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These remarks reflect the personal views of Commissioner Atkins and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission or its individual members.
Many thanks to the editors of the International Financial Law Review for their gracious invitation to speak at tonight's awards dinner. And, congratulations to the winners of this year's awards. Last year, to say the least, was a difficult environment in which to work, and all of us hope for the best for this year not only for the robustness of the international capital markets, but most importantly, for the success of our efforts in Iraq and the safety of our servicemen in the field. As we are only too acutely aware, all of these issues are closely intertwined, including the intensely human aspect of our efforts and the immense hope and promise for a better, safer, more stabile world that they embody.
The U.K. and each of the Member States of the European Union are crucial allies of the United States. Our friendship and mutual respect is of the utmost importance as we look to the future in these uncertain political and economic times. The events of the past few years, including the economic crises, affect all of us. Much of the attention has focused on failures of U.S. corporations, such as, of course, Enron, WorldCom, Global Grossing, and now HealthSouth. Yet, U.S. investors are not alone in experiencing recent profound failures, some of which were caused by questionable accounting practices, bad management, and poor internal controls. Names like Robert Maxwell, Polly Peck, Royal Ahold, Swiss Air, Phillip Holzmann, and Vivendi come to mind. Therefore, restoring investor confidence by strengthening corporate governance is of great importance to the world's financial markets. It is not an issue unique to the U.S. or the E.U.
Financial crises have yielded a legislative reaction many times in the past. Dr. Robert Higgs, a noted Stanford University professor, wrote a book a few years ago called Crisis and Leviathan. His primary thesis is that government's command-and-control system of resource allocation expands at the expense of the private, cost efficient, market economy when government responds to an insistent but ill-defined public demand that it "do something" about a crisis. He traces a number of crises in American history some financial, some military and reveals how the market sector has given way in those cases.
Last year, in fact, the market decline and large corporate failures led to just such a general sense that politicians should "do something." Because these corporate failures stemmed from lax accounting and corporate governance practices, "Corporate Responsibility" became an important political issue in the United States, for the first time in perhaps 70 years. In late July of 2002, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with only three members voting "no." Since then, corporate responsibility still remains as a critically important political issue in the U.S.
Sarbanes-Oxley contains many advances for corporate governance, although it also represents what formerly would have been an unimaginable incursion of the U.S. federal government into the corporate governance arena. Historically, the individual states generally had exclusive jurisdiction over corporate governance matters. Sarbanes-Oxley attempts to provide fundamental mechanisms to prevent the misdeeds that led to investor losses. These mechanisms are intended as best practices. Many are not outright requirements, but are requirements on corporations to disclose aspects and then let the market decide what importance to put on that disclosure.
Because of the very strict, short timeline that Sarbanes-Oxley gave us to adopt rules implementing the Act, most of our rules at the proposal stage adhered very closely to the statutory language, with few exceptions or exemptions for special circumstances. Since U.S. regulators are bound by law to take into account commentary submitted by those who would be affected by proposed rules, we had hoped that comments and objections would help us to tailor our rules to make them workable in the U.S. and abroad. Ultimately, we received a great deal of comment, including many from non-U.S. commenters. I believe, and hope that you agree, that the final rules that we have adopted demonstrate our responsiveness to those comments. Through the comment process, we have been able to craft rules that are more than just a political reaction to a crisis.
Fundamentally, Sarbanes-Oxley acknowledges the importance of stockholder value. Without equity investors and their confidence, our economic growth and continued technological innovations would be slowed. Sarbanes-Oxley strengthens the role of directors as representatives of stockholders and reinforces the role of management as stewards of the stockholders' interest.
A lesson from the recent corporate failures in America is the importance of corporate culture and what we call the "tone from the top." A CEO's tolerance or lack of tolerance of ethical misdeeds and a CEO's philosophy of business conveys a great deal throughout the organization. The role of directors is to monitor and oversee that situation on behalf of stockholders. Directors are not and can never become full time employees. There will always be a natural tension between directors as business advisors a vital role and their role as monitors of management on behalf of the stockholders' ownership interests.
It is my hope that Sarbanes-Oxley may indirectly help directors in this regard. The law's effect, I believe, will be to make board members more inquisitive. Therefore, questions that might have seemed to be "hostile" to management two years ago will now be seen to be in furtherance of a director's function. Since some of the recent problems concerned corporate managers using the corporation as a personal "piggy bank" or other theft by management of corporate assets, Sarbanes-Oxley's emphasis on a board's oversight function is certainly a step in the right direction.
While acknowledging these benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley, and in pursuing our primary mission to protect investors, we have to be mindful of the special considerations and needs of our non-U.S. issuers. For many years, U.S. investors have been seeking opportunities to invest in the securities of non-U.S. issuers, including, of course, European issuers. The SEC has long recognized the importance of the globalization of the securities markets both for investors looking for increased diversification and international entities looking for capital-raising opportunities in different, and sometimes larger, markets. In addition, allowing non-U.S. issuers access to the U.S. securities markets gives these non-U.S. issuers "acquisition currency" to make acquisitions in the U.S.
Of course, Sarbanes-Oxley generally makes no distinction between U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. The Act does not provide any specific authority to exempt non-U.S. issuers from its reach. The Act leaves it to the SEC to determine where and how to apply its provisions to foreign companies. The SEC is well aware that new U.S. requirements may come into conflict with home-country requirements on non-U.S. issuers. As we move forward to implement Sarbanes-Oxley, we have tried and we will continue to try to balance our responsibility to comply with the Act's mandate with the need to make reasonable accommodations to our non-U.S. issuers.
Europeans and Americans have fundamentally the same goals with respect to strengthening corporate governance. Despite the federal thrust of Sarbanes-Oxley, the basic philosophy in the United States is for the individual states and the stock exchanges to determine their corporate governance requirements. Similarly, a group set up by the European Commission did not propose harmonization of corporate governance standards among the Member States. Instead, the group recommended that the Member States should each set forth minimum standards of conduct. The proffered rationale for this approach is that the corporate governance standards of the Member States are necessarily different and flexibility is critically important.
The European approach generally stresses the importance of the non-executive Chairman of the Board. While it certainly may be beneficial, depending on the company, to separate the board chairman from the company's chief executive for oversight purposes, the separation of these two positions will not necessarily cure all corporate governance issues. For example, I would note that both Enron and WorldCom had non-executive chairmen and, of course, this separation did not prevent corporate failures.
The SEC is interested in finding the "common ground" between the U.S.'s and the E.U.'s approach to these issues. Since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC has hosted two interactive roundtables on the application of the Act to non-U.S. issuers. Further, the SEC has met with numerous foreign delegations and European securities regulators. I think I can state with confidence that the process is working and that your active participation in our rule-making process has helped the SEC understand the particular needs of non-U.S. issuers. Just because our approaches are different does not mean that they cannot work together effectively.
If a foreign company considered a U.S. listing before Sarbanes-Oxley, neither the Sarbanes-Oxley Act nor our rules implementing the Act should dissuade the company from doing so. Not surprisingly, there will be new regulations and calls for disclosure. I believe that a primary goal of the SEC should be to make it inviting for global businesses to offer and list their securities in our markets. Sarbanes-Oxley does not have an effect on this goal.
Let me briefly discuss two of the specific Sarbanes-Oxley issues that probably most concern this group:
Many non-U.S. issuers already have independent audit committees as part of their corporate governance structure and the global trend appears to be toward setting up such audit committees. I have often stated that a one-size-fits-all approach never works, and this is especially true in the non-U.S. issuer context. However, there is almost universal support for some form of independent check on company management by a disinterested board. For example, in the U.K., the value of independent directors is emphasized in the recommendations of Derek Higgs regarding corporate governance, building on the earlier work of the Cadbury Commission.
Non-U.S. issuers have provided the SEC with critically important information regarding corporate governance. For example, through our comment process, we incorporated necessary changes to accommodate the requirement of non-management employees' serving as members of a company's audit or supervisory board. These employees would often not meet our definition of independence. The SEC has no interest in creating conflicts with local law, especially when these employees actually represent non-management interests. Accordingly, in our rule proposal, we provided that, under certain circumstances, these individuals would be exempt from the independence requirements.
The SEC was directed by Sarbanes-Oxley to adopt final rules regarding "minimum standards of professional conduct" for attorneys. We acknowledge that we are in unchartered waters with these new rules. They have been referred to as the first significant effort by Congress to mandate the U.S. federal regulation of lawyers.
We proposed rules in December of 2002. We received approximately 170 comment letters regarding our proposal, including over 40 from foreign parties. Our proposed rule was controversial in many ways. It took an expansive view of who could be found to be "appearing and practicing" before the SEC. It reached attorneys licensed in foreign jurisdictions, whether or not they were also admitted in the United States. And it raised issues of jurisdiction and enforceability.
Our recently released final rule is less controversial. It has been significantly modified because of the many thoughtful comments and suggestions that we received. We have exempted from the rule certain foreign attorneys -- we call them "Non-Appearing Foreign Attorneys." In order to satisfy this test, the attorney generally must (1) be admitted as a lawyer outside the U.S.; (2) not hold himself out as practicing U.S. securities law; and (3) only incidentally act on SEC filings while he carries on his practice in his ordinary course outside the U.S.; or appears and practices before the SEC only in consultation with a U.S. attorney.
We have also specifically stated that even if an attorney is subject to our new rule, that attorney shall not be required to comply if our rule conflicts with local law. Again, I would like to emphasize that your input in the comment process and at our various SEC roundtables was critical in reaching this reasoned and balanced approach to Congress' directive in Sarbanes-Oxley.
We have issued a new proposal with respect to the "reporting-out" or "noisy withdrawal" aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley's attorney directive. We received many comments on our proposal that required an attorney to disclose material violations of securities laws to the SEC. Not surprisingly, we received many strong objections to this requirement. We are now asking for comment whether it makes sense for the company to disclose when an attorney resigns because he believes the company did not respond adequately to a material violation of securities law. This new approach would not require the attorney to disclose any information other than to his client. As proposed this new requirement would apply to non-U.S. issuers. It would also require rapid reporting to the SEC two business days from receipt of the notice.
Revelations of corporate mismanagement, malfeasance, and/or incompetence have undermined the world's financial markets in a profound way. As we address this profound effect on the markets, we need to be mindful of the fact that morality and ethics cannot be legislated into existence. Government controls alone too often paternalistic will never be a solution if individuals and individual firms are not upholding their own end of simple business ethics through their own effective compliance. Internal controls and the culture of an organization are basic structural aspects to reinforce the inherent nature of most people to do the right thing.
These are trying times for the investing public. As we try to reach the other side of this period of strain, I would like to quote a statement made by then SEC Chairman William O. Douglas on January 7, 1938: "By and large, government can operate satisfactorily only by proscription. That leaves untouched large areas of conduct and activity, some of it susceptible of government regulation but in fact too minute for satisfactory control; some of it lying beyond the periphery of the law in the realm of ethics and morality. Into these areas self-government, and self-government alone, can effectively reach."
These wise words uttered within a relatively short period of time after the largest financial markets crisis in the United States crystallized the difficult task at hand. We have, I believe, made significant steps over the last year to restore worldwide confidence in the U.S. financial markets. We are working hard to be more vigilant and more faithful defenders of the public trust. The cooperative spirit between Europe and America that has served us so well in the past must be our guiding principle as we attempt to accomplish our collective goals.
I regret that I cannot be at your dinner to answer your questions in person. However, I invite you to contact me in Washington if you have any questions. Your assistance and guidance is most welcome as we strive to improve and further globalize our financial markets.
Thank you very much.


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Accused Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman is preparing a lawsuit against NBC, NBC News President Steve Capus and correspondent Ron Allen, the New York Post's Page Six reports.
A source tells us, "The suit will be filed imminently against NBC and its news executives. The network's legal department has put everybody in the news department involved with this incident on notice, telling them not to comment."
Poynter has confirmed that NBC is not commenting in this matter.
NBC broadcast three reports using audio edited to make it appear Zimmerman said, "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." The first report was produced by WTVJ in Miami, which fired reporter Jeff Burnside, who was involved in editing it. "Today" broadcast a report apparently influenced by WTVJ's that edited the audio the same way; reporter Lilia Luciano lost her job with the network after that. The Allen report was broadcast after those two, and apparently used the same audio track as the second.
Correction: NBC's Miami affiliate is WTVJ not WTVR as this post originally stated.

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Garnaut says salad days are over
Economist, climate change adviser and former ambassador to China, Professor Ross Garnaut, discusses the likely effects on the Australian economy of slipping commodities prices, China's higher labour costs and less spectacular growth.
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Here is tonight's guest and to what some politicians and commentators are signalling as the end of the China-driven mining boom.
Ross Garnaut is a distinguished economist, a former ambassador to China and an advisor to prime ministers dating back to Malcolm Fraser.
Most recently he was the author of the Government's Climate Change Review. He's currently Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Garnaut predicted the rise of China, but is now warning Australians to prepare for a serious decline in living standards as the resources boom gives way to falling export prices and a slump in the development of mines.
Ross Garnaut joined me a short time ago from our Melbourne studio.
Ross Garnaut, welcome to Lateline.
ROSS GARNAUT, PROFESSORIAL FELLOW IN ECONOMICS, UNI. OF MELBOURNE: Hello, Emma.
EMMA ALBERICI: Now you've spent a great deal of your career studying China and its economy. In fact you've just come back from a trip just recently. I want to know first off how you explain why we're seeing such a dramatic drop in the prices of our main exports to China.
ROSS GARNAUT: Well it's the confluence of three big forces. One is a long-term structural change that started clearly in about 2004. Labour's become scarce, real wages are rising quite rapidly and they have steadily ever since - wages rising 15 to 20 per cent a year since then, except for the time immediately after the financial crisis.
The second force is driven by policy. Over the last few years and especially in the period covered by the current five-year plan - 2011 to 2015 - we see a deliberate attempt by the Government to shift income and resources towards consumption, towards services, including public services like education and health, deliberate attempt to raise the priority of environmental amenity, reducing energy use, reducing emissions.
And these policy developments are also reducing growth in demand for energy, especially emissions-intensive energy like thermal coal and metals, including steel, which is responsible for our big exports of iron ore and coking coal.
And we're seeing a cyclical downturn now, and it's never easy for the authorities to finetune these developments. And it looks like there's going to be some overshooting on the downside and this is always damaging for exports of raw materials into industrial production and infrastructure.
All pointing in the one direction at the moment: if you like, a perfect storm, which is pushing down the prices of the three commodities which have done most to boost Australia's terms of trade in the last seven or eight years: iron ore, thermal coal and metallurgical coal.
EMMA ALBERICI: If we just explore sort of one-by-one these factors that you attribute to this downturn in prices. First off if we just look at what you discussed there about labour shortages, one might never have considered that a population of - a country with a population of 1.2 billion could end up with a labour shortage.
ROSS GARNAUT: Oh, especially when you think of the starting point of reform and rapid growth 30 years ago when there was a huge abundance of labour in the countryside. But when you get rapid growth averaging nearly 10 per cent per annum over more than three decades, you get an accumulation of demand for labour, and at the same time you've had China going through a big demographic transition.
One element of that was the one-child policy which dramatically reduced fertility in the reform period. It came in with the reforms 30 years ago. And then that's been reinforced in the usual way by rising incomes, better education of women, greater feelings of family security, which leads people in any case to want to have less children. So, right now, we're looking at a peak labour force.
EMMA ALBERICI: So is the downturn in construction and infrastructure spending in China, is that a temporary freeze, or really, is this the end of that phase of China's development?
ROSS GARNAUT: I think it's the end of that phase of China's development. It's deliberate government policy. This is the second of the three elements I talked about. It's widely recognised in China that the increases in inequality of incomes has gone too far.
There's a strong wish to correct the growing widening of income disparities which characterise the period roughly from the mid-'80s until about half a dozen years ago. And there's also recognition that now that China is wealthier, it's appropriate to spend more on public services, improving generally health and education, investing in a cleaner environment, both domestically and China's contribution to the global environment.
So, even if the first factor wasn't going on, the structural one, the second would be very important. And it's the second that will make sure that we won't see a return to the pattern of growth of the first 11 years of this century.
EMMA ALBERICI: So if the Chinese no longer need our resources or certainly not in the quantities that they have or that they once did, what are the implications for Australians who've become used to this sort of easy money flow, if you like?
ROSS GARNAUT: It happens that iron ore, metallurgical coal and thermal coal have been the biggest elements in the lift in the terms of trade - export prices compared with import prices - in the last eight or nine years.
That lift in the terms of trade allowed Australians to spend increasing amounts every year, expenditure increased at quite a rapid rate, without producing any more.
Well all that goes into reverse now. We'll have to produce more to stay where we were in terms of living standards. So, I set this out in a speech for the annual dinner of the economic society at the end of 2004.
I said now we're living in the salad days. In the salad days, ordinary economic policy looks good and good economic policies look stellar. But it won't be very many years when the salad days turn into the dog days, when good economic policy looks terrible and ordinary economic policy looks in the dogs.
EMMA ALBERICI: Are Australians now, do you think, sufficiently aware of what's coming in terms of this reversal of economic fortunes?
ROSS GARNAUT: I don't think the community as a whole is. Certainly the rhetoric from the Government about restraint in government expenditure is consistent with what's required, and in fact in the last couple of years we've run very tight budgets by long historical standards.
But this has to be maintained now for quite a long period of time and I think lots of Australians haven't assimilated that. We've got elements of the Australian community thinking that economic reform now is what gives more money to them. That's the main refrain from the Business Council when they talk about economic reform.
It's not like the Business Council in the '80s and '90s where there was recognition that there had to be shared restraint if we were going to have productivity-improving reforms. Reform to the Business Council today is ordinary people pulling in their belts and business incomes being given extra boosts.
And similarly other elements in the community are recipients of tax cuts, of government expenditure, have come to expect a continuation of what could be delivered in the short term in the salad days.
It actually would've been wise, as I've pointed out, in 2004, 2005, 2006, every year up to the great crash, actually - if we'd taken it a bit easier on tax cuts and expenditure increases in those days, we wouldn't have such a big challenge now. But what we're left is a considerable challenge in the period ahead.
EMMA ALBERICI: Well given the economic challenges ahead, is it right for the Government now to be making spending commitments out to 2016 and beyond for things like the Disability Insurance Scheme, dental care, aged services, education reforms?
Is it right to be pushing those expenses out into the future when those other economic challenges will also be apparent?
ROSS GARNAUT: Well that's a matter of priorities. It's going to be very important to have tight restraint on total expenditure. In this context, the biggest single vulnerability of future budgets is the unreal discussion of carbon pricing. Quite large increases in family payments, even larger cuts in income tax were paid for of an increasing carbon price.
But a lot of people in the community think, "Oh, I love the tax cuts, but I don't like the carbon tax, so take away the carbon tax, but leave me the - take away the carbon price, but leave me with the tax cuts." And we've got to get past that unreality. If we are going to talk about withdrawal of carbon pricing, we've got to talk about withdrawal of the tax cuts.
EMMA ALBERICI: And I wanted to also ask you about - given we were talking about China and about where Australia would be taking - where Australia is going in respect of taking advantage of these other opportunities that present with the mining boom practically over in those three main commodities of which we've been so dependent, how is Australia placed to take advantage of those non-mining opportunities in China?
ROSS GARNAUT: Well there will be a lot of other opportunities. Growth in demand will continue, but more of it will be focused on high-value services, high-value manufactured goods.
Now Australia has some strengths in these areas. We had tremendous growth in high-value manufactures and high-value services from the mid-'80s until about eight years ago, eight or nine years ago, roughly coinciding with the beginning of the resources boom. Now that's all been choked off by a number of factors, the most important of which is the rise in the exchange rate and increase to the cost level that is associated with the resources boom itself.
Now in a sense that will be self-correcting. The easing of the resources boom will lower the nominal exchange rate, the exchange rate you see on the TV every night. And, so long as we don't let incomes blow out, we will become more competitive in those high-value manufacturing and service industries.
There'll be a lot of opportunities in Asia, first of all in China, for these industries. But we've got to be ready to put resources back into those sectors and the worry is that they've taken a pretty big hit during the period of the high exchange rate during the resource boom and so it'll take a time to get momentum back into them. But there's a chance there if we're clever enough and fast enough.
EMMA ALBERICI: Now finally, Professor Garnaut, I wanted to ask you to reflect on the nature of public discussion in this country after those comments about the Prime Minister's father by broadcaster Alan Jones.
Now I'm asking you this question because you yourself were a victim, if you like, of some abuse by Alan Jones, who has called you in relation to your Climate Change Review for the Government, he's called you a "galoot" and a "dunce", labelling you also the "Federal Government's climate change headkicker".
He's also called the notion of global warming a "hoax" and "witchcraft". What do you think that says about the level of debate in this country given he has an audience of listeners something like half a million - in Sydney, that is?
ROSS GARNAUT: Yes. Well on the hoax and witchcraft, there's no doubt what climate science says and the people who are clinging to the false hope that it's all a hoax and a bit of witchcraft are diminishing. There's a few still kicking and screaming, and increasingly, sadly, it will become clear that they're really on the margins of things.
But more importantly, Alan Jones is a manifestation of a serious degeneration of Australian media and political culture in the last few years. The degeneration's associated with the crowding out of information and analysis by noise, by abuse, by thuggery. If we don't correct this degeneration of our political culture, Australia's got no hope of dealing with the serious problems in the period ahead.
EMMA ALBERICI: What do you mean by the culture that's emerging? What do you mean by that?
ROSS GARNAUT: Oh, it's much more difficult in the last few years to seriously analyse a serious issue like the ones we're talking about tonight without the thugs and headkickers, Alan Jones and their ilk. There's quite a number of them around in parts of the print media, parts of the electronic media, and they somehow have a legitimacy, that sort of noise, abuse - thuggery has a legitimacy now that wasn't there in the '80s and '90s.
I don't think the great reform period in Australia from '83 to the end of the century would've been possible if we had had then today's abusive media and political culture.
EMMA ALBERICI: OK, we have to leave it there. Ross Garnaut, thank you so much for your time tonight.
ROSS GARNAUT: Nice to be with you, Emma.
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Boca Guariviara : Guah – ri – vi – ara
Boca Guariviara lies just inside the indigenous reservation, or Comarca, of the Ngobe-Bugle people on the Caribbean side of the country. Boca Guariviara is accessible by a 30 minute water taxi ride from the nearest port town named Chiriqui Grande and a 2 hour water taxi ride from the tourist hot spot of Bocas del Toro Island.
This is a small community with roughly 150 permanent residents and 40 houses. It lies at the mouth of the Guariviara river which runs down from the mountains and feeds into the large Chiriqui Lagoon. This lagoon forms a natural barrier to the Caribbean ocean and protects the village from ocean swells and heavy storms.
The residents here live off sea fishing and subsistence farming. Each family unit manage their own small farm to harvest banana, coconut, and different potato-like vegetables. They also plant rice and corn for a yearly harvest.
But fundamentally, this community is a fishing village. Each morning, both men and women wake up to climb into their handmade wooden canoes and head out to the bay to check their large nets from the night before. The fresh fish is brought in and sold locally or eaten that day!
This community is very welcoming and excited to share their way of life with our visitors. Ngabe culture is rich, with its own language, dress, dance, food, and mythologies. The kids especially are ready to play games and learn!
You will be staying in a traditional Ngobe house of the Bonilla Family. Traditionally, the houses are elevated off the ground and sit on stilts with a thatch palm frond roof. There are three rooms each with their own secure door, and access to a clean flushing toilet just outside the house. Each door has a lock and has secure walls to help you sleep soundly at night.
Preparation for your retreat has been put into motion. We provide mattress pads and bug nets for sleeping comfortably. While these accommodations are far from 5-star, the beds are comfortable, and clean. The house has a solar electric system to provide basic lighting at night as well as access to charge electronics like cameras and phones. We at Millennial Future do not recommend bringing a laptop or professional level camera due to the high humidity.
Meals & Drinks
All meals will be prepared by local community members who specialize in preparing food to sell the local travelers who move up and down the river on the water taxis. These meals are simple yet filling and generally include eggs, fried bread, and coffee. Lunches are likely to be rice with beans and either chicken or fish. Dinners include bananas or other vegetable, rice, and a meat usually in a soup. Light snacks such as trail mix are also provided and you will have a chance to purchase more before entering the community. You will be full each day.
You can rest assured that every drink you are offered will be properly boiled and treated. Every meal will be served on a clean plate with clean utensils and properly cooked. Each household you visit has been trained and is aware of the necessary measures needed to keep you safe. We are happy to address any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, low sodium, ect) you have to ensure your needs are met.
Much of the surrounding area is pristine jungle and contains an abundance of wildlife as it has been set aside as a natural reserve. It is possible to see monkeys, most commonly howler and white face, toucans, sloths, iguanas, jungle cats, armadillos and much more.
The Chiriqui Lagoon also features bioluminescence best experienced on new moons. The natural beauty of the area is astounding, please check out our instagram for more photos of the village, people and the surrounding area. @themillennialfuture


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A few pieces of 2012 writing of which I am not thoroughly ashamed:
Not about food
A depressive's guide to Christmas
Lordy lordy, look who's 40
Lean on me: Loving and losing a dog
New York after Sandy: A tale of two cities
Going public with depression / National Depression Screening Day: Sharing experiences can help
What's with public marriage proposals?
Physically challenged and fashionable
The agony and ecstasy of the National Spelling Bee
I am nobody's mother and never will be
New York vs. Los Angeles: For all its grit, NYC 'sparkles'
'Fatshion' bloggers find beauty in all sizes'
Learning to love my big nose
The dark side of World Goth Day
About food
An ad-hoc army of volunteers feeds those still-powerless after Sandy
Notes from Zone 6b - love and loss in the lettuce patch
Don't be bullied by the sauce spoon
That's how the cookie (and a passenger's calm) crumbles
Clarified What are gestation crates?
Risk a brisket on the grill this summer
That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight eating all alone
The bitter truth behind the chocolate in your Easter basket
This is the year you garden
No one warns you about the durian burps
Oh, candidates? Grit your teeth and listen.
Paula Deen From the frying pan to the firestorm
Of romantic meals, fibbers and fish knives
Mehepyewpleez? A love letter to K&W Cafeteria
Picking the pig, flipping the hog
Stay gold, Twinkie the Kid. Stay gold.
A different kind of plane food (PDF)
It is my pleasure to announce a new inductee: Pete Wells' review of Guys American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square
Previous inductees include:
Seymour Britchky on Luchow's and Joe's Pier 52
Frank Bruni on Ninja and again on Kobe Club
Eddie Huang on Lavo
Sam Sifton on Lavo
AA Gill on LAmi Louis
New York vs. Los Angeles: For all its grit, NYC 'sparkles'
I have a big nose. Here are a whole bunch of words about that.
A recent Eatocracy piece about eating and drinking after 9/11 and how I commemorated the news of Osama bin Laden's death.
Pouring whiskey in the wound eating and drinking after 9/11
6/4 - I got something better than a trophy at the Spelling Bee (Kat Kinsman)
6/3 - Where to eat in New York (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
5/27 - Attack of the snack is spreading (Sarah LeTrent)
5/26 - Starbucks plans to stir up coffee market (Sarah LeTrent)
5/25 - Gulf Coast chefs, fishermen fight tide of misinformation (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
5/20 - Regional flavors may be a click away (Kat Kinsman)
5/14 - Foie gras causes uproar (Sara Bonisteel)
5/13 - Tots at upper-echelon restaurants? (Sarah LeTrent)
5/13 - Lettuce lovers go E. coli-free with container gardens (Kat Kinsman)
5/12 - Chef Besh: Eat U.S. seafood -- save a way of life (Kat Kinsman)
5/10 - Cooking dinner? There's an app for that (Steven Stern)
5/10 - Yes, skeptics, Olive Garden does have a Tuscan culinary institute (Sarah LeTrent)
5/07 - Chefs rally to help Nashville after flood (Kat Kinsman)
5/07 - Restaurants assure customers lettuce is safe amid recall (Sarah LeTrent)
5/06 - Roger Ebert finds his voice and appetite online (Kat Kinsman)
5/04 - Chef Colicchio: Don't fear fine dining (Kat Kinsman)
5/04 - 'Treme' recap: Barq's root beer and a coffee-fueled Crescent City (Sara Bonisteel)
4/30 - Kentucky Derby chef bets on fresh fare (Kat Kinsman)
4/30 - Michael Alig cooks up a post-prison career (Kat Kinsman)
4/30 - Restaurants' table turnover tricks boost business (Sarah LeTrent)
4/29 - Burger King takes a gamble on lunch (John DeVore)
4/28 - Activists call foul on KFC bucket campaign (Kat Kinsman)
4/28 - Toys banned in some California fast food restaurants (Sara Bonisteel)
4/27 - World's 50 best restaurants list released (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
4/27 - Does stunt fare muddy restaurant brand? (Sarah LeTrent)
4/26 - It's meatless Monday for some (Sarah LeTrent)
4/24 - At celebrity-named restaurants, fame is what's cooking (Sara Bonisteel)
4/23 - Kim Severson's pick of wisdom learned in the kitchen (Kat Kinsman)
4/22 - Bottled water faces backlash (Steven Stern)
4/22 - Eat, drink for less with online dining deals (Sarah LeTrent)
4/22 - What Jamie Oliver says you should have in your kitchen (Kat Kinsman)
4/22 - Top Chef Masters recap - episode 3 (John DeVore)
4/21 - Naughty nurses, ninjas bring your food (Sara Bonisteel)
4/20 - For troops, a happy meal is relative (John DeVore)
4/19 - Treme recap - Crystal Hot Sauce gets its due (Sara Bonisteel)
4/19 - Private Chefs of Beverly Hills host medieval murder mystery (Sarah LeTrent)
4/19 - Fast food treat is shrinking (Sara Bonisteel)
4/17 - Big burger boys burgle breakfast (John DeVore)
4/15 - Top Chef Masters recap - episode 2 (John DeVore)
4/14 - Ice cream cookie cups win Pillsbury Bake-Off (Kat Kinsman)
4/14 - Chili heads seek friendly fire from powerful pepper (Sara Bonisteel)
4/13 - Treme recap - New Orleans food (Sara Bonisteel)
4/12 - Inmates grow roots as jailhouse farmers (Sarah LeTrent)
4/10 - Private Chefs of Beverly Hills premiere recap (Sarah LeTrent)
4/8 - Top Chef Masters recap - episode 1 (John DeVore)
4/7 - Is fast food fat fare going too far? (Kat Kinsman)
4/7 - $13 coffee worth the brew-ha-ha? (John DeVore)
Have I mentioned I'm heading up a new CNN food blog called Eatocracy? Well, that's 'cause I wasn't allowed to. Until now.
3/29 "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" - Recap (Kat Kinsman)
4/2 Trade movie popcorn for yogurt? (Kat Kinsman)
4/2 Pickles at the picture show (Steven Stern)
4/3 Chef steps up to plate to fuel favorite team (Sarah LeTrent)
Jamie Oliver Doesn't Want to Cook You a Salad
The crumply Cockney teddy bear is not here to South Beach, Atkins, Master Cleanse or Michael Pollan your Cheez Doodle dimpled butt into starvation or Whole Foods-based bankruptcy. He just wants you and your kids to know what a fresh tomato looks like. And maybe eat one once in a while. Or he'll cry.
In his native England, Jamie Oliver - dyslexic, erstwhile Naked Chef, husband of Jools, father of Daisy, Poppy, Petal and another to be named upon his (fingers crossed for "Stamen") or her September arrival, and self-proclaimed "professional s**t-stirrer" - has made a cottage industry of calling foul on vile school cafeteria fare and teaching plain ol' British folks not to murder their families with processed food. In the course of this, he's set up community cooking centers and classes, exhorted Parliament to address national obesity issues, campaigned to ban junk food in schools and garnered Prime Minister Tony Blair's approval for £280m in financial support for improved school kitchens and "dinner lady" education.
Oh, and he's sold approximately seventy five squillion books, owns a couple of restaurant chains (albeit one of them, Fifteen, is non-profit), regularly ranks on annual lists of richest Britons and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
He, with the aid of BFF/show co-producer Ryan Seacrest, has decided to bring his manifesto of fresh, clean, from-scratch cooking to Huntington, West Virginia - cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Associated Press to be one of the unhealthiest, most obese cities in the US. This should go well.
3/22 The Oscars of the Food World (Kat Kinsman)
3/22 A dude explains why salad is man food (John DeVore)
3/22 Vegetarian activists try in-your-face tactics (Steven Stern)
3/23 National chains turning to free food on Tuesday (Sarah LeTrent)
3/23 Cupcake passion more than a trend (Sara Bonisteel)
3/25 - Latest high-fructose corn syrup study generates buzz, debate (Hanna Raskin)
3/26 School lunch gets an upgrade (Hanna Raskin)
3/26 Brand-placement marketing targets huge airline traveler audience (Sarah LeTrent)
3/26 P in P. Diddy gets a new meaning (Sarah LeTrent)
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Tim Carman
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"How Not to Hire a Chef/The Canning Process"
Jared Jacang Maher
A Hunger to Help
Kevin Pang
Chicago Tribune
Plan D
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Sarah DiGregorio
The Village Voice
Is Foie Gras Torture?
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader
The Real American Pie
Mike Sula
Chicago Reader
The Charcuterie Underground
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Sheryl Julian
Boston Globe
Jon Bonné and Miriam Morgan
San Francisco Chronicle
Joe Yonan
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Alan Richman
American Pie
Anya von Bremzen
Soul of a City
Francis Lam
The Last Chinese BBQ
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Dana Bowen
The Wonders of Ham
Francine Maroukian, Jon Reiner, Staff
of Esquire
How Men Eat
Matt Goulding
Mens Health
The Beauty of the Beast
Magazine Feature Writing Without Recipes
Alan Richman
Hillbilly Truffle
Barry Estabrook
The Price of Tomatoes"
Rafi Khatchadourian
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The Taste Makers (subscription required)
Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Reviews
Jonathan Gold
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Sauced; Hot Birria, Cold Cerveza; Hare Today
Patric Kuh
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Border Crossing; Peru Calling;
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Jason Sheehan
White on White; Wonderland; Mourning
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Monica Eng
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Nacho Lunch? Yes, Every Day
Daniel Engber
Slate Magazine
Throwing out the Wheat"
Rowan Jacobsen
Or Not to Bee
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Aileen Gallagher, Daniel Maurer, Alexandra Vallis
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Ed Levine
Serious Eats
Hank Shaw
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook
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Veni, Vidi, Vetri; It's up to You, New York, New York; Smoke and Miracles
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
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The Doughnut Gatherer; Capital Grills; Pizza Perfect
Rachel Wharton
Edible Brooklyn
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Antoinette Bruno, Amanda McDougall, Jonathan J. Proville
The Art and Economics of Charcuterie, Parts 2, 3, 4
Kevin Pang
The Cheeseburger Show
Robb Walsh
Not So Clear Cut
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In Through the Back Door
Alan Richman
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Faith and Bacon
3/17 TV chefs whose shows burned to a crisp (Kat Kinsman)
3/18 Shrek coming soon to a produce aisle near you (Sara Bonisteel)
3/18 iReport : Bake Sale USA Your Recipe for Success (Kat Kinsman)
3/19 Did Jamie Oliver really shape up town? (Hanna Raskin)
Wherein my first CNN byline (under my real name) goes live.
I'm stingy with my smoke.
Not in a "don't bogart that can, man" way. Just that if I'm going to go to all the trouble of stoking a hardwood lump charcoal fire, obsessively monitoring its low-'n-slow-ness for a goodly chunk of the day, feeding its greedy gut with beer-soaked mesquite and hickory chunks at half-hour intervals all for the sake of an albeit fabulous brisket or pork shoulder, I'm gonna want a bit more return on the investment.
Here's where foil pans of salt, cherries and lemons come in.
Read more about smoked lemonade and get the recipe at Slashfood.
I'm not gonna lie -- I'm rough on my books. There's a school of thought treating the physical manifestation of the written word as a sacred object, and I fully respect that. However I, for one, shove an old copy of "How to Cook a Wolf" into the bottom of my bag with the notion that at some point it'll sustain me on an overextended subway ride. I read "The Devil in the Kitchen" in the bathtub, A.J. Liebling over a lunchtime reuben, and good gosh a-mighty are my cookbooks covered in schmutz.
I got a chance to sit down with the legendary chef Marco Pierre White. Read the entire interview here, and grab a little nibble below.
Q & A with Marco Pierre White, Host of 'The Chopping Block' and 'Hell's Kitchen (UK)'
The legendary chef and television host talks about dealing with unruly diners, his famous protégés and why he's stopped swearing
He's been called the greatest chef in the world, but you'll never have a chance to taste his food. Chef Marco Pierre White earned three ground-breaking Michelin stars -- and notoriety for his white-hot temper -- before walking away from it all at the height of his career. White spoke with me about his single-minded pursuit of culinary perfection, his most notorious protégé, and the celebrity chef he calls "the gastronomic king of America."
My rabbit is crepuscular. That's certainly not why I adopted Claudette, but I'll readily admit that the opportunity to drop "crepuscular" into everyday conversation has brought great and unanticipated pleasure. "Lagomorph" alone would have sufficed, but now I've won the lingual lottery. Say it. It tastes delicious dripping from your mouth. Crepuscular.
I suppose every new venture comes a-calling with a satchel full of jargon - some no doubt lovelier than others. I've no experience in the fields of coal mining, waste management or haberdashery, so I cannot with any certainty know whether the associated vocabulary shares an aesthetic with sympathy to the actions, but the words of rabbit stewardship slip through the air with all the silk and dash of Claudette speeding toward the sound of fresh hay rustling from bale to trough. Crepuscular. Lagomorph. Hotot. Dewclaw.
I'd claim crepuscularity as well, but that would imply some actual rhythm to my sleep schedule. The sad fact is that I am awake in the pre-dawn and twilight as I am also awake at the midday and witching as I am just perpetually awake. Sleep has never come easily for me save for when I've got under-cover companionship in the effort, and not even always then. Certainly there are remedies - teas and chants and Henry James novels*, but despite a lifetime of trying, I've yet to hit on a surefire curative, and I'm deeply disinclined to weather the tsunami of pharmaceuticals it requires to register any palpable effect in my circadian patterns. I try to stay still, and when it fails, I wander.
In the greener seasons, the path frequently leads to my mid-air Babylon - the intricate network of baskets and buckets and window box planters fixed on, above and around my fire escape and roof. Salsify, sorrel, okra, heirloom tomatoes, Bloody Butcher corn, purira peppers, six separate basils and dozens of other cultivars reap the benefits of my meticulous pruning, feeding, songs (that'll be our little secret), and watering, but in the crueler months, all I seek for them is stasis. They're not inclined to blossom, and I wouldn't think to demand it of them. All living beings need sleep.
Claudette is no exception. She spends the bulk of the day tucked in upon herself, a small and restive loaf - though you wouldn't necessarily know it to look at her. Most single rabbits share a clever trick - they sleep with their eyes open. Rabbits are universally a prey species, and attacks are much more likely if the animal in question is thought to be unguarded. Wide eyes lend the illusion of wariness. Paired or bonded rabbits can afford the luxury of closed lids, as they know they've got an ally should danger arise. Even when brought into domestic settings, and the greatest threat to their well-being is seemingly the roar of the vacuum cleaner or perhaps the thud of an accidentally dropped shoe, they retain the habits of the wild lagomorph to the point where self-protection defines the majority of their behavior.
Crepuscular creatures schedule the majority of their foraging and other extra-warren activities in the pre-dawn and twilight hours so as to escape the notice of their nocturnal and day-based foes. Thus, it stands to reason that during a recent rest-deprived wander a while before sunrise, I stumbled into the hallway, and Claudette came bounding to the edge of her pen - balanced on her hind legs with front paws on the bars in scant seconds. I stepped over the gate, stroked her up-stretched back, and checked the levels of her food bowl, hay trough and water dish to see if that was the source of her agitation. No - all acceptably full. Litter box was sanitary, and there was certainly no shortage of chewing material now that a grocery order and the new Brooklyn yellow pages had been delivered. I reached over to touch her again, and she skittered away.
The woman at the rescue center had taken pains to explain to me that cold rabbit shoulders were not to be taken personally, especially in Claudette's case. She was, they advised me, an emotionally damaged animal, and would not be an ideal companion for a person seeking validation from their pet. I assured them that my ego was solid enough to withstand the rebuffs of a troubled bunny (I've certainly dated worse), and so am not mortally or morally wounded when she flicks her feet and hops away.
But I was tired this time. Strangely enough, at 32, I'm actually able to weather stretches of sleeplessness with greater aplomb than I had a decade ago, but when the hours stretch to days - and strings of those at that - I start to fray around the edges. Somewhat shamed, I admitted to a small psychic pang from the rejection, and standing seemed far too taxing. Claudette's quarters annex a solid portion of hallway, and I sank face-down and stretched flat on the layers of ravaged cotton throw rugs that shield her paws from the cold shock of linoleum.
Several minutes (it seemed like minutes) of curious flurry raged around me - a fluff-cushioned thud against my sock, the light prick of claws surmounting the obstacle of my thigh, some fuss and tug at my pillow-mussed hair. Then suddenly - a brief and gentle warmth against my cheek. My vision must have blurred without my noticing, and I focused to Claudette's quiet and close assessment of my face. Apparently sensing no imminent threat from the disheveled beast on the adjacent rug, she retreated a few steps and nestled her small body to coziness.
When I eventually stirred, the midday November sun was winking through the kitchen window, and the rabbit in the corner had her eyes closed. Even half-conscious, I know a sign when I see one. I fell back to sleep.
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*Forgive me, but The Wings of the Dove was about 3x as long as it ought to have been.


text: Um, aren't they? My earlier post, Goodbye to Law Reviews, has generated a bunch of comments, and Ethan Lieb has posted some of his own thoughts at Prawfsblawg. Some of the comments seem to assume that books generally don't constitute "real" scholarship, an assertion likely to come as a unpleasant surprise to the thousands of academics, in all fields, who do most of their serious writing in the form of books. I agree that blogging and op-eds are not "scholarship" as such, though this does not mean that they have no scholarly value at all: they can be useful fora for asking questions and raising ideas in a preliminary way. But if there is some inherent value in longer articles (leave aside the specific obnoxiousness of the law review genre)-- and at times there surely is, as some ideas and issues are too complex to discuss well in briefer formats-- then surely books are even better? Ethan argues that books by legal scholars will tend to be "something just shy of real scholarship." Do others agree?


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It is a video lesson worksheet for a comedy show called Little Mosque On the Prairie. If you teach a Muslim group or if you want to focus on religious diversity it is a great show. ıt is also good for teaching vocabulary. The details of the activity and the link for the show is in the end of the worksheet.
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Ranchers' Rise Show Home Grand Opening
In case you missed it…
The sun was shining and the skies were oh-so blue out in Ranchers' Rise for our Show Home Grand Opening on April 14. It couldn't have been a nicer day!
Here's a quick recap for those who couldn't make it out to the event. You will wish you came!
We saw beautiful new homes…
Baywest Homes
The Weston by Baywest is absolutely stunning, to say the least. There are quite a few features we love about this home, but the best surprise is in the basement. This 3-bedroom show home has a finished basement that includes a crawlspace leading to a full-sized playroom. The kids couldn't get enough of the space made special for them!
Broadview Homes
Broadview impressed us again, this time with the Aria. Oversized windows and clean whites bring light into the open-concept kitchen, dining, and living area all day long. They've transformed the main floor bonus room into a kids' playroom instead of the typical home office—a great idea if we say so! Entertaining with little ones is even easier because they have a spot to play within eyesight.
Sterling Homes
The Beaumont 4 is intelligently designed and beautifully decorated—just what we've come to expect from a Sterling home. We love how the top floor bonus room acts as a central living area with 4 bedrooms branching off it. Plenty of space for a family to grow into! Each bedroom sees a lot of sunlight too, which lots of families love.
We met our neighbours…
The community spirit in Ranchers' Rise is a top drawing feature for a lot of our families. It's safe, spacious, and attracts lots of people raising kids who want to get away from Calgary, but still live close to all the amenities they could possibly need. We even saw neighbours already living in Ranchers' join us for the family-friendly afternoon outside.
Aside from the residential neighbours, we brought in a few local foodie favourites. There was JRRR BBQ from the next town over—his mission is to bring Southern-style barbecue to the foothills. Family Freezed brought their pink food truck stocked with deliciously fruity ice pops that everyone loves. And of course, COBS Bread Okotoks baked a few sweet treats we can't get enough of!
Inside, we had Terrrrrific Face Painting transforming little ones into lions and butterflies all afternoon. What about daycare? Kids' Stop Okotoks, located in our community, attended with information for interested parents.
We soaked up the sun under Alberta's blue skies
The community itself is designed to make outdoor living the priority. The walking paths lead right into town, and there are a couple playgrounds for the kids to play games or practice their climbing skills. To showcase our outdoor amenities, we hosted most of the food and entertainment outside at our Grand Opening. You couldn't miss us! Especially with 101.5 KOOL FM playing music live on location.
Everyone who attended also received at least one "Tree in a Box" to plant in their yards—another way to celebrate the green space we are so lucky to have in Southern Alberta!
We can't wait to see you in the show homes!
If you missed out on the action, you can still visit the show homes. Stop by Monday through Thursday from 2-8pm, or on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5pm.


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This morning I woke up to the headlines that the State of New York is now basically proclaiming the title of Infanticide Capitol of the World.
Wow, what a success to write to your grandchildren about. Er, wait, if they're murdering innocents, you may not have any grandchildren. As a matter of fact, if you promote mass infanticide you may not have any children period.
I won't apologize for my opinion that anyone and everyone who believes in and supports non-essential abortion on demand is a criminal; a murderer of the innocents. Those who profit from these murders are beyond redemption as humane people.
I'm not an innocent soul, I fathered a child out of wedlock when I was nineteen. That was back in the days when they only performed abortions in the very early stages of pregnancy by doing Dilation and Curettage (D&C) procedures:
D&C (Dilation and Curettage) Procedure: Surgery and Recovery
- Remove tissue in the uterus during or after a miscarriage or abortion or to remove small pieces of placenta after childbirth. This helps prevent infection or heavy bleeding.
- Diagnose or treat abnormal uterine bleeding. A D&C may help diagnose or treat growths such as fibroids, polyps, hormonal imbalances, or uterine cancer. A sample of uterine tissue is viewed under a microscope to check for abnormal cells. (https://www.webmd.com/women/guide/d-and-c-dilation-and-curettage#1)
My child, a girl, was born and immediately given up for adoption by her mother; I had no say in the matter, nor was I allowed to see my biological daughter. I did learn, many years later that she was adopted by a wonderful couple who could have no children. They loved her from the first moment they met and, to the best of my knowledge, still do.
Now days, we don't hear stories like this. What we do hear is how professional, for profit, infanticide factories murder the innocents for their body parts.
What has become of humanity in America?
What gives anyone the right to murder an innocent who may have the genetic makeup to do great things in our world? Perhaps another Einstein, Peter the Great, Michelangelo, Madame Curie, Rosa Parks or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? Yes, or maybe a Hitler, Stalin, Caligula or Jack the Ripper; we don't know, but can we take the risk?
Who will hear the cries of pain when the infant is torn from the mother's womb? Who will hold that child close while he or she suffers the poison injected into his or her brain?
Is there a place on this earth for the discards known as "aborted fetuses?" Are they burned in crematoriums like the Jews, or thrown in pits like the Armenians? Are they thrown to the wild animals in the mountains the way Russians once did?
Who will mourn for the innocents? Who will answer their pleas of
There are very few legitimate reasons for abortion, but thousand of reasons against it; each one, an innocent.
Have we, as humans who claim to care, lost all reason that we must punish the innocents for our failure to think, to care and to acknowledge our mistakes rather than bury them.
"Why mommy? What did I do?"


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For two weeks this season, ballet came back to life in New York as something you could love without hesitation or reservation. American Ballet Theatre, after floundering so long in search of plausible repertory, found it where they should have been looking all this time-in Frederick Ashton. By staging so beautifully two of his greatest works- La Fille Mal Gardée and The Dream -the company not only revitalized its dancers, but revitalized an audience that's spent far too long dutifully trying to find pleasure in duds like The Snow Maiden , super-duds like Pied Piper , and the Crankotrash of The Taming of the Shrew and Onegin . Gallant stabs at Martha Graham's Diversion of Angels and Balanchine's Symphony in C haven't measured up to these masterpieces. But Ashton suits A.B.T.-and if the company perseveres, he will come to suit the big Met audience, too. As a friend of mine remarked after the cheering at the end of Fille had died down, "You'd have to be dead not to love it."
This is not the conventional Fille that A.B.T. was trotting out in the 70's, a production that had nothing to recommend it but the star power of Makarova, Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland. This is Ashton's great reinvention of 1960, in which the traditional French tale of young lovers triumphing over parental disapproval is transmuted into a glorious English pastoral, reflecting, as Ashton wrote, an "eternally late spring … of perpetual sunshine and the humming of bees-the suspended stillness of a Constable landscape of my beloved Suffolk, luminous and calm." Above all, it's a ballet about love: Lise and Colas' love for each other, of course, but also the love that is so touchingly indicated between Lise and her mother, the Widow Simone, who is determined to marry off her daughter to the zany, rich simpleton, Alain; the love of the strutting cockerel for his four hens, of Alain for his red umbrella, and underlying the entire ballet, the love of dancing which redeems everyone and everything. Even when the Widow is at her crossest with her wayward daughter, she can be coaxed into her joyful clog dance or will snatch up a tambourine to get Lise up on her toes. And poor abject Alain, disdained by Lise, will brighten at the sound of a flute and burst into his brilliant parody of classical dance. He may be a fool, but he's a dancing fool. As for the chickens, they were born to dance.
Ashton, I suspect, was partly drawn to Fille by his lifelong adoration of Anna Pavlova, in whose repertory it was featured for many years. But it was that other great Russian ballerina, Tamara Karsavina, who in her old age taught him the brilliant mime passage from the Petipa version in which Lise, believing herself alone, acts out her dream of being married, being pregnant and having babies-one, two, three! Ashton's Fille , then, is a French story told in an English spirit with Russian connections.
There was one Russian Lise in the four casts A.B.T. presented-the formidable Bolshoi star Nina Ananiashvili-and although she's somewhat mature to be playing the very young Lise, in the rapturous pas de deux that brings the love story to its climax, she demonstrated the command of a true ballerina, dominating the audience rather than appealing to it. But the success of Fille ultimately depends on the degree of sympathy between the lovers. First-cast Ashley Tuttle and Ethan Stiefel are both impeccable classical dancers but, as they used to say, they come from two different worlds: She's delicate, romantic, womanly; he's a horny kid. The perfectly matched couple were Xiomara Reyes and Angel Corella, at first childlike and shy in their feelings for each other, then growing-like a Romeo and Juliet for whom things work out happily-from puppy love to tender and satisfied passion. Where Stiefel was randy, Corella was ardent.
The final pairing gave us Gillian Murphy-at last promoted to principle rank-and Maxim Belotserkovsky, and what they projected was glowing youth. The intricacies of the ribbon dances were easily dealt with by Murphy's rock-solid technique, and the barnyard high jinks-churning the butter, sampling the porridge, trying to sneak out the gate to get to the boyfriend-allowed her to relax into her open American niceness. Belotserkovsky is good to look at, with his endlessly long legs and handsome features-think Cyd Charisse-but he's an under-energized dancer and not what you'd call an actor. It was Ananiashvili's partner, Carlos Acosta-A.B.T.'s latest Hispanic import-who caused the biggest stir. He's big, strong, centered, accurate, engaging-a Cuban black with lots of experience and charisma. In Fille , though, his acting was limited to The Shrug and The Grin.
All three of the Widows-Victor Barbee, Kirk Peterson and Guillaume Graffin-were funny and touching; the drag is good-natured, not campy. The Alains were more variable: Joaquin De Luz dancing up a storm but too relentlessly chipper; Carlos Lopez unformed; only Herman Cornejo subtly identifying the sadness as well as the goofiness in this brilliant creation. But although Alain is a disappointed suitor, won't he really be happier with his umbrella than he would have been with Lise? So there's a happy ending for everyone-except for those like me who, after five performances, were left pining for more. This production, staged by Alexander Grant (the original Alain), Christopher Carr and Grant Coyle, is markedly superior to the Royal Ballet's. Well, London's loss is our gain. Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardée is a great work of art; in its generosity of spirit, its belief in the power of love and the power of dance, its humanity and decency, its innocent sexuality, it shines like a good deed in a bad world.
In the years immediately following Fille , Ashton went on expressing his love for love-in the enchanting The Two Pigeons (1961), the overwrought Marguerite and Armand (1963) and, in 1964, the radiantly beautiful The Dream , the first ballet made on Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley. Mr. Dowell (now Sir Anthony) worked with Christopher Carr on staging and coaching The Dream for A.B.T., and the result is another miracle of recreation, authentic but not slavish. When the curtain goes up on David Walker's exquisite forest glade and the 16 fairies rush on in their beautiful bell-shaped skirts, their hair piled up behind their coronets, you're in enchanted territory. The choreography here is so fluent, so charged, so natural, that even before the entrances of Oberon and Titania and Puck, of the star-crossed lovers, of Bottom and his gang, you know you're in the hands of a master.
Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream , choreographed two years before Ashton's version, is about contest: The battle between the king and queen of the fairies over her little page is prolonged and serious, and Oberon practically gloats over his victory-this is a relationship in trouble. (The misunderstandings among the humans also cut deep.) In Ashton's Dream , Oberon never ceases to love his queen; you can sense his rueful ambivalence over the trick he's played on her. Their quarrel is only a pretext: Its real function is to serve as foreplay to the ecstatic duet at the end that signals their passionate and melting reconciliation. In contrast, the squabbling humans are close to caricature in their Victorian costumes and posturings-Lysander and Demetrius in their velvet frock coats and pugilistic standoffs, Hermia and Helena with their tiffs and makeup kisses-while putting the transformed Bottom on pointe underlines what an oddball donkey he is, not a semi-tragic one, like Balanchine's.
It was gratifying to see how this Dream gave nourishment to so many of A.B.T.'s dancers. Oberon seems to me Stiefel's finest role: It accords with his somewhat arrogant demeanor and gives him superb opportunities to show off his transparent classicism-those whip-clear turns and elegant jumps-without demanding the kind of realistic acting he can't pull off. Belotserkovsky's technique and strength weren't up to the job-and why expose a non-turner to this role so dependent on fast turns? But the nature of Acosta's technique matches the fierce demands on Oberon, and he helps Julie Kent, so bland usually, reveal a new sexiness and playfulness as Titania. She's generally partnered by the slightly built Corella; Acosta's massiveness brought out an appealing delicacy. Amanda McKerrow was underpowered as Titania (opposite Belotserkovsky), but Alessandra Ferri, also approaching the end of her career, has retained enough of her ballerina strengths to make a satisfying pairing with Stiefel.
As for the fiendishly demanding role of Puck-darting, crouching, leaping, spinning-it gave further opportunities to the company's two brilliant little guys, De Luz and Cornejo. A.B.T. has now what practically amounts to a monopoly on first-rate male dancers-it's almost unfair of them to add Acosta to the mix. But he's of a different breed from a Stiefel or a Corella; like Jose Manuel Carreño, whom he's presumably being groomed to spell, he's a grown-up.
For these two weeks of Ashton we can forgive A.B.T. their dopey Tchaikovsky-snippets program and even the pernicious Onegin . I don't know why they chose to invest this heavily in Ashton at this moment; I only know he's made them a powerful contender.


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Getting to the root of problems: the role of systemic ideas in helping social work students to develop relationship-based practice.
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This paper discusses the use of systemic ideas in shaping and informing an approach to teaching social work students on a qualifying social work programme in a UK university setting. The context of contemporary social work training and the primacy it gives to practice experience and service user and carers' perspectives will be explained, in part to remind us that service users want their practitioners to be competent, even 'expert' at using relationship in their work. From here an argument will be developed for revisiting systemic ideas in social work, the suggestion being that systemic thinking can actively promote a relationship-based approach suited to the modern context of practice that seeks to move beyond a potentially limiting, 'procedure-led' or 'surface' approach. We will give an outline of and rationale for the curriculum followed by the module in question and will suggest that its focus on systemic approaches in dialogue with other theory perspectives is a creative one; one which enables an exploration of many of the issues of concern in contemporary social work practice, from working with individuals and their families through to the wider community level of practice. Findings from a student evaluation of the module are presented to illustrate that drawing on this particular area of theory has something positive to contribute to training resilient, competent social workers, aware of the importance of relationship in their practice.
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15 Corners Of The World (BÔLT RECORDS BR ES19) may be of interest to those who have been following the music of Eugeniusz Rudnik, important composer and sound engineer at the Polish Radio Experimental Studios since the mid-1950s. The Polish label Bôlt Records continues its ongoing campaign to restore Rudnik to a position of prominence, and indeed to remind the rest of the world about the importance of Polish Radio in general; previous releases in the series include the Blanc Et Rouge 3-CD set from 2014, and the selection Sounds The Body Electric from 2013, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name. 15 Corners Of The World is in fact a motion picture film, written and directed by Zuzanna Solakiewicz (maker of documentary shorts and cinematic essays) and originally released in 2014; the present CD is not exactly the soundtrack to said film, but is a selection of sounds from it, edited and re-presented in order to form a satisfying listening experience. The film is not a straightforward biography of the great man, rather it describes itself as "an attempt to hear the vision of his music", suggesting that its arrangement and editing of images are deployed in an interpretive fashion, in sympathy with the underlying themes of Rudnik's work. "Following the rhythms of architecture, the human body, and the throbbing pulse of nature we discover a new reality," is how the movie website describes the process.
Over 48 minutes we hear 22 snippets of music and spoken word; the initial experience of hearing this is not exactly jarring, but it is somewhat disorienting, as though we're almost hearing a story that doesn't quite materialise. I do like the essay style; long passages of music are interspersed with spoken interjections from Rudnik, where he talks in a simple and unaffected manner about his methods and ideas. He is enchanted with magnetic tape, amazed that he could "hold sound in his hand". He is genuinely surprised by his own discoveries when he transforms sound on tape, and asks himself "what is really happening?" While it's clear that he's mastered his techniques, a lot of the time he wants to bring things back to a human dimension, speaking of the realities of emotion, the human voice, or the landscape; he doesn't want to become completely lost in a studio-bound world of abstraction. This may be one of the aspects that makes Polish Radio distinct from the other schools of electronic and tape music, some of whose proponents clearly preferred the coldness of dreary abstraction to any grubby human reality. Rudnik's quotes are spoken in Polish, but the English-speaking reader is helped by the enclosed booklet with its translations.
Through the course of this journey, whose trajectory I suppose is largely shaped by Solakiewicz, we'll traverse many strange aural terrains – and I'll quote some of the titles here to pique your interest, including 'Grinding Bird Bones', 'Dinosaurs Walk And Roar', 'The Golden-Mouthed In The Mist' and 'The Typist's Syncope'. Any one of these could be the title to a modernist painting in some idyllic pre-war European country, before the invention of drip painting and colourfield abstract art which ruined everything. The sonic excerpts are, on the CD at least, arranged under headings which attempt to characterise and describe Rudnik's experiments and techniques; they include, for example, "Inventory of Listener's Associations", "Human Voice Distorted", and "Repetition". Along the way there is a train journey, a sojourn in the "Electro Meadow", and the very evocative "Warsaw Mists – Collage".
At the end of this one feels a bit closer to understanding something of the mind and method of Eugeniusz Rudnik; both film and CD soundtrack serve this purpose, and are clearly done with warmth and engagement, to provide a sympathetic portrait of the man and his music, even at the risk of being too subjective in its interpretations. One can't imagine Stockhausen ever having much truck with an ambitious young film-maker approaching him with ideas about buildings and human bodies, but then Stockhausen already did a very good job of controlling just about every aspect of his work and its perception. Rudnik's open-mindedness and sense of wonder about the possibilities of magnetic tape might be seen as refreshing. It's also fair to say this release is making a strong bid for the assertion of Polish culture, and the CD back cover carries no fewer than 18 logos of various National Institutes, record labels and cultural establishments, endorsing its value. From 12 February 2016.


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A decade in the lead: The SIU robotics team's history of victories
November 30, 2017
Ten years ago, when the university's robotics team organized and entered in its first competition, they took second-to-last place.
"It really bruised the ego of the team 10 years ago, and they said this will never happen again," Bruce Deruntz, the team's coach, said.
Since that first defeat, Deruntz said the team has either won first or second place in every competition.
That streak continued in 2017; the team took first place in November with its robot, Winston.
"We wanted to pay homage to the bagel guy," said Nate Johnson, the engineering manager of the team.
The team competed in Cincinnati at the Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering's robotics contest from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3.
Johnson, a junior from Abingdon studying electrical engineering, said SIU was competing against large universities such as Iowa State University, Mississippi State University, East Carolina University, Eastern Illinois University, Ohio University and Ohio Northern University.
Lincoln Kinley, a junior from Springfield studying electrical and computer engineering, and the team's software manager, said the competition had two phases. The first one involved Winston collecting hacky sacks from an obstacle course. In the second phase, Kinley said Winston used those hacky sacks to play cornhole before following a line of electrical tape to a PVC pipe where he deposited the hacky sacks.
Winston was made with a 25-pound arm, which extended to drop the hacky sacks in the cornhole instead of throwing them. His infrared sensors detected the electrical tape and the pipe where the hacky sacks ended up. With these additions, Kinley said Winston can move and complete obstacles while on auto-mode.
Johnson said a new robot is built for every competition. Although it's cost-effective to reuse a robot, he said it's harder to adapt the robot to a different set of obstacles each time.
"Imagine trying to rig together, like, a Toyota Camry to haul lumber," Johnson said.
Recreating the obstacle course the robot will face in competition is the key to success, Deruntz said.
"These guys make sure in advance [the robot] can do the obstacle course or they scrap the whole thing and start all over," Deruntz said. "Most teams don't have the discipline to do that."
Winston's cost a little under $800 to build, Johnson said. The team also has to pay for registration fees for the competitions and travel expenses, which is achieved through a combination of fundraising and Undergraduate Student Government appropriations.
DeRuntz said unlike other robotics teams he has seen, SIU's team prioritizes building the team before building the robot. They are a tight-knit group, he said, and no one leaves the workshop until the day's work is over.
"That's what helped lead to their success," DeRuntz said.
Johnson said building robots was something he always knew he wanted to try in college, but Kinley said he was worried it would be boring at first.
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Both team members said in the future, they expect to see an increase in consumer and industrial robots.
After recently completing an internship in an autoplant, Johnson said he saw automation becoming more of the norm because robots are cheaper and do more consistent work.
"It starts with the most mundane, repetitive things and then it gets more complex from there," Johnson said.
Next semester, Kinley said the robotics team will be entering two competitions as two teams.
The teams will be competing in the Midwest Robotics Design Competition and RoboBrawl, a combat competition. Both events are on March 22 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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