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Black mold is often found in buildings that have issues with getting rid of moisture. It will grow on any material containing cellulose and also appears as a greenish-black color. It frequently grows outside as well on wood, dried up leaves, or other decaying materials. Black mold can grow on the following surfaces:
Natural carpet. Insulation. Wood. Wallpaper. Cotton. Ceiling. Tiles. Paper. Drywall
Black Mold Exposure
This mold is a tricky one because it mostly begins releasing its spores after it becomes dried out. Once the wet slime that is the mold begins drying out the spores can begin to break away from the mass. They become released into the air and then are inhaled by the occupants of the building.
How Does it Affect Pregnancy?
There is no distinct evidence that proves that black mold causes pregnancy loss, but it is believed by many to be a causative factor. There are many reports that do support the idea that pregnancy loss in humans is possible due to mold exposure. Animal studies with mice have shown that mold toxins disrupt fetal development. Many of the mice in this study weren't able to produce as large or healthy litters as they would have normally. If you are pregnant the best thing you can do is to make sure that your environment is as clean and mold-free as possible.
Testing for Black Mold
If you find mold make sure to have someone first put on protective gear including a face mask, gloves, and safety goggles. This will ensure that they don't accidentally ingest the mold while inspecting it.
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Why we are Taking Action
One in eight U.S. adults has kidney disease and 90% don't even know it. I will be walking in the American Kidney Fund's Kidney Action Day Walk in an effort to make sure our family, friends and colleagues are all aware of this silent killer. We are working together in fight against kidney disease by creating awareness and helping to raise money for programs and services.
Join us in Taking Action
Last year, the American Kidney Fund provided assistance to 1 out of every 5 dialysis patients in the United States. This year, we will be walking to raise money and awareness for those living with kidney disease. You can join me in the fight against kidney disease by supporting my personal fundraising efforts. Your contribution, whether it is $20 or $2,000, will help fund the programs that provide financial assistance to people living with kidney disease.
About Kidney Action Day
Kidney Action Day is full of family-friendly and kidney-healthy activities. The day will start out with a walk to emphasize the importance of exercising to keep your kidneys healthy. There will also be free cooking and exercise demonstrations, health screenings and entertainment!


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Nice writeup on Sundays game.
"We understand we have a great, great home-field advantage here at Clink," fullback Michael Robinson said. "And the only way we even give ourselves the possibility of playing home games is if we win this game.
"So we can't control what happens in the other games, but we sure can control how we play against St. Louis, and we're going to attack it. We're going to go out there and play like everything is on the line."
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In analogy to the Beckhoff Bus Terminals, the EtherCAT Terminal system is a modular I/O system consisting of electronic terminal blocks. In contrast to Bus Terminals, where the fieldbus signal is implemented within the Bus Coupler on the internal, fieldbus-independent terminal bus, the EtherCAT protocol remains fully intact down to the individual terminal. In addition to EtherCAT Terminals with E-bus connection, the proven standard Bus Terminals with K-bus connection can also be connected via the BK1120 EtherCAT Bus Coupler. This ensures compatibility and continuity with the existing system. Existing and future investments are protected. more
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Real Art Ways Celebrates 10 Years Of Creative Cocktail Hours
Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. in Hartford, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its monthly Creative Cocktail Hour Thursday, Nov. 15. The event is held on the third Thursday of every month and was started so people interested in the arts could come together for conversation, art, and music. During the evening's celebrations attendees were able to view two of the newest installations at Real Art Ways, Intimate Science and Diagram. Musical entertainment was provided by Revolutionary Snake Ensemble.
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More time given for Bergdahl disappearance probe
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A general investigating the disappearance of a U.S. Army sergeant in Afghanistan is getting several more weeks to complete his probe.
U.S. Army spokesman Wayne Hall said in an email Saturday that the final draft of the report on Sgt. Bowe Berdahl will take another three weeks to complete. Maj. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl had 60 days from his June 16 appointment to finish his work. That deadline was Friday.
Hall says once Dahl submits his final report, it will undergo a separate legal review before being presented to Army leadership.
Bergdahl was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years. His exchange for five Taliban leaders has generated criticism due to allegations Bergdahl was a deserter.
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Anglin et al v. Estes
Appellant: Bettye Ann Anglin and Forrest Anglin
Appellee: Debra Bonds Estes
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Early childhood education should be at the top of the Rolla school district's priority list, the school board agreed at a recent work session.
Early childhood education should be at the top of the Rolla school district's priority list, the school board agreed at a recent work session.
And Superintendent of Schools Dr. Aaron Zalis noted the district could, if voters approve, issue $4 million in bonds without raising taxes.
On Saturday morning, Oct. 13, the school board met for breakfast at the home of board President Jeanne Cavender. This meeting was called a board planning session that focused on early childhood education.
The directors convened at 8 a.m. and adjourned at noon.
Minutes for the meeting were released in the agenda packet at the Nov. 15 school board meeting held at the D. Kent King Administration Center at Rolla Technical Center.
Those minutes included this information:
• "Dr. Zalis informed the board that (bond counsel) Greg Bricker has indicated that the district could have a $4,000,000 no-tax increase bond issue in 2014," the minutes note.
• If voters would be willing to pay a little higher levy, additional money could be raised. "A 10-cent bond issue could generate $11,000,000 and a 25-cent issue could generate $20 million," the minutes noted.
• An early childhood program would target 3- to 5-year-olds.
• Where would an early chilhood center be? "Suggestions included changing elementary schools to grade-level facilities, moving the ninth grade to the high school, building on to current facilities and building a separate facility," according to the meeting minutes.
• The school board would like to collaborate with S&T, East Central College, Parents as Teachers and Head Start on this project. "Also, current early childhood care providers would be encouraged to participate and possibly attend training sessions," the minutes noted.
• The public will have some input. "Dr. Zalis will contact Patron Insight to do a survey to gauge the community's attitude towards the district," the minutes report.
Other business was also discussed:
• "Capital project funds will be used to improve the high school cafeteria," state the minutes.
• "Community track improvements need to be made. These improvements include seating, asphalt, lighting and concession stand," was recorded in the minutes.
• The board noted the Turf by 12 Committee is still raising money to replace grass on the football field with artificial turf.
• "The district is well-run and organized," state the minutes. "We should be promoting outselves more community- and state-wide."
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Annual Fund Hopes to Demonstrate the Power of Many
In a unique approach to soliciting college gifts, Hamilton's Associate Director of Annual Giving Paul Ryan '02 will host a 24-hour fund-raising radio broadcast marathon beginning at midnight on Friday, March 1. The Power of Many will be broadcast on Hamilton FM station WHCL 88.7, as Ryan interviews alumni around the country with the goal of generating a minimum of 500 gifts for the college.
Among the alumni guests who will participate in the marathon are:
• Sarah Rafferty '93 - Actress currently starring in USA's Suits
• Guy Hebert '89 - Former USA Olympic and NHL goalie
• Paul Lieberstein '89 - Screenwriter, actor and television producer
• Eric Kuhn '09 - Hollywood's first social media agent; United Talent Agency
• Sean Ryan'94 - Quarterback coach of the NY Giants
• Fabio Freyre '83 - Facebook vice president for Global Marketing Solutions
• Casey Gibson'09 - Member of nationally touring Band Filligar
• Dave Bugliari '01 - Motion picture talent agent; Creative Artists Agency
• Selena Coppock '02 - Comedian and author
• Nancy Thompson - Hamilton's Dean of Students
• Jon Hind '80 - Hamilton College athletic director
When asked if he was aware of any other college conducting a similar marathon broadcast, Ryan replied, "No one would be that crazy."
This is Ryan's second year hosting this marathon that raised 687 gifts in 2012. Contributions came in from Argentina, Romania, Kazakhstan, Greece, Australia, U.K. and even Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, among other countries. Ryan noted that even in the middle of the night, alumni kept the calls coming.
The challenge website (www.hamilton.edu/pom) is continuously updated with number of donors and an evolving radio marathon schedule. Students will be making thank you calls throughout the afternoon from the radio station. Those tweeting will be using this hashtag: #HCPOM13.
"Seeing the Hamilton community come together to accomplish a magnificent feat was a real pleasure for me last year," said Ryan. "I am grateful to have been a part of this effort and look forward to this year's challenge."
Photos of last year's event can be viewed at http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/radio-marathon-two-thirds-to-goal.


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THL Toolbox > Miscellaneous Technical Processes > Making an Inventory of a Hard Drive or Directory
Making an Inventory of a Hard Drive or Directory
Contributor(s): Brad Aaron, Andres Montano, Steve Weinberger
In OS X, open terminal, navigate to the hard drive volume you want to catalog (cd volumes)
When you are in the root directory of the volume to be cataloged, type:
ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's/[^-][^/]*//--/g' -e 's/^/ /' -e 's/-/|/'
into the command line (copy and paste from here)
Then copy and paste the results of the directory index (which indexes the entire drive by directory, sub directories and files) into a new section below. Make sure to paste into the 'Wiki Markup' window and include the tags
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How to find a list of all FCP files within a directory or volume on OS X *(limited usefulness since mac files are categorized by resource forks and not by file extensions, so some older files don't have the *.fcp file extension)*:
find /volumes/VOLUMENAME -name *fcp
How to get a list of all files of 'kind' Final Cut Pro Project File *(USE THIS METHOD)*:
- Download and install the [PrintWindow|http://www.searchwaresolutions.com/] application for OS X.
- Open print window and hit Command + P to enter the "Print Folder Listing…" dialogue.
- Navigate to the volume you want to get the file names from and click 'select'
- Choose the icon that says "File"
- Under the Layout tab select Style Excel File and under Folder Expansion section, "Expand all folders"
- Then, under "Fields & Sorting" tab, check off all file information and check "Use Full Path for Name"
- Click Save
- Save the file and the app will begin to run. On a large volume it will take quite a while to go through all the folders.
- When it's finished, you will have an excel spreadsheet with separate columns for the file name/path and other selected "file information". Sort this list by the "file information" for "kind" and then select the name/path for all Final Cut Pro Project Files
How to separate the file name from the path to add both path and file name to a spreadsheet for wrangling:
You need to dothis in a text editor that supports Regular Expression searching. [Textmate|http://macromates.com/] (proprietary software for Mac OS, oXygen, etc) For Windows, there is [Notepad RE|http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4600/Notepad-RE-Regular-Expressions] free text editor. Open a new file in the text editor Copy the column of data from the spreadsheet and paste it into the text editor file Select Regular Expression in the search-and-replace box $ In the Text to find box enter: ([^/]+)$ In the Replace with box enter: $1t$1 Press Replace all This will add a tab and then the filename for each row Copy this and paste it into 2 columns in the Excel doc If the directory path uses backward slashes rather than forward slashes, in the Text to find box replace the forward slash with two back slashes.
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MESA, Ariz. — Kerry Wood understands the comparisons but thinks they are unfair.
MESA, Ariz. — Kerry Wood understands the comparisons but thinks they are unfair.
Andrew Cashner, just 24, is a touted young pitcher from Texas — just like Wood was more than a decade ago.
"Don't do that to him," Wood said. "But that's what happens when you are from Texas and you throw hard."
Back with the Cubs this year, Wood got a standing ovation today when he made his spring training debut during a 5-3 loss to a Milwaukee Brewers' split squad.
After coming up to the majors as a reliever last season, Cashner is trying to earn a job as Chicago's fifth starter. The 6-foot-6 right-hander with a 98 mph was the loser, allowing two runs, three hits and a walk in two innings.
"I was kind of rushing it in there and pulling the ball a little bit, but overall I thought my stuff was really good," Cashner said. "I threw some good curveballs today and that is something I have been working on. Some good changeups, too. It was the first time out and didn't want to try to do much. I was just trying to locate my fastball today, and I don't think I did a very good job of it."
After making nine starts in the minor leagues last year, Cashner compiled a 4.80 ERA in 53 games with the Cubs. Chicago manager Mike Quade said at the very least Cashner will return to the bullpen, but he wanted to give him a chance to start.
"We're going to find out," Quade said. "From the standpoint of the future of this organization, if he can be a high-end starter, if he can be a top-line starter and we don't find that out, it would probably be a mistake. There's no guarantees, but we think he has the stuff, the makeup and the willingness."
One of the other candidates for the fifth-starter spot is Randy Wells, who started the game and allowed two hits in two scoreless innings.
"Other than getting behind a couple of hitters I made some good pitches," said Wells, who went 8-14 with a 4.26 ERA in 32 starts last season. "I stayed away from the walks, something I have been really focusing on, and I made them swing the bat."
Wood allowed two runs and three hits in one inning. He used a tight curveball to strike out two.
Milwaukee used a defensive shift on left-handed-hitting Carlos Pena in his two at-bats.
"I hit a bullet up the middle and I am running to first base, ready to make the turn and I was like, 'Where did that guy come from?' " Pena said. "I got shifted a lot, and you have to do what you do. When you start trying to go to left field instead of driving the ball to right field, you go away from your strength and they got you."
Ryan Braun doubled, made a nice running catch and threw out a runner at the plate. Carlos Gomez added a hit, run and stolen base in two plate appearances for the Brewers, and Mark Kotsay had a RBI single.
Winner Tim Dillard allowed one run and two hits in two innings. Reed Johnson had two singles for the Cubs, and Zealous Wheeler had two hits for Milwaukee.
The Cubs made three errors for the second straight game. "We need to find a way to put crooked numbers under the left side of the scoreboard under innings and not on the far end under errors," Quade said. "We have work to do." ... The Cubs have sold out six regular-season home games: opening day on April 1, the June 17-19 series against the Yankees, July 2 against the White Sox and Aug. 20 against St. Louis.


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They even posed for photos together before making their way out of the theater hand-in-hand.
From the looks of it, the rapper and Braxton are proud of their love and ready to show it off, but that didn't stop Birdman from playing it cool when asked about their relationship.
The pair were spotted getting cozy at the 2016 BET Awards, where Birdman presented an award alongside Snoop Dogg and Jermaine Dupri.
The couple were inseparable and looked blissful as they strolled together backstage, an onlooker tells PEOPLE.
As for Cash Money business dealings, Khaled declined to elaborate."You know, Ross is my brother since, like, day one," Khaled said when asked how he felt the first time he heard Ross' track. Me and him come from the bottom, the mud to marble floors. It's Khaled and Ross forever, meaning that's my brother.
When he shouted me out on that record, that's what you call a real friend, family...loves me and I love him back. I appreciate the love and shout-out."What Ross was expressing in that shout-out, Khaled said, was that he's a good and grateful person.
At the time, they had repeatedly denied the rumors, maintaining that they're strictly friends.
Y'all never heard me come and talk about people and stuff like that. As far as anybody that has a situation, I pray and I hope that people can talk to each other and work things out. I appreciate every opportunity that's ever given to me.
The cat started crawling out of the bag when Birdman showed up Sunday for Toni's Grammy Park performance in Brooklyn. It's unclear if he and Toni had a "run-in" later, but we're told they've been close for years ... Our sources say they're trying to keep it on the DL, and up until now they have.
We're told backstage was sealed off so very few people could see them together, but this pic of the rendezvous got out.
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Mary Ann Glendon was sworn in as the ambassador of the United States to the Holy See on Feb. 14, 2008. Meeting her in June at the residence of the U.S. Embassy on the Gianicolo Hill in Rome, I understood firsthand why the Senate confirmed her as ambassador as quickly as it did. She combines an impeccable professional résumé with a gracious, unaffected personal elegance. Ambassador Glendon met me at the portico before we moved to a more comfortable setting, where we spoke with ease and openness.
Mrs. Glendon is also the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and an expert on international human rights and comparative constitutional law in the United States and Europe. Her list of publications is yards long. In 1994 Pope John Paul II appointed her to the newly created Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences; 10 years later he appointed her its president, marking the first time a woman had been named as president of a major pontifical academy. She is also the first woman to lead a Vatican delegation to a U.N. conference. In 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed her to head the 22 members representing the Holy See at the Conference on Women in Beijing. Mrs. Glendon is married and the mother of three daughters.
How did you become ambassador to the Holy See?
I became an ambassador, funnily enough, just as I was in the midst of writing a book about people who were torn between scholarship and politics. I was at home, putting the finishing touches on a chapter on John Locke, when the phone rang. Karl Rove was calling from the White House and asked if I would like to be the ambassador to the Holy See, and I said yes. I probably should have said, "I'll think about it," or "Tell me more about the position," but instead I just said, "Yes, I would like that." Because I was raising three children in the years when such professional opportunities usually come along, I had more or less thought, well, you can't do everything in life, and so I never thought about the possibility of something like this happening at this time.
What book were you writing?
It's called The Forum and the Tower. It's a book of biographical essays about people who were struggling with the push and pull of whether to go into politics or to stick with philosophy or scholarship or charitable works, or vice versa—people like Plato, Machiavelli, Edmund Burke, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Locke and several others. Many of the people I'm writing about thought they were destined for one thing and ended up doing something else. There probably will be 12 chapters. I was working on Chapter Six when the call came from Washington.
And Plato, didn't he always want to be a philosopher?
Few people know that Plato came from a political family. He assumed that his destiny was politics. He tried four times to go into politics and failed spectacularly each time, first in Athens and then in Syracuse. So philosophy for him was a second choice, which turned out to be a great thing for the world.
Do you have a job description?
Since I come from an academic environment, I am trying to put my background in international studies and human rights to good use in public diplomacy. So I am devoting a fair amount of time to organizing several conferences on aspects of human rights that are of particular concern to both the United States and the Holy See. That seems to me a fitting way to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See, which is on Jan. 10, 2009, one month after the 60th anniversary, on Dec. 10, 2008, of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The conferences scheduled for this year include: a roundtable on the fight against all forms of human trafficking, a forum on the challenges to the universality principle, a forum on what Pope Benedict calls the American model of "positive secularism" and a forum showcasing the "one laptop per child" initiative as a way of bringing to life the right to education. And we are probably going to have a conference on philanthropy, because there is so much interest in Europe about the role that private giving plays in the United States, as distinct from thinking of humanitarian aid as just something that only governments do. We had our first conference in May, where we lifted up the Latin American contributions to the post-World War II human-rights project. Two Latin American embassies co-sponsored it, many attended it, and now the papers are being distributed all over Latin America.
I'm thinking of your book A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What was Mrs. Roosevelt's basic understanding of human rights?
Mrs. Roosevelt understood that where human rights are concerned culture is prior to law. That understanding was shared by most of her colleagues on the U.N.'s first Human Rights Commission, but she was the one who expressed it best: "Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.... Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
You have said that the United States and the Vatican are in agreement with most of the principles contained in the Universal Declaration. Where is the agreement most evident? Where is it strained?
The points on which agreement is most obvious, because most frequently emphasized by both entities, concern the importance of human dignity and religious freedom. Too little noted, in my view, is their shared commitment to the goal of "better standards of life in larger freedom" for everyone, especially for the most disadvantaged peoples of the world.
A major difference arises from a tendency in the United States to read the declaration as a "list" of rights (like our Bill of Rights), while the Holy See has consistently understood the document's provisions as indivisible and interdependent.
Did the visit of Pope Benedict to the United States in April solidify relations between the Holy See and the United States?
It is unprecedented for the president and the pope to meet not only once but three times in little over one calendar year. This is big news, and I don't think that there has ever been more synergy of interest between the United States and the Holy See than there is now. The three visits are, in a way, outward symbols of the close correspondence between the president and the Holy Father.
Do you suppose when they were alone at their April meeting that they might have discussed Iraq?
I can say a little bit about that because the president did tell me that the day before he met with the pope, he checked with Gen. David Petraeus to get the most up-to-date report on the situation, and he began his conversation with the pope with the latest information. The Holy See's interest now is really similar to that of the United States in that they are very worried about building a stable political order that will protect the rights of Christians and other religious minorities.
How does that look?
It is fragile. Everybody says it is fragile, but significant improvements have been noticed. I don't think anybody wants to predict with certainty that this will last, but things have definitely been improving. The pope gave a wonderful speech to Holy See diplomats in January. I wasn't here because I wasn't yet accredited; but at the end of his speech he said diplomacy is the art of hope, and diplomats must make every effort to discern the rays of hope wherever they appear and however faltering they may be. That's the art of diplomacy, or what is now called "soft power," as opposed to force.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has emphatic words about torture. Have there been conversations at the Holy See about torture in light of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo?
Yes, there have been conversations with the Holy See. I certainly am not an expert on the subject, but I am not aware of any other country in history that has held itself to as high a standard as the United States has in all the wars in which it has been involved. This does not mean that countries always live up to the standard they set. But just to be even more emphatic, I am not aware of any country that has set for itself such a high standard and that has done as well at living up to that standard as has the United States.
Is the Roman Catholic understanding of human rights distinguishable from rights language in other religions? How universal is human-rights language?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become, for better or worse, the single most important reference point for cross-cultural discussions of what is owed to human beings simply by virtue of their humanity. But no religion, so far as I know, is entirely comfortable with the language of rights. Popes in recent years have praised the declaration, but at the same time have emphasized the need to maintain the connection between rights and responsibilities, to be on guard against manipulation and to search for ways to place the declaration's small core of fundamental rights on a firmer foundation. The universality principle, and the challenge of maintaining it, will be the theme of an embassy-sponsored forum on Oct. 16 titled "For Everyone, Everywhere."
How distracting or damaging is it for human-rights language to be co-opted as secular by thinkers like Michael Ignatieff?
I would not single out any particular individual in this respect. Rather, I would say that the more the human rights idea showed its power, the more contests were to be expected over the identity, meaning and implementation of fundamental rights. That is why Pope Benedict XVI cautioned in his U.N. speech that "efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to...move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests."
What does a faith perspective add to the discernment regarding intervention in or on behalf of nonsovereign states? Is that faith perspective in play?
The rise in aggression by nonstate actors presents international law and Catholic just war theory alike with novel and difficult problems. As a starting point for reflection, I don't think one can improve upon what Pope Benedict said at the United Nations on April 18, 2008, about "the duty to protect." A government's duty to protect the community for which it is responsible, he said, is at the foundation of all good government, and it was implicitly present in the founding of the United Nations. If a state is unable to fulfill its duty to protect its own citizens, he said, "the international community must intervene"—but only "provided that it respects the principles undergirding the international order." There's the rub. There are a host of unresolved questions concerning the circumstances under which it is appropriate to intervene.
Is someone at the Holy See looking into the unresolved questions?
This has not come up in my conversations with the Holy Father, but it does come within the purview of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, which includes a number of lawyers and political theorists. They are aware that we are dealing with an area where the principles are clear, but the application of the principles to new situations is not. High-ranking officials in the Holy See have suggested to us that it would be helpful to the Holy See if we would have our experts devote attention to these difficult and novel questions.
You have said that conversation about faith in public life takes place in the United States more than in Europe. Where does that conversation most excite you?
What strikes me particularly about the United States, in contrast to Europe, is the degree to which the public square is at least open to religiously grounded moral viewpoints. In the wake of the pope's visit to the United States, many Europeans told us that what impressed them most was the sight on the White House lawn of the leader of a great nation warmly welcoming a great religious leader. For most of them, it would be hard to imagine such an event in their own countries. That event spoke volumes about what the pope calls the American model of "positive secularism." Italians, especially, were impressed, given the opposition that prevented the pope from speaking at La Sapienza University earlier this year.
You are also planning a conference on what the pope calls the American model of "positive secularism." Would you say something more about that?
I don't think that most people know how the American model of religious liberty works. The reason they don't understand it is because even constitutional lawyers have difficulty explaining it in a way that is intelligible to nonlawyers or non-Americans. Church-state law is extremely complicated, so there's a challenge for us now that the pope has praised what he calls the American model. People are asking me as the ambassador, and as a lawyer who does some constitutional and even church-state law, for a brief summary. So I wrote to colleagues who are experts in this field to see whether anyone knew of a primer that would be intelligible to nonlawyers. There does not seem to be one. This is what we are going to attempt in January for our grand finale conference. We're going to elucidate the American model.
Is there a clue you could give us as to how it works?
What attracts a European observer in the model of what Benedict calls "positive secularism" is that you can have a secular state that is not hostile to religion.
If we might return to Eleanor Roosevelt for our final question: How "sell-able" to U.S. women in 2008 is her message that we need "to find how we can best use the potentialities of women without impairing their first responsibilities, which are to their home, their husbands and their children"?
There have been many changes in the status of women since Eleanor Roosevelt made that statement, but many of the challenges remain the same, especially for women who are struggling to balance work and family responsibilities. Today, women and men alike are struggling to find ways to have a decent family life while working in environments where, all too often, they are required to conform to a unisex model in which family life is subordinated to the demands of the job. Broadened to include both women and men, Mrs. Roosevelt's challenge to rethink the organization of the world of work remains as important as ever.
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Do You Talk About Politics at Work? – Survey of the Day
Politics is definitely in the air, especially since 2012 is an election year. But a recent survey by Harris Interactive on behalf of Careerbuilder.com suggests most folks still shy away from talking about Democrats and Republicans in their workplace.
According to the poll of 7,000 full-time workers, 36 percent currently talk politics at the office, with an additional seven percent saying that they expect it will come up as the election grows closer. Men (44 percent) are more likely to talk politics on the job than women (28 percent.)
Among those that do discuss politics with co-workers, 23 percent say at least one of these conversations has become heated. Additionally, 10 percent report these political discussions have changed their opinion of a co-worker, with most saying it made them think more negatively of them.
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IPSec-VPN on Stock Kernel
Attention: What ever you do, you do it on your own risk
You have to have firmware 1.34 already installed and opened for telnet access. If not, you can find a guide here: Open Stock Firmware LS-XHL
For Firmwares before 1.34 this also may work, but it's unknown if the IPSEC-XL2TP Packages are also in there.
What's the aim ?
The aim is to realize a VPN-Server that uses L2TP-IPSec as tunneling technology.
Why this, and not PPTP ? The issue with PPTP is, that it needs MPPE support within the kernel, which is simply not there.
Therefore we are going to use IPSec & L2TP, as they are more secury in most scenarios in any way.
What is needed ?
The good news are: everything is already on the box, you don't have to install any external software-package at all.
The bad news: The packages are configured to be used for a service called PocketU (only in Japan). As a matter of fact all boxes outside of Japan are not using those things at all.
As a general guidline for an IPSec-L2TP Server we need: IPSec - Package (here OpenSwan with pluto), an IPSec-Configuration and a tunnel-configuration L2TP - Package (here xl2tp), and xl2tp-Configuration and ppp.xl2tp options
How does it work
The VPN works as follows:
1) An IPSec tunnel will be opened (using a preshared-key or certificates)
2) Within the tunnel L2TP is used to authenticate a user and do IP-adressing with PPP in there
Needed files to be touched / modified:
As all these files are already there, make sure, you are backing them up.
Configuring IPSec: Modify /etc/ipsec.conf to enable NAT-Traversal (NAT-T) and to define private networks:
# basic configuration config setup # Debug-logging controls: "none" for (almost) none, "all" for lots. # klipsdebug=none # plutodebug=all protostack=netkey nat_traversal=yes virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:172.16.0.0/12,%v4:192.168.0.0/16,%v4:!YOUR.PRIVATE:NETWORK:ADD/24 oe=off # Enable this if you see "failed to find any available worker" nhelpers=0 forwardcontrol=no #You may put your configuration (.conf) file in the "/etc/ipsec.d/" and uncomment this. include /etc/ipsec.d/l2tp.conf
Based on this we are adding in /etc/ipsec.d/ a file called l2tp.conf to configure our connection:
conn L2TP-PSK #type=tunnel left=YOUR.LS.IP.ADDR #Put the address of your linkstation here #leftnexthop= #Put your (NAT)gateway address here leftprotoport=udp/l2tp right=%any rightsubnet=vhost:%no,%priv rightprotoport=udp/l2tp auto=add authby=secret ike=3des-sha1-modp2048,3des-sha1-modp1024 pfs=no rekey=no keyingtries=3
Now let's define secrets (preshared-key in this case) for the tunnel in /etc/ipsec.d/l2tp.secrets
: PSK "PRESHARED-KEY" # you can add addresses before the ":" to define for which addresses this key is used
This should be sufficient for IPSec itself. You could try to start this with /etc/init.d/ipsec start
For L2TP we need to modify the file /etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf
[global] listen-addr = YOUR.LS:IP.ADDR #Put your Linkstation-IP Address here ; ; debug tunnel = yes ; debug packet = yes [lns default] ip range = 192.168.XX.YYY-192.168.XX.ZZZ # Address-range for clients local ip = YOUR.LS:IP.ADDR #Put your Linkstation-IP Address here require chap = yes refuse pap = yes require authentication = yes name = YOUR-VPN-SERVER NAME pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.xl2tpd length bit = yes ppp debug = yes
Now let's tune the options for PPP in /etc/ppp/options.xl2tpd
ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote #ms-dns YOUR.DNS.SERVER.ADDR #refuse-eap require-mschap noccp #nopcomp #noaccomp #noauth auth crtscts idle 1800 mtu 1410 mru 1410 defaultroute debug lock connect-delay 5000 #record /root/pppd.log #usepeerdns proxyarp
You need to add chap-secrets for L2TP in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets. This can be done as you like (and as something is also there)
Now we need to modify the XL2TPD start-script as this one is specific for pocketU. So generate a new start-script for xl2tpd in /etc/init.d and put there:
VARRUNDIR=/var/run/xl2tpd LOGTAG=xl2tpd.sh LOGFACILITY=local0.info CreateRunDir() { if [ -d "${VARRUNDIR}" ] ; then return 0; fi mkdir "${VARRUNDIR}" -p return $? } Start() { CreateRunDir xl2tpd logger -s -t ${LOGTAG} -p ${LOGFACILITY} "Started!" #sysctl -p #Add this if you want to enable IP_FORWARDING in sysctl.conf } Stop() { killall xl2tpd logger -s -t ${LOGTAG} -p ${LOGFACILITY} "Stopped!" } case $1 in start) Start ;; stop) Stop ;; restart) Stop sleep 1 Start ;; *)
OK, you're done. To start the story you need to do the following:
/etc/init.d/ipsec start
/etc/init.d/xl2tpd.sh start
Make sure that the start-script from pocketU didn't cross your way (/etc/rc.d/extensions.d).
What is left to do for you?
On the client-side you have to put in the pre-shared key from l2tp.secrets and UName/PW from /etc/ppp/chap-sectrets.
That should do the job.
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A sure sign of Christmas
Are there houses you watch at Christmas, to see if their traditional decorations will be on display again? The house in the photo above is such a place for me. I pass it frequently; it's along my usual route to Hopkinsville.
I've never met the people who live there. I think their name is Oatts, and I think they own the nice farmland that surrounds the house. But these ideas of mine aren't verified facts; they are merely my deductions from reading the local newspaper, hearing people talk, and so on.
Every Christmas for the past decade or so, a big John Deere tractor has been parked in the front yard of this house. Santa is in the driver's seat, and a Christmas tree and gift-wrapped boxes are lifted high in the loader bucket. It's fun to see this scene in the daytime, and it's even cooler to see it at night.
The Christmas tree is always a red-cedar. Red-cedars grow abundantly around here. I've always imagined that sometime each year, they spot a red-cedar on their farm that is just the right size and shape to be the next uplifted Christmas tree.
When I saw their Christmas tractor for the first time this year, I called Keely. "All's well in Christian County," I told her. "The tractor with the Christmas tree is in its rightful place." She knew exactly what I meant.
I had a nice e-mail today from Rose Tooley-Oatts. She is the wife of Malcolm Oatts, and they live in the house in the photo above. Their farm is called the "Four Mile Farm".
Miss Rose said that they have been doing their Christmas tractor since 1993. Sometimes they talk about scaling back on their outdoor decorations, but they hear so many nice comments every year that it's hard to quit.
When they first started decorating the tractor, the packages under the uplifted Christmas tree were cardboard boxes. They filled the boxes with rocks (to keep the wind from blowing them away), wrapped them with white butcher paper (for moisture resistance), and tied them with big red ribbons. Eventually, Miss Rose happened to find some lighted Christmas boxes, intended for outdoor display, to put under the tree.
Red-cedars have been harder to find around the farm in recent years, so they now use an artificial tree. (My eyes expected to see a red-cedar -- and saw one!)


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"Of course everyone gets a fair deal!"
The month of May came, went, and left behind a $333,791.00 tab in consultant and contractor fees for the taxpayers of South Carolina, courtesy of the Department of Education.
Thankfully this is a decrease from April, when Rex's department spent almost $400, ooo on non-state employee "education and training services."
Despite a steady stream of complaints from administrators about how budget cuts are forcing the Department of Education to do its work on a "bare bones" budget, the bureaucracy has managed to find enough money to continue paying out political consultants and contractors. Teachers have been cut, but spending has been maintained for former employees of political campaigns.
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Another example of the line between man and machine, or more specifically, bird and machine, has blurred even further with AeroVironment's tiny mechanical flying bird. As brought to our attention by Design You Trust, the diminutive bird has been engineered to mimic the natural flight patterns of the hummingbird and is a startling example of how far robotic technology has come along.
The flying Nano Hummingbird was created through a program sponsored by the Defense Advancement Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for new technology for use by the military and is intended to be used in future indoor and outdoor surveillance missions.
AeroVironment was commissioned by DARPA to create a tiny flying robot that had 360 degree freedom of movement, could hover, and prove readily inconspicuous. Not only is the Nano Hummingbird small and versatile, but it can be remote controlled without an external power source and features a built-in camera. The tiny bird has the ability to travel forward at 11 miles per hour and proves somewhat resilient – it's able to resist the a small wind gale of 5 miles per hour while hovering without itself being swayed more than a meter off track.
While we can't speak for DARPA's exact intentions for the flying surveillance robots, the Nano Hummingbird will do little to lift the nascent feelings of paranoia placed at the feet of government agencies by conspiracy theorists and civil liberty supporters alike, we can't help, from a design and technical standpoint, admire and marvel at the extraordinary technology found within the cute bird bots.
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Dialogic Approaches to Development: Beyond Media and Messages
In the emerging participatory paradigm in development some of the greatest scholars, thinkers and communication practitioners come from developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. One in particular has greatly influenced the field of communication for development, as it has emerged in recent years: Paulo Freire. It is important to acknowledge his influence in this particular branch of communication because he might not be so well known to communication specialists across the board since he is a renowned educator rather than a specialist in communication.
In 1973 Freire wrote an article titled "Extension or Communication". In that article he clearly illustrated the difference between extension, which can be mostly identified with almost any kind of monologic approach, and communication. That is why in this blog, while referring to Freire's original analysis, I use the term monologic instead of extension, which he considers closely associated with concepts such as transmission, cultural invasion and even domination. In comparing and confronting the differences between extension/monologic and dialogic approaches, Freire started from a semantic analysis of the terms, moving then to a more operational analysis of the practical implications of the two.
Monologic approaches almost automatically define the recipients as passive audiences, incapable of critically viewing and questioning relevant issues. In the development context, monologic approaches consider people – especially peasants and other vulnerable groups – as ignorant, thus justifying a vertical communication model where change is decided or imposed by those at the top.
In some of his publications Freire divides communication into dialogic and anti-dialogic, rather than monologic. This is due to his belief that change – people's empowerment and education – can only occur through dialogue. Adults do not learn simply by accepting what somebody else is lecturing on. People learn by reflecting and participating in situations they are actively involved.
Hence, dialogic communication is the essential ingredient to define, change and transform reality. That change can only occur through people's active involvement and people's involvement occurs through dialogic approaches. The implications of such a perspective for development are clear. If we want to ensure sustainable change, no stakeholders can be left out of the design and implementation of an initiative.
This implies that three major requirements be met:
- It is not necessary that everybody participate, but it is crucial that everybody has the opportunity to participate;
- Decisions shaping the design and implementation of the initiative should be made through a joint process, where knowledge and viewpoints of external experts be combined with those of local stakeholders;
- Communication should not be used simply, or mostly, to transmit information, but rather to generate new knowledge in a problem-solving mode (i.e., moving from monologic to dialogic communication).
In many instances, dialogic approaches would not be easy to apply, given the current structures and processes of development. Nevertheless this is the direction development initiatives are increasingly taking. Such approaches can be even more crucial for the area of governance, where key aspects such as transparency and accountability can hardly be achieved merely by relying on the good intentions of those having the responsibility of implementing the laws and procedures (e.g., government officials and public servants).
The receiving side (i.e., citizens) would also have to be active and vigilant to ensure that mechanisms and processes are transparent and that the relative authorities are held accountable for their decisions. Even if all of this needs both types of communication (monologic and dialogic) to inform citizens as well as to provide feedback and make them active players in all issues related to governance, dialogic communication is key to ensure results and citizens' empowerment leading to the sustainability of those results.
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The director and some cast members of "Sharknado 2: The Second One" appeared on stage in a Pasadena hotel on Tuesday to preview the upcoming airborne shark sequel and touched on a very serious topic: climate change.
Whoever could have predicted that Ian Ziering taking on flying sharks with a chain saw would give Al Gore a run for his cinematic money?
Costar Judah Friedlander, the guy who always wore trucker caps on "30 Rock," plays a childhood friend of Ziering's character and proclaimed the film about a weather phenomenon involving flying sharks "the most important ever made about climate change."


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HICKORY, N.C. - Giving up a trio of scoring chances that came more from defensive lapses than offensive play, the Georgia College & State University soccer team dropped a 3-1 exhibition match at Lenoir-Rhyne College today (Aug. 23).
The Bobcats went into the half down a goal after the defense misplayed a ball back to the goalkeeper, leaving the net wide open for a Bear goal.
After an own goal put the Bobcats down 2-0, Georgia College took advantage of a LRC misplay for its lone strike of the game. Junior forward Lyric Burnett (Douglasville, Ga.) took a ball from the feet of the Bear goalkeeper and cut the Lenoir-Rhyne lead in half with just over five minutes left.
In the waning minutes, the Bears upped the lead once again, making good on a penalty-kick try.
Sophomore Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.) got the start in goal, making four saves on five tries. Again Megan Rothenberg (Knoxville, Tenn.) closed out the game, stopping two shots in three attempts.
"I'm obviously disappointed with the outcome, but the goals came in such strange situations that I have to hope we can shore up our defensive effort," said Georgia College head coach Juan Pablo Favero. "That is why we play these exhibition games, but we definitely have a lot of work to do before they start counting for real."
The Bobcats kick off the regular season this week at Bobcat Field on Georgia College's West Campus, battling Belmont Abbey College Friday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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Gaffney's Smith, Oglesby among players who will lead Saints in program's first year.
Limestone College snared a couple of defensive gems from its own backyard in building its first recruiting class.
The Saints, who will not take the field until the 2014 season, signed 56 players on Wednesday, including linebacker Reco Smith and defensive tackle Rod Oglesby Jr. from defending 4A Division I state champion Gaffney. All of the signees will have redshirt seasons this year and will be able to practice in preparation for next season.
Limestone head coach Bobby James said his staff would take advantage of the time to get the incoming players in the weight room and get them acquainted with the Saints' system and the demands of playing NCAA Division II football.
"This will be a great time for getting guys bigger, stronger and faster," James said. "They are learning our schemes from the ground up and getting starter reps from day one. That's a huge plus for the guys coming in. They are the foundation, the leaders."
Smith, a 6-1, 195-pounder, had 86 tackles, three for loss, a sack, forced fumble, fumble recovery and four pass breakups in helping Gaffney to a 12-3 record and the state title this past season.
Oglesby, 6-0, 260, had 46 tackles, nine for loss, three sacks, three forced fumbles and two pass breakups.
The Saints also reached into Spartanburg County, signing Chapman quarterback Ben Ziegler, Dorman offensive lineman Marques Draper, Woodruff defensive back Cyd Wedman and Greer receiver D'Anta Fleming. They also signed Riverside quarterback T.J. Gurn.
The 6-2, 175-pound Ziegler passed for more than 2,000 yards and 24 touchdowns in leading the Panthers to a 4-6 record this past season. He was named the Herald-Journal/GoUpstate Preps player of the week after throwing for five touchdowns and rushing for two against Saluda, and again after throwing six touchdown passes and running for one score against Woodruff.
Limestone's goal was to sign 50 players in its initial class. The Saints exceeded that goal, James said, because of the reception the program has received from high school coaches around the state.
"They've opened their arms to us," James said. "They've gotten us films, transcripts, everything we need."
James said convincing players to join a start-up program wasn't a tough sell.
"The ones coming in now are going to be a part of something new, and that really excites a lot of guys," he said. "They have a chance to make history, whether it's the first tackle or the first touchdown catch. The biggest hurdle for us is going to be living up to the academic and athletic success that other teams have shown here at Limestone, so we were looking for guys who are motivated to excel in the classroom and on the athletic field."


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Apartment 50 in Radiant City by the Bouroullec Brothers
An apartment in Le Corbusier's most famous mutli-family building — La Cité Radieuse (Radiant City) in Marseilles, France — has been furnished for the current residents by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Originally furnished by Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé when the building was completed in 1952, the new look pays homage to the original vision with a varied collection of Bouroullec designs:
From the Bouroullec Studio:
As an echo to Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé's original furniture of the space, it seemed natural to us to articulate the remodeling around the SteelWood collection, Magis — including a table, some chairs and a shelving system. Additionally, while remembering that Le Corbusier had a special interest in tapestries, we felt comfortable with the idea of installing a group of Clouds, Kvadrat up on the wall. Finally, a Zip carpet, Vitra and two of our latest lighting designs, including Lampalumina, Bitossi and LightHouse, Established & Sons and Venini, complete this ephemeral remodeling project.
Apartment 50 will be open for guests to tour this summer, July 15 - August 15.
Images: 1-9: Bouroullec Studio, 10: Bryce Edwards as licensed by Creative Commons
• Le Corbusier: Modernist Visionary, Controversial Genius
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This Rodarte necklace is described as being made up of "- metal - meterorite", HOW WOULD I NOT TOTALLY FALL IN LOVE WITH IT? I didn't even know they made jewelry! I swear this thing would have magical powers! Oh so in love.
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Chicken Marinade For Chicken Breasts Or Chicken Kabobs Recipe
garlic, +olive oil, +lemon juice, +worcestershire sauce, +soy sauce, +white wine vinegar, +onions, +oregano
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2 in 1 - Herbed Chicken & Leftover Chicken Salad
This may be a first for RecipeZaar - two recipes in one! I had leftovers from the Herbed Chicken with no takers (if you know what I mean). This is delicious...
garlic, +chicken, +margarine, +marjoram, +onions, +black pepper, +rosemary, +sage, +salt, +thyme
Breaded Breast of Chicken (Chicken Cutlets)
Very simple chicken recipe, but one my family is quite fond of. They love when there are leftovers, so they can make sandwiches!
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Grilled Chicken Wings With Lemon And Chicken Recipe
Chicken wings are a popular mezze item. They should be quite lemony and garlicky. You eat them with your fingers Prep:60m
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Indian Chicken : Green Curry Chicken Prep:20m
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15 Easy One-Dish Suppers For Two or Ten
One-dish dinners are so called because one big scoop contains everything you could want or need to fill your belly. Everything from the veg to the meat gets layered into the same skillet, pot, or casserole dish, and cooked together. Sometimes they're ready in a matter of minutes and sometimes they bubble away for hours. Either way, these are big dishes that will easily feed a crowd — all without a pile of pots and pans to clean up afterward.
Baked Mushroom Risotto with Caramelized Onions
Soups and stews are natural contenders for one-pot meals, but the category stretches to include hearty casseroles filled with pastas and grains, dishes of braised meats and vegetables, and many quick pasta and risotto dishes. Admittedly, some of the casseroles require a skillet to pre-cook a few of the ingredients and making them technically no longer one-pot meals in terms of preparation, but we'll forgive them since casseroles can be made ahead and stretched over so many meals (or so many mouths).
Frittatas might be one of our favorite quick weeknight one-skillet dinners, and the Sausage Artichoke, and Goat Cheese Bake we have here is one of our favorites. On the other end of the spectrum, the braised dishes like these Lemon-Braised Chicken Thighs and Braised Pork Shank take some time to make on a weekend afternoon, but they're fancy enough to serve at a dinner party.
And don't forget about the humble roast chicken! Cooked on a bed of onions and potatoes, this little bird might be the ultimate one-skillet supper.
What are your favorite one-dish dinners?
- 1 Lemon-Braised Chicken and Beans with Mint Pesto
- 2 Baked Mushroom Risotto with Caramelized Onions
- 3 Grown-Up Tuna Noodle Casserole
- 4 Slow-Cooker Black Bean Enchiladas
- 5 Shepherd's Pie
Sausage, Artichoke, and Goat Cheese Bake
- 6 Strozzapretti with Pecorino, Prosciutto, and Something Green
- 7 Individual Pot Roasts with Thyme-Glazed Carrots
- 8 Sausage, Artichoke, and Goat Cheese Bake
- 9 Braised Lentils and Chard Topped with an Egg
- 10 Bean, Bacon, and Butternut Squash Soup with Swiss Chard
- 11 Cheesy Panade with Swiss Chard, Beans, and Sausage
- 12 How to Roast a Chicken on a Bed of Vegetables
- 13 Lentil, Mushroom, and Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie
- 14 Anelletti Pasta with Sausage and Greens
- 15 Braised Summer Pork Shank (Adaptable to Any Season)
Related: Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Skillet Blondies
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We measure time based on motions in space. The Earth rotates on its axis once a day. The Moon orbits the Earth about once a month. The Earth orbits the Sun once a year. That leaves the week as the only aspect of our calendar not directly tied to the Earth, Moon, or Sun. The week, as it turns out, is based on the other planets of our solar system–at least, those easily visible to the naked eye.
Early astronomers were able to distinguish planets from stars because planets seem to move against the starry background. The stars are always rising, moving across the sky, and setting due to Earth's rotation. They seem to form the same patterns all the time; we never see them move relative to each other. (In fact the stars do have proper motion, but we don't notice it over a time frame as short as a human life or even over several generations). Anything shifting noticeably over several days was a 'wandering star', or planet. Early astronomers identified seven 'wanderers': the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and the Greeks placed them in just that order.
This order, of course, is wrong; it makes the basic error of putting the Sun in orbit around the Earth when in fact the Earth orbits the Sun. Fixing this error by replacing the Sun with the Earth, however, makes the order from Mercury to Saturn correct. That's because the order is based on something directly observable–the planets seem to move among the background stars at different rates. Ancient observers saw the Moon reappear near the same set of stars once a month. Saturn, on the other hand, takes 29.5 years to reappear in the same part of the sky.
The different speeds are even more apparent when two or more planets are near one another in the sky (an alignment called conjunction). Any planet in conjunction with Saturn catches up to Saturn and then passes it. It's never the other way around. Any planet (other than Saturn) in conjunction with Jupiter catches and passes Jupiter, never the other way around. For early astronomers, slowness was associated with distance. By carefully observing the planets' motions and planetary conjunctions, early observers could place them in order.
Ancient Roman writer Dio Cassius was among the first to explain how the order of the planets from slowest to fastest (and thus from outside in) generated the week. The system involves the 24-hour day and an astrological belief that each hour was 'ruled' by a planet following the order above, such that Saturn's hour was followed by Jupiter's, then Mars', then the Sun's, and so on. Further, whichever planet governed the first hour of each day governed that whole day. On Saturn's day, then, the hours were as follows:
1) Saturn 2) Jupiter 3) Mars 4) Sun 5) Venus 6) Mercury 7) Moon 8. Saturn 9) Jupiter 10) Mars 11) Sun 12) Venus 13) Mercury 14) Moon 15) Saturn 16) Jupiter 17) Mars 18) Sun 19) Venus 20) Mercury 21) Moon 22) Saturn 23) Jupiter 24) Mars 25) Sun
Since there are 24 hours in a day, the 25th hour of Saturn's day is the first hour of the next day. Therefore, Saturn-day is followed by Sun-day. Redo the list of hours, this time starting with the Sun, such that hours 1, 8, 15, and 22 are the Sun's. Hour 25 becomes the Moon's hour, which means the Sun-day is followed by Moon-day. Repeat the list with the Moon in first position, and eventually the following order of days emerges:
1) Saturn-day 2) Sun-day 3) Moon-day 4) Mars-day 5) Mercury-day 6) Jupiter day 7) Venus-day
If Venus governs the first hour, Saturn governs the 25th, and the cycle begins again. A full table of the hours and days is here (this list also has the name of the days in 30 different languages).
You probably recognize Saturday, Sunday, and Monday in this list. To get the other English day names from this list, we have to translate by replacing the planet names, which are names of Roman deities, with roughly equivalent Germanic deities. Languages derived directly from Latin have preserved the Roman gods' (thus the planets') names more faithfully. For example, you can recognize Latin luna (the Moon) in French lundi, Spanish lunes, and Italian lunedì.
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Similarly, Mars-day is martes in Spanish, mardi in french, and martedì in Italian. Germanic tribes, however, replaced the Roman war god Mars with their own warlike god Tiw (or Tyr for the Norse). Thus, Mars' day became Tiw's day or Tuesday.
'Mercury-day' is recognizable in French mercredi, Spanish miércoles, and Italian mercoledì. The Germanic pantheon had no messenger god that corresponded well to the Roman Mercury, so they equated him with Woden (Norse Odin). Both Woden and Mercury were gods who escorted the recently deceased to the underworld. Also, Woden became the fastest god when he rode his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
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Jupiter's original name in Latin was Jovis ('Jove' to English writers); the name Jupiter is a contraction of Jovis pater ('father Jove'). 'Jove-day' is recognizable in French jeudi, Spanish jueves, and Italian giovedì. Although Jupiter, like the Greek Zeus, was the king of all the gods, his actual domain was the weather. In particular, he was the god who caused storms and struck people with lightning. Thus Germanic tribes assigned his day to Thor, their god of thunder. Thor's day is Thursday.
'Venus-day' is still recognizeable in French vendredi, Spanish viernes, and Italian venerdì. Germanic tribes replaced Venus's name with that of Frigg, the wife of Woden who was associated with married women and whom they called upon to help in giving birth. Frigg-day is Friday.
As the Germanic tribes had no one in their pantheon who even roughly corresponded to Saturn, Saturn's name remains in Saturday. Ironically, the Latin-based languages have lost 'Saturn-day' as the day's name. Spanish sábado and Italian sabato derive from the word 'sabbath' (as does French samedi, through a more complex etymology). This is due to the influence of the Catholic Church, which was loath to name the days of the week after pagan gods, and sought to replace the planetary names.
The Church designated Sunday 'Lord's Day' (dies dominicus), called Saturday the sabbath (sabbatum), and numbered the weekdays from 2 to 6. Except in Portugal, however, the numbered weekdays never replaced the planetary days in popular usage. Everyday people in southern Europe did adopt the Church's terms for the weekend days. Northern Europe, largely outside the influence of the Catholic Church, was less affected by this; we retain 'Saturday' and 'Sunday' in English as a result.
In November and December 2008, you can make for yourself some of the observations that helped astronomers of antiquity imagine the solar system. The two brightest points of light in the southwest tonight are Venus and Jupiter. They outshine all stars we ever see at night and are visible even in twilight. But don't wait too late; you'll need to look in the hours right after sundown before the two planets set. Venus, lower to the horizon, is the brighter of the two. Its closeness to us and the clouds that cover the whole surface and reflect most sunlight back into space cause Venus to outshine the much larger Jupiter.
Watch as Venus gets closer and closer to Jupiter each night this month. This is exactly how ancient astronomers could tell that Venus and Jupiter were not stars. On November 30 and December 1, watch as Venus passes 2 degrees 'under' Jupiter. (The crescent Moon also passes by on these nights). Imagine ancient Greek astronomers concluding that Venus is closer because it is faster. Keep watching each night in December as Venus pulls away from Jupiter, getting higher in the dusk sky while Jupiter sinks into the Sun's glare by early January. Early astronomers would have seen this as the Sun catching up to Jupiter while Venus pulls away; observations like this account for the Sun's position in the ancient order of 'planets'. Of course, we now know better–the Sun's apparent motion is really ours. Earth is going around the far side of the Sun from Jupiter's position, putting Jupiter behind the Sun as the New Year opens.
Venus remains an evening star until March 2009. Compare Venus to the stars around it, and you'll see it slow down and then move 'backwards' towards the Sun's position each night in March. That's because Venus will have come around to our side of the Sun, and will be passing us up on its faster orbit.
Should you make any of these observations on a Thursday or Friday, you can reflect on why those days have those names.


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BSF programme boosts schools' IT spending
5.3% annual growth predicted
Education spending on ICT will be accelerated by the Building Schools for the Future programme, according to research by Kable.
Investment in new technology for secondary schools has grown faster than any other part of the state education sector over the past three years and this is set to continue, the research says. Overall, it predicts an annual growth rate of 5.3 per cent for schools' IT expenditure over the next three years, from £1.05bn in 2008-09 to £1.29bn in 2011-12.
The growth is largely due to the BSF programme in England, which is set to invest £6.5bn in new school buildings and facilities up to 2008. Its total spending could reach £45bn and some 10 per cent of this will be invested in new technology, according to the report by Kable, which is owned by the same company as GC News.
"As more schools enter the BSF programme, expenditure will rise steeply," said Philippe Martin, Kable's senior education analyst. "Partnerships for Schools, the organisation responsible for BSF, has predicted that 35 schools will open between 2008-09, 115 in 2009-10, 165 in 2010-11 and 200 each year afterwards until the completion of the modernisation programme."
Steve Moss, BSF's strategic director for ICT, said that in terms of its non-financial value, ICT is usually ranked at 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the worth of the programme. "Local authorities are seeing it as extremely important for their transformation," he said.
The Primary Capital Programme, which is set to inject £7bn into primary school buildings and equipment over the next 15 years, is expected to increase ICT spending in a similar fashion. But as the report points out the programme is still at an early stage, and it is likely to be several years before it has a significant impact on national spending figures.
The report predicts that services will be the fastest growing area of schools' ICT spending, with an annual growth rate of 20.1 per cent. It predicts an explosion in the use of IT outsourcing, from £18m in 2008-09 to £151m in 2011-12. But it adds that spending on communications will actually drop very slightly, from £93m in 2008-09 to £90m in 2011-12.
Kable's findings also reveal that ICT investment by further education colleges will continue to rise, driven to a large extent by the government's goal of raising national skills levels.
This article was originally published at Kablenet.
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How To Make a Cake Stand Hollie's February Jumpstart Project 2009
Project: How To Make a Wood Pedestal
Name: Hollie
Time: 3 days (mostly drying paint)
Cost: 20$ CAD
Looking for a pretty, inexpensive cake stand for a wedding or a birthday party? Check out these stands that Hollie made herself with supplies from a basic hardware store. Read on to see how she made the stands, along with a photo of her own wedding cake!
Wood finial (deck section)
Short wood leg (furniture part section)
MDF disc (all from Home Depot)
One wood screw, long ones at least double the thickness of the disc
Wood glue
Rulers and other things to help measure
Black lacquer spray paint
Cardboard box (to help with spray painting)
1) Go to hardware store and get all of the stuff. I found most of the things I needed in the area where they sell materials for decks and stairway banisters. Don't get the pressure treated lumber (it has a green colour to it) as it is treated with nasty chemicals.
2) Many of the pieces I found were very rough, especially the ones meant for decks, so they had to be sanded smooth.
3) Prime all of your pieces. You may want to follow priming by a sanding and another priming.
4) Now you will assemble before the final coat of paint. Most pieces have holes already drilled in the center. The disc I found did not. To find the center mark a straight line from the widest part across the disc, and then another intersecting. This should be the center. Double check! Then drill a hole smaller than the width of your wood screw. You also want to make an indentation so that your screw does not stick out. You can either carve it out or use a larger drill bit for this. The base of the leg has a bolt in it already. I drilled a hole slightly smaller into the finial and screwed the bolt in.
5) Glue the pieces before you drill your wood screw in. Then drill! (I kept the top disc separate because I had to transport it across the country, it is not necessary).
6) The last thing needed is to spray-paint the pedestal. I did this in multiple stages outside, and I used a cardboard box to prevent painting my whole yard black. You will need several light coats to create an even finish. All done!
* Please note, if you are going to serve food on the pedestal have something between the food and the paint. I used tinfoil and cardboard for my cake. A plate also looks good on it.
I made these intentionally for my wedding, now they are used at parties at home Everything can be found at Home Depot.


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PARIS (AP) – A French court on Tuesday ordered a paternity test for a multimillionaire who former Justice Minister Rachida Dati claims fathered her nearly 4-year-old daughter. But the mystery of the glamorous politician's love life is likely to continue, for a while at least, because the alleged father is legally entitled to refuse.
The birth of the child while Dati was in office from 2007 to 2009 made headlines and set off guessing games about the father's identity, which the minister refused to divulge. It also fed the mystique cultivated by Dati, who is known for her taste for fine clothes, jewels and stiletto heels.
Last month, the 46-year-old Dati named Dominique Desseigne, a 68-year-old widower with two grown children, as the father of her child and took her case to a court in Versailles.
In a closed-door hearing, the court ordered Desseigne, who owns the famed Champs-Elysees establishment Fouquet's, to submit to a paternity test, a court official said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about a non-public hearing and asked not to be identified.
Paternity tests are voluntary in France, meaning Desseigne, chief of the Lucien Barriere casino group, can refuse to take the test despite the court order. He has been quoted in the past as saying would do just that. But legal experts say that a judge might take such a refusal as an admission of paternity if there is corroborating evidence such as text messages, emails and photos proving a relationship.
The French press has avidly watched the case, just as it tracked Dati's every move when she served as a high-powered but controversial minister under then-President Nicolas Sarkozy. And photographers snapped her developing pregnancy. Daughter Zohra was born Jan. 2, 2009.
With her humble origins growing up in a housing project, one of 11 children of Algerian and Moroccan parents, Dati was the government's emblem of diversity, and, with her penchant for designer clothes, became the toast of Paris and foreign capitals. Today, she serves as a member of the European Parliament in the eastern French city of Strasbourg and keeps a link to the Paris power elite as the mayor of the capital's tony 7th district.
Were the court to determine that Desseigne is the father, the child's future would be comfortably assured with rights as an heir, and it would assure Dati access to child support.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)