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Apo Island
Get in[edit]
Closest airport - Dumaguete
The final leg for all travel to Apo island requires taking an outrigger boat (bangka) for about an hour
1) Take a flight to Dumaguete
2) Take a bus from the airport to Malatapay, Zamboanguita (this is where the bangkas leave for Apo island).
You can also take a jeepney or bus from Dumaguete that drops you at Malatapay.The fare is 20 or 25 pesos respectively.
Alternately, ask your hotel to arrange the transport. The latter is far more convenient but also more expensive.
Boat rental (2 way) it doesn't matter if you stay on the island for a day or a week. The rates are the same.
2000 pesos - small boat max 4 pax
3000 pesos - big boat max 8 pax.
Travellers may also join the boats for 300 pesos per way, note that these do not have a regular schedule so you might need to wait a little at the port in Malatapey
There is a counter at Zamboanguita pier, where you pay the environmental fee.They arrange the boat for you.
Warning : You HAVE to walk through the water to board the boat. So remember to change into your slippers (the water is stony) and either wear shorts or roll up your clothes.
The boats do not have any curtains on the sides, so assume that you will be wet within minutes of leaving. Dress accordingly and be ready to be wet, and keep all your belongings (especially camera, money and documents) in your bag. The boatman will keep your bags inside the boat in the bottom, so it is safer.
Apo is a tiny island with a small beach. The small town uses gathered rainwater as tap water. There is electricity only 3 hours a day (19-22), and there is no wifi connectivity (except for liberty lodge, and it is strictly for hotel guests only—eating at their restaurant will not grant you access to the wifi).
Upon arrival, you will be asked to pay 100p per person as an island fee. This tax is taken even if you are not staying overnight.
Overall the island is very nice, and the locals are extremely friendly.
There are plenty of sea turtles living around the island.
Be responsible: when you see the turtle, follow these rules:
Turtles need to breathe air every few minutes, when you stop them from going to the surface, you may drown them.
Get around[edit]
The island is only 3 km around and 120 m high at the top of the hill, however, it is hilly.
You can walk upto the lagoon and the coral beach on the south eastern coast (through Apo village)
A steep set of stairs takes you up the hill - to the lighthouse (30 minutes trek, medium difficulty). You just have to follow the stairs up to reach it. As there is only one track, you can't get lost. You won't regret the sweat as the view is really beautiful from the top of the lighthouse.
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One of the Philippines' famous diving sites, Apo Island has one of the world's best known community-organized marine sanctuaries. It is home to over 650 documented species of fish and estimated to have over 400 species of corals. It is a must dive for any serious aficionado in the Philippines.
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Diving and snorkeling are the main activities around the island. Resorts on and off the island typically hold diving programs for different skill levels. Instructors are commonly PADI-certified. The diving is excellent, plenty of reefs, tons of fish and turtles-amazing visibility. Keep an eye out for the Giant Trevally which is known in these waters.
There are dive shops in Apo Island:
Conservation tax of P300 is charged if diving within the sanctuary and P200 if diving outside of the sanctuary.
The sanctuary is currently closed ( as per April 2014).
Alternatively Marios Scuba Diving is an excellent alternative for the 2 mentioned diveshops above!
These rates are as of June 2009
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Local women will try to sell you t-shirts and sarongs when you arrive and when you leave.
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Both hotels have restaurants, Liberty's has particularly good chocolate/banana shakes. Menus are limited but what is available is pretty good. At Liberty's, the dive master will go table to table during dinner and help you arrange the next day's dives.
Outside the lodges there are several local eateries scattered throughout the village. prices are higher than in larger islands, but the meals are big and it is better to buy directly from local people.
The owner at Ronor's Guesthouse serves excellent local food and the portions are huge!
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Beer and basic liquor can be bought at any store / eatery. Be aware - local "boat captains" finish their workday at about 19:00 and go get drunk and might disturb young female tourists. (they don't mean any harm and wont act violently, it just can be very annoying)
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Several beach resorts at nearby towns regularly offer trips to the island, and it is more common among divers and tourists to get accommodations off Apo Island. Examples of hotels and resorts outside Apo Island are Liquid Dive Resort [4], Playa de Malatapay Resort and Restaurant (www.playademalatapay.com) and Thalatta Beach & Dive Resort in Maluay Zamboangita ( www.thalattaresort.com ), Bahura Resort & Spa [5] in Dauin and Wellbeach Dive Resort in Maluay [6] . Rates span from budget to splurge, with some hotels usually offering a range of activities that explore the mountains, water falls, sulfur springs and other beaches of Negros Oriental.
It is commonly thought that there are only two resorts on the island, Liberty Community lodge and Apo Island Beach Resort. However there are also homestays available.
Get out[edit]
Apo island is generally the place to get out too, Dumagete is the city to get to Apo from. Here [7] is a good write up on the island.
(May, 2015) For those going to Siquijor, there's sometime a boat going there directly from Apo Island. Check with Apo Island beach resort (the boat goes there and back from Coco Grove Beach Resort, Siquijor).


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One day after a mid-level Hamas leader was killed in a car bombing in Damascus, an Israeli helicopter targeted a Palestinian militant in Gaza. Israeli forces also moved against suspected militants in the West Bank. And, a popular Palestinian leader plans to run for the Palestinian parliament.
The Palestinian targeted in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Nsaira, was critically wounded in the attack. He is a commander of the Popular Resistance Committee, which is blamed for two bombing attacks on Israeli tanks.
An Israeli helicopter fired missiles at his car as it was moving along a road in southern Gaza. Another militant traveling with him was killed.
Israeli forces killed at least three other Palestinians in clashes in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank.
Earlier in the day, Israeli forces raided a private hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin in search of suspected militants.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had already warned of the intensified campaign against Hamas and other Palestinian militants during his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday. The military operations in Gaza are expected to increase ahead of Mr. Sharon's planned withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the area next year.
The air strike in Gaza comes one day after a mid-level Hamas leader was killed in a car bombing in Damascus.
Syria and Hamas blame Israel. Israel has no comment on the killing, but a top Defense Ministry official warned Syria against allowing Hamas and other Palestinian fighters in its territory.
In other news, Israel's Justice Ministry says five Israeli border policemen have been arrested and charged with abusing two Palestinians at a West Bank checkpoint, as they were trying to cross into Jerusalem.
And, in the West Bank town of Ramallah, the wife of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has registered him to run in the next parliamentary elections.
Mr. Barghouti won a parliamentary seat in 1996, the last time elections were held.
The problem this time is Marwan Barghouti is serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. He was arrested two years ago, and convicted of participating in deadly attacks against Israelis.
Mr. Barghouti headed Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in the West Bank, and was often described as a possible Arafat successor.

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"If we can identify another Earth-like planet, it comes full circle, from thinking that everything revolves around our planet to knowing that there are lots of other Earths out there."
Discovering thousands of planets beyond our solar system counts as a "eureka" moment in human exploration. But the biggest payoff is yet to come: capturing evidence of a distant world hospitable to life.
We begin the search on familiar ground. On this planet, currently our sole example of a life-bearing world, the need for water is non-negotiable. So astronomers search the cosmos for similar environments. Around almost every "normal" star, including our sun, we can draw a band of potential habitability: the right distance and temperature for liquid water to exist. The key, of course, is a planetary surface where the water could pool. Both stars and planets come in many types and sizes, and the interplay of these factors determines the extent and influence of this "habitable zone."
A giant, hot-burning star's habitable zone would be found at a much greater distance than that of a smaller, cooler stellar dwarf. And if we stick with the plan—hunting first for what we know—then small, rocky worlds are our best bet for finding evidence of life as we know it (we'll talk about "life as we don't know it" in the next section).
So the ideal candidate is an Earth-sized, rocky world nestled comfortably within its star's habitable zone—though scientists' understanding of what makes up a habitable zone continues to evolve.
Wishing upon the right kind of star
That's not the end of the story. While the size and composition of both planets and stars are critical to habitability, so is time. Big bright stars burn out far more quickly than their more modest counterparts. The brightest burn for only a few million years, then flame out; meanwhile, our sun has been shining steadily for 4.5 billion years, with about another 5 billion years to go. At that point it will swell to many times its previous size to possibly engulf Earth and the rest of the inner planets, though any lingering Earth life would long since have burned to a crisp.
The first microscopic life forms are thought to have emerged about a billion years after Earth's formation from the dust, globs and chunks of material that made up the infant sun's protoplanetary disk. They might have emerged much sooner. But it took roughly another 3 billion years for multi-celled, macroscopic creatures to begin making their mark on the fossil record.
A few hundred million years could be enough time to produce microbial life, but might be far too short a time frame for large animals, especially the kind that begin talking to each other and building radio telescopes. Scratch big, hot stars off our list of likely candidates.
On the other hand, long-lived dwarf stars might be great places to look—even those with habitable zones so close in that rocky worlds within them would be tidally locked, constantly presenting only one face to the star as the moon does to Earth. Scientists once thought such worlds would be cooked on one side and frozen on the other, but further modeling and observations suggest that planet-girdling winds could even things out, providing some of these worlds with temperate climates.
The safest bet might be sun-like stars, with planets of comparable size and comparable orbits to Earth's.
A growing handful of habitable worlds
So how is the search going? In just over 20 years of exploration, ground and space-based observations have turned up more than 3,200 confirmed exoplanets in the few slices of our galaxy we've been able to search. Add unconfirmed planetary candidates and the number jumps to more than 5,600.
Many of the planets found so far are gas or ice giants, with little chance of a solid surface harboring a warm little pond. But we've also found some rocky worlds in Earth's size-range. Even with the expected advances in observing technology in years to come, we're unlikely to know the precise nature of any life we might detect, be they crusts of algae or loping, six-legged giraffes. Still, among those rocky, Earth-like worlds, we could catch tantalizing glimpses of the right conditions for life.
But how can we tell if anybody's home? To find out, read on to the next article, 'Life Signs.'


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Posted by Tasha Kosviner on 3 March 2014 at 8:34 am
Hot air rises.
Galileo knew it. We know it. And staff at a Dorset soap factory certainly knew it when they shivered in their boots at work each day.
That was until someone thought to install a destratification fan which recirculates the warm air that collects at the ceiling, pushing it back down to mingle with the cooler air that settled below.
Now staff at the natural soap manufacturers, LUSH work in an ambient 18-20 degC every day - and the factory has saved an impressive 61 per cent, or £17,500, on its heating bills.
The newly installed Airius destratification fan has taken the edge off both LUSH's bills and chills.
"Despite the factory being filled with gas burners cooking up all of LUSH's lotions and potions, the staff reported that the factory never got above 16degC in the winter," said Airius boss Stephen Bridges. "Now their factory is warm and pleasant to be in throughout the year."
Destratification fans prevent hot air from accumulating at the ceiling by recirculating it down to floor level where it is needed. They also prevent cool air from becoming trapped in low points or poorly circulated areas.
Destratification fans are recommended by the Carbon Trust as one of the three key heat saving measures in commercial and industrial buildings. The flagship Debenhams store on London's regent street uses an Airius destrat fan to redistribute heat thoughout it's five-storey escalator well, while many RAF aircraft hangers also employ the system to redistribute heat produced from their radiant tube heaters.
In the LUSH factory, which measures, 4,500 square feet with ceilings that are 8m high, the installation of the Airius system cost £2,967.50. Heating costs were £26,638 pre installation and £7,333 post installation. The system has an annual running cost of £68.75.
The LUSH system was particularly successful because the fans were able to recirculate a significant amount of the heat produced by the gas burners."The success of the LUSH project meant the company was able to get payback on their investment in just 26 days," Mr Bridges reports.
The Carbon Trust other key heat-saving recommendations are replacing inefficient gas boilers and lowering the thermostat. Lowering set points by just 1degC can produce annual heating bill savings of up to eight per cent, it claims.
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'Failure Is A Critical Part Of Learning': An Interview With Art Markman
Art Markman, PhD is a professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Smart Thinking (Perigee Books), which he discussed at a post here last year.
His latest book is titled Smart Change: Five Tools To Create New and Sustainable Habits In Yourself and Others.
I asked him a few questions about it, and how its ideas could be applied in the classroom.
I'll be responding to last week's question, How Can We Best Engage Families, later this week in a multi-part series. There is still plenty of time to contribute your response.
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LF: You talk a lot about the brain Stop and Go system and its role in creating habits. Can you summarize it and offer suggestions about how teachers and apply it to encourage students to create good habits and break bad ones?
Essentially, the brain has a well-developed system for achieving goals that involves many systems deep in the brain that help people to develop habits to create routines for behaviors that are repeated. Habits develop whenever there is a consistent relationship between information in the world and a behavior and that behavior is repeated. Once behaviors are engaged, there is a second system, which I call the Stop System, that can be engaged to stop the behavior if it is not desirable in a situation. The Stop System is a relatively new system evolutionarily, and it involves regions in the frontal lobes of the brain. It is slow, effortful, and prone to failure. It does not mature until people are in their early 20s, and so most students have immature Stop Systems.
First, everyone needs to learn the tradeoff between effort and accuracy. In general, the more work you put into any task, the better you will perform it. Put too much work into a task, though, and you have spent valuable time that could have been used elsewhere. So, it is valuable for students to put in too little effort on a project sometimes in order to help them calibrate the amount of effort a task is worth.
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Announced last January, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 has a twelve megapixel image sensor, and a Leica-branded 12x optical zoom lens. For framing and reviewing images, the ZS7 opts for a 3.0" LCD display with 460,000 dot resolution. The Lumix ZS7's standout feature is its built-in GPS receiver, a first for a Panasonic Lumix digital camera. Courtesy of its GPS functionality, the DMC-ZS7 can geotag its images with the location at which they were shot. A couple of other features differentiate the ZS7 from its sibling, the ZS5. The Panasonic ZS7 offers its user the choice of either AVCHD Lite or QuickTime Motion JPEG video compression, and also adds a mini HDMI connector. The DMC-ZS7 includes 15MB of built-in memory, and also accepts SD, SDHC and SDXC cards. Available since mid-March 2010, the Panasonic DMC-ZS7 is available in red and blue variants, priced at around $400. For more details, read our Panasonic ZS7 review.


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REVIEW: Last day of Circus Fantasia is a must see
PUBLISHED: 10:17 08 July 2018 | UPDATED: 10:17 08 July 2018
It is the last day of the Circus Fantasia at Fair Green in Diss and if you have not seen the show yet you have been missing out.
The circus is filled with a mixture of daring stunts, incredibly acts and humorous clowns which proved to be fun for the whole family.
The show combines these acts together in a great balance that had the audience hiding behind their hands at one moment before roaring with laughter the next.
With small intermissions between each act as the next stunt is set up the clowns do a fantastic job of keeping the audience entertained and even let them take part with some great audience participation which mixed up the show and once again had the big top filled with laughter.
The dare devils from across the globe kept surprising us from incredible fire juggling to daring aerial acts with tightrope walking and rope gymnastics.
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This beautiful Southern wedding from Black & Hue Photography is the epitome of rustic chic! Ashley and Brian's Tallahassee wedding is the perfect marriage of black tie style and a romantic barn location. The historical grounds of the Goodwood Museum and Gardens could not have been more perfect for their classic vintage affair. The gardens surrounding the restored plantation-style manor offered a beautiful location for their heartfelt ceremony – even in the winter, the Florida greenery and gently draping Spanish Moss could not have been a more lush backdrop!
Ashley and her gorgeous bridesmaids got ready in the elegant manor house, before taking portraits through the gardens. The rich palette of cherry red and ivory with black tie details looked incredible against the deep green of palmetto fronds and orange trees. The romantic, draping silhouettes of their mismatched gowns kept things comfortable in the Florida heat, while the floor-length skirts played well with Brian and his groomsmens' black tuxes and bow ties!
Although they chose not to see each other before the ceremony, this sweet couple shared an intimate moment before seeing each other at the end of the aisle. They exchanged letters and read them just steps apart in the gardens! After their vows in front of the manor house, Bryan of Black & Hue escorted them throughout the gardens to capture the rich, golden light of magic hour. They rejoined their guests in the elegantly restored carriage house. The exposed wooden eaves and long farm tables offered a relaxed atmosphere, the perfect example of a rustic chic wedding! Lush ivory rose centerpieces lined the tables, warmed by the glow of hundreds of candles. The bride's mother, Carol, was the mastermind behind their beautiful farmhouse chic decor!
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We've got ourselves a new winner in Monster Energy Supercross 2013—and it's one of the old winners. James Stewart has been through a rough run early this season, but after a few weeks of improvement, it was clear he might have the stuff to get a win—and when he snagged the holeshot in Atlanta, it was on.
But oh, it wouldn't be easy because Ryan Villopoto was right there behind him. The huge crowd braced themselves for a battle, but the lead stabilized between 1-2 seconds the whole way, and Villopoto was never quite able to challenge. Stewart did the damage in a rhythm lane by jumping a double off of a dragon back, something Villopoto was not doing. Beyond that, they seemed even-up in speed.
Points leader Davi Millsaps logged another strong run with a third, holding off the advances of Justin Barcia, who tailed off down the stretch. Then came Trey Canard in fifth, just holding off Ryan Dungey. Next came 450 newcomer Eli Tomac, Jake Weimer, Chad Reed and Mike Alessi.


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At midday on December 19th Hastings Fire Brigade responded to a report of a scrub fire. Upon arriving at the scene the request was made for additional tankers, with the fire being located in three places. Quick actions by the first crew on scene prevented the fire from spreading further. Support arrived from Bittern, Tyabb, Moorooduc, Somerville and Crib Point who brought additional tankers while Hastings FCV set up at a hydrant across the road from the property to refill the tankers.
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HTML5, the emerging markup standard for Web development, will be the "lingua franca" for websites and applications, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this morning.
He was speaking at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Redmond, where Microsoft is showing its new and forthcoming products to developers. The theme this year seems to be cloud computing — namely, so far, what people can do with Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7 and Internet Explorer 9.
Ballmer said the lines are blurring between websites and applications, especially on mobile devices. And Microsoft wants to make sure its platforms are at the center of the cloud-computing movement.
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Another favorite outdoor activity I had growing up, besides camping? Berry picking.
Every late-spring my mom would take me berry picking at the local farms. We tried to do two trips a year: strawberries and some other local fruit (blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, or apples). Living in New England meant shorter picking seasons so we could miss a specific harvest by a week depending on how well the fruit developed.
This meant my mom would announce one morning that she'd be heading to the farm in a few days and ask if I'd be willing to help her. When I was younger, I had little choice in the matter but I loved it anyway; and when I was older it would depend on my work schedule for the week.
I found on the days I had to work or go to school and miss helping her were always disappointing. She'd try to adjust her schedule to accommodate me, but sometimes the weather and harvest wouldn't cooperate.
Our Family Traditions
Strawberries were a must in our family.
If we could only do one picking a year it was strawberries. We had a rhubarb plant growing in our backyard so my dad always requested a strawberry rhubarb pie every summer. My mother never believed in doing anything half-measure so she would make sure to bake him a pie with only the freshest ingredients: rhubarb and strawberries she picked herself.
With the haul, she would preserve a batch of strawberries in syrup. My mom would freeze this mixture and thaw it for Christmas morning every year. Our favorite traditional Christmas meal, besides the evening feast, was homemade scones, clotted cream, and those syrupy strawberries picked earlier in the year.
There was something wonderful in knowing that I helped make Christmas breakfast a little more special by helping pick those berries. During the cold, dark New England months it brought a little bit of spring sunshine for the day.
Another fun tradition that started while strawberry picking was the story about a mouse visiting his relatives whenever we picked. No matter the farm and no matter the location (I happen to know he's moved down South), my mom and I would create this elaborate story about his adventures over the past year and all the fun he was having while visiting.
It was one of those fun traditions that started one day when my mom spotted a mouse in the patch we were picking in. I think she started talking about it to make sure I wasn't startled or to keep herself from being startled, so a story began about why he was there. Our stories grew over the years, though we've never physically seen him again.
Like all my favorite traditions and childhood memories, I've wanted to share them with Jai in some small way. I didn't even wait for him to be born before I took him berry picking: I was between 5 to 7 months pregnant when I went picking for strawberries, peaches, and blueberries.
Last year, we took him peach and blueberry picking while he was in my carrier. This year we've gone strawberry and peach picking so far (blueberries are around the corner). Because peaches are on a tree, it was easier for him to physically help this year, though he may have grabbed several under-ripe ones for Ash, who's a fan.
Jai is a blueberry lover, and the farm we go to has such tall bushes that he'll be able to help me again, so I know most of the fruit he picks will be put straight into his mouth and squished into my shirt. I have accepted and plan to be prepared for it.


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Les Ellis
Les Ellis
When I was growing up, my family would have been labeled "the working poor." We lived in public housing in Richmond. My father worked in an "ice house" making ice. We had one used car that my father serviced and repaired himself. My mother stretched my father's small check as far as she could. She made shirts for me and skirts and blouses for my sister. We rarely ate out.
My father left school in the 6th grade because his father deserted him, his mother and his three sisters. I never met my grandfather. In spite of these difficult times, my father worked hard and continuously. He also was committed to learning from everyone he met. Due to his determination, he finished his work life as the highly respected Chief Stationary Engineer of Children's Hospital of the East Bay.
Thanks to my parent's values and support, I graduated from college. Not long after that, I took the first step toward a career in insurance. I have now successfully pursued this career for 47 years. It has rewarded me far more than a "kid from the projects" could have dreamed. Along the way, I have received encouragement and help from many people – family, friends, church members and teachers as I grew up, and mentors and colleagues later in life. I strongly believe that each of us who has enjoyed success in life has had help along the way.
In 2004, I was struck by a cover story in "Business Week" dedicated to poverty in America, and specifically the plight of the working poor. The article made the point that "one in four workers earns $18,800 a year or less, with few if any benefits." Later that year, Congress once again, refused to take up the matter of increasing the Federal Minimum Wage that was $5.15 at the time and had been unchanged for 7 years. At $5.15, a low-wage worker would make only $10,712 a year.
One of the most egregious things I learned about the story of poverty in America is the fact that children comprise more than one third of the impoverished. Caught up in the conditions of their parent's low income, the children and their parents have to live with crowded housing, no sick pay, no child care, poor diet, no job security, no medical or dental benefits, no retirement plan, no computer tools, and the list goes on. How could anyone have the time and energy to break the endless cycle?
The more I learned, the more I felt that I needed to do something to address these conditions. I had been helped by so many in my life, it was time to give back to others who were working hard to improve their lives. I began to formulate the idea of a group that would raise money and then find terrific local programs that would help the working poor develop the skills to move them up and out of poverty. I took my ideas to the staff at the East Bay Community Foundation (a 75 year old funding institution of non-profit programs in the East Bay) and the 1200 Foundation, later to become Strive for Change Foundation was born.
I hope you will join me in this exciting and meaningful work.
Les Ellis


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How the left turned against the Jews
Anti-Semitism has never been confined to the Right. Its latest manifestation is the left-wing campaign to undermine Israel
In Weimar Germany, riddled with resentment after defeat in World War I and the national catastrophe of the Treaty of Versailles, demagogues knew that they could win the attention of the mob by palming the race card from the bottom of the deck.
"You cry out against Jewish capital, gentlemen?" cried one. "You are against Jewish capital and want to eliminate the stock manipulators. Rightly so. Trample the Jewish capitalists under foot, hang them from the street lamps, stamp them out."
Ruth Fischer sounded like a Nazi. She used the same hate-filled language. She wanted to murder Jews. But Hitler would never have accepted her. Fischer was a leader of the German Communist Party. She made her small differences of opinion with the Nazis clear when she went on to say that her audience should not just trample Jewish capitalists to death, but all capitalists.
Unconcerned by the contradiction, Hitler said the Jews were at once a "Judaeo-Bolshevik" conspiracy and a capitalist conspiracy. In Fischer's case, he was half right. The rabble-rouser who wanted to hang Jewish capitalists was a Jewish Communist, the sister of Hanns Eisler, who wrote music for some of Brecht's early plays. Eisler and Brecht fled the Nazis in 1933. A sense of self-preservation triumphed over ideology, and they found permanent sanctuary in America rather than in Stalin's Soviet Union. Hanns could not have been surprised when the House Committee on Un-American Activities demanded his deportation. He was a prominent Communist composer who worked for Hollywood, which the American Right considered a nest of reds. Eisler was perhaps more surprised to discover that his own sister Ruth was a witness for the prosecution when the McCarthyites arraigned him in 1947. Supporters of Stalin had denounced her as a "Left oppositionist" Trotskyist. She responded by not only going over to the "capitalist camp" but by providing evidence against Hanns, and against a second brother, Gerhart, who was a leading agent in the Comintern.
Political and personal betrayals filled her life. But as Colin Shindler shows in his Israel and the European Left (Continuum, £17.99), her embrace of anti-Semitism would have struck her fellow Communists as no betrayal at all.
Before I go further, I should say that Shindler's book is superb: a well-written and meticulously researched history of the horrors and ironies of the last 100 years. He shows how screaming stereotypes and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories developed by Marxists — not by fascists or Islamists or Catholic and Orthodox nationalists, but by the Left — have survived while all around has changed...
Nick Cohen is a columnist for Standpoint and the Observer. His most recent book, You Can't Read this Book, was published in 2012
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Crescent Roll Breakfast Bake Recipe
I love the versatility of crescent rolls. I have used them for everything from pizza rolls to a chicken broccoli bake that The Husband loves to cinnamon rolls! So when I was figuring out what tasty breakfast treat to make this month, I knew at least one recipe would have to use crescent rolls. This was an easy, family pleasing recipe and you can make it with whatever your favorite omelet fillings are and you will have a new hit breakfast treat!
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- 2 packages crescent rolls
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 6 slices bacon, cooked
- 1/2 cup assorted pepper slices
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray and lay out the first can of crescent rolls. Pinch the seams together to make one large sheet. Lay out the second can of crescent rolls beside it and do the same. This one will become the top. (It is easier to do this now then to try and pinch them together when they are on top of your egg mixture). Whisk together the eggs and milk and pour into a skillet. Cook the beaten eggs until they are soft scrambled. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook the bacon in the microwave until it is crispy. Crumble. Cut up the peppers and saute in a pan sprayed with cooking spray until they are just tender and slightly browned. Place the eggs on one of the crescent roll layers. Top with bacon, peppers and cheese. Now place the second crescent roll layer on top and pinch all the sides together to make sure it is sealed well. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Makes 6 servings.
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|Amount Per Serving
|Serving Size 115g
|Recipe makes 6 servings
|Calories 307
|Calories from Fat 194
|Total Fat 21.59g
|Saturated Fat 7.93g
|Trans Fat 0.12g
|Cholesterol 216mg
|Sodium 653mg
|Potassium 241mg
|Total Carbs 16.02g
|Dietary Fiber 2.6g
|Sugars 1.91g
|Protein 13.6g


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Published in the Bondi View and City News.
Buoyed by my recent enjoyable pub experiences at The Norfolk and The Abercrombie (two of Jaime Wirth's babies) I was excited to take on the Coopers Pie'n Pale Challenge last weekend. To give my adventure legs, I decided to take in three pubs in one day, in three different Sydney suburbs. Steering clear of my local favourite, 3 Weeds Rozelle, was hard though. Leigh McDivitt is cooking at the top of his game right now, so I'm sure his picturesque pie, The Boozy Boar, will be the best twenty bucks you've ever spent on pub grub and a Coopers Pale Ale.
Walking into the Carlisle Castle Hotel in Newtown was an adventure in itself. Squeezing between a pale person in black wearing a somewhat ironic 'Cheer up Emo kid' t-shirt and a bevy of designer prams, I found myself at a small kitchen counter beside the tattooed guns of Porteno's Elvis Abrahanowicz. Not a bad sign, I thought, trying not to stare.
Fairly soon I was ensconced indoors with the parent-renovators – sadly the beer garden was already packed with the young and funky. This did give me the chance to watch the kitchen work at a cracking pace. Speed worked well for my deep-dish potpie of slow braised pork belly, roast celeriac with a scattering of blackcurrants; but it didn't work quite so well for the neighbouring table's charred schnitzels.
It's hard not to like what amounts to a Sunday roast in a bowl – peas, carrots, celeriac, mash and pork belly – under a golden puff pastry top. My accompanying Coopers Pale Ale held it's own against the pie's gentle flavours, bringing the crisp bitterness of the slightly cloudy ale to the forefront. With the decibels in the place starting to soar, I thought it best to flee to the east for pie number two.
Expecting more calm (and less kids) I was of course surprised to walk into a throbbing mass of green and gold at the Light Brigade. It would seem that the newly fledged pub-goer within would have been better placed to avoid pubs on the day they televise a Rugby World Cup match between the Wallabies and South Africa. Regardless, even in a throbbing bar, my Coopers Pale Ale came quickly, politely and was the cleanest tasting beer I had all day.
With Darren Simpson behind the pans upstairs, you'd do well to expect a cheffy pie. The nicely presented beef brisket pie with encebollado was compelling. If you're scratching your head at the terminology too, it's basically a puff pastry empanada stuffed with tender beef, olives and hard-boiled egg, with a ripper side of chilli salsa. A squeeze of the accompanying lemon (with added tree) only enhanced the beer match. The only slight hiccup was with the cute Pie'n Pale iPhone app, which thought I was at the neighbouring Paddington Arms! I was (of course) dismayed to be thwarted from sharing my great pie adventure with the world via Facebook.
Riding on the wave of a great pie, I pulled into Balmain's London Hotel just as the sun was setting. The much vied for balcony seats allow you a crackin' view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Needless to say in a pub gearing up for a second Rugby World Cup match (the All Blacks and Argentina) I didn't get one! What I did get was my pie of the day – the London ham hock pie. Built on a short, house-made piecrust, the gently stewed ham hocks were topped with creamy potato puree and accompanied by a crisp, well-dressed salad. The bar manager called it "a first principles pie" where everything from the pastry shell to the red wine jus was made in house. The pie's honesty and integrity suited the preservative and chemical free beer perfectly.
Of course there are twenty-six pubs that are finalists in this October-long competition. I only had time to try three; so don't take me as the final word on the matter. All of our votes will be tallied towards the 'People's Choice Award', and the winner will be announced at the Four In Hand in Paddington on Thursday 3rd November.
Finally, if you're more a drinker than a thinker, you might not care much about the politics behind drinking Coopers. For me though, it meant a lot to spend a Sunday out drinking the beer of what is now the largest Australian-owned brewery. Two weeks ago, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approved the SABMiller takeover of Foster's which hands VB, Crown Lager, Cascade and Carlton Draught (with the Aussie rights to Corona, Stella Artois and Asahi) offshore. Managing Director, Dr Tim Cooper said: "Being the largest Australian-owned brewer is a badge of honour we will wear with pride." Seems there's no better time to switch to a Coopers.
Local Wines
While I'm plugging buying local, did you know you can taste forty award-winning NSW wines at the Overseas Passenger Terminal on Thursday 20th October? The Citibank NSW Wine Awards "Best of the Best Top 40" tasting will give you the chance to pick some NSW favourites from 14 wine regions and save the planet (and some bucks) next time you hit your local bottle-o. It'll set you back $55/head with wine, light refreshments; a guided tour and a souvenir wine glass thrown in.
Carlisle Castle Hotel
19 Albermarle Street, Newtown
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Light Brigade
2a Oxford Street, Paddington
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London Hotel
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How could that face be there after I had burned it away? Was that carved to mock me? To punish me? To drive me to madness?
Then the talk of a "new body" made sense. "You have another body."
The figure smiled. "I should expect a wizard to be observant."
From behind me, I heard stirring. I turned to see Mhorik struggling to sit upright. I crawled over to him to support his frail body.
"Korodan," Mhorik whispered. "I had never seen them."
The stone figure moved closer to us. The rumbling voice taking on a softer edge. "Yes, we have been called Korodan in your tongue. I spent much time with others of your kind in my life, and I learned the language."
Mhorik reached his hand, brushing his fingertips along the arm made of stone. He smiled, and sank back down to the floor. With a gentleness and grace I would never expect of stone, the figure slid gentle hands under Mhorik and lifted him up. The stone person turned toward the door and walked forward with a simple, "Follow me."
I scrambled to my feet and followed. We went through corridors, many lit with the glowing crystals we saw in the first chamber. After a few minutes, we went into another small room which had been set up with a pile of furs in the corner. The stone person gently set Mhork on the pile with the care a mother might give a newborn.
"I remember the wizards slept on furs, so I had some gathered."
"My pack," I started to say, and the figure pointed to the corner.
I ran over dug through the supplies, and got out some herbs from inside. I crushed them between my hands, and took them over to Mhorik. Some I put in his mouth, others I sprinkled over his form. I shifted some of the furs to cover him, and heard a soft snore soon after.
"Come," the figure said to me, his voice soft and low. "We have much to discuss."
He walked out of the room, making hardly a sound. I followed him out to the hallway, and to a nearby room. A simple table and crude chair were set up, and the figure waved me toward the seat.
I collapsed into the chair. "I am sorry…," I started
The figure waved his hand. "I should have known better than to startle a wizard. The chamber is beautiful, and I let my thoughts wander there. I did not expect a visitor."
My face burned with shame. "I should have controlled myself."
"I do not lay blame on you. I am sorry that I was not able to recover faster and help you and the other wizard sooner. But, I am getting ahead of myself. Let us make a proper introduction. My name in your language would be Carves-the-Foundation."
I wiped my eyes. "I am Dorua, and in the other room is my master, Mhorik. We are wizards."
"I am no expert in flesh bodies, but your master does not seem to be faring well."
I swallowed hard. "A spell was cast on him. I saved him, but it has had some ill effects. It is consuming him."
Carves-the-Foundation frowned. "I am sorry. We Korodan do not understand magic the same way wizards or the way the tree folk do. As much as it pains me, we have no way to help you."
I nodded, and the tears I had been trying to fight back flowed. Heavy sobs shook my body as it all came crashing down on me. The world receded as my dark despair clouded my vision.
The world came back to me later and I found myself curled upon the floor. My head was cradled into the lap of Carves-the-Fondation.
"Seeing you like this hurts me inside in ways your fire could not." The voice was barely more than a vibration to be felt instead of heard.
I sat up, and looked at the figure. I saw genuine concern in the face that looked back. "Thank you."
I sat up, and rubbed my face, taking a slow breath. Carves-the-Foundation sat nearby. watching. To take my mind off the situation, I started telling him about the trip so far. We ended up talking for what seemed like an entire day, sharing stories.
I learned that the Korodan here were a small group. Most of them were old, some with memories going back before they learned how to form bodies made of stone. There were five of them originally, who met by chance. I learned that the other figure in the room was Carves-the-Foundation's child, Shakes-the-Walls. I didn't understand how stone could have children, but I did not ask.
They were intensely curious, and had followed people around many times int he past. They had fought with an ancient enemy with green skin, protecting some speaking creatures who were not able to defend themselves. They learned that people of flesh did not share their long lives, and the constant cycle of death and rebirth meant that their friends were all too short lived in their perspective. The Korodan mostly lived on their own now, learning the extent of who they were.
"We are strong, nearly invulnerable," Carves-the-Foundation explained. "When the green ones attacked our friends, we were able to defeat them easily."
"And, you have other bodies if you are defeated in battle," I said.
Carves-the-Foundation nodded his head. "Would you like to see them?"


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How do I choose which InteliTrack System is best for my site?
If your site is in a coastal region where salt spray might corrode steel parts, choose the InteliTrack 2000 System, which has aluminum structural parts, since aluminum is not corroded by salt spray.
Otherwise, choose the InteliTrack 3000 System, which is less expensive.