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Quotas and a verdict
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Krishnadas Rajagopal
March 16, 2019 19:06 IST
What is the basis for challenging the 10% quota for the economically backward sections?
The introduction of a 10% quota for the economically backward through the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The principal grounds cited in support of the challenge are mainly found in a 1992 judgment of a nine-judge Bench in Indra Sawhney vs Union of India. A look at the context in which Indra Sawhney, or the Mandal Commission case, was decided, its major findings and how they are being cited in the challenge to the 103rd Constitution Amendment.
What is the background of the case?
In December 1980, the Second Backward Classes Committee, headed by B.P. Mandal, better known as the Mandal Commission, gave its report. It recommended 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and 22.5% for the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes. A decade later, in August 1990, the government issued an office memorandum (OM), providing 27% vacancies for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes to be filled by direct recruitment. Violent protests greeted this memorandum, and a challenge was mounted in the Supreme Court. In 1991, a new government under the Congress issued a second OM notifying an additional reservation of 10% for other economically backward sections. A nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court pronounced a 6:3 majority verdict in the Mandal Commission case, upholding the 27% quota in the first OM, but struck down the 10% quota based on economic criteria.
What were its main findings?
The majority judgment held that "a backward class cannot be determined only and exclusively with reference to economic criterion". "It may be a consideration or basis along with, and in addition to, social backwardness, but it can never be the sole criterion," Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy wrote for the majority. It said backward classes could be identified on the basis of caste. The Bench also laid down that reservation not cross the 50% limit, unless a special case was made out for extraordinary situations and peculiar conditions to relax the rule. It wanted the 'creamy layer,' the advanced sections of the backward classes, excluded from reservation and asked the government to evolve suitable criteria to exclude the 'creamy layer'.
Why cite the Indra Sawhney case?
After 27 years, the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, provides for 10% reservation in government jobs and educational institutions for the "economically backward" in the unreserved category. The Act amends Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution by adding clauses empowering the government to provide reservation on the basis of economic backwardness. The 10% economic reservation is over and above the 50% cap. The Constitution does not define the term 'backward classes,' though it endorses the role of the state in ensuring and promoting social equality. Over the years, caste has been a constant factor in identifying social and educational backwardness. As the Mandal Commission case discusses the basis for identifying OBCs, its findings are being cited by those who have challenged the amendment. They say the amendment violates the bar on quotas solely based on economic criteria and breaches the 50% quota limit which, they argue, is part of the Basic Structure of the Constitution.
The petitions, including those by Youth for Equality and activist Tehseen Poonawala, argue that the amendment excludes the OBCs and the SCs/STs from the scope of economic reservation. They contend that the high creamy layer limit of ₹8 lakh a year ensures that the elite capture the reservation benefits. They argue that the amendment does not clearly define the term "economically weaker sections."
What is the government's response?
In its response by affidavit, the government says the amendment was "necessitated to benefit the economically weaker sections of the society who were not covered within the existing schemes of reservation, which, as per statistics, constituted a considerably large segment of the Indian population." It quoted the 2010 report of the Commission for Economically Backward Classes, chaired by Major General S.R. Sinho (retired), which said 18.2% of the general category came under the below poverty line. It has said the economically weaker sections required as much attention as the backward classes. The government said the 50% ceiling applies to the SCs/STs and the OBCs. The new provisions separately deal with the economically weaker sections. It argued that a "mere amendment" to an Article would not violate the basic feature of the Constitution. The matter is likely to be referred to a Constitution Bench.
Printable version | Jan 19, 2020 10:27:13 PM | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/quotas-and-a-verdict/article26555301.ece
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Kerry Washington's March cover of InStyle magazine has raised some eyebrows for her super light complexion.
Scandal star Kerry Washington is on the cover of InStyle — but it's not exactly a celebratory moment.
Washington, who is a dark-skinned actress, appears noticeably lighter on the cover, which she posted on Instagram. Commenters quickly took note of her washed-out shade.
"We are super fans of Kerry Washington here at InStyle. To feature her on the cover of our March spring fashion issue is both an honor and a delight. We have heard from those who have spoken out about our newsstand cover photograph, concerned that Kerry's skin tone was lightened. While we did not digitally lighten Kerry's skin tone, our cover lighting has likely contributed to this concern. We understand that this has resulted in disappointment and hurt. We are listening, and the feedback has been valuable. We are committed to ensuring that this experience has a positive influence on the ways in which we present all women going forward."
Washington herself seemed to approve, tweeting her support of the statement.
This particular issue happens a lot in the magazine industry — well, "a lot" relative to the very few black women who have graced magazine covers. The last black woman on the cover of InStyle was Halle Berry in 2012. She looked incredible — which makes Washington's cover even more bizarre.
If you look at the covers side by side, these women look like they have similar complexions, which they certainly don't in real life.
Kerry Washington (left) and Halle Berry (right) chat an event in 2009.
Washington's cover could also be compared to actress Thandie Newton's 2011 InStyle UK cover. Newton is considerably lighter than Washington in person, but their cover complexions could not be more similar.
Kerry Washington (left) and actress Thandie Newton (right.
These cover mishaps raise so many questions. When mainstream fashion magazines only put one, or (gasp) two black women on the cover every year, why not make sure their skin looks like their skin? Why have a black woman on the cover when you're working so hard to make her look like someone else?
In the history of absurd skin lightening, this InStyle cover joins a long tradition of recently botched images. Just take a look at Halle Berry's whitewashed 2009 Harper Bazaar cover, Naomi Campbell's insane Vogue Thailand cover from 2013, or Gabourey Sidibe's overly-lightened Elle cover in 2010.
Halle Berry and Gabourey Sidibe's lightened covers.
There was also Mindy Kaling's 2014 Elle cover, which she shared with four other women. Despite the other women (Amy Poehler, Zoeey Deschanel and Allison Williams) getting color photographs, Kaling's image was in black and white.
There is one anomaly, though. One famous face every magazine seems to get right is Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o's. The style star has landed numerous flattering magazine covers. Just one day after Washington shared her InStyle cover on Instagram, Nyong'o shared her new March cover for Lucky magazine.
What a pleasant surprise. A bright, colorful, clearly-lit photograph of a dark woman that doesn't completely wash out her skin tone.
In fact, most of Nyong'o's magazine covers, from Vogue to Marie Claire to Dazed to W, have honored her rich skin tone and captured it in photographs without lighting her to the point of oblivion. How is it that a woman with much darker skin than Washington can actually look like herself on the cover, without being overly lit or color-corrected?
Compare Nyong'o's Lucky cover with Washington's December/January 2013 cover. Not only was the image bizarrely unflattering, Washington's face was washed in odd lighting and makeup. As one Twitter user pointed out to USA Today, magazines like Lucky rarely feature black women on their cover, so it's even more disappointing when the covers are messed up.
Judging from Nyong'o's recent cover, it looks like Lucky has learned its lesson. Now it's InStyle's turn to step it up.
Black women already have to jump through hoops to land these covers — at least let them land on their feet.


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When a person dies, a process known as "estate administration" must be carried out. This refers to all the procedures which must be followed in distributing a person's estate to their heirs or devisees.
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The decedent usually names in the will an executor of his or her estate. The executor is the person whose job it is to take the lead role in the administration of an estate.
The executor is usually whoever stands to obtain the most money or property if the will is given effect, since that is the person who likely has the most incentive to do their part in seeing that the probate process plays out to completion.
If the will in Dayton, Ohio does not name an executor, or the decedent left no will to be found, the court has to appoint a person to serve as the administrator of the estate.
This is typically the person who will benefit the most if the will is executed. If there is no will (a situation known as "intestacy"), Ohio has a system of laws distributing the decedent's property to his or her closest living relative. In such a situation, the closest living relative has the most to gain from an orderly administration of the estate, so they will typically be appointed.
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What is the process for restoring and repairing these old and often historic stained glass windows at Egan's Church Furnishings and Restorations?
DOCUMENTATION: After bringing your stained glass windows to our site, we create photographic documentation of the entire window. This ensures that we have a record of exactly how your window was created.
TRACING: Before our team disassembles your stained glass window, a tracing pattern is created which will be used during the reassembly process to be certain all glass pieces are returned to the original position.
DISASSEMBLY: Then your stained glass window is disassembled and the pieces of glass are cleaned. (All lead is disposed of at an EPA licensed lead recycling center).
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Summary. The spatiotemporal spreading of a fungal disease over a vineyard is investigated using a susceptible-exposed-infected-removed (SEIR)-type model coupled with a set of partial differential equations describing the dispersal of the spores. The model takes into account both short and long range dispersal of spores and growth of the foliar surface. Results of numerical simulations are presented. A mathematical result for the asymptotic behavior of the solutions is given as well.
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Is Quinnipiac Undercounting Democrats in Bill de Blasio's Polls?
By Ross Barkan • 08/10/15 9:55pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Last week, Quinnipiac University found that Mayor Bill de Blasio's net approval rating was the lowest it had ever been since he took office last January.
Just 44 percent of voters approved of the Democratic mayor's performance, while 44 percent disapproved. Pundits immediately wondered if Mr. de Blasio, who will seek re-election in 2017, was vulnerable to a challenger.
But the poll's sample offered a ray of hope for the liberal Democrat. If about 69 percent of New York City voters are registered Democrats, why did only 52 percent of Quinnipiac's respondents identify as Democrats?
"Here's the latest Quinnipiac poll's sample. But 68% of NYC registered voters are Democrats. Am I missing something?" tweeted Josh Greenman, an opinion editor at the Daily News. He also tweeted an image of the poll's sample: 52 percent identified as Democrats, 10 percent identified as Republicans and a whopping 28 percent said they were independents. 10 percent said they did not know what party they belonged to. (Registered Republicans make up 10 percent of the city's electorate and 17 percent of voters belong to no party.)
Since Mr. de Blasio rose to power in a Democratic primary and he is still viewed favorably by Democrats—the Quinnipiac poll found 53 percent of Democrats still think he should be re-elected, compared to 35 percent who don't—some have privately wondered if the polling doesn't adequately measure the mayor's base.
"I don't know how a pollster can look the press in the eye with a 52 percent self-identified Democratic sample in New York City and say it's a real poll," said a Democratic insider unaffiliated with Mr. de Blasio's office. (City Hall declined comment.)
Like any reputed polling institution, Quinnipiac uses random digit dialing to question voters on landlines and cellphones. There is no way to truly know whether a respondent is a Republican, Democrat or something else because voter rolls aren't usually used for polling, though there are exceptions.
Some statisticians and political observers say it's unfair to directly compare the percentage of voters registered in a certain party in New York City to the percentages found in a particular poll.
"It's not rare for people enrolled in a party to either not know that they are or to deny that they are," said Jerry Skurnik, a Democratic consultant and the co-founder of the voter file vendor Prime New York. "That doesn't mean the poll is wrong or right." (Mr. Skurnik added that some pollsters will buy voter data from firms like his. He singled out the Siena Research Institute as one.)
Past Quinnipiac polls also draw from a sample that does not appear to completely reflect the partisan breakdown of the city's electorate. In a May survey of Mr. de Blasio's approval rating, 51 percent of respondents identified as Democrats. A January survey had a Democratic sample of 50 percent.
"The key point is that there is a big difference between party ID and party registration. They are two different questions," said Douglas Schwartz, the director of the Quinnipiac poll. "People can register with one party and self-identify with another."
Mr. Schwartz said national political events can drive registered Democrats or Republicans to choose to identify as independents. "If a Republican or Democratic president or Republican or Democratic Congress does something very unpopular or very popular, it could sway how people identify themselves."
When polling, Quinnipiac asks respondents: "Generally speaking, do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, or what?"
Another top pollster tries a different approach to resolve some of the debate around sampling and party identification.
Siena Research Institute, the polling arm of Siena College, specifically asks voters what party they have registered with, as opposed to what party that identify with. Dr. Don Levy, Siena's poll director, said there are several advantages to phrasing the question this way.
One is that party registration can be used as part of a weighting algorithm, as opposed to party self-identification. There is no database or method to count exactly how many voters in New York identify as Republicans or Democrats, but there are voter rolls which account for the number of registered voters in each party. Self-identification is often in flux; party registration usually isn't.
When pollsters use their algorithms to adjust their results to fit a given city or county or state, they can weight for party registration. In a random sample of 1,000 people, every response won't be weighted equally; rather, it will be adjusted to conform to the universe it's trying to reflect. For example, in a city where female Democrats are far more common than female Republicans, a response from a female registered Republican will not be counted exactly the same as a female registered Democrat. The Democrat will have more weight.
Without any data for what parties voters say they identify with, a weighting process for party ID can't occur, Mr. Levy said.
"We ask people in what party they are registered. We prefer that question in the State of of New York," he said, noting that some other states don't have party registration. "You know what party you are registered in. It's an aspect of your reality that adheres to you."
Updated to include additional comment from Mr. Skurnik.
Filed Under: Politics, News & Politics, Bill de Blasio, Bill de Blasio, Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Quinnipiac
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Julian Mitchell's Another Country follows Angels in America in a term of unusually enjoyable Playhouse productions. The script isn't showing the thirty-two years it's put on since its first performance; funnier and lighter on its feet than you might imagine, it stomachs its rather worthy premise (students undergo a political and sexual awakening in a repressive 1930's public school) with ease, and delivers a theatrical experience both thoroughly engrossing and entirely preaching-free.
The faux-Eton setting is wonderfully evinced by both the cast and the set, which even by the high standards of Playhouse productions was beautifully crafted – as the lights went up on a large window with ivy entwined around the panel frames, I felt the gushings of an inner interior-designer I didn't know I had. Chapel bells and choir voices ring out in the distance, and it isn't hard to feel yourself succumbing to the very romantic view of the place that you suspect the play is trying to destabilise. Indeed, one issue (though more with the script than the production) is the failure to establish a sense of the supposedly repressive and constricting environment that the central characters are rebelling against; with its cucumber sandwiches and jokes about Algernon Charles Swinburne's predilection for whipping, it's rather more 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' than 'if...'.
The play struggles to find the drama in what amounts to a dispute over prefect appointments, and Guy Bennett's slide into rebellion lacks nuance. Rooting his desire to fight the system wholly in his homosexuality oversimplifies the real-life story underpinning the drama, which comes off in the end as essentially Cool Hand Luke set at public school. Yet the witty dialogue and effective characterisation act as ample substitutes for the play you feel you're supposed to be watching.
The performances all bear up a gloriously high standard across the board – whilst you might wonder how much of a stretch it is for some of the cast to portray late-adolescent public schoolboys, all do so convincingly and with considerable aplomb. Of particular merit are the central pairing of Peter Huhne as Bennett and Jo Allan as Tommy Judd; last seen coping admirably together as two Italian immigrants in Michaelmas's A View From The Bridge, they clearly benefit from being more in their element here. Huhne's slinky charm and Allan's earnest wit establish them as a profoundly likeable centre of the play. The remainder, from Tim Gibson's angst-ridden Barclay to Tom Lambert's innocent Wharton, all succeed in perfectly embodying the characters they're playing: such comprehensively talented casts are rare things in the world of student drama.
Lighting and sound were both used effectively and un-showily, and director Jessica Lazar should be commended for pulling together such a well-honed production, the first for the new company Screw the Looking Glass. All in all, a triumph; you'd be hard pressed to find a more polished and less po-faced Oxford student show. Though whoever fitted Tim Gibson's waistcoat needs a firm talking to.
More than thirty years ago, Julian Mitchell's Another Country hit the West End, and was a huge success, winning an Olivier Award for Play of the Year and launching the careers of Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, and others. This February, Screw the Looking Glass productions revives the play to brilliant effect at the Oxford Playhouse, creating an intense, exciting, beautifully-staged piece of drama.
The play depicts a group of teenage boys as they struggle with life at an early 1930s public school. Loosely based on the juvenile experiences of Guy Burgess, later one of the 'Cambridge Five' spies and here renamed Guy Bennet, examining the impact of his homosexuality and exposure to Marxist thought, through his friend Judd, on his later career.
Peter Huhne provides the play's standouts performance as Guy Bennet. Initially roguish and witty, his character development to bitter, injured lover is tragically believable, and Huhne is, as one of the funniest characters in the play, a pleasure to watch. Jo Allan's Tommy Judd is also fantastic, and Tom Lambert's nervous young Wharton is impeccable. The characterisation of Vaughan Cunningham (James Methven) felt, to me, a little overly camp, but this is a minor quibble in a cast this good.
The other wonderful thing about this production is its set design. The window at the back was a beautiful touch, and the posters running up the sides of the stage, depicting variously English classics like rugby at Twickenham and Russian socialism, worked as a beautiful framing device. The fourth-form library is realistically and professionally rendered. The costumes were, likewise, perfectly chosen and appropriate, and the play is visually a joy.
For Another Country's first night, the huge Playhouse venue was almost sold-out, and rightly so. The play's story is complex and moving, the kind of plot which makes you reconsider its questions long after the show has ended. My immediate thought might have been 'God, public school looks awful', but the bigger questions play on your mind: why would somebody betray their friends, betray their country? The public school environment works as a microcosmic criticism of English politics and power in the 1930s, insulated yet connected to much wider concerns. The play is relevant and contemporary despite being set eighty years ago; how much has England changed? Go and see Another Country: an interesting play, rendered professionally by an extremely talented cast of student actors.


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How does the Atkinson-shiffrin model of memory work?
How many stages are in the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
What is the three stage model of memory?
What are the three components of the information processing model of memory?
Which stage according to the Atkinson shiffrin model of memory is the first stage of memory processing?
What are the 3 systems of memory?
What is the name of the first storage system in the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
What are the 4 stages of memory?
What is Atkinson and Shiffrin's modal model?
What are the components of memory according to Atkinson?
Atkinson-shiffrin model. Also refered to as the modal model of memory proposes that the memory is made up of three information stores. Sensory memory which lasts for a very brief time and can hold a large amount of information just long enough for a small portion of it to be selected for longer storage.
What are the three processing stages in the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
In order for a memory to go into storage (i.e., long-term memory), it has to pass through three distinct stages: Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, and finally Long-Term Memory. These stages were first proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin (1968).
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It proposed that human memory involves a sequence of three stages: Sensory memory (SM) Working memory or short-term memory (STM) Long-term memory (LTM)
What is the theory of Richard Shiffrin?
In the 1980s, Shiffrin's formal theory of memory took a great leap forward with the Search of Associative Memory (SAM) model. This model quantified the nature of retrieval from long-term memory and characterized recall as a memory search with cycles of sampling and recovery.
Three Stages of the Learning/Memory Process Psychologists distinguish between three necessary stages in the learning and memory process: encoding, storage, and retrieval (Melton, 1963).
What is the 3 stage model of memory?
A huge part of information processing is its description of memory. The theory lists three stages of our memory that work together in this order: sensory memory, short-term or working memory and long-term memory.
What are the two types of sensory memory?
Sensory memory can be divided into subsystems called the sensory registers: such as iconic, echoic, haptic, olfactory, and gustatory. Generally, iconic memory deals with visual sensing, echoic memory deals with auditory sensing, and haptic memory deals with tactile sensing.
In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, stimuli from the environment are processed first in sensory memory: storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes. It is very brief storage—up to a couple of seconds.
What are the main parts of the Atkinson Shiffrin model?
In summary, the Atkinson & Shiffrin model of memory suggests that memory is made up of three parts: the sensory register, short-term memory and long-term memory. It's sometimes called 'two-store' because once memories have gone through the sensory register, they can be stored in either short-term or long-term memory.
To describe the process of storage, many psychologists use the three-stage model proposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin. According to this model, information is stored sequentially in three memory systems: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
What is the main idea of information processing theory?
The information processing theory is based on the idea that humans actively process the information they receive from their senses, like a computer does. Learning is what is happening when our brains recieve information, record it, mould it and store it.
In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, stimuli from the environment are processed first in sensory memory: storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is information processing model?
The Information Processing Model is a framework used by cognitive psychologists to explain and describe mental processes. The model likens the thinking process to how a computer works. Just like a computer, the human mind takes in information, organizes and stores it to be retrieved at a later time.
Stages of Memory Encoding Storage and Retrieval
Memory Encoding. Memory Encoding. When information comes into our memory system (from sensory input), it needs to be changed into a form that the system can cope with, so that it can be stored.
Memory Storage. Memory Storage.
Memory Retrieval. Memory Retrieval.
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory?
The Atkinson–Shiffrin model (also known as the multi-store model or modal model) is a model of memory proposed in 1968 by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin. The model asserts that human memory has three separate components:
Yolanda has taught college Psychology and Ethics, and has a doctorate of philosophy in counselor education and supervision. Atkinson and Shiffrin's modal model of memory states that the brain stores or maintains information in three different systems. Study how this model works and learn about the sensory register and short- and long-term memory.
What is Atkinson and Shiffrin's sensory register theory?
Additionally, Atkinson and Shiffrin included a sensory register alongside the previously theorized primary and secondary memory, as well as a variety of control processes which regulate the transfer of memory.
Atkinson and Shiffrin propose in their model of the theory of memory that there are 3 specific components of human memory. 1. Sensory Register. This is where any sensory information that has been collected by the brain will enter a person's memory.
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This One-Pot Spanish Chicken and Rice Skillet is full of flavor and perfect for an easy weeknight meal. I love recipes that only use one pan! The olives, paprika and lemon give this dish tons of flavor and a serving is hearty and satisfying for just 400 calories or 6 SmartPoints on Weight Watchers Freestyle. My husband loves rice, so I'm always looking for new and different ways to serve it. I found the original recipe for this dish on Ahead of Thyme and made a few tweaks and it was a big hit. Plus, it comes together really quickly and once you set it to simmer you have time to clean up after yourself, set the table, make a side salad and pour yourself a drink!
Looking for more lightened up one-pot meals like this Spanish Chicken and Rice Skillet? Check out my Chicken Pot Pasta, Turkey Sloppy Joe Pasta, Beef Enchilada Pasta Skillet, White Chicken Chili, Mexican Chicken Cauliflower Rice Skillet, Thai Turkey with Carrot Noodles, Lemon Chicken Orzo with Tomatoes and Asparagus, Rustic Sausage and Potato Skillet, Beefy American Goulash, Beef Stroganoff, One Pot Cincinnati Chili Spaghetti Bake, Pumpkin Alfredo Tortellini Skillet, Cheesy Chicken Veggie Pasta Skillet, The Best Turkey Chili, Sausage Tortellini Skillet and more in the One-Pot Meal section of my recipe index!
Place the oil in a large saute pan or walled skillet and bring over medium heat. Add the chicken and sprinkle with the salt and pepper. Stir to coat the chicken and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes.
Add the onion and garlic, stir, and cook for another 2-4 minutes until the chicken pieces are cooked and the onion is softened a bit. Add the rice and stir together. Cook for another 1-2 minutes and then stir in the paprika until everything is well combined.
Add the broth and tomato sauce and stir together. Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat to low and cover the pan. Simmer for 20-25 minutes until the rice is cooked (mine was done at 20 minutes, but I think my burners run slightly hot – you may want to check at 20 and stir it around to see if you need more time).
Add the lemon zest (you can add some juice to taste as well if you love lemon), olives and cilantro and stir together.
I'm not an olive fan… I wonder if it would lose too much flavor if I omitted them?
I made it without olives and loved it. I used capers because I like them. We added some hot sauce to make it spicier.
This looks amazing, Emily! Can't wait to try! Thanks for all you do, especially now that you're a busy mommy!
I've been missing my mom's go-to chicken & rice dish from my childhood. THIS will bring back the memories. Easy, tasty, and you even found a minute for me to pour a drink! Thanks for another great recipe.
Follow-up: I've made this twice now, and it's wonderful!
This is very close to my arroz con pollo recipe. But I use chicken thighs and Goya sofrito and Sazon and add a can of gandules (pigeon peas). Family favorite.
Any idea how long you would set the timer for if you did this in an Instant Pot?
This looks great. Going to try it this weekend.
Made this recipe last night. Very easy and delicious! Added a half cup of green peas the last 5 minuets !
I guess I could look myself but has anyone tried ground turkey breast as this is a zero point food and how many less points would it be?
what size can of tomato sauce? Thank you.
Could lime zest replace the lemon?
Making this right now! Looking forward to trying it.
This is so tasty and easy! We add more olives because they're so tasty! Thanks for the great recipes, this and your buffalo chicken casserole are two of our favorite recipes to make!
I made this last night and just had leftovers for lunch. Another A+++++ for Emily!!!
For people that enjoy a slight citrus zing with salty bits, this is for you!
Very easy to make, and ridiculously low in points. I actually used extra light olive oil and mine came out to be 5 points.


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Saffron for depression
categories: adults, Alzheimers, anti-inflammatories, depression, superfood, whole food
According to ancient Greek mythology, Hermes and his friend Krokos were horse-playing and Hermes accidentally killed Krokos through a head injury, with three blood drops from his head falling on the top of a flower, creating three stigmata and naming this plant thereafter Krokos (Crocus)[1]. Thus the ancient and godly identification of this plant and saffron.
Saffron is the dried stigma (the top part in the center of a flower which receives the pollen and on which germination takes place) of the blue-purple flower Crocus sativus L., and it has a long history of use as a spice, coloring agent, and medicine. Due to how saffron is grown and harvested, saffron is considered one of the world's most expensive spices (upwards of $11,000 per kg, requiring 450,000 hand-picked stigmas)[2]. Apart from its traditional value as a spice and coloring agent (originally for the Persian carpet industry), saffron has a long history of medicinal use spanning over 2,500 years[3].
This use of saffron in traditional medicine included for cramps, asthma, menstruation disorders, liver disease, and painful dysmenorrhoea[4], among many other uses. Evidence from recent in vitro and in vivo research indicates that saffron has potential anti-carcinogenic, anti-mutagenic, antioxidant, and memory-enhancing properties[5] [6].
Administration of saffron 30 mg/day (15 mg twice daily) was found to be as effective as a leading medication for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (donepezil) in a placebo-controlled double bind for treatment in subjects of 55 years and older[7] but with a better side effect profile. Although there are a growing number of non-human animal studies and theories why saffron could be neuroprotective for Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, clinical studies are too few to make any tentative conclusions to date.
In two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, saffron was effective for the treatment of mild to-moderate depression[8] [9].
A systematic review of randomized control trials examining the effectiveness of saffron in mood disorders revealed a statistically significant effect on improved mood on subjects clinically diagnosed with depression[10]; the dosing was typically 30 mg/ day.
In clinical studies, the use of saffron extract at doses of 20–30 mg/day twice daily for the treatment of mild to moderate depression has been compared with currently marketed antidepressants such as fluoxetine[11] (20 mg/day twice daily) and imipramine[12] (100 mg/day three times daily). So these comparative evaluations revealed that saffron was equally effective as chemically synthesized marketed pharmaceutics, in mild or moderate depression without causing the typical side effects of the artificial preparations.
Saffron may act in a manner similar to antidepressants to improve mood by inhibiting serotonin reuptake[13] or there could be multiple pathways involving, for example, its antioxidant, anti-inflammatory properties.
Saffron contains in excess of 150 volatile and aroma-yielding compounds and many non-volatile active components, many of which are carotenoids[14] . Safranal is the compound primarily responsible for saffron's aroma. Safranal has shown to have anti-convulsant and anxiolytic effects[15] as well as antidepressant properties[16]
One randomized controlled trial examined the effects of saffron supplementation on premenstrual syndrome[17]. It was found that found that women with regular menstrual cycles experiencing premenstrual syndrome who took 30 mg/d of saffron supplementation for eight weeks reported relief in premenstrual symptoms and depression levels compared to placebo. Remarkably, just the aroma alone – without otherwise any oral intake of saffron was itself found effective in relief of PMS symptoms in another placebo controlled double blind study[18], indicating effectiveness at very small does and the likely active component being Safranal.
[1] Koulakiotis, N., Pittenauer, E., Halabalaki, M., Skaltsounis, L., Allmaier, G., & Tsarbopoulos, A. (2011). Isolation and Tandem Mass Spectometric Characterization of Selected Crocus sativus L. (Saffron) Bioactive Compounds.Planta Med Planta Medica, 77(12). doi:10.1055/s-0031-1282560
[2] Gohari, A., Saeidnia, S., & Mahmoodabadi, M. (2013). An overview on saffron, phytochemicals, and medicinal properties. Pharmacognosy Reviews Phcog Rev,7(1), 61. doi:10.4103/0973-7847.112850
[3] Srivastava, R., Ahmed, H., Dixit, R., D., & Saraf, S. (2010). Crocus sativus L.: A comprehensive review. Pharmacognosy Reviews, 4(8), 200. doi:10.4103/0973-7847.70919
[4] Kianbakht, S., & Ghazavi, A. (2011). Immunomodulatory Effects of Saffron: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial. Phytother. Res. Phytotherapy Research, 25(12), 1801-1805. doi:10.1002/ptr.3484
[5] Abdullaev, F., & Espinosa-Aguirre, J. (2004). Biomedical properties of saffron and its potential use in cancer therapy and chemoprevention trials. Cancer Detection and Prevention, 28(6), 426-432. doi:10.1016/j.cdp.2004.09.002
[6] Bathaie, S. Z., & Mousavi, S. Z. (2010). New Applications and Mechanisms of Action of Saffron and its Important Ingredients. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 50(8), 761-786. doi:10.1080/10408390902773003
[7] Akhondzadeh, S., Sabet, M. S., Harirchian, M. H., Togha, M., Cheraghmakani, H., Razeghi, S., . . . Moradi, A. (2010). ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Saffron in the treatment of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease: A 16-week, randomized and placebo-controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 35(5), 581-588. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2710.2009.01133.x
[8] Akhondzadeh, S., Tahmacebi-Pour, N., Noorbala, A., Amini, H., Fallah-Pour, H., Jamshidi, A., & Khani, M. (2005). Crocus sativus L. in the treatment of mild to moderate depression: A double-blind, randomized and placebo-controlled trial.Phytother. Res. Phytotherapy Research, 19(2), 148-151. doi:10.1002/ptr.1647
[9] Moshiri, E., Basti, A. A., Noorbala, A., Jamshidi, A., Abbasi, S. H., & Akhondzadeh, S. (2006). Crocus sativus L. (petal) in the treatment of mild-to-moderate depression: A double-blind, randomized and placebo-controlled trial.Phytomedicine, 13(9-10), 607-611. doi:10.1016/j.phymed.2006.08.006
[10] Hausenblas, H. A., Heekin, K., Mutchie, H. L., & Anton, S. (2015). A systematic review of randomized controlled trials examining the effectiveness of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) on psychological and behavioral outcomes. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 13(4), 231-240. doi:10.1016/s2095-4964(15)60176-5
[11] Noorbala, A., Akhondzadeh, S., Tahmacebi-Pour, N., & Jamshidi, A. (2005). Hydro-alcoholic extract of Crocus sativus L. versus fluoxetine in the treatment of mild to moderate depression: A double-blind, randomized pilot trial. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 97(2), 281-284. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2004.11.004
[12] Akhondzadeh, S., Fallah-Pour, H., Afkham, K., Jamshidi, A., & Khalighi-Cigaroudi, F. (2004). Comparison of Crocus sativus L. and imipramine in the treatment of mild to moderate depression: A pilot double-blind randomized trial [ISRCTN45683816]. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine BMC Complement Altern Med, 4(1). doi:10.1186/1472-6882-4-12
[13] Hausenblas, H. A., Saha, D., Dubyak, P. J., & Anton, S. D. (2013). Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) and major depressive disorder: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 11(6), 377-383. doi:10.3736/jintegrmed2013056
[14] Sampathu, S. R., Shivashankar, S., Lewis, Y. S., & Wood, A. B. (1984). Saffron ( Crocus Sativus Linn.) — Cultivation, processing, chemistry and standardization.C R C Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 20(2), 123-157. doi:10.1080/10408398409527386
[15] Hosseinzadeh, H., & Talebzadeh, F. (2005). Anticonvulsant evaluation of safranal and crocin from Crocus sativus in mice. Fitoterapia, 76(7-8), 722-724. doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2005.07.008
[16] Hosseinzadeh, H., Karimi, G., & Niapoor, M. (2004). Antidepressant Effect Of Crocus Sativus L. Stigma Extracts And Their Constituents, Crocin And Safranal, In Mice. Acta Hortic. Acta Horticulturae, (650), 435-445. doi:10.17660/actahortic.2004.650.54
[17] Agha-Hosseini, M., Kashani, L., Aleyaseen, A., Ghoreishi, A., Rahmanpour, H., Zarrinara, A., & Akhondzadeh, S. (2008). Crocus sativus L. (saffron) in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome: A double-blind, randomised and placebo-controlled trial. BJOG: Int J O & G BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 115(4), 515-519. doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.2007.01652.x
[18] Fukui, H., Toyoshima, K., & Komaki, R. (2011). Psychological and neuroendocrinological effects of odor of saffron (Crocus sativus).Phytomedicine, 18(8-9), 726-730. doi:10.1016/j.phymed.2010.11.013
New study supports protective effect of coffee on neuronal disorders
categories: Alzheimers, brain, Parkinson's
Yet another study suggesting positive effects of coffee on neuronal disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimers disease.
Nutr Neurosci. 2016 Jan 20. [Epub ahead of print]
Coffee induces vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in human neuroblastama SH-SY5Y cells.
Kakio S, Funakoshi-Tago M, Kobata K, Tamura H.


Episode 138: Whose Line is it Anyway?
Soooooo I have been sitting here for 20 minutes and have nothing. I guess it's not my line… Enjoy the show!
I like Epica. Similar to Brian as he mentioned, I have really only listened to their albums from The Divine Conspiracy and on. Of the 4 Epica albums I have listened to, I am going to say that The Quantum Enigma is my second favorite behind The Divine Conspiracy. One problem that most Epica albums seem to have is that they are generally too long. The Quantum Enigma could have benefited from cutting some of the fat from it. That's a part of why Nick thinks that they overdo the female choruses – there's just too much music on this album, of which those choruses are a large part of the album. If they cut out a few of those songs that focused on the female chorus singing, the album would be better for it. Fortunately in this digital age, I can do just that and make a playlist of about 8 songs from the album and enjoy it much more. One thing that The Quantum Enigma lacks is a killer ballad. The Divine Conspiracy has the song "Chasing the Dragon", and Requiem for the Indifferent has the song "Delirium", which are both awesome ballads. On The Quantum Enigma, the song "Canvas of Life" tries to be that killer ballad but it just isn't as good as those on the other Epica albums.
I couldn't agree more. The first 6 or 7 times it does a HUGE chorus I'm ok with it – not my favorite, but enjoyable nonetheless. By the 10th my ears just need a break.


"Jill," a teacher reprimanded the teenager in the hall, "do you mind telling me whose class you're cutting this time?"
"Like," the young teen replied, "uh, see, okay, like it's like I really don't like think like that's really I don't get anything out of it."
"It's Mrs. Dulls' English class, isn't it?" replied the smiling teacher.


The exterior walls of your home get put through a lot, and chances are they aren't looking their best because of it. Mould, lichen and moss are common pests for the outside of your home, and sometimes their effects aren't just concerning aesthetics. Moss and mould growth can present serious problems for the integrity of your home and may even indicate serious repairs that need to be addressed. So, what is the best solution for effectively removing these pests from your walls?
Whether your walls are stone or plaster, you'll have no doubt acquired some unwanted pests on their exterior. With their rough texture and environment, water retention is often promoted on their surface, which in turn helps the growth of any moss, algae, lichen or mould. As these all affect the structure of your home as well as the appearance, it's important to keep on top of any maintenance.
Pressure washing is often a popular choice for removing unwanted additions to your walls, but this can actually damage your house even further by wearing down the stone and in some cases stripping off any mortar. Hand washing is another option, but this is a very laborious procedure – as well as being extremely impractical. You may also be tempted to experiment with harsh chemicals based on bleach, caustic or acid solutions to strip away any moss, algae or lichen. This, however, can not only be damaging to the surface of your walls but also any surrounding plants, pets or children. As such, it is suggested that you steer clear of any such chemicals.
This is where Wet & Forget steps in. Offering quick and effective cleaning solutions free of bleach as well as caustic and acidic chemicals, Wet & Forget will get the job done fast. It breaks down the moss, algae and mould over time with the wind and the rain, keeping them at bay for at least a year. Following the first application, any further maintenance will be a much shorter process, meaning you can easily stay on top of outside wall maintenance.
No longer will your exterior walls be plagued by moss, algae and lichen as Wet & Forget actually eliminates them. With the gentle pH of 8, which is as close to neutral as you can get, you also needn't worry about the long-term effects on any animals, plants or children. Just ensure to keep the are clear whilst the solution is drying, and to wash off any contact simply as a precautionary measure.
Saturate your walls with the solution and leave to dry for four to five hours - during that time, Wet & Forget gets on with the job, leaving you free to do other things.
If you want to make life even easier for yourself, then try Wet & Forget Rapid. The built-in nozzle and pre-mixed formula makes treating your exterior walls for moss, mould and lichens a piece of cake - as you can spray up to 8m high and cover up to 200m2 in just 10 minutes. You'll also have the peace of mind of knowing that you've eradicated your moss, mould and lichen problem in the most hassle-free way imaginable.


You asked, and we delivered! Well, we're about to deliver. Starting next week, we will run a schedule based on your feedback. We'll be open M-F at 5 am (because you're all crazy), and the night classes will shift to 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30. As always, sign up via Mindbody for the most up to date schedule.


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LG G5 SE is real, breaks cover on official Russian site with less RAM, Snapdragon 652 chip
Cam Bunton
- Apr. 21st 2016 2:46 am PT
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After weeks of rumors, the LG G5 SE is real and — as the recent case leak suggested — it's virtually identical to the regular LG G5. LG's official Russian site has published a product information page revealing everything about the LG G5's slightly underpowered sibling, and there don't seem to be too many corners cut.
Like the LG G5, the 'SE' model features a Quad HD 5.3-inch IPS in-cell touch display with a pixel density of 554ppi. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with the company's own UI on top, and has the same 16MP/8MP wide angle dual camera system on the back. It has a front-facing 8MP camera, a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor/home button and a USB Type C port on the bottom edge alongside the 3.5mm jack and loudspeaker.
More importantly, it boasts the same modular design so that users can swap out various modules, like the CAM Plus physical camera controls or DAC Hi-Fi unit.
To cut costs, LG has opted to fit the G5 SE with some mid-range internal specifications. Specifically, there's an octa-core 1.8GHz Snapdragon 652 processor instead of the SD820 and 'only' 3GB RAM. It has 32GB internal storage which can be expanded up to an extra 2TB via MicroSD.
While both phones are virtually the same height and width (149.4 x 73.9 mm) and come in the same metallic colors, the SE does measure slightly thinner at 7.3mm (versus the G5's 7.7mm body). Given the very slim difference in thickness, the SE should fit in to any cases designed for the G5. From the wording on the product page, it looks as though the SE also features the same thin metal construction.
There's no word yet on whether the SE model will be launched in the US, or other western markets where the G5 is on sale.
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GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL, subtitled It Wasn't Nice To Drown A Lady!––relates a narrative of the most pristine canyon in the Southwest whose interior habitat was inundated by the deep waters of Lake Powell, starting in the late 1960s. Hence, a quiet, remote canyon abode most people never visited before today's Glen Canyon National Recreation Area opened its tours to mega-millions of tourist. Thus, canyon environs turned aquatic playground. Accordingly, the Glen Canyon-Lake Powell oasis in the Great Basin Desert sector of southeast Utah is what some visitors assume is the original design of nature. The fact is, Glen Canyon denotes the second-longest canyon initiated and carved by the Colorado River and later eroded over millions of years. It follows how there are two Glen Canyons: the original template of nature, then much later in time this finely sculptured masterpiece of nature was deemed suitable for a basin and storage retrofit as mandated by the Bureau of Reclamation. When the Glen Canyon Dam closed its gates, some twenty years later (the early 1980s), a sprawling lake nearly 200 miles (322 km) formed by its massively thick, high wall. By impeding the flow of the Colorado River in this upper sector of its drainage, this principal drainage of the Colorado Plateau Province was forced to reverse its course. While the Bureau and the fledgling town of Page, Arizona celebrated the basin storage and hydroelectric dam facilities, hundreds of backcountry scenic haunts were lost forever, along with some three thousand archeological ruins that were destroyed. Then again, the so-called recreation area opened its doors to millions of annual tourists (year-round) and most visitors came for the dramatic scenery and cruising up or down lake in a variety of watercraft. The Bureau, like the Page Chamber of Commerce, called it progress while conservationists and Glen Canyon aficionados of old called it a damn environmental sin.
The narrative of Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell is presented in three parts: the Before, During, and After aspects. The first part is based on a film-documentary of a 1959 rafting trip through Glen Canyon's halcyon interior just before the Bureau of Reclamation closed the river to rafting. The rustic 16mm movie was made by the acclaimed Grand Canyon author and hiker, George Steck. He called the movie Beauty Lost, which he later bequeathed to me (first, as a VHS format, and later a DVD format). I also felt his epithet was an apt title for the first part of the narrative. In George's time, and for millions of years up to his rafting party floated through the interior, Glen Canyon was a remote canyon seldom visited by people throughout the late 19th-Century and the continuing 20th-Century. Such visitation also includes regional locals from places like Kanab, Utah and Flagstaff, Arizona. For one thing, there were very few roads in this vicinity of southeast Utah and northeast Arizona. For another, the Grand Canyon National Park, which is not too far downstream from Glen Canyon, was fast becoming the Southwest's most prized scenic icon and national park, starting in the early 20th-Century. By comparison, Glen Canyon was never selected for a protective Federal Government status; not even designated a national monument. Of course, had one or the other declaration been granted, a changeover from the canyon's natural habitat to a so-named blue bathtub and tourist's haven would never have happened.
Apart from the1940s and 50s rafting excursions through Glen Canyon's halcyon interior, where the Colorado River was akin to smooth, brownish-colored water from one end of the canyon to the other, cowboys herding cattle and Navajos herding sheep were the primary visitors. There were also relatively few hikers and backpackers venturing into the canyon's backcountry, as well as archeological expeditions underwritten by universities. Early on, aspiring miners attempted dredging operations in the canyon (late 19th-Century to the early 20th-Century), expressly for gold. As it turned out, what the miners sought amount to gold dust washed down from the Rockies, yet it was too fine and too little sources to afford the huge cost of the various mining camps. Thus, the miners eventually sought elsewhere for such potential riches. Even locals from regional small towns and cities were few and far between (though, of course, Glen Canyon's interior haunts were sought after by hikers, backpackers, and photographers). However, in Prehistoric times, sectors of Glen Canyon's interior were occupied by the Anasazi (also known as the Ancestral Puebloans). Their numerous encampments, gardens, and small farms were scattered throughout the canyon. One of the most celebrated archeological ruins, Defiance House, was occupied between 1250 and 1285 (marking the Common Era). There were also other earlier encampments though it is not known how long the Anasazi culture lived and farmed in the canyon.
Given Glen Canyon's brief and concise overview of human habitation and visitors, David Brower, the Director of Sierra Club from 1952 to 1969, championed the celebrated photographer Eliot Porter's designation, The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. Brower was also the renowned and feisty conservationist who attempted to thwart the Bureau of Reclamation's plans to build the Glen Canyon Dam, which was also the first mega-sized bulwark of cement and rebar hobbling the upper drainage sector of the Colorado River.
The second part ("During") of Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell explains and amplifies all these details, as well as the consequential aftermath of the great inundation of Glen Canyon's bucolic interior. The literal cover-up of The Glen, as the canyon was labeled by aficionados, has always remained a topical environmental subject. Indeed, part three's ("After") ensuing diatribes and polemics fought by both sides of the Glen Canyon-Lake Powell issue that began in the late 1950s continues to fuel today's environmental controversy, especially Lake Powell's ongoing environmental problems (i.e., a steady buildup of silt accumulation on the bottom, including the abrupt changes to the Grand Canyon's interior due to extremely low water temperatures caused by the dam. Moreover, the consequent environmental issues that have arisen since an epic drought set in sometime during the early 1990s continues drawing down lake levels, as well as Lake Mead, which is at the other end of the Grand Canyon. Accordingly, not only are both reservoirs much lower since the 1990s, especially considering their original full pool levels when each basin was fully formed, today's revealing telltale mineral scars simulating a wan-colored bathtub ring is most assuredly a reminder how a pervasive and enduring drought plus an excessive demand for water stored in desert environs is also subject to constant evaporation by the sun. This fact is especially critical for Lake Powell whose sedimentary terrain augments the problem because sedimentary rocks are porous. Excessive and constant leakage results in waster water. Lake Powell's basin is also slowly and steadily accumulating sediment on the bottom. Thus, Lake Powell is constipated and choking on aggradation.
As a title, GLEN CANYON BEFORE LAKE POWELL plainly reveals the theme of this comprehensive text. Its narrative also comes down to the salient point how Glen Canyon's designated basin storage project turned out to be the wrong place to build a dam (i.e., due to aggradation and evaporation due to the climate in this region––see below for more details). As for the subtitle, the environmental impact over the last few decades substantiates this claim. Moreover, not only is Lake Powell likened to an inland Dead Sea given its alarming silt accumulation, but also the ruinous changes wrought by Grand Canon's riverine corridor due to the dam cold water released from the dam. Thus, Glen Canyon's habitat was sacrificed and has become a heated and topical issue over the years, where people on both sides of the issue constantly argue to either preserve the status quo of a dam and basin storage or dismantle the dam and return Glen Canyon to its original appearance, and the way Nature intended.
Glen Canyon Before Lake Powell is revealing given every detail explained in all three parts of the text. The Before, During, and After aspects are objectively portrayed and the text is not intended to garner support or objection for either side of the Glen Canyon Dam issue that amounts to the Friends of The Glen on one side and the Friends of Lake Powell on the other. Rather, the information fairly represents both Glen Canyons: the original habitat and the retrofit of a dam and basin storage that created not only an aquatic paradise for tourism but also the metropolis of Page, Arizona, surrounded by the Navajo Reservation. Page was also initially built by the Bureau of Reclamation, and later became a fledgling town of tourism overlooking the blue water stain below the rising backdrop of Glen Canyon's tan-colored walls. Today, millions of people flock to Page and utilize Lake Powell for many reasons, especially exploring its vastness on a variety of boats (mainly, houseboats).
A very informative book of a canyon that I love. I am bittersweet about the Lake. I do love boating and have had more access to the canyon since the flood. I enjoyed this book very much.


The U.S. Military is big business in North Carolina; the second largest, in fact. Our General Assembly is concerned that Wind Farms in the flight paths of training missions from the various military bases in our state might be cause for them to be slated for closure. To that end, legislation, which does not affect existing projects, or those currently under development, has been proposed to severely limit the locations of future projects in the eastern and central regions.
While this may seem to be a reasonable course of action on the surface, like so much current legislation, there is more to this bill (SB843) than meets the eye. In addition to limiting locations where wind farm projects may be built to a relatively small portion of the state, there are proposed restrictions applying to the solar industry as well. Citing "environmental risks", new start-ups would be required to generate no more than 35 decibels of noise (quieter than human speech)and have a 1-1/2 mile "safety barrier" away from neighboring property lines (that's 7,920 feet, compared to 200 feet for hazardous waste landfills, or 500 feet for pig waste lagoons). Curiously, fossil fuel powered hydroelectric plants would be exempt.
As if that were not enough to make new renewable energy less than competitive with traditional energy sources, a surety bond equal to 15% of the value of the facility and land would be required of new start-ups, in spite of the fact that the salvage values of the raw materials would exceed the costs of decommissioning and return of sites to original condition, as required.
When "Fracking" legislation allows for well sites in closer proximity to homes and water sources, at noise levels considerably higher, with no similar guarantees of return to original condition for sites, one might conclude a bit of hypocrisy in this latest assault on renewable energy. Hmmmm?
Apparently this Bill was allowed to die on the Senate floor, as the GA adjourned for their vacation, but may be resurrected in the next session.


For its UK office, SAP and architects HLW International wanted a plain rubber tile with a good colour choice that was durable and easy to maintain. Over 300sq m of noraplan uni has been installed in various areas including the design feature throughout the ground floor, the technology suite, meeting rooms, reception and foyer areas. With its plain colours, smooth surface and excellent environmental properties, noraplan uni fits the criteria perfectly.


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Pseudosparianthis is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887.

Species
 it contains eight species, found in the Caribbean, Central America, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, and French Guiana:
Pseudosparianthis accentuata Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
Pseudosparianthis ambigua Caporiacco, 1938 – Guatemala
Pseudosparianthis chickeringi (Gertsch, 1941) – Panama
Pseudosparianthis fusca Simon, 1887 (type) – Brazil
Pseudosparianthis jayuyae Petrunkevitch, 1930 – Puerto Rico
Pseudosparianthis megalopalpa Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
Pseudosparianthis picta Simon, 1887 – Brazil, Guyana
Pseudosparianthis ravida Simon, 1898 – St. Vincent

See also
 List of Sparassidae species

References

Araneomorphae genera
Sparassidae
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America

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'Operation CARE' helps Afghan children
By Pvt. Tamara Gabbard , CJTF-101
Afghan children from a school in Bagram show off some of the shoes that they recieved during a visit from volunteer service members with Operation CARE.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (May 28, 2008) – Service members here care for the future of a free and democratic Afghanistan, and a peaceful and nurturing environment for Afghan children, by distributing donated items to local youth.
Operation CARE, a BAF-based humanitarian effort, was created in May 2006 and strives to "win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people – one child at a time."
Three times a week, volunteers sort and distribute numerous items, donated from all over the U.S. and parts of Europe, to Afghan youth.
"The volunteers give a lot of their free time," said Navy Lt. Sara A. O'Neil, Judge Advocate General officer and Operation CARE's president. "Giving their time to this organization is a very selfless thing."
Common donations include clothing, candy, toys, shoes and school supplies. According to O'Neil, the donations have impacted people's lives.
"It's amazing when you see the reactions of the kids," she said. "They really grab onto the gifts and smile and seem to be so happy with all they have been given."
In addition to distributing goods to the people of Afghanistan, the operation has extended its outreach to support service members stationed at forward operation bases in remote areas by providing them with comfort items and amenities, which are not always readily available in isolated areas.
Highly inconvenient and irregularly scheduled flights used to be the only means of getting supplies to these areas. Now, a travelling chaplain delivers 10 to 15 boxes per week.
Capt. Anthony S. Kazarnowicz, known by many as "Father K," began taking items to service members when he would go on missions to such areas.
The service members receiving Father K's boxes have sometimes not been in contact with anyone from the outside for long periods of time, said O'Neil. Many times they do not even have post exchanges, she said.
"In bringing packages to the service members, we show them that we care very much for them," said Kazarnowicz. "We do not want them to be without any of the basic necessities that we ourselves have."
The success of the program hinges on dedicated men and women, who work behind the scenes to ensure its success, said Kazarnowicz.
"To those who prepare and send packages, I say thank you very much," continued Kazarnowicz. "Even more important than the contents of the boxes is the awareness that someone back in the states took the time to care."
For more information, visit http://www.operation-care.net


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Q: VBA Excel Cell to File Export Including Emotes I'm trying to export a Cell to a Text file.
but the Cell also includes Emotes.

 This is a Test

I have tried the following simple VBA Script (mapped to a button):
Sub CelltoFile()

Dim myFile As String
Dim strTemp As String

myFile = "C:\tmp\test.txt"

Range("O17").Select

strTemp = ActiveCell.Value

Open myFile For Output As #1

Print #1, strTemp

Close #1
MsgBox ("The data has been exported to txt!!!.")
MsgBox strTemp

End Sub

But when testing, all the Emotes have been replaced with Question Marks.

??? This is a Test ???

I have a similar script that Copies the Cell to Clipboard, and this works - in respect that it includes the emotes when I manually paste into a text tile.  However, I have also tried using this script to "GetFromClipboard" and save into a text file, but I get the same results as above.
Any Help? Ideas? Can it even be done?
EDIT:
Thanks to Panagiotis Kanavos for that answer.!
Your a super Star
For reference (if someone should stumble across this), the final code I used is this:
Sub CelltoFile()

Dim myFile As String
Dim strTemp As String
Dim fsT As Object
Set fsT = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")

myFile = "C:\tmp\test.txt"

Range("O17").Select

strTemp = ActiveCell.Value

fsT.Type = 2 'Specify stream type - we want To save text/string data.
fsT.Charset = "utf-8" 'Specify charset For the source text data.
fsT.Open 'Open the stream And write binary data To the object
fsT.WriteText strTemp
fsT.SaveToFile myFile, 2 'Save binary data To disk

MsgBox ("The data has been exported to txt!!!.")

End Sub

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LOCATION: Bert Martin Tennis Complex – Winter Park, Fla.
RECAP: Men's Tennis falls to Rollins 4-0 Thursday afternoon (March 14).
Rollins took the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles matches by matching 6-2 scores to take the doubles points.
The Tars then posted straight-set wins at the one, four and six positions to close out the match.
Northwood did win the opening set at two of the three matches that were halted when the team result was decided.
The Timberwolves will conclude their spring trip when take on Millersville Friday (March 15).


With disabled people at the very heart of our work, we use feedback from the people who use our wheelchairs to inform our future projects.
Our design team constantly strives to advance our models, ensuring our products continue to change – and save – lives all over the globe. With disabled people at the very heart of our work, we gather invaluable feedback from people who use our wheelchairs on a daily basis and use it to inform future projects.
It is with the help of this feedback that we are proud to unveil our latest wheelchair model.
This new concept is based on feedback from wheelchair users themselves, project staff and partner organisations who suggested that folding wheelchairs bring additional benefits and independence to users. Not only are they easier to take on public transport, but they are also better for storing where there is limited space.
We know that our iconic Rough Terrain wheelchair has been a crucial part of independence for many disabled people living in developing countries. Its unique three-wheel design enables the user to propel over uneven ground with ease.
So, we have taken the best components of our Rough Terrain wheelchair and, with the feedback in mind, created a new version that folds. This new wheelchair model will mean greater independence for those who want to travel long distances. It will navigate broken pavements, bumpy roads and grassy verges – before folding up neatly on buses and trams!
This new product was made possible by funding from the Conran Foundation and is being trialled in Colombia, thanks to our partner – the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
As well as road-testing the wheelchair in a challenging environment, we will also test for comfort, fit and function. We will work with 20 disabled people with a variety of conditions, some of whom will be existing users of Motivation three wheeler products and some who will be first time users of a wheelchair. By testing on a range of people we aim to develop an understanding of different user needs and feedback as well as gain a clear evaluation of how the new folding wheelchair compares to the standard Rough Terrain.
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BMG became the first of the five major music companies to license SunnComm's MediaMax CD copy-protection technology for use on commercial CDs.
BMG declined to say when MediaMax CDs would be available in the United States, but a spokesman said, "We feel the MediaMax CD-3 technology is at a level suitable for the consumer market."
BMG previously licensed SunnComm's technology for use on promotional discs distributed in the U.S. The company, however, hasn't marketed copy-protected discs to U.S. consumers.
Macrovision, SunnComm's main rival in CD copy protection, said the announcement underscores growing momentum in the U.S. music industry for copy-protected CDs. "The tide has turned," said Macrovision marketing VP Adam Sexton. He expects "major commercial releases" in the U.S. of copy-protected CDs in the "hundreds of thousands" by Christmas. Many of them will use Macrovision's latest technology, CDS-300, he predicted. Deployment will grow more widespread in 2004, he continued.
Phoenix-based SunnComm bills its MediaMax CD-3 solution as a "new approach to reducing casual piracy." SunnComm's technology, like Macrovision's CDS-300, blocks PC playback of a disc's Redbook CD audio tracks, but through a PC's standard Windows Media player, it lets PCs play compressed Windows Media Audio (WMA) files that also reside on the disc. The technology can also be used in conjunction with Microsoft's digital rights management (DRM) technology to give copyright holders the option of letting PC users transfer the compressed WMA files to their PC's hard drive. Users could even be allowed to transfer the WMA files to portable devices supporting WMA's codec and DRM technology.
Authentication technologies would prevent the sharing of usable files through file-sharing programs such as Morpheus.
SunnComm said its technology also gives copyright holders the option of letting users e-mail WMA-format songs to friends who could play them for a limited period or for a certain number of times.
BMG declined to say which MediaMax features it would implement in commercial releases.
Previous copy-protection technologies prevented PCs from playing music CDs, or they let PCs play only the compressed music files that accompanied the disc's Redbook audio tracks. In either case, they prohibited transfers of music to a PC's hard drive and to portable devices.
The first discs available with those technologies admittedly suffered from compatibility problems with standard CD and DVD players, Sexton said, but the technologies have progressed, and "there have been very few complaints," he claimed.
In the U.S., Sexton noted, Universal used an earlier generation Macrovision technology, CDS-200, in less than a million commercial releases as a test, and consumer complains were "very few."
BMG Launches Copy-Protected CD In U.S.


I was driving a lorry when my two rear wheels came off. Just wondering what fine will I get people say a may get a ban for having a dangerous vehicle?
Yes you may be at risk of a discretionary ban. This will be treated as a very serious incident.
You may be able to avoid the ban/points if you were not responsible for maintenance of the vehicle?
Have you got a court summons for this? If so what's the hearing date? Tell me more. Have you got any points already?


We celebrate Valentine's Day in a different way in preschool! No chocolate for us! Mrs. Vowles and Mrs. Schoon made pancakes shaped like HEARTS! Then we all sat down and ate. We also had sausage and strawberries, and syrup of course! It was fun getting out our kid sized pitchers for some water when we were thirsty! We LOVE pouring from our pitchers! Great fun was had by all!
An Adventure at the Post Office!
It was awesome going to the Southfield Post Office to buy a real stamp and mail the hug Valentines we made for a special someone! First we had to get there! Even though it was really snowing, we got on the little yellow bus a few at a time, because we need to stay quiet in the post office! When we got there, we waited quietly in line for our turn to buy our stamp.
When we each got our turn at the desk, we picked out which stamp we wanted, put it on our envelope in the right place, and paid for it!
Then it was time to mail our card!
The post office was so happy to have us there that we even took a picture with the Postmaster! Bye Southfield Post Office! See you next year!


According of a recent report on Bloomberg, HTC is said to be "shut out" of the introduction of a Microsoft Windows 8 or Windows RT powered tablet. According to the article, Microsoft locked out HTC from the "development" of Windows 8/Windows RT tablets because "HTC doesn't sell enough devices or have experience making tablets". While Frank Shaw, a spokesman for Microsoft, said in an E-Mail statement that "HTC is a strong partner now and for the future", he declined to discuss specifics. In the meantime, Sally Julien, a U.S.-based spokeswoman at HTC said in an E-Mail, that "HTC intends to support future versions of Windows and isn't commenting on the details of its product plans".
It's really hard to believe that Microsoft cuts off HTC from Windows 8 and Windows RT developments, as said in the Bloomberg article. Maybe they were cut off from initial commercialization but not from development. First of all, HTC is still a strong and important Microsoft supported and I'm sure they have access to all tools which are required to develop a tablet, doesn't matter if Windows 8 or Windows RT. Second, HTC sells more devices that Microsoft's premium partner Nokia, even if the majority of devices are running Android. Last but not least, Nokia has also not a proofed track-record for building Windows-based tablets. In the past, the Finns only introduced one Netbook which ran Windows and that PC was everything but successful as sources told me at that time.
For me it looks more like HTC has lost a little bit the interest in tablets. So far, the Taiwanese have only introduced two Android tablets, the HTC Flyer and the HTC Jetstream but both devices are over a year old and HTC never released any followers. Therefore I would imagine, that HTC put all tablet experiments on hold, especially the experiments with a yet to be released OS which needs to prove first that it will be a success.
UPDATE 07.06.12: HTC just send us a statement where it highlights that "HTC has sold more than 40 million Windows Phones over the last ten years and we are committed to future versions of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform more than ever".
Sure HTC is committed, I think there were no doubts. However, since Microsoft has not yet said that Windows RT is part of the Windows Phone family but rather part of the Windows 8 family, I wonder what HTC wants to tell us with this statement? But maybe it's just me who reads too much between the lines.


In this original and perceptive study, Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites' preeminent position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms and rituals – helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership. In the postwar era, traditionalism began to play a new role: it became a weapon which the Malay aristocracy employed to resist British plans for a Malayan Union and to neutralise the challenge coming groups representing a more radical, democratic perspective and even hijacking their themes.
Leading this conservative struggle was Dato Onn bin Jaafar, who not only successfully helped shape Malay opposition to the Malayan Union but was also instrumental in the creation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that eventually came to personify an 'acceptable Malay nationalism'. Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya is an important contribution to the history of colonial Malaya and, more generally, to the history of ideas in late colonial societies.
Donna J. Amoroso taught in Ohio and Tokyo, was editor of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, ran the academic writing programme of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, and co-wrote State and Society in the Philippines with her husband Patrick Abinales.


Makes you wonder how we got where we are today, except that the evidence is everywhere. You just have to know where to look.
At the same time hundreds of thousands of voters are at risk for disenfranchisement thanks to Arizona's Maricopa County and others, and the state of Texas, where talk of secession is out in the open again, we've moved back 50 years to a time when there were still "whites only" water fountains.
Want an interesting insight into what Arizona's like these days? Have a look at the articles posted here.
Arizona Republic might be a liberal paper in a strictly conservative state (or not), but it seems to me that our country is suffering from a mad swing between conservative, moderate and liberal that looks more like the Sword of Damocles than a pendulum. At any moment, with enough provocation, we could find ourselves in the second Civil War.
Perhaps that's too alarmist, but with petitions all around Maryland requesting secession over the fair-and-square re-election of President Obama, and the recent declaration by the standing Majority Leader that nothing will change, we are working rapidly toward a boil-over.
We're not just a country of red and blue states. The mix is far more purple, when there's anything to show at all. The image separates blue and red by counts of one dot for ever 100 voters (either blue or red). There's an awful lot of "white" space in this map, though. The Electoral College, for all its faults, does fairly well with restricting the representative vote to the number of voters in each state. Popularity contest aside, it's a sad thing when what was good for Bush isn't good for Obama.
I've heard from more than one Tea Party voter that Obama's majority does not represent a mandate. Even Obama himself says this. But others aren't so sure. John Nichols of The Nation lays out the comparisons between Obama and Bush, and of their predecessors where a majority was clear. No matter how nasty the taste might be, there is no question who won the election, and talk now of secession smacks much more of sour grapes than of any meaningful discussion regarding infringement of rights.
Jim Wright, of Stonekettle Station (a blog EVERYONE should read immediately), gets it right again. Folks had better simmer down before they start something they're going to regret.


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Androscoggin County Law Library to pack up its books
By Daniel Hartill, Staff Writer
AUBURN — Row upon row of publicly owned, bound and cataloged legal books — the Androscoggin County Law Library's decades-old collection — might soon be going to the dump.
The reason is money and changing habits.
"It's hard for me to believe because, 20 years ago, this was a very vibrant operation," Maine Court Administrator James Glessner said. "There were very active law libraries in each of the 16 county courthouses. The problem has been money to keep up with the books and the advent of technology."
And they won't be missed.
"A lot of those books are out of date and obsolete and probably haven't been opened in 40 years," said John Clifford, a Lisbon lawyer who serves as president of the Androscoggin County Bar Association. "They're just taking up space."
The county library is in a grand room on the second floor of the Androscoggin County Courthouse. The room is bright, with high ceilings and skylights.
It also has some empty space, which has been taken over by the Superior Court as a kind of overflow courtroom.
"The plan is to make it an honest-to-goodness courtroom," Clifford said. "There's just not a lot of space in Superior Court, given the caseload."
And research is being done elsewhere.
"Frankly, when it comes to legal research these days, everything is done online," he said.
Before personal computers and the Internet, the libraries were a necessary part of the legal profession. Every county had a library that maintained updated statutes and case law. Keeping everything current was done at extraordinary cost because the laws change every year, Glessner said. State law required every county to maintain a law library and make it available to the public.
Then, federal and state courts moved online.
In 2011, the Maine Legislature removed the law library mandate. Soon, the libraries started closing. Courthouses in Houlton, Ellsworth and elsewhere reduced their collections to a shelf of books and a couple of computer terminals, Glessner said.
Some will stay. The state adopted a hub system of libraries, choosing to support and maintain three libraries with a combination of state and private money. They are the Nathan & Henry B. Cleaves Law Library in Portland, the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor and the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library in the State House in Augusta.
The rest will likely go.
Franklin and Oxford counties both have law libraries, but they are seldom used.
Glessner said he didn't know when Androscoggin's library would formally close or what exactly will happen to its books.
However, he said other counties have tried selling the volumes with little luck.
"The books themselves really have no monetary value," he said. And they really shouldn't be trusted.
"If they are not up to date, it is actually kind of dangerous for someone to rely on them," he said.
Clifford, who has served as a lawyer in Androscoggin County for eight years, has never looked up a case or a statute in its library.
"I've never seen anybody go over and use it," he said.
Androscoggin County Courthouse, auburn maine