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The VW emissions scandal: The death of diesel and the impact on the auto industry
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The Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal has rocked the auto world in recent weeks, and the knock-on effects will be felt all down the supply chain.
We expect all automakers to face higher costs associated with meeting tighter emissions standards under more stringent testing procedures.
NB. NOx is nitrous oxide
However, companies will find it harder to pass these added costs on to customers via higher pricing given the industry's 'image problem' and low fuel prices.
Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers are less likely to pay for fuel efficiency technology when they are not making a significant saving on fuel costs.
We have written in the past about the threat to the auto industry from:
- Autonomous driving
- Structurally declining demand
- A maturing Chinese market
In our view this episode only creates further headwinds to long-term industry profitability.
That said, the broad-based sell off in auto stocks suggests risks are increasingly priced-in.
As investors we see pockets of opportunity where companies with decent short-to-medium term prospects, some even benefiting from this episode, have been oversold.
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Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny, offers speakers a perspective on how humor works. It doesn't hurt that it'll make you laugh, as well.
What I like about it: Thomas, daughter of comedian Danny Thomas, exhibits and describes humor that includes formal jokes as well as clever lines or humorous storytelling. You'll see the variety and range of humor you can incorporate into your presentations, even though this book isn't specifically geared to speakers.
I wish this were available in an audiobook (it's not, at this writing) but you can get a sense of this humor vocally by listening to this interview with NPR's Scott Simon about the book; in it, Thomas tells rapid-fire stories about the comedians she grew up with as well as those she interviewed for the book. What comes across: humor is a craft, and humorists need not start from a place of anger to put good humor into their audiences.
Thomas also is a great storyteller, and the interview (and the book) share some gems, from Billy Crystal recalling how he used to move his kid's chair next to the television so he could pretend he was the next guest on a talk show, to Robin Williams's mother making rubber bands drop out of her nose to entertain her son and his friends. She doesn't spare herself, sharing a great story about a Catholic school prank she played, and how her father managed to keep her from getting expelled with a sly joke.
Related posts: When self-deprecating humor doesn't work for you
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PEPPERELL — It's that time of year again: the Pepperell Police Department is hosting its own version of Secret Santa, adapting the classic gift-exchange game into a charitable cause. The Police Department is seeking families to take on the role of "Secret Santa," matching them anonymously with other local families in need to provide them with support in the form of children's presents this holiday season.
"We're trying to get families to adopt other families," said Police Chief David Scott.
Although the program is a long-standing tradition, this year, the department is hoping to change the program a little bit; they are trying to make it all family adoptions as opposed to assorted donations.
"We will still accept single toy or monetary donations, but we are hoping to do all matched adoptions," said Scott. "It is sort of a transition year. We'll see how it goes."
The department is currently accepting the names of both donators and recipients. Those looking to participate can call or stop by the Police Department by Dec. 7. Families looking to be recipients will be asked for basic information such as names, addresses and children's ages and genders. They will also be asked to show proof of residency in Pepperell and explain circumstances around the need for assistance. Families will be notified by Dec. 11 if they have been accepted into the program.
Sponsor families will receive a list of the "adopted" family's children that include only the gender and age. The Police Department requests that sponsors only donate brand new, wrapped gifts labeled with the child's age and gender, and to drop off the gifts at the Police Station by Dec. 19.
The program began in the early 1990s, and was taken over by Sgt. Bill Greathead in 1996.
"We saw a need: kids that needed their holiday brightened up," said Greathead. "Even back when times were good, there were still people in need."
In previous years, the department would acquire names of families in need through phone calls to the stations from friends, family members or school administrators.
"Somebody that cares about somebody else would call us and let us know that they needed help," said Greathead.
The Police Department then organized the assorted donations to match up to the requests provided by the children. Greathead, who said last year he volunteered up to three to four hours a day to operate the program, said the department tries to provide between three and five gifts to each child. Anything that was not supplied through donations, the officers would purchase with the supplied budget. The department's budget for the program is generally between $3,000 and $4,000 and is supplied through donations.
"People drop off $5 or $10 and it just adds up," said Greathead. "We're a very generous town as far as the community."
Additionally, the Pepperell Business Association hosts their annual "Merry Rockmas Bash," the proceeds of which go to the Secret Santa program. This year's event is being held on Dec. 15. The department also receives donations from several businesses in town.
Last year, the department provided for 120 children. Donations included everything from new toys to clothes. Greathead said one family had requested, and received, baby clothes and diapers; another had been in need of a dryer. Greathead said he found them a dryer on Craigslist, drove up to Salem, N.H., to retrieve it and hired a plumber to install it.
Once all of the gifts have been delivered to the station, officers will go out in their cruisers to deliver the gifts to the families.
"People are in need and people are suffering and Christmas is for kids," he said. "We try to make Christmas a little brighter for the children. It should be the spirit of giving and making someone's life a little better."


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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
What's Cooking Wednesday: Summer Squash Pancakes
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We used to have a tradition for Hanukkah that's fallen by the wayside - different pancakes for each night. It made sense to me since cooking in oil is traditional, latkes are traditional, and C just loved it.
Plus pancakes are easy and delicious. What's not to love?
As our mixed family has moved on to other traditions over the years, we no longer honor this one, but we still love pancakes of all kinds.
I had a lot of summer squash to use up. My Tantre Farm share partner's family doesn't love it, so we've been the recipients of their share of the squash, as well. As I stared in my fridge at the eight, large summer squash that needed to be used up, a lightbulb went off and I thought: "Pancakes!"
Now, zucchini/feta/mint pancakes are kind of a standard, but summer squash has a really different taste - sweeter - and somehow I didn't think that mint or feta would be the right blend.
Instead, this is what I came up with, and it seemed to be a hit, because D had thirds:
A2eatwrite's Summer Squash Pancakes
3 large summer squash, shredded
1 piece of whole wheat bread, ground into bread crumbs (I used a food processor for this, but a blender should work, too, or just use about 1/4 cup commercial bread crumbs)
1 egg, beaten
1/2 container part skim ricotta cheese
4 TBS grated Parmigiano Reggiano (yes, you can use any parmesan here, but the real thing will taste so much better)
2 cloves of garlic, minced fine
salt and pepper to taste (I used about 1 tsp kosher salt and 1/4 tsp fresh, ground pepper)
1 1/2 TBS olive oil
4 TBS reduced-fat sour cream (you can also use any type of sour cream, but this is what I used in terms of the nutritional information below).
1. Preheat oven to 450. Set two oven racks at about the middle of the oven (one just above, one just below).
2. Brush two baking sheets with olive oil.
3. Wash and either grate or shred the summer squash. Mix all the ingredients together.
4. Using a 1/4 cup measure, place pancake mixture on prepared baking sheets and flatten with your hand. Drizzle pancakes with 1 TBS olive oil.
5. Bake at 450 for 13 minutes or until the tops look browned around the edges.
6. Take the pancakes from the oven, flip them and reverse the baking sheets in the oven (place the one from the top on the bottom, and vice versa).
7. Bake for another 10 minutes.
Note: Baking, rather than frying, is important, so that the garlic has a chance to mellow. A fried version of these would need to have the garlic cooked first.
Makes 16 pancakes.
Serve with a TBS of sour cream and a fresh salad. Serves 4.
Nutrition Facts (including the sour cream)
4 Servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 255.2
Total Fat 15.2 g
Saturated Fat 6.4 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.1 g
Monounsaturated Fat 6.2 g
Cholesterol 83.9 mg
Sodium 251.5 mg
Potassium 743.9 mg
Total Carbohydrate 16.4 g
Dietary Fiber 3.2 g
Sugars 1.6 g
Protein 15.1 g
As always, nutrition info supplied by the recipe calculator function at Sparkrecipes.com.
If you'd be willing to, please leave your comments here.
16 comments:
- Brian Miller said...
i might actually get the boys to eat squash this way...because they love pancakes...
- August 5, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Unknown said...
These look wonderful! And wanted to let you know your pearl is up. Thanks again so much for sending one in: http://citygirllifestyle.blogspot.com/2009/08/pearl-of-wisdom-by-jen.html
- August 5, 2009 at 8:56 AM
- Momisodes said...
I totally should not have read this an hour before lunch. These look delicious! And what a great idea. I have a drawer full of summer squash in the fridge right now !
- August 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
A great recipe! I love summer squash! That wonderful dish is so appetizing...
- August 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Thistlemoon said...
YUMMY! My mom used to make zucchini pancakes a lot when I was younger - I just love them!!!
- August 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Jen said...
Brian - I commented over at "the other place", too, but that's one of the joys of these things. I snuck things into pancakes for years to entice Con. Also, you can put shredded zucchini or beets in chocolate cake. ;-)
City Girl - thanks so much! I'm loving the pearl series.
Momisodes - these are also healthy and calcium-rich. ;-)
Thanks so much, Rosa!
Jenn, me, too - although I made my own, but they're kind of a natural for this treatment.
- August 5, 2009 at 4:41 PM
wow this sounds amazing! I adore pancakes of any kind but this is the first time I've heard of squash pancakes, and I can't wait to try! I esp love the addition of those cheeses! YUM!
- August 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Karine said...
It looks to be a great way to enjoy summer squash! Thanks for sharing!
- August 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- nyc/caribbean ragazza said...
what a great idea for summer squash!
- August 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM
- Jen said...
burp - this was just a "necessity is the mother of invention" kind of things. I like the cheeses, too - anything with cheese is good. ;-)
Karine - you're very welcome!
NYC - thanks! And all of these ingredients are Italy-friendly, for a change.
- August 6, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- Teresa said...
Yum! I can't wait to get some fresh summer squash and make these. I think even my toddler will like them.
- August 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey Jen, hope your summer is going good. I have ton o zucchini, and I really like your baked version, must try this!
- August 6, 2009 at 10:20 PM
- Jeanie said...
OK, what's the dif between summer squash and zucchini -- is it the yellow, skinny one? (And those feta/mint/zucchini ones sound to die for, too!)
I love pancakes but I always do the same things. This sounds like something I need to experiment with!
- August 6, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Jen said...
Teresa - it's really kid friendly. It doesn't taste like "squash". ;-)
Proud - I'm having a great summer, and hope you are, too! By all means, give it a shot. If I were using green zucchini, I might put in basil to the mix.
Jeanie - this is so easy and good - and yes, I'm talking about the yellow, skinny ones (although like zucchini, some aren't so skinny!)
- August 7, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- the twins said...
those look so good, i love squash!
- August 10, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Jen said...
Twins - This was kind of a different recipe, but it really turned out well, so I was a happy camper!
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What is it with summer?
During summer you seem to lose track of time. All the days seem to run together. You forget easily. It doesn't make sense. You'd think you'd be sharper since school's out, and you have less stress to haze up your mind. Staying up late and sleeping in definitely doesn't help. Thanks to my wonderful mother, she has a plan to reverse that. We have to do an hour of each every day so our internet can stay on the next day:
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Monday, June 8, 2009
End of the Year!
The official last day of school is June 12, but after promotion, which is June 10, eighth graders don't have to go to school. Today we had promotion rehearsal where we basically walked in and out and in to the gym three times. We also practiced standing up and down and up and down...I've listened to that graduation song so many times! ARRRGH! Anyway, today we had to clean out our lockers, and I found a moldy tangelo. Exciting!
Here is a song I heard on Andelle's Pandora which she was playing on her iPod touch.
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Texas A&M Agrilife experts said the combination of a warm, dry fall and a dry spring give grasshoppers ideal conditions to lay their eggs in and let them mature.
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Many farm-to-market roads in north Denton County have been littered with grasshoppers, and grasshopper remains on dry days.
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"We've seen a lot of grasshoppers; they're eating my plants and driving me crazy," said Coni Vasbinder from Crowley.
Agrilife recommends people keep their lawns cut short and eliminate weeds to force the grasshoppers to search elsewhere for food.
They said insecticides can also be effective, but tend to only last a few days before the grasshoppers return.
Boughen said they also prove much more effective on small, younger grasshoppers; unlike many of the large ones folks are reporting now.


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I've never publicly shared my story about The Worst Meeting In The History Of Show Business, but this seems like an appropriate time, for reasons I'll get to in a minute.
In the late '90s I was working as a sitcom writer, and in the spring of 1998 I was between jobs and needed one. My agent lined up a meeting for me with Al Franken, who was then running a show called "Lateline," a behind-the-scenes comedy about a TV news program. Franken wanted to meet me, my agent told me, because I had a news background, having been a writer for Newsweek before I moved to Los Angeles. My recollection is that "Lateline" was produced out of New York; Franken would fly out to Los Angeles to hold a few days' meetings with prospective hires at a hotel in West Hollywood. And so the meeting got set, for breakfast a week or so later. I arrived a little early and found Franken in the hotel restaurant, where he was meeting with another writer. He asked me if I'd mind waiting for a few minutes, so I took a seat in the lobby.
After a few moments the telephone rang at the host's station, which sat in the lobby, a few feet outside the dining room entrance, and about 20 feet from where I was sitting. The host answered the call, listened for a moment, then went inside and came back with Franken. The writer with whom Franken had just met, their meeting now concluded, continued through the lobby and left. Read the rest


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Located 8km south of the main Hwy-4 Port Alberni junction, UCLUELET means "People of the Sheltered Bay", from the aboriginal word ucluth – "wind blowing in from the bay". It was named by the Nuu-chah-nulth, who lived here for centuries before the arrival of whites who came to exploit some of the world's richest fishing grounds immediately offshore. Today the port is still the third largest in BC by volume of fish landed, a trade that gives the town a slightly dispersed appearance and an industrial fringe, and makes it less appealing than Tofino, if nonetheless a popular base for anglers, whale-watchers, watersports enthusiasts and visitors headed for Long Beach to the north.
The nearest trails are at Terrace Beach, east of the town off Peninsula Road before the lighthouse. A longer and more coherent hike, the Wild Pacific Trail, stretches 14km and links with Halfmoon Bay near Florencia Bay and Long Beach in the national park. The trail starts at the end of Coast Guard Drive, passing the nearby Amphitrite Point Lighthouse (which has great views of the sea and is perfect for storm-watching) and the He-Tin-Kis Park, where a boardwalk enables you to complete this first section as a loop.
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Lawsuit describes woman's disturbing death outside Texas cop car
A North Texas woman claims that her sister's death during a traffic stop can be blamed on the actions of Sherman police, including an order to "Tase that bitch."
Linda Surratt, as an individual and as a representative of her sister's estate, filed the wrongful death lawsuit May 25 in U.S. District Court in Sherman, about 65 miles north of Dallas.
Named as defendants are Officer Brian McClarin, Officer John Doe Nos. 2-5 and the city of Sherman.
According to the original complaint, Lesa Surratt died of injuries suffered in a traffic stop in August 2013. Officers Doe 2 and 3 stopped Lesa Surratt in Sherman, purportedly for failing to signal a lane change, the suit states. A passenger named Monica Garza was also in Surratt's car.
Doe No. 2 arrested Surratt and placed her in the backseat of his patrol car without searching her or requesting that a female officer do so, the suit states. Garza was placed in the same patrol car.
While in the backseat, Surratt removed a "small amount" of cocaine from her person and began swallowing it, which Garza observed, the suit states.
When Doe No. 2 saw what was happening, he got in the back seat, reached across Garza and began hitting Surratt with an open fist and his flashlight to get her to spit out the cocaine. According to the complaint, when this tactic didn't work, he pushed the flashlight against her neck, choking her until she passed out.
Does No. 2 and 3 removed Surratt from the patrol car and, as she lay on the ground, McClarin gave the order to "tase the bitch," the suit states. One of the officers did so, the suit states.
Doe Nos. 4 and 5 arrived and began intimidating and removing witnesses from the scene, telling one witness to put away his phone and stop videotaping and to go home, the suit states.
Before any of the defendants called for medical help, Lesa Surratt lay on the ground for 20 minutes or more, convulsing, the suit states.
"She was in obvious need of medical treatment from the time she was removed from the patrol car," the complaint states. "She was allowed by the officers to continue to deteriorate to the point of being brain dead."
Surratt was taken to Sherman's Texas Presbyterian Hospital-Wilson N. Jones, where she was found to be in a vegetative state and placed on life support, according to the lawsuit. On Sept. 2, she was removed from life support and declared dead, the suit states.
Surratt's autopsy showed that she died of asphyxiation, according to the complaint.
When Linda Surratt's attorneys, Don Bailey and Micah Belden, requested the police report and video of the incident, the city turned to the state attorney general for an opinion.
On Dec. 19, the attorney general's office ruled that Sherman's city attorney should release a summary of the basic information of the incident to Surratt's attorney, but the city has not done so, the suit states. Thus, Surratt says she does not have names of four of the officers involved.
Surratt is suing for unspecified damages for excessive force, violations of constitutional rights, deprivation of reasonable medical care, wrongful death, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and battery and breach of fiduciary duty.
Asked if the city had withheld the police report and video and if so, why, Sherman City Attorney Brandon S. Shelby provided this statement:
"On Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013, while in police custody, Lesa Surratt was able to free herself from handcuffs and retrieve a baggie of a controlled substance (identified as cocaine in the lawsuit) from her person. She attempted to swallow the baggie, became asphyxiated and lost consciousness. She received prompt medical attention, but later died from her injuries.
"The actions of the Sherman Police Officers were investigated by the Texas Rangers and the findings were presented to a Grand Jury. No charges were filed and the officers were cleared.
At the time the Open Records Request was filed by Ms. Surratt's attorney in October of 2013, the matter was still under investigation by the Texas Rangers. The full report and video were withheld after determination by the Attorney General."


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#16: Aliases and Disguises
It's not easy hunting monsters. You have to hide in plain sight, gathering information from civilians while concealing your true intentions. Not to mention that breaking and entering, grave desecration, and the odd hostage situation tends to attract attention from law enforcement. You need a good cover.
Even Castiel gets in on the act from time to time.
Although I do have to ask again – does no one in the Supernaturalverse listen to mod'ren music? How in five seasons have they only been called on an alias once?
– Posted by Whitney Hall


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Small-Town Teen Gets Gatorade and Powerade to Drop Ingredient
Sarah Kavanagh's petition about brominated vegetable oil attracted 200,000 signatures
In November 2012, Sarah Kavanagh, a high school sophomore in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Googled one of the ingredients in her orange Gatorade and was shocked by what she learned.
Eighteen months and two change.org petitions later, Gatorade has removed brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from all of its sports drinks, and Powerade – the subject of a more recent petition – has pledged to do the same.
As impressive as it is that PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, respectively, would change their sports-drink formulas in the wake of online petitions, what really has people buzzing is that both movements were started by a teenager, says Change.org senior campaigner Pulin Modi.
"It took a 15-year-old girl to Google something to educate us about what's in products we consume every day," Modi tells PEOPLE. "Almost as exciting as her actual victory is that she has inspired other people."
Kavanagh says the article that spurred her to action was a Scientific American report saying BVO contains bromine, which is also used as a flame retardant. It says BVO is banned throughout Europe and Japan, yet is found in 10 percent of sodas in the U.S., and that some patients, after soda binges, have needed medical attention for skin lesions, memory loss and nerve disorders, all symptoms of overexposure to bromine.
"There are people all around the world drinking this and not knowing it's bad for them," says Kavanagh, whose Gatorade petition got about 200,000 signatures in just a couple of months – putting it in Change.org's top 10 all-time food-safety petitions, Modi says. That prompted her Powerade petition last year, which collected 70,000 signatures, which Kavanagh attributes to the sports drink's smaller market share.
Neither soft-drink giant has acknowledged that Kavanagh's petitions played a role in their decisions. PepsiCo said last year the removal of brominated vegetable oil had been in the works after the company began "hearing rumblings" from consumers about the ingredient. Coca-Cola said in a statement that phasing out BVO in its drinks internationally "allows us to become consistent with the ingredients we use throughout the world."
The Associated Press reported last week that bottles of Powerade in fruit punch and strawberry lemonade flavors in the New York, Detroit, Omaha, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C., areas no longer listed the ingredient, although some bottles elsewhere still did.
A Powerade fruit punch bottle in Los Angeles on May 12 still listed BVO behind a long list of ingredients starting with water and the controversial but ubiquitous sweetener high fructose corn syrup.
Kavanagh, now 17 and a junior, says that although the removal of BVO doesn't necessarily mean that sports drinks are the healthiest products on the planet, she does feel more at ease drinking BVO-free Gatorade.
"The FDA allows a lot of ingredients that are kind of sketchy," she says. "But I do believe this petition shows that even a young girl from a small town in Mississippi can let companies know how they feel about something, and I believe that everybody who sees something in a product they don't like should feel empowered to do something about it."


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"An unforgettable portrait of the unceasing labor, passion and danger of frontier life, recalling the best of Willa Cather." —Los Angeles Times
"Freeman presents ravishing visions of the land, which becomes as much a character in her drama as the people she so vividly conjures . . . Gorgeous and galvanizing." —Newsday
"[C]ompelling, vivid writing that is both compassionate and unflinching; Freeman has gotten under the skin of these three very different women and their milieu in a profoundly affecting way." —The Seattle Times
"[R]evelatory. . . . [C]reates a vivid, believable picture of the high religious fervor and red-dust-covered hardships of the Utah frontier." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Freeman renders the terrible beauty of this land and the flinty resolve of these people with great skill." —The Washington Post
"Captures the mayhem of America's westward expansion . . . An evocative tale of religious brutality and pioneer hardship set against an unforgiving landscape." –Chicago Tribune
"Intense, charged with real feeling and electricity . . . Intelligent, complex prose will give readers a chance to reflect on the deeper meanings of love and faith and endurance." –The Oregonian
"Engrossing. . . . Freeman eschews the tributaries of contemporary domestic life for the deeper and darker lake of the past. . . . Unforgettable." –St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"The narrative soars . . . makes astute points about the almost indistinguishable similarities between faith and love." –The New Yorker
"A powerful novel whose three narrators engage us so completely that we absorb their intricate history effortlessly." –BookPage


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Child labor " Kodakane Kar" & Street kids in Iran vs the Islamic regime in Iran!
There is a proverb which says: "Don't listen at what the people say , look at what the people do " ,something like this, or " talk the talk and walk the walk " or again " People trust others by their action and not by their talk " and so on.
The Islamic regime in Iran calls itself : "The best state in the world " or " the regime of a holy saints or imams " and Ahmadinejad claims that : "His Government can manage the whole world and solve the problem s of the world " ????!!!!!!. The reality however is bitter and different.In Iran today we have many new phenomena and one of such phenomena is known as " Street kids " or (kodakane Kheyabani ) and "Kartoon Khab" or ( Those who sleep inside cardboard boxes along the streets) and child labor. According to report based on official statistic ,there are 2 millions child labor in Iran but based on Mr. Ali Mir Etemad a professor and a defender of street kids in Iran, there are 7 millions child labor in Iran today.
Isn't it that children must have the right to education and must be banned from working??
Then why day after day the population of child labor and street kids and other phenomena is on the rise???!!!
despite of more than 600 billion dollar revenue from Oil during Ahmadinejad's term in Government,these people who are Islamic and run the country, phenomena such as child labor, street kids , kids who sleep in cardboard boxes along the streets, people who put their kidneys on sale and so many other phenomena is on the rise. ??
These are the people who run my country ,look at them.????!!!!


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I enjoy the aesthetic style that Sublime Text has. Specifically, invisible characters (e.g. tab, space, line feed) are kept invisible unless you need to know about them.
Currently, when I need to know about them, I use "Select All" (command+A on the Mac). This is great, except that restoring the state after a Select All requires me to use the mouse to click on the location the caret used to be (i.e. this deselects all text and places the caret under the mouse cursor).
Is there a better way to do this? My natural reaction when I Select All and want to restore the state is to press ESC. If there is no meaning associated with ESC when text is selected, how might I go about restoring the caret and deselecting text? Is this something I could do programmatically? Or a new feature request?
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- Updated 10 days ago
Staff count - PostsCalderdale CouncilThis is the number of job positions in the Council. Some employees may have two or more positions, each part time. The data is sourced from the Council's Human Resources system. Figures are taken at the end of each month, the beginning of each quarter and for an annual snapshot at the end of the financial year. It does not include schools.


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Your community, your newspaper, your life
Thursday, October 10, 2013 by The Press in Opinion
As newspaper executives struggle over whether the news should be digital first, tablet first, SMS first or print first, readers know exactly what they want their local newspaper to be – community first.
Reading a newspaper is not like reading a novel, a magazine, a history book, poetry, prose or any other type of literature.
Newspapers are not about what has happened in the past, what is happening someplace else or what happens in an author's imagination.
Newspapers are about us.
Newspapers are about our child's first school field trip, a Friday night high school football game, a livestock show hosted by the agriculture extension office or an increase in our property tax rate.
At least those are the things a relevant newspaper is all about whether your read it online or sit down with a morning cup of coffee and enjoy the traditional printed edition the way it was meant to be.
Newspapers – viable, strong, growing, thriving newspapers – are all about the communities they serve.
Sure, in the interest of transparency, some newspapers have struggled in recent years.
Many more are growing.
So what's the difference between the newspapers on a downward spiral and those adding days of publication, adding staff and printing more sections and pages than ever before?
Really it is not all that complicated. In fact, it is rather basic.
The difference is community.
Newspapers, like any business or individual, will always struggle when they stop doing the things they do well.
In a quest to be more modern, to be more business savvy or to use more silicon, we cannot lose sight of the single most important characteristic and historically important aspect of a quality newspaper – you – our readers.
We hold public officials accountable, advocate for openness in government and champion the cause of ordinary citizens because we are committed to the neighborhoods, cities, county and coverage area we serve.
Watered down editorial pages, articles that read like a public relations campaign for government and page after page of wire service content will never resonate in the same way as celebrating our own community and standing up for its citizens.
Newspapers hold public officials accountable because it makes the place we call home a better place to live and because it is the right thing to do.
Newspapers do not make the news. They report it – all of it.
Of course, a newspaper wants to celebrate its community.
We share the great human interest stories, provide a slice of life in the county, highlight worthwhile causes, focus on interesting people and most especially on our young people with every edition.
With intelligent, thoughtful, compelling commentary coupled with clearly written, straightforward news reporting we work every day to tell the truth and in that way we remain a vital and positive part of the community.
The newspaper belongs to the community.
That is why we work every day to give citizens a voice, to empower them and tell their stories.
That is why we hold government accountable because at our very core we believe that government belongs to the governed and not to the governing.
That is why we embrace the newspaper's role as the Fourth Estate.
According to historian Thomas Carlyle, Irish statesman and author Edmund Burke (1729-1797) said, "There were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all," (Heroes and Hero Worship in History, 1841).
Though in many places reporters have reduced themselves to simply being a mouthpiece for local government, reporting what officials want them to report and hiding what they don't, a community and a democracy is best served when the newspaper provides a forum for checks and balances as the Fourth Estate of government.
Great newspapers, relevant newspapers that are embraced by their communities and consequently profitable, growing newspapers have not forgotten that role and have not abandoned these values.
We are not the enemy of government – rather we are the champions of citizens – of our community.
We know if newspapers do not stand up for citizens and protect the rights of free speech and the rights of access to government, then no one will.
We work each day to build a culture and incubate an environment where those elected feel accountable to those who elected them.
Newspapers should be the most powerful advocate citizens have and be their open forum for a redress of grievances.
Any newspaper that represents the interests of the governing, more than the interests of the governed, is not worth the paper it is printed on or the ink that fills its pages.
Newspapers, the good ones, still make a difference in the communities they serve.
Burke also said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
As newspaper reporters, editors and staff, we have the daily, or weekly, opportunity to do something – something that matters to our community and in all of our lives.
As long as people still read, still care about their quality of life, still love the place they call home and still pay taxes, newspapers that retain their role as the Fourth Estate and that celebrate the lives of ordinary people, will remain relevant, will matter to the community and be a part of your every day life.
Jim Zachary is a newspaper veteran who has championed government transparency. He is the editor of the Clayton News Daily and the Henry Daily Herald in metro Atlanta and director of The Tennessee Transparency Project.


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As of today, a new mission type known as the Newblood missions, will make its appearance. Each new character release will be accompanied by a series of 5 Newblood missions. 4 of these will use the characters within the release, while the 5th will carry a prize of 10 credits and will be unlocked on completion of the 4 other missions. These one-off missions are available for a period of 2 weeks and will be deactivated once the next Newblood missions become available (you will, however, be able to finish the missions you have already started).
Have to say, the two-week time limit on these is a real kick in the teeth; I enjoy being able to complete all the missions but now this forces players to buy new characters right away or forever miss out on missions. Given that the missions are character-related, could there maybe be a time-release system whereby the missions people miss out on the first time are available to everyone when the characters rotate out of newbloods? That way anyone buying packs early gets access to the missions right away, and those who don't will have to wait for quite some time but will still be able to access them. The main concern with this is that it's going to mean that when cards like Kalindra, Dregn or Cortez come out, they'll not only be expensive because of their power but will cost that bit more because people will be competing to get access to their missions. A system where these newblood missions can be unlocked later on will help alleviate this.
mihalll7_UM - Friday 27/07/2012, 14:19
Colossus - URBAN MADNESS
Bad idea just to get even more money out of NB packs
K1NG_PWN4GzZz - Friday 27/07/2012, 14:31
Titan - TrAitorzZz
Well... something was needed to get replace the hype Ld's made..
too bad it's missions I'll only play if I get lucky on a NB pack
which I don't get very often..
this will only increase market value of some cards
rather bad idea I'm afraid...
hope cards with stats like Kalindra, X-0DUS, etc. never get these kinda missions..
mihalll7_UM - Friday 27/07/2012, 14:38
Colossus - URBAN MADNESS
@grapple X
perfectly said, the cost of the new cards is the main reason why these missions will be out of the reach of most players
unlike the Ld missions which aren't always card-related, pretty rarely lately
Rich platers will buy the cards, do the mission fast and still be able to sell the cards with a profit, some players will drop money in NB which gives you little chances to get the exact cards
Either give us more time to wait for a price-drop, or make the missions available later
An alternative to releasing the missions later would also be to let them stay available as long as the cards are still in newbloods, this still encourages people to buy newblood packs but opens up the window of time available for players to access the missions.
ElitePow - Friday 27/07/2012, 15:01
Imperator - New VisioN
To say that this is an insult is an understatement.
Lord Plague - Friday 27/07/2012, 15:09
Titan - Iron Lords
The odds of getting all four characters in packs is pretty low, even buying multiple new blood packs. There will be an initial spike in sales, and then people will figure that out. So in the long run, mostly it will be sales on the market that increase. and players who have lots of clintz making the missions.


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BATHOS was my entry for the 21st Ludum Dare 48 hour game development challenge. It was quite well received, placed third in the theme category, and was even picked up by non gaming media
The game is very spoiler sensitive so please play it right away! Click to focus and press X to start. There is a solution, I promise!
When done, here's what others thought:
- Grinding Down
- IndieGames.com
- Konzortium
- Let's play BATHOS on YouTube
- Dot Pixel Games
- L'OUJEVIPO (in french, english translation)
- Aussertech.labs (in german, english translation)
- Fucktotum, yet another review (translated)
- GeekZone (in french, english translation)
- GeeMag (in german, english translation)
- Nezavisle Hry (in czech, english translation)
- Super Level (in german, english translation)
- Simply Indie (in german, english translation)
- écrans (in french, english translation)
This was Awesome, but also made me hit my face and think of course…. took me 20 minutes to figure out lol,
Keep up the good work, now to share it with my friends ans see if they can figure it out
i finished in like, three seconds. HA!
ha! nice wee game
i misdirected myself by trying to find another 'right' key, instead of the correct key! but then i caught the clue in his speech after a couple of restarts.
There's no solution to this game… whats the point ¬¬
Here is a hint!
a key does not have only one thing!
Excellent!! After quite an hour (!!) I finally found the solution.
Thanks for the great game!
There IS a solution and the funniest, is… well, all the clues we have!!!
I admit I was helped by the comments…
(wont tell more..)
Do you plan to make another game like this ?
Now that the trick is known, it will be difficult to make a 2nd game like this, won't it be ?
I must of been extremely lucky, only took a minute or 2 to figure out
Ended up getting extremely frustrated and started mashing random "keys" on my keyboard; Huzzah!
My friends told me about this game because it had my name in it. i enjoyed it and didnt find it too challenging. these sorts of games are my favorites <3
it took me 43 minutes, sight, i read some of the comments and figured must be a smart combination of "keys", then I got frustrated and did what I would do on any other window to remove, kablam!!!. I swore at the screen, loudly. Congrats, very sneaky game.
Literally tried every key on the keyboard except the escape key. Dummie.
Ahahah that was clever.
It didn't take me long to figure out, honestly. As soon as I saw the first hint I knew I had to rearrange them and… Well, it's done.
I still haven't figured it out and i've been stuck for almost 2 years


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Note: Bob Foster is a frequent guest author on Western Americana Blog. His last article , "Yuma Territorial Prison 1875-1909" appeared in June, 2010. Bob's following article is an interesting side of Mormon history that provides insight into some cultural aspects of Mormon country in which Bob's family lived since early settlement in 1852. I hope readers enjoy this piece as much as I did….SUE
Wild, foot-stomping Barney music came to the remote silver mining town of Pioche, Nevada, around the turn of the century, in a rather round about fashion. Barney musical talent crossed the plains from Illinois in 1852, in the person of my maternal Great Grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Barney.
Twenty years old, married, with two small children, he and his wife stopped their wagon alongside a muddy Iowa trail for a brief moment to bury one of their babies who died of fever, then pressed on another thousand miles to the safety of the towering Rocky Mountains of Utah.
Benjamin could sing and play the push button accordion, the fiddle and guitar. At night, around the campfire, musicians in the wagon train would take out their fiddles, guitars, banjos, harmonicas and accordions and play some rousing tunes.
People from all over camp quickly gathered about, the fatigue of the long, grueling day on the rough trail slowly fading away as the lively music enveloped them.
Hands clapped and feet thumped as Great Grandpa called out "Old Dan Tucker"-- talking, laughter, mingling together, many dancing. The music had wings to it. Bow to your partner and doe-se-doe and swing. The stars smiling, the night crowding in, the wild mountain music with the high beat of the heart in it, the feet moving of themselves on the prairie grass.
"Play that one again, Benjamin," someone would holler. Benjamin lined up a Mormon Quadrille, in which the man leads out with two partners. The music starts, the dancers whirl. Then followed a square dance, the moves being called out in cadence by Great Grandpa.
Music was a Mormon tradition and was pushed along by talented musicians, whether on the vast rolling plains of Iowa and Nebraska or in the beautiful Social Hall in Great Salt Lake City. Brass bands, choirs, solos and playing musical instruments were the major forms of musical art in early Utah. In the 1860's tastes in music were improved by immigrants from England.
Benjamin settled in remote Elsinore, Utah,
Elsinore is about one hundred fifty five miles south of Salt Lake City, and raised a very large family, passing on his musical talents to several of his sons, some of whom formed a western band. His son Elias, my Grandfather, never had a music lesson, but he learned to play the fiddle, the push button accordion, guitar, banjo, and harmonica.
Whenever word spread that the Barney Brothers would be playing on Saturday night people came from miles around for a good old rip-snortin' night of music and dancing. But there wasn't much money to be generated from those poor country folk. By the time the four brothers divided up the take for the evening it was almost the same as playing for free.
At one of those shin-digs Elias ran into some gold miners from Kimberly,
a wild, rowdy gold camp high in the Tushar Mountains of Piute County, just twenty five miles south of Elsinore. "Hell, Elias," one miner told him, "you could make more off'n your music up in them Kimberly saloons in one night than playing at Church socials or dances down here in a year!""I'd never even thought of that!" Grandpa said. So he and his brothers sought the counsel of their religious father, Benjamin, asking what he thought about them playing in saloons. "No, absolutely not! You're not going into those dens of iniquity, full of sin, lashed by the tempests of lust and passion!" he growled.
But the boys were free spirits, not given much to religion, nor advice from their father for that matter, so they loaded their instruments in a wagon, pointed the team south, and headed up the mountain to Kimberly, 9500 feet above sea level.
Their band was an instant hit in the gold camp, sometimes playing all night in saloons, stores, and even in cabins with wooden floors. Folks in Kimberly were happy for any kind of music and especially loved some of the old tunes like Old Zip Coon, Bonnie Doon and Turkey in the Straw; and they absolutely loved fiddle music. One elderly woman told Elias, "you fellers sure can play them fiddles. Some fiddlers come up here last year and they sounded just like a bunch of bees in a beer bottle!"
Grandpa grinned as he told it. "When them miners get liquored up, they were mighty free spenders, I can tell you! We'd often make over a hundred dollars on a Saturday night. But sometimes they'd get mean and want to fight. I'd accommodate them, always betting on the outcome--me of course! I never met a drunk man I couldn't whip with my fists, out wrestle or outdraw with a gun!" I believed him, too, because he was six feet tall, one hundred eighty five pounds of pure grit and muscle, with sandy red hair, big hands--and a gunsmith in his spare time!
One cold, fall night Grandpa stopped at a saloon in Kimberly for three fingers of whiskey and ran into some miners from Pioche, Nevada, a much larger camp than Kimberly, who told him Barney music would fit right in with that rowdy Pioche crowd. After hearing how many saloons Pioche laid claim to and learning of the wide open opportunities for talented musical entrepreneurs Grandpa and his brothers again packed the wagon with their musical instruments, some grub and blankets, and headed 250 miles southwest to find out what the legendary Nevada silver camp had to offer.
Grandpa Eli loved Pioche at first sight! Saloons glittered with their gaudy bars and fancy glasses, and many colored liquors, and thirsty men swilled the burning poison. He told me, "now that was my kind of town. If I wanted a hot whiskey toddy I could have it. If I wanted to sleep in til noon I could. I could come and go as I pleased, free from all fashions and social conventions of society." About half the community were thieves, scoundrels and murderers, while the other half were the best folks in the world. Among them, he said, our lives and property were as safe as they were back in Utah. But Grandpa found more excitement among the scoundrels and thieves! And they all loved Barney music!
Grandpa could walk into any saloon in town--tell them who he was, and he and his brothers had a job playing music if they wanted it. So they played their wild, western style of music in many of Pioche's smokey saloons. Where they'd made a hundred dollars on a good night in Kimberly they could make from $300 to $500 on a good Saturday night in Pioche, not so much for their fine music, but because of the miners' state of complete inebriation!
At one of the larger dens of iniquity, I believe Grandpa called it the Edwards Saloon, around midnight when the miners and the Barney boys were well liquored up, they would really cut loose with that wild mountain music the miners could stomp their boots to. Drunk or sober, those four brothers could make their instruments talk! At the conclusion of a savage, stompin' dance hall tune the miners would shout, clap, and toss gold coins onto the stage shouting and hollering, "Play that one again, Eli!"
Those golden coins were most interesting. A $20 gold piece was about as large as today's silver dollar; the $10 gold piece about the size of today's 50 cent piece; and the $2.50 gold piece about the size of today's dime. There were also three different $1 gold coins in circulation. The Barneys had to keep a sharp eye out to see where some of those smaller coins rolled. Grandpa was often surprised at the number of $20 gold pieces they gathered up after a performance. There was also a $3 gold piece, about the size of today's nickel. If you happen to find one, get to a coin dealer fast; for they are very rare and extremely valuable!
Once in a while the Barney Brothers would slow the tempo, playing a sad, nostalgic piece, sometimes harmonizing and singing the sad, lonesome words of love, life, hard times and death. Miners ceased talking as the music filled an empty void, and they each contemplated their difficult, laborious lives, working grueling ten-hour shifts, deep in dark, dangerous underground tunnels, trying to make enough money to support a wife and kids, vainly hoping to save enough of a grub stake to transfer to something better for them and their families, many knowing full well they were trapped in a situation they could never get out of.
Grandpa said a Paiute Indian led a Mormon missionary, William Hamblin, to a large silver deposit in the vicinity of Pioche in 1864. But because of Indian troubles and technical difficulties in reducing the ore nothing much happened. By 1869 several men, including San Francisco entrepreneur Francois L.A. Pioche, who never visited Pioche, though the town was named after him, purchased property in the area and formed the Meadow Valley Mining Company. In 1870 they successfully separated the silver from the ore using chemical processing, thereby opening the area to a flurry mining activity; and Pioche was born.
Though leery of lawmen the Barneys knew it was in their best interests to obtain the blessing of local law enforcement officials before they played any music or gambled. In the West, in those days, especially in Nevada, lawmen got a cut of any revenue made by anyone in the saloon business. A saloon owner in Pioche told Grandpa the Sheriff's office in the 1870's was worth $40,000 a year in bribes alone. If a sheriff turned in an expense account of $15,000 for a 200-mile trip it was paid without question. The saloon owner also told him of a deputy sheriff who killed three desperados on three different street corners within seconds.
Most of the violence in Pioche resulted from questions concerning the exact location of mining claims and the presence of ore-chutes that extended through a series of claims. There was great temptation to "jump" other miners' claims or dispute them in court. To protect their claims mine owners formed vigilance committees, then finally resorted to hiring guards, professional toughs and gunmen, at $20 a day. Sometimes twenty thugs were hired in one day, and they used brute force against claim jumpers.
Pioche Jail
Elias Barney enjoyed living in the wild environment created by tough lawmen and outlaws. Being quite young he was independent, untidy and hard living. He seriously thought about settling down in Pioche but was unable to find a good woman to marry. I'm sure he could have if he'd played at Church socials instead of in saloons! But I never dared say it to his face!
When the Barney Brothers arrived in Pioche at the turn of the century to introduce their particular brand of music, the town was partially civilized, slightly tamer than it was in the 1870's and 80's. From it's start its official start in 1870 the town grew rapidly until 1873, when its population peaked at 10,000. During that boom period, there were seventy two saloons, three hurdie-gurdies, two breweries, and two daily newspapers with wire service. Guns were the only law and Pioche made Bodie, Tombstone and other wild western towns pale in comparison. That became evident to Grandpa when he visited Pioche's famous "Boot Hill Cemetery" where many rows of gunshot and knifing victims lay buried under wooden markers.
Like all young men, Grandpa enjoyed visiting with the old timers in Pioche who all claimed that seventy five men died violently before anyone died of natural causes! Most had witnessed gun fights in the streets, and saw lawmen and outlaws come and go, many exhibiting their expert skills as gunfighters.
After spending some very interesting and memorable months in Pioche, Elias Barney returned to Elsinore, Utah, to become the farmer and rancher his father always wanted him to be. But it was tough to return to the sedate life of a rural Utah farmer, after sampling the excitement of Pioche's noisy, smokey saloons. There wasn't a good old smelly saloon within a five day's ride in any direction from that central Utah town. So he settled down, bought some land and married a lovely young lady, Jane Green, from Parowan, Utah, on January 31, 1901. They were married for sixty years, until Jane died in 1961. They had eleven children, all of whom lived to adulthood, married and gave Elias and Jane 37 grandchildren and 105 great grandchildren
Grandpa Eli's musical talent was passed on to some of his children, with whom he formed a band. They played Barney music at dances, church socials, and other functions in the Elsinore area. Grandpa usually played his push button accordion or the fiddle. His son Larcell (Lars) played guitar and banjo, daughter Wanda played piano accordion, and daughter Betty played guitar.
During the 1950's Elias' family band sometimes played on Saturday afternoons on radio station KSVC in Richfield, Utah, the County Seat of Sevier County. Grandpa Barney's brothers also passed on musical talents to some of their children, and those nieces and nephews often played with the Elias Barney group.
In the 1960's, when Grandpa Elias was in his late eighties, living alone on the old homestead, I'd stop by from time to time to see how he was getting along.
He'd always ask, "did I ever tell you about the time me and my brothers played over in the Pioche saloons, and them drunken miners would throw twenty-dollar gold pieces on the stage and holler, 'play that one again, Eli?'"
Though I'd heard his Pioche tale many times, out of courtesy I'd always say, "no, Grandpa, why don't you tell me about it?"
His face beamed and his eyes sparkled as he lit into a tale of the old west and his particular part in it. I sat quietly, looking up at the old double-barreled shotgun on pegs in the wall, a memento of those exciting days, Grandpa's "other life," as he called that long ago time.
When he finished his tale he'd ask, "would you like me to play you a tune?" He was already opening the battered old accordion case. Out came the old push button accordion and I watched his knurled, aged fingers, now severely crippled by arthritis, try to find those tiny button keys. Grandpa closed his eyes, as if remembering pleasant memories from long ago, squeezed the old squeeze box, tapping his toe on the floor, keeping time with the music. He made a few mistakes, sometimes pushing two buttons at a time. Music filled the room.
Finishing his rendition of the Yellow Rose of Texas, and shaking his head sadly, he placed the instrument back in its case, and apologized. "I ain't near as good as when I was young."
A nostalgic look crept into his gray eyes and he smiled at me. "Ah Bobbie Boy. What grand times those were! I sure wish you could have been there in Pioche to share them with me and my brothers."
Me too, Grandpa!
The End
Personal recollections of Robert L. Foster as told to him by his Grandfather, Elias Barney
Pamphlets and other interesting Pioche literature, furnished by Peggy Draper, Head librarian, Lincoln County Public Library, Pioche, NV.
Some Dreams Die, Frisco: by George A. Thompson, P. 128: Dream Garden Press, Salt Lake City, UT, 1982
Utah's Heritage, by S. George Ellsworth, pp.166-236-237: Perigrine Books, Salt Lake City, UT
Mormon Country, by Wallace Stegner, P. 13: University of Nebraska Press
An Enduring Legacy by Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Volume 12, 1989
Ghost Towns of Nevada by Donald C. Miller, pp.104-107: Pruett Publishing Co. Boulder, CO, 1979


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Claim: Over the years, renowned authorities--mothers, aunts and a mother-in-law--warned Dr. Donald Unger that knuckle cracking leads to arthritis of the fingers.
Reality: For 50 years, Unger, cracked the knuckles of his left hand a least twice a day, leaving his right hand as a control. "Thus, the knuckles on the left were cracked at least 36,500 times, while those on the right cracked rarely and spontaneously," he wrote in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism in 1998.
His lifelong research project showed no arthritis in either hand and no apparent differences between the two hands, a finding that earned him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine, which is awarded to research projects that "first make you laugh, then make you think."
He concedes that a larger group would be necessary to confirm his findings but says the results call into question whether other parental beliefs, such as the importance of eating spinach, are also flawed. "Further investigation is likely warranted," he wrote.
Dr. Robert Swezey, who conducted one of the only other investigations on the subject in 1973, agreed there's a need for further research and pointed out that Unger's self-controlled study, while admirable, could have been influenced by bias because it was not blinded.
"Blinding would only be possible if the investigator didn't know left from right," he wrote in a commentary in the journal. "This is not likely since studies indicate that only 31 percent of primary care physicians don't know left from right. (The figure is reportedly somewhat higher for most specialists.)"
(More than two decades after Swezey's study, his then-12-year-old co-author "continues to enjoy frequent knuckle cracking without manifestations or evidence of arthritis.)"
A slightly larger (and more rigorous) 1990 study by Detroit researchers found that habitual knuckle crackers were not at higher risk for arthritis. But they were more likely to have hand swelling and lower grip strength.
Reached in his office in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Unger, 83, is still a little puzzled by all the attention, which comes 11 years after his letter was published. As a past president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the author of more than 40 research papers, he says "to become 'famous' for this stupidity seems very strange."
Yet Unger remains good-natured about his 15 minutes of fame. He has already decided what his follow-up act will be.
"Most tombstones are an absolute bore," he said. "Mine will say, 'Here lies Don Unger, who finally quit cracking his knuckles."'


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IEMA, American Lung Association announce radon video, poster
contests promote awareness of radon health risks
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[January 21, 2013]
SPRINGFIELD -- As part of Radon
Action Month during January, the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency and the American Lung Association in Illinois have announced
two opportunities for Illinois students to use their creativity to
help increase awareness of radon's health hazard.
"Students bring a fresh approach to the serious topic of radon,"
said IEMA Director Jonathon Monken. "These contests help students
learn more about the health risks associated with radon, and
hopefully they will encourage their friends and family to test their
own homes."
Videos entered in the 2013 contest can be created by an
individual student, group of students or classroom. Entries must be
submitted by March 4. Complete details about the video contest,
including entry and release forms, are available at http://healthhouse.org/radon/il_vidcontest.cfm.
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Second place: $750
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Protection Agency.
The radon poster contest is open to students ages 9-14. Entries
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addition, the top three posters will compete for a $1,000 first
prize in the national contest.
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"The number of entries has increased each year, and the students
provide radon messages that are outstanding," said Harold Wimmer,
president and CEO of the American Lung Association in Illinois.
Radon is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that comes from the
radioactive decay of naturally occurring uranium in the soil. It can
enter homes and buildings through small cracks in the foundation,
sump pumps or soil in crawl spaces. The U.S. EPA has determined that
radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer, behind smoking.
However, among nonsmokers, radon is the leading cause of lung
cancer. It's estimated that nearly 1,200 radon-related lung cancer
deaths occur in Illinois each year.
The top videos and posters from the 2012 contests can be viewed
on IEMA's radon website at www.radon.illinois.gov. The website also
includes information about radon and lists of licensed measurement
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IEMA's Radon Hotline at 800-325-1245.
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There are some things most men simply should not do.
Messing with a woman's kitchen is one of them.
In an unprecedented move, the husband recently attempted to relocate my waffle maker. He said the cupboard he put it in made more sense than the cupboard I had it in for years.
He claims the look I gave him left burn marks.
When our oldest daughter and her husband recently moved, our son-in-law went ahead of the family and received delivery from the moving van. Since it was going to be several weeks before the family arrived, he unpacked everything — everything except the kitchen.
He's a smart guy. Aside from the fact that his own mother says he could starve to death in front of a fully loaded 'fridge, he is intelligent, capable, resourceful, reliable and appreciative of a good meal. He knows that a woman's kitchen is her domain. He knows that a woman likes to organize cookware and tools for accessibility, workflow and convenience. He knows a woman likes to set up her own kitchen so that she can find her paring knife, zester and jar of whole nutmeg with her eyes closed.
All of which makes the following hard to explain. For some reason, he changed his mind and decided to unpack the kitchen.
"You'll like it," he told his wife by phone.
"I don't want criticism, only praise," he said.
"How hard is it to set up a kitchen?" he said.
If my better half had assumed the task of setting up the kitchen in my absence, I know exactly where he would put everything. Coffee, coffee filters, crackers, chips, all foods salty and or crunchy, would go in the most easily accessible cabinet. He would keep the second most accessible cabinet clear for the Top Ramen, Hamburger Helper and mac and cheese in the blue box, which he would later buy by the case.
He'd take one look at boxes of dishes cradling dinnerware, china, pedestal plates, serving pieces, tea pots, demitasse spoons and miniature trifle bowls, and put two forks, two coffee mugs and two plates in a cupboard and move everything else to the garage.
Men and women both organize by logic and convenience, but logic and convenience can look very different in different brains.
Our son-in-law set up the kitchen by – drum roll, please – color.
It made perfect sense. He opened boxes, saw red dishes and white dishes. He put all the red dishes in one cabinet and the white dishes in another. White 9x13s, white square baking pans, white serving bowls joined the white dinner plates, salad plates and bowls. Anything clear glass —drinking glasses, juice glasses, measuring cups, glass bakeware — went in another cabinet. Everything dark or metal, including cookie sheets, soup pot, muffin tin, cast iron skillets and a black salad bowl, went in another cabinet.
What did he consider the most frequently used item needing prime real estate?
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What more do you need to say about the SAPS than a report is required into the number of officers accused and convicted of rape? Considering there are officers with homicide cases against them still employed, I wish the civil servant in Community Safety the best of luck in getting anywhere with his requests.
Source: AllAfrica
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Reports that two police officers in Nelspoort are amongst those accused of rape, statutory rape and sexual exploitation of four minors is most concerning and warrants serious attention. This matter will top the agenda of my meeting with the Provincial Police Commissioner on Monday.
The police are entrusted with protecting the inhabitants of South Africa and with upholding and enforcing the law. Whilst the majority of police officers are law abiding and are at the forefront of the fight against crime, we simply cannot tolerate a scenario in which certain South African Police Service (SAPS) officers are perpetrators of grievous crimes themselves.
In terms of my oversight role over the police, this matter will top the agenda at my next meeting with the Provincial Police Commissioner, General Lamoer, on Monday. I will be requesting that the investigation into this matter is properly conducted, considering that police will be investigating the police, and that the full might of the law falls on these individuals should they be found guilty.
I will also request from the SAPS a full report into:
- the number of SAPS officers accused of rape in the Western Cape in the last year
- the number of officers that have been convicted of rape in the last year
- the number of these officers that are now behind bars
- what measures have been taken to ensure that police stations are not sources of crime themselves, and
- what measures are being taken to ensure that vulnerable minors and victims of crime are protected when they seek help from the police.
The police service is entrusted with powers to protect South Africans. We cannot allow these powers to be abused for crimes and destructive behaviour. Strong action is needed and the SAPS must be accountable to the citizens of the Western Cape.
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I Can Haz an 11-Run Homer?
One reason why I'll never tire of my inanimate life partner (her name is baseball) is because every time I watch a game, I have the chance to see something I've never seen before. Or, as was the case Wednesday night at Sox Park, I might see 18 somethings I've never seen before.
The Yankees were in town. My buddy Mike had sweet tickets on the 100 level. And I was craving the sort of breeze only Adam Dunn's wiff-n-miss bat can provide.
It didn't take long for the game to get out of hand. In fact, the game STARTED with something I have NEVER seen before: back-to-back bunt basehits, thanks to Brett Gardner and Derek Jeter.
In fact, Jeter went 5 for 6 in the game, only the fourth time he has ever collected five hits in one game (the third being his epic 3K performance just last month) and yes, that's something I've never seen before.
I have also never seen a White Sox pitcher (Brian Bruney) enter a game, record ZERO outs, give up 2 hits and 2 earned runs and still not be the worst performer of the night. Like my buddy Mike said: "When you put Will Ohman in in the third, it's already a disaster."
And, of course, nothing spells disaster like the 2011 version of Adam Dunn.
But hark! Baseball games always offer something new; and I hadn't been to a Sox game all season where Adam Dunn didn't strike out at least once, BUT, lo and behold, Dunn went 1 for 4 with NO strikeouts! Hallelujah! Champagne for errrrrrrybody!
Dude still can't hit an 11-run homer though. At this moribund point, I'm thinking that might be the only thing that could save his career.
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