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WAVE, MP3 and MIDI in brief.
Wave, mp3 and midi are the most popular file formats for storing music. That is why the question "How to convert one format to another?" is very popular. Here we explain in brief the difference between Wave, MP3 and MIDI.
The most simple is Wave. It is a record of sound pressure on microphone on time. Any sound can be recorded as wave file, but wave does not allow to edit components of sound and occupies a lot of space. MP3 is a compressed wave. It takes several times less space, but does not allow to separate and edit components as well.
In opposite, MIDI can store only musical sounds. MIDI is a command system, containing information about a note, about the instrument and its change, the length of pressing and so on. This kind of a record can easily be edited and takes less storage space than wave. More information about MIDI can be found on What is MIDI page.
The task of converting MP3 to Wave and WAVE to MP3 is easy, there are many software products capable of doing this. MIDI to MP3 conversion is more difficult, it is called MIDI rendering.
The most difficult is the task of musical WAVE or MP3 to MIDI conversion, also known as music recognition. It is somewhat similar to speech or handwritten text recognition, and involves complex AI algorithms. MP3 to MIDI description page contains more information on this topic.
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Hot Air Balloons
Real hot air balloons allow people to break the law of gravity, if only for a few hours, to soar quietly over the land for a bird's eye view of city and countryside. A hot air balloon is a lighter-than-air aircraft which uses the basic scientific principle that warm air rises in cooler air. Hot air has less mass than cool air. When hot air fills the balloon it floats or suspends in mid air. A hot air balloon large enough to carry a basket full of people into the air has to be very large because in order to lift at least 1,000 lbs the balloon needs to be filled with 65,000 cubic feet of hot air.
The largest part of a hot air balloon is called an envelope. The envelope is the part of the aircraft that contains the heated air necessary to keep the craft afloat. Suspended beneath the envelope is the gondola or wicker basket. Passengers ride in the basket portion. The balloon pilot controls the source of heat, usually open flame from a liquid propane tank. The balloon design can allow the pilot to control altitude and vertical speed but hot air balloon are not practical for travel as they can only move as fast as the wind blows and can't be steered in any defined direction.
The Sky lantern, or Chinese lantern is the oldest form of hot air balloon. The unmanned lanterns were used during the Three Kingdoms era (220–280 AD) as airborne lanterns to send signals to military leaders and troops.
Hot air balloon festivals and sporting events attract millions of spectators every year when thousands of balloon take to the skies. Enthusiasts claim balloon travel is both an exhilarating and serene experience.
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Nameless jerseys are team-first message
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- This isn't exactly the best year for the Astros to not put the names of players on the backs of their Spring Training jerseys. After all, only 22 of the 61 players in camp this year were at camp a year ago, and the 40-man roster has seen a 50-percent turnover since the end of the season.
Still, manager Bo Porter told the players on the first day of camp he wants them to earn the names across their backs by making the club on Opening Day. Until then, it's numbers only on the backs of the team's jerseys.
"It was explained to the players exactly why," Porter said. "The name on the front [is what] matters, and we have 25 guys that will earn the right to have the name put on the back, and that will be the 25 men that will make this ballclub. It definitely was done by design. It's a message sent to them that it's all about the Astros."
The players were on board with the notion.
"Bo said we have to earn our names when we get to the big leagues," pitcher Rudy Owens said. "It makes sense and gives you something to look forward to."


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Learning The Ropes – The 2014 Hallmark Ornamentstevejb68 on July 20, 2014 in collections, Holiday
It is that time of year. Hallmark is now selling the new Keepsake Ornaments for this year's Christmas season. That means there should be a new Beagle Scout Snoopy ornament if the company is continuing the series they began several years ago. I was in St. Cloud last Saturday afternoon so I decided to stop in the store and see if there was a new one that I needed to buy. There was!
This year's ornament is called "learning The Ropes". According to the Hallmark web page, "Square knots, slip knots,…the Beagle Scouts have Snoopy tied up in knots. They're not trying to be "knotty," though, they're just learning the ropes! This ornament would be great for a Peanuts® fan, or anyone who has experience with Scouting." The size of the piece is only 2.58″ W x 2.09″ H x 1.83″ D, which I believe is a bit smaller than previous year's ornaments. The price is $14.95. I believe they are for sale in the stores only, and not available online.
I picked up two them. One to use on the tree and one to keep as part of my collection. I have done the same with each year's piece. I am thinking I may have to set up a tree this Christmas season, put all eight of my Beagle Scout Snoopy ornaments on it, take a picture of it, and post it to this blog again to see if you can find them all.
The store also had several 2013 Lego Yoda ornaments on sale for 80% off. I picked up a three of those since they were less then $4.00 each. I may place one in the tree with the Snoopy ornaments just to mess you up a bit in this year's tree picture. The others may end up as presents for someone this holiday season.
Here is the Hallmark website page if you want to check out this year's Beagle Scout Snoopy ornament: http://shop.hallmark.com/christmas/christmas-ornaments/learning-the-ropes-1495QXI2556.html#prefn1=characters&prefv1=Peanuts®&start=1


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Sunday Results:
· From 9-11 p.m. ET, "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" averaged a 1.5/4 in 18-49 and 5.1 million viewers overall. On a night that included special competition from about a 45-minute overrun of "Amazing Race" on CBS, "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" built on NBC's results in the prior hour from 8-9 p.m. ET by 15 percent in 18-49 rating (1.5 vs. 1.3).
· "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" tied for #1 for its second hour from 10-11 p.m. among ABC, CBS and NBC in 18-49 (with a 1.6 rating from 10-11 vs. a 1.6 for CBS's "Good Wife" overrun and "The Mentalist") and was #1 outright among those networks from 10:30-11 p.m.
· In the 10:30 p.m. ET lead-in to local news, "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" tied for #1 in the key news demographic of adults 25-54 (with a 2.2 rating vs. a 2.2 for CBS's combination of "Good Wife" and "Mentalist"), erasing a 15 percent margin for CBS during the prior half-hour (2.3 for "Good Wife" vs. 2.0 for "Apprentice"). "Apprentice" was #1 or tied for #1 among ABC, CBS and NBC from 10:30-11 p.m. in adults, men and women 18-34; adults, men and women 18-49; and adults and men 25-54.
· From 7-9 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" (1.1/3 in 18-49, 6.1 million viewers overall) reported a season high for a Sunday edition in total viewers (6.110 million), pending updates. "Dateline" is up week to week in total viewers by 9 percent (6.110 million vs. 5.620 million).
· From its first half-hour to its fourth, "Dateline" grew in total viewers by 20 percent or 1.2 million persons (to 6.8 million from 5.6 million). In 18-49, the growth was 44 percent (1.3. vs. 0.9).
NOTE: All national ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.


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A Boulder man who was accused of defrauding investors out of almost half a million dollars pleaded guilty to felony theft and securities fraud Tuesday.
Austin Veith, 33, was scheduled to stand trial on one count of theft and multiple counts of securities fraud this coming Monday in Boulder District Court, but entered the plea Tuesday morning in exchange for prosecutors dropping some of the security fraud charges.
Veith — who is free on $200,000 bond — is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 26 and faces up to 12 years in prison.
He was arrested in New York and extradited to Colorado in June 2011 after police say he diverted $450,000 meant to fund Internet startups into his personal accounts, according to court records.
Veith, who once owned Boulder tanning salon Sol Tan, started online frequent flier mileage tracking website UsingMiles.com in 2008 with a former classmate at the University of Colorado business school.
The pair used $12,000 in seed money they attained after graduating from the Boulder TechStars entrepreneurial program to help launch UsingMiles, according to court records.
Records show that as investors put money into Veith's venture, Veith instead used the money to rent a $10,000-a-month apartment in New York City and a $4,500-a-month "party house" in Breckenridge. He also wired nearly $85,000 to various Las Vegas casinos and spent $23,532 of investor funds in November 2009 alone on clothes, ski lift tickets, hotels, Apple iTunes and plane tickets.
Veith had pleaded guilty to theft in 2008 in a Lafayette case and was barred from engaging in business transactions without the approval of his probation officer.


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Author Advises Pastors, Others to Deal with "Messy" Problems
- Rev. Austin Miles AgapePress
- 2005 25 Jun
Title: "Facing Messy Stuff in the Church"
Author: Kenneth L. Swetland
Publisher: Kregel
What do you do when a convicted pedophile gets saved in prison and upon release wants to join your church? What do you say to him, and how do you confront the issues involved? Clergy and laity may someday need to know how to respond to such questions – and more.
For example, do you inform the church of the former prisoner's being there? If you do not, are you putting the children in your church at risk? How would you discuss this in a meeting with the church board? And what about pastoral confidentiality? This is one of the delicate cases detailed in "Facing Messy Stuff in the Church: Case Studies for Pastors and Congregations" (Kregel Publications, 2005).
Every pastor and chaplain who deals with the complex problems of this "anything-goes" 21st century will benefit from this book. It is also invaluable for every seminary student and new pastor who hasn't lived long enough to deal with many of life's messes on behalf of the God of mercy and grace.
Even so, the "messy stuff" profiled in this book is enough to sober even the most seasoned of pastors. It is frank, raw, and instructive – and at times, overwhelming. And these are all real cases in various denominational settings in various parts of the country. The challenging (as well as sensitive) messes addressed in this excellent Kregel release are dealt with forthrightly. It is fascinating, informative, and an easy-read (indeed, a most pleasant, smooth read) of 15 case studies.
In "Facing Messy Stuff," author Kenneth L. Swetland – a theological professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he also serves as campus chaplain – prepares church leaders to deal head-on with the messy stuff, rather than merely doing damage control after the problems have erupted.
It offers hands-on instruction for managing problems that affect not just the person with the problem, but a problem that has the potential of causing the church itself great damage if not handled correctly, such as the pedophile case spotlighted in the chapter on child molestation – a chapter that alone is worth the price of the book.
What is especially valuable in that particular chapter is how the pastor approached the issue and the words he used in dealing with it – no-nonsense words that got right to the point with a voice of authority, yet with Christian compassion and concern.
This is an acquired (delicate-balance) skill which permits no back-peddling, softening the impact or significance of the sin, or yielding to the politically correct "understanding and accepting" approach. In that flawed, lazy method, nothing can really be resolved except to make a person comfortable in his or her sin and get the pastor off the hook. What a terrible disservice to a troubled individual who needs healing! This book shows how to cut to the chase, how to get to the heart of the problem and deal with it effectively for all concerned.
Other Case Studies
Another case concerns sexual harassment, where an elder of the church "came on" to a young woman in the church. Counseling was necessary for the victim (who was led to believe that she was somehow at fault) and for the perpetrator.
Then it was discovered there were other victims. The elder was indeed a womanizer. The pastor's words to the offender were powerful and to the point. Then the question: Should this man's wife be informed? And should he be expelled from the church?
The first step was to ask him to resign his position as elder. "No," says the offender, "an elder has been ordained an elder for life!" What's more, this wretched counterfeit planned to study for vocational ministry with denominational backing. Now what do we do? What about confidentiality? This is all explained in the book.
The chapter on sexual deviation includes the case of an exhibitionist Sunday School teacher who took disgusting nude photos of himself which he e-mailed to a young teenager in the church, and a transvestite demanding to use the woman's restroom in church. In the latter case, the individual insisted upon being included as part of leadership (inclusiveness), and (being a professional musician) he wanted to become a part of the music and worship team.
The restroom request was refused. He had actually used the women's restroom. When this was discovered, women in the church admitted feeling uncomfortable and demanded that something be done about it.
In an attempt to accommodate the transvestite, it was suggested that a restroom could be set up for his exclusive use. This idea was roundly rejected – to which he protested as "discrimination" and threatened that he might file a lawsuit against the church.
A similar problem occurred (in another section of the country with a different denomination) with a married man with two children, who turned out to be a transsexual who was preparing for a sex-change operation. He also demanded to use the women's restroom.
He belonged to the local Gay/Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Alliance, a group that encouraged him to continue his church involvement and to press for change in the church. There also was the possibility of a lawsuit against the church by them on his behalf.
Practical Advice, Not Sensational
At this point, the book resembles a cross between Dr. Phil and The Jerry Springer Show. However, this is not a "sensationalist" book. It is a textbook for counseling and conflict resolution, providing guidelines in handling this kind of messy stuff in the church today.
The book also addresses the problems of gambling, pornography, and divorce. What is shocking is how these problems are becoming more common among ministers. This particular chapter spotlights a "pastor" who is called "Derek."
This man is a composite of every bad pastor imagined – and it surely verifies that a major problem with pastors today is that they entered the ministry as a career choice rather than in response to a calling. This chapter should challenge all pastors to re-examine and re-think their own lives and conduct, and how they are handling the ministry that has been entrusted to them.
While it is a major issue today, not all the book is about sexual issues. There is much more – spouse and child abuse, alcohol abuse, miscarriage and stillborn babies, grief (chaplains especially deal with this almost daily), depression, suicide (one of the most difficult events to deal with), abortion, AIDS (do you let the church know?), and even murder.
Regularity of Problems
These are the problems that are coming up with increased regularity in churches today in a world of chaos and confusion. And pastors and chaplains must be equipped to handle them spiritually, professionally, and most importantly of all ... effectively. This book teaches how to deal with these problems – as the author states (and teaches) – "head-on."
The only frustration this reviewer has with the book is that each chapter ends with a cliff-hanger. We are not told the outcome of each case. However, that was the intention of the author, who explains in the foreword that not all resolutions come out the same, even in identical situations.
It is left up to the readers to pursue the cases further, with the aid of the discussion questions at the end of each chapter, and to come up with their own solution as to how it might conclude. There is also an appendix titled "How To Use Case Studies."
"Facing Messy Stuff" lends itself to group studies. It would be well for local pastors' organizations to do this among themselves using Swetland's book as a text.
In addition, this is a reference book that should always be near the pastor's fingertips. A noted chaplain who works in the San Francisco Bay area, Rev. Carson Curcini, after looking over the notes for this review, stated: "This is a very important book for pastors ... especially for this day and age that we live in."
To that this minister can give a hearty "Amen!" "Facing Messy Stuff in the Church" should be in every pastor's and chaplain's library.
© 2005 AgapePress. All rights reserved. Used with permission.


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In a year when Verdi's 200th anniversary will be remembered worldwide, opera is in the spotlight. For one boutique opera festival, that's just how they like it.
There's no denying it: the way we listen to music has changed. Thanks to MP3 players, apps, downloads and DAB radio, we can have music when and how you want it.
But…we still love live.
No amount of downloading will beat the rugged buzz of a traditional music session and intimate gatherings such as Other Voices give us shivers.
Classical music and opera, too, retain the power to thrill. The collected magic of opera houses, symphonies and concert halls can make your heart leap.
Giuseppe Verdi knew that. Giuseppe Verdi did that and one of Europe's most cherished boutique opera festivals will never forget it.
Over 100 years since his death and 200 years since his birth, Verdi remains opera royalty. Music enthusiasts still engage energetically in the Wagner v Verdi debate while opera festivals across the globe ring with his music.
Wexford Festival Opera is no different.
Described by the UK's Guardian newspaper as "the most important festival of rare opera in the world", Wexford Festival Opera (WFO) has established itself as a big hitter on the opera calendar.
As WFO organiser Elizabeth Rose-Browne explains, the festival found its feet not by playing the classics, but by unearthing hidden gems:
"Wexford has established itself from its inception to produce rare or unjustly neglected repertoire. Founder and initial Artistic Director Dr Tom Walsh, a local GP, once said, 'I'm not going to give them what they like, but what I think they will like.'"
And so Wexford "became the place where you could see something that you couldn't see or hear anywhere else".
But it became more than that.
While, as Elizabeth points out "the high artistic quality of the main stage operas are indeed the high-point", WFO has become renowned for something else: its atmosphere.
A night at the opera...in Wexford
This is a festival where "fireworks light up the quay front opening night; people dress in their finest attire (a tradition and a celebration rather than a snobbery thing) and audiences are greeted at the door each night personally by the Chairman, Chief Executive and Artistic Director".
How's that for 'boutique'?
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Wexford Festival Opera may be Ireland's most known opera experience, but it's not the only one.
Fergus Shiel, Artistic Director of Ireland's Opera Theatre Company, has his finger on the pulse of Ireland's opera heart. Since its first tour in 1986, the OTC has toured more than 100 cities, towns and villages on the island of Ireland.
With such an enviable overview of the scene, we asked Fergus to pick three of the island's ultimate operatic experiences:
1. Wherever you are in Ireland, you're potentially less than an hour's drive from an opera performance – that is pretty phenomenal. As Ireland's National Touring Company, OTC brings professional opera throughout the island of Ireland, from Derry to Skibbereen, Bray to Ballina, and all points in between. This October, for example, our production of Bizet's Carmen travels to Ennis, Bray, Tralee, Dublin, Dun Laoghaire and Newtownabbey.
2. Dublin is a rarity: a capital city without an opera house. However, it is home to the National Concert Hall (NCH). This century-old building plays host to – and, indeed, co-produces - many operas, including the forthcoming world premiere of The Alma Fetish by Raymond Deane (music) and Gavin Kostick (text), produced by WOO in partnership with NCH.
3. Dublin aside, there are three opera houses on the island: Cork, Wexford and Belfast. Built in 1895, Belfast's Grand Opera House has an external pomp and majesty echoed by its lush interior. Home to Northern Ireland Opera since 2010, ensuring a steady supply of grand opera to the venue-programming, don't miss the chance to lose yourself in its traditional opulence!
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James Marsden would like you to know that, despite his role in "Hop"- which bows on home video on March 23 – he is not an Easter Bunny wannabe. But thanks to his dad he's pretty adept at finding hidden eggs.
Since 'Hop' first came out, what kinds of reaction have you gotten from the kids who saw the film, then encountered you later – are they giving you lists of the Easter candy they want?
Well, it was a mixture of, 'Hey, it's the guy in that movie,' and 'Oh, he's that weird human Easter Bunny guy.' It's an interesting character, a guy who's in his mid-30s and still lives at home and wants to be the Easter Bunny. It might be a little creepy to some. I took this movie because I have a six-year-old and an 11-year-old and I wanted to be a part of something that I could take them to the premiere of, and that they could enjoy sitting on the couch and watching it with me. But it's pretty cool: you always want people to see your stuff, whether that's a family movie or any type of film and so when people recognize you from it…Kids from my kids school, I'd walk in and they'd point at me and say, 'Look, it's the guy from "'Hop.'" It just makes it worthwhile and fun.
This could be a film that just gets passed on and on – 20 years from every kid past a certain age may have seen it on home video or TV. Are you ready to get that Easter Bunny reaction in another quarter century?
I think maybe the thrill might be gone by then, but maybe there will be another Easter Bunny movie between now and then, hopefully. When I took this on I realized that there really hadn't been any movies about this holiday. Christmas has been done. Halloween has been done. Even Independence Day, but this is one that hasn't really been tapped into. So I realized that I would be not only the first human Easter Bunny, but the first person to be a part of an Easter Bunny-themed movie. So that was kind of cool.
Do you have a good, out-there Easter story? It's not a holiday that often comes with great after-the-fact stories.
This is a funny story: my dad, he laughs about this now, but we used to have these egg hunts. And you know those little plastic eggs where you could open them up and put things in them? Most people would put candy in them or whatever – this is like after the Easter Bunny came and you got your basket. Well, my dad and my aunt would set up their yards with these plastic eggs, some filled with more candy and some filled with dollar bills. So it was really mean if you think about it, because one of the classic ones had, like, a $10 bill. The golden egg was out there somewhere, and all the kids knew every year that there was that special egg with more money in it, so it became this GreedFest of kids just racing to find the $10 bill egg. He'd just sit back laughing while we got in fights with each other. So yeah, it was sort of a mean thing for my dad to do, but it's funny to think about now.
You've got a nice side gig going playing Criss on "30 Rock" right now.
Yeah, that's been fun. I've always loved that show. I think the writing is so smart, to the point where I think it's like a work of collective genius, and obviously the pedigree of people that they've had on the show – like I'm stepping into Matt Damon's shoes after he's left. So it's been pretty cool. It's been fun to play her new love interest who's a bit of a dope – but a lovable one.
You know that playing a Liz Lemon love interest your time is probably fleeting, right?
There's a little bit of that. I know that the ice breaks right around the corner, but I'm not steering the ship in any other direction. First of all it's the sixth season, and I don't get the script until the week before and so I don't really know where the character is going and where the relationship is going. I don't know how they end up, honestly, but yes, if history has anything to say, staying with her is certainly not something to count on.


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Gel bracelets, or jelly bracelets are an inexpensive type of wristband often made from Silicone. They come in a variety of colors, and several can be worn on each arm. They have been popular in waves throughout the Western world and elsewhere since the 1980s. One style of these wristbands, known as "awareness bracelets", carry debossed messages demonstrating the wearer's support of a cause or charitable organization.
Maybe I went to see my neighbor. Maybe an elderly neighbor. Maybe my classmate from grade school. Whatever. Obviously I don't really want to reveal the reason but no maybe's about it, visiting the local nursing home is never anything but an occasion to participate in Buddhist/Hindu practices of Impermanence-R-Us. And revealing that my friend, my age is there with dementia is not an easy reveal. Not Maybe!! She is.
But always the spiritual seeker, I factored in and thought: isn't it true that Gurus/Rishis/Rimpoches/Lamas and aware spiritual teachers would send their chelas to graveyards to accelerate the student's focus/concentration/practice and dissuade clinging, desire and attachment to this mortal coiled body? Some charnel grounds were more Hollywoodesque than others, that is, in Tibet, nuns and monks would sit with the dead's severed body parts cut into smaller bites so the vultures would have an easier feeding frenzy. This nursing home was none of that, not a charnel ground but it was not the site of a girl scout sing along. It was a nursing home.
The majority of Tibetan people and many Mongols adhere to Vajrayana Buddhism, which teaches the transmigration of spirits. There is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel. Birds may eat it or nature may cause it to decompose. The function of the sky burial is simply to dispose of the remains in as generous a way as possible (the source of the practice's Tibetan name). In much of Tibet and Qinghai, the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and, due to the scarcity of fuel and timber, sky burials were typically more practical than the traditional Buddhist practice of cremation.
Although I pride myself on my ability to wear death on my left shoulder as Don Juan suggested in his Yakui Way, it is never really easy for me to witness, pass by, observe or try not to see toothless mouths open for air or a liquid meal; it is never easy to see anorexied elders cemented to wheel chairs or oversized lazy-boys; it is never easy to see elders silenced by off the chart medications or a big lunch; it is never easy to see the forgotten rehearsing death while maintained by harried, phone answering/poorly paid CNA's running down the hall to bring life back to one of their "residents" who might need to be toileted, fed, picked up from the floor, medicated, hoyer-lifted or turned.
Although I am always burning these scenes into my memory to be re-dreamed at night, prayed about at prayer, re-alchemized by video, re-told as written memoir or simply forgotten, I can never really disregard the images. One of my most burned into memory pictures is of the "tribe" of residents 3 feet from the circle-nursing-station, vying for added attention and never really watching the old movies projected from a neck-hurting high video screen…movies from the 30's and 40's when 40 women swam in swimming pool unison and men smoked Camels; movies that would bring the comfort of having ecstatically lived. At that scenario, always there would be an elder who wasn't drowsing, drooling or watching but calling Ma, Ma, Ma or Nurse, Nurse sonically and loudly, touretting it over and over before their voice of impotence was transformed into tearless, whimpering coughs in the pillow at night. For some that Final Silence would not come for dozens of years; years without hugs, cards, Domino's Pizza, beer or an ocean swim.
Nursing facilities offer (by county planning process) the most extensive care a person can get outside a hospital, if one discounts regional medical centers, alternative programs in the community (sometimes now, medical homes, and 24 hour care programs), and the newer assisted living facilities. Nursing homes offer help with custodial care—like bathing, getting dressed, and eating—as well as skilled care given by a registered nurse and includes medical monitoring and treatments. Skilled care also includes services provided by specially trained professionals, such as physical, occupational, and respiratory therapists.
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Always swayed by seeing, I remember that I am mid 70's and am noticing people there younger than that! People who maybe did not injest glycophytes or antibioticed milk as I do; people who bought Organic chicken and swam in private salt water pools as I don't; people there who watched the fecal count at local lakes and were well versed in the consequences of swallowing dirty water into their lungs. I do/don't. People there who knew about dry drowning. That is, people who once ate well, exercised, were professionally competent and now were the players in the dastardly days before the Endgame.
But I wasn't there to think about death but to see my classmate, now swept into delta waves way too early and silenced by her own mind-memories/drugs ordered by the medics in charge; silenced by her inactivity but most of all by an inner/secret desire to leave her unmendable nightmare?
I previously said I didn't want to see but I did see too much: the walk from the entrance door to my grade-school classmate's "pod" went past a 100 square foot dining room that encapsulate all of the best site specific qualities of a Bergman film, a scene richer in theological teachings than a $550 a week Tibetan teaching on Phowa and Chud.
The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others. According to the New Testament, the rite was instituted by Jesus Christ during his Last Supper; giving his disciples bread and wine during the Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the wine as "my blood". Through the Eucharistic celebration Christians remember Christ's sacrifice of himself on the cross.
The elements of the Eucharist, bread (leavened or unleavened) and wine (or grape juice), are consecrated on an altar (or table) and consumed thereafter. Communicants (that is, those who consume the elements) may speak of "receiving the Eucharist", as well as "celebrating the Eucharist". Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite, though they differ about exactly how, where, and when Christ is present.
And it was sacredly silent, like at Mass. None of the many, many synchronized eaters was squabbling; none were discussing the low price of chicken thighs at Sams Club; none were asking for a ride to a doctor appointment later that day; none of them wondered whose turn it was to do dishes. All of these issues were now moot points and the job at hand was to eat NOW and eat later at "supper" having eaten breakfast a few hours before. The job at hand was to sit with those exact same people at the exact same place and trance out while shoveling in soft meals meant for mastication-light.
Student that I am of paths to enlightenment, I noted that days at the nursing home are not much different from time that students of meditation devote to intense Sadhana ( spiritual practice) in contemplative settings like monasteries, caves, contemplative convents and Tibetan/Hindu retreat rooms. Maybe, yes maybe I can scout out and try to locate that one or maybe tenth person whose eyes betray their purpose, whose eyes gave light-out not took it in, whose eyes signaled me that, "Hey lady, guess what? This isn't such a bad deal. When your family sends you here we can hang out together? I sit/eat/shit/sleep/eat/sit but I also pray and use this safe and secret holy place to practice The Art/Life of Meditation." A hallucination? Believable message?
Misleadingly called 'The Hermit's Cave', the site in reality comprises a complex of shelters, terraced gardens, exotic plants, water-cisterns, dry-stone walling and linking bridges, stairways and paths that stretch intermittently across more than a kilometre of the escarpment. Made single-handedly by a reclusive Italian migrant,Valeri Ricetti, these structures involved the moving of hundreds of tons of stone and earth, together with the ingenious incorporation of natural features in the landscape.


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2nd Gear: Chrysler is evaluating a return to international GT competition with the next generation of Viper, Autosport magazine has revealed this week. The U.S. automaker, which took a hat-trick of GTS class wins at the Le Mans 24 Hours from 1998-2000 with the original Viper Coupe, has began to look at the possibility of taking on BMW, Ferrari, Chevrolet and Porsche in the GTE category. Riley Technologies, which has produced the title-winning Grand-Am chassis for the past eight years, has been commissioned to undertake a technical analysis of the new road car, which will be available in 2013.
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5th Gear: General Motor's Holden Special Vehicles unit in Australia is following in the footsteps of Mercedes-Benz's AMG division as well as more recently, Porsche, with the presentation of a black-themed special edition series based on the E Series 3 range launched last September. Making its world debut at the 2011 Australian motorshow in Melbourne, the SV Black Edition package is offered in the ClubSport R8, Maloo R8 and ClubSport R8 Tourer, the sports versions of the Commodore sedan, ute, and station wagon models respectively. Despite the name, the SV Black Editions are available in four more colors other than Phantom black — Alto Grey, Nitrate, Sting and Heron. Sadly, there are no upgrades under the hood. But whatever, Holden's already stolen our hearts with HSV's 425 HP 6.2-liter LS3 V8 engine. And you know what they say about once you go black. That's right, you never go back to Chevy. Sigh.
6th Gear: Longtime Teamsters president James Hoffa, one of the most influential players in American labor, is facing a re-election fight from a former truck driver vying to become the first female leader in the union's 108-year history. Sandy Pope, a longtime steel hauler who heads a small New York City local, claims her groundbreaking candidacy is a nonissue. Although I'm all for "chicks in charge," I'm pulling for Hoffa, because one time, he and Bill Black, the Teamsters governmental affairs chief, gave me a leather Teamsters varsity jacket with my name stitched on it. Really, they did. And that was friggin' cool. Just sayin'...
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⏎ GPS units stolen — many from Chrysler cars. [Detroit Free Press]
⏎ American Axle to close plant in Detroit. [Detroit News]
⏎ Toyota leads drop in Japan car sales. [Bloomberg]
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Prosecutors say James Owens had inappropriate talks, contact with student
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said a 27-year-old former William Chrisman High School band teacher has been charged with child molestation in a case involving a student.
James N. Owens is charged also charged with felony enticement of a child.
According to court records, Owens had electronic conversations with a girl who was 14 at the time. Police said the conversations were of a sexual nature and Owens later kissed and touched the girl inappropriately in the school's band room.
Investigators said the girl's parents discovered explicit Facebook conversations between Owens and their daughter in late August. Police said they have since found more than 1,500 texts and 100 phone calls between them. Investigators also said they found topless photos of the girl on Owens' cellphone and computer.
Superintendent Jim Hinson said he has issued a statement of charges aimed at terminating Owens' contract. He said Owens has been on leave since the allegations were brought to the district's attention three months ago and has not returned to school since.
Hinson said the district was asked not to release information about the allegations until charges could be filed. The district will also have no comment about the case, Hinson said.
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It's hard to admit when you're wrong. Especially when one's support has cost so many lives and resources. But I was especially wrong to support the Iraq war. I did so with noble intentions. I believed there was a real true threat without stopping and seriously, seriously, questioning my assumptions, and what I was being told. I didn't question what would come next after the fall of Saddam. I didn't ask myself "Is Saddam the ruler Iraqis deserve?" And, is an Iraq invasion the hope of Osama and the Taliban? I've decided I must lean on the "Just War" doctrine to avoid this mistake again. After all, had I listened to my Church over my country, I wouldn't have found myself with such regrets.
Afghanistan is in a world of hurt, and we're losing.
WASHINGTON - Islamic insurgents are expanding their numbers and reach in Afghanistan and Pakistan , spreading violence and disarray over a vast cross-border zone where al Qaida has rebuilt the sanctuary it lost when the United States invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.
There is little in the short term that the Bush administration or its allies can do to halt the bloodshed, which is spreading toward Pakistan's heartland and threatening to destabilize the U.S.-backed governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan .
In Afghanistan , U.S. and NATO forces are facing "a classic growing insurgency," Adm. Michael Mullen , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday.
But the U.S. military, stretched thin by the war in Iraq , is hard-pressed to send more than the 3,200 additional Marines the Bush administration is dispatching to Afghanistan . The growing insurgency there is fueling rifts within the NATO alliance as Germany and other nations refuse to allow their troops to participate in offensive operations in Afghanistan . The Afghan army is making progress but still cannot operate independently.
"Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan ," warned an Atlantic Council of the United States report last week. The report was directed by retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones , the former top NATO commander. "What is happening in Afghanistan and beyond its borders can have even greater strategic long-term consequences than the struggle in Iraq ."
In Pakistan , the army, trained for conventional warfare against India , has declined to send major forces into battle against the Islamists, fearful that heavy casualties could unhinge the military along ethnic and sectarian lines. The U.S. and its allies can do little more than help train some Pakistani troops because a major U.S. military role in Pakistan would further enrage a population that's already seething with anti-government and anti-U.S. rage.
The threat of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan , Pakistan and the West by jihadis indoctrinated and trained in the frontier zone is now higher than ever.
"The Taliban in Afghanistan now control more of the country than at any time since 2001, and their confederates in the tribal areas of Pakistan are expanding their operations almost day by day. While our attention has been diverted by Iraq , we've overlooked a potentially far more serious threat to the security of all Americans," Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden , D-Del., told McClatchy .
There's no hard evidence of direct collusion between the Afghan Taliban and a new Pakistani Taliban alliance, both of which are made up mostly of Pashtun tribesmen, who dominate the region of soaring mountains and rugged deserts that span the frontier. Indeed, the Afghan Taliban deny links with the Pakistani insurgents.
But the ties among the Pashtuns are personal, historic, ethnic and ideological, and experts worry that the region faces a growing jihadi movement that's aided by al Qaida with Arab and Central Asian fighters, coordination, money and motivation.
"You see some indication that there is a blurring of the lines and some associations that are not helpful," said a senior U.S. defense official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The groups "have become one seamless whole," said Husain Haqqani, a political scientist and former aide to the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . The Pakistani government blamed Bhutto's Dec. 27 assassination on Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.
The Taliban groups on either side of the Afghan-Pakistan border are descendants of the Islamic guerrilla factions that fought the 1979-89 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan with Pakistani coordination and arms supplied by the United States , Saudi Arabia and Britain .
Pakistan's powerful military intelligence service helped the Taliban come to power in 1996 to ensure a pro- Pakistan regime in Kabul . The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate also encouraged Pakistani extremists to support the Taliban and an insurgency on India's side of the disputed Kashmir region.
Some U.S. military intelligence officials have argued that ideological and strategic differences between the groups will trigger crippling disputes. Some in the groups are hard-core Islamists, while others are fighting for money.
"It is true that there are degrees of separation developing between them," said Army Col. John Lynch , a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution . "But when you are in the land of plenty and there are fighters and money to be spread around, these differences are minimal."
There's widespread agreement, though, that the Bush administration bears much of the blame for the worsening crisis.
The administration diverted U.S. troops and resources to the 2003 invasion of Iraq without first securing Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S. intervention there.
And Washington pressured Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to send tens of thousands of troops for the first time in his country's history into the tribal region to hunt down al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and his core supporters, who had escaped there from Afghanistan . Little heed was paid to the Taliban.
The Pakistani army's presence enraged the tribes. Its heavy-handed tactics claimed civilian lives, as did U.S. cross-border strikes on al Qaida targets. Support for militants exploded last summer after Musharraf ordered an assault on a radical Islamabad mosque that killed scores of people.
Since its formation in December, the new Taliban Movement of Pakistan has extended its reach to all seven tribal agencies and into the settled areas of North West Frontier Province.
It has rocketed the provincial capital, Peshawar , captured and killed hundreds of Pakistani security forces, hijacked ammunition trucks and briefly seized control of a major tunnel, cutting off a key city from the rest of the country for the first time.
In Afghanistan , the Taliban have expanded the territory they control and where they can move freely despite suffering huge losses last year in battles with U.S. and NATO troops.
"The number of districts in which the Taliban operate exploded last year," said John McCreary , a former senior intelligence analyst with the Joint Chiefs of Staff who's now with the private contractor dNovus RDI. "This is the first year they have managed to sustain over 100 attacks per month for the whole year since they started to climb back. One hundred attacks per month used to be surge figure. Now it's the new norm."


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Sunday mornings I brace myself, I know it's coming. "I don't wanna go to chuurrrch!!!" our 4-year-old daughter wails.
Mom: Why don't you want to go to church?
Vaughn: It's bor-wing.
Mom: It's a chance to visit Jesus at his house.
Vaughn: Well, I like Jesus {{pause}}. But I don't wanna go to church!
I have to admit, there were times in my life when I felt the same way.
While Vaughn's pre-Mass crabbiness is disheartening, there's a silver lining: it reminds me how important it is for me, as a parent, to help her understand the significance and beauty of Mass. The Catechism says "parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray" (CCC no. 2226) and for Catholics there's no greater prayer than the Mass.
Oh and she likes Jesus, we can build on that.
Part of the enlightenment process will include teaching her what Mass is not. It's not a presentation put on by actors (e.g. priest, deacon and choir) for an audience (the congregation). It's not just a series of random words and calisthenics: stand, sing, sit, respond, kneel, repeat. And it's not an event we attend simply because the musical arrangements are nice or the priest's jokes are funny. Don't get me wrong: I appreciate those things but they're icing on the liturgical cake, so to speak. (On the subject of sweets, I'm not above providing a doughnut after Mass for good behavior.)
Now, on to what Mass is. What I want to get across to Vaughn is that the most important thing about Mass is … meeting Jesus! I want her to know how fortunate we are that the Eucharistic Lord comes to meet us each and every time we join in this celebration. He comes to feed us, strengthen us, get us through the nitty-gritty of the week—and ultimately to make us more like him. That's an incredibly lucrative trade for one short hour of our time.
One way kids can begin to understand this encounter with Christ is by participating more actively in Mass. Last spring at Denver's Living the Catholic Faith Conference, I attended a workshop called "Leading youngsters to full, conscious and active participation in the Mass." Here, Sister Kathleen Harmon offered several ways to get kids involved. These suggestions can be incorporated any time after a child has graduated from the cry room or surpassed the need for a sippy cup, coloring book or other diversion in the pew (accomplishments that vary from child-to-child based on age, maturity and attention span):
- Tell them the parts of the Mass. Point out the four main parts of the liturgy and tell them to look for the Sign of the Cross, and the kiss, in each part. Ask them about something they've kissed (e.g. Mom, Dad, Grandma, a beloved Pillow Pet) and why.
- Print a copy of a Eucharistic Prayer (she suggested #2 since it's shortest) and read through it together line-by-line (for as long as they can sit still) then discuss: What does holy mean? What does it mean to "send your Spirit and make us holy"? What are ways we can treat each other in a holy manner?
- Talk about the importance of looking at something (or someone) with reverence. Tell your child every time you look in their eyes it's like Christ looking at Christ. Talk about what it means to look at someone in the eyes.
- Bless your children at night saying "I love you and you are the Body of Christ." Teach them who they are and who you are.
- Point out the concluding rites "Go forth. The Mass is ended." Why does Mass end by telling us to go forth?
When we go forth on Sundays and keep Jesus present in our daily lives, hopefully it will sink in how important these weekly visits are—not only for the hour we're there but all week long. While I continue to try to get that concept across to a determined preschooler, I hope the Sunday when I don't hear: "I don't wanna go to church!" is coming sooner than later.
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He'll crisscross the country, promote the U.K. and his charity – and play polo
America, he's coming back!
Starting May 9, Prince Harry will make an extensive tour through Colorado, Washington, D.C., New York and an area in New Jersey badly hit by Superstorm Sandy – and end with a May 15 polo match in Greenwich, Conn., to aid his charity Sentebale.
In between, Harry, 28, will crisscross the country on behalf of his charities and the foundation he runs with his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate. He will also highlight the sacrifice of servicemen and women and the efforts to rehabilitate the injured.
In Colorado Springs, he will attend the Warrior Games between wounded servicemen and women. "He is a soldiers' soldier and will bring a spotlight on what's being done to help these outstanding men and women," his private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, said at a Palace briefing Monday.
In Manhattan, Harry will promote the U.K. at a cultural and business event before serving as guest of honor at a glamorous party to benefit the Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
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Even when Chris Camozzi isn't fighting in hostile territory, he's fighting in hostile territory.
The UFC middleweight has made a career of late going into enemy turf and taking out the hometown favorite.
Next week, he has to do it again – sort of. While Nick Ring (13-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) isn't from Montreal, he does some training at the city's Tristar Gym and calls Canada his home base.
Camozzi (18-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC) meets Ring at UFC 158, which takes place next Saturday at Bell Centre in Montreal.
For Camozzi, it's once more into the lion's den.
"It's the same story for me every time," Camozzi told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I fought Kyle Noke in Australia, Dustin Jacoby in Chicago, Nick Catone in New Jersey, Luiz Cane in Brazil."
And now Ring in Canada. But Camozzi now relishes the challenge.
"At first it was like, 'Oh, man, this makes it tough,'" he said. "But now I embrace it. I kind of enjoy it. If the crowd's not behind me in the beginning of the fight, it's all right. I thrive off the boos anyway. After I win, they enjoyed the fight and they cheer. Brazil was awesome after I won, even though I'm sure they were cursing at me in Portugese walking out. But walking back in after winning, it was all high fives and cheers."
It's been a lot of high fives for Camozzi on a three-fight win streak against Jacoby, Catone and Cane, the latter of which came at UFC 153 this past October.
Now he goes for four in a row in the UFC's tough 185-pound division against a man whose only career loss came to the highly regarded Tim Boetsch.
And while Ring, who was a castmate of Camozzi's on Season 11 of "The Ultimate Fighter," isn't necessarily a name that is being thrown up in lights, Camozzi knows how tough he is.
"I think people overlook him," he said. "He's a real tough guy. He's a friend of mine and we've trained a little bit together. We were on the show together. And I think people look past him. But any time you only have one loss in your career and you have 14 professional fights, he's good. You can't deny it. This sport, you don't get that many wins and one single loss without doing something right."
But if he wants that four straight, he'll be motivated by the five losses he's already had, including Francis Carmont in the UFC, his one setback in the promotion.
It's the losses that motivate him, even if he has to head to the databases to remember who he beat.
"I still remember every person that's beaten me in my career," Camozzi said. "Those five people, I still remember to this day. Sometimes I have to think about guys I've beaten to remember who it was, but guys who beat me I never forget about. It eats at me all the time, and motivates me."
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Those nagging whispers warning that the United States is heading for an Argentina-like currency crisis are getting louder. The prospect of a prolonged devaluation of the US dollar is just one more challenge in what has already been a difficult period for savers and investors. Have we really reached the point where the greenback is in danger of becoming an "also ran" currency?
The likelihood that the dollar will suddenly lose most of its value is remote. The economy would have to deteriorate to unimaginable levels for the dollar to fall to the depths of the Argentinean peso in 1999. However, this does not mean that the dollar is a risk-free investment. Quite the opposite, really, as there is a strong possibility that the dollar is mired in what could be a prolonged devaluation extending well into next year.
The credit crisis that triggered the Great Recession exposed several flaws in the US economy. The list of shortcomings includes economic growth too dependent on asset bubbles of one form or another, a workforce struggling in the face of greater international competition, and a long-held tradition of relying on deficit financing to keep the party going. The result? An economy – and a currency – in dire need of a correction.
This correction has already started as millions of unemployed Americans can attest. The Federal Reserve has conceded that unemployment will remain elevated through 2011. When employment does pick up, it is expected to do so at a much slower pace than experienced following recessions of the past.
Next week, the Fed is expected to intervene directly. Its Federal Open Market Committee can't adjust interest rates downward because they're already zero-bound. This leaves the Fed with only one option; additional stimulus spending in an attempt to inject more cash into the system.
Alas, just as in physics, every economic action has an equal and opposite reaction. While carpet-bombing the economy with excess capital increases liquidity, there is also the unintended side effect of further devaluing the dollar. And it may not be unintended.
In January's State of the Union address, President Obama stressed the need to reduce the trade deficit. The last time the US recorded a trade surplus was 1975 and the president set a target of doubling exports in five years "because the more products we make and sell to other countries, the more jobs we support right here in America."
What was not included in the speech was the fact that the only way in the short term to sell more products to other countries is to actively pursue a low-dollar policy that makes American exports less costly to these markets. A weaker dollar also makes imported goods more costly for American consumers, thereby further reducing the trade deficit. Simply put, in order to meet the administration's aggressive goal of reducing the trade deficit through a doubling of exports, a weaker US dollar is the new reality.
Naturally, the prospect of a devalued US dollar has China concerned. In 2009, the US Census Bureau placed the yearly value of China's exports to the United States at $296.4 billion or 17.7 percent of China's total exports. Of course, China is no stranger to currency controversy itself and both sides have routinely accused each other of unfair trade practices. But the rhetoric reached a new level when a trade bill was recently approved by the House of Representatives. If the bill is passed into law, US officials will be free to introduce tariffs on Chinese imports that will decrease the price advantage typically enjoyed by Chinese manufacturers.
While the US market remains an important export destination, China is hard at work cultivating new customers and many of these are to be found within her own borders. The increase in demand for consumer products within China is advancing at an unprecedented rate, and the domestic Chinese market – together with other emerging Asian nations – is universally recognized as the largest untapped pool of consumers on the planet.
China will not replace the American market overnight; indeed, it will likely never withdraw from the US entirely. Still, it is clear that a move is on to decouple China's future from the US by reducing its dependence on the American consumer.
So what does this mean for America and more specifically, the US dollar? In the short-term, there is little doubt that the Federal Reserve will enter into a new round of quantitative easing to inject more cash into the economy. This action alone will devalue the dollar, and the continuation of record-low interest rates will further reduce demand for the buck.
This leaves holders of US assets in a bit of a quandary. If the falling dollar appears to be a short-term phenomenon, then it may be feasible to ride out the downturn and hope for a quick turnaround. If however, a weaker US dollar is destined to be with us for awhile, investors and savers may need to look beyond dollar-denominated assets in order to protect investments over the long term.
–Scott Boyd is a currency analyst and writer for Oanda, a Forex trading company with offices in New York, Toronto, Singapore, and Dubai. Neither Mr. Boyd nor Oanda take positions in any currencies.


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About half of Madagascar's children under the age of five are stunted - the irreversible effect of undernourishment during the first 1,000 days of life. Children who suffer from stunting are at greater risk of illness, impaired cognitive development and death.
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Madagascar has the sixth highest incidence of stunting in the world, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Poverty is a key contributor to the country's malnutrition rates. According to the February 2012 Southern Africa Regional Food Security Update, 80 percent of Madagascar's 20 million people live on US$1 a day or less, and poor households spend nearly three-quarters of their income on food.
High rates of infection during pregnancy and childhood also contribute to stunting in Madagascar. Poor nutrition means that girls often do not reach their full growth potential until they are 21, by which time many are already mothers. About 39 percent of Malagasy women measure under 150cm in height and are more likely to have low-birth-weight babies.
In the capital of Antananarivo, residents' preference for the staple rice - resulting in the exclusion of other food items - also affects child nutrition. A National Community Nutrition Programme (PNNC), which receives technical and financial assistance from UNICEF, has been implemented across 6,000 centres nationally, with the aim of diversifying diets for better nutritional health.
The centres provide nutritional advice and cooking lessons to encourage the consumption of a variety of cheap, nutritious, locally available foods. The centres also monitor the nutritional health of children under age five.
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In my previous installation guide, I outlined the first way that I found of installing Ubuntu on a Retina Macbook Pro. One of the challenges of the installation was that the boot manager, rEFInd, needed the Linux kernel to be copied from the Linux partition to the Mac OS X partition. This then becomes a painful process that needs to be repeated every time there is a kernel update on Ubuntu. Fortunately, there is a better way! Thanks to a comment on the rEFInd website, I found out that file system drivers can be installed that allow rEFInd to read the Linux partition.
This post outlines the full installation instructions, but if you already followed the previous guide, you can update the rEFInd installation and configuration file. I've included some instructions on that in the post.
1. Partition the Hard DriveThis step is nice and easy on the Mac. Just launch Disk Utility, click on the laptop's hard drive and click on the Partition tab. From there the Mac OS X partition can be resized. Disk Utility allows you to create a new partition with the extra space, but I just left it as Free Space, so that it would be created by the Ubuntu installer.
2. Create the Ubuntu USB InstallerThe latest stable release of Ubuntu is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/download - you'll need the 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image.
Instructions for creating a bootable USB stick are provided http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx, you'll just need to remember to use the latest ISO that was downloaded above. Note: unlike some disk image files, Mac OS X cannot mount the disk image, but it will boot fine from it.
3. Install an EFI Boot Manager: rEFIndPreviously, I've used Refit as a boot manager and boot loader for Ubuntu on a Mac, but that doesn't seem to be maintained any more. So, for the Retina Macbook Pro I've switched to rEFInd, which is just a Boot Manager. We'll then be loading Ubuntu using EFI instead of Grub, which means we can leave the old world of BIOS behind. See the rEFInd website for more information about boot managers and loaders, EFI and Grub.
Download the binary rEFInd zip file from http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html and unzip it by double-clicking the file in the Mac OS X Finder. You'll want to check out the rEFInd installation instructions, but I chose the simplest option of installing rEFInd in the Mac OS X partition. There are other possibilities, but this seemed the easiest for me to manage - especially if something went wrong.
The installation needs to be done in the Terminal, by running the install.sh script:
cd ~/Downloads/refind-bin-0.7.7
./install.sh --alldrivers
The '--alldrivers' option installs the file system drivers for rEFInd, which allows the boot manager to be able to access the Ubuntu kernel files on the Linux file system. If you are upgrading from a previous installation of rEFInd, it will keep your existing rEFInd config file and copy the latest version with a different name.
The script will prompt for your password so it can run with administrator privileges using sudo. Once the script has run, rEFInd is installed and you can see the configuration files at /EFI/refind.
You'll need to reboot a couple of times before you can see the rEFInd menu appearing. We'll need to configure rEFInd later.
4. Installing Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu has 'touch to click' enabled for the trackpad by default, which I found difficult work with. So the first thing I did was to turn that off in the Mouse and Trackpad area of System Settings. Next, it's worth changing the screen resolution to something more usable - I selected 1680x1050 (16:10). After that, if you are using WiFi, then you'll need to connect to the network.
4.1 Install UbuntuYou're now ready to install Ubuntu. We want to do this without installing the Grub boot-loader, which would put us back into the old-world BIOS mode. To install without Grub, run the following in a terminal:
This will launch the installer and you can follow the instructions to install Ubuntu on the free space that we created earlier, alongside Mac OS X.
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5. Configure rEFIndWe need to configure rEFInd so that it sees that Ubuntu partition and has all the correct details so it can boot from it. The rEFInd configuration is in /EFI, which will need root access to be able to update the details. I found that TextWrangler is a great option for editing config file as it allows you to authenticate to update the files. Make sure that you download TextWrangler from the Barebones site as the version in the Apple App Store does not have this facility.
5.1 Configuration File Changes
It's worth checking the rEFInd site for more details about the configuration file changes, as there are a lot more options than I will cover. The main configuration file is /EFI/refind/refind.conf. If you've upgraded from a previous version of rEFInd, you may want to use the sample config file instead of the current version that you are using. We need to configure rEFInd so that it scans the hard disk for other boot options. The following file shows only the lines that I've changed from the default config file:
# Enable the scan for file system drivers
scan_driver_dirs EFI/tools/drivers,drivers
# Choose which drives to scan. This will only scan the internal hard drive.
scanfor internal
# Load the Linux file system driver
fs0: load ext4_x64.efi
fs0: map -r
These configuration file changes ensure that the Linux file system driver is loaded (ext4_x64.efi) and that the internal hard disk is scanned for bootable partitions. If there is more than one kernel found on the Linux file system, rEFInd will display all the available kernels.
That's it. If you want to make the boot screen a it prettier, you can copy a PNG or BMP image file to /EFI and add an extra line to the configuration file:
banner /EFI/MilkyWay.png
6. Reboot Into Ubuntu
Once you reboot you should see the Ubuntu icon in the rEFInd boot menu, and it should start up. When it does, you'll see Ubuntu in its 2880x1800 pixel glory. I've increased the default text size in Ubuntu and the browsers to roughly 1.5 times the normal size, and that has made a great work machine.


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The Analytical Onomasticon is a reference work to persons and places in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. It is intended to assist the study of a poem that has remained curiously intractable to the literary critical quest for its coherence. The problem has not been a want of schemes, but rather too many, or at least more than can be accounted for by any one reckoning. As Brooks Otis pointed out years ago, Ovid sports with the idea of continuity: at the same time, and often with the same device, both supporting and undermining it. The Onomasticon assumes no particular theory of how the poem is constructed, nor that it has a single construction. Yet it is based on the idea that Ovid's is a serious play, not meant to scatter our attention but to redirect it. This book is intended to assist that redirection by supplying several different means for commanding the most extensive and significant body of textual evidence for the interrelation of persons, hence the interconnection of stories: the words and phrases that refer to and so name them. The Onomasticon is not limited to the quest for continuity in change, but its explicit aim is to further understanding of the poem as a coherent or, more accurately, cohesible work of literature.
For these purposes "name" is defined broadly as any word, phrase or clause that refers to one or more persons or places, i.e. an "appellative" (OED s.v. B). The design of the Onomasticon is based inductively on the particular characteristics of Ovidian appellatives and on the nature of the entities to which they refer. Names have great potential for the study of the Metamorphoses because they are neither verbal data nor narrative but metalinguistic creations that combine properties of both. On the one hand, because names are close to data, they can be treated consistently, by explicit rules, and thus are amenable to computational processing with important consequences I will explain below. On the other hand, because they invoke the stories in which they occur, names in turn bear relatively well-defined narrative meaning. Hence they are apt for modeling patterns of interconnection otherwise quite difficult or impossible to reach systematically.