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WELLINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - New Zealand wants access to Covid-19 vaccines as soon as possible but accepts that other nations where the death toll is rising have a higher priority, Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said.
"We're doing every single thing that is possible to get the vaccines here as soon as we can, but I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody that countries where there are literally thousands of people dying every day, that those are countries where the vaccines are going out right now," Robertson told NewstalkZB Wednesday (Jan 13).
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced mid-December that the entire population of five million would be offered vaccination from the second half of 2021 after the government signed contracts with four drug companies. Political opponents have raised questions about the risk of waiting another six months amid a global resurgence of the virus and the emergence of variants that are more transmissible.
Robertson denied that New Zealand, which has eliminated the virus from its community and recorded just 25 deaths, was being polite and waiting on the sidelines.
"I wouldn't describe it as polite, I'd just describe it as real," he said. "We've got a situation in the UK and the US where they are really struggling at the moment with tragic levels of deaths. That's where the vaccine is rolling out first."
New Zealand has got its orders in, but there are likely to be some delays given the global scale of the rollout, Robertson said.
"I can assure New Zealanders we've got those contracts signed, we will be getting the vaccines here," he said. "We're doing everything we can to get it out the door as soon as possible."
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Germany: BNM campaign highlight the serious human rights issue of Balochistan
BNM – Germany Zone arranged a protest demonstration on 20th April in Hannover city of Lower Saxony, Germany. An awareness campaign was also conducted to aware the locals about the grim human rights situation of Balochistan.
Same day, Amnesty International organized an awareness campaign in assistance by BNM in Münster, Germany.
It has been the norms to violate all possible rights of the civilians by Pakistani forces in Balochistan. Thousands of Baloch are imprisoned in secret torture cells of the Pakistani establishment where they are being inhumanly tortured round the clock. Thousands of civilians have also been killed in custody and many were killed and dumped by the forces.
Furthermore, the families of the victims of enforced disappearances have been protesting from the platform of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons for more than a decade now, but to no success as the government and their officials are unable to do anything on the matter.
Moreover, on 26th December 2018, UAE officials arrested Rashid Hussain Brohi without any warrant and kept him incommunicado. After the passage of almost four months, he is still missing. We have serious fear for his deportation to Pakistan where Pakistani armed forces had already killed thousands of political and social activists in target killing, fake encounters and military operations.
We request all concerned organizations and the civilized world to raise their voice for the indigenous people of Balochistan. Save us from a genocide and help us regain our independence.
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Elephants are native to India, Asia, Mexico, Africa, and San Diego. They are considered the second largest mammal next to the Big Foot (if it does exists) and are larger than the moon itself. It has thick grey skin with ivory tasks bedecked in South African diamonds.
Elephants once faced the threat of extinction, but they never really became extinct. If you know what I mean. Or does that even make sense? Anyway, this was prevented thanks to the efforts of liberals and environmentalists who valiantly tried to protect these noble animals. However, it wasn't until wikiliaty and truthiness activist Stephen Colbert stepped up and fathered more than 1,000 pups that the dwindling number of elephants increased and tripled. How this happened is such a mystery, but rumors had it that his Formula 402 was at work here.
The predecessor of the elephant was the woolly mammoth, but it's not as mighty as the former. In fact, the woolly mammoth was only large but it was an inept creature with long mangy hair and equally funny long tusks. In the end, the extinction of the woolly mammoth was greatly attributed to its rendered being useless as a comically talking shower.
Trunk – the trunk is most probably one of the most useless parts of an elephant. Its only use is when the elephant drinks water or eats, but it's not really that necessary.
Tusks – tusks are used to harvest food, but once it is removed, it can be easily regrown, so no biggie! Besides, cutting off these tusks help with the overall social and physical health of the animal.
Teeth – teeth in elephants are used for eating poop and that's about it!
Ears – elephant ears grow so big that they almost touch the ground. This is so that other animals can easily eat it. It's easy to grow back these ears too, it'll only take about an hour for it to grow back.
For a time, elephants were in grave danger of being extinct mainly because of overhunting. With the efforts by the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation and Babar, the elephant population ballooned to almost triple its original number. Today, there are over 100 billion elephants roaming around across Asia, Africa, and the rest of the world.
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After celebrating Tuesday's takeover of Virginia's legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of Elizabeth Warren.
From the tempo and tenor of the attacks, establishment fears of Warren's success are real -- and understandably so.
Two Wednesday polls show Warren running even with Joe Biden nationally. And a new Iowa poll shows Warren in front of the field with 20%, and Biden falling into fourth place with 15%.
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The danger for Democrats: While Warren is now the party's front-runner, they fear she's a sure loser to Donald Trump in 2020.
And, again, with reason. A recent poll of six battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan, showed Trump beating or tying Warren in all of them except for Arizona.
Nightmare scenario: Warren wins the nomination, but when her neo-Marxist agenda is exposed, Middle America recoils in horror.
The economic elite is already sounding the alarm.
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase says Warren "vilifies successful people." Microsoft founder Bill Gates says her proposals would imperil "innovation" and "capital formation."
Writing in The New York Times, Obama adviser Steven Rattner describes a Warren presidency as "a terrifying prospect."
Warren would "extend the reach and weight of the federal government far further into the economy than anything even Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of (and) ... turn America's uniquely successful public-private relationship into a dirigiste European-style system."
"If you want to live in France" -- where half the GDP is controlled by the regime -- says Rattner, "Warren should be your candidate."
What finally shocked anti-Warren liberals into action was her recent revelation of how she intends to pay for her "Medicare for all" plan.
Warren's plan would require at least $23 trillion more in federal spending over a decade. Other experts say the added costs could run to $32 trillion, raising the U.S. government's share of the GDP by one-half and abolishing the private health insurance plans of 156 million Americans.
"Many of America's global champions, like banks and tech giants, would be dismembered," writes Rattner, "Shale fracking would be banned, which would send oil and natural gas prices soaring and cost millions of Americans their jobs."
Beyond "Medicare for All," Warren has other plans. Universal child care and free schooling from pre-kindergarten through college and the cancelation of student loans, plus a new look at reparations for slavery.
How would President Warren pay for all her "plans"?
She would raise the corporate rate to 35% from 21%, and slam a 40% tax on the profits of companies that try to flee the country.
She would raise the capital gains tax, impose new estate taxes, raise Social Security taxes on folks with higher incomes, and confiscate 2% of the wealth of those with $50 million in assets and 3% of the wealth of those with $1 billion, every year.
Writes Politifact: "All told, we counted $7 trillion in new spending over a 10-year period, and that's without Medicare for All. On the flip side, Warren offered specific tax proposals that came to $4.55 trillion."
Still, Warren's socialism is not what her main rivals, all white men, are zeroing in on. They've decided to play hardball.
Thursday, under a headline, "Warren Faces Accusations that She's 'Angry,' Which Supporters Say is Sexist," The Washington Post reported:
"Two of the leading male candidates in the Democratic presidential primary race -- Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg -- have escalated separate lines of attack as they attempt to counter the field's most prominent woman: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is antagonistic and angry."
Warren has a "my way or the highway" approach, said Buttigieg, she is "so absorbed in the fighting that it is as though fighting were the purpose."
Biden says Warren, who has a real shot at taking the nomination, reflects "an angry unyielding viewpoint that has crept into our politics."
This is "treacherous," warns the Post, "given that many Democrats remain upset over what they view as the sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton, the party's last nominee."
The Democratic Party today defines itself as an inclusive party of women, gays, Hispanics, African Americans and other people of color.
Yet three months out from the decisive early contests of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the party is going into the semifinals of its contest for a leader and future president without a single person of color in the final four.
Moreover, the three white males are denigrating and piling on the woman who is the front-runner with attacks on her personality for which conservatives, if they used such tactics, would be charged with "dog-whistling" the white working class.
When one looks at the approval-disapproval rating of the president, re-election appears problematic. When one looks at the Democrats' agenda and field of candidates, the odds of Trump's re-election seem a good deal better.
This thing is by no means over.
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This book provides cutting-edge, evidence-based strategies and interventions that target students' engagement at school and with learning. Coverage begins with the background and 29-year history of the Check & Connect Model and describes the model and assessment of student engagement that served as the backdrop for conceptualizing the engagement interventions described in the book. Subsequent chapters are organized around the subtypes of student engagement – academic, behavioral, affective, cognitive – that were developed based on work with the Check & Connect Model. Principles and formal interventions are presented at both the universal and more intensive levels, consistent with the Response-to-Intervention/Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework. The book concludes with a summary on the lessons learned from Check & Connect and the importance of a system that is oriented toward enhancing engagement and school completion for all students.
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'Bad religion': a new book lights up both sides in culture wars
"NY Times" columnist Ross Douthat dares mention "heresy." And he spares neither Right nor Left.
Anthony B. Robinson
First United Methodist Church in Seattle
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is a bold book. In an era when "not judging" and "you have your way (truth) and I have mine" have become both articles of faith and the ruling orthodoxy, Douthat dares to make distinctions.
He calls some religion "bad religion," which implies of course that there is also "good religion."
For some it is a surprise, and matter of regret, that there is still, these days, any religion. For several generations now some intellectuals and social scientists in the West have believed that all religion would fade away before the onward march of "progess" and "enlightenment." From Marx to Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), the theory has been that religion is an artifact of humanity's frightened infancy soon to disappear altogether. Like it or not, this has not happened.
Something has, however, happened. A significant change has taken place — not the utter disappearance of religion, as some so devoutly hoped — but rather the corruption of religion and, in particular, the West's dominant religion, Christianity. We live now, according to Douthat, in the era of "bad religion": "America's problem isn't too much religion, or too little of it. It's bad religion: the slow-motion collapse of traditional Christianity and the rise of various pseudo-Christianities in its place."
This argument will not endear Douthat to either side in our polarized and culture-war riven society. He does not cast his lot with left or right, red or blue, liberal or conservative — the usual choices — but pretty much such says, "A curse on all your houses." It's not that one of these sides or poles is right while the other is wrong; both, in Douthat's analysis, have failed. Both are sponsoring their own particular forms of bad religion, that is, of heresy.
Not only does Douthat dare to make distinctions, he also employs such terms as "orthodoxy" and "heresy," and does so in ways that are compelling as well as historically and theologically informed.
"What distinguishes orthodoxy from heresy," writes Douthat, "is a commitment to mystery and paradox."
"Mysteries abide at the heart of every religious faith, but the Christian tradition is uniquely comfortable," he claims, "preaching dogmas that can seem like riddles, offering answers that swiftly lead to further questions, and confronting believers with the possibility that the truth about God passes our understanding."
Thus, "orthodox Christians insist that Jesus Christ was divine and human all at once, that the Absolute is somehow Three as well as One, that God is omnipotent and omniscient and yet nonetheless leaves us free to choose between good and evil." Given the opportunity through the centuries to resolve such tensions and eradicate such mystery, that is "to streamline Christianity, to rationalize it, [to] minimize the paradoxes and difficulties, to make it more consistent and less mysterious," the stewards of orthodox faith have resisted, preferring the paradoxical and the mysterious.
The nature of heresy, however, is to resolve these tensions, to prefer either/or to both/and. He writes, "The great Christian heresies vary wildly in their theological substance, but almost all have in common a desire to resolve Christianity's contradictions, untie its knotty paradoxes, and produce a cleaner and more coherent faith."
These distinctions and descriptions apply more broadly and throughout our society these days, where we flee complexity in favor of easy, but often foolish, simplicity. But then choosing sides is so much more entertaining than examining the limits of both sides as well as the perils of false dichotomies.
Douthat does call out both sides, taking on the heresies of contemporary liberal and conservative Christianity. In the former camp he surveys the cadre of scholars who march under the banner of "The Jesus Seminar," a group that emerged in the 1980's as the latest incarnation of "the quest for the historical Jesus." They managed to capture the traditional Easter and Christmas-time covers of the newsmagazines with timely and sensational headlines of the "Did the Resurrection Really Happen?" variety. The upshot of their labors, Douthat concludes, is that, "the only Jesus who really matters in the one you invent for yourself" — hardly an impressive outcome for all the ballyhoo.
The other liberal heresy Douthat dissects is the way that Christianity and religion more broadly have been reduced to therapy. Here he takes on such figures as Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love), Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Neal Donald Walsch and Eckhart Tolle as the apostles of "The God Within."
On the other side of the spectrum, Douthat examines Glenn Beck's paranoid versions of Christian messianism, in which American nationalism — of a certain type — trumps Christian faith while using the latter to give it a sacred glow. And in his chapter, "Pray and Grow Rich," Douthat attends to the various apostles of the very good life, chiefly Joel Osteen, but also T. D. Jakes and Joyce Meyer.
His examination of the prosperity gospel illustrates his thesis that heresies are essentially reductionistic. "Like most heresies, it [the prosperity gospel] resolves one of orthodoxy's tensions by emphasizing one part of Christian doctrine — in this case, the idea that the things of this life are gifts from the Creator, rather than simply snares to be avoided, and that Christians are expected to participate in the world rather than withdraw from it. [But] then it effaces the harder teachings that traditionally balance it out," such as Jesus' saying that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven or his call to leave wealth and "follow me." Heresy basically cleans up a messy faith, making it more workable (but less true!) The four heresies Douthat examines all seem in a way particularly American in their pursuit of religion that is more useful and less perplexing.
But the descent into bad religion has been, Douthat argues, costly. As in other respects in American culture, the extremes and factions thrive apace while a broad and stablizing center, and the institutions that have supported it, withers away. Early in his account Douthat profiles that center, particularly in its post-World War II incarnation when Christianity was "at once steeped in the faith's oldest traditions and [also] confidently engaged with modern thought and politics." It was a center embodied by the likes of Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, W. H. Auden, Will Herberg, Billy Graham, and Martin Luther King Jr. Douthat terms this, "The Lost World."
Douthat is a young man, in his mid-30s. As the book's jacket cover notes, he is the "youngest-ever op-ed columnist" of The New York Times. Some of the most caustic reviewers of Bad Religion make a point of stressing, condescendingly, Douthat's age, conveying a "how-dare-he" tone in their reproaches.
But Douthat also speaks, in my experience, for the best and brightest of a younger generation. It is a generation weary of the culture war's slogans and divides, and hungry for a more deeply rooted faith and temperate public life. He urges Americans who have discarded Christian faith to look again at "your half-forgotten patrimony ... considering that Christianity might be an inheritance rather than a burden." To that I add my own appreciative "second-the-motion."
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As we enter the month of May, the White Sox farm system seems to be heating up alongside the weather. There was a plethora of names in contention for the Hot List this time around. A number of players had overall poor Aprils, but have only begun heating up in the past week or two, and you will see that theme a number of times in this article.
Fresh off an other-worldly performance in the Arizona Fall League that led to him winning the MVP honors, Adam Engel started the 2016 season in a prolonged slump that eventually led to a demotion from Birmingham to Winston-Salem. It appears he is starting 2017 similarly to 2016, as his batting average on April 26th was a meager .098. However, Adam has rebounded this past week by hitting .381/.435/.667. Engel is traditionally a streaky hitter, so this game of hot-and-cold is nothing new to the speedy center fielder. Hopefully he will be able to maintain some consistency and perhaps earn that wide open CF spot in Chicago at some point this season.
Reynaldo Lopez had his best start of the season for the Knights on Sunday, striking out six while only allowing one run on three hits and a walk over six innings.
Charlotte closer Zack Burdi had a perfect week (literally), tossing three shutout innings over two appearances with four strikeouts and no hits or walks allowed.
Yoan Moncada ended the month of April strong, hitting .346/.393/.462 with two stolen bases over his last six contests.
Michael Kopech had his longest (and arguably best) start of the season last Tuesday when he pitched six shutout innings of one-hit ball, striking out eight and walking four for his first win of the year. Kopech has racked up 28 strikeouts and only allowing 9 hits over his 18 innings, proving his stuff is as good as advertised. However, his command still has a ways to go as he as walked 14 batters as well.
Many were surprised when the White Sox assigned Eddy Alvarez to Birmingham instead of Charlotte and the switch-hitting SS started the year in a deep funk at the plate. However, Alvarez has come on strong recently and is currently riding a seven game hitting streak (11-for-27 plus four walks), including three consecutive multi-hit games.
Hunter Jones has been known more for his spectacular center field defense (see below), but his bat made some noise this past week and he capped his great week off by going 2-4 with a home run and a stolen base in Monday's game.
Of all the hitters I am highlighting in this piece, nobody is as hot as outfielder and first baseman Louis Silverio. The former 33rd round pick batted .600 over four games this past week, including a 4-4 game on Wednesday where he drove in seven runs. Silverio is now hitting .329/.375/.438 on the season and has added his name to the list of impressive outfield prospects the White Sox have assembled in the lower levels.
Dash starter Tanner Banks has had an eye-opening start to the year and the 25 year-old may be due for a promotion soon. Banks tossed seven innings of one-run ball on Friday to lower his season ERA to 1.36. Banks has only allowed 20 hits over 33 innings and has struck out 32 batters this year.
Ryan Riga pitched four shutout innings over two appearances this past week to lower his ERA to a minuscule 0.73. Riga struggled mightily last season but has been lights-out this year, striking out 15 batters and not issuing a walk over his first 12.1 innings at the same level.
First Mitch Roman, then Tyler Sullivan last week, now it is 3B Grant Massey's turn to catch fire for the Intimidators. Massey hit .421/.421/.526 this past week and raised his season slash line to an impressive .328/.354/.377. The 2015 26th rounder doesn't have a lot of pop (1 career HR), but has consistently made hard contact this year.
Can I just put the whole Kannapolis rotation in here? Alec Hansen, Dane Dunning, Bernardo Flores, Jimmy Lambert, and Yosmer Solorzano all had great starts this past week for the Intimidators. Hansen took a no-hitter into the 6th inning of his start and ended up departing with one hit, one walk, and no earned runs allowed. Dunning pitched another six shutout innings on Wednesday that earned him a promotion to Winston-Salem. With Dunning's departure, Jimmy Lambert now sports the lowest ERA (2.00) in the rotation, and has only allowed three earned runs over his last three starts. Bernardo Flores had perhaps the best start of them all though; the former USC Trojan only allowed two hits, one walk, and one run over eight innings while striking out six batters on Thursday.
He didn't have a particularly busy week, but Kanny closer Mike Morrison has been absolutely dominant this season. Morrison has allowed just 3 hits and 1 walk over 11 shutout innings while striking out 17 batters.


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In today's On the News segment: Our oceans are in serious trouble because a major bleaching event is wiping out coral reefs and threatening marine ecosystems; the International Monetary Fund says that now is the time to put a price on carbon; Bhutan's agriculture will soon be 100 percent organic; and more.
You need to know this. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that now is the time to put a price on carbon. According to a recent article over at the ThinkProgress blog, last week, IMF managing director Christine Legarde said that climate change is now a "macro-critical" issue and carbon taxes have proven to be a big success in the effort to expand clean energy. For example, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which is made up of nine northeastern states, has already saved consumers $460 million in energy costs, and added $1.3 billion to the regional economy. Earlier this year, the IMF announced that governments around the world needed to reduce the $5.3 trillion being spent in fossil fuel subsidies every year. Now they're taking that advice a step further by offering their help to nations that want to make the fossil fuel industry pay for their own pollution. Legarde said, "What we can do is certainly provide strong advocacy for things such as removing subsidies that actually go to the wrong pockets. What we can do is provide tools for countries to actually set the right prices, including externalities." In other words, we now have plenty of evidence to show that carbon taxes work, and the IMF wants to help nations make sure that those carbon taxes are priced correctly. It's long passed time to stop subsidizing the destruction of our planet and start incentivizing the switch to clean energy. The primary purpose of the IMF is "to ensure the stability of the international monetary system," and they recognize that our current system is unsustainable. We can't continue to subsidize the oil industry, and putting a price on carbon is the best way to fix our broken system.
Our oceans are in serious trouble. For the third time in our recorded history, a major bleaching event is wiping out coral reefs from Hawaii to the Indian Ocean. According to a group of scientists at NOAA, increasingly warmer ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to 95 percent of all US coral reefs. Global warming, a strong El Niño season and an unusual warm water mass in the Pacific are all contributing to warmer ocean temperatures, which coral reefs can't survive. By the end of this year, NOAA expects that more than 4,600 square miles of reefs will have perished, and that's bad news for the rest of our oceans. Coral reefs act as nurseries to thousands of fish and marine species, and they act as a natural barrier to protect the coast against extreme weather. When coral dies, fish species often die with them, and the entire marine ecosystem in an area can fall apart. That sets off a chain reaction as fish try to survive in other areas, and often disrupt those ecosystems as well. If our reefs disappear, we lose far more than beautiful ocean scenery, and they could take decades or longer to grow back. For the sake of our oceans, and our species, we must get serious about protecting our oceans, and the amazing coral reefs that they contain.
It turns out that there may be slackers in every species. According to a recent study in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, some worker ants are really lazy. In order to study how ants in a colony interacted, scientists marked every member of five different colonies with different colored paint. Then, with the help of a high speed camera, the researchers were able to study the ants over a two-week period. Surprisingly, they found that more than 70 percent of so-called "worker ants" were completely inactive more than half of the time. And almost one in four were never active. Out of all of the ants they studied, less than three percent were always working. Although previous studies hypothesized that the inactive periods were simply a matter of ants working in shifts, this study concluded that the same worker ants always worked, and the "lazy" ants were always lazy. The scientists say that this may be the result of some ants being too old or too young to work as needed, or it may simply be that every species has it's own set of slackers.
It's always easier for small countries to institute big changes, but that doesn't lessen the importance of the latest news out of Bhutan. According to a recent announcement out of the tiny mountain nation, their agriculture will soon be 100 percent organic. As a primarily-Buddhist nation, the people of Bhutan typically live according to the tenets of their religion. For the population of only 700,000, that means living sustainably, protecting their environment and practicing good governance. That nation even rejects the use of GDP as a measure of progress, and relies instead on the measurement of "gross national happiness." So, it's not surprising that the nation is going organic. Sustainable and organic farming are far better for the people and the environment, and to the people of Bhutan, these practices are even better for national happiness. In an interview with the ThinkProgress blog, Bhutan's agricultural adviser said, "Organic farming was very much a part of the gross national happiness. You cannot think about applying chemical fertilizers and pesticides and say that your country is happy." Whether it's for happiness, health, or otherwise, it's great news that Bhutan is going organic.
And finally … Maybe Americans will get serious about climate change when they can't have their pumpkin pie. No, seriously. According to the world's largest supplier of canned pumpkin, their annual yield has been cut in half because of extreme weather. Libby's Pumpkin, which supplies 85 percent of all the canned pumpkin in the world, said that they will have no reserves to ship after they send out this year's stock for the holiday season. As the company's brand affairs director explained, "That means we will have no pumpkin to ship until the next harvest, which will begin in 2016." Considering that natural disasters, super storms and mega droughts haven't convinced our Republican lawmakers to act on climate change, it's unlikely that anything will interfere with their support of the fossil fuel industry. But, who knows, maybe the loss of one of America's favorite holiday desserts will force them to get serious about our climate crisis.
And that's the way it is for the week of October 19, 2015 – I'm Thom Hartmann, on Science and Green News.


NCAA Rowing Championship Preview: Is this the Bobcats' year?
LEWISTON, Maine -- This Friday and Saturday at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center represents the ninth year in a row that the Bates women's rowing team will compete in the NCAA Championships. It's the second time –- the first being one year ago –- that the Bobcats enter the national regatta as the top-ranked team in Division III.
The five-year stretch from 2009 to 2013 saw the Bobcats assume both the prestige and frustration implicit in winning a silver medal. Somewhere during that time, the question was asked that has since become a perennial one: Is this the year? And because Bates' varsity eight (WV8) and second varsity eight (W2V8) have already beaten their primary competition in their past two regattas, the only logical answer is yes.
WHERE: Lake Natoma, Sacramento State Aquatic Center | Gold River, Calif.
The competition at nationals is always familiar, and the same holds true this year. Five of the eight schools competing are from the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and they are the top five teams in the Division III national poll as well: after No. 1 Bates, there's No. 2 Williams, No. 3 Trinity, No. 4 Hamilton and No. 5 Tufts, which is limited to one eight. Filling out the eight-school field are No. 6 Wellesley, No. 12 Washington (Md.) College and No. 13 University of Puget Sound, which like Tufts will only field one boat.
Each member and coach of the 2014 Bates team has had a year to stew about what happened a year ago in Indianapolis. A national third-place finish that would qualify as a banner year by most programs' standards instead didn't sit quite right with the Bobcats. Bates' W2V8 indeed made team history in winning the W2V8 grand final. But minutes later, in the WV8 grand final, Bates' top-ranked varsity eight fell from first place to fourth over the final 1,000 meters, and the Bobcat saw not only their first-place hopes evaporate, but a five-year streak of being one of the top two teams also ended, as Bates fell into third place in the overall team points. Instead of Bates, Trinity won its first NCAA title, and Williams placed second – the two rivals Bates had defeated convincingly in the season's previous championship regattas, the New England Rowing Championships and the ECAC National Invitational Rowing Championship.
Part of seventh-year head coach Peter Steenstra's response to the disappointment was to blame himself for moving too many rowers too often and too late in the season from the WV8 to the W2V8 and vice versa. "This year I went the opposite way and said we'll make the lineups early," said Steenstra. While ice still covered the Androscoggin River, he formed the WV8 as what he felt was the fastest group of eight on that very day, and the W2V8 as the fastest group remaining. "The idea was, 'Let's know what's fast, and then try to make them faster.' So even though we have (since) tested the women in the varsity eight, the results have been very clear they're the top eight women. Nothing has changed."
So far, so good. Bates' results in the NERC and ECAC/NIRC regattas very much resemble last year's, in that Bates' boats swept every honor, moving from the No. 4 national ranking into the unanimous No. 1 ranking.
The truth is, the makeup of both boats is vastly different from a year ago. The first varsity eight (WV8) has but two holdovers from last year's lineup, in senior Jenna Armstrong (Florham Park, N.J.) and junior Emma Taylor (Scituate, Mass.). Five others have moved over from last year's W2V8, a boat which was "not only undefeated, but unchallenged," in 2014, as Steenstra puts it, ultimately producing Bates' first gold medal in an NCAA Championship grand final. Sophomore Elise Emil (Washington, D.C.) is the WV8's only member without NCAA experience, as the boat's coxswain, sophomore Katherine Traquina (Wayland, Mass.), made the trip in 2014 as an alternate. Bates' far greener second eight comprises three first-year rowers and four sophomores, including coxswain Abigail Bierman (Bethlehem, N.Y.), and only one NCAA veteran in sophomore stroke Molly Pritz (Ithaca, N.Y.).
Steenstra's insight into the composition of the two boats is fascinating.
"The varsity eight is an old-fashioned, blue collar, scrappy bunch," he said. "They row at their best when someone challenges them. They don't row well if there isn't someone pushing them. They love being challenged.
"The (W2V8) is different in that they almost look more refined. They're taller, longer, smoother. They wear down the competition with their base speed. No one else can match them. So they beat you in the middle of the race course. They just wear you out."
The team otherwise has endured a year of adversity – some of it had to do with the historically harsh winter of 2015, which affected the bulk of Bates' Northeast-based competition as well. Bates also missed the services of three strong members of the team who succumbed to injury, in senior Liz Sangree (Ashford, Conn.), sophomore Savannah Stockly (Cumberland, Maine) and senior Rebecca Moore (Stonington, Conn.). This weekend, the Bobcats know their most imposing opponent may well be 90-degree heat. And last weekend, of all things, both of the teams' boats were damaged en route to being trucked across the continent.
Not to worry regarding that last setback, Steenstra insists. Replacement boats of the same make, model and quality as the Bobcats' shells are being lent to the team by Loyola Marymount University, and were already on site before the team arrived in California Wednesday night. It goes along with (the team's personality) that they're able to say 'Oh, that's too bad,' but then, 'Oh, Coach got us other boats that are just as good, so we'll be fine.' What I told them is, 'Think about everything we've been through this year; this can't be the thing that knocks us off our goal.'"
May 27, 2015 NCAA Rowing Championship Preview: Is this the Bobcats' year?


In 2018, it's a no brainer that you should be using any and all forms of social media to promote your personal brand and your business.
With that said, there's a powerful platform that gets lost in the conversation–especially in the realm of photography: Pinterest.
Facebook makes sense because of it's powerful use of advertising and potential reach.
Instagram is probably the most powerful social platform for photographers because, well hello, it's pictures.
Pinterest, however, is a dark horse for any photographer looking for a leg up from their competition. It may have less users than the giants of the industry, but it's unique features will give you a huge advantage. Read on for our best tips for taking your brand and business to the next level using Pinterest.
This may sound like an elementary step as you try to raise awareness about your business, but it's one that some photographers overlook.
After logging into your personal account, look for the link to Pinterest for Business, and hit the "convert now" button.
Just like that, you're a legitimate business in a sea of people looking for great photos.
Update your profile picture to the most recent headshot you have, update your bio, and take a look at how well your boards match your brand.
These little tweaks in your Pinterest page will make it easier for your potential customers to get what they want from your page: photography that fits their needs.
If your profile picture is from a drunken night in college, your bio hasn't been updated since the picture was taken, and your boards are all about healthy recipes or wedding dress options you're looking into, you're not going to attract your ideal customer.
When a potential customer–be it a bride, mom, or someone just looking for some christmas photos–searches for what they're looking for, they are going to be bombarded with tons of options. Some of those options will have lengthy descriptions, some will be short and sweet.
Pick your photos carefully. Don't rush into what you in and share, because potential customers may only give a split second of their time as they scroll to find what they were looking for.
Let your brand be known. Once your picture draws them in, don't make them do extra work to find out who you are and what your business is about. By creating a simple and elegant watermark for your photos, you can be sure that they'll know who to contact for a follow up. Check out our Photologo pinterest page for some inspiration from the photos that we've helped brand for our clients.
Since Pinterest is driven by the power of your clients searching for what they need, your pinned boards should be as specific as possible.
Your niche may be wedding photography, but think about how you can get even more specific than that. Make a board for fall wedding photography, unique wedding photos, or wedding party outtakes. The more specific, the better.
Chances are good that your potential customers aren't going to be typing in vague searches; they're going to type in exactly what they want to find. The better you can get at meeting those needs with a specific and well presented pinterest board, the more people will happen to stumble upon you and your awesome photography.
Take Advantage. Link Everything Back to Your Website.
Most social media platforms minimize the amount of linking you're allowed to use with what you post. On Pinterest, though, every post and board that you create can link back to where you make your money: your website.
Try not to be obnoxious about your presentation of your link and say, "Click the link to come pay me for my photography expertise!" That will get you nowhere. But, if you post something that brings value to a pinterest user, whether it be a stunning shot of a wedding gown or an adorable picture of a newborn baby, then that person will naturally want to see who made that magic happen.
When approaching your Pinterest work like this–by giving value and showing your skills–having a link back to your website with each breathtaking photo will be a gamechanger for you and your business. Check out some of our photos to see what we mean. Great pictures plus a viable link back to your business equal an increase in customer interest!
Pinterest is a hidden treasure that some of your competitors may not have begun to take advantage of. There's plenty of space to plant your flag and begin to get noticed if you take the time to do it right. Follow the tips listed here and let us know which ones proved to be the most effective.


Houses dot the landscape in Windsor. While Weld county and Windsor have been growing steadily, State Demographer Elizabeth Garner, said the town can expect to see less growth in the future.
Visit Windsor in 10 years and the once-small town might be a little difficult to recognize at first.
Windsor has seen drastic growth over the past decade, and most officials agree the town won't stop growing anytime soon.
Current population estimates put the town at a little more than 26,000 residents. Population forecasts predict as many as 32,588 people in town by 2025, and by 2030, Windsor could have as many as 36,870 residents.
Those are careful estimates based on projections from the U.S. Census and the Colorado State Demographers Office. According to Windsor's Senior Planner Josh Olhava, those projections use a conservative growth rate of 2.5 percent after 2020. However, it's not unreasonable to assume Windsor will experience years with far more growth.
Although Windsor's population will grow, Olhava said residents have made it clear they want to keep a small-town feel. Town officials have plans to direct growth in such a way as to keep Windsor's small-town feeling intact.
Windsor's Comprehensive Plan — which lays out the town's vision of the future and how officials plan to get there — has a focus on developing new community nodes.
The idea is to develop small, commercial neighborhoods and community markets in tandem with new or expanding residential areas, Olhava said.
Downtown Windsor already exists as its own node. West Windsor is ripe for development, he said.
Developers have already begun looking at expanding houses near Windsor's western boundary, and they have master plans that include neighborhood commercial options.
"You have the big malls on both ends, but they're seeing these areas as serving the local residential neighborhoods," Olhava said.
Community markets would likely include a combination of goods, services and stores designed to meet the immediate needs of nearby residents and draw some interstate traffic and shoppers, he said.
Three areas sit ripe to begin nodal development — two on the town's western edge and one more to the east. According to Olhava, there's a lot of potential for growing residential and commercial development at the Interstate 25 and Colo. 392 interchange, at Windsor's section of Crossroads Boulevard near I-25, and at Harmony Road and Colo. 257.
The comprehensive plan accounts for that development. However, it will happen only if the residential market drives the need.
A few projects have already begun to push toward those new neighborhood centers.
Work between Windsor and Fort Collins officials over the past few years created development standards and a vision for potential developments at the Colo. 392 and I-25 interchange.
And to the south along Crossroads Boulevard lies land targeted for Martin Lind's The Brands development in southwest Windsor.
This past year, Lind announced The Brands, a $500 million retail, entertainment and lifestyle center in Loveland and Windsor south of The Ranch. The proposed vision for Windsor's section, called The Brands East, includes retail, apartments, a medical facility and more.
As those nodes fill out, much of Windsor's future will include filling in undeveloped or underdeveloped areas of town.
Many of these areas exist surrounded by or close to existing infrastructure and buildings and need just a little work, such as extending a road or adding an entrance to an area to enable its development and connect it to the town, Olhava said.
On the west side of Windsor's developed main street, past the grocery stores, commercial development continues to push farther into that corridor. Eventually, if new businesses keep springing up there, development will run into flood plan areas and break up the expansion. However, between those areas of development and existing subdivisions sits land that will likely stand ready for infill development, especially in 10 years.
As more people move to Windsor, the town will need to keep expanding its recreational facilities to accommodate that growth, said Eric Lucas, director of Windsor's Parks, Recreation and Culture Department.
With the direction town officials decided to move, Windsor should complete its final five neighborhood parks in the next decade and continue to build out its larger community parks — expanding two and building four more, he said.
Along with building parks, the town's trail system and network of pedestrian paths will expand in coming years, too, Lucas said.


392-134-010 Attendance rights of part-time public school students.
392-134-015 Enrollment practices and conditions.
392-134-020 Provision of educational program to part-time public school students—Reports—Sites.
392-134-030 Compliance with rules as a condition of state funding.


As if a 5-8 record were not insulting enough, apparently a user went in and edited the Wikipedia listing for the San Francisco 49ers.
The San Francisco 49ers (frequently referred to as the SixtyNiners) are a professional American football team. The team plays their home games in San Francisco, California, while the club's headquarters and practice facility are located in Santa Clara, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The 49ers began play in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and joined the NFL in 1950 after the AAFC merged into the older league. The team currently shares the record for most Super Bowl victories (5) with the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 49ers team of the 1980s and early 1990s are considered one of the greatest teams in NFL history, with their historic franchise, some of the best players ever to play the game, and miraculous plays on the field. The club moved to San Francisco in 1969, ironically to enable its owners to connect with the largest gay community in the world.
Perhaps a Raiders fan having a little fun?
Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference Web site on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, and is written collaboratively by people from all around the world.
Because of the business model, misinformation can be common on Wikipedia.
Because Wikipedia is an on-going work to which in principle anybody can contribute, it differs from a paper-based reference source in some very important ways. In particular, older articles tend to be more comprehensive and balanced, while newer articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content, or vandalism.
As of 2pm, the San Francisco 49ers Wikipedia page has been fixed.


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Painted Redstart Brown-capped Redstart
Slate-throated Redstart Myioborus miniatus
Family: Parulidae
Polytypic: 12 subspecies
Authors: William D. Harrod and Ronald L. Mumme
A comprehensive genetic analysis of birds from South American populations is needed to understand the evolutionary history and genetic structure of Slate-throated Redstart across the continent (see Systematics). Although considerable information on breeding biology and life history traits is available for populations at 10º N latitude, little is known from other parts of the species' broad geographic range (see Breeding and Demography and Populations). Analysis of geographic variation in song, particularly the apparent differences in song between the nominate subspecies miniatus (northern and central Mexico) and populations to the south, should also be a priority for future research (see Sounds and Vocal Behavior). Additional work on the effects of human development on population demography would also be valuable (see Effects of human activity on populations). Molt and its relationship to breeding is also poorly known, and given the importance of the tail in flush-pursuit foraging (see Foraging Behavior), studies of the foraging behavior of birds in rectrix molt would also be of considerable interest (see Molts).
Harrod, W. D. and R. L. Mumme (2018). Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.sltred.01


About the Children's Department: Teach Your Class to Sign!
Teach Your Class to Sign!
If you are looking for something fun, useful and engaging which you could do with the children in your class, consider teaching them some American Sign Language. Sound interesting? It is really pretty simple to do if you just take one or two words or a sentence at at time.
I've been teaching the children in my first grade Sunday School class one word a week which connects with the point of our Bible lesson - the kids are loving this and each week we review the words/signs from previous weeks!
How do you do this, you ask? Well, there are some great web sites where you can type in a word you would like to learn and then you will be able to see a short video of how to make the sign for the word! Two of my favorites are Handspeak and SigningSavvy.
So . . . does this sound like something you might like to do with your class?
Thank you for the treat idea!!


And, right now, I'll take whatever help I can get.
So, here I am at a whopping 7 months pregnant. I am still feeling good, despite what my husband may say upon hearing me grunt and groan everytime I try to get out of the car, get up from the couch, roll over, get out of bed (which happens at least 4 times each night), or bend over to pick anything up off the floor. I am happy to groan away because I have not been plagued with the heartburn or Braxton Hicks contractions or stretch marks. Do you hear that? That's me knocking on the biggest piece of wood I can find!
Baby Girl is weighing in at a little over 3 pounds and is about 16 inches long. She is still moving around quite a bit, so there must be some wiggle room in there. It's funny at night when I am laying up against David because he can feel her kicking and moving. Maybe it's as hard for her to get comfortable as it is for me.
The room renovation is pretty much complete. We are just waiting on the shelves to be installed. Our contractor is also going to build some storage units for us because that is the biggest thing we are lacking in there...well, besides a baby. We put the furniture together last night and set the room up as much as possible. This girl is going to be so lucky to have such a big play area!
Enjoy the pictures...I'm going to have to start practicing my poses because we are having our belly shots done next weekend. Any tips on how to make my face look slim and my belly round?
It was so nice to see you. The nursery is looking great. You look beautiful! Your face does not look round in the least. I am sure you belly shots will be great.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace Vidyano.Web2.Core.Controllers
{
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    {
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        {
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            {
                var html = Vulcanizer.Generate(id, System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath), true);
                return Content(html, "text/html");
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            if (id.StartsWith("WebComponents", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
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        private static readonly Regex linkRe = new Regex("<link.*?href=[\"'](.+?.css)[\"'].*?>");
        private static readonly Regex stripCommentRe = new Regex("<!--.*?-->", RegexOptions.Singleline);
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                "d3.min.js"
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        public static string Generate(string path, string html, bool useLocalFileSystem = false, bool stripPolymerLinks = true, string web2homeFolder = null)
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Q: Ruby : trying to install rubyXL gem from file I am just starting with Ruby on Rails and need to use the RubyXL gem (https://github.com/gilt/rubyXL).  I was told by one of the other devs to use bundle install.  I cannot seem to get the syntax correct however, if I run "bundle install ./rubyXL-1.2.10.gem" I get ""install" was called incorrectly. Call as "bundle install".".  How do I use bund

A: You want gem install ./rubyXL-1.2.10.gem.

A: If you need bundler you can add
gem 'rubyXL', :path => '_path_to_file_'
to your Gemfile

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Given the fact that the older (IPv4) address pool is not yet completely depleted, one might be tempted to assume that the still-trivial levels of IPv6 deployment will jump dramatically once there is no easy recourse to the older, more familiar and developed standard. Alas, IPv6 is not independently backwards compatible with the IPv4-based Internet, which today is synonymous the (whole) Internet. In technical terms, that means that those who do not also have independent access to IPv4 addresses will not be able to independently interoperate with, or derive any benefit from, the existence of the built Internet as it is today.
Some people have suggested that incumbent IPv4-based Internet service providers will be happy to serve as brokers, or middlemen, or external providers of commercial "gateways services" between the established Internet and all future new entrants — but such requirements will effectively preclude the very possibility of new entry in the market for Internet service provision itself.
Thanks for the pointer, and congratulations on the new publication! I look forward to reading and commenting as appropriate in the days ahead.
My first instinct is to press on a couple of critical concepts that you highlight — modularity and interoperability — and to point out the potential for conflict between them. The capacity for interoperability is usually established through a priori (design stage) commitment to some established technical standard or protocol. In order to foster modularity, standards must be open / non-proprietary in a way that rarely occurs except when they are developed collaboratively. To the extent that this is true, however, the standards themselves — and the mechanisms from which open standards and hence the potential for modularity emerges — cannot be neatly internalized by individual market participants. In effect, sustainable modularity depends on the preservation of systems for collaborative standards development and maintenance that embody values (e.g., collaborative development, consensus building, willingness to be bound by past decisions, etc.) that are diametrically opposed to the values created and rewarded by modularity itself (e.g., solo innovation, total flexibility, winner-take-all competition, et al.).
This contradiction has profound real world implications at the present moment. Perhaps the single most important collaborative, open standard to date — i.e, the one that has contributed most to the fruitful coexistence of modularity and interoperability in the global ICT sector — is now under threat, and may soon be abandoned by many stakeholders, and as a result unattainable by the rest. The standard that I have in mind is the one that defines public IP addresses, which effective constitute the "business ends" of the globally distributed, demand-driven, ICT-based exchange mechanism that we call the Internet. The phenomenal growth of the Internet over the last two decades has nearly depleted the pool of (IPv4) addresses that has provided the foundation for all Internet expansion and evolution to date. Amongst incumbent Internet service providers, widespread aversion to the costs and complications of incorporating the chosen successor (IPv6) addressing standard has resulted in a series of formal industry decisions to effectively "modularize" (i.e., privatize) these formerly standards-governed, collaboratively administered IPv4 protocol resources.
The centrality of these increasingly (and if current trends continue, perpetually) scarce and absolutely critical but non-substitutable (a.k.a. "bottleneck") resources as a prerequisite for actively participating in the global Internet gives them a significance and role not unlike that played by monetary gold during the Bretton Woods era. Of course, during that time it was illegal in most places for private interests and institutions to buy, sell, or own monetary gold. That prohibition was an artifact of the shared belief among monetary authorities that exposing the foundations of the global liquidity mechanism to direct speculative pressures would almost certainly undermine rather enhance the all-important liquidity function that the gold-backed international monetary system provided. In other words, liberalized trade in monetary gold would have made it much more difficult (expensive, uncertain, etc.) for *everyone* to sustain liberalized trade and investment in *every other* product and service market.


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Finnish church admits child abuse cases
07 April 2011 - 21:51 By Sapa-AFP
Finland's conservative Laestadian religious movement said Thursday that between 70 and 100 cases of paedophilia had occurred in its congregation since the 1980s.
"Some of these cases have been reported to the police, but some happened too long ago" to be tried in court, Central Committee of Conservative Laestadian Congregations (SRK) spokesman Tuomas Haenninen told AFP.
The findings were part of an internal report conducted by the committee, which also concluded that church officials had "mishandled" the cases.
"We have to admit that we didn't know how to do the right thing," Haenninen said.
He said the child molestation cases — most of them within families who were members of the church and not involving church officials — emerged through extensive interviews.
"We didn't use enough expert help, we didn't communicate enough, and it could give the impression that we downplayed these cases or covered them up," Haenninen said.
Conservative Laestadianism is a revivalist sect of Lutheranism which encourages its members to be wary of outside influences and abstain from using make-up, watching television, birth control, or working on Sundays, among other things.
Haenninen said that while its official membership is around 35,000 in Finland, attendance at revival meetings is between 70,000 to 80,000.


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Want to know which foods are the best sources of vitamins? We looked at all our top 10 lists for 14 different vitamins, including: Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, B12, C, D, E, K, Beta Carotene, and Lycopene and counted how many times each food appeared.
Since some vitamins are fat soluble (need fat to be absorbed) meats, oils, and dairy tend to be a better source than leafy vegetables or fruits. The top 15 foods highest in vitamins include fish, dark leafy greens, seeds, broccoli, pork, beef, lamb, mushrooms, nuts, eggs, sweet bell peppers, avocados, peas, winter squash, and fruits.
Want to know more? Check the extended list of vitamin rich foods, or all complete collection of the most nutritious foods lists.
Fish is a good source for 9 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, D, and E. Among all fish Tuna and Trout provide the most vitamins but be sure to eat a wide variety of fish for a healthy diet.
Dark Leafy Greens are a good source for 8 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B2, B3, B6, B9, C, E, K, and Beta-Carotene. While all dark leafy greens are great, extra nutrient-dense sources include spinach and kale.
Seeds are a good source for 6 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B5, B6, and E. Vitamin rich choices for seeds include sunflower and flax seeds.
Broccoli is a good source for 6 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B9, C, E, K, and Beta Carotene. Other nutritious cruciferous vegetables include brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower.
Pork is a good source for 6 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, and D. Good cuts of pork include pork chops (loin) and shoulder.
Beef and lamb is a good source for 5 of 14 essential vitamins.These include Vitamins B2, B3, B5, B6, and B9. To reduce calories, leaner cuts of beef and lamb are recommended.
Mushrooms are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B2, B3, B5, and D. Mushrooms are highly nutritious while being low in carbs and calories. Good choices include portobello, cremini (button), and shiitake mushrooms.
Nuts are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B1, B2, B6, and E. Nuts are a heart-healthy, cholesterol-lowering snack. Try not to have more than 1-2 handfuls a day. Good choices for nuts include almonds and walnuts.
Eggs are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B2, B5, B12, and D. While eggs are now considered heart healthy, they are still high in cholesterol, so try not to eat more than 2 a day.
Bell Peppers are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, and C, Beta-Carotene, and Lycopene. Bell Peppers are one of the foods highest in vitamin C. Colorful red and yellow peppers have higher amounts of beta-carotene and lycopene than green peppers.
Avocados are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins B5, B6, B9, and E. Avocados are high in calories and fat, so try not to eat more than 1/2 a large avocado, or 1 small avocado, a day.
Peas are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B1, E, and Beta Carotene. Green peas are also a good vegetarian source of protein.
Butternut Squash is a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B1, E, and Beta Carotene. Good choices for winter squash include butternut, acorn squash, and pumpkin.
Tropical Fruits a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B1, E, and Lycopene. Fruits with red flesh, like Papayas, are the best choice for lycopene.
Dried Fruits are a good source for 4 of 14 essential vitamins.
These include Vitamins A, B6, K, and Beta Carotene. Dried fruits are high in sugar, try not to eat more than 1 handful a day.
In addition to those in the top 15, here are more high vitamin foods which appeared on the most nutritious foods lists.


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George Frazis, Chief Executive Officer, St George Banking Group, 3 June 2014
George Frazis, Chief Executive Officer, St George Banking Group, addressed a private CEO Boardroom Lunch for 28 senior business executives in an interactive discussion on "Technology and its impact on Business Strategy". This lunch was proudly sponsored by DLA Piper and Check Point Software Technologies.
Technology and its impact on business strategy continues to rise in importance for CEOs around the globe. The significant changes in consumers' needs and behaviours are driving a digital transformation of many industries. Innovation and digital have become a focus as businesses seek to place the customer at the heart of everything they do and seek a competitive advantage.
George Frazis was appointed Chief Executive Officer, St.George Banking Group, in April 2012. A division of Westpac Banking Corporation, St.George Banking Group comprises St.George Bank, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA and RAMS.
George joined the Westpac Group in March 2009 as Chief Executive, Westpac New Zealand. He was instrumental in improving the performance of the New Zealand business by tripling cash earnings over three years, growing home loans at twice the banking system average and achieving above average growth in Business Banking and Deposits.
Prior to this George was Group Executive General Manager at National Australia Bank where he was responsible for restoring NAB to the number one Business Bank. A highly experienced financial services executive, George has also spent time as a senior executive with Commonwealth Bank of Australia as the Chief Financial Officer of the Institutional Banking Division. He has also been a Partner with the Boston Consulting Group both in Sydney and London. George started his career as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force with 77 Squadron, responsible for the maintenance of F/A-18 Fighter Jets.
George is a Member of the Board of Advice - University of Sydney Business School, a member of World Vision Australia's Sydney Business Advisory Council and a Chairman of the St.George Foundation.


Okay, so they aren't going to grow out and strangle you in your sleep — although they do grow very fast — but there are a few beans that are commonly consumed that, if not prepared right, can really hurt you!
Some beans are rather poisonous if not cooked. Yes, poisonous. Kidney beans, both white and red, (not green beans obviously, or we would have a lot of sick people) contain a compound called Lectin Phytohaemagglutinin- yeah I can't pronounce it either — that stops you from digesting things correctly, causing severe digestive upset and severe cramps! Make certain you use the correct type of beans when making sprouts, please.
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Also, Fava beans (vicia spp.) contain chemicals that can react with MAO inhibitors! Don't eat these beans if you're taking MAO inhibitor drugs. Broad or Fava beans can also cause a dangerous condition known as Favisim. This condition is common among Mediterranean and African ethnic groups, sometimes affecting as much as 15% of the population.
Everyone during their childhood has probably heard this particular musical number. (If you haven't, we are glad to be the first site you visited after climbing out from under your rock.) Yes, beans give you gas, but why? The extra pressure comes from a type of complex sugar called oligosaccharide and found in the beans that people can't digest on their own. Notice, I said "on their own" because a type of bacteria that lives in our big intestine just loves this sugar and happily digests it for you.
Unfortunately, the little critters don't have a intestinal version of the EPA to regulate their emissions, so they leave the "disposal" up to you! Well, that's real nice of them isn't it? Luckily there are several over-the-counter products made just for this situation. They help you digest the stuff before it gets out of control. Also, thoroughly cooking beans will help with this problem. Epazote may also help, although this may be just fiction.
No this isn't a bean, it's a yucca seed that has a worm inside it. It "jumps" to get out of the hot sun and escape predators. Not edible, although who would eat it?
Can you eat baby lima beans green?
Baby lima beans are edible when green and one of the better tasting of the bean varieties. I, being a Southerner and partial to black-eyed, field, and crowder peas, usually mix equal parts of green baby lima beans with them. However, they are just as good and tasty on their own!. Enjoy!


Ashley: If you're a fan of romance, but need that twist of suspense to keep the pages turning, then Hidden Agenda is the right read this spring. Lisa Harris continues her exciting Southern Crime Series with the third installment Hidden Agenda. I had some time to sit down and ask Lisa some questions about her new book and about her as an author. Lisa, how did you come up with the idea for this series?
Lisa: Like with most of my books, they start with a character. In this series, that was Avery North. At first, all I knew is that she was she was a single mom and a police officer, but I knew I had to tell her story. A brainstorming session with a group of authors helped me further develop the series that eventually came to revolve around the Hunts, a family from Atlanta who has served their country through the armed service or police department for generations. Despite conflicts that arise between them, they are very close knit, and when it comes to fighting injustice, they stick together and do whatever it takes to stop that injustice.
Ashley: Who are Hidden Agenda's main characters?
Lisa: I really had fun writing Michael and Olivia's story in Hidden Agenda, primarily because their stories were different from anything I've written. They are two people who come from opposite worlds who end up having to work together to stay alive. Michael's the son of a former Police Captain and an undercover detective. Olivia's father is part of a South American drug cartel and wants Michael dead. But despite their mistakes, they both are after the same thing. The truth.
Ashley: I promise these two characters' stories deliver on the promises of romance and suspense. Lisa, in three sentences what is this book about?
Lisa: For the past eight months, Michael's family has thought he was dead, but the undercover assignment he's been working on has just been blown. With a contracted hit on his life by the cartel and not knowing who he can trust in the police department, Michael finds himself on the run from both the cartel and the law with the daughter of the man who wants him dead, Olivia Hamilton.
Ashley: Lisa, what are the Biblical threads woven into the series?
Lisa: Overall, I'd say it's a call for us to realize our own weaknesses and fears and to in turn learn to rely only on God's strength. Each main character in this series is pulled out of his or her comfort zone to a place where they have to turn to God.
Lisa: Hidden Agenda is the last book in the three books series. Dangerous Passage and Fatal Exchange come first.
Ashley: Do you prefer to outline the entire series, or do you write as you go letting the characters take control of the story?
Lisa: A little of both, but for the most part I spent a lot of time staring at a pile of sticky notes in order to bring the story together. ☺ The plots of each individual story, and then the three books together as well, are woven pretty tightly, so that forced me to stay organized. But there were also a few surprises along the way as some of the characters took over!
Ashley: Any certain research required for the book, or is it all straight from your imagination?
Lisa: I spent hours doing research on everything from the setting (Atlanta and the Georgia coastline), to drug trafficking, to bomb squads. I love the research part of writing and too often find myself having to stop or I'd never get any books written!
Ashley: As a reader I appreciate a well researched book. Can you give us a hint at your next project?
Lisa: I just turned in book one of a brand news series to my editor at Revell. It's about a newly established missing person task force, and this first one is set around the Smoky Mountains. Like the last series, this one took tons of research—everything from rappelling, to poaching, to mobile command posts—but I really enjoyed that part of the writing.
Lisa: I love romantic suspense, heavy on the suspense.
Lisa: Where ever I can find a quiet place. I don't have an office right now, but the couch, or dining room table, or desk work fine.
Ashley: Sounds like you invest a lot of time in writing. Are you a full time writer?
Lisa: No. For the first time in seven years, though my role as 'mom' has changed. I've been a homeschooling mom until just a few months ago when the last of my kids went off to attend a missionary boarding school. It's been an adjustment, but thankful, I have plenty to keep myself busy with as I'm still writing, am involved in our women's ministry, and run a non-profit called The ECHO Project that helps meet people's physical needs where we live here in Mozambique.
Lisa: I like to have at least six months for a full-length novel. That gives time for research, plotting, and writing.
Lisa: Definitely a combination. I have in the back of my mind an arch of the character and story line and start from there to fill in the details.
Ashley: What is your inspiration for writing this series?
Lisa: I wanted a series that went beyond just a fast-paced romantic suspense, but also delved deep into the character's lives and how their experiences affected them. Each story also deals with a real life issue like human trafficking and the drug cartel.
Lisa: Hard, because I love them can't get them where we live.
Lisa: I love the sun and the beach, because we live near the Indian Ocean. But with summer on the way, I've been dreaming of a cozy cabin somewhere in the mountains with a fireplace and a good book.
Ashley: What's your favorite holiday memory?
Lisa: Making homemade ornaments one Christmas because our car broke down and we couldn't make it home. It reminded me that being together is what really matters!
Lisa: II Corinthians 4:16-18. I love the reminder what we see here is temporary and we need to fix our eyes on what is unseen, the eternal!
Lisa: Anything with homemade pasta. I bought a pasta maker recently and wow, there is such a difference!
Lisa: Anything without words. Right now on my playlist is the Lord of the Rings soundtrack and Lindsey Stirling.
Ashley: Thanks for sharing about Hidden Agenda all the way from Mozambique and thanks for serving for the Kingdom there.


Up for sale is a cylinder head and valves removed from a 1995 Husqvarna TE350. There are scratches, scuffs, stains, carbon buildup on the valves, and light wear but the dome is in good shape and the head is in nice condition overall and ready to install. Timing chain is included and may be usable but I recommend replacing it. Thanks for looking!


The iPhone 5 is double joy for Apple these days: not only have exceeded two million bookings in just 24 hours, but has also caused great confidence among the shareholders of the company. Normally, AAPL stock market tends to drop after the presentation of a new device. However, this time there has not been the same behavior.
Far from down, stocks have risen in the last days of the 680 to $ 700 and have even come to overcome this barrier in the last hours. Thus, Apple continues to set new records in the stock market as the most valuable company in history.
No doubt that this figure will increase as many iPhones Apple announced in May has sold during the first days of availability in stores. Its sale will begin on Friday September 21. In Spain we have to wait until 28 September.
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The following message was accidentally deleted-I am re-posting, below. YIS, MaryAnn Posted by: TheCommish (New Member) Posted on: 1/13/2001 10:36:50 PM I hope this will help, but here it is. There is a formal training for COR's. The material should be available through your DE or the Field Director, however, and District Commissioner worth their Insigna should have it as well. As for quality unit? NO. The District Exec is required to visit the COR's or IH's at least once a year for quality District. As for training, I have put together a power point on COR's and Committe Chairs since they are part of a unit Key 3 with the Unit Commissioner. I hope this helps!!
Can you help this Scouter replace items lost in fire?
Scouting Community - can anyone help with this or offer suggestions? Subject: Eagle Scout 1963 My husband received his Eagle Scout award in 1963 here in Columbia, MO. We suffered a total house fire in October 1999 and we lost everything, including my husband's Boy Scout and Eagle Scout memorabilia. It is my desire to be able to replace this for him (his Eagle Scout). Our council said they had nothing from 1963 and that we might possibly be able to locate something via the internet. Can you possibly help me?? I would love to be able to replace this for him, especially since our son is now an Eagle Scout as well. I can be reached at mcallisterteresa@hotmail.com Thank you for your assistance!!!
This Thanksgiving, as a Scouter, what are you thankful for?
[Note from Editor: I accidently deleted this thread. I am reposting it along with the reply.] _______________________________________________________________________ scouter659 New Member Junior Leader Training Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2000: 7:40:54 AM I'm an ASM in a Troop of almost 50 boys. We're entering our 3rd year of having a JLT course which we hold from October through early june. We meet and have classes at a regular meeting once a month and (we camp every month as well) we also hold a class on both Fri. & Sat. at camp throughout the year. It ends with a very elaborate JLT graduation weekend in early June. I was just wondering if there are other Troops out there doing an elaborate Junior Leader Training course and possible a 'fresh' exchange of ideas ______________________________________________________________________ SCOUTER-Brian New Member RE: Junior Leader Training Posted: Thursday, September 28, 2000: 4:47:58 PM You might be able to obtain some new ideas for the course by searching through the Council JLT Course Guide. National updates the course about once every three years (if I remember correctly), and ity is a valuable resource that you might be able to use in the Troop JLT sessions as well.
How about 1. Make an insect zoo 2. Make a terrarium 3. Make a lightning bug lantern 4. Take a plaster cast of animal tracks 5. Take a break during a hike and sit as quiet as possible - afterward talk about all the nature sounds they heard. 6. Push a foot-long stick into the ground. Look at the shadow. Put another stick at the end of the shadow. Check back later to see if the shadow moved. Discuss why? 7. Pick up litter while hiking. 8. Discuss fire safety.


Posted on January 21, 2012, in Eugene Mutual Aid Society and tagged corporate "personhood", Eugene Mutual Aid Society, Raging Grannies. Bookmark the permalink.	1 Comment.
Oh, Maggie! Am so glad your enthusiasm has been rekindled! Yes, the rally and march was inspiring and so was our EMAS meeting. I was glad my letter got into the Register Guard because I realize I was reaching out to others who recognize that the system's broken and we, the people, need to step up and take responsibility for making beneficial, long term changes. I hope people will look into our Eugene Mutual Aid Society and join it as participating members of a true democratic process.
Thanks for keeping your voice and passion out there for others to be inspired by.


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