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Baroque composer Barbara Strozzi (1619-1977) was born in Venice, the illegitimate child of a servant. She was adopted into the Strozzi family and received enthusiastic support from her adoptive family in her musical pursuits. Strozzi not only composed prolifically (regardless of gender, she was the most prolific composer of printed secular vocal music in Venice at this time), but she was also a performer. She was a student of Cavalli's and her achievements were recognized and respected in her time. Though relatively little is known about her life, scholars agree that she was easily the most influential female composer of the seventeenth century.
Many of her vocal works are still published, and her life and work maintain significant academic interest. More information can be found here.


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If you're into aquatics then it might be something you wanna check out, otherwise it seems pretty boring to me.
There is this strong watery note and a little bit of florals but besides that pretty unspectacular.
Pros: Aquatic
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Just tested about 20 different high end designers and Velvet Wood was by far the most outstanding scent of them all.
I get a nice leather accord very well blended with wood. I'm not sure if it's ebony wood alone but the combination seems fabulous.
This is a fragrance with high potential to make someone addicted.
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When children are playing, it is a good time to see how they talk and treat one another. They model you! Children watch everything you do and then translate it into their language. They imitate you in their attempt to get ideas on how to connect,talk and get what they want from their friends. They watch your body language and your facial expressions. What kind of example are you providing for your children? Are they yelling, huffing and puffing, telling little white lies, and controlling what is happening?
I have watched children in preschool playing with their classmates and lo and behold I learn how they are spoken to at home, how the adults speak to one another and who controls what is happening in their homes. I have watched children in elementary classes out on the playground, playing a game and working as a team. I then learn how it is being done at home.
When children hit their teens, they begin to model their peers and want to portray those who seem to be popular and are getting the attention they crave. And we wonder why cyber-bullying is so rampant amongst this age group. We also haven't been able to stop it.
I will take it one step further. Married couples more often than not model the relationship their parents had and so childhood behavior patterns continue and we pass them on from one generation to another.
How do we stop this? We learn new behaviors and stop the generational passing on of the bullying effect. We create new models and try not to slip into old patterns. It can be done! But it will take a new consciousness of parenting to bring it about.
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China has been very loose with its monetary policy historically but especially since the Crash in 2008. Its economy is also run (fundamentally) by cronycrats who think they can manipulate the economy to prosperity. (Sound familiar?)
They of course can't and when the house of cards comes down it's going to come down that much harder because of years and years of price obfuscation. There is no free lunch. There is no free credit. There are no free prices in China, and that is dangerous.


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Against privatization and price increases: ONLY THE STRUGGLE PAYS!
On April 1st 2010, some 15,000 people descended on the business district in Montreal at the call of more than 95 unions, popular, feminist and student groups. Is this the first stage of a response against the Liberal budget? Only time will tell. In any case, it was a nice demonstration--a popular grand procession, very diverse and militant (at least in discourse).
We now know that the budget tabled on March 30th by Minister Bachand introduced a host of measures, each more regressive than the one before. The introduction of new fees for healthcare or the rapid growth of sales tax (QST) are examples. The rich will fare quite well, as usual. Nothing in this budget calls into question their privilege and their little schemes to stash their money in tax-free havens. Again, we are required to sacrifice for them. Enough!
Class Struggle Against Borders in Ontario
by Jeff Shantz (NEFAC-Toronto)
The most significant period of labor unrest in British Columbia since 1983 took place in late April and early May of 2004, as a result of the failed province-wide "General Strike" movement. During this period, dissatisfaction with government policies and ensuing legislation escalated into wildcat strikes, walkouts, and significant mass public support for the actions of labor unions, community groups, and students in opposition to the government.
Very little has been written on the attempted general strike from the perspective of those in British Columbia, and even less from those who were actually involved in the actions that took place around May Day of 2004. The lack of critical theory and analysis of what happened is unacceptable in light of the current situation, and the challenges faced not just by working people throughout the province, but also across the country. Without a thorough understanding of how the general strike movement operated, and how it failed, the labor movement in British Columbia will be sentenced to continual failure and decline.
Non-Status people and the politics of precarity
by Aaron Lakoff and Seth Porcello
Just a few weeks ago, Manuel, a 19-year old refugee, sat alone in a jail cell in a detention center in Laval, just north of Montreal. Frightened and tired, he awaited his deportation back to Mexico. It was one of those freakish situations where one might rack their brain to determine what the hell they did wrong. In Manuel's case, it was very simple - he was a refugee without status who chose to defy a deportation order.
Mohamed Cherfi recognized as a political refugee by the United States
Will Ottawa and Quebec finally take action?
Montreal and Quebec City, June 2, 2005. The Board of Immigration
Appeal in the United States has just recognized Mohamed Cherfi as a political refugee by overturning the refusal handed down by a U.S. Immigration Court judge on October 22, 2004. That recognition highlights all the injustice suffered by Mr. Cherfi in conjunction with the processing of his application for immigration to Canada and Quebec, which have several
times denied the serious risks facing him in Algeria. The organizations and individuals supporting Mr. Cherfi, along with his partner, Louise Boivin, demand that the Quebec and Canadian authorities take measures so that he can return to Canada immediately.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Below is the Mohamed Cherfi Solidarity Committee's press release from the
press conference held in Quebec City on March 15, 2005. The following
people took part in the press conference: Reverend Gérald Doré,
spokesperson for the Mohamed Cherfi sponsorship group; Louise Boivin,
Mohamed Cherfi's partner; Smail Behlouli, spokesperson for the Action
Committee for Non-Status Algerians; Msgr. Pierre-André Fournier, Auxiliary
Bishop and representative of Msgr. Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City; and
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When I was younger, on very rare occasion my parents would tell me not to do something that I really wanted to do. When I asked my dad for a reason or explanation as to why I should not do these things, he would often respond "Because I'm your dad and I said so." Why did he answer in that way? Well, 2-year-old Kevin wouldn't have understood the danger of putting his hand on the hot stove… 14 month-old Kevin wouldn't comprehend the electricity that would be jolted into his body by shoving silverware into an outlet. In some moments, "What" is more important than "Why". I couldn't have understood the detail of the consequences of following through on my intended actions, but I needed to know what to do and what not to do. But what about down the road? As an adult, why do I not do those same things I was once instructed in? It isn't because "Daddy said so" anymore, but because as a man I understand the reasons and the wisdom behind what he once told me. In the midst of growth, I've recognized not just "What" dad told me to do, but "WHY" he told me.
Its easy to have the What figured out, and it seems that sometimes this foundation is accepted by many believers in Christian living. However, in life of a maturing follower of Christ, knowing simply just "What" IS NOT ENOUGH.
Understanding only the "What" of all that a follower of Christ is to do is relatively simple, but leads one dangerously close to a form of Legalism. This is not the "far-right legalism" that is found at "all those other churches." No, this is a legalism founded in ignorance and even laziness, that can fester in each of our hearts. This legalism can be identified simply through reading through the Gospels, and taking a look at one of the common groups: the Pharisees. Before you lose your ability to connect with them, be reminded of this. The Pharisees had "the What" down. They nailed it, with a Marine-like dedication. The detail with which they did these things is remarkable and even admirable. And What they did was incredible! Lives devoted to service to God and giving of their possessions, What they did was great! The issue with the Pharisees is that they missed "the Why." See, while the Pharisees had the What down pat, they were still dirt-bags. They They didn't understand Why they did the What, and managed to forsake every principle behind the doing of the What.
Returning once to those childhood examples, my mother often would correct me, saying "doing the right thing with a disobedient heart is still sin." If I cleaned my room with a disrespectful, unrighteous heart, I hadn't pleased God. It is entirely possible to do the What and still be disobedient and displeasing to God. What the Pharisees failed to realize was that there was a purpose, and we can fall into that trap as well. As we grow in our relationship with God, we must grow in our understanding of What He has called us to. Something more than just What. As followers of Christ, if we make our focus the What instead of the Why, we lose sight of His sacrifice. Our What must flow out of our Why, instead of being the end-all. Where the What becomes that end-all, is where legalism is found. A feeling of satisfaction or great accomplishment over the What, without growth, understanding, or focus in the Why brings us to that same point that the Pharisees arrived at: a misplaced sense of being right with God based on actions alone.
We miss the goal when we feel as though we have pleased God by doing only the What, and neglected Why He had us do them in the first place. Paul hammered home on this too in 1 Corinthians, pounding away at this group of believers who believed themselves to be mature as they argued over the things they could or couldn't do. Instead of telling them the What as they had asked, he turns them to the Why. In 1 Corinthians 13, "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." When we live pursuing Christ, our hearts are transformed. We are called to do the What not just for the sake of doing it, but because of its purpose. Doing the What is a testimony to the "hope that is within us." The What is a reflection of the change that Christ has brought about in our hearts, not the change itself. The What will always be important, but until it flows out of the Why our deeds will be nothing more than that clanging cymbal. Empty Noise.


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UK computer scientist hopes to 'read' 3,000-year-old scrolls
May 19–On Aug. 24, 79 A.D., Italy's Mount Vesuvius exploded, burying the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under tons of super-heated ash, rock and debris in one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. Thousands died. But somehow, hundreds of papyrus scrolls survived — sort of — in a villa at Herculaneum thought to have been owned at one time by Julius Caesar's father-in-law.
The scrolls contained ancient philosophical and learned writings. But they were so badly damaged — literally turned to carbon by the volcanic heat — that they crumbled when scholars first tried to open them centuries later. The remaining scrolls, stored away in Italy and France, haven't been read — or even unrolled — since 79 AD. Now, a computer scientist from the University of Kentucky hopes that modern digital technology will allow him to peer inside two of the fragile scrolls — without physically opening them — and unlock secrets they have held for almost 2,000 years.
Brent Seales, the Gill professor of engineering in UK's computer science department, will use an X-Ray CT scanning system to collect interior images of the scrolls' rolled-up pages. Then, he and his colleagues hope to digitally "unroll" the scrolls on a computer screen so scholars can read them. "It will be a challenge because today these things look more like charcoal briquets than scrolls," Seales said last week. "But we're using a non-invasive scanning system, based on medical technology, that lets you slice through an object and develop a three-dimensional data set without having to open it, just as you would do a CT scan on a human body." The two scrolls that Seales and his team will work on are stored at the French National Academy in Paris. The UK group will spend July working there.
Their system was developed at UK through the EDUCE project, or Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and Exploration, which Seales launched through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Experts say that if the UK system works as well as hoped, it could provide a safe new way to decipher and preserve more scrolls from Herculaneum, as well as other ancient books, manuscripts and documents that are too fragile to be opened.
"No one has yet really figured out a way to open them," says Roger Macfarlane, a professor of classics at Brigham Young University who also has worked on scrolls from Herculaneum. "If Brent is successful it would be a huge, potentially monumental step forward." Seales admits that there are hurdles, the biggest being the carbon-based ink thought to have been used on the scrolls. He says that since the papyrus in the scrolls was turned to carbon by the fury of Vesuvius, it might be impossible to visually separate the writing from the pages, even with powerful computer programs.
"The open question is, will we be able to read the writing?" Seales said. "There is a chance that we won't be able to do it with our current machine, and that we'll have to re-engineer some things. But if that's the case, that's what we will do." Seales, who is from Buffalo, N.Y., grew up with two passions: computers and the humanities. His double major in undergraduate school was computer science and violin. While working on computer imaging in graduate school, Seales became interested in how that technology might be used to digitally preserve old manuscripts and documents.
By the early 1990s, he was developing systems to read old records that were crumpled and wrinkled with age. As a result, he joined an international computer team that digitized the oldest known complete text of Homer's Iliad, which is stored in Venice, Italy. The project, ultimately completed at UK's Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, produced new digital images, bringing to life sections of the text from the 10th century B.C. that previously were little more than ink smudges.
Developing a method to virtually unroll and copy ancient documents too delicate for normal handling was the next step. This is the system that Seales and his colleagues will use on the Herculaneum scrolls.
If it works, what will they find? The best guess is that the scrolls contain writings by Philodemus, a Roman writer and Epicurean philosopher born about 110 B.C. Philodemus is not considered a classical thinker of the first rank, but he was a contemporary of Cicero. He taught Virgil and is thought to have influenced the Roman poet Horace.
Philodemus also was a friend of Lucius Calpurnius Piso — the father-in-law of Julius Caesar — who at one time owned that luxurious villa at Herculaneum.
The mansion had passed to other hands, however, when it and Herculaneum were buried during the eruption of 79 AD. Afterward, Herculaneum lay hidden for 1,600 years, until excavators stumbled upon it in 1709.
The villa itself was not uncovered until the mid-1700s. Inside its library, investigators found what they first thought to be lumps of coal but that turned out to be papyrus scrolls — about 1,800 in all — fused into blackened cylinders by furious volcanic heat. The building became known as the Villa of the Papyri.
According to Seales, the scrolls did not burn because the building so was completely encased in ash and lava that no oxygen was available to feed any flames.
Ironically, experts say that the papyrus, made of plant material, almost certainly would have decomposed over the last 2,000 years had it not been sealed in what amounted to an airtight vault.
What survived was incredibly fragile. Many scrolls simply crumbled when early researchers tried to open them. A Vatican priest eventually developed a way of opening a few scrolls, but it was slow and produced mixed results. Most were never unrolled.
The majority of the scrolls ultimately went to a library in Naples. But Napoleon had several shipped to France when he took over Italy after 1800. Among these scrolls are the two that the UK team plans to investigate.
Seales describes the process as resembling a "virtual colonoscopy," a medical test for colon cancer.
"In a colonoscopy, you're interested in whether there's cancerous activity on the wall of the colon," he said. "So you can imagine locating that in a scan, then flattening it out and manipulating it to see what you can see. We'll be doing a similar sort of thing." According to Seales, many experimental scans probably will be necessary, plus much additional computer work afterward, to produce clear images.
Members of the UK group won't touch the fragile materials. All handling will be done by conservators at the French National Academy.
Macfarlane, the Brigham Young University scholar, predicted that if Seales' team is successful, other Herculaneum scrolls probably also will be made available for scanning. Those could contain works by other ancient writers, more important than Philodemus, perhaps by Epicurus, who founded one of the major philosophies of ancient Greece, Macfarlane said.
"If Brent does unlock the door to reading these scrolls that are still hiding text, there will be a lot of excitement," he said.
Seales sees other potential applications for the system, including deciphering otherwise unreadable written materials for homeland security purposes. But, he also admits that there are other ancient tests he'd like to examine.
"There are pieces of the Dead Sea scrolls that still haven't been opened yet," he said. "I've talked with some members of teams that work with those materials, and I'd love to see what more we could wring out of them.
Possible site of free will found in brain
Possible site of free will found in brain
Free will, or at least the place where we decide to act, is sited in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests.
When a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, they felt a desire to, say, wiggle their finger, roll their tongue or move a limb. Stronger electrical pulses convinced patients they had actually performed these movements, although their bodies remained motionless.
"What it tells us is there are specific brain regions that are involved in the consciousness of your movement," says Angela Sirigu (pdf format), a neuroscientist at the CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Bron, France, who led the study.
Brain stimulation
Sirigu's team, including neurosurgeon Carmine Mottolese, performed the experiments on seven patients undergoing brain surgery to remove tumours.
In all but one case, the cancers were located far from the parietal cortex and other areas that Mottolese stimulated. One patient's tumour sat near the parietal cortex, but did not interfere with the experiments, Sirigu says.
And because the patients were awake during the surgery, they could answer questions.


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Dr. Uri Milstein
Dr. Uri Milstein researches the principles of military philosophy and war as a means of understanding the behavior of individuals and their civilization. As a writer and historian, he is neither timid nor deterred by controversy. His provocative studies and books about the Israeli War of Independence, the Yom Kippur War and the Israeli Paratroopers have earned much praise and condemnation both in Israel and abroad.
Today he is dedicated to new paradigms of security for Israel. Dr. Milstein is no arm chair academic in such matters. He was the official historian of the IDF Paratrooper Force during his own service, from the age of nineteen until shortly after the Yom Kippur War in 1974.
Rachel the Poetess, often referred to as The National Poetess of Israel, was his mother's aunt and one of her most famous poem's was written about him. Dr. Milstein has published a comprehensive biography on Rachel the Poetess.
He is currently a lecturer at the Ariel University.
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Whether you are trying to fill in a few more activities for the remainder of the summer, or want to add a hands-on art activity for your home school curriculum, here's a fun (and easy) way to teach kids about Jackson Pollock and Abstract Art.
To begin, plan some time to introduce the children to "Abstract Art" and Jackson Pollock. To do this, you simply need a computer. Gather the kids around the monitor (or hook the computer up to your TV if possible).
First, show them an example of "Representational Art." "Mona Lisa" is a good start. This is art where the subject is specific, and easily identifiable: usually a landscape, still life, or a portrait. Ask the children questions about what they see, and how they think the artists painted this type of work.
Next, show them some "Abstract Art." "Guernica" is a good example. This type of art is much more subjective, and left up to the viewer to imagine what it is about: typically music, emotion, energy or color. Ask the children how this art makes them feel, and how painting "Abstract Art" might be different than the way they would create "Representational Art."
This should get their creative juices going!
Now lets' talk about Jackson Pollock and his contributions to Abstract Art.
|"Number 3", enamel and oil on canvas, 1948, by Jackson Pollock
Scroll through images of his "Drip Period" paintings. This will get the children familiar with the style you will be replicating for this activity. Again, ask how they think the artist created these types of paintings. Now show them Mr. Pollock at work in this video from the San Fransisco MoMa:
Jackson Pollock's work is important, because for the first time, an artist was painting his Action. The drips, splatters, and swirls of paint were used to document the artist's movement. No one had ever done this before!
Now let's have some fun!
While you are getting the last minute preparations made (and I do recommend you have almost everything ready before you start the introductory lesson), let the children practice being Pollock with this fun computer game at JacksonPollock.org. Click on the big "Enter" image and then simply drag the mouse around to paint like Pollock! Double-clicking on the mouse will change the paint color.
To Prepare the Paint, Gather These Supplies:
2 boxes of Corn Starch
Food Coloring
Several Mixing Bowls
Water Balloons
Empty Condiment Containers
Several Disposable Plastic Cups
Different sized Craft Paint Brushes
To make the paint, simply mix equal parts water and cornstarch. This is not a precise formula- just get the paint to a runny consistency without being too watery. If it is too thick, it will just clump on the cement. Color the paint with food coloring. Three different colors is sufficient.
Pour some of the paint into the condiment bottles, and then use them to fill up the water balloons for "paint bombs." Unfortunately, I can't give you a spill-proof guarantee on this method, but the cornstarch paint cleans up easily. I found that condiment containers with a pointed nozzle worked best. Distribute the remaining paint among the cups and condiment bottles.
You now have three ways to paint: squirt, splat and drip! Let 'em loose!
This is really a lot of fun, and cleans right off with water (or just leave it until the next rain!)
4 Responses so far.
Michele Pacey says:
WOW!!! That looks like something small or big kids (me) would love. :)
Christine Altmiller says:
this looks like so much fun! and that link to painting on the computer was too cool~a great stress relief :-) the kids must have really enjoyed this!
pam says:
Oh to be a kid again - YOUR kid! What a fun way to learn.
Thank you for sharing a bit of the reason behind his work - as you know - I am not big on abstract but it helps to understand a little of why he painted in this way.
I certainly love the art in motion splashing around your house!!!
Erin Fickert-Rowland says:
We did have a lot of fun- the biggest challenge was taking the pictures- the kids moved around so fast I could hardly catch them! Thank you all for your comments, I am glad you enjoyed the post!


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Economy tractors were built by Engineering Products Company (EPCO) of Wisconsin. Production began at the end of World War II. Economy tractors were garden-type tractors assembled from off-the-shelf components. Economy tractors evolved as suburban lawn-and-garden tractor market rose. The Economy brand name was dropped in 1977 in favor of the Power King brand, which continued to the late 1990s.
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Well as you can tell by the makeshift progress bar up there the next installment of Zander is nearly complete. I have written the next part out completely, the only thing left to do is add in the images, write funny tags for the images and edit the written content in a last attempt to make it funnier. I appreciate your patience in this process it is taking more time than I had anticipated but it is coming along nicely.
As a reminder after this the next entry there will be what I hope to be a short halt in content. I must install new mods, update old mods, and delete obsolete mods; I will also have to start Zander over from the beginning as well as update his look some, maybe mutton chops…OW! Okay, fine, no mutton chops yah big baby…OW! Quit hitting me!
Sorry, where was I before I was so rudely interrupted? Oh, yes, I will be updating his look, I might even update the look of the site as well. I am also still toying with the idea of turning Zander from a non-hero play through, into a fan-fiction. So as you can see before I can continue further I have a lot to do.
As always I am grateful for any feedback, suggestions, criticisms anyone has to offer so don't be afraid to leave a comment. Thanks again for your continued patience. What? You want me to say what? Really? I'm not saying that. What? No! Because it is stupid! Fine, then you say it! You can't strike, we are just getting started! Don't you walk away…FINE, I'll say it…
Zander says hi and, "WHERE ALL MY DOVAHKIN AT!" There happy?
Anyway, thanks again for being patient, I need to go make someone suffer now, don't forget to like and comment. See you all again soon!


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Ha long bay bathed in ethereal light at sunset
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Now and then I write a case history on content marketing projects I've worked on where "thinking out of the box" or "thinking big" helped customers create a lot of buzz and interest for their products or events. Read more
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For the majority of the world, when you talk about advertising, the images of those clever commercials come to mind as seen during the Super Bowl. They are expensive to produce, and each year the price seems to rise for the time slot. Some are memorable, some are not. (I personally still like that little Darth Vader boy in the Volkswagen commercial). Sometimes it seems the PR generated around the commercial delivers more punch than seeing it live. Read more
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LUBBOCK — The National MS Society on Wednesday announced that Reagor-Dykes Auto Group is the official vehicle sponsor for Bike MS: Cactus & Crude 2014, presented by Apache. Through its commitment, Reagor-Dykes Auto Group joins other national and local partners to support hundreds of Lubbock area cyclists as they raise funds and awareness for multiple sclerosis during the annual, two-day cycling event Saturday and Sunday, July 19-20.
"We are excited to be the vehicle sponsor for Bike MS. We want the people in West Texas to know how committed we are to getting involved and making a positive difference in the Lubbock area,"said Reagor-Dykes Auto Group owner Bart Reagor. "I have always felt that if a business is not making a town a better place to live, then it should never open. We want to make it better!"
Bike MS: Cactus & Crude 2014, presented by Apache, kicks off Saturday, July 19 from Midland and travels through the Permian Basin, cruising into Big Spring for an overnight celebration at the South West Collegiate Institute for the Deaf. On Day 2 of the ride, cyclists head to Post to cross the finish line. To find out more about Bike MS: Cactus & Crude 2014, presented by Apache and how the National MS Society is making an impact on the lives of those affected by multiple sclerosis, visit bikeMStexas.org
Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million worldwide.
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Joey Martino spent his first year with the Corona del Mar High boys' volleyball team sidelined with a back brace. He wore two, a plastic one during the day and a rubber one while he slept.
The devices to support his back for six months felt a little uncomfortable. Martino suffered a stress fracture in his back as an eighth-grader, a year after picking up the sport.
Martino no longer has the braces, which he also credits to improving his posture. As a senior, he stands tall at 6-foot-2.


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"Scratch my back," she says.
I commence scratching.
"To the left," she says.
I go left.
"The other left." she says. "Up. Higher. Down! Oh! A little to the right, under the shoulder blade. Yes! Oh God!"
Then her body relaxes and the emergency is over. In the realm of back-scratching I am beneficent. I am a giver. It feels great to be a giver of something you have to give, like scratching.
This important domestic duty out of the way, I commence my day, which leads me to the offices of Open City, the literary magazine I edit with a small team of colleagues. The office is a tiny room located at 225 Lafayette Street, an old bank building; the doors to every office are frosted, and many of them have the firm's name written in gold letters, and walking down the long, winding hallways, the floors buffed to a sheen, you feel like you might be paying a visit to a private detective sometime in the '30s. But the building's tenants are not exactly living in the past. Here is how Sam Lipsyte described the place in his story collection Venus Drive, which is Open City Books' second title:
The building where I work used to be a bank. Now it's lots of little start ups, private suites, outlaw architects, renegade CPA's, club kids with three picture deals. It's very artsy in the elevators. Everybody's shaved and pierced in dainty places. They are lords of the tiny telephones, keepers of the dogs on battery operated ropes.
The Open City office is occupied on a daily basis by Joanna Yas, the supertalented managing editor of the whole book/magazine operation. She is very on-the-ball, Joanna, but aside from Alecia, the intern who comes in twice a week, there is often no one there but her, so I make it a point to come in a few times a week to try and keep the place lively and get things done. Today's task involves perusing the galleys to our next title, Megan Daum's spectacularly witty and insightful collection of essays, My Misspent Youth. We've only recently started doing books, and it's going very well. Sam's book is a hit, and our first, David Berman's Actual Air, was, by poetry standards, a best seller. (Sample line: "I remember Kitty saying we shared a deep longing for/ the consolation prize, laughing as we rinsed the stagecoach.") Both Berman and Lipsyte were the editorial calls of Robert Bingham. He was two for two, really, on the books.
I briefly contemplate the slush pile, which we keep in a wicker basket. Sometimes I'll spend an hour or two drifting through the stories in there, scribbling curt notes of rejection and resisting the temptation to say too much in them; the fact is that most writers get form letters without any evidence a human actually having read the thing, and if you read something long enough to know why you don't like it, you have, even if just for a moment, become a kind of scholar of that person's work, and there is the temptation to hold forth on it for a bit. The problem is that to write a long letter, or even a short note, often provokes so much excitement in the recipient—who may have been sending out stories for years without having a heard a word from anybody—that they then immediately send you their life's work in rapid installments, none of which you are any more interested in publishing than the first one. But I usually write a few lines just the same.
Today though, out of laziness or having other things to do—including a ton of mrbellersneighborhood.com related stuff; I now think of the Neighborhood as Open City's bastard, nonfiction cousin—take a pass on the slush pile. Joanna and I talk about the lineup for the next issue; she shows me an art project she likes which consists of drawings of underwear and reminds me that I still haven't read a previously unpublished Ford Maddox Ford story, "True Love and a G.C.M," (Sample line: "Instead, he let himself go in a denunciation of Gothic architecture.") that, several months ago, I'd felt triumphant in getting my hands on. One of the strange preoccupations of mine, ever since we started Open City, has been seeking out the unpublished work of dead writers. We've published Cyril Connolly, Richard Yates, Jerome Badanes, Alfred Chester, and Gregor von Rezzori, among others, and we've been talking about anthologizing them in a book called The Open City Book of the Dead. Joanna informs me that Kip Kotzen, one of our contributing editors, feels that it's a terrible title. My own big concern is whether we should include some work by Bingham.
Then it's time for lunch. It is a very unusual lunch in that Joanna and I are taking out Vestal McIntyre, the author of a story called "Octo," which appears in our current issue. We found the story in the slush pile. It is almost certainly the best thing we have ever found in the slush pile, and possibly the best piece of writing we ever published. It's just a great story.
What happened was this: Daniel Pinchbeck, my co-editor, and his girlfriend had a huge brunch one Sunday for the purpose of trying to get through a mountain of slush. We had all sorts of people who had been involved in the magazine over to his girlfriend's house for a kind of slush-reading brunch. At one point Betsy Schmidt got up and left abruptly. She was pregnant. She said I should have a look at this one manuscript she had just read. She had written a note on it saying, "I don't know if it's just hormones but I think this story is great."
It was a 34-page story about a slightly disturbed 12-year-old and his pet octopus, Octo. By Page 18, I was moved and amazed by it and convinced it should end there and already formulating my case for cutting the second half of the story. Then I read the second half of the story. It had been a cold day in January, the sky white with clouds, and at dusk it had begun to snow. We raced out to my car and drove to the address on the cover letter. There was no phone number and he was not listed. He had submitted the thing six months earlier. For six months "Octo" had sat in our slush pile! I was terrified that he had sent it elsewhere. We pulled up to Rivington Street; he seemed to live in a huge school building that had been converted to apartments. We found his name, buzzed, and stood there while snow fell in fat dry flakes around us. It was very exciting. But no one was home. Then Vanessa Chase, who was part of the search posse, spotted the name of a college friend, who was home, so we first paid a brief visit to the friend who greeted us at the door with a look of confusion and slight embarrassment to have been dropped in on, and then we went to Vestal McIntyre's door and I shoved a note under it saying please call, we want to buy the story. His roommate called later that evening and said he would call from work, which turned out to be the graveyard shift at Florent, a restaurant that is open until 5. Sometimes it's a wild scene of club-goers and transvestites and outré tourists, but it was Sunday and snowing and when I burst into the place it was empty.
"Where's Vestal McIntyre!" I bellowed at the maitre d', who clutched his menus to his chest, looking alarmed, and said, "I'm Vestal."
I introduced myself. No, he had not sold the story elsewhere. Yes, of course we could publish it. We drank champagne and toasted and I sat there at the counter talking and talking about what a great story it was while he put his hand on his chest in the self-deprecating manner of a beauty queen who has been paid a compliment and laughed. Later on he showed me his tattoo. On his back was a huge tattoo of an octopus.
Our lunch was very nice. We had red wine and salad nicoise, and Vestal was his usual calm, civilized, demure, and charming self; he told us of his temp work at an advertising agency copy editing; what he's working on; the novel that his agent is sending out. I encouraged him to write more stories.
"But aren't collections of stories almost impossible to publish these days?" he said.
"Well, I think I can say with certainty that Open City books would be interested."
We all laughed, and I felt like a big shot. When we came outside of the restaurant he unlocked his bicycle, which was locked right next to my bicycle. We each had these blue-and-orange Open City stickers on our bikes. It was like Team Open City. I gave him a mrbellersneighborhood.com matchbook and patted him on the back. All these trinkets and souvenirs and ceremonies! Anything to compensate for the fact that the money is so paltry, and you can't really do anything for another writer but wish them luck. We all shook hands, and then our star author biked home.


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I have just passed the one year mark of living with diabetes! My latest HBA1C report is 6.2 which could be better but I am happy with the results. Wow how time has flown by! Thank you to everyone for just being there! Deb
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I have to ask; what the hell did he do at school? Did he not have Mr. Freeman (who had already grown a beard) and the long succession of cuttings and graftings that thrived in the greenhouse, but did less well in the dark confines of a school locker? Did he not germinate seeds with Mr. Rix (who only eat plants and noting else) in Biology? Did he not grow flowers in the back garden to keep his mum happy? Listen to Percy Thrower on the BBC? Have pot plants at college – that's plants in pots if you were wondering! Keep carnivorous plants as a marker of teenage angst?
I know from firsthand experience that time at school is precious and crowded. Demands push in from all directions. From governments sitting above the school, from parents standing alongside their children demanding equity, quality and opportunity and from organizations convinced that our children will be destined for failure without knowledge of dog handling, ethnic dancing, the mysteries and delusions of religion and healthy cooking. And here I go adding one more thing to the list. Kids should grow things. In gardens if possible, in pots if necessary or in margarine tubs if nothing else comes to hand. And if at all possible they should eat what they grow. Now Mr. Freeman may have had difficulty with this, as we always seemed to grow nothing edible, just cacti and other textured succulents. I am not sure that basil and exotic vegetables had made it to Midsomer Norton by the early 1980's. They may not have made it there yet!
I try (and fail) to spend some time in my own garden every day. Even if it is just the slow walk in the morning to collect the paper, and the equally slow return at the end of the day. I try to find time to look at the tomatoes. I don't know what I expect to see on any of these excursions into the world that grows within the confines of my garden, but I normally see something.
Gardens are a microcosm of the rest of the world. Plants are front and centre as they should be.
If kids could see just these two things they will have witnessed the processes that keep the biological world turning. Energy to do what is needed and endless (but recycled) matter to build what needs building. That's what growing things teaches us. Energy and matter. Physic and chemistry made concrete by biology. That really is a trinity worth getting excited about.
Beyond energy and matter there sits a world of wonder that gardens can show us. The problems of elsewhere will remain elsewhere until you can see the link to here and now. Gardens are rooted, literally and metaphorically, in the here and now. The tangible, the testable, the tactile benefits of growing things, and keeping your eyes open as you do should not be overlooked.
Yet it seems for many people that there is little contact with the growing world of plants. Lawns and playing fields, if they are considered at all, are seen as little more than a green carpet of convenience. With the drought the green may be brown and the carpet threadbare and worn. Lawns have become a symbol of depraved over use of water – but we can grow other things, we don't always have to convert our only spaces to gravel zen gardens, full of positive energy and empty of children.
My gardens food web must be complex, my understanding of it limited. But each day brings a new link. Lizards by the rocks, hunting for the unknown. Slaters hidden under plant pots. The large and rather intimidating spider that emerged from the garden umbrella. What do they eat, what eats them? I don't know – but whatever eats the spider will have to be large, and the spider itself looked able to handle a small dog! Biodiversity is not something that exists elsewhere or can only be seen in a zoo or on safari.
Some biodiversity can be less welcome. There are rather unpleasant creatures eating the pears on the pear tree. It's a forlorn hope that we will get a crop this year. If the bugs don't get them the possums will. Or the bats!
I work in an office. My garden is more important than ever. It brings connection, community and space.
I just need to go and check on the tomatoes!


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Brussels, 14 December 2010
Commission makes further appointments at senior management level
The Commission has taken today, upon a proposal from President Barroso and Vice-President Šefčovič, important decisions relating to its Senior Management Staff. Following its decision earlier this year to reserve a number of Senior Management posts for nationals of Member States which recently joined the Union, the Commission is appointing a Maltese national as Deputy Director-General in DG SANCO, three Romanian nationals on Director posts or equivalent in DG AGRI, ENER and RTD, two Lithuanians on Director posts or equivalent in DG AIDCO and in DG COMP, and one Principal Adviser of Polish nationality in DG SCIC. These appointments follow the recent nomination of a Slovak national in the Publication Office in Luxembourg. The Commission has also taken a number of other staffing decisions; the appointment of the three Deputy Secretaries-General; two Deputy Directors-General in DG AGRI; one Deputy Director-General in DG EAC; one Deputy Director-General in DG SANCO; the Director responsible for Civil Justice in DG JUST; three Principal Advisers in DG CLIMA, COMP and HOME; the transfers of four Directors to a function of Director in DG EMPL, ENTR and the Secretariat General as well as to the function of Head of Service in the newly created Foreign Policy Instruments Service. This is the third wave of appointments since this Commission came into office. With this package, the Commission reaffirms the principle that appointments are made on the basis of merit as a first criterion.
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As with all such senior appointments, merit is the dominant criterion in these decisions. This is coupled with a search for the best possible match between Commissioners/Directors-General and its other Senior Managers. The Commission also strives to ensure an adequate balance of nationalities across its DGs and Services.
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WIP: Dark Eldar Wracks #2
Whew, the first batch of Wracks is done. These definately took a while. I've had a hobby low when I had to paint all those syringes and stuff that is sticking out from their humps, what a time-sink. I even needed taking two days off from painting. But now I've picked up speed again and hope that the next batch will go down easier and with more routine. What do you think about the first batch? By the way, don't forget to check out my Dark Eldar tutorial from yesterday.


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'Nature is the first scientist in the Universe. The most brilliant and intricate scientist ever.'
Some books come as pleasant surprise.
The Secret of the Red Crystals by Sujata Sharma is one such book for me. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect when I picked this book for I'm not fond of reading biographies. I didn't even like My Story by Kamala Das who is one of favourite authors. But, one thing that the author had said in the mail that made me curious --- she said, 'Though it is a story of a scientist, it can be the story of anyone who dares to dream, and makes up one's mind to achieve the dream "at any cost".'
Plus, Dr. Sujata Sharma is a professor in the Department of Biophysics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The moment I read the first paragraph, I knew I was going to like it as I really liked the writing style.
This book is an autobiography, a genre that I do not prefer. It's about a medico's journey of passionate research about Lactoferrin.
You may think it's not your genre, and you wouldn't enjoy reading this book. You may presume that the book would be filled with medical/scientific terms...trust me, you would be wrong.
Even though the story is about medical research, it isn't focused on heavy/intriintricate medical terms. Of course there are many scientific terms but those terms are common (Pretty common if you have a science background) or interesting, particularly the facts about Lactoferrin is very enlightening.
The story is more about chasing your dreams; about being passionate about your goals, about the idea of not giving up no matter what.
And most importantly, it is really well told. Skillfully narrated, Dr. Sujata's writing creates nice imagery. The emotions are very well expressed. The what next factor keeps you intrigued. There are so many insightful lines yet it is not preachy.
My favourite quotes:
'In science and anything else in life, if we leave something unfinished, it comes back and keeps coming back till we resolve it. If a question has arisen, then you need to answer it now.'
'Anyone can pick the low hanging fruits because it is easy to do that. Very few people aim for the high hanging fruits because it's so challenging.'
'Losing hope would be equivalent to losing the entire game.'
I loved Dr. Sujata's passion and her stubbornness. I loved his mentor and his faith. I would like to read Dr. Sujata's next book. I'd like her to write fiction for she is a good storyteller.
I would recommend it to every book lover. It's a quick, interesting and insightful read. So go for it.


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Kenwa Mabuni was born on the island of Okinawa in 1889. Mabuni was a
descendent of the Okinawan warrior class whose ancestors served the Okinawan
lords for hundreds of years. At the age of 13, he began his martial arts
instruction under Yasutsune Itosu in the village of Shuri. He also began
to study Naha-te under Kanryo Higaonna, who was introduced to him by a
childhood friend, Miyagi Chogun. These men were the highest authorities
of karate at that time, and were the founders of two schools of Okinawan
Karate, Shorin-Ryu and Shorei-Ryu. Both of these instructors passed away
when Mabuni was in his late 20's.
Mabuni Sensei was the ichiban-deshi of Itosu Sensei, suceeding him as
the second master of Itosu-Kai. He continued his studies after the death
of these great masters, becoming adept at traditional Okinawan weaponry
while also incorporating elements of Chinese Kung Fu into his style. Mabui's
thirst for knowledge prompted him to develop an extensive body of karate
information. The defining characteristics of Sensei Mabyni's karate was
its large number of kata, the versatility of its fighting techniques and
the inclusion of Okinawan weapons in its instruction. Mabuni Sensei had
an insatiable appetite for kata, studying with masters such as Arakaki
Kamadeunchu (1840-1918), from whom he learned the Unshu, Nisheishi, Sochin,
Arakaki-sai and Arakaki-bo katas.
In 1929, after compulsory military service and a career as a police officer,
Mabuni Sensei left Okinawa for Osaka, Japan to teach Itosu-kai. He blended
the teachings of Shuri-te and Naha-te to create Shito-Ryu. He formed this
name by taking the first ideogram from the names of his two teaches, Sensei
Itosu and Higaonna. In this way, he chose to honor and respect his great
Because of his contribution to Japanese culture and society, Kenwa Mabuni
was bestowed by the emperor with the family crest (mon) of the circle
with four bars. This was a great honor, as no other family could claim
the use of this symbol. When the Kanji for Shito-Ryu is placed within
the mon, the symbol for the historical lineage of Shito-Ryu karate is
formed. This symbol represents the pure, unaltered tradition of the Nipon
Seito Shito Ryu Kai.
Reproduced with permission of Sam Moledzki, President Karate-do Shito-kai
Canada. (Edited for punctuation and clarity)
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Title : The Adventures of LoLo 2
Publisher : HAL America
Release Date : 1990
Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $15-$20
Now you would think a sequel to a game like Lolo would just be the first game with new puzzles added. Well, you're right. Lolo 2 follows the old adage of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." but HAL still manages to tweak it just enough to keep it's audience interested.
The story is the same, and you're tasked with the job of rescuing Lala again. I really don't know how she keeps getting kidnapped. I'll need to do a blog post about "kidnapping" as a plot device in games, because it's just absurd. I'm only 20 or so games in and I've dealt with around 10 kidnappings already.
But who cares about the story! Who can resist an epic logic-puzzle solving game? It doesn't matter how similar the game is to its predecessor, it's all about the puzzles anyway.
Although, this image is pretty creepy -
Tell me you aren't at least a LITTLE BIT disturbed by that imagery? The look of terror on that poor little ball's face! Blah, on to the game :
Now, the downside to this the game is that it is virtually identical to the first one. Besides a few graphical tweaks, and a few variations in the puzzles you won't find anything different. This isn't really a bad thing if you think about it. While I wished there would have been new "advanced" puzzles, you basically just bought 50 new puzzles.
One of the cool features added to this game are the PRO puzzles. There's 4 secret rooms that are by far the hardest puzzles in the series. Good luck figuring those out without looking at a FAQ. I know I couldn't.
Some people might be turned off by the fact that it's practically a remake of the first game, but it still holds its own. Much like Lolo 3, which is coming up next. So don't be fooled by the similarities. If you're still looking for that amazing logic puzzle game, you need to own the Lolo series. It's hours of mind-numbing fun, and I for one can't wait to bang out the third game.
But at least game has what the first Lolo didn't - AN END GAME BOSS!
It was a little weird though to have a "battle" - you play the game for hours and then you actually have to fight something. It was a little jarring, but you know, rewarding too at the same time. Better than the first game where you just blast him away in a cut scene. Ah well, anything for Lala.
Final Score (out of 5) :
Until next time. Keep on gaming!


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My husband & I were married for one year on Sunday (just gone) and to celebrate rather than go out, seeing as we had a couple of nights in the Lakes the weekend before to celebrate being together for 10 years (now thats a landmark), we made a posh meal at home.
We managed to bag ourselves 2 lobsters for the bargain price of 10 quid.
And made a lobster paella (possibly a little sacrilegious to use lobster like this)...
but it was bloody lovely. This was followed up with the richest chocolate mousse known to man, made from a Nigella Lawson recipe. Look at that selection of healthy ingredients:
Its was amazing but so rich we could only eat half, although you'll notice below that we did have a huge glass full of the stuff as i didn't have anything else to put it in -
We ate the rest last night, and it was even better having been in the fridge overnight - it sort of became like ice cream.


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On July 13, 2011 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discussed the Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Engagement and Ex Post Evaluation of Exceptional Access for Serbia.
The Ex Post Assessment reviews Serbia's economic performance under Fund-supported programs during the period 2001-2011. During seven of those ten years there were three Fund arrangements in place. The Ex Post Evaluation reviews the 2009 Stand-by Arrangement with exceptional access.
The report concludes that substantial progress has been achieved in the last ten years of the Fund's involvement with Serbia. In 2001, Serbia was recovering from the ravages of war, international sanctions and economic mismanagement: output had collapsed, inflation was rampant, and the external position was non-viable. Macroeconomic stabilization has by and large been achieved over the past decade, debt is manageable, and there is a modern banking system in place. The most recent Fund-supported program helped the country navigate the global crisis and safeguard financial stability, and recovery is in train. But despite these successes, significant vulnerabilities and a large structural reform agenda remain.
The report further concludes that a new Fund-supported program could help Serbia complete and entrench the transition to a more balanced growth model, and tackle its remaining structural reform challenges. In particular, a new arrangement could play a useful role as a coordination device for the government and serve as an anchor for polices in a pre-election year, send a positive signal to investors, and coordinate the contribution of other International Financial Institutions. Past experience with Fund involvement in Serbia suggests that strong ownership is an essential precondition for program success.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors agreed with the conclusions of the Ex Post Assessment and Ex Post Evaluation. They noted that Serbia has made substantial progress towards macroeconomic stabilization in the ten years of its engagement with the Fund. The country also attained debt sustainability and put in place a modern banking system. The 2009-2011 Fund-supported program also helped Serbia navigate the global financial crisis, and recovery is ongoing. However, progress on the structural reform agenda has lagged. To transition to a more balanced growth model, Serbia still needs to address significant challenges and vulnerabilities and implement far-reaching reforms.
Directors recognized the important progress in achieving macroeconomic stabilization and advancing structural reforms under the 2001 Stand-By Arrangement. Results under the 2002–2006 Extended Arrangement however were less consistent. While there was progress in several areas, macroeconomic performance fell short of expectations. Robust but unbalanced growth amid large capital inflows and lagging structural reforms contributed to rising external imbalances and vulnerabilities in the run-up to the global crisis.
Directors agreed that the 2009 Stand-By Arrangement, subsequently extended and augmented to exceptional access, facilitated an orderly rebalancing of the economy amid the global crisis and helped safeguard financial sector stability. Under this arrangement, macroeconomic performance was broadly satisfactory but progress on structural reforms was slower than envisaged. Directors considered the program's focus on three main elements—fiscal adjustment, bail in of foreign banks, and exceptional financing—to be appropriate.
In general, Directors concurred with the lessons from the ex post assessments. They agreed that the right incentive structure can help increase critically important ownership of policies in a difficult political environment. Program design needs to be consistent with the stated objectives, which would have warranted a greater focus on Serbia's structural agenda. In addition to close collaboration with other international financial institutions, greater use of prior actions could have been helpful in this regard. Directors also highlighted the merits of flexibility in adapting the program to prevailing circumstances, and the need for durable fiscal adjustment to be supported by institutional and structural reforms.
Directors noted that continued engagement with the Fund, possibly in the context of a low-access precautionary arrangement, could play an important role to anchor fiscal discipline and address remaining policy challenges. At the same time, experience suggests that strong ownership to support implementation of decisive policies and critical reforms will be essential for the success of a future program.
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case. The staff report (use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this pdf file) for the Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement and Ex Post Evaluation of Exceptional Access for Republic of Serbia is also available.


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Longwood, Florida, April 6, 1927: It was a 100-year-old tree and growing strong when Moses was born. It was a 1,000-year-old tree and standing tall when Socrates taught the Greeks and Buddha enlightened Asia. It was 1,500 years old when Christ walked among us in Galilee and Judea. When the Roman Empire fell into oblivion, this mighty tree was 2,000 years old. When Columbus sailed the "ocean blue, in 14 hundred 92" it had survived 3,000 years.
For some 3,500 years, this majestic bald cypress with a penchant for staying alive has withstood the ravages of man, wars, hurricanes, insects, fires and all that nature hurled against it.
It has defeated time on a small plot of land surrounded by swamp in the central area of a peninsula in North America we now call Florida, just outside our small village of Longwood. It is the oldest living thing in the southern United States.
At the Seminole County Commissioners' meeting, last night in Sanford, Longwood businessman and Chamber of Commerce leader, C.W. Entzminger, approached the commissioners about creating a park and building a road through the swamp along Soldier Creek to gain easy access to this ancient tree and to the six acres around it. Also, Entzminger and others want this big tree that has defied death for so long finally to be preserved and protected by man.
Earlier this year, Entzminger's wife persuaded the bald cypress' owner, Florida State Sen. Moses O. Overstreet, to donate the oldest tree and the six acres to Seminole County to be used for a park. Overstreet agreed to do it. The county agreed to accept the senator's donation last night.
Overstreet has been enormously successful in the turpentine and lumbering industries here in central Florida for nearly three decades. He became a state senator in 1922.
Overstreet admits over the years he has thought about cutting the giant bald cypress, since it contains an estimated 15,000 board feet of lumber. But, he knew better. When a cypress tree gets to be several hundred years old, its core disintegrates and becomes hollow, so it is not desirable for timber.
Two years ago, this proud bulwark against time stood nearly 200 feet tall, but then, after eons of withstanding every blusterous force imaginable, a hurricane finally snapped the top of its trunk in 1925. So, today, it still stands with defiant dignity but has been reduced in stature to a mere 138 feet high.
Broken, certainly, but it still has life.
The county commissioners plan to start construction on the park that will contain this big tree and on the road leading to it within the next six months.
It is likely a tree growing somewhere in your life still solicits strong, memorable emotions, like The Senator obviously has done for people who lived near it over the centuries.
The 87-year-old man from Walnut, Miss., who suggested this article on trees, has his own poignant memories of a tree that impacted his life a long time ago. Ted Martindale wrote this poem to capture his feelings about his and his children's most memorable tree:
A Tree for Life
This fertile land was never bare
Virgin forest always grew there.
An acorn dropped to the ground
In wild country it made no sound.
The vigorous nut in a restless state
Only the Creator knew its fate.
Autumn's cushion of weeds and grass
Well protected from winter's blast.
Would it be eaten by wild game
Or burst forth by sun and rain?
It was covered by Master's hand
Send down root and live again.
Centuries passed under nature's care
Outside my window the giant stands there.
Beautiful landscape, master of its domain
From massive branches-rusty chains.
Worn links suspend my children's swings
Each passing day we see the change.
These are my Mississippi Memories
They remain.
Trees can create Southern Memories in so many personal ways. Do you remember yours?


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CBT ineffective for ME/CFS patients
The former Minister of Health from The Netherlands, Hans Hoogervorst broke the guidelines of the WHO (to which a member-state is legally bound) by not recognizing ME/CFS as a separate disorder.
He could easily do this, because the health council of the Netherlands wrote a fraudulent report about this severe, multi systemic illness. How it is possible that in a democratic country, people with great conflict of interest are allowed to draft such a important document, is unbelievable. Not only could they hide their wasting of millions of tax money during more than 15 years, by uncompromising propaganda for therapies, of which they knew that it doesn't help at all (cognitive behavioural therapy - CBT) or make patients worse (graded exercise therapy - GET) - so much worse that ME patients can become bed bound or even die. But they could also channel some million Euro's from Minister Hoogervorst via their own biopsychosocial method and their own psychiatric fatigue clinics to their own well-filled pockets.
I have told it before and will repeat it till the truth will prevail (and it WILL prevail): the *independent* President of this committee Ms. Dr. Els Borst stabbed severe bed- and housebound ME patients to
their heart. One of them was on a stretcher with snipped trouser legs, because he couldn't bear the pain from the pressure of the material of his trousers. Physicians in the Stalinist age (she looked and spoke in the same way), attested dissidents insane and put them in madhouses. She did exactly the same by saying: "....ME patients can be cured by graded exercise.... !
And such a woman dear to call herself "physician". I wish I had the strength to summon her for the medical disciplinary council.
Now members of a Dutch university in Groningen (even a Centre of psychiatry) has written:
*Neuroaetiology of chronic fatigue syndrome: An overview* - in which they conclude: "....This therapy (CBT), however, appears to be ineffective in many patients...."
When will Dutch parliamentarians demand the return of this millions and spend it for biological research into this invalidating illness?
And above all: when will they call for a parliamentary inquiry into the doings and dealings of Ms. Dr. Els Borst and her buddies the *fatigue* experts Jos van der Meer, Gijs Bleijenberg et al ?
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