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Did you know that you were designed to live in a glorious place called �hope?� Or that God gave you the freedom of choice, so that you can choose hope instead of hopelessness or despair? And while you shop for the best bargains possible, God�s gifts are waiting for you? His gifts are hope, joy, and real peace, all for you and wrapped in His fabric of grace. His greatest gift was and is the One whom we celebrate this time of year.
Can you imagine that God�s Son was born in a humble manger where animals ate? Yet His name holds healing power for us today � the name many avoid saying, unless they use it in a negative way. How can this name be spit with anger, or avoided completely. Many talk about Santa Claus instead, but the name of Jesus is the one we sing about in Christmas carols. If you don�t have a CD with the carols, I encourage you to get one. Bring light to your life and sing �Joy to the World,� �Away in a Manger,� or �Silent Night� instead of more modern popular songs.
We don�t have to be victims of the mess in our nation and the world. We can live in victory instead, as we follow wise teaching from scripture and our elders � with Nelson Mandela as a recent reminder. On Dec. 6, Christopher Torchia wrote an excellent article in the Times-News on the great, late Nelson Mandela. Mandela exemplified the character and qualities that best describe where we should be this Christmas season. I just heard a comment on TV that with Mandela�s death, our guiding light is gone. This is not true. We�ll always have Jesus and His words.
Like Jesus, Mandela also delivered many from imprisonment to freedom through forgiveness and reconciliation. They both had humble strength, well laced with love and grace. Their greatest difference is huge. Jesus is holy and the Son of God. With God�s help, we too can change our world like Nelson Mandela. We all have great potential.
Reality then slugged me again when I opened the Dec. 7 Times-News to the well-written editorial �Pearl Harbor � the events of Dec. 7, 1941 and the heroism we must not forget.� I didn�t realize it was the 7th, since my heart overflowed with the significant memories of Christmas and Mandela. Please read these excellent words of an important time in our history. Memories of people and events through the years make our lives rich and wise.
World War 11 was given a powerful name because it touched most of our world with violence, hatred, fear and death; as well as sacrifice and forever changed lives. Ask your parents, grandparents or google if your youth doesn�t hold those ripe memories. We learn from history, and World War 11 reminds us of the character and courage in both those who waited and prayed � and those who fought for the freedom of many people of all nationalities.
These additional comments are important to incorporate into our thinking at this glorious season of Christmas. Life continues to happen today, as it has since Jesus walked on earth. We need God�s perspective, love, forgiveness and leadership that our soldiers, people like Nelson Mandela and of course Jesus present to us. They challenge each of us to grow in our daily walk. 2014 will be here soon, and along with it, another opportunity to reflect on how we can improve our area of influence.
Take time to be still and listen to God. He speaks to our heart when we write, sing, make choices, or are following His will in our life. We have a huge, loving God who gave us His greatest gift � His Son Jesus. The next step is up to each of us.
When we encourage others, we experience encouragement too. When we love and forgive others, joy and love lift our own lives. We often experience frustration with those around us, but with the Lord�s help, He will bring His joy and hope into their lives. The Christmas season is a glorious opportunity to change our attitude and become a new person, as we appropriate God�s wisdom, and study His Word.
When we allow His light into the darkness that often surrounds us, we discover possibilities that we never considered. I hope and pray that this will be your greatest Christmas season ever! I�m ending this letter with one of my favorite verses from the Bible � Romans 15:13: �May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.�
Nancy Stoppelkamp lives in Graham.


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Crude oil found our major resistance target early in Monday's session, before selling off to a low of $95.92. The low, although roughly 40 cents from our major support target and retracement point, showed strength to recover and trade back above 97.
So what moved this market Monday? Pure profit taking against $97.77 to $97.90. Although some may believe the pipeline issues through Arkansas had a hand in the recovery, all you have to do is look at the equity market and how it roared back. These markets have traded very technically, so stick to the technicals, keep the trade short, and if it is not working, then get out!
Look for a close above $96.45 to maintain momentum. A close above new highs and above $98 will be very bullish, signaling a likely test up to $100. Only a close below $95.92, and furthermore $95.55, will show signs of a failure.

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The Sprint Cup Series Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 on Saturday came down to what most races in NASCAR's premier series come down to at Richmond International Raceway these days: a battle between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.
Busch, as he usually does in the spring, got the better of it, beating Hamlin to the checkered flag by 1.8 seconds. Kasey Kahne led a Toyota sweep of the top three, with David Ragan fourth and Carl Edwards fifth.
The victory is the second of the season for Busch, who won at Bristol in March. Nonetheless, it was an encouraging night for Hamlin, who snagged his first top-five of the season.
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Unverified Voracity Beats East Plano Tech State
900. The video from the boards:
Can we start calling the team Hokemen, Daily?
Speaking of…
We have fewer lame-o wins than anyone! Except Georgia! Pat Forde scours the ten winningest programs in college football history to find the out how many of those wins have been run up against East York Veterinary School. Michigan's docket:
Michigan (19). Total wins: 900. Junk wins: 57 (at least). Percentage of all-time wins that are junk: 6.3. Persistent pigeon: Case Institute of Technology (Ohio), 26-0-1 record. Scheduled junk win that turned into a bad loss: Cleveland AA 8, Michigan 4. What, you were expecting Appalachian State? (Since the game was played in 1891, the AA is not believed to be Alcoholics Anonymous.)
That's actually fewer than anyone in the top ten save Georgia, though Georgia did lose to an empty patch of grass in 1943. The worst offender is USC, with 102 Doris Beautician School beatdowns.
Meanwhile… 8-4, huh? Sounds preview-licious. If only I had known about this Cleveland AA game before Michigan played State.
Is that an axe between your legs or are you just happy to see me? Oh, it's actually an axe.
Via Heiko and his insatiable appetite for panoramic photos. Larger version.
Get there. All weeks are championship weeks:
"Probably just as much as you guys are thinking in your heads," Mealer said. "As much as you guys have been hearing it, we hear it even more. And for you guys, it's probably overbearing and redundant and things like that -- I'm sure, because I can see all the smiles when I brought it up -- but for us, that's why you come to Michigan.
"For us players, it's not redundant, it's not, 'OK we get it.' It's, 'Remember last year? We lost a game here, we lost a game there, and we kept ourselves out of that game.' So we accept the constant reminder of it."
Mealer said there's a picture of the Big Ten championship trophy in the team's Schembechler Hall meeting room. There are roses painted on the walls, a not-so-subtle reminder of the bowl that awaits the league's champion.
This one maybe a little more than most.
I'm not sure I can do this any longer, @umichcompliance. I started following Michigan's compliance feed for some reason. Maybe I needed more dry statements of things I can't do and have never even thought of doing in my life.
It's been a passionate affair so far, but I'm not sure if I can deal with the mindboggle on the regular. To wit:
Michigan Compliance
The NCAA prohibits the sale of any item with the name, picture or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete.
That seems like a pretty reasonable restrict—
Let's not forget, Dude—that keeping pictures… uh… items with the name, picture, or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete… on, uh, your official, you know, website… that ain't legal.
Burkhead may not play. Sounds like Nebraska tailback Rex Burkhead may sit out Saturday after tweaking an ACL sprain last weekend:
Huskers coach Bo Pelini said this aggravation isn't as bad as the one in the Ohio State game, but the repeated issues have him inclined to rest Burkhead for a week. Pelini said Burkhead is day to day and has improved since Saturday.
"He felt really good going into the [Northwestern] game, didn't have any issues in practice," Pelini said. "He's frustrated and obviously disappointed he's had to deal with it. It's been too bad."
Backup/co-starter Ameer Abdullah hasn't ben much of a drop-off: he's averaging almost 6 yards a carry on 86 attempts, with impressive output in the three Big Ten games he's played in—5.5 YPC. He's faster than Burkhead, albeit slighter. Former top 100 recruit Braylon Heard should also get some carries.
Also in Nebraska, reviews of their latest game.
Pitch perfect. The MZone is actually written by Stephen Colbert.
"Nation, I've always been a big fan of Michigan State football coach and scowling man most likely to tell kids to get the hell off his lawn, Mark Dantonio. His enduring sportsmanship, like getting into public feuds with 21 year old college kids by mocking their height, along with always looking out for the health and best interests of his players, evidenced by holding them out at least two plays when they get an on-field concussion, have made him a role model Spartan fans can be proud of before, during and after the burning of their couches."
Fourth line FTW. The top takeaway from Friday's one-off hockey game against Bentley was the fantastic play of what was nominally the fourth line of Andrew Copp, Zach Hyman, and Justin Selman. They scored twice, dominated play when on the ice, and must have locked themselves into additional playing time as Michigan kicks off their final CCHA campaign against Miami:
The line of Hyman, Copp and Selman has "really given our team a life," according to Michigan coach Red Berenson.
"He told us what we needed to do to have a good week in practice," Selman said. "He was making sure every day we were going as hard as we could. We kind of worked off what he was doing and followed in his footsteps.
Copp came from the same lineage as Danny Fardig—the guy on the USA NTDP roster who bounces from the U17s to U18s to fill in on the fourth line and never score—but has shown some soft hands early. Hyman played with a high energy level, as well. I haven't seen Selman enough to really get a read on him yet, but the line's performance speaks for itself.
Clare will return to the lineup against Miami, BTW. Mike Szuma was okay as a sixth defenseman on Friday. Michigan Hockey Net has a Bentley recap.
Siberia also FTW. Preds winger Sergei Kostitsyn is spending the lockout playing in Siberia. This is what Siberia looks like. In May.
Kostitsyn, 25, who joined the Predators from the Montreal Canadiens in June 2010, also said he hated life in North America and labelled Columbus "the gloomiest" city in the States.
Unfortunately, he could not continue ripping on Columbus because Omsk was invaded by thousands of red plastic figures at that very moment.
Thinking alike. BWS picture-paged the zero-yard Denard run that featured as an exemplar of Michigan State going ape on run plays in the just-posted edition on this site. Yeesh:
I think the only deep ball in this game was out of an I-Form to a double-covered Jeremy Jackson. Gotta loosen those guys up—yeah, you might turn the ball over if you bomb it deep but if you're just punting in three plays anyway…
How Purdoed it. Doesn't work as well as "Purdon't," I guess, and is equally dumb. Anyway, Ross Fulton's latest breakdown of the Ohio State offense is even more interesting than normal since it deals with topics often found here in the aftermath of OSU's extensive struggles against the Purdue defense. Purdue loaded up to stop Miller, won a lot of battles on the line of scrimmage, and OSU could not punish Purdue cheating off the slot receivers. This sounds awfully familiar:
The Buckeye passing game was perhaps most successful when OSU could get their hurry-up offense going and catch Purdue in uncertainty. This led to the second Buckeye touchdown. But all too often Ohio State missed available opportunities. For instance, Devin Smith several times had man coverage beat. If Braxton simply leads him to the corner and lets him run under it, it was a potential touchdown.
More acutely, Ohio State was not able to punish Purdue for cheating off their slot receivers. It was not simply for a lack of trying. Miller sailed one bubble screen over Corey Brown's head. On the clip above, he held the ball a second too long, allowing the Purdue corner to make a nice play. But other times it appeared clear opportunities were available that OSU did not take advantage of. Traditionally, this has been an automatic check with Meyer and Herman. The offense will continue running the pre-called play but the QB will simply pull and throw the football. Perhaps Meyer & Co have not yet given Miller the ability to do so. But by allowing alley players to cheat into the box, a spread offense quickly loses the numbers advantage it gains from the QB run threat.
That's how you end up with 100 yards at halftime against Purdue. OSU started bashing straight ahead A-gap power from the pistol and running their veer a gap inside the crashing LBs, but Miller's exit cut their response short.
Hey hey!
OSU must find more consistent ways to punish a defense that cheats alley defenders. Whether it is with wide receiver screens or bootlegs, OSU cannot allow a defense that much free rein. OSU must not also let opposing defenses dissuade them from sticking to what they do well. Though this is somewhat counter to the previous point, I believe they work together. The Buckeyes must continue to work to establish their base run game and then use play-action to exploit an opposing defense.
This mindmeld thing is creeping me out.
Etc.: Hero police robot back on duty after 'unstable man' blasts it with shotgun. You will be surprised to know this happened in Nebraska, not Detroit, home of police robots. [HT: Corn Nation.] RAWK HELICOPTER FLYOVER. Mmmmm… Dwayne Bacon. Hundred Level video released. O'Bannon lawsuit update. [HT: Get the Picture.] Getting our mean on at MNB. Nebraska equals points. OSU adds an Oregon home and home to their far future.


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(AP) – A jet in Pittsburgh got stuck in snow on the tarmac while another one in New York got itself mired in mud.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that an American Airlines flight arrived Wednesday evening during a storm, but then ran over a snow patch and got stuck. Airport spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny says workers tried for nearly two hours to tow the plane before deciding to bus passengers to the terminal.
On Thursday morning at MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma (rahn-KAHN'-koh-mah), N.Y., a Southwest Airlines jet bound for Tampa, Fla., got stuck in some mud after it veered off a taxiway following a night of heavy rain. Southwest spokesman Paul Flaningan says it's not yet clear whether the weather played a role.
There were no injuries at either airport.
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USTR Puts Out Its 'Rogue Sites' List... Can't Even Find 20
from the and-for-this-we-need-to-change-the-internet? dept
So, given a chance to highlight just how "big" a problem this is... all the industry could turn up was 19 specific sites that are rogue sites (well, here they're called "notorious"). To be fair, one of the 19 is "Allofmp3 clones" so that could encompass a few more sites. But, really, if the problem is just dealing with a small number of sites, is that really worth such a massive infrastructure change, since pretty much every technically clueful commentator has noted the massive cost on internet security of using these laws?


text: The moment you commit and quit holding back Tracie Marquardt Quality Assurance Communication Advertisements Share this post:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related Published by Tracie Marquardt I've been living outside of my home country for over 20 years. I've lived in 3 countries and 10 cities. Falling in love with Paris is what led me to Europe (and I go back often). I think Germany is an amazing country, and a great hub from which to travel to the rest of Europe. I started my own business in the Heidelberg region in 2013. My mission is helping international professionals communicate their key messages clearly and concisely in English. I believe that language and culture are huge factors in the success of our communication, and must be taken into account when we interact with and build relationships with others. By networking together from around the world, we are able to build bridges, add value to each others lives, and I hope, contribute to each others success in life, no matter how that success is defined. So let's get started! View all posts by Tracie Marquardt


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A laminated guide - double sided A5 size
Side A - details the most common hand embroidery needles and what type of stitching they are generally used for.
Side B - scans of the needles and the size they are more commonly available in.
Gives you an opportunity to identify the size and type of needle required for your next embroidery project as well as helping you identify the type and size of needles in your collection


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Delaware State Police are investigating a complaint from a man who said he was held up by two strangers.
Delaware State Police are investigating a complaint from a man who said he was held up by two strangers.
The incident took place at 4 p.m. April 28 along the Milford-Harrington Highway, said police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier. The man, a 45-year-old Harrington resident, told officers he saw the two men walking along the highway and, thinking one was a friend, offered a ride. The men ordered him to drive along several back roads before one of them placed what appeared to be a gun against the back of his neck.
Once they arrived in the area of Bloomfield Drive, the men took the victim's money and fled into some nearby woods. The victim was not injured.
The first suspect is a white male standing between 5 feet 8 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing between 150 and 175 pounds, with long blond hair and wearing blue jeans, a light-colored T-shirt and a jean jacket vest.
The second suspect is a white male standing between 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing between 145 and 175 pounds, with short hair, wearing blue jeans and a gray hooded sweatshirt.
The second suspect was armed with a handgun of an unknown type, Fournier said.
Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call Troop 3 at (302) 697-2104, or use the DSP Mobile Crime Tip App available for download at www.delaware.gov/apps. Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333, via the Internet at www.tipsubmit.com, or by sending an anonymous tip by text to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword "DSP."


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Titled and signed "Treacy Ziegler 2013" (lower right).
A monoprint begins with an etched plate, a serigraph, lithograph or collograph. More than one single print can be created of a particular image if the monoprint is editioned. The underlying image remains the same and is common to each print in the edition. However, each print is a unique creation by means of adding pigment or design differently.
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American born Treacy Ziegler was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Master's Degree in 1980. Ziegler has been represented in group exhibitions since 1986, and solo exhibitions since 1991. She is the recipient of various grants and awards, including the Philadelphia Drawing Award.
Ziegler's prints have been described as confronting the drama of the human condition through symbols of our short earthly passage - the dwellings we inhabit, the chairs we occupy, the churches where we worship, the factories in which we work, the boats in which we sail. Her symbols are mostly vacant structures, but still bear the mark of the hand and spirit of man. These objects stand, as do Ziegler's other favourite theme, chairs, as manifests of a human presence.
Ziegler's chromatic palette is spare, intense and unmistakably personal, dominated by passages of yellow, which vary from a pale mimosa to an intense mustard. These brightly lit passages are played against contrasting masses of intense black or dense greens, violet and browns. Her conjunction of colours is challenging and often on the edge of a litmus-like acidity.
Each of Ziegler's colours has a satiny density, its brilliancy being achieved by a highly complex technique that demands hours of labour for each completed print. Each impression of her prints in her small editions of ten is unique. She combines a preparatory etched zinc tonal plate with subsequent colour impressions using museum board plates. She often manipulates the final pre-press layers of ink with manual strokes of a brush. Much of the glowing coalescing of colours in Ziegler's images is the result of printing each colour upon the next "wet in wet" so that the mutual saturation of the pigments results in a rich chromatic density.
Excerpts from "Treacy Ziegler: The Lights of Passage" by Paul Duval
Notable Public & Private Collections
|Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
|College Board, New York, NY
|Grisham Riley, President American Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA
|Marie McKee, President, Trustee, Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY
|Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, PA
|Rider College, Lawrence, NJ
|Slipstream Investment Inc, Toronto, ON
|South Jersey Arthritis Foundation, NJ
|The College Board, New York, NY
|Van Sciver Corporation, Cherry Hill, NJ
Selected Solo Exhibitions
|Chase Young Gallery, Boston, MA
|Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
|Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
|Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
|Gallery 71, New York, NY
|F.A.N.Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
|Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
|Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
|Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
|F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
|Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
|Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
|F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
|Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
|Ibel-Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, OH
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
|George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY
|Ibel-Simeonov Gallery, Columbus, OH
|Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
|Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON
|West End Gallery, Corning, NY
|Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON
|Harroitt Collection Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithica, NY
|Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
|Chase Gallery, Boston, MA
|World Bank, Washington, DC
|West End Gallery, Corning, NY
|Saltonstall Recipients, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
|West End Gallery, Corning, NY
|Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
|Art Miami, Rider University Gallery, Miami, FL
|Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
|Myriad Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
|City of Camden, Camden, England
Grants & Awards
|Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Grant
|New York Partnership Painting Fellowship
|New York Partnership Printmaking Fellowship
|Saltonstall Grant
|Henry Scheidt European Travel Grant
|Barnes Foundation Fellowship
|City of Camden Printmaking Award
|Daniel Garber Drawing Award
|Morris Blackburn Printmaking Award
|Pratt Memorial Graphic Award
|Philadelphia Drawing Award
|Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA
|University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
|Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, BS


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In attacking the Liberal plan so vehemently, I honestly think the NDP runs a serious risk of looking overtly political, rather than the "principled" persona supporters like to embrace. While others ask questions about trivial scandals, the NDP asks questions on issues. While others play partisan games, the NDP works to "get things done". Blah, blah, blah, anyone who is paying attention knows it's more about packaging as an alternative, rather than any fundamental difference in approach. The fact of the matter, the NDP is just as calculating, just as apt to compromise principle for political gain, as every other party, maybe worse, given the self-appointed purist pedestal.
Two columns today, form part of a developing narrative, one that possibly exposes the NDP on the environment, more concerned with self interest than an "honest debate".
First, former Ontario NDP MP Lynn McDonald, with a telling title:
Layton plays politics while Dion proposes a necessary ingredient to fight global warming
The NDP has historically been a leader in advocating social justice, but not now...
We all have to rethink the issue and the NDP does a disservice with its simplistic rejection of the carbon tax. All Canadians concerned with the environment and our long-term survival have a stake in a serious and effective climate change action plan.
Chantal Hebert, on the Quebec angle:
NDP climate strategy comes up short
As twisted as it may seem, the logic of advancing the cause of climate change by waging war on the Liberals at a time that party is winning kudos from much of Canada's environment movement for its Green Shift plan is what passes for strategy for the federal NDP these days.
In that spirit, the by-election campaign will give Canadians an early taste of the next general election, when Jack Layton will be taking turns with Stephen Harper to take shots at Dion's carbon tax.
The NDP justifies its opposition to a carbon tax by arguing that it will hit hardest the Canadians most vulnerable to rising energy prices. But the party would have more of a point if the Liberal plan did not go out of its way to shift money to lower-income and rural Canadians. Indeed, the Dion plan was harshly criticized for amounting to a covert redistribution scheme rather than the tax-neutral regime it purports to be.
Tellingly, the page that the NDP website devotes to a critique of the Dion tax shift features half a dozen independent quotes that pre-date the actual unveiling of the Liberal policy. Some don't even address it.
A prime minister who hails from the right wing of his party, Harper leads a government that is more conservative than any previous Tory regime. Dion meanwhile is really a progressive first and a Liberal second; his determination to regroup his party under the climate change banner in the next election is making the NDP battle plan look more opportunistic than idealistic.
Opportunistic indeed, and the prospects of another Harper/Layton tagteam might well put any doubt to rest.
The NDP has a fine line to walk moving forward, because if there is focus is evenly split between attacking the Liberals and the Conservatives, they risk looking political, they risk undermining the idea of any real action on the environment. The NDP's proposals are actually irrelevant, since they will never be implemented, that's just the bottomline. When left with only two choices, is it now the role of the NDP to help Harper keep power, by running ads against the Liberal plan, spending so much of their energy attacking the only alternative to nothingness? Again, bottomline, it couldn't be clearer. That doesn't mean no room for "honest debate", but it would seem much of the discussion so far is really about what's good for the NDP, what's good for Canada a speck on the horizon.
I've heard this online, as well as from more formal NDP sources, that the Liberal plan does nothing for the environment, the lack of hard targets, a clear red flag to empty proposals. Such a nonsensical argument, because if one is too believe the Liberal plan does nothing, then one has to disregard much of the environmental community who seem to see the merits of nothing. One of the most bizarre, illogical arguments I've heard. I guess the NDP knows more than the experts, the same people Layton used to love to mug to the cameras with as allies in a common fight. Good luck with that one. "Environmentalists offer tepid praise for Liberal Plan that achieves nothing". I smell a winner!
The plan lets bigger emitters off the hook, which entirely explains why the interests with the big emitters are firmly rejecting the Liberal scheme. If someone can reconcile that inherent contradiction let me know, because from here it serves as proof positive that the Liberal plan is tough, otherwise why the "outrage". See, when the Conservatives released their smokescreen of a plan, all we heard from the big emitters, and their political lackeys was "we can work with this", not "stealing our wealth" or "crippling our economies". All you need to do, to pierce through the spinning political haze, is look at the reaction from the bigboys, it speaks VOLUMES, and frankly exposes the NDP criticism for what it is, posturing.
The plan hurts the poor, yet as Hebert points out, no mention of the many REAL provisions in the plan to address this concern. It is as though we aren't sophisticated enough to see that the Liberal plan actually addresses the primary NDP talking point, it puts out measures to offset that real criticism. But, wouldn't want an "honest debate", when you can coin a catchy slogan for maximum political damage.
Time for a different tune, because all I hear are sour notes, and as time goes by, it becomes increasingly obvious, I'm not alone.


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Western Michigan University students majoring in any business program may apply for Haworth College of Business scholarships.
Integrated supply management majors should contact the ISM program for information on applying for scholarships specifically awarded to ISM students.
A number of scholarships available solely for those majoring or minoring in management or majoring in human resource management are awarded each year. These scholarships are funded by current and past faculty members, alumni and other friends of the Department of Management. These scholarships are awarded based on academic excellence, leadership or service, or some combination of the three. While most require students to be management or human resource management majors, some are available for management minors.
Examples of scholarships awarded appear below. Several of the scholarships can be awarded to more than one student. The exact number and amount of these scholarships varies year-to-year depending on funding and the applications received. Eligible students need to submit only one application to be considered for any of the management and human resource management scholarships.
- Dr. James W. Hill Leadership Award: This annual award is presented to an undergraduate student who exemplifies ethics and leadership within the B.B.A. program.
- Dean Arnold E. Schneider Management Achievement Award: This achievement award was established by the founding dean of the college of business and his family. This award is provided for juniors and seniors who demonstrate outstanding leadership, scholarship and service qualities.
- Distinguished Service Award for the Department of Management: This award, funded by an alumnus of the department, is given annually to a management major or minor for distinguished service to the department, engaging in worthy endeavors and contributing to organizations.
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July 17, 2010, 11:02:41 AM »
In a nutshell, I'm looking for recommendations about schools on the West Coast that fit the following criteria:
1.) Gay-friendly, politically tolerant, and located in either a temperate climate or right on the beach (50-80 degrees is ideal if far from the water).
2.) Has a good reputation in the San Francisco Bay Area (where I ultimately want to end up).
This inquiry is prompted by a few specifics. Is Golden Gate University
that bad for a safety school? Pepperdine seems great on paper, but I hear it is very conservative. Would my moderate-to-liberal views be seen more as helpful discussion or problematic? Do Pepperdine graduates get hired in San Francisco or do they stick to Los Angeles? UC-Irvine is a new school, but it has a rock-star of a dean (Erwin Chemerinsky) and one of my personal heroes on the faculty (Elizabeth Loftus). What is it like?
Any and all help is very much appreciated!
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July 18, 2010, 04:15:21 PM »
I'd make Stanford #1 and Berkley #2. Both great schools, both quite liberal. For that matter almost all law schools are dramatically more liberal than the general US population. Berkley is of course more liberal than Stanford, but you'd be totally comfortable at either place I think.
I don't know a lot about the rest. UCLA of course has an excellent reputation nationally and I'd assume would do just fine in the Bay area.
I've also noticed the phenomenal faculty at UC-Irvine and I love the SD area. I'm done with law school but have aspirations as a legal academic and its really high on my list of places I'd love to teach. Don't know how they'll do placement-wise, but its a promising institution. I think they were or perhaps are offering free or really reduced tuition to get things rolling too.
I've never visited Pepperdine and don't know what the student body is like. I had lunch with their old dean and found him an extraordinary, gracious and all around nice human being (not something I particularly expected given media coverage etc). He's also easily one of the top legal minds in the country and politically very moderate. It is at least in theory a semi-religious school and definitely more conservative (socially) than the typical law school, I rather doubt that its to the right of the national center though. I don't know if things have or will change since Star left, but during his time there he put great emphasis on improving the quality of the faculty, pressing them to write more and that sort of thing. If the school continues on that trend it'll climb in the rankings, especially as their many newish hot professors start to get more stuff published and cited. Its also on my list of places I'd like to teach.
If you have an interest in business, economics and particularly economic systems design (think hybrid of engineering and economics and OR), Chapman is worth a look. They've got the nations leading ESD guys on faculty (I've worked with a couple of them, they are really good and doing some unique stuff that could have significant legal policy application I think). Don't know how they place or what their law faculty is like otherwise though.
At any law school you'll have a pretty wide range of views and you needn't worry at all about your views being seen as problematic. Again, law schools in general are super-liberal and within the legal world law professors tend to be even further to the left of center. Historically many schools were openly hostile to conservative and sometimes libertarian students, but even that has faded quite a bit (though still exists more than you'd think). Stay away from places like Liberty and you'll probably find yourself quite in the mainstream. Again, I don't know what the Pepperdine students are like, you wouldn't have had any problematic issues with Star though. You could always visit and see what you think.
As a final plug, HLS is super diverse and a bunch of my friends did really well in the Bay area.
Jamie Stringer
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July 18, 2010, 08:01:46 PM »
Recommendations depend on your GPA + LSAT score. If you have a 150-something, recommending Berkeley won't be that helpful. On the other hand, if you have a 170+, it's doubtful that you'd apply to schools like Santa Clara.
Otherwise, my list would be as follows:
1. Berkeley/Stanford
4. UC Hastings
6. UC Davis
7. USF/Santa Clara
There aren't any other California schools that will get you SF absent some kind of miraculous performance and connections or something.
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July 19, 2010, 09:00:37 AM »
Pepperdine is a beautiful campus my mom used to work there, but it might not be great if you are gay. They are a fairly religious institution and lean towards the conservative side. You even have to write your Christian Mission in the application, which made me not apply to the school. I also don't think Malibu would be very gay friendly when you go North of L.A. it gets fairly Yuppie and Malibu certainly fits that criteria.
With the criteria you had listen politically open Gay Friendly I would say the Bay Area would be right up your alley. Berkley and Stanford would be obvious choices they are amazing schools, but odds are you probably are not getting into them. UC Hastings is a good option and gay friendly politically open etc. USF and Santa Clara are Jesuit schools that have pretty conservative ideals so that is something to be wary of. Golden Gate has no religious overtones and is very politically open and gay friendly. I think 30% if not more of my 1L section was openly gay and GGU is certainly gay friendly.
UC Davis is a good school, but it is in a small little college town that I do not think is very gay friendly. I played basketball against them a lot and it was a fun town, but I really don't think it was very gay friendly.
L.A. Schools that might be better to consider than Pepperdine would obviously be USC or UCLA. Then Loyola Marymount, but I am pretty sure they are a religious and conservative school. I don't know that 100%, but 4 of my friends from high school that were ultra religious ended up going there for undergrad. Southwestern would probably be more gay friendly since the school has no religious foundation and when I walked through I was fairly impressed with it. UC Irvine is also a good option.
There are the San Diego Schools as well and apparently California Western is going to be taken over by the UC system so it will probably rise significantly in the rankings and now would a good time to go. Thomas Jefferson and USD are also there, but I know nothing about San Diego in general.
I am from L.A, I went to undergrad in Northern California, and now I am student at GGU living in San Francisco so I can give you actual advice about California and GGU specifically, but I won't talk out of my ass about stuff I know nothing about like the poster above who says other than those 7 schools you can't get anything. She is an idiot. If you really want to know the pros and cons of GGU and no other school because I have never gone to law school anywhere else except GGU. As a result of that I won't talk out of my ass about other schools in any more detail than I did above. I do know which schools are religious and which ones are not, but I know nothing else about them and I won't pretend that I do. Good Luck to you.
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Just to put in two cents about UC Irvine's new school -- it's pretty stellar, from what I've been reading/hearing. I did my undergrad work here and worked with Dr. Loftus (a hero of mine, I must say-- totally changed my life with regard to my perspective on eyewitness testimonies) and I've talked with the dean, who is also amazing. Well, I mean, he's quirky and socially awkward but still a wealth of knowledge, and really interesting to listen to.
I appreciate the fact that UCI is trying to give law students some realtime experience right off the bat. They work with real cases under the supervision of professors and these professors are seriously amazing. The dean once said something along the lines of, "Law school teaches you the law. Firms teach you how to be a lawyer. I want my school to do both."
As far as the campus, it's newbie friendly and completely LGBTQIAA friendly. Ten minutes from the beach, walking distance from just about all necessary services you'd need around a campus...
Totally worth the time to look into. Not that I'm bias or anything
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Perhaps in the background draw a dark looking fish? This is based off of a book called Waking rose, of the character Rose Brier. (based on Snow White and Rose Red). Here is a picture of the book cover. Draw it in whatever style you like, realistic, manga, cartoon, etc. I think it would be really cool to see some cartoony/manga ones.
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I'll do it Does it have to be a close-up? I'd like to draw a full body ^_^
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& for anyone who is waiting for the 5 comments & rates, it may take some time, I don't have much time to spend on RMD lately, but I will get it done soon!
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Lunchtime is around the corner, and your tummy is rumbling. If you've got a microwave, a mug and a few basic ingredients, you can cook up a meal right in the office.
Morning Edition's David Greene recently started microwaving scrambled eggs in a mug for those early mornings on hosting duties. It led him to wonder about the other possibilities of this culinary art.
So he turned to Washington Post Food and Travel Editor Joe Yonan for help expanding his mug menu. "The mug gauntlet was laid down in front of me, and so I picked it up and decided to do a mac and cheese," says Yonan, who writes the "Cooking for One" column.
When he joined Greene in the NPR offices to demonstrate his recipes (below) for mac and cheese and brownies, the steps were pretty straightforward: Put some things in a mug, nuke for a bit, add more things, stir, and finish nuking.
It doesn't get much easier than that, folks.
But whatever you decide to whip up, there's one thing you need to remember: Things get really hot in the microwave.
"They're not just getting heat from the surface that they're in contact with, like a pan would on the stove. They're heating from the inside out," Yonan explains. "All their molecules are all excited, and the whole thing is kind of exploding inside, so you have to be careful."
Also, don't cook anything with fish. Do that, and you might get kicked out of the building because the smell will seep into every corner.
Yonan says a lot of people think microwaving is a lesser form of cooking. There are plenty of people who just reheat things and make popcorn, "but the microwave is incredibly versatile, and I think people have realized that."
So go wild and experiment with whatever happens to be in the fridge today. Just don't steal somebody else's lunch.
Recipe: Mac And Cheese With Mushrooms In An Office Mug (based on a recipe on the Kitchn)
1/2 cup macaroni pasta
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons dried shiitake mushrooms, crumbled (optional)
Pinch of salt
3 tablespoons whole milk
1/4 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons roasted tomato salsa (or your favorite store-bought salsa)
1 teaspoon flour
Combine the pasta, water and salt in a large microwave-safe mug.
Set it on a paper towel and microwave on high in 2-minute intervals, stirring in between, until the pasta is just short of tender (al dente. This should take 4 to 8 minutes, depending on the wattage of your microwave. (The water will foam up and possibly spill slightly over the mug, but the pasta and mushrooms should stay put.) If the mug dries out before the pasta is cooked, add another 2 tablespoons of water before continuing to microwave until the pasta is al dente.
Stir in the milk, cheese, salsa and flour. Microwave on high in 30-second intervals, stirring in between, until the cheese has melted and a creamy sauce has formed. Let cool slightly and eat.
For something more basic, leave out the mushrooms. You can also take it in the other direction and add all sorts of other ingredients, depending on what's in your office fridge: pesto, leftover meat, Sriracha, kimchi. From Washington Post Food and Travel editor Joe Yonan.
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1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon almond butter (may substitute peanut butter or Nutella)
2 tablespoons whole milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons natural unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
1 tablespoon dried cherries (optional)
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon bittersweet chocolate chips or pieces of a chocolate bar (optional)
1 tablespoon slivered almonds (optional)
1 tablespoon slivered almonds
Combine the butter, almond butter, milk and vanilla in a large microwave-safe mug, and microwave on high until the butter melts, 30 to 60 seconds. Stir with a fork to break up the almond butter and thoroughly combine. Sprinkle in the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, instant espresso, cherries and salt, and stir to combine. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top. Microwave on high for about 1 minute, until the butter has firmed up on top and the chocolate has melted. Sprinkle with almonds, let cool slightly, and eat.
OK, for most of us the microwave oven is a shortcut in the kitchen. Our colleague David Greene views the microwave as a serious culinary tool. He talked about this with Joe Yonan, author of the Cooking for One column at The Washington Post.
So Joe, thanks for coming by and doing this with us.
JOE YONAN: Sure.
GREENE: Can I tell you how, like why we called you here and how this all got started?
YONAN: Yes, I'm curious.
GREENE: OK, it's a little embarrassing. So I've been making scrambled eggs in a mug in the morning. I get here really early. It's like the middle of the night and I just - I wanted some eggs. And one of our colleagues said, you know, you can scramble eggs in a microwave. And I've been enamored by this.
GREENE: So I just literally - cracking it on our conference table, put it in the mug, And then I add a little bit of shredded cheese, a little bit of milk, and I kind of whip it up. And I just pop it in the microwave.
YONAN: All right.
GREENE: And so I'm yanking this thing out. I mean check it out.
YONAN: Oh, my God.
GREENE: Joe, just describe that to...
YONAN: Oh wow, OK. It's like totally puffed up and it looks absolutely beautiful.
GREENE: Is this the first time you've seen this?
YONAN: Actually it is.
GREENE: See that. It's the shape of a cupcake.
YONAN: It's like a little egg souffle.
Egg souffle
GREENE: Yeah.
YONAN: You want a taste?
Yeah. Yeah, I do.
GREENE: Here.
YONAN: Ooh, it's really, really, really hot.
GREENE: Yeah.
YONAN: OK, I'm going to do this very carefully 'cause it's nuclear. You know, it's not bad.
GREENE: Not bad.
YONAN: Not bad.
GREENE: So nuclear...
GREENE: Do things get dangerously hot in a microwave?
YONAN: They do.
GREENE: Why?
YONAN: They get really, really hot. Because it's more than just getting heat from the surface that they're in contact with, like a pan like they would on the stove. They're heating from the inside out, basically. Like all their molecules are all excited and the whole thing is kind of exploding inside. So you have to be careful too. I mean it's a good thing you used a big mug.
'Cause I think if you did a small mug, I could imagine some accidents happening - foaming over the top, that kind of thing.
GREENE: We don't want that.
GREENE: Alright, so you brought us some suggestions. We wanted to expand our menu of office cooking.
YONAN: You know, I was thinking about this mug thing. The mug gauntlet was laid down in front of me. And so I picked it up and decided to do a mac and cheese.
GREENE: Oh, cool. This is going to be lunch for me for the next, like, three weeks.
YONAN: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
GREENE: That's awesome.
YONAN: So with the mac and cheese, it's a half a cup of dry macaroni pasta.
GREENE: You're just pouring them in the mug there.
YONAN: Just getting it right in the mug.
YONAN: And equal amounts of water, you know. And then we're going to nuke that.
YONAN: I don't know if we can see in here. But it's boiling over a little bit, yeah. But that's OK.
GREENE: You're going to ruin our microwave, Joe?
YONAN: No. No. No. Worst things have happened in this microwave. I...
GREENE: You can tell sort of?
YONAN: I would guess.
YONAN: So now I'm going to just add a little stuff to make a little sauce.
YONAN: Basically a few tablespoons of milk.
GREENE: Pour in some milk, alright.
YONAN: Got a quarter cup of grated sharp cheddar cheese.
GREENE: Perfect.
YONAN: And we've got dried mushrooms. So you just take a couple of the stems and you just crumble them up.
GREENE: What else are you putting in here?
YONAN: That's a little - a couple of tablespoons of salsa. And now - and I know this sounds kind of crazy - but I've got a teaspoon of flour.
GREENE: Oh.
YONAN: And the reason that I think that you have flour in your office pantry is because you're also going to make the brownie in a mug, that's happening after this. And that also calls for flour.
GREENE: Nice, versatile.
YONAN: So this I would say may be - let's try 30 seconds and see.
GREENE: OK. So is this healthier than like the boxes of macaroni and cheese that you buy at the grocery store which have the powdered cheese?
YONAN: Oh, yeah. Because who knows what - I haven't looked at that label in quite a while. But I bet you there's stuff on there that you wouldn't recognize.
GREENE: That powdered cheese can't be good.
YONAN: Right. Right.
GREENE: OK, and this is the real stuff so...
YONAN: This is like cheese.
GREENE: We've got macaroni and cheese here. Wow.
YONAN: So see, now this is...
GREENE: Look at that.
YONAN: It's actually kind of gorgeous.
GREENE: It's kind of gorgeous. Can I take a taste?
YONAN: Absolutely.
GREENE: Oh, that's really good.
YONAN: Yeah. When I was experimenting with this, I had already eaten a big breakfast and I was playing around with this. And I ate the whole thing. I was like, wow, that's pretty good.
GREENE: Mm-hmm, not bad.
YONAN: So that's macaroni and cheese in a mug.
GREENE: And now dessert.
YONAN: Alright. So dessert...
GREENE: So we've got another mug.
YONAN: So we've got another mug. We're going to do a tablespoon of butter. This is a - you're going to think I've gone off the rails again.
YONAN: This is a tablespoon of almond butter and then a little vanilla and a little milk. This is going to go in to melt the butter. I think the key, as in a lot of cooking, look at it. See what's happening. So go for...
GREENE: If something is spilling, if something is exploding...
YONAN: Right.
GREENE: It's something that's burning.
YONAN: Burning.
GREENE: Probably a bad thing.
YONAN: Probably a bad thing. Stop.
YONAN: And then we're putting in a couple of tablespoons of flour.
GREENE: Which we had from the mac and cheese recipe.
YONAN: Which we had from the mac and cheese recipe.
YONAN: A little sugar.
This is the cocoa - unsweetened cocoa. And there's a little bit of instant espresso in there too.
That you ground up perfectly.
YONAN: No, it's instant. You can find it in Italian markets. Well, actually a lot of stores have it.
GREENE: You throw a little bit of that in there, too?
YONAN: And it kind of makes the chocolate even deeper. So, I just stir it up with my fork.
YONAN: We're going to do a minute.
If you want another shortcut - that's another thing I'm realizing, is you could do like a trail mix.
GREENE: That would add kind of nutty...
YONAN: Like a little chewy in there...
GREENE: ...nutty-chewy thing going on.
YONAN: And people tend to have that kind of stuff around.
GREENE: Totally.
YONAN: You know what you could do? You could take a granola bar and crush it up and put it in the bottom of the mug.
GREENE: And have a crust on the bottom?
YONAN: And you might be able to get a crust.
GREENE: I'm liking it.
YONAN: Alright.
GREENE: Do we have a brownie?
YONAN: I think we've got a brownie.
YONAN: I'm just going to put the...
GREENE: The almonds?
YONAN: The almond slivers on top. Now try that.
GREENE: OK. Oh, it's totally a brownie.
YONAN: It's like a fudgy brownie, not a cake brownie.
GREENE: It's a fudgy brownie but it's a - yeah, I mean it's - oh my, God. It's fantastic.
YONAN: It's pretty good, huh?
GREENE: Yeah, that was just delicious. Seriously, if I ate this dessert in a restaurant it would be one of those desserts (unintelligible) oh, it's so good.
YONAN: Right. Right. Right, it's chocolate.
GREENE: Joe, thank you for coming by. Microwave cooking with Joe Yonan.
YONAN: Sure. Oh, my God.
GREENE: We really appreciate it.
YONAN: I don't want a bad rap.
STEVE INSKEEP: David Greene, of course, talking with Washington Post food and travel editor Joe Yonan. You can find their microwave recipes at NPR.org.
INSKEEP: Always made fresh morning after morning. It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Annette Erny simply wanted to take in the beauty of Topsail Island by bicycling from one end to the other.
SURF CITY � Annette Erny simply wanted to take in the beauty of Topsail Island by bicycling from one end to the other.
Little did she know that her desire to check that item off of her bucket list would turn into a cause that has raised thousands of dollars to help local women battling breast cancer.
Erny received a certificate of appreciation Tuesday night from the Surf City Town Council for her efforts in founding The Reel Housewives of Topsail Island, a group that has raised more than $70,000 in the past four years.
Erny organized the first bike ride in 2010, when 42 participants raised $2,800 biking from the southern tip of the 26-mile island to the northern tip.
During this year�s April 5 bike ride, 315 locals and supporters from places as far south as Florida and north as the nation�s capital helped raise more than $25,000.
�We had people walking out of their homes to bring us donations during the ride,� Erny said. �It has been an amazing, overwhelming experience.�
The funds have been used to help breast cancer victims from the Hampstead area to Sneads Ferry in a variety of ways. About $50,000 of the donations raised has covered things including mortgage payments, purchase a prosthesis, buying groceries and purchasing Christmas presents for children whose mothers are fighting the disease.
�If somebody needs extra, we try to make that happen,� Erny said.
The annual bike ride will be held the first Saturday in April. Participants pay a $25 entry fee, which covers the cost of a �Reel Housewives� T-shirt and lunch.
For more information, check out the group�s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Reel-Housewives-of-Topsail-Island/149697425177192


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WWF launches database of eco-rated paper products
The tool rates the environmental quality of the paper-making process for a given product, including how well forests supplying fibre are managed, use of recycled fibre, fossil CO2 emissions, waste going to landfills and water pollution from mills. The fibre in all papers featured on the audited list on the website must come from known, legal sources. Paper products posted on the official list have been audited by third-party certification bodies to ensure high credibility.
Check Your Paper at the same time allows pulp and paper manufacturers to voluntarily rate and post their products' environmental impacts online.
Makers of paper products including Arjo Wiggins, ITC Limited Paper Boards and Specialty Papers Division, Mondi, M-real, Lenzing Papier, SCA, Steinbeis Papier, Tullis Russell, and UPM are the first to disclose their selected papers' environmental profile at http://checkyourpaper.panda.org.
As of today, the Check Your Paper includes about 100 paper products with "good" or "excellent" environmental score listed in the coated and uncoated categories, such as copy papers and printing and writing papers.
WWF invites other pulp and paper manufacturers to follow the example of these companies by communicating their products' environmental performance transparently. "We believe this new database will help paper buyers choose the most environmentally friendly papers on the market. WWF invites all paper buyers to check the tool before purchasing and encourage other paper-makers to join Check Your Paper," says Rodney Taylor, Forest Director, WWF International.
"Listing our products in Check Your Paper is an important step in our commitment to augmenting economic, environmental and societal capital and in making environmentally responsible products available to our customers and paper buyers." says P.N. Sridharr, ITC Limited, Paper Boards and Specialty Papers Division, India, one of the manufacturers that have posted their papers' environmental information on the database.
"Over the years SCA has been deeply involved in the development of publication papers with high environmental performance - TCF bleaching, FSC certification, good resource utilisation, small carbon footprint. It is very positive that paper customers now get access to an easy-to-use tool to guide them in their choice of an environmental-friendly paper, says Björn Lyngfelt, vice president communications SCA Forest Products, Sweden.
Check Your Paper includes all the main pulp and paper categories, including coated and uncoated papers, newsprint, tissue, packaging and board papers, speciality papers and several types of pulp.
Globally, paper consumption is on the rise, with an expected increase from the current rate of 400 million tons annually to 450-500 million tons by 2020.1 Without a higher standard of environmental performance across the industry, this level of consumption will leave an unacceptably large environmental impact on the planet. Poor practices such as reckless logging and indiscriminate expansion of pulpwood plantations damage fragile ecosystems and escalate social conflict. The pulp and paper industry's mills and factories are large users of energy and emitters of greenhouse gases, and many are also significant sources of water pollution and landfill waste.
Check Your Paper provides a single percentage score for a product that indicates the quality of its production in terms of reduced environmental impact. In addition, the star-rating breaks this down into impact mitigation performance specific to forests, climate change and aquatic ecosystems.
In order to earn the maximum five stars in WWF's Check Your Paper, the paper product shall have:
- positive impacts on forests, and contain high proportions of post-consumer recycled fibre and/or virgin fibre originating from credibly certified, well managed forests.
- reduced contributions to climate change through use of recycled fibre, responsible forest management and minimising CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in the manufacturing process, and, indirectly, emissions of CO2 and methane from degrading waste in landfills.
- close to zero water pollution through reduction of organic water pollution and reduced water pollution from bleaching, through promotion of unbleached or totally chlorine-free bleached products.
For further information:
Anna Koivisto, Forest Officer, Pulp and Paper Programme, WWF International, tel.: +358 44 2944570(mobile) firstname.lastname@example.com
(1) Forest industry consultancy company Pöyry's "medium" scenario for the world paper and paperboard demand in 2020 is 472 million tons This is sensitive to economic development/growth. Accordingly, there are "high" and "low" scenarios, resulting in some +/-25 million tons range around the "medium" range.
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February is Black History Month. In a rare moment of serendipity, a new entry into the annals of black history was written. Tony Dungy, the head football coach of the Indianapolis Colts became the first black coach to win a Superbowl. This history making event had actually been predetermined two weeks earlier when Lovie Smith's Bears won the NFC Championship and Tony Dungy's Colts won the AFC Championship. A black head coach was going to be crowned during the Superbowl. The question was only which one.
In 2002, the NFL adopted the "Rooney Rule" which required all teams to consider a full complement of races when making hiring decisions. In practice, it is widely acknowledged that you must interview one minority candidate for each position. The rule was given teeth when the NFL fined the Detroit Lions $200,000.00 when it choose to hire Steve Marucci as its next head coach without interviewing any minority candidates.
Some inside sports decried this fine because Detriot had wanted Marucci and only Marucci. Why drag some poor African American coach up for a cursory and token interview? Yet, since the Rooney Rule was implemented, the number of minority coaches has tripled to six. Affirmative action seems to be working within the NFL. Should there be some type of similar affirmative action in romance?
A week ago, a fellow blogger asked me why I didn't read more African American romance. This was days before a certain scuffle on the internet erupted. Said blogger got me to thinking and I have been going over this in my mind for days now and this is the distilled results.
When I examined my reading habits I know that I don't particularly care what color the characters are. I've read characters that are Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Muslim. I've read authors that are Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American and Muslim. It is the packaging, then, that must be holding me back.
If I am making race based decisions as a reader, is that wrong? For example, I am Asian. I have lived a unique life as an Asian American and I have found I like to read stories that reflect that experience. There are certain commonalities. When I was perusing the Little Brown catalog for young readers last year, I saw a book entitled: Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies) by Justina Chen Headley. It was a story about a teenaged girl dealing with only in parts: part white, part Asian and never a whole. That story resonated with me, along with stories from Cara Lockwood.
Is it racist of me to gravitate toward themes and stories which have similarities to my own experience?
If I read characters that are of different cultures and ethnicities, does that make me non racist? I.e., I have read Howl by Raine Weaver featuring an African American heroine. I haven't reviewed that book because I haven't read the rest of the anthology, but it was quite good. I enjoyed the Kyra Moray series featuring an interracial couple and another Deanna Lee book, Undressing Mercy, featuring an interracial couple. Alison Kent's Beyond a Shadow featured a mixed couple. The hero is not African American but rather Caribbean. Suzanne Brockmann wrote Harvard's Education,
the first featuring black couple to grace the covers of a category romance novel. Shelly Laurentson's The Distressing Damsel features a woman with "soft brown skin" and "[b]ig brown eyes."
Of the above books, only Ms. Weaver and Ms. Laurentson are African American. So is it that I am intentionally excluding African American authors from my reading list? I honestly don't know that many African American authors. I bought and read Kayla Perrin's Getting Even. I know that Sharon Cullars is and I bought her Aphrodisia, Again, during the great Aphro purchase of 2006 but haven't read it along with three other Aphrodisia's such as Vivi Anna's Hell Kat. I've bought some Brenda Jackson but haven't read her along with Jo Leigh. I don't know that I can honestly say that I've consciously chosen not to read African American authors.
Should I be seeking them out? What about the poor Asian midlist authors such as Jade Lee and Gennita Low? Shouldn't I support these ladies? And didn't I show just how racist I am not by supporting Nalini Singh? She's Indian and her heroine is some mongrel mixed race person.
When I was first asked, my knee jerk response was that I was lazy. I didn't see any romances featuring African Americans in the regular romance aisle. I read a lot of paranormals and don't see any paranormals featuring African Americans. Surely, if the books were side by side, I would make my decision based on blurb alone. I felt confident in myself recalling the Avon books I had been sent this month. Gimme an O by Kayla Perrin featured a philandering married man as the hero and a sex therapist as a heroine. Infidelity and already married? No thanks. How about Hot Boyz by Marissa Monteilh featuring three perfect dreams that are shattered and a family shaken to its core with legacies of loss and obligation, tragedy and madness, threatening everything the Wilson brothers have worked for. Doesn't sound like a romance. (note that these are all marked "Fiction" on the spine).
Then I got to thinking. What about the ebooks, Jane? Every month I cruise Fictionwise, Ereader, and Harlequin looking for new books. I would look at the "Luna" line. More recently I looked at the Blaze line or the Nocturne line. Never once have I looked at the Kimani Press line.
Why not? Ultimately it came down to this and I cringe when I read it in print. I made the assumption that the themes of these books would be more urban in nature or more like the Toni Morrison books I've read which have all been very women's fiction-y. I felt awful when I reached this conclusion.
Surely, I can't be racist. My second mother, one to whom I send flowers to every mother's day and has been an influential part of my life since college, is African American. Nearly every African American I have been exposed to has been college educated and professional. So why would I assume that the stories in the books published under the Kimani imprint be any different than their stories or my story, frankly? It's a bit lowering. No, shameful, to have examined myself and found this. (of course, I do have preconceived notions about Harlequin Presents line too).
Obviously I was making a race based assumption and a wrong one at that. Last night I perused the blurbs for about 15 Kimani Press books. They sounded like every other category romance out there. Some filled with babies. Others filled with CIA operatives. Some with Deserts and Sheiks. (The latter one I bought).
The fact it is that publishers aren't marketing to me but that is because I am not buying. If more non African American readers began buying books featuring African Americans wouldn't the publishers market those books to everyone, instead of special group of individuals. Ned says that the decision to put African Americans in their own special place is akin to going to the movie theatre and having a camera identify you as white and then exclude movies like Drum Line or Stomp the Yard. If you wanted to see those movies, you would have to go to a special section of the theatre, plus you have to actually know that it exists. That is so ridiculous.
This is a double edged sword though. Are African American authors going to lose sales at a greater rate of gaining sales by moving to the main romance section.
Ultimately the question is whether we as readers, booksellers, bloggers, word of mouth purveyors have a moral obligation to read outside our ethnicities. Should we institute the Rooney Rule and read one author a month that is not Caucasion. Wouldn't that go a long way in abrogating race based assumptions? I know that I, personally, am going to make a greater effort to read other ethnicities, including but not limited to, African American authors. But, I am still not reading the Kayla Perrin book.
Janine commented to me
Fantasies are not always politically correct. If a reader prefers to read about dominant alpha heroes, does that mean she is sexist? If a reader prefers to read about British aristocrats, does that mean that she supports a class system and opposes democracy and equality? If a reader doesn't seek out books with Jewish characters, does that make her anti-Semitic? I don't mean these as rhetorical questions, I think they are worth asking.
Something else to think about is that it can be tough to find a truly great book, regardless of its author's race or religion. In search of that great book we online readers often rely on the recommendations of other readers and review sites, as well as on bestseller lists. If we don't get recommendations for books by minority authors, or see those authors on bestseller lists, we may end up not buying or reading their books, without any conscious intent to avoid them. Is what's needed here a kind of affirmative action program for minority authors? Would something like that work in the context of a recreational activity like reading, that people do for fun?
Jayne responded:
Speaking for myself, I don't actively go out looking for AA authors but I don't try to avoid their books either. If a plot or hook interested me, I'd read one. But I'm not going on some quota system for something which, as Janine points out, is a recreational activity for me. This is supposed to be fun time. If we were a professional review site, then maybe we would need to insure that we cover a broader spectrum.
Karen Scott is running a survey of race in romance and is seeking out African American authors to answer it. I hope she gets her 100 participants as I am truly interested in what the survey will reveal.


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First of all, I'm french, so please forgive my bad english.
I'm facing a very strange behaviour. I'm writing a screensaver with some 3d involved. On most computers, both with Windows XP or Seven, it's ok, but on one computer with an Intel HD 2000 graphic card, animations are very very slow. After some debugging, I've found that on that machine, I'm stuck with OpenGL 1.1.0 and not hardware acceleration. But, and that's the weird part, if I change the extension of the screensaver from .scr to .exe, it works, I've access to OpenGL 3.1 !
So, to be clear :
On a machine with Windows XP SP 3 and a Intel HD Graphics 2000 chip with the last driver :
screensaver.scr -> OpenGL 1.1.0, no hardware acceleration.
screensaver.exe (absolutely the same binary, only renamed) -> OpenGL 3.1, hardware acceleration.
What am I missing here ? Is it possible that the Intel HD 2000 driver is in some way incomplete and does not give access to hardware acceleration when the OpenGL calls are made from a screensaver ?
Thanks for your help.


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Loyola press release - January 20, 2012
School of Mass Communication professor Robert A. Thomas, Ph.D., was awarded Loyola University New Orleans' top faculty honor, the 2011 Dux Academicus Award, during today's President's Convocation for faculty and staff.
The award is the highest honor a professor can receive for excellence in teaching and scholarship. It recognizes a faculty member who "is able to impart the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities, sciences or the professions to students in a manner consistent with the unique philosophy of Loyola University New Orleans as a Jesuit institution of higher education."
Thomas, who joined the faculty in 1996, was nominated by colleagues and friends for contributions to his field and his unwavering dedication to the university.
"We are all so very proud of Bob and so pleased that he is being honored with this award. There is no one more deserving of this prestigious honor," said School of Mass Communication Director Sonya Duhé, Ph.D. "Bob's willingness to serve others embodies the true spirit of Loyola's Jesuit philosophy."
He was the founding director of the Louisiana Nature Center and is past president of the Association of Nature Center Administrators. Thomas received the top two honors accorded to nature center administrators: the Elsie Naumburg Award in 1983 and the Professional Leadership Award in 2001.
Thomas is professor and director of the Center for Environmental Communication and Loyola Chair in Environmental Communication.
He was also named Conservation Educator of the Year in 1986 by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation and was awarded the Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation Education in 1994 by the Garden Club of America.
With a long-standing record of volunteerism and environmental activism, Thomas has served on a diverse array of boards, including the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and the International Federation of Environmental Journalists.
Since the 2010 BP oil spill, Thomas joined the Louisiana Office of Tourism's Expert Bureau to help improve Louisiana's image nationally. He has appeared in countless news stories dedicated to the spill and has also led more than 200 post-Katrina recovery tours of the New Orleans area.
"I am truly and completely honored, and it's something that I never imagined or dreamed that I would receive," Thomas said. "I love the university very much and giving to the university is very easy because it gives so much back to individuals involved with it, as well as to the community.
"When you receive something like this it's customary to say that you are just honored to be in the same group as the people before you," Thomas continued. "There's a reason for that – it's absolutely true. This university has a wonderful faculty committed to educating generations of young people in a very powerful way. To think that you would be chosen out of that group is, to say the least, very humbling."
Thomas describes himself as a proud Texan by birth but a New Orleanian by choice, having spent most of his life in Louisiana. He received his bachelor's from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (formerly the University of Southwestern Louisiana), and his master's and doctorate from Texas A&M University. He also served a post-doctoral fellowship in biochemistry at Louisiana State University Medical Center.
He has been married for 43 years to Paulette J. "Polly" Thomas, Ph.D., who teaches at the University of New Orleans. Together, they have three grown children, including Aimée K. Thomas, Ph.D., who is currently a visiting assistant professor of biology at Loyola.


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