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"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live." Sylvia Earle
SST is honoured to be associated with Sylvia Earle, oceanographer and currently National Geographic Explorer in Residence. She influences thousands with her irrepressible optimism and inexhaustible energy and enthusiasm, which she shares with the public in her many inspiring and varied talks, as well as books about the oceans and its inhabitants, sharing what she has learned over the 50 years she has spent under and on the ocean. Accolades received in recognition of her event-filled decades as oceanographer, deep ocean explorer, author, and lecturer include innumerable national and international honours, medals and honorary university degrees.
Among her famous exploits: she led the first all-female team of women aquanauts as part of the Tektite II project designed to explore the marine realm and test the viability of deep water habitats and the health effects of prolonged living 15 metres undersea; on September 19, 1979, she set the world untethered diving record (still held for women), descending 381 metres in a pressurized suit; she and her husband designed Deep Rover, in which Dr Earle could explore the deep ocean down to nearly 1000 metres, and thus founded an engineering and technology firm to make submersibles. Sylvia also founded Mission Blue, an ocean community hub, and the Sylvia Earle Alliance, committed to explore and care for the ocean, which partner more than 50 organizations, including Sustainable Seas Trust.

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Max Bialystock: The two cardinal rules of producing. One: Never put your own money in the show.
Leo Bloom: And two?
Max Bialystock: Never put your own money in the show!
The Producers 2005
In both versions of The Producers and in the Broadway play. Max Bialystock raises money for his plays by diving into "little old lady land"
This came to mind when I saw this story at Politico:
Amid speculation that Hillary Clinton might make a run for the presidency in 2016, her husband is taking another swing at shrinking her lingering 2008 campaign debt, which totals $73,000 as of Sept. 30.
In an email to supporters Wednesday, Bill Clinton offered a chance to spend a day with him if donors chipped in to drive down his wife's campaign debt before Dec. 6.
That Hillary might still have campaign debt 4 years after the race was not a big surprise, as the article says it was as high as 25 Million at one point, but what really struck me was the figure that is left after four years.
Now for me and you $73,000 is a lot of money. If I had $73,000 more that I do now it would have a dramatic effect on my life and prospects, but Bill Clinton?
That thought seems to be a general theme in comments at Politico this one is typical:
$73,000??? Honestly, doesn't Bill earn something like $100,000/speech. Maybe he could sign up for one more gig and pay the bill himself – or possibly Hillary could earn a few shekels now that she's retiring.
That is the big difference between Bill Clinton and the fictional Max Bialystock. Max was wearing a cardboard belt and needed to dive into little old lady land to do anything. Bill Clinton turned his political career into a vast fortune. He could pay this debt off with no effort, his welcoming ladies young and old into presidential kneepad land is likely purely recreational. This fact obscures an overriding truth about the Bill Clinton way.
Yes it's true Bill Clinton can retire this debt himself if he chooses to, but why would he choose to? As long as there are democrat donors willing to spend their money why would he ever think about paying this himself?
This not only makes him the perfect patron saint for the Democrat party but would make him an excellent Hollywood or Broadway producer.


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By Stiff
My inspiration for cooking can come from a variety of things. Sometimes I get inspired by having a dish from a restaurant that I've never had before and try to replicate it at home. Sometimes inspiration comes from recipes I may see on television. I mostly get inspired by the certain items I see in the grocery store or farmer's market.
Sometimes I fail at the outcome of what I'm making and sometimes I succeed. I just like to try new things and expand my horizons when it comes to testing new ingredients or cooking methods. James, my fiancé is a great guinea pig. He will generally eat whatever I make and is honest about how the food tastes. Unlike James, I myself am much more critical about how my food turns out.
Orange Supreme Salad
2 Oranges
1/2 Cup baby greens
1/2 Cup baby arugula
1 T. Olive oil
1 T. Apple cider vinegar
Pinch of crushed dried mint
Salt and pepper
Serving Size: 1
Take two oranges and slice off the tops and the bottoms. Slice off the thick rind of each orange, down to the meat of the fruit. Be sure to remove all of the white. Take a pairing knife and cut as close to the skin of the orange on each side of a single slice. This leaves the bitter outer layer and leaves you with just the slice of the meat of the fruit. Do this until all of the orange meat is removed. This technique is called supreme.
In a large mixing bowl, add orange slices, greens, olive oil, vinegar, mint and salt and pepper to taste.
Mix until well combined, plate and enjoy.
Cook Time: 10 minutes
(Stiff is an amateur home cook and food blogger. Stiff can be found at a grocery store, Instagram @stifferoni and Tumblr: http://stiffers.tumblr.com/.)
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If all that comes to mind when you hear the words "fermented foods" is dill pickles, then it's time you take a stroll through an international grocery store.
Walk among the yogurt and cheeses in the dairy and check out the crème fraîche. Shop for salami and prosciutto in the deli for your loaf of sourdough bread. Make a left turn at the Tabasco sauce aisle and pick up a bottle of fragrant vanilla. Finally, don't forget the olives and kimchi to go with your favorite wine or beer.
What is the common thread among all of these popular foods?
They're all products of fermentation, a process that transforms a simple food – often fresh or raw plant material – into something more exotic, usually with the introduction of beneficial bacteria. (Imagine invisible little creatures creeping along, creating flavor and transforming the ordinary into something delicious and nutritious.)
Fermentation is about the conversion of carbohydrates into alcohol or acids under anaerobic (no oxygen) conditions. It's a controlled decomposition involving yeasts, mold or bacteria – and it's how certain foods traditionally are preserved.
It's been going on for centuries, sometimes planned and sometimes not.
Remember the story you heard in kindergarten about the hungry hiker in the Swiss Alps who discovered after many days journey that the milk in his leather bota magically had turned to cheese? Or maybe you heard the one about the bottled grape juice in the monastery turning into divine Champagne?
So what do you remember learning about sauerkraut, that humble and nutritious first cousin of cabbage?
Bet you didn't know that the Chinese subsisted on sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) as a daily meal to fuel their energy while building the Great Wall. Or that Genghis Khan and his mad marauders plundered through that wall on his way to Europe a thousand years later, taking the tasty treat with him.
The Germans might have laid claim to kraut, but they didn't do it soon enough. According to food historians, only the Danish seafarers had the good sense to send their sailors to sea with a crock of kraut to avoid scurvy.
From there, it made its way to the New World, but there's little mention of sauerkraut until after 1776, when it was savored among Pennsylvania's German and Pennsylvania Dutch communities.
For longtime Durango resident Marye Jackson, making sauerkraut is a tasty and nutritious way to extend the bounty of fresh cabbage she enjoys from the garden every summer.
The sauerkraut she makes in her crock, by layering shredded cabbage with salt and subjecting it to pressure, "is crisper, with a brighter flavor" than the kind you can buy in cans, said the veteran gardener and home cook.
Plus, canned grocery store sauerkraut lacks the beneficial bacteria, which are killed by the heat required by the commercial canning process, she said.
"And making home sauerkraut has some intellectual appeal. I'm a foodie from way back. I've been reading about food nutrition since the days of Adele Davis," she said.
Sauerkraut contains phytochemicals created during the fermentation process. An immune-system booster, it's also considered by some to be a superfood comparable to chicken soup, with vitamin C, calcium, fiber and lactic acid that supports digestion and helps maintain intestinal flora.
But for Jackson, making sauerkraut is more than just good nutrition. It's a creative, resourceful kitchen project.
She recommends reliable texts such as Linda Ziedrich's The Joy of Pickling that describe pickling principles and equipment and explain how salt, vinegar, aromatics and technique affect outcome.
Jackson said inviting your friends into the kitchen is a recipe for fun.
"Get a good pickling book or read good information online. Pick and choose what you'll do and give it your best shot," she said.
Katie Burford, city editor for The Durango Herald and mother of two young boys, packs homemade yogurt into her children's insulated lunch boxes each week.
"It tastes so much better than store bought," Burford said.
Burford often uses raw milk from J&M Dairy in Breen. Her family participates in a cow- and goat-share program that provides her with a high-quality product from which she makes chèvre (goat cheese) and yogurt.
Burford has been studying home food preservation, including fermentation, for years, after having been introduced to traditional methods by her great-grandmother at the family's bountiful Oklahoma farm.
She skips none of the safety measures, rattling off safe temperatures and techniques with ease. For Burford, transforming 3 gallons of milk into yogurt and cheese is a weekly ritual.
"It's been a years' long process to get where I am, every year learning a little more and getting more confident," she said.
Burford reads informative blogs, purchases starter cultures at health food stores and online and continually fine-tunes results in her kitchen to get what she wants. She uses her supply of chèvre to dress pasta, eggs and salads. Yogurt substitutes for sour cream and is a medium that can be later flavored with honey, agave or maple syrup for a kids' treat, she said.
For Burford, fermenting quality milk into useful meal items is worth the time it takes.
"It's all three – taste, economy and nutritional value," that make the work worthwhile, Burford said.


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This year's event, known as Gleason's Gym vs. NYPD's Fighting Finest, will be held on September 8 at 7 p.m at St. Ann's Warehouse, 38 Water Street in DUMBO.
Gleason's is the oldest active boxing gym in the world, according to a statement from the DUMBO Business Improvement District (BID), which runs Fight Night as an annual fundraiser.
The gym will pose 10 of its finest fighters against the NYPD boxing club in USABoxing-Metro-sanctioned matches, which the BID promised would create "tons of action under the lights."
"We think it's going to be an exciting matchup [of] local boys versus the boys in blue," said Alexandria Sica, the BID's executive director.
In previous years, Fight Night featured local residents as the fighters. However, a representative from the Improvement District said Gleason's owner Bruce Silverglade worked with the NYPD to create a different take on the event.
"We love working with our local precinct, the 84th, and we're hoping that they'll come out as well," Sica said.
The precinct is "always helping us with community events and helping us address any issues down here," she said.
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For the more information about the geologic resources of the National Park Service, please visit https://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/.
Global Conservation
The National Park Service has been a leader in the global national park movement. The world's first national park—Yellowstone—was established by the United States Congress in 1872. Since then, the idea of creating nationally significant parks has spread to over 100 countries. The National Park Service also provides technical assistance and advice to countries around the globe.
In addition, natural resources such as air, water, and animals cross international boundaries. An example from the Partners in Flight web site is neotropical bird migrants, species that breed in the Nearctic (North America) and winter in the Neotropics (Central and South America). Partners In Flight / Compañeros en Vuelo / Partenaires d'Envol was launched in 1990 in response to growing concerns about declines in the populations of many land bird species, and to emphasize the conservation of birds not covered by existing conservation initiatives. The central premise of Partners In Flight has been that the resources of public and private organizations in North and South America must be combined, coordinated, and increased in order to achieve success in conserving bird populations in this hemisphere.
In 1970, the United Nations created the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program to provide a framework for global cooperation in finding solutions to environmental programs. Under the auspices of the U. S. MAB Program, a site that is representative of a biogeographic province may be designated a Biosphere Reserve if other criteria are met too. Such sites are dedicated to research on the function and management of ecosystems and on ways to support sustainable, integrated development.
Some places transcend time and national boundaries and become the common inheritance of mankind. These places are now given international recognition as World Heritage Sites or Biosphere Reserves. Mammoth Cave National Park is just one example of a park that has been designated a World Heritage Site and part of an International Biosphere Reserve.
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Emotions During Labor
Women report feeling everything from a pleasurable birth to an excruciating birth. No one can tell you what labor is going to feel like to you. This is partially because no one can tell you how fast or slow or difficult your labor is going to be. It is also partially because no one can tell you how you are going to react to the experiences you are having in labor.
To learn more about how you may respond to labor emotionally, read the following scenarios, imagining they are happening to you, then answer these questions:
- How do you feel about what is happening?
- How does your body respond?
- If your response is unproductive, what can you do to continue to work with your body?
- I have been having contractions on and off for a week now. Sometimes they are as close as 8 minutes apart and I think "this must be it" but they always seem to stop within a few hours.
- I have been in labor for 12 hours now. It has been back labor for about 8 hours, but the contractions got really painful three hours ago.
- We've been in the hospital for about 4 hours, and contractions have gone from 5 minutes apart to 3 minutes apart. But at the last vaginal exam I was at 6 (the same as when we arrived at the hospital).
- Labor started around midnight, and now it is 8:30 am. I am tired and working very hard.
- I have been handling late first stage contractions well, but now I feel a sharp pain near my pelvis with each contraction.
- My due date came and went 9 days ago.
- I didn't seem to have a transition, and suddenly began having a strong urge to push. You get me in the car, and call the hospital as you drive.
- As the next contraction begins you see me take my three deep breaths, hold it for a few seconds and let go to take another breath.
- I've been pushing according to my body's urges for about an hour and a half, but the baby seems slow to come.
Review Your Work
- Consider what you can do now to help prepare for labor emotionally.
- What possibilities produce the most fear or stress for you?
- What can you do to help prevent those possibilities?
- What can you do now to be prepared in case your labor does follow a course you fear?


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Saturday Six Pack: Amy Bassett, Gould Hill FarmBy Drew Cline
September 14. 2013 9:35AM
Amy and Tim Bassett own and operate Gould Hill Farm, an old and venerable apple orchard in Contoocook. There has been a working farm on the property since 1764. Prompted by property taxes and the children's lack of interest in farming, in 2006, former owner Erick Leadbeater and his family put the farm on the market, hoping to find a buyer who would preserve it. The Bassetts were interested but could not make it work. The extremely valuable land comes with one of the best views in the region, if not the state. The Leadbeaters could have sold it all to developers and retired millionaires, but they refused. In 2009 the Leadbeaters approached the Bassetts. Both families wanted to keep Gould Hill a working farm, and they soon struck a workable arrangement. Since then, the Bassetts have kept this working piece of New Hampshire heritage operating while both holding other jobs. This week, Amy Bassett (who also works full time as public information officer for the state Department of Resources and Economic Development) talks about what it's like to make a farm work in New Hampshire these days.
1. In 2009, the Gould Hill Farm looked like it would become just another development when the Leadbeaters couldn't find a buyer interested in keeping it a working orchard. What prompted you and your husband to step into this very risky venture?
Tim grew up on a dairy farm and I think he was looking for a way to get back into farming. He knew that he didn't want to get into dairy farming because it really tied you to the farm, and with a young family we didn't want that. When the orchard was on the market a couple of years before, he inquired about the property but realized it was way out of our reach. Then in 2009 they reapproached Tim, asking him about us leasing the property. We decided to dive in head first and go for it.
At the time, I don't think we realized how big of a risk it was. After year one, we were hooked and decided that we wanted to purchase it. What really hooked us was working the land and seeing how our hard work pays off, not to mention the beautiful location. Also, the community and the visitors to the farm. The first year we operated it, we had so many people thanking us for keeping it running as a farm.
2. What are the biggest challenges you face as owner and operator of not just an apple orchard, but one that dates back to 1764?
Our challenges are typical for running a business: having enough income to make improvements/repairs and to cover all the expenses. But our biggest challenge is truly mother nature. For a perfect season, we need near-perfect weather from pollination to picking apples. We are also challenged with having other jobs. I work full-time and my husband part-time, and the farm is really a second full-time job, as well as raising a family. We are committed to making sure that we can continue to keep the tradition of the farm alive for many years to come.
3. In 2006, Erick Leadbeater said he was paying $200 a day in property taxes, in part because of the farm's fabulous view. What is the impact of property taxes on the farm now?
I am uncertain of the tax situation then, but our taxes are not even close to that. We have a lot of our land in current use, and taxes really aren't the biggest of our financial concerns.
You've put a lot of work into upgrading the shop, expanding the farm's offerings and improving the marketing. What lessons have you learned in trying to make this farm a profitable operation?
That there was never have enough time to do all we want to do, but that also we might not need to do. We realized that we need to continue to make changes in small steps instead of leaps and bounds. We have so many ideas, but it might take a while to make them a reality. Our feeling when we bought the place was that we wanted people to visit and have a fun experience. We want them to leave saying, "I can't wait to come back."
5. Aside from the apple pies and cider doughnuts, what has been the most rewarding part of your experience with Gould Hill Farm so far?
Seeing people have a good time, hearing their experiences and knowing that you/your property helped make that happen. We are reminded by the community, friends and family that they are happy we took the chance to keep the farm a farm. That is very rewarding.
6. You have a pretty famous neighbor. What's it like living next door to Gov. Lynch?
The Lynches are great neighbors!


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The 2009 Broadway revival of "West Side Story" was the last such revival to be directed by its author, Arthur Laurents, who died earlier this year. And while a classic title like this will always be open for re-creation and re-interpretation, and while the legendary Jerome Robbins choreography will be forever available for each successive generation of dancers, there is nonetheless the sense that this particular production represents a hard line on the asphalt.
The composer, Leonard Bernstein, is dead. And while one hopes the lyricist, Stephen Sondheim, is very much around for more revivals, one doesn't know. "West Side" probably won't be back on Broadway for a long time.
The 2009 revival has closed in New York. This tour — which features Laurents' direction, re-created by his longtime associate David Saint — dances on for a little while longer, including for these four summer weeks in Chicago. So I think it's fair to say that this is your last chance to take an impressionable young person to the theater and say, "Look, this is 'West Side Story' as I remember it," and as it was intended to be realized by those who were there when the masterpiece was forged.
And what a masterpiece! Who could listen to the aching melody of "Somewhere" or "Maria" or "Tonight" and not feel a jolt in the heart?
Had this tour been sent out with some neophyte cast and rumpled backdrops, or with a couple of pre-programmed synthesizers, I think I might have burned down the theater. Well, I would at least have tried to issue a dire warning to ticket-buyers. Happily, that's not the case. This is a first-class tour with a full-strength ensemble and a decent, 20-piece orchestra in the pit. It makes up the best touring version of this show I've seen and, overall, I think the cast works much better than on Broadway in 2009. One thing is for certain: You absolutely believe that Kyle Harris' Tony and Ali Ewoldt's Maria love each other from the burning depths of their young souls. That was not the case in New York.
As Tonys go, Harris tends to the nerdier. He comes off, most assuredly, as a tortured lover, not an effective fighter. But for all its Jets, Sharks, stabbings and rumbling, "West Side Story" is about love. So that works, especially since Harris has a sweet voice that never requires him to stop acting in order to emerge loud and poignant.
Throughout the piece, Harris' Tony seems to be searching for his voice — his identity as part of a duo — and thus the core, gang-versus-girl conflict in this young man is especially clear. Ewoldt, whose sound is crystal clear and vibrato-heavy, takes a while to settle into the sensuality of the role. Maria has to basically live the seven ages of women in 21/2 hours, and the journey spits out plenty of those who have tried. Not Ewoldt. She just gets better and stronger as she goes. And in the final moment, when Maria is suddenly, prematurely, as old as the New York boroughs, she is deeply moving. Laurents changed the staging of the last moments quite a bit, and he made it most powerful.
One of the original conceits of this revival (Laurents wanted to put more focus on the dramatic acting) was that the Sharks would speak Spanish among themselves, as 1950s immigrant kids fromPuerto Rico would have done. (Maria, after all, says she only has been in the U.S. for a month.) I thought that was a terrific idea, and a good way to equalize a show that, in the style of the time, stacked the deck on one side. But like the profanity in "Billy Elliot" (which was similarly realistic of its milieu), the Spanish was progressively dialed back after it met audience resistance in New York and beyond. I wish there were still more there, as the resultant compromise has meant that it's hard to track the logic of when the Sharks do and don't speak in their native tongue. Laurents and Saint should have held out. But then, this is a business as well as an art.
There have been flashier Anitas than Michelle Aravena, who could dial it up a notch even though I had great respect for the honesty of her acting. Joseph Simeone and German Santiago are also strong as, respectively, Riff and Bernardo. And as Lt. Schrank, Christopher Patrick Mullen offers a suitably cynical piece of work.
The physical production is cut back a fair bit — Doc's place appears to have lost its walls. Compromises are everywhere on the road these days. But James Youmans' design retains the essence of its grandeur. And with Joey McKneely guiding them through the incomparable Robbins blueprints, a killer ensemble dances with the palpable pride and commitment of actors who understand that they must be worthy of a sacred American work.
When: Through Aug. 14
Where: Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.
Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Tickets: $32-$95 at 800-775-2000 and broadwayinchicago.com


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Former SNHU athletic director Chip Polak says he's Trinity's new ADBy JOHN HABIB
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 12. 2013 9:02PM
Two months after resigning from his longtime post as director of athletics at Southern New Hampshire University, Chip Polak started getting antsy.
"I started going crazy sitting around the house," he said. "I'm 63 years old with nothing to do, and I've always prided myself on being a worker. I missed being involved in athletics, mingling with the players and teams. I needed to get back into it."
After reading an article in the New Hampshire Union Leader about Gary Leonard stepping down as athletics director at Manchester's Trinity High School, Polak applied for the job. Yesterday he said he got it, with a start date of July 1.
"It's perfect for me," said Polak. "The school is four miles away from my house if I go the long way."
Along with wealth of administrative experience derived from 28 years as SNHU's AD, Polak also brings to his new post an extensive network of contacts that should be beneficial to Trinity athletes.
"When you've run a college program for as long as I have, you meet a lot of people along the way," said Polak. "I can put it to good use at Trinity. If I see a kid is athletic, has good grades and an interest in furthering his education, I can get on the phone and call an athletic director I know at a college or university."
Polak said he expects to have the same kind of relationships with his coaches at Trinity as the ones he cultivated at SNHU.
"I'm not here to babysit anyone," he said. "I will tell each coach to do their job and do it professionally. From my side, I will also tell them I will back them 100 percent."Polak lauded Leonard, saying, "He did a great job and left me in a situation where I can slide into this job comfortably. Everything for the fall season is in place. It's also great to have people like (vice principal) Pat Smith and (assistant AD) Dick Powers around to talk about sports. Dick lives down the street from my old boss, George Larkin, so we have lots to talk about. I graduated from Fordham, and Dick is a Boston College guy. There's plenty to talk about right there."
Polak said his experience hosting many NHIAA tournaments when he was athletics director at SNHU will be invaluable in his new post.
"I know (NHIAA executive director) Pat Corbin, and now I feel I will have a voice in high school athletics," said Polak. "I served on many committees within the NCAA, and I expect to do so with the NHIAA. I know how it works."During his years at SNHU Polak served on the NCAA Division II Championships Committee, the NCAA Division II Management Council, and the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball and Men's Lacrosse committees, doing stints as national chair of each of the last two. He also served on the board of directors of the Division II Athletic Directors Association.
"Coming to Trinity is just a change of scenery for me," Polak said. "I have nothing but great memories of my time at SNHU. I left behind a great staff, which is going to take that program forward. Now this is my next challenge in life, and I'm looking forward to it."Messages left for Trinity High principal Denis Mailloux last night were not returned as of press time.


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I know right where that is! I have photos taken of the same spillway! Beautiful...I love the parkway!
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OMG! We just moved back to CT and lived at the base of the Blue Ridge!!!...:)JP
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I haven't taken that drive in many, many years. Yep, I'm a tad jealous. :)
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It's a great little waterfall from a wonderful place on this planet! Wish I could be there sometime too!
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Sunday, Lee and I stayed for Jacquie's class on the Slice and Insert technique. Somehow I've never taken one of Jacquie's classes and this was the absolute perfect opportunity to spend some time learning from her amongst friends.
She spent a lot of time talking technique and sharing class samples.
I am in LOVE with her red and white plus quilt. Don't be surprised if you see me make one of these in the future!
I brought several shades of turquoise for my block backgrounds, and ivory + black prints for my strips. Here I am "auditioning" my first block.
This is how the final fabrics and placements turned out.
After I got the hang of it, the blocks came faster. I ended up making 3 for the day.
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Two Honorary Degree Recipients to Address Graduates at Clarkson University Commencement May 11
Nearly 600 Clarkson University students will be granted bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 11. The weekend will also be marked by the commissioning of United States Army and Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) cadets on Saturday, May 10.
Receiving honorary degrees and addressing students, families and guests will be:
- Sophie V. Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group, who is responsible for overseeing Xerox's worldwide research centers and who also works to inspire enthusiasm into a new generation of children, especially girls, to aspire to careers in science and engineering.
During the commencement ceremony, two faculty members will be honored with the John W. Graham Jr. Faculty Research Award and the Clarkson University Distinguished Teaching Award. A retiring Clarkson faculty member will also be named professor emeritus in recognition and appreciation for his years of service to the University.
The Levinus Clarkson Award and the Frederica Clarkson Award will be bestowed upon two students who have demonstrated unsurpassed scholarship and promise of outstanding academic achievement.
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A reactionary ban: The prison privatization option
Supporters of commuter rail in New Hampshire want to spend $3.6 million of taxpayer money to study the benefits of commuter rail because, they say, commuter rail is so beneficial. Conversely, Rep. Timothy Robertson, D-Keene, has introduced a bill to go ahead and ban private prisons, though a state-commissioned study of the value of private prisons is not due until later this month. If so much taxpayer money were not involved, this would be funny.
New Hampshire's prisons are crowded, say corrections officials. Private prisons provide the state with one option for housing more inmates at a lower cost.
Also, if a New Hampshire prison burns or otherwise has to be evacuated suddenly, private prisons are there to take our inmates in an emergency, Corrections Commissioner William Wrenn says.
At a legislative hearing last week, Wrenn testified against Robertson's House Bill 443, which would ban private prisons in New Hampshire. Wrenn is no booster of the private prison industry. He just understands what some legislators do not: that contracting with private businesses can, at least in some cases, provide the Department of Corrections a cost-effective way to provide its public service.
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Columbia Records and Apple announced Monday that the classic rock bands music will be available at the iTunes Store worldwide.
Sixteen studio albums will be released, including High Voltage and Back in Black, which already is in the Top 30 on iTunes top albums chart. Two of the groups albums also are in the Top 100 and seven of the Australian bands songs are in the Top 200.
AC/DC was one of the few acts that would not release music through the digital outlet. Two years ago Apple struck a deal with The Beatles record label, EMI Group, and management company, and began selling the groups music. Kid Rock, who had also been against selling his music through the digital retailer, is releasing a new album, Rebel Soul, on Monday and its available on iTunes.
Country star Garth Brooks, however, has yet to release his music on iTunes.
Four of AC/DCs live albums and three compilation records are also available. The statement said the songs have been mastered for iTunes with increased audio fidelity.
The groups first live album in 20 years, Live at River Plate, is out today.


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Academic Magnet coach Anna Merriman couldn't agree more.
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A year ago, the Raptors were heavy favorites heading into the state title game only to lose to Christ Church, 2-0. This year, Walls said the team isn't taking anything for granted.
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"I called back the following day to check if there was any damage to our house and our town in general," Cortez said. "I was so relieved to learn there was no damage to our house. Pateros in general was OK except minor damages to a few houses. There was not a lot of rain either."
Another Pateros-connected chapter in Los Angeles has started fundraising efforts to help typhoon victims, President Eugene Santos said. People are gathering canned goods and other easy, ready-to-eat food items.
However, goods shipped from the U.S. could take up to a month to make their way to the people who need it, he wrote in an email to Howe. He said the quickest way to donate would be monetarily.
"It is truly touching to receive such genuine concern and support from you and folks from our Sister City, Pateros, WA," Santos wrote to Howe in an email.
Several Filipino residents with connections to Pateros, Philippines, are now living in North-Central Washington, from Pateros, Brewster and Bridgeport to Wenatchee. Many of them came to the Apple Pie Jamboree in July, along with people from California and Philippines.
The cities celebrated their sisterhood at this year's Jamboree, along with the town's centennial. Pateros, Wash., was named after Pateros, Philippines, around 1900, before becoming incorporated in 1913.
"These cash donations could either be used to buy all the needed emergency goods locally (water, food, medicines, blankets, temporary shelters) or to provide reserve funds for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the damaged dwellings, especially that of the poor families who have no other recourse."
Howe said she planned to talk to the Pateros School District about hosting a community dinner fundraiser, but the overhead costs might be too much. Instead, she has printed posters and distributed them to inform residents how they can help.
Aside from donating, Santos said, "Let us also continue to pray to grant unto the survivors the strength and willpower to move on and help one another in this time of crisis."
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SIMPLE recovery model causes SQL Server to truncate the transaction log every time a CHECKPOINT operation occurs.
Before SQL Server 2008, you could force a truncation with an option to the BACKUP LOG command:
BACKUP LOG <database_name> WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
Starting in SQL Server 2008, however, this option is no longer available. If you want to truncate the log, the only way to do it is to switch your database to SIMPLE recovery. But because the log is regularly being truncated, you cannot take backups of the transaction log. In order to make log backups, you need to start with a full database backup and then keep an unbroken chain of log backups, so a truncation of the log will disallow log backups.
In addition, if you have never performed a full database backup, you can't make log backups, so the database will behave as if you are in SIMPLE recovery. You will be in a mode called auto_truncate, and even though the recovery model might be FULL, your log will be truncated every time a CHECKPOINT occurs.
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Holy Cross junior third baseman Mike Ahmed talks to his older brother Nick four or five times a week, and their conversations meant a lot when Mike was struggling at the plate earlier this season.
Nick, who played at the University of Connecticut and is now with the Arizona Diamondbacks' Double-A affiliate in Mobile, Ala., can certainly relate to what Mike was going through.
"We talk a lot about putting stuff in perspective," Mike said before Tuesday's practice at Fitton Field. "We talk about doing all the right things and working hard and not thinking about the results. The results, if you put in the hard work, they'll take care of themselves."
So HC's Ahmed kept at it, and his turnaround was a key part of the Crusaders' second-half surge and run to their first Patriot League regular-season championship.
Holy Cross (26-23, 15-5) claimed the top seed for the PL tournament and will host fourth-seeded Bucknell in a best-of-three semifinal series this weekend. The 15 league victories were a program record.
On Tuesday, the Crusaders collected four major Patriot League awards as senior first baseman Jordan Enos was named Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year; senior John Colella became the first reliever to be named Pitcher of the Year; and Greg DiCenzo earned his second Coach of the Year honor.
Ahmed, senior Patrick Puentes and sophomore Evan Ocello joined Enos and Colella on the All-PL first team. Junior Brandon Cipolla and sophomore Donny Murray were named to the second team.
"It's always great when players are recognized for how hard they've worked," DiCenzo said. "More than anything, I think it's the commitment these players made to the program when it wasn't off and running just yet. It's a testament to how hard they work as athletes and their commitment to each other and the program."
Before DiCenzo's arrival six years ago, Holy Cross last finished above .500 in 1991. The Crusaders, who started this year 2-13, have posted three straight winning seasons.
"Coach is great at motivating us and getting the most out of us," Ahmed said. "He preaches a hard-nosed, blue-collar work ethic and that really made me want to come here."
Ahmed, who grew up in East Longmeadow, suffered a torn ACL the summer before arriving at Holy Cross and kind of had to grind through his freshman season. Last year, fully healthy, Ahmed started a HC record 55 games, mostly at third, batted .295 and led the team with 39 runs, 13 doubles and seven home runs while earning All-PL first-team honors. He also went 2-1 with a 3.24 ERA as a relief pitcher.
After playing for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League last summer, Ahmed expected big things this year.
Battling wrist and shoulder injuries early in the season, Ahmed batted .229 in his first 29 games, but has been on a tear over the last 12 with 15 hits in 33 at-bats (.455). He batted .304 and led the league in stolen bases in PL games.
"I didn't get down on myself," Ahmed said, "but it's frustrating when you're not performing well and you know you should be. I just kept trying to get myself comfortable every day in my approach to hitting, staying consistent with that and getting into a good mindset. I know what I'm capable of and it was just a matter of time before it showed up."
Ahmed has two doubles and two home runs during his hot stretch. He's also contributed three wins and a save in nine pitching appearances.
"Once he got healthy, we knew the type of player he could be," DiCenzo said. "It was a matter of him getting healthy, having a good outing on the mound and a good game offensively so he could gain confidence and build off that. All that played into him having a turnaround season. That was good for us as a ball club. He's an integral piece to what we're doing."
Improved pitching and outstanding defense have also aided the team's turnaround.
The Crusaders won three of four from Bucknell in late March. Bison sophomore Anthony Gingerelli of Worcester is batting .284. Saturday's doubleheader is at 1 and 4. Sunday's game, if necessary, is at 1.
"The team is excited and focused," DiCenzo said. "At the beginning of the year, getting to .500 seemed miles away. Now, the road to the (NCAA) regional runs through Worcester, and I think that's a neat experience for the guys and a pretty neat feeling to have."
Nichols men's tennis coach Paul Brower learned from two of the area's best — John O'Neill, his coach at Quaboag Regional High School, and Ed Titus, his coach at Worcester State and member of the Lancers Hall of Fame — so his success with the Bison shouldn't come as that much of a surprise.
On Saturday, Nichols captured its second straight Commonwealth Coast Conference championship by beating Roger Williams and earned a second consecutive berth in the NCAA Division 3 Championship. The men's tennis team is the first Nichols program to make multiple NCAA appearances.
The Bison (18-5) will face Colby-Sawyer in a first-round match Thursday morning at Williams.
"It's certainly been a building process the last few years," said Brower, who is in his ninth season. "We've brought in some amazing kids over the course of the years and it's evolved into a pretty strong program."
Brower also guided the Nichols women's tennis team to the NCAAs in 2010.
The men's team features a mix of talented veterans like graduate student and captain David Drucker and senior Justin DeLuca, who went 8-0 in CCC play this season.
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Marathon Pundit sent me a news article tonight that he thought I might enjoy. The article, originally published in the Omaha World Herald, was about black homesteaders who settled near Ewing, Nebraska.
World Herald writer Paul Hammel relates how an IRS agent, Dennis Vossberg of Plainview, NE, learned of the black settlers and became so interested in their history that he finally wrote a book.
After the book was published, readers began donating money for a monument in honor of the black homesteaders of Bliss, Nebraska. The monument has been placed in a small country cemetery west of Ewing, where about 20 of the settlers are buried in unmarked graves.
Bliss, Nebraska, named after its postmaster, was a small town located near Goose Lake in southeast Holt County, near the Wheeler county line. The black homesteaders at Bliss were freed slaves.
It's believed that the black settlers arrived in the early 1880s. They were misled by dishonest land agents who told them that the land around Goose Lake had veins of coal. The land that they settled on was difficult to farm. Depending on the weather, it was a wet marshland, a dry sandy wasteland, or anything between. The last black settlers at Bliss left around 1918.
During the terrible dust storms of the 1930s, the wind blew out a small black cemetery at Bliss, exposing caskets and bones. Three local ranchers moved the remains with horse-drawn wagons to Valley View Cemetery, southwest of Ewing, and reburied them. Valley View Cemetery already contained about ten unmarked graves of black homesteaders.
The identities of some graves are known, but others are unknown. The monument, to be dedicated on Memorial Day, lists family names of the black homesteaders of Bliss.
Many thanks to John, aka Marathon Pundit, for sharing this very interesting article.
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Following a rare come-from-behind victory earlier this week, the Chicago Blackhawks aim to extend their NHL record point streak on Thursday evening in a road matchup with the rival St. Louis Blues.
The Blackhawks found themselves in a rare position on Monday against the Edmonton Oilers: trailing going into the third period. It marked only the third time this season that Chicago was behind after 40 minutes, but Viktor Stalberg scored a tying goal just 2:24 into the third period and Marian Hossa capped the comeback with the winner 1:44 into overtime in a 3-2 decision.
Patrick Kane also scored for the Blackhawks, who extended their record season- opening point streak to 19 games at 16-0-3. They also improved to 2-0-1 this season when trailing after two periods and 10-0-3 in one-goal games. Each of Chicago's last five games have been decided by the slim margin.
"The biggest thing is that we don't want to lose right now," Kane said. "We want to keep this thing going. I'm telling you, after the second period guys weren't very happy that we were down a goal and we knew we wanted to come back and change that right away."
Ray Emery made 17 saves in Chicago's sixth straight victory, which came in the finale of a seven-game homestand. The Blackhawks moved to 8-0-1 as the hosting club this season.
Chicago center Dave Bolland missed his second straight game with an upper- body injury and isn't expected to play in this game, while Corey Crawford is set to make his second start since his return from injury. The 'Hawks netminder is 7-1-1 with a 2.79 goals against average in his career versus the Blues.
Crawford made 32 saves in a 3-2 home win over the Blues on Jan. 22, the Blackhawks' third in a row in this series and seventh in the past nine meetings. All three games of the current series win streak have been decided by one goal as well.
The Blues have won five of their past seven in St. Louis versus the Blackhawks and are expected to start Jaroslav Halak on Thursday. He is 3-0-0 with a 1.00 GAA at home in his career versus Chicago.
St. Louis has been off since Saturday, but lost another player to injury during its break as Andy McDonald suffered a left knee injury in practice on Tuesday and landed on injured reserve the following day. In 18 games this season, he has registered three goals and eight assists.
Alex Steen, who leads the club with 16 points, was also shaken up in Tuesday's practice and did not practice on Wednesday, but has not been ruled out for this game.
Those injuries come after St. Louis placed rookie Vladimir Tarasenko on IR due to a concussion suffered in last Wednesday's 1-0 overtime setback to Colorado. The Blues were without the talented youngster for their most recent game, but still managed a 2-1 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Chris Stewart and David Perron had the goals, while Halak came up with 18 saves as the Blues snapped a two-game slide and moved to 4-1-1 in their last six.
"Guys did a hell of a job tonight, especially in the second and third just blocking the shots," Halak said. "Sometimes it's not easy, it wasn't pretty at times, but we got it done. We got two points and now lets keep moving forward."
St. Louis also snapped a five-game slide at home and did not allow a power- play goal for a third straight game. It has killed off all nine penalties in that span.


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Andre Ethier was back in center field, Carl Crawford might be on deck to relieve him at some point, Miguel Rojas was playing shortstop, and reliever Paul Maholm was the starting pitcher.
And that was before right fielder Yasiel Puig got thrown out of Saturday's game against the San Diego Padres for arguing with home plate umpire David Rackley after striking out looking on three straight pitches to end the third inning.
Just like the Dodgers drew it up in spring training, right?
Well, not exactly.
But hey, with the All-Star break beckoning and first place and the best record in the National League in hand, whatever the Dodgers are doing manning some key positions seems to be working.
Saturday was a prime example — albeit just barely while scratching out a 1-0 win over the Padres when A.J. Ellis ripped a line drive out to right field to score Adrian Gonzalez in the bottom of the ninth.
Gonzalez got it started by legging out a lead-off double to center field, and after Ethier and Juan Uribe reached on back-to-back walks to load the bases, Ellis drove a deep liner to right to win the game.
Coupled with the San Francisco Giants' loss earlier in the day, the Dodgers lead the National League West by one game.
"It was a great win for us," said Gonzalez. "It guarantees we'll go into the break in first place."
Puig declined to talk afterward, but he got an earful from his teammates — specifically Hanley Ramirez, Uribe and Gonzalez, who weren't shy about blasting Puig in front of reporters in Spanish.
It seemed good natured and Puig laughed for the most part, although he had a few loud retorts before leaving.
But there was a message being delivered nonetheless.
"He's a quick learner," Dodgers said manager Don Mattingly, who added Puig probably deserved the ejection.
"(Rackley) was trying to give him a chance, because (Puig) kind of stood there twice with his hands on his hips and usually guys don't put up with that too much. He was trying to walk away, and actually was walking away, and then (Puig) threw the magic words out there and that was it."
The question is can the Dodgers keep mixing and matching their way to a division crown or wild-card berth and a prolonged postseason run?
"As we sit here today, we're right in the race and we've been doing it all year, so I don't know why we can't keep doing it." Mattingly said.
Plenty depends on a clean bill of health for Ramirez, although his play at shortstop has been waning for some time. And that was before the flurry of injuries he's dealt with.
As for center field, Matt Kemp quickly showed he wasn't capable of providing sufficient defense and Ethier and back-up Scott Van Slyke are not fleet-footed defenders.
That's one of the reason Crawford's began taking fly balls in center field after Kemp's switch to left field put Crawford on the bench.
But then, Crawford's left arm is a veteran of Tommy John surgery so the thought of him making throws from deep center field probably has opposing base runners smiling broadly as they sharpen their spikes.
Point is, with runs at a premium — especially later in the year — can the Dodgers afford such vulnerability?
Mattingly says the standings are proof they can work around whatever weaknesses they may have.
"It means we have to be smart. We have to move counts and things like that," Mattingly said. "But I think we're capable of doing that."
As long as Puig can stay in the game, of course.
Puig wasn't happy after striking out looking on three straight pitches from Padres starter Ian Kennedy to end the third and he stood defiantly in the batter's box.
Rackley gave Puig a second or two to settle down — and leave — but when Puig remained in the box jawing, Rackley finally turned and tossed him out of the game.
"There's certain things you just can't do." Mattingly said. "That was one of those."
Thanks in part to Maholm, who was making his first start since May 14 and responded with six scoreless innings, it didn't matter,
"I never had two months off between starts," Maholm said. "I just wanted to be aggressive and make pitches and go hitter to hitter and not really, honestly, have any expectations coming in."
Meanwhile, the Dodgers are in position to end the first half with the best record in the league.
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BANGKOK – Just before the start of an anti-government rally that paralyzed the heart of Bangkok four years ago, Thailand's deputy prime minister issued a stern message to demonstrators then converging on the city en masse.
"If they violate the laws, such as blocking roads and intruding into government offices," he warned on March 12, 2010, "we will have to disperse" them.
The official's name was Suthep Thaugsuban, and two and a half months later, after a week of steadily increasing violence, he followed through on that threat. Suthep ordered a crackdown that saw the army rip through the protesters' tire-and-bamboo-barricaded encampments and fire M-16s into crowds of fleeing protesters.
In 2011, Suthep's party was soundly defeated in elections. Today, he is leading a protest movement that has itself blocked roads and broken into government offices — an extraordinary role reversal that underscores not only the cyclical nature of Thai politics, but the total lack of progress toward bridging a political divide that has plagued the country for nearly a decade.
Suthep says his movement is aimed at routing out corruption he claims is endemic within Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's administration. Just like the so-called Red Shirts who seized downtown Bangkok in 2010, he is demanding the resignation of the country's government. And just like the Red Shirts, his supporters are trying to achieve that by shutting down parts of capital.
Among the places his supporters occupy is the place the Red Shirts made their last stand four years ago: Ratchaprasong, the country's glitziest intersection, where just like the Red Shirts, protesters are camping in the middle of the road, in front of a huge stage complete with speakers and a giant video screen.
"Sadly, we are back at this impossible intersection again," Atiya Achakulwisut, a contributing editor at the English-language daily Bangkok Post, wrote in a recent opinion piece. And Thailand, once more, "is caught again in a dangerous game of political brinksmanship (in which) both sides seem to believe they can win."
In 2010, the game finally ended with nearly 100 dead and more than 2,000 wounded. Scores of shops in Ratchaprasong, lined with luxury hotels and glass shopping malls, went up in a wave of arson attacks authorities blamed on demonstrators.
"Do we want to go down that road again?" Atiya asked.
Tragically, Thailand already has: Political violence since November has claimed nine lives across Bangkok and left more than 550 people wounded.
From here, the road back to stability seems long indeed.
Tensions were rekindled last fall, after a disastrous attempt by Yingluck's party to ram through a controversial amnesty bill that would have allowed her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, to return from self-imposed exile. He was toppled in a 2006 coup that has touched off years of societal division. In 2006, he was sentenced in absentia to prison in 2008 for corruption. Critics allege he uses his sister as a puppet and runs the country from abroad, charges they both deny.
Last month, Yingluck dissolved the lower house of Parliament and called Feb. 2 elections in hopes of easing tensions, but that did not satisfy protesters, who say corruption ensures her party will win. The main opposition party has boycotted the vote.
Suthep is demanding political reform, Yingluck's resignation and the installation of a non-elected council of "good people" to govern before any ballot is held.
Even if the poll does go forward, Parliament is unlikely to achieve the quorum it requires to convene because protesters have blocked candidate registration in several provinces. That means a caretaker government would remain in place until at least some of those provinces hold elections.
Yingluck has proposed a plan for reform with another round of elections in a year, but Suthep has rejected that and refuses to negotiate. Half a dozen key Bangkok intersections remain blocked, most civil servants are working from backup offices because their own have been shut by protesters, and businesses are suffering. The threat of deeper conflict looms, but Yingluck dares not order a police crackdown for fear of triggering a military coup.
The result: deadlock.
"It's a form of attrition," said Chris Baker, a political economist who has co-authored several books about Thaksin. "The demonstrators are on the streets. They're disrupting things, but not badly. And the government is out there, still operating, but not very well."
"They're kind of staring one another in the eyes at the moment, and I think they're waiting to see who will blink first," he said.
There is growing anxiety that the army, which has staged 11 coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, will step in again. Army commander Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha has said he does not want to take sides, but he has also said the army will act if there is no other solution.
"I don't want to go back to the military's hurtful time, because in 2010 we came out to work with a pure heart ... because there were shootings against people and government offices," Prayuth said this week. "But the situation today is a different cause, a different context."
Back then, the government had the army's firepower behind it, and used it. Today, the army is widely seen as sympathetic to the protest movement, while the police are seen as backing Yingluck.
"The battle has to be fought on the street," said Parkpop Udompan, a 38-year-old rubber farmer from the south who has camped at Ratchaprasong for nearly two weeks. "There is no other way. We don't have weapons. This is the only way we know how."
The protesters, though, don't have enough supporters to bring down the government on their own. A week and a half into "Shutdown Bangkok," the crowds of protesters have diminished greatly, though they build up in the evenings and the whistles and Thai-flag paraphernalia that are symbols of the movement are commonly seen throughout the capital.
Many believe a so-called "judicial coup" will remove Yingluck. After Thaksin was ousted in 2006, controversial court rulings forced two pro-Thaksin premiers to step down.
Analysts say the courts and the country's independent oversight agencies all tilt heavily against the Shinawatras' political machine, and Yingluck is facing several cases that could end with her or her party being banished from governing because of alleged corruption or violations of the constitution.
But if Suthep, the army, or the courts succeed in installing a new government, that is only likely to trigger a new cycle of unrest. The Red Shirts are likely to return to Bangkok. Protests and violence are likely to ensue.
"We've been through this so many times, it's become ridiculous," said Sunai Phasuk, a senior researcher for the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "If one side takes power, the other side will oppose it."
Despite nearly a decade of upheaval, Thailand's political rivals have moved no closer to overcoming their differences.
On the contrary, they have become "much more radicalized, much more polarized," Sunai said.
"I keep scratching my head, asking myself how we can overcome it. But we need to begin by understanding there are differences, by trying to figure out how we can live together" he said. Problem is, "nobody is talking."