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Hundreds of people of Kurdish origin wave portraits of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration on January 10, 2013 in central Marseille following the killing of three Kurdish women activists in Paris.
Turks and Kurds may be trading accusations over responsibility for the execution-style murder of three Kurdish activists in the heart of Paris last week, but they agree on one point: the timing was no coincidence. The assassinations came just days after Turkey announced a new bid to find a political solution to its long-running conflict with its Kurdish population. The message? Peace-building will be no walk in the park. That's because the conflict is too well-entrenched and the players too accustomed to violence — some 40,000 people have been killed in 30 years of insurgency and counterinsurgency. And also because it reaches into Iraq, Syria and Iran, not to mention Europe, where thousands of Kurds marched the streets last weekend to protest the killings.
"There is no question that this was a warning — it shows just how difficult a peace process is going to be," says Sezgin Tanrikulu, a well-known Turkish-Kurdish human rights lawyer and member of parliament. "First, the choice of location in the heart of Europe, then the timing, and that they were all women — including one who was widely respected among Kurds — had a huge emotional impact." He was referring to Sakine Cansiz, 55, a founding member of the outlawed Kurdish PKK in 1978 and a leader of its women cadres. Despite its designation as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, the PKK retains considerable popularity among Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere.
Turkey's government revealed earlier this month that it had begun talks with Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK leader serving a life term on an island prison. These talks are aimed at establishing a ceasefire and eventual disarmament of the PKK, in exchange for addressing unspecified Kurdish grievances. Turkish media reported that Ocalan's demands appear to be limited to greater cultural rights, constitutional recognition and regional self-governance. "Ocalan's demands aren't challenging for the state," Ahmet Turk, a senior Kurdish politician, told reporters after visiting the PKK leader in prison last week. "These are demands that could be fulfilled in any democratic country,"
Being sought out for dialogue by the Turkish government marks the unlikeliest of political comebacks for Ocalan, once branded 'baby killer' by the mainstream Turkish media, and who escaped the death penalty in 1999 only because Turkey's desire to join the European Union precluded the exercise of capital punishment. Despite having spent the past 14 years in isolation, he still commands unusual influence over millions of Kurds. "You have to understand that to the Kurds, Ocalan is like a father, and the father figure is very strong in this part of the world," U.S.-based anthropologist Hisyar Ozsoy once explained when asked why the PKK would not simply appoint a replacement after his capture. "You cannot reject your father." Ankara is now betting on its former arch-enemy to deliver where previous truce attempts — most recently in 2011 — failed. "Öcalan is still a cult leader for the PKK," the government's negotiator and intelligence chief Hakan Fidan was quoted saying.
Still, even Ocalan's involvement may no longer suffice to ensure a positive outcome. For one thing, Turkey's Kurdish BDP party, as well as PKK leaders in Europe and northern Iraq, will also have to be persuaded to accept any compromise. To that end, two BDP lawmakers had been allowed to visit Ocalan for the first time last week. The government's intentions remain opaque: Its stated goal is a ceasefire, and Prime Minister Recep Tayipp Erdogan has ruled out the possibility of a general amnesty. "It's not as if the government has a tangible long-term peace project, " says Tanrikulu. "What's happening is more a result of international pressure. Disarming the PKK has become a necessity in the current climate of the Middle East."
The Kurds, denied a state when the British and French drew the maps of the modern Middle East after World War I, have emerged as unlikely beneficiaries of a decade of turmoil across the region. An autonomous Kurdish regional government now runs oil-rich north Iraq, while Syria's rebellion has seen the emergence a Kurdish region autonomous of both the Assad regime and the opposition, controlled by forces with ties to the PKK. Once Ankara's domestic problem, the PKK now has a presence in territory's controlled by Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government, as well as in Syria and Iran — both countries at odds with Turkey.
"It is developments towards a Kurdistan in Syria and Iraq that are forcing Turkey to end its war with the PKK and beyond that, to find a solution to its Kurdish problem," says Soli Ozel, international relations professor at Istanbul's Kadir Has University.
Turkey's Kurds were forcibly denied their identity for many decades. And though Erdogan's government has eased restrictions on speaking and publishing in the Kurdish language, thousands of Kurdish activists remain in jail for political reasons. Constitutional recognition, Kurdish-language education rights and an amnesty for political prisoners are some of the demands voiced by Kurdish lawmakers.
For Erdogan, the Paris murders may have underscored the stakes. He is widely expected to run for president in 2014, and his search for a solution to the Kurdish conflict may well become a defining element of his political legacy. As a result, ironically, his success now depends in part on the cooperation of Ocalan, once Turkey's most wanted man.
Still, several factors strengthen Erdogan's hand: Many Turks, wearied by decades of conflict with the Kurdish population, want the fighting ended; the Prime Minister has largely subdued the hawkish military; and his peace effort is backed by the main parliamentary opposition, the People's Republican Party (CHP). But does he have the resolve to see it through? "It will be tough," says Tanrikulu. "Turkey's Kurds have expectations, the Turks are resistant, the process is vulnerable to international influences and then there are the PKK's internal dynamics." Then he adds, "But it's not impossible." Indeed. Many of the world's successful political solutions to protracted ethnic and sectarian conflicts had also seemed impossible until shortly before they were accomplished.


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According to Guinness Book of World Records Gamer's Edition 2012 the team of engineering students Benjamin Allen, Stephen van't Hof, and Michel Verhulst from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created the Worlds Largest Game Controller. Weighing in at 265 pounds, measuring 12ft X 5ft 3 in X 1ft 8 in, costing upwards of $6000, and taking close to four weeks to assemble, the massive user input device is a whopping 30 times larger than a default NES controller. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Start indeed! [via DT]

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(CNN) – Paula Cooper was just 16 years old when she became the youngest person on death row in the United States.
That was in 1986.
On Monday, after 27 years behind bars, Cooper walked out of Indiana's Rockville Correctional Facility a free woman. She emerged around 10 a.m., said Douglas S. Garrison, chief communications officer for the Indiana Department of Corrections.
Cooper had an unlikely ally supporting her release: Bill Pelke, the grandson of the woman she killed.
The events that ensnared both families started when Cooper was 15 and devised a plan to steal money with her friends.
After smoking marijuana and drinking wine, they went to the home of Bible teacher Ruth Pelke, 78, armed with a knife. Cooper struck Pelke with a vase, cut her arms and legs, then stabbed her in the chest and stomach 33 times, according to Indiana court records.
Their loot? Just $10.
An Indiana judge sentenced Cooper to death on July 11, 1986, when she was 16.
More than 2 million people signed a petition asking the Indiana Supreme Court to overturn Cooper's death sentence.
Pope John Paul II personally appealed to Indiana Gov. Robert Orr on behalf of the teen.
But perhaps the most surprising advocate for Cooper's life was Pelke, who said he forgave Cooper for the murder three months after she was sentenced to death.
"I became convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that my grandmother would have had love and compassion for Paula Cooper and her family," Pelke told CNN. "I felt she wanted someone in my family to have that same sort of love and compassion. I didn't have any but was so convinced that's what she would have wanted, I begged God to give me love and compassion for Paula Cooper and her family and do that on behalf of my grandmother."
He said it was "a short prayer," but it was answered.
"For a year and a half, whenever I thought about my grandmother, I always pictured how she died. It was terrible," he said. "But when my heart was touched with compassion, forgiveness took place. I knew from that moment on when I think about her, I would no longer pictured how she died, but I would picture how she lived, and what she stood for, what she believed in — the beautiful, wonderful person she was."
Pelke tried to visit Cooper in 1986, but the two didn't come face to face until eight years later. The two struck up an unlikely friendship over the years, exchanging messages through the prison e-mail system every week. And in 1989, the Indiana Supreme Court reduced Cooper's death sentence to 60 years in prison.
Pelke said he would like to help Cooper with her transition to life outside of prison.
"I hope that we're able to go out and have a meal. I've told her when she got out of prison I'd like to buy her a computer and I have a friend that would like to buy her some clothes. Hopefully we'll get together within the next few days and go shopping," he said.
Pelke said he's never asked Cooper to explain her actions — "There's not a good answer for that" — but said she has shown remorse for the killing.
"She would take it back in a heartbeat if she could, but she knows she has to live with it for the rest of her life," he said. "She knows she took something valuable out of society. She wants to try to give back. She wants to to help work with other young people to avoid the pitfalls that she fell into. She wants to try to give back to society."
By AnneClaire Stapleton
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5 people shot dead in Illinois town, mayor says
Five people are dead and one injured as a result of a shooting in the tiny southern Illinois town of Manchester, the mayor confirmed in a television interview on Wednesday.
"We got five confirmed fatalities, one wounded and in the hospital, and the shooter's been apprehended," Mayor Ronald Drake said in an interview on the St. Louis Fox television station.
Drake could provide no names or other details about the victims. He said his pager went off at about 4:45 a.m. local time this morning, alerting him to an emergency with "multiple victims."
He said such violence was unusual in the town of about 300 people. Last year, Manchester, which is about 85 miles north of St. Louis, was troubled only by bank robbers.
Larry Balthis, pastor of the Manchester Baptist Church, said he knew the people involved in the shooting but would not comment further before police gave more information.
"It's been a very tragic scene," said Balthis.
In response to the report, Jacksonville School District 117 is closed for the day, according to Debbie McKean, secretary to Superintendent Steve Ptacek. The school district covers 222 square miles and includes the area where the suspect was reportedly apprehended, according to McKean.
The Scott County Sheriff's Department referred all questions to the Illinois State Police. A state police spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Greg McCune; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)


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Mo. school board chief resigns amid lawsuit
The Rev. Stan Archie leads KC church
The president of the Missouri State Board of Education has resigned after a second lawsuit accused him of using his position as a pastor to engage in sexual misconduct.
Gov. Jay Nixon announced Friday he accepted the Rev. Stan Archie's resignation. Nixon says the board needs "to have a clear focus without distraction from its mission."
Archie leads Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in Kansas City. He was appointed to Missouri's education board in 2006 and began serving as president this month.
A former congregant alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that Archie made lewd comments about his sexual prowess after he began counseling the now 23-year-old plaintiff when she was 15.
Archie also is accused of encouraging the teenage girl to act promiscuously and report her experiences to him.


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As most of you know, I'm attending the Digital Health Summit at CES this year. As happens at most conferences, it's hard to blog about the happenings at the conference while attending the conference. Particularly with all the CES traffic issues (it's a literal zoo) and the packed CES Press Room. Although, I must admit that I haven't found too many things all that impressive. More on that later.
For today, I thought I'd give you a little picture view of what I call the Garden of Eden booth that United Health Group has at CES (click twice to see full size image):
They seriously have grass on the ground and a wood path through their booth. Plus, they have some of the only benches at CES (many really enjoyed those including myself). They're also doing the pedometer promotion they did last year at CES and that they did at mHealth Summit, but this time you record your findings through the OptumizeMe app. I better win the iPad for all the walking I'm doing at CES. At least this time we're not up against the exercise demo lady in the booth across from United Health Group. That was totally unfair (No, I'm not bitter).
Also, I'm surprised how few people know about SOPA. So I thought I'd do my small part to get the word out to more people. SOPA is an abomination that they're trying to push through Congress. Here's the tweet I sent out recently about it:
Join me & change your profile picture to protest SOPA: BlackoutSOPA.org #BlackoutSOPA #vegastech #HITsm
— John Lynn (@techguy) January 12, 2012
As you can see I've put the STOP SOPA badge on my Twitter icon and will be doing it on some other places, likely including the blog logo above. I'm good with legislation that actually works to stop copyright infringement, but SOPA does nothing to stop it and does a lot to really screw up the internet as we know it today. I hope others will join me in helping to stop SOPA. This weekend I'll see if I can do a full post on why SOPA is bad if people are interested.


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Correlation of the electrophysiological profiles and sodium channel transcripts of individual rat dorsal root ganglia neurons. Front Cell Neurosci. 2014;8:285.
Fluoxetine blocks Nav1.5 channels via a mechanism similar to that of class 1 antiarrhythmics. Mol Pharmacol. 2014;86(4):378-89.
Modulation of peripheral Na(+) channels and neuronal firing by n-butyl-p-aminobenzoate. Eur J Pharmacol. 2014;727:158-66.
Pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (MC-1), a vitamin B6 derivative, inhibits expressed P2X receptors. Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2014;92(3):189-96.
Coexisting mutations/polymorphisms of the long QT syndrome genes in patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot are associated with the risks of life-threatening events. Hum Genet. 2012;131(8):1295-304.
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The following is by Linn County Master Gardener, Claire Smith: Early in the spring we took Mom lilacs. The wonderful scent wafted all the way down the hall in her apartment building. The next week apple blossoms popped out to mix with more lilacs. A bouquet of iris followed a couple of weeks later. Iris don't exhibit a pungent aroma, but the double blossoms are stunning. Last week we took peonies. There's no escaping that fragrance! Mom loves having admiring visitors just follow their noses to her living room.
Have you ever picked a bouquet of flowers only to have them wilt within hours? Cut the stem at an angle with a sharp knife or garden scissors. Choose fresh blooms as they'll last longest. Try a preservative. There are some non-commercial preservatives you can use to maintain healthy and happy blossoms. Flowers need sugar for survival and growth as well as disinfectants to inhibit fungi and bacteria growth. One tablespoon of sugar with ¼ tsp. of bleach mixed in a vase full of water is a good home remedy. ¼ tsp. of citric acid (available in drug stores) per one gallon of water is another option. Keep the vase filled with fresh water. Avoid using chemically softened water or extremely hot or cold water. Shun direct sunlight and direct heat, i.e. keep the vase off the top of the refrigerator and T.V. A challenge at my house is keeping vases away from the cats who view fresh greenery as a delicacy, to be gobbled up and then regurgitated. An upside down plastic berry basket in your bowl or vase will aid in holding the flower arrangement in place if you don't have a flower frog handy.
Two year old Charlie feels he's Great Grandma's designated flower delivery man. Our quest there is keeping the vase upright so we don't leave a trail of water all the way down the hall. But, no matter how flowers get to their destinations, fresh cut, home grown bouquets are almost as good as a tomato plucked fresh from the vine or a box of chocolate covered cherries.


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Cook the Book: 'Jerusalem: A Cookbook'
During a time of great conflict and sadness in Israel, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's new book Jerusalem: A Cookbook is a breath of fresh air. Not only does the book present a rich tapestry of recipes, breathtaking photographs, and beautiful essays, but it also offers a glimpse into Jerusalem's vast diversity of peoples and the food they prize most.
Both chefs were born in Jerusalem (in the same year, no less), yet they each bring distinctly different cultural experiences to the table: Ottolenghi is Jewish and Tamimi is Palestinian. Their seamless coalescence of traditional recipes from both cultures (as well as many others represented in Jerusalem) offers an uplifting and exciting view of the city.
Jerusalem contains prized family recipes and beloved regional cuisine as well as innovative interpretations of traditional Middle Eastern flavor combinations. (This comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with Ottolenghi's previous books and/or shops in London.) With many recipes they share personal stories and impressions of the city; the book is clearly written from both chefs' hearts.
Sure, the ingredient lists may be long (and full of spices you may not have), and the cooking techniques may seem unfamiliar, but the recipes are almost all easy to put together once you've assembled your pantry.
This week we'll be preparing a feast of Middle Eastern dishes. First, we'll start with Na'ama's Fattoush, a bread salad recipe from Tamimi's family. Then we'll crank up the oven for Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Tahini and Za'atar before simmering a pot of Mejadra (rice, lentils, and fried onions). Next, we'll make an elegant Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb and Pine Nuts, and then finish up the week with a huge platter of Hummus Kawarma.
Win 'Jerusalem: A Cookbook'
Thanks to the generous folks at Ten Speed Press, we have five (5) copies of Jerusalem: A Cookbook to give away this week. All you need to do is tell us about your favorite Middle Eastern dish to eat in the comments below.
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Magical race-winning superhero and donut enthusiast qualified first for tomorrow's U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, because of course he did. And after securing the pole following a tight battle with teammate Mark Webber, Vettel celebrated with an appropriately Texas remark: "Shake and bake, baby."
Asked to explain the Talladega Nights quote to an apparently clueless British journalist during a press conference, Vettel credited a Red Bull race engineer with the remark.
"There was a movie a couple years ago about racing," Vettel said. "It was a nice quote. My engineer has a lot of history here... you need to ask him."
I guess that makes Webber a sort of unwilling Cal Naughton Jr., right? He should grow that mustache. It would be a great look.
Vettel narrowly snatched the pole from Webber, who was faster during earlier runs and had as much as a 0.4 second advantage over the now four-time world champ at one point. But in the end Vettel was able to take first with just a 0.1 second lead over Webber.
Lotus' Romain Grosjean will start in third tomorrow, finishing qualifying 0.8 seconds behind Vettel. The full qualifying results from ESPN are below.
If things keep going Vettel's way, we Americans could be in for more donuts out here at the Circuit of the Americas.
United States Grand Prix 2013
Driver Teams Time
1 S Vettel (GER) Red Bull 1'36.338
2 M Webber (AUS) Red Bull 1'36.441
3 R Grosjean (FRA) Lotus 1'37.155
4 N Hülkenberg (GER) Sauber 1'37.296
5 LC Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes 1'37.345
6 F Alonso (ESP) Ferrari 1'37.376
7 S Perez (MEX) McLaren 1'37.452
8 H Kovalainen (FIN) Lotus 1'37.715
9 V Bottas (FIN) Williams 1'37.836
10 E Gutiérrez (MEX) Sauber 1'38.034
11 D Ricciardo (AUS) Toro Rosso 1'38.131
12 P di Resta (GBR) Force India 1'38.139
13 J Button (GBR) McLaren 1'38.217
14 N Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1'38.364
15 F Massa (BRA) Ferrari 1'38.592
16 JE Vergne (FRA) Toro Rosso 1'38.696
17 A Sutil (GER) Force India 1'39.250
18 P Maldonado (VEN) Williams 1'39.351
19 G van der Garde (NED) Caterham 1'40.491
20 J Bianchi (FRA) Marussia 1'40.528
21 C Pic (FRA) Caterham 1'40.596
22 M Chilton (GBR) Marussia 1'41.401


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Hit by pitch, Cano exits All-Star Game early
Second baseman nurses bruised right quad after Harvey misses with fastball
NEW YORK -- Robinson Cano was disappointed to be forced out of Tuesday's All-Star Game so quickly, but the Yankees second baseman said that he was relieved when X-rays came back negative and he was diagnosed with just a bruised right quadriceps.
Cano was drilled in his right leg by a 96-mph fastball from the Mets' Matt Harvey in the top of the first inning. Cano attempted to stay in the game, but voluntarily took himself off the basepaths after one batter.
"You've been waiting for this moment for a long time," Cano said. "I mean, that's like any kid's dream come true. You're in front of the home [New York] crowd, second pitch of the game. It's disappointing, but at the same time, you know that's part of the game. What else can you say?"
"Obviously that was the last thing I wanted to do, was go out there and possibly injure somebody," Harvey said. "As he was walking by, I was trying to kind of get his attention as he was going to first."
Cano offered Harvey a wink and said that he knew there was no ill will intended.
"He said, 'My bad,'" Cano said. "I said, 'No problem.' I know he didn't want to hit anybody."
The event marked Cano's fifth All-Star selection, and he has been one of the few Yankees stars to escape a serious injury thus far in a season that has been filled with them.
Cano said that he felt some tightness while taking a lead at first base and wanted to play it safe.
"I didn't want to aggravate it and just try to play through a situation," Cano said. "You just want to be out of the game and put it on ice the next two days."
Cano said that he has already heard from Yankees head athletic trainer Steve Donohue, who agreed that ice should do the trick. The Yankees want to ensure Cano will be able to play when the Bombers resume their schedule on Friday against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
"They called Steve and everything is good with them," Cano said. "They said just put ice on it, the X-ray was negative, and get some rest."
News of Cano's injury spread quickly, even to a Minor League stadium in Reading, Pa., where Alex Rodriguez opened his interview with reporters covering the Double-A Trenton Thunder with this comment:
"Before we start," Rodriguez said, "how is Robbie?"
Rodriguez was pleased to learn the answer, and no wonder. Cano is batting .302 with 21 homers -- tops among American League second basemen -- and 65 RBIs in 95 games for New York this season. Cano was replaced by the Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia as a pinch-runner, and Pedroia stayed in the game to play second base.
Following the early exit, Cano said that he would stay at Citi Field as long as it took to watch teammate Mariano Rivera enter the game -- something that Cano, and the rest of the baseball world, would get to watch in the home half of the eighth inning.
"It's an honor being here with Mariano in his last All-Star Game," Cano said. "He's a guy that has seen me coming up, has always given me good advice and has always been there for me. Just to be here with him in his last year, it's an honor."


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Im beginning to see a picture!
First thing I have to do is forgive my brother fully, from the beginning; completely! Until he is no more! Until I forget him!
He was never what I thought he was! He was a bad person! He never got help for his problems! He never tried! Ever! I tried, he did not! He has no conscious! I do not know him! But I turned to him because I was lonely and in trouble! I did not know he was not respectable! He is a crook; like so many! I am not!
He used, me! Spitefully persecuted me! Stole from me! Why then, would I want to spend time around him! what bothers me is not the present age, but the past
Looking back at my brother! He was no brother! I should have been scared of him but I did not know the difference! I have to learn the difference!
I had built my life once; with independence! I must get back that same attitude, and get it away from vengeance! I must forgive all people until I forget I ever met them! I did not know they would turn on me!
As for my brother, he is a stranger and always was; he is a sociopath! And must understand that he always was! His problems are none of my business! He should have taken his problems to a shrink and get some help! He did not!
Looking back; Its horrible! I was interacting with these people; him, as if I came from a troubled family! I did not come from a troubled family! Their was no family! There were a bunch of sociopaths and murder's or the equivalent!
I do not need to squabble over inheritance that was stolen! But it's going to take a while to forgive this one and gain sanity and walk away from it! But I must! It's not what it appears to be! I must walk away and trust God and start my life somewhere else! Relearn how to talk to people and be a human being again! And forget where I came from! But first, I must work through where I came from until it is thoroughly inventoried with a fine took comb!
Back to the beginning and far reaches of my childhood; to the beginning of lies that were pushed upon me! It was all unsafe because of the monsters running the show! All of it was a circus show that had to come down! Or they brought it down! And I lost my life! My young life! All of it! But it was not personal!
These scum never had the human qualities to take human from someone else! They never saw me! Its incredible! But they didn't! And surprisingly, they never knew anything about me or what I did! Nor did they think about it! They did not know who they are dealing with! They knew nothing about me! Nothing! I was a complete stranger they were taking advantage of!
Its about forgiveness from the beginning and gaining my sanity back! This is hard! But, I had an original direction in this life! And it was attacked, or I was attacked and pulled away from myself by bad people!
I blame myself; so know, I must humble myself and look at all of it to let go of the pride, so I can get back to normal and stay away from the perpetrators of this world! It's demeaning and humiliating! I saws scared and never stood up for myself! I was sickened by these scumbags ever associating with me in the first place; they were all sociopaths!
Should I remember or remain to go forward in the direction of people that stole from me! Should I have vengeance or move forward away from them! Allowing them to keep what they stole!
I am not in powered to do anything to anyone!
The way I see it; I should have never met any of these people in the first place! None of them! That is the problem! They are not my people! They are all filthy ######6 scumbags and nothing more! Liars and thieves!
Should I spend my time as a vigilantly against these people! No! Mistake! Don't do it! Go back to the beginning and see where and what I was supposed to become and get rid of all memories of association with these people! All of it! From the beginning! The problem is; Im seeing these people from the eyes of a child! A small loving caring sensitive child who is being destroyed!
I cling to these people because they are all that I have! So, I love them with all my heart! I do not know they are filth scum bags that are causing all the problems! I had no idea what I was living with ! The type of monsters!
It's my responsibility to know who I am living with! Who I was living with! The kind of people!
It's my responsibility to move out or move on! I had nothing to start with, but did not know it!
Im trying to "know it" to wake up to it! I have to go back to the earliest ages and let go of these tramps! They are worthless scum who had no business in my personal life in the first place! They were dangerous! And so are their families and associates! They are dangerous to me because they are filth!
I have to know what Im dealing with!
I have to let go of all association of these people! All of them! They are not my family! They never were! And I must see it this way!
The goal is not vengeance! Not spend 10 years in court with them! But move on; move down the right area of my life' spending my energy on my life work and direction and forgetting about what those people should pay me back or what they stole! If God wants vengeance, he must give me back what they stole! If not; then God will supply me with what I need to create a new life!
I must let go and let God! I must head down my original path!
Forgiveness is everything; all day long, until I forget about these people and where I came from! All the misery they put me through!
I did not know I would be completely abandon! I did not know the kind of scumbags I was dealing with; I must see them for what they are and move on! Not worry about what someone owes me! Forgive and God will supply the rest! I must practice !
To keep my identity; I must forgive and move on, leaving all things behind; all of them! No attachments to anything; I must look deeper from earlier times and become me again without their help! Without their involvement, forgetting I was ever associated with such worthless filth! I must start before I met them!


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Cakespy: Mini Galettes des Rois Recipe
Quirky, cute, sometimes controversial, always delicious recipes from Jessie Oleson.
Why make them mini? So everyone can bite into a hidden treasure.
The 12 days of Christmas may be drawing to a close, but there's still one sweet treat to enjoy this season: the Galette des Rois.
In case you missed Dorie Greenspan's piece last year, the Galette des Rois is a rich almond cream and puff pastry confection which commemorates the arrival of the three kings on the Epiphany. Within each galette is a hidden treasure—a feve (originally a bean, but often a trinket now), the finder of which is declared king.
So why make them mini? It all comes down to the fate of the feve. Faced with the prospect of a possible revolt by the power-hungry masses who all want to be crowned king, I decided to take control of destiny by making mini galettes wherein everyone could have a trinket. Happily, this seemed to ensure peace in kingdom cake.
Mini Galettes des Rois
- Yield:about 12 to 18 mini galettes, depending on size
- 1/4 cup almond paste
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 package frozen puff pastry, thawed
- 1 dry kidney bean
- 1 egg, beaten (for an egg wash)
Place the almond paste into a food processor with about half of the sugar, and process until well blended. Add the butter and remaining sugar; process until smooth. Blend in one of the eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, flour and salt. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set to the side.
Roll out one sheet of the puff pastry into an 11-inch square. Keep the pastry cool, do not knead or stretch. Using a cookie or biscuit cutter (I used the "tartelette mold" which Williams-Sonoma uses on their gift wrapping), cut out as many rounds as you can from the sheet and lay them on the prepared baking sheet. Mound a bit of almond filling in the middle of each round, leaving about half an inch all around it. If you'd like, put a little prize or bean (something tiny works best) inside of any (or all) of them.
Note: I had some extra filling left even after adding it to all of my prepared rounds of puff pastry. If you have more puff pastry, by all means, make more galettes; the filling also works beautifully stirred into cake batter or sugar cookie dough, or as a filling for crescent rolls.
Roll out a second sheet of the puff pastry and repeat the cutouts, but this time place them on top of the ones with filling. Press down the edges to seal (I used a fork to press down the sides to ensure that they were sealed). Beat the remaining egg with a fork, and lightly brush onto the top of the galettes. Prick several small slits in the top to vent steam while baking.
Bake in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until puffy and golden on the sides and top. Try to avoid opening the oven during baking (ideally an oven with a window works best) to ensure that the pastry puffs nicely.
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Ten years ago, the Sudanese government launched military action against armed groups in Darfur that led to the deaths of over 300,000 people and displaced 3 million more, in what a United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry described as crimes against humanity. Darfur, a previously little known region in western Sudan, became synonymous with the most brutal of modern conflicts.
As politicians from the UK and US, we have each been to Darfur and have vivid memories of the people we met and tales of suffering they endured. We have separately been with colleagues on the ground in refugee camps, hearing stories of violence and despair. The horror was barely imaginable. We were told that women chose to collect firewood and water because they felt it was better to be raped than their men be killed. At one deserted village, charred structures and an array of craters served as evidence of recent bombing. African Union soldiers explained that everyone had fled suddenly due to Sudanese Antonov military aircraft flying overhead, their dark shadows against the bright blue sky the symbols of thundering terror for the people on the ground.
We encountered severely malnourished children, seeking treatment with international organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), because the conflict had ravaged crops and was slowly starving the most innocent and blameless. In this bleak landscape, where women and children struggled to get by, buffeted by hot and dusty winds, we were undoubtedly witnesses to a living tragedy.
Today in Darfur, the misery goes on, with indicted criminals going free, violence escalating and over 3 million people relying on food aid. Yet, most frighteningly, and in an appalling repetition of history, the Sudanese government has spent the past 18 months deploying the same brutal tactics it used in Darfur to crush an armed rebellion in another part of Sudan. Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states, often called the "Two Areas", are two little-known corners of one of the biggest countries in Africa, which might soon be as notorious as Darfur – unless the world takes action.
As in Darfur, civilians in the Two Areas, mainly women and children, have been caught in the crossfire as the Sudanese armed forces wage war far from the attention of the world's media. In an effort to drive the population from their land through fear and starvation, the government of Sudan has blocked humanitarian assistance to the Two Areas, targeted civilians through indiscriminate aerial bombardment and ground attacks, and carefully timed offensives designed to disrupt the planting and harvesting seasons.
The UN estimates that over 1.2 million people have been displaced or severely affected by violence. Many are living on one meal every five days; independent experts now warn that parts of southern Kordofan and Blue Nile face the very real prospect of a man-made famine by April 2013. Coping mechanisms have been largely exhausted and recent visitors report refugees resorting to eating roots and leaves and being forced to live in caves.
As we recognise the ten-year anniversary of the conflict in Darfur, it is time to learn from the lessons of history. A decade ago, the UN security council neglected atrocities in Darfur, failing to recognise the significance of this remote conflict for wider peace across the region – and doing so with devastating consequences. This cycle threatens to recur, as the security council – the world's premier body for peace, security and the protection of people – remains largely silent on the plight of the people of the Two Areas, failing to back up its own resolutions on this conflict and not putting its political muscle behind African Union plans to end the suffering.
History cannot be allowed to repeat itself: it is not too late to stand up and be a voice for the people of Sudan. That is why we have added our names to an open letter, along with 98 political representatives from an unprecedented coalition spanning three continents, urging our governments to step up and lead the UN security council to take effective action to address the situation in Sudan.
After Darfur, the world said "never again". Today, ten years on and in the Two Areas, we need to prove it. Hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance in southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. What is needed is united global leadership to prevent a man-made humanitarian catastrophe and forge a path to peace.


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A mysterious YouTube video is going viral this week, sparking outrage across the Web over a toddler who looks like he's being forced to get a tattoo.
The UK's Daily Mail and The Sun report that the video, posted on YouTube, is believed to have been filmed in Cuba, but no sources are cited. There's no information on what's depicted in the tattoo, why anyone would give such a young child a tattoo, if the video is real and whether the woman holding the child down is, indeed his mother, as some websites have speculated.
Regardless of whether we'll get answers to these questions, this video is disturbing to watch:


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Marte's walk-off blast caps frenzied rally in ninth
Pirates use pair of clutch homers to overcome two-run deficit
PITTSBURGH -- At a little after 10 o'clock on Friday night, PNC Park was a sleepy little enclave. Sort of like that serene shopping mall food court on those popular videos, before a flash mob of energetic humanity breaks out. Flash mobs always begin with one voice, and others gradually join in until it's … well, a mob.
The first to raise his voice at PNC Park was Neil Walker, starting off a ninth inning that Toronto led, 5-3, with a single off Blue Jays closer Sergio Santos. One out later, Pedro Alvarez joined in with his seventh homer -- his first in 36 at-bats since April 17 -- to tie it.
Two outs later, Starling Marte flashed his second homer of the year over the left-center-field fence, turning another bummer into a 6-5 victory.
"Oh, very exciting. It felt great," said Marte, who at the end of his tour of the bases following his first career walk-off hit was welcomed at home by … what else, a mob flashing smiles.
Those smiles began forming the instant Alvarez connected with Santos' 1-0 pitch.
"Everyone knows how strong, how good he can be, when he puts the barrel on the ball like that," said Walker, who recognized that sound. "I knew it was gone as soon as he hit it. I know that sound off his bat -- and the look on his face."
Five pitches later, it was Marte's turn to drop Santos' chin just a little lower with his third blown save.
"It just seems like everything I throw they hit and they barrel up. It's just frustrating as heck," Santos said.
Maybe the Bucs were just upset that Santos would take the PNC Park mound wearing uniform No. 21 -- a sacred numeral in these parts.
"What a really good team victory," said manager Clint Hurdle, who actually had a very big hand in it.
Marte's heroics -- the game-winner was his fourth hit of the night -- came from the No. 6 spot in the batting order, just more evidence of the work of the Pirates' mad scientist.
In the three games since he was dropped out of the top of the batting order, Marte is 7-for-12. As a struggling leadoff batter, he had seven hits in his previous 41 at-bats.
"I'm never surprised by what people do when you give them a chance to show what they can do. Just changed his scenery a little," Hurdle said.
So the manager passed on that laurel. Then, how about the constant lineup juggling that finally produced a good combination Friday night, placing two hot hitters back-to-back in the lineup. Walker returned to the two-hole ahead of Andrew McCutchen and the pair went 6-for-9, with three runs and two RBIs.
"That's all we've been missing - some consistency," said McCutchen, who raised his average to .309 with his thee hits. "Hopefully, this momentum can propel us."
Hurdle expressed the same hope. The manager, however, realized it is a hope already often expressed this season, but not yet answered.
"This is about our fifth opportunity for a spark," he said. "We'll see what this does."
For starters, it kept the Pirates out of the National League Central cellar which, given the Cubs' afternoon victory over the Cardinals, seemed to be their destiny until the awakening.
The Pirates thus survived an off night by starter Gerrit Cole to snap their latest losing streak at three games.
Playing a major role in the comeback win was Casey Sadler, who made his big league debut to complete the uphill climb from having been a 25th-round pick in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. Sadler put up zeros in the seventh and eighth innings.
"Surreal, I guess, is the word for it. It's something I've dreamt of for a very long time, and not a lot of people get to feel that," said the 23-year-old Oklahoman. "My heart was racing so much, I honestly felt like it stopped a little bit. But it's still a game; they still have to try to make good contact if I make my pitch."
Mark Melancon then worked the ninth to earn the relief win.
Toronto leveled the first blow, converting a two-out rally in the first that could've been bad news for a Pirates team struggling offensively. Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion doubled back-to-back for the 1-0 lead.
Jordy Mercer had a solid opportunity for a third RBI in his 70th at-bat, coming up with the bases loaded and none out in the second, but it wasn't to be. He got in a run, but only by grounding into a double play, which tied the game at 1, but aborted a more productive rally.
Walker doubled with one away in the third and came in on McCutchen's single for a 2-1 lead. When Alvarez followed with another single, the Pirates were set up for another run at a bigger inning. This, too, ended with a double play, on a hot smash to third by Gaby Sanchez.
That one-run lead couldn't survive Juan Francisco's double and Brett Lawrie's sixth homer a few minutes later in the fourth. Toronto added to its lead in the fifth, Bautista doubling to score Jose Reyes, who had singled and stolen second.
The volume of high-pressure pitches each starter needed to make to keep their team in the game took its toll on both starting pitchers, and they were gone after five.
Cole's outing matched his briefest in 15 career starts at PNC Park. He allowed seven hits and four runs, all earned, while walking one and striking out six.
Brandon Morrow was not at his best, but somehow got the better of Cole, spreading 11 hits -- if that's possible in five innings. He was charged with three runs and walked one -- seven fewer than in his last outing -- and fanned two.
In the sixth, Steve Tolleson's pinch-hit RBI triple off lefty reliever Justin Wilson made it 5-2.
The Bucs got within striking distance in the fifth, scoring with that familiar combination: Walker doubled and came home on McCutchen's single.
A little later, just as some people may have imagined hearing "Taps," was that "Reveille?"
"Every season, every battle, will have a low point, and that last road trip was about as bad as it can get," Walker said. "There was a lot going on, no fun. But the farthest thing from our mind is pressing in May."


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Multiplatform: "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Delivers More than 22 Million Viewers to Date
· When looking at TV based on the Total Viewer average audience, the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiere drew 12.1 million total viewers in the Live + Same Day window, plus an additional 3.7 million timeshifted viewers in days 1-3. The Thursday encore garnered 4.7 million viewers, and the episode was viewed 1.6 million times across ABC's full episode player and Hulu over its first 5 days.
· Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has already delivered an impressive online streaming audience, ranking as ABC's best series premiere ever in online streaming (based on first 5 days).


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An international manhunt is under way for a British jihadist believed to have perpetrated the on-screen beheading of American journalist James Foley.
Police and intelligence services are sifting through the gruesome footage for clues amid suggestions that the Islamic State (IS) extremist - referred to in the video as 'John' - is from London.
A former hostage, who was held for a year in the Syrian town of Raqqa, has told the Guardian the killer was the ringleader of a trio of UK-born extremists the captives nicknamed "The Beatles" because of their nationality.
Changes to GCSE results expected
Teenagers are today waking up to their GCSE grades amid indications that some schools are seeing major changes to results.
Early reports suggested that there are particular concerns among some headteachers about English and maths grades.
England's exams regulator, Ofqual, has previously warned that there is likely to be "variability" in individual school results this summer due to the significant alterations to the qualifications.
Suicide tourism numbers double
Suicide tourism is on the rise, experts said after they found that the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had doubled in four years.
One in five people who travelled to Zurich for assisted suicide between 2008 and 2012 were from the UK, researchers found.
Experts from the University of Zurich analysed data from the Zurich Institute of Legal Medicine database on assisted suicide of non-Swiss residents during the five year period.
12% rise in children in care
The number of children in council care in England has risen by 12%, with overall costs calculated at £3.4 billion.
There were 68,110 children in care on March 31 2013, including 42,228 who had suffered abuse or neglect.
This figure had risen by 12% or 7,210 in the previous four years, according to figures from the Audit Commission.
Power firms face licence axe
A Labour government would give a new energy regulator the power to revoke energy companies' licences to help protect the interests of the public, the party announced today.
Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint accused the Government of presiding over a "broken energy market" and said Labour would hand a tough new regulator the capability to cancel energy companies' licences where there were repeated instances of the most "serious and deliberate breaches of their licence conditions which harm the interests of consumers".
Ms Flint is due to visit the battleground seats of Reading East and Reading West later today where she will speak on the issue.
Obesity increases dementia risk
People who are obese could be putting themselves at risk of dementia in later life, new research suggests.
Patients under the age of 70 who are admitted to hospital for obesity carry a higher risk of developing the condition than those who were not recorded to be obese, experts found.
They found the risk was highest among those with a record of obesity when they are in their 30s.
Salmond in yes vote 'wealth call'
Scotland would be the wealthiest country in the world to become independent if there is a Yes vote in four weeks' time, Alex Salmond has said.
The First Minister made his comments as MSPs gathered at the Scottish Parliament for the final time before the referendum.
Voters in Scotland go to the polls on September 18 to decide if the country should remain part of the UK or not.
Funeral of MH17 victim to be held
The funeral of the first British victim to be identified from the wreckage of Flight MH17 will take place today.
Newcastle United fan Liam Sweeney will be laid to rest after his body was flown back from Ukraine following the tragedy.
The family will be joined at the service by Newcastle manager Alan Pardew, club captain Fabricio Coloccini, managing director Lee Charnley and assistant manager John Carver.
Rise in sexual offences on railways
There has been a big rise in the number of sexual offences on the railways.
There were 1,117 incidents of sexual offences recorded by British Transport Police (BTP) in 2013/14 (the 12 months ending March 2014) - a 20.8% increase on the 925 in 2012/13.
Most of the increase was accounted for by incidents of sexual crime against females, which rose from 485 in 2012/13 to 624 in 2013/14.
Camden memorial for Amy Winehouse
A life-size statue of singer Amy Winehouse will be unveiled in the heart of the London neighbourhood she called home.
The bronze, which shows the Back To Black singer complete with her trademark beehive hairdo and standing with her hand on her hip, will be unveiled on September 14 which would have been her birthday.
Winehouse, who fought a public battle with drink and drugs, was found dead aged 27 at her home in the capital in 2011.


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Chibi-Robo Photo Finder, which released in Japan in July, will come to the North American Nintendo eShop on Jan. 9, Nintendo said this morning. A free demo will be available on the store on the same day.
Chibi Robo Photo Finder is an augmented reality game that requires you to find and photograph items in the real world that correspond to shapes presented to you on the screen. Matching up the items summons Chibi-Robo to pop out and drag the item away.


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How Does Stress Affect My Cardiac Condition After A Heart Attack?
Dr. Williams answers the question: 'How Does Stress Affect My Heart Problem?'
-- Question: How does stress affect my cardiac condition, is it dangerous when I have angina, and how about stress after a heart attack?
Answer: There has been an awful lot of research documenting that if you already have heart disease -- if you already had a heart attack or have been diagnosed with heart disease by angiography or other tests -- that stress puts you at a higher risk for having some bad events happen to you. People who've had a heart attack, who have low levels of social support, are more likely to die in the next few years. People who meet criteria for depression following a heart attack are actually four to five times more likely to die in the next six months following the heart attack. People who have chronic stress at work -- high demands, low control over how you meet those demands -- when they're followed up over two to four years, are about twice as likely to die as people whose jobs do not impose that kind of stress.
So once you have heart disease, I'm afraid I have to tell you that the stress story is even more dire than before you develop heart disease.
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Push for new gas power plants draws fire
SDG&E's proposal to build two natural gas facilities has sparked opposition from broad coalition of critics
A push to build two new natural gas power plants in the San Diego area has turned into a contentious forum on the value of California's alternative-energy remedies.
San Diego Gas & Electric is seeking authorization from state utility regulators for the new power plants, along with a smaller retrofit in Escondido, asserting that local energy resources in the San Diego area could fall short under extraordinary circumstances. Outside developers would build the installations and sell the electricity.
Power plant developers hail from Kentucky, Canada, North Carolina
Critics of the plan say the utility has underestimated reductions in electricity demand from energy-efficiency improvements, conservation programs and rooftop solar installations.
State mandates require that California utility customers invest hundreds of millions of dollars in those resources to help reduce electricity demand — and, with it, the need for new power plants.
SDG&E's electricity demand forecast for the San Diego area is supported by the state's main grid operator, which says the cost of the new plants outweighs the risk of outages.
"Overstating the need results in only marginal cost implications," the California Independent System Operator cautioned regulators in written filings. "On the other hand, understating the need can mean the loss of (electricity to some customers), which puts the public safety and the economy in jeopardy."
A broad coalition of environmentalists and ratepayer advocates disagrees with that approach and the numbers linked to it.
The new natural gas plants, they say, would tie San Diego residents and businesses to additional fossil fuel resources for another 20 years, diverting customer resources from potential investments making the local grid more efficient, clean and responsive.
Those lining up against the utility's request include the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and an alliance of six California environmental justice groups.
"We invested in this case for a reason, because we believe it is monumental," said Nicole Capretz of the National City-based Environmental Health Coalition. "It's going to decide our energy future for years."
The case for the power plants hinges on dueling, highly technical estimates of local electricity demand, production and transmission capabilities. Both SDG&E and opponents of its plan claim to be upholding the state's "loading order" law that says fossil-fuel burning plants, no matter how efficient, should only be considered after efforts to reduce electricity demand through an array of efficiency, conservation and rooftop solar programs funded by ratepayers.
Under the order, customer-funded energy efficiency programs, for example, are treated as a power resource in their own right, with a return-on-investment allowance for regulated utilities that run them.
In one instance, the state's three investor-owned utility companies were awarded $60 million in earnings in December for a year of energy efficiency programing. SDG&E earned $13.7 million of the total.
But SDG&E's power-plant application before the California Public Utilities Commission shuns optimistic forecasts for demand reductions that have yet to be explicitly funded. The conservative approach extends to energy efficiency, conservation and distributed generation like rooftop solar.
"Uncommitted energy efficiency savings do not have commission-approved programs or budgets and, therefore, do not have a high level of certainty," SDG&E told regulators.
Peter Spencer, a senior regulatory analyst at the state's Division of Ratepayer Advocates, said there's a clear commitment by the utilities commission to continue funding those programs, even if incremental allowances haven't been approved.
"We think the need for the plants was primarily determined by not giving adequate credit for energy efficiency, demand response and distributed generation," he said. "There's a risk of not fulfilling the money spent by ratepayers on those programs."
Unless it were to acquire the plants at a later date, SDG&E derives little or no profit from the purchase agreements on the three plants, though it would earn a return on some associated transmission and infrastructure improvements.
For customers, the plants ultimately would raise electricity rates by about 0.5 cents a kilowatt hour, a 3.1 percent increase, according to preliminary estimates SDG&E filed with the utilities commission. Full contract terms are not made public by regulators or private parties.
SDG&E said its calculations for the area's energy needs take into consideration a series of plant retirements in response to state clean-air requirements along with the phase-out of certain water-cooled power plants that have proved harmful to marine life.
Part of that equation revolves around the retirement of three aging generators at the coastal Encina Generation Station in Carlsbad. Encina owner and operator NRG Energy last month received site approval from the California Energy Commission for a successor plant, the Carlsbad Energy Center Project, on a peninsula between Carlsbad proper and the Carlsbad State Beach.
But NRG has no utility contract to sell power from the new plant, limiting finance options for construction. SDG&E says it cannot depend on the facility being built.
The proceedings do not take into consideration the continued outage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. SDG&E nevertheless told regulators that the outage highlights the need for more local power generation, while NRG said its coastal plant at Carlsbad would be much better positioned on the grid to supplant San Onofre.
Other developers of natural gas generators are waiting in the wings as the San Diego region maps out its energy future.
Canadian power provider Capital Power has expressed interest developing a large natural gas power plant in the University City area that would rely on a long-term lease of city property. In June, the developer postponed indefinitely a required ballot initiative for the North City Energy Center.
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I want to understand once and for all what the resolution of an unbounded complex is. I've been trying to read 'Homotopy limits in triangulated categories' by Marcel Bokstedt and Amnon Neeman and can't understand at all even some of the notation. From what I've gathered, the resolution of an unbounded complex $X$ is $M$ in:
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where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are quasi-isomorphisms.
But what's the homotopy limit in this context? The thing I can relate it to is this:
A homotopy limit of a sequence of maps
$X_{0} \xrightarrow{f_0} X_{1} \xrightarrow{f_1} X_{2} \rightarrow \cdots$
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The local agriculture industry is teaming up with scientists and other experts, looking to possibly take the "biggest step yet" in addressing what's been a major concern at Rocky Mountain National Park for several years. While Greeley is about 60 miles away from the park, ammonia drifting westward from ag operations in Weld County and surrounding areas, among other sources, has impacted the park's ecosystem, according to studies.
Biologist Jim Cheatham said the 2006 Rocky Mountain National Park Initiative report revealed that nitrogen levels in the park are about 15 times more than natural amounts — with the excess coming in the form of nitrogen oxide from sources like fossil fuels, and also ammonia from ag operations. Such levels, according to Cheatham, have altered the vegetation composition, aquatic communities and overall natural processes of the alpine tundra the park was created to protect under its designations as a National Park, an International Biosphere Reserve and a Class I Airshed.
Now, the Colorado Livestock Association is voluntarily working with climatologists and other scientists in hopes of controlling the problem.
The Greeley-based organization is spearheading an effort to develop a warning system that will tell ag producers — based on atmospheric conditions — when they should or shouldn't scrape manure from pens at feedlots and dairies, fertilize crops or perform other tasks that release ammonia into the atmosphere. Only when weather conditions are right does that ammonia drift from farms, ranches and dairies along the Front Range and northeast Colorado plains to Rocky Mountain National Park.
"So if we can just get more exact data about how and when that ammonia is moving into Rocky Mountain National Park … and then develop a warning system … that could really go a long way in fixing the problem," said Bill Hammerich, president of the Colorado Livestock Association. "We know we're not the only contributor to the issue, but we certainly want to do our part to help fix it."
Such a warning system has been in discussions for about two years, Hammerich said, and it finally got off the ground this month, thanks to a recent $100,000 boost from the Conservation Innovation Grant program.
Cheatham said he's "very appreciative" of the efforts being made by the Colorado Livestock Association and others, saying the development of a warning system could be the "biggest step yet" in addressing the high nitrogen levels in the park.
There's no exact numbers showing how much of an impact agriculture operations have on the high nitrogen levels, but he said the 2006 report showed that about 55 percent of the excess nitrogen was coming from sources in Colorado, while the other 45 percent drifted in from outside the state. Cheatham said ongoing studies are attempting to pinpoint precisely how much ag and other industries are affecting nitrogen levels.
"We know agriculture's impact is significant."
William Brock Faulkner — a professor at Texas A&M University's Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, who's helping with the warning-system endeavor — said the Colorado Livestock Association and other parties involved (Cheatham, the Colorado Corn Growers Association in Greeley and Colorado State University Atmospheric Science Department professors Jeffrey Collett and Russ Schumacher, among many others) are hoping to have about 30 to 40 producers in the region participating in a "pilot" program by March or April of next year, after more data is collected. Faulkner said some of the effort will be determining whether a warning system would even be economically feasible — not requiring producers to delay practices like manure removal, needed as part as of animal-health measures, for too many days.
But local producers say they're willing to do their part.
"Myself and others in agriculture certainly don't want to have a negative impact on the environment," said Steve Gabel of Eaton, former president of the Colorado Livestock Association, and also operator of Magnum Feedyards, which has the capacity to hold nearly 25,000 head of cattle.
Gabel explained that many producers already have practices in place that help reduce the release of ammonia into the atmosphere, but added that, if a warning system can be developed, he could hold off on performing ammonia-releasing tasks for as many as a few days at a time, or even up to a week, if needed.
Cheatham said the overall goal is to ultimately cut nitrogen levels in the park by half — 1.5 kilograms of reactive nitrogen per hectare per year. He noted that it's a "realistic and achievable goal," but those levels would still be about seven or eight times the natural amounts of nitrogen in the park.
"We understand that, with human activity, natural levels are not achievable anymore," he said, describing Rocky Mountain National Park as ahead of the curve in addressing the nitrogen issue compared to other parks. "But we certainly need to do what we can to control the problem."
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Carolina Hernando was a senior in high school in 1999 when her guidance counselor delivered a devastating blow: She needed a Social Security number to go to college. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Hernando had no idea what a Social Security number was, let alone that it would prevent her from becoming a teacher.
More than a decade later, Hernando still tears up when talking about it. "I was the first in my family to graduate high school," she said. "I felt like all that hard work was wasted."
When Hernando, who lives in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, heard about the Logan Square Neighborhood Association's parent mentor program last fall, she leapt at the chance to get what she calls a "taste of being in the classroom."
The year-long program places parents into a classroom in their child's school for two hours every day. They work with individual students or small groups, helping teachers give more one-on-one attention to children. They also earn a stipend of $500-$600 per semester for their time.
Started in 1995 as a way to get more parents into schools, the parent mentor program has been adopted by other neighborhood groups and the city school district, spreading to 29schools; the Logan Square Neighborhood Association oversees the program in eight of them. Each year, the program places hundreds parents in the classrooms of participating schools.
that the more involved a parent is in his or her child's education, the better the child performs academically. Yet parent involvement in high-poverty schools is often an elusive goal. Some parents are unable or unwilling to participate; others are unsure of how to get involved. Logan Square views its mentor program as a response to this last problem — it provides clear-cut access to school involvement for nearly any willing parent.
Advocates say the program has contributed to improved student performance in the largely poor and minority neighborhood in northwestern Chicago, both for individual students and for the schools that participate. At James Monroe Elementary School, for instance, 74 percent of third-graders were proficient in reading in 2011, compared to 24 percent in 1999.
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Yet the program, which draws a large percentage of immigrants, is just as much about adult education as it is about student achievement. After finishing the year helping in a classroom, many parents go on get a GED, enroll in college or start a career. The Logan Square Neighborhood Association estimates that 80 percent of its parent mentors go on to jobs or some sort of education.
"The parent mentor program is a place for them to be able to explore themselves and realize they can do things they think they can't," said Leticia Barrera, an education coordinator for the association and an alumna of the program.
Hernando, who as applied for a deferred action status under President Obama's executive order for DREAMers, is still not a citizen and therefore ineligible for government aid for postsecondary education; college remains out of reach. But she'll become a part-time classroom aide at her children's elementary school this fall. She'll also be a parent mentor coordinator at the elementary school, recruiting and supporting other parents in the program.
Her fellow coordinators have similar success stories. Adam Little grew up in a single-parent household with five siblings and is now a single father of two teenage girls. After an injury forced him to leave his job, he slipped into a three-year depression, until his mother dragged him to a parent mentor meeting at his girls' school, he said. He's now training to become a teacher.
Iyabo Anifowoshe, a former math teacher in Nigeria, still carries around her diploma at all times as proof she graduated as an electrical engineer from a university in Africa. She missed the classroom terribly until she found the parent mentor program.
"When you come to America you have to start your life all over again," she said. "This year my whole life just changed."
And the mentors' children likely benefit as well, says Joanna Brown, Logan Square's lead education organizer. "People's goals for their children either go up or get really enforced," she said. "That's one of the big things they say — they learned how to help their kids at home."
Recruitment for new mentors starts the first week of school, with fliers, notes sent home with children, even phone calls to potential candidates. Parents have to apply and go through a formal interview, but nearly everyone who clears a background check and meets other Chicago Public Schools guidelines, such as passing a tuberculosis test, is accepted. Parents with any level of education can participate.
Teacher participation is voluntary. Logan Square tries to place parents in a class in the same grade as their child or one above, but never in the same class as their child.
Parents often pick up strategies by watching the teachers. "They observe how we do it," said Margarita Ampudia, a first-grade teacher at Monroe Elementary School. "They learn a little bit."
Hernando said that by the end of her year as a parent mentor she'd seen grades improve for the students she worked with regularly.
Funding limits how many parents a given school is able to accept, Barrera said, but some schools — having seen how effective the program is at integrating parents into the school — are willing to pitch in. Logan Square asks that each participating school set aside $5,000 to $10,000 to pay for part of the program. The association then contributes $40,000 to $45,000 per school annually.
'There are a lot of obstacles'
At Monroe, Principal Edwin Rivera meets with his parent mentors every other week to update them on school news and let them ask questions. His mentors also pitch in as crossing guards and lunch monitors; they supervise the hallways during standardized testing time.
Although test scores have skyrocketed at Monroe, proficiency rates still are slightly under state averages in most grades. The school has also recently seen a small dip in test scores, and it has been placed on a federal list of schools that are eligible for state sanctions based on a formula of expected test score growth.
Despite Monroe's success in attracting parent mentors, there are still many more parents who aren't involved at the school, where 96 percent of students qualify for free- or reduced-price lunch. Parent mentors must pledge 10 hours a week during school hours, meaning positions are primarily taken by those who don't have other day jobs.
"It's not that they don't want to come," Rivera said of the other parents. "There are a lot of obstacles."
For those without steady work like Hernando, though, time is not a limiting factor. In fact, she, along with otherparent coordinators, dedicated a week of the summer to get ready to work with newcomers. Each coordinator-to-be practiced leading a different part of the parent mentor training that they would do in the fall.
During one session,one of the coordinators, Samantha Garrett, led the group through a goal-setting exercise. "Your goals [are] for you," she said, "not for your children, not for your husband."
Hernando scribbled down her own goal immediately: to take leadership classes so she can give future parent mentors the best experience possible. Latino parents, she explained, are often isolated from their children's education, not understanding how schools work or how to get involved. Her own parents didn't know how to help her get into college. She wants to make sure that's not true for the next generation.
"It's great," she said about her new mentor coordinator role. "I can help other parents get involved."
This story, "Education Nation: Mentoring becomes as much about parents as it is about kids," was produced by a nonprofit, nonpartisan education-news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University.


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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The White Sox haven't even played an intrasquad game, let alone started Cactus League competition, but a pretty good guess at the rotation probably could have been made back at SoxFest.
Chris Sale and Jose Quintana will be at the top, followed by John Danks and Felipe Paulino. Rookie Erik Johnson has the edge on other fifth-starter candidates such as Eric Surkamp, Andre Rienzo, Omar Poveda and Chris Beck, according to White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper. While statistics and numbers don't make a huge difference in the decision-making from Arizona, chances will be afforded to this group through "B" games, split-squad action and even extended relief outings.
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A side event at the UNFCCC COP20 climate negotiations in Lima, Peru was disrupted Monday when climate activists and individuals representing communities on the frontlines of energy development flooded the presentation hall and staged a 'walk out' on fossil fuels.
The event was hosted by the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Global CCS Institute and featured Lord Nicholas Stern and David Hone, Shell's chief climate advisor, as speakers.
The talk, originally entitled "Why Divest from Fossil Fuels When a Future with Low Emission Fossil Fuel Energy Use is Already a Reality?," was inexplicably renamed "How Can we Reconcile Climate Targets with Energy Demand Growth" and focused on the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a technological solution to carbon emissions that cause global warming.
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CHARLOTTETOWN – Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is a half century behind when he says there should be greater scientific study before the shale gas industry expands, Premier David Alward said Thursday.
Alward leader took an unprompted shot at Trudeau's position at the end of a news conference about a labour mobility agreement with British Columbia.
"Justin Trudeau is 50 years late," the Progressive Conservative leader said in Charlottetown.
"The reality is the scientific work has been taking place over the last 50 years. Fracking has been taking place safely across our country for the last 50 years."
Alward, who is trying to get re-elected in his province's Sept. 22 election, made his comments after Trudeau waded into the controversial issue of shale gas development while he campaigned alongside provincial Liberal Leader Brian Gallant last weekend.
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Alward launched his re-election bid a week ago in front of a field of natural gas wells, promoting the merits of an industry he says can reverse New Brunswick's economic woes.
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This election is being fought on a new electoral map that cuts the number of seats to 49 from 55.