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In March at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Charles Blair wrote:
Syria's chemical weapons stockpile is thought to be massive. One of only eight nations that is not a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention … Syria has a chemical arsenal that includes several hundred tons of blistering agents along with likely large stockpiles of deadly nerve agents, including VX, the most toxic of all chemical weapons.
On July 13 the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials were alarmed by reports that Syria has begun moving some of its chemical weapons out of storage facilities. Then, the BBC reports, Nawaf al-Fares, Syria's defecting ambassador to Iraq, said that, if cornered President Bashar al-Assad "will not hesitate to use chemical weapons." Worse, "There is information, unconfirmed information of course, that chemical weapons have been used partially in the city of Homs."
On the other hand, at the Atlantic, Sara Sorcher thinks that, in fact, "Assad's strong hold on power has so far, from a chemical-weapons standpoint, staved off a potential disaster without an easy fix." Her concern is reflected in the subtitle to the piece:
What happens to Bashar al-Assad's stockpile — one of the largest in the world — if the deeply divided and untrained rebels overthrow his regime?
Blair aired the same concern in March.
While it is uncertain whether the Syrian regime would consider using WMD against its domestic opponents, Syrian insurgents … are increasingly sectarian and radicalized; indeed, many observers fear the uprising is being "hijacked" by jihadists. Terrorist groups active in the Syrian uprising have already demonstrated little compunction about the acquisition and use of WMD. In short, should Syria devolve into full-blown civil-war, the security of its WMD should be of profound concern, as sectarian insurgents and Islamist terrorist groups may stand poised to seize chemical and perhaps even biological weapons.
Furthermore, Sorcher writes, "the latest development underscores what some worry is a fundamental lack of preparation in Washington for what might happen next." She quotes Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Monterey Institute of International Studies' James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, who
… argues the U.S. should encourage the sites' trained custodians–who may be contemplating defection–to remain in place. "You want to advise them that if they stick to their mission of protecting these sites … that they will be treated in a special category that will get some protection," Spector said, calling on Washington to advise the Syrian opposition to get this message out. However, Syria's opposition is still disorganized, and the West retains a lingering distrust of opposition groups with possible extremist ties.
If not for the fear that Assad might use WMD, the case could be made to prop him up if only to keep WMD out of the hands of insurgents who range from unpredictable to outright malevolent. The situation parallels that of another state somewhat. With its enmity for India, the West fears that Pakistan might not be able to restrain itself from launching nuclear weapons at India. Still that's preferable to the West's greater fear: that Islamic militants will seize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
A state acquires weapons, especially WMD, not just for national security, but to ensure the survivability of the ruling regime or prevailing mode of government (such as democracy or communism). But, it may fail to anticipate conditions that can result in WMD being seized — or just plain lost in the shuffle, as when the Soviet Union dissolved — and used against it.
'Twas ever thus with weapons. It's just that, with WMD, the danger is exponentially amplified.


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One Direction to star in 3-D film
Staff Writer
Columbus Monthly
One Direction is headed to a movie theater near you.
Sony Pictures says it's making a 3-D film about the boy band, due out next year on Labor Day weekend.
Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock will direct the movie.
The film will give fans an all-access, behind-the- scenes look at the group and its five members: Niall Horan (hohr-AN'), Zayn Malik (mah-LEEK'), Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.
The London-based band was discovered by Simon Cowell on the U.K.'s "The X Factor" in 2010. They have sold over 13 million records worldwide and are known for hits including "What Makes You Beautiful," ''One Thing" and "Live While We're Young."

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Heather Graham's New York Penthouse Catches Fire
Firefighters were dispatched to Heather Graham's New York penthouse apartment Saturday night to put out a blaze, The New York Post reports.
A fire broke out at her Union Square home when burning candles left on her bathtub ignited nearby clothes. "It was candles that maybe caught some clothes that were left near the tub," FDNY Chief John Bley told the newspaper.
Fifty Shades of Lame! Check out TV's unsexiest sex scenes
The fire, which started at approximately 10 p.m., took about 45 minutes to extinguish. Graham, 42, rushed back to her apartment after the fire was put out.
Zach Braff, with whom Graham appeared with on Scrubs, lives in the same building, just one floor down.
Graham will next appear in The Hangover Part III, which hits theaters this summer.
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Galva takes Lincoln Trail lead; Sherrard stuns Boilermakers
Galva 67, Wethersfield 64
In a rematch of the Lincoln Trail Conference tournament title game, the Wildcats avenged Saturday night's loss and handed the Flying Geese their first LTC defeat Tuesday night in Galva.
The win puts the Wildcats in first place in the conference at 7-0, while the Geese fall to 6-1.
Dexter Ingels and David Jeffries led Galva with 17 points each, while Matt Jenkins led Wethersfield with 21 points.
Sherrard 68, Kewanee 67
Sherrard's Devin Davis hit a free throw with 18.5 seconds remaining to give the Tigers the upset Tuesday night at Brockman Gym.
Kewanee's final shot attempt by Dayton Ince from just inside the 3-point line bounced off the rim.
Donovan Oliver topped the Boilers with 15 points, followed by Ince with 14 and Dalton Nuding with 12 points. Nuding also grabbed nine boards.
Davis led the Tigers with 19 points and seven rebounds, and Clayton Bjustrom added 12 points.
Kewanee falls to 19-4, while Sherrard moves to 5-18.
Kewanee won the sophomore opener 53-50. Cody Goforth topped the Boilers with 20 points, five steals and six rebounds. Kentrel Welcome added 18 points and 10 rebounds.
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Saying yes to romance hard with babies
I've always loved Valentine's Day. What's more fun than celebrating love? Even when I didn't have someone special, I still looked forward to the prospect or reminisced about past loves.
This year, as the holiday approached, I realized my idea of romance has changed drastically over the years. I have already stressed about bringing back the love to my love life, and I am still trying to figure out what that means.
In school, I was the girl — annoying to some — who decorated my boyfriend's locker with gaudy store-bought professions of love. I cut and pasted red and pink construction paper hearts onto my homemade cards. I didn't hesitate to pay a few bucks to send a hand-delivered rose to one of my classmates.
In college, I struggled to find romance among the drunken boys, hanging onto the random gestures of a few good ones ?- staring at the stars from a rooftop, surprising me with a bottle of champagne through my window, driving through an icestorm because he had to see me.
With marriage, romance is harder to come by. When you live with the same person, it's hard to find the urge to slip love notes or kiss in the rain. It becomes more about keeping the other person in our thoughts, taking out the trash so he doesn't have to, cleaning the bathroom so I don't have to.
And now we have babies, which means more to clean and less time to share the love with each other. I find myself kissing my children more than my husband, and I wonder if this is such a good thing. A strong marriage means we're better parents for our kissable kids, so perhaps we need to remember that no matter how tired we are at the end of the day.
My husband recently told me about a study that found married couples who knew they wanted to have children returned to happy couples about 18 months after the baby arrived. The study found it took longer for people who were on the fence about procreating. The results were dim for those who probably didn't want to have kids to begin with.
Do I need to wait another nine months to set the spark? Or should we just ride the wave of babydom and realize that romance evolves as usual?
For Valentine's Day, we could have found a sitter and made a romantic night on the town. But we decided to include the kids and friends for dinner at a nearby restaurant that serves gourmet food but doesn't mind kids. Since the day is about spending time with your loved one, it made sense to include our new loved ones.
But there has to be time for us as a couple. I've talked about date nights, which are great, even when the sitter calls in distress about a teething baby who won't fall asleep. I might even say it's romantic to gulp our red wine and rush home to our kids.
For my husband, romance is pretty basic. If I make him breakfast or even a snack now and again he's happy. He also says it's about saying "yes" more than "no." Food and intimacy. Again, very basic.
But the girl who decorated lockers often longs for a little surprise, and that doesn't have to include diamonds. I want a stab at the romantic comedy finale where they run to each other in a desperate kiss.
I want it, but that doesn't mean I'll get it.
I'm learning a lot about compromise in my fifth year of marriage and first year of motherhood. I don't get as many opportunities to be a fool for love. I don't have the chance to let my hair down and soak in a hot bath with my one true love.
But now I have the option to share my love with more than just my husband. I may kiss my kids — and let's not forget the dogs — more than enough each day. As long as I sneak a few to my husband, I think romance lives on in our house.
I will just try to say yes to it more often.


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OpenGL Extension
OpenGL extensions are a means for OpenGL implementations to provide new or expanded functionality that the core of OpenGL does not provide. Using extensions should not be looked on as something to be avoided; it should be accepted as standard practice for the OpenGL user.
Some extensions expose features that only one particular hardware vendor exposes, but many extensions are implemented by multiple implementations. There is a mechanism for determining which extensions are available from a particular implementation.
Extension Registry
The OpenGL Extension Registry is maintained by the ARB and contains the technical specifications of all known OpenGL extensions. The registry also contains guidelines for creating new extensions and has example C/C++ header files containing function entry points and token enums.
The extension registry has over 300 extensions listed. Many of these extensions are old and obsolete in modern programming practice; they are listed for the sake of completeness. Quite a few of these extensions have been folded into the OpenGL core.
Content of an Extension
An extension always contains at least one enum token, or one function. They mostly contain more. If an extension is supported on a specific computer, it means those tokens and/or functions can be used there. The name of the tokens and functions ends with the prefix of the extension. For example, the extension GL_ARB_multitexture (which has been adapted into the core) contains the function glActiveTextureARB and the token GL_TEXTURE0_ARB. The exception to this is core extensions, which is explained below.
Extension Support
All extensions are written against a version of OpenGL. The extension spec. specifies a modification to that core version's spec. That version is often (but not always) the minimum version that the extension can be used together with.
It is possible to check at run-time whether an extension is supported or not. For more information, see Get Context Info.
Extensions Loading
OpenGL extensions must be loaded dynamically at runtime. There are many automatic tools for loading them.
Extension Types
Extensions fall into 3 broad categories: vendor-specific, generic, and ARB-approved. The name of each extension starts with a prefix, specifying what type it is.
Extensions that start with GL_EXT are generic extensions. They can be implemented by any implementation. This does not ensure that they are implemented by all IHVs, but it means that the extension is available to be implemented by multiple vendors. It is also a signal to the user of OpenGL that this extension may find its way into other implementations.
There is a higher level of EXT extensions, called GL_ARB. These extensions are multi-vendor as well, but they are specifically approved by the OpenGL ARB. These are extensions that are most likely to enter later versions of the core OpenGL, and if they do, there will likely be few changes made to them.
All other prefixes are vendor-specific. GL_NV means that only NVIDIA hardware will implement this extension. GL_APPLE means that this extension will only be found on implementations that are on Macintoshes. And so forth.
Regardless of the vendor prefix, vendor-specific OpenGL extensions may be implemented an/or licensed by multiple hardware vendors to ensure compatibility. This is very rare in practice.
|Extension Prefix
|Extension Vendor
|OpenGL® ARB approved extensions.
|NVIDIA Corporation.
|NVIDIA Corporation. Experimental extension.1
|ATI Technologies, Inc.
|3DLABS, Inc.
|Sun Microsystems, Inc.
|Silicon Graphics, Inc.
|Silicon Graphics, Inc. Experimental extension.1
|Silicon Graphics, Inc. Experimental extension.1
|Intel Corporation.
|3dfx Interactive.
|International Business Machines Corporation, or simply IBM.
|The Mesa 3D Graphics Library.
|Graphic Remedy, Ltd.
|Khronos Group, Inc. API: OpenML®
|Khronos Group, Inc. API: OpenGL® ES
|Portland Group Inc.
|Intense3D, now 3DLABS Inc.
|Intergraph Corporation.
|Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd.
|Extension Prefix
|Extension Platform
|Microsoft Corporation. WGL = Windows OpenGL
|X-Window-based platforms.
|Apple Inc. AGL = Apple OpenGL
1, Experimental extensions should not be used in a production environment as they are subject to removal from implementation.
ARB Approval
Proprietary extensions which prove their worth can become ARB approved (such as GL_ARB_multitexture) and shortly after become core. Most likely, an extension is already of type EXT, then becomes ARB, then core. In some cases, but not many, a proprietary extension becomes ARB, then core. Often, the original extension's developer allows other companies to also code it into their drivers without royalty requirements.
In some cases, there are differences between extension and the core function. GLSL's extension version (ARB_shader_objects) was rather different from the core 2.0 functionality.
Extension Development
Anyone may develop extensions for the OpenGL® API; the community gives feedback. An example case would be the GL_GREMEDY_string_marker extension, which was initially a private extension, is now included in the OpenGL Extension Registry.
Core Extensions
OpenGL version 3.0 added a 4th general group of extension: core extensions. Their purpose is to expose core features from higher versions in lower versions, which is particularly useful if those core features are hardware-based.
Core extensions all have the GL_ARB prefix, but their functions and enumerations do not end with ARB. This way, they exactly mimic the way the core functions and enumerations look; this allows code written to use them to be updated to higher GL versions without modifications. The behavior of core extensions is exactly the same as the corresponding core functionality.
Ubiquitous extensions
There are some extensions that have been implemented for so long and so broadly that they are considered part of the basic structure of OpenGL. They are not core but this is mainly a technicality. The user should feel free to expect these extensions to be present.
External Links
Extensions of Interest
If you are new to OpenGL programming, you may find the large list in the OpenGL Registry too long and intimidating to sift through. This is a list of commonly useful extensions. They are grouped based on the OpenGL version you are targeting.
Common extensions
These are available and useful for all versions of OpenGL (assuming the implementation developer still supports the hardware):
- WGL_ARB_extensions_string (and the WGL extensions you can get with this extension)
- WGL_ARB_pixel_format
- WGL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB
- GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
- GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
- EXT_texture_sRGB While sRGB textures are core in 3.0+, this extension also exposes s3tc sRGB formats. So you still need to use the extension to access these formats.
- GL_ARB_debug_output: Only available if you create a debug context.
- GL_KHR_debug: replaces ARB_debug_output, and is always available, but it is depending on the implementation how much information, if any, is provided if used with a non-debug context.
Targeting OpenGL 3.3
These are useful extensions when targeting GL 3.3. These are either non-hardware extensions introduced after 3.3, or hardware features not exposed by 3.3's API. Most 3.3 hardware will provide these, given recent drivers.
- GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage
- GL_ARB_conservative_depth
- GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility
- GL_ARB_get_program_binary
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_internalformat_query
- GL_ARB_internalformat_query2
- GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects
- GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack
- GL_ARB_shading_language_packing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_storage
- GL_ARB_texture_view
- GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding
- GL_ARB_viewport_array
- GL_NV_texture_barrier (implemented widely on AMD hardware)
AMD's 3.x-class hardware has features that are commonly 4.x-level features. These are exposed through these extensions:
- GL_ARB_transform_feedback2
- GL_ARB_transform_feedback3
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32
- GL_ARB_shader_precision
- GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend
Targeting OpenGL 2.1
These are useful extensions when targeting GL 2.1 hardware. Note that many of the above extensions are also available, if the hardware is still being supported. These represent non-hardware extensions introduced after 2.1, or hardware features not exposed by 2.1's API. Most 2.1 hardware that is still being supported by its maker will provide these, given recent drivers.
- Most of the previous list
- GL_ARB_vertex_array_object
- GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
- If not this, you get very similar functionality from these:
- GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
- GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
- GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample
- GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil.
- GL_ARB_map_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_copy_buffer
- GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
- GL_ARB_color_buffer_float
- GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
- GL_ARB_sync
Targeting GL 2.1, but on GL 3-class hardware (mainly for Mac OSX versions without GL 3.x support):
- GL_ARB_texture_rg
- GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc
- GL_EXT_bindable_uniform (similar to Uniform Buffer Objects, but not as cleanly specified.)
- GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
- GL_EXT_geometry_shader4
- GL_EXT_gpu_shader4
- GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
How to read
Reading an OpenGL extension is somewhat complicated. Extensions have many sections, and these sections have different meanings. Some sections are descriptive while others are normative. A descriptive section does not represent the actual functionality of the extension; it either explains some facet of the extension or offers other useful information. Normative sections are those that actually specify the behavior of the OpenGL graphics system.
Preamble sections
There are a number of sections in an extension that serve as simple introductory material. The Name, Name String, etc. These all have information that's fairly obvious to understand.
The Dependencies section is a bit more complicated. OpenGL extensions are sort of like .diff files. They specify changes to the OpenGL specification. A .diff file is useless without the file that it is to be applied to. And just as with .diff files, OpenGL extensions are written against a specific version of the OpenGL specification.
The version that the extension is written against is specified by the "This extension is written against..." text. If the extension extends GLSL, there will be a second version for the GLSL specification.
Extensions may be written against a particular specification version, but it is possible to implement them that extension on older OpenGL versions. Some extensions can be implemented even on OpenGL 1.1, while others have a higher base version. The minimum version that the extension can appear in is specified with the text, "X are required," where X is the minimum OpenGL and/or GLSL version required.
Extensions can also have a number of dependencies on either other extensions or higher version numbers. The idea is pretty simple, in general. If extension X changes its behavior in some way in the presence of extension Y, then extension X has a dependency on extension Y. This is stated with the text "This extension interacts with...". The specific interactions are specified in the main body of the extension.
The text "This extension interacts trivially with..." means that the interaction is fairly obvious. For example, the ARB_shader_image_load_store extension interacts "trivially" with ARB_tessellation_shader and/or OpenGL 4.0. The interaction is obvious: ignore references to the tessellation shader stages. This is a trivial interaction. Other interactions are not as trivial.
The Overview section is the heart of the descriptive text. It provides a plain-text explanation of what the extension does. This is descriptive text, so it is non-binding; the specific functionality is provided elsewhere. But the overview provides a good start in understanding what the extension actually does.
Normative text
The main body of the normative text, the actual text that says how the extension works, is provided after the overview. It is broken down into two basic sections: a list of the new functions/enums, and a list of the spec additions/dependency descriptions. These sections comprise the main body of the extension.
Functions and enumerators
The New Procedures and Functions section is a list of all of the functions the extension provides, if any. The New Tokens section is a list of all of the enumerators provided, their values, and what functions accept them, if any.
Additions and Dependencies
After the tokens and functions, there will be several sections titled Additions to Chapter X of the..., where X is some chapter number in the OpenGL specification that the extension is written against. Within each addition section, there is a list of blocks of text, where the original text in the spec is either removed, added, or changed as outlined in the extension.
Following these can be a section titled Errors. This explains any possible errors rising from functions described or modified in this extension.
After this is a list of Dependencies sections. For every dependency listed in the first dependencies section at the beginning of the extension, there will be a block of text explaining how the spec changes in the presence of the extension or OpenGL version.
After the main body, we have various other descriptive information.
The Issues section is a list of design questions that the people working on the extension were asked and answered, informing how the extension came to its current form. This descriptive info is often handy in getting an idea how an extension works without having to read the specific details. The Overview can give a general idea of how it works, but the Issues section can give insight into what the details are.
Revision History
The history of revisions of the extension. Most of these happen before it is first published, but some (rarely) happen later.


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Redouté Lilies Pl. 56, Long-sheathed Moraea
Original Antique Print
13 1/2" x 20 1/2" (approximate)
Hand-colored stipple engraving
Les Liliacées
Comprising 503 plates, Les Liliacées appeared in 80 parts from 1802 to 1816. Only 200 copies were produced. Josephine Bonaparte's support made the work possible, herself ordering several sets.The flawless bone-white paper in this folio allows the brilliance of color and nuance of tonality to shine through. It is not possible to overstate the beauty of the plates in this folio.
Considered to be a French artist, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759—1840) was born in the village of Saint-Hubert, now a part of Belgium. The descendant of a long line of painters, he received his first training as an artist from his father, Charles Joseph Redouté (1715—76). At the age of 13, he left Saint-Hubert to make a living as an itinerant painter and decorator. During this period he studied the old masters, and in particular, was influenced by the work of the 18th-century Dutch flower painter, Jan van Huysum. In 1782, his elder brother, Antoine Ferdinand Redouté (1756—1809), a highly regarded decorative artist, invited him to join him in Paris as a stage-set designer. There, in his spare time, he began sketching rare plants at the Jardin du Roi (now the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle). There, his artistic talent came to the attention of the Linnaean botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier and Gerard van Spaëndonck, Royal Professor of Painting, and they became Pierre-Joseph Redouté's mentors. Gerard van Spaëndonck developed the watercolor technique that Pierre-Joseph Redouté later popularized.
In 1786, Pierre-Joseph Redouté spent a brief period in England where he was introduced to the stipple-engraving technique. Employed at that time primarily for portraiture, it is a process of incising minute depressions in a copper plate forming a field of dots rather than lines. Stipple engraving is sublimely suited to conveying the subtle tonal gradations of watercolors. Pierre-Joseph Redouté, who is credited with perfecting this technique said, "The process which we invented in 1796 for color printing consists in the employment of these colors on a single plate…. We have thereby softness and brilliance of a watercolor." The dynamic realism he achieved surpassed all previous attempts at color botanical printmaking. In recognition of this valuable contribution, Pierre-Joseph Redouté was awarded a medal by Louis XVIII.
On the eve of the French Revolution, Pierre-Joseph Redouté was named to the position of Draftsman to the Cabinet of Marie Antoinette. Remarkably, he not only survived the Revolution, but attracted the patronage of Josephine Bonaparte in a seamless transition from the royal court to the French Republic. In 1798, Josephine Bonaparte acquired a grand estate, Malmaison, and began to fill its gardens with the rarest plants that the old and new worlds could furnish.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté flourished under Josephine's reign, publishing during this period the monumental Les Liliacées, 1802—1816, naming the most dramatic plate after his benefactress, the "Amaryllis Josephinae". Napoleon divorced Josephine in 1809, and she died in 1814. In the absence of Josephine's patronage, Pierre-Joseph Redouté's fortunes began to decline. Somewhat impoverished, he died in 1840, suffering a stroke.
References: Sacheverell Sitwell, Great Flower Books, 1700—1900, page 128, 1990.
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Dr. Spock has yielded a lot of ground to a new generation to child-rearing experts like the American pediatrician Bill Sears and the British psychologist Penelope Leach. But it's hard to overstate the influence of his Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care on parents of baby boomers. First published in 1946, Spock's guide helped to introduce to America the theories of Sigmund Freud, including that "infantile experiences" and "repressed sexual desires" led to unhappiness in adulthood.
Steve Gillon writes in Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America (Free Press, 2004):
"Thanks to Benjamin Spock, Boomers – often called 'Spock babies' – had Freud mixed with their baby formula. 'Benjamin Spock probably did more than any single individual to disseminate the theory of Sigmund Freud in America,' observed the psychiatrist and Freudian critic E. Fuller Torrey. Spock, whose The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) served as the bible for Boomer parents, had attended the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in the 1930s and was determined to bring Freud and his ideas to a mass audience. Spock rejected his own upbringing, which emphasized strict feeding schedules and unchanging routines, and insisted that parents respond to the needs and schedules of their children. 'Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do,' he reassured worried new parents. His ideas reflected the optimism of the age, reinforcing that personality was malleable only if parents developed the right skills. Along with practical advice about colic, toilet training, and temper tantrums, Spock offered parents sugar-coated doses of Freudian psychology. Since he believed that most adult problems began in childhood, Spock instructed parents about the concepts of 'sibling rivalry' and used Freud's Oedipus complex to explain the behavior of 6-year-olds."


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One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently "downgraded". For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but "only" $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation [1], says the World Health Organization, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more complete inclusion of operation and maintenance (O&M) costs.
Providing a better insight into O&M costs has been one of the achievements of the WASHCost project of the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. WASHCost has published minimum benchmarks for costing sustainable basic WASH services in developing countries [2]. The project collected data from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique.
The main message is that spending less than the minimum benchmarks will result in a higher risk of reduced service levels or long-term failure. NGOs claiming that "US$20 can provide clean water for one person for 20 years" have clearly forgotten to include annual recurrent costs for operation and maintenance, capital maintenance and direct support.
The real cost for 20 years of basic water supply from a borehole and handpump would be, per person, between US$ 20 and US$ 61 for construction plus US$ 3-6 every year to keep it working. In total for the 20 years this would amount to US$ 80 to US$ 181 per person.
Similarly, for the most basic sanitation service, a traditional pit latrine, the combined costs would be US$ 37 – 106 per person over 20 years.
WASHCost provides figures as well for the capital and recurrent costs of piped water schemes, and VIP and pour-flush/septic tank latrines.
WHO used WASHCost data, among others, for the above-mentioned recalculation of benefit-cost ratios for water and sanitation investments. At the global level, WHO calculates that the benefit-cost ratio for water has declined from 4.4 in their original study [3] to 2.0 in the new study [1], and from 9.1 to 5.5 for sanitation. Combined water supply and sanitation interventions have a benefit-cost ratio of 4.3. A more sobering statistic from the WHO study is that it still may take 20-30 years to achieve universal coverage.
Other mediagenic WASH statistics have come from the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) [4]. In 2012, ESI calculated that inadequate sanitation costs 18 African countries around US$ 5.5 billion each year and that it costs Pakistan up to 3.9% of GDP. Previous ESI studies provided these figures on the percentage of GDP lost through poor sanitation: Bangladesh – 6.3%; India – 6.4%, Indonesia – 2.3%, Cambodia – 7.2%, Lao PDR – 5.6%, The Philippines – 1.5% and Viet Nam – 1.3%.
One final statistic, released by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for Global Handwashing Day: the lives 603,000 children aged 1-59 months could be saved annually from diarrhoea and pneumonia by handwashing with soap [5].
[1] Hutton, G., 2012. Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. WHO/HSE/WSH/12.01. Available at: <washurl.net/emq8c7 >
[2] IRC, 2012. Providing a basic level of water and sanitation services that last : cost benchmarks. (WASHCost Infosheet ; 1). The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
Available at: <www.washcost.info/page/2386>
[3] Hutton G. and Haller, L., 2004. Evaluation of the non-health costs and benefits of water and sanitation improvements at global level. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. WHO/SDE/WSH/04.04.
Available at: <washurl.net/et3px7>
[4] WSP – Economics of Sanitation Initiative
[5] Greenland, K., Cairncross, S. and Curtis, V. 2012. What can hand hygiene do for the world? London, UK: Environmental Health Group, Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Available at: <washurl.net/4fmsqr>


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An organized event like a marathon is a great way to crowdfund (fundraise) a social cause.
Give student volunteers the opportunity to nurture their social conscience and corporate volunteers the chance to earn CSR.
Make supporters aware of the many occasions they can use as a theme to start a crowdfunding fundraiser around. For instance, festivals like Diwali and Christmas, and awareness days like World Hunger Day, World AIDS Day etc. (Check our blog for updates)
Sell merchandise, mementos, artworks etc. to raise funds for your NGO
Offer corporate sponsors a recruitment solution and a way to build employee engagement, with CSR.
Employee Engagement - Corporates can get their employees to compete (individually, intra-department-wise or as teams, inter-department-wise) by running crowdfunding (online fundraising) fundraisers. Whoever raises the most for your NGO, wins.
Offer corporate sponsors a recruitment solution and a way to build employee engagement, with CSR.
Hiring Solution - Corporates can use crowdfunding as a recruitment task for prospective employees. Those that raise the most within the given deadline move to the next round.


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The Library is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the The Big Library Read program again, this is an event where people from around the world will read a designated digital title simultaneously. This time we are featuring a title just for kids.
Our featured book is "Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth" by Jane O'Connor. From September 16th through the 30th you can download a copy of "Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth" from our digital library as an eBook or as an audiobook, and then help your child take part in the discussions with other kids who have read the story.
New to e-readers? Why not check one out from the Library? It's the perfect way to try one out before making a purchasing decision.


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No. 13 FSU beats No. 16 NIU 31-10 in Orange Bowl
MIAMI (AP) — Laughing and mugging for the cameras, the Florida State Seminoles happily hoisted the Orange Bowl trophy as a consolation prize, their disappointment about failing to reach the national championship game all but forgotten.
They figure next season will be different.
Smothering defense and two breakaway runs by senior fullback Lonnie Pryor helped Florida State beat Northern Illinois 31-10 Tuesday night.
The victory was the first for the Seminoles (12-2) in a BCS bowl since the glory days of 2000, when they beat Virginia Tech for the national title.
After the game, coach Jimbo Fisher's players wore T-shirts that read, "Florida Statement."
"We're knocking on the door," Fisher said. "We feel very confident about where we're going and what we're doing. We've laid a great foundation here, and there's a great team coming back."
While Fisher's roster is loaded with underclassmen, two seniors shone in the season finale. Pryor, voted the game's outstanding player, ran for a career-high 134 yards and two scores in only five carries, while classmate EJ Manuel threw for 291 yards.
"We wanted to leave a legacy and change the culture in what we do here," Manuel said. "You're reaping the benefits right now."
Junior defensive end Bjoern Werner — who has yet to announce whether he'll turn pro this year — led a swarming defense that stuffed Huskies QB and all-purpose threat Jordan Lynch for most of the night.
Florida State cornerback Xavier Rhodes recovered a fumble in the fourth quarter to help seal the win. He said he'll forgo his senior season and join the NFL this year.
The 13th-ranked Seminoles won a bowl game for the fifth season in a row, but the stakes were higher this time. It was their first BCS bowl berth in seven years.
"It's not the national championship, but right below," Werner said. "Not a lot of teams can say that."
The 12-victory season was the first since 1999 for the Seminoles, the Atlantic Coast Conference champions.
"Florida State is almost back," safety Lamarcus Joyner said.
For 16th-ranked Northern Illinois (12-2), playing in a BCS bowl for the first time, the defeat snapped a 12-game winning streak. The Huskies came in as two-touchdown underdogs and fell to 5-28 against top 25 teams.
"We knew that they were going to play us tough," Fisher said. "But our kids, it's another step in which we handled the big platform, and I'm very proud of them."
Pryor scored the first touchdown on a career-long 60-yard run, then ran 37 yards for a clinching touchdown with 10 minutes left. They were the two longest rushes allowed by Northern Illinois all season.
Manuel went 26 for 38, threw for one score and ran for another. Florida State totaled 534 yards and broke the school record for yards in a season with 6,591.
The Huskies were widely derided as unworthy of a BCS bowl berth, and didn't do enough to silence the doubters. Trick plays in the kicking game helped keep them close until the fourth quarter, but when it came to Lynch, not much fooled a Florida State defense ranked second in the nation.
"Definitely the best defense we played all year," Lynch said. "They were always in the right spot at the right time, it seemed like. They were hungry out there."
Lynch came into the game leading the nation in rushing and total offense, and he threw or ran on nearly every play for the Huskies. But he completed only 15 of 41 attempts for 176 yards, and carried 23 times for 44 yards.
The junior became the first player in NCAA history to surpass 3,000 yards passing and 1,500 rushing in a season.
After the Huskies' lone touchdown cut their deficit to 17-10 in the third quarter, they recovered an onside kick, and Lynch moved them to the Florida State 23. But he was flushed from the pocket on third down and threw an ill-advised pass that Terrence Brooks intercepted.
"It probably wasn't the smartest thing to force the ball there," Lynch said.
The loss came in Rod Carey's debut as the Huskies' coach. He was promoted to replace Dave Doeren, who took the North Carolina State job after the regular season.
"I'm upset," Carey said. "Florida State is a well-oiled machine. They beat us, no doubt. That doesn't change the fact I don't like to lose."


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The annual "Battle of the Beltways" between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles kicked off Friday afternoon as Nationals mascot Screech took on the creatively-named Orioles mascot "The Bird" in a series of challenges including arm wrestling and free-throw shooting at DC's ESPN Zone.
The last time we saw The Bird at Nationals Park, the Orioles mascot was lying in the warning track after Teddy Roosevelt knocked him out cold . The Bird had to wait a year, but tonight sought his revenge, ambushing Teddy in the home stretch of the 4th-inning presidents race.
The Bird took on the presidents like tackling dummies, bringing Teddy, Abe, and George to the ground in one swift move; but Jefferson steered clear of the pile-up, and The Bird failed to chase him down.
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Speculation continues to run rampant about an impending first victory for Teddy Roosevelt in the Washington Nationals' presidents race.
Today's "Washington Whispers" column in U.S. News and World Report speculates that Teddy Roosevelt's first victory is likely being planned for the Nationals' season finale next Wednesday, October 3.
Reporter Elizabeth Flock cites cites a number of recent indicators that hint at an October 3 win for Teddy, including the Nationals' own announcement of a "Teddy in 2012" theme for the final homestand.
Lara Potter, VP of Communications for the Nationals, didn't deny that the fix was in, telling Flock "that's just something that I'm not going to comment on."


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Pirates pop Reds to secure home field for wild-card game
- Pirates hit six home runs in 8-3 win over Reds
- Pittsburgh clinches home field advantage in NL wild-card game
- Neil Walker hit two HRs for the Pirates
CINCINNATI (AP) — Hundreds of Pirates fans stood, twirled their towels and chanted "Let's Go Bucs!" as Jay Bruce hit a grounder for the final out, setting up a playoff game in Pittsburgh.
Baseball, this time.
Neil Walker hit two of Pittsburgh's six homers — its biggest power surge in six years — and the Pirates clinched home-field advantage for the NL's wild card playoff game by beating the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 Saturday.
Pittsburgh will host the Reds on Tuesday night in the Pirates' first playoff appearance in 21 years. Pittsburgh went 50-31 at PNC Park, the third-best home record in the NL, and wanted to make that long-awaited playoff return at home.
They got what they wanted. The postseason will start at PNC Park.
"It's going to be a really exciting time," Walker said. "Something a lot of people haven't experienced with Pirate baseball. I imagine it's going to be Steeler-esque on Tuesday."
The Reds will go with Johnny Cueto (5-2) in the one-game playoff against left-hander Francisco Liriano (16-8). Mat Latos was on schedule to start for Cincinnati, but manager Dusty Baker said he's developed a sore arm.
The Pirates won five of nine games against the Reds at PNC Park this season.
"The important thing for me is getting the guys home and playing in a park where we won 50 games and giving our fans a taste of postseason baseball," manager Clint Hurdle said.
Pittsburgh hit five homers off Bronson Arroyo (14-12), who had never given up that many in a game in his career. Walker homered twice off the right-hander, Andrew McCutchen and Pedro Alvarez also hit solo homers, and Marlon Byrd had a two-run shot that ended Arroyo's outing in the fifth and made it 6-3.
Latos isn't the only Reds starter who's hurting. Arroyo said his back started bothering him Saturday.
"It locked up right before the game," Arroyo said. "I was in the tunnel. It was like I was being stabbed in the ribs and I couldn't swivel from side to side.
"I don't think it had much to do with the game. You can't leave balls in up the zone in this ballpark against that lineup and get away with it."
Prospect Andrew Lambo hit his first homer off Logan Ondrusek, the first time the Pirates had six in a game since Aug. 22, 2007 at Colorado.
Pirates starter Charlie Morton also struggled, leaving with one out and the bases loaded in the fifth. Vin Mazzaro (8-2) fanned Zack Cozart and retired Ryan Hanigan on a fly ball as the slumping Reds left the bases loaded for the second time in the game.
Cincinnati stranded 11 runners overall.
Both teams already had clinched wild-card berths heading into their weekend series. Whoever took it would host the one-game showdown. Pittsburgh made quick work of it, winning the opener 4-1 on Friday night and then the second game, too.
"Better to be home than on the road," McCutchen said. "Today showed how bad we wanted to go home. We answered in a big way."
The Ohio River rivals have met five times in the playoffs — 1970, 1972, 1975, 1979 and 1990, when the Reds won their last World Series title. The Reds are 13-7 against the Pirates in the postseason. Pittsburgh has played the Reds more than any other team in the playoffs.
The Reds have gone into a deep slump at a very bad time. They've lost four in a row since clinching a playoff spot with a 3-2 win over the Mets on Monday night, scoring a total of six runs.
They were at it again in the first inning on Saturday, leaving the bases loaded when Todd Frazier flied out.
Walker and McCutchen hit back-to-back homers in the third for a 2-0 lead. Brandon Phillips had an RBI single and Jay Bruce followed with a two-run double for a 3-2 lead in the third, Cincinnati's first lead since Monday.
And it didn't last long.
Alvarez led off the fourth inning with a first-pitch homer, tying it at 3. Alvarez's 36th homer gave him 100 RBIs. Walker hit his career-high 16th homer in the fifth inning — the first multihomer game of his career — and Byrd's two-run shot ended Arroyo's outing. Walker has seven homers in September.
Lambo's pinch-hit homer let the Pirates tie the record for most by a visiting team at Great American Ball Park, which opened in 2003.
Notes: Walker has homered in five of his last nine games. … Alvarez is the first Pirates third baseman to drive in 100 runs since Aramis Ramirez drove in 110 in 2001. His 36 homers are a club record for a third baseman. … Byrd had three hits for the second straight game. … Philips fouled a pitch off his left shin in the fifth inning, raising a welt. He singled and left for a runner. X-rays were negative. … Joey Votto walked three times, moving him ahead of Joe Morgan's previous club record for a season. Votto has walked 135 times.


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Sewing With Plush Fabric
Working with Plush Fabric
Plush fabric quilt backing makes quilts extra snuggly. But, they also present some challenges that you wouldn't normally have with cotton or other fabrics. Long-arm machine quilter, Nancy Sharr, offers the following tips for working with plush fabrics. The adorable fabric in these stitched samples are from A.E. Nathan Co.'s Coral Fleece collection.
Working with Plush Fabric
After cutting plush fabric, machine-dry the pieces for a few minutes to remove the "fluffies" or "pills."
Plush fabric stretches across the width, but not on the length.
Prepare Your Machine for Plush Fabric
Use a new needle.
Clean your throat plate, feed dogs, and bobbin case often.
Piecing Plush Fabric
Watch the nap of the fabric, especially if you want it to smooth out in the same direction.
When sewing plush fabric to another type of fabric, put the plush fabric on the bottom.
More Piecing Tips for Plush Fabric
Plush fabric tends to curl when piecing, use a slightly larger seam allowance, from 3/8 to 1/2 inch. Press your seams open.
Use a longer stitch length, such as 3.0, when piecing plush fabric.
Quilting Plush Fabric
Use a walking foot.
Keep your bobbin case clean.
More Quilting Tips for Plush Fabric
Set your stitch length to approximately 8 stitches per inch when quilting plush fabric. This allows the thread to sink into the fabric.
Use a lightweight, low loft batting.
Try to avoid the corner intersections when quilting, the thickness of the seams is very difficult to get your hopping foot over, it may jam your machine, or break your needle.
Long-Arm Quilting: Plush Fabric on Quilt Tops
Only stretch the top enough to smooth it out.
More Long-Arm Machine Quilting Tips
Use a new needle; a titanium 80/12 should work well. The titanium needles stay sharper longer, and don't get as hot as other needles.
If possible, load the plush fabric so that the selvage is parallel to your leaders. This will help reduce the stretching of the plush fabric. If you cannot load parallel to selvage, don't crank the leaders super tight, just tighten them enough so the back is smooth.
Binding Plush Fabric
Cut your binding strips slightly wider (about 2-3/4" wide) when binding quilts that have plush fabric.
Machine-baste the edges of your quilt before applying the binding to provide more stability and make the binding application easier.


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No October jinx this time for the stock market
NEW YORK - October, with its history of big crashes on Wall Street, didn't scare off investors this time. To the contrary, the stock market seemed unstoppable.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at a record high seven times and ended the month up 4.5 percent. The market climbed even after October began with the 16-day government shutdown and the threat of a potentially calamitous U.S. default.
"The market didn't waver in the face of the shutdown," said Anton Bayer, CEO of Up Capital Management, an investment adviser. "That was huge."
After being rattled by a series of down-to-the-wire budget battles in recent years, investors have become inured to the ways of Washington lawmakers. Instead of selling stocks, they kept their focus on what they say really matters: the Federal Reserve.
The central bank is buying $85 billion of bonds every month and keeping its benchmark short-term interest rate near zero to promote economic growth. The Fed stimulus has helped generate a stock market rally that has been going on since March 2009.
With October's gains, the S&P 500 is now up 23.2 percent for the year and is on track for its best year since 2009. The Dow Jones industrial average is 18.6 percent higher, and the Nasdaq composite index is up 29.8 percent.
The S&P 500 has climbed 160 percent since bottoming out at 676.53 in March 2009 during the Great Recession.
Some analysts say the precipitous rise in stocks may now make the market vulnerable to a drop.
"Because stocks have gone up so much, people will get nervous about another big sell-off at some stage," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan funds.
Some investors will be relieved to see October behind them. The Stock Trader's Almanac refers to October as "the jinx month" because of its fraught history.
The Dow lost 40 points on Oct. 28, 1929, a day that became known as Black Monday and heralded the start of the Depression. Almost 60 years later, on Oct. 19, 1987, the Dow suffered its biggest percentage loss, plunging nearly 23 percent in the second Black Monday. The index also plummeted 13 percent on Oct. 27, 1997.
There was no such drama on Wall Street on Thursday. Stocks were mostly flat as investors took in disappointing corporate earnings.
The S&P 500 slipped 6.77 points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,756.54. The Dow dropped 73.01 points, or 0.5 percent, to 15,545. The Nasdaq composite fell 10.91 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,919.71.
Avon slumped $4.90, or 21.9 percent, to $17.50 after the beauty products company reported a third-quarter loss, reflecting lower sales and China-related charges. The company also said the Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing a much larger penalty than it expected to settle bribery allegations.
Visa fell $7.15, or 3.5 percent, to $196.67. Its quarterly profits fell 28 percent as it set aside money for taxes. Visa also expects a slow recovery for the economy.
Overall, company earnings are beating the expectations of Wall Street analysts and lifting stock prices. Companies are benefiting from low borrowing costs and stable labor expenses, which are enabling them to boost earnings even as sales remain slack.
Earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are expected to grow 5.3 percent in the third quarter, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. That compares with 4.9 percent in the second quarter, and 2.4 percent in the same period a year ago.
The stock market is likely to keep climbing as long as the central bank keeps up its stimulus, said Up Capital's Bayer. But stocks could fall as much as 20 percent when the Fed starts to cut back on its bond-buying program, he said.


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If rumors, listings in retailers' databases, and blurry pictures don't convince you of an upcoming smartphone's authenticity, retailer screw-ups will. Carphone Warehouse, a UK phone retailer, posted its product page of LG's upcoming Nexus 4 ahead of time, giving the world a clear look at it and its specs ahead of Google's planned October 29 Android event (the page has since been pulled, however).
MoDaCo reports that, as widely expected, the Nexus 4 listing shows hardware broadly similar to LG's new flagship Optimus G smartphone: a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, NFC, and a 4.7-inch 1280x768 pixel display. The 9.1mm thick phone was also listed as having only 8GB of internal storage and no SD card slot for additional storage, though—a perplexing limitation to impose on what is otherwise a high-end phone.
The phone is also listed as running Android 4.2, which is widely expected to be a slightly tweaked, more secure version of Jelly Bean rather than an update significant enough to merit its own dessert-themed codename.
Ars will be on the scene next Monday, liveblogging about the Nexus 4, Android 4.2, and all of the other announcements that Google sees fit to make.


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Oh, I know we live in a society where body image is paramount and you're either thin or you're irrelevant. And yes, given that we are amongst the top ten fattest nations in the world, we should be weight conscious and not indulge in abnormal eating habits, but exercise regularly and all that. Certainly, we should sublimate our gashmius (physicality) to the higher functions of our being …
Yet, every once in a while – I propose – coddling the inner child is a laudable, valuable, action. Granted, nothing bests the sweet taam (taste) of Shabbos nor the sound of zmiros lifting you ever higher, but the occasional escape into corporeal weekday bliss, leaving the emotional and physical overload of life's daily grind behind, is a good thing.
The hustle and harried hurry of our fast, frequently faceless, hi-tech daily drudgery makes it difficult to be in the moment of any one thing. So, we often have to steal or create a moment for ourselves. One of my favorite ways to seize that special particle of time is by dining out in style. Dress up or down, whichever makes you feel better, and figure out the type of cuisine you're in the mood for. Personally, I prefer an eatery that exudes calm and soft lighting; where chef and staff wait on you indulgently, presenting the finest service and cuisine they have to offer. Hopefully, you're in the company of someone you really want to be with during this stolen moment.
If you can, leave the kids at home, shut the intruder cell phone, sit back, relax, breathe in, and give yourself over to the sensory delights to come. Start off with a good wine that has some personality, one that complements your disposition. Perhaps a deeply aromatic contemplative wine like one of the following:
Makhpelah Cabernet/Merlot 2002 from Israel, only a few hundred cases were produced! This wine combines spicy aromas with a touch of vanilla and smoky oak. The well-balanced palate is soft and rich with plum and dark cherry flavors highlighted by fine tannins. For that extra,extra, special occasion, it's a bit pricey! For the more price conscious, but still very discriminate wine palate, I recommend any of these, Italy's Borgo Reale – Primitivo di Manduria 2001; France's Flegman – Merlot 2006, or a South African Rothberg Cellar – Shiraz 2008. Frankly, there are far too many superb kosher wines to fit every mood, every palate, every occasion. You can find the above and hundreds more, at Liquors Galore (1212 Avenue J; Brooklyn, NY 11230; Telephone: 718.333.4168).
Take in the calming scent of the wine's perfume; delight in each sip, savoring the rich flavor, allowing your palate to pick up its complex symmetry. Let your body relax, as the liquid soporific hits your bloodstream.
For starters, I recommend choosing an appetizer or salad that you've never tried before like Orchideä's Spring Fling Salad; perhaps something like T Fusion's Pan Seared Sweetbreads or Solo's Barbeque Short Rib Spring Roll. Discern the distinctive flavors within. Redefine your stomach's state of satiety by trading quantity with quality and variety of taste. Allow the sensual mixing of fresh textures and subtle tones and spices on your tongue and taste buds. Observe the placement of food, the artistry and color and let it become a true binge of the senses.
For the main dish, if you're watching those calories, pick a fish or chicken dish prepared in a way you've never tasted or wouldn't make at home. when it comes to fish few can beat the imagination or IMITATE the meat-like look and taste at Plaza Dining (downstairs at Boro Park's Plaza Hotel). If you're a meat lover like I am, go for the steak if it's really what you've got the yen for.
We particularly enjoyed Prime Grill's Black Angus Steak, and the Delmonico Steak at Bistro Grill. Order a notch higher on the temperature time as fine restaurants tend to grill a bit on the rarer side. If you're out with friends be a good sharer, and sample each other's dishes. It can get ugly with the really delectable, so be prepared to fight them off with fork or skewer if they become voracious.
I'm usually too full by dessert time to get territorial. Here a morsel of some heavenly delight is sufficient. Nothing alters vexation like a great dessert. We loved Les Marais' Crème Brûlée, Gusto Va Mare's Double Truffle and u cafe's Tricolor Cake.
Finally, if you're still not convinced, contemplate this with your latte: "There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)"
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Howard's memorable play highlights U.S. run
SAO PAULO – Tim Howard left a lasting impression on Americans from coast to coast — and fans around the world, really — for his incredible, improbable saves in the loss to Belgium in extra time that sent the U.S. home from the World Cup to a country captivated.
Howard is a big reason — 6-foot-3, to be exact — for the fascination. He has become a Twitter sensation in less than a day, while raising one important question before he leaves Brazil: Will the 35-year-old goalkeeper be back for the next World Cup four years from now in Russia?
"When you're in the public eye, it's part of what you have to deal with," Howard said Wednesday of the hype from his record-setting World Cup. "I've been dealing with it for a long time. It's nice that America knows about soccer now. That's what's important."
Howard's 16 saves in the 2-1 loss were the most in a World Cup game since FIFA started tracking the statistic in 2002.
Someone had fun with Howard's heroics on Wikipedia, briefly listing the star goalie as incumbent "Secretary of Defense of the United States of America."
Later, the real defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, called Howard with congratulations and a team invite to the Pentagon.
A photo from Howard's high school yearbook even began circulating, featuring the quote, "It will take a nation of millions to hold me back."
Even Belgium captain Vincent Kompany tweeted: "Two words.. TIM HOWARD #Respect #BelUSA." That post had received 59,675 re-tweets and 45,242 favorites by early evening Wednesday.
"It's fantastic because it also shows how all the games in the World Cup were received back at home," U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said, "and many people watched this competition maybe more than it was four years ago in South Africa. It's fun to see that, and he deserves every compliment for his game last night."
The hashtag "ThingsTimHowardCouldSave" was trending on Twitter, and fans superimposed his image into all sorts of famous scenes. There's an outstretched Howard preventing the Titanic from sinking, and breaking up Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal.
"With social media, nothing surprises me," Howard said. "There are some very creative and fun individuals out there."
The team was scheduled to fly back to the U.S. late Wednesday, and Howard soon will return to his Premier League club, Everton.
Millions of Americans will be rooting for Howard to play in the 2018 World Cup. That's something Howard will discuss with those close to him.
"What happens going forward with the national team, I don't know," he said. "I don't think it's very black and white, to be honest. I need to figure all that out."
Howard had 15 shutouts — one behind co-leaders Petr Cech of Chelsea and Wojciech Szczesny of Arsenal — in 37 league matches for Everton this season before joining the Americans in mid-May for training camp in Northern California. In the spring, he signed a two-year contract extension through 2018 and is likely to close out his career with Everton.
"He was fantastic. There's no other way to put it," midfielder Michael Bradley said. "He's somebody that we rely on so much for his performances on the field but also his leadership and his presence. So honestly, there's not enough good things to say about him as a player, as a man, as a leader."
Klinsmann knows how much he meant for the Americans reaching back-to-back World Cup knockout rounds.
"I'm lucky to be in a long line of great goalkeepers," Howard said when asked about his legacy. "I don't think you can ever prepare yourself for those types of performances."


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Work continues near sinkhole that swallowed man
SEFFNER, Fla. — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground.
SEFFNER, Fla. — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground.
Jeff Bush, 37, was in his bedroom Thursday night when the earth opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five other people were in the house but managed to escape unharmed. Bush's brother jumped into the hole to try to help, but he had to be rescued himself by a sheriff's deputy.
On Saturday, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokesman Ronnie Rivera said one of the homes next door to the Bush house also was compromised by the sinkhole, as determined through testing. The family, which had evacuated Friday, would be allowed to go inside for about a half-hour to gather belongings, Rivera said. The family was outside, crying and organizing boxes.
Engineers had been testing since 7 a.m. Saturday. By 10 a.m., officials moved media crews farther away from the Bush house so experts could perform tests on the home across the street.
It's unclear how large the sinkhole is or whether it leads to other caverns and chasms throughout the neighborhood. Experts say the underground of West Central Florida looks similar to Swiss cheese, with the geography lending itself to sinkholes.
Experts spent the previous day on the property, taking soil samples and running various tests — while acknowledging that the entire lot where Bush lay entombed was dangerous. No one was allowed in the home.
"I cannot tell you why it has not collapsed yet," Bill Bracken, the owner of an engineering company called to assess the sinkhole, said of the home. He described the earth below as a "very large, very fluid mass."
"This is not your typical sinkhole," said Hillsborough County administrator Mike Merrill. "This is a chasm. For that reason, we're being very deliberate."
Officials delicately addressed another sad reality: Bush was likely dead and the family wanted his body. Merrill, though, said they didn't want to jeopardize any more lives.
"They would like us to go in quickly and locate Mr. Bush," Merrill said. Officials added Saturday morning that a fund had been set up to help the families affected by the sinkhole.
On Saturday, Jeremy Bush — who tried to rescue his brother when the earth opened — lay flowers and a stuffed lamb near the house and wept.
Hillsborough County Fire Chief Ron Roger called the situation "very complex."
"It's continuing to evolve, and the ground is continuing to collapse," he said.
Sinkholes are so common in Florida that state law requires home insurers to provide coverage against the danger. While some cars, homes and other buildings have been devoured, it's extremely rare for them to swallow a person.
Florida is highly prone to sinkholes because there are caverns below ground of limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water.
"You can almost envision a piece of Swiss cheese," Taylor Yarkosky, a sinkhole expert from Brooksville, Fla., said while gesturing to the ground and the sky blue home where the earth opened in Seffner. "Any house in Florida could be in that same situation."
A sinkhole near Orlando grew to 400 feet across in 1981 and devoured five sports cars, most of two businesses, a three-bedroom house and the deep end of an Olympic-size swimming pool.
More than 500 sinkholes have been reported in Hillsborough County alone since the government started keeping track in 1954, according to the state's environmental agency.
The sinkhole, estimated at 20 feet across and 20 feet deep, caused the home's concrete floor to cave in around 11 p.m. Thursday as everyone in the Tampa-area house was turning in for the night. It gave way with a loud crash that sounded like a car hitting the house and brought Bush's brother running.
Jeremy Bush said he jumped into the hole but couldn't see his brother and had to be rescued himself by a sheriff's deputy who reached out and pulled him to safety as the ground crumbled around him.
"The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn't care. I wanted to save my brother," Jeremy Bush said through tears Friday in a neighbor's yard. "But I just couldn't do nothing."
He added: "I could swear I heard him hollering my name to help him."
A dresser and the TV set had vanished down the hole, along with most of Bush's bed.
A sheriff's deputy who was the first to respond to a frantic 911 call said when he arrived, he saw Jeremy Bush.
Deputy Douglas Duvall said he reached down as if he was "sticking his hand into the floor" to help Jeremy Bush. Duvall said he didn't see anyone else in the hole.
As he pulled Bush out, "everything was sinking," Duvall said.
Engineers said they may have to demolish the small house, even though from the outside there appeared to be nothing wrong with the four-bedroom, concrete-wall structure, built in 1974.
Jeremy Bush said someone came out to the home a couple of months ago to check for sinkholes and other things, apparently for insurance purposes.
"He said there was nothing wrong with the house. Nothing. And a couple of months later, my brother dies. In a sinkhole," Bush said.
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