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More about the highlights and lowlights of that trip later; today I'm getting ready to host the next edition of Patients For A Moment, the blog carnival about, for, and by people with chronic illnesses. The edition will go live here on November 9 and submissions are due to me by midnight Pacific Time on Sunday, Nov. 6.
I don't believe in always being cheerful when I feel like life sucks, so I try to give myself the space to express my feelings (and thanks to everyone who reads my blog, since this is the second most place I express those!) for a day or two, and then work on cheering myself up, or if that's too big a stretch, to find a way to feel hopeful again.
I'm sure I'm not alone since depression often goes hand-in-hand with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
So what do you do to get yourself out of the doldrums when you fall into a funk? What (or who) inspires you and gives you hope? Where have you found inspiration when you weren't even looking for it? How do you keep on keeping on when your pain is high and your fatigue is even higher?
For me, sometimes it requires getting a reality check to remind myself that however lousy my chronic illnesses are, there are people out there who are coping (better!) with much more than I do. Sometimes it's as easy as getting to snuggle with my kid as she reads aloud to me (which is so cool!). Often, very often, it's reading books and/or blogs by people who have dealt themselves with these kinds of life-altering changes chronic illness forces. And chocolate always helps (at least until it hits my hips). :)
If you'd like to participate in this edition of PFAM, and I hope you do!, send me an email at sickmommaPDX (at) gmail dot you-know-what with the following:
- Your name (as you'd like it to appear in the post).
- Your blog's name.
- Your post's title.
- Your post's URL.
Meanwhile, I'll share one of my deepest secrets of a guaranteed pick-me-up: I listen to a playlist of (modern) Disney music that I made for my daughter about a year ago. I just find it's impossible for me to not smile when I listen to Amy Adams sing "Happy Working Song" (from Enchanted) or Donny Osmond sing "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" (from Mulan) or a duet from Aladdin by people I've never heard of called "A Whole New World."


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In honor of Mother's Day, the Book Babes went looking for the most resilient moms in the current crop of fiction. Here is our new list of "Top 10 Tough Mamas" in literature today. Match the book to the personal taste of your mom or someone who has filled in for your mom, and then give it with love.
1. Tuscany for Beginners, by Imogen Edwards-Jones. A funny book featuring two strong-willed mothers — one English and the other American — who clash as they vie for attention in the small Tuscan town where they've taken up residence. While the moms are battling, their daughter and son are falling in love. This is a rollicking satire for those of us sick to death of books telling us how ideal life would be if only we moved to Tuscany. Bonus: It contains delicious recipes!
2. The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk Kidd. After proving herself a master at portraying strong women in The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd is back with a book conjuring another strong female: Jessie Sullivan. A wife, mother and artist who returns to her childhood home, Sullivan finds her unambiguous world as "Hugh's wife and Dee's mother" turned upside down when she falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
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3. The Bad Mother's Handbook: A Novel, by Kate Long. No one ever said that being a mother was easy. So you've got to laugh while you're shedding all those tears. By examining the lives of three generations of struggling, fictional mothers, Long — a former high school English teacher — explores the difficulties of being a mom and leaves us with the sense that there are as many kinds of mothers as there are children.
4. The Interruption of Everything, by Terry McMillan. The author of the popular Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back is back herself, this time with Marilyn Grimes, weighed down by a workaholic husband, three demanding grown kids and a live-in mother-in-law. In other words, the perfect formula for a midlife crisis. So where does she find space for herself? If you believe — as the Book Babes do — that the best medicine is not a how-to book but someone else's story, this one's for you.
5. Accidental Happiness, by Jean Reynolds Page. The plot summary sounds like a hen fight: Two women who were married to the same man now compete for the affections of the daughter he seems to have left behind. But this is really a moving story by a Seattle writer about motherhood in today's uncertain world. Reese, an earthy and erratic woman, is the actual mom of eight-year-old Angel. Gina, the second wife and new widow of the man who never told her Angel existed, discovers her own mothering instincts after the girl comes into her life.
6. The Turk and My Mother, by Mary Helen Stefaniak. This jewel of a debut novel has the flavor of the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, framing the immigrant experience with humor and humanity. Told by the American-born, fully assimilated George, it reaches back to the Hungarian village life of his parents and the community-altering events of World War I. There are two mothers of note: Agnes, the mom mentioned in the title, who fell for the Omar Sharif look-alike in the book's title after husband Josef hightailed it for America to avoid the war, and George's long-suffering but resolute grandmother, Staramajka.
7. The Red Hat Club Rides Again, by Haywood Smith. Those who initially cheered on Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane and Linda in The Red Hat Club will welcome back this irrepressible group of southern belles. As Georgia puts it, they've been through "Junior League, potty training, wayward husbands, wayward children, menopause, aging parents and the frightful resurrection of seventies clothing." This time they welcome a newcomer to their Tuesday luncheons, the alcoholic Pru Bonner, whom they feel obliged to kidnap and take to rehab. As a bonus, Smith includes her favorite low-carb recipes. Hmm...do we see a pattern?
8. The News from Paraguay, by Lily Tuck. Although this historical epic received lots of press when it won the National Book Award for fiction last fall, it's a shame that most of the news involved what a surprise winner it was. The story of Ella, the ambitious and striking Irishwoman who places her bets on the future dictator of Paraguay, is a beautifully imagined tale set during the mid-19th century. Ella shows her mettle as she endures her impetuous lover, bears him a brood of sons and rides the waves of political intrigue.
9. Raising Hope, by Katie Willard. Twelve-year-old Hope, whose father took off after her mother died in childbirth, has been left in the care of both foul-mouthed Ruth Teller, her father's sister, and prim Sara Lynn Hoffman, her father's former lover. The women are complete opposites who have been fierce rivals since high school, but they join forces with Sara Lynn's mother to raise Hope and become a family. Raising Hope is sweetly told from the perspective of all four members of their cobbled-together household.
10. Lucky Strike, by Nancy Zafris. The search for a fresh start is a classic American story, and one that Zafris makes new with this novel about a young widow and her children who flee the confines of their circumstances to prospect for uranium in the remote canyons of Utah during the 1950s. Low-key but persuasive, this period piece evokes the innocence of an earlier era and underscores the desperation and hope of the eclectic bunch this mom and her kids meet in their pursuit of the new gold.

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I was thrilled to learn that this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni leader Tawakkul Karman.
President Johnson Sirleaf, Gbowee and Karman were announced as recipients of the prize today by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. They were honored for "their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
Elected in 2005 as Africa's first female president, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has worked tirelessly to rebuild Liberia after 14 years of devastating civil wars that killed an estimated 250,000 people. USAID had the honor of hosting President Johnson Sirleaf at a development forum this year, where she spoke about her mission to move Liberia past the need for development assistance by 2020. Johnson Sirleaf is involved in the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to raise awareness of issues of critical importance to women.
A social worker and mother of five, Leymah Gbowee is head of the Accra-based Women Peace and Security Network Africa, which works to build relationships across the West African sub-region to build women's capacity in preventing, averting and ending conflicts. She organized the non-violent movement that eventually ended the Second Liberian civil war in 2003. Gbowee is also the central character in the 2008 documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which has been used as an advocacy tool in post-conflict zones like Sudan and Zimbabwe, mobilizing African women to petition for peace and security
And chairwoman of Women Journalists without Chains, Tawakkul Karman, is a human rights activist and journalist. At 32, she is one of the youngest Nobel Prize recipients. Karman has been among the leaders of the peaceful protests challenging the rule of Yemen's President Ali Abdulla Saleh, arguing for women's rights, democracy and peace. In January this mother of three, took to the streets of the capital with about 50 university students demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
I applaud the Nobel Committee for recognizing these extraordinary leaders and for shining a spotlight on the role women peace-builders play in creating more stable, prosperous societies around the world.
At USAID, we remain proud to advance gender equality and women's empowerment as integral components of all our development initiatives. As we continue our commitment to improving the lives of women and girls everywhere, we should recognize these living heroes as critical partners and allies.


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|New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
|The power of the image of the nude--the expressivity of the flesh--has inspired artists from the beginning. An understanding of human form is essential for artists to be able to express themselves with the figure. Anatomy makes the figure. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form isthe definitive analytical work on the anatomy of the human figure.No longer will working artists have to search high and low to find the information they need. In this, the most up-to-date and fully illustrated guide available, Eliot Goldfinger--sculptor, illustrator, scientific model-maker, and lecturer on anatomy--presents a single, all-inclusivereference to human form, capturing everything artists need in one convenient volume. Five years in the making, and featuring hundreds of photos and illustrations, this guide offers more views of each bone and muscle than any other book ever published: every structure that creates or influencessurface form is individually illustrated in clear, carefully lit photographs and meticulous drawings. Informed by the detailed study of both live models and cadavers, it includes numerous unique presentations of surface structures--such as fat pads, veins, and genitalia--and of some muscles neverbefore photographed. In addition, numerous cross sections, made with reference to CT scans, magnetic resonance imaging, and cut cadavers, trace the forms of all body regions and individual muscles. Information on each structure is placed on facing pages for ease of reference, and the attractivetwo-color format uses red ink to direct readers rapidly to important points and areas. Finally, an invaluable chapter on the artistic development of basic forms shows in a series of sculptures the evolution of the figure, head, and hands from basic axes and volumes to more complex organic shapes.This feature helps place the details of anatomy within the overall context of the figure.Certain to become the standard reference in the field, Human Anatomy for Artists will be indispensable to artists and art students, as well as art historians. It will also be a useful aid for physical and dance therapists, athletes and their trainers, bodybuilders, and anyone concerned withthe external form of the human body. With the renewed interest in figurative art today, this will be an especially welcome volume.
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|xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
|Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-337) and index.
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A few months ago I followed an interesting discussion at The Fresh Loaf forum, in which a member (Kevin) made a mistake while scaling up a recipe (I can relate to that too well, by the way) and ended up with one of the best focaccias he'd ever made! Being a very experienced baker, he made several batches of the same recipe, to convince himself that the small alteration in the method was indeed responsible for the outcome. It all comes down to holding back some of the water (and the salt) in the recipe, and adding it a little later to the dough. The rationale behind doing it was actually discussed a few years ago by Steve in his blog "Breadcetera" – check it out by clicking here.
I was anxious to try this variation in my favorite, default recipe, and this past weekend I finally had a chance to perform this important experiment.
(inspired by The Fresh Loaf Forum)
2 cups lukewarm water, divided
2 tsp active dry yeast
4 cups unbleached bread flour
3 tsp salt
2-3 tsp olive oil
2 T chopped fresh rosemary
1 tsp kosher salt
Measure 1 + 1/2 cup of water in a large bowl, sprinkle yeast over water and stir until dissolved. Using a strong wooden spoon mix 2 cups of flour until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add the remaining 2 cups of flour, and knead with your hands (inside the bowl is fine), until the dough forms a very shaggy mass. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for 20 minutes.
Dissolve the salt in the remaining 1/2 cup of (lukewarm) water. Add it to the dough, and mix with your hands using a squishing/kneading motion. Do not be alarmed by the look of the dough at this point. Slowly the water and salt will find their way into the mixture. Once it all seems incorporated, cover the bowl and let it rise undisturbed for 1 hour and 20 minutes. The dough will be very bubbly at this point.
Heat the oven to 450F. Lightly oil a 9 x 13 inch baking sheet. Pour the dough onto the sheet, brush the surface with 2 tsp olive oil. Dip your fingers in cold water or olive oil and make indentations all over the dough, working to stretch the dough as you go. Brush the surface with another teaspoon of olive oil, sprinkle with rosemary and salt.
Place in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack and….
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Comments: Compared to the regular recipe, this focaccia rose a lot more, had a more airy crumb, and a softer crust. If you like to use focaccia to made a sandwich, a panini-type production, this recipe is perfect for it. However, to make a proper comparison, I must wait until we get home. With a large oven, I will be able to make two batches, bake them at the same time and draw a clear conclusion. So, stay tuned. June is not too far away. (I say that with mixed feelings, it won't be easy to say goodbye to Los Angeles… )
I am submitting this post to Susan's Yeastspotting, a must-visit site for all lovers of bread…
and, I am also joining a fun blog party, hosted by Alyssa from Cupcake Apothecary: "A Themed Bakers Sunday." This week the theme is a favorite of mine: Bread! Check out all the other entries and vote for your favorite!
ONE YEAR AGO: Pierre Nury's Bougnat (awesome recipe!)


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To listen to some of the more overblown rhetoric this week, you'd could only conclude that the speakers/writers thought that anyone opposed to the UN Compact on Migration – signed late last year by many countries, including New Zealand, but boycotted by another 29 (including 9 EU countries, the US, and Australia) – was at least indirectly responsible for Brenton Tarrant's¹ [alleged] act of evil last Friday.
Most directly in their sights, so it seemed, was the National Party which (rather belatedly) opposed the Compact, promised to withdraw from it if/when returned to government, and had been running a petition of some sort opposed to it. National didn't help themselves by, whether through incompetence or something worse, initially giving erroneous stories about when the petition had been taken down. Straight after the shootings appeared to be the final story. As if they were now embarrassed by their previous stance – or simply anticipated the deranged rhetoric of the last few days.
I went back and reread the UN Compact this morning. I came away with much the same view as I'd taken in December. The document is unnecessary (as, largely, is the United Nations), statist, strongly pro-immigration….and it is a little chilling in a few places. More than enough reason not to sign it – the world is, after all, awash with largely meaningless resolutions, including from the United Nations, and that shouldn't be encouraged. But as I noted in my single post back then, I hadn't written anything about it previously
as not only was it a non-binding political declaration, but most of it seemed more relevant to countries dealing with substantial illegal migration (and with migration mainly from very poor or disrupted countries – again, not the main situation in New Zealand).
I was, and remain, more than a little suspicious of National's belated commitment to the issue.
My suspicion remains that National's stance is more about positioning relative to New Zealand First – the contest for provincial votes – than anything of substance.
But perhaps I'm being unfair to them.
What follows is the heart of my earlier post, without blockquoting it all.
But it still isn't clear to me quite what additional damage would be done by signing up to this pointless agreement. Sure, even "non-binding" agreements will, at times, be used in domestic and international fora as a rhetorical stick to beat governments with if they ever look like stepping out of line with the mainstream. But those sorts of arguments rarely deflect a government for long if it has domestic public opinion behind it in some direction or another (for good or ill).
There is some questionable economics in the document. For example
Promote effective skills matching in the national economy by involving local authorities and other relevant stakeholders, particularly the private sector and trade unions, in the analysis of the local labour market, identification of skills gaps, definition of required skills profiles, and evaluation of the efficacy of labour migration policies, in order to ensure market responsive contractual labour mobility through regular pathways.
Or, alternatively, one could just let the market work it out. When there are incipient skill shortages, wage rates tend to rise. Same thing happens when, for example, bad weather creates a shortage of spinach or lettuce. But, daft as the economics is, this stuff is the mindset of politicians and officials adminstering immigration schemes all over the western world. including New Zealand. Recall that in New Zealand the current government is trying to get more actively involved in this sort of thing.
There are also totally vacuous bits, like the commitment to support and promote the United Nations International Day of Family Remittances. Just what the world needs: another United Nations "day".
Perhaps three clauses troubled me a little more.
There was this one
Enable political participation and engagement of migrants in their countries of origin, including in peace and reconciliation processes, in elections and political reforms, such as by establishing voting registries for citizens abroad, and by parliamentary representation, in accordance with national legislation.
I guess I can see what they are probably driving at (diasporas helping the reconstruction of the country of origin after say a protracted civil war). But, normally, we should expect migrants to commit themselves to their new country and its processes and political values and not be creating doubts about where their loyalties lie. But in a country in which Jian Yang and Raymond Huo are MPs – while still closely associating themselves with political interests in their country of origin – and people like Yikun Zhang appears encouraged to play both sides – it is hard to see how this particular provisions make things here any worse than they already are (around a small handful of our migrants).
And then there was this one
Promote mutual respect for the cultures, traditions and customs of communities of destination and of migrants by exchanging and implementing best practices on integration policies, programmes and activities, including on ways to promote acceptance of diversity and facilitate social cohesion and inclusion.
Which presents the issues as symmetric when they really should be asymmetric: the focus should be on encouraging the assimilation of the migrants, and ensuring their respect for the "cultures, traditions and customs" of the destination community – just as when you go to someone else's place for dinner you respect their practices, table manners etc. One could also argue that encouraging "acceptance of diversity" and facilitating "social cohesion" are two contradictory, often mutually inconsistent, goals. But again, flakey as all this stuff is, it is the way our bureaucratic and political "leaders" think and act anyway. If the behaviour is a threat, it is hard to see that the UN agreement would be more of one.
Support multicultural activities through sports, music, arts, culinary festivals, volunteering and other social events that will facilitate mutual understanding and appreciation of migrant cultures and those of destination communities.
Quite what business this is of the UN – or even of national governments actually – one has to wonder, but there is the "globalist" mindset for you. And, again, it is pretty much what central and local governments do anyway. I was interested that "religion" wasn't on the list
And then, of course, there is Objective 17 (of the 23 in the document) which I have seen people express more serious concern about.
OBJECTIVE 17: Eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote evidence-based public discourse to shape perceptions of migration
We commit to eliminate all forms of discrimination, condemn and counter expressions, acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, violence, xenophobia and related intolerance against all migrants in conformity with international human rights law. We further commit to promote an open and evidence-based public discourse on migration and migrants in partnership with all parts of society, that generates a more realistic, humane and constructive perception in this regard. We also commit to protect freedom of expression in accordance with international law, recognizing that an open and free debate contributes to a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of migration.
If that isn't muddled I don't know what is – let alone, unrealistic (in no conceivable world are "all forms of discrimination" going to be "eliminated").
The specifics under that Objective include commitments to
Enact, implement or maintain legislation that penalizes hate crimes and aggravated hate crimes
So-called "hate crime" legislation is almost always bad law and bad policy. Punish assaults or murders or whatever as that: bad and unacceptable acts, regardless of who they are committed against or why.
And this
Promote independent, objective and quality reporting of media outlets, including internet based information, including by sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology, investing in ethical reporting standards and advertising, and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants, in full respect for the freedom of the media.
Again, muddled at best. You want to stop any public funding to outlets whose views are "unacceptable", while having "full respect for the freedom of the media". Since I'm not entirely convinced there is a good case for public funding of any media outlets – and since the publicly-funded outlets in New Zealand are champions of high immigration and all "worthy" leftist causes anyway – it isn't clear what difference this might make in New Zealand. And there seem to be some MPs – particularly in Labour and the Greens – who aren't too keen on allowing free speech on such issues anyway, whether or not we sign up to UN non-binding declarations.
And finally under Objective 17
Engage migrants, political, religious and community leaders, as well as educators and service providers to detect and prevent incidences of intolerance, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination against migrants and diasporas and support activities in local communities to promote mutual respect, including in the context of electoral campaigns.
All very asymmetric – nothing at all about engaging with communities that might be uneasy about high immigration, or the immigration of groups with values antithetical to those of the destination community. Perhaps, in some respects, this commitment troubles me more than most. "Intolerance" is not an offence (in principle or in law) and it is the perfect right of people to debate – perhaps especially in election campaigns – the future composition of their society. A Saudi Wahhabi, a Chinese Communist Party zealot, an American evangelical, and a French secularist are all very different sorts of people. In large numbers, each group transplanted to (say) New Zealand would make a material difference to the society and polity we have here. Those debates matter – unless, apparently like the authors of this document – you regard all differences of culture, politics, religion etc as superficial rather than fundamental.
March 2019 here again.
Rereading that, it still seems about right (and in fact we've had chilling signs of the antipathy to free speech from a number of quarters this week).
In their opposition to the compact, National repeatedly asserted that our sovereignty was going to be compromised. I never quite saw them explain how. But at the time of the earlier post, some people who were more negative than I was on the document highlighted a risk that – although the agreement is formally non-binding on governments – our local courts could, or would, over time seek to introduce the provisions of the agreement (and the fact of it) into judicial rulings on immigration issues in New Zealand. Such judicial conduct is not unknown. Perhaps that was some of what National had in mind.
I'm not a lawyer, so am not sure how significant a risk that is. But I guess at the time my response had a number of strands:
- parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in New Zealand. Even if it is bad form to legislate retrospectively (re a specific case) there is never anything to stop Parliament legislating to, in effect, counter any tendencies of judges to import non-statutory documents of this sort into their decisionmaking,
- more substantial and important questions probably should be asked about how we appoint – and who we appoint – as top tier judges in New Zealand. These are, inevitably and sadly, somewhat political roles – not party political so much, as "ideological". I had a post last week suggesting a more open process for scrutinising and confirming senior judicial appointments (as well as term limits). That still seems a higher longer-term priority than a single non-binding UN document, even one with somewhat chilling language in a few areas.
And the third strand – decisive to me – was this, with which I concluded December's post
As I said at the start, there is no obvious need for this document. And even if there were obvious gaps, the very fact that it is a non-binding political declaration suggests it could meet no substantive need. But in a New Zealand context, there are policies and practices around immigration that are much more damaging and threatening, particularly to our long-term economic performance, and perhaps in other areas too. Among them:
- the immigration policies of the National Party
- the immigration policies of the Labour Party
- the immigration policies of the Green Party
- the immigration policies of ACT, and
- the immigration policies of New Zealand First
I think that pretty much covers the spectrum.
There is no conceivable universe in which some international declaration – or even agreement – around immigration would be more liberal and (in our specific economic circumstances) more damaging than what our political parties have done to us all by themselves.
And since Simon Bridges was asserting the other day
"If you look at our immigration position, I think we have the strongest pro-migration position across the Parliament."
I think you'll see my point. As it is, I'm pretty sure he is wrong in his claim. ACT and the Greens, from apparently opposite ends of the political spectrum, beat him to the title.
But to suggest that National should be whipping themselves, or ashamed of their stance on the Compact, is just absurd – and worse. (Their ongoing support for our high immigration policies is another matter). It is, like so many areas of public policy, something around which reasonable people will differ, perhaps quite strongly. That is the stuff of politics, and indeed of life – perhaps the more so, the more diverse (ideologically, religiously or the like) your society is. Ideas matter. Even non-binding declarations are championed for a reason – so much energy wouldn't be expended on them otherwise. It is reasonable, perhaps, to pose the question to the champions – or even those more indifferent – "if it is so inocuous, what's the point? Why does it matter so much to you?"
- I won't be following the Prime Minister's stance of not mentioning the name of the [alleged] killer (nor, I presume, will our courts). I thought this op-ed from the Jerusalem Post dealt with that issue well. We think no better of Hitler or James Earl Ray or Sirhan Sirhan for mentioning them, and their acts of evil, by name. More specifically, I'm a Christian and our faith teaches that no one is beyond the possibility of God's grace. Those are hard words to hear, and at a civil level I'd be quite content if we'd had the death penalty in place. But vile as the acts were, Tarrant was – and is – a human being. And, as Solzhenitsyn sagely put it, the line between good and evil runs not between people or states, but through every human heart.


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Bonjour mes amis!
I have been a trainer/teacher for much of my career and one of my favorite things to do in a class is create opportunities for participation. It's usually a lot of fun and the great thing – we all get to learn! So here goes…
I've been in Paris now for 4 weeks. As I've said before I'm having the time of my life but there is something that is difficult. Deciding what restaurants to try! There are sooooooo many. I've read guide books, foodie recommendations, even my girl Ina's Barefoot in Paris has great recommendations. I've also had some recommendations from fellow bloggers – Thanks – or rather Merci Becoming Madame!! What I find is that anyone who has been to Paris has a favorite or two – or more.
So my idea is… If you have a favorite restaurant or 3 🙂 in Paris, respond to this post with a comment and tell us all about them. There is no limit to the number you can recommend! Please include as much info as possible such as name of restaurant, type of food served, location, what Metro stop is nearest, etc and why you love it. In a week or so I'll compile a whole list and post it. I'll also try to sample as many as I can and give my 2 cents.
I look forward to your recommendations as does everyone following this blog!
Thanks in advance for your participation!!
A bientot!


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We had our first "up close and personal" meeting with a Turkey Vulture this weekend. She is a rescued bird who cannot be released into the wild and so is kept by our local wildlife rescue facility as an educational bird. We had a special shopping/fund-raising event at The Fat Finch over the weekend and the wildlife rescue folks brought several birds for our shoppers to see.
As is my custom when photographing portraits, I spent a little time getting to know her before hauling out my camera. (Knowing something about your subjects is critical if you are do them justice in a portrait.) Surprisingly, after watching her for a little while I realized that the word that kept arising in my mind to describe her was "elegant".
Somehow most of us don't associate vultures with elegance. But the grace with which she moves, the gentle brilliance of her eyes, and her centered calmness all add up to elegance. Think Cary Grant or Grace Kelly in feathers.
Of course, I'm not the first to note fine qualities in Turkey Vultures. Here is Edward Abbey,
Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
And I shouldn't have been at all surprised with her down-to-earth elegance. I've spent many happy hours in my life watching vultures soar on thermals high with hardly a feather stirring as they ride on outstretched wings. Elegantly.
But they are the eaters of death and I suppose that is why we don't usually associate them with elegance. We have a New Yorker cartoon refrigerator magnet in the store that shows two vultures sitting on a tree talking to one another. One vulture says to the other, "Of course dead is important but taste matters too."
And I must say that after meeting her I agree entirely with Abbey who, before dying, made arrangements to feed his death to the vultures. He wrote,
If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture–that is immortality enough for me.


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So you did it. Or maybe you did it again. Dropped your favorite gadget in a sink or a toilet. Or you spilled an entire 40oz on it. Oops. That doesn't mean you can't save it though. Here are a few tips that might just bring it back to life.
Step 1: Cut the power
As soon as you realize your gadget has been doused you need to get the electricity out of it, and fast. Damage isn't generally caused by water itself, but by the electrical shorts that it creates. If you gadget has a removable battery, pull it out fast. If it doesn't turn off the power immediately. If the power is off by the time you retrieve it, resist the urge to turn it on to check it. You're going to be without your gadget for a couple days. Accept that now.
Step 2: Strip it down
Remove everything that can come off the gadget. Back covers, SD cards, SIM cards, headphone port coverings. Everything. The more you can strip it down the better. Don't break it, but you want to open up as many points for air to get in and water to get out as possible.
Step 3: Suck it out
If you have a vacuum cleaner with a narrow nozzle attachment, that's ideal. You want to try to get as much of that moisture out as possible. Suck from each port for at least five minutes.
Not long ago, I dropped my phone in a bowl of soup. I'm not proud of it, but it happened. I didn't have a vacuum nearby. I had to suck the soup out of the earphone port, the ear piece, and microphone ports with my mouth (spitting it out into a second bowl). Am I proud of this? No. Did it save the phone? Yes.
Step 4: Dry it off
You will see a lot of sites that tell you to put your gadget into a bowl of dry rice. That works okay, but I'm going to share with you my secret weapon that works better than anything I've ever tried: Rice Krispies. Yes, the breakfast cereal. They suck up liquid much faster and more aggressively than uncooked rice. Grab a fresh box, jam your device in there, and leave it for 48 hours. Rotate the device every now and then.
Step 5: Give it a shot
After 48 hours or so, remove your phone from the Rice Krispies. If you see any sign of moisture still in there (fog on the screen, for instance), put it back in for more time. If, however, it looks bone dry, put the battery back in, and (hopefully) turn it on. With a little luck, your gadget will be up and running again.
Untested methods:
- I cannot personally vouch for this method, but some recommend soaking the device in very pure rubbing alcohol. Using pure alcohol in the 90-percent range, the theory is, alcohol is non-corrosive and evaporates faster than water. This is true. However, a lot of phones and tablets have oleophobic coatings, which alcohol will quickly degrade. So, it might not be worth the risk.
- We've heard some people recommend putting the phone in the silica gel packets—you know, the do not eat pouch packed with your snacks and furniture. Thing is, the silica's powers of desiccation are all used up by the time you open a product—it's already reached is maximum absorption point. And who saves those things, anyway?
- There is, however, a newish product on the market called the Bheestie Bag. It's something you buy ahead of time if you're going canoeing or are especially accident prone. It claims it can dry your gadgets out seven times faster than home remedies. But we've yet to test it. And seriously, my Rice Krispies trick is awesome.
Do not try:
- Hair-dryers, ovens, toasters. No, stupid, don't do that. You will melt the components. If you want to use a hair-dryer on the "no heat" setting (so it's just a fan), fine. But you're better off with a vacuum.
- Microwaves. NOOOOOOOOOOO! What are you even thinking?
- Shaking it. Might seem like a good idea when it first happens, but the water may only be in the outside chambers of your gadget. Shaking it can drive the water deeper. Don't. Just use a towel to dry it off.
That's what we do over here. If you have some ideas of your own, let us know!
Image credit: Shutterstock/silver-john


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
1-2-3 What Are We Fighting For?
1-2-3 What are we fighting for? Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. The next stop is Vietnam . 5-6-7 Open up the pearly gates. It ain't no time to wonder why. Yippee! We're all going to die.
-- Country Joe and the Fish
I write this just after Memorial Day weekend. I cannot help being reminded of the above tune made famous at Woodstock.
What, pray tell, are we fighting for in Iraq? Why are American men and ' even more sadly ' women spilling their blood? What is in it for America? Or are our troops in Iraq spilling their blood in vain?
When he was seeking the presidency in 2000, Dubya proclaimed that America would be 'a humble nation'. On his watch, America has been one of the most arrogant nations in the history of the world.
In February 2001, neocon pundit Charles Krauthammer boasted that 'the U.S. can reshape, indeed remake, reality on its own.'
Remake reality? Far out, man!
He further proclaimed that 'America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will.'
Create new realities? Can I buy some marijuana from you, Mr. Krauthammer?
(It reminds me of some graffiti I saw years ago: LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality.)
The ongoing insurgency in Iraq bears witness to the folly of Krauthammer's pronouncements.
It took no courage to wage the Iraq war. Iraq is a country with 1/13 of America's population, 1/180 of America's economy and 1/200 of America's military budget. The U.N. boycott of Iraqi oil, in which the U.S. participated, had already devastated Iraq's economy and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. (1)
And yet, to hear Dubya and his amen corner in the media tell it, Iraq was a thermonuclear juggernaut hell-bent on blowing up the planet.
Well, we found no weapons of mass destruction. (If Saddam actually had them, he would have, like, used them when we invaded.) We caught Saddam. Gasoline is more expensive than ever. There was no Saddam-9/11 connection. (It always amuses me how, within 48 hours of the 9/11 attacks, everyone knew Osama Did It. But it took a year and a half for Dubya to build the case for Iraqi involvement in 9/11.) Iraqi gangbangers are busting caps on Americans left and right. (Yes, some Iraqis are glad we are there. However, America's invasion of Iraq has done much to fuel anti-American hatred throughout the Muslim world.)
What are we fighting for in Iraq?
Don't ask a neocon. He doesn't give a rip. It is Bush's war, and we must rally around our president during wartime.
Oh, that's it! We are going to bring democracy to Iraq!
Other than Israel, there are no enduring democratically elected governments in the Middle East. Oh sure, you might have one election in Iraq. One man-one vote will happen one time in Iraq before the whole country unravels into Islamo-chaos. Unlike Germany and Japan in 1946, there is no history of popularly elected governments in Iraq.
No matter how unapologetically America demonstrates its will, it cannot remake indigenous cultures. The Brits, French, Belgians, Portuguese and others were unable to remake African cultures. The Brits were unable to remake the culture of India or, for that matter, most places where they set up shop. The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were predominantly populated by ' oh this is going to open up a can of worms ' white folks who brought with them things like Christianity and notions of individual freedom and limited government.
And if recent headlines are any indicator, the Iraq war did nothing to deter further terrorist threats. Many pointed out that, of the seven terrorist suspects whose pictures appeared on page one of every newspaper in America recently, one was a woman and one was an American. However, no one pointed out that not one of these scumbags was an Iraqi.
The smart money says that there will be another terrorist attack on American soil between now and the November conclusion of the big urinating contest between these two princes of the world system. Who knows what form it will take? Will jet planes fly into the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay bridges, thus paralyzing America's fourth largest metropolitan area? Will a stadium implode during Monday Night Football? Will we witness a cyber-attack?
No matter what happens, our invasion and occupation of Iraq will have done nothing to deter it. Our $400 billion annual military budget will have done nothing to deter it. Our troop presence in over 130 countries ' the Soviet Union could never make such a claim ' will have done nothing to deter it.
You cannot throw your weight around to the extent that the United States does and expect to have everyone love you. The Brits were not universally loved. Nor were the Soviets, the Romans, or anyone else who played the empire game. And if we are not playing the empire game, what do you call it when you have troops stationed in over 130 countries?
Yeah, but what about our freedom?
Terrorists can fly planes into buildings, drive vehicles into pizza shops, set off bombs and so forth. However, they cannot deprive thee and me of our freedom. Only our own government can do that. And they cannot do it without our blessing.
George W. Bush has done more to take away our freedom than Bill Clinton ever did. In the name of a false sense of security, we have let him do so. Not only have civil liberties eroded through things like the Patriot Act and the turning of airports into mini-police states, but all the social programs that Republicans used to say they hated ' Medicare, government schools ' have been expanded recklessly since 2001.
How much more freedom will we relinquish after of the next terrorist attack?
Had Al Gore tightened the tourniquet like Dubya has, Rush Limbaugh would no doubt lampoon him as Kim Jong-Al. But since Bush Almighty is tightening the tourniquet, let us now bend the knee and disengage the brain.
1-2-3 what are we fighting for in Iraq?
For years, I viewed the Country Joe lyrics at the start of this article as a juvenile jab at those who were spilling their blood in Vietnam. Now, in 2004, they serve as a satirical description of the mentality of those who are engineering the Iraq war.
Deaths are merely collateral damage. You cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Don't ask questions. Don't think: follow!
King Solomon knew 3,000 years ago that there is nothing new under the sun. All of America's power, dominance and technological wizardry cannot, in Krauthammer's words, "create new realities." Communism doesn't work because it cannot create a new reality. No government, not even the United States government, can create a new reality. There is only the old reality. Deal with it!
(1) Source: NationMaster


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My husband and I bought a house in the country, and when I am doing the laundry my whites come out with reddish-yellow-colored spots. Is there something that can be added to the laundry to prevent this?
-- Carol M., Indiana
I am afraid you are not going to like this answer, but I don't think there is anything you can add to the laundry to stop this problem. My husband, David, is a licensed plumber and a builder, and he says there are many variables. Is your house on well water? If so, that may be the problem: It could be iron or minerals in the water. It could also be coming from the pipes themselves. How old is your house? It may be happening to other clothing, but you just might not see it. He suggests that you call your county extension agent and find out about the water. If you are on a municipal system, they can give you the information about your water supply. One thought: Have you checked the washer and dryer drum themselves? Take an old pair of pantyhose and run it around inside each drum. Do you feel a snag? Maybe the drum is chipped. If so, you can buy a small bottle of appliance repair liquid (porcelain repair kit or epoxy patch kit) -- that may take care of the problem. Good luck!


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As expected, the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is now available on TechNet and MSDN in English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The build first leaked last week, again showing that pirates are often the first to get the goods. As a reminder, the build string for the RC is "7100.0.winmain_win7rc.090421-1700," which indicates that it was compiled on April 21, 2009, at 5:00pm. Newer builds already exist, of course, but this is the one Microsoft has deemed the RC, meaning this is the one that everyone should be testing and giving feedback on. Product keys from the beta will work on this build. This week Microsoft also gave its Microsoft Connect testers the same build, as shown in the screenshot below:
The system requirements are as follows:
- 1GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 1 GB of RAM (32-bit)/2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
- 16 GB of available disk space (32-bit)/20 GB (64-bit)
- DirectX 9 graphics device with Windows Display Driver Model 1.0 or higher driver
TechNet subsribers, MSDN subscribers, and Microsoft Connect testers also now have access to the Windows Virtual PC Beta, which enables XP Mode in Windows 7. More information is available on The Windows Blog.
Two weeks ago we noted that the Windows 7 RC would be available to the public on May 5, and Microsoft confirmed this date last week. Hopefully Microsoft's servers will be able to take the load, as there were obvious bandwidth problems on Redmond's end when the beta was released. Once the RC is officially available, we'll have more information on what has changed, but for now you can look to this press release for more details.


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Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
- 1 Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.1.1 Eclipse Resource Bundle Process
- 1.1.2 Locale specific files
- 1.1.3 All ResourceBundle file contents should be encoded in UTF-8
- 1.1.4 Single Quote Handling
- 1.1.5 Non-translatable Message Strings
- 1.1.6 Prevent Fragmentation of Messages
- 1.1.7 Avoid using a slash to mean "and" or "or"
- 1.1.8 Avoid forming plurals by adding "(s)" to indicate either singular or plural form
- 1.1.9 Avoid abbreviations, acronyms, and special symbols
- 1.2 Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
- 1.3 References
- 1.1 Introduction
Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
This document is a working draft.
Kit Lo
Last Updated: January 29th, 2008
Note: Please use Babel committers mailing list to add comments instead of embedding them in this document.
Eclipse is an open source project contributed by developers around the world. Every developer's programming style may be a little different. Often times, developers may not aware that little things they do in their programs may have a huge impacts in globalization of Eclipse. In this document, we try to define a set of guidelines for Eclipse globalization. If these guidelines are adopted by all Eclipse developers and translators, it will lead to greater consistency and the success of globalizing Eclipse.
In this section, we will discuss the rationales behind some of the globalization guidelines. At the end of the document, a summary of the Eclipse Globalization Guidelines is listed.
Eclipse Resource Bundle Process
Standard Java resource bundles are not very memory efficient. The keys for a resource bundle are stored in the class files of the plug-in, which are saved somewhere in the JVM's data structures. The resource bundles are loaded in whole, even when no string is ever looked up from it.
Eclipse came up with an alternate resource bundle process in release 3.1 to improve memory usage. A conversion tool was provided to migrate to the new resource bundle process. See Message Bundle Conversion Tool for more information.
Locale specific files
There are three mechanisms for locating locale specific files in Eclipse:
It is important to understand which mechanism is used to access any given file that must be translated so that you'll know what to name the file and where to put it in the file system relative to the plug-in.
Platform core mechanism
The platform core defines a directory structure that uses locale-specific subdirectories for files that differ by locale. (See Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition Documentation for the supported language codes and country codes.) Translated files are placed in a directory called nl under the plug-in. For example, the following install tree shows a trivial (no code) plug-in with locale-specific translations of its about.properties file. The various translations are shown as coming from a plug-in fragment rather than the plug-in itself. This is typical for shipping translations separately from the base, but you could also place the nl sub-directory under the plug-in itself.
acmeweb/ eclipse/ plugins/ com.example.acme.acmewebsupport_1.0.0/ plugin.xml about.properties (default locale) com.example.acme.fragmentofacmewebsupport_1.0.0/ fragment.xml (a fragment of com.example.acme.acmewebsupport 1.0.0) nl/ fr/ about.properties (French locale) CA/ about.properties (French Canadian locale) FR/ EURO/ about.properties (French France Euros) en/ about.properties (English locale) CA/ about.properties (English Canadian locale) US/ about.properties (English US locale) de/ about.properties (German locale)
The files to be translated are not contained in JAR files. Each file should have exactly the same file name, but be located in subdirectories underneath the nl sub-directory in the fragment's (or plug-in's) root.
Only the most specific file is accessed at runtime. The file paths are searched as part of the Platform.find, IPluginDescriptor.find and Plugin.find mechanism. For example, suppose the default locale is en_CA, and a plug-in searches for the about.properties as follows:
The method will return a URL corresponding to the first place about.properties is found according to the following order:
This mechanism is used by plug-ins to search for well known file names inside other plug-ins. This includes the following well known file names:
(Note: The plugin.properties and fragment.properties are conspicuously absent from this list. They are treated in a sightly different way described below.)
Java resource bundles
The standard Java handling of property resource bundles is used for other files. Translated files are contained in a JAR file, with each properties file having a locale-specific name, such as "message_en_CA.properties". The files are in package-specific subdirectories and may appear in the plug-in itself or one of its fragments. Each translated properties file may be partial since lookup of keys accesses a well-defined chain of properties files.
The plugin.properties mechanism
The mechanism used to translate plugin.properties files uses the Java resource bundles naming convention. However the files must be located in the root of the plug-in or in the root of a fragment of this plug-in. The same rules apply to the translation of MANIFEST.MF.
All ResourceBundle file contents should be encoded in UTF-8
Different operating systems running in different language settings may save files in different encodings. To avoid confusions, we recommend all Eclipse developers and translators to encode all ResourceBundle source file contents and all translated ResourceBundle file contents in UTF-8.
Guideline 1.1
All ResourceBundle source file contents should be encoded in UTF-8.
All translated ResourceBundle file contents should be encoded in UTF-8.
Single Quote Handling
Depending on whether the code will process the message string through the Java MessageFormat class, single quotes in ResourceBundle files should be written differently. If the string will be processed by MessageFormat, then any single quote in the string must be doubled. Otherwise, a single quote should not be doubled. Translators who do not have access to the code cannot tell if the message string would be processed by MessageFormat.
Most Java programmers follow the model of processing the message string with MessageFormat only if the message string contains replacement variables. We recommend all Eclipse developers to follow these guidelines when creating message strings and writing the code to process the message strings:
Guideline 1.2
Process message string with Java MessageFormat class only if the message string contains replacement variables.
Here are examples of messages strings in ResourceBundle file and expected text displayed to end user:
String_1 = No variable. 1 quote (') 2 (''), 3 ('''), 4 ('''').
String_2 = Variable {1}. 2 quotes(''), 4 ('''').
String_1 => No variable. 1 quote (') 2 (''), 3 ('''), 4 ('''').
String_2 => Variable xxx. 2 quotes('), 4 ('').
Non-translatable Message Strings
Special comments may be added to force all text between the start and end tags to be non-translatable. The comments must start in column 1 and must contain this exact format:
Start comment: // START NON-TRANSLATABLE
End comment: // END NON-TRANSLATABLE
Start comment: # START NON-TRANSLATABLE
End comment: # END NON-TRANSLATABLE
Guideline 1.3
Enclose non-translatable message strings with special comments.
Prevent Fragmentation of Messages
Messages tend to occupy much storage space. It is only natural that developers try to economize the storage requirement by using some truly inventive techniques, such as, using English phrases or parts of words as building blocks for complete messages. However, if the final form of a message relies on the composition of several parts, that message may not be translatable at all. Translation can change the order of parts of speech, and words can acquire different forms depending on the context.
Guideline 1.4
Do not construct sentences from parts of sentences. Do not construct words from parts of words.
A phrase or word that can be inserted into several English messages may require a different case, gender, or plural ending when translated into other languages. The small amount of space saved cannot compensate for the confusion and trouble caused in translation.
Example 1: To report the operational status of the peripheral devices, a programmer creates the following two columns of terms:
|Control unit
|off line
|Serial port
By selecting one item from each column, the product can generate 16 messages by just storing 8 terms. Two of these messages would be:
In French, however, the nouns display and control unit are of different gender, thus requiring different forms of the adjective operational:
Example 2: In English, the word day can be prefixed with the following word fragments to form the seven days of the week:
This technique, however, does not work in most other languages. In the table below, it will not work for Sunday in French and Wednesday in German.
Avoid using a slash to mean "and" or "or"
Avoid using a slash to mean "and" or "or" because it is ambiguous in English and does not exist in other languages.
Guideline 1.5
Do not use a slash to mean "and" or "or".
Avoid forming plurals by adding "(s)" to indicate either singular or plural form
Avoid forming plurals by adding "(s)" to indicate either singular or plural form even when space is a problem (such as, in messages, headings, captions, tables, or art callouts). Other languages form the plural of a noun in many different ways. Include in your sentence either the singular form, the plural form, or both forms.
Guideline 1.6
Avoid forming plurals by adding "(s)" to indicate either singular or plural form.
Avoid abbreviations, acronyms, and special symbols
Abbreviations of words can lead to misunderstandings by the translators and by the readers. Rules for abbreviation vary from language to language. Never assume that translators can understand the meaning of your abbreviations or can abbreviate their translations similarly.
Guideline 1.7
Avoid abbreviations, acronyms, and special symbols.
If you must use an abbreviation or acronym, ensure that your translator knows its exact meaning, and that you allow enough space for the expression to be spelled out fully in other languages.
Example: North Americans use # for number, ' for feet or minute, " for inch or second, and c/o for care of. Other languages may not have such short form equivalents.
Eclipse Globalization Guidelines
Globalization Guidelines for Developers
All ResourceBundle source file contents should be encoded in UTF-8.
Process message string with Java MessageFormat class only if the message string contains replacement variables.
Enclose non-translatable message strings with special comments.
Do not construct sentences from parts of sentences. Do not construct words from parts of words.
Do not use a slash to mean "and" or "or".
Avoid forming plurals by adding "(s)" to indicate either singular or plural form.
Avoid abbreviations, acronyms, and special symbols.
Globalization Guidelines for Translators
All translated ResourceBundle file contents should be encoded in UTF-8.
[1] IBM. (2007). National Language Design Guide, Volume 1: Designing Internationalized Products (7th ed.).


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We will do everything we can to get your order to you as soon as possible. When you place an order, we will send you an email confirming our receipt of your order. Please allow one business day for your order to be processed. Once your order has been processed we will send another email advising you of the Expected Ship Date. If the item is out of stock, you can choose to cancel your order or leave the item on backorder.
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Rural housing loan recipients double in 2013
The Nevada Rural Housing Authority helped 884 families with federal home loans in 2013, up from 409 in 2012, the agency reported Thursday.
Since the agency began the Home at Last program in 2006, a total of 2,285 Nevada families have been helped by the housing authority, the agency reported.
"Our growth has been exponential and we are expecting to help even more families in 2014," NRHA Executive Director D. Gary Longaker said in a news release.
The Nevada Rural Housing Authority covers Nevada's 15 rural counties and the rural portions of Clark and Washoe counties.
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Michael Reardon
Correspondence with the controversial rock climbing soloist Michael Reardon, before his death when he was swept out to sea by a rouge wave in Ireland.
Michael Reardon vanished, sucked out to sea by an enormous wave as he stood near the base of the Irish sea cliff Rinn na Droilan. I figured that knowing Reardon, who loved a good prank, that he'd soon surface in an Irish pub, having survived yet another outlandish ordeal that only he could pull off.
But as the days passed, it became sadly clear that America's most outrageous, profane, loyal, controversial and bluntly honest climber was indeed gone, taken, ironically, on Friday the 13th, and not in a ropeless fall, but by the earth itself.
If you didn't know Reardon, your opinion of him was likely gleaned from a hodgepodge of Internet postings, which were rarely kind, and magazine articles and news stories about his massive free solos and antics that included climbing naked and leaving tubes of Vagisil atop Sierra peaks. Beginning in August 2004 and up until he disappeared, I e-mailed back and forth with Reardon, trying to ascertain his incredible motivation and what he thought of his many critics and to pin him down on the details that would prove his claims of free soloing Romantic Warrior (V 5.12b), Equinox (5.12c/d), 280 Joshua Tree routes in a single day, and his 22-hour blitz of the Palisade Traverse (VI 5.9). These achievements, like others of his, were too fantastic to believe. As one of the doubters and also as an editor at Rock and Ice, I felt it necessary to check his claims. I examined the data imprints in his photos, interviewed his various photographers and partners, and pulled archived weather reports and compared them to the day and time of his climbs. His claims checked out—it was the comments from skeptics that often didn't add up.
Reardon welcomed the scrutiny and always quickly responded to my queries and in minute detail, even offering to solo Romantic Warrior again in front of a photographer of our choosing.
When I finally met him, I was surprised by his sincerity and warmth. I had expected a loudmouth who would talk about nothing but himself, but he constantly wove his wife and daughter into the conversation, asked to see photos of my kids, and listened quietly when someone else had something to say.
Lately, I'd been asking him, "What's next?" He loathed Yosemite, he said, but wanted to spend time there acclimating to the granite, then free solo the Rostrum North Face (5.11c).
After that, he was thinking about a solo that would top them all. "El Cap?" I asked. "This is totally off the record," he replied, "because I don't want any pressure, but I'd like to work Freerider (VI 5.12c), then solo it."
Would Michael Reardon have blown everyone's minds and become the first person to free solo El Cap? I'd like to think so, but we'll never know.
Here, I've extracted bits of correspondence that show you the full Reardon, as only he could articulate. — Duane Raleigh
On what his wife, Marci, thought of his soloing:
"Now that you got that out of your system, is the Mexican restaurant open for dinner?"
Reardon loved to tweak the locals. When asked what he was going to do during a Colorado visit:
I got a 21-inch Papua, New Guinea, Penis Pouch that I'm going to stamp with every 5.11 that I solo with it on. Marci is helping me decorate it with rhinestones. I should bring it to Colorado and put the locals into a tizzy. Or better yet, wear it on the gritstone. Time for a true American invasion from a natural blonde—I'll make sure to wear green nail polish with the pouch.
Reardon, a Hollywood producer and actor, was worried about losing work because of his age. So how old was he?
My "listed" age is a "Hollywood 29!" Actually, 37—I was born May 1, 1970. Maybe next year I'll list myself as 50 and really mess with folks' heads.
His wisdom about the Internet:
The Internet is like a large laundry chute. All the socks go in, but only a few make it back out.
After the death of Todd Skinner:
I may not have agreed with everything he's done, but I never heard him say anything bad about anyone else, and for that alone, he stands far above the rest. In a perfect world, he's keeping the pints chilled and the whiskey warm for all of us when we finally head over.
He was troubled by his daughter's growth spurt, and a sudden interest in boys:
I'm definitely thinking about the "ball-cutting" strategy for the bastards in our neighborhood. I have a couple of posters of me on the walls and we've made a point of telling the boys that "this is what I do for fun, imagine me pissed off" … . Of course I have to stop by the sheep ranch and get some ball-cutters first.
Reardon's response to an article about him in RI:
Once again the facts in that sheet of paper you call a magazine were skewed in favor of potentially increasing sales. Anyone who has spent a modicum of time with me knows that I would never call English whiskey even favorable when, in fact, I consider its taste only slightly better than used bath water, and my golden locks do not wave in some arbitrary wind, but are blown majestically by the fan my personal valet keeps on medium-high at all times regardless of the weather.
On the death of fellow climbers:
Death of others in the community always gives a reminder that sometimes the phone isn't picked up enough.
When asked if he was bothered by all of the questions about his solos:
I do find it humorous that I have to give you minute-by-minute plays for anything I've ever done during the last five years minimum, while others don't even have to get the decade correct to be believed.
If people are demanding more proof than the dates, times, photos and a witness as being the baseline for accepting whether something has been soloed, then I think those same people need to say that Dean Potter is the only person who has soloed Astroman, and that the Moratorium is waiting for an onsight solo as well as three routes in a day on the Diamond. [Referencing, respectively, Peter Croft's, John Bachar's and Derek Hersey's well-known feats.]
And, on his Romantic Warrior solo:
So either hundreds of complete strangers are willing participants in the greatest conspiracy of all time, or just maybe training and hard work pay off.
Reardon sent me a copy of his film, Bachar: Man, Myth, Legend, which I watched alongside my daughters, ages 4 and 5:
You watched the Bachar flick with the kids? Sorry, should have warned you about the F-bombs. Then again, you know Bachar; it shouldn't have been a surprise.
What did he learn from working on the Bachar film?
Climbers have been pretty crappy to each other for a long time. Reinhold Messner had to live with 30 years of accusations by some of the greatest mountaineers that he killed his brother. Norman Clyde unbelievably soloed 42 routes in 1925, Bachar got sucker-punched for pulling bolts on a route he didn't touch, Kauk and Schultz tumbled around in the parking lot over a rumor, Gill was dismissed because he wasn't doing "long" routes, Sharma the same. I'm not saying I'm in their league, but using them as examples that climbing hasn't changed a whole lot in terms of attitudes. What has changed is the way things have been reported.
On the new generation of climber:
Today's crop of climbers definitely plays into the safety game, which is homogenizing this sport to oblivion. Pretty soon you're going to be reporting about the hardest boulder problems being done in the gym. Ugh. Where's the nobility? Where are the real heroes? Robbins, Gill, Barber, Bachar; those guys understood this sport better than anyone and went to the obvious next levels. There's more to this sport than just physical difficulty, but somewhere along the way it got lost.
About his first trip to the U.K.:
In Ireland the climbers were psyched and I did some of my hardest soloing in front of them partly due to that energy. It was a very chilly reception in England. Me being me, I responded with plenty of sheep jokes.
On yoga:
I am so sick of this whole, "I'm in touch with my inner spirit, which makes me a better climber in my mental pursuits blah blah blah." SHUT THE HELL UP! Yoga has nothing to do with reaching the inner spirit and everything to do with being able to imitate your own dog while looking at some soccer- mom hottie in skin-tight clothing as she touches her ankles to her earlobes, showing that hoop earings are, in fact, foot rests.
On bolted choss crags:
In an age of climbing gyms, why are people bolting up piles of choss? All of them are admittedly "outdoor gyms." The common adage is that it's a shitpile so why not treat it as such. Take Echo Cliffs, which is a pile. Someone decides to glue, chip and generally make a sport crag of the place. Someone else climbs there a bunch, then heads to Joshua Tree and decides that the rock in the North Wonderland is the same kind of pile, might as well use the same kind of ethics.
On heroes:
I appreciate that Caldwell is climbing some 5.14d in the middle of an atmosphere where astronauts need to suit up, but Wolfgang put up 5.14d 13 years ago! Sharma is bouldering stuff that people love to talk about, but Gill and Holloway put up stuff that still hasn't been repeated. And there are at least 100 trad lines waiting for repeats. Climbers today are softer, safer and in the end, weaker than the generation(s) before them. Where are the heroes? Who's really the Babe Ruth, or does one even exist? If not, let's stop the wannabe worship and get out the yoga mats.
What was it like to solo Romantic Warrior?
RW allowed me the freedom to only think about the next move. There was no past, no future, no physical limitation, no extraneous mental garbage, no thought of death, no thought of life, merely the next move and the singular goal of performing that next move in that present time. I gave up the luxury of wondering if I could do the route, or thinking about that move just prior, or what was coming up, or the fact that my foot didn't feel that great 100 feet below, or that my palm didn't have enough chalk for five moves later—nothing but the moment.
And when I was done, I reached an understanding that whether our time on this plane is our only existence, or the body is merely a vessel for the next stage of development, our existence is only a moment.
Read John Bachar's last interview, by Duane Raleigh
Read about Michael Readron by John Bachar
Read about the first ascent of Bachar's Bachar/Yerian by Dave Yerian


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Named for a Long-Forgotten Famous Person?
If your ancestor has an unusual first name or a middle name that's generally used for a last name, don't jump to the conclusion that those names have been used by other family members. It is also possible that the names were used in reference to some "pop culture" person whose popularity waned while your ancestor still had the name. People can be named for presidents and historical figures---not just relatives.
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There were many men in the Southern states who were called "L D." who were named "Lorenzo Dow whatever surname" for the early Methodist minister, Lorenzo Dow.ReplyDelete
This reminds me of my father-in-law's middle name - Derwin. Still wondering where it came from - no one in the family on either side used that name. Any ideas?ReplyDelete
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Most of the residents on call that night were women, and it was a very bad night, multiple disasters at the same time. Towards morning, a couple of us were standing in the hallway, in between ICU errands, propping up the walls and playing one-up: whose disaster was the worst. One of the older nurses walked by, one of my favorites (her name and her face remind me of one of my aunts); she saw how tired we were.
"You doctors don't get enough credit," she said. We figured she had to be joking – what nurse would say that out loud to residents? but she went on. "It takes some special drive to do what you do. We nurses complain sometimes, but when was the last time any of you worked a 40 hour week?" We nodded slowly, realizing that she was serious. "When I was young, getting out of school, there were no female doctors. It couldn't be done. It really was the old boys' club. Good for you." And she disappeared down the stairs.
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I've been George Needham'd (literally)
May 18, 2006 at 9:37 pm Peter Bromberg 1 comment
But I wasn't the only one… Yesterday was MPOW's annual Spring Membership meeting (20th anniversary to boot), and we were delighted and honored to have OCLC VP for Member Services George Needham on hand to discuss OCLC's must-read "Perceptions" report. I know it's been out for awhile but if you haven't read it yet, go read it. Or re-read it. Or read the 8 page conclusion. Or the respondent's advice to libraries.
George's talk was wonderful. Warm, reassuring and hopeful, while still being provocative and challenging. Here are some highlights:
- "It is not the customer's job to understand us, it is our job to understand the customer." (paraphrased from a comment made to OCLC Prez Jay Jordan, "It is not our job to understand OCLC, it is OCLC's job to understand us."
- "Convenience will always trump quality (so it is our job to make quality convenient.)"
- George summarized the points of Jennifer Rice, Omar Wasow, Antony Brewerton and Patricia Martin who spoke at OCLC's mid-winter "Extreme Makever" symposium in San Antonio. The webcast and mp3s are available at: www.oclc.org/community. Of particular relevance to our audience was George quoting Jennifer Rice (Mantra Brand Consulting–great blog!) on the importance of libraries letting customers get a library card online. You can hear just that snippet of Jennifer's talk here:(direct link or press the blue arrow.) This was particularly significant because we're piloting a Get a Library Card Online project – aka GALCO– in New Jersey!
- What do customers tell us they want? More books, more copies, no fines, longer hours, more computers, friendlier staff, cleaner, better-lit, uncluttered facilities.
- George quoted Joan Frye Williams' point that self-service isn't synonymous with "no service" and would better be thought of as "self-directed" service. YES!!
Thanks Mr. Needham. Indeed, it was all good.
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Iowa Right To Life Seeks to Deny Medicaid Coverage for Pregancies with Fetal Anomalies
Anti-choicers in Iowa are determined to force someone out of Medicaid-funded abortions.
Last year, 22 women in Iowa had abortions paid for by Medicaid. Of them, 7 were pregnancies as a result of rape, and 15 were due to fetal anomalies.
Iowa Right to Life, having been thwarted in their attempt to force rape victims to give birth if they can't afford an abortion, has now chosen to come after the fetal anomaly exception instead.
Via the Sioux City Journal:
Marlys Popma of rural Kellogg, president of Iowa Right to Life, said her group "takes severe issue" with a recent decision by Charles Palmer, director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, to deny a request by 41 GOP House members seeking to rescind state rules governing pregnancies terminated in cases of rape, incest and fetal deformation.
"Iowa is currently one of only three states that fund abortions with taxpayer dollars for fetal abnormality," Popma said in a statement. "In no way is this consistent with the federal Hyde Amendment and funding for such abortions should be ceased immediately. We call on the administration to act accordingly."
In an interview, Popma said "without doubt" the federal Hyde amendment "does not require the state to fund abortion for fetal abnormality," and she planned to seek a meeting with Branstad and his staff "about what his next steps may be." She also said she hoped to talk with Palmer about the issue as well and felt it was too early in the process to determine whether the situation might trigger any kind of legal challenge.
"We're kind of in a holding pattern to determine what our next steps will be," she said. "We would like to see an immediate change in the funding of abortions for fetal abnormalities."
According to the state, abortions in the case of fetal anomaly are rare and usually due to a severe issue that makes the fetus nonviable.
The state paid for 15 of those last fiscal year, at an average cost of $638, [Roger Munns, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Human Services] said. He said Medicaid pays for such abortions "for only the most severely deformed fetuses. In many cases, the child would not live if delivered." Examples include fetuses that are missing large parts of their brains, he said.
The federal government does not cover abortions in these cases, so the full amount is paid by the state. And because a small fringe of Iowans think it's compassionate to force poor women to carry a child that will not survive either pregnancy or birth, and to pay the much higher medical costs associated with labor and delivery in a complicated pregnancy, Iowa anti-choicers want to stop the state from helping women pay for these abortions.


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Lane County Professionals Weekly Meeting
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1 stick butter, melted
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Mix together the graham cracker crumbs and melted butter and press into bottom and slightly up sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat cream cheese until fluffy, gradually adding sugar. Beat in eggs, one at time. Stir in Amaretto and pour over crust. Bake for 45 minutes. Mix together topping ingredients and gently spread over cheesecake. Return to oven for an additional 10 minutes or until set. Cool completely and loosen sides. Refrigerate or freeze. Just before serving, sprinkle with roasted slivered almonds and chocolate shavings.


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Early Morning Smokers Are More Addicted And At Greater Risk Of Cancer
Even though rising cigarette prices and new restrictions on smoking in public places have helped to make a dent in smoking rates in the U.S., there are still plenty of heavily addicted smokers out there who remain at great risk of developing cancer from their habit.
Cancer researchers have learned something about which smokers are more at risk of cancer from measuring things like how many cigarettes they smoke per day and how many years they've been smoking. Now, researchers at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey are offering more details on a third variable: the timing of that first cigarette of the day.
In two studies published today online in the journal Cancer, Joshua Muscat and colleagues found that smokers who have their first cigarette 30 to 60 minutes after waking up have a small increase in their chances of getting cancer than people who wait longer.
In one study of 4,775 smokers with lung cancer and 2,835 smokers without it, they found that people who smoked within 30 minutes of waking were 1.79 times as likely to develop lung cancer than people who waited at least an hour for their first smoke. Those who puffed between 30 and 60 minutes of waking a 1.31 higher change of getting lung cancer. This was after controlling for number of cigarettes smoked and other factors.
In a separate study of a similar design, they found a link between 1,055 cases of smokers with neck and head cancers and a control of 795 people. Again, people who smoked within the first hour of their day were a little bit more likely to get cancer.
"What's interesting is that the studies show that if people are more addicted then they're at a greater risk of cancer, but that relationship is independent of how much people smoke," John Richie, a professor of public health sciences and pharmacology at Penn State and a study author, tells Shots. "Addiction is still not very well understood, and some smokers are clearly at much greater risk of cancer than others simply based on their addiction."
Michael Fiore, director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, tells Shots the findings seem logical.
"In essence when you have the first cigarette of the day is a surrogate for how addicted a person is," says Fiore. "A lot of heavily addicted smokers overnight go into withdrawal. By the time they wake up, their blood nicotine level has fallen substantially, and their neuroreceptors are screaming, 'You gotta feed me.'"
Richie and his colleagues say that their findings may help direct quitting programs towards the most addicted who are at the greatest risk. But first, he says, they need to know more about their smoking behaviors. "Do they inhale more deeply or take more puffs per cigarette?" These are things that can vary a lot smoker to smoker.


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