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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Fighting between Israel and Gaza militants raged on Monday despite claims of
new cease-fire efforts as hundreds of Israelis living in communities near the coastal strip were fleeing
their homes following a deadly mortar attack over the weekend.
what is effectively the government's first large-scale voluntary evacuation effort in the nearly eight
weeks of fighting.
There has so far been no end in sight to the war, which has already killed more than 2,100 Palestinians
since the fighting erupted on July 8. On the Israeli side, 68 people have been killed, all but four of
them soldiers. At least seven Palestinians were reported killed in new airstrikes Monday, and at least
60 rockets were fired from Gaza onto Israel.
The latest escalation in the conflict erupted last week after a six-day temporary truce collapsed. Hamas
spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said there were new efforts underway Monday to reach an extended cease-fire
agreement, but neither side seemed to be easing its attacks.
While the Israeli public has widely supported Israel's campaign to halt rocket attacks out of Gaza, the
government has come under criticism for its inability to stop the fire and anger has risen, especially
following the death of a 4-year-old boy who was killed Friday when a Palestinian mortar landed in Nahal
Oz, a kibbutz near the Gaza border.
Israel's air raid sirens and rocket-defense system are ill equipped to deal with mortar fire, which is
fired from short ranges, giving little time for people to scramble for cover.
"It looks like we will not return to Nahal Oz, no way," Gila Tragerman, the mother of the
Israeli boy killed in the mortar attack, told Army Radio on Monday.
Livnat Ginzbourg, a spokeswoman for Israeli communities along the Gaza border, said some 100 families
were leaving their homes on Monday, following a similar number the previous day.
It is another major exodus of residents during the fighting. Many people fled last month after the
discovery of Hamas tunnels that had been burrowed into Israel. Residents were encouraged to return home
after Israel said it destroyed the tunnels and a preliminary truce was reached.
Ginzbourg said some families had stayed in Israeli government-funded accommodations during the recent
war, but Monday's evacuation was the first time the government was coordinating and financing temporary
accommodation for all families wishing to flee. She estimated that 70 to 80 percent of residents in
communities closest to the Gaza border have fled, mostly families with young children.
Defense Ministry spokesman Jonathan Mosery said it was not a mandatory evacuation, but the government was
assisting Israelis who live up to five kilometers (3 miles) from the Gaza border, paying for them to
stay at youth hostels and other accommodations in areas farther away.
The need to uproot families yet again, just days before the start of the school year, has led to
widespread exasperation.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli residents of the Gaza border area,
saying the government would "do our utmost to help you through these difficult days" and
promising an "extraordinary package of assistance for your communities."
The Israeli military said it carried out at least 16 airstrikes on Gaza early Monday, targeting a mosque
it said was used to store weapons and another it said militants used as a meeting point.
The military also said that Palestinian militants from the densely populated strip fired at least 60
rockets into Israel on Monday. Three rockets were intercepted midair and the others landed in open
Palestinian health officials said seven people were killed, including a 42-year woman who was killed by
tank fire in northern Gaza.
The latest exchanges came a day after Netanyahu warned that the Israeli military campaign in Gaza could
go into September.
Since the fighting began, Israel has launched some 5,000 airstrikes at Gaza and bombarded targets with
tank and artillery fire, while Gaza militants have fired close to 4,000 rockets and mortars, according
to the Israeli military.
The Gaza war stems from the abduction and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank by Hamas
operatives in June, which triggered a massive Israeli arrest campaign in the West Bank, followed by an
increase in rocket fire from Gaza. In an apparent revenge attack, a Palestinian youth was seized and
slain in early July.
Israel first launched an air campaign July 8, then sent in ground troops nine days later. It says it is
targeting sites linked to militants, including rocket launchers, command centers and weapons depots. The
U.N. says about 75 percent of the Palestinians killed have been civilians.
Several rounds of indirect talks in Cairo between Israel and a Palestinian delegation that included Hamas
have collapsed, along with temporary cease-fires that accompanied them.
In the West Bank Monday, hospital officials and relatives said 14-year-old Hassan Ashour died from his
wounds after being shot Friday near the West Bank city of Nablus by Israeli troops clashing with
rock-throwing demonstrators protesting Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
Estrin reported from Jerusalem.
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People compile church and community cookbooks for many reasons: to preserve favorite recipes, for fund-raising purposes, to help community members get to know each other better, etc. But I must admit that I was surprised when the preface in a hundred-year-old church cookbook promised to make readers' husbands "contented" men.
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That was most amusing. I have a few church cookbooks, and all were fund raisers. My husband says he is more than satisfied with my cooking, but I don't think I've ever tried a recipe from those books.
It sounds like you don't need those recipes- Your repertoire of recipes is more than adequate. 🙂
I think this is charming and an old-fashioned delight!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I liked it, too.
That generation worked hard, played hard and ate well. Something we should learn from them.
I agree!
I guess I'll give up on learning Greek and start cooking!
Too late for me–little did I know being fluent in Greek would not save my marriage! 🙂
🙂 Remember the old saying about food being the way to a man's heart. It feels dated today, but people probably believed it back then.
Well…when I was dating my husband, a home cooked meal lured him to my apartment on a week night!
I was tickled by the note that this wasn't "a haphazard collection of recipes, gathered at random." I've had a couple of those books, and while they may have helped raise funds, they weren't particularly useful in the kitchen. Sometimes, I think they include everyone's recipes just to be sure no one is insulted!
I think that the people who compile these types of cookbooks sometimes struggle to get enough recipes–and beg people to provide a recipe, any recipe; though I must admit that I enjoy church cookbooks. Many cooks take pride in providing their favorite recipes in these types of books.
I like to change that phrase about contented men . My hubby loves to cook,so it is a real treat when his work gives him time to cook.. oh he hums while he cooks. :)Then I'm the contented lady! The kitchen may be a mess, but that's something that soon can taken care of. Interesting preface … my grandma always said a way to a mans heart was his belly..😀
I have similar memories of people saying that the way to a man's heart was through this stomach.
Living in Devon, England, I found your blog when I wanted to find something to do with a tree full of crab apples earlier this year. I've been following you since, and love your posts. Thank you! Wow, doesn't this show how times have changed?!
Thanks for taking a few moments to write this note. I have a lot of fun doing this blog, and it's always wonderful to hear when someone enjoys it.
Oh, I suspect that was pretty common–the way to a man's heart and all that. hahaha I think it's pretty cool that they make a real point of saying how much care went into this collection. As if a lot of other, say, church recipe books might be cheating people because the ladies don't divulge their best recipes ;).
They definitely took pride in the cookbook they had compiled – or maybe they thought that a preface that promised a lot would improve sales. 🙂
Haha, well, that is the cynical version! 😉
This was enticing, Sheryl, so now we need some examples of just what those Tried and True recipes were that had men preferring eating over wives who spoke Greek.
Well, I have to answer myself here, Sheryl–there are so many terms in the section on bread that without you to translate for modern cooks, pretty sure it would take a lot of effort to produce any of these recipes. Who knew you needed yeast foam and a sponge to make bread?
I haven't yet felt quite adventuresome enough to try any recipes that call for yeast foam and sponge, but maybe someday. 🙂 In general, I've found bread recipes to be difficult to translate for modern cooks because yeast has changed so much over the past hundred years. Back then people often made their own yeast or bought yeast cakes. (Instant yeast was not yet available.)
I've only made a few recipes out of this cookbook, but one I liked (and posted) was Fried Asparagus. It seemed surprisingly modern.
It doesn't surprise me at all to have that reference. Women were supposed to be housewives and please their man back then.
Yes, I'm sure you are right. Women did not have very many options back then
I love reading these vintage words!
It's nice to hear that you enjoyed this post.
I love church cookbooks, Sheryl. They always have the best recipes! There are so many men who do the cooking in the family these days, there needs to be a church cookbook geared toward them. Sadly, I didn't end up with one of those cooking men though!
BTW, my Alaska book – Coffee-Drunk or Blind published on Amazon this week in print and Kindle! (Shameless plug, but I wanted you to know) ~Elle
Congrats on the book! I've so enjoyed reading about a few of your family's adventures on your blog. It's exciting that the whole story is now available for us to read.
Thanks Sheryl. It was a long journey getting to the end. Glad it's finally done. Wishing you and your family Happy Holidays! I'm sure you will be whipping up some of these great recipes!
I love church cookbooks, too (and church tag sales even more!) The 100-year-old message to please your man with your cooking does not really surprise me. Some people still believe this (and more frightening things that women should or shouldn't do). I still enjoy seeing your posts in my mailbox! Have a happy holiday, Sheryl!
It doesn't surprise me either, though I try to contextualize it in my mind. I've really enjoyed getting to know you over the past few years. I hope that you also have a wonderful holiday season.
I think we are all contented after a good meal, whoever prepares it. 😀
I agree! 🙂
Sometimes I find myself nostalgic for "the good old days" and then I read something like the line about contented husbands, and remember that they weren't always all that good! In many ways, we have come a long way, and I'm thankful for that. Still, I do love old things….
We have come a long way. I want to think that life was simpler a hundred years ago, and it's easy to look at the past through rose-colored lenses, yet it's important to recognize that there were some things that made life difficult back then and as well as some things that were downright terrible.
While I'm grateful for the rights I have as an American woman, I do think a byproduct of these rights is that many husbands and wives no longer care about pleasing the other, but rather more about pleasing themselves. I guess it's complicated…
Life is complicated sometimes. . .

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By Elizabeth Landau, CNN
A whole lot of science is about to hit your Twitter feeds, with #AAASmtg.
This weekend is the world's largest general science conference, where up to 11,000 scientists, journalists, educators and general fans of science are descending upon the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. It's the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, and it's a total paradise for a science writer.
For me, having attended the meeting since 2009, it feels a little like college. During the day, in the sessions and press briefings, it is as though we journalists are in "class" together, taking notes for our deadline-driven assignments. Then, in the evenings, we schmooze and catch up on our lives, having made connections already in social media or during other science conventions or fellowships.
This is where you might pick up some Twitter followers, get ideas for future collaborations and hear the adorable foreign accent behind a byline you respect.
Like college students, we are all trying to figure out who we are and why we are here. But this time, I mean that in the broadest sense possible: What is the universe made of and how did individual components come together to create the world that we see today?
"It's just one of the things that distinguishes humanity, that we can actually answer questions that are deep and fundamental, make predictions and do science, and that it actually works," said "Knocking on Heaven's Door" author Lisa Randall, a professor at Harvard University who will be speaking at the conference, told me for a recent article.
Last year, I learned about how scientists are trying to create a meatlesss burger and how cat poo relates to marine life, among other things. I also met renowned primatologist Frans de Waal, with whom I followed up later to produce this piece on chimpanzee fairness and morality.
Follow along at @CNNLightYears for some of the interesting things I'll come across this weekend.
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Reuters Social Media Editor Federally Indicted for Allegedly Collaborating With Anonymous
Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor at Reuters, was federally indicted today for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous to deface various news sites run by the Tribune Company, one of Keys's former employers. If convicted, Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.
The indictment alleges the incident occurred shortly after Keys was fired from Sacramento's local news station, KTXL, which is owned by the Tribune Company. According to the release from the Department of Justice, in December 2010, two months after his termination from KTXL, Keys gained access to an Anonymous chat room and proceeded to provide the group with passwords to Tribune's computer system:
Keys identified himself on an Internet chat forum as a former Tribune Company employee and provided members of Anonymous with a login and password to the Tribune Company server. After providing log-in credentials, Keys allegedly encouraged the Anonymous members to disrupt the website. According to the indictment, at least one of the computer hackers used the credentials provided by Keys to log into the Tribune Company server, and ultimately that hacker made changes to the web version of a Los Angeles Times news feature.
The indictment further alleges that Keys had a conversation with the hacker who claimed credit for the defacement of the Los Angeles Times website. The hacker allegedly told Keys that Tribune Company system administrators had thwarted his efforts and locked him out. Keys allegedly attempted to regain access for that hacker, and when he learned that the hacker had made changes to a Los Angeles Times page, Keys responded, "nice."
Heres a screen grab of the "hack" on the Los Angeles Times' web page, via Reddit.
Huffington Post has the full court document, but here's part of the alleged chat room conversations between Keys – screenname AESCracked – and members of Anonymous.
Keys has long been on the record about his interactions with Anonymous during that time period; shortly after Gawker published an article exposing several Anonymous chat logs – an article to which Keys provided some information – Keys addressed the issue in a post on his Tumblr, writing:
I provided Gawker with just one of dozens of logs that were taken during my two-month access to top level hackers within Anonymous. In addition to providing Gawker with one log,I provided the PBS NewsHour with a record back in December.
I identified myself as a journalist during my interaction with the top-level Anonymous hackers and at no time did I offer said individuals any agreement of confidentiality. In fact, I asked several of them for their feelings should they be exposed. They seemed, by and large, indifferent.
But, as Ryan Broderick at Buzzfeed was the first to note, four days after that post notorious Anonymous hacker Sabu claimed Keys was involved with the defacement of the Los Angeles Times' website.
http://tinyurl.com/mattkeysexposed AESCracked/Matt Keys was former producer for Tribune sites. Gave full control of LATimes.com to hackers.
— The Real Sabu (@anonymouSabu) March 22, 2011
It's not clear how long Keys knew about the indictment, but it appears he knew the announcement was happening today. Gizmodo interviewed someone who reportedly spoke with Keys last night via Gchat. Here's a transcript of that conversation:
Keys: I don't even know if I have much longer here
Me: Why do you say that
Keys: Think my days are numbers
Me: ? Getting fired or going elsewhere?
Keys: Probably being let go
Me: WTF FOR
Keys: Dunno. Just a feeling I have.
Keys: Let's talk more about it when I'm not at work
Me: Don't be paranoid
Keys: I'm not being paranoid.
Keys, who had been tweeting as usual up to the announcement, went quiet for over an hour after the DOJ released their statement, before returning to Twitter to retweet two stories, one about 401k plans and the second about his own indictment.
Deputy Reuters editor indicted for conspiring with hacker group Anonymous, Justice Department announces - @politico politi.co/12TS2g6
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) March 14, 2013
Keys didn't reply to a request for comment. According to Politico, a spokesperson for Reuters said they were investigating the allegations; the spokesperson was also quick to point out the alleged incident occurred over a year before Keys became a Reuters employee.
UPDATE: Shortly after this post was published, Key addressed the issue via Twitter:
I am fine. I found out the same way most of you did: From Twitter. Tonight I'm going to take a break. Tomorrow, business as usual.
— Matthew Keys (@TheMatthewKeys) March 14, 2013


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Living in DC and taking the metro regularly provides me with ample fodder for social analysis and ample opportunities to be upset and amazed by humanity. For example, I get upset when able-bodied people see disabled, elderly, or pregnant people standing and sit in their seats anyway. Especially while pregnant, I spoke up very loudly (ex. As able-bodied men crowded on an elevator as I waddled to catch the door for a man in a wheelchair. I stared everyone down and said someone needs to get off so he can get on; we were obliged begrudgingly.). I am amazed when folks step in and help someone in need during an emergency.
An issue of growing contention in my neck of the woods is middle and high school students getting onto crowded trains. They are loud and there is often cursing involved. However, I have noticed that most of the adults regard them in a very unfriendly way or simply ignore them. The local listservs I am a member of are far worse; the disdain for these children is palpable and I have had to step in several times when the racism and classism became unbearable as well-to-do grown folks called children thugs, crooks, and goons. It literally hurts my heart!
I personally make it a point to acknowledge these teenagers every chance I get with a smile or a hello; sometimes I'm ignored or begrudgingly acknowledged, but oftentimes you can tell these young people relish the positive attention and are surprised to have been seen. I remind myself regularly that they are someone's baby no matter how "hard" they are appearing to be. No matter how many tattoos they may have on their young skin. No matter how many curse words they and their friends yell. And I try to remember that someday my little Zo will be one of these students taking the train and I hope that others will treat him well knowing that he too is someone's baby. My husband and I are well-read in the studies that show that Black boys like my Zo are seen as being older than they are by the majority and less innocent than they are by police (see FURTHER READING below). We know the sickening statistics of disproportionate violence against boys that look like him. We pray that folks will remember these children are someone's baby and that he is ours.
To bring it back home to the DC metro, the other day on the train a handsome young man with beautifully styled locs and sagging skinny-jeans and a uniform high school shirt entered the train with a young woman I assume was his girlfriend. His new-aged rap music (the kind old hip-hop heads like me can't understand and abhor due to the crazy amounts of auto-tune) was blasting. Adults bristled. Some sucked their teeth. He walked on the train and I smiled at him, he was visibly surprised, smiled back sweetly and sat directly behind me. Every other word of his song was f--- this and blast that. I turned and said as gently and respectfully as I could "Sweetheart, don't you have headphones or something? My old ears just cannot take all of that cursing." He said quickly "Ohhhhh my bad! My headphones broke and I don't have another pair, My bad!!!" I pulled out a set of headphones from my bag and said "here, you can have these!" He smiled and said "For real?!? You serious?!? Thank you so much!" And just like that - connection. Respect. Compassion. His mama would be happy.
It could have ended differently. Someone else could have started cursing at him. He could have rebuffed my offer and cussed me out. But it ended wonderfully. And I modeled appropriate, compassionate behavior for children and adults alike.
I exited the train at my stop and wished him and his lady a good day and he did so too.


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It's been six months since 22-year-old Marco Mendez was killed, and his mother still finds it hard to believe it's real.
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Marco's family and friends gathered at his grave for a memorial Monday night. Amid the crowd were his two young sons and his girlfriend, who is pregnant with his third son.
"I want justice for our kids. We were supposed to grow old. He wasn't supposed to die at 22," Jennifer Colon said.
Marco was beaten to death outside a party in Stuart in late March. Investigators said they believe they know who killed him, but no charges have been filed.
"It's frustrating, because I don't see how it can possibly be that you kill somebody and just get away with it," Diana said.
According to investigators, Marco was in a fight with one person, and they don't know who started the fight and don't know if the killing was self-defense.
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Ben Fathi, VP of Development in Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division, says that the next version of Windows (which may or may not be codenamed "Vienna") is coming at the close of 2009. Fathi's comments came at last week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, but the real story isn't the shipping target that the mainstream newswires are fixating on. We all know that those dates are meaningless.
Instead, Fathi's hint at what Microsoft has planned for the future is far more juicy. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," Fathi said according to InfoWorld. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."
Fathi's hint that Microsoft is considering "hypervisors" echoes similar claims we've been hearing from sources about the future of Windows and really stands out as leading candidate for a significant new OS "feature." Nothing is set in stone right now, and Fathi clearly implies that going hypervisor is just one option. What could Microsoft hope to gain by bringing this level of virtualization to the desktop?
OS-level virtualization such as that found with Virtual PC or Parallels for OS X is great for allowing users to run other operating systems or setup development environments. Virtualization applications effectively keep those guest operating systems in a sandbox, making it impossible for them to damage the host OS. Also great, you can abuse a guest OS and yet it is as good as new the next time you want to run it.
OS-level virtualization solutions aren't perfect, though. Performance for certain kinds of tasks is lacking, especially with accelerated graphics and intensive I/O such as hard disk use. This is why solutions that run on top of an OS are losing the server virtualization war: better performance can be had by virtualizing the hardware directly, rather than the host OS's resources.
Often called "full virtualization," this runs directly on the hardware in question and virtualizes it, providing a common hardware base to all operating environments running atop that virtualized hardware. The virtualization software is designed to handle hardware arbitration and optimize resource sharing, and that's basically it. This allows for considerably improved performance, and both AMD and Intel are working hard to promote this kind of virtualization in Pacifica and Vanderpool, respectively.
By bringing full virtualization to the desktop operating environment, Microsoft could accomplish two rather lofty goals. First, virtualization is ideal for keeping one user from ruining or dominating any particular system while giving them near-full access to that same system. This would be a boon for multi-user systems such as the PC that's shared by a family or a business. In fact, much like "profiles" can move around an Active Directory environment today, with full virtualization, a complete "system" could follow you around, provided a minimum standard of hardware be met. Even better, system maintenance and patching could be standardized in mixed-hardware environments.
Second, Microsoft could use a virtualization environment to start digging the graves of older Windows applications. It seems like it was only yesterday that Apple cut the cord on the original Mac OS and headed into completely new waters with Mac OS X. Unquestionably, the strategy paid dividends for Apple. Mac OS X is fast, secure, very scriptable, and some people even like using it. While the jump to OS X did come with plenty of sad moments, one of them wasn't kissing OS 9 goodbye. By relegating OS 9 to a "classic emulator" and trapping it in a sandbox, Apple could focus entirely on the future with OS X. Just as important, application developers could see the writing on the wall: its was time to get with the program and get moving code to the newer, superior Cocoa and Carbon frameworks. If they didn't, they risked being left behind..
Microsoft, too, needs to make a break with the past, and virtualization is probably the best way to begin to do it. A full virtualization solution in 2009 could be robust enough to handle legacy code, perhaps even gaming applications, on x86 hardware. The technology is shaping up, and we have high hopes that hardware-level acceleration for graphics will be virtualized soon. Intel's next generation of hardware virtualization technology, Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d), should make this possible.
It's no secret that one of Microsoft's most formidable challenges is dealing with backwards compatibility. I do consulting for IT shops that still rely on applications and services that are more than 20 years old (and in the world of Windows, that is a long time). I've met gamers who have no intention of giving up their favorite DirectX 7 games. A full virtualization solution could allow for high-performance backwards compatibility while still breaking with the past, and let's face it: a truly clean start would be a welcome thing in the world of Windows programming interfaces.
Could it happen by 2009? Probably not, but since when have shipping dates fazed Microsoft? Whatever the case, we know that Microsoft is thinking about full virtualization, and that Fathi even went so far as to suggest that it could be deployed as a "fundamental piece of enabling technology."


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There is nothing more exciting to an author than the day a new book releases to the world. And, today is that day for Linda Broday!
Three Brothers. One Oath.
No Compromises.
The MEN of LEGEND
The Cowboy
One bullet is all it takes to shatter Houston Legend's world. He swore he'd never love again, but with the future of the Lone Star Ranch on the line, he finds himself at the altar promising to love and cherish a woman he's never met-a woman whose vulnerable beauty touches his heart.
All Lara Boone wants is a name for her baby. She never expected to fall in love with her own husband-or any man-after the heartache she's endured. Yet when her troubled past catches up with them, Houston will move heaven and earth to protect his bride…and discover depths to a marriage of convenience neither realized could be theirs.
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"Broday's Westerns always captivate." -RT Book Reviews 4 stars
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The Hsp90-antifungal combo, please: Compromising fungi in the immunocompromised
by Lauren Bertin
[published on the Whitehead Institute website, February 2009]
Even the most drug-resistant fungi can be eradicated in multiple in vitro and in vivo models using a lethal combination of an antifungal agent and inhibition of the heat shock protein Hsp90, according to a new study by Whitehead Institute and University of Toronto researchers. The findings could enable development of novel antifungal therapies for patients with compromised immune systems.
Immunocompromised individuals--including HIV, chemotherapy, and organ transfer patients--with resistant fungal infections suffer mortality rates ranging from 50 to 90 percent.
"Being a pediatric oncologist, I have seen many unfortunate patients die from resistant fungal infections," says Luke Whitesell, a scientist in the lab of Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist. "It's incredibly frustrating to see a child with their cancer in remission being slowly eaten alive by a fungus like Aspergillus, and there's nothing you can do about it."
The development of effective antifungal drugs is limited by humans' close evolutionary relationship with fungi, and, in recent years, fungi's ever-evolving resistance to existing drugs. Former Lindquist postdoctoral researcher and lead author of this study, Leah Cowen, explains: "The drugs just don't wipe out the infection. So you wind up with a small population of fungi living in a host that is exposed to the drug for a long time, which favors evolution of drug resistance."
Previous studies suggested that Hsp90, which is found in both fungi and humans, plays a vital role in the evolution of drug resistance. In this most recent study, which appears in the February 24 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Whitehead researchers tested Hsp90 inhibitors in combination with common antifungal drugs in an attempt to block the growth of Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus, two of the most prevalent and lethal species that cause fungal infections in humans.
The researchers found that when antifungals or Hsp90 inhibitors are used individually, they are ineffective; however, when paired they form a deadly duo.
"When you combine the two, you reduce Hsp90 function enough that the fungi can no longer mount the crucial stress responses to antifungals required for survival," says Cowen. "So you cripple the antifungals required for survival," says Cowen. "So you cripple the fungus by severely compromising its stress responses."
According to Lindquist, "This is an entirely new strategy for making fungi susceptible to preexisting drugs and for preventing fungi from deploying the resistance mechanisms, which they have evolved against those compounds. It could make the difference between life and death."
Because Hsp90 is highly conserved, finding a compound to turn off Hsp90 in fungi, but not in humans, is a significant hurdle scientists must overcome. In addition, current Hsp90 inhibitors are toxic in mice with resistant fungal infections. To find promising Hsp90 inhibitors for antifungal therapy, Lindquist's lab has received a grant from the Molecular Libraries Probe Center Network (MLPCN) Program of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will allow researchers to screen large numbers of compounds in the search for potential fungus-selective Hsp90 inhibitors.
Still, even if the screen is successful, the battle between humans and fungi is not over.
"Eventually, like most drugs, Hsp90 inhibitors too, will become subject to resistance," suggests Lindquist, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of biology at MIT. "But in the meantime, these inhibitors will open a very large window of opportunity for individuals with resistant fungal infections."
This research was supported by Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a Genzyme Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, and a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Grant.***
Susan Lindquist's primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where her laboratory is located and all her research is conducted. She is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.* * *
Full Citation: "Harnessing Hsp90 function as a powerful, broadly effective therapeutic strategy for fungal infectious disease"
PNAS, February 24, 2009
Leah E. Cowen (1), Sheena D. Singh (1), Julia R. Köhler (2), Cahty Collins (1), Aimme K. Zaas (3), Wiley Schell (3), Hamza Aziz (3), Eleftherios Mylonakis (4), John R. Perfect (3,5), Luke Whitesell (6), Susan Lindquist (6)
1. Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
2. Division of Infectious Disease, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
3. Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
4. Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
5. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
6. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.


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its your choice :)
-stick to TheO rules nothing to bad ;)
-make it fun! put an animal or something in there just have fun!!
they will be decided between me and the winners :) i am open for a lot of stuff (i am open to buying and paying for the shipping of any anime thing you want since i have a place near me that sells that kind of anime stuff(within reason though))
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When six-time Hungarian national ski champion Gabor Cseh immigrated to the United States in 1956, he chose to live in Colorado for the opportunities the mountainous state offered in the still-young ski resort industry.
At the time, Interstate 70 did not yet connect the population in Denver to the Western Slope ski areas, but Denver had been recently joined to Boulder via the new turnpike. So Cseh set out to scour the mountains above Boulder, searching for the perfect place to build a new ski area that would have both great terrain and easy access to Denver.
"He found the place above Eldora (townsite) and he just thought this would be the perfect place," said Gabor Cseh's son, Andras Cseh. "There was snow, and it was relatively accessible."
Cseh's vision became a reality in the winter of 1962-63, when Lake Eldora opened for its first day of skiing with two T-bar lifts. This winter — after a handful of ownership turnovers and economic struggles through in the ski area's early decades — the resort is celebrating its 50th birthday.
And while visions for what the resort should be have come and gone through the years, Eldora Mountain Resort today remains true to at least part of Cseh's vision — a place that caters to local skiers.
"We realize exactly what we are," said Jim Spenst, Eldora's current general manager. "And that's a great Front Range ski area that's easily accessible to the Boulder metropolitan area."
A step up from the rope tow
The task of developing the new Lake Eldora ski area was taken on by a group of investors, which included the original landowners, who formed Lake Eldora Corp. And though the layout of the area was largely the design of Gabor Cseh, he ended up being forced out of the ownership group, his son said.
After cutting trails and installing the two T-bars, the ski resort opened during a lackluster winter when snow was slow to fall in the mountains west of Boulder. In fact, relatively dry winters plagued the ski resort — which built a base lodge before its second winter — during its early years, allowing it to open only for about 30 days for multiple seasons in a row.
Still, having a local resort was an exciting development for many Boulderites, including John Waugh, who skied opening day at Eldora when he was about 11 years old. For Waugh, who now works at Eldora as a marketing photographer, the new ski area was far superior to the existing Boulder options.
"My first experience on skis was rope tow in Chautauqua," he said. "My mom used to occasionally take me out of school and we'd go skiing at Chautauqua."
Waugh's memory of Eldora's first day includes being pulled up the slope by a T-bar with too-tight spring tension.
"Halfway up the mountain, it lifted me off the ground and then it twisted and we were pointed in the wrong direction," said Waugh, who was riding with his sister. "When it touched down, it pulled my sister off, but it went up the back of my coat and drug me up the hill."
Even so, he remembers the event affectionately.
"Skiing was different in those days," he said. "There weren't any liability issues. It was a hardy group of people who did it."
Snowmaking and night skiing
Despite the enthusiasm of some local skiers — and the desire of the University of Colorado ski team to train there when there was enough snow on the ground — bad weather and bad management conspired to sink Lake Eldora Corp. It was forced to declare bankruptcy after just a few seasons of operation, according to a history of the ski area compiled by Seth Masia, online editor for the International Skiing History Association.
Eldora was sold to Tell Ertl, a mining engineer with no experience in the ski industry, who immediately went to work making changes to the resort for the 1967-68 season.
"The two innovative things that Tell did was add snowmaking and night skiing," said Rob Linde, Eldora's current marketing director.
At the time, snowmaking at resorts was still rare, but Ertl realized that Eldora needed consistent snow to be successful. Linde said that in the decades since, a focus on great snowmaking has remained a priority for Eldora.
According to an oral history recording with Ertl's wife, Theo, the snowmaking equipment allowed Eldora to stay open for about 150 days in the winter of 1967-68.
Ertl also decided to add the Corona Bowl just a couple of years into his ownership. He slashed all the trees in the zone, blasting out 1,500 stumps, according to a Daily Camera article. But the Corona Bowl, which opened in 1970, ran into problems from the start.
"The backside was just not thought out very well," said Waugh, who worked at Eldora's ski school in the 1970s. "Tell wanted a bowl, so he went out and cut one, and he didn't think about the wind."
The treeless bowl ended up being scoured by the wind, and it also suffered from the fact that it cut into a natural spring near the top, which ended up coating a swath of the bowl in thick ice, Waugh said. (The problem was later fixed with a drainage pipe.)
Ownership turnover
Even with the innovations, Eldora again struggled financially by the late 1970s and early 1980s, due in part to the opening of the Eisenhower Tunnel, which allowed greater access for Front Range skiers to the larger resorts on the other side of the Continental Divide.
Management of Eldora was eventually taken over by O.Z. Minkin in 1985, who turned out to be a long-time fraudster. Minkin's shady financial past caught up with him, and he was indicted on federal fraud charges in Los Angeles and sent to prison for five years, according to the history compiled by Masia. Eldora didn't open at all for the 1986-87 season.
Management of the resort then passed in 1987 to ski industry veteran Andy Daly, who had been running Copper Mountain, and then to Vail Associates two years later. Officials at Vail Associates, like Ertl before them, wanted to build a hotel at the ski resort, but once it became clear that Boulder County wouldn't approve such a development, the resort went back on the market.
In 1991, the resort was sold to the group, including local resident Chuck Lewis, that still owns the area. Over the last 20 years, the group has stabilized Eldora's financial health, shedding any ambitions to turn the resort into an overnight destination and instead plowing its resources into the enterprises that make it appealing as a day area.
"They understand how to operate a ski resort efficiently and what the limits of growth are," said Masia, of the International Skiing History Association. "The big guys got in trouble when they overbuilt."
The formula appears to be working.
"If you're close to a good population center and you have something about the hill that locals love, you can survive on selling lift tickets and hamburgers," Masia said.
One of the things that locals most love about Eldora, in Masia's opinion, is the ski school — especially the setup for beginners and children. Novice terrain is separated from other parts of the mountain, and it's next door to the ski rental area.
Using the existing resources
Eldora has plans for expansion moving forward, but according to Spenst, the manager, those plans are focused on making the resort an even better day area.
In 2011, Eldora filed a new master plan with the U.S. Forest Service that outlines desired upgrades, including replacing old chairlifts, adding new high-speed lifts, opening more terrain and renovating its lodge. Those plans have encountered some opposition from the local Sierra Club chapter and a group of residents in the Eldora townsite, who worry that the expansion will negatively impact the riparian corridor along Middle Boulder Creek and further fragment habitat.
Eldora officials have said they are fully considering the environmental impacts. The U.S. Forest Service will make the final decision on whether the expansion can move forward.
"What we're asking for approvals on is to fully utilize the resources that are right here," said Spenst, noting that part of Eldora's charm its lack of a corporate feel. "We're going after three things: great snow surfaces; friendly, helpful employees; and improving product offerings."
Eldora plans to open this year on Nov. 16 with a 50th anniversary party.
Contact Camera Staff Writer Laura Snider at 303-473-1327 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Andrei Linde, a physics professor at Stanford formed a theory more than 30 years ago.
In the 1980s, he and others worked on the cosmological inflation theory — the idea that the universe grew incredibly fast, in fractions of a second. He learned about it a few days before it was announced to the world from Chao-Lin Kuo, co-leader of a research team.
His reaction is precious. In the video, you see him staggering, shocked that his theory now has proof behind it.
The findings were announced on Monday, by a collaboration that included researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Minnesota, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology and NASA"s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The team plans to submit its conclusions to a scientific journal this week, said its leader, John Kovac of Harvard.
Astronomers scanned about 2 percent of the sky for three years with a telescope at the South Pole, where the air is exceptionally dry.
They were looking for a specific pattern in light waves within the faint microwave glow left over from the Big Bang. The pattern has long been considered evidence of rapid growth, known as inflation. Kovac called it "the smoking-gun signature of inflation."
The researchers say the light-wave pattern was caused by gravitational waves, which are ripples in space and time. If verified, the new work would be the first detection of such waves from the birth of the universe, which have been called the first tremors of the Big Bang.


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While software synths are now the dominant force in high-tech music, certain hardware models still have the power to make even seasoned producers drool. One of these is the Access Virus TI - the Snow version of which was recently released - and it´s this instrument that´s inspired the creation of Nucleus SoundLab´s Viral Outbreak.
The software is said to be based on the Virus TI, which suggests that it features sounds that are sampled from it. Classic wavetables, saw and pulse waveforms , pads, formant effects, supersaws and synth drum kits are all included.
Viral Outbreak is available in two formats: Windows VST plug-in and Reason ReFill (version 4 of the software is required). The former comes with a 3.5GB soundbank and more than 950 presets, while the ReFill features 2GB of compressed sample data and 235 Combinator patches.
It´s also worth noting that, because it´s based on the WusikEngine, the plug-in version can load any Wusikstation libraries.
Viral Outbreak is available now as a download priced at $99.95. If you want to try before you buy, demo versions of the plug-in and ReFill are available, as are a number of audio examples.
The Nucleus SoundLab website is the place to go for all your Viral Outbreak enquiries.


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I found inspiration yet again while racing the past two weekends. Not just from those who were on top of the podium, but also from those who were participating in the race for various other reasons. Someone in an unhealthy situation, taking steps to be healthier. Someone who had lost motivation, fighting to make a comeback. Someone who dreams of conquering an open water swim. Someone who is racing for a loved one, or a worthy cause. Someone who just wants to nail a bloody darn good race, once and for all.
They are all champions, and I saw them in the flesh the past two weekends in Subic, battling under the hot sun and winning. It's sometimes a small war for me to get out of bed early in the morning, but I'm reminded on race day by these athletes why I like to sprinkle my year with even lots more days like these.
It's been a long break for me, since due to unforeseen circumstances my last proper race was back in July 2014. I felt very rusty in Tri United 1 and Century Tuna IM 70.3. Slowly, though, I am getting the engine oiled up again, and just in time.
Thank you for the past two weekends of awesomeness, my fellow triathletes. It's a real honor to share the race course with you. Inspiration, on.
I'll see you in Ironman Taiwan soon!!!


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Grass Valley swimmer receives underwater sight
Instructor helps girl with Down Syndrome succeed in water
A swim instructor in Grass Valley helped make one little girl's dream of being a successful swimmer a whole lot easier.
Stephanie Hernandez, 10, loves to be a student at Lyman Gilmore School in Grass Valley, dances ballet and was born with Down Syndrome. However, this disability has not stopped Hernandez from working hard to excel as a swimmer.
Hernandez's parents, Genaro and Herminia, began taking their daughter to a pool when she was not even 3 years old, as part of the Nevada County Special Education Program.
Moving in the water helped to develop muscle strength, but it took a while for Hernandez to learn how to hold her breath under water.
Eight year later, Hernandez still enjoys swimming, especially competing against her brother, Giovanni.
Hernandez became a member of the Grass Valley Orcas Swim Team in 2012, but was having trouble staying in her lane. She would bump into the lane lines or other swimmers because she was disoriented in the pool.
Ina Elrod, Hernandez's swim teacher and a member of the Penn Valley Hi-Grader Lions Club, realized that Hernandez needed prescription goggles.
Elrod found Douglas Novelley, owner of High Sierra Divers in Auburn. Novelley said that the highest prescription to put into regular goggles was 9, but Heranandez's prescription was 16.
Everyone agreed something was better than nothing. When the goggles came in, however, they were too big for the young swimmer.
The only other option was to purchase a mask, which allowed for the correct prescription to be inserted.
Elrod allowed Hernandez to try on every mask in his shop in order to find the one that provided a good seal.
The Penn Valley Hi-Grader Lions Club paid for Hernandez's mask.
Hernandez is now able to see underwater and succeed in the sport she loves.


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Facebook just updated its iPhone app. Great!
That's no consolation to its employees, who are increasingly getting nudged, cajoled, and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices.
We dug into the reason for the corporate directive, and the answer we got—from a handful of ex-Facebookers and others familiar with Facebook's plans—surprised us.
It's not some new spat with Apple or an attempt to cozy up to Google, which makes the Android operating system.
Instead, Facebook management realizes its Android app is subpar—and believes that the only way employees will take fixing it seriously is if they have to deal with its issues day in, day out.
It's a practice called "dogfooding," from the phrase "eating your own dog food," which is pretty common at tech companies.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's personal mind-set is no different than the lunatics – Hamas! Netanyahu has always been a war-monger at the expense of the American Tax Payers. After Obama and Clinton brokered a "cease-fire" between Israel and Hamas, for Benjamin Netanyahu to now once again expand New Settlements in the West Bank, is a direct slap in the face to President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and the good-hearted American people.
We must always defend Israel when they are right and condemn them when they are wrong! In this case of expanding settlements, Israel's Netanyahu shows his true colors – "He is a war monger; the same as the people he accuses of being war-mongers!"
Now that the Election is over, President Obama "must" show that he is the man we worked to reelect, by exercising America's power and influence and stop Benjamin Netanyahu from continuing his phantasmagoric rationales and internecine policies. By Sheriff Ali
By Maureen Dowd – New York Times
Everyone expected Hillary to lower the boom on Bibi Friday night.
The bullying Israeli prime minister is fond of demanding that America set red lines on Iran's nuclear ambitions. But he blithely stuck a finger in the eye of President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton Friday and went over a red line for successive American administrations: Israel gave the White House only a few hours' notice that it was defying the U.S. and planning new settlements in the most sensitive territory east of Jerusalem, a move that Washington fears could obliterate any prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"If such a project were to go beyond blueprints," Jodi Rudoren and Mark Landler wrote in The Times, "it could prevent the creation of a viable, contiguous Palestinian state" by closing off the West Bank from East Jerusalem.
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The Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn claims Al-Shabab is diminishing with Ethiopian support to the Somali government. He also told BBC Africa editor, Mary Harper, that "Ethiopians are satisfied with the system of government in the country."
During the interview, PM Desalegn painted a very rosy picture of the situation in Ethiopia and its dealings with the region. The regime seems to be on a charm offensive with the Western media. According to Mary Harper, PM Desalegn requested for the interview, which was conducted impromptu. After listening to the interview, I wished Ms. Harper had scrutinized the PM a bit more on Eritrea and Somalia as she did with his domestic human rights violations. For example, the PM was never confronted on the important issue of the boundary demarcation with Eritrea. He freely pontificated on the issue of refugees without being challenged about the role of the Ethiopian regime in refugee production.
One can easily make a case that in fact Ethiopia is destabilizing the region through its interventions in Somalia and its insidious refusal to implement the verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ethiopia has chosen to blackmail Eritrea with impunity through a "no war, no peace" strategy assisted by successive U.S. administrations. As a result, Eritrean survival as a state is increasingly threatened, exacerbating the acute issue of refugee flows.
The Eritrean regime's response of indefinite conscription of its population into the military is having disastrous consequences. Eritrea is hemorrhaging and experiencing unsustainable brain drain. A whole generation is being wasted in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Sudan, and those who made it farther are suffering all the tragic consequences of life-in-exile. The Ethiopian regime, while claiming the moral high ground, appears to be enjoying humiliating Eritreans by every means available.
Mr. Girma Asmerom, who is the Eritrean envoy to the UN, dubiously claims that the reason for the exodus is economic and that the pull factor from Europe exerts a "pull factor" when it "freely" grants asylum to Eritreans. He also blames Eritrea's suffering on a conspiracy by Western countries to weaken the regime. It is true, as Mr. Asmerom also asserts, that many African countries in addition to Ethiopia are experiencing unprecedented migrations of their own; neverthelsss, the Eritrean exodus is numerically more alarming and qualitatively different from other migrations in Africa.
To dismiss it as motivated primariy by economics is to wallow in a dangerous self-serving denial. Indeed, there can be no doubt that a major cause of the refugee exodus is the indefinite military conscription by the Eritrean regime and by the loss of even basic freedoms for the people. The Eritrean government has declared a self-defeating war on the Eritrean people while deceptively affording the same Ethiopian government the opportunity to play the magnanimity game.
It is also true that the U.S. continues to reward the Ethiopian government despite its intransigence in the face of accusations of human rights abuses and other flagrant violations of international law. The U.S. wrongly and stubbornly assumes that Ethiopia is a stabilizing force for the region.
Faced with isolation from the world community as well as by UN sanctions and Ethiopian belligerence, the Eritrean regime appears to be looking to strengthen its alliances with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. There are reports that Eritrea is "making available...its land, territorial waters and airspace to conduct military operations" against the Houthis in Yemen in exchange for fuel and monetary compensation. About 400 Eritreans are also said to be embedded with troops from the UAE/Saudi campaign in the Yemeni civil war.
If true, this is a dramatic turnaround after the rumors that Eritrea was serving as an Iranian conduit for the transfer of weapons to the Houthis. It appears that the latent Ethiopian ambition to snatch and annex the port of Assab, its refusal to demarcate the border between the two countries, and the effectiveness of Ethiopian campaign to isolate the Eritrean regime may have driven it to entangle itself in the Yemeni conflict. The Yemeni conflict started out as a local civil war but is increasingly a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
The Ethiopian regime has been able to get away with its belligerent policies partially because it has powerful friends within the Clinton and Obama administrations in the person of Dr. Susan Rice. Her influence is quite depressing for any self-respecting African: Dr. Rice actually advised "the Clinton White House...to avoid any public recognition that actual genocide was being committed [in Rwanda], because to do so would legally require the United States to take action."
According to Howard French, a keen observer of Africa, writing in The Atlantic and quoting Samantha Power, says that Rice has a "Cold War" approach to African politics, who supports African strong men whom she approves of -- regardless of their human rights track record and complete disregard for international law. Salem Solomon, writing an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times articulates the destructive role that Susan Rice has played with the Eritrea Ethiopia dispute.
Decisions by the likes of Susan Rice impact the lives of so many like we witness with the youth exodus from Eritrea. It should be noted that Ethiopia has a population approaching 100 million while Eritrea's population is approximately 5-6 million. I fear that increasing Ethiopian bravado over U.S. support may cause more states to collapse in the Horn of Africa.U.S. military involvement in Africa is much deeper than is generally acknowledged. The U.S. has a base in Arba Minch, Ethiopia, which it uses to unleash drone operations in Somalia, in addition to camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.
The U.S. encouraged Ethiopian intervention in Somalia in 2006 with disastrous implications. Any one with a cursory understanding of the region knows that Ethiopian intervention only strengthened the extremists in Somalia, resulting in the emergence of Al-Shabab. Even as PM Desalegn was claiming in his interview that Al Shabab is "diminished," it struck with a suicide attack in Mogadishu against a well-fortified hotel which hosts foreign journalists and important Somali political and military figures. The violence shows no sign of abating. If anything, it has expanded into the neighboring countries of Kenya and Uganda.
Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of mutual distrust and acrimony roughly similar to the history of India and Pakistan. Somalia has border dispute with both Ethiopia and Kenya whose roots are in colonial impositions. It would be just as cynical and foolish for Ethiopia to send troops to Somalia as for India to send troops to Waziristan intending to stabilize its relation with Pakistan.
Regarding democratic elections in Ethiopia, Susan Rice could not contain herself from chuckling cynically about the regime's 100% claim of victory. How she could reconcile her sarcasm with her impassioned speech during the mourning for the late Prime Minster, Meles Zenawi, is puzzling. She called those who oppose Meles fools and idiots. After the violence and rigged election of 2005, hopes for any democratic transfer of power in the country have been dashed.
There are also questions raised on the sustainability of the much publicized double- digit economic growth of Ethiopia, despite the current dramatic makeover of Addis Ababa: the government seems oblivious to the fact that 80% of Ethiopians are peasants even as famine now threatens 15 million Ethiopians. The impact on the country of the foreign land grab, with its environmental cost and human displacement and the destruction of the pastoralist life style, has received wide coverage. A fertile area the size of Belgium has been leased cheaply to Indian and Saudi investors in the name of development. Along with the environmental costs, the displacement of indigenous pastoralists is enormous.
Mary Harper in her report says that inequality gap in Ethiopia is one of the narrowest in the world. However, a quick search shows that inequality in Ethiopia is one of the highest in the world. Ethiopia's positioning in UN's Human Development Index (HDI) is 173rd of 187 countries for the 2013 data. Transparency index ranks Ethiopia 111th of 177 countries for corruption, "with a score of 33 on a scale where 100 means very clean and 0 means highly corrupt." The country suffers from high levels of bribery and those with access to state power act in brutally self-interested and exploitative ways. By most accounts, polarized ethnic divisions in the country have led to winner-take-all situations.
In an ideal scenario, the brotherly people of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Somalia, whose fates are intertwined by geography and history, need cooperation and trade between and within themselves based on mutual respect for basic human rights and due regard for the health of the environment. Increased militarization and fragmentation will only entrench existing cycles of violence, death, displacement, environmental degradation and famine. As it stands, the egoistic leaders are making the region dangerous and vulnerable to intensive neocolonialist extractive exploitation by the U.S., China, Canada, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others.


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This past weekend was pretty dreary. It was cold, rainy and quite boring…actually. Piyush and I had intended on going somewhere fun for our anniversary; but because of the weather, we changed our plans and decided to stay home. Our actual anniversary is Wednesday–May 9. Three years have just flown by!
So instead…Piyush did a lot of golfing. I did a lot of reading. We both watched Hindi movies, and got absolutely no yard-work done. It turned out to be a perfect weekend!
I didn't really do much cooking, but did manage to make it to the Rochester Farmer's Market on Saturday morning.
I came home with some black garlic. I've never seen it before and I'm not entirely certain what I'm going to make with it; but I'm excited to experiment!
Black garlic is simply regular garlic that has been fermented. The cloves are a dark black color and the smell is quite pungant. I haven't tasted it yet, but I have been assured that it tastes slightly sweet with a molasses-like richness. It's supposed to be completely amazing.
…Right now, it's sitting in a ziploc bag in my garage. haha! Yes, it smelled so bad that I had to banish it out of the house!
Has anyone ever experimented with black garlic? What did you make with it?
Some other farmer's market purchases:
I cleaned the mushrooms as soon as I got home from the market. I've got to say, cleaning the morels was not a fun experience! There were bugs everywhere! But somehow I managed.
I froze about a half pound of the mushrooms so Piyush and I can enjoy them later in the summer or maybe even this coming winter.
Now, on to the curry! Because I had brought home some new produce, I had to use what was already in my refrigerator. I had nearly a whole head of cauliflower and half a green bell pepper. I thought about making aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower), but decided on something else.
I didn't want meat, but I wanted chicken tikka masala…if that makes sense? I thought I'd make the gravy for chicken tikka masala but use cauliflower chunks instead.
I marinated and roasted the cauliflower in the the same way I would the chicken. I tossed some yogurt, lemon juice and spices in a big zip-lock bag and mixed everything together. Then I threw the cauliflower in, tossed everything to combine, and let it rest for a good hour.
I then made the curry gravy using my recipe for chicken tikka masala. The only thing I did differently was to add sliced green bell pepper and about a cup of peas.
I also made a
small mistake and put extra (2 tbsp!) hot chili powder in the curry instead of the paprika. Yikes! This stuff was good, but really packed some heat!
Cauliflower Curry with Capsicum and Peas
Serves 6–generously
Can be made vegan by substituting dairy with vegan alternatives.
- 1 head of cauliflower, diced and marinated (recipe below)
- 1 tablespoon ghee (sub. veg. oil)
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 7 cloves garlic – smashed and diced fine
- 1 inch ginger – smashed and diced fine
- 3 green cardamom pods
- 4 whole cloves
- 1 inch piece of cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. grated nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 tablespoon fresh fenugreek leaves (leave out if you can't find)
- 1 1/2 tablespoon garam masala
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- red chilli powder, to taste –taste as you add! Sometimes, less is more!!!!!
- juice of 1/2 small lemon
- 3 cups curry gravy base – (recipe here)
- 1 medium capsicum (green bell pepper)- sliced thinly
- 1 c. peas (frozen)
- 1/2 c. half & half (or add coconut milk)
- milk, as needed (sub. coconut milk)
- 1-2 tablespoons butter (or vegan butter substitute)
- 1 handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
- fried onions, to garnish (optional)
Cauliflower Marinade:
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- 1/2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tbsp. paprika (this shouldn't be hot. It's mostly for color)
- 1 tsp. ground chile pepper (I use Kashmiri)
- 2 tsp. ground pepper
- 1 tbsp. minced fresh ginger
- 1 tsp. salt, or to taste
- approximately 1 lb. cauliflower– cut into bite size pieces
Heat the ghee/oil in a large pan over medium high heat. Once it gets warm, add the cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin, turmeric, coriander powder, and garam masala. Stir until everything becomes fragrant and dry.
Toss in the garlic and ginger. Cook for about a minute before adding the tomato paste, red chilli powder and fenugreek leaves. Stir everything together. It will be dry.
Add the butter and 3 cups curry gravy base and whisk everything together. Once it's smooth, add the lemon juice and half & half. Transfer the curry to a blender and blend until smooth (this can be skipped if you don't mind a few little chunks). Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Add the cooked cauliflower, capsicum (green bell pepper) and peas. Let the curry simmer for about 15 minutes. It'll thicken slightly, use milk to thin…if you'd like. Garnish with chopped coriander and fried onions. Serve with rice or rotis.


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Opening Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the Kapuscinski Development Lectures
18 September 2013, Sciences Politiques, Paris, France
(As prepared for delivery)
President Mion, Madame Houtman, Madame Lantz, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great honour to be at Sciences Po to address the Kapuscinski Development Lecture series. My admiration for Ryszard Kapuscinski, the world chronicler, the voice of the poor, has been a guiding light in my efforts to promote a more global and inclusive OECD. I want to thank Sciences Po, the UNDP, and the European Commission for inviting me to deliver this important lecture.
Why is this happening? What do we have to do to correct it? Do we really think that our nations can go on for long perpetuating these disparities? These are some of the questions that we have to address here today.
Growing inequalities: a pressing policy challenge.
Let me start with the good news. Over the last couple of decades, many developing countries have been growing with remarkable strength. The OECD Development Center estimates that between 2000 and 2010, 83 developing countries achieved growth rates equivalent to double the OECD average. With the help of unprecedented development aid flows and remittances, many of these countries made important progress in reducing extreme poverty: in fact, the UN target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
However, in spite of this progress, the majority of people living in developing and emerging economies still live in great disadvantage, with low levels of income, in contrast with the top 5 or 10% of the rich families in their countries. How do we explain this? Well, there is increasing evidence that many of the people that were lifted up from poverty did not move up to a middle class but rather into an intermediate state of "vulnerability".
Strong growth is not necessarily inclusive. We can see the evidence in many emerging economies. China has experienced remarkable economic growth rates during the past decades, but its income distribution has been worsening since the mid-1980s. Brazil has made important progress in tackling poverty, but the average income of the richest 10% in this country is still 50 times bigger than the average of the poorest 10%. Chile and Mexico have managed to reduce their disparities in the last years, but the ratio in these countries is of 27 to 1.
Inequalities have also been rising in developed economies. According to our latest study on inequality, "Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising", the average income of the richest 10% of the population in OECD countries have more than nine times the income of the poorest 10%. This ratio is up from seven times 25 years ago. In some countries, such as Israel and the United States, inequality has grown further from already high levels. But the gap has also widened in countries that are traditionally more egalitarian, such as Denmark, Germany and Sweden.
Now the crisis is widening these disparities. According to new OECD analysis, the distribution of market income widened considerably during the first phase of the crisis in most OECD countries. While common citizens in many countries are struggling to keep their job or find a job to escape from poverty, the top earners at investment banks are back to business as usual. In 17 OECD countries, market income inequality increased more over the last three years than what was observed in the previous 12 years.
These high levels of inequalities can become entrenched in our societies and in our cultures, preventing intergenerational social mobility. This is dangerous. It is like social Molotov cocktail: you add high unemployment + increasing poverty + growing inequalities, you shake it and what do you get? Social unrest! In the "Occupy" Movements, the Arab Spring, the anti-World Cup riots in Brazil, we can identify different grievances united around a common concern: social inequity.
Why are we creating such inequalities?
So where did we go wrong? Labour markets have undergone profound transformations due to globalisation, technological change, and policy reforms. People with skills in high demand – in the IT or financial sectors, for instance – have seen their earnings rise significantly, while low-skilled workers have been left behind.
It is true that regulatory reforms, both in the markets for goods and services and in labour markets, have promoted productivity and economic growth and have brought more people into work, in particular many women and low-paid workers. But more part-time and low-paid work also means a widening distribution of wages. In many countries, reforms of tax and benefit systems have reduced redistribution as benefit levels were cut, access to benefits tightened, while transfers failed to keep pace with earnings growth.
Our institutional frameworks have also been reproducing and widening inequalities. There is increasing evidence, both in OECD and other studies, of how small economic elites with great economic power that influence politics and legislation through lobbying and other methods play a central role in keeping an institutional status quo that benefits a "happy few". Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson explain this very well in their book "Why Nations Fail".
Let me add one more element: mistaken ideas! Over the past decades, many economists and politicians believed that inequalities would end up yielding growth, which would eventually lead to decreasing inequality: the so called trickle-down theory. Now we know that this theory was wrong. The benefits of economic growth do not trickle down automatically. We need to build smart institutional frameworks and to design effective, targeted and well-coordinated policies to make this happen.
A Strategy to Reduce Inequality
Our countries need to design whole-of-government strategies to reduce inequalities. Any of these strategies should rest on three main pillars: The first challenge is to create more productive and rewarding jobs. Second, we need investment in education and skills development to promote employment and employability. Finally, reforming tax and benefit policies can also improve the distribution of income.
Provision and equal access to high-quality public services and strengthening social protection programmes will help provide equal opportunities for all citizens. For many developing countries and emerging economies, reducing inequalities will require tackling informality, expanding the social security system, and reducing underemployment.
At the OECD we are helping countries to approach the inequality challenge in a comprehensive manner. With the Better Life Initiative, we are looking at the distribution of well-being, going beyond the monitoring of income measures of welfare and accounting for inequality in other basic needs. A specific attempt to capture, quantify, and measure discriminatory social institutions that contribute to persistent gender inequalities is at the core of the OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), a tool that supports an ambitious Gender Strategy.
We are also embracing a more inclusive approach to growth, through an important new initiative on Inclusive Growth, which is synchronised to our New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) initiative and to a horizontal Development Strategy.
These are signs of a major transformation of our Organisation, in line with the new concerns of our member countries, and surely in line with your concerns here at Sciences Po, with those of the UNDP, but most importantly, in line with the concerns of "the people". As our 2013 Ministerial Meeting and OECD Forum argued: it is ALL ABOUT PEOPLE; it's time to put people first; our strategic priorities must focus on jobs, equality and trust!
Ladies and gentlemen:
"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs, but not for everyone's greed." Let's keep in mind these words by Mahatma Gandhi as we work to create new theories, new frameworks, new institutions and policies. Inequalities are not inevitable. They are not the result of the laws of nature or the laws of economics. We created them ourselves, through bad policies, indifference and greed. It is time to put an end to this peril. Effective public policies, inclusive multilateral cooperation, and new economic thinking, can do the trick. Let's join our forces on this quest. The OECD stands ready to help!
Thank you very much.
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Coming back to haunt you: Salem to reprise fines and implement new Halloween controls
They say idle hands are the devil's workshop, and that's just what Salem police and officials are trying to avoid during Halloween weekend.
A bored crowd is potentially a dangerous crowd, said Capt. Brian Gilligan, who oversees Halloween operations for Salem police, which is why it's so important that police coordinate their efforts along with those of the tourism and business community and city leaders.
This year the city's strategic planning may be especially important, given that the big night falls on a Saturday, and one with good weather forecasts to boot. Salem police are bracing for crowds up to 100,000 on Saturday and up to 30,000 on Friday.
"Obviously the challenge this year is two nights in a row. It's a 48-hour ramp-up," said Paul Tucker, who, although he's long played a key role in Halloween planning, is about to have his first Halloween as police chief.
Salem always gets help from the police in area communities on Halloween night —150 to 200 officers in total are expected to be on duty Saturday. This year, Salem will also supplement the city's force with out-of-town officers on Friday.
For the first time, Salem police will be keeping an eye in the sky on Halloween night, thanks to the use of a privately owned helicopter (police declined to name the donor). An officer will monitor traffic and crowds from the copter, police said.
Public safety planning begins each year on the first business day after Halloween, as city officials and police examine "what went wrong, what went right," Gilligan said Wednesday at a meeting at the police station.
What went right last year, officials said, was the City Council's decision to triple fines throughout October, raising them to $300 in some cases, for infractions like public drinking, vandalism and disorderly conduct. The increased fines keep the cell blocks free for more serious offenders, Gilligan said, and are a powerful disincentive for misbehavior. With word spreading about the fines, officials expect the fines will be even more effective in their second year.
Just like last year, downtown liquor stores are asked not to sell miniature "nip" alcohol bottles, and lines outside establishments will be dispersed to avoid altercations.
As for keeping crowds occupied, the Fiesta Shows carnival will return to Derby Street, there will be music and events on the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall and family activities on Salem Common, like a hay-bale maze and a build-a-scarecrow booth. Haunted Happenings is intended to be a family-style event, Gilligan said.
Nonetheless, he acknowledged, "Treats are a big part of Halloween, but tricks are too. That's kind of what makes it a unique event."
The tendency toward mischief is why the police divide the city into five divisions, each staffed for its particular needs, with detectives and K-9 units and motorcycles or ATVs. It's the reason there will be plainclothes officers spread around the downtown, and why police will keep tabs on the handful of surveillance cameras that exist in the downtown.
It's also the reason Salem works with the agencies like the Essex County Sheriff's Office and NEMLEC (North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council), so they have the equipment and trained officers required if police need to take extreme measures, like using pepper ball guns or tear gas.
Key to the success of the night, officials said, are the closing festivities. Last year's closing "was the easiest it's ever been in the history of the event," Gilligan said, thanks to the fireworks and entertainment set up on Washington Street, where police could easily herd crowds to the MBTA station at the end of the night.
The city is again staging end-of-the-night activities on Washington Street, and is supplementing it this year with a concert by the Dave Matthews cover band Dancing Nancy, sponsored by the 92.9 radio station. The station has been publicizing the event, and held a contest to select an opening band, DicknJane.
The entire event ends at 11 p.m., when police officially shut down the city. As usual, they'll have help from mounted police. This year, however, the cavalry is supplied by Plymouth County police and is expected to include eight to 10 horses.
Visitors should leave their fake weapons at home if they don't want them confiscated (and real ones, too, of course). And they should remember, Gilligan said, that the Witch City shuts down relatively early: guests need to arrive early if they want to enjoy themselves.
"Don't come here at 9, 10 at night thinking you're going to get into an event, a restaurant, a bar," he said.


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