'Meant For Each Other': Scott Simon's Adoption Story In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Scott Simon shares the emotional journey that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China.
Scott Simon and his daughters Elise (right) and Lina (left) tour a temple in Nancheng, China, not long after Lina's adoption.
Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, remembers the moment he and his wife decided to adopt.
"We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "We just looked at each other and said, 'Why are we doing this? There are children in the world now who need our love, and we sure need them.'"
In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Simon shares the journey -- from struggling to conceive, to deciding to adopt, to traveling halfway around the world -- that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China.
Simon says the decision to adopt changed his life -- but it wasn't easy. He explains that the adoption process in the United States is particularly taxing and can discourage many potential parents.
"It is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to adopt a child in this country," he says. "For a lot of people, the assisted-fertility industry is just an obvious alternative to that."
Then there's the emotional toll that not everyone is prepared to pay. That said, Simon says he wants to help potential parents to see the natural beauty in adoption.
"I would like to open that door for people," he says. "The instinct to adopt -- to take children into our lives -- is, I think, practically as old as childbirth."
For Simon and Caroline, that instinct was so strong that it drowned out any concern they may have had about there being an ethnic barrier between them and their adopted children.
"That baby is so much more to you than its ethnicity," he says. "First of all, they're hungry, they're thirsty, they're crying, they need sleep -- all of these kinds of things that have nothing to do, certainly, with ethnicity."
And while Simon and Caroline are determined to expose their daughters to Chinese culture through history and travel, he says their ethnicity is still only a feature of their personality, not a defining trait.
But not everyone sees it that way. Simon says he was shocked when a friend asked Caroline if she felt guilty for taking her daughters away from their native culture: "My wife just answered, 'No, not really.' I think I would have had a tougher time holding my tongue."
Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. In his book, he writes about the experience of Martin Simon, the adopted son of the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon (no relation to Scott Simon).
Because Martin's birth certificate stated that he was Native American, that ethnicity became a large part of his identity. So much so, that his high school friends described him as part Cherokee and his father even became a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It wasn't until later in life that Martin finally met his biological mother and discovered he wasn't Native American at all. It turned out that Martin's mother was a woman of Scandinavian origin who, stumped by the "ethnic" section of the adoption form, had simply identified herself as "All American."
Caroline Richard Simon holds an 11-month-old Elise Simon on the day her adoption was approved by Chinese officials in Nancheng.
For Simon, the vignette is proof of the power of suggestion -- but that's a subtlety his daughters aren't yet aware of.
At 7 years old, Simon's daughter Elise is at an age where she's starting to ask some pretty difficult questions -- like why her biological mother gave her up -- and the answers aren't always easy for her to understand.
"We tell her, 'Your mother loved you and she wanted to take care of you for the rest of your life and she wanted to be a mother to you but she just couldn't,' " Simon says. "Yet it's hard for a 7-year-old to understand. How do you explain China's one-child policy?"
What's important, he says, is that his children are comfortable with being adopted and that they know the truth about it -- sad though it may be.
"There is no way that we're going to spare them the sting and the hurt of feeling that at some point there was someone who gave them up," he says. "We learn from hurts in life, don't we? We put something over them and we keep on going. And I think our two daughters are going to be very strong, in part, because of that."
Adoption is a miracle. I don't mean just that it's amazing, terrific, and a wonderful thing to do. I mean that it is, as the dictionary says, "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of divine agency."
My wife and I, not having had children in the traditional, Abraham-and-Sarah-begat manner, have learned to make jokes about the way we've had our family. ("Pregnant! Why would you do that? Those clothes! And you can't drink for months!") Jokes are sometimes the only sensible answer to some of the astoundingly impertinent questions people can ask, right in your children's faces. "How much did they cost? Are they healthy? You know, you hear stories. So why did you go overseas? Not enough kids here?" But we cannot imagine anything more remarkable and marvelous than having a stranger put into your arms who becomes, in minutes, your flesh, your blood: your life. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
We also know that the hardest parts are still ahead.
Raindrops rattled the roof of our small bus, seeped through the windows, and pitted the windshield with great wet gobs. "A sad day," sighed Julie from Utah, while the cityscape of Nanchang, China, slabs of brown and gray with wet laundry flapping, rolled by our windows. Five sets of strangers were together on the bus, about to share one of the most intimate moments of our lives. We had Cheerios, wipes, and diapers in our hands.
"A happy day," Julie added, "but also sad," and then we just listened to the ping of raindrops. A month before, this moment couldn't have happened fast enough. Now it was here; and we weren't ready.
We had endured three days of what we had come to call "adopto-tourism" together ("You will now visit the Pearl Museum and Gift Shop! Then the Great Wall and Gift Shop! Tomorrow, the Silk Museum—and Gift Shop!"), during which we talked about the sundry things strangers do to be companionable. "And what do you do? What kind of crib did you get? Aren't they impossible? Do you know that little Indian place just off Thirty-second?"
Over careful conversation between stops, we began to make some fair assumptions about the meandering paths of hope, frustration, and paperwork that all of us had navigated to get here. Most of us had probably tried to start families in the traditional manner. For one reason or another, the traditional result was not achieved. There are all kinds of wizardly things that can be done in laboratories these days; most of us had tried one or two. But wizardry does not always deliver. At some point, after all the intimate injections and intrusions, and the hopes that rise and deflate, many spouses look at each other across a field of figures scratched on the back of an envelope and ask, "Why are we doing this? There are already children in this world who need us right now. We sure need them."
A few weeks before, we had received a few photos in an envelope: a small girl with rosebud lips, quizzical eyebrows, and astonished eyes. She was about six months old at the time of the picture. A dossier prepared by Chinese adoption officials told us that she was smart, active, funny, hungry, energetic, and impatient (all of which remain a good description to this day). The officials had given her a name: Feng Jia-Mei.
A little girl named Excellent-Beautiful. From the Feng township.
We made copies of the photos, slipped them into our wallets, sent them around to friends and families, and doled them out like business cards, often to total strangers. "Jia-Mei Simon" was imprinted along the bottom, like the name under a photo in a class yearbook. Feng Jia-Mei, Jia-Mei. Excellent, Beautiful, Jia-Mei Simon.
Friends looked at her photo and wept. Something in her face, and in her tiny, tender shoulders, seemed to call out. We told people that the look of surprise in her eyes was because she had just read our dossier and said, "I thought you said that I was going to first-rate people!"
Our small bus pulled up before a great gray file cabinet of a building in central Nanchang. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and carefree vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.
Grinning bureaucrats received us and showed us to a staircase. They took us down a flight and into a room. We saw smiling middle-aged women in white smocks holding babies, cooing, singing, and hefting them in their arms. We shucked raindrops from our shoes and coats. We checked cameras and cell phones. We looked at the women in the smocks and then realized -- they held our children in their arms.
We saw Elise. She was five months older than in the picture we had, but still recognizably the little girl in the thumbnail portrait. Pouty little mouth, tiny, endearing little downy baby duck's head, fuzzy patch of hair, and amazed eyebrows, crying, steaming, red-faced, and bundled into a small, puffy pink coat. We blinked back tears and cleared our throats.
"Feng Jia-Mei?" we asked softly. The woman in the white smock looked down at a tag -- as if checking the size -- and smiled.
She put her into my wife's arms. I tried to point a video camera, snap pictures, roll audio, and hug them, all at the same time. Our little girl's tears fell like soft, fat, furious little jewels down her face. As Caroline lifted her slightly from her lap to hold her, Elise soaked her own tufted little legs with a hot surge of pee. And then, as we laughed, cried, and hugged her even more fiercely, Feng Jia-Mei opened her small robin's mouth and burped up a geyser of phlegm, fear, and breakfast. Baby, baby, our baby.
Back in our hotel room, Caroline zipped, snipped, and unbuttoned four layers of Chinese clothing. Our daughter looked up into Caroline's unfamiliar face without warmth or disdain; one more stranger was handling her. First the puffy quilted pink coat came off. Then a black quilted coat. A mustard-colored crocheted sweater. A little red and white shirt. A tiny white T-shirt. Four pairs of pants, white, black, gray, and pink, each with a cunning little slit in the backside (among the greatest Chinese inventions since the compass and printing). And finally, pink socks that had been tucked beneath red socks: as tiny and dear as a kitten's paws. Each layer smelled of coal smoke and pee. We laid those small clothes aside to keep for the ages.
Shigu, our trip coordinator, came by our room. We told him that our daughter seemed inconsolable. Well, he had seen that several hundred times before.
"You should go downstairs," Shigu advised. "Get something to eat."
Our baby was famished. She inhaled a soft egg custard and plain white rice and stopped crying for a few moments, sobbing being hard to do while you are swallowing (though she tried, she tried). She sat in Caroline's lap, then mine. Her eyes were dull, defiant, and blistering. Her small cheeks burned so, I wondered if her tears would sizzle.
We looked at the other happy new families across the room. They smiled back wanly. They were having as much fun as we were.
I don't remember what we ate. Not much of whatever it was. I had a glass of wine, my wife had a beer, and we toasted our daughter. The drinks flashed through us like tap water. We ate and talked and tried to amuse, divert, and win over our daughter with songs, food, and funny voices, leaving her sullen and unmoved, all the while asking ourselves, "What have we done? What were we thinking? We've ripped a baby away from the only place she's ever known, to bring her some place on the other side of the world that might as well be the moon. What kind of people are we?"
Excerpted from Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other by Scott Simon Copyright 2010 by Scott Simon. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved.


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[From Viz]: Being a teenage martial artist isn't easy, especially for Ranma Saotome, who went through a major transformation on a training mission with his father. After an accidental dunk into a ...more
[From Viz]: Being a teenage martial artist isn't easy, especially for Ranma Saotome, who went through a major transformation on a training mission with his father. After an accidental dunk into a legendary cursed spring in China, Ranma now changes into a girl every time he's splashed with cold water. That would be enough to complicate anyone's life, even without the arranged fiancée who doesn't like him (or says she doesn't) and the constant stream of rivals and suitors for both his male and female forms. What's a half-guy, half-girl to do?
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Manhunt continues for home invader who killed Texas grandmother, injured son
Manhunt continues for person who shot, killed Texas grandmother and critically injured her adult son.,
Houston police are looking for the man who shot, killed a grandmother and critically injured her adult son.
Officers arrived at a home Monday night to discover Maria Garrett, 69, dead. Her son, 34-year-old Mario Garrett, was shot multiple times and taken to the hospital in critical condition. A 12-year-old was also in the home.
Houston 69-year-old Maria Garrett killed in home invasion. (FOX 26 Houston)
TEXAS MOM WHO PUT COVID-POSITIVE SON IN TRUNK GETS COMMUNITY SUPPORT: 'HEART OF GOLD'
Based on preliminary information, investigators believe the three family members were in the home with the door unlocked when a man entered and began discharging a weapon at the grandmother. Her son came from the back of the house before being shot himself.
"Seeing her lie there and everything else, it's like a part of my heart is gone," Maria's other son, Edward Garrett, told FOX 26 Houston.
TEXAS WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER TODDLERS FOUND 'HOGTIED,' CAGED AND HEAVILY SOILED
Maria's grandson, Edward Garrett Junior, had been playing video games inside the home when the shooter entered, the TV station reported. He is devastated by what happened.
"I hear the door, then see the robber like this. Then, [he] went to my grandmother in the kitchen holding her at gunpoint, asking for keys," the 12-year-old said.
The grandson believes the gunman was after the family's car in the driveway. He says the shooter was a complete stranger.
The gunman ran from the location.
"This could have been a robbery, but we don't know," Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Chandra Hatcher said during a news conference. "It appears nothing inside the home was disturbed."
Hatcher described the suspect as being a Black man, about 6 feet tall, medium build. He was seen wearing a red jacket, a dark blue gaiter-style mask, black pants, black gloves and black shoes.
If you have any information, you're urged to call HPD's homicide division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8477).
Pilar Arias is a multimedia journalist with more than 10 years of experience in broadcast, digital and print production. She covers a wide variety of topics. @PilarFOXNews.


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Braveheart Upstarts Come to Campus
James Leggate November 18, 2009 2
It's a peaceful Sunday afternoon on the quad. Hungover students are beginning to slowly wake. Suddenly, the calm is interrupted by shouts and running feet as the two groups of medieval fantasy adventurers begin a fight over territory.
Within a few minutes, the conflict is over. The dead stand back up and they prepare for the next round.
Sound unusual? Well, it is. It's called "live action role-playing," or LARP, and it's a new club started by third-year student Lauren Coluccio and second-year student Claire Lines. They use homemade imitation weapons called "boffers" built from PVC pipe, foam and lots of duct tape. Some of the LARPers have their own costumes and weapons, but others show up in civilian clothes and borrow their arms from the club.
According to Coluccio, who is dressed in a cape and elf ears, students on campus have had varied responses to the group.
"Usually people just stare at us and are like, 'what are they doing?' But sometimes people just get in there," Coluccio said, noting one specific incident in which a student dressed as a Jedi from "Star Wars" approached her mid-battle and hit her with a plastic lightsaber.
LARPing has been gaining popularity recently after being exposed to the public in the 2008 movie "Role Models," which depicts large-scale LARP battles.
The SUNY New Paltz LARP club, however, only boasts about eight regular members. Coluccio says the club would ideally like to be able to hold a larger event.
One of the problems the club faces is the high costs associated with LARPing. Lines referenced a Web site which sells professionally-made boffers which range from $60 and higher.
"They look really great but they cost more than we can afford," she said.
However, Coluccio and Lines have recently figured out the costs of creating their boffers and are making them available to purchase to other local LARPers. The cheapest option is a dagger for $5. A six-foot William Wallace-style claymore with engraving would cost $19.50.
Coluccio says she has big plans for the club. After applying for approval from the Student Association next semester, she hopes to get funding for a trip to participate in a larger LARP in New Jersey.
Lines, however, is less enthusiastic.
"Do I really want to go on a road trip with the LARPers for three hours? I'm not sure."
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Ben Bookbinder says:
It is easy to be pessimistic. LARPing is not an easy thing to get people involved in. Claire and Lauren however can not give up. Once they get school funding, a hell of a lot of advertising venues and other options for getting the club up and running will open up. How do I know? Having 2 years of running clubs at SUNY Purchase.
I was there the day those photos were taken, and indeed, it was a small but fun group of people. Hopefully when the club becomes official, the player base will expand – and with it, I hope personally, the variety of Live Role Playing Games that are run. I hope to bring my own LARP over to New Paltz when I transfer there in the future (year to year and a half at most if all goes well), so look forward to that.
Claire and Lauren, never give up. Use all the resources you can, and keep pushing. Try out new ideas, get more people to help. YOU CAN DO IT! 😀
Tara M. Clapper says:
It's great to hear about groups like this. Coming from a non-school LARP setting, we really do depend upon college and high school students' interest to bring fresh ideas into the hobby. LARPers who start during high school and college tend to be among the most enthusiastic players. We would love to see this group take a field trip. They're always welcome at one of our sites in nearby New Jersey.
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Morze Szkockie (ang. Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland; Inner Seas; Inner Scottish Sea) - morze u zachodnich wybrzeży Szkocji i północnych wybrzeży Irlandii, obejmuje zespół akwenów od cieśniny The Minch po Kanał Północny.

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Do niedawna egzonim "Morze Szkockie" zalecany był w polskim nazewnictwie geograficznym dla cieśniny The Minch między Szkocją a Hebrydami. W takim znaczeniu pojawia się on w wykazach Polskie nazewnictwo geograficzne świata z 1959 roku i Polskie nazwy geograficzne świata z 1994 roku. Jednak Komisja Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ustaliła na XLII posiedzeniu w dniu 18 grudnia 2008 r., iż nazwa ta dotyczyć będzie zespołu wód określanych przez Międzynarodową Organizację Hydrograficzną jako Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland. Miało to związek z faktem, iż nazwa "Morze Szkockie" w odniesieniu do cieśniny The Minch nie jest stosowana w innych językach. W języku angielskim akwen u zachodnich wybrzeży Szkocji i północnych wybrzeży Irlandii bywa jednak określany jako Inner Scottish Sea ("Szkockie Morze Wewnętrzne").

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Mine guards on the site of the proposed Gogebic Taconite mine in Northwestern Wisconsin's Penokee Range. Gogebic officials hired the armed guards from Bulletproof Security in Arizona and said Tuesday that, despite criticism, the guards will continue patrolling the site. Courtesy of Rob Ganson
Update: July 10. See the WisconsinWatch.org blog: Miner Gogebic yanks security firm at drill site, pending Wisconsin license
Update: July 12. Video of June 11 incident has been removed at Wisconsin Public Radio story, but remains available at madison.com. Warning: Contains graphic language.
Despite harsh criticism from two northern legislators and an outcry from anti-mining activists, a spokesman for Gogebic Taconite said Tuesday that armed, paramilitary-style guards will continue to patrol the site deep in the Penokee Range where the company wants to build a large open pit iron mine.
Bob Seitz, a Madison lobbyist representing Gogebic, said the guards are necessary because of a confrontation between 15 to 20 protesters and an unknown number of mine workers a month ago.
"The guards are going to stay," Seitz said. "We have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace."
But others say they fear Gogebic Taconite's hiring of the guards only serves to escalate the already heightened tension over the company's plan to build a 4 ½-mile-long open pit iron mine in northwestern Wisconsin.
And critics of the company say the guards, especially those wearing tactical gear and armed with semi-automatic weapons, are unnecessary because protesters' activities have been almost entirely peaceful.
Since the dustup between protesters and mine workers on June 11, the ongoing protest against the mine — centered largely in an encampment of Chippewa tribal members in the woods not far from the mine site — has been peaceful, according to Iron County Sheriff Tony Furyk.
Furyk said that in the incident, one woman was charged with robbery with the use of force, a felony, after she forcibly took a camera away from a Gogebic employee. Organizers of the Chippewa educational encampment — which is modeled on the harvest camps used by tribal members in the past to fish, gather food and harvest maple syrup — say those protesters acted without their knowledge and added that they have since established strict rules to prevent such individuals from using the camp.
Mel Gasper, a Lac Court Oreilles tribal member who oversees the camp, said he now interviews and screens anyone who wishes to stay at the camp. He said the camp is being used not only to monitor mining company activities but also to educate people about the wild landscape of the Penokees.
Furyk said there have been no problems with the harvest camp or with any protesters since the June confrontation. "I've talked to the permit holders at the camp and they've been very cooperative," he said.
But emotions continue to run high. On the night of July 4, Furyk said, tribal flags were stolen from the entrance to the harvest camp. And Seitz said anti-mine activists continue to walk from the harvest camp to the mine site.
"They come down in the middle of the night," Seitz said. "It's an ongoing security risk." He added that the company may seek to restrict access to the area in the future.
State Rep. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland, said the company is overreacting.
"There is no reason for them to Rambo up the way they have because things are peaceful," Bewley said. "After a month of peace, why bring in a paramilitary group? We are not lawless up here. We are not Deadwood where there is no law and you need the Pinkertons."
Bewley joined state Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, in writing a letter this week asking the company to remove the guards, who are from an Arizona private security outfit called Bulletproof.
"The images are horrifying," wrote Bewley and Jauch, "and the action by the company to hire this high security Arizona firm is appalling. These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don't belong in Northern Wisconsin.
"We cannot begin to describe how upset the citizens of Northern Wisconsin are at the sight of our forests being patrolled by masked soldiers carrying military style assault weapons like mercenaries in a time of war. While no one can argue that your company does not have the right to protect your private property, these armed guards serve no purpose other than to intimidate local citizens and increase local tensions."
The guards were first photographed by Rob Ganson, a mine opponent who regularly visits the harvest camp and takes frequent walks to the mine site to monitor activity. He was shocked to see the armed guards in tactical gear with face masks. Ganson, who is not a tribal member, said he has been spending time at the harvest camp to learn more about the tribal view on the mine and has in the past brought his wife along. Now, with the presence of powerful weapons in the woods, he is reluctant to bring her along anymore.
"It has definitely ramped up the tension," Ganson said. "The last thing we need is a Kent State up here in the hills."
George Meyer, executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, has been heavily involved in mining issues for years. He worked as a lawyer for and served as secretary of the state Department of Natural Resources during the controversial and eventually failed efforts of Exxon Minerals to build a mine near Crandon. That project died largely due to tribal opposition.
Meyer, who has recently given presentations in Iron County on the need for local mining impact regulations and zoning, said the company's heavy-handed approach, including not only hiring the paramilitary guards but also resisting local zoning laws, could be causing some — including previous supporters — to question the entire mining project.
"This is the kind of thing that backfires," Meyer said of the guards. "They're (Gogebic Taconite) losing the goodwill of the public."
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Paramilitary-style guards 'are going to stay,' mining company vows

by Ron Seely, WisconsinWatch.org
July 9, 2013

Update: July 10. See the WisconsinWatch.org blog: Miner Gogebic yanks security firm at drill site, pending Wisconsin license

Update: July 12. Video of June 11 incident has been removed at Wisconsin Public Radio story, but remains available at madison.com. Warning: Contains graphic language.

Despite harsh criticism from two northern legislators and an outcry from anti-mining activists, a spokesman for Gogebic Taconite said Tuesday that armed, paramilitary-style guards will continue to patrol the site deep in the Penokee Range where the company wants to build a large open pit iron mine.

Bob Seitz, a Madison lobbyist representing Gogebic, said the guards are necessary because of a confrontation between 15 to 20 protesters and an unknown number of mine workers a month ago.

"The guards are going to stay," Seitz said. "We have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace."

But others say they fear Gogebic Taconite's hiring of the guards only serves to escalate the already heightened tension over the company's plan to build a 4 ½-mile-long open pit iron mine in northwestern Wisconsin.

And critics of the company say the guards, especially those wearing tactical gear and armed with semi-automatic weapons, are unnecessary because protesters' activities have been almost entirely peaceful.

Since the dustup between protesters and mine workers on June 11, the ongoing protest against the mine -- centered largely in an encampment of Chippewa tribal members in the woods not far from the mine site -- has been peaceful, according to Iron County Sheriff Tony Furyk.

Furyk said that in the incident, one woman was charged with robbery with the use of force, a felony, after she forcibly took a camera away from a Gogebic employee. Organizers of the Chippewa educational encampment -- which is modeled on the harvest camps used by tribal members in the past to fish, gather food and harvest maple syrup -- say those protesters acted without their knowledge and added that they have since established strict rules to prevent such individuals from using the camp.

Mel Gasper, a Lac Court Oreilles tribal member who oversees the camp, said he now interviews and screens anyone who wishes to stay at the camp. He said the camp is being used not only to monitor mining company activities but also to educate people about the wild landscape of the Penokees.

Furyk said there have been no problems with the harvest camp or with any protesters since the June confrontation. "I've talked to the permit holders at the camp and they've been very cooperative," he said.

But emotions continue to run high. On the night of July 4, Furyk said, tribal flags were stolen from the entrance to the harvest camp. And Seitz said anti-mine activists continue to walk from the harvest camp to the mine site.

"They come down in the middle of the night," Seitz said. "It's an ongoing security risk." He added that the company may seek to restrict access to the area in the future.

State Rep. Janet Bewley, D-Ashland, said the company is overreacting.

"There is no reason for them to Rambo up the way they have because things are peaceful," Bewley said. "After a month of peace, why bring in a paramilitary group? We are not lawless up here. We are not Deadwood where there is no law and you need the Pinkertons."

Bewley joined state Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, in writing a letter this week asking the company to remove the guards, who are from an Arizona private security outfit called Bulletproof.

"The images are horrifying," wrote Bewley and Jauch, "and the action by the company to hire this high security Arizona firm is appalling. These kinds of security forces are common in Third World countries but they don't belong in Northern Wisconsin.

"We cannot begin to describe how upset the citizens of Northern Wisconsin are at the sight of our forests being patrolled by masked soldiers carrying military style assault weapons like mercenaries in a time of war. While no one can argue that your company does not have the right to protect your private property, these armed guards serve no purpose other than to intimidate local citizens and increase local tensions."

The guards were first photographed by Rob Ganson, a mine opponent who regularly visits the harvest camp and takes frequent walks to the mine site to monitor activity. He was shocked to see the armed guards in tactical gear with face masks. Ganson, who is not a tribal member, said he has been spending time at the harvest camp to learn more about the tribal view on the mine and has in the past brought his wife along. Now, with the presence of powerful weapons in the woods, he is reluctant to bring her along anymore.

"It has definitely ramped up the tension," Ganson said. "The last thing we need is a Kent State up here in the hills."

George Meyer, executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, has been heavily involved in mining issues for years. He worked as a lawyer for and served as secretary of the state Department of Natural Resources during the controversial and eventually failed efforts of Exxon Minerals to build a mine near Crandon. That project died largely due to tribal opposition.

Meyer, who has recently given presentations in Iron County on the need for local mining impact regulations and zoning, said the company's heavy-handed approach, including not only hiring the paramilitary guards but also resisting local zoning laws, could be causing some -- including previous supporters -- to question the entire mining project.

"This is the kind of thing that backfires," Meyer said of the guards. "They're (Gogebic Taconite) losing the goodwill of the public."

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Q: Let $(V, \Vert.\Vert)$ be a normed vectorspace. Then $V$ is separable iff $V$ has a total countable subset Prove that:

Let $(V, \Vert.\Vert)$ be a normed vectorspace. Then $V$ is separable
   iff $V$ has a total countable subset

Relevant definitions:

A total subset in a normed vector space $V$ is a subset $T \subseteq
 V$ such that $\overline{span T} = V$
$V$ is called separable iff it has a countable dense subset

My attempt:
$\boxed{\Rightarrow}$ Let $A$ be a countable dense subset in $V$. Then we have $\overline{A}= V$ and hence $span \overline{A} = V$. Now, because addition and scalar multiplication in vector spaces are continuous functions, and for a continuous function $f$ we have $f(\overline{A}) \subseteq \overline{f(A)}$, it follows that $\overline{span A} = V$ and hence $A$ is a countable total subset of $V$
$\boxed{\Leftarrow}$ Let $A$ be a total countable total subspace in $V$. Then $\overline{span A} = V$.
I'm stuck here. It is clear that we won't be able to prove that $span(A)$ is countable, because easy counterexamples can be found. So my idea was to show that $A$ is dense in $V$, given the denseness of $span(A)$ in $V$, but I was unsuccesful in doing this.
Is what I did correct? How can I complete the proof?

A: Hint: Recall how the separabiity of $C[0,1]$ follows from the Weierstrass approximation theorem.

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35 electric vehicles have been sold or leased in the past two and a half weeks through a program called U Drive Electric.Due to its popularity, the University of Utah's Office of Sustainability is extending the program through January 31st with help from Utah Clean Energy and a grant from UCAIR. Kate Bowman is the solar project coordinator for Utah Clean Energy. She says U Drive Electric has been the catalyst to release pent up demand for electric vehicles.
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Chronicle joined AATCC in 1980 as a member of the Rhode Island Section, and from 1987 through 1988 served on the Rhode Island Sectional Committee. From 1990 through 1991, she was selected as one of three Rhode Island Councilors and, in this capacity, served as a national officer on the AATCC Council. She was elected as vice-chair of the Rhode Island Section from 1992 through 1993 and chaired the section from 1994 through 1995. In 1996, she became treasurer of the Rhode Island Section. When the Northern New England and Rhode Island Sections merged in 2002, Chronicle was responsible for balancing and then merging the financial records of both sections. She was elected to the office of treasurer of the newly formed New England Section beginning in 2003, and she continues to serve as the New England Section Treasurer to this day.
In her role as treasurer of the AATCC New England Section, Chronicle is a fiscally attentive and responsible officer. She has provided consistent financial guidance to the local section, and transparent fiscal reporting on the local and national levels. She volunteers tirelessly for section and regional events and encourages participation and service from members, as well as textile and design students in the region. She motivates her fellow section officers and brings a sense of regional responsibility to her peers. Even when traveling, she promotes the Association and the benefits of membership.
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Trees and shade create a naturally pleasing environment in the landscape. However, it is difficult to grow grass under trees because not only the quantity but also the quality of the light changes in the shade. In full sun, light is in the "near red" range of wavelengths; in the shade it shifts to the "far red," which is less effective in photosynthesis. In addition, dense canopies, particularly those of conifers, filter out the blue component of sunlight, which is critical for plant growth. The result of these changes is a reduction in photosynthesis and its products, including carbohydrates needed for plant growth.
Leaves, leaf cuticles and stems of plants are thinner in shade. Shoot density decreases and rhizome and stolon numbers decrease. Plant tissues are succulent and there is an increase in susceptibility to environmental stresses and disease. Transpired moisture from trees and grass, and moisture from dew forming under trees, take longer to dissipate, and the additional moisture may contribute to an increase in disease.
Shady conditions in combination with other plant stresses contribute to the difficulty of growing grasses under trees. For example, tree roots compete with turf for water and nutrients, and this competition can further weaken turf growing in shade. Allelopathic effects, such as the inhibitory effect of silver maple upon Kentucky bluegrass, are important between certain species of plants. Excessive organic matter from leaf litter will also inhibit grass. One or more of these factors make it particularly difficult to grow grass under sweet gum, maple and unpruned pin oak. On the other hand, grass is easier to grow under locust and poplar trees.
Success with growing grass in shade can be increased if the tree canopy is thinned and branches from the lower third of the tree are selectively removed. Also, trees can sometimes be removed without disrupting the harmony and function of the landscape.
Select and use grasses that have improved shade tolerance (Table 1). Most of the fine fescues (hard, sheep, spreading, slender creeping and Chewing's) have very good shade tolerance. Tall fescue has good shade tolerance, while Kentucky bluegrass is the least shade tolerant of the cool-season grasses. Bermudagrass, zoysiagrass and buffalograss should not be used in shady locations. In areas where shade-tolerant grasses fail, consider shade-tolerant groundcovers or mulched beds instead of grass.
Pruning trees with dense canopies, such as maples, will allow additional light to pass through to the turfgrass sward. Prune lower branches to a height of six feet. On large trees, branches should be removed all the way back to the trunk or a main leader so that the area under the canopy is clear. Thinning shrubs in the landscape will improve air circulation and lower humidity. Before planting grasses, remove shallow tree feeder roots that compete with the turf for nutrients and water.
Avoid excessive nitrogen fertilization, which promotes shoot growth at the expense of roots, lowers carbohydrates, and promotes soft, succulent tissue that is more susceptible to disease. Shade-tolerant grasses such as the fine fescues should receive no more than 2 pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet per year. Apply fertilizer in shady areas in the fall just as leaves begin to drop. Rake and remove leaves before they accumulate on turf. If fall fertilization was missed, fertilize in late winter or early spring, about a month before trees begin to leaf.
Mow turf at 2-1/2 to 3 inches to allow maximum interception of reduced light by the thin turfgrass sward. Avoid scalping turf. Decline of turf in shade often begins after a single episode of scalping.
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Limit traffic. Core aerify compacted areas that receive heavy traffic.
Avoid using herbicides in shady areas if weed problems do not exist. Many weeds, especially crabgrass, will not grow in shade.
In Missouri, the hard, sheep, and Chewing's fescues are usually preferred over the other fine fescues when using a monoculture in shady locations. Turf-type tall fescues may also provide an acceptable turf in moderate shade caused by trees.
Another shade-tolerant grass is rough stalk bluegrass. This grass does well in cool, wet conditions found in some shady locations. It performs well in the spring and fall but will die in the summer if moisture is lacking. Rough stalk bluegrass should not be used in lawns where only one or two large trees cause thinning of turf. It is a spreading grass and may escape, causing unattractive patches in sunny areas. This grass should be used in lawns only where several trees exist and other grasses have been tried without success.
Species and cultivars for shaded areas.
This list is not comprehensive, and seed of listed cultivars may be unavailable in some localities.
*Some Kentucky bluegrass cultivars will adapt to moderate shade.
30 percent to 50 percent Kentucky bluegrass plus 50 percent to 70 percent fine fescue (blend two or three varieties of each species and mix). Use 3 to 4 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet.
100 percent turf-type tall fescue (blend two or three varieties). Use 5 to 7 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet.
100 percent fine fescue (blend two or three varieties within a species or mix two or three species). Use 3 to 5 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet.
50 percent to 70 percent or more rough stalk bluegrass plus 30 percent to 50 percent perennial ryegrass (a blend of two or more varieties). Use 3 to 4 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet.


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meodingu on Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:23 am
Main articles: Foreign relations of Japan, Japan Self-Defense Forces, and Ministry of Defense (Japan)
JDS Kongō (DDG-173) launching a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile.
Japan maintains close economic and military relations with its key ally the United States, with the U.S.-Japan security alliance serving as the cornerstone of its foreign policy.[48] A member state of the United Nations since 1956, Japan has served as a non-permanent Security Council member for a total of 19 years, most recently for 2009 and 2010. It is also one of the G4 nations seeking permanent membership in the Security Council.[49]
As a member of the G8, the APEC, the "ASEAN Plus Three" and a participant in the East Asia Summit, Japan actively participates in international affairs and enhances diplomatic ties with its important partners around the world. Japan signed a security pact with Australia in March 2007[50] and with India in October 2008.[51] It is the world's third largest donor of official development assistance after the United States and France, donating US$9.48 billion in 2009.[52] Japan contributed non-combatant troops to the Iraq War but subsequently withdrew its forces from Iraq.[53] The Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force is a regular participant in RIMPAC maritime exercises.
JDS Hyuga, one of two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carriers.
Japan is engaged in several territorial disputes with its neighbors: with Russia over the South Kuril Islands, with South Korea over the Liancourt Rocks, with the People's Republic of China and Republic of China (Taiwan) over the Senkaku Islands, and with the PRC over the EEZ around Okinotorishima.
Japan also faces an ongoing dispute with North Korea over its abduction of Japanese citizens and its nuclear weapons and missile program (see also Six-party talks).
Japan's military is restricted by the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force as a means of settling international disputes. Japan's military is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). The forces have been recently used in peacekeeping operations and the deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq marked the first overseas use of its military since World War II.[53]
Nippon Keidanren has called on the government to lift the ban on arms exports so that Japan can join multinational projects such as the Joint Strike Fighter.[54] Japan has already helped develop the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
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Current awareness and communications go hand in hand. Technology is at the heart of information exchange, but effective communication between information professionals and clients is vital. It's a complex issue and deserves closer investigation.
A twenty year career in information services teaches you the importance of communication. During a conference Sir Tim Berners-Lee stated that 'language is constant', even if technology has evolved. I noted the importance of effective written and spoken communication skills in my CILIP Professional Development Report published in 1999.
My report made reference to the ways people communicated in an office environment. For instance, user surveys, inductions, meetings, training, written instructions, consultations and staff management. It is safe to assume that without communications, there is no point to us being at work.
The reason for team communication is to coordinate work and avoid duplication of effort. In small teams it is easy to feedback information on work done, progress on projects, or record queries. But larger teams appreciate a more sophisticated, formalised process. For instance, databases to manage research, rotas, staff meetings, and regular catch ups to co-ordinate project work.
Information sharing promotes trust, builds respect and inspires confidence within the team. If communication fails between management and staff, it can become unpleasant. This applies to any organisation or business. Openness and honesty within and without the team is essential.
Communication with customers or clients is something that takes place every day. Letters, voice mail, email, direct messages, Skype, text message – we are spoilt for choice. How we use them depends on the nature of the communication. For example, what is appropriate for a Skype conversation would not be appropriate for a formal email.
Most people are happy with short informal notes on everyday matters. Yet I would suggest that use of appropriate language is more important than ever. In my view, a business email should be polite, grammatically correct, and present a professional image to the outside world. There is no excuse for poor proofing.
I've talked about helping me to help you. Ultimately the method of communication shouldn't matter. Listening to and extracting information from clients is an important and valuable skill. And done right, it builds that platform of trust.
Whatever you should do should contribute to promoting your service. A free news service should speak for you and be a way into selling your skills. Developments in social media means users can communicate with information providers in new ways. The professional has to assess what is realistic and acceptable for their service. But we should all consider intranets, blogs, LinkedIn and twitter accounts.
In-house information services should make the most of their captive audience. From news bulletins and end user training, research services and specialist skills. Everything work-related should publicise and promote the service within the firm. Never has the ability to promote your information service and yourself been so important.
I used to think of the information service being like the centre of the spiders web, connecting all departments of the company or firm. But independent information provision is more like a spirograph. My client is the new centre and information revolves around you. We ensure an organised pattern of inter-connectivity.
It is only possible to do this if we have the ability to write well, present clearly and coherently. Communication is indeed constant. Everything that I do, you do, and they do, revolves around communications. And this isn't going to change any time soon.


Easter is in plain view with Good Friday only 4 days away!
Many of the Catholics out there will have been waiting for this day eagerly as it signifies the end of Lent.
This is a 40 day period during which the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence and penitence.
Most people choose things that they enjoy in their daily lives and give it up for the duration of lent.
Having grown up part with a Catholic background this is a practise that I am familiar with and this year I gave up sweets and pastries.
As an absolute sugarholic this was far from easy but the promise of one particular Easter treat made it all worth it… Homemade Hot Cross Buns!!
This delicious sweet spiced bun is usually made with currants or raisins and marked with a cross on the top.
Put 1 tsp of sugar in a cup of warm water, add yeast and let it dissolve.
Sift flour with salt and spices. Cut in butter with pastry blender until it looks like fine meal.
Add rest of sugar to hot milk and cool. When lukewarm, combine with yeast mixture.
Add to the flour. Add eggs and beat well. It will be sticky.
Knead on a floured board until smooth and elastic, adding more flour if necessary. Knead currants into dough.
Place in a buttered bowl, cover, and leave to double in bulk, for approximately an hour and a half.
Preheat oven to 190º C. Shape into 24 buns and put on buttered cookie sheets.
Glaze with thin Sugar Icing in the form of a cross.