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You'd never think this gorgeous, fluffy parfait is a protein powerhouse made with beans, so your mind is about to be blown.
This recipe comes to us from Kathy Hester and her freakin' fabulous new book, The Great Vegan Bean Book.
I love love love this cookbook, not only because of the creative recipes, but because beans are so inexpensive and nutritious, and using them in so many inventive ways helps brings delicious vegan food to so many palates and grocery budgets. High five, Kathy.
Some of my favorite recipes in the book are:
- Black Bean Breakfast Sausage Patties
- Lemon Coconut Chickpea Muffins
- Beluga Lentil Borscht
- Hard Cider-Sauced Beans
- Sun-dried Tomato White Bean Wheat Balls ("meat balls")
Wholly inventive uses of beans to provide texture and flavor, from creamy dips and sauces to silky desserts (see below), plus gorgeous color photos throughout the book, make this book one of my new go-to favorites.
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Vanilla Rosewater Parfaits from The Great Vegan Bean Book
gluten-free option*, oil-free
- 1 cup (262 g) vanilla yogurt
- 1 cup ( 192 g) cooked red lentils
- 1 container (12.3 ounces/349g) silken tofu
- 1 tablespoon rosewater
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons agave nectar (more if using plain yogurt)
- 3 cups (240 g) vanilla cookie crumbs (*use gluten-free cookies to make gluten-free or leave them out and just have pudding)
Add everything except for the cookie crumbs to a food process and purée for about 8 minutes. Stop every few minutes and scrape down the side of the bowl to make sure it all gets smooth.
In 8 small (10 ounce) custard cups (or in shot glasses to make minis) layer the crumbs on the bottom, add a layer of the tofu mixture, more crumbs, another layer of tofu and end by completely cover the top with the rest of the cookie crumbs.
The mixture will thicken up when you refrigerate the parfaits, so put them in the fridge at least 2 hours before serving but will keep covered for a few days.
Yield: 8 servings
Per serving: 124.1 calories; 3.1 g total fat; .0 g saturated fat; 6.0 g protein; 17.8 g carbohydrate; 2.3 g dietary fiber; 0 mg cholesterol.
Total Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Cooking Time: 0 minutes
Serving Suggestions & Variations: Use different extract flavors, add cocoa powder or even liquors to make an unlimited array of versions. Graham crackers and chocolate cookies make great crumb layers as well.
Order your of The Great Vegan Bean Book
Check out Kathy's website, Healthy Slow Cooking
Beautiful food photography by Renee Comet


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(CNN) - Major veterans' groups this Memorial Day weekend harshly criticized the top Republican on the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee after he charged that the leaders of the service organizations are too cozy with embattled VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and won't call for him to resign despite allegations of mismanagement and wrongdoing in his department.
Sen. Richard Burr accused them of being "more interested in their own livelihoods and Washington connections than they are to the needs of their own members."
"A monumental cheap-shot" is what the leaders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars called the accusations by the North Carolina Republican, which were included in an "open letter" the senator issued to veterans on Friday. The VFW said Burr was engaged in a "disgusting ambush style of politics."
"Senator, this is clearly one of the most dishonorable and grossly inappropriate acts that we've witnessed in more than forty years of involvement with the veteran community and breaches that standards of the United States Senate," the VFW statement said. "Your allegations are ugly and mean-spirited in every sense of the word and are profoundly wrong, both logically and morally."
Another group, Disabled American Veterans, said they were "outraged" Burr - one in a handful of Senate Republicans who have called on Shinseki to resign - would choose Memorial Day weekend to criticize the groups.
"Regrettably, Senator Burr shows no interest in pursuing serious policy solutions, preferring instead to launch cheap political attacks on the integrity of leaders of veterans organizations that do not agree with him, all of whom served honorably to defend this nation and then devoted all or most of their lives to servicing fellow veterans," the DAV statement said.
"You clearly represent the worst of politics in this country," said the Paralyzed Veterans of America.
In his letter, Burr criticized six of the seven veterans' service organizations, known as VSOs, that testified at a recent Senate hearing on problems in the VA health system. In particular, the hearing examined allegations veterans died while on secret waiting lists for doctor appointments.
A fatal wait: Veterans languish and die on a VA hospital's secret list
Only the American Legion, which has called for Shinseki to go, escaped Burr's criticism.
"It became clear at the hearing that most of the other VSOs attending appear to be more interested in defending the status quo with VA, protecting their relationships within the agency, and securing their access to the Secretary and his inner circle," Burr said.
But Burr really hit a nerve when he accused the "Washington executive staff of the VSOs" of not having the "interests of their members at heart."
"Last week's hearing made it clear to me that the staff has ignored the constant VA problems expressed by their members and is more interested in their own livelihoods and Washington connections than they are to the needs of their own members," Burr said.
"The VFW staff you chose to rebuke and whose principles you have questioned walk the walk," the VFW responded. "They've been there, done that and some have the scars to show for it. Collectively, those same staff members have among them more than 47 combat deployments."
Asked Monday about the strong response from the VSOs, an aide to Burr provided a fresh statement from the senator: "The VSOs response is a rousing defense of the status quo at VA. It's clear that my open letter to America's veterans has outraged some VSOs more than the scandals at VA - I believe their testimony stands on its own."
For its part, a VFW spokesman told CNN Monday the group has no idea why Burr went after them.
"We really have no idea," said Joe Davis. "It was a total surprise."
Cheap shots, no solutions, yep, that's a republican.
-–this has been going on for GENERATIONS, NOT NEW STUFF, next..., ask Walter Reed Hospital allegations under Bush the thush. You bicker now, unfortunate, karma, our karma!!!! Hillary16.
I have been using the VA here in Saint Louis for 2 1/2 years and I am extremely pleased with the service. These republicans don't want to fund the VA and then blame Admiral Shinseki for their continued contempt for the commoners. I am ashamed that these fools consider themselves Americans. I will not vote for another Republican until these crooked piles are driven from their offices.
When it comes to calling out Republican hypocrisy and fake outrage. Republican hypocrites who cut funding for the Veterans Affairs (VA) department and have the audacity to blame President Barack Obama and department Secretary Eric Shinseki's administrations. n March of 2003, the very same time the the Bush Administration began its war against Iraq — the Republican-led House of Representatives approved a budget that cut over $14 billion from the Veteran Administration's budget.
Not only that, but when correctly Shinseki told the American people that the Iraq War would take hundreds of thousands of soldiers in a prolonged battle, he was run out of Washington by Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.
Unbelievably, these very same Republicans are now engaging in a "coordinated effort" to blame Pres. Obama and Shinseki for a newly-created Veteran Administration bookkeeping "scandal".
republicans fund wars , not Veterans .
The seantor has never been the military how does he know about the vfw
From reading many veterans' opinions, Burr's not the only one to feel this way.
Another GOP chicken-hawk, with little or no experience with the military outside of playing " Call of Duty", feels he is qualified to attack veterans groups....its not like they have not done it before. I guess having the audacity not to jump on the GOP's bandwagon will make anyone in the whack-job chorus question your intentions, regardless of how ill-informed and badly timed the accusations are.
after all the cuts the republicans demanded, now would be a great time to hold them accountable. But in the new republican party of lies, hate, and mis-direction, they continue to have no real message to run on. So it's just more of the same. No matter how long and loud you lie, it's still a lie.
These problems have been going on since after WWI. This is not new and plenty of horrifying stuff came out when the shrub #43 was president.
Let some of these teaklans go to war, or their sons or daughters, and go through what these men and women do and see how quickly they open their pockets to give veterans the help they so badly need.
Didn't the R's cut the budget for the VA? Now their shouting about problems at the VA that they created. Typical.
The Republicans seem unwilling or unable to operate from anything other than a "politics is God" platform.
Can anyone remember the last time they worked together to accomplish something positive for the American people?
Me neither.
It was good to see the veterans' groups fight back and take this guy to task.
He sure has been quiet since the slapdown.
Remember vets are poor people, and they are not the koch brothers so i was not surprised to see the attack. The gop don't care about vets all they do is care about wars, so that they and their rich bosses could increase their bottomline.

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Faithful departures: How Catholics face the end of life
In these latter years of the 20th century, matters related to "letting go" or not letting go have attained great prominence. The slogans can be as confusing as they are diverse: right to life; right to privacy; death with dignity; physician-assisted suicide; euthanasia; palliative care. Scarcely a week goes by without some development in the debate over what must be done or not done for the dying.
Often it's been Dr. Jack Kevorkian who ratchets up the controversy a notch or two with some new challenge or death-dealing device. Perhaps some state is on the verge of passing a law to legalize physician-assisted death, while another prepares to criminalize such action. Maybe a federal court pronounces on the constitutional right to die in whatever way one chooses. Or there's progress in the ongoing U.S. congressional effort to seize the license of any physician who prescribes a death-hastening substance. Maybe a right-to-life group is mounting yet another campaign to require that life be preserved if possible in every case, regardless of the patients' wishes or the costs.
The net result of all this activity is a gnawing sense in the body politic that the nation's profit-based medical care system is reeling out of control on some critical issues. At a very personal level that sense translates into a fear that in the final hours one will be left at the mercy of an overworked, morally confused, or just plain indifferent medical team. People wonder whether, on the one hand, they will be ushered into eternity long before they are prepared to go or whether, on the other hand, they will be kept painfully alive thanks to an impersonal, aggressive technology long after death should have come.
At many hospitals and medical centers today, efforts are underway to cut through the contradictions and ambiguities to help patients confront death with respect and reason. One of these is the Loyola Medical Center in suburban Maywood near Chicago where Cardinal Bernardin received treatment during his terminal illness. Increasingly, centers like these realize that unless a common ground is established involving medical science, medical ethics, and common sense, the 21st century may usher in the horrors of a Brave New World.
Sometimes, of course, the common ground is not all that elusive, especially when there's a solid moral and religious tradition undergirding it. Last February 16 the family of Thomas Doheny let go of their husband and father at the Loyola Medical Center. Doheny's wife, Kathleen, and his four children were joined around the bedside by his doctor, Jesuit Father Myles Sheehan, and his chaplain, Servite Father Tom Heskin. The ventilator, which had been keeping him breathing, was turned off, but Doheny, 62, did not seem to notice. He breathed on his own for about 45 minutes while Heskin in his soft Irish tenor led the group in prayer and a gentle refrain. "Into your hands we commend his spirit," they sang. "For we must die to ourselves in loving you."
As Doheny's breaths grew less frequent, his son cradled him and told him he could go. Then Sheehan in a louder voice blessed the patient and assured him he was free to return to God.
"And he died just like that," said Kathleen Doheny later. "You know, he respected Myles and always followed his advice." The curtains around the bed were then opened and an aggregation of grandchildren, in-laws, and other relatives came in to bid tearful farewells. "It was quite beautiful," she remembers. "Myles said, `When it comes to dying, it doesn't get any better than this.'"
The death of Thomas Doheny was remarkably peaceful because some significant details had been worked out beforehand. More than three years before his death, he had been diagnosed with serious emphysema of the lungs. He continued his work in the mail-order catalog business for a time, but his health steadily declined. He developed a heart condition, and in 1997, after undergoing a medical procedure called lung reduction to assist his diminished breathing ability, he suffered a slight stroke. Then early in 1998 he contracted pneumonia.
"It was just one thing after another," says his wife. "He knew, we all knew, the time was short." During his stays in the hospital he had been placed on a ventilator several times and found the experience terrifying. He asked to be heavily sedated when this was required, and, after discussions with Sheehan and Heskin, he requested that when his wife and doctor agreed recovery was no longer possible, he be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die. They agreed to abide by his wishes.
In the death of Thomas Doheny, some foundational beliefs of Catholic care for the dying were operating. First, explains Heskin, "we believe life is a fundamental, God-given good that we must respect and care for. However, life is not an absolute good; it is not an ultimate value. Therefore, there are limits to our duty to preserve it."
Obviously, Heskin says, Doheny could have been kept on the ventilator indefinitely and remained technically alive, but that would have only drawn out his dying. The cause of death, he emphasizes, was not the absence of a ventilator but the emphysema-related inability of his lungs to furnish his body with oxygen. In addition, the substantial dosage of sedatives he was given may have further diminished his breathing to some extent, notes Heskin, but according to the time-honored principle of double effect, they were provided for palliative purposes-to moderate his suffering-not to cause or hasten death.
Speaking of such cases, Father James Bresnahan, a Jesuit moral ethicist at Chicago's Northwestern University Medical School, says, "We have a 300-year tradition in the Catholic Church that excessively burdensome treatments are not necessary, that they can in fact interfere with the dying process. We have to remember the First Commandment: 'Thou shalt not have strange gods before thee.' We use medicine and medical treatments, but our ultimate faith cannot be in them. Our faith is in God."
Dr. Ellen Gaynor, the cancer specialist who treated Cardinal Bernardin at the Loyola Cancer Center (now the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center), said the difficulty in withdrawing artificial support is deciding when the patient "has reached the point of no return."
In many advanced cases of lung or liver disease, she says, the decision is obvious, but with other illnesses there can be serious doubt, and the medical team must proceed cautiously.
Kathleen Doheny has no reservations today about the decisions she made in consultation with Heskin and Sheehan. "There was no way he was going to get better," she says. So the death of her husband of 36 years was transformed into what she remembers as "a tight family experience-I don't think you can get through this sort of thing without someone supporting you."
Much harder is the letting go when decisions have to be made suddenly, with little time for reflection. Last May, Susanne Infelise, a 27-year-old teacher in a Catholic elementary school in a southwest Chicago suburb, was the picture of health. She had a personal trainer, did aerobics three times a week, and was careful about what she ate.
But Infelise developed a pesky kind of laryngitis and a dry cough that wouldn't go away, so she went to the family doctor, who prescribed a chest X ray. It revealed frightening changes in her lungs, and Infelise was immediately admitted to a hospital for tests. During a biopsy of her lung, the lung collapsed. She was rushed by ambulance to the larger facilities at the Loyola Medical Center in Maywood. Perhaps, said the examining physicians, she had developed some raging sort of viral pneumonia. Within a few days the diagnosis was grimmer still. Infelise had pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which the lungs become leatherlike, honeycombed with cysts. The cause is unknown.
Her struggle to breathe on her own became so painful that she was put into a drug-induced coma, placed on a ventilator, and given 100 percent oxygen. She remained in that state for a week, receiving drugs in an effort to stabilize her condition. Instead of rallying, she gradually failed; only the medical machinery kept her alive. So swift and unexpected was the onset of her illness that Infelise had neither expressed her own wishes, appointed an attorney for health care, or signed a living will. Decisions about her treatment therefore lay with her family-her parents, Ronald and Carol Infelise, and her two sisters, Michele and Kara.
Infelise's doctor and Heskin, the chaplain, gathered them together and laid out the options: She could be removed from the artificial support; she could be left indefinitely on the ventilator; or she could be brought out of the coma and asked her own wishes in the matter. But in the third option, Infelise would be in such intolerable pain and absolute panic, advised the doctors, that a rational discussion would be virtually impossible.
"Your decision," Heskin told the family, "must be made not just with a view to Susie's biological life but with a consideration of the theological and spiritual perspective." Along with her life, he said, "she was given a mission-to use her gifts and talents," and she did in her various roles as daughter, student, and teacher. Now as her body fails, he said, it seems clear "that her mission is completed and the time has come to let her return to God." Although the decision they had to make may seem the hardest they will ever have to face "and you may feel guilty later on," Heskin told the family, "you're actually not making the decision because it's already been made." The instruments preserving her life are futile, he said, "so the real decision now is to accept reality."
Infelise's mother, Carol, says they all prayed then amid tears and went home. Away from the hospital, "I could only think, I can't let her go," she says, "I just can't. But when I went back the next day I knew what we had to do."
Heskin explained that at sacred moments like birth and death, "God is present in a special way-we stand on holy ground."
Just 12 days after Infelise consulted her doctor about her laryngitis, the ventilator was turned off. She passed away within an hour. "She didn't suffer," says her mother, "and the funeral was wonderful. The church was filled with her students, and there were five priests at the altar."
In 1996 two federal appellate courts (in New York and the state of Washington) could find no difference between turning off a ventilator-as was done in both the Doheny and Infelise cases-and in administering lethal drugs to end lives. In disconnecting the ventilator, said the Washington court, "the doctor is unquestionably committing an act. He is taking an active part in bringing about a patient's death. . . . To us what really matters is that the death of the patient is the intended result as surely in one case as the other."
Catholic moral theology vehemently contradicts that assessment. As the National Conference of Catholic Bishops argued in their 1995 "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services," in withdrawing artificial life supports, one is not killing a patient, only accepting "our human limitations to reverse the dying process." In administering lethal drugs, the cause of death is not the disease but the drugs administered precisely to end life. Forgoing useless, extraordinary, or disproportionately burdensome treatment is not the same as euthanasia or assisted suicide, said the bishops.
In June 1997 the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to agree with the bishops when it rejected the reasoning of the Washington and New York appellate courts. In a unanimous opinion the nine justices declared there is indeed an intrinsic difference between physician-assisted death as "killing" and the practice of palliation as "letting die." In addition, the high court accepted as valid the argument that a state might criminalize physician-assisted death because of its potential harm to individuals and society. Only four months later, however, this same Supreme Court, in October 1997, refused to review an Oregon law that clearly allows physician-assisted death in certain situations. As a result, considerable confusion reigns and individual state legislatures remain free to propose laws as they choose-for or against physician-assisted death.
After studying the opinions of the various justices in the June 1997 Supreme Court case, Bresnahan believes the court in the future may backtrack and take a more favorable view of physician-assisted death, especially if better palliative care and quality hospice services are not more readily available throughout the nation. Hence, he says, people involved in health care may have only a "brief window of opportunity" in which to improve care.
It should come as no surprise that widespread discussion of the right to die, combined with the fear of a prolonged, painful death, should make suicide a tempting alternative for even the most conscientious people. Such a person was Lawrence Rook, who at the age of 80 was diagnosed with a fast-growing recurrence of abdominal cancer in August 1997. The tumor was considered inoperable.
On the way home from the fateful medical exam, he said to Lorraine, his wife of 50 years, "Have we got Dr. Kevorkian's phone number?" The question was a facetious one, his wife said later, but only because Lawrence Rook didn't really need Dr. Kevorkian. A pharmacist and later a drug salesman during most of his working years, he knew far more than the average citizen about the practical aspects of suicide. He knew what to get and how to use it.
"I think a lot of people react as he did when they get the bad news," Lorraine Rook says, "they just don't say it out loud. But he was always a man who said exactly what he thought." The temptation preyed on his mind for a long time, she acknowledges, and he struggled with it: "What he didn't like was being so dependent as his strength failed," his wife recalls. "He used to say, `I just can't take this kind of life.'"
From September on, Lawrence Rook remained in a hospice situation at his home in Westchester, Illinois. Here he was visited regularly by a hospice team from the Loyola Medical Center-social worker, nurse, and chaplain. And gradually, with their assistance and the constant care of his wife, he came to accept what lay before him. "We talked about how richly blessed he had been," says Lorraine, "about our family [three grown children, 13 grandchildren], about his love for me and his faith in God."
The hospice chaplain, Kathleen Conway, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, consoled him, says Lorraine, telling him, "God isn't ready for you yet, Larry." As longtime members of the United Church of Christ, the Rooks shared with Catholics a strong belief in the sanctity of life and a sense that just as we participate in the life of Christ, we are each called to participate in his death.
By December, Rook was extremely weak and confined to bed. He was uncomfortable, says his wife, but not in excruciating pain or in need of heavy pain killers. "I can't say enough about the hospice team," says Lorraine. "They supported us all the way. Larry was at peace." At night Lorraine slept in their old bed beside the hospital bed provided for her husband. She arose every two hours to see how he was doing and to make him comfortable. On December 19 she checked on him at 2 a.m. and they exchanged a few words. At 4 she found him dead.
"It would have been very selfish of me to want him to linger," she says. "And do you know, his last words to me at 2 a.m. were `I love you, honey.'"
In the modern world, human autonomy-the freedom to control one's destiny-appears to many as a kind of absolute and inviolable right, according to Bresnahan. Yet, he insists, this right is not an absolute since there always has to be "a measure of submission" to what cannot be controlled. Far from viewing death as a horror to be gotten over with as quickly as possible and by any means necessary, the Christian is challenged to see death-as Bernardin did-as a friend.
"Freely submitting to death can mean dying in Christ," Bresnahan has written. "A Christian's dying is . . . the final gift of God's calling us to be conformed to Christ. Our dying is... accepted as the final gift of redemption."
Conway, who assisted Lawrence Rook in his struggle, has been hospital chaplain and bereavement coordinator at Loyola for five years. She says she feels a sense of satisfaction, not loss, when someone achieves a kind of acceptance in the final days.
"It's a real privilege to be involved in the most intimate part of people's lives," says Conway. If there's a downside in this ministry, she adds, it's the overwhelming amount of paperwork required by the government and insurance providers for virtually every contact with patients.
Besides those tempted to seek a quick and fatal intervention in the face of approaching death, some reject any intervention whatsoever, even without a grave medical diagnosis. They create peculiar complications, largely for family and professional care providers.
One day in early 1996, Anastasia Florek, an 89-year-old widow from Chicago's far Southeast Side, announced she would be "going to heaven" soon. "How do you know?" asked her eldest granddaughter, Annette Tepavcevich, with whom she lived.
"Because I'm dying," said Florek, a tiny, 4-foot-10-inch woman of Polish extraction and strong Catholic faith.
"But Buscia [Polish for Grandma], how do you know you're dying?"
"Because I'm not hungry."
"Then you should eat anyhow."
"I can't eat because I'm not hungry. Besides, I'm going to die."
Tepavcevich passed off the exchange as a phase on the part of the old woman. But her grandmother remained adamant. She would not eat, except to nibble on a bit of food once in a while. Tepavcevich and her husband tried to persuade her to see her family doctor. Florek had undergone a successful gall bladder operation many months before and had not complained since of anything but occasional back pain. As her weight steadily declined, her family-four children and 12 grandchildren-grew alarmed. So did the doctor. Florek should come in for tests, he said, possibly have a feeding tube inserted.
"I'm not going anywhere," said Florek, "and I'm certainly not having some gadget stuck in me."
Tepavcevich, who had the power of attorney for health care, says she was "tormented" by the situation. She and the family wondered if Buscia should be declared incompetent in order to have her forcibly diagnosed and forcibly nourished. After all, wasn't she committing suicide? Wouldn't she have a horrible death due to starvation?
"I don't want to be mean," said Florek, "but put a gadget in me and I'll rip it out. I'm dying; it's God's will."
In every other respect, the family agreed, she was her old self-alert and independent, no hallucinations, no dementia or senility. So they got in touch with a new doctor who advised that there was really nothing to do but abide by the woman's wishes. He provided an accepted but essentially meaningless diagnosis-failure to thrive-and recommended the hospice program at Loyola. For the next few months she was visited regularly by the nurse and other hospice team members. No one tried to make her eat, and there were no references to artificial "gadgets." At 89, Buscia was listening to her body and responding to what it said, the chaplain told Tepavcevich; the chronic absence of hunger indicated the presence of a serious, likely terminal malady. The family had no obligation, he said, to compel her to use means she found abhorrent to preserve her earthly life for a short period. Florek was clearly looking forward to the life to come.
In her final weeks, some five months after she had announced her impending demise, Florek had trouble sleeping at night, so she was given a mild tranquilizer, which she took without comment or complaint. She was not bedridden but was steadily growing weaker. On June 10 her parish priest gave her the Anointing of the Sick. He had scarcely left the house when Anastasia Florek passed away. "That's how Buscia was," says Tepavcevich. "She always did things her way."
More than 400 years ago, the Spanish Dominican theologian Francisco di Vittoria wrote, "If a sick person can take food or nourishment with a certain hope of life, he is required to take food. However, if . . . there is present grave consternation in the appetitive power so that only with the greatest effort as though through torture can the sick person take food, this is to be reckoned as an impossibility and therefore he is excused."
The principles behind di Vittoria's advice still operate in Catholic theology today: First, although a moral obligation to prolong life is generally present, it does not hold in all situations; second, a means to prolong life need not be used if its effect is doubtful or places a grave burden on a patient-whether that burden is physical, psychological, or even economic.
Much discussed over the centuries is the distinction between "ordinary" means, which a person is required to use, and "extraordinary" means, which are morally optional. Those terms are somewhat confusing, notes Dominican theologian Kevin O'Rourke in his book, Medical Ethics: Common Ground for Understanding (Catholic Health Association, 1998). "Ordinary," he says, can suggest "natural" means or it can be interpreted as "readily available" means or even "standard and accepted in the medical profession." "Extraordinary," on the other hand, can signify "artificial means" or "difficult to obtain" means or even "innovative and experimental."
Rather than compiling a list of what are objectively ordinary and extraordinary means, writes O'Rourke, theologians now outline "general actions that people in normal circumstances would avoid or perform to prolong life. But in regard to specific actions that might or might not be judged ineffective or too burdensome, they call on individuals to decide for themselves. Even eating food would not necessarily be a morally obligatory means of prolonging life. . . . If, in some circumstances, eating food is morally optional, how much more so might contemporary means to prolong life-ventilators, antibiotics, blood transfusions, and artificial nutrition and hydration-be judged optional if a sick person determines that the use of such procedures would be doubtfully effective or involve a great burden?"
It would appear then that Florek, without having read the distinctions of di Vittoria or O'Rourke, was operating well within the tradition of Catholic moral theology. Dr. Gaynor, who besides being a cancer specialist is a Sinsinawa Dominican sister and a professor at the Loyola Center's medical school, says attitudes like Florek's are quite uncommon in our death-denying society. They tend to be found, she says, "in people of great faith who view death as a necessary step to something better."
Perhaps, says O'Rourke, "a more adequate and contemporary explanation of `ordinary' means . . . would be: those which are obligatory because they enable a person to strive for the spiritual purpose of life without grave burden; 'extraordinary means would seem to be those which are optional because they are ineffective or a grave burden in helping a person strive for the spiritual purpose of life." He hastens to add that the "spiritual goal of life" may be understood in very broad terms-as "serving God and neighbor" or "leading a good life" or "relating to others" or "contributing to society."
Some of the hardest end-of- life decisions have nothing to do with ordinary and extraordinary medical distinctions. Rather, they relate to more profound problems of letting go-unpacking the spiritual or psychological baggage that has been in storage for years, sometimes even from childhood.
The name and some circumstances in the case of Marilyn Hanley have been altered to protect her confidentiality. She was admitted to a hospital in the Rockford, Illinois area earlier this year with a form of lung cancer that had metastasized to her spine. Her suffering, observed her doctors, seemed to have a source deeper than the physical, and they asked the chaplain at the hospital to intervene. In a series of discussions with the chaplain, a woman, Hanley related a woeful tale, ranging from a violence-filled childhood in a broken home to her present, apparently terminal condition.
She was now, at the age of 72, divorced, long rejected by her two sons, and no longer on speaking terms with her three brothers. Some 30 years before, she had fallen away from the Catholic Church and feared she was destined for eternal rejection as well as the many earthly ones she had faced. Yet during her essentially loveless marriage, Hanley had experienced a brief but vivid love affair, the memory of which she neither could nor wished to erase. That momentary alliance, she contended, gave her a glimpse of something beautiful and enabled her to survive to this point.
The chaplain listened, assuring her that God understood her better than she understood herself: Hanley need be sorry for her infidelity only to the extent that it broke her marriage vow and offended God; if some other long-term benefits came from that experience, so be it. "God writes straight with crooked lines," said the chaplain. Hanley could confess, receive absolution, and return to the church. She refused. Men had played so large a role in her unhappy life that she found it impossible to seek reunion with God through a man.
The conversations between the two continued throughout Hanley's hospital stay and resumed when she returned for chemotherapy treatments. As Hanley revealed more and more of her griefs and disappointments to the chaplain, she found a measure of spiritual healing, even though her physical condition was floundering. She was able for the first time to sincerely forgive those who made her life miserable. Although she would not retreat from her unwillingness to confess sacramentally to a male, she began to believe she too was forgiven.
The chaplain did not badger her. "God has ways to forgive," she said later, "even when sacramental means are physically or otherwise unavailable. You deal the best you can with the reality that's there."
Hanley knows she is going to die but is far less apprehensive than she was months before, in the chaplain's view. For her, the final letting go has been preceded by a series of profound resignations.
Asked to comment on this case, Loyola's Kathleen Conway says it is far from uncommon. Especially in hospice, she says, "we find people who experience a real difficulty in dying, people who hold on and on because they cannot die in peace." Many of the complications resulting from extended terminal illness would be lessened, she says, if all the members of the medical team realized they are treating a complex person, not just one specialized aspect of the individual.
At the Loyola Medical Center, there is a sustained effort to ensure that care is coordinated and "everyone is on the same page," says Maureen Fuechtmann, director of ministry at the center. During their four years in medical school, students are now introduced to a Spirituality and Suffering curriculum, which includes a chaplain-student mentoring program in the first year, a course on doctors and prayer, required visits to nursing homes, and a later chaplain-partner experience where the young doctors are sensitized in specific areas like how to deliver the "bad news" to a patient or family.
Father Heskin, who has been at Loyola for 12 years and is a member of the center's medical-ethics committee, says he has seen "tremendous change in medical culture-not just here but at a lot of places, we're more tuned into the spiritual dimension; we're better at getting to the heart of what life and reality are all about. And that eases the whole dying process."
Dr. Gaynor concurs. Once, she says, cancer care was viewed as a "cold and hard profession," but today specialists in that area are subjecting themselves to heavy self-criticism, attempting to provide better-quality pain management, serving as members of teams that include psychologists, pastoral-care personnel, and other specialists.
As this approach becomes more widespread, it could greatly alleviate the culture of fear that surrounds death in our society. In the book he finished just before he died, The Gift of Peace (Loyola University Press, 1997), Cardinal Bernardin told how a visit from Father Henri Nouwen helped him renew his belief in death as a friend.
"If you have fear and anxiety and you talk to a friend, then those fears and anxieties are minimized and could even disappear," Nouwen told the cardinal. "People of faith who believe death is a transition from this life to life eternal should see it as a friend."
Said Bernardin, "I needed to be reminded at that moment because I was rather exhausted by the radiation treatment."
When members of the medical profession become sensitive to these important spiritual dimensions of dying, then letting go can become a reasonable, even welcome, choice for all concerned.
How to be prepared
Medical authorities recommend that everyone follow one of two legal measures while still in good health to direct whether they accept or refuse medical care should they become incapable of making the decision themselves. The two legal instruments available are: (1) the power of attorney and (2) a living will.
A power of attorney for health care, which supersedes the living will, is an authorization for a designated person to make all health-care decisions for the patient, subject to any specific directions determined by the individual.
A living will is a "declaration," or directive, that in the event of an incurable and irreversible condition, death-delaying procedures will not be used or will be withdrawn if these procedures would only postpone the patient's death. This direction is to the attending physician, who is responsible for determining the patient's condition.
A gray area exists in living wills, however, as to the withdrawal of food and water, depending on whether death would be caused by cessation of sustenance or by the terminal condition. Yet a power of attorney may authorize the agent to have food and water withdrawn.
Still, an individual should consider executing a living will in addition to a health-care power of attorney in case the agent cannot or will not act, or if for some reason the power of attorney is not accepted.
The forms for a living will and power of attorney for health care differ from state to state; in most cases they are relatively simple. In the living-will form provided by the Illinois State Medical Society, the signer declares in part, "If at any time I should have an incurable and irreversible injury, disease, or illness judged to be a terminal condition by my attending physician who has... determined that my death is imminent except for death-delaying procedures, I direct that such procedures which would only prolong the dying process be withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die naturally with only the administration of medication, sustenance, or the performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary by my attending physician to provide me with comfort care."
In the somewhat more complex Illinois form for power of attorney for health care, the signer says, "I hereby appoint . . . as my attorney-in-fact (my `agent') to act for me and in my name... to make any and all decisions for me concerning my personal care, medical treatment, hospitalization, and health care and to require, withhold, or withdraw any type of medical treatment or procedure, even though my death may ensue."
The signer can indicate which of three general options the agent should follow:
1. "I do not want my life prolonged nor do I want life-sustaining treatment to be provided or continued if my agent believes the burdens of the treatment outweigh the expected results.
2. "I want my life to be prolonged and I want life-sustaining treatment to be provided or continued unless I am in a coma that my attending physician believes to be irreversible.
3. "I want my life to be prolonged to the greatest extent possible without regard to my condition, the chances I have for recovery, or the cost of the procedures."
Whatever the form, these advance directives allow the signer to add additional personal stipulations about medical treatment.
Although combining legalese with end-of-life decisions might seem somewhat harsh, Jesuit Father James Bresnahan, a moral ethicist at Chicago's Northwestern University Medical School, sees a spiritual dimension to the process.
Such documents, says Bresnahan, are ways of expressing the "prayerful discernment" we have made about inevitable death. In an often-cited 1991 America magazine article, Bresnahan explains that personal reflection on Christ's dying "should shape decision making about my own dying. What burdens do I find excessive for me, beyond bounds, or only acceptable if God gives special inspiration for that? How do I wish to avoid rashness and presumption should I become unable to express myself to caregivers? What burdens do I refuse to see imposed on those whom I love?" So viewed, he says, these legal-sounding advance directives can actually become "personal spiritual testaments."


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Conservation and Environment in Costa Rica: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Costa Rica - Monthly Update October 2010
The closer we get to the end of the year the more we are working to get things finished for this year and ready for 2011. Many of the investigation projects we will be continuing in one way or another next year and we will be starting a few new ones too!
One the biggest ideas we have for next year is to bring in a friend of Eduardo's to help us start investigating the Scarlet Macaw populations in and around the park. This will be a huge project as we need to investigate why they are coming to certain areas of the park and why they are nesting in certain areas outside of the park so it means investigating a little more of the park itself, looking at ways we can improve the situation for them and helping to protect the birds that are still outside of the area. It's an ambitious project but we are hoping to get it off the ground in the near future as there is a serious need for this type of project with Scarlet Macaws.
We are also planning on changing our current investigation projects; with the bat project for example we are making plans to start marking the bats when we capture them so we can start to investigate the quantity of bats in the area, by marking each bat on the toe in a special paint we will be able count how many of each species we capture whilst being sure that we are not repeating ourselves.
A lot of our work in the last few months has been helping out on community projects as well; we have been in schools, churches, football fields and along rivers in the last few weeks. During these activities we visited a school in Santa Ana which is a place we have been many times over the last year and slowly but surely we have painted the whole building as well as remodelled their front garden and maintained the back! It really is a Projects Abroad school! During our last visit we were asked to paint another of the class rooms lime green...unfortunately we don't have chance to choose the colours on these jobs...green schools, pink churches and sky blue fence posts...Santa Ana glows at night! It is always fun going out of the park with volunteers though, we get to meet the local kids and families and they always have so many questions as why there are so many gringos working in the park and a lot of the time they start to ask the question "Why aren't I helping out in the park?" We've had several people from the local communities come and visit us in the last few weeks/months just to ask what they can do to help to conserve the area.
As I've said many times in the past, all of our volunteers get the chance to visit the cave systems we have here in the park, some of them get even more than one chance and enjoy it more the 2nd time than the 1st! And although I rarely get the chance to go inside and do the tour myself, I have got the various parts of the cave well imprinted on my mind and all the facts that I need to know in English, Spanish and even the odd thing in French and German! However I never thought the formation of the family was so big! I'm guessing it's more the angle and shot that Oscar used to take this photo but I couldn't help but feel really impressed with the way it looked! It's a great photo because it really gives size and impact to the cave system and you can really see the colours in the rocks!
We have also been working on a few finishing touches for the football field, those ex-volunteers among you will remember the regular activities on the football field, taking out weed, planting seeds, setting up the irrigation system and repairing rain damage on certain areas. We are so close to the end of this project now that we have confirmed our first community event there...The 19th of December we are special guests at Manuel Angulos annual Cabalgata - horse show, which this year will include a couple of football games before the horse riding starts (no horses will be allowed on the football field at anytime!).
Naturally Projects Abroad volunteers will be on the special guest list for each event and will be more than welcome to come and join in or just sit on the side and watch. There will always be some work to do on the football field though, it's never going to be truly finished, we have to add fertilizer, new seed, cut the grass and of course keep it irrigated during the dry season otherwise all the hard work of the last 2 years will be wasted and nature will try and retake the field again! I hope to be able to send you some great pictures in a month with hundreds of people around the field enjoying a morning game!
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Striker Nikica Jelavic extended his remarkable scoring spree as Everton ran in a four goals for the third successive Barclays Premier League match against a Fulham side which was never in the game.
The Croatia international scored twice to take his tally to 10 in 13 matches since arriving from Rangers in January and an impressive nine in his last seven appearances.
Australia star Tim Cahill was also on the scoresheet in a 4-0 win.
With manager Martin Jol absent through illness the Cottagers barely put up a fight as the Toffees made it 12 goals in their last three league matches.
With four against Sunderland and then their remarkable comeback against Manchester United at Old Trafford last weekend, David Moyes' side became the first Everton team since 1964 to score four times in three successive league matches.
Fulham never came close to ending its woeful run of never winning a league match at Goodison Park.
It now stands at 19, the longest sequence for a top-flight club at one particular ground. In the build-up to the game Moyes had spoken of the belief and encouragement Jelavic's goals had given the side, and while three months may not be long enough to provide a full evaluation of long-term success he shows all the signs of being capable of producing on a regular basis.
What he has brought to the team in a short space of time is a cutting edge and end product.
On many occasions this season Everton's build-up play has been good but they have lacked the necessary threat in the penalty area. Not so now with Jelavic, whose first was a straightforward penalty - albeit created by his own free-kick - and his second an impressive finish from the narrowest of angles.
The 26-year-old was up and running as early as the seventh minute when Pavel Pogrebnyak raised his arm in the defensive wall and referee Phil Dowd pointed to the spot without hesitation.
Jelavic sent Mark Schwarzer the wrong way and almost embarrassed the goalkeeper again when he crashed a low shot against the near post after Phil Jagielka's long ball had dropped just beyond Brede Hangeland.
Everton's second was not long in coming as, courtesy of some lax defending, the unmarked Marouane Fellaini was able to head in Steven Pienaar's 16th-minute corner with Damien Duff's flailing leg on the line failing to clear the danger.
In half an hour Fulham had tested Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard just once, when he tipped over Kerim Frei's shot, but the goalkeeper was mightily relieved to see the ball drop behind after he had finger-tipped Clint Dempsey's deflected shot onto the crossbar.
The match was over as a contest five minutes before half-time when Pienaar's through-ball allowed Jelavic to outsprint the defence, draw out Schwarzer and then somehow fire a shot from a narrow angle through the goalkeeper's legs.
Fulham's misery continued after the break as on the hour Everton substitute Cahill made it four after good link play between himself, Leon Osman and Pienaar.
The latter's scooped pass over the defence was met by his midfield colleague's perfectly-timed run to slide a low volley past Schwarzer for only his third of the season. Jelavic was denied a deserved hat-trick when the Fulham goalkeeper saved his 25-yard free-kick and Pienaar forced another save out of Schwarzer with a shot across goal but any further goals would have merely been window-dressing.
Fulham failed to create any chance of significance in the second half and its performance was a typical end-of-season one for a side in mid-table with nothing to play for.
Prior to the game Moyes had admitted he was happy for the season to end quickly as it too had no real incentive other than finishing above near-neighbour Liverpool.
But he must now be wondering what they could have achieved with their current form had there still been a month or more to go.
And had they not had such a poor first half of the campaign, the opportunities could have been even greater.


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Bradford Family History Society www.bradfordfhs.org.uk has a an announcement on its website concerning a project it is working in collaboration with West Yorkshire Archives Service:
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Remembering Chris Ledoux [VIDEO]
In the year 2000 we were told that an old friend, Chris Ledoux , was diagnosed with liver disease and had to have a liver transplant. The transplant was successful and Chris went back to work putting out 2 more albums before being diagnosed with liver cancer. That diagnosis came in December 2004 and because of complications due to the disease, Chris Ledoux died at the Wyoming Medical Center March 9th, 2005. In celebration of Chris's life and on the anniversary of his death, I pay tribute to Chris with one of my all time favorites from Chris Ledoux and Western Underground.
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Type@Cooper: Jerry Kelly on Hermann Zapf
Monday, March 4, 2013, 6:30 - 8:30pm
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Rose Auditorium
Monday March 4, 2013
6:30-8:30 pm
Even as the way letterforms have changed from metal to phototype to digital, Hermann Zapf has continued to design exceptional typefaces, most of which he derived from pen-made forms. In this talk, typographer and calligrapher Jerry Kelly describes the history of many of Zapf's types, focusing mainly on later designs including Marconi, AMS Euler, Linotype Zapfino and Zapf Civilite, as well as new information on classics like Palatino, Optima, and others. This will be accompanied by numerous slides of type specimens, drawings, and drafts, many of them rarely seen.
About Jerry Kelly
Jerry Kelly is a book designer, calligrapher, type designer, and typographer based in New York City. After jobs in advertising typography and calligraphy, he worked for ten years at the Press of A. Colish (Mt Vernon, NY), and then for nine years for The Stinehour Press (Lunenburg, VT), before establishing his own firm in 1999. In those positions he has designed many award-winning books for clients too numerous to mention. He has been a partner at the Kelly-Winterton Press (a small letterpress operation) since 1978, and a free-lance designer and calligrapher for almost as long. In addition, he is a partner at Nonpareil Type, a small, independent typefoundry specializing in revivals of under-appreciated typefaces from the past (such as Emerson and Epigramatta) alongside with new, original designs (Rilke, Kelly Sans, etc.). He has taught calligraphy, typography, and book production & design at Parson's School of Design (1997–2006), Stanford University (1998), Queens College, The Center for Book Arts, Camberwell College (London, England) and elsewhere. Among his numerous publications are books including The Best of Both Worlds: Finely Printed Livres d'Artistes, 1910–2010 (Godine, 2011), The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century (RIT, 2011), Fine Printing in the Twentieth Century (Grolier Club, 2005), The Fine Art of Letters: The Work of Hermann Zapf (Grolier Club, 2000), A Century for the Century (Godine, 2004), Artist & Alphabet (AIGA, 1999), The Art of the Type Specimen (ITC, 1992), & German Fine Printing 1948–1988 (Grolier Club, 1988). He has also published numerous articles for the AIGA Journal, Fine Print, Printing History, Matrix, Calligraphy Review, Visible Language, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and other periodicals. Kelly holds a BA in Fine Arts from Queens College, CUNY, and has also studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Master Classes in Calligraphy with Hermann Zapf, 1979-1988) and Cooper Union (Digital Type Design, 2006).
This event is free and open to the public - please register HERE.
The Herb Lubalin Lecture Series is a part of the Type@Cooper program which is open to the public. Many events in the series are free of charge. The lectures thematically follow the overall curriculum of the program, offering students a deeper insight into specific and relevant topics.
The series is sponsored by Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union, a public graphic design archive which places emphasis on a hands-on access to a wide range of design and typography ephemera.
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so the other day i tried logging into photosupreme server version on a machine that i usually work on (i have 1 working user license - but i created 2 user accounts - 1 admin & 1 user account)
i launched photosupreme and entered in the correct login username/pass (this is an admin acct) and hit ok i noticed photo supreme never opened i gave it well past 10 min and tried again after a system reboot as well as restarting the postgre database. now here is where it gets interesting
when i get past the login screen and im waiting for photosupreme to launch i can see it running in the task manager/processes .
so i tried another registered user name/password (regular user account) and guess what ? photosupreme launches.
is there some sort of cache file on the machine and or in postgresql that is prohibiting me from using one of the accounts i created in photosupreme . any info on how to trouble shoot this is greatly appreciated
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Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
8 gifts to encourage your favorite public speaker
Let's face it: Public speakers, for the most part, need encouragement. It takes a lot to get up and do those work presentations and keynote speeches. So why not encourage your favorite speaker, speechwriter or presenter with something that will advance her presentations and public speaking? Conference organizers and program chairs, if you book speakers throughout the year, stock up on these options. Go beyond applause and give one of these thoughtful gifts:
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We've all heard comedians telling "Black people and White people are different" jokes right? In the latest episode of "This Week in Blackness" host Elon James White crafts his own version based on Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour's interesting version of what it was like to go to school in in the South in the 1960's.
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America's Got Talent Season 7: Second Semifinals Top Three
Since I am overseas at the moment… this is why this particular post is particularly late. 😉
Just as I have done in the previous semifinals post I will simply post what I originally thought of the three acts that have made it through into the finals and what I would like to see happen.
But first the following acts that have made it through to the finals:
1: Olate Dogs
2: The Untouchables
3: David Garibaldi and his CYMKs
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I've been reading through the recently released report from Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services, also called the "Drummond Report" after commission chair Don Drummond, former chief economist of TD Bank. Drummond was always a big fan of putting a price on carbon, so I was curious to see if he raised carbon pricing in his report.
He didn't.
He did, however, make several commonsense suggestions and raise some interesting points in the areas of electricity infrastructure, transportation, green energy and the environment. I highlight some of them below:
First, I was pleased to see that Drummond took issue with the unfair distribution of federal support for (green) energy projects across the country. He made his opinion of the federal government's approach clear on p. 469 of his report, pointing out the disproportionate flow of federal dollars to two unnamed provinces — read: Alberta and Saskatchewan — and the oil and gas sectors, which continue to rake in billions in direct and indirect subsidies.
The federal government has provided little support for Ontario's move towards green energy. Yet it provides direct and indirect subsidies to Canada's oil and gas sectors worth $1.4 billion annually, in addition to $2.0 billion in total spending for carbon capture and storage, the Clean Energy Fund and the ecoEnergy Technology program — all of which are primarily spent in two provinces. Even where the federal government has promised support for clean energy, most has been directed to fossil fuels and projects that do not build on Ontario's strengths. Ontario needs fair and equitable support for its clean energy initiatives.
He makes the following recommendation to the Ontario government: "Advocate for federal greenhouse gas mitigation programs to provide fair and equitable support for Ontario's clean energy initiatives."
I'll second that.
On renewal of infrastructure, with specific mention of water infrastructure (p. 45):
More should be done to keep infrastructure in good condition. The equivalent of about half of the $72 billion of municipally owned water and wastewater infrastructure needs renewal. Full-cost pricing would encourage both stable investment — which is more efficient and fairer on an intergenerational basis — and conservation.
On funding public transit and encouraging its use (p. 46):
The province should pursue a national transit strategy with the federal government, other provinces and municipalities. General tax revenues will surely be part of any revenue solution — whether federal or provincial — but there are alternatives such as congestion charges, comprehensive road tolls, high-occupancy/toll (HOT) lanes, regional gas taxes and parking surcharges.
On the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit, which gives people a 10 per cent rebate on their electricity bills (p. 47):
This program distorts the true cost of electricity and discourages conservation… because the Commission strongly believes the OCEB's $1.1 billion could be used more effectively, the OCEB should be eliminated as quickly as possible.
On better managing the impact of rising electricity prices (p. 47):
The government should produce a detailed, 20-year blueprint for the energy sector. It should also consolidate Ontario's 80 Local Distribution Companies (LDCs) along regional lines to create economies of scale; this would result in direct savings on the delivery portion of the electricity bill. Further, the government should mitigate the impact of the FIT program on electricity prices, first by reducing the initial prices offered in FIT contracts and reducing the tariff over time, and second by making better use of "off-ramps" built into existing contracts. Among other measures, the government should seek administrative efficiencies in various electricity sector agencies and restructure the wholesale electricity market so consumers located closer to generation stations can benefit from lower electricity prices.
On moving to full-cost recovery for environmental programs (p. 48):
Full cost recovery is not in effect for all of the government's environmental programs, and existing fees do not keep pace with the rising costs of program delivery; where possible, the costs of those services should be shifted to the beneficiary. The Water Charges initiative should be expanded beyond high users to medium- and low-consumption industries and put on a full user-pay basis. The Renewable Energy Approval, which consolidates the range of approvals needed for renewable energy projects while recovering about 90 per cent of its direct operating costs, is a good example of a modern approval. The Drive Clean program fully recovers its costs.
On province-funded university campus expansion (p. 256):
Any campus expansions funded by the province should be viewed through a return-on investment lens. Factors such as the increase in productivity for the institution through a better learning experience for students, energy cost reductions through the use of renewable energy sources and energy-efficient building design should be considered. Currently, the principal driver for expansion may be increases in enrolment, and while energy conservation aspects may be part of the building design, they are not integral to the productivity outcomes expected from the expansion.
On new approaches to business support programs (p. 310):
A refocused mandate for business support programs would shift from an emphasis on job creation towards encouraging firms to enhance productivity through innovation; technology adoption and training; improved business practices; and energy conservation and efficiency.
On time-of-use pricing (p. 332):
Make regulated prices more reflective of wholesale prices by increasing the on-peak to off-peak price ratio of time-of-use pricing and by making critical peak pricing available on an opt-in basis.
These are all the nuggets I found interesting in the Drummond Report. There may be more, but the ones I've pasted above are commonsense and certainly worthy of serious discussion. Will be interesting to see which ones the province acts on…


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Like other Dark Harbor 20s, she is nimble and exciting to sail, yet well-balanced in her ability to meet varying weather conditions. The Dark Harbor 20, design No. 68 by renowned naval architects Sparkman & Stephens, has been a fixture of midcoast Maine since the 1930s. Twenty-one sailboats were originally built from 1935-1942. All but two still proudly sail today, a testament to good design, sound construction, and the dedication of their owners. The majority of the fleet are seen in the summers racing around the waters of Gilkey Harbor and Islesboro, Maine.
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So what will Graph Search actually do to the way we use Facebook?
One of the funnier moments during Facebook's demonstration yesterday of Graph Search, its new search tool, was when the engineers behind the project puckishly displayed a baby picture of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
It is a very good example of the kind of thing that will get people worked up about Graph Search.
The photo in question is friends-only. So anyone who couldn't see the photo before Graph Search won't be able to see it because of Graph Search.
"There actually isn't any information being exposed in this that wasn't already available on Facebook in certain ways," Facebook product director Sam Lessin told Wired.
But the laborious process of visiting a friend's profile page, scrolling down through the years, and plucking out a particular photo among hundreds just wasn't practical before.
Facebook had the same issue with News Feed, its personalized river of updates from friends and pages, and Timeline, a redesigned profile page that made it easier to see a friend's history, when those were introduced.
Hence the extreme caution with which Facebook is rolling out Graph Search. While the slow rollout may frustrate pundits looking for an iPhone-like product release, Facebook is hoping that it will get ahead of user protests.
We don't think most ordinary Facebook users will take notice of Graph Search because of some formal announcement, though. It will spread virally, like the rumors about Instagram selling photos, through Facebook itself, with people sharing stories about the humiliating sense of exposure they felt when some old photo from college they'd forgotten about got surfaced through a search.
It's possible, too, that people will love it—that there will be heartwarming stories about people finding long-forgotten photos and connecting with lost friends. But we suspect the scare stories will spread faster.
Facebook is going to great lengths to provide powerful tools for privacy, like bulk untagging features to remove one's name from photos and request that the poster take them down.
But we don't think most people spend much time thinking about abstract concepts like "privacy." They worry about emotional realities like embarrassment, conflict, and teasing.
They also have better things to do than twiddle endlessly with their Facebook settings.
(That said, if this is the kind of thing that worries you, you should take a look through your Timeline sooner rather than later for troublesome material.)
When the storm hits, Facebook's public-relations staff will have to repeat patient explanations that the company announced this all in January 2013, put up warnings and explainers, and created tools for users to control who can see what.
None of that will matter to the kid who didn't want the baby photo his parents tagged him in to pop up at the very worst time.
For example, when the girl he found through a Graph Search of "single women who are friends with my friends" checks out his profile.


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A Manhattan-size iceberg has broken off a Greenland glacier in an event scientists expected almost a year ago.
Christian Science Monitor reports that the berg measures 46 square miles and was part of the Petermann Glacier.
It's big, but not the biggest.
A similar event happened in August 2010, but on a much more massive scale. That one measured four times the size of Manhattan, CSM says.
Jason Box at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center predicted the split 10 months ago in an interview with OurAmazingPlanet.
"I don't know exactly when," Box said in the September 2011 post. "I wouldn't be surprised if it happened today — or if it happened next summer."


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Mary Hardin-Baylor bounced Louisiana College from the playoffs, perhaps a round sooner than it should have been.
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