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As Egypt gears up for a presidential election in April, its military-backed government is trying to rescue the economy and inject a measure of stability, a feat that eluded its ousted predecessor. It's a race against time, and against political uncertainty. Without economic improvement, Egypt's next leader – presumed to be Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – will be hard-pressed to maintain legitimacy.
When it seized power last July, the military inherited a country with dire and complex economic and social problems. Far from dissipating, the despair that fueled the 2011 uprising against a wrong-footed dictatorship has deepened in the last three years, at the same time as political polarization has sharpened. A low-level insurgency has moved its attacks beyond the restive Sinai Peninsula into Cairo, the capital.
Regardless, Egypt's powerful Planning Ministry has put itself on the clock. By June, the end of Egypt's fiscal year, it aims to boost economic growth, reduce state debt, and revive the ailing public sector where many Egyptians work.
"We cannot [delink] the political and economic situation," Planning Minister Ashraf El-Araby told The Christian Science Monitor in an interview at his Cairo office. "We are hoping to restore political stability as soon as possible, in order for the economy to grow."
Egypt's challenge is huge: Growth slipped to 2 percent last year, compared to an annual average of 5 percent between 2005 and 2010 under former President Hosni Mubarak. Today, unemployment is 13.5 percent, up from an average 9.8 percent during Mubarak's final years. Youth unemployment – a tripwire for instability across the developing world – is now above 30 percent, according to Dr. El-Araby.
Yet the apparent appeal of Mubarak-era stability – economic growth under dictatorship – may be illusory. World Bank statistics show the distribution of national income was stagnant for much of the last two decades. Despite rapid growth and falling unemployment, the absolute gap between rich and poor actually widened during the former dictator's final years.
Stimulus spending
Egypt has gotten some relief from Gulf countries that have pledged billions of dollars in grants, interest-free loans, and fuel shipments. This assistance boosted Egypt's foreign reserves and helped to strengthen its currency. The Gulf aid also helped underpin a $4.3 billion stimulus package last fall, and an additional $4.9 billion package this week.
But the aid package raises the politically sensitive question of whether Egypt can afford to continue subsidizing certain types of fuel and other daily essentials, subsidies that have long been a huge drain on the public purse.
This year, the government will spend $14.5 billion on energy subsidies alone, says Yasser Sobhi, chief of macro-fiscal policy in Egypt's Ministry of Finance. He says the pressure is growing to reduce this burden, which mostly benefits wealthy Egyptians. "This government is determined to implement the first phase…and phase out energy subsidies gradually," he says.
The Planning Ministry is focusing on a series of labor-intensive infrastructure projects, most of which were started in 2011 but never completed. These include plans to accelerate the construction of low-income housing, finish building a new local airport, expand the public bus system, and more quickly boost the number of households connected to the country's national gas grid, says El-Araby.
"During these times, it's even more important to stimulate than to lower public expenditures. We received good money from the Gulf, [and] look to spend it wisely on investment spending instead of current spending, such as subsidies," the planning minister says.
Egyptian officials and members of the business community say the country's financial woes mean the government has to grasp the third rail of economic reform, and sooner rather than later.
Angus Blair, the head of Cairo-based research and investment firm Signet LLC, says the stimulus package is an important first step. But to make a real dent in the deficit – now 14 percent of GDP – growth would need to be above 3.5 percent, up from his forecast of 2 percent in the year to June 30. (El-Araby says the government is aiming for 3 percent.)
Much hinges on Egypt's uncertain political and economic dynamics. "Change the dynamic," Mr. Blair says, "and you can get growth above two percent."
Political sacrifice
Analysts say any economic gains must trickle down to ordinary Egyptians so that last year's military overthrow of elected president Mohammad Morsi, and the bloody upheaval that accompanied it, was worth the sacrifice.
Another important constituency is Egypt's bloated public sector, which includes sprawling state enterprises, the armed forces, and the country's six million-strong bureaucracy.
Last September, the interim government granted a 72 percent minimum wage increase for government workers, boosting monthly earnings to about $180 a month. Public school students also became exempt from paying any sort of school fees or tuition.
The government also amended a law on public contracting which allows a minister or governor to directly award no-bid contracts for infrastructure projects to state and military enterprises in times of emergency. The law previously capped such contracts at $45,000; the limit is now $1.5 million.
When asked why the Planning Ministry decided to circumvent the bidding process for its stimulus spending, El-Araby's answer is simple: to save time. "We are in a rush. If we succeed in implementing the stimulus package by June, the situation will be much better relative to the last three years."
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I had just lost one of the biggest channel catfish of my career. I stood on the bank of the river staring at half a fishing hook dangling from the end of my line, and realized I didn't know enough about hooks.
I'd been fishing for "eater" channel cats, using a 1/0 bait-keeper to drift gobs of chicken liver alongside brushpiles in a small river. That rod, reel, and line combination, right down to the hook, had been bulletproof all summer. The hook had impressed me with its durability. It was a little misshapen from using pliers to wrench it from the jaws of dozens of catfish, but always bent back into a basic hook shape and kept catching catfish—until the encounter with the big one. Closer examination showed it had broken at one of the bends where I'd straightened and re-straightened it.
"We can talk about the type of hook an angler uses, the size of the hook, the metallurgy, the tempering, and all the other things that go into manufacturing quality fishing hooks, but one of the biggest problems is the way anglers handle a hook when they release fish," says Jeff Williams, owner of Team Catfish. "Catfish have tough mouths, and one of the biggest causes of hook failure is using a pair of pliers to pry hooks out of catfishes' mouths. If you mar or scar that hook, nick it so you can see shiny metal, or bend and re-bend it, you've created a potential weak spot that could fail the next time you hook a big fish."
Replacing hooks that show even minor signs of mechanical damage now is a no-brainer for me. But even greater gains in catfishing success came from taking time to understand how different hooks work, and the best way to use each type. That's because different baits, presentations, and conditions favor different hooks, sometimes manufactured with different techniques and metals.
Metallurgy & Materials
Nearly all catfish hooks are made of either high-carbon steel, steel-vanadium alloys, or stainless steel. Some catfish anglers favor stainless-steel, but higher-priced hooks are generally made for saltwater fishing where corrosion-resistance is needed. Steel alloys are the province of freshwater hooks, and the metallurgy in carbon steel or vanadium alloy hooks can be complex.
"Some hook manufacturers include the carbon rating written on the inside of their packaging," says Ron Stallings, TTI-Blakemore product specialist. "Tru-Turn hooks are 60-carbon steel. Daiichi hooks are rated at 80. XPoints are 110. Higher ratings don't mean they're better, just stronger for their weight. If you're crappie fishing using light jigs, a higher carbon hook is stronger, but weighs less than an equivalent low-carbon hook."
The strength and flexibility of hooks go hand in hand with the diameter of the wire. Wire diameter affects not only strength and flexibility, but also the speed with which the point penetrates a fish's mouth. "Our 7385 Tournament Circle Hook, for example, has a relatively thin wire for faster penetration, but has strength for any catfish because it's made of a vanadium-steel alloy," says Cyrille Mathieu, vice president of sales and marketing for VMC hooks. "It was designed for saltwater billfishing. Our 8382 Nemesis Circle Hook also uses a vanadium-steel alloy, and comes in 1/0 through 10/0. It's popular in Europe with anglers who fish for huge wels catfish because it has great penetration and tremendous strength."
Penetration is also affected by the type of hook point. In today's market, all quality hooks come from the factory with points sharp enough to be suitable for fishing without sharpening, though different manufacturing processes affect sharpness and penetration.
"Our hooks are chemically washed to give them needle points," says Joe Quiocho, sales manager with Gamakatsu. "Points are mechanically formed, then washed with chemicals that erode a uniform layer from the surface of the metal so the points end up needle-sharp."
Forged hooks, such as Eagle Claw's general-purpose 181 J-style baitholder, have knife-like points, while their Trokar line of hooks feature points surgically sharpened to penetrate faster. "Trokars have been proven to penetrate up to 50 percent faster than a standard needle-point hook, and needle points are already fast," says Eagle Claw's Eric Chaney. "Trokars are more expensive, but they're popular with tournament catfish anglers who are willing to pay for every possible advantage."
Years ago, it was common to re-sharpen dull hooks, but today's hooks may actually be harmed by sharpening. "Needle-point hooks, where the cross-section of the point is round, shouldn't be re-sharpened," says Eagle Claw's Mike Rosasko. "Forged points, like our traditional Eagle Claw hooks, have more of a knife point, and can be resharpened. Trokars, with a three-edged point, shouldn't be re-sharpened. When in doubt, just replace the hook. New Trokar hooks are always sharp."
Shapes & Styles
The shape of hooks, from their eye, down the shank, around the bend, and back up to the barbed point is a frequent topic of discussion among catfish anglers. Many of us started as children fishing with long-shanked hooks to make it easier for our father, uncle, or mentor to unhook the fish we caught. Long shanks work great for small-mouthed fish like bluegills but give big catfish an unfair mechanical advantage. Imagine a hook with a long shank protruding from a big catfish's jaw. If the fish makes a sudden right angle movement opposite the direction of the hook's bend, the length of the hook's shank provides mechanical leverage that may pivot the hook free of the jaw. That's why short-shanked hooks are favored by setline anglers that tie their lines to tree limbs, bankpoles, or other objects. With long-shanked hooks, fish hooked for long periods of time can eventually find the perfect angle to lever it from their mouth
A different kind of leverage is the basis for specially designed hook shanks, such as Tru-Turn hooks or Eagle Claw's L045R rotating worm hook, which have an extra kink or bend in their shank compared to traditional J-shaped hooks. Pull between partially closed fingers a fishing line tied to either of those hooks. As the bent segment of the hook passes between the fingers, it creates a cam action that pivots the hook 30 to 90 degrees. In a fish's mouth, that cam action increases the chance the hook point encounters flesh for a solid hook-set.
Circle hooks are another type of hook designed to increase hookups. At first glance, the inward-turned point (the hook point is pointed inward perpendicular to the hook shaft) looks like it would never catch and penetrate a fish's mouth. But if you steadily pull a circle hook between two fingers on a length of line attached to the hook, it pivots as it moves over a finger (or over a fish's jawbone) in a position to embed. The resistance of the fish pulling embeds the hook, usually in the corner of its mouth.
"Circle hooks require a special technique to set the hook in the fish's mouth, but nearly ensure a hook-set if you do it right," Williams says. "One way is to have the rod in a rod holder, with the bait-clicker off. The fish takes the bait, the rod loads as the tip bends almost to the water before you pick it up and start reeling. Don't set the hook in a traditional sense. The other way is to hold the rod and let the fish pull against you until it's a steady pull, then start reeling. The main thing to understand with circle hooks is that if you do a traditional hook-set with a sudden jerk of the rod, you may jerk the hook out of the fish's mouth before it has time to rotate and set."
Circle hooks were originally designed for saltwater fishing, but hook manufacturers are responding to demand and now design them specifically for catfishing. "Our 39951-NP UltraPoint Demon Perfect Circle was designed for sailfishing so it's more than strong enough for the biggest flatheads or blue cats, and a lot of catfish anglers have used it for years," says Sam Root, marketing manager for Mustad Americas. "But catfishing is getting so popular that this year we released our new 39946-BN Circle Hook designed for catfish tournament fishermen. It's got a slightly longer shank, increased strength, and comes in #4 to 8/0."
Because circle hooks are somewhat finicky about the way they're "engaged," variations have appeared, such as Eagle Claw's patented Kahle-style hooks, and modified circle hook designs such as the Gamakatsu Octopus Circle and Eagle Claw Lazer Sharp L7228, which have a wider gap than true circle hooks yet still have an inward turned point. Other modified designs include Team Catfish's Double Action, Whisker Seeker's Triple Threat, and Rippin' Lips Tournament Grade Circle.
In addition to fishing them like a true circle hook, you can also set modified designs with a long sweep, so they're more forgiving for beginners who set hooks in a traditional way. The modified octopus design like the L7228 fits this category, explains In-Fisherman Editor In Chief Doug Stange. Matt Davis, founder of Whisker Seeker Tackle, also finds that you can fish a hook such as the Triple Threat like a traditional circle hook by letting the rod load or reeling down on a fish, or by using a long, sweeping motion of the rod instead of the traditional hard, sudden jerk."
While circle hooks and variations on them have gained popularity with catfish anglers, J-hooks remain solid options in many situations. "Circle hooks don't work well under a float," Davis says. "When fishing under a float, you need to set the hook, and that's when J-hooks work well. They're sort of a universal catfish hook that works under a lot of conditions, but circle hooks offer extremely high hook-set percentages if they're used correctly." Along those lines, Stange says that when using J-hooks on set rigs on bottom, it's important to set the hook sooner and not let catfish run too long with a bait, which creates more opportunity for deep-hooking. Setting quickly after a bite or using circle hooks helps reduce deep hooking.
While circle hooks have recently dominated tournament catfishing, and J-hooks are traditional favorites, legions of catfish catchers still use treble hooks. The metallurgy, tempering, point design, barb options, and other variables of treble hooks mirror those of single hooks. The only difference is that most trebles are made by adding a single hook to a double hook and brazing the three shanks together to create three times the hooking potential—and improved bait-holding opportunities for anglers who fish punchbaits.
Punchbait enthusiasts jam bare treble hooks into tubs of thick fibrous baits and pull them out at an angle to load the hook with a dollop of pungent catfish-catching concoction. Dipbait aficionados opt for treble hooks outfitted with silicone tubes, corrugated rubber worms, or other arrangements to hold semi-liquid dipbait on their hooks. An option with dipworms is to replace the treble hook with a single J-hook or circle hook.
Critical Connections
Trilene, Palomar, improved clinch, and uni-knots work well on catfish hooks. Snelled circle hooks have gained popularity in recent years, and "snelling makes a strong hook-to-line connection on hooks with offset eyes," says Stallings. (Offset hookeyes come in two styles: "up" eye, where the eye of the hook is at an angle away from the hook point, and "down" eye, where the eye bends toward the hook point.)
"You want the (snelled) line coming off the hook to pass straight through the eye, in-line with the shank, not coming off the backside of the eye at an angle," he says. "If you dangle a snelled hook from its line, it should hang straight or curved slightly toward the bend of the hook. If it's snelled so the hook arches away from the bend, it might not be as efficient in catching the fish's mouth." Two options for snelling hooks include the traditional snell knot and uni-knot snell knot.
Gamakatsu's Quiocho says the biggest thing to remember when standing in the aisle of a bait shop in front of racks of hooks is to select the right tool for the job. In any system incorporating multiple components, there's always a weakest link. "If everything is matched correctly, the drag on the reel should be the weak link that 'gives' before the line, rod, knot, or hook reach their breaking point," he says. "Knowing how to choose the right size and design of hook to match the fish and fishing conditions prevents your hook from being the weak link that loses a trophy fish."
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If you were to walk around asking people what a medical emergency looks like, it's likely that very few of them would mention anything involving teeth. When the typical person pictures an emergency calling for immediate medical care, they immediately conjure images of heart attacks and serious car accidents. There are, however, times when something can go wrong with your mouth that requires the immediate care of an Emergency Dentist Edison.
Having an understanding of when an Emergency Dentist Edison visit is called for can be a great help to making the right decision in a scary situation. For example, people who do not know better sometimes even assume that an obviously severe infection is something that calls for a normal appointment. In reality, such a situation needs to be treated as a serious emergency, because infections can grow out of control so quickly. You should see an experienced dentist for help as quickly as possible if you appear to have a bad infection, visible swelling in your mouth, or if you have experienced any kind of dental trauma.
When you go in for your emergency care, you should expect that only the immediate issues will be addressed. Their goal will simply be to get the stable and under control. In some cases, they will be able to completely clear up the problem. Often, though, the Emergency Dentist Edison office will just be working to bring things to a stable enough point that the remainder of the problem can be handled during a more standard office visit. Make sure that you have a clear understanding of what kind of follow up care is going to be needed, and make a plan for whether you are going to go to that same location for additional care or if you have another dental office you would prefer to work with.
Just like any other part of your body, things can go wrong in your mouth that need to be treated as a medical emergency. Understanding what constitutes a serious problem that needs immediate care can help you to avoid making a serious mistake and failing to seek help when you should.


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Frederick County authorities search for missing family
Authorities in Frederick County are searching for a family reported missing since last Friday.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Myung Joo, 33, his wife, Youn Kim, 35, and their three children -- Laura Joo, 5, Jenna Joo, 3, and Brandon Joo, 1 -- have been missing since last Friday.
A family reported Myung Joo missing when he did not return to work as expected around 6 p.m. last Friday. Investigators said Laura Joo was checked out of school early by her father the same day.
Investigators said one of the family's vehicles, a 2005 Mercury sedan with Maryland license plates A386986, was missing, and cellphones belonging to the family were turned off.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to call the Frederick County Sheriff's Office at 301-600-2071.


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Every thing takes buzz, balls & hype – even running an Erotic Reading Series, I asked Rachel Kramer Bussel to write a bit about how she's doing it because I think – like anything to do with reading – there's a lot to learn from new initiatives like this. -- MJR
When I was asked to host an erotic reading series at Happy Ending Lounge, at first, I wasn't sure if I should accept. Yes, I've published erotica extensively, in over 60 anthologies and numerous online outlets, and have now edited several anthologies, including Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2. But writing erotica, I've found, is very different from reading it aloud. On paper, I can be as free, open, daring, and explicit as I please, even if I'm telling true stories. But in person, though I'd hardly describe myself as shy, I've been known to blush when I get to a dirty word.
But it seemed like too fabulous of an opportunity to pass up, and since October, I've been hosting an assortment of my favorite erotic writers every third Wednesday in this cozy Lower East Side bar. The best part of running the series is when people who've never heard dirty words read aloud show up—in the audience or onstage. On our first night, Meghan Cleary, who wrote a book about shoes called The Perfect Fit: What Your Shoes Say About You, read erotic poetry. She was clearly nervous, but the beauty of the evening was that the audience was right there to back her up, laughing, and sighing, along with her.
Having erotica read to you can be a highly sensual delight. As I lean my head against the red velvet covered booths, I listen as the authors make me laugh, squirm and yes, get aroused. At our last reading, held for a very intimate audience of about ten people during the transit strike, I found my own limits tested. Instead of reading a story I'd authored, I passed mine off to an enthusiastic male audience member, and instead read a story by Shanna Germain called "Waiting for a Spanking." I discovered that reading someone else's erotic fantasy aloud has a very liberating effect. Since it wasn't my story, I was free to embody, and embellish, every last lusty verb, and by the end, I didn't care how red my face had gotten.
To pull off an erotic reading, you have to be comfortable with knowing that your words will very likely get some people in the crowd hot and bothered—indeed, that's the very point of erotica. Watching each author stake out that public erotic space has been a delight, and I'm looking forward to mixing things up in 2006. I don't want only people who are self-proclaimed "erotic writers," but people who put sex scenes in their fiction, their poetry, their essays. On January 18th, I've got romance author Edith Layton and novelist Danyel Smith, who will each bring very different, but raw, honest, erotic voices to the mic. And in February, the night after Valentine's Day, M.J. Rose herself will read from her latest book, The Delilah Complex, along with Lauren Sanders, author of With or Without You, and Carol Taylor, editor of Wanderlust: Erotic Travel Tales, as well as two of her contributors.
Travel is an apt metaphor for sex stories, because, I believe, by the time you're done reading a quality erotic story, your body and mind should be transported. Even if it's only for the duration of the naughty tale, your breath should catch, stomach somersault, skin tingle. Your mind should be racing, waiting for the next kiss, the next touch, the next sigh. When my authors read out loud, it's like bedtime stories—for adults. But it's not all XXX expletives, either. My friend Martha Garvey read a politically inspired piece called "How To Fuck a President So It Means Something or 'Q'" that had us howling with laughter while giving appreciative nods.
Simply listening to a variety of sexual fantasies and stories opens your mind to the wonderful diversity of erotic expression that's out there—even if it never goes any farther than the written, or, in this case, spoken, word. Some of the raciest erotic writers I know live very quiet, simple suburban lives, but when they sit down at the computer—watch out. They're having orgies and getting handcuffed and picking up strangers. They're stripping down to their most naked selves, and, lucky you, they're willing to take you along for the ride.
The next In The Flesh is on Wednesday, January 18 at 8 pm at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, New York.


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Life in the Margins: The Role of the Post-Modern Hedgerow
By Dave Coulter One of my favorite memories from my childhood was finding a box turtle living under a line of gnarly Osage orange (Maclura pomifera) trees in my suburban Chicago neighborhood. It was not until many years later that I realized that this row of rough trees, threading through backyards and along roadsides, was […]More
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This master's project provides research, advice, and suggestions that will continue to prepare progressive early childhood teachers for their first years in the classroom.
Early Childhood General and Special Education
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The list of dumb things I do when I'm racing could fill a book. Starting a race without looking at a course map? Check. Inadequately warming up? Yep. Track spikes on a cross country course? Is there a difference? (That answer, by the way, is yes).
But I kind of took the cake this past weekend at the Sundodger Invitational. The reason it was so egregious is that I knew better. Or, I should say, was inspired to know better by this great post by elite runner Tina Muir on body/self image and whether or not one believes they look like a runner. Read it, it's great. I read it the day before Sundodger.
So what happened? I got to the starting line and decided that there were people who looked faster than I do. Seriously. This is the crap that goes through my head. Women who were more ripped, longer-legged, and just looked faster. And therefore I lined up behind them in the starting box. Why? Because I'd hate to hold someone back. Or slow someone down. You know, because I don't LOOK as fast as they do.
And then the gun went off, and I got caught behind them. They didn't go out as fast as I wanted to. This is by no means an indictment of anyone aside from me and my lack of confidence. The pack closed in around me, 200+ people with a quarter mile to get to a path that narrows to 5-6 people wide.
I ended up finishing the race in 11th place out of 218 finishers. I don't even think I'm in 11th place on my team in this picture. I dug myself a big hole and had to expend a lot of energy to fight (literally) my way back to the front. And all because I doubted myself, my ability, and whether or not I deserved to be on the front line.
It's one thing to have a bad race. They happen. But it's another thing to doubt yourself out of a good one. Don't do it, it's a waste of your training. Yes, I eked out a 6k PR of 21:48. But could it have been faster had I not had to sprint the better part of a mile to get back into fighting position? I'll never know.


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- n. - A complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
- n. - The syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
Si is worth 2 points in Scrabble, and 2 points in Words with Friends
There are 2 letters in si: I S
1 Anagram of Si
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to si:
1 word found using the letters in "Si"
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The main research collections, consisting of fluid preserved specimens (amphibians in 65% ethanol and reptiles in 75% ethanol) and skeletons are arranged alphabetically by taxonomy. A locator key with a list of genera and their corresponding shelf , tank, or cabinet number is placed at the head of each of the storage room (range). Bottles on the shelves are further organized by geography for each species, alphabetically by countries, by states for countries in North America, and by counties for Michigan species. This is basically the arrangement for the skeletal collection and the amphibian eggs/larva collection (in 10% buffered formalin). Primary Types are arranged alphabetically by species (original nomenclature) within the orders Gymnophiona, Caudata, Anura, Sauria, Ophidia, and Testudinata. The auxiliary research collections are arranged as follows. Kodachrome slides are organized alphabetically by taxonomy and geography, then numerically. Radiographs are arranged numerically by plate number. Tissues are arranged by field number and ordered into numbered cells of numbered tissue boxes. The teaching and exchange collections are arranged taxonomically. Long term storage of all fluid collections, radiographs, and kodachromes should avoid any light, excessive heat, and excessive humidity, thus the ranges need to be kept dark, cool, and dry. The tissue collections are stored at -80 degrees F in ultracold freezers. The room for the freezers needs to be kept cool to prevent them from over heating.


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God protected the first murderer. Abraham did things like marrying his half sister, which was punishable by death under Moses. And yet the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, that if he would believe (rely on, trust in God) that would be counted as righteousness. This was a fore-shadow of the new covenant.
Moses gave the law but only to the Jews. The first man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath was executed for it. And just as soon as the law was given the sacrifices began because no one could keep the law. The law was given to those who think their good work earns approval from God. The Pharisees told Jesus that they kept the law, he replied that if you look at a woman with lust you were guilty of adultery, showing they too had violated the law.
Lawyers, hoping to entrap Jesus, asked what is the greatest commandment. Jesus said to love God with all your heart .and your neighbor as yourself. The lawyer replied that if you did this you would satisfy all the law. Jesus was describing the new covenant.
Jesus gave us this new covenant, not doing away with the Law but fulfilling/perfecting it. The old covenant has been replaced with the new. The law is still in place but is for unbelievers. We walk in love and so fulfill all the law.
Christians are under Grace (unmerited/undeserved favor) and our law (perfect law of liberty) is to love God with all our heart and love others as ourselves (we walk in the Spirit not in the flesh). Paul wrote extensively about those Jews who attempting to bring the church back under the law but he said if you go back to the law you make Christ of none effect.
We have a better covenant with better promises. "You must be born again".
God loves you, God is pleased with you, God loves you no matter what you have done because He has put ALL sin on Jesus and when you accept Jesus, God sees you as He sees Jesus His son. God never changes and His love for his children never changes, to him you are perfect because Jesus is perfect and "As Jesus is so are you in this world" 1 John 4:17 ......


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We were mucking out the little girl's house. She was terrified.
I don't know what I was expecting, but nothing I'd caught on the endless news coverage in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey prepared me for what I saw in Kashmere Gardens.
For days, I had watched the storm pound the Gulf Coast from the comfort of my living room in Dallas. I was heartbroken, but I was compelled to find a way to help. So I packed, made the four-hour drive down and stayed in the Heights with a close friend from business school.
We'd decided we'd spend our Labor Day mucking houses with Jess Arnold, a friend who had mobilized a crew to help out in one of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods. We started at a single-family home on Dabney Street.
There, lots of debris was already on the curb. The surrounding terrain was damp, but the water was gone.
A conversation was taking place on the front porch between a volunteer and the homeowner, Margaret Ratcliff, a woman in her 50s who was visibly distressed. She was barefoot and had clearly been in the same clothing for several days.
In the background, her husband paced on surgical boots, using a cane. He didn't say much, but I sensed he was angry.
They were just learning that the mold had to be ripped out, and they could no longer stay in their home. They were both in shock. Who can blame them? Countless tasks needed attention.
Word spread that there was a dead dog under the house that had been there for several days, rotting. Attempts to remove him, or the smell, had been unsuccessful.
Another volunteer emerged from the house and quietly warned us that the smell inside was overwhelming.
I kept thinking about what the last few days had been like for the Ratcliffs as they tried to empty their home while the smell continued to get worse.
We started working behind the house on a heap of wet belongings, which needed to be transferred to the curb for pickup. Neither of the Ratcliffs got around very well. He's diabetic, and she has COPD. It would have taken them an entire day to complete this task alone.
As we picked up wet blouses, pants, whatever, a large spider emerged from the pile.
Then came another. Someone said, "This is the perfect place for snakes, too."
With that, I set out in search of a new project.
A statement I overheard some time before finally registered: "There's a little girl in there." My brain was so overloaded, it had taken me at least 15 minutes to process that information.
I walked around to the front of the house and froze in the front yard.
The door was wide open. Silently sitting alone on a wet couch, a 3-year-old named Courtney was staring back at me intensely. While the majority of her face was hidden by a large, blue medical mask, I could easily see how huge her eyes were. She was terrified.
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I realized how frightening it must have been for this little girl to be sitting in her flooded, ransacked home while a group of masked strangers come take everything away.
I entered the house, sat next to her and took it all in. My pants began to absorb the floodwater from the couch. "I bet this is really scary, huh?" She just stared back at me.
I forced the biggest smile I could, hoping she'd see it beyond my mask. "My name is Jeni. Me and my friends are here to help your mom and dad. I think they're upset, too."
I asked if she'd like a hug. As soon as I did, she returned my embrace. It was clear she didn't want me to let go, so I scooped her onto my lap and rocked her for a while, repeating in a soothing tone, "It's OK. You're going to be OK." She squeezed me tighter.
Still barefoot, Margaret was on the phone, desperately trying to find somewhere they could stay for the night, while she was digging through piles trying to find Courtney some shoes so she could get her outside, away from the mold.
When she found a pair, we sat Courtney on the back of the couch while Margaret tried to put them on. Her hands were shaking. I finished the job while she broke down in tears.
Courtney spent most of the afternoon on my lap while we sat in the driveway of a neighbor, Ms. Jean.
Her house also needed to be mucked, but she didn't know how to do it herself, and no one had offered to help yet.
As Ms. Jean and I talked, Courtney played with my necklace and sang me her favorite songs. I smiled and sang along with the ones that I knew, but I was distracted as I gazed down the street.
Eventually, one of the volunteers came to tell me that we were getting ready to wrap up for the day. I could tell Courtney felt comfortable enough for me to jump back in and help.
I felt proud as I watched our crew of volunteers, hard at work on Courtney's home, armed with wheelbarrows, crowbars and shovels. But my heart broke to realize that it was the only house on the street with a crew. The rest were left to handle these tasks with no help.
In the midst of an entire city banding together to help each other pick up the pieces, I got the sense that Kashmere Gardens had been left behind.
At the end of the day, as I carried the remaining chunks of soggy sheetrock to the curb, I kept wondering: Where are the Ratcliffs going to sleep tonight? And what happens when we're not here to help tomorrow?
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What is the first principle of economics? Some economists will claim that it's supply and demand, while others insist that it's scarcity or the division of labor. The first principle of economics is "thou shalt not steal."
The word economics is derived from two Greek words: oikos, meaning "house," and nomos, meaning "law." Combined we get "rules or laws of the house."
Economics is ethical before it is practical. This follows the older definition of the word "economy" found in Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language: "Economy—Primarily, the management, regulation and government of a family or the concerns of a household." The use of "political economy" as a definition does not appear until the eighth and ninth entries, and yet it's the primary definition today.
Almost all modern definitions of economics, like contemporary definitions of "government," assume that the State, civil government, is the starting point in understanding economic theory and practice. To grasp these, so the argument goes, the role the State plays in economic decision making in the allocation of scarce resources must first be considered. For many, this is a reasonable and moral starting point when resources are scarce and people have needs.
On the other side of the economic spectrum, classical liberals, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, and even some conservatives contend that the means of production should be privately owned, economic decisions also should be made privately with goods and services exchanged in a free market with little or no positive (active) state intervention. The role of civil government in economic matters should be minimal, being limited to the protection of individual rights and property.
Modern economic theory presupposes that markets need to be regulated so there will be a "just" accounting for everyone. If there is inflation (an increase in the money supply resulting in higher prices), interest rates are raised and existing and future assets are diluted in value. If the economy is sluggish, governments will increase the supply of money to stimulate growth. If one segment of society is being left behind economically, taxes will be raised and income redistributed to smooth out the inequities in the name of "social justice."
The advocates of a free market and those who declare for a managed market claim to promote "justice" with their policies. There is little argument over wanting to establish a just market place, the question is, how do we account for justice? What is its source? Mutual consent? Public opinion? Enlightened self-interest?
Those involved in economic transactions believe and hope for an agreed upon set of rules (laws) that apply to all equally, especially since "we live in an imperfect universe." Like reason and justice, how do we account for the validity of these rules?
The Bible begins with two uncontested presuppositions: First, God exists, and, second, He is the Creator of "the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). A third presupposition logically follows from the first two: "The earth is the LORD's and all it contains" (Ps. 24:1; see 1 Cor. 10:26). Not only the land, but the stuff of creation also belongs to God: "For every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills" (Ps. 50:10).
Private (personal) property rights are based on the fact that God is the prior owner who delegates a derivative ownership to His creation…
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The room quietens as a tall man in a Rasta hat sidles over to the microphone.
"Jah!" he shouts (the Rasta word for God), making me jump.
"Rastafar-i!" the crowd roars in response.
I am at a BBQ at the UK HQ of the 'Twelve Tribes of Israel' – a Rastafari community – commemorating the 'Earthday' of Marcus Garvey, a black civil rights leader who died in 1940.
Based here since 1979, they own the house outright thanks to support from members over the years. After a delicious feast of Jerk chicken, rice, peas, fresh coconut water and sugar cane, I join them for prayers in the living room, covering my head with a customary scarf.
It had taken me a long time to reach this point of familiarity, having struggled for months to make any connections into the community. My last resort was to drag my friend along to London's premier Reggae venue, Hootananny.
Scanning the room with increasing desperation, I eventually spotted a Mediterranean-looking guy with dreadlocks wearing a 'Rasta fm' T-shirt.
"Do you know if there are any Rastas here?"
"Of course my sister", he smiled and pointed toward the stage. "You wanna talk to Cecil. Cecil Reuben. Behind the decks."
Cecil, it turns out, is both the Manager and Reggae promoter at Hootenanny, flying in acts all the way from his home country of Jamaica. We trade numbers and agree to meet the following week.
In the meantime I follow a stray piece of advice from an Internet forum and head to Brixton village to search for the owner of a legendary hat shop.
I ask around for 'The Weatherman'. When I (finally) find him I offer my hand.
"I'm Lucy!" He looks me up and down.
"Me don't shake 'ands" he says, shaking his head instead.
"Oh ok", I say awkwardly retracting.
"I say 'ello wid my 'eart" he says, thumping his hand on his chest.
I want everybody to be my friend – a major journalistic flaw – and I can already sense he doesn't like me, which makes me feel uncomfortable.
"Rastafar-i are Godly people," he explains, with the tone of an aggressive preacher. "Jah is de fadda. Rasta don't 'ave no fait, dey know. Dey don't believe in de fadder, dey know. Rasta don't understand, we overstand. See?"
I didn't really, but nodded vigorously.
"De locks, dey not Rastafar-i. You see people drunk in park, because dey 'ave locks people tink dem Rastafar-i, but dey not".
He laughs manically throughout our conversation, constantly challenging me on whether or not I 'overstand'. If I say yes he asks me to repeat it back to him, which doesn't tend to go well. I leave the conversation feeling confused.
In stark contrast, the next morning I meet Cecil.
"My queen", he greets me, shaking my hand and revealing a gold tooth in a wide, comforting grin. We settle with a drink and begin a conversation that lasts two hours. I am riveted.
"Rasta was started in Jamaica – not Africa," he tells me. "Marcus Garvey made the statement: 'Black people, look to Africa, when a king is crowned. And he shall be for your redemption'".
"Well, a king was crowned in Africa in 1930 – Haile Selassie I (pronounced Haile Selassie-i). He was given the name King of Kings, Lord of Lords and conquering lion of the Tribe of Judah. So some people in Jamaica saw this, remembered Garvey's speech and put two and two together. Maybe this was who he meant, maybe not, who knows. I'm just being real with you." He gives me another endearing, toothy smile, before continuing.
"There was a population in Jamaica called the beard men, they were fed up with English colonialism, so they moved up into the hills and became self sufficient, grew their own food. They started to grow locks to look like a lion, because Haile Selassie-i was the Lion of Judah. They were the first Rasta men. People would call them 'black art men' and warn their children not to go near them".
"So it was similar to the hippy movement over here?"
"Yeah similar", he nods, "people rejecting society and setting up on their own". There is a pause. "But they still accepted the Bible. They picked out what suited them from it, and at the time it was an anti white thing, because the white man was the oppressor. But that's not the case anymore, anyone who still thinks Rasta is only for the black man is stuck in a time warp".
"So what changed?"
"Simple". He leans back on his chair. "Bob Marley!" He pauses for effect.
"When Bob Marley became an international icon, he brought Rasta culture to the world. A lot of people came to Rasta through the music. Rasta is about unity. One love". He smiles, enjoying the concept.
"Rasta isn't really about smoking or what you eat", he continues. "That doesn't make you righteous. It's about the function of your heart".
"Isn't smoking part of it though?" I ask.
"No. I love smoking. But not because it makes me righteous. I just love weed!" He laughs, lights up a spliff, sinks deep into his chair and starts to sing.
"One love…"


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Archive for December 21st, 2012
Sonic The Fighters
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Last Two Coin Rush Course DLC now available for New Super Mario Bros. 2
The final two Coin Rush course packs for New Super Mario Bros. 2 are available to download today. The Mystery Adventure Pack offers labyrinthine courses full of different paths, while the Impossible Pack offers the toughest challenges that Mario fans will have ever faced. Both Packs are available to access from the in-game Shop menu in New Super Mario Bros. 2 on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL. Read the rest of this entry »
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! OST: 34 Tracks
The Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! Official Soundtrack is now available to stream via D3 Publisher's Sound cloud. Read the rest of this entry »
Jetpack Joyride Free on PS3 and PS Vita Today
Halfbrick, creators of the worldwide phenomenon Fruit Ninja, today announced the launch of its smash-hit title Jetpack Joyride on PS3 and PlayStation Vita, developed by fellow Aussie studio Big Ant. Read the rest of this entry »
The Steam Holiday Sale; Borderlands, Wargame, Hitman, POP, Mirror's edge
The Steam Holiday Sale is in full swing today offering various discounts with up to 75% saving. Each day, Steam will bring you new deals to encourage you to part with your gold coins in return for some amazing PC titles. Today's offers include the following: Read the rest of this entry »
The Rapid Angel Now Available on European PSN
MonkeyPaw Games today announced the European digital release of an action-packed Japanese classic, The Rapid Angel, on the European PlayStation Network. This release marks the first time that gamers will get to play the direct-from-Japan import. Read the rest of this entry »
OnLive Holiday Sale up to 75% Off
OnLive, the cloud gaming platform is hosting their 'Special Holiday Sale' on various video game titles through to the new year with up to a 75% discount. Starting Friday, December 21st, you can treat yourself to great games at a great price until the 2nd January. Take a festive hop, skip and jump to check out what deals are included in this offer. Read the rest of this entry »
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I recently found myself 1,500 feet above ground, traveling at 180 mph. When I wiped away the breath-mist from the window, I could see the American West in the chill of November: snowy mountain ranges, high alpine, high desert, waves of blue mountains, the shocking red rocks of Utah, the undulations of landscape as it bore out its transformation from range to basin and back again. If I peered closer, the details revealed themselves: the way snow had blown itself into watersheds, the paths I'd hiked winding up mountains, the glint on the curves of some of the nation's best cutthroat trout streams.
I also saw the unbeautiful: spiderwebs of fracking roads, missing mountainsides, uranium mines, orange ponds for storing tailings and dust, stands of felled trees, the white puffs and yellow haze from coal-fired power plants.
My ticket to this view was a program called "Flight Across America," which gives college-age and early professional folks the chance to see the West from the air. It's a program of EcoFlight, a nonprofit dedicated to advocating for environmental issues from the air. Ecoflight was started by Bruce Gordon (good friend to the late John Denver, another pilot-conservationist) 13 years ago; since then, EcoFlight has flown politicians, conservation groups, media, scientists, and celebrities.
In three small Cessnas, we took off from little airports in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico: Grand Junction, Farmington, Cortez, Durango, Moab, Walden. We crammed into these 1970s-era planes with recording gear and notebooks and cameras, with hats and gloves, with headsets for communicating both within the plane and to the other planes, and with curiosity.
Below, we saw Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming; saw the Navajo nation, site of the most polluting coal-fired power plant in the United States; saw the West's many rivers and diversions; saw the Roan Plateau of western Colorado, a major drilling site. We flew over the proposed Hermosa Wilderness Area in southern Colorado; we camped in freezing temperatures at the Hovenweep National Monument near the ruins of the ancestral Pueblo; we hiked in the heat of Moab and in a blizzard at the Maroon Bells. We also met with an array of experts representing Colorado's politicians, ranchers, mountain bikers, conservationists, and photographers.
The amount of information we absorbed from our pilots and guest speakers was immense. But perhaps the most important discovery—for those of us who hadn't flown like this before—was the simple but essential confirmation that the landscape is a whole. Despite the state lines, designations, management agencies, political jurisdictions, and roads, the planet Earth is the planet Earth, a continuous entity. As the snowy peaks morphed into plateaus and into high desert, it was clear that the natural world does not segment or cut herself up at all…
Every day, we witnessed yet more instances of ecological and political interconnectedness; each night, the students would gather around and discuss the questions these examples raised: How can we see the West as a whole, and act accordingly? And how does one action influence others? Indeed, was this very trip culpable in some way? Was using up fuel to see these areas worth it? When I posed that question to Bruce Gordon, the program founder, he said, "That's always a tough question, but we do our best to offset our carbon footprint as much as possible through various carbon savings in other areas. We work diligently to minimize flight times. We ensure that on each and every mission the value added of empowering our passenger participants and the subsequent outreach is worth the cost in adding to a carbon footprint. We aren't against oil and gas, but we feel it can and should be done properly, and there are some places it just shouldn't be done.
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This seahorse apron is stylish, elegant and the perfect gift for someone special in your life. Decorated with a repeat pattern of seahorses, the design is taken from a series of paintings of animals who mate for life by award-winning artist Lucy Coggle. So whether it's for a husband or wife, a lover or a friend, show someone you care this Christmas!
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New business chooses Michigan to startup new science lab
The bio-life science field is an exciting and innovative industry to be a part of. New business enterprises are attracted to the field because of the demand for new discoveries, many of which could be used in medical treatment. This provides excellent opportunity to make a good profit. One bio-life science company has chosen Michigan as the site for its new start-up lab, which will specialize in genetic research. The lab plans to focus on processing genetic testing for age-related macular degeneration.
The company, ArticAx US Ltd., has just received $220,000 in start-up capital from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. The new lab is estimated to cost a total of $1.9 million. The local community is also excited about the decision, because the lab is expected to generate an additional 28 jobs over the next three years.
Macular degeneration affects up to ten percent of the population. Total or partial blindness is a common result from the disease. The new lab will focus on testing designed to tell if a person is likely to become partially or completely blind due to macular degeneration, which is an inherited disease. The test can be performed with a cheek swab which can be mailed to the lab.
Like any other new business, the startup lab in Michigan would benefit greatly from a well organized and effective business plan. This would allow the business to envision tangible goals, while also creating an action plan in order to achieve those goals. However, the business plan should also allow for enough flexibility to navigate any unforeseen challenges which may arise. Having knowledge of laws applicable to the industry is also integral to creating a successful business plan.
Source: MLive.com, " Why bio-life science company picked Grand Rapids over New York for new lab ," Shandra Martinez, July 19, 2012


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