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Some Ferguson Protests Start To Look Like "Occupy"
They'll stay "as long as it takes."
By Jim Dalrymple II
Jim Dalrymple II BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on August 23, 2014, at 8:47 a.m. ET
Jim Dalrymple II
FERGUSON, MO — Four nights ago, Ned Alexander IV and Steve Wash sat down in an overgrown parking lot and never left.
The two men were among the hundreds of protesters who retreated from police late Tuesday during demonstrations over Michael Brown's death on Aug. 9. But rather than fade into the surrounding neighborhoods for the night, Alexander and Wash — along with a handful of others — ran to an "approved assembly area" at the far end of protest zone on W Florissant. That night, with a cadre of police watching from across the street, Alexander told BuzzFeed the group wasn't leaving. And sure enough, the next morning the group was still there, somewhat diminished and fatigued, but holding on. The scene has repeated everyday since, with both men becoming more adamant that they aren't leaving until they get justice.
Alexander and Wash are part of a small but growing group of protesters in Ferguson who are digging in for the long haul. In their case, a furniture store is letting them camp out in the parking lot, and for the time being police are leaving them alone as well. It's a brutal space; during the day, the asphalt soaks up the sun and amplifies the already-stifling heatwave. At night it's cut off by wide streets and endless parking lots.
Steve Wash in Ferguson Friday night. via Jim Dalrymple II
Still, Wash said the group's numbers have more or less double nightly, growing from only six people to more than twenty. They began sleeping on the bare pavement, moved up to cardboard boxes and by Friday had sheets and stockpiles of food. Wash said someone always stands guard while the others sleep. And they have no plans to move. "We ain't going nowhere," Wash said as his fourth night began Friday. "We out here all night until we get justice. And it don't matter if it takes us all year round."
As the marches in Ferguson grow smaller, this apparently semi-permanent encampment has echoes of Occupy Wall Street and other radical encampments who sought to claim and hold territory in 2011 and 2012.
"Why do we need a leader?" Alexander asked. "I'm saying everybody can be leaders." The camp even has a few Occupy veterans who drifted in during the last week and are giving them pointers on how to deal with things like tear gas — a threat Alexander said is still present, especially as their numbers grow.
A couple of miles away in downtown Ferguson, across the street from the still-under-construction police station, another group is also digging in. Unlike the protesters on W Florissant, the gathering downtown is older and includes more women than men. Many of the demonstrators leave by the middle of the night, though someone is always out and always will be until they "get some answers," according to organizer Angela Whitman.
"We come out when it's storming and raining," she said. "We don't play around. We don't care what the weather is. We'll be out here as long as it takes."
The atmosphere downtown is almost familial, with chairs and tables spread out across the street corner. Friday night, the group had prayers and competing chants between men and women, among other things.
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The protesters in both locations uniformly say they want justice, but beyond that their goals vary and in some cases become less distinct. Whitman said Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown, "should have been locked up a long time ago." Along with pretty much everyone else, she's awaiting the decision of a grand jury, which is currently hearing evidence in the case.
Most of the people camped out at the protests agreed that prosecuting Wilson would be a good start. But it may not be enough; as Ricky Canamore, another protester explained, Michael Brown was just "the tip of the iceberg."
"We're just constantly harassed," he explained. "You're handcuffed and sitting on the sidewalk in the rain and in the cold. You're constantly pulled over for no reason at all. And then you wind up spending $300 to $400 dollars with court costs and all these trumped up charges and everything. It's always something and I think a lot of people, they are just fed up."
And like everyone else in Ferguson's two protest camps, Canamore has no plans to give up.
Jim Dalrymple is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact Jim Dalrymple II at jim.dalrymple@buzzfeed.com.


I've started looking at various AEGs as a starter rifle in airsoft. One brand keeps coming up markedly cheaper than others, Bulldog. (M4/AK47) how do these perform overall?
'Bulldog' are terrible, avoid. Everyone recommends G&G Combat Machines for a reason.
JG G36 is also something to consider, it's reliable and cheap.
Up your budget and stay away from any site with bb guns in the name.
There are plenty of guides for new players on here, read and do some research.
If you want cheap check out G&G, Cyma or JG. Also look at second hand sales for a bargain, I might be selling a Sig 552 soon if you can stretch your budget.
Get a g&g or Krytac if you can pay the extra money avoid the cheap makes like the plague.
SA80 wise, definitely not getting a cheap one of those any time soon. As in, I've never seen an actual SA80 airsoft gun (an AEG or GBBR) for less than £280.
Not to be rude, but beggars can't be choosers. It's much better that you focus on performance and internals and durability than looks. I think you might be able to find an M14 for around £200, maybe a tad more. Again, they're quite a bit above your budget. There are some okay G36 AEGs on the market at the moment for near enough to your price range. Check out Patrol Base and Airsoft World and have a browse.
JG G3 and Cyma M14 are very good guns.
I've done some browsing and decided the G&G AK47 looks about right.
I've done some browsing and decided the G&G AK47 looks about right. Off to do some more homework!


I'm looking forward to the day when Steve Bannon says he was clearly wrong. But I'm pretty sure he already knows it. His recent claims are designed, brilliantly to sell books.
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year.
This is staged media designed to grab headlines, designed to create a media firestorm, to keep Bannon's name and president Trump in the headlines, in order to sell books.
How do I know this? It's not the first time I've thought that a presidential flame war was deliberately staged.
There's no downside to doing this. The Mueller investigation is not going to turn on a Bannon musing, and that's all this really is. Bannon has no new proof to back his claims. He knows it. But a Trump-Bannon flame war raises both profiles until Mueller comes up empty and Bannon then eats crow. Then he can also soften his anti-establishment vitriol and allow Republicans to come together just before the 2018 midterm elections. It'll leave CNN with egg on their face again, and help usher in a Wave election for 2018 - for the Republicans, given a robust economy chugging along.
Oscar Wilde, was right. It's been extended to the notion that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Bannon and Trump know this all too well.


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When Maniacs Collide
A man wearing a big rubber mask holds a hammer over Ellie Masters where she lies in bed, staring confusedly back at him before finally screaming. The cruel matron of the orphanage where Ellie is staying explains this is only a dream in 1971's Blood and Lace, a captivating and schlocky riff on Psycho with a theremin-heavy soundtrack oddly pulled from Sci-Fi films. This only scratches the surface of this famous pulp film's free-associative plot which also includes frozen corpses that bleed, at least four murderous maniacs occasionally at cross purposes, and a whole lot of really short dresses and nighties. It's hard to take your eyes off this movie, it's a terrific pleasure.
The Wikipedia entry calls Blood and Lace a proto-slasher film. Like later slasher films, it takes some conspicuous cues from Psycho. Blood and Lace focuses on a pretty young blonde woman, Ellie (Melody Patterson), before introducing an unrelated maniac, Mrs. Deere (Gloria Grahame), who routinely turns to her dead husband for advice on how to run her orphanage.
I suspect this movie had a substantial influence on David Lynch. Ellie looks and behaves so much like Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive it's uncanny—and I'd be spoiling both movies if I told you why the resemblance doesn't end there. The film starts with the murder of Ellie's mother, a prostitute, and one of her mother's johns. For this sequence, director Philip S. Gilbert introduces the novel technique of attaching a hammer to the camera, offering us a first person "hammer cam", if you will.
In the aftermath, Ellie has been temporarily committed to a hospital in her lacy nightie but she argues with a social worker named Mullins (Milton Selzer), insisting she be allowed to leave so she can seek out her biological father. The fact that she knows virtually nothing about him doesn't seem to discourage her.
Managing to sneak out of the hospital, she's immediately pursued by a strange man (Vic Tayback) who doesn't think to mention he's a police detective until after she's run off the road and along the train tracks for a while. There are a lot of logical problems in this film but there actually turns out to be sort of an explanation for this later on.
He informs her she needs to go live in an orphanage. Ahead of this, we're introduced to Mrs. Deere and her henchman, Tom (Len Lesser), who cuts off a boy's hand when he attempts to flee the place. We also have a glimpse of Tom's and Mrs. Deere's routine of moving corpses out of the freezer and into beds in order to pass inspections by Mullins. He doesn't look too closely at things due to a tacit understanding he has with Mrs. Deere who sleeps with him in exchange.
There's a scene later in the film where Mrs. Deere talks to Ellie about remembering what it was like to be beautiful and warns Ellie that one day she'll look in a mirror and see someone like her. But Gloria Grahame, who was 46 at this point, actually looks really good. I'd say her performance is more animated, too, than in The Man Who Never Was though she still has the almost totally paralysed upper lip.
Ellie discovers a girl tied up in the attic, begging for water—a victim of Mrs. Deere's brutal discipline, but Ellie doesn't think to mention it when the police detective drops by. The detective, whose name is Calvin, is shown in an earlier scene reminiscing with Mullins about how nice it was sleeping with Ellie's prostitute mother and talking about how much he'd like to get into Ellie's pants now. At the same time, he does seem genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of shenanigans at the Deere Orphanage.
Which all leaves the question, who is the man in the mask with the bright red and black shirt, wielding the hammer? He looks like an ancestor of both Freddy Krueger and Leatherface. Also, why does Mrs. Deere like to talk about reanimating corpses?
This movie is so much better than I was expecting it to be and it's available on Amazon Prime.
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Obama Makes Economic Case For Immigration : It's All Politics In his El Paso, Tex. speech Tuesday, the president had to explain why legalizing millions of illegal immigrants wouldn't hurt Americans economically. He argued that illegal immigrants force down U.S. wages since workers lacking legal status can be more readily exploited by unethical employers.
President Obama makes an economic case for immigration reform at the Chamizal National Memorial on Tuesday in El Paso, Texas.
President Obama realizes he has a problem on the immigration front.
Actually, he has a few problems. But one of the gnarliest is that the notion of providing millions of illegal immigrants with a path to legalization raises the economic anxiety of millions of Americans.
Even before the housing bubble burst in 2007, overhauling immigration was a heavy lift. That's even more true now with Americans much more worried about jobs than they were the last time Congress and a president, then George W. Bush, tried to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.
So in his speech in El Paso, Tex. Tuesday along the U.S.-Mexico border, the president had to find a way to explain why legalizing millions of illegal immigrants wouldn't hurt Americans economically.
His argument was that it's the illegal nature of these immigrants that forces down U.S. wages since workers lacking legal status can be more readily exploited by unethical employers.
Think about it. Over the past decade, even before the recession hit, middle-class families were struggling to get by as the costs went up for everything, from health care, to college tuition, to groceries, to gas. Their incomes didn't go up with those prices. We're seeing it again right now with gas prices.
But then our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or a new industry here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to stay here, we train them to create jobs for our competition. That makes no sense. In a global marketplace, we need all the talent we can attract, all the talent we can get to stay here to start businesses — not just to benefit those individuals, but because their contribution will benefit all Americans.
So we don't want the next Intel or the next Google to be created in China or India. We want those companies and jobs to take root here. (Applause.) Bill Gates gets this. He knows a little something about the high-tech industry. He said, "The United States will find it far more difficult to maintain its competitive edge if it excludes those who are able and willing to help us compete."
So immigration is not just the right thing to do. It's smart for our economy.
Not that the president didn't make the moral argument, for instance, that it doesn't square with American values to break up families through deportation. Or to punish young people who were brought into the U.S. as children illegally by their parents.
But he clearly was aware that if he was to make any progress with the American people on an immigration overhaul, to get more voters to see it his way, he needed to make a strong appeal that it's in their economic interest to fix the current system.
As I wrote earlier, immigration reform is a political no-brainer for the president and congressional Democrats since it energizes the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. That demographic just so happens to be an important part of the Democratic base.
It also puts congressional Republicans and GOP presidential hopefuls in a tricky spot since their party's base has proportionally more immigration hardliners than the Democratic Party.
That made the speech, an official presidential event, arguably something of a campaign event too.
And the president gave the event a campaign feel by telling his audience if they agreed with his approach on immigration reform, they should contact WhiteHouse.gov. Campaigns often use such techniques to collect email addresses.
While it's good politics for Democrats to make the strongest appeal possible to Latinos, the president suggested that some Republicans saw it as good politics to focus strictly on border enforcement to the exclusion of everything else, including figuring out how to normalize the 11 million illegal immigrants.
OBAMA: ... The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents — more than twice as many as there were in 2004. It's a build-up that began under President Bush and that we've continued, and I had a chance to meet some of these outstanding agents, and actually saw some of them on horseback who looked pretty tough. (Laughter.) So we put the agents here.
So, here's the point. I want everybody to listen carefully to this. We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement. All the stuff they asked for, we've done. But even though we've answered these concerns, I've got to say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time.
THE PRESIDENT: You know, they said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Or now they're going to say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol. Or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat. (Laughter.) Maybe they want alligators in the moat. (Laughter.) They'll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That's politics.
As for Obama's outline for reform, it's essentially what Senate Democrats and Republicans came up with when Obama was in the Senate.
Illegal immigrants would have to pay their taxes and a fine for breaking the law, learn English and undergo a background check before they would be allowed to remain in the U.S. legally. Hardliners will immediately dismiss this as amnesty.
Meanwhile, the system would be overhauled to make it easier for immigrants, especially highly skilled ones sought by Silicon Valley high-tech firms and other employers, to enter and remain in the U.S.
We may be four years or so on from the last time all these kinds of ideas were proposed but the results are likely to be the same as then, that is, not much is likely to change, at least not before 2012.


Anyone got a favorite recipe?
I like this one. http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/bread_pudding/ Definitely not for the faint of heart. You can really taste the bourbon. You can fnd other good ones simply by Googling "Bourbon Bread Pudding Recipes".


Hello everyone, as promised here is another tutorial written by me, about stuff you might want to know to help you write cool games.
Before I go on... allow me to explicate for a little while.
First of all, I am no writer, I'm a systems engineer, if you're looking for good writing and clear instructions, don't look here.
Also, I don't see any reason to hide source code from others. Few of us has actually completed a game, so there's no reason to hide your secrets from anybody else. These are DOS games we're writing here - nobody writes DOS code anymore. When ID released the source for Wolfenstein, it spoke to me, it was like "Hey! there aren't any secrets anymore!". You see, everything we write here has been documented in some book on how to write games at Barnes&Noble, and is probably also on my bookshelf. So I see no need to hide source like some others of us do.
And for the code I've written here, if any of you saw my last tutorial (highly doubtful) you'd see that I write with VB-DOS, I've changed over recently to QB45, partially for the executable size, but mainly because I like to write stuff for other people to see, and most of you guys use Quick BASIC, and I happen to own it, so I decided to switch over.
A word on assemblers - I do a lot of work in assembly language, my assembler of choice is A86, by Eric Isaacson - search for it on your search engine of choice. I like to work in assembly, and I think all programmers, especially BASIC programmers should learn assembly language, it's the best place to start.
Don't let my prodigous use of assembly language scare you. In this package I've included object libraries for those of you who would rather not mess with the assembly code and just link in the routines you want.
myput.8 - two QBASIC compatible put routines, transparent and solid.
mylib.bi - declarations for all my assembler routines.
test.pcx - a test pcx file to test this program with.
I'll go over the files one by one in order. I won't go too much into detail on the assembly programs, because the main focus of this article is the program pcxget.bas, so I'll spend the most time on it.
mouse.8 - Contained herein are my mouse routines, I'll run 'em down one by one.
Mouseinit - if any of you have used any mouse code in the past, you'll recognise this one. It simply initializes the mouse driver. I don't check driver status, so watch out if you don't hav a mouse driver loaded.
MouseCross - I don't use this routine in this program, but this routine turns the mouse cursor into a little cross-hair for accurate clicking.
ShowMouse - turns the mouse cursor on.
HideMouse - this may be the most valuable mouse routine available. In Windows programming, the mouse driver is notified when you draw on the screen and turns itself off so it doesn't ruin your drawings. However, in DOS, the driver doesn't know when your drawing so you have to turn it off or it will ruin your drawings.
lButton, rButton - these functions tell you the status of the mouse buttons.
MouseX, MouseY - these functions tell you the X and Y location of the mouse cursor - in pixels, so if you're in text mode, divide by 8 (or 16).
XorLine - this routine gets some heavy use here, it draws a line from the top of the screen to the bottom and across the screen, showing the cursor location. This makes selecting graphics very easy. The lines are drawn using xor so they can be erased without saving any background by xoring a second time.
XorBox - this routine draws a box from one location to another using xor, so the lines can be erased without saving the background.
myget.8 - This file contains a single routine.
The resulting array is exactly the same as created by the QB Get statement.
myput.8 - Here's how you put the graphics back onto the screen.
MyPut - My put uses an array as created with the QB get or myget, and puts it on the screen, with one major difference...all pixels that are color #0 are not put to the screen, they become transparent.
Every good game needs a transparent put routine, be it using a screen mask or not putting a particular color, whatever it is, every game needs one.
SolidPut - This routine is the same as the QB put using the PSET option. The reason I use my own routines for getting and solid putting is that I often need to change the video segment for use with an off screen buffer for flicker free graphics.
mylib.lib - The object code library containing all the assembly routines.
Contained herein are all the object files for all the .8 files included in this packet. Using these you can create quick libraries, and link them to your programs after compilation.
pcx.bas - a very good pcx loader written by Jonathan Leger.
I got this one from an ABC packet. For those of you who don't know what ABC is, search the web for "All BASIC Code", you'll be glad you did. My own PCX loader was written in C and I didn't want to throw a third language at you at this point.
For those of you who use QB45 and have never used the load file and create file choices on you menu bar...A MAK file is simply a text file that has a list of other files within it. If you load a MAK file into QB instead of a BAS file, it will load all the files that are listed within. When you choose to create an EXE file within the IDE, QB will compile and link all the files together. That way you can segregate your code into self contained modules.
Test.pcx - It's just a PCX file I included so you could test the program.
pcxget.bas - This file is the main focus of this article, I'll run down the code to give you some idea of the crazy things I do.
PRINT "PCXGet allows you to load a Screen 13 PCX file and select a "
PRINT "region to be saved in a QuickBASIC get format."
PRINT "L = Load pcx file"
PRINT "S = Save Gotten image as QuickBASIC get"
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'Draw the lines so the can be erased again.
'Now deal with any button presses.
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South Korean boyband TVXQ! has revealed keywords to define their new 8th studio album New Chapter #1 : The Chance of Love and raises anticipation from the fans.
South Korean boyband TVXQ! is scheduled to host a special reunion party with their fans in commemoration with the release of the new New Chapter #1 : The Chance if Love album.
TVXQ!, who is making a comeback with this new 8th studio album, will host 'TVXQ! Welcome Back Party : The Chance of Love' on March 28, 2018 in Seoul Blue Square I'Market Hall. The event is set to be streamed live via Naver V LIVE and SMTOWN channel.
South Korean K-Pop kings, TVXQ!, are making a return with a comeback title track "The Chance of Love"!
TVXQ!, the Hallyu kings, is about to conquer the music industry this year with their new 8th studio album with the title track "The Chance of Love".
South Korean boyband TVXQ!'s Shim Changmin (Max) has finished filming JTBC's Differential Class, confirming his appearance in a cultural TV show.
Shim recently participated in the filming of JTBC's Differential Class. While there have been some news about his appearance in variety TV shows before his comeback as a TVXQ! duo, Shim decided to appear in this cultural TV program.
K-Pop Legend TVXQ! Confirms Music Comeback With New Album Release
South Korean boyband TVXQ!, the K-Pop kings, will officially make a return after three years, and plans to release a new studio album on the 28th of this month.
TVXQ! band members Shim Changmin (left) and Jung Yunho (right). Photo: S.M. Entertainment.
The TVXQ! duo, Jung Yunho and Shim Changmin, will drop their new album later this March and will embark on different activities in South Korea. This new album will be two years and eight months since their last release of their special album Rise as God in July 2015, and four years since the Tense album in 2014.
TVXQ! May Star In MBC's Reality Show 'I Live Alone'
South Korean boyband TVXQ! is in talks to appear in I Live Alone TV show.
On February 13, one of the press has reported that TVXQ! may appear in MBC's reality TV show, I Live Alone.
TVXQ! Renews Contract And Prepping For Comeback Next Month
South Korean boyband TVXQ! has renewed their contract with S.M. Entertainment and plans to make a comeback this March.
TVXQ! has finished renewing their contract with their agency, S.M. Entertainment, at the end of last year based on their strong mutual trust with each other. TVXQ! was with S.M. Entertainment since their debut in 2004.
TVXQ!'s 'Begin Again' Live in Kyocera Dome To Be Released On DVD And Blu-ray
Asia's best group TVXQ!'s recent Japanese nationwide Begin Again live tour is set for release on DVD and Blu-ray in March.
It's been announced that '東方神起 LIVE TOUR ~Begin Again~' is set for this home release on March 28, 2018. The show was recorded live during the final leg of the five-dome tour at Kyocera Dome, Osaka on January 21, 2018. Highlighting the tour's closing stages, the live concert showcases the duo performing their hits "Rising Sun", "Why?(Keep Your Head Down)" and "Catch Me -If you wanna-". TVXQ! has performed in front of over 780,000 fans in 17 shows across five cities in the span of three months in support of their sixth best album released on October 25, 2017.
TVXQ!'s New 'Best Of' Album Hits #1 On Oricon Chart
Asia's best group TVXQ! returns to the summit on Oricon Daily Chart and proves their unchanging popularity in Japan.
TVXQ!'s latest 'Best Of' album FINE COLLECTION ~Begin Again~ released in Japan yesterday topped the Oricon Chart on the same day, exactly two years and 10 months since the 'With' album became their No. 1 and proves the duo as the most popular group in Asia.
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TVXQ! Prepares Thank You Messages To Members And Fans For 'Your Present' Fan Meeting
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I feel a bit shy to write a letter to you. I'm not so good at writing but it is a new feeling to get to read a letter on stage. ^^* Um~ For 14 years, no, we've known each other for 16 years since when we were trainees? I feel like it was yesterday when I saw you as a high school student. Time goes by really fast. Changmin was delicate and innocent when I first saw you, but I bet there was a lot of incidents for that long time when you were dishearten because of me, when you struggled a lot and when you felt like crying. Thank you for always understanding me and standing by my side! To be honest, it is not an easy thing to push forward towards the same direction as the two of us have different styles and personalities, but because it was you, Changmin, and because I was with you, there have been more joyful things than hard things. We argue sometimes, but I think working in perseverance and with passion in your own style is the true side of you. We share that in common and that shone brightly in our hard times! I am, also of a masculine personality, so I feel shy to express my feelings but in many times I gained a heart from seeing your hard work. I'm also human, so I was exhausted many times but I gained strength because I was not alone and I was with you. ^0^* We ended our long hiatus and stood on the stage in 2010's SMTOWN. There was no other time I felt that scared and tensed, but I also felt we can walk on a new path as the two of us, holding your hand.


A busy Spondon road will be partially closed for major repair work, potentially causing delays right up until Christmas.
Essential roadworks to repair Dale Road started earlier this week on Monday, October 29 and Derby City Council has estimated that the project will take eight weeks to complete.
News of the closure comes as Alfreton Road could soon partially reopen almost three months after it was damaged by a burst water main.
The road has been closed since August 9, after a burst pipe caused serious damage to the road surface and nearby bridge, with flood water spilling onto Pektron Island.
Severn Trent announced it would need to investigate before reopening the road to motorists, forcing drivers to follow diversions while the closure was in place.
But now council bosses have confirmed the road will partially reopen to inbound traffic travelling towards Derby only - but have not revealed when.
A spokesman for Derby City Council said: "Alfreton Road remains closed for safety reasons due to a burst water main that has caused damaged the bridge.
Derby City Council and independent engineers have now approved the partial re-opening of the Alfreton Road bridge.
"Due to the damage caused by the burst water main, the bridge can only be reopened with restrictions.
"The decision has been made, on the advice of traffic and network management team, to allow Derby inbound traffic only.
"We are currently working with Severn Trent Water to complete 'above bridge' carriageway repairs, followed by the installation of traffic management, as soon as possible. We will announce the date for one- way reopening shortly.
"Access to carry out repairs to the bridge itself from the railway line is only possible on Saturday nights and will be carried out over a period of weeks. Once these repairs have been made, the bridge can fully reopen.
"As we will be working trackside, we need approval from Network Rail. A date for the commencement of this work is subject to their agreement.
"Normally Network Rail's approval process is 18 weeks, however we are currently working with Network Rail to see if this period can be reduced."


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Exploring Portuguese Food
The two biggest influences on Portugal's cuisine are the Atlantic Ocean to its west and south, and Spain to its east. With more than 500 miles of coastline, the small country is a major seafood destination. Traditional Portuguese food is filled with dishes of the sea, from street food to family-size entrees. Sardinhas assadas, or grilled sardines, are a popular grab-and-go snack at festivals. It is said there are hundreds of ways to prepare bacalhau (cod fish), including stews, fritters, and Bacalhau à Brás, a dish made with eggs, potatoes, olives, and onions. Cataplana de Marisco is truly a feast of a seafood dish, combining all types of seafood imaginable — prawns, clams, fish, mussels — with another Portuguese staple, pork.
Porco Preto and Chouriço
Both Spain and Portugal are known for their Iberico pork, a beloved meat that comes from black Iberian pigs. In Portugal, this specialty of the Alentejo region is called porco preto (literally "black pig"). Another type of pork meat the two neighboring nations have in common is chorizo sausage, called chouriço in Portugal. The main difference between Spanish chorizo sausage and Portuguese chouriço is that the former is very paprika-heavy, while the latter puts more emphasis on garlic and pepper. Chouriço is also flavored with Portuguese wine.
Beef, beans, and stews make up a large part of the Portuguese diet as well, and even in a meat-centric cuisine like this, there is one Portuguese vegetable dish that has been incredibly influential on world cuisine. Ready to have your mind blown? Peixinhos da horta is a fried vegetable dish that literally translates to "little fish of the garden." This technique for battering and deep frying veggies is actually the basis for Japanese tempura! Portuguese explorers introduced the concept to the Japanese in the 16th century, and the Japanese loved it so much that they made it their own.
Where can I buy Portuguese food?
At Supermarket Italy, you can find Portuguese seafood like sardines, tuna fish, and mackerel. Our online international grocery store also offers other Portuguese imports, such as sea salt, olive oil, cheese and honey.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
The Monroe Doctrine - January 1924
categories: Lecture, Speeches
Monroe Doctrine 1924
THE CHAIRMAN: It would be in a measure without any excuse to undertake to introduce Mrs. Catt to this audience, but I merely want to say to you that she has spent a large part of last year in Latin America, and she will speak to you, I believe, of the Monroe Doctrine from an American point of view, but perhaps an American point of view which will reflect what our Latin American friends think about it. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (applause).
MRS. CATT: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen. In times of old it was said that when a thing was believed "everywhere and by all", that it was true; that is, it was true whether or not it was true. In modern times enlightenment has taught us that not always does the beaten path unerringly lead to the truth. Nevertheless, it requires considerable temerity to rise to express a skepticism concerning a thing so universally believed in this country as is the Monroe Doctrine. With much perturbation of mind and spirit, I venture to declare, however, that the Monroe Doctrine, though all the world be for it, is false in theory and pernicious in its application. It is false in its theory because there is no logic; there is no justice; there is no ethics which can possible make justifiable the right of any nation, by its own assumption of authority, to assume direction over any other nation without that nation's consent (applause).
It is pernicious in its application, for, in the words of Secretary Hughes himself, (in his speech at Montreal), "The policy of the Monroe Doctrine does not infringe upon the sovereignty of other American states. Misconception upon this point is the only disturbing influence upon our relations with Latin America." He himself points out wherein the theory is pernicious. Yet it is believed everywhere. All Americans automatically believe in the Monroe Doctrine; they are born to it as they are born Republicans or Democrats or Presbyterians. They cannot help it. Both political parties endorse it with equal fervor, and they do so because neither of them originated it. They inherited it and both of them have a little bent toward antiques (laughter and applause).
I have recently been in Texas, and whenever I go into the South I always make it a point to collect stories about the negroes, stories which the people I meet have experienced. One of them is applicable. A negro mother had a pair of twins, and, following the custom of her people of liking to name her children something religious or spiritual, she name them the Monroe Doctrine and Savin' Grace (laughter). She was quite unconscious that she had confused the politics and religion of her country (laughter). No one will ever discover her mistake, because the little boy who did not grow quite so fast as his sister, was called Little Docky for short, and the sister Say, which sounds like our patriotic and classical national air.
You New Yorkers have missed something quite American if you have not in the Middle West been privileged to attend the congressional political rally. There is no congressional or senatorial candidate or oratorical sponsor for a president, who when wishing to evade an issue or having run short of ammunition, does not call upon one of two subjects in order to arouse his audience to loyalty to the party he represents by throwing dust in the eyes of his audience. One is the constitution. This is always in danger in every campaign. The other is the Monroe Doctrine. Both are perfectly safe. Such asides never lose a vote.
Being a Middle Westerner myself, I have seen and heard at these rallies many an orator walk up and down the platform and pound the table in defense of this immortal doctrine while receiving the plaudits of their audiences; when neither the orator nor the audience had the slightest idea of what the Monroe Doctrine really was.
I have adopted the habit in times past when a question has become controversial – and I like to find out what people are thinking – of asking the first ten, dozen or twenty-five people that I meet about this question. Following my custom, when I learned that I was to speak here I began to make inquiries to see how many people knew what the Monroe Doctrine is. Up to this point I have asked one hundred intelligent people. I have not found one yet, including General Sherrill (laughter) who really knows.
Someone told me the other day that our talented president, Mr. McDonald, had issued what deserves to be an "immortelle", and that was that, "isolation is a predicament and not a policy". I want to ask Mr. McDonald to permit me to use that expression for a moment, for it is the best definition of the Monroe Doctrine I have ever heard (laughter). I will ask you to put yourselves in the place of Secretary Hughes at the centenary of the Monroe Doctrine. Will you then ask yourselves what you would do in his place? If you were Mr. Hughes you would of course know what the Monroe Doctrine is. Suppose you wanted to modernize it. Suppose you wanted to amend it. How could you do it? If it were the constitution, the constitution might be amended. That is a painful process, but it has been done (laughter). If it were a law passed by Congress, Congress might repeal it. If it were a decision of the Supreme Court, that distinguished body might follow some of its distinguished precedents and reverse its ruling. If it were the basis of treaties with other nations, a new series might be formulated and ratified to bring in the necessary changes. But it is none of these things. Then, what could you do if you were the Secretary of State and it was your job to pronounce upon that doctrine, which seems to be a traditional predicament handed down from Secretary to Secretary of State. If it was your business to pronounce upon it and you wanted to change it, you would not dare to suggest it, because, whether you were a Republican or a Democrat, you could depend upon it that the party of the "outs" would be after your scalp and your party would be thrown on the defensive. I can perceive the orators of the opposing party out gathering up blocs of indignant American voters for the support of the Monroe Doctrine at the next election (laughter). No Secretary of State will ever dare say that he is opposed to that doctrine or that he wants to modify it. The only thing that a Secretary of State can do is to interpret it, and that is what Mr. Hughes has been doing. He has done it in three different speeches. It was all he could do.
Well, if Mr. Hughes stood alone as the interpreter for this country, of this doctrine, that might be well. For I agree with General Sherrill that no man is safer; no man has a clearer brain; no man has a more analytical mind than Mr. Hughes. But, unfortunately, the Secretaries of State have been engaged in interpreting it for the next hundred years; and, therefore, Mr. Hughes has no final authority for a pronouncement upon that doctrine. He is only a temporary interpreter of it. The doctrine is what the sum total of the interpretations have made it. It is clear we must keep the Monroe Doctrine, whether we want it or not. It is like an umbrella. You can't throw an umbrella away. "Dust to dust and ashes to ashes" doesn't apply to umbrellas and the Monroe Doctrine (laughter).
The Monroe Doctrine began to change in 1845. Perhaps you will remember that in the year 1845 and 946 we had a difficulty about Texas with Mexico. It is a subject upon which our people like to be silent, because there is no one left among the writers of history who justifies that war. It seems to have been the turning point of the Monroe Doctrine and that is why it is an important situation in our history. We waged this war, and, as a result of the outcome, we acquired Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, etc. The total was about 900,000 square miles, or nearly one-third of our entire territory. It is equal to all of Great Britain, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the present Austria, Hungary, Portugal and half of Holland. It was quite a sweep for amateur imperialism and for a nation that was protecting the western continents by spreading her wings over them (laughter). The original Monroe Doctrine was a pronouncement that hereafter European nations were not to colonize on the western continent; that all the Spanish American countries who had interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to mean that a great altruistic nation, a little bigger, a little stronger than they, was always going to protect them from violence at the hands of these wicked European colonizers who might come to seize their lands, became suspicious at that moment and the Monroe Doctrine was never the same to them again. They never have forgotten that war with Mexico in Latin America.
When a little later we had a war with Spain and took a lot more territory and began to administer it they took due notice of that and the suspicion grew. In the famous Venezuela dispute – it was the Cleveland administration – Secretary Olney, one the Secretaries of State who was interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, said: "The United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fist is law upon the subject to which it applies its interpretation". Secretary Hughes has just assured the world that this is not the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine, but in South America that sentence of Secretary Olney's is on file in every newspaper morgue and in every statesman's library and in every public and university library. They have never forgotten it,
Later, President Roosevelt found such a state of irritation throughout Spanish America that he set forth in the same thoroughgoing fashion that he always approached everything, an interpretation of that doctrine so that nobody there-after would be in doubt about it. This is a small part of what he said – President Roosevelt in 1904: "It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger," (No wonder; it had gotten a mouthful in the Mexican War.) "or entertains any project with regard to other nations of the Western hemisphere, save such as are wilful. All this country desires is to see the neighboring countries prosperous. Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act within reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters; if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need not fear from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society may, in America as elsewhere ultimately require intervention by some other civilized nation, and in the Western hemisphere the Monroe Doctrine may force the use, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence of the exercise of an international police power."
Now suppose you were to move into a neighborhood and were living in a little house, and the man in the big house opposite should send you a letter and say: "So long as you keep your children quiet and don't let your victrola run after nine o'clock and only have a jazz dance once a week and close at twelve, we will permit you to live undisturbed, but if you do otherwise you may as well know that we are going to take a hand in your family affairs." What do you think of it?
I once lived in a neighborhood for a short time where the inhabitants were all of a pretty good variety, except one man who was drunk most of the time and used to thrash his wife. The men in the neighborhood became so exercised over it that they put their heads together and said that when it next occurred they would go in a body and thrash the man and protect the women. The time soon came and they went, but when they arrived this quarreling pair stopped for a moment to gaze upon the intruders and then to the amazement of the neighbors, the woman turned upon them and said angrily: "If my husband wants to thrash me, he has a right to do so." And that is the attitude which South America takes when we undertake to give one of her countries a stable government. It may be good from our point of view, but not from theirs.
The urbane and unmilitary Mr. Taft, who certainly never intended to say or do anything in all his life to stir anybody the wrong way, in 1906, when he was a member of Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet, said in a forgetful moment: "The frontiers of the United States virtually extend to Tierra del Fuego." And it is remembered in all the libraries of South America.
Twice, the United States – once in the case of Chile and once in the case of Brazil – has definitely seemed to take sides in a civil war, and in both cases the losing combination believed its failure to succeed was directly due to the intervention of the United States. We have several times sent naval ships to the different ports of a little state, thus announcing that we were ready to interfere. We certainly assisted in the establishment of the republic of Panama and took control of the Canal Zone, on the theory that we had to build the Panama Canal. By assisting the rebellion of Panama, we alienated the republic of Colombia, and by taking the Canal Zone we have created a large amount of resentment in Panama. We have intervened for the collection of money in three republics, at least, and we have several times landed troops or sent naval ships to indicate our wishes concerning collections. Mr. Roosevelt more frankly than any other person analyzed this situation. He said that when nations loaned money to impecunious Southern republics and the latter failed to pay that money, it would be the next step, naturally, for these countries to expect their creditors to go into their land and take over their customs houses in order to get money with which to pay themselves. But, he said, we must make our minds up whether we are willing to do that or whether we must ourselves intervene and stand between the foreign creditor and a South American or Central American country, the debtor. He believed that we must stand between the creditor and debtor.
At this time new opportunities for wealth are being revealed in surprising placed, and I need not tell you that Americans are searching all continents to find opportunities for making millions. You know that in Spanish countries they sometimes are able to get concessions, not because they have paid for them with good money in honest ways as they should, but because those nations often have officials who accept bribes. The next step may be our entanglement as a nation in the predicament when a Spanish American nation is unwilling to stand by its concession – and we are forced to stand by our nationals. Indeed, there are more entangling alliances hidden in the possibilities of the Monroe Doctrine as now interpreted than George Washington ever dreamed of.
I did not find a country in South America that could not give a long list of offenses against its dignity and its sovereignty which had been committed by our own country.
When, in 1823, President Monroe pronounced his doctrine, we were a nation of 9,600,000 people. At this time we are still assuring South America that we alone will interpret the Doctrine; we alone will apply it when and how we choose, and among the nations over which we assume this tutelage is Brazil, which has a larger territory than we have and whose population is now more than three times what ours was when the Monroe Doctrine was pronounced. It assumes a tutelage over Argentina, with nearly half the territorial size of our own country and with a populace nearly as large as that of the United States in 1820.
A new alliance has been formed in South America, and it is charged that the chief motive is a defense against our own land. It is called the "ABC" and represents 43,000,000 of population and a territory of 1,700,000 square miles larger than our own. This combination already possesses some of the greatest war ships in the world, cruisers, torpedo boats, submarines, airplanes and all the rest of the awful paraphernalia which modern civilization has devised for the taking of human life. There are men who can be found in South America who will say that they agree with the Monroe Doctrine, but I believe they are generally like an ambassador of one of the ABC nations to another one of these countries who, in introducing his conversation with me, referred to the Monroe Doctrine. His face shone with a marvelous light as if this was some wonderful thing we had in common, and when he had spoken of it in rather a flattering sort of way, I said, "I don't approve of the Monroe Doctrine". Then he ejaculated, "Don't you? Neither do I."
Said a South American: "The United States has made up its mind to acquire South America. Washington aspires to be the capital of an enormous empire, which, with the exception of Canada, would embrace the whole of the American continent. 80,000,000 Yankees want to annex not only forty million of South Americans, but they want our agricultural riches, richer than can be found anywhere else on the face of the earth." Said an Argentinian: "The Monroe Doctrine is simply a petulant and insatiable imperialism and its development is a superb, audacious and mortifying notification to the Latin peoples of your strenuous desire to eventually absorb the small republics or become the supreme arbiter of their destiny."
Said an Argentinian judge: "It is necessary that we should declare to the United States in dignified language that we are not disposed to concede her right of tutelage. It is too imperialistic and too degrading to ourselves and our neighbors who are worthy of being respected for themselves."
Said an eminent Peruvian: "To set ourselves free from Yankee imperialism the South American republics may yet be forced to an alliance with Europe."
Said a Chilean poet: "Two things unite all Spanish America: a common language and a common hatred of the United States." One of the mildest comments is, "since there are no rain clouds coming from the east, why should a friend, however well-intentioned, insist on holding an umbrella over us." (laughter) All over South America one hears these things said, and, men and women of America, if you were a South American and had a drop of red blood in your veins, you would say the things that they say and you would feel the things that they feel.
To say today that the Monroe Doctrine is right and true because all North Americans believe in it may be countered by another statement that it is wrong because all Spanish Americans do not believe in it. There is a minority here – perhaps I am the only one – who believe that the Monroe Doctrine is false in theory and pernicious in practice. There are those down there – perhaps a similar minority – who think the doctrine is right. These minorities offset each other, leaving the great majority in conflict.
This policy is outworn. It now is a defense of commerce and of big business. There are no colonies of monarchies to come to South and Central America. The kings are gone. Colonists will come, but they will come through immigration, in new ways, not in the old ways. The old Doctrine has not been applicable since the Great war. The new interpretation of slowly growing through fifty years has become interference and breeds hostility. Every nation that hates us is a potential enemy. In the future who can tell what great population or what circumstances may drive us to ignominously or war to uphold the meaning being put into it. At this centenary it would have been wise to have stated to the world frankly that the Doctrine has served its century. Let the century be as glorious as you care to make it. If there are those who declare that the Doctrine has been a blessing to all Spanish America, do not forget that none of them appears to know it. Then let an end be made of it.
Long, long ago a Man came into the world who brought a new rule of conduct. He introduced to mankind, in an endeavor to solve the problems of the world. It is called the Golden Rule. It is still as untarnished as in the beginning, for it has hardly been worn at all. It might be well to use it now with the twenty republics of South and Central America. "We will do unto you as we would have you do unto us." I would also like to follow General Sherrill's example and bound the United States. I would bound it on the north by that line between Canada and the United States, which has no fort upon it (applause) nor any kind of defense on the East by "Forgive thine enemies"; on the South by the Golden Rule, and on the West by "Love thy enemy as thyself". (continued applause)


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May 2014 - Volume 46 - Issue 5S
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Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
E-18 Thematic Poster - Novel Approaches to Improve Physical Activity Friday, May 30, 2014, 9: 30 AM - 11: 30 AM Room: 102 B
A Pilot Feasibility Study of a Campaign Intervention for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults
2251 Board #6 May 30, 9
30 AM - 11
Garcia, David O.1; Jakicic, John M. FACSM2; Davis, Kelliann K.2; Gibbs, Bethany Barone2; Burke, Lora E.2; Rickman, Amy D. FACSM2
1University of Arizona, Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion, Tucson, AZ. 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise: May 2014 - Volume 46 - Issue 5S - p 595
doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000495257.51444.e9
Standard behavioral weight loss (SBWL) interventions produce significant short-term weight loss, which has been shown to be associated with improved health-related outcomes. However, these interventions are typically intensive and require regular in-person sessions, which can be costly to deliver and may not be feasible for all individuals. Thus, alternative and less intensive delivery strategies are needed that will produce significant weight loss and may be more widely applied.
PURPOSE: This study compared a 12-week email delivered thematic campaign intervention (CI) to a standard on-site, group-based SBWL in sedentary, overweight/obese adults (age: 43.1 ± 8.9 years; BMI: 33.3 ± 3.7 kg/m2).
METHODS: SBWL participants (n=13) attended weekly group meetings, were prescribed a daily reduced caloric goal and 200 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) per week. CI participants (n=13) received the same dietary and PA recommendations as the SBWL, attended in-person group meetings only at week 0 and 12, and received tailored e-mail messages weeks 1-11. Additional CI features included a thematic framework and an incentive-based point system targeting study behavioral goals.
RESULTS: The observed pre-post mean weight loss for completers analysis in the SBWL was (n=12; -6.1 ± 2.5 kg) and the CI (n=10; -4.0 ± 3.4 kg) (p<0.001) and intention-to-treat (ITT) (SBWL: -5.6 ± 2.9 kg; CI: -3.1 ± 3.4 kg) (p<0.001), with no between group difference. Pre-post PA also increased for completers in the SBWL (153.5 ± 80.7 mins/wk) and the CI (190.8 ± 241.1 mins/wk) (p<0.001) and ITT (SBWL: 141.7 ± 88.3 mins/wk; CI: 146.8 ± 224.9 mins/wk) (p<0.001), with no between group difference.
CONCLUSION: Short-term weight loss and increased PA was achieved using an e-mail delivered thematic CI. Therefore, the CI may provide an alternative approach to disseminate a behavioral weight loss program; however, confirmation of these findings and studies of longer duration are needed.
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La Porcherie is een gemeente in het Franse departement Haute-Vienne (regio Nouvelle-Aquitaine) en telt 619 inwoners (1999). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Limoges.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van La Porcherie bedraagt 32,0 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 19,3 inwoners per km².

Verkeer en vervoer
In de gemeente ligt spoorwegstation La Porcherie.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Geboren
 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851-1940), arts, natuurkundige en uitvinder van de draaispoelgalvanometer

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Gemeente in Haute-Vienne

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The NITI Aayog recently launched the first round of ranking of India's Aspirational Districts. The ranking, based on the socio-economic performance of 100+ districts, marks the initiation of a significant shift in development policy formulation in the country.
Over the years, India has focused much energy on fostering economic growth, and to good effect. As the recently released Economic Survey reports, the economy grew by over 7.5 per cent annually from 2011 to 2016, and is projected by the World Bank to be the fastest-growing major economy in the world over the next three years. This growth has lifted millions out of poverty, and bodes well for the future welfare of citizens.
However, economic growth cannot be sustained without a commensurate improvement in human capital, nor can the welfare of citizens improve through growth alone. We have a more sobre record in developing human capital. This is untenable and impedes genuine progress for India's poor.
In education, thanks to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, nearly all our children are accessing primary schools. However, retention and learning outcomes remain a challenge. In health, progress seems somewhat better, with infant mortality declining from 44 to 34 deaths per 1,000 births from 2011 to 2016. But India's poorer neighbour, Bangladesh, has better health indicators .
How can we accelerate advancement of human capital as rapidly as we have economic growth? We argue that three fundamental changes in our approach to social policy are necessary. One, we need a shift in focus from inputs and budget outlays to social outcomes. Two, top-down policies should be eschewed in favour of local experimentation. Finally, a robust field data collection infrastructure that enables data-driven decision-making is required.
Such a transformational shift is precisely the goal of the government's Aspirational Districts initiative. Anchored at NITI Aayog, this initiative aims to improve socio-economic outcomes in 100+ of India's poorest districts, home to over 250 million people.
Under this initiative, districts will be ranked quarterly based on their ability to improve socio-economic outcomes. The rankings will be used to empower and incentivise District Collectors (DCs) to innovate and improve. And DCs will get policy guidance using evidence-backed best practices and a platform to learn from each other's successes. Further, all tiers of government, a range of foundations, and civil society organisations are converging to support this initiative.
We are optimistic that the Aspirational Districts initiative can significantly augment socio-economic outcomes in India's poorest regions. Below we analyse the three main policy shifts attempted by this initiative.
Traditionally, communication between government departments has largely revolved around inputs and prescriptive instructions. Thousands of reams of paper and meeting hours are expended to assess progress on budget line items and inputs, ranging from school walls to hospital beds.
The Aspirational Districts initiative's exclusive focus on outcomes -- the index for district ranking is built using only outcome indicators -- is a breath of fresh air. Each district in terms of socioeconomic outcomes will be in the forefront of the agenda, rather than a footnote. Progress will be defined by achieving welfare targets, rather than budgetary ones. The conversation can gravitate to getting results for India's citizens, rather than input-oriented reports.
Secondly, central government programmes are associated with prescriptive and rigid programme guidelines with little or no room for localisation. For example, the Right to Education Act gets into minutiae such as school boundary walls. MGNREGA guidelines cap the overhead ratio for all districts at the same level regardless of their size and labour demand. Many more examples abound.
For the Aspirational Districts initiative, there are no top-down guidelines. Instead, DCs will be provided with evidence-backed recommendations based on best practices and incentivised to tailor solutions based on the specific contexts of their districts. They are also empowered to go beyond these suggestions and innovate. This provides a rich laboratory of experiments from which ideas proven to be impactful can rise to the top.
Thirdly, development policy has traditionally been input-oriented and prescriptive because high-quality, regular and granular data on socio-economic outcomes were simply not available. A results-based management approach is only tenable if this data vacuum is filled. This data vacuum also helps explain why policymaking is anecdote-driven rather than data-driven, and why last-mile implementation failures go largely unaddressed.
The government's administrative data is important, but cannot fully address this data gap. While administrative data is usually frequent (real-time dashboards) and granular (often up to village level), it suffers from biases because of employee self-reporting or other conflicts of interests. And while independent surveys like the National Family Health Survey have more reliable estimates, the data is available after long intervals and is usually only reported at the state level.
The Aspirational Districts initiative upends this lack of regular, high-quality, field-based granular data. NITI Aayog and its partners are setting up an independently-run data infrastructure with feet on the ground and technology-based management methods. This infrastructure will independently track household-level socio-economic data on health, education, financial inclusion, and many other sectors on a quarterly basis.
With a large sample of households in each district, this is a hitherto unmatched scope, scale and frequency of welfare measurement in the history of India's development journey. The data, to be provided on a public dashboard, will not only aid this initiative but also the work of public sector officials, development practitioners, and researchers more broadly.
We are still in the early days of the Aspirational Districts initiative. We are cautiously optimistic that the pioneering policy shifts of this initiative will enable innovative solutions to improve the lives of our citizens and help create a new benchmark for policymaking in India.
(Alok Kumar [IAS] is Advisor, Health, at NITI Aayog. Neil Buddy Shah and Ronald Abraham are CEO and Partner at IDinsight, which provides analytical and impact measurement support for the Aspirational Districts initiative)
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Omega-3 fatty acids are all around us. Yet few of us get enough of them.
Even those people who think that fats are bad make an exception for the omega-3s. These polyunsaturated fats are essential to our good heart health, something that everyone with diabetes needs to take seriously. The most important of the omega-3s are eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and alpha-linolenic acid (ALA).
Although our bodies can't synthesize omega-3s, they can convert some ALA into EPA and DHA. But our bodies have a limited ability to convert ALA into EPA and DHA.
And the omega-3s in our diet compete with the omega-6 fatty acids for space in cell membranes and for the attention of various enzymes. This means that too much omega-6 in our diet is just as much of a problem as too little omega-3. Most of us think of fish as the source of omega-3s. But fish get them from plants. Most of the omega-3s in our bodies ultimately come from green leaves. On the other hand, most of our omega-6s come from seeds. This means simply that this lack of balance ultimately boils down to overconsuming seed oils and underconsuming greens. We worsen this imbalance when we eat grain-fed animals.
"No one knows what the optimal ratio in the diet is for these two families of fats," writes Susan Allport in The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them (University of California Press, 2006). But "humans evolved under conditions in which they were about equal."
Now, however, the current ratio in the United States is about 10 times the amount of omega-6s in our diet as omega-3s. We can trace a lot of this imbalance to the ratio of omega-3s to omega-6s in the cooking and salad oils that we use.
Even everybody's favorite, olive oil, has a ratio of 12 times the amount of omega-6 to omega-3, according to data from the USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory that Allport cites in her book. Canola oil has a better ratio, 2:1 (twice as much omega-6 as omega-3), but that ratio is still way out of balance. Soybean is 7:1, butter is 9:1, corn oil is 46:1, sesame oil is 137:1, and cottonseed oil is 259:1.
But that's not the worst balance. This invidious distinction goes to safflower oil because it totally lacks omega-3s, giving it a ratio of infinity to 1.
If all those oils are mostly omega-6, then where can we find foods with a positive omega-3 to omega-6 ratio? It's actually easy when we look for them. They are abundant in the green leaves of plants, fish and fish oil supplements, omega-3 enriched eggs, flax, chia, wakame, and krill. We all know most of those sources, right? But krill? In fact, krill oil has been available since 2003, when a Canadian company, Neptune Technologies and Bioressources Inc., launched its patented extraction of Neptune Krill Oil (NKO) from Antarctic krill, a shrimp-like crustacean. But until I read the newsletter from Dr. Michael Eades, who wrote Protein Power and The Protein Power Lifeplan with his wife Dr. Mary Dan Eades, I had discounted the hyperbole of some other advocates, who -- unlike Dr. Eades -- make money from selling it.
Krill oil, like fish oil, contains both EPA and DHA omega-3s, Dr. Eades says. But they hook together differently. "In fish oil these omega-3 fatty acids are found in the triglyceride form, whereas in krill oil they are hooked up in a double chain phospholipid structure," he explains. "Attached to the EPA leg of the phospholipid is a molecule of astaxanthin, an extremely potent anti-oxidant. The phospholipid structure of the EPA and DHA in krill oil makes them much more absorbable and allows for a much easier entrance into the mitochondria and the cellular nucleus." Krill are at the bottom of the food chain, so they don't concentrate mercury the same way that fish do. The problem with krill oil is that it costs more than fish oil, Dr. Eades continues. "Virtually all krill oil is produced by Neptune Technologies and shipped to the various supplement manufacturers, so any krill oil you get will have come from the same place and be the same dosage. The only unknown is how long it has been sitting around in a warehouse somewhere, which is, of course, the same unknown with fish oil. At least with krill oil, thanks to the high anti-oxidant content, the shelf life is much longer."
Two major supplement manufacturers, Jarrow Formulas and Source Naturals, market Neptune's NKO under their label. I take two little Jarrow Formulas softgels daily that I buy from iHerb.com. These two softgels provide 1,000 mg of Neptune Krill Oil. While supplement companies sell krill oil, the proven need for us to boost our omega 3 to omega-6 ratio has passed into the mainstream. More than three years ago the Food and Drug Administration gave "qualified health claim" status to EPA and DHA. This U.S. government agency stated that "supportive but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA omega−3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease." So far, the peer reviewed studies of krill oil itself are skimpy. But two good studies are already available.
One is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study reported just last year in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. This study, "Evaluation of the Effect of Neptune Krill Oil on Chronic Inflammation and Arthritic Symptoms," concluded that taking 300 mg of Neptune Krill Oil a day for 7-14 days "significantly inhibits inflammation and reduces arthritic symptoms." Another study in a 2004 issue of Alternative Medicine Review, "Evaluation of the Effects of Neptune Krill Oil on the Clinical Course of Hyperlipidemia," compared Neptune Krill Oil to a high EPA and DHA fish oil and to a placebo in a double-blind randomized trial. The study concluded that "a maintenance dose of 500 mg krill oil is significantly effective for long-term regulation of blood lipids." Now that I am using krill oil to boost my omega-3s, I continue to use chia seeds on my eggs, salads, yogurt, and other meals. But when my supplies run out, I will stop taking fish oil.
I've never had a problem with the taste of fish oil. Nor does it make me burp. But some people who have a fish oil burp problem may especially want to consider krill oil.
Also because fish oil -- like flax -- can quickly go rancid, it needs to stay in the refrigerator. But not krill oil, which will last for two years at room temperature. It seems a bit counterintuitive to me that we shouldn't refrigerate this Antarctic krill oil, but that's what I've read. And this might not be important for you, but it is for calorie-counters like me. Another plus for krill oil over fish oil is that it has fewer calories. Two capsules of Neptune Krill Oil have just 10 calories. But each tablespoonful of fish oil has 160 calories.
David Mendoza wrote another post on September 16, 2008 related to oils and diabetes. To read it, click here.
For a blog post about which foods are high in omega-3 acids and oils, click here.


The Meccans, fearing the consequence of this new alliance, began to think seriously of preventing Muhammad from escaping to Yathrib. They met in all haste. After several milder expedients had been rejected, they decided that he should be killed. They agreed that one man should be chosen out of every tribe and that each man should strike a blow at him with his sword so that responsibility of the guilt would rest equally on all tribes. The Bani Hashim, Muhammad's own tribe, were much inferior and therefore would not be able to revenge their kinsman's death.
A number of noble youths were selected for the bloody deed. As the night advanced, the assassins posted themselves round the Prophet's dwelling. They watched all night long, waiting to murder Muhammad when he should leave his house at the early dawn. By some means the Prophet had been warned of the danger, and he directed 'Ali to lie down in his place and wrap himself up in his green cloak, which he did. The Prophet miraculously escaped through the window and he repaired to the house of Abu Bakr, unperceived by the conspirators who had already assembled at the Prophet's door. These, in the meantime, looking through a crevice and seeing Ali, whom they mistook for Muhammad himself, asleep, continued watching there until morning. When 'Ali arose, they found themselves deceived. The fury of the Quraish was now unbounded. The news that the would-be assassins had returned unsuccessful and that Muhammad had escaped aroused their whole energy. A price of a hundred camels was set upon Muhammad's head.
you should at least write pbuh after the Prophets name and respect him also please check all your information with the Quran and HADIS AS I THINK THE PART IN WHICH THE PROPHET PBUH ESCAPES THROUGH A WINDOW MAY BE WRONG I REMEMBER SOMETHING ABOUT THE ASSASINS BECOMMING BLIND.
He proceeded direct to the house of Abu Bakr who, immediately accompanied him and both set out southwards, clambered up the lofty peak of Mountain Thawr, and decided to take refuge in a cave.


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Brown Arts Initiative brings Rome Prize recipients to the Granoff Center for an exhibition shown only twice before at the American Academy in Italy and the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont.
On a Tuesday afternoon in the Cohen Gallery, composer Eric Nathan, assistant professor of music in composition-theory, and landscape architect Loretta Gargan stand in a nearly empty room. The walls are painted white and light funnels in through a large window facing the garden in front of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. In the middle of the room is a series of five simple white pews. Gargan and Nathan are waiting for a delivery of thyme.
This month, the gallery will provide a daily meditative refuge, Nathan said. The artists will offer film, music, lighting, pews and burning thyme to create an environment unlike any other on campus.
The pews are the beginning elements of what artist Catherine Wagner describes as a "site-specific immersive multisensory experience." "Lumen," a collaboration between Wagner, Nathan, Gargan and architect Thomas Kelley, will be in the Cohen Gallery from Oct. 5 to Nov. 5. The exhibit will incorporate elements of music, film, architecture and nature to transform the gallery into a space for visitors to meditate and reflect. The project has been shown twice before, in a Cryptoporticus at the American Academy in Rome in 2014 and the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont in 2015.
The experience of living in Rome sparked the echoes of religion that play a role in the space, Gargan said. "We have been inspired … (by) old places," Nathan said. Although Nathan does not practice Catholicism, he wonders how people can approach these seemingly historical spaces in a contemporary setting.
Working together on the project meant each artist could use their area of expertise as part of the larger vision. Although each artist came from a unique background, most of the conversations incorporated all of their voices, Wagner said. The artists realized that their collaboration did not mean splitting up the work. In places where they did feel constraints, they found a space for creative exploration, Nathan said. He adjusted his composition to match the cadence of the film, finding a fruitful challenge in working with the other artists.
In coming to Granoff, "Lumen" has moved from an underground, church-like space in Rome to a contemporary gallery. There are adjustments being made as the work is reformatted to fit its new environment, while maintaining the powerful aspects that attracted hundreds of visitors in Rome.
In a past exhibition, a visitor expressed a desire for "Lumen" to be at his funeral.
"I recommend people to approach this and experience it in any way they choose," Nathan said.


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