy Nadler; Herminia Vigil; Myrna Mourning; Michael Ditchfield; Kathy Klugman; Mark Cordova; Juanita Chacon; Ed Romero; Loretta Robinson; Sameera Ahmed; Jenny Salimi; Sima Evans; Leah Di Marco; Patti Shyne; Jim Guttau; and Dianna Kunz, the president of VOA-Colorado.
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BRAKES This motorcycle has a hydraulic brake system of front and rear . Brakes are items of personal safety and should be properly adjusted. Remember to check periodically the brake system and these checks should be conducted by qualified Jincheng dealer. Do not use the remained brake fluid from on a unsealed container, never reuse the brake fluid remained in the last repairing, because the used brake fluid may absorb the water from the air. Use DOT 4 brake fluid from a sealed container. Do not spill out the brake fluid, when the brake fluid is glued to the paint, plastic and rubber material, a chemical reaction shall take place, causing the damage. (1)lower level mark Front brake Rear brake BRAKE FLUID (1) (2) (3) (1) (1)Brake fluid cap (2)Max. fluid level mark (3)Min. fluid level mark Brake fluid may cause irritation. Avoid contact with skin or eyes. In case of contact, flush thoroughly with water and call a doctor if your eyes were exposed NOTICE WARINING * 9 BRAKE LINING The main points for checking the front brake lining are to see whether the lining wear is out of the range. Replace the brake lining wear is out of the range. Replace the brake lining if the lining wear is beyond the brake wear limit mark. FRONT BRAKE FLUID LEVEL Check that the fluid level is above the lower level mark(1) with the motorcycle in an upright position. Brake fluid must be added to the reservoir when ever the fluid level begins to reach the lower level mark(1). Fill the reservoir up to upper level mark. REAR BRAKE FLUID LEVEL There are two marks in rear brake fluid cap,keep the fluid lever between the Max. fluid level mark (2) and the Min. fluid level mark (3) always. Check if it is short of brake fluid, check the hose and other components for corrosion or cracks. limit mark Brake Pad Front brake Rear brake If the brake system or brake linings have to be repaired, we suggest that these repair should be performed by your authorized SKYTEAM dealer. SKYTEAM dealer knows your motorcycle best and is dedicated to your complete satisfaction
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This is a user contributed tutorial.
Nagios is free, open source host, service and network monitoring services. Nagios provides an extensible framework, that can monitor pretty much anything using plugins. Some of the items that can be monitored using Nagios plugins are listed below.
=> Disk space usage of remote Linux and Windows server
=> CPU Usage
=> Memory usage
=> Hardware Temperature
=> VPN tunnels
=> Router and Switches
=> Databases
=> Network services (DHCP, DNS, LDAP, SMTP etc.)
Nagios Configurations are very granular and managed using following three different category of configuration files:
- Nagios server and web console configuration files can be used to configure the Nagios server itself. For e.g. Use the nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg
- Resource files can be used to store user defined macros and sensitive configuration informations such as passwords.
- Object definition configuration files are used to store information about the hosts, services, commands, contacts, notification period etc.
Nagios has a web front end to display the status. Apart from getting the notification about the hosts and service status through email, SMS etc., you can also see the hosts, services, status through nagios web front end. You can project is on the NOC (Network Operation Center) to view the current status of your whole data center. You can also perform few actions on the web console such as disable and enable notification for a specific service. If you have defined the relationship between your hosts properly in the nagios configuration files, you can use the 3D display view to see a graphical representation of the whole data center visually. This also provides reporting feature where you can view the historic data such as availability of a particular service on a specific host over a period of time.
(Fig. 01 – Nagios web UI displaying status of various services on a Linux host)
Notification process on the Nagios is defined at a very granular level that it covers a wide range of possible scenarios on the notification including escalation process where a specific contact group can be notified if an issues has not been fixed after certain number of initial notifications. This is very helpful to automatically notify the management team about a critical service that was not fixed immediately.
Nagios can also be configured in a distributed setup, where datacenters from different parts of the world can be monitored using local nagios server that can report the status back to a central nagios server. This is achieved by NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor) sending monitoring results from the local nagios server to the central server.
Following articles from The Geek Stuff blog, explains about everything that is required to get a jumpstart on the Nagios installation, configuration on Linux. This also explains about how to monitor Linux and Windows host.
- Nagios 3.0 Jumpstart guide for Linux – Overview, installation and configuration
- How to monitor remote Linux host using Nagios 3.0
- How to monitor remote Windows machine using Nagios on Linux


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Studio Generative necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
Booking Advisor
Our website http://www.bookingadvisor.com is a travel portal for hotel reservations, recently we decided to change strategies and turn the website into a travel meta-search engine.
The target audience is the regular traveler looking to get the lowest price for their hotel reservation.
We want to make a completely new design of BookingAdvisor.com, optimized for better search and browsing experience. The new design will offer a price comparison service.
To make things easier for you we want almost the same layout as Hotelscombined.com, we also are going to have the exact same functions and search options, so you can refer to this website for that too. The color schemes of the new website can be different as the current ones, it must be easy on the eyes.
Other websites you can use as examples are:
- Layout and functions as Hotelscombined.com
- Focus the user experience on the hotel prices and all actions related to them (check prices buttons and etc.)
- Choose your own color scheme
- The entry pages we want in order to enter the contest are:
1) the list of all hotels in a certain city after a search
2) the description page of a single hotel after a search
3) the description page of a single before a search
- Also we want the design made in HTML too, compatible with all famous browsers (IE8 included), we know that this is not a practice here,but that's why the design price we offer is higher. ($1000 for the design and $500 for the HTML).
Here is the link to our logo:
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Murder suspect in court – IronMountainDailyNews.com | news, sports, business, jobs – The Daily News.
By NIKKI YOUNK
Staff Writer
MARINETTE, Wis. – A Crivitz, Wis. man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend at a Wausaukee, Wis. gas station last summer appeared in Marinette County Court this week for a motion hearing.
Judge David G. Miron heard arguments for and against a motion to suppress a statement made by the defendant, 55-year-old Richard B. Heyer.
Judge Miron will issue his decision on the motion during an oral ruling on April 9.
Heyer is still scheduled for a pre-trial on April 29 and a four-day jury trial from May 7 through 10.
He faces felony counts of first degree intentional homicide and felon in possession of a firearm.
The charges stem from an Aug. 26 incident in Wausaukee.
Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve reported that deputies responded to a report of a shooting at the Citgo gas station.
They discovered the body of 51-year-old Ann M. Schueller of Wausaukee behind the counter. Heyer was located outside the building with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.
Sauve said that initial investigation indicated that Heyer and Schueller previously lived together and had a history of domestic violence.
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Can't wait to see how MORON Miron rules on this since he NEVER took into the account the dangers of a DRUNKARD, sexually abusive father and saving a little girl.


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February 14, 2005 • Posted By Shaun Lyon
Rumors have circulated today based on posts on the Restoration Team forum concerning a possible deal with NBC/Universal, who own the Sci-Fi Channel and USA Network, for broadcast of the new series, potentially with the Sci-Fi Channel as first broadcaster and USA as syndicators, which would include the entire back catalog of Doctor Who serials. While there is no official word confirming this, it's the first indication in some time of a possible deal for US broadcast of the new show. Stay tuned!


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The USA Science and Engineering Festival is the nation's largest and only national celebration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) aimed to inspire youth. This biennial festival spans one weekend and draws some 325,000 attendees to Washington D.C.
In this case study, find out how festival organizers use Hootsuite to build momentum on social media for feature nationwide contests, symposiums, school programs, and the finale Expo event—the next scheduled for April 16 and 17, 2016.
- Increase festival attendance by 63%—growing from 200,000 attendees in 2012 to 325,000 in 2014
- Gain recognition as the nation's STEM festival
- Engage industry influencers, sponsors, and ambassadors
- Spread their message nationwide
Download the USA Science and Engineering Festival Success Story and learn how Hootsuite can increase fan attendance at your next event.


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Welcome Back
Today I'd like to share a quick picture of the Christmas card I designed with the help of Serif Craft Artist digikits.
The digikit I used was called Season of Giving Bumper kit. It has the most wonderful classic images I associate with Christmas and you can alter the color ways of many of the elements to make it your own. I combined a number of images and altered them to create my own project design.
The best thing about digi crafting like this is that I was able to use the same layout and alter the size, so I used the same image on toppers for gift boxes and bags, you could even make the design really small for gift tags.
A great way to get a really coordinated, professional yet still personal look for your holiday gift wrapping.
Best wishes and see you soon
Billie 🙂


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What are its advantages?
Metal material is used for almost in much furniture. It is because metal is durable and easy- shaped material. The metal material is commonly used for making a table, chair, cabinets, and so on. Metal is also a sturdy material. Metal material that usually used is steel; steel isn't as same as the other sort of metal. Steel is a lightweight metal and also durable. So, you do not need to worry about its damage.
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Papa, Rosalia, Bertille went to Albert Strohd (?) sale by Waterloo. Uncle Fred & Aunt Mary were also there. We all bought a few things, dishes, glassware, incubator. In the evening Henry & family were all here. This evening the Waterloo Home Coming starts with a dance.
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21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star in this clever, funny and touching (no, really!) big-screen adaptation of the TV show that made Johnny Depp famous, about a team of youthful looking undercover cops sent to a high school to bust a drug ring. In theaters everywhere, read our review and watch the trailer
Casa de mi Padre
Will Ferrell stars in this Spanish-language goof on the telenovelas, about a once proud Mexican family that's caught in the crossfire of a drug war. In limited release, read our review and watch the trailer
Adrien Brody stars in writer-director this film from Tony Kaye ("American History X") that's little more than an angry polemic about the state of education in America. Brody is brilliant, and we agree with Kaye's general thesis. In limited release, read our review and watch the trailer
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jason Segel is the titular layabout whose mother (Susan Sarandon) begs him to the hardware store. On his way there he encounters his estranged brother, who suspects his wife is cheating on him, so they spend the day watching her. From wirter-directors Mark and Jay Duplass ("Cyrus"). In limited release, watch the trailer
Gerhard Richter Painting
A documentary about the artistic process of one of the greatest living painters. In limited release, watch the trailer
Kid With a Bike
From the Dardenne brothers comes this coming-of-age tale of a young boy who is abandoned by his father and lands in the care of a hairdresser. In French with English subtitles. In limited release, watch the trailer
Natural Selection
Rachel Harris stars as a barren housewife who learns that her dying husband has an illegitimate son, and hits the road to bring him home to say goodbye to his father. In limited release, watch the trailer
Seeking Justice
Nic Cage stars as a husband whose wife is the victim of a brutal attack. When a mysterious stranger, played by Guy Pearce, offers to exact revenge, Cage suddenly finds himself indebted to very dangerous men. In limited release, watch the trailer
This Week's New Movies: "21 Jump Street," "Casa de mi Padre," "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" & More
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Sunday marked the start of daylight-saving time, a month early this year. The theory is that it will help conserve energy, but most of us know this is part of a vast conspiracy (possibly the work of government officials who know all about those aliens who come into our bedrooms and probe us) to keep us from getting enough sleep.
In conjunction with this occasion, the National Sleep Foundation released the results of a poll last week showing that most women don't get sufficient shut-eye and suffer negative consequences as a result. A random telephone survey of 1,003 women aged 18 to 64 found that 84 percent experienced insomnia more than one night a week. And 40 percent reported snoring, sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome.
Unsurprisingly, the groups that suffered from the worst sleep disturbances were mothers (both working and stay-at-home), although single working women without children spent the least amount of time in bed (less than six hours on work nights versus an average of roughly 8 1/2 hours).
To cope with drowsiness, 65 percent of the women surveyed said they drank caffeinated beverages during the day, and an alarming 36 percent reported fatigue-generated mood symptoms that left them "feeling hopeless about the future."
Asleep yet? Or just depressed? The foundation's report, which is 53 pages long and includes details about the relationship between sleep and such factors as caring for an aging relative, menopause and watching TV or using the Internet before bedtime, is both impressively comprehensive and only slightly less exciting than the first inaugural address of Grover Cleveland. So it's no surprise that much of the news coverage of the poll has not featured headlines saying "Women Don't Sleep Enough" or "Ladies, Don't Check E-Mail Before Bed!" but "Women in the U.S. Too Tired for Sex."
The poll did find that 33 percent of women opted out of sex when they were "too sleepy or ran out of time." But that sacrifice actually ranked fifth on the list, trailing other things women ignore when they are too tired or pressed for time, like eating right, seeing friends and family, exercise and, ironically, sleep itself. Still, the media have run away with the sex angle, mentioning (with notable scorn) that the activity women are least likely to put on the back burner is work, even though two in 10 said they were late to the office more than once in the last month due to oversleeping or feeling too tired in the morning.
The real news -- that we're too sleepy to sleep -- might not be as titillating as apocalyptic conjectures about the state of American romance, but it's a potentially far more interesting peek at the American psyche. There are all sorts of reasons we don't sleep well or long enough -- stress, illness, child-rearing, late-night reruns of Xanadu -- but the common denominator seems most often to be our inability to be quiet, still and (as we are in sleep, even if there's someone next to us) essentially alone. And why should we have these abilities? There's hardly any need for them in modern life.
We check our e-mail from our cellphones and apply for life insurance online while watching TV, talking on the phone or maybe even having sex. (The secret of highly effective people? Do all three at once!) There is no longer any excuse for doing one thing at a time, let alone indulging in a few moments of idleness. Even meditation has been reformatted into active, even aggressive, magical thinking. Instead of focusing our thoughts inward, we're told by the latest bestseller The Secret that we should be "manifesting" (seeking what we want) through "visualization." We close our eyes not to shut the world out but to invite more stimulus in.
No wonder we can't sleep. Sleep equals doing nothing, and doing nothing is such a low priority that we are way out of practice. Sure, we want slumber, need it, even crave it. But because we can't work, buy things or communicate while we do it, it has very little relevance to our lives.
And because the very essence of sleep runs counter to the nonstop consumption that's become the governing principle of our lives, we see it as a sign of weakness, even diminished social status. Those who have time for adequate sleep are assumed to be professionally unambitious, neglectful of their families or not affluent enough to maximize their participation in our around-the-clock culture. In other words, they're the losers. Those of us who have bags under our eyes and throw tantrums in crowded Trader Joe's parking lots? We're the American success stories. Just don't get too close to us on the freeway. We really shouldn't be driving.
Sleep, it seems, not only eludes us, it's taboo. Meanwhile, those other elusive activities, such as healthy eating, exercise, seeing friends and having sex? They have become prosaic to the point of disposability. I guess that means that sleep is the new sex. Or sleep is the new exercise. Or something.
At any rate, we had only 23 hours to work with Sunday. I hope no one wasted it exercising.


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weight(Burden), noun care, cumbrance, duty, incubus, liability, load, mass, obligation, onus, oppression, ponderousness, pressure, responsibility
weight(Credibility), noun belief, certainty, confidence, credence, credibleness, credit, faith, impressiveness, positiveness, reliance, trustworthiness, validity
weight(Importance), noun authority, consequence, degree of importance, effect, efficacy, eminence, emphasis, enormity, force, import, impressiveness, influence, interest, magnitude, merit, moment, potency, power, prominence, quality, seriousness, significance, value
Associated concepts: weight of the evidence
Foreign phrases: Ponderantur testes, non numerantur.Witnesses are weighed, not counted. Testimonia ponneranda sunt, non numeranda. Evidence is to be weighed, not counted.
See also: burden, clout, concern, consequence, corpus, degree, dint, dominance, eminence, emphasis, import, importance, incumbrance, influence, interest, load, magnitude, materiality, onus, power, predominance, pressure, prestige, primacy, significance, stress
WEIGHT. A quality in natural bodies, by which they tend towards the centre
of the earth.
2. Under the article Measure, (q.v.) it is said that by the constitution congress possesses the power "to fix the standard of weights and measures," and that this power has not been exercised.
3. The weights now generally used in the United States, are the same as those of England; they are of two kinds:
1. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT. 1st. Used in almost all commercial transactions, and in the common dealings of life. 27 1/3 1/2 grains = 1 dram 16 drams = 1 ounce 16 ounces = 1 pound, (lb.) 28 pounds = 1 quarter, (qr.) 4 quarters = 1 hundred weight, (cwt.) 20 hundred weight = 1 ton. 2d. Used for meat and fish. 8 pounds = 1 stone 3d. Used in the wool trade.
Cwt. qr. lb. 7 pounds = 1 clove 14 pounds = 1 stone = 0 0 14 2 stones = 1 tod = 0 1 0 6 1/2 tods = 1 wey = 1 2 14 2 weys = 1 sack = 3 1 0 12 sacks = 1 last = 39 0 0 4th. Used for butter and cheese. 8 pounds = 1 clove 56 pounds = 1 firkin.
2. TROY WEIGHT. 24 grams = 1 pennyweight 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce 12 ounces = 1 pound.
4. These are the denominations of troy weight, when used for weighing gold, silver and precious stones, except diamonds. Troy weight is also used by apothecaries in compounding medicines; and by them the ounce is divided into eight drams, and the drain into three scruples, so that the latter is equal to twenty grains. For scientific purposes, the grain only is used, and sets of weights are constructed in decimal progression, from 10,000 grains downward to one-hundredth of a grain. The caret, used for weighing diamonds, is three and one-sixth grains.
5. A short account of the French weights and measures is given under the article Measure.


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Moving to Delhi? 9 Survival Tips for Women.
So you've ignored all travel warnings about India's capital city, overlooked all evidence pointing against safety, discarded all perceptions thrown at you, and decided to move your life to Delhi. Brilliant. Here are 9 tips for surviving life in Delhi as a single woman, compiled after my five-month-long love & hate relationship with the city.


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April 27, 2006 • Posted By Shaun Lyon
The Sci Fi Channel in the US is running a new sweepstakes for the chance to win a 30gb video iPod, in conjunction with their broadcast of the new series - yet ironically, featuring trivia questions from the classic series. The contest is running between now and June 9 and is only open to legal adult residents of the US. At right is an image of the promotional flyer; click on it for a larger version, or click here to enter. (Thanks to NBC Universal, Paul Aldred)


text: When Forests are Under Attack Sometimes, heroes aren't who we expect. With more than 750 million acres classified as forest land and millions more acres with trees in urban areas, the U.S. population receives a wide array of services and commodities from forests, such as wood and other forest products, recreation, wildlife, clean water, energy and jobs. Melissa Jenkins, Forest Health Protection, U.S. Forest Service Posted in Forestry Feb 21, 2017 Respond to this story


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That gasp of surprise, a sensory rush, the tingly feeling all over your body, those subsequent devilish grins: There's nothing more exhilarating than adding a dash of spice to your lust life. Because sex, even when it's already pretty damn good, is just one of those things that you can keep making better. What's really thrilling is how simple it can be to electrify your bedroom bond and take things from basic sizzle to burning-up-the-sheets sensational.
Ready to sprinkle some sexy little passion presents into your nights and afternoons (and, of course, don't forget the mornings)? Then start reading, because here's Redbook's list of 101 treats to try on your soon-to-be-very-grateful guy.
1. Stick a silk scarf in his briefcase with a little note that says, "You're going to need this later tonight."
2. Crank the air conditioner way up, so you both get goose bumps; then cuddle close to bask in each other's body heat.
3. Give him a lip tease: Kiss him tenderly for a few minutes and pull away, then go back in a minute and kiss him more lustily. His passion will build with each mouthwatering interlude.
4. Wear a daringly low-cut top, and during dinner "innocently" reach over for the salt.
5. Try the "silk circle": Make love wearing a silk nightie. The slickness of the material between you two will generate lots of slipping and sliding as you swivel and grind your hips.
6. Sit on his lap -- at a party, an outdoor barbecue, in your living room while he's lounging in an armchair -- and align your private parts with his. Every now and then shift your weight a bit; it'll stimulate his groin...and his mind.
7. Put a copy of the Kama Sutra on his night table.
8. Strongly hint that you're in the mood, then play hard to get and make him work at seducing you.
9. Give him a sensual chest massage: Sit on the bed against the headboard and have him lie down with his head in your lap. Oil up your hands, then slide them down his pec muscles. With the tips of your fingers, massage underneath the muscles, slowly moving up along his sides, toward his armpits. Then, using your thumbs, make an outward fanning movement down to the middle of his chest, between the two muscles.
10. Do it dressed: Just lower or move aside any articles of clothing that are an obstacle.
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11. Buy a thong if you haven't already.
12. Seduce him in the kitchen. He'll never expect you to get hot and heavy among the pots and pans.
13. Make out in a warm summer rain shower.
14. Ask for a bite of his dinner and make him feed it to you on his fork.
15. Wear a summery top with a million little buttons or hooks, and slooowwly start to undo them as he watches. By the last one, he'll be in a downright lusty lather.
16. Tell him you need the car keys, then dip your hand in his front pocket and fish around for them.
17. Make love in front of a mirror so you can see every erotic angle of each other's bodies.
18. Join him in his prework morning shower.
19. With the tip of your tongue, slowly trace the rim of his ear. Then dip into the little nook behind his lobe, and when he can't stand it anymore, gently stick your tongue in his ear. You'll be hitting so many nerves that he'll be buzzing with pleasure.
20. Put on a strappy tank top -- sans bra.
21. Lay him down and softly run your nails over his whole body, just barely skimming all his hot spots, until you tease him into a frenzy.
22. Let him watch you get dressed. Bend over while you pull up your skirt, and arch your back while you hook your bra; you may not stay dressed for long.
23. Initiate sex in the middle of the night. Don't say a word; just let the breeze, crickets and distant cars be your soundtrack.
24. Wear a very sheer white gauzy nightgown.
25. On a sunny day, while the rest of the world is outside enjoying the weather, sneak inside and enjoy each other.
26. Worship his entire body by going on a detailed tour with your lips.
27. Give him directions in bed. Don't be bossy, just whisper exactly what you'd like him to do to you.
28. Read each other torrid passages from erotic books (try ones by Anaïs Nin or Susie Bright).
29. When you're in a group setting, such as a dinner party, make eye contact with him and let it linger for a few intense, longing seconds.
30. Buy a totally vampy, hot-to-trot little lingerie number (may we suggest something scarlet?) for his eyes only.
31. Put on some wild drumbeat music and let the intense rhythm inspire you two.
32. "Christen" a room in your house where you've never done it before.
33. Go for a morning jog together, then pounce on him while you're both still sweaty and breathing heavily.
34. Send the kids to a sleepover or wait until they're in bed and pull out a pile of X-citing movies. Henry & June, Body Heat and Dangerous Liaisons are good picks to get your engines racing.
35. Grab his hand, lure him outside and slow-dance in the moonlight.
36. Write him an invitation to an evening of passion and pleasure that he'll never forget and mail it to him.
37. Softly kiss and nibble the backs of his knees -- an erogenous zone he probably doesn't even know exists.
38. Seduce him with candy: Place Red Hots on his side of the bed, in his briefcase and around the house until he gets the message.
39. Moan loudly and lustily the next time he rubs your shoulders.
40. Take a shower and rub your whole bod with a great-smelling scrub; then shave and slick up with a rich lotion. You'll feel so touchable that you won't be able to resist making a move on your man.
41. Massage the spot just under the ankle bone on either side of his foot in little circles. According to reflexology, this move will get his pelvic region pulsing.
42. Surprise him with a striptease: When he's relaxing on the couch, throw on some sultry tunes, such as Alicia Keys's CD, and oh-so-slowly start to unbutton your blouse and sway your hips.
43. Throw a billion rose petals all over the bed and have a heavy-breathing, bodice-ripping, Harlequin-romance experience.
44. Admire him blatantly when he gets out of his A.M. shower: Whistle when he walks by you.
45. Before getting into bed, strip down to just a pair of heels and a pearl necklace. Find out what interesting ways you two can incorporate them into sex.
46. Say his full name in bed.
47. On a sweltering day, look him in the eye, hold your hair up with one hand and run an ice cube down your neck, over your collarbone, between your breasts.
48. Pretend you're at a swanky hotel: Stick a Do Not Disturb sign on the door and place a mint on the pillow. Then have amazing vacation sex.
49. Make love in a sleeping bag in your backyard.
50. Dedicate a sexy song to him on his favorite radio station so he hears it during his drive home from work.
51. Grab his butt hard when he's thrusting, like you don't ever want him to stop.
52. Make love at half the pace you normally do.
53. When he goes in for a good-morning peck, grab his head with both hands and turn the kiss into a hot-and-heavy tongue-action moment.
54. Write this on a note card: "I'm lusting for your ____. I want you to take my ____ and ____ all over it with your _____." Pass it to him and ask him to fill it out any way he wants.
55. Ban TV for a whole night and see what other forms of entertainment you can come up with.
56. Call him a slightly scandalous new nickname: Cowboy, Stallion, Lover.
57. Why not give him oral sex over his underwear?
58. Lick your finger, then trace the outline of his lips. It'll make his lips -- and other body parts -- tingle.
59. Bring him breakfast in bed on Sunday morning: strawberries, honey, cream and anything else that can be smeared on and nibbled off your bodies should the mood strike you.
60. Tell him that you're the student and he's the hot professor, and that you were wondering if you could meet during office hours to talk about your "performance."
61. Slick yourself up with cinnamon massage oil; then rub your body all over his.
62. Try out a knock-knock joke between the sheets; laughter and sex make a good combo.
63. During intercourse, stop his thrusting and contract your Kegel muscles, as if you're giving him a mini massage.
64. Ask him to help you buckle the ankle strap on your sandal. When he gets on his knees, shift slightly so he can sneak a peek up your skirt.
65. During dinner (when he's not thinking about sex), run your toes up his leg. We promise that when you reach his crotch, his brain will be doing backflips.
66. You've never blindfolded him before? Try it. He's sure to enjoy the experience.
67. When he's wearing an old, ratty button-down or a shirt with snaps, rip it open.
68. Pinch his butt when he walks by.
69. Call him at the office the morning after spectacular sex and tell him how hot he was last night -- and that you can't wait for an encore.
70. Challenge him to a game of pool at a bar: Leaning over the stick will give you that racy naughty-girl image that all guys still go nuts over.
71. When you're alone at the pool or lake, make sure his eyes are glued to you by rubbing sunscreen all over your body in an over-the-top erotic way.
72. Send the kids to Grandma's and have sex so loudly (moaning, screaming, panting) that you bet the neighbors can hear.
73. Eat an ice cream cone like this: Tilt your head down, then coyly look up and make eye contact with him as you slowly lick around the whole circumference of the scoop. Next take a mouthful from the top. Oops, is that some at the corner of your mouth? Maintain eye contact as you reach for the drips with your tongue.
74. Have sex on the bedroom floor; throw down some blankets for cushioning. The hard surface won't give, unlike your bed, so every push, tug and grab will feel different.
75. During sex (lightly) make little circles around his nipples with your fingernails.
76. During a romantic dinner for two, pull out your compact and seductively apply some red lipstick.
77. Buy him a pair of silk boxers. Leave them on the bed with a note that says, "Can't wait to see you in these."
78. Turn your bedroom into a harem: Stack a bunch of fluffy pillows on the bed, then place them under your butt to provide a different angle during sex.
79. Challenge your man to a game of strip poker.
80. Keep the door open when you shower. When he peeks in, just happen to be soaping up your breasts: That image will percolate in his mind all day.
81. Make love standing up by an open window with the summer breeze blowing in.
82. Put a stick-on tattoo someplace secret, such as your hip, inner thigh or butt, and let him discover the surprise.
83. Lube up your hands, then interlace your fingers and move them up and down his penis. The friction from your knuckles will drive him wild.
84. Slip on his old football jersey or favorite work shirt and nothing else. See how long it stays on.
85. Escape the heat and head to the air-conditioned cineplex; in the dark, encourage his hand to wander a little too high up your thigh.
86. Put some lotion in the refrigerator for a few minutes, then massage the cool cream over his hot body.
87. Come up with a secret sex code. Say it in public whenever the mood strikes you to let him know what you're thinking.
88. Kiss the path from the backs of his knees to the tops of his inner thighs; then run your tongue along the crease where his thighs meet his pelvis.
89. Find an area by a window or patio door where the sun comes in, put a few blankets on the floor and make love in the warm rays.
90. Email short sexy stories to your husband when he's at work. You can find steamy stuff at www.nerve.com.
91. Have sex in a tight space: in the closet, on the bathroom sink, in a lounge chair. The limited room and new surface angles will force you to get awfully creative and discover some new positions.
92. Serenade him. Even if your musical background consists of three guitar lessons in junior high school, it doesn't matter. Or lip-synch to a record. Guys have a thing for chick musicians, we swear.
93. Whisper to him, "If you could picture what's going through my mind right now, you'd be totally, and I mean totally, turned on."
94. Cut a pair of old jeans into supershort shorts with little slits up the sides. Walk around the house in them all day Saturday until he can't contain himself any longer.
95. Rip his horoscope out of the newspaper (anything with a good prediction) and write a note on it saying, "I predict you'll get a very lusty surprise today." Then leave it on his pillow.
96. Put red bulbs in your bedside lamps and have sex in the sultry glow.
97. Give him a sexy compliment in public. Try "My husband always knows how to make me happy" or "Ooh, isn't my guy looking so hot in that suit?"
98. Turn on the fan, take a sip of mint schnapps and kiss him all over. The mix of the cool blowing air and your minty breath will create a sensational body cocktail.
99. Set the alarm for 30 minutes earlier so you can have sex before dashing off to work.
100. Play a randy round or two of truth or dare.
101. Buy whipped cream and tell him that he gets to dollop it anywhere.
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Lawmakers seek compromise on driver's license bill
Gov. Susana Martinez said she would consider accepting a compromise to the controversial topic of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, although it's not her first choice.
Two senators are working on a plan B. While one is a Republican and the other a Democrat, they both support the governor's initiative to ban illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses because she said it leads to fraud and crime. But the senators said they're prepared to present another option if there isn't enough support for the governor's proposal.
"We would like to avoid another year of having this on the front burner," Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, said. "We have serious issues here in the state of New Mexico that need to be resolved."
The compromise bill would allow illegal immigrants to get what's called a driver's permit. It would allow them to drive so they can still get to work and school, but it won't allow them to use the card as identification. For example, it wouldn't be permissible to use the permit to board an airplane or get into a federal building.
"We're trying to do something that's going to work," Sen. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales, said. "And we're going to try and make it something that everybody can be half pleased with."
The driver's license debate has been a heated one the last two sessions. The governor hasn't supported compromise bills in the past because she said they haven't addressed public safety concerns. She said she's willing to work with lawmakers on a bill that might have a better chance of gaining support as long as it addresses those public safety issues.
Lawmakers said the voting may be different from years past since there are so many new faces this year.


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Pete Hamill's Reader's Digest story "The Yellow Handkerchief" inspired Y?ji Yamada's appealing 1977 film of the same name, and now it has become the basis for a new movie, also of the same name, but not really a remake.
Screenplay writer Erin Dignam and director Udayan Prasad have taken the plot outline of the Yamada film and created original characters in a rural post-Katrina Louisiana, captured in evocative images by master cinematographer Chris Menges.
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We gradually learn Brett's story in flashbacks as he is swept over by memories of his passionate romance with the sensuous, earthy May (Maria Bello).
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Washington D.C., Jun 19, 2014 / 10:24 am ().- Two migration experts have said that many unaccompanied child immigrants to the U.S. from Mexico and Central America could qualify as refugees fleeing violence, and thus be granted asylum.
Rick Jones, a Catholic Relief Services official who has lived in Central America for 27 years, told CNA the "epidemic of violence" in the region is behind the massive spike of migrants from those countries.
"If this were a declared war, you would consider them refugees. And the homicide rates in Central America fit the definition of war."
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo Almaguer, an auxiliary of the Seattle archdiocese and head of the U.S. bishops' immigration committee, recently called the situation a "humanitarian crisis" that demands a "comprehensive response" from the U.S. government.
The number of unaccompanied minors coming to the U.S. has steadily risen and has doubled each year since 2011, according to Jones.
Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, said that "absolutely" some of those migrants could qualify for asylum.
"In terms of asylum, you only have to establish credible fear," he told CNA. "That's part of the asylum policy that we have in the country: those who are fleeing violent countries can find protection here."
He added that not only children, but adults as well, are fleeing violence in Central America and Mexico. "It also may be happening with adults that are fleeing violence from Mexico, that are being targeted by cartels. So yes, absolutely, some of them could" qualify as refugees.
Jones is CRS' deputy regional director for global solidarity and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. He told CNA that violence in Central America has reached the level of "epidemic" by World Health Organization standards, with the homicide rate in Honduras at 92 per 100,000 people. By contrast, the homicide rate in the U.S. is less than 5 per 100,000.
The violence in Central America is primarily drug-related, with gangs also playing a big part.
"We have to realize that Central America lies between Columbia and Mexico, and the drug-related violence is a huge part of it. The second big factor is gang presence," Jones said. "In all these communities and urban neighborhoods, even now in some smaller towns, gangs have a presence. They're in schools. And families just don't know what to do."
Because of violence and poverty at home, migrants are left with "no alternative."
"Everybody knows, and people here know, that going into Mexico (to reach the U.S.) is an incredibly risky thing to do. They wouldn't do that just on some executive order. I think they're doing it because they feel here at home, they have no other alternative."
Both experts agreed that the U.S. must work with the countries to foster economic opportunity and curb violence there.
"This is a failure of foreign policy of the president of the United States forgetting about Latin America," said Aguilar, a former head of the Bush administration's Office of Citizenship.
"I think that we should be more aggressive in building trade relationships with these countries to improve their economies, but also work in helping them in their security policy by having a stronger partnership," he continued.
Jones noted: "people have the right to migrate, as well as the right not to migrate. And there needs to be a lot more resources invested here in Central America and in Mexico to foster economic development and job opportunity as well as to address the issues of violence here, because otherwise people are going to keep coming."
Jones described some programs specifically designed to address the root problems of gang violence in the region. He cited programs to build strong families, gang intervention programs, and prison reform as part of the solution.
One program in particular is called "Youth Builders." Jones said that "we've been able to get over 80 percent of the kids here to go back to school: they get a job, or they start a microenterprise, a small business. And those are the kinds of positive things that we need to do. So in a sense, we need to replace the negative behaviors around violence with something positive like assuming responsibility and being able to get a job."
Aguilar maintained that the U.S. needs to adopt a "workable immigration policy," most notably a market-based guest-worker program by which workers could return to their home country, re-unite with their families, and then re-enter the U.S. Many child migrants are coming to the U.S. not just to flee violence but to re-unite with their parents, he noted.
"And if we had a sensible immigration policy where those parents could return to Mexico or Central America to be with their kids and then re-enter legally, that circle of immigration I'm talking about them having, it's really not part of the discussion. By having this dysfunctional system, we're encouraging illegality."
Jones said "any kind of guest-worker policy" would be welcomed, "because it's at least better than the situation which exists now. Which is nothing."
He insisted on comprehensive immigration reform to re-unite children with their parents: the backlog for children to immigrate legally is over ten years, and the children are adults by the time they can legally re-unite with their parents.
"So their parents have missed their entire childhood. And they're being raised by their grandparents, aunts and uncles, or neighbors here in the country of origin."
Tags: Refugees, Immigration reform, Asylum seekers
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My Nature Story
You can tap into children's natural curiosity about the living world with the My Nature Story project. It not only will get them outside, but will help them to develop their observational and creative writing skills.
How to Use This Printout
- Youll need a notebook, pencils, blank sheets of paper, construction paper, and coloring supplies.
- Start by asking some questions that will get the child thinking about what you might see when you go outside and that also fire up his or her imagination. For example, you might ask Have you ever wondered what its like to be a beetle? Ask the child to jot down a few notes or even draw a picture of what they imagine the world looks like from a beetles point of view.
- Visit a nearby green space. This could be a park or even your backyard. Ask the child to pick out a living thing: an animal, insect, or plant. The child should spend at least five minutes sitting as close to it as possible, watching it and imagining what its like to be that thing.
- Help the child take notes about the living thing. Encourage them to write about what it looks and feels like, what it does, what happens to it, and what it might say if it could talk. For example, you might say something like I'm looking at an earthworm. I think the worm is thinking, 'Boy, it sure is dark down here.'"
Try to get the child thinking about the what, how and why of the thing why it is shaped and colored like it is, how it gathers food, and where it lives. It might be helpful to have him or her draw a picture of what he or she sees.
- Print out the My Nature Story page and help the child use it to write and color a five-page story based on his or her findings. Make sure you ask the child to look at his or her notes and to use them to add details when you are filling out the page and when you are working on the book.
- Once the story is done, have the child use construction paper and coloring supplies to create a cover page. Staple or tie the pages together.
More Ideas to Try
- Read books together about nature that include both facts and fiction. In a Nutshell by Joseph Anthony or Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, or Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin make good choices.
- With your child or a group of children, gather natural things from around the neighborhood and view them under a magnifying glass or microscope. Items could range from a leaf to water from a puddle to an insect. Have them write about what they discover when they look at things up close.
- Check out a flower, tree, insect, or animal identification book at the local library. Walk up and down your street or around the block and help the child use the book to identify what he or she sees. Have the child bring along a notebook to log what he or she has seen, how many there were, and the location. This activity also can be done with a group of children.


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Here is a delicious Banana Cake recipe with Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing for your taste buds. If you're a Banana lover then you'll fall in love with this cake.
Side note, you should use ripe bananas for this recipe. The riper they are the better the banana taste will be, so if you have a bowl full of over ripe bananas that need to be eaten before the flys do give this delicious cake a go.
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Banana Cake With Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing
Cook Time50 mins
Total Time50 mins
Servings: 14 slices
- 3 cups Plain Flour sifted
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 cups Mashed Banana about 3-4 bananas - use very ripe bananas
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice
- 120 g Butter softened
- 4 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 1 1/4 cups White Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar packed
- 3 Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 cups Buttermilk
- Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing
- 1 1/4 cups Thickened Cream
- 400 g Cream Cheese softened
- 80 g Butter softened
- 1 3/4 cups Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Banana Cake
- Pre-heat a fan forced oven to 160°C (320°F).
- Grease and line with baking paper two 20cm (8 inch) round springform baking pans.
- In a bowl add plain flour, baking powder and salt and mix together.
- In a separate bowl mash bananas with 1 tsp lemon juice and stir to combine.
- In a large bowl add butter, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, white sugar & brown sugar. Using electric beaters, mix until pale & fluffy.
- Add remaining 2 tbsp vegetable oil & eggs and mix until combined. Add eggs one at a time and mix through after each addition. Don't over beat.
- Add vanilla extract and mashed bananas and stir to mix through.
- With beaters on low speed, add flour and buttermilk in alternating batches. Mix until just combined.
- Divide mixture evenly between the 2 baking pans and place in oven. Cook for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool in baking pans for about 10 minutes before turning out onto wire racks to cool completely.
- Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing
- Add thickened cream to a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
- In a separate bowl, add cream cheese & butter and beat until smooth and fluffy.
- Add icing sugar and vanilla extract and beat until fully combined.
- Add the thickened cream mixture and fold through until combined.
- Cake Assembly
- Place one cake onto a plate and spread with vanilla cream cheese mixture.
- Place second cake on top and spread cream cheese mixture over the top and sides of the cake.
- Place cake in refrigerator to all icing to firm before serving. Store in refrigerator.
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