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[stextbox id=”alert” color=”050505″ bcolor=”6cc3f8″ bgcolor=”ffffff” big=”true” image=”null”]School Name: Occidental College
Team Name: Women’s Air Corps
Captains: Alex Wheeler, Caitlin Ruppel, Nicole Copti
Coaches: Mark Hartford, Ben Potash
Jersey Colors: Green and White
2010 Record: 9-10
Tell us a little about yourself. How did you get involved with Ultimate at your school?
Nicole Copti: I became involved with Ultimate my freshman year. I had played basketball for most of my life and I missed playing competitive sports. However, I did not want to play varsity basketball at my school and instead decided to join Ultimate because it was much less of a time commitment and it seemed like fun.
How did your team do last year? What was the highlight of your season?
Nicole: Until last year our team has never had more than 5 dedicated players on the team at any given time. This meant that we would go to tournaments with anywhere from 8 to 10 girls. It was difficult for us to do well at tournaments when we were close to savage. Also, our ability to get better at practices was hindered by the fact that we would only have enough to play 4 on 4 (and that was when we had a good turnout at practice). However, last year we worked very hard to recruit and managed to have a team of 18 players. That in itself was a huge accomplishment for our team. We were also then able to have better practices which meant that we did significantly better at tournaments than we had in the past.
Who is your favorite team to play against?
Nicole: I like playing against UC Irvine. Since we are similar skill levels we play them a lot and because of that I have become friends with many people on the team. It is always a hard-fought, but good-spirited game when we play them.
Tell us about your coaches/captains. What do they bring to your team?
Nicole: Our coaches are key in teaching us how to play. Almost all of the players on our team have never played Ultimate until they came to Oxy. So our coaches have to start from scratch and teach them everything. Our captains’ roles are to be positive role models on the field and to take care of the logistics of the team. Since Ultimate is a club sport, it is on the students to take care of everything. So our captains also have to do all the logistics including getting funding, signing up for tournaments, transportation, etc.
It’s easy to see when someone throws a huge huck or gets a layout D. Who’s a player you have to watch more carefully to see how valuable they are to your team?
Nicole: Leah Glowacki is one of our most solid cutters. She is always cutting hard to right where she needs to be. She makes great continuation cuts which helps us with our offensive flow.
How does your team bring new players up to speed?
Nicole: We start by just working on the fundamentals. Our first few practices of the year work almost solely on throwing, catching, and cutting. We mix our returners and new players so that the new people can learn from the more experienced players. Also, we do small scrimmages with 4 on 4 or 5 on 5 with only a couple returners on each team so that way the new players can touch the disc a lot. In a larger scrimmage the returning players might tend to dominate the disc more.
What has your team been doing this fall to prepare for the spring season?
Nicole: We are going to a couple tournaments and hosting some scrimmages at our campus in order to prepare for next season.
What tournaments do you plan to attend in the spring? Which one are you most looking forward to?
Nicole: We always attend the Stanford Qualifier and Sectionals as well as a couple others. However this year we are looking to add some more tournaments. We are currently fundraising so we can go to Kaimana in Hawaii in February.

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The Alternative Fair is an annual fund-raising event for Metro Justice, an independent, grass-roots, progressive membership organization that works for human rights, equality and economic and environmental justice by raising community awareness and engaging in non-violent action.
It’s time to mark your calendars for METRO JUSTICE’S 31st ANNUAL ALTERNATIVE FAIR!
Holiday family shopping…with a conscience – at Metro Justice’s 31st Annual Alternative Fair, featuring thousands of fair trade, earth friendly, and/or locally produced goods that support a just and sustainable world. This is holiday shopping at prices the whole family can afford,and you’ll find clothing, toys, non-competitive games, pottery, and jewelry
hand crafted by local artists, fair trade imports, and much more.
Door prizes, food (Friday dinner and Saturday brunch), music, and information tables by local progressive organizations will also be available.
HOURS: Friday, November 30, 5-9 PM; Saturday, December 1, 10 AM-2 PM
First Unitarian Church of Rochester
220 South Winton Road
Rochester NY 14610
(building is handicap accessible)
$3 suggested donation for ages 12+. Children under 12 free. FREE CHILD CARE.
See you at the Fair!

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La maison Au bord du Canal
The house "Au bord du Canal" has a very nice view of the château of Chateauneuf en Auxois, a hill-top village classified as one of the prettiest villages of France.
On the other side of the canal, opposite of the house, runs the cycle path ‘la Voie Verte’. This paved path follows the canal for 212 km, good for very agreeable bike riding.
When weather permits we will serve your breakfast, which is included, on the terrace in view of the canal.
Parking space is available 100m from the house, bikes can be in the enclosed garden, or we can stock them in our spacious workshop.
The rooms are bright, spacious and comfortable, you will appreciate the themed decoration about Burgundy, the canal and boats. Actually, each room is named after an existing boat.
The rooms are equipped with an electric kettle for your tea or coffee facilities and a tv. All the four rooms have an ensuite bathroom with shower, washbasin and WC. The three double rooms Lily 17m2, Toiler 14m2and Elektra 17m2 have a view over the canal and the country side. The family room L’Etoile is on two levels, the double room of 18m2 and the room above of 15m2 with two single beds of 90x200. It has also an enclosed baby-bed, and baby equipment.
Plateau de courtoisie avec bouilloire mis à disposition.
Linge de lit fourni.
Visit the château de COMMARIN, the village of Châteauneuf en Auxois.

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Nirvana as mental therapy
Here's Jo Scanlon's advice on the power of alt music:
"accept the ugly stuff."
"Ride the energy."
I dare say the old chickie’s got it. I've believed exactly those things for decades, and won't listen to sappy music, or most classical. Those who listen to dead or lifeless music have got modern life all wrong. You need music that will boil your blood, in order to survive the slings and arrows of life.
I never liked Teen Spirit, but I've always understood the 'therapeutic' passion it brought forth in listeners.
One of the things I do when listening to music is to try to discern where one musician got his ideas from. Often, it sounds like someone has borrowed a few notes from a previous song, intentionally or not. I'd like to do a radio show about musical borrowing.
Anyway, I've linked Teen Spirit, with an old, but timely song, Godzilla:
Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult
[check the starting chord progressions and speed up this turgid, scary tune, to get Teen Spirit]
Next, I should link the song Godzilla back to the FUKushima story, on my other blog. That story tells the 'story' of Godzilla and how it was created from a nuclear leak into the sea, just like what's happening in Fukushima, right now!
Hear the songs picked by Jo Scanlon on BBC Radio4


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The primary obligation of the Broadcasting Standards Authority was to investigate and determine complaints properly, a senior counsel told the High Court of Wellington today.
Its function was not to refuse or "find excuses," said Jack Hodder, representing the Attorney General of Samoa in an appeal hearing before Justice Joseph Williams.
"The authority needs good reasons not to examine a complaint."
Mr Hodder was making final submissions in a two-day case concerning a decision by the BSA not to uphold Samoan Government complaints involving TV3 presenter John Campbell.
They related to two current affairs programmes screened late last year looking at how Samoa was recovering from the devastation wrought by the 2009 tsunami.
The broadcaster allegedly implied that the Government had mismanaged international aid donations. The Attorney General complained that breached accuracy and fairness and Campbell Live viewers were given an inaccurate impression of post-tsunami spending.
Mr Hodder said the complaint was serious and the BSA "went wrong" by not getting further information, despite the complexity of the case.
Lawyer for the authority Andrew Scott-Howman told the court the primary responsibility of the BSA was resolving complaints.
Last financial year it dealt with 250 of them.
Sarah Bacon, representing TV Works, said thousands of informal complaints were dealt with by broadcasting networks in-house.
The authority rarely, if ever, held formal hearings and its response to complaints was prompt, Mr Scott-Howman said.
But the prospect of formal hearings was considered at board level "on occasion," if sought by a complainant or broadcaster.
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The judge questioned whether the authority's current resources and time constraints would allow extra investigations.
BSA operating costs are around $120,000 a year, about half of which is funded by New Zealand broadcasters.
Justice Williams has reserved his decision on the Samoan appeal.

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Rospotrebnadzor ruled out the possibility of transmission of Alaskapox from person to person
How reported in Telegram, the press service of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, today there is no danger of the Alaskapox virus being introduced into the territory of the Russian Federation.
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- The 2014 Audi A6 and S6 earned the top five-star overall safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- The Audi A6 and S6 earned the perfect score, with five stars in frontal, side and rollover crash tests.
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The chilling effect of “kraftwerk I/II” on sound sampling
- 3 March 2015
Sound sampling has become a mature musical technique. We are years beyond the notion of “sound rip-off”. This art form still faces needless limitations due to legal uncertainty and high transaction costs while the technical options for sampling are now nearly without limit. German and American courts have narrowed the leeway for sample users and the question is whether the Dutch courts will follow. It is high time for selfregulation to stimulate sound sampling as an art form.
Using even a two-second sound sample can infringe the related rights of the phonogram producer. Like the seven-differences myth 2 in the field of design, the rumor in the music world has been that a six-second sample is permitted. If it was not already clear that this is not the case, the German Federal Court of Justice, the Bundesgerichtshof, recently sent the six-second rumor off to the land of fairy tales. In its two rulings in “Metall auf Metall I/II”” (the cases are also known as “Kraftwerk I/II”) the German Federal Court of Justice clearly stated that any take-over of any sound fragment recorded in a phonogram – however small – can infringe the related rights of the phonogram producer. That means that the phonogram producer has what amounts to an absolute right to its sound recording and its investment in it enjoys maximum protection. Good news for the phonogram producers, bad news for users of sound samples. There has already been great to-do about sound sampling in the international music world. Here is an overview.
To sample or not to sample
Sound sampling is a special way of using music that takes and repurposes often small snippets of existing musical works and/or music recordings, other sounds, and/or voices in new music productions. The development of the technology has had great influence on the nature and extent of sound sampling. Where the equipment needed to sample was quite expensive well into the 1980s, new hardware and software has gradually appeared on the market that has made digital sound sampling quite a bit cheaper and easier. Today it is possible to sample from home – as they say – with one push of a button. The use of sound samples in new music productions has consequently increased, exponentially…

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We'll try to give a gentle, and somewhat idiosyncratic, introduction to finance and financial markets by looking at them from a number of different perspectives. As mentioned earlier, we make no pretense of completeness and readers are encouraged to follow up with readings from other sources.
Financial instruments or securities are essentially contracts which package capital or wealth in a tradeable form. Financial markets are the "places" in which the buyers and sellers of financial instruments meet. Sometimes this occurs in an actual physical location such as the New York Stock Exchange, within a virtual space such as the NASDAQ or in a decentralized fashion such as certain over-the-counter or OTC markets.
What are sometimes called underlying securities (This choice of terminology will become clearer shortly.) fall into three broad categories:
An example of an equity security is common stock which represent shares of ownership of a corporation. Long-term debt is often represented by a bond in which a corporation sells a bond in return for agreeing to pay the purchaser a series of interest payments over a fixed term at the end of which the original amount loaned is returned. International trade involves dealing in more than one nation's currency and the foreign exchange markets are organized to accomplish this.
A derivative security is a security whose price is determined by the price of some underlying asset or security. We'll cover two of the simpler examples:
Derivatives were originally developed as a means of controlling risk. For example, an airline concerned about the possibilty of a price increase in jet fuel could enter into a futures contract today to receive a fixed amount of fuel sometime in the future. The other side of the trade, to deliver that fuel, might be taken by an oil company concerned about the possibility of a price drop. The contract insulates them against price changes and allows them to plan and price their operations with less risk.
Derivatives generally require less capital than direct investment in the underlying. Thus, they can also be used by speculators to make pure bets on price movements. The structure of derivatives can become quite complex and much of quantitative finance is concerned with designing and pricing them.
Another way to understand financial markets is by examining the roles of its participants. The most common role is taken up by investors who seek to participate in the economic activity of society by purchasing either units of ownership (e.g., stocks) or by loaning money (bonds). On the other side are issuers who offer such financial instruments in order to raise capital for their operations. Facilitating such exchanges are investment bankers who help to structure such instruments and bring the issuers and investors together.
This initial issuance is done on what is called the primary market. Of course, once such instruments have been issued they can be sold on what is called the secondary market or after market. For example, stockholderes who themselves need capital or who believe their stocks are overvalued can sell them to other investors in the secondary market.
Within the financial markets that are organized to bring investor and issuers together traders enter the picture. Some traders are speculators who are not focused on the long-term economic income or growth, but in exploiting short-term movements in prices, e.g., due to local supply and demand imbalances. Others are hedgers who trade financial instruments in order to reduce their risk, in effect buying insurance against some possible, undesirable, future outcome. Finally, there are arbitrageurs who buy and sell related instruments whose prices are inconsistent with one another.
Facilitating such trading activity are market makers, brokers and banks whose role it is to maintain inventories of financial instruments and bring buyers and sellers together in an orderly fashion.
There are many overlaps and synergies in the activities listed below; nevertheless, most quant positions have a specific focus within the firm: to make money by trading the firm’s own capital, to support the frontline traders, to create new financial products, to measure and control risk, or maintain investment portfolios that meet certain objectives. and so forth.
Associated with each area of practice are many complex problems that still remain to be solved. These represent opportunities for researchers in both academia and industry.
Proprietary trading in alternative investments is trading done for the direct benefit of the owners of the firm; this is opposed to agency trading which is trading done for the benefit of its customers. Traditional financial institutions often engage in proprietary trading as an important sideline. Hedge funds, typically organized as limited partnerships, do so as their primary business activity.
Among the alternative investment strategies are convertible arbitrage, various forms of leveraged long-short equity, emerging markets, distressed debt, merger arbitrage, fixed income arbitrage, global macro, managed futures, and private equity. Within each category, there are typically sub-categories. As examples, convertible arbitrage can be broken down into capital structure arbitrage, mandatory converts, synthetic puts, volatility arbitrage, and credit arbitrage; long-short equity can be broken down into general long-short equity, dedicated short bias and equity market neutral.
For trading desks, pricing complex instruments and transactions rapidly and accurately while simultaneously managing risk in manner consistent with firm-wide objectives are critical capabilities. Quantitative analysts provide the mathematical talent required to build and maintain these decision support systems. Both proprietary implementations built in-house and commercial systems sold as turnkey solutions are used. The trading activities themselves may either be proprietary or customer related.
The precise manner in which "quants" are integrated into the trading desk varies from case to case. If a desk is executing trades output from an automated system, then the objective is often not what to trade but how to execute with minimal impact on the market. In contrast, a market maker must match incoming buys and sells and often commits its own capital to maintain an orderly market; in todays markets, volumes are so high and trades are executed so quickly that this cannot be accomplished without analytic support. In other cases, traders operate in areas without well organized exchanges, such a mortgage backed securities, and must be able to run complex models to price these instruments as they negotiate with counterparties.
On the sell side investment banks and other financial institutions provide research reports and other forms of analytical support to their customers. These supports may be provided gratis as a means of maintaining client relationships or stimulating the demand for a firm’s services. A visit to any number of brokerage websites will give you an indication of how pervasive this is.
In other cases, these services may be paid for by the investing organization itself. Companies, universities and other organziations maintain significant portfolios of financial assets in the form of pension funds, endownments and sinking funds (monies set aside to fund an activity or purchase in the future). Smaller firms hire outside consultants to advise them in the management these assets. Larger organizations maintain their own staff of professionals, though they still may use consultants to provide an independent review.
An increasing share of the business undertaken by investment banks has been in the form of exotic options, hybrid securities and collateralized obligations. These products are used to enhance return or to insure against legal, fiscal, regulatory or liquidity risks—some of which are company specific and may require customized solutions.
An example has been the development of collateralized obligations. The most common of these are mortgage-backed securities (MBSs), which break apart a payment stream into sub-deals or tranches, e.g., separating the principal and interest streams, POs and IOs, respectively. In turn, derivatives of these tranches can be created, e.g., in which the yield from a fixed rate IO is swapped with a floating rate.
Other examples include hybrid securities that overlay various fixed income or equity investments with derivatives to enhance yield or create a more tax efficient income stream. For example, a debtor can combine a fixed rate bond with a receiver swaption to give an issuer the benefits of both a fixed and floating rate bond. This structure allows the issuer to retain fixed rate payments if rates rise but switch to floating rate payments if rates fall, albeit with an “insurance” cost.
These products involve complex provisions and are difficult to price. They often demand the assessment of events and probabilities for which there is no or only an illiquid “market”. This difficulty, however, is an opportunity. Financial institutions are in a better position to model these instruments, trade them at an attractive spread, and, as counterparties to many such deals, build internal portfolios whose component risks offset one another.
Laws and regulations dealing with credit and captial requirements have been around for decades, in certain forms for centuries. However, recent catastrophic, high profile failures of hedge funds and investment banks have led to a call for a more consistent, verifiable, quantitative, firm-wide approach to risk monitoring and control. Firms now recognize that, with the increasing complexity of financial products and markets, the organization's survival depends upon being able to define and enforce coherent risk management policies.
Defining, developing, implementing, operating and maintaining the necessary infrastructure to accomplish this is a demanding task. It requires a deep understanding of a wide spectrum of financial instruments and how exposure to them is financed. There are also significant technical challenges in real-time processing, high performance databases, and visualization.
Portfolio management deals with the identification of financial objectives and their translation into a portfolio of assets that must be managed over time in the face of uncertain investment performance and consumption demands. This is no simple task: There are thousands of potential investments related to one another in complex ways, an enormous number of parameters which must be estimated in a statistically meaningful fashion, and a system of operational, business and legal goals and requirements which must be expressed in a consistent mathematical framework.
Once this foundation has been set down, the challenges associated with making the choice of assets in a portfolio are formidable. Even with the guidance of existing theory, there are many real world issues that complicate the solutions. We are dealing with underlying parameters that are nonstationary and poorly understood and with transactions costs that are highly nonlinear and uncertain. Such complications, in turn, mean that standard single period approaches may be only poor representations of the actual problem.
Individuals in this area may work either as in-house portfolio managers or as outside consultants. Large portfolios such pension funds, corporate sinking funds, and university endowments typically employ both in-house and consulting talent. However, all investors, even individuals managing their 401(k)s, require these services.
There are practical problems that must be solved “well enough” to allow the players in financial markets and in the financial service industries to operate but for which the best available approaches involve compromises that employ oversimplified models because of limitations of theory, available data or computational resources. Modern theories, despite their elegance and utility, fail to adequately account for many of the nuances of real markets. These limitations represent opportunities for the academic or industrial researcher.
Advice, from any quarter, needs to taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it is useful to read the ideas and experiences of those who have gone before you.

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This Friday it'll be Madhuri all the wayJan 8, 2014 IANS
New Dehi, Jan 7 (IANS) After a gap of seven years, Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit is back to woo moviegoers with "Dedh Ishqiya". Coming out Friday, the film, not a regular masala film, has loads of entertaining elements, including the actress' never-seen-before avatar. The weekend also has another love story, "Yaariyan", hitting the screens.
Even though the film is a sequel to 2010 "Ishqiya", it is apparently different in its treatment and subject.
Although director Abhishek Chaubey dropped Vidya Balan, seen in the original, he has retained Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin for the part two. Huma Qureshi joins them in the cast.
Naseeruddin and Arshad will reprise their roles of Khalujaan and Babban respectively from the original.
Made on a budget of approximately Rs.15 crore, the women-centric hinterland drama has been jointly produced by Raman Maroo of Shemaroo Entertainment and Vishal Bharadwaj, who has also co-scripted the film.
For those looking for teenage, candyfloss romance, debutante director Divya Khosla's "Yaariyan" may satiate their appetite.
"Yaariyan" features Miss India 2011 Rakul Preet Singh, TV show "Humse Hai Life" actor Himansh Kohli, Miss Earth 2010 Nicole Faria and Serah Singh. Produced by T-Series, the music for the film has been composed by Pritam, Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Arko Pravo Mukherjee and Anupam Amod.
Khosla, who is married to producer Bhushan Kumar, has also choreographed five songs for the college-based romantic drama. The songs are "Baarish", "Meri maa", "Love me thoda aur", "Allah waariyan" and "Zor lagake haishaa".
The film fraternity has supported "Yaariyan" in different forms.
For instance, "Yaariyan" title was registered with Saif Ali Khan's company but he gave it to Kumar for free. Another well-known filmmaker, Mahesh Bhatt, launched the trailer of the film.
The film was earlier expected to release Jan 31, but Kumar decided to advanced this after an encouraging response to the film's first song "ABCD", which got one million views on video-sharing website YouTube within just two days of its release.
While "Dedh Ishqiya" is known for its star cast, "Yaariyan" has been in the news for its music.
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Located in Northampton, The Ellery is in the historical district, a 4-minute walk from Smith College and 8 minutes by foot from Smith College Botanic Garden. This bed & breakfast is 1 mi (1.7 km) from Calvin Theater and 4 mi (6.5 km) from Hadley Farm Museum.
A complimentary continental breakfast is served daily from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
Make yourself at home in one of the 32 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and irons/ironing boards, and housekeeping is provided on request.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Smith College - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Smith College Botanic Garden - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Cooley Dickinson Hospital - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi
Congregation Beth Israel - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Academy of Music Theater - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Dinosaur Footprints - 1.4 km / 0.9 mi
Lyman Conservatory - 1.4 km / 0.9 mi
Calvin Theater - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Calvin Theatre and Performing Arts Center - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Don Muller Gallery - 1.6 km / 1 mi
Historic Northampton - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
Spare Time Bowling - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
Connecticut River Greenway State Park - 2.9 km / 1.8 mi
Connecticut River - 3.4 km / 2.1 mi
Look Memorial Park - 3.8 km / 2.3 mi
The nearest airports are:
Bradley Intl. Airport (BDL) - 51.2 km / 31.8 mi
Westfield, MA (BAF-Barnes Municipal) - 21.7 km / 13.5 mi
The preferred airport for The Ellery is Bradley Intl. Airport (BDL).
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If no other good has come of having two sick children this past week, at least there is this: since I wasn’t able to go out for a run, I managed to get the final three yoga workouts in. I’m pretty sure I feel much stronger for having done that, although it is a little tough to tell. Is my back sore because I’ve been strengthening it? Or is it sore because I strained it somehow? Let’s hope it is the former.
As far as cooking goes, I had planned to make this lentil and barley soup from the Pepin cookbook I got for Christmas. But then I remembered that I had a bag of Lindsay’s lentil soup that I made a few weeks ago in the freezer. So I took that out, put it in a pot, added some barley and voila! There’s my barley dish. Right?
Okay, I thought that might be a little bit of a cop-out, so I came up with something else as well. Something I never would have thought of in a million years: barley scones. As in scones made with barley flour. They turned out well. Dense, yes. But still moist and flavorful. The boys had them for dinner (they both passed on the soup, and I let them because I’m so happy to not have them throwing up any more) and enjoyed them thoroughly smeared with blackberry jam. I just ate one of the leftovers and I’m happy to report that more than 24 hours later, it is still tasty and delicious.
If you are participating in the RSBC 2012 challenge, don’t forget to send me your recipes tonight! I’ll post them tomorrow.
I was told you are supposed to use dry measuring cups to measure the liquid ingredients in this, so that is what I did. Both the butter and agave nectar went into the dry measuring cups.
1 cup barley flour (I ground my flour from whole pearled barley in my blender — it was not as fine as you get if it is professionally ground, but it works and it adds a bit of a delightful crunch)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/3 cup agave nectar
1/3 cup melted butter
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup hot water
3/4 cup blackberries
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Whisk together the flours, baking powder, salt and spices. Add the agave nectar, butter and vanilla. Stir until a dry batter forms. Add the hot water and stir just until all of the flour is absorbed. Gently fold in the blackberries.
Place 1/3 cup measurements of batter onto the parchment, rounding the edges slightly with dampened fingers. Brush the tops with melted butter (or don’t, if you don’t want to). Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Let the scones cool on the baking sheet for 15 minutes before eating. Serve with butter or jam. Or both. Leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for a day or two.


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(Ecofin Agency) - The country is relying on the regional market to meet its growing financing needs due to its difficulties in accessing international markets. During the first half of 2022, it was cut off from the regional financial market but, when it finally entered during the second semester, its operations were steady. This year, the country wants to keep that pace.
In 2022, Mali raised XOF785 billion (US1.3 billion) from the West African financial market to pay its outstanding debts and finance its budget deficit. Comforted by the trust investors placed in its securities last year, the country has raised the volume of funding it wants to source in the market this year.
According to information disclosed by the Malian delegation at the 5thPublic Securities Market Meetings (REMTP 2023) held from January 24 to 26 in Dakar, the country plans to raise more than XOF1,359 billion (US$2.26 billion) in the market in 2023. The amount exceeds 60% of Mali's 2023 budget estimated at XOF2,200 billion (US$3.65 billion).
Specifically, this year, the country expects XOF189 billion (US$314 million) through the issuance of treasury bills and the remaining XOF1,170 billion (US$1.9 billion) through the issuance of syndicated government bonds.
During the same period, the country is scheduled to refund XOF555 billion (US$922 million) in principal.
Last year, Mali, which returned to the regional market after over six months of being out due to sanctions raised XOF94 billion (US$156 million) through treasury bills, XOF361 billion (US$600 million) through the issuance of fungible treasury bonds and XOF330 billion (US$548 million) through syndicated government bonds.
This strong interest in the local market was somehow forced by major rating agencies downgrading the country's sovereign rating following the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS due to the political and diplomatic situation prevailing in Mali.
In September 2022, Moody's changed the country's outlook from negative to stable, the Caa2 rating was still making it hard for Bamako to access international markets, especially in a context marked by tightened access conditions. At the same time, regional rating agency Bloomfield was attributing a BBB long-term rating and an A3 short-term rating with a stable outlook (significantly better than the rating attributed by Moody's) to the country, making it easy for Mali to enter the regional market.
Let's note that despite the security crisis, Malian authorities expect growth to be around 5.1% growth this year, against 3.7% in 2022. Inflation is also expected to be around 2.5% while debt-to-GDP is forecasted to be around 55.3%.
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Kayla McBride knows what it is like to play during the most critical portion of a WNBA season, leading the Stars as a rookie in scoring against Minnesota in a first-round 2014 playoff series.
Back then, the Stars were led by Becky Hammon and Sophia Young-Malcolm. They were perennial playoff qualifiers. But Hammon retired after that season and Young-Malcolm followed a year later. The prospect of a rebuilding process was inescapable.
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It was a concept McBride understood at the time. Two years later, the Stars are still building toward the future. McBride begrudgingly accepts this reality.
The Stars were 1-16 at the season’s midway point, the worst start in franchise history. Only the Atlanta Dream has a worse start, going 0-17 in 2008.
Paced by McBride, Erika de Souza, Dearica Hamby and Kelsey Plum, the Stars defeated Indiana 79-72 Wednesday, recording their first road win this season and snapping a 12-game road losing streak that dated back to last year.
“That’s what you get with a young team and this year of rebuilding,” McBride said July 7 after the team’s loss against Phoenix. “I think we’re still building our foundation and it’s a process. It’s tough as a fourth-year player. You don’t want to go through the process anymore, you want to win. But I trust coach (Vickie) Johnson and (general manager) Ruth (Riley) with what they’re doing. This is my home. I’ll do anything to make sure that we’re on top again.”
The climb has been a steep one — and this season has shown there is plenty of work still to do. Earning a postseason berth and even approaching a .500 record are extremely unlikely.
The Stars simply are trying to avoid having the league’s worst record for the third straight year.
“For us to stay in games for four quarters, we have to go through this process,” McBride said. “You see us, we have spurts; we have times where we are clicking. When you play for a whole 40 minutes, you get a win. But when we have those lapses, good teams are going to take advantage of it. So we have to be able to counter back.”
The Stars began the season aspiring to turn things around. The team had drafted Plum with the No. 1 overall pick in April’s draft and forward Nia Coffey with the No. 5 pick. It signed de Souza in free agency and traded for Isabelle Harrison. Suddenly, a core geared for the short and long terms appeared in place.
But Plum was slowed by a sprained right ankle, second-year point guard Moriah Jefferson was hampered by a sore right knee, and McBride missed the team’s first two games while concluding her club season in Turkey.
Despite the injuries to Plum and Jefferson and McBride’s absence, the Stars put themselves in position to win their first two games. But 12 missed free throws in the season opener against New York on May 13 and a poor rebounding showing a day later vs. Washington established the tone for the season. Poor execution in crucial moments led the team to 0-14 start, the worst in franchise history and the second-worst in league history.
“I know things don’t always work out, and you just have to accept that process,” Harrison said. “It’s not going to be the way you wanted it to be or thought it would be, but just accepting the process because the time is going to come if you put in the work, if you have the determination. Now it’s up to you just to climb up from there.
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3. The Committee welcomes the legislative and other measures adopted by the State party since the examination of its initial report, including the following:
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Different foods and drinks contain different nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. Some foods or drinks contain a large amount of one nutrient than the other. “Fat” used to be a bad word in nutrition. Several years ago, your doctor might have recommended that you limit or avoid fat in your diet to prevent weight gain and health problems. Now doctors know that all fats aren’t bad. In fact, some fats lower your cholesterol level and help keep you healthy. Dietary fat can be classified into four groups. These are:
Saturated Fats: These linked to increasing levels of Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) or bad cholesterol in the blood, increasing the risk of heart disease. Most commonly – but not exclusively – found in significant amounts in animal products such as the fats in red meats, beef, pork, and chicken. Leaner animal products, such as chicken breast or pork loin, often have less saturated fat. These fats are solid at room temperature.
Unsaturated Fats (poly and mono): They are usually liquid at room temperature but will begin to thicken when chilled. They have less of an effect on elevating blood cholesterol levels. However, it doesn’t mean you can overeat them. Fats are still fats and you want a low total fat intake as well. These come from plant sources such as olives, nuts, or seeds but can also be present in fish.
Trans Fats: These are also called trans-unsaturated fatty acids or trans fatty acids. There are two types of this fat; natural ones and artificial ones. The naturally occurring ones are found in small amounts in some animal products such as meat, whole milk, and milk products however, there’s not enough research out there to determine the impact these types of trans fats have on your health, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).
The artificial trans fat is considered by many doctors to be the worst type of fat you can eat why is it so? well, it spike your LDL cholesterol, which clogs your arteries. It has been linked to increasing the risk of coronary artery disease. You can check the food label to find out if trans fat is in your food choices. Trans fat can often be found in margarine, snack food, most cakes, icing etc.
The phrase “healthy fat” usually refers to monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. So what makes them healthy? Well, they help reduce LDL cholesterol or “bad” Cholesterol, the kind that clogs your arteries. Research (1) also shows they can benefit insulin and blood sugar levels, decreasing the risk of type 2 diabetes. According to Dana Hunnes, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., senior dietician at UCLA Medical Center and adjunct assistant professor at the Fielding School of Public Health, Monounsaturated fats are among the healthiest of all fats. “These are anti-inflammatory, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, and are full of healthy nutrients.” Read on and find out these healthy fats that are good for you.
Seeds And Nuts
Sunflower seeds, cashews, pumpkin seeds, almonds, hazelnuts flax (grind these in a coffee grinder to release nutrients) and chia seeds are all excellent, heart-healthy options to add to your diet. They are rich in monounsaturated fats like omega-3 fatty acids that suppress inflammation and are a good source of protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals like vitamin E, iron, and magnesium (a mineral that most people don’t get enough of.) Add to a your salads or smoothies for a healthy,nutritious boost.
Obviously but avocados used to be shunned because of their high fat content, now we know that the monounsaturated fat (oleic acid) in avocados is healthy. Avocados may also help you feel full, according to a small study published in the Journal of Nutrition (2). Avocados are about 77% fat, by calories, making them even higher in fat than most animal foods. Even though they are high in fat and calories, another study shows that people who eat avocados tend to weigh less and have less belly fat than those who don’t (3). They are also an excellent source of potassium and fiber, and have been shown to have major benefits for cardiovascular health.
Good news for chocoholics! Yes, chocolate is healthy, given that you eat the right kind of chocolate. By eating chocolate with at least 70% cocoa, you can actually reap the amazing health benefits it offers. The cocoa bean contains all the nutrients dark chocolate has to offer, which include vitamins A, B, and E, along with calcium, iron, and potassium. The fat found in the cocoa butter used to make chocolate is comprised of oleic acid, which is a monounsaturated fat similar to what you’d find in avocados and olive oil. Since it is easy to overeat chocolate, so you need to watch your portion sizes hence portion control is absolutely necessary when it comes to dark chocolate.
Coconut Oil is high in saturated fat. The main type of saturated fat in coconut oil is lauric acid, which is known for its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. It is also unique from other sources of saturated fats because it contains medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) which are metabolized differently (they go straight from the liver to the digestive tract and can then be used as a quick source of energy rather than getting stored.) Coconut oil can also increase your good cholesterol levels, or HDLs, and it’s great for cooking with high temperatures.
The current dietary recommendations are to include fish in your meals at least twice per week. Salmon is high in omega-3 fatty acids but if salmon is not your thing, you can get the same omega-3 fat benefits from other cold-water fish like tuna, sardines, lake trout and mackerel. Salmon is an excellent source of vitamin A and protein. These fatty fishes not only makes you feel full, they help power your brain too.
Olive oil is the original healthy fat. The fruit itself has tons of antioxidants that can help prevent heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The healthy monounsaturated fat (oleic acid) can increase good cholesterol and reduce blood pressure, too. Olive oil is available as extra-virgin, virgin, and just plain olive oil. Extra-virgin comes from the first press of olives, and is typically the most expensive. It has a stronger flavor and more green color. It is good for dressings or to dip bread because it has a lower smoke point. Similarly, virgin olive oil is made from pressing already crushed olives and is slightly more acidic. Plain olive oil has a higher smoke point that virgin and extra-virgin and can be used for cooking and baking too. It has a lighter color and a milder flavor. Don’t overeat it, because all fats are relatively high in calories and 1 tablespoon of olive oil has about 120 calories.
Cheese is an excellent source of protein, calcium, and minerals, but it may even be beneficial for appetite control. Aged cheeses like Parmesan are a good source of probiotics, which promote healthy digestion and weight loss. Two tablespoons of grated Parmesan contain about 45 calories, 2 grams fat, and 2 grams saturated fat. One of the healthiest ways to get your cheese fix: As a garnish on a salad. It adds flavor to your bowl, and the fat helps you absorb the nutrients in the veggies. Make sure to pay attention to serving sizes and adjust as needed depending on your daily calorie goals since it is still a high-fat food.


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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SESSIONS
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The International Olympic Academy publishes every year the proceedings of its annual Sessions and Seminars, which are being distributed to the participants of the Sessions and to all NOCs and NOAs and are available electronically on the IOA’s website.
The proceedings of the Session for Young Participants –the so-called blue books- were published in the IOA’s three official languages, French, English and Greek until 2014. As of 2015 they are published in English. The proceedings of the other IOA’s Sessions are published in English.
The IOA thus makes available to all the outcome of its Sessions, the lectures of eminent lecturers, the short presentations of the participants, the conclusions of their discussions etc, creating a small, valuable library for every researcher in the field of Olympic Studies.

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I remember a time when meeting someone who was just as damaged was a bit of a relief. Everyone walking…
The problem was, I put her on a pedestal. Not that she didn’t deserve the utmost respect and adoration, but I had idealized her as the perfect woman. Sadly, there is no such thing as a perfect woman, or perfect person for that matter. All we can really hope for is someone who fits into our lives, tolerates our mood swings, and still has enough left over to love us despite all of our inconsistencies. But I had viewed her as flawless. And like I have said before, when you idealize someone, you dehumanize them to the point that you will inevitably end up disappointed because no one is perfect and can live up to your romanticized ideal of a human being.
And really, the reality of that sucks. We all want to believe there is this absolute perfect person out there that can make us feel fulfilled and remember to take the garbage out and not get on our nerves but unfortunately, that only exists in brief and fleeting moments. But that doesn’t mean that we are doomed to forever be alone. It simply means that we need to keep a more realistic approach to finding a partner. Because that is only fair to everyone.
It really is an interesting concept when you think about it within the context of a relationship. We are taught to get what we can out of situations and people. Since the minute we are thrown into this world, we are subconsciously taught to be opportunists. That we are little “princes” and “princesses” and we deserve the best that life has to offer – without being told that we have to EARN what we deserve. Coupled with the fact that so much of youth culture revolves around songs and memes that not-so-ironically talk about putting yourself first in all situations. Which is reasonable to an extent, but the message of self-confidence can easily get obscured when you’re singing along to “fuck bitches, get money” and “I do me first” and “bros before hoes”. And it is that warped sense of entitlement that sets us up to fail at any real and genuine attempt we make at a healthy relationship.
See, it works like this – we find a person we think is amazing. We get to know them, they excite us with possibility, we let down our guard, and we exhale. We allow ourselves to be vulnerable and fall in love. Great. Perfect. It’s what most of us have always wanted. But the issues lies when someone inevitably wants more. They want more alone time. Or they want more of your time. Or they want more control of your time. Or they want more of a say in your life. Or they want you to come to them. For you to put forth more effort. To make more dinners. To do all the dishes. To pay all the time. To drive everywhere. To make significantly more sacrifices and compromises than they are willing to make because their definition of effort is drastically different than yours.
And unfortunately, I know some of you can identify with that. You know what it’s like to feel like you’ve been taken advantage of. That your time was not treated with the respect it has earned. And that sucks. But worst of all, it creates animosity. It creates a hostile atmosphere within your relationship dynamic because you don’t feel like you’re being treated fairly. And when someone doesn’t feel like they’re being treated fairly, it opens up the door for things like disrespect, lies, infidelity, stealing, and a host of other hidden vengeful behaviors.
And what makes it even worse is when you realize you’re being super shitty to them and it infuriates you even more because you’re now upset that they have such control over your emotions that they successfully dug out the worst parts of you. You begin to behave in embarrassing ways. Ways you promised yourself a long time ago you would no longer exhibit. Behaviors you believed you had grown past. But somehow, this person managed to bring them out in you and that makes you resentful. And that’s when you know you’ve lost all hope for a healthy relationship, because it is impossible to grow when you feel resentful, taken advantage of, and like you’re being treated unfairly.
All of us will feel like we have the upper-hand in a relationship at some point, but how we deal with it is directly representative of our character and what we deserve. If you are responsible with your power and don’t take advantage of it, then you have earned a healthy relationship. But at some point, most of us will feel like we are on the uneven side of the relationship as well. And how we communicate our feelings is directly proportionate to the self-confidence we have inside of us. And we all need to learn how to effectively and respectfully communicate with someone if we believe we deserve any semblance of a fair and healthy long-term relationship.
No relationship will ever be truly equal simply because no one can get inside our heads and understand our individual needs no matter how many times we shout about them. But what we can do is try. Try to keep it so it consistently hovers around equal. Because we all need to feel like we are getting back what we are putting in. And that is the definition of fair. And that is the foundation of our happiness.

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Analysis: Collective bargaining not worth it for teachers
Published: February 1st, 2019
Oklahoma should follow the example of other states that are moving away from collective bargaining in K-12 education. It’s not just bad for kids, it’s bad for teachers.
I’m not against unions. My wife worked for a union for years, volunteering long hours as an employee advocate in company dispute resolution. The union was the only protection in her workplace from corporate mistreatment and contract violations.
But collective bargaining and representation simply isn’t a good fit for K-12 teachers. Doctors and lawyers don’t unionize. The nature of the work they do just doesn’t permit the standardization, controlled processes, and highly specified work outputs that are necessary for collective bargaining to be effective.
Teachers are like doctors and lawyers. Standardizing the work they do into a one-size-fits-all mold creates major headaches. But collective bargaining demands standardization, so processes and outputs can be negotiated.
The standardization demanded by collective bargaining is a major factor in all the complaints we’re accustomed to hearing from public-school teachers — useless paperwork, unreasonable rules, rigid systems, dysfunctional bureaucracy. In a 2009 study of national data from the U.S. Department of Education, I compared public and private school teachers.
The difference in teacher working conditions was dramatic.
Private school teachers, unhindered by the standardization of collective bargaining, were much more likely to have a great deal of control over selection of textbooks and instructional materials (53 percent v. 32 percent); content, topics, and skills to be taught (60 percent v. 36 percent); performance standards for students (40 percent v. 18 percent), curriculum (47 percent v. 22 percent) and discipline policy (25 percent v. 13 percent).
Private school teachers were also less likely to report that various categories of student misbehavior disrupted their classes, and four times less likely to say student violence is a problem on at least a monthly basis (12 percent v. 48 percent).
It’s true that collective bargaining brings a moderate increase in pay. The Oklahoma State Department of Education reports that in 2016-17, the average high school teacher made $39,319 and the average elementary school teacher made $37,851. (This was before the $6,100 average pay raise teachers got this year.) In the same year, according to the Oklahoma Private School Accreditation Commission, the average private school teacher salary across all grades was $36,947. Public school teachers also get better benefits and have job security protections.
But teachers don’t live by bread alone. In my study, I found that private school teachers are more satisfied with their jobs, even at somewhat lower pay.
They were much more likely than public school teachers to agree that they planned to remain teaching as long as they could (62 percent v. 44 percent). They were less likely to agree that they only planned to teach until retirement (12 percent v. 33 percent), that they would leave teaching immediately if a job with a higher salary were available (12 percent v. 20 percent), that teaching “isn’t really worth it” because of the stress and disappointments (6 percent v. 13 percent) and that they sometimes feel like teaching is a waste of time (9 percent v. 17 percent). They were even slightly more likely to be satisfied with their salaries (51 percent v. 46 percent).
We should rethink whether teachers are well served by collective bargaining. Teachers don’t like our one-size-fits-all schools any more than parents do.
NOTE: Greg Forster (Ph.D., Yale University) is a Friedman Fellow with EdChoice, the author of seven books, and a regular contributor for the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (www.ocpathink.org). His essays appear occasionally here at CapitolBeatOK.com.


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Cliff Waters is a rare human at the College of United Monsters (C.U.M.). Because of his name, he’s mistakenly assigned to the Underwater Wing of the college, but Cliff is never one to back down from a challenge, and so he takes it in stride. Fortunately, the merfolk are more than willing to give him the merfolk’s kiss so he can breathe underwater. They also have a leg fetish, so Cliff is very popular. But Cliff is intrigued by the purple-haired merman who keeps swimming away, and when they have a chance to finally meet, Cliff finds out exactly who Humbolt McKracken really is.
I picked this one up because it was just too ridiculous for words, and I got exactly what I wanted. Yes, it’s ridiculous, but in the best possible way. It’s a fun and campy romp, it breaks the fourth wall, and really, is just a fun read. The first chapter is titled Suspension of Disbelief 101 and that’s exactly what you need to do.
To give you a flavor of the book, I offer this quote:
All of Cliff’s problems today had been caused by a punny name. Of course he would have known that already, if he’d read the book blurb.
And there you have it. This book pokes fun at itself, and often breaks the fourth wall by being clear that it knows it’s a story. What totally sold me on the story was the complete over the topness of it. Because it was written to be that way. I particularly loved how every time Cliff questioned something, his C.U.M. app would beep to let him know that his Suspension of Disbelief grade was falling. It was a constant, and hilarious, reminder that the book was ridiculous on purpose, and just to enjoy it for what it is.
There’s a lot of silly going on in this book. Random sex and leg fetishes, oversexed merfolk, and a dragon headmistress. Hysterical references to underwater beekeeping. Tentacle sex. There were also some sweet and tender moments as well. And through it all, an unwavering humor that made me actually laugh out loud.
This story might not be for everyone, but I truly enjoyed it. I can’t wait to see what else is in store for this series, and what the author will come up with next. It’s a definite winner, and if you’re looking for something fun and ridiculous because it was meant to be, then this is the story for you.