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Seven years ago today, I fell in love. I'd made a few visits to the local Humane Society animal shelter, with the intent of adopting a kitten. The shelter is a fine one, with a cage room for solitary adult cats, and spacious sunrooms for pairs of adults and for litters of kittens. On this particular day, I was wandering among the rooms, admiring and talking with the dozens of felines up for adoption.
And that's when it happened. I paused at the picture window into one sunroom and there, backlit in a way that made her look radiant from within, was a calico female perched in the sunlight, innocent and proud and beautiful. I was enchanted. There were four kittens in the room in various states of play or rest ~ all siblings ~ two calico females and two white males with striking black markings. All were born on February 27, not quite five months earlier.
I wanted to take all four home, but realized that my apartment would accommodate two at most. So I went home to sleep on it, and in the morning had decided on adopting the two sisters. When I arrived at the shelter, I was told that one brother and one sister had just been adopted by someone else. I pounced, and laid claim to the remaining brother and sister.
And that's when Chiaro, Mao and I began to share life together. They make me laugh, they keep me sane, and they keep each other company when I'm gone. Chiaro (the white male) has grown to 13 lb., and his face reflects his half-Siamese parentage. He's vocal, especially when feeling hungry or lonely. Mao (the calico female) is quieter and smaller at 11 lb. At feeding time their duet is comical ~ his voice is deeper and somewhat nasal, while hers is higher and almost birdlike. Both like to sleep snuggled on or against me at night, which I love.
Because they're indoor cats, they're in excellent health. I look forward to seven more years with them, and if I'm lucky, another seven after that. Here's to true companionship. (Note: all the photos were taken using a 35mm film camera, before I got my digital camera. Clarity and detail are lower, but you get the idea.)
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Environmental Systems Engineering
Students who enter the degree program in Environmental Systems Engineering have a choice between two curriculum options: Environmental Systems Engineering (ENVSE) or Environmental Health and Safety Engineering (ENVHS).
The ENVSE option focuses primarily on the impact of industrial activities on the environment and the choice of cost-effective remediation strategies. The ENVHS option is concerned with the safe and healthful design of industrial systems so that workers are protected from the potentially high risk exposures associated with today's industries. Both options follow a similar course schedule over the first two years of study. Specialization in either ENVSE or ENVHS then is achieved through successful completion of additional courses in one of the two option areas.
The ENVSE degree program follows a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that is designed to address the critical environmental, safety, and health problems of the basic industries involved in the extraction, conversion, and utilization of energy and mineral resources. All students gain a deeper understanding of both the impact of environmental degradation on society and the effects on industrial activity of society's demands for protection of workers and the environment. The program is complementary to the more general environmental science programs that emphasize the identification and evaluation of environmental problems, and to the classical environmental engineering programs offered by civil engineers, whose traditional emphasis is on public-sector concerns of water supply, municipal waste water (sewage) treatment, and solid waste (trash) management and disposal.
*The Environmental Systems Engineering B.S. program in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) at Penn State is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.


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Coffee-Mint Ice Cream Cake
- 25 Nabisco chocolate wafers
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- 1 quart chocolate mint chip (Breyers) ice cream
- 6 tablespoons Hershey's chocolate syrup
- 12 pieces Almond Roca candy
- Cooking oil
- Whipping cream (optional)
Oil an 8-inch springform pan with cooking oil.
Crush macaroons and chocolate wafers into fine crumbs. Spread on bottom of the springform pan, saving 1/2 crumbs for later.
Slightly soften coffee ice cream and spread on top of crushed cookies. Dribble 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup over ice cream. Spread remaining crumbs on top of ice cream layer.
Slightly soften mint chocolate chip ice cream and spread on top of second layer of cookie crumbs. Dribble remaining 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup over ice cream layer. Crush Almond Roca candy and sprinkle on top of ice cream cake. Cover with foil and place in freezer overnight.
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Report by Raymond Kröger
Somewhere in the year, my wife (Michi) and I started toying with the idea of taking some undeserved sabbatical-style time off, going to Kenya or something… and well, climbing a mountain there if we could find one. And so we did, discovering Mount Kenya. Now numerous South Africans we know have ventured over to the peak, some successful, others not so successful, and all seemed to have the same advice: It snows!!
After having semi-exhaustively read all the trip reports I could find, studying the Cosley-Housten Route Guide and emailing friends and strangers who had ventured there. We eventually plucked up the courage and coughed up the money to buy tickets to Kenya. We went via Zanzibar with cheap 1-Time tickets and then flew Fly540 to Kenya, a low-cost East-African airline. Needless to say this method took us a full day to get to Nairobi (the double entry Visas for Zanzibar still worked out cheaper than the direct flight and we got to spend a week there after relaxing on this amazing island).
A day of shopping in Nairobi equipped us for our adventure, and we stayed at Wilde Beest Backpackers, who were very busy but very friendly and helpful. They organized our airport transfer and our porter, James. We then set out for the town of Chogoria. We got there via matatus (the local taxis) which are really cheap, but they do inspire and require much prayer.
James is actually a guide, but we had only asked for a porter. Turns out he was desperate enough for work as a porter and the price he quoted us was far cheaper than anything we had been quoted in South Africa (by about half price). He ended up carrying our ropes (or as he pronounced "lopes"), our tent and our empty daypacks for the climb.
The Chogoria route up Mount Kenya is apparently the most challenging route, a bit longer than the other routes, but more rewarding in terms of scenery and we had hoped to use the time to acclimatise by slow altitude gain. This advantage was kind of ruined when James refused to walk up to the Park Gate and cornered us into taking a costly 4×4 trip through the forest belt from about 1700m to 2900m in 3 hours. His main reason being wild animals (elephants in the forest belt), but it was good regardless and our opinion of him only improved!
The following day we began the trek in, day 1 being 17km and 1400m altitude gain to 4300m at Minto's Hut, which was a bit of a killer. We were really grateful for having spent 5 days in the Berg escarpment around 3000m (in the snow funnily enough) a week before the trip to semi-acclimatize and get fit. The scenery however was fantastic, as we rose above the cloud level that seems to sit around 1500m most of the time. The going was slow the closer we got to the 4000m level. Minto's Hut is more like a campsite and we slept in our tent on a rather windy night while all the guides and porters slept in the tin shack (we were joined by about three other groups there).
We slept in a bit the following morning and headed out around 09:30 to ascend to the Austrian Hut (Top Hut) at 4800m – a short day, but slow nevertheless. Here the vegetation starts to get a bit sparse, with little besides the eerie lobelias. We set up tent on a rocky patch outside the Austrian Hut at about lunchtime and settled in for an afternoon nap, when the first snow for the trip arrived. It snowed all afternoon and evening. We woke the next morning around 4AM to snow-covered peaks around us and clearing skies.
After a frigid tent-pack up, we headed up the short scramble to Point Lenana, the hikers peak of Mount Kenya and were quite pleased at our progress up to now. We didn't really struggle with the altitude apart from very slight headaches and nausea the night before.
After summiting just after sunrise and fighting our way through the crowds up on the peak, we headed down to Shipton's Camp which is about 800m below at 4200m, the common starting point for Batian, the highest point on Mount Kenya which is reached via a 16-pitch rock climb/scramble.
That afternoon after another nap, we headed out to the start of the climb for a quick recce. The approach is a frustratingly steep and long moraine/scree gulley, that apparently used to be a glacier – now it is just loose rubbish. About an hour up this, you veer right into a side gulley to the start of the climb. We climbed with our boots/trailrunners on about grade 14, hoping to familiarize ourselves with the climb for the following day's summit attempt. We expected to get five pitches up, but we got snowed on after two and evacuated with our tails between our legs and wet ropes from the water flowing down the gulley… aaargh!
The snow cleared by the time we reached Shipton's again and I was really stressed about the unpredictable weather and the terrible conditions of the gulley. To describe that gulley: loose, unstable, treacherous and chossy! And now with snow, downright fantastic!
Eventually I stopped wimping about and we headed out the next morning early. We reached the first pitch by sunrise, equipped with a rack (10ish nuts, 8 cams, a couple of slings, 10 draws (some extendible), our "lopes" and lots of fruit-jubes. Michi was carrying a school-style rucksack with an emergency sleeping bag and some energy bars.
The gulley is five or so pitches, one that had some reasonable climbing at about grade 15. It is mostly hazardous with flying rocks hurtling from above (presumably from snow melt?). In retrospect – it would have been better to solo the grade C'ish pitches in the gulley as belaying slowed us down. By the time we got to the top, we were already at least an hour over our time guide.
Exiting the gulley we veered left – the first being an awkward chimney with chock-stones to pull on and no-feet. Chimneys, especially when carrying a daypack have never excited me. The top of this pitch is also confusing when compared with the route guide – still I don't know what they mean about a 'traverse out right' – the traverse I saw looked stupidly crazy for a grade 15, so I climbed out left on easy ground and rejoined the route on top. From here we scrambled easily to the amphitheatre.
Near the top of the amphitheatre the route gets steep again, with a bit of an akward pitch to attain the base of Firmans tower – where we put our climbing shoes on. This pitch has lots of old fixed rope. At the base of the tower, the weather started deteriorating with cloud-cover setting in and reducing our visibility.
Thankfully, it remained dry.
Here we made a mistake in the route that resulted in us climbing an entirely different line up Firman's Tower than stated in the route guide. The guide says "traverse right 15m at the top of the pitch below the tower" and so we did. We then climbed a pitch that matched the description perfectly, but was.. well, wrong.
Thereafter, the description talked about an open book flake with an old fixed rope – there was both an open book flake and old fixed rope. Hmmm… so we only figured out at the top of this pitch that we were off-route. Anyway, the open book crack that was supposed to go at 17, possibly a bit easier and a fantastic climb. A highlight of the route as the exposure started to mount up. We then spent around 30 minutes trying to work out where to go next. At this point we were 'kind of confused' and watching the time tick by.
Eventually, we decided to climb a chimney to the left that didn't match the RD which went well, but brought us to a ledge with really precariously balanced rocks. Many of them had seemingly been used to abseil off before (due to tat wrapped around them) – something I would not have trusted unless I had to!
Again the RD didn't make sense, and we were on our own with one particular line straight up. A cubby-hole ending in a crack that seemed go-able, but a challenge. The other option was an off-width flake that didn't look like fun. Running out of time, I climbed up to the top of the cubbyhole and tried three or four options in order to get higher and I was just about to give up but the thought of retreating off of the balancing rocks below motivated me and I finally managed to pull through the stopper move, which went at about grade 19.
We were elated to pull through this pitch, which brought us almost to the top of Firman's tower and gave us some good satisfaction, the climbing had been really enjoyable. The only problem now was the time – close to 4pm, we were committed to our emergency bivvy as we were not going to make it down. The following few pitches included an abseil down an easy 15 pitch and then lots of scrambling to the highest bivy ledges which we reached just before sunset. Thinking we could still reach the summit, we left one rope and pushed on along the summit ridge, which includes one short tricky traverse and a loose/chossy climb. About 80m from the summit, we realised that we were not going to make it and headed back to the bivvy ledge, reaching it just as it got dark. A bit disappointed that we still needed to complete the distance the following day, we squeezed into one sleeping bag with our makeshift plastic bag on top (the one that our mattress had come in) and settled down for a fairly sleepless night. Supper was one and a half cheese wedges each, together with a sachet of rehydrate! Ironically, as dawn came, sleep finally knocked on our doors as we needed to wake up.
The decision that night to give up and just head down was quite surprising, since we were so close, but my wife would have none of it. The weather had been really good to us, clearing during the night and so we headed out at sunrise to do the last scramble again, weaving in and out of the summit ridge peaks for an hour to finally attain our prize: Batian in clear skies (and fruit jubes to celebrate)!
During the descent the cloud came in again and we were left to complete about 16 long abseils on tat (mostly good condition slings left behind), this time discovering the RD route down Firman's Tower (and the horrible looking grovel chimneys we were grateful to have missed) – our route seemed like a much cleaner and nicer line!). While descending, we passed two climbers and a local climbing-guide, who seemed in no hurry to get to the top. They later made the decision to turn around and they ended up abseiling above us in the dodgy gulley while sending a few loose rocks our way!
We finally exited the gulley at about 3pm onto the moraine slope and as we headed down we heard a large rock-fall above us. Thinking it was on the moraine we ran to the side and the noise stopped thankfully. Later that afternoon at the camp, we found out that it had come from the descent gulley – a rock from the large rockfall had broken one of the descending climber's legs (who were just behind us). We had just missed the rockfall by about 5minutes!! The injured climber was carried out 24km by about 15 porters later that night. Snow had put a halt to any chances of a helicopter rescue – respect to the Kenyan Mountain Rescue!
Day six of the hike came and we were back with our relieved porter, James. We were tired of paying US$55 per person per day for park permits and thus we headed out early covering 22km before hitching a ride with a Land Cruiser to the town of Nanyuki for a fantastic hotel meal and a less fantastic matatu ride back to Nairobi, followed by a week in Zanzibar.
We made sure to finish our descent from 5199m to '0' meters with a swim in the sea 🙂


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Clark, who cut his journalistic teeth in Oregon writing for Portland's hip Willamette Week, rehearses the history of the ubiquitous chain that's made coffee-drinking equally hip.
The rise of the Starbucks Corporation is already the stuff of legend, and the book is most original in the second half, which investigates the controversies that attend every sip of the Seattle-based company's java. Detractors variously claim that Starbucks hurts local communities by besting small businesses, that it exploits coffee-bean growers in the developing world, that it sells goods that are bad for our health, that it is viciously anti-union and that, like McDonald's, it is integral to global American cultural imperialism. The chapter about the chain's impact on individual communities is especially intriguing. Clark spotlights towns like Sharon, Mass., which begged the chain to open a franchise there. Many civic boosters see a Starbucks on Main Street as "a magic key to new prosperity," a signal that your schools aren't too bad and your arts scene is just about to take off. Evaluating the quality of Starbucks coffee, the author argues that as the chain has expanded, it has sacrificed its own high standards. Readers will come away wondering whether Starbucks intentionally peddles burnt-tasting coffee so that, since the plain stuff's not that good, people are more likely to buy pricey, high-fat, sugar-heavy concoctions. Although Clark writes in the epilogue that he continues to fret about the ways in which the chain "diminishes the world's diversity every time it builds a new café," in most chapters he insists on showing both sides of every coin. He could profitably have played the brash op-ed provocateur a bit more.
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Last week, the nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve came one step closer to becoming a reality.
The Senate Banking Committee voted in favor of the nomination, a huge boost of confidence in the ability of Janet Yellen to talk through monetary policy. And during that nomination hearing, Yellen evoked the stock market when talking about quantitative easing. Here's why that seemingly minor connection is actually pretty huge.
It's an important distinction to note the there are some things Yellen will do more of than her predecessor. Yellen is seen as more-or-less a mirror version of the current Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. She will apply the same standards of relying on macroeconomic factors to drive the eventual decision to wind down the Fed policy of buying Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities.
While the taper is expected early next year, Yellen faced questions on the logic of this program in the hearing. As this article in the New Yorker points out, the senators implored Yellen on whether this monetary policy is driving the markets to bubble.
"The objective here is to assure a strong and robust recovery so that we get back to full employment," Yellen said. "Stock prices have risen pretty robustly," she added, pointing out that she didn't "see stock prices in territory that suggests bubble-like conditions."
Author Kirk Kardashian later opines: "Yellen would do well to acknowledge that the Fed's current policies may not be working as well as they should."
I would argue that, Yellen, in fact does. Her comment on stock prices clearly admits there is a level of Fed-involved volatility. And to focus on the stock market, when discussing the Fed's involvement in the fixed-income markets, shows Yellen is well aware the most powerful tool of the Federal Researve is effective communication.
Bernanke didn't always hold press conferences after releasing Federal Open Market Committee statements. Yellen sees the logic in effectively communicating efforts in order to reduce volatility.
During tapering, this would be an area where Yellen will become a better fit than Bernanke. A Liberty Street Economics blog posted today on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, by analysts Fernando Duarte and Carlo Rosa, takes a look at market reactions during differing FOMC announcements; the released statement and then the Q&A with the press.
They basically compare market reactions during the course of the two announcements and benchmark behaviors to instances where there is a statement, but no ensuing Q&A.
Cleary the bond markets react to the statement. Yet, interestingly, the stock market reacts during the Q&A.
"The 'announcement effect' we uncovered isn't unique to equities," Duarte and Rosa write. Indeed, even exchange rate trading is impacted. That's a much broader reaction than just stocks and bonds.
Duarte and Rosa conclude "there are several important communication tools at the disposal of central bankers throughout the world."
"This is particularly relevant in today's environment of unconventional monetary policy, in which there are multiple dimensions of decision making that need to be conveyed to the public," they said.
Unconventional monetary policy may still comprise the backbone of the daily markets, but the real heartbeat comes from the ability of the Federal Reserve to fully communicate its activities and strategies.
Clearly Janet Yellen appreciates that communication is the most powerful weapon in the Fed's arsenal.


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Monday, August 22, 2011
Canada's Last ethical leader gone at this critical time?
My condolences go out to his loved ones and his political friends and allies. Canada, IMO, has lost one of the last men of ethics that aspire to the grunt and grind of the nasty 'pit' of politics. The only one whose workers took time to address me on this critical drug policy which is killing Canadians daily. I mourn for all of our loss. Canada will be less without this man. Although he was a bit too left of center for me in some policies, I always respected his commitment and honesty. That is something I couldn't say for many other politicians today. Isn't it time for the sane in Canada to support more men like him no matter what political stripe? Thank you Jack Layton, you are a great man!
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In the Matter of
Heartland Securities Corporation,
ORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(b)(4) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING SANCTIONS
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that a public administrative proceeding be instituted against Heartland Securities Corporation ("Respondent" or "Heartland") pursuant to Section 15(b)(4) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act").
In anticipation of these administrative proceedings, Respondent has submitted an Offer of Settlement ("Offer"), which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of this proceeding and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings contained herein, except as to those findings contained in Section III.B below and as to jurisdiction of the Commission over Respondent and over the subject matter of this proceeding, which Respondent admits, Heartland consents to the issuance of this Order Instituting Administrative Proceeding Pursuant to Section 15(b)(4) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Making Findings, and Imposing Sanctions ("Order").
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that a proceeding pursuant to Section 15(b)(4) of the Exchange Act against Heartland be, and hereby is, instituted.
On the basis of this Order and Respondent's Offer, the Commission makes the following findings:
A. From March 1998 to June 2001, Heartland was a broker-dealer registered with the Commission pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Exchange Act.
B. Pursuant to a Final Judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered on January 23, 2003, in an action styled Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sheldon Maschler, et al., 03 Civ. 0264 (S.D.N.Y.), Heartland is permanently enjoined from violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b), 15(c) and 17(a)(1) of the Exchange Act and Rules 10b-5, 15c1-2, 17a-3(a)(1), 17a-3(a)(2), 17a-3(a)(3), 17a-3(a)(9), 17a-5(a), and 17a-5(d) promulgated thereunder.
C. The Commission's Complaint in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sheldon Maschler, et al. alleged that from 1993 to March 1998, certain individuals associated with Datek Securities engaged in a widespread fraudulent scheme to execute proprietary trades illegally through the Nasdaq Stock Market's Small Order Execution System ("SOES"), resulting in tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits. The fraudulent scheme was carefully planned and orchestrated, and was concealed from regulators through the use of sophisticated software, allocation of trades to nominee accounts, creation of fictitious books and records, and filing of false reports with the Commission. The Complaint further alleged that Heartland acquired Datek Securities' day-trading business on March 30, 1998, and continued the SOES fraudulent scheme from April 1998 to June 2001. Heartland's unlawful SOES trading practices and concealment methods were virtually identical to those of Datek Securities' former day-trading operation. In particular, almost all of the nominee accounts at Datek Securities were transferred to Heartland in furtherance of the SOES scheme.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to impose the sanction specified in the Offer of Settlement submitted by Heartland.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Heartland be, and hereby is, censured.
By the Commission.
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The International Rugby Board (IRB) has reportedly stripped Sri Lanka's Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) of full member status after it failed to conduct board elections in accordance with IRB bye laws.
The international media referring to an IRB statement has said the decision followed ongoing concerns regarding the governance and management of the SLRFU after it missed a January 31 deadline for elections in line with its constitution.
The IRB has been quoted as saying, "The SLRFU will now revert to IRB Associate Member status with a further review to be held on April 1, 2011 pending the successful completion of the Union's AGM (Annual General Meeting) and board elections."
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The rooms are all equipped with private bathrooms and modern amenities including satellite television, radio, telephone, hairdryer and hospitality tray.
The hotel has a traditional restaurant: the Manor House and to access it is necessary to wear a formal dress. Located in a charming courtyard, the Terrace Bar offers snacks and light meals and casual atmosphere.


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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
On the Street….. Pleats Please, Paris
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Don't try this at home!
nice colors, but I didn't even care for that silhouette the first time around…
LOVE this.
reminds me of Lisa Plenske in the german version of Ugly Betty (Verliebt in Berlin).
Or, "How To Take A Page From The Diane Keaton Book of Style."
I agree. Don't try this at home! Jacket is great. The pleated pants are not easy to pull off! I could never wear them. Wish we could see her shoes. And what type of bag has she got. I find that the "nerd" glasses are getting old quick. I'm already sick to death of them.
ah, darling. One of my favorites.
Really? My mother wore this is 1985. It wasn't a good look then or now! I admire fashion forward thinking, but this is fashion in reverse in the worst way.
I like geek-chic in single doses. EITHER the glasses OR the pleated "mom" pants OR the plaid jacket. But not all three at the same time.
Pleated pants rarely look good on anyone. Cute jacket though.
Cute! Love the jacket – fabric looks fabulous – with the striped shirt. What I can see of the bag I really like, too. The belt and glasses give the whole look fun and freshness. I am not a big fan of so many pleats, but the girl is adorable and carries this off well.
~ Miss Mary
Love her jacket and pants, and the little detail on the belt. Love the whole outfit!
Love her jacket and pants, and the little detail on the belt. Love the whole outfit!
cute girl, hideous pants–somehow the retro-trendy glasses play off the pants to make them look worse
Love this look, the jacket really keeps it feminine
It's all about the red pants on the monk to the right.
Reminds me of how horrible front pleats can be on trousers…very unflattering!
Please tell me why you would add to a tummy bulge with pleats and then showcase it with gold chains? I don't think this is stylish at all, at least not in a good way.
hello annie hall!
Very nice jacket!
I love the jacket, but these pants and chain/belt are awful
I love this too! It's so unusual, yet also strikes Diane Keaton and equestrian chords. Look at that belt! So well done! Love the glasses too and the natural face. Feminine makeup would have ruined it, no? The way her jacket and pants work together is genius! It's preppy/academic elegance with a wink. Killer!
Don'tknow about this one. She looks very frumpy.
A 21st century Annie Hall! I like the look on her. Do you have a full length shot? I'd love to see the rest of the bag, pant length and shoes.
is it wrong that i want to marry this woman?
oh no!! i think its' too literal, too annie hall…
too much glasses! too much belt! too much volume. i want the jacket to be more fitted, at least…
I have to say, for me, the haircut and glasses in combination with everything else just makes it look like the 1980s. I mean, I think somewhere there's a picture of my mother in almost this exact outfit (sans chain belt.
Not only did I not look good in those pants in the 80s, I didn't look good in those glasses, either.
Um, honey….NO!!!! Imagine everything being the same (love the big glasses!), but with some tight dark jeans….A ZILLION TIME BETTER. This is actually upsetting to look at.
Hope the chain holds her pants up.
EXACTLY like Annie Hall. I'd love to be one of those people who can pull off this type of look.
again another annie hall look, very similar to the irina post.
do you see this as a trend?
Nice colour palette. And pleats? Yes, as for me – I've always liked them.
Like the man tailoring, and the jacket, but I'll never ever do baggy pants again, and this shows why very well. No one can look good in them.
saw this in une fille comme moi, love the belt!
please please, don't facilitate the return of pleats.
lovely pattern on the jacket though.
She seems one yellow coat-of-arms patch away from 1983… The glasses, pleating, gold chain and cropped silhouette feel like a costume, not an inventive re-adaptation of 20 years ago. I can't help but wonder why you chose to highlight her… did she have something that just didn't translate in the still picture?
this is hideous.
i hate pleats.
her glasses are square (and not in a good way), though they seem to be in style in paris at the moment.
she needs a new "do".
the bag does not go w. the outfit.
belt doesn't make sense.
it does look like she tried, though, so give her A for effort.
i love her spectacles.
She's a little Diane Keaton in that it seems all so wrong…but I like deliberate and this is deliberate. Tremendous confidence is needed here to pull this off and she does!…I'm guessing, of course, but I bet she's fascinating to know.
pleats, always wrong. excellent example of why.
I think I saw this photo on style.com? The cropped jacket makes it work. Like that belt!
The line between love & hate is…
I just can't wear something my grade 6 teacher wore. I just can't. It's too soon!
Yes, yes! this is fantastic! I love the glasses, the blazer, trousers and belt. She is gorgeous! – i wish i could look that good.
Can anyone tell me who made her chain belt? I love it.
I challenge most of us broads to pull this off without looking like we're wearing Mom Khakis.
A little Annie Hall-esque, no? It works for her, but it's not something I really LOVE.
I don't care for those glasses… :/
Very Annie Hall, don't you think?
i'm smitten. very annie hall. love love love.
adil sg
Frumpy! Also the Chanel-style braided-chain belt seems too formal for pleated khakis.
I don't really like the pleated pants, but the coat and glasses are fabulous. The belt is sort of interesting, too. I really like the red pants in the background.
She is working it but generally not a flattering look from the front. It emphasizes pear shape especially if pants are tapered.
a woman after my own heart. love her.
Oh please Please PLEASE don't let those awful baggy pleated front pants that taper in the legs from the 80′s come back in style again!!! They remind me of MC Hammer or Vanilla Ice.
If the pants have flared legs, then I approve of the look…however, I can't tell that from this picture.
Otherwise, from the waist up, she looks great! I love the jacket!
Loving it. But it is unfair not to be able to see the rest of the outfit. Think it depends greatly on the cut of the pants (which seem baggy) and the shoes she'd be wearing. But it looks good thus far.
some things are better left in the past where they belong. baggy pleated pants are one of them.
I'm not sure why, but I love this. Those glasses make it even better.
I'm confused. Is this Paris 2008 or 1988? Is it a movie set? Because whoever did the costuming got it spot on! (Except the phone, I don't think we had such tiny phones in the 80′s). ;)
It was such a relief to read the comments about this outfit. I was so apprehensive that everyone was going to swoon, as usual, and once again I would be off in the corner by myself shouting "No, you can't be serious!" P.S. I think I had those pants when I was in high school , as well as the striped shirt and the glasses. Probably wore it all with an Etienne Aigner belt.
I can almost live with the glasses, but the pants have to go. Nice jacket though.
Nice jacket..but the rest is trying too hard. I find that taking a retro look too literally can become too costume-like
This is exactly the silhouette/look that Louis Vuitton just pegged for the Fall 08/09 season…
Diane Keaton immediately springs to mind when I see this lady. Not sure about the trouser and belt combination but I like the jacket and specs.
here you ca see her shoes and bag:
She looks exactly Jan smithers. Actress on TeeVee's WKRP in Cincinnati—seriously—google it!
goood. new volume, new trend
not that i like the pants but the person seems interesting and funny
Looks very 80′s to me.
And WOW! That looks like me in the photo – but it's not me.
As a fellow glasses wearer and due to the fact that she is at some fashion event – she could benefit from more makeup.
Also she needs to perk up her hair colour a bit.
The bag reminds me of the tennis bag Annie Hall used in the movie.
mmmm at least she doesnt look like everyone else and tries to imitate what she sees on other people. fashion does and don'ts next year pleats will be in and the next they wont so how bout stop criticizing someone for being and dressing how they want
Ugh. It didn't look good in 1985 either.
Love it. This girls style has personality and imagination and it looks like she is doing it for herself. All the people hating on this are no doubt your usual overly preened fashion sheep. Shes got it. You haven't…ha!
she looks like a girl morrissey.
what an incredible blog you have here. the way you capture not just fashion but the heart, the personality of the person…it's incredible. i fashion inspiration for decades now!
I don´t know…. I like it, I don´t like it , I like it again…mmmmmm
Bring on the pleats! I love that classical 1940s look. I never completely gave them up. To those who think they're ugly, consider how great Dietrich looked, Katie Hepburn, and Grace Kelly. I am well-proportioned and not a plus size, so I'm going for it. If you refuse, that's your choice. The advantage of these pants are comfort without lycra and the ability to wear any panties you want without VPL! Remember that VPL became an issue again when tight-fitting, flat-front low rise pants came back in style from the 1970s.
Love how the belt adds a lot to this outfit..
She seems very refreshing to me – a non-snob.
i like her jacket :)
Ohh great post love it!
Wow, a lot of thumbs down.
O really liked this.


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I had fun that day with him and the cake and now cherish we had that as no one knew what the year ahead held. Not only did I lose my beloved Mom in November, but then Gibson left to keep her company in December.
My Flashbacks are from birthdays past that were shared with my amazing mother
and beloved Gibson. Pictured here is my Mom and me with a Husky she gave me as part of my gift! This birthday almost closes out the year's "firsts" of holidays and celebrations without my Mom and my boy, Gibson, here with me.
I wish I could say it has gotten easier. It hasn't. I miss them both with all my heart every single day. I'm just learning to adjust my life to their not being part of it; the absence they have left is always felt. They will be forever be in my heart.


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Sometimes a seemingly innocent problem can lead a newbie to proclaim, "SharePoint is crap!" Of course, we know from experience this is typically due to a personal problem, not a problem with the platform. One such simply innocent problem came from a mysterious visitation by the ancient Shuar people (who's practices included head shrinking, known as tsantsa).
From time to time, we've had users notice that the tabs in the ribbon get cut off or trimmed as shown below:
Took a while, but I finally found what is happening. It has to do with the zoom setting on your browser. The image above comes from IE8 set to 115% zoom:
Set the zoom level back to 100% (sometimes other zoom levels work, too) and the "shrunken tabs," "truncated tabs," or "trimmed tabs" (whatever you want to call it) goes away!
Although it appears the Shuar don't practice the art of tsantsa anymore, it may not be a bad idea to keep this in mind if you ever find your SharePoint UI being visited by the spirits of their ancestors leaving behind a case of shrunken head.


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About NanoNote development and availability
Moved from the page:
- PS: undoing my edit is a little pointless. I can redo it just as easily as you can unto it. I'm just trying to prove a point here, don't you get that? You're preserving a dead page. There is no NanoNote any more. There are a handful of people left with them, and some vestige of community spirit. But they're three years old now. I can buy something for a tenth of the price with equivalent computing power. And here's Qi Hardware, letting broken promises lie. Preserving a future that might have been, but isn't.
- In other words: if you're going to preserve this page, why not update it from time to time? If you're going to make the Ya NanoNote, why don't you stop fantasizing and make it? But if you've given up on it, as you clearly have for the most part, why don't you just take down the NanoNote stuff?
Huh? I'm just a volunteer here removing endless weight-loss spams and reverting general vandalism. And I moved your remarks to the talk page where they belong. I could probably lock this page if I wanted, but maybe people want to improve this site rather than just accuse people of "lying". It's not up to me to take this page down: Wolfgang seems to have given me access to administer this site, so I'm taking on that responsibility because maybe people will pick up on this again in future. I don't think anyone is "fantasizing" about anything: these were the original plans and they haven't worked out. No conspiracy theory or big deception at all!
I'll leave this little discussion up for now, but really it belongs on the talk page, not here. Perhaps we could put a note saying that this information is out of date without accusing people who made the effort to produce something in the first place of "lying".


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An invitation to stillness. Rest.
Then to re-enter your day renewed.
Choose a quiet time and space where you will be
undisturbed and undistracted.
Be present to yourself and open to God's Presence.
"May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart
be acceptable in your Presence, ADONAI, my Rock and Redeemer."
Psalm 19.15 CJB


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Creating healthy Muddy Buddies has been a goal of mine for the past several years. I'm proud to say that I've finally done it!
I remember the very first time I ate those sweet, crunchy, chocolatey, peanut-buttery treats. During Sunday school at church, of all places, the day after senior prom. Back in the day, you wore your prom dress to church the next day. My emerald green satin prom dress got powdered sugar all over it! Grrrr! But those addicting poppers were oh-so-worth the mess.
At the time I had no idea what those little things were and didn't have the again until my sister-in-law made them for a Super Bowl party! I may have eaten half the bowl by myself. Muddy Buddies has become a Super Bowl tradition since then, along with our 3 favorite finger foods.
This year I really couldn't care less about the teams that were playing in the Super Bowl. The Patriots are a bunch of cheaters and I know next to nothing about the Falcons. Good thing I didn't care about the Falcons after that abysmal loss.
Since I didn't care, I had to make sure the food was amazing and decided to real foodify Muddy Buddies. It wasn't easy trying to make healthy Muddy Buddies since they are a pretty unique treat.
How do I make healthy Muddy Buddies?
Chex isn't the worst cereal you could eat, but it's still highly processed with all sorts of added junk.
However, you've gotta have the addicting crunch and the vehicle for the chocolatey peanut buttery goodness. For my healthy Muddy Buddies I substituted nuts for the Chex and added some popcorn as a bonus for more bulk.
If you want to go full blown healthy, then make sure you soak and dry your nuts before adding them to this recipe. Confession time – we aren't very good at soaking our nuts consistently.
Powdered sugar is only good for… well nothing really, but it makes the Muddy Buddies not stick together. I substituted powdered sugar for powdered Sucanat. Try using arrowroot if you don't want that much sweetness, but we weren't huge fans of that version. Using 50/50 arrowroot and Sucanat wasn't too bad.
For peanut butter, I used an all-natural peanut butter to avoid the nasty veggie oils. I even made the chocolate from scratch with raw honey.
Alrighty, on to this beautiful masterpiece of healthy Muddy Buddies! Enjoy and let us know if you like them!
- 9 C popped popcorn (about 1/2 C kernels)
- 1.5 C mixed nuts (preferrably soaked and dried)
- 3/4 C homemade dark chocolate
- 1/2 C all nautral creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 C powdered sucanat (you can substitute half with arrowroot if you want less sweetness)
- Mix popped popcorn with nuts.
- Make the chocolate. We just used a mini fondue pot to heat it slowly since it burns easily. The recipe will give you more than you need. Save the rest for dipping strawberries in or putting into molds.
- Mix peanut butter into chocolate until melted.
- Pour chocolate mixture over the popcorn mixture and mix until evenly coated.
- Put mixture into gallon bag and add sucanat. Toss the contents together until sucanat is evenly coated.
- Pour onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet and chill in fridge for 15 minutes. Serve immediately or store in air tight container.


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I hung out with the Church of Scientology
In April I dragged a friend to spend time with me in the Church of Scientology; he is still unhappy.
P.S. All names have been changed into bad fake names.
Two hours after convincing him that it was a good idea, we were standing at the front doors of the Church of Scientology.
The west end of Castlereagh Street was its usual, weekend desert. Sparse walkers clip-clopped, to and fro.
The building was silent, still. The white stone was broken with panels and panels of windows and glass, and a large, white Scientology cross sat high above the entrance pass.
I rounded my hands at the edges of my eyes to look inside.
Cleaning products stood neatly arranged; a broom, left in a corner; the terrazzo stairway, the columns and the silver railing; and shiny surfaces, all white, white; white.
I moved from door to door, peeking inside, finding nothing.
It looks rich, I thought.
I pulled the heavy door, to and fro.
I moved to the second, heavier door. It didn't budge.
I pulled the first door, again.
I saw a face, and began to speak.
"Are you open?" I questioned through the glass with hand motions and exaggerated diction.
A young man pushed and opened the entrance, smiling, awkward. He did not seem to expect us, but he was expecting someone.
We needed to go to George Street, he explained, as a taller man slithered past me and into the building through the faintly open door. He didn't show his face, which seemed to be an effort.
"The grand opening is next Saturday."
"That's great!" I replied; my performance had begun.
The little man moved back into the church, and we were left outside, unwelcomed, pre-Clear intruders.
"Perfect, let's not do this," said Nicholas, a bearded man of five foot seven.
"Did you have to look like a poor person today, of all days?"
Corduroy pants, two sizes too big. A dark, military green bomber jacket sat larger than the oversized pants. An old, black beanie sat on his head. His beard almost hid the whole of his neck, crimped, dark, thick.
"We look crazy!"
I didn't know what a scientologist looked like, but I was sure they would know that we had an agenda.
The walk back to Haymarket was long and cool. Nicholas kept speaking of how unwanted the total situation was, and how he began to feel nervous.
As was I.
"I am a weak-willed man, I shouldn't be doing this," he said.
Two nights prior, my father spoke of the same sentiment. However in his mind I would become a Scientologist, and then a super-Scientologist by attaining Clear.
I took Nicholas' comments in jest, but two hours later I began to see how easily swayed he was.
As soon as we could see the UTS Tower, the ugliest building in Sydney, I began to call the stretch of George Street, Broadway.
And there it was, sitting on Broadway, that little enclave, bar the endless Free Personality Test fliers; and a little table, with a little man, with a little purple machine, measuring the stress of strangers through a lie detector test.
The Scientology Information Centre was finally to my right, as was Nicholas, whose face spoke volumes.
"I hate you."
The main entrance was beside its smaller, street-front office. And inside was unimposing, actually underwhelming. My expectations of golden drapes and embellishments, crosses, shelves of magical figurines and a devastatingly large oil painting of L. Ron Hubbard were dimmed, quickly.
I straightened my back, blasted a smile as big as Nicholas' jacket and began my bit.
The woman at the front desk looked very young, no more than 22. I pretended not to notice the small puppy rested longways on her thighs.
"Hi, how are you?" she asked.
"We're great! Thank you."
A man appeared, standing to the right of her desk. Black hair, short, smiling, awkward.
Through an American accent he told me about the church and its volunteers.
"It feels like there is a great community spirit," I said, judging myself but being impressed with my performance.
I began to tell my audience a story of a friend, a friend who once took a tour at the Church of Scientology, and suggested that I do, too. I didn't feel bad, this was the truth; albeit I did omit his reaction post experience.
"I've been into the Scientology church a few times to watch the introductory video, because it is so hilarious. A-plus, highly recommended."
Question after question littered our banter. The young woman worked with the church for around one year, as a volunteer – an arrangement seemingly made with all workers of the church: volunteer, receive free courses of Scientology.
I leant at the front desk; next to my right hand sat a small stack of fliers, advertising the grand opening of the refurbished church on Castlereagh. Not noticing the date I would never make, I was determined to go.
Getting an invitation was surprisingly easy, and free, but the ticket and ticket stub required my name, and as paranoia seeped into me, I made a decision to give my real one.
Moments later Nicholas and I were sat at a desk. Two folders were placed in front of us, a cup of pencils made available for answering; and "if you have any questions, please ask anyone for help."
The feeling of hospitality and acceptance worried me.
We were ready to test our personalities through the Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA) test; a test, administered freely and for free by the Church of Scientology, and one that name drops Oxford for credibility, despite having no relation to the university.
The test was 200 questions long, reading like a psychological evaluation.
Question one: "Do you make thoughtless remarks or accusations which later you regret?"
Question three: "Do you browse through railway timetables, directories or dictionaries just for pleasure?"
Question 55: "When hearing a lecturer, do you sometimes experience the idea that the speaker is referring entirely to you?"
Question 200: "Do you consider you have many warm friends?"
Turning to me, Nicholas whispered: "I am answering these randomly." But thinking too much, he fell into honesty almost immediately.
The room smelled sweet, but I couldn't pin the scent. Our whispers were lame attempts as we attracted more and more attention.
One after another people came up to our seats to welcome us, ask how we were and if we were well looked after.
Yes, yes; yes to all! Smiles plastered.
People continued to appear from doors, darting in and out, coming from the church on Castlereagh, and leaving to the church of Castlereagh.
Children, too, were there.
"There may be microphones," Nicholas mumbled, eyes wide open.
Our whispers were littered with jokes that turned into whispers of paranoid truths.
An old laptop sat under our table, and I began to browse through the mass collection of Hubbard's teachings and writings. It stood in front of me, on a mantelpiece, the mass collection. Unreasonably prolific, all sat shiny and countless, the DVDs and books available for sale to better myself.
What felt longer than one hour went by as we carefully coloured in little circles to signify our answers with our lead pencils. Some questions seemed decisively confusing, and my yeses began to mean no. And I didn't read the instructions correctly. And my pencil broke. And my sheet was covered in streaks of eraser and lead.
As Nicholas finished his test, an older man popped up to collect the answer-sheet, now marked with a fake name, but a fake first name only: Joey Jackson.
The older man smiled and hovered over my right shoulder as I felt pressured to hurriedly shade in the last three circles of my last three answers.
Despite my real name inked into the ticket stub for the grand opening on Saturday, May 3rd, I became flustered and chose my partner's last name for the examination: Anna Hart.
We will go to the front to run the reports, the older man explained, motioning for us to follow him past the puppy, which was now on the floor; past the front desk, and the young woman of no more than 22; and through the exit, outside, and into the entrance to our right, walking under a roller door.
Please, take a seat.
We took a seat.
Five minutes passed – nothing.
Ten minutes passed – nothing, still.
Some minutes later we were welcomed by the older man to take another seat in front of his desk and across from him and our profiles.
He wore two Scientology pins, one on the collar of his sports jacket, and one on the collar of his shirt.
Before we sat down the older man introduced himself, and as Nicholas shook his hand, he also forgot the new name with which he had christened himself only minutes earlier:
"Great to meet you, I'm Nicholas!"
I swallowed a laugh, feeling my face drop behind a wonderful grin.
A loud "fuck" resonated inside my head as the older man looked stunned, pointing to a report reading Joey Jackson.
Nicholas backpedalled.
"Nicholas is my middle name, but I like to go by that."
I was sure he knew that we were lying, and began to feel terrible for it. My guilt was triggered by the older man's face; he was giving us his real time, and real name, after all.
Somehow, the jig was not up and we began discussing our results.
The profiles were negative, so very negative, and very similar in the drops and the highs.
Nicholas was noted as depressed, active and critical. Attention Urgent, it read.
I was noted as depressed, irresponsible and critical. ATTENTION URGENT, it read.
Casually, the older man gave an anecdote of up-and-down profiles concurring with school and university shooters; my profile matched these profiles, casually.
Nicholas was the first test subject, and as his personality was analysed, his face lifted from confidence to worry. The will began to disappear, and the mind began to buy the criticism, to buy the offer, to buy the dogma, to buy the help offered by scientology.
The concept of bettering oneself is reasonable; the conversation was reasonable; the welcome and hospitality were all reasonable; but for a stranger to tell a stranger that multiple mental issues are present, and that problems are present, and that you are a problem who needs urgent attention, is dangerous.
Like a psychiatrist, a therapist, psychologist or a rehab facility using a process like the traumatic experience of the Trauma Egg, Scientology begins with its want to uncover suppressed traumas of childhood; and then it wants to break you down; and then it wants to build you up, rebuilding you in its image.
But, instead of a professional examining your mind, Scientology does this through Dianetics.
To save our souls, we were offered:
One Personal Values of Integrity seminar: $55.00;
One book on Dianetics: $30.00;
One DVD on Dianetics: $30.00;
A saving of $20 if we purchase the book and the DVD in one transaction.
"I have to say."
"Don't say it! I'm thinking the same thing," Nicholas answered.
"I have to say… It all seemed reasonable."
The walk to my apartment was a contemplation of the last few hours. I contemplated how easy it was to be sucked into the church; Nicholas contemplated how the church could help him.
"How do you feel?"
"I fucking hate you."
His answer was also reasonable.
Smoking a cigarette on my balcony I began to learn that I could not remove a strange feeling which seemed to envelop me, and days would pass before a subtle guilt moved on and on.
Nicholas was lying across my old, brown leather couch, still, stuck in his mind.
"This is what a sect does: they tell you that you have a problem, they break you down and make you believe that they can fix you."
A 1971 report "Enquiry into the Practice and Effects of Scientology" by Sir John Foster, K.B.E., Q.C., MP outlines that the OCA has previously been investigated. This included investigation by a Working Party of the British Psychological Society, made up of a clinical psychologist, a consultant in psychological selection, and a university lecturer in psychology.
All three took the test; all three answered the questions randomly and in a pre-determined fashion; and all "three methods produced remarkably similar profiles, in which the scores on the first three scales [stable/unstable; happy/depressed; composed/nervous] were in an extreme position in the range marked "unacceptable" … All profile results then rose into the "normal" or "desirable" range over the next 2-4 scales [certainty/uncertainty; active/inactive; aggressive/inhibited; responsible (causative)/irresponsible] and showed a return to "unacceptable" over the remaining scales [correct estimation/critical; appreciative/lack of accord; comm. level/withdrawn]."
Nicholas and I produced remarkably similar profiles to the Working Party of the British Psychological Society, some four decades on.


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National Statistics
Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2014 to 2015 (revised)
Revised details of the level of Council Tax set by local authorities in England.
These statistics published on 23 July 2014 have superseded those published on 26 March 2014. Minor revisions were made due to changes as a result of further validation work to clarify the treatment of parishes. The revisions affect the figures for 2013 to 2014 and 2014 to 2015 in table 6 but do not change any key points from the original release.
The key points from the latest release are:
the average Band D Council Tax set by local authorities in England for 2014 to 2015 will be £1,468, which is an increase of £12 or 0.9% on the 2013 to 2014 figure of £1,456
the average Band D Council Tax will be £1,296 in London (a decrease of £6 when compared with 2013 to 2014), £1,434 (+£13) in metropolitan areas, £1,502 (+£16) in unitary authority areas and £1,527 (+£17) in shire areas
the Council Tax requirement (excluding parish precepts) in 2014 to 2015 is £23.6 billion, £0.57 billion more than 2013 to 2014
parish precepts in 2014 to 2015 will total £389 million which is £22 million higher than in 2013 to 2014.
in 2014 to 2015, 251 out of 421 (60%) authorities will receive the council tax freeze grant - this is 6 fewer than 2013 to 2014; this varies by type of authority, from 14% of police authorities to 68% of shire districts and 100% in London
there will be a decrease in the average Council Tax for the London area of 0.4%
there will be an increase in the overall average Band D Council Tax for police and crime commissioners of 1.2%; if the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime in London is excluded this figure rises to 1.7%
Last updated 23 July 2014 + show all updates
- Revised statistics and tables added.
- First published.


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Achieving Your Potential, Despite Adversity
Life is an adventure, a journey through many valleys with many mountains to climb. You're going to get tired, you're going to be hungry, you're going to feel lost. Some nights will be cold and filled with scary things. Some days will be long, hot and without comfort. Take the time, even when it's hard, especially when you don't feel like it, to stop and look back to see how far you have come. Look at your life in awe for what you have accomplished and know that you have the ability, the grace and the wisdom to continue moving… Read more.


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If not, what would you like to know from a farmer about GMOs? Do you think GMO foods should be labeled? Why or why not?
I feel uneasy about GMOs. I definitely don't know enough about them and frankly, I'm not sure if there is anyone on this planet that has a comprehensive understanding about their implications to the overall health of the planet's ecology.
I'm not sure if a farmer would be the best source of information about GMOs. Plant scientists -- botanists, geneticists, and others -- would likely be a better group of people to start answering questions, but my guess is that we won't know the real world impact to the global ecosystem for a generation or two.
Because there are so many unanswered questions about GMO foods, prudence would dictate that they should be fully disclosed and labeled and leave it up to the consumer to decide whether or not to eat it. Public safety should take priority over agricultural economics and marketing.
Human have been genetically modifying their food since they started growing it millennia ago, choosing parent plants and animals based on desirable traits. The Internet and the populous's outrage fetish have demonized it, like gluten , fat and carbs in their turn, without even the attempt of understanding.
True, hybridized plants and animals created by breeding was done slowly over time and did not have major implications on a global food production system.
In the old way, if something didn't work out, well, it would die and you'd try something else. If I cross Orchid A and Orchid B to create AxB and it grew spines, it doesn't even mean anything to the person across the street.
Today, if some unexpected consequence emerged from a megafarm, it could be very costly, both in terms of money but possibly the environment.
I'm definitely not against hybrids, cultivars, breeds or other altered plants and animals. I do hope that there is a lot of caution and careful observation before slowly introducing these new things to the consumer marketplace.
But you fail to see the politics and control behind gmo's when you wither the concept down to demonization and compare it to food trends. The organizations creating these genetically modified foods are looking to not only manipulate the foods we eat but to patent seeds creating a situation where food is no longer independent.
Cross breeding plants to create new varieties of a plants compared to splicing a bacteria or pesticide into a plant ( GMO) is a new concept and is not what humans have been doing for centuries.
The ownership of the seeds is a side of the conversation that I think often gets overshadowed by possible health concerns and it's a shame because it's an extremely important part of the discussion so thank you for bringing it up.
I'm curious, though, could you describe a situation where food actually IS independent?
There's a huge difference between botanical hybridization and actual genetic alteration. The *potential* problems lie in the fact that organisms have a less diverse genetic sequence than the amount of proteins that make up their characteristics. Which means, when you fool with one aspect of a creature, there's no way to tell what you're inevitably altering in addition. There are scenarios that suggest that we could be activating all sorts of allergies and sensitivities by altering simple genes that promote productivity and strength.
While they are just unproven scenarios, if rather eat something completely unaltered and not have to worry about it.
Try as might. You'll never be able to cross breed a salmon with a tomato.
I mean independent more as an expression in having access to seeds that have been passed down through the ages that have not been manipulated or are owned by an enterprise. Yes, I know that many of seeds used to grow our foods are hybrids probably created and sold wholesale in order to grow foods that are predictable but GMO foods go against this grain by posing seeds that will never be passed down in that sense. This is a dilemma because truly independent seeds may not be part of our industrialized diets today but seeds that are heirloom are still part of the diets of many "non-industrial" peoples of the world -- by allowing GMOs an opportunity to become the the dominant seed - you slowly take away seed diversity and ultimately the ability to pass down seeds to future generations.
Sadly this may not be a matter to people since farming as an occupation is dwindling worldwide as people living in rural settings are moving to the cities but no matter how technical we become as a world we will always need food.
So as long as farmers are dwindling and seed patenting is not seen as a problem- a scenario can result where another natural resource like water is privatized and controlled by a few people. GMOs also promote monoculture which in itself poses problems for food security globally.
You might find interesting this piece in the Washington Post a few months ago, which addresses GMOs, among other food-related topics of interest: http://www.washingtonpost...
Its a hard question. Clearly GMO foods offer some exciting potentials: hardier plants, more productive plants to alleviate famine, plants that need less water, etc.
However, GMO engineering can create radically new organisms that have not been in our ecology before. I worry about unintended consequences. Few new things that we try play out with some unintended consequences and the scope for disaster with GMO is huge.
But is a generalized, non-specific fear enough to forgo the positive potentials?
I am undecided, but I do favor labeling, as opposed to banning.
I'm an organic farmer but I have a really hard time relating to some of my peers because I don't like the way the GMO debate is being handled by opponents. The recent extended piece on Slate.com is a great article that makes many excellent points. I see many of the same tactics being used by the non-gmo groups as being identical to those of climate denier and anti-vaccination groups. There needs to be dialogue but the conversation has become impossibly polarized.


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I am a big lover of ranch. I always have been and I always will be. But have you looked at the ingredients on a bottle of store-bought ranch? Below is a picture taken from Kraft ranch dressing (which used to be my favourite).
There are so many ingredients! That is not necessary, people!
Today, I'm going to share with you a "skinny" version of ranch dressing (or dip – up to you!) that I found on the amazing site The Skinny Fork. Not only is this recipe lighter in calories, sodium, fat, and sugar, it only has four ingredients, AND it is extremely quick and easy to make! There is no reason at all not to switch to this skinny homemade ranch and kick the store-bought ranch to the curb!
The recipe:
1/2 c. Fat Free Plain Greek Yogurt
2 Tbsp. Fat Free Milk (+ 1-2 Tbsp. for Dressing)
3 1/2 Tbsp. Light Mayonnaise
1/2 Tbsp. Dry Ranch Seasoning (which you can find a homemade version of as well here)
All you do is whisk all the above ingredients (leaving out the additional 1-2 Tbsp. of milk) in a bowl. Then, you decide the consistency by adding more milk to your liking. And it will look like this:
Comparison of nutritional info
Based on a serving size of 1 Tbsp., the homemade ranch has 20.1 calories and store-bought has 50!
Homemade has 57.7 mg of sodium, while store-bought has 115 mg!
Homemade has 1.2 g of fat, while store-bought has 6 g!
Which ranch would you rather eat?
For Amanda's full recipe on The Skinny Fork, click here.


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Experiences of linking community-based housing finance to formal finance mechanisms.
This paper, available from www.homeless-international.org/bfg, draws on Homeless International's twelve years of experience in developing methods for financing community-driven housing and infrastructure initiatives in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Findings from the ongoing Bridging the Finance Gap in Housing and Infrastructure research project are also incorporated.
A major focus of the paper is a consideration of the resources that the poor bring to the negotiating table when their organisations enter into partnership arrangements with local authorities and formal financial institutions to implement community-driven urban development projects.
Gavle meeting on Housing Finance, held in Sweden, March 28, 2001. Homeless International. pp. 35
Experiences of linking community-based housing finance to formal finance mechanisms.


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Court weighs if doctors can not treat lesbian
Less than two weeks after legalizing same-sex marriages in California, the state Supreme Court had some tough questions Wednesday for a lawyer defending doctors who refused on religious grounds to provide artificial insemination for a lesbian.
The case of Guadalupe Benitez presents the justices with issues of civil rights and discrimination from a different perspective than the one they addressed May 15, when they overturned the state's opposite-sex-only marriage law.
Benitez sued North Coast Women's Care, a fertility clinic in Vista (San Diego County), and two of its doctors who refused in 2000 to provide intrauterine insemination. She said Christine Brody, her treating physician, and Douglas Fenton, the clinic's medical director, told her their Christian beliefs prohibited them from furnishing the infertility treatment for a lesbian couple.
Benitez's lawyers said the doctors gave the same explanation in sworn declarations but asserted in later depositions that they would refuse the treatment to any unmarried couple. The distinction is potentially important if the case goes to trial because, at the time, California courts had ruled that state law barred businesses from denying service to gays and lesbians but had not yet decided whether the law also prohibited discrimination based on marital status.
The state Supreme Court outlawed such discrimination in 2005. It has not said, however, whether it was illegal before then.
The issue at Wednesday's hearing in San Francisco was whether the doctors, or any business owners or employees, can invoke their religious beliefs to justify refusing to provide service to a particular person or group. The doctors in Benitez's case are asking the court to let them rely on their religion as a defense in her pending damage suit.
"The law should not allow one side to trump another side's rights," said Kenneth Pedroza, lawyer for the doctors and the clinic.
Arguing that California's Constitution contains an ironclad guarantee of religious freedom, Pedroza said the rights of doctors and patients can both be served as they were in this case, when his clients referred Benitez to a physician elsewhere who was willing to provide artificial insemination. The treatment did not succeed in impregnating her, but she later became pregnant through other means and is raising three children with her partner.
Pedroza was questioned skeptically by Justice Carol Corrigan, who dissented from the court's 4-3 marriage ruling and argued that the rights of gays and lesbians to wed should be conferred by the people and not the courts.
On Wednesday, Corrigan suggested there are only two legal options for doctors with strong religious beliefs: Choose a field of practice that doesn't conflict with those beliefs or provide their services to anyone who needs them.
Corrigan said Pedroza's clients had told Benitez, in effect, "I am not going to do it for you because of who you are."
No, Pedroza replied, each doctor had simply let Benitez know that "I am not going to compromise my sincerely held religious belief."
Chief Justice Ronald George, author of the majority opinion on same-sex marriage, also challenged Pedroza, asking whether he would claim a right for doctors to deny service to ethnic minorities on religious grounds.
Pedroza said he that knows of no religious doctrine that forbids any type of medical treatment for minorities but that the law must accommodate any doctor who sincerely holds such a belief.
A ruling is due in 90 days. After the hearing, Benitez, 36, said she wasn't trying to interfere with the doctors' religious beliefs. But she said they needed to be reminded that they are in the business of practicing medicine, "not abandoning the patient."
It hurts "to be told you're not worthy of being a mother or having a child," said Benitez, standing alongside Joanne Clark, her partner of 18 years.
The court has rejected others' claims that they are exempt from civil rights laws because of their religious beliefs. In 1996, the justices required a landlady to rent to an unmarried couple despite her religious objections, saying she must follow the law or find another vocation.
A 2004 ruling required Catholic Charities to abide by a state law that required company-sponsored health plans to offer contraception for women. The court said Catholic Charities, which serves and employs many non-Catholics, did not qualify for the exemption the law provides to religious employers.
Benitez's lawyer, Jennifer Pizer of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, said Wednesday that those rulings provide ample authority for the court to require all doctors to abide by the state's Unruh Act, which protects business customers against discrimination. She said doctors who have religious or moral objections to a certain procedure or treatment - abortion, for example - can refuse to provide it to anyone but cannot be selective.
"Doctors can choose their procedures," Pizer told the court, "but they can't pick and choose among their patients."
The case is North Coast Women's Care Medical Group vs. Superior Court (Benitez), S142892.


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The Eco-Patent Commons reaches a new milestone
I've talked about the Eco-Patent Commons a couple of times before, including in a recent announcement of a presentation I gave yesterday at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA-Canada Annual Meeting.
Fortunately my presentation happened to coincide with a press release that was issued yesterday and which announces two new members: Dow Chemical and Fuji-Xerox, as well as a new pledge by Xerox. This brings the number of members to 11 and the number of patents in the commons to 100.
As I stated before while these numbers do not demonstrate an explosion in membership and pledged patents I'm pleased to see a continuous increase on both fronts. In particular, the fact that existing members keep adding patents, beyond the initial pledge done to become a member, demonstrates a real commitment to the commons.
Based on the feedback I got and the people who came to meet me afterward, my talk at LES was very well received and spiked quite some interest. I have to say that it must have been quite a change for these people who otherwise pretty much only hear about generating more money out of their IP for three full days!
I hope all this helps spread the word on this important project. Just to give an example of a tangible impact this project already had. IBM pledged a patent on the substitution of a toxic solvent used in the manufacturing of electronic chip by a mixture of alcohol and water better for the environment. We've been informed that the Yale University is now using this for its quantum computing device research. How cool is that?
Please, look into it if you haven't done so already. Participating in such a project is a great opportunity to show leadership in the protection of the environment, and looking for ways to foster sustainable development not only makes good sense, it is simply part of our social responsibility.
I'm attaching the slides I used at the conference.
Eco-Patent Commons at LES USA-Canada 2009 Annual Meeting
Eco-Patent Commons at LES Meeting in San Francisco
I've talked about the Eco-Patent Commons before on this blog and I just want to advertise the fact that I will be speaking about it at the upcoming LES Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
I'm always shy to point out any recordings or podcasts that get published on the web because I find it to always be a very humbling experience to hear myself speak. This may be something that's true for about everybody but I guess even more so for those of us who have to speak in a language different from our native language.
But in an effort not to let this get in the way of shedding more light on what I think is a great project I want to say that I gave a short interview that is now posted on the meeting website. In this interview I introduce what the Eco-Patent Commons is about.
I encourage everybody to attend the meeting and learn more about this initiative. In the meantime, please, listen to the podcast and check the Eco-Patent Commons website.
As the world faces unprecedented global environmental challenges there hasn't been a better time for everyone of us to look at what we can do to help. The Eco-Patent Commons provides a new and unique way to make an impact. I urge everybody to look into it and give it some serious consideration. It is good for everybody, including you.
And if you come around the LES meeting in a few weeks please come and meet me there.
I look forward to this event.


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PVCHR wrote pardon petition to H.E Shri Ram Naik ji, Governor of Uttar Pradesh Lucknow on 31st May, 2017 regarding release of the Ram Ji Chauhan and Suresh Chauhan who are languishing in Naini Central Jail, Allahabad from last 20 years. http://pvchr.blogspot.in/2017/06/sub-regarding-release-of-ram-ji-chauhan.html
They both were awarded with death penalty in section 302, 307 and 449 IPC which was later converted in life imprisonment on the order of Honorable Supreme Court in WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO. 55 OF 2013 http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/outtoday/wpc552013.pdf
Ram Ji Chauhan and Suresh Chauhan were the bread earner and now their families are leaving in abject poverty due to which his daughters were unable to continue their education after class 10th. Now one of the daughters is suffering from some neurological problem. For the past 20 years I have waited and pray every moment. My family has been with me all these years and all our family members have only one hope to see my husband back in the family as he was earlier. My daughters also ask questions about their father and I console them by saying he would return soon. 73 years old his mother Mula Devi is searching her son.
Ram Ji wife Usha Chauhan is making paper toy and his brother is selling balloon to meet the two end of family. The family is living in the rented shed at 57/126 B Nawapura, Maidagin, police station Kotwali district Varanasi.
The conducts of Ram Ji Chauhan and Suresh Chauhan are disciplined and humanistic in Naini Prison at Allahabad.
Therefore we request you to write letter His Excellency Government on his email email@example.com and also to Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh email@example.com taking the reference of Hon'ble High Court judgment in CRIMINAL WRIT-PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION No. - 2357 of 1997 Bachche lal v/s State of UP (http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/WebShowJudgment.do) to kindly provide pardon from the life imprisonment award and release both of them. It is noted that honorable Supreme Court gave recent judgment in this context, which is published in Newspaper.
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The world of network marketing has changed dramatically over the past few years and many people are wondering if online MLM is the key to making them the "next Internet millionaire". In this brief article, I'm going to give you some reasons why I feel it's possible to really clean up with a good online MLM opportunity right now. Hopefully by the time you've finished reading this, you'll have picked up a few ideas that if applied can make you "the next Internet millionaire".
The beauty of online MLM lies in the fact that you can take advantage of the power of leverage. Building a downline in an easily duplicated network marketing opportunity will have you collecting commission checks week in and week out, even when you're not actively working to build your business. This is known as "residual income", and it can make you very, very wealthy.
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Many who are involved in the MLM industry are still trapped in the 80's as far as their marketing systems go. By using Internet marketing strategies to build your network marketing business, there's no need to use any of the old school techniques relied upon by traditional multi-level marketers such as cold calling, hounding friends and family, and hotel meetings. This is the way to build a real MLM business today, and in far less time than it would take using outdated methods.
Hopefully this article has given you a few reasons why you should look into online MLM businesses as a way to make you the next Internet millionaire. In my opinion, we're entering the golden-era for network marketing and there is a ton of potential if the right approach is used. Keep in mind that although MLM can make you wealthy, it will require work on your part to ultimately achieve the results you're after.
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Park benches seem to be good places for epiphanies. I had one, and it was about park benches.
When I was a kid, in good weather, when most of my friends were playing baseball, I was sitting on a bench overlooking the Harlem River, in New York, and reading. Probably the reason I never made it to the majors. The epiphany today was that all these many years later I'm sitting on a bench and writing. There's a kind of symmetry to that that I find satisfying.
At some point in its course northward, for some reason probably now forgotten, the East River becomes the Harlem River. Nothing about it changes but the name. At the point where I knew it it divides Manhattan from The Bronx. It's quite narrow at that spot; you can throw a rock across it easily.
Give you a time marker: had you thrown one while I was reading, you'd have hit a Hooverville on the bank on the Bronx side. The corrugated tin and cardboard shacks were there through the Depression years, until World War II restored the country to prosperity and the occupants found work at Iwo Jima, Anzio, and the Ardennes. I'd seen the West Pointers of a decade or two earlier described as "the class the stars fell on"; they were the generals. Those guys across the river were the generation the sky fell in on. I knew a man who went straight from riding the rods to fighting his way across Saipan. He was only five years older than I was.
But I digress.
Bernard Baruch, who is cited variously in other posts here, used a park bench to meet with people while advising the government. I don't know if he holds the record, but he advised six presidents in office through two World Wars. Woodrow Wilson to Harry Truman; think about that. I doubt the presidents themselves left the White House for his bench (but then I don't know that they didn't, either.)
Were he alive today, Baruch would be an Internet "Influencer" and "Thought Leader." I don't know that he was ever a CEO, so he might not have been eligible for that ultimate validation. I also don't know if (but I like to think that) he fed squirrels from his bench, as I like to do. In no other way would I try to equate myself with Bernard Baruch, but squirrels are democratic. On the end of a peanut, Barney and I would be the same to them.


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In a final time of reflection, while writing a short paper summing up my thoughts and lessons gained from my time in India, I realized that there were two things that really stood out to me as key personal takeaways. I also have gained a lot of skills revolving around the entire research process, but keeping time and space in mind, I will just speak to personal growth in this post.
First, I cannot emphasize how much I feel like I have gained from coming to understand the importance of smiling and making sure to have a visibly warm presence while in social situations. By social situations, I am not just referring to drinks with friends or family dinners, but really any time that social interaction might happen, and any time in public. I had so many memorable and sudden interactions with strangers who approached me after I smiled at them. In fact, just in the last day or two, I had a similar interaction with a stranger asking for directions, who told me that he walked up to me because I was presenting myself as warm. I'm proud of this, as it was a big goal of mine coming back to the US.
Second, the trip taught me a new level of self-reliance. I do not want to go as far as saying that I am completely self-reliant, because that is not the case, but I have found a much better, healthy and sustainable balance. Before the trip, I tended to turn to others before looking into myself for answers and thoughts. But after nearly a month on my own, I learned the value and specific tools on how to rely on myself.
This trip literally has changed my life, in all positive ways. I cannot thank everyone who was involved enough. You have helped give me more than I will ever be able to repay.


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- n. Any of a group of steroid alcohols, phytochemicals naturally occurring in plants. They are white powders with mild, characteristic odor, insoluble in water and soluble in alcohols.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as phytosterin.
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Peanut and peanut products were found to contain a substance called phytosterol beta-sitosterol (SIT).
Also, Professor Schleimer had similarly been collaborating with me in the detection of phytosterol in mixtures of animal and vegetable fats.
I started to take a phytosterol complex of 1000 mg. but am only taking one per day.
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If you do more research, one will find that the recommended daily dose of phytosterol is 1800 mg.
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Cholesterol is frequently found in animal fats, and phytosterol is a very similar substance present in vegetable fats.
The unsaponifiable matter naturally present as cholesterol, or phytosterol, ranges in the various oils and fats from 0.2 to 2.0 per cent.
The presence of cholesterol and phytosterol may be detected by dissolving a small portion of the unsaponifiable matter in acetic anhydride, and adding a drop of the solution to one drop of 50 per cent. sulphuric acid on a spot plate, when a characteristic blood red to violet coloration is produced.
Another method is to convert the substance into acetate, and take its melting point, cholesterol acetate melting at 114. 3-114.8° C., and phytosterol acetate at 125. 6°-137° C. Additional tests for cholesterol have been recently proposed by
It has been proposed to differentiate between cholesterol and phytosterol by their melting points, but it is more reliable to compare the crystalline forms, the former crystallising in laminæ, while the latter forms groups of needle-shaped tufts.
_ -- Unsaponifiable matter may consist of cholesterol, phytosterol, solid alcohols (cetyl and ceryl alcohols), or hydrocarbons (mineral oil).


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Our Story
Goshen Valley is committed to creating environments of safety, love and stability for youth in foster care. With the ongoing need of foster families in Georgia, Goshen Valley meets that need with a family-based model of care for children, youth and young adults. We partner with leaders in the community to help shape the lives of the youth we serve.
The Goshen Valley Foundation was established in 1998 after God moved on the hearts of the Blend family to donate their ranch property as a way to care for foster children. Through the leadership of founder John Blend, in 2001 the Goshen Valley Boys Ranch was created to care for young men in foster care. Over the past 16 years Goshen Valley has expanded and now has three programs, Goshen Valley Boys Ranch, Goshen New Beginnings and Goshen Homes. Each program has a unique focus and ministry to foster children in Georgia.
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