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Feature Articles - Women and WWI - Women in the Workforce: Temporary Men
One immediate result of the war's outbreak was the rise in female unemployment, especially among the servants, whose jobs were lost to the middle-classes' wish to economise.
However, it was soon seen that the only option to replace the volunteers gone to the front was employing women in the jobs they had left behind; conscription only made this need even more urgent as had the Munitions of Work Act 1915 by which munitions factories had fallen under the sole control of the Government.
As the main historian of women's work, Gail Braybon, claims, for many women the war was "a genuinely liberating experience" (link) that made them feel useful as citizens but that also gave them the freedom and the wages only men had enjoyed so far. Approximately 1,600,000 women joined the workforce between 1914 and 1918 in Government departments, public transport, the post office, as clerks in business, as land workers and in factories, especially in the dangerous munitions factories, which were employing 950,000 women by Armistice Day (as compared to 700,000 in Germany).
Women's job mobility also increased enormously, with a large number of women abandoning service for factory work never to return to it to the chagrin of the middle-class women that were left without home help in many cases.
In general, women did very well, surprising men with their ability to undertake heavy work and with their efficiency. By the middle of the war they were already regarded as a force to be proud of, part of the glory of Britain. However, their entrance into the workforce was initially greeted with hostility for the usual sexist reasons and also because male workers worried that women's willingness to work for lower wages would put them out of work.
The Government, besides, combined a welfare policy offering subsidies to families with husbands at the front with increasing female work in order to conscript skilled workers formerly regarded as indispensable to the war effort. To make up for the loss in the skilled workforce the entry of women in factories was often facilitated by 'dilution', that is to say, the breaking down of complex tasks into simpler activities that non-skilled women workers could easily carry out.
The women employed in munitions factories, popularly known as munitionettes have became the most visible face of the woman worker in WWI, though doubt remains as to whether their motivation was patriotic or simply economic. The factories they manned had been seized by Lloyd George's Government and he also caused suspension of all trade union activities in them.
Munitionettes produced 80% of the weapons and shells used by the British Army and daily risked their lives working with poisonous substances without adequate protective clothing or the required safety measures. Although this can be seen as a gauge of their will to sacrifice everything for Britain it should be read, rather, as part of their treatment as cheap, easily replaceable labour.
The public recognition and sympathy that the 'canaries' (thus nicknamed for the yellow tinge that skin exposed to sulphur acquired) received could not make up for their work conditions. Leading trade-unionist Mary MacArthur, Secretary since 1903 of the Women's Trade Union League, led an energetic campaign to demand they were paid as much as the men employed in the same industry - the women only got half the men's wages - but by the end of the war the proportion was roughly still the same.
The Government also invited women to join the ranks of the Women's Land Army, an organisation that offered cheap female labour to farmers not always keen to employ women. The 260,000 volunteers that made up the WLA were given little more than a uniform and orders to work hard as the fuel restrictions made a return to manual agricultural labour unavoidable; unless, that is, the Government used this as an excuse, counting on these women's cheerful acceptance of any hardship to make working the land as cheap as possible.
It's hard to say whether women workers understood from the beginning that their employment could only be temporary but so it was. The same situation was repeated in the main belligerent countries: women were dismissed back home to make room for the returning veterans, only in some cases their efforts were thanked with the right to vote. There are, besides, disagreements among historians, depending on whether they call themselves feminist or not, as to how much resentment this return home generated.
We must assume single women in families with no male casualties must have been more resentful than married women whose families had faced important loses or whose husbands had returned safely from the front. It's important to remember at any rate, as Joanna Bourke does, that for women "Even more traumatic [than losing jobs] was the painful process of readjusting to the return of loved ones from the battlefields. Hundred of thousands of men returned from the war injured in some way. Women bore a large part of the burden of caring for these men. Even worse, women lost their fathers, husbands, lovers, brothers, and sons. For these women, life would never be the same." Nor would it be for the men; they, however, needn't fight for their right to have a job.
There is, therefore, a generalised consensus among historians that women were not truly emancipated by the Great War in any country involved in it. Ute Daniel explains in The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War that this was indeed the case for German women, noting that WWI's most important outcome was shifting German factory women workers from one sector to another. She is quite critical that safety standards in factories fell back to 19th century standards and that women only acquired superficial skills as they were expected to be soon demobilised.
In Germany pronatalist policies together with an expanding welfare state focused on the family seem to have overruled the more pragmatic British and French approaches to using women in the war effort. Interestingly, Daniel points out that the German Government did not foresee how the scarcity of consumer goods - especially food - and the pressure this put on women would eventually create pockets of discontent that would undermine the women's support for the war effort.
In Britain the gains were also modest, clashing not only with the upper and middle-class women's desire to conquer a firm foothold in the professions but also with working women's trade unionism. Leaders like Margaret Bonfield saw with dismay that the 1915 Board of Trade call for women to register at the Labour Exchange would work against the efforts of trade unions, saturating the job market with women happy to work for the lowest wages. She and Mary MacArthur tried to redress the situation asking that all women employed for war service became trade union members and that they got the same wages as men. They failed in both accounts.
As Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield observe in Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars, (1987: 69), only women welders, tutored by the Women's Service Bureau, managed to form during the war a compact, skilled, unionised group though this needn't mean they did stay in their jobs. Joanna Burke adds that while by 1918 around 1,000,000 women were members of female trade unions, their wages did not significantly grow (Women and Employment on the Home Front During World War One, BBC) because of dilution: "By 1931, a working woman's weekly wage had returned to the pre-war situation of being half the male rate in more industries."
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A student in one of my recent classes told me that her favorite vegetable is shallots. I was amused at first – I mean, who puts shallots at the top of their list? And then I started thinking about it. Shallots are pretty amazing. They are sweeter than onions with more complex flavor. They are delicious simply pan-fried, add so much to any soup or stew, they are a mainstay in my salad dressings, and they turn into something downright addictive when allowed to get crispy and set atop something like a rice bowl or even a green bean casserole. That is one pretty awesome vegetable. Broccoli is my favorite and I don't think it brings nearly as much to the party as the shallot.
I had never roasted shallots and I figured, after realizing how much I love them, that it was time. Time to roast them with thyme. Sorry. I'm a little punchy these days. Ahem. This is what I think of as a well-behaved side dish. It is easy, not time consuming, has few ingredients, and can be made in advance. They come out of the oven soft, smoky, sweet, and with that wonderful sour wine-i-ness that comes from balsamic vinegar put in a hot oven. As they sit, they mellow even more. I tend to think of side dishes as green vegetables, but this dish was such a welcome change. I served these alongside a filo dish with artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes and they were perfect.
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Roasted Shallots
Adapted from Fields of Greens
Serves 4
1 pound shallots
Olive oil
1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 fresh thyme sprigs
Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Cut the ends off the shallots and peel them. If you are struggling with getting the skin off, make a shallow cut along the length of the shallot and then peel. Place them on a small baking sheet and drizzle them lightly with olive oil. Pour on the balsamic vinegar and sprinkle with a good pinch of salt and a few grinds of pepper. Use a rubber spatula or your hands to mix well. Lay down the time sprigs and cover the pan with foil. Bake for 20 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for another 15 minutes. Remove and discard the thyme sprigs. Allow to cool and serve.

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The Obama administration government is close to an agreement with the Iranian government to achieve a decade's long goal. Iran would give up any plans it might have to develop nuclear weapons (verified by international inspections) in exchange for the lifting of some international sanctions that are doing significant damage to the Iranian economy.
This development -- the possibility of ending any Iranian nuclear threat and ultimately normalizing relations with Iran after a four decade freeze -- was made possible by an event few anticipated. That was the election of a moderate Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, who has been authorized by the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to explore if the United States (and the Europeans) are serious about peace in exchange for a no-weapons pledge. Fortunately, in the Obama administration, the Iranians have a negotiating partner that is eager to improve U.S.-Iran relations if Iran gives up the nuclear bomb option.
Negotiations commenced and moved more swiftly than anyone expected. A week ago Secretary of State John Kerry was about to announce the first step toward a breakthrough when, apparently, the French government objected, putting the process on hold and giving the Israel lobby the opening it wanted to kill the negotiations. By itself, of course, the French position counts for very little in Washington. Two examples: the French opposed the Iraq war and they supported bombing Syria. They were simply ignored. No, France does not count for much in Washington. But the lobby, that is a whole other thing.
Nonetheless, the French have provided the delay the lobby needed. And it has gone to work. Here is the Anti-Defamation League's Abraham Foxman saying that Kerry's Iran opening is "chutzpah" that he hopes "will unite American Jews" in opposition. Here is Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer and pro-Israel spokesman, likening Kerry to Neville Chamberlain and, like Foxman, saying that the "entire pro-Israel community must unite" against the Iran deal.
Far more significant than either is the memo that the official lobby, AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) sent to Congress:
To avoid any misunderstanding in Tehran, America must clearly signal that it will consider no easing of sanctions until Iran has verifiably suspended its nuclear program. If Iran's nuclear activities continue, the United States and the international community should escalate sanctions and reinforce President Obama's message that a credible military option is on the table to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Not surprisingly, AIPAC's position is identical to that of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the very opposite of the Kerry approach. As is normal in any successful negotiations, Kerry is utilizing a step-by-step approach: offering some lifting of sanctions in exchange for some verifiable evidence that Iran is moving toward eliminating its nuclear weapons potential. AIPAC (and Netanyahu) are demanding that first Iran suspend its entire nuclear program (they make no distinction between civilian and military) and then the United States will consider the "easing of sanctions." Chutzpah?
Given that the statement itself quickly segues to a military threat ("credible military option"), it is obvious that Netanyahu and the lobby understand that no country would accept a deal in which it gives up everything in exchange for maybe something later. No, the goal of the lobby's position is achieving the "military option." And that is what is so amazing about the lobby's position.
It is one thing for the lobby to constantly thwart America's efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Although it is short-sighted and not in the interests of the United States or Israel, the lobby's position does not directly fly in the face of U.S. security interests. Yes, one can argue that continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will ultimately threaten American lives and regional interests in general. But that is a supposition, one that is not provable.
The Iran case is different because the Obama administration is seeking to avoid a war that would jeopardize American lives. Once the bombs fly, the United States would be in another deadly Middle Eastern war, which is the last thing the United States wants. As was demonstrated by the Syria debate, the American people virtually stand as one in opposition to another war.
But the lobby apparently feels differently. Although it says (following Netanyahu) that its goal is to prevent an Iranian bomb, it is rejecting the administration's surprisingly successful effort to achieve that result by laying down conditions that it knows cannot be fulfilled. It wants the "military option" because its goal is not eliminating any Iranian nuclear threat but in eliminating the Islamic Republic as a regional power.
In theory, neither the lobby nor Netanyahu should be able to get away with any of this. After all, the administration is acting in the interests of the United States while they are acting in support of Netanyahu's.
But they might get away with it. That is because Congress may allow them to. Republicans oppose everything President Obama does. By definition, if he does it, it is wrong. Choosing Netanyahu over a president they despise is as natural to them as shutting down the government or refusing to confirm judicial appointments. As for the Democrats, they receive a significant amount of their campaign funding from the lobby. Unlike supporting the Syrian intervention which was a minor lobby initiative, thwarting an agreement with Iran in favor of the military option is the lobby's (and Netanyahu's) number one initiative. Those who support negotiations could literally pay a price for it.
But it would not be as much of a price as Netanyahu and the lobby would like them to believe. According to the polls (see the American Jewish Committee poll here and the recent Pew poll here), the overwhelming majority of American Jews are progressives who support Democrats because they find the Republicans to be antithetical to every value they hold dear. Jews are overwhelmingly pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-affirmative action, pro-labor, pro-immigration, pro-regulation and, to put it in Republican terms, pro-big government. No matter how much money they may earn, Jews don't object to paying higher taxes to help those who don't.
They are, unlike today's Republicans, compassionate liberals and no matter how much money a renegade like Sheldon Adelson spends to make them forget Jewish values, they refuse. (Almost three quarters of the Jewish vote went for Obama in 2008 and 2012). As for Israel, polls show that although most Jews care about Israel, hardly any choose between the two parties based on Israel. They certainly are not going to switch from the party of Barack Obama and Joe Biden to the party of Ted Cruz and Rand Paul because Obama negotiated a nuclear deal with Iran. On the contrary, the overwhelming majority of Jews will applaud.
But forget all that. When it comes to real matters of national security -- like avoiding an unnecessary war -- the president and Congress need to do the right thing without regard what any lobby is saying. The supreme national interest -- American lives -- must come first. And the lobby and Netanyahu need to be told that they are, to put it gently, out of line.
For the sake of world peace, of Israel and Iran, and, above all, of the United States, these negotiations must succeed.


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Video [ENG] Pilgrims - BBC on Medjugorje (5 parts)
Date: December 9, 2010
Category: Documentary , Medjugorje Pilgrimages , Wide screen
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Pilgrims - BBC documentary on Medjugorje - Part 1
The story of the thousands of Northern Irish pilgrims who flock to the controversial shrine of Medjugorje. Every year around 25,000 people from Northern Ireland travel to the unlikely destination of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the small town of Medjugorje. But sun, sand and silly souvenirs are not high on the list of priorities for these holiday makers, rather they are searching for spiritual enlightenment; for a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and for cures for everything from addiction and loneliness to cancer.
Pilgrims looks into these issues of faith and spirituality as it follows a group of pilgrims from Northern Ireland as they make their way to the world-renowned shrine in the small town of Medjugorje.


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For this one, though, I thought I would get away from the placid tropical scenes. I wanted instead to depict a world on the very edge of being ripped apart be the tidal forces of a huge nearby planet.
Believe it or not, as I was researching a proper name for this piece I learned that the landscape I imagined is not entirely fantastical! I love science!!


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$3.2 million yacht sinks in Lake Tahoe marina
Witnesses at the Tahoe Keys Marina say they heard screeching, the sound of tearing metal, and a passenger yell "oh, no!" late Sunday night.
By about 3 a.m. Monday, a three-story, $3.2 million yacht so big that it has its own helicopter pad was sunk, one end of it touching the South Lake Tahoe marina bottom at a Titanic-esque tilt.
It's still not clear what sent the Sierra Rose to the lake bed, where it remained partially submerged Tuesday and waiting for a private contractor to remove it sometime within the next few days.
Witness Heather Contreras, who was visiting the marina from Turlock, Calif., told the Tahoe Daily Tribune that more than a dozen people were on the vessel at the time of the screeching noise. The luxury liner didn't immediately sink, and some people stayed on it for more than an hour after the apparent mishap, she said.
Nobody was injured, marina general manager Robert Spinnato said.
On Monday, a big-screen TV, leather couches and floating slices of bread were visible inside the partially submerged watercraft, which was billed as the largest noncommercial boat on Lake Tahoe as recently as 2006.
Agents listed on the boat's tourist rental website declined to comment to the Associated Press about the situation.
A website detailing the three-room, three-bathroom Sierra Rose for potential renters says it's inspired by the streamlined luxury vessels of the 1930s, but with state-of-the-art amenities. Features include granite counters, remote-controlled fireplaces, mahogany floors, a spa and custom crystal and china.
The boat rented for $2,000 a night, according to a brochure from 2008-09, or $8,000 for four hours.
El Dorado County Environmental Health Manager Barbara Houghton said the sewage and fuel tanks were sealed and hadn't leaked into the lake, but she said inspectors from the county would be on hand to monitor efforts to pull it out of the marina. Houghton said that could happen as early as Tuesday.
While the sunken vessel sat unceremoniously in the water, at least a few homeowners in the area were saying good riddance.
Several complained to the Reno Gazette-Journal that they thought the yacht was too big, and blocked views of the alpine lake.
"It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen," Tahoe Keys Property Association front desk clerk Ron Parker said, according to the newspaper. "My idea is it was so ugly someone had to sink it."


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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just told the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt that Instagram, the photo-sharing app Facebook bought for $1 billion in April, already has 100 million registered users.
Earlier today we reported that since April, Instagram has grown from 860,000 daily active users to 11 million – 1200% growth.
The acquisition was a home run. Today, Instagram would cost Facebook a much great percentage of its market cap than it did in April (about 1%).
Zuckerberg also discussed Facebook's plans for Instagram. It sounds like he wants to keep it pretty independent, similar to the way Google handled YouTube.
"We want to help it grow to hundreds of millions of users. We have no agenda into making them going into our infrastructure. We're going to do the things we would have done if they were an Open Graph partner, but we'll be able to prioritize them."


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This cake requires some explanation and a little Kelly History lesson. 😀 When Kelly was about 18 months old, she discovered "White Baby". There were actually two babies– White Baby and Blue Baby– which were leftover jumbo beanie babies from the late 90s. She played with both, but White Baby became her favorite, and she couldn't live without her.
This is Kelly and White baby in 2003:
Awww, look how cute they were back then! Through the years, White baby has gone through the washing machine more times than I can count, until a few years ago when I decided that one more trip might do her in. Several years ago, Mike and I were talking about how sad it will be when White Baby goes the way of all the earth. He decided to immortalize her in a photo montage and presented it to Kelly for Christmas. Here is Kelly today with White Baby and the photo montage that her Daddy so lovingly prepared for her. (It usually hangs on her bedroom wall– and it's really dusty!!)
Isn't that the cutest? I thought that was so sweet of Mike. Poor White Baby is looking pretty rough these days. She has a bad case of the mange.
When Kelly told me that she wanted a "Stuffed Animal" themed cake this year, I thought it might be fun to do a White Baby cake for her.
I'm not very experienced at fondant modeling, but I decided to give it a try. I did three figures, each one imitating the pictures in her photo montage.
Some close ups:
Probably a little too close-up, since you can see all of my mistakes! Oh well.
I have a favorite cake decorating buttercream that I've used for years, but I decided to try my newly discovered cupcake icing and see how it would do for cake decorating– borders, flowers, etc. It worked awesome! I did a border with tip 101 roses, and it worked beautifully for those.
Kelly wanted lemon filling, so I flavored the frosting with 2 tsp. of lemon emulsion to go along with it, and it was so delicious! I will definitely be using that again and again.
Mike commented yesterday about how presentation is everything. We were just doing a small party with our family and some cousins, so I didn't want a huge cake, but I wanted it to look special. This whole thing was only one cake mix. I did two 6-inch layers for the top cake, and used the rest of the batter to make mini cupcakes. That's all pretty small stuff, but presented on a tiered cake stand, it looked a lot bigger and more exciting than it really was!
Happy birthday to my Kelly!


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Microsoft has been busy promoting Windows 7 for quite some time. Redmond has talked a lot about performance, usability and manageability, but has said less about security. This isn't surprising. By improving security with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and in Windows Vista, Microsoft significantly enhanced Windows' reputation. There are still lots of new security features in Windows 7, however. Here are my top five.
Multiple Firewall ProfilesThe Windows Firewall in Vista had just one big flaw, which Microsoft fixed in Windows 7. Both Vista and Windows 7 dynamically change which network traffic is allowed or blocked based on the location of your computer. Generally this works well, at least until your computer is connected to more than one network at the same time. When this happens, Vista applies the most secure profile to all connections, blocking some essential communications over the trusted network. Windows 7, though, can apply a separate firewall profile to each network connection.
BitLocker To GoBitLocker To Go gives users a convenient way to encrypt flash drives. It includes data-recovery capabilities and can be managed with Group Policy. Having removable media encryption built right into the OS makes it easier for most organizations to ensure that portable data remains confidential.
Direct AccessVirtual private networks (VPNs) have become an essential part of today's network infrastructure, but users often struggle with them and IT spends a lot of time maintaining VPN infrastructures. Direct Access promises secure connections to corporate networks from anywhere; once it's in place, remote clients can transparently connect to corporate resources without having to deal with a VPN. This feature alone should be reason enough to move all your mobile users to Windows 7.
AppLockerIt seems as though the folks at Microsoft who come up with feature names want to put a lock on everything. However, AppLocker is less about locking than about controlling which users can run which applications. Ordinary users may not be able to install new programs on their computers. They can, however, run many programs without installing them. Getting those programs on a computer is as easy as downloading them from the Internet or copying them from a flash drive. A prime example of this is the Google Chrome browser, which users can run without administrative privileges. Many IT organizations discover this when they realize that users are bypassing settings carefully designed for Internet Explorer. AppLocker addresses this problem and lets IT centrally configure who can run which application. AppLocker checks each program against corporate policies when a user tries to start it. Though it can be difficult to implement in a large organization, IT can get some immediate benefits by rolling AppLocker out to highly managed workstations.
User Account ControlUser Account Control (UAC) is one of Vista's most maligned features. Designed to alert IT professionals of anything that requires elevated privileges, it dims the screen and requires an IT pro to approve the desired action. In theory, this in-your-face approach is a great idea, ensuring that nothing runs without IT's approval. In practice, IT pros have to perform approvals for many routine tasks. As a result, many IT people have turned off UAC and thus disabled a truly useful security feature. In Windows 7, you can turn on UAC without it displaying warnings for programs you started. This means no more screen-dimming each time you start the Microsoft Management Console -- but you're still alerted if a Web page tries to change system settings or install unauthorized programs. If you disabled UAC in Vista, do yourself a favor and turn it on again once you've moved to Windows 7.
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The new Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital site has been a beehive of activity since groundwork began in earnest in early August. HBE Corporation has awarded bids on subcontracts for the new hospital, and work remains on track for construction completion by summer 2014, according to Project Manager Amy Ford. There is a substantial certification process needed to be completed before patients can move in that will take many months.
"Over the past year, I have seen all the hard work and progress that was required just to get us to the point of breaking ground," said Rick Bockmann, CEO at Howard Memorial Hospital in a press release. "It is really satisfying to visit the site and observe signs of progress each day that bring us closer to our goal of opening our new hospital in early 2015."
Earthwork, excavations and storm drains have been the main priority for the project, as construction crews successfully raced raindrops to get the first concrete poured before winter rains began.
Everything came together as planned, and concrete was poured for the top-priority area on October 15, beating the rains by several days. As weather permits, more earthwork and concrete is on tap for the next few months with first-floor structural steel expected to begin going up as early as December, according to the original schedule. The schedule has allocated a significant number of potential rain delays, especially during this first phase.
The new 75,000-square-foot hospital will be two stories tall. The larger first floor will house the emergency room, with six standard treatment bays and two trauma bays; the laboratories; medical imaging facilities; four operating suites and a procedure room, including 10 pre- and post-operation beds; the administrative offices; kitchen and dining room.
The second floor will house 21 regular medical beds; four intensive care beds; pharmacy; and physical therapy facilities. The emergency room will have access to a helipad on the grounds, which will be equipped to receive and transport critical patients.
No plans have been announced on the future disposition of the current hospital facilities.
"I am so very pleased we could bring in subcontractors who are locally based in Northern California," said Ford. All major subcontractors, including excavation and site work, structural steel, steel reinforcing, concrete, HVAC, fire protection, electrical, plumbing and drywall are based in Northern California.
Jay Lewis is the onsite HBE project representative. Lewis has substantial construction and supervisorial experience including building six prior hospitals.
New California hospital construction requires extensive on-site inspection and monitoring by the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
A video animation depicting a 360-degree view of the final structure can be found at www.howardhospital.org. Pictures of the construction also are being posted on the website.


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As the world struggles to understand the events and implications of civil unrest in Egypt, one person has emerged as a major authority in Western media: Mona Eltahawy. Let's find out more about her.
On television, on Twitter, and on the op-ed pages of major newspapers, Eltahawy has been drawing on her experience reporting in the region, as well as her family background in Egypt. Based in New York and living in the U.S. for a decade, her background is in traditional journalism, having reported across the Middle East and North Africa for Reuters and other news organizations. But blogging and Twitter have allowed her to have both a steady presence in the current conversation about democracy in North Africa and the Middle East and to connect with the less-prominent voices speaking out there. Though Egyptian by birth, she's spent large chunks of her life living abroad, including in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the UK, and refers to herself on her website as "an Egyptian from the inside and outside."
Of what's happening now in Egypt, she recently wrote in The Guardian,
How did they do it? Why now? What took so long? These are the questions I face on news shows scrambling to understand. I struggle with the magnitude of my feelings of watching as my country revolts and I give into tears when I hear my father's Arabic-inflected accent in the English of Egyptian men screaming at television cameras through tear gas: "I'm doing this for my children. What life is this?"
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In her more politically-focused analysis, Eltahawy has already managed to get CNN to stop using "chaos" and "crisis," and using "revolt" or "uprising" instead, saying, "Egyptians want to fix Egypt, they don't want to destroy Egypt." Less than an hour later, CNN actually changed its onscreen headline from "chaos in Egypt" to "uprising in Egypt." (Reducing whatever's happening to chaos is a good way to establish legitimacy for any violent restoration of "order.")
Eltawahy's analysis and commentary has cast a wide net. Last year, on International Women's Day, Eltahawy started publishing on her blog readers' stories of how menstruation was used to hold women back.
It was inspired by a young Egyptian woman called Eman Hashim who wrote to tell me via Twitter that at a demonstration she attended in support of women judges in Egypt, a man who opposed the appointments of women to the State Council, an influential court which governs matters of administrative law in Egypt, yelled at the women "a woman menstruates so she shouldn't be a judge". A male lawyer yelled "Go home and cook for your husbands."
She also offered a stinging take on how "Burka Barbie" reflected the ways Muslims are represented to the world:
As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for "Muslim" and "woman" equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc. Her male equivalent is Angry Bearded Muslim Man. Whenever the Muslim world is supposed to be upset or offended, invariably that story is illustrated by images of Angry Bearded Muslim man marching, shouting, fists raised in the air in righteous anger and burning something: an American flag, an Israeli flag, preferably both.
In those images you have conveyed all you want to say about Muslims: the men are angry, dangerous and want to hurt us; the women are just covered in black.
Eltawahy calls herself a feminist; here she is on Bloggingheads talking about feminism's compatibility with Islam, and here she is talking about where she parts from an earlier generation of Muslim feminists. And it doesn't take much digging to find that Eltahawy's critics — who call her an "Israel normalizer," disagree with her support of France's niqab ban, and generally accuse her of being a neocon — have also availed themselves of some pretty sexist descriptions. Looks like Eltawahy can more than handle it. She recently wrote, "To be a Muslim and a feminist is to stand in the crossfire and yell "Shut the f**k up!" to everyone around you because you know that anything you say can and will be used against you by everyone."
For more on women's roles in the current situation, check out this interview with Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian human rights activist and former political prisoner. She says, "Women and girls are, beside the boys, are in the streets. We are calling for justice, freedom and equality, and real democracy, and a new constitution where there is no discrimination between men and women, no discrimination between Muslim and Christians, to change the system and to have real democracy."
Mona Eltahawy [Twitter]
We've Waited for This Revolution For Years [The Guardian]
Feminist Islam? [Bloggingheads]
Me And The Feminists [Mona Eltahawy Blog]
What's Under Your Burka, Barbie? [Huffington Post]


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Bindeshwar Pathak, who launched India`s first paid toilet way back in 1974 told CNBC that there were just not enough toilets in a country of a billion people.
"You need private companies to take on the mantle and there is money to be made here," said Pathak whose non-profit organization Sulabh International runs 8,000 toilets in 23 states in India, of which 5,000 are profit-making paid toilets that subsidize the others in the network.
Pathak thinks it is a viable business given the huge demand-supply gap in this sector. For example, almost 50 percent of all households in India lack toilet facilities, according to latest Indian Census figures. Now contrast this with another fact: more than 60 percent of households have a telephone connection, of which 52 percent have mobile phones.
This anomaly has caught the attention of a few entrepreneurs who are smelling cash in the toilet business. When entrepreneur Rajeev Kher started his portable toilet business Saraplast in 1999 he faced not just social ridicule from family and friends but also from banks, financiers and potential recruits. "I had no products to show, collateral to give or proven financial model to argue the case for the toilet business," he told CNBC.
It did not help either that traditionally the work of cleaning toilets in India has been culturally and socially considered the lowest form of menial labor. But Kher remained undaunted, initially sourcing demo portable toilets from Germany for free and touring the country on a pick-up truck to showcase them personally to potential customers.
The persistence paid off. After 14 years, his company has a country-wide network of 3,000 `3S Shramik` brand of toilets with 250 maintenance staff. The company had a turnover of 135 million rupees (USD 2.5 million) in 2012.
Early Mover Advantage
Delhi-based Dipesh Bhutani spotted the opportunity in portable toilets as early as 1996 when he noticed the difficulty faced by family members while shopping or attending an outdoor wedding or religious ceremony. "If this was the situation in the capital of India, I could sense that portable toilets would work and make money," said Bhutani. Today his portable toilet business under the brand `Super Loo" are available in 12 Indian cities and range from single commodes to air-conditioned toilet vans.
According to Business Innovation Facility (BIF) an international facilitator of social enterprise, in urban Indian slums alone, an estimated 75 million people have no access to individual or shared toilets. This puts the immediate demand in 2013 for urban slum toilets at 1 million seats based on a ratio of 80 per seat.
"The toilet business presents the same opportunity today that bottled water presented a couple of decades ago. Nobody thought Indians would pay for water; but they did. Now they are ready to pay for clean and hygienic toilet facilities," Kher said.
The economic prosperity of Asia`s third largest economy that has grown until recently at over 8 percent, has given rise to a consumer class that is now willing to pay for products and services that improve quality of life - from clean drinking water to toilets to hygiene products.
According to the BIF, slum households it surveyed in the three cities of Delhi, Bangalore and Pune last year were willing to pay for clean and hygienic mobile toilet facilities. In Bangalore, for example, slum residents pay Rs 300 to Rs 500 per month per family on use of brick and mortar toilets, but 69 percent of them complained of long waiting time at community toilets where the person to seat ratio was 200.
The entry barrier for portable toilets is relatively low for entrepreneurs. Compared to traditional brick-and-mortar structures, portable toilets have low set-up time, low cost-per-seat, do not need elaborate government clearance or real estate to become functional, according to market participants.
Demand is also robust in the urban market for social events, sports meets, religious gatherings, political rallies and construction sites.
"Construction sites are turning out to be a major market for our portable loos as Indian cities are pushing the pedal on new projects like airports, metros and retail, commercial and residential infrastructure," said Sorabh Singh, business development manager for ASAP Infra that branched out of real estate in 2008 to provide prefabricated construction solutions to corporates, including portable toilets. "The business of portable toilets is non-seasonal, scalable and sustainable," he added.
Investors Pour In
Seeing the growth potential of this market, venture capitalist and private equity players are also adding `toilet` assets to their portfolio. In 2009, venture capital fund Aavishkaar picked up a 21 percent stake in Saraplast for Rs 30 million.
The company is now finalizing a second round of funding to scale up operations. Kher has plans to provide more than a million toilet maintenance services a week throughout the country and also in the offing is a waste treatment plant to generate bio-energy from toilets.
"Given that the size of the sanitation market is USD 7 billion in the US where sanitation is not even a big issue, there is no reason why sanitation cannot be a USD 10 billion industry in India," said Noshir Colah, operations partner at Aavishkaar.
Clearly, a set of early movers, risk-taking entrepreneurs and far-sighted investors are hoping to make a clean sweep in the `dirty` business that others hesitate to enter.
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North Korea's behavior is even more curious because it comes as South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, took office last week calling for new dialogue with the North. Although she pledged a strong defense posture and retaliation against North Korean provocations, she called for easing tensions that grew under her predecessor.
"Given that for five years they were so angry at the previous president, Lee Myung-bak, why would they mortgage the next five years by being so difficult when a new South Korea leader is just taking office," the first official asked. "It's so very concerning."
Officials note that China, North Korea's closest ally, has demonstrated unprecedented frustration with Pyongyang's behavior.
In rare public statements, a top Chinese Communist party official suggested that China abandon North Korea and support unification with South Korea.
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Director: Wayne Wang. With Jeff Daniels, AnnaSophia Robb, Cicely Tyson, Eva Marie Saint. (106 min.)
Sterritt ** New to a small town where her father is the preacher, a young girl makes new friends including a couple of aging women and a friendly pooch she names after the grocery store where she finds him. Bland, amiable, innocuous.
Director: Agnès Varda. With Ydessa Handeles, Michel Piccoli, and many photographs. (91 min.)
Sterritt **** Three short documentaries about photography made by one of France's finest directors. "Ydessa, the Bears, and Etc." portrays an eccentric curator. "Ulysse" analyzes a photo Varda took years earlier. "Salut les Cubains" collages almost 2,000 photos she took during a Cuban sojourn. In English and French with subtitles.
Director: Francis Lawrence. With Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Peter Stormare, Tilda Swinton. (118 min.)
Sterritt ** Reeves plays a James Bond of the supernatural, tracking down demons and helping a mournful woman solve the mystery of her twin sister's suicide. The story is a retread of the old "Exorcist" and "Omen" formats, but it delivers as much action and spectacle as fans of the genre could want.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel. With Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Corinna Harfouch. (149 min.)
Sterritt **** See review.
Director: Carl Bessai. With Ian McKellen, Deborah Kara Unger, Tygh Runyan, Theo Crane. (92 min.)
Sterritt *** On a visit to Canada to receive an honorary degree, an aging man copes with old memories while trying to forge new bonds with his estranged family.
Poignant and well acted, though not very memorable.
Director: Michael Wolk. With Gary Wilson, The Blind Dates. (74 min.)
Sterritt *** Documentary about rock musician Wilson, who developed a cult following with his 1977 debut album, then dropped so far out of sight that even people wanting to reissue the record had a hard time finding him. Offbeat and entertaining.
Director: Christopher Munch. With Bryce Johnson, Rain Phoenix, Cole Williams, Michelle Phillips. (74 min.)
Sterritt ** Two adolescent brothers, both pop stars with gay proclivities, slowly come to terms with their complex relationship and their own fledgling personalities. Intermittently insightful, but a disappointment from the talented Munch.
Director: Dan Harris. With Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams. (111 min.)
Sterritt **** Harris's debut drama shows rare promise as it tracks the engrossing emotional life of a suburban family that goes through a series of crises after a
tragic event. While the ultimate message is hopeful, Harris's screenplay pulls no punches in its tragicomic portrait of two generations facing challenges they'd assumed their all-too-comfortable circumstances would shield them from. Superbly acted.
Director: Michael Schorr. With Horst Krause, Ursula Schucht, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl Fred Müller. (114 min.)
Sterritt **** Bored with retirement, an aging German realizes that it's a lot more fun to play American zydeco music than polkas on his accordion. Eventually, he makes it to the US to hear the music in person. Filmed in a leisurely, understated style, this dark comedy is downright entrancing. A spectacular directorial debut. In German and English with subtitles.
Director: Lawrence Guterman. With Alan Cumming, Jamie Kennedy, Bob Hoskins, Ryan Falconer. (94 min.)
Sterritt * Cumming's antic acting is the only asset of this boisterous comedy about Loki, the mischievous Norse god, looking for a mislaid magical mask, which a young cartoonist has now stumbled on. The special effects are ubiquitous but not very special.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi. With Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Hiresh Feysal Rahman. (98 min.)
Sterritt **** The place is Kurdistan, the time is just before the Iraq war, and the main characters are kids who earn their living any way they can, including selling land mines they find buried in the ground. Superb acting and authentic details energize this rare Iran/Iraq coproduction. In Kurdish with subtitles.
Director: Brian Levant. With Ice Cube, Nia Long, Jay Mohr, Aleisha Allen. (95 min.)
Sterritt ** You may ask yourself that question as you watch a kid-phobic man take a road trip with the kids of a single mom he wants to woo. Cube is cute and Long is lovely, but the youngsters are too smug to bear. At least there's a heartwarming end to the excursion.
Sex/Nudity: 2 instances of innuendo. Violence: 14 scenes of comic violence. Profanity: 4 mild profanities. Drugs: 1 scene with alcohol.
Director: Martin Scorsese. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale. (170 min.)
Sterritt *** Large-scale epic about the life and times of Howard Hughes, focusing on his experiences as a filmmaker, aircraft designer, and world-class eccentric. The film largely lacks the personal, idiosyncratic touches that distinguish Scorsese's greatest work, though.
Director: Gurinder Chadha. With Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Naveen Andrews, Marsha Mason. (120 min.)
Sterritt ** Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets transplanted to India in this modern-day update. (What's next? "Saris and Sensibility"?) There are even a few Bollywood-style dance sequences in this tale of an eligible bachelorette who meets an American tourist whose arrogance sparks a culture clash. Austen's comedy of social mores works well in the Indian setting and director Gurinder Chadha ("Bend It Like Beckham") infuses the tale with joyous vigor. Alas, the film collapses under the leaden performance of lead actor Martin Henderson. By Stephen Humphries
Sex/Nudity: 4 instances of innuendo. Violence: 1 fight scene. Profanity: 13 profanities. Drugs: 11 scenes with alcohol.
Director: John Polson. With Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, Famke Janssen. (101 min.)
Sterritt *** After his wife's violent death, a psychologist moves to a new country home with his daughter, who starts playing very sinister games. The acting is excellent in this gory psychological thriller.
Director: Andy Tennant. With Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Amber Valletta. (118 min.)
Sterritt ** Smith is terrific as a "date doctor" who teaches klutzy men how to woo the women they fancy. But the screenplay is silly - anything for a laugh - and the comedy is far too long. Nice work from James and Valletta, perhaps inspired by Smith's refusal to let the material drag him down.
Staff ***Witty, sweet, fashionable.
Sex/Nudity: 6 scenes of innuendo. Violence: 6 scenes.Profanity: 31 profanities.Drugs: 8 scenes of drinking.
Director: Jay Roach. With Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman. (115 min.)
Sterritt * Sequel to "Meet the Parents," with an engaged couple hoping their respective parents - including a tough-as-nails CIA retiree on one side, a touchy-feely sex therapist on the other - will get along. De Niro and Hoffman almost give comic life to this vulgar farce.
Director: Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman. (129 min.)
Sterritt **** Eastwood gives his deepest performance ever as an aging gym owner who reluctantly agrees to train a female prizefighter, played by Swank in excellent form. Going all the way with both triumph and tragedy, it's as bold as it is engrossing.
Staff *** Poignant, masterpiece, sad.
Sex/Nudity: 1 scene of innuendo. Violence: 13 fight scenes, often grisly. Profanity: 48 profanities, often harsh. Drugs: 2 scenes with drinking.
Director: Frank Nissen. With voices of Jim Cummings, Brenda Blethyn, Jimmy Bennett, David Ogden Stiers. (68 min.)
Sterritt *** Pooh and his pals - except Roo, who's too young for the trip - set out to capture a mysterious new creature who's shown up in their neck of the woods. The gentle story, told via old-fashioned "flat" animation, is perfect for young viewers.
Director: Alexander Payne. With Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church. (123 min.)
Sterritt **** Two friends, a recently divorced writer and a marriage-bound actor, spend a weekend together in rural California, running into more complications of the heart than they ever expected. This bittersweet comedy-drama positively crackles with wit.
Director: Clare Kilner. With Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Davenport. (89 min.)
Sterritt * Dismal romantic comedy about a young American woman who hires a male "escort" to pretend he's her boyfriend at her sisters wedding. Flatly written and directed, and whatever happened to old-fashioned screen chemistry between stars?
Director: Walter Salles. With Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Morán. (128 min.)
Staff *** The true story of the making of a revolutionary and a pop/political icon, "Motorcycle Diaries" is an affectionate and ribald buddy movie that details a road trip that the young Che Guevara took with a friend. The DVD has great additions: reminiscences from the real-life motorcycle partner, Alberto Granado, as well as a fascinating "making of" featurette that takes you through the world Che traveled on his youthful journey. By Gloria Goodale


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After a long time of waiting today finally the day came when blizzard released the patch 1.22 for warcraft 3.
Here is the change log of the patch:
Patch 1.22
- There is now a replay auto-save feature in the options menu. Replays
are automatically saved to the "replay" folder.
- The game is now automatically saved in the event of a potential
disconnect. These saved games are placed in the "save" folder.
- Player color selection can now be limited by the number of players in
the game using an option in the "Advanced Options" screen during game
- Added an option to always show unit and building health bars.
- You can now enable and disable the display of minimap signals
from players and other observers using chat commands:
/showminimapsignals and /hideminimapsignals.
- Added a new in-game cheat "maxfps" to limit the maximum frame rate to
the given number. Example: "maxfps 30" will set the maximum frame rate
to 30 FPS.
- Scout Tower repair rate changed from 12 to 20.
- Knight damage increased: Attack cooldown changed from 1.50 to
1.40 and base damage increased from 25 to 28 (Average damage is 34).
- Increased Ziggurat base armor from 1 to 5.
- Reduced the build time of the Necropolis from 120 to 100.
- Reduce the Orb of venom poison duration from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Increase the experience gain from Dryads from Level 2 (40xp) to
Level 3 (60 xp).
- The cooldown on unlimited usable items (example: the staff of
preservation) now persists after the item is dropped or traded.
- A cooldown exploit with potions has been fixed.
- When you unburrow a Crypt Fiend, its auto-cast will no longer be toggled
- An exploit bug in which items could lose their cooldowns when transferred
between heroes has been fixed.
- Fixed DotA-specific sound effects on Intel Macs.
- Fixed sound falloff on Intel Macs. Distant sounds should now still be
- New maps from contest winners:
- (2)MeltingValley
- (2)RoadToStratholme
- (4)CentaurGrove
- (4)TidewaterGlades


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Its original avatar,The Polyester Prince, failed to see the light of day after injunctions were secured against its release in several cities.
Now, an updated version of Sydney Morning Herald journalist Hamish McDonald's book on the Ambanis has surprisingly hit the stands under a new title, Ambani & Sons.
Shantanu Guha-Ray, the business editor of Tehelka, reviewed the new version of the book in the September 18 issue.
The latest issue of the magazine carries a small interlude between author and reviewer.
Refer to Shantanu Guha Ray's 'Two Boys and Their Grand Fight', 18 September. In the review of my book Mahabharata in Polyester, I was baffled to learn that I had once been a part-time anchor for a show in the now-defunct Business India television channel. Nothing else in Guha Ray's comments surprised me. He might have mentioned that he had previously volunteered for the role of co-author of this book and had been turned down.
HAMISH MCDONALD, on email
SHANTANU GUHA RAY replies: Business India television planned the Business India show for which McDonald was considered a part-anchor. He was brought in by Rita Manchanda. The show, with numerous re-adjustments, was eventually anchored by Saloni Puri. I produced the show. McDonald probably does not remember, it has been over a decade. He ignored me as a co-author. I am still reeling under that impact.
Also read: Why the Indian media doesn't take on Ambanis
Sorry, brother, we got a few million $$$ wrong
Indian journalism is regularly second-rate
In the dosa joint where our 'beloved father' ate
How media hyped up the Reliance Power IPO


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Congratulations to everyone who took the July 2012 California bar exam! I want to thank you all for following my blog and for writing to me personally. I also want to thank those of you who read my story of my battle with cancer (here) and made a donation – I am incredibly grateful – one person even donated within a couple of hours of having completed the test – I am so touched and so appreciative.
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Let's be honest –
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planted in the past,
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needed to carry us further
toward our fullest potential.
In the very moment that we let go,
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Be brave. Face the emptiness.
Wrap yourself in self-love.
Breathe again.
Live once more.


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2011 September 27
Explanation: Have you ever dreamed of flying high above the Earth? Astronauts visiting the International Space Station do this every day, circling our restless planet twice every three hours. A dramatic example of their view was compiled in the above time-lapse video from images taken earlier this month. As the ISS speeds into the nighttime half of the globe, familiar constellations of stars remain visible above. An aerosol haze of Earth's thin atmosphere is visible on the horizon as an thin multi-colored ring. Many wonders whiz by below, including vast banks of white clouds, large stretches of deep blue sea, land lit up by the lights of big cities and small towns, and storm clouds flashing with lightning. The video starts over the northern Pacific Ocean and then passes from western North America to western South America, ending near Antarctica as daylight finally approaches.
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Robert Nemiroff
Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)
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