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Nursing Students Traveling to Dominican Republic
Kent State University at Ashtabula nursing students will be traveling to the Dominican Republic in May for an experiential learning opportunity that is the culmination of the "Professional Nursing with a Global Perspective" course being taught this spring. Course professors, Tamra Courey, MSN, and Julie Senita, MSN, will be travelling with eight students and Dr. Lori Herpen and Dr. John DeCato, two local podiatrists. The group will spend a week serving the medical needs of the Barahona community in the Dominican Republic.
Courey and Senita feel that the trip is an amazing opportunity for students to learn and understand the role of the professional nurse in diverse situations and to appreciate how culture affects healthcare. "The students are clearly invested in learning about culturally relevant nursing practice and expanding their knowledge about culturally competent care," Courey said.
The course is offered as part of Kent State Ashtabula's registered nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing completion program for RNs seeking an advanced degree. Part of the course requirements involve students designing and presenting health teaching projects to individuals living in the country. The students will teach residents about sun safety, wound and foot care, and dental hygiene. In addition to the teaching aspect of the trip, students will be working on a health-related community service project to eliminate dirt floors in some of the homes in the community. Students will also volunteer at a local school.
Kristy Cunningham, a registered nurse working in the emergency room at Ashtabula County Medical Center, is working on earning her bachelor's degree and is enrolled in Courey and Senita's class. "I am looking forward to this trip because I feel very fortunate to be able to provide care to those who truly have no access to healthcare. I know that this experience will humble me in a way I cannot yet imagine, however, I am very much looking forward to the journey," Cunningham remarked.
Dr. John DeCato has been to the Barahona community twice before to volunteer his medical services. He looks forward to Kent State Ashtabula's nursing students having the same opportunity. "The Kent State University nursing students will have experiences and memories which will last a lifetime. The benefits from this type of educational experience are invaluable," DeCato said. Drs. DeCato and Herpen will be providing podiatric care to area residents while escorting the students on the trip.
Dr. Susan Stocker, Dean and Chief Administrative Officer of the Ashtabula Campus, is excited about the opportunity for students, as well. "The leadership our nursing faculty has demonstrated is exceptional. Tamra Courey and Julie Senita have organized an international experience for our nursing students that will allow them to use their nursing skills to make a difference in the lives of others," Stocker said.
"The enthusiasm and support we have received from the students, the campus, and the community has been overwhelming. We hope this trip opens up future study abroad and experiential learning opportunities for students on the Ashtabula campus," Senita said. Students embarking on this inaugural nursing trip include: Kristy Cunningham, Heather Halford, Chris Jarvis, Deborah Keyes, Gabrielle Landon, Candice Pollard, Crystal Severino, and Stephanie Truckey.
Students going on the trip are currently gathering medical supplies and donations to assist them in teaching residents of Barahona. Those interested in donating should contact Tamra Courey at 440-964-4260 or email@example.com.


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From Conservapedia
Recidivism is the tendency to relapse into an undesirable pattern of behavior, particularly criminal conduct. Overcoming recidivism is a challenge for many people, and the high rate of recidivism by convicts is the justification for increasing prison sentences for repeat offenders.
One study by a public university professor identifies five factors affecting recidivism:[1] Another study in Alaska found that vocational education and general education were helpful in reducing recidivism rates.[2]
- education and employment
- substance abuse
- mental health
- housing
- support by social networks
Missing from that list is religious faith, which is probably the greatest aid in overcoming recidivism.
Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, offers faith-based college courses to prisoners in an effort to reduce recidivism.
- ↑ "Recidivism Reduction Treatment Center Study," by Professor T. Hank Robinson, of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Juvenile Justice Institute.
- ↑ http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?25online+Alaska+L.+Rev.+1

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Fabian Fuchs
EquiTable has been run by Fabian Fuchs for a little over five years in the central Zurich district. In this time it has become well known throughout Switzerland's biggest city for its modern haute cuisine in a relaxed setting.
At the heart of the "EquiTable" concept is that only organic, fair-trade products and ingredients – sourced as regionally as possible – are cooked here. When asked what inspires the young but already-established chef, Fuchs says: "A new dish always starts in your head. For example, a vegetable farmer brings me purple salsify and I start to put together a dish with it in my head. The actual cooking phase is then simply an executive activity." His goal is always focused on a harmony of tastes rather than a variety of techniques.


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It has been a dogs age since I (Ben) have posted and it is about time! I made a resolution to post on a regular basis, which will be a challenge along with all the other tasks I attend to. But if Patricia can do it, so can I! I have a tendency to write and re-write and make multiple drafts before I post. It's my old academic process showing itself, evidence I am not much an off the cuff writer. It takes a few rounds of writing for me to develop and clarify what it is I want to communicate, which naturally takes a bit of time. Time is of the essence in farming and budgeting it is very important. So off come the proverbial gloves! I'm getting down and dirty!
I have been busy planning this years crops over the past few weeks and I am already behind schedule! I should have started back in December but didn't get started until January because I wanted to wait for a book in the mail, Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers by Frederic Theriault and Daniel Brisebois. It is published by the Canadian Organic Growers Association and is a wonderful book. Come to find out, I have been re-inventing the wheel! I have gone about the process of planning for the year in a slightly different way but arrive at essentially the same place! I also learned I still have a few things to learn! Imagine that! Anyhow, I am finally catching up and creating schedules for all the major tasks to be done this year with the hope it will help us stay on schedule. Last year, one of our major challenges was getting veggies planted in the proper time frame and our poor planning created gaps in our vegetable availability, such as an inconsistent tomato supply and no winter squash.
I must admit, fleshing out our 2011 crop plan has got me worried. I am apprehensive that we will be behind schedule because we have not ordered seeds yet. The seed order I put together is over $1800! That is just for the spring and summer, not including fall and winter! Nor does it include the $500 we spent on seed potatoes! This year we will be growing over 40 crops and 100 different varieties of veggies, some for fun and experimentation but most for a very diverse and strong selection. Most of the seeds are needed soon for late February to mid-March planting and it is mid-February already! I have faith that everything will come together as the universe intends and I try to be patient and hopeful. If there is any virtue that farming teaches, it is patience! You can't make the weather change nor make plants grow faster! I am also comforted by the fact that this is our second year and it will be better than last year. We will take the lessons of last year and make this year better. This thought gives me hope and comfort that this year will be okay, possibly the best yet!
I seeded spring lettuce and scallions into seedling trays last week and brought those down to Sharon Funderburks' greenhouse in Meadow for growing on. She has been very generous in her assistance to us! Show her some love if you come out to market. I also direct seeded snow peas, radishes, spinach, mesclun and various salad greens into our low tunnels. I also direct seeded 3 beds of carrots and 2 beds of beets and put them under row cover. Here are some pics for you…
This is my desk in the office, planning for the year. As you can see, I like to use some paper and pencil. Call me old fashioned, it works better for me than spreadsheets only. I like to use a combination of the two.
This is the Planet Jr. seeder I borrow from Tom at Double-T Farm. It is 100 year old technology but works like a charm every time! Originally from NC!
These are the 5 beds I had just prepped for planting carrots & beets. You can see the low tunnels on the right and how I have ventilated it with a forked stick.
This is stir-fry I made last night with tatsoi, carrots, turnips and purple cabbage. Yummy!
Okay, got to get back to work. Check you later! Farmer Ben


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More than 23,000 of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural drawings, 44,000 photos, large-scale models, manuscripts and other documents are being moved permanently from Wisconsin and Arizona to New York City.
The collection has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, according to a joint announcement made Tuesday.
The institutions will share equally in the management of the collection. MoMA will house the models; the papers will be held at Avery.
The transfer will take place over the course of the upcoming year, and materials will become available for research incrementally, beginning at the end of 2013.
"The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation takes seriously its responsibility to serve the public good by ensuring the best possible conservation, accessibility, and impact of one of the most important and meaningful archives in the world," said Sean Malone, its CEO.
"Given the individual strengths, resources and abilities of the foundation, MoMA and Columbia, it became clear that this collaborative stewardship is far and away the best way to guarantee the deepest impact, the highest level of conservation and the best public access," Malone said in a statement.
The foundation said it will help guide development of the archives and provide interpretive insights on Wright's work and life.
It will continue to preserve and share Wright's National Historic Landmarks at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis., and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., including historic furnishings, memorabilia and artifacts.
Wright, who died in 1959, designed 1,141 architectural works, including houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges and museums. Of that total, 532 resulted in completed structures, and 409 of them still stand.
More than one-third of his buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are in a National Historic District.
He also wrote 20 books, and designed furniture, fabrics, art glass, lamps, dinnerware, silver, linens and graphic arts.


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As this season moves forward, it's become clear that Young Justice: Invasion is all about tearing down Earth's superheroes and killing the planet's faith in their competence. That means destroying Young Justice's home base in Mount Justice and weakening the team through deception and personal drama. This episode continues the collapse of the heroes as the Reach aliens continue to ingratiate themselves with humankind while intergalactic hunter Despero arrives on Earth to collect some new heads to mount on his wall. The two may seem unrelated at first, but by the end of the episode, there are hints that the alien forces have a deeper connection than initially thought.
The Reach ambassador must have gotten straight As in all his alien invasion classes, because he sure does know how to infiltrate another world and turn the populace against their protectors. At the end of last week's episode, the Reach made the first move toward public adoration by arriving at the UN and announcing their peaceful stance. Captain Atom meets the Reach ambassador in front of the cameras and suggests a private meeting because he rightfully doesn't trust these new visitors, and G. Gordon Godfrey immediately bitches him out on the air for trying to pull this event away from the public eye.
When the Reach ambassador mentions that the Justice League heroes are now intergalactic outlaws and that the League's young covert team attacked their base, Captain Atom counters by speaking the truth, which the Reach ambassador shoots down by saying that Captain Atom has confused them with the Kroloteans. He pulls the "do you think we all look the same?" card, and that's just playing dirty. And when Despero destroys the Hall of Justice, the Reach ambassador drops one last bomb, revealing that the League has a satellite in orbit watching over the entire Earth. The League's secrets are going to be their downfall, and the Reach knows exactly how to bring them to light without making themselves look bad in the process.
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Despero was one of the first villains the Justice League of America ever fought, and he remains one of their toughest foes to this day thanks to his incredible strength and a third eye that gives him psychic abilities. He strikes at the perfect time, with most of the Justice League off-planet and Young Justice still reeling from the events of last episode. M'gann is afraid to use her psychic powers after what she did to Kaldur, and the team hasn't even had time to make themselves comfortable in their new home base in the basement of the Hall of Justice. That's fine, because Despero completely destroys the entire place, including its precious assortment of superhero memorabilia. Despero has no trouble taking out all the members of the team, and as always, the action looks spectacular. The only thing that stops him is the collapse of the entire building, and even then it's unclear whether or not he's still alive.
This season has done great work balancing personal drama with high-stakes action, and this week we get some further developments regarding Mal and Karen's relationship. Mal doesn't want to live in the new Blüdhaven digs that Nightwing has found for the team members who used to live in Mount Justice, and when he asks Karen if he can live with her, she shoots him down. Their relationship has been on rocky ground, but it's possible that Mal's actions this episode will get him back on his girlfriend's good side. In a surprising turn of events, Mal is this week's standout character, who steps up to the plate to take on Despero when the rest of the team is incapacitated. With no other options, Mal puts on the Guardian armor, a great visual shout-out to Grant Morrison's black Guardian in Seven Soldiers, even if it's not the same character. He pretends to be Earth's greatest champion until the rest of the team can find a way to defeat Despero, again showing just how good this show is at combining different aspects of DC Comics mythology in a way that takes characters in a new direction.
Everyone who predicted that the boy in the blue and yellow jacket was Virgil "Static" Hawkins gets a cookie, and he gets some time in the spotlight during a short scene with Black Canary detailing the experiments that the Reach put him through to test his metagene. "They started out small, little static shocks," he tells Black Canary in a great line that calls back to Virgil's old Kids WB TV series. Virgil fumbles with a paper clip while he's talking to Canary, and when he tosses the object onto her desk as he exits, it attracts the rest of the clips with its new electric charge.
Canary is interviewing all the metagene teens about their experience with the Reach, and Impulse doesn't want to tell her about his knowledge of what Jaime becomes in the future because he fears that may be the thing that gets the Scarab on-mode. When Jaime goes in to talk to Canary, he also keeps his fate a secret, instead telling her that the Reach is unable to communicate with the Scarab. She realizes that this makes Jaime the League's best possible weapon against the Reach, but Jaime has doubts about not sharing everything he knows, especially when the malevolent Scarab approves of not telling. The Scarab is not a good guy, and Jaime figures out that the most valiant course of action is to go against whatever the Scarab tells him, so at the end of the episode he spills the beans about his evil future and demands that the Scarab be removed. Of course, Jaime is the only thing keeping the Scarab in check, so getting it off of him is probably going to be the very thing that turns it into the killing machine that the Reach wants it to be.
Stray observations:
- This week's DC Nation shorts: First, a repeat of the first "Batman Of Shanghai" short, which is so awesome that I wouldn't mind if they aired it every week. Beautifully stylized with incredibly dynamic action, I'd love to see the entire Justice League reimagined in this environment with this animation team. Then we get the second chapter of the adorable "Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld," which has the heroine doubting her new role before defeating an evil spider with a hot pepper. After only two minutes, this story has already proven to be far cleverer than the current Amethyst tale unfolding in DC's Sword Of Sorcery.
- It's nice to see Virgil get some spotlight, but where did Stephanie Brown go? Last week was a cruel tease, Young Justice.
- Why hasn't Ystyna, the teenage female Shining Knight of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, appeared on this show yet? She would be a great fit for the team.
- I love those Justice Society statues in the Hall of Justice, and hopefully we'll get a flashback at some point in this series assuming it continues past Invasion.


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In the heyday of the AT&T monopoly era, the telco's legendary CEO John deButts had an acronym for the company's main product. He christened it POTS, aka Plain Old Telephone Service, delivered over Ma Bell's copper wire public switched telephone network (PSTN). A half-century later, AT&T says it's time for POTS to die, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to schedule its funeral.
POTS and PSTN are "relics of a by gone era," AT&T wrote to the FCC just before the holidays. "Due to technological advances, changes in consumer preference, and market forces, the question is when, not if, POTS service and the PSTN over which it is provided will become obsolete." The company says it wants the agency to solicit public comments for "a firm deadline for the phaseout" of both, "and it should ask what that deadline should be."
POTS going to pot
The FCC, of course, knows it has to get going on this transition. In fact, AT&T is responding to a Notice of Inquiry the agency put out earlier this month on how how to move to an all Internet Protocol phone system. But as AT&T points out, the incumbent telcos don't have the luxury of time on this subject. Consumers are already voting with their feet on IP telephony, glomming onto every kind of VoIP service faster than you can say Vonage.
"Congress's goal of universal access to broadband will not be met in a timely or efficient manner if providers are forced to continue to invest in and to maintain two networks," AT&T warns, especially if one of the networks is becoming increasingly unprofitable.
That would be the POTS network, obviously. Twenty-two percent of households have already "cut the cord," and given up landline service in favor of a mobile phone, AT&T notes. 700,000 landlines are being dropped every month. Eighteen million households (maybe more) now subscribe to Skype, Vonage, or some other flavor of VoIP. By the end of next year, cable companies will probably be serving up broadband phone service to over 24 million consumers. By 2011, the total VoIP subscriber count could go as high as 45 million.
"Indeed, perhaps the clearest sign of the transformation away from POTS and towards a broadband future is that there are probably now more broadband connections than telephone lines in the United States," AT&T adds. And as millions of consumers migrate away from POTS, those who keep it are using it less. Many have a wireless phone, or communicate via instant messaging, blogs, and social network sites.
And that means that revenue from POTS is sinking fast. It dropped from $178.6 billion in 2000 to $130.8 billion in 2007—a trend that AT&T warns is "irreversible." But while the customer base is falling, costs are rising, the telco claims. That's because incumbents have to maintain their PSTNs over progressively skinnier customer bases. All this is sucking up money and hamstringing investment in the "other network," aka the IP broadband system.
"In other words, a huge proportion of the capital resources available to some of the largest telecommunications providers in the country is being directed, not towards improving broadband speeds or bringing broadband to more customers," AT&T contends, "but rather towards maintaining an increasingly obsolete network that is no longer capable of providing the services and features that American consumers and policymakers demand."
Horse-drawn carriages
So the company wants the FCC to hurry things along. "In most industries, a dramatic fall in demand for an outdated product would lead firms to stop producing the old product and focus their investment and resources on newer ones," AT&T observes. "No one prevented horse-drawn carriage manufacturers from switching to automobiles the moment it became clear that the antecedent technology was obsolete."
But it's not that simple for a lifeline industry that provides not only equipment, but the service for that equipment. Many regulatory questions will have to be resolved, and AT&T's solutions for these dilemmas are not always popular.
The biggest regulatory problem this transition faces is that a huge percentage of revenue that comes into the FCC's Universal Service Fund is based on rules for the old POTS network. The USF subsidizes phone service for low income consumers and subsidizes providers in remote rural areas. It does so by tithing a small percentage of your long distance call costs (if you've got a land line) and by letting those smaller carriers charge a fee to the incumbents for taking calls along their network to completion. This last practice is called "intercarrier compensation."
IP telephony throws a huge monkey wrench into this system by making the whole idea of "long distance" a largely irrelevant concept. As we've reported, AT&T hates the current system of intercarrier comp, because it allows small, competitive carriers to engage in "traffic pumping"—partnering with sex chat and conference services to draw intercarrier-comp-funded calls into their market areas.
So, AT&T argues: "If voice service becomes just another application on a high-speed, packet-switched network, then switched access charges, reciprocal compensation, and any other forms of intercarrier compensation will presumably disappear-along with the inefficiencies, regulatory disparities, and arbitrage opportunities that currently accompany these charges." But it's unlikely that everybody agrees that all these charges should "disappear" as a consequence of the transition.
If the FCC does not "begin the hard work now of moving carriers away from implicit subsidies and arbitrage-based business models through comprehensive intercarrier compensation reform," AT&T warns, "it will be next to impossible to shift to an IP-based framework for the exchange of all traffic down the road." No doubt said carriers will see the matter very differently, and take their disagreements to the FCC early and often.
Expect some opposition as well to AT&T's recommendation that USF compensation be calculated not by the distance of calls, but via a "numbers based methodology," or as AT&T put it in an earlier filing: "per telephone number and connection assessment multiplied by the number of telephone numbers and connections" each consumer has. This would amount to a "flat tax" of consumers, and could rack up huge bills for big institutions like schools, a coalition of educators told the FCC several years ago.
Building upon "success"
Then there's the thorny question of "unbundling"—letting smaller companies connect to the big cable and telco networks at regulated rates to provide residential broadband services. The FCC abandoned this policy in the first half of this decade—its decision upheld by the Supreme Court in its Brand X decision. But it looks like AT&T is worried that a POTS-to-IP phone transition could create yet another window for reconsidering the move, especially since the FCC recently commissioned a study concluding that countries that have embraced unbundling have faster and cheaper broadband networks.
The Commission's "deregulatory policy [regarding unbundling] has resulted in an enormous amount of investment in broadband and made the goal of universal broadband within reach," AT&T insists. "The Commission should seek comment on the best ways to build upon those successes as the industry transitions to broadband and phases out the PSTN."
No doubt then that setting an execution date for land line telephony will bring many issues to a head. But it's just as well that the FCC and AT&T agree that the End Days for POTS are in sight. The Commission and Congress have been dragging their heels for years on intercarrier compensation and USF reform. More often than not, it's deadlines like these that force the system to change—hopefully for the better.


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The views were breathtaking.
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There's almost a magical quality to Park City, with its old-fashioned Main Street, Mom and Pop shops and mountain backdrops. As I was heading back to the airport the following morning (in a snowstorm), I realized my stress level was much lower than it had been when I arrived. Why? I tried to limit technology as much as possible for a 12-hour span.
Technology transports us to new worlds, allows us to work remotely and offers nearly unlimited learning opportunities. It's also addictive, available 24/7 and difficult to get away from in our lives today. I'm not suggesting that you move to the woods and shun all forms of technology, but there are ways to take a break from technology and lower your stress level.
How to Take a Break from Technology and Reduce Your Anxiety Level
- Switch Screens: Some days you have to be plugged in all day; there's no way of getting around it. It helps me to switch screens, going from my laptop to mobile, when possible. Something about not standing (or sitting) in front of a computer makes me feel like I'm not as plugged in.
- Take a Break: Most people work better in spurts, and as counterproductive as it may seem, taking short breaks can make you more productive. You may have a mountain of work to do, but taking a quick walk or heading out of the office for lunch can give you a productivity boost for the rest of the day. I try to move around in between projects to break up the work day.
- Go Old School: Can you lose technology for any part of your job (even once in awhile)? I love to write outlines and rough drafts on paper. A blank page is much more inviting to me than a flashing cursor, and the process of writing by hand is soothing to me. Pick up a physical business book or attend a conference in-person to hone your skills instead of reading an article or attending a webinar online.
- Change Your Environment: When I worked in corporate America, I loved to go out to lunch to change the scenery. Oftentimes, I would come up with an idea or solve a problem while sitting at a local cafe or coffee shop. Changing your environment can drive creativity and refresh you, which is why coffee shops are popular alternative working locations.
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- Adjust Your Schedule: What is your typical work schedule? Do you have any flexibility? Try to group projects so that you're able to enjoy some time off, even a few hours. Maybe you can schedule more on 3-4 days a week so that you can regroup and plan on lighter days or even take a day off. What works best for you? If you're an early bird, work on your most important projects first before you lose momentum. More of a night owl? Save more thought-provoking work for later in the day. We all work our best differently, so try to make your schedule work for you.
- Shut It Off: Take a vacation, even one day. It's amazing how much more relaxed you'll feel when you leave your phone at home or at least don't check it every five minutes. As a small business owner, I understand how difficult it is to clock out, so to speak, but I always feel so refreshed when I do. You may not be able to take a week-long vacation to some tropical destination, but enjoying an activity you like — ice skating, shopping, getting a massage — can pull you out of the digital world back into the real world.
As amazing as technology is, it's important to unplug regularly to recharge and enjoy the world around us. You may be surprised at your reduced stress levels and improved productivity and efficiency. So turn off your computer, put your phone down and head outside. The world awaits!
Your Turn: How Do You Unplug?
How do you take a break from technology?
What's your favorite getaway destination?
What are your favorite activities that don't involve technology?
p.s. It's a coincidence that I wrote and published this post on the National Day of Unplugging. It's not a coincidence that I wrote it in a coffee shop. 😉
An old school Gen X'er in a digital world,
Let's chat (about unplugging, your marketing needs or otherwise):


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Cover Crop Info SwapCover Crop Info Swap
Think Different Local farmers, local soils is one byword of an Indiana farmer group meeting to brainstorm farming problems and network.The group compares notes on cover crops and vertical tillage in continuous corn.Spin off: A similar group in Idaho found that bankers began to understand the agronomics of no-till and realized these networking low-tillers were much lower risks for loans than the conventional tillers, says its organizer.
December 1, 2012
Dave Rodibaugh wants more from his cover crops. In addition to seeking advice from his local Extension officers or seed company representatives, he talks to neighbors.
Rodibaugh, who farms a little more than 2,000 acres in Renssalaer, Ind., is one of a dozen farmers participating in an informal peer group organized by Dan Perkins, Jasper County Soil & Water Conservation District program specialist. The growers meet regularly to discuss farm-related topics, examine new ideas and talk about what works and what doesn't on their farms.
"I'm still looking for the economic benefit with cover crops," says Rodibaugh, a longtime no-till farmer who added a cover crop mix of clover, radishes, cereal rye and annual rye to his operation three years ago. "I want it to be sustainable and not depend on government money to make it work."
A couple of farmers in the group have seen the economic benefit, and have increased their use of cover crops as a result.
"It shows that someone can do it rather than someone telling me it can be done," he says. "That alone spurs me to keep trying."
Formalized coffee-shop group
The group is more formal than a coffee shop group, with organized discussion topics and guest speakers. Perkins organized the group in northwest Indiana in January 2011 with the goal of increasing no-till acres and cover-crop use in Indiana.
Meetings are primarily during the winter months and are a mix of formal discussion and informal conversation, which allow members to build relationships while gaining and sharing information. Most members of the group practice no-till, but Perkin said several long-time conventional tillers come to meetings to learn more about how no-till works in their county.
"The guys like each other and trust each other. I know they talk to each other outside of our meetings," says Perkins, who organizes meetings, researches topics and lines up speakers.
One supporter of the peer group meetings in Indiana is Hans Kok, coordinator of the IndianaConservation Cropping Systems Initiative, who ran similar peer groups when he was an Extension officer in Idaho. He says the groups work because "farmers really trust farmers more than anyone else. "The whole strength of these groups is that they are self-selecting," he says. "The ones we had in Idaho and Washington were simply amazing. We had farmers drive three hours over slippery roads to get to a 7 a.m. meeting. The worse the weather was, the more people would show up."
In Idaho, the groups formed to get like-minded farmers together, he says, particularly direct seeders. The farmers were often new to no-till and didn't want to make the same mistakes that others had. But the positive benefits quickly became more than just agronomic.
A core group of 30-40 farmers would come to the meetings. As word spread, local bankers started showing up and often bought breakfast for the group. "The bankers began to understand the agronomics of no-till and realized these guys were much lower risks for loans than the conventional guys. That was one of the most important spin-offs we had," Kok says.
"Local information is much more powerful than generic information. That is the strength of these groups. Local farmers, local soils."
Value of vertical tillage
Mark Kingma, Perkins' neighbor, started attending meetings about the same time he decided to use cover crops to rebuild the soil organic matter on his farm. He also experiments with vertical tillage to improve corn-on-corn yields.
"Everybody is using cover crops in areas where they're trying to affect some change," says Kingma, who farms about 2,700 acres in Jasper County. "We all share what works, successes we've had, and how that compares to what's recommended. The information we're getting is pretty good."
He says he attends the meetings to get ideas, but mostly the conversations confirm his current practices. "What's interesting, is (most of the group) is moving from tillage to no-till through vertical tillage. We're going the other way. We're doing vertical tillage because we want to make no-till corn-on-corn work more effectively in our soil."
But the group can't help with all his problems. "With farming, all the information you get is still dependent on the weather," he says with a laugh.
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Just LOB It Out There
Let this be a lesson to us all: if you don't pitch well, you get sent down.
Wade LeBlanc had a bad outing the last time out. He only pitched three innings, giving up three runs. But the Padres gave him a second chance, and boy did he blow it. He only went 1.1 innings yesterday, giving up four runs on five hits with three walks.
Immediately after the game, he was demoted to Triple-A. Take that!
I am very glad that the Padres would not let him stay. They were swift in their judgement. The guy didn't get his job done, so he was sent back to where he came from. That's good, very good.
Josh Banks, who threw 3.1 innings yesterday, giving up two runs on three hits, is expected to take LeBlanc's spot in the rotation.
Joe Thatcher threw a scoreless 1.1 innings, but Cla Meredith gave up three huge runs in his two innings. By that time, the Padres were fighting back, only down three runs. But Cla gave the Mariners a six-run advantage.
In the top of the sixth, the Padres got a two-run homer from Chase Headley to get on the board. In the seventh, Edgar Gonzalez hit a home run to cut the lead to 6-3. The Padres then proceeded to leave the bases loaded in that inning.
Have you ever thought about how lonely/annoying it is to be a runner LOB? Let's take Kevin Kouzmanoff in the fourth. He led off the inning with a booming ground-rule double.
So Kouz is standing there, no outs, he's gotta expect to be driven in eventually (but if he knew our hitters, maybe not). He has to be fully concentrating on the plate in case someone hits the ball, but he also has to be laughing and joking with the Mariners' shortstop at the same time. He has to be sure to stand on the bag, and if there's a fly ball, he has to remember to tag up, and on top of all that, he needs to keep an eye out for his third base coach.
Chase Headley comes to the plate. Chase is batting righty, so he might hit a ball to the left side. If so, Kouz will have to stay clear of the ball, which would hinder his already-slow progress to third and possibly home.
Chase hits a few fouls and takes a ball. Then he grounds out right to shortstop. Kouz scrambles back to the bag so he doesn't get picked off, but he didn't get moved to third, which was Chase's job.
Next up is Kyle Blanks. The first pitch he gets is lined down the left field line. Kouz takes off, but it's just foul. Grrr. Kouz trots back, joking some more with the shortstop.
Two foul balls later, Kyle zinged a ball that was heading for the left field corner. Kouz took off, elated to be able to score. But then Adrian Beltre caught the ball. Kouz trots back to second, breathing heavily now.
Next up, Edgar Gonzalez. Definitely has home run power. First two pitches, foul. Next three pitches, balls. OK, with a full count and two outs, Kouz is running like mad between second and shortstop area. Back and forth, back and forth. Foul ball, running. Trotting back. Heaving ho. And then, finally, a swinging strike.
Kouz sighs, waiting for the ballboy to bring his hat and glove. He boomed a double, no outs, ran back and forth from second and third way to many times, wore himself out, but all for naught. Such is the life of a Padres baserunner.
Scary thing is, we left nine men on base yesterday. We were 0-for-12 with runners in scoring position. Situations like Kouz's are happening every day in Padres land. The question is, how are we going to stop it?
We need to get more timely hits. Simple as that. Once we get a runner on bases with two or less outs, he should expect to be driven in. And the hitters should expect to rack up their RBI stats. We got two home runs yesterday, but that was about it.
Everyone in the lineup had at least one hit except Scott Hairston and David Eckstein, but they were not timely hits. Henry Blanco had two hits, which was great.
Scott Hairston and Buddy Black were ejected in the third for arguing balls and strikes. Good job guys!! Too bad it didn't completely fire up the team.
So, we lost the series. I was not very happy with this team in the past two games. They were not good at all.
Tonight we are in Texas to play the Rangers. It's going to be a fascinating series. We'll probably get swept. Anyways, hope you can figure out what's going on, boys! If you can't get things together, I'm not listening. So get it going.
Walter Silva is pitching against Kevin Millwood. Silva better go more than five innings or else.


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Syria eyeing idea of weapons turnover
WASHINGTON -- In a rapid and remarkable chain of events, Syria welcomed the idea of turning over all of its chemical weapons for destruction on Monday, and President Barack Obama, though expressing deep skepticism, declared it a "potentially positive development" that could head off the threats of U.S. airstrikes that have set the world on edge.
The administration pressed ahead in its efforts to persuade Congress to authorize a military strike, and Obama said the day's developments were doubtless due in part to the "credible possibility" of that action. He stuck to his plan to address the nation tonight, while the Senate Democratic leader postponed a vote on authorization.
The sudden developments broke into the open when Russia's foreign minister, seizing on what appeared at the time to be an off-the-cuff remark by Secretary of State John Kerry, appeared in Moscow alongside his Syrian counterpart and proposed the chemical weapons turnover and destruction. The Syrian quickly embraced the idea, and before long U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did, too.
Obama, who appeared Monday evening in interviews on six TV networks, said the idea actually had been broached in his 20-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on the sidelines of an economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama said he directed Kerry to have more conversations with the Russians and "run this to ground."
The president said he would "absolutely" halt a U.S. military strike if Syria's stockpiles were successfully secured, though he remained skeptical about Assad's willingness to carry out the steps needed.
"My objective here has always been to deal with a very specific problem," Obama said in an interview with ABC News. "If we can do that without a military strike, that is overwhelmingly my preference."
He cast Russia's proposal as a direct result of the pressure being felt by Syria because of the threat of a U.S. strike and warned that he would not allow the idea to be used as a stalling tactic.
"I don't think that we would have gotten to this point unless we had maintained a credible possibility of a military strike, and I don't think now is the time for us to let up on that," he said.
Still, the White House has had scant success in persuading members of Congress -- including Democrats -- to support the idea of military action. Senators continued to announce their opposition through the day.
The proposal from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came just hours after Kerry told reporters in London that Assad could avoid a U.S. attack and resolve the crisis surrounding the use of chemical weapons by surrendering control of "every single bit" of his arsenal to the international community by the end of the week.
The State Department sought to tamp down the potential impact of Kerry's comments by calling them a "rhetorical" response to a hypothetical question and not "a proposal." But their importance became more clear as the day progressed.
Kerry spoke by phone with Lavrov shortly after making his comments in London, and officials familiar with the call said Lavrov had told Kerry that he had seen the remarks and would issue a public statement. Kerry told Lavrov that his comments were not a proposal but the U.S. would be willing to review a serious plan, the officials said. They stressed that he made clear that Lavrov could not present the idea as a joint U.S.-Russian proposal.
The officials commented only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to describe the information publicly.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the proposal was worth exploring, the French foreign ministry said it deserved close examination and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said any move by Syria to surrender its chemical weapons would be an "important step." Clinton, in contrast with the White House and State Department, credited Kerry and Russia jointly for the proposal.
Obama still faces a decidedly uphill fight to win congressional authorization for the use of force -- and serious doubts by the American public -- and Monday's developments, planned or not, could provide him with a way out of a messy political and foreign policy bind.
The U.S. accuses Assad's government of being behind an attack using sarin gas in a Damascus suburb on Aug. 21, killing 1,429 people. Some other estimates of the deaths are lower, but there is wide agreement that chemical weapons were used. Experts believe that the Syrian government's arsenal of chemical weapons includes nerve agents like sarin, tabun and VX as well as mustard gas.
In an interview with Charlie Rose that was broadcast Monday on "CBS This Morning," Assad denied responsibility for the Aug. 21 attack, accused the Obama administration of spreading lies without providing a "single shred of evidence," and warned that airstrikes against his nation could bring retaliation. Pressed on what that might include, Assad responded, "I'm not a fortune teller."
Later Monday, Syria's foreign minister, meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow, addressed the idea of getting rid of any chemical weapons.
"Syria welcomes the Russian proposal out of concern for the lives of the Syrian people, the security of our country and because it believes in the wisdom of the Russian leadership that seeks to avert American aggression against our people," said al-Moallem.
Kerry's comments came at a news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague and in response to a question about what, if anything, Assad could do to stop the U.S. from punishing it for the use of chemical weapons.
"Sure," Kerry replied. "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting for that. But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously."
Traveling with Kerry, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki tried to blunt the suggestion.
"Secretary Kerry was making a rhetorical argument about the impossibility and unlikelihood of Assad turning over chemical weapons he has denied he used," she said. "His point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago."
And, in a speech, Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, reiterated that the president had decided it is in U.S. interests to carry out limited strikes.
Al-Moallem and Lavrov had not reacted to Kerry's comments when they spoke to reporters immediately after their meeting. But Lavrov appeared before television cameras several hours later to say Moscow would urge Syria to quickly place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them.
"If the establishment of international control over chemical weapons in that country would allow avoiding strikes, we will immediately start working with Damascus," Lavrov said.
"We are calling on the Syrian leadership to not only agree on placing chemical weapons storage sites under international control, but also on its subsequent destruction and fully joining the treaty on prohibition of chemical weapons," he said.
Russia's proposal provided confirmation from Syria's most important international ally that the Syrian government possesses chemical weapons, and al-Moallem's welcome was a tacit acknowledgment. Syria's foreign ministry last year retracted a threat to use chemical weapons, saying it was not acknowledging that it had them.
Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Zeina Karam in Beirut, Connie Cass in Washington, Deb Riechmann in London and Edith Lederer at the U.N. contributed to this report.


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Today's entry was prompted by THIS post from fivezero, showing the new Deborah Lippmann Fall 2015 collection called "Undressed", which caused my face to go like this:
Just look at this range of neutral gorgeousness:
When I regained both consciousness and my sanity, I told myself, "Get a grip! You've got tons of nudes in your collection!" And my self-talk was right, because not only do I have a lot of nude / neutral polishes, I've got a lot of them from Ms. Deborah Lippmann herself! Behold:
From left to right (descriptions from DL's site):
Prelude to a Kiss – sheer misty pink (sheer)
Naked – clean bare beige (sheer)
Modern Love – modern classic mauve (crème)
No More Drama – sultry gold caramel (subtle shimmer)
Fashion – not-so-typical taupe (crème)
Waking Up In Vegas – putty-liscious gray (crème)
All of these colours are still readily available except for Waking Up In Vegas – which coincidentally is my favourite formula out of all of the DL that I own – it's perfection in 1 coat.
So my DL neutral polishes kind of create a collection on their own:
Yeah seriously, I do NOT need that "Undressed" set! My No-Buy game is strong, booyah! 😀
(Although, I do have to say that I still have the following DL on my wish list: P.Y.T., Love in the Dunes, Dessert Moon, She Wolf, and Whatever Lola Wants)
Have you ever realized you don't need to buy something, because you already have something similar to it in your stash? 😉


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Hey there! Yep, it's me. Still here. I just had to take a break for a bit. I had too much on my plate and other things had to come first.
Like 6th grade homework…. Uggghh!
Uggghh, is about all I can say about that on here, but the amount of homework sent home daily is redonk! Poor Knucklehead has no life outside of school. So much for being a kid.
Anyway, between the chores, chickens, and homework, you can see priorities had to change a bit. But, I think I have a good system down now and can spend some quality time with my Ancestors for a few hours each week while Knucklehead is at school.
Knock on wood, because I have said that before.
I have spent the last week or so, entering in information from a road trip I took back in October of 2008. Yes, I realize that was five years ago. I was such a newbie then that I didn't even put information in a family tree. I just collected it. Now, I'm adding things to my tree and since I spent the last week or so going over the Roleke information, I thought I would share here with you all, my first genealogy road trip. I have had several since then, but this was a really special trip because I got to share it with my Momma before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She, myself and my sister-in-law Addie loaded up in the car and drove to Bethany, Missouri. What a treat this was.
Also, it was special because we just enjoyed the moment. We took our time and whatever information I got was glorious and it didn't matter if I didn't find the one thing I was looking for because I wasn't looking for anything specific. We just wanted to see where our Ancestor's live, and my Momma hoped to learn about her grandmother.
I thank God every time I think about this trip because if I had taken any other trip at that time, I would not be as hooked into my family history as I am now. We found out so much stuff on that trip that it almost addicted me. I just wanted to see what else I could find out, and when and how could I?
Ok, I know you are saying almost addicted? Ok, I admit, I am addicted to it. My children and grandchildren will thank me one day.
The reason we picked Bethany was because of one little news article clipped into my Momma's baby book. Here it is:
I guess Mother hadn't spent much time looking in her baby book (I have told you before, but her baby book was in the pile of stuff my grandmother was going to throw away and I saved) because when I asked her about her great-grandfather William Roleke, being a Mayor, she had no clue. Her grandfather J.T. Parks, never talked about her grandmother's family, the Roleke's. It was too painful for him I guess, and he had remarried and put his life back together. You see my mother's grandmother, Helen Roleke Parks died after giving birth to her father, Bill (William John) Parks. It was a very sad time for her Granddad Parks. In fact, he never once mentioned it to my mother, but his wife Missie, who my mother called Nanny, and loved so much was the one who finally told her. My Momma was stunned. She had always thought Nanny was her grandmother. It didn't change a thing for her and Nanny though. Nanny was always so good to her.
After reading that clipping in my mother's baby book, I started digging a little more through my grandmother's things and I found a newspaper from Bethany with Helen Parks' obit on the front page. You can read about that here, on my Sympathy Saturday – Helen Roleke Parks post.
A search of Google before we left let me know there was a road in Bethany, named Roleke. There was a park in Bethany named Roleke, and I could see on Google maps, in street view that the house William lived in, was still there. I also knew that the Harrison County Genealogical Society was there in Bethany, and we planned our trip around when they would be open.
Loaded with where I needed to go and what I wanted to see, we took off. After a 7 hour road trip, we made it to Bethany.
We checked into our hotel room and headed straight to the cemetery. We were more than amazed at what we found at the Miriam Cemetery.
The family plot headstone was massive, and finally, here they were, my great-grandmother Helen Roleke Parks, and my 2nd great-grandfather, William Roleke and my 2nd great-grandmother, Anna Schultze Roleke. I would later find out that Edith Morgan Roleke, also in the plot, was William's 2nd wife.
This was pretty emotional for Momma. Here she stood at the grave of her grandmother, her namesake, a woman she'd never met. And she wept. And then I wept. I think Addie did too, but she can usually hold it together pretty good. To show you the size of the headstone, here is me and Momma standing next to it.
This photo of Momma and Addie was from the next day, we had to go back and take one because I guess I was so emotional while there, I never thought of photos, Addie saved the day on that and I wanted a picture of Addie there too.
We placed flowers, and spent quite a bit of time there.
If you will notice on the right side of the next photo, down the hill we found another plot of Roleke's. We put flowers beside the plot marker there as well.
Come to find out, that plot belonged to the family of Herman Roleke. Cousin to my William Roleke. He came from Germany before William did, and William settled here in Bethany and started working with Herman at his Tailor Shop.
Here is the Herman Roleke Plot. There are 16 people buried in his plot, with 13 headstones. At the time, I didn't know who they were or how they connected, but I have since put the pieces together.
After this, since it was pretty emotional, we decided to just see some sites around town and get a lay of the land. We found Roleke road. I thought at the time, that since William was Mayor of Bethany for 36 years, that Roleke road was named after him. I'm not so sure as Herman was also a major pillar of the community and it could just as easily have been named for him. Either way, I don't care. I'm happy and proud to say I'm related to either one of them and regardless of which one it was, the road is still named after my family.
Thank you Addie, for taking these priceless pictures. I actually have this photo in a frame. It marked such a special moment for me with my Mom, and Addie. This trip was where my love for digging up family history really began.
Next we found Roleke Park. I did not take good pictures. This was my first time, what can I say. Maybe I will get to go back one day and take more. I think at the time, I thought they were good. Ha Ha
Herman Roleke originally owned this land and built the park. This is the spot where most of the scenes I have found on old postcards and in books is located.
Here is the Pavilion where a plaque had been placed in honor of Herman Roleke. Did I take a picture of the whole Pavilion? No, no I did not. Dumb.
I took a picture of a pretty little bridge though.
Then we drove to where William's house was. I couldn't believe the house was still there.
I shyly knocked on the door, and even though this car was parked out front no one came to the door. This being my first trip, not really sure of what I should or shouldn't do. We left, and didn't go back by.
Now a days, knowing more about research and learning all that I have learned about that house – I would keep going back until someone came to the door.
Then we went to the Harrison County Historical Society. If I filled this page with nothing but nice things about the Society, it wouldn't be enough. They have really done the work there. I made a copy of anything that had the name Roleke in it.
One of the best things I found was this obituary there that actually had a picture of Anna Roleke, my 2nd great-grandmother. I had never seen her before, and still to this day have not found another picture of her, so this was worth the whole drive alone, and it was just one of many treasures we found that day.
Here is just one of the many things I found about Herman Roleke.
Then the kind ladies at the Historical Society directed me to the Bethany Clipper office, the local newspaper where I found some information in books about William Roleke. One thing about it, when you are Mayor of a town for 36 years, there is a lot of information out there about you.
I found out the Tailor shop used to be on the town square next to the Bethany Clipper.
I wish I had taken this picture from the same angle, but I did not. There again, I was a Newbie.
Right across from this is of course the courthouse. Did I go in the courthouse? NO! Like an idiot!!! I thought I had found so much at the Historical Society what else could I possibly need, right? Uggghh! I wish I could go back and kick my former self. We did find a lot though and the trip was worth it, and for a Newbie, I did pretty dang good. So good it just took me a week to add all the stuff I got on this trip to my family tree.
If you have any Roleke relatives from the Bethany area, contact me. I have put all the information on my ancestry.com and I will be glad to share it with you.
Also, I need to stress to you that if you are a newbie, like I was during this trip, always check the local historical society, I can't even begin to tell you all the wonderful things I found there. Plan your trip around this, trust me.
Next, check the courthouse. Everyone is always talking about their AHA moments, I call that my DUH moment. CHECK THE COURTHOUSE!!!
Check the local paper. Would I have ever known William's business was next door had I not??
Of course, check the cemeteries, all of them in the town if you have time.
Check the phone book, and call some local's while you are there. I tried this, but they all thought I was crazy. Which is true.
Search out cousins!! Some of the articles mentioned that my grandfather had a cousin Bill Jones. I found him!! Alive and well and living in Portland, Oregon! And if you think alive and well isn't a big deal, you haven't been doing genealogy for very long. Everyone you find is dead and gone! Anyway, Bill and I talk often and he sent me some killer photos and get this, he sent me the actual certificates my great-grandmother received when she graduated from Osteopathy school. Most importantly, he's a link to my family and my history and I enjoy so much talking with him. I hope to meet him one day.
And last, but not least, knock on doors, and wait for them to answer! You never know what history they might know!


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「アジアの民主主義 セキュリティ・ダイヤモンド」という、当時の安倍総理の論文である。
- 私は「二つの海の交わり」についてインド国会で話し、称賛を得て、自分の発言が正しかったことをますます強く確信するようになった。
- 太平洋とインド洋の平和、安定、航海の自由は一緒である。
- 現状、南シナ海は「北京の湖」となっていくかのように見える。
- 間もなく中国海軍の新型空母が日常的に見かけられるようになる。
- 中国はインド洋と尖閣周辺の海に対する領有権を既成事実化しようとしている。
- もし日本が屈すれば、南シナ海はさらに要塞化されるであろう。
- 阻止するべく、オーストラリア、インド、日本、米国ハワイ州によって、インド洋地域から西太平洋に広がる海洋権益を保護するひし形(ダイヤモンド)を形成することにある。
- 私はこのセキュリティーダイヤモンドに、最大限の力を注ぐつもりだ。
- アジアの安全保障を強化するため、イギリスやフランスにもまた舞台にカムバックするよう招待したい。
- 日本の世界における役割は、英仏の新たなプレゼンスとともにある。
- 英国は今でも、マレーシア、シンガポール、オーストラリア、ニュージーランドとの防衛協定に価値を見いだしている。
- 私は、日本の最大の隣国たる中国との関係が多くの日本国民の幸福にとって必要不可欠だと認めている。
- しかし、最終的には、日本や外交は民主主義、法の支配、人権尊重に根ざしていなければならない。
- (現に、日本の繁栄は、民主主義、法の支配、人権尊重に成り立っている)
- アジア太平洋地域における将来の繁栄もまた、それらの価値の上にあるべきだと私は確信している。
Asia's Democratic Security Diamond
TOKYO – In the summer of 2007, addressing the Central Hall of the Indian Parliament as Japan's prime minister, I spoke of the "Confluence of the Two Seas" – a phrase that I drew from the title of a book written by the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh in 1655 – to the applause and stomping approval of the assembled lawmakers. In the five years since then, I have become even more strongly convinced that what I said was correct.
Peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Pacific Ocean are inseparable from peace, stability, and freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean. Developments affecting each are more closely connected than ever. Japan, as one of the oldest sea-faring democracies in Asia, should play a greater role in preserving the common good in both regions.
Yet, increasingly, the South China Sea seems set to become a "Lake Beijing," which analysts say will be to China what the Sea of Okhotsk was to Soviet Russia: a sea deep enough for the People's Liberation Army's navy to base their nuclear-powered attack submarines, capable of launching missiles with nuclear warheads. Soon, the PLA Navy's newly built aircraft carrier will be a common sight – more than sufficient to scare China's neighbors.
That is why Japan must not yield to the Chinese government's daily exercises in coercion around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. True, only Chinese law-enforcement vessels with light weaponry, not PLA Navy ships, have entered Japan's contiguous and territorial waters. But this "gentler" touch should fool no one. By making these boats' presence appear ordinary, China seeks to establish its jurisdiction in the waters surrounding the islands as a fait accompli.
If Japan were to yield, the South China Sea would become even more fortified. Freedom of navigation, vital for trading countries such as Japan and South Korea, would be seriously hindered. The naval assets of the United States, in addition to those of Japan, would find it difficult to enter the entire area, though the majority of the two China seas is international water.
Anxious that such a development could arise, I spoke in India of the need for the Indian and Japanese governments to join together to shoulder more responsibility as guardians of navigational freedom across the Pacific and Indian oceans. I must confess that I failed to anticipate that China's naval and territorial expansion would advance at the pace that it has since 2007.
The ongoing disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea mean that Japan's top foreign-policy priority must be to expand the country's strategic horizons. Japan is a mature maritime democracy, and its choice of close partners should reflect that fact. I envisage a strategy whereby Australia, India, Japan, and the US state of Hawaii form a diamond to safeguard the maritime commons stretching from the Indian Ocean region to the western Pacific. I am prepared to invest, to the greatest possible extent, Japan's capabilities in this security diamond.
My opponents in the Democratic Party of Japan deserve credit for continuing along the path that I laid out in 2007; that is to say, they have sought to strengthen ties with Australia and India.
Of the two countries, India – a resident power in East Asia, with the Andaman and Nicobar Islands sitting at the western end of the Strait of Malacca (through which some 40% of world trade passes) – deserves greater emphasis. Japan is now engaged in regular bilateral service-to-service military dialogues with India, and has embarked on official trilateral talks that include the US. And India's government has shown its political savvy by forging an agreement to provide Japan with rare earth minerals – a vital component in many manufacturing processes – after China chose to use its supplies of rare earths as a diplomatic stick.
I would also invite Britain and France to stage a comeback in terms of participating in strengthening Asia's security. The sea-faring democracies in Japan's part of the world would be much better off with their renewed presence. The United Kingdom still finds value in the Five Power Defense Arrangements with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. I want Japan to join this group, gather annually for talks with its members, and participate with them in small-sized military drills. Meanwhile, France's Pacific Fleet in Tahiti operates on a minimal budget but could well punch above its weight.
That said, nothing is more important for Japan than to reinvest in its alliance with the US. In a period of American strategic rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region, the US needs Japan as much as Japan needs the US. Immediately after Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in 2011, the US military provided for Japan the largest peacetime humanitarian relief operation ever mounted – powerful evidence that the 60-year bond that the treaty allies have nurtured is real. Deprived of its time-honored ties with America, Japan could play only a reduced regional and global role.
I, for one, admit that Japan's relationship with its biggest neighbor, China, is vital to the well-being of many Japanese. Yet, to improve Sino-Japanese relations, Japan must first anchor its ties on the other side of the Pacific; for, at the end of the day, Japan's diplomacy must always be rooted in democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. These universal values have guided Japan's postwar development. I firmly believe that, in 2013 and beyond, the Asia-Pacific region's future prosperity should rest on them as well.
安倍晋三氏が2012年12月27日に、国際NPO団体「Project Syndicate」に発表した英語論文『Asia's Democratic Security Diamond』


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Your modest cable box may soon serve as a game console that can stream high-end game content running on powerful remote servers. That's according to a Bloomberg report that says AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Cox Communications are all in talks to bring streaming game technology to their subscribers.
The news agency cites unnamed sources, reporting that data streaming specialists Playcast, CiiNOW, and Agawi are being courted by the cable providers to set up game-serving technology that could begin tests as early as next year. The cable companies themselves weren't willing to officially confirm the plans, but AT&T told Bloomberg it is "exploring unique ways to offer cloud gaming services to our TV and broadband customers."
The report comes during a time of uncertainty for the future of streaming games as a concept. Major streaming game service OnLive recently went through a painful restructuring after failing to attract enough customers for its heavily marketed game streaming service, which required heavy investment in backend technology.
Cable TV providers might have a technical leg up on services like OnLive, though, because their existing infrastructure provides direct, high-speed data connection directly into subscribers' homes through coaxial and fiber optic connections. Streaming games through cable TV infrastructure has some precedent internationally—Playcast powers streaming game services for cable subscribers in Singapore and South Korea, and CiiNOW is conducting trials of similar services in Europe.
Theoretically, cable-powered streaming game services in the US could work with slightly modified versions of the relatively cheap, low-end set-top boxes that already decode cable TV signals, obviating the need for consumers to buy expensive high-end consoles or PCs to play the latest games. Some big-name players in the high-end hardware game seem to already be recognizing the potential threat to their traditional business model: Sony recently bought streaming game service Gaikai for $380 million and graphics card maker Nvidia is investing heavily in "virtualized GPU" technology to power its own streaming service.


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The notion of Richard Harris -- macho, heavy drinking, two-fisted man's man -- as a popular singer would have seemed an absurdity to anyone who knew his work in 1967, ten years into his career. In less than a year from that time, however, Harris would be the most popular actor-singer in the history of popular music, with a gold record to his credit and radio play that rivaled the Beatles.
The son of a miller, Richard Harris was educated at the Sacred Heart Jesuit College, and later studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His stage debut took place in 1956, and he made his first film appearance in 1958 in Alive and Kicking, a British film. He appeared in key supporting roles in big-budget movies like The Guns of Navarone and Mutiny on the Bounty (where he outshone Marlon Brando's Fletcher Christian), but it was his performance in This Sporting Life (1963) propelled him to a major international career. For most of the mid-'60s, Harris was among the most visible of British (or, more properly, Irish) actors in international cinema, alongside the likes of Michael Caine and Sean Connery, although he seldom played starring roles; Cromwell (1970) was such a rarity, but it was A Man Called Horse that same year that turned him into a popular culture icon, and yielded two sequels over the next 13 years.
It was his performance as King Arthur in Warner Bros.' 1967 screen version of Lerner and Loewe's musical Camelot that made people begin to think of Harris as a singer. As directed by Joshua Logan, the movie was monumentally long and sluggish, but Harris proved an electrifying presence and revealed himself as a better actor-singer than Rex Harrison, who had done the role on Broadway and on the original cast album. To a great extent, Harris talked his songs in a manner similar to Harrison, but he also put a lot of an actor's performance into the material, so that one swore it was an attractive singing voice that one was hearing. The soundtrack album on Warner Bros. remained in print for decades, and was more profitable than the movie itself.
A year later, he was approached by his friend, songwriter Jimmy Webb, with a proposed epic-length pop project, and Harris agreed to record it. The recording was eventually placed with Lou Adler's Dunhill label, and the song "MacArthur Park," clocking in at seven-and-a-half minutes, rose to number two on the American charts and shattered AM radio's established prohibition against playing singles of greater than three-and-a-half minutes' length. The accompanying album A Tramp Shining was one of the great pop LPs of the 1960s, a sophisticated and extraordinarily well-produced concept album (which owed a considerable debt to Sgt. Pepper's) to rival any of Sinatra's efforts in that direction.
Harris continued working in movies (although he never did another musical along the lines of Camelot, despite "MacArthur Park's" success), but he also found himself in demand as a recording artist. He did a second album with Webb writing and producing, The Yard Went on Forever, which may have been an even better collection of material (and definitely featured a stronger vocal performance from Harris), even though it didn't sell nearly as well or yield any hits. His subsequent records included My Boy and The Richard Harris Love Album (which pulled some of the best romantic numbers from his previous records), and well into the early '70s, three years after it had been on the charts, Harris was still prevailed upon to perform "MacArthur Park" during his talk-show appearances. The record became so closely associated with Harris that his friend Malachi McCourt was able to satirize it as he performed a mock version on one live show, and it was later parodied on the Canadian satirical revue series SCTV -- in one installment, a Harris impersonator begins a performance of the song on a parody talk-show, and the camera cuts away during the extended instrumental break; the comedy moved on to other subjects and settings, but would cut back every few minutes to "Harris" sitting there waiting for the band to finish the extended break. More recently, Weird Al Yankovic has done an award-winning video, "Jurassic Park," using the lyrics from "MacArthur Park."
In 1970, Harris sang the part of the Doctor in the Lou Adler-produced orchestrated version of Tommy, featuring Roger Daltrey, Rod Stewart, and Ringo Starr; his part was taken over by Peter Sellers for a handful of live benefit performances in London. He also recorded a spoken-word album of his reading of poet Kahil Gibran's The Prophet, which was popular at the time and remains a much sought-after LP (and was also reissued on CD in the mid-'90s).
Harris' acting career remained strong right into the end of the 1970s, including very well received performances in Juggernaut (1974), Robin and Marion (1976), and The Wild Geese (1978), although these were counterbalanced by starring roles in popular junk movies like Orca (1977), sort of the equivalent of Michael Caine's work in movies like The Island and Blame It on Rio, which make a fortune but make everybody in them look more than a little foolish at the time. Harris' health deteriorated during this period, a result of his well-publicized heavy drinking and other fast-lane activities. He withdrew from most public activities during the early '80s, gave up drinking, and spent years recovering his health on a strict dietary regimen -- he also rediscovered religion in the process, and pursued a writing career, publishing poetry and a novel. Harris re-emerged in movies during the early '90s as the star of an acclaimed drama entitled The Field, directed by Jim Sheridan, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Harris was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 2002 and died of that ailment the same year on October 25 at University College Hospital in London.
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Lillian de la Torre papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2167
Typed manuscripts of various plays; correspondence, 1966-1985; and research files on her plays, including photographs, scrapbooks, magazines, working notes, bibliographies, news clippings, and correspondence. Also contains certificates, including for Lillian's baptism (Catholic) and marriage.
Dates: 1904-1989
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So it's finally Friday, and if I'm honest, this week has been tiring and, it's 11pm here, yet I'm writing a blog post. And I know that it's a little late, however, i really wanted to share a few of the books that I hope to read in 2016.
So, first off is On The Fence by Kasie West. I wanted to read this all the way through the summer of 2015 and all through the rest of the year, so I am determined to read this book this year. If I don't, I will be thoroughly disappointed as I've been excited to read this book for what seems like forever. And, because of this book, well… Not only this book, I am now in ttal agreement of the statement "so many books, so little time"!
Secondly, I have set myself a goal of reading Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I have multiple reasons for wanting to read this book such as: the stories are set in a time that I love, so inbelieve that it will make it even more interesting, I'm really excited to read this book as I've looked through it and read little sections that have totally captured my attention and have drawn me in like a magnet! Also, this is my first own copy of claasic book that hasn't been passed down, or borrowed, so i really feel like im growing up. But we cannot forget the most important detail: F. Scott Fitzgerald is a beautiful, captivating writier who steals your attention for hours through his amazing talent of writing. Everything that I have heard of him has been amazing, and I cannot ait to read more of his novels.
One book that I've heard so much about is November 9 by Colleen Hoover. This book has been all over bookstagram lately and, surcumbing to temptation, I looked it up on Amazon. I had no idea what the book was about, and when I was dine reading the blurb, I knew that I had to read it. Ive been trying to vary the genre of book I read, and I feel as though this book would be perfect! Not only that, but it sounds as if it has a bit if mystery to it, which has made me evenmore interested to read it.
Lastly, but definitely not least, is Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare. I cannot explain in words properly and fully how excited I really am to read this book. I love the way that the three series are linked together, and that they follow on nicely from each other. Furthermore, I think that Cassandra Clare has chosen a really story to follow, as it may (so I've heard) include the characters from The Mortal Instruments (Jace, Clary, Alec, Izzy, Simon, and even Tessa and Jem). However, before I read Lady Midnight, I would like to read the Shadowhunter Academy books that are about Simon ascending and becoming a Shadowhunter ?! Also, if I remember rightly, Alec and Magnus adopting a baby?! Can I just say: Awwwwwww. Anyway, I am so excited to read Lady Midnight I cannot even explain it in an understandable fashion so I will leave it there!
I really hope that 2016 is a good reading year, as I have any more books that I want to read (about 35). I will post another blog soonish, probably a nother review then something different! Please comment down below any improvements I can make and I will try to make them happen! Thank you xxx


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Does your network run both Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT and Novell Inc.'s NetWare network operating systems? If so, you may find that your network is congested because of the extra traffic that comes from running multiple network operating systems. And the performance of network workstations may also suffer a negative impact. In this article, I'll discuss the Gateway Services for NetWare (GSNW) that comes with Windows NT. As I do, I'll explain why implementing GSNW can help your network perform better, and may even save your company money. I'll also discuss circumstances when it's better not to use a gateway.
What is GSNW?
Gateway Services for NetWare is a native Windows NT service that lets NetWare-deaf clients access a NetWare server. Even if a client has only a Microsoft Network client loaded, it can access files on a NetWare server by logging into a Windows NT server that's running this special service first. There's no magic behind the way GSNW works–it's actually quite simple. As you may know, Windows NT Server can function both as a server and a workstation. Because of its ability to function as a workstation, users can log into a Windows NT server and access resources on a NetWare server. GSNW expands on this simple idea. GSNW authenticates into a NetWare server as soon as the Windows NT server is brought online. Once running, GSNW treats the connection to a NetWare server in a similar manor to a local resource, such as a hard disk partition. As a result, Windows NT is free to distribute access to the NetWare server via a Windows share point.
Advantages of using Gateway Services for NetWare
Obviously, there are certain advantages to using such a powerful service. Under normal circumstances, Novell requires a client license for every computer that logs into a NetWare server. Microsoft claims that because GSNW consumes only one connection, legally you need only one client license to the NetWare server. As you can imagine, if you accept this way of thinking, you can save a considerable amount of money by not buying multiple NetWare client licenses. If your conscience gets the better of you, you can enforce your NetWare client license limit through the gateway. As I mentioned earlier, GSNW attaches clients to the NetWare server via a Windows NT share point. After establishing the NetWare gateway, you manually tell Windows NT where you want each share to point. At the same time, you can use a radio button in the same dialog box to limit the number of clients allowed to simultaneously access the share point. You can either choose to allow an unlimited number of clients to use the share point, or limit access to the number of NetWare client licenses you have.
Reduced memory and overhead requirements
As you might imagine, reconfiguring your network to use GSNW can be quite a chore. Thankfully, this hard work has benefits besides a questionable licensing technicality. One such advantage is the lower memory requirements and processing overhead on the client machines. As you may recall, in the days of DOS, it was practically impossible to load a NetWare client and a Microsoft network client into memory and still have enough free memory to run a program. As a result, most of the time, businesses with multiple server platforms had to choose whether clients could access one or the other. Although this limitation may seem to be a non-issue in the days of Windows 98 and Windows 2000, a frightening number of businesses still use DOS. Even with all the new operating systems that have been released in the last several years, many of these businesses continue to use DOS because of its stability. (The rationale I hear most often is, "If DOS has been working flawlessly for the last 15 years, why change now?") GSNW has advantages for the rest of us non-DOS users, too. As I mentioned, running GSNW means that clients only need to have one network requester installed. As a result, clients such as Windows 98 have less overhead than if they had to juggle between two clients–and more memory and processing power are available for the applications, because less are being used by the operating system. Having fewer operating system components running simultaneously means that the chances of Windows crashing is slimmer.
Enhanced consistency
Another potential advantage of using GSNW comes into play on the administrative side. As you probably know, network problems tend to be much easier to correct if your network has some level of consistency. By having all NetWare users access the NetWare servers via the gateway, you instantly know where to look for a problem, should something go wrong.
Disadvantages of using Gateway Services for NetWare
After all the points I've made so far, it may sound as though you should immediately load GSNW without another thought. However, this isn't necessarily the case. Running GSNW has some potentially significant disadvantages, particularly from the security and performance standpoints.
Performance reductions
Performance may or may not be an issue on your network depending on several factors, including such things as:
- The number of network users
- How many NetWare servers you have
- What kind of hardware your servers use
- What those servers are used for (perhaps the most important factor)
The reason is that once you implement GSNW, all traffic destined for a NetWare server will pass through a Windows NT server to get there. As a result, the Windows NT servers must handle their own workload, plus much of the workload normally carried by the NetWare server. The problem is compounded if a single Windows NT server controls a gateway to multiple NetWare servers. Having a single Windows NT server controlling a gateway to multiple NetWare servers doesn't have to be a big deal. If the Windows NT server is a dedicated gateway and the NetWare servers are only used for routine file sharing, you probably won't have many problems, as long as your hardware is sufficient. However, if any of those NetWare servers normally experience a high volume of disk access, or if the Windows NT server is used heavily for other purposes, running GSNW may not be the right choice for your network.
Minimizing bottlenecks
Just because one or more of your servers has a high volume of disk activity doesn't necessarily mean you have to give up on implementing a NetWare gateway. You can take some steps to minimize the impact of the gateway's bottlenecks. One of the best things you can do is to place the Windows NT server and the NetWare servers on a separate LAN from the workstations. As you might recall, Windows NT is capable of using two or more network cards and routing traffic between them. Simply connect one network card to the same hub your workstations are attached to. Connect the other network card to a different hub, and plug the NetWare servers into this hub. At minimum, the hub that connects to all the servers should run at 100Mbps. It would be nice to have high-speed hubs for the rest of the network as well, but it's more important for the servers to be attached to high-speed hubs than for the workstations to be. Isolating the servers on separate networks limits the amount of traffic that must flow across each network and improves productivity. For example, the protocol of choice for most Windows NT networks is TCP/IP, primarily because TCP/IP is routable and is the protocol required for Internet access. NetWare networks use the Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Package Exchange (IPX/SPX) protocol. On a network that contains both NetWare servers and Windows NT servers but no gateway, every client must use IPX/SPX and TCP/IP. Therefore, the network quickly becomes congested with traffic, because most machines send every transmission twice (once for each protocol). By segmenting your network, you cut the amount of network traffic in half. The TCP/IP traffic is isolated to the workstations and the IPX/SPX traffic remains on the server side. The only machine that runs both protocols is the gateway Windows NT server. Even on this machine, the protocols can be isolated by adjusting the bindings between the network cards and the protocols.
Security issues
Another issue to consider when implementing the GSNW is security. GSNW essentially does away with any security on the NetWare server, because the gateway uses one user account to access the NetWare server. This account usually has administrative privileges on the NetWare server. Therefore, any user who authenticates to the NetWare server via the gateway will have the same permissions as the gateway account. The only real way to get around this problem is to create multiple gateway share points. You can establish read-only access, full access, or no access to each share point. If some users need to have read-only access to a directory, whereas other users have full access or no access, you can create a single share and set the permissions through Windows NT. The real problem comes in setting access to subdirectories. For example, suppose that you have a directory called accounts. Now, suppose that beneath the accounts directory, you have directories called A, B, and C. If the share point points to the accounts directory, then users will have the same rights to any subdirectories beneath accounts that they have to the accounts directory. For example, if a user has full access to accounts through a gateway share, then they automatically have full access to A, B, and C. The only way to prevent this access would be to create a share for A, another share for B, and still another share for C. You could then set the appropriate rights for each share. Although this may sound like a viable solution, it typically results in an excessive number of shares. This arrangement can be especially confusing if your users are accustomed to having a network drive letter mapped to each available share. Another problem results from overlapping permissions. In another example, suppose that your NetWare server has the directory structure I used in the previous example. Now, create separate share points for accounts, A, B, and C. If a user needs read-only access to everything and needs full access to B, you might think that the easy way to set his access is to grant read-only rights to accounts and let those rights propagate to the subdirectories. You can then grant full access to B. The problem with doing so is that you're working with share permissions rather than NTFS permissions. As a result, if the user tries to access B through the accounts share, he will still have the read-only permission associated with the accounts share point. The only way for him to get full access to B is to go directly to the B share. As you can see, the permissions problems can be solved, but it may be difficult for the end users to get used to.
In this article, I've discussed the pros and cons of setting up a Windows NT gateway to a NetWare server. I then went on to discuss some other issues that you'll face with performance and licensing if you do choose to establish such a gateway, and talked about solutions to some potential problems with Gateway Services For NetWare.
Brien M. Posey (firstname.lastname@example.com) is an MCSE who works as a freelance technical writer and as a network engineer for the Department of Defense.