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US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice on Children
Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. What's particularly interesting is the fact that the agencies decided they even needed to test the rice, after claiming that GMO rice and all other GM creations are virtually identical to natural foods.
Currently under investigation by Chinese health officials, the research project was cracked wide open after Greenpeace reportedly corresponded with the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention to expose the ongoing research. Currently, Greenpeace is calling for a stop to the trials which are reportedly continuing in the field. Citing health and environmental risks, Greenpeace says that the studies are taking place on roughly 24 children aged between six and eight years old. It has also been said that the parents likely were completely unaware or misinformed.
The USDA seeks to examine the effects of the GMO rice on the young children, also known as genetically modified 'golden rice'.
Shortly after the news came out, China's version of Twitter exploded with outrage as Chinese government organizations went into overdrive to downplay the studies. A Tufts University PR spokesperson, the very university developing the rice, claimed to no knowledge of the event and decried it as inhumane and unethical. PR rep Andrea Grossman stated that the GMO rice creators had always placed the 'highest importance' on human health:
"We have always placed the highest importance on human health, and we take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of human research subjects."
One Chinese author indicated in the secret GMO rice trials, Shi-an Yin, was suspended from his work. The second claimed to have no idea the study was going on and was therefore not arrested or even suspended.
For the USDA to be secretly testing genetically modified foods on young children while disregarding all calls for real analysis in the United States shows just how the agency is trying to hide. After all, why would you not perform trials out in the open if the results were so favorable? Likely because their previous secret tests were not favorable, and the agency is determining just how detrimental new GMO rice really is.
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Governor Hamzeh E'temad said giant waves smashed the port city at 08:10 local time on March 19, 2017, injuring 18 people and killing at least 1. Six people are still missing, according to Deputy Governor Namdar Darvishi.
For MEHR News Agency, the head of Bushehr's Persian Gulf Oceanography Centre Ehsan Abedi said the reason behind the giant waves and sea overflow is a natural phenomenon called Seiche. The effect is caused by resonances in a body of water that has been disturbed by one or more of a number of factors, most often meteorological effects (wind and atmospheric pressure variations), seismic activity or by tsunamis.
Seiches are often imperceptible to the naked eye, and observers in boats on the surface may not notice that a seiche is occurring due to the extremely long wavelengths. They can be considered long period or infragravity waves, which are due to subharmonic nonlinear wave interaction with the wind waves, have periods longer than the accompanying wind-generated waves.
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A cargo ship arriving from Morocco last week might seem like just another working vessel in New Bedford's busy commercial waterfront, but to city officials, the little orange fruit it carried symbolizes a potentially bright future.
A cargo ship arriving from Morocco last week might seem like just another working vessel in New Bedford's busy commercial waterfront, but to city officials, the little orange fruit it carried symbolizes a potentially bright future.
The 400-foot-vessel, hauling Mediterranean clementines bound for Canada, is part of the city's existing break-bulk cargo trade, an industry term referring to packaged cargo that is shipped on smaller pallets than the standard steel shipping containers.
The ship's fruit, which arrives each winter, is New Bedford's foot in the door in international food trade circles, which local officials would like to see blown wide open.
The city built its reputation on its harbor, first as whalers in an industry that peaked in the mid-19th Century, later as distributors for a booming textile trade and today with seafood, maintaining the highest catch value of any port in the United States for more than a decade.
The port currently supports about 200 marine-related businesses and a fleet of about 500 fishing vessels. Recent efforts to re-establish ferry services to Martha's Vineyard and Cuttyhunk and to develop a local cruise ship destination have added to a thriving marine business environment.
Now city and port officials want to take the next step, positioning New Bedford as a leading intermodal facility with particular specialties in moving perishable food and a plan to lure emerging clean energy technologies here.
It's a long-term and somewhat risky strategy, one that includes factors outside city control. But if it works, it could be New Bedford's ticket into global shipping arenas.
"In my view, New Bedford's port is also New Bedford's future," said Mayor Jon Mitchell. "Our goal is to continue our preeminence in the commercial fishing industry but also expand in other sectors, and we've been working hard to grow our import-export capacity."
Two projects in particular are taking center stage. One involves building a maritime facility to support offshore wind development. The other, the import goal to which Mitchell referring, is perhaps less sexy, but nonetheless exciting, because it builds on existing seafood infrastructure without the need for large infusions of capital.
Meximar, the brainchild of local freight company Maritime International, is a planned international shipping route set to haul produce from Mexico to New Bedford and return there carrying local goods. If successful, it will expand current international traffic to New Bedford, like the Mediterranean clementine, by establishing similar trade routes with Mexico, hauling Mexican grown products like tomatoes, avocados, and limes.
The route will cost less, be more environmentally friendly and grow business for the freight company, said David Wechsler, company president, who called the move a reflection of a national shift away from trucking toward shipping.
"It makes economic sense," he said. "All traditional food chain links will eventually move from trucking to the sea."
"The goal is to make New Bedford a hub for international fresh produce for New England and Eastern Canada," said Edward Anthes-Washburn, deputy port director. "The key sort of thing we're trying to do here is to have the opportunities be as diverse as possible so if something like the home industry tanks, there are other sectors that we can rely on."
Mitchell agreed.
"Our efforts are based on the recognition that our port represents our economic advantage," the mayor said. "New Bedford can compete well in any industry that relies on the use of water. Other cities that lack port assets like ours will struggle to compete in the future. So, in order to maintain and enhance our economic viability, we're putting all our efforts into making the most of these assets."
New Bedford's strengths for potential importers include its location. For shippers, the port is easily reached and is closer to prime global ports than several of its Eastern seaboard counterparts such as Philadelphia, said Wechsler. Proximity counts, he said, because each day at sea for a cargo ship can cost in the range of $20,000 to $25,000.
For buyers and sellers, it's the city's proximity to Canadian markets that is attractive. Based on the existing seafood industry, New Bedford already has the infrastructure in place, from cold storage warehouses to connections to rail and trucks and a skilled work force.
And it can get easily-spoiled produce to Canada quickly.
Once a cargo ship hits dock, longshoremen from Maritime International can unload it in 12 hours, making it possible for fruit to reach port in early afternoon and be sold in Canada the next morning, according to Wechsler. The efficient operation gives buyers confidence that their product will be received in quality condition and is one of the reasons port officials believe they can increase harbor business.
The end result of a trade increase is jobs, local officials said. An influx of international cargo to New Bedford could lead to new production and distribution facilities in the region.
"The idea would be to get some of those jobs in and around the port once we become a terminal for fresh produce," said Anthes-Washburn. "At this point in the status of New England, there are not very many manufacturing jobs left and not very many blue-collar jobs. The union labor is a very skilled and well-paid work force, but those jobs are fewer and far between."
"As we establish ourselves as a distribution hub, all of a sudden distribution centers for warehousing and things like that will begin to locate in and around the port," Anthes-Washburn added. "These facilities don't necessarily have to be (located) next to the water. They can be in the business park and other areas."
The idea for Meximar was conceived more than 14 years ago. At the time, Maritime International saw possibilities in capitalizing on its existing seafood facilities by shifting produce moved by truck to cargo ships. The company's port operation was already equipped to handle fruits and vegetables with cold storage warehouses and the staff and distribution capacity to handle an increase in cargo flow.
What it needed was a connection with a well-situated Mexican port that could support a direct trade route, and Tuxpan fit the bill.
An active, growing port city on Mexico's east coast, Tuxpan is located about 200 miles from Mexico City. It has added facilities in recent years, building piers designed for large freighters and adding a new refrigerated warehouse. As of this spring, a new highway is expected to open, creating an easier connection to Mexico City.
It was an ideal partnership, Wechsler said, but the plan did not take off initially.
Despite interest, American buyers didn't want to take a risk on a product they could not inspect first, he said, and farmers did not want to ship to the United States without knowing they had buyers lined up.
But Wechsler didn't lose faith. He believed there were enough benefits from the route that he continued to push for it over the next decade, sending key staff members to Tuxpan to build relationships and continuing to research the market. To date, Maritime International has invested about $250,000 in the venture, he said.
Recent developments brought the route to the forefront again, including a shift in Mexican federal policies toward offering more support for growers. Expected financial savings from shipping versus trucking in the wake of rising oil prices also helped, Wechsler said, and a trend in the food industry toward the consolidation of grocery chains gave the few remaining chains more buying power. That meant a ship could potentially launch using only one or two grocery buyers and still have a large enough purchasing commitment to make the venture financially viable.
"Any one of three to four chains could fill up one of these ships," said Wechsler.
Also making the timing right was a stepped up commitment of support from city officials. In July, New Bedford threw its weight behind the venture, signing a sister port trade agreement with Tuxpan that acknowledged mutual trade interests. That was followed in early October by a daylong trade development summit at the Whaling Museum that put Mexican producers and U.S. buyers in the same room with export, customs, and other government officials.
Wechsler acknowledged the support has been meaningful.
"In successive city administrations, Scott Lang and Kristen Decas and Jon Mitchell's administration and Edward Anthes-Washburn, we've seen an increased focus on actually helping generate both import and export trade," he said.
The summit, led by the Harbor Development Commission as a follow-up to a 2011 event, focused "on buyers and sellers talking to each other, getting everybody in a room together so any questions they have, we can get them answered at the summit," said Anthes-Washburn. "It was a great success in terms of that."
Even so, the event didn't lead to large scale commitments from buyers or sellers and over the last few months Maritime International has continued to work to bring participants on board in order to get the ship launched. About 2,000 pallets of produce each week would make the trip viable, Wechsler said. As of mid-October, port officials said about 600 pallets had been committed, a little more than a quarter of the amount needed to fill a ship on a weekly basis.
Asked when he thought Meximar would get going, Maritime International freight-forwarding manager, Pierre Bernier, gave it a 50-50 shot in 2013. "It's all about risk," he said. "Someone is taking the risk."
The process takes time, Bernier added, pointing to the complexity of negotiations that involve many individual Mexican growers, ship owners from Europe, and U.S. growers and companies.
But Wechsler believes economics will ultimately tip the scale for Meximar.
Meximar can cut distribution costs over trucking routes by as much as $1,600 per tractor trailer load, he said. The ship being considered can carry 2,000 pallets of produce, compared to a trailer truck capacity of only 20 pallets per load. That means about 100 trucks would be needed to equal a single ship's load, Wechsler said, translating to a potential $160,000 savings.
And, while fuel and labor costs are the primary economic benefits, Wechsler said additional savings include necessary regulatory filings, potentially a $7,000 expense for 100 trucks crossing the border, versus about $70 for a single outbound ship.
Ultimately the success or failure of the shipping route comes down to achieving critical mass, said newly appointed New Bedford Port Director Jeff Stieb. And that falls on the shoulders of the business involved.
Wechsler didn't disagree. Critical mass is 2,000 pallets, he said, but the ship could start with less.
"The line might start with as little has half that amount," he said.
One local business interested in participating is New Bedford-based food specialty company Sid Wainer & Sons.
"If the boat were coming in next week, we'd place an order with some of the farms and try it," said Henry Wainer, owner and CEO. "We're prepared to try it and see where it goes."
While Wainer said he is still seeking answers to unknowns such as Mexican growing practices, the quality of merchandise and necessary travel time from port to destination, he said he sees the route as a plus for the region and his business.
"I think anything we can do to make our port more vibrant is a great thing," he said.
But even if he does participate, Wainer said his interest in mangoes, bananas, and limes and other foods will never be in the kind of volume the shipping route needs.
"Our initial oversight of the proposal was that we needed to be a massive retailer and be able to use massive pounds of bananas," he said. "They're looking for a big player like Costco or BJ's. That's what they need for it to work."
While many concerns center on getting purchasing commitments from local buyers, others wonder about the ship's return haul. The route offers local food industries, like seafood and cranberry companies, a direct shipping path to Mexico. But does it hold enough value to entice them to change existing export routes?
"It's an opportunity we'll consider," said Dan McCarthy, a Northern Wind account executive. Seafood processor Northern Wind is interested in the Mexican consumer market, McCarthy said, and will be researching it more closely.
"We need to learn more about the market," he said. "There's a growing middle class in Mexico and we want to get into it, as a market, a lot."
Northern Wind got its start as a direct off-loader and processor of scallops in 1987, but later expanded its product line and now delivers a full range of fresh and frozen scallops and other fresh local seafood. It already exports to Mexico, selling domestic sea scallops, lobster and other products there, according to McCarthy. Currently product is moved by refrigerated truck from New Bedford to Florida, and then by ship to Mexico, he said.
For any shipping route to be attractive, McCarthy said, it must offer faster times to destination, quality care along the route, and better freight cost.
Cranberries are another local product with potential distribution benefits from Meximar. The fruit has seen increasing exports over the past decade or so, including increased sales to Mexico, according to Cranberry Marketing Committee director Scott Soares.
Soares said cranberry exports represented about 30 percent of total cranberry production in 2011, up from 15 percent in 2000. And Mexico is no exception to the trend.
Exports to Mexico are up 218 percent over the last five years with 100,000 barrels of cranberries, about 10 million pounds, exported last year, Soares said.
Several factors contributed to the growth, including recent economic improvement in Mexico, the removal of a retaliatory tariff in 2011 that had raised costs and a heightened interest among Mexican consumers in healthier eating, he said.
"It strikes me, based on the amenities provided, proximity to market, and proximity to producers, that there would be an inherent cost savings associated with (Meximar), but I don't know enough of the specifics," said Soares.
Ocean Spray, the Middleboro-based agricultural cooperative of about 700 growers, refused to discuss Meximar, citing the cooperative's existing distribution channels.
"Our products are shipped by ground transportation to Mexico from our facilities that are located in the South and Southwestern parts of the United States," a spokesman said by email. "Therefore, I don't think we can provide any point of view on what Scott (Soares) presented."
Weschler said Maritime International will fare well with or without Meximar. "We could stop the whole thing and the company would be fine," he said. "But from a long-term perspective, I think it's a good thing."
Heavily involved in the seafood industry, Wechsler sees that business continuing, even given regulatory changes that have been impacting commercial fishing catch amounts.
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North Tyneside Boys Under-15s have received a big incentive for success in the English Schools Wizards Trophy.
Last Saturday's home quarter-final tie against Manchester Boys was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
That bad weather was mirrored across the rest of the country but that situation did not deter English Schools Chairman Dave Woolaston from continuing the draw for the semi-finals.
In that draw North Tyneside Boys were fist out of the hat along with quarter-final opponents Manchester. The winners will be at home to Liverpool, who knocked North Tyneside out of the competition two seasons ago.
Maidstone or Mid Wilts will play Cardiff or Plymouth in the other semi.
Northumberland Schools FA Official Ian Beck is hoping for a case of third time lucky this Friday.
Beck has organised the county Under-13 Dawson Cup sponsored by Coca-Cola. The nature of the sponsorship is that the cup winners will represent the county in a national competition.
Inclement weather has led to the postponement of the final on the last two Saturdays.
Beck tries for a third time this Friday night.
Newcastle's Heaton Manor School meet Wallsend's High Farm School in the final at the Killingworth Young People's Centre (6.30pm kick-off).
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Heaton Manor: Philip Courtney, Craig Langley, Garrick Murphy, Lewis Momson, Philip Hainsworth, Jonathan Waggett, David Thompson, Jack Thompson, Carl Patterson, Darren Douglas, Matthew Owen, Michael Falcus, Gavin Hunter, John Marshall, David Jones, Callum Costello. High Farm: David Clements, Gary Farrage, Shaun Laidler, John Collins, Liam McPeak, Michael Wilkinson, James Novak, Paul Burnham, Dean Inskip, Mark Mitchell, John Wyres, Craig Finnigan, Daniel Walton, Lee Knighton, Darren Gilmore, Glen Allsopp, Mark Norns.
Seaton Delaval's Astley High School Under-14 side have also been victims of the recent bad weather.
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When Virtual Machine Manager 2007 came out, I started playing with P2V. Needless to say, it was so simple that we got carried away with it. We started virtualizing more important roles, such as our Pharmacy server, an interface server and our certificate server. All of these were light-load servers, but had business-critical status assigned to them. We realized that we needed to re-think what we were doing. Should we VM just because we can? How do we protect these servers? We also wanted to ensure a very high level of business continuity so that we have little, and if possible, no downtime for our operations. And of course, cost was a factor.
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I heard back about three weeks after I applied in mid November, but don't know how many there have been since then. You might check last year's stats on LSN.
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Subtitle: Sixteen Hundred Nuclear Plants is a Bad Idea
Let's do some simple math on this one. The basis is that China has approximately four times the population of the US, but wants to achieve electrical parity (kWh per year per capita) with the US. Further, as some (idiots, in my view) have stated, China will achieve this by constructing and operating 1,600 new nuclear power plants (using uranium fission, it is expected). The Chinese ambitions related to nuclear fission power plants are a source of praise (by the idiots), and are held out as "proof" that the plants are safe, plus they must be economic or the Chinese would not build them.
Further, the US provides approximately 20 percent of all electricity via 100 nuclear power plants of average size 900 to 1000 MWe.
With that as the basis, what would 1,600 nuclear power plants achieve in China? Since their population (using round numbers) is four times that of the US (1.2 billion vs 300 million), we divide the 1600 by 4 to get 400 plants - US equivalent. 400 plants is again 4 times what we presently have in the US (400 vs 100 actual). Therefore, the electricity provided would be 4 times our US rate of 20 percent, or 80 percent of all power. Are the Chinese actually attempting to produce 80 percent of their electricity by nuclear fission plants?
If that is the case, I highly suggest the Chinese planners read my article Two of The Truth About Nuclear Power (see link). In that article, the results that can be expected are explored. It is not a pretty picture. Prices for electricity skyrocket, with resulting damage to the economy. Nuclear plants must also increase then decrease their output to follow the load, not only frequently but also dramatically. When hydroelectric power is included in that scenario, or any of the intermittent renewables (wind, solar), the situation becomes much worse.
Finally, as Professor Abbot wrote in his paper (see link), nuclear plants are becoming more and more difficult to build due to a shrinking number of suitable sites. He also concludes that there are not enough raw materials to build enough nuclear plants to run the entire world. I also add that nuclear plants use inordinate amounts of water for cooling, typically four times the water of a same-size gas-fired cogeneration plant. (see link) Does China have sufficient water to waste on nuclear power plants? They could, of course, place them all near the ocean. Is that their plan? How will 1,600 nuclear reactors fit along the coast of China? That works out to approximately one per mile. They would, of course, be built in clusters of 2 or 4 reactors per plant, so the coastline would be cluttered with a nuclear complex every 2 to 4 miles.
If the plants are built farther inland, there are issues of water availability.
Roger E. Sowell, Esq.
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
China Nuclear Power Ambitions
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Sometimes being in business for yourself is great, other times it sucks. Despite some recent success I had been feeling stuck, frustrated, and fearful of the future.
Then something changed, at first it seemed insignificant, but over the course of a few months my outlook and productivity shifted dramatically. The catalyst? A bookcase.
My wife had been pestering me for literally six months about styling out our home office. This is where I do most of my writing, and though I could see how a little work could change the space, I wasn't convinced it was a necessity.
I am an obsessive reader, my learning helps me solve my clients' problems, but unfortunately it can also create clutter. We had more books than could be shelved and I had resorted to stacking them on top of and around the floor.
So, we spent a Sunday afternoon building the new bookcase and reconfiguring the room. As much as I struggled with the assembly I enjoyed working with my hands. It reminded me of my childhood, working on the farm with my family. When we finished I took a step back, and was genuinely shocked.
The space we had created matched almost exactly an idea I had in my head for years. I had always wanted a place where I could enrich my mind and nourish my soul. Now I realised what I wanted had always available to me, yet I had been too caught up in what I thought was missing to recognise it.
I didn't need to move to another place, get it architecturally designed and styled by experts. I just needed to buy a bookcase and reconfigure a few things create the reality I wanted. The room I am sitting in as I write this is exactly the place I have dreamed about for years.
Often, the things we want are right in front of us, but we are too consumed with their lack to see what might be possible. The world wants us this way, feeling unsatisfied keeps us off balance and hungry for more. More money, more prestige, more 'work life balance', just more.
Think about it, it's hard to sell someone who doesn't want anything. Marketing is about creating want, and highlighting the gap between what we want and what we have. The whole happiness industry thrives on it, and business is booming.
The ancient ideologies of both east and west pointed to this truth in different ways. Buddhists, Taoist and Stoics all counselled that the cause of suffering is desire. The very act of wanting something negates its existence, and creates a gap which causes the pain of lack or loss.
When we come from a place of 'I have what I want and I want what I have', we see how it is so. This simple reframe allows us to recognise the form in which our 'want' exists, and then reconfigure reality to realise our vision. These four steps are the key to drastically improving your wellbeing; reframe, recognise, reconfigure, realise.
The Japanese have a word for the insight that is required to kickstart this process: Kensho. It means to see, or to awaken. When you think this way, you become like Neo in the Matrix, finally seeing reality for what it is: a bunch of code that can be moved around and manipulated for a different result.
This is not about being happy with your lot and settling into a life of mediocrity though, it's actually a powerful principle for abundance. If you really take a look, you will see that thinking in this way is common to some of the most accomplished people on the planet.
When Steve Jobs bought a controlling interest in Pixar for five million dollars in 1986, he saw it for what it could be, not what it was. What it was was a fledgling enterprise software company comprised of eccentrics who liked to make short films with the skills and software they sold to others.
Under the Guidance of Jobs and Ed Catmull (Pixar's President), Pixar became a pioneering animations studio that eventually sold to Disney for 7.6 Billion dollars, and became a publicly traded company. Today it is the most revered animations studio on the planet.
When Jobs entered the smartphone sector with the iPhone, again he saw things as they could be rather than what they were. He saw that phones could be fashion items and built them to be that way, others saw what was or what had been and dismissed the product out of hand. Here's a famous Clip of Microsoft Steve Balmer doing just that.
In the clip you'll notice Balmer laughing about the price (no one has ever payed that), and deriding the product for its lack of features. He then points out that Apple had never sold phones before. His arguments offer a clue into his outlook. His want to win caused him to overweight the past and the present, and ignore the possibilities.
More recently the same thing happened when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post. Many claimed he overpaid for a decaying organisation in a dying industry, and again wanting things to be different clouded what might be. Bezos, like Jobs made fools of the 'experts.'
He saw that the conventional model could be revolutionised with new technology that could tailor information to users' preferences. Using this insight, he has completely turned The Post around and made it one a standout success in an industry where most continue to fail.
This pattern recurs throughout history, and the cause is almost always the same. Desire defeats imagination and stimulates suffering. After my Kensho moment I started to look at other arenas in which I already had what I thought I wanted. I didn't have to look far.
In the end I realised it's just about making a choice: would you rather live in a world of possibility or misery? If you chose possibility then I offer you another choice:
Will you read this and dismiss it out of hand like Steve Balmer?
Will you read this and think nice notion, maybe later?
Or will you seriously consider how thinking this way could help you, and commit to giving it a go?
Like my bookcase, one small change could have a dramatic impact on your life. It is simply a matter of following the four steps: reframe – recognise – reconfigure – realise.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]


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Two developments have reported camp-outs by buyers, resulting in heavy sales. Six families camped out for 2 1/2 weeks at Corky McMillin's Hunters Pointe--with temperatures dipping as low as 26 degrees--for the seventh and final phase of 17 three- and four-bedroom, 1,879- to 3,250-square-foot homes priced from $175,900 to $267,900. A total of 10 sales were made, seven in the final phase. The model homes are at 11765 Timberlake Drive off Scripps Ranch Boulevard.
The other camp-out was by 17 people for three days at the Baldwin Co.'s Windwood community in Carmel Del Mar and resulted in the sale of 12 of the available 26 homes in one weekend. Windwood, east of Del Mar, comprises 116 paired single-family homes from 1,106 to 1,610 square feet, with two and three bedrooms and two to three baths, priced from $116,900 to $134,900. It is at 2960 E. Carmel Valley Road.
All 40 homes in the first two phases of Parkside, in Rancho Cucamonga, have been sold and the developer, Lewis Homes, plans an early opening of Phase 3. The project offers one- and two-story, three- and four-bedroom homes from 1,600 to 1,896 square feet, priced from $113,950 to $130,000. Lewis says the homes combine "imaginative design, moderate prices and flexible floor plans that enable homeowners easily to transform extra bedrooms into dens or home offices." Parkside is at 7363 Greenbrier Place.


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FOR THE RECORD: Ban on Images of Prophet Mohammad Began in 2001 – By the Taliban
In September 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 editorial cartoons on the Prophet Mohammad.
Muslims rioted as a result of these cartoons (and others) resulting in 200 deaths globally.
But the ban on images of the Prophet Mohammad is not an ancient Islamic edict.
It was established by the Taliban killers in 2001.
The Washington Post reported:
It's so commonly reported that Islam forbids Muhammad's portraiture that it seems almost a waste of space to repeat it. After all, isn't that why some Muslims were so outraged in 2006 when the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten depicted Muhammad in an unflattering light? Isn't that why the Metropolitan Museum of Art pulled three paintings of the prophet? Isn't that why the TV show South Park had to censor all mentions of Muhammad in a 2010 episode? "Islam forbids images of Muhammad," CNN boomed in a headline last week.
But the reality is substantially more complicated. The Koran, in fact, does not directly forbid the portrayal of Muhammad. And the second most important Islamic text, the Hadith, "presents us with an ambiguous picture at best," wrote Christine Gruber of the University of Michigan. "At turns we read of artists who dared to breathe life into their figures and, at others, of pillows ornamented with figural imagery." The most explicit fatwa banning the portrayal of Muhammad, she notes, isn't tucked into some ancient text. It arrived in 2001. And its creator was the Taliban. The ban is a very modern construct.
And we all know how tolerant the Taliban can be…
Muslims protest in Pakistan against those who blaspheme the prophet.
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