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The latest study on the role that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may play on young girls’ sexual behavior shows what public health experts have long maintained — that the shot, which protects against the virus that causes genital warts, does not lead teenage girls or young women to start having unsafe sex. Nor does it change the opinions of girls who already think unsafe sex isn’t a big deal.
The new analysis, published in the journal Pediatrics, comes from researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, who studied more than 300 young women between the ages of 13 and 21 right after they received the HPV vaccine, and again six months later. The researchers asked the girls about their views on a variety of sex-related issues, such as what they thought about the risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) other than HPV after the vaccination and whether they were sexually active.
Their answers showed that getting the vaccine did not change their sexual activity, nor did it alter their perceptions of how likely they were to get an STI such as HPV. The vaccine also did not modify how they felt about safe sex; getting immunized also did not affect whether they thought they would get other STIs.
The researchers concluded that that vaccine therefore does not lead to riskier behaviors, as some anti-vaccine advocates have worried, and believe the data should help doctors to improve vaccination rates; currently, a third of eligible girls and only 7% of boys in the U.S. who should receive the shot have gotten all three doses.
HPV is a common sexually transmitted disease that affects about 79 million Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and about 14 million new people will be infected each year. Although most HPV infections resolve on their own, the virus is also the most common cause of cervical cancer, which is why federal health experts added the shot to the childhood immunization schedule in 2007 for girls aged 11 or 12, and for boys of the same age in 2011 in the hopes of protecting people from both STIs and cancer as early as possible.
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American bank Citi today said it has appointed Niraj Parekh as the head of finance for its operations in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
In any market, a 10% correction from the top is not supposed to mean too much worry for medium to long-term investors, says Niraj Dalal.
I would be very disappointed if in the next 12 to 18 months you do not have infra stocks and power stocks moving up significantly.
In an interview with ET, he spoke about the shift in marketing strategies of professionals & the changing marketing curriculum in business schools.
Police registered a case against several people and named 15 people in the case based on an FIR registered by the son of the deceased, Iqbal.
CBI today filed a charge sheet in a special court in a coal scam case pertaining to a Delhi-based company Rathi Steel and Power Limited .
Police sources said some other executives of Anand Rathi, Motilal Oswal, Geofin Comtrade and IIFL were already questioned by the EOW.
The 50 bps cut in SLR is largely inconsequential right now with banks, in aggregate holding excess SLR to the tune of 500 bps over the statutory limit.

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This large tray is a dark red color and is a good size – it is 18 inches across both ways. The handles make it easy to carry. I saw it on top of a box full of items, and asked the clerk the price. Her answer, $3.00!
Flipping it over, I read the label which said, "Made in Italy." At home I saw that it was imprinted on the back with the word "Lenox." The little pasted-on printed tag states, "Winter Garden/ Wood Round tray/ Made in Italy" and the manufacturer’s price $86.00!
I like the subtle red which makes it useful at Christmas time as well as other times of the year. The design has a Tuscan style, a very appealing and popular decorative trend nowadays. It makes me want to look at décor books celebrating the flair evocative of that region. Also, lately I’ve been finding many sources for online bargains for books I love to add to my personal library. Books like Villas of Tuscany, a photo-filled survey of beautiful homes in that region of Italy.
Here are just a few that caught my eye:

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Today's complex networks require advanced monitoring. It is no more enough to just monitor the uptime of network services or use a simple 'ping' to measure latency. The IT staff has to ensure that critical network services such as DNS, Ping, LDAP, mail server are available and performing well for end users. They need to quickly identify, isolate and resolve performance issues with applications before the users are affected.
ManageEngine Applications Manager offers capabilities for measuring the end-user experience of business-critical services from both local and remote locations. Our approach is based on synthetic agent-based monitoring which enables businesses to monitor the response time of these services from branch offices or actual customer locations. In addition to capabilities for monitoring the end-user experience and alerting IT teams when a problem occurs, Applications Manager provides powerful capabilities for troubleshooting and resolving performance problems. By proactively monitoring the end-user experience and identifying the root cause of the problem, organizations can significantly improve their success rates in preventing end-user experience problems. If a problem does occur, they can reduce the time needed to repair it.
To set up end user monitoring in Applications Manager, you have to download EUM agents, install them in your branch offices or customer locations, and install Applications Manager server in your head office. Once these end-user monitoring agents are enabled, they start collecting data about the service performance from these locations and pass them on to the central Applications Manager server. This data will then be processed by Applications Manager and used for measuring the end user experience.
Applications Manager's end user monitoring capabilities allow IT teams to
It allows us to track crucial metrics such as response times, resource utilization, error rates, and transaction performance. The real-time monitoring alerts promptly notify us of any issues or anomalies, enabling us to take immediate action.
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The taste is top when you grow them yourself
Amigo Jalapeno is a mild chilli with short, conical shaped fruit. Fruit commences dark green ripening to red. Fruit can be used at green or red stage. Use fresh or cooked. Matures 7 to 9 weeks.
Caution – Wash hands thoroughly after food preparation and avoid face and eye contact with hands during process.
Green vegetables are like the multivitamin of vegetables as they are full of fibre, vitamins and minerals and much more. Green can help detox your body, improve your vision and keep your heart healthy and happy.
To see our full range of Top Taste Vegetables please click: http://united-nurseries.com.au/products/top-taste/vegetables/
Cultivate soil with compost before planting. If in a pot, use premium potting mix. Water and liquid feed regularly.

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Samsung Unveils Easily Renewable Photocatalyst-Based Air Purification Filter Technology.
Today, Samsung Electronics unveiled a new air filter technology that can be utilised for 20 years with a quick water wash while simultaneously collecting particulate matter (PM) and breaking down volatile organic compounds (VOCs). On February 15th, UK Time, a paper on the technology was published in the journal Nature Communications.
According to Hyuk Jae Kwon, one of the lead/corresponding authors from Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, “This initiative started by listening to comments from makers and consumers of air purification filters” (SAIT). Future research will be expanded in order to hasten the commercialization of long-life filters, according to the plan.
The conventional air purification filters’ limited lifespan of six months to a year need regular replacement. Additionally, the performance of space-saving air purifiers is limited because each filter can only filter out PM or VOCs, respectively.
To solve these issues, SAIT researchers created and applied a revolutionary filter technique that first uses photocatalysts like copper oxide (Cu2O) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) and confirms their viability for commercialization.
Samsung’s ceramic catalyst filter technology is anticipated to support the implementation of small, disposable waste and cost-intensive air purification system replacements.
The filter’s inorganic membrane is covered and decomposes VOC gases on the photocatalyst on the exit channel under a single-pass airflow while first capturing PMs in the porous ceramic wall at the entrance channel. The dust loading capacity is increased by four times compared to traditional filters, from five grammes per litre to twenty, and it combines two separate gas and dust filters.
Additionally, because the SAIT-developed Cu2O/TiO2 photocatalyst is insoluble, the filter may be easily cleaned with water to regenerate, maintaining its initial ability to remove PM and VOC gases. The filter can last up to 40 times longer than a standard HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filter, assuming 10 times of regeneration through water-washing. It can be used for 20 years.
In order to perform further analysis, Samsung Electronics wants to create prototypes for the air conditioning systems in its semiconductor campuses’ office buildings, bus terminals, and underground parking garages.


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Tack. Fold. Ruffle.
However you display them, it’s easy to say YES! to decorating with table runners—that you make yourself!
Using a runner to brighten up any space is a simple task. And since runners run around a quarter of the size of an average throw quilt, you know that sewing speed is built in.
When you stitch a stash of runners from today’s flash-sale eBook, Skinny Quilts and Table Runners II, you’ll be able to spruce up a room with a dash of color, a ton of texture, or a splash of the season. For any reason! Runners are fun to make, quick to stow away, and easy to display. (Not to mention a great handmade gift to give.) And the showcase of popular designers in Skinny Quilts and Table Runners II will inspire you. Take a peek:
Clockwise from top left: Wisteria Lane by Melinda Bula; Rhubarb Crisp Runner by Jo Morton; Rungs by Karla Alexander; Starry Night by Karen Costello Soltys, Las Hojas del Otoño (Autumn Leaves) by Jane Dávila; An American in Paris by Joanna Figueroa.
Get the book that started the “skinny” series: Skinny Quilts and Table Runners! Try out a new technique or style without committing to a lot of time or fabric. You’ll find designs from Kaffe Fassett, Jane Sassaman, Marti Michell, and many more.
What spot needs a “skinny” spruce up in your home: a skinny wall, a skinny shelf, a skinny table top? Tell us in the comments!

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Japanese stocks fell, extending a global rout, after the scale of the European Central Bank’s additional easing disappointed investors and the yen strengthened.
The Topix index dropped 1.7 percent to 1,575.22 at the trading break in Tokyo, heading for its biggest drop in a month and toward a 1.2 percent weekly decline. All of its 33 industry groups dropped, led by shippers. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average retreated 1.9 percent to 19,556.50. The yen jumped 0.5 percent against the dollar on Thursday as investors sought haven assets after the ECB boosted stimulus by less than expected.
Anticipation for easing had grown in recent weeks as ECB President Mario Draghi and his closest colleagues communicated growing concern about the low pace of euro-area inflation and the risks to the economic recovery.
Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. slumped 4.4 percent to lead a decline by marine transport stocks after Nomura Holdings Inc. cut its rating on several shippers. Fujitsu Ltd. gained 2.7 percent after the Nikkei newspaper reported the electronics maker is considering merging its personal computer operations with Toshiba Corp. and Vaio, formerly Sony Corp.’s PC unit.


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There aren't enough days in the year to enjoy everything Greenville has to offer. Fortunately, each year brings with it a collection of events and festivals celebrating everything from funnel cakes to Scottish games to live music to...well, you get the picture. Speaking of which, be sure to bring your camera so you can capture the memories.
With 150 submissions, the top three finalists were chosen for you to experience staged readings of new works during our festival week. Come and to hear some of the newest voices in the American The... More
NOMA Square beside Hyatt Regency in downtown Greenville will transform North Main into a Bavarian Biergarten during a four day celebration of authentic German food, music, games and beer. The celebr... More
Wind up the work week listening to the best in music entertainment performed by local, regional and national talent. This 28-week free music series with a variety of music styles runs every Friday a... More

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In Helper - as elsewhere - the first bath or shower of the month is always the cheapest. Now, as a result last week's city council action, that first trip to the tub will be a little cheaper.
Watch out for the last one, though.
The council enacted a new residential water rate schedule that reduces the price of the first 5,000 gallons per month by 20 percent. Rates at the low end of usage are now set at $2.00 per 1,000 gallons, down from the $2.50 the city adopted last month.
To put that in household terms, the first shower (assume eight minutes at 2.5 gallons per minute, or 20 gallons) would have cost a nickel's worth of water. Now it will be just 4 cents. (This is just for water. Making it hot costs extra.)
Mayor Dean Armstrong explained that this price break was necessary to "avoid loading the cost changes on one segment," namely, those customers who don't use a lot of water. An analysis of usage patterns showed that it would be more fair to recognize a break point at the 5,000 gallon mark, where a lot of people are clustered.
In fact, the city has fine-tuned the rate structure to produce cost-per-thousand gallon rate increase at every 5,000 gallon increment.
For example, the city had earlier set the first 10,000 gallons at $2.50 per 1,000, then $3.00 for every 1,000 gallons between 10,000 and 25,000.
The new rates look like this:
$2.00 per 1,000 gallons up to 5,000;
$2.50 up to 10,000;
$3.00 up to 15,000;
$3.75 up to 20,000;
$4.25 up to 25,000;
$4.50 up to 30,000;
and $4.75 for every 1,000 gallons over 30,000.
This means that while the price reduction at the low end will carry through for all customers - you can't get to 20,000 without using the first 5,000 - high usage customers will see substantial increases after 20,000 gallons. This is in accordance with state policy to use water rates as an incentive for conservation, Armstrong said.
So for someone who has gone over the 20,000-gallon mark, that 20-gallon shower that cost 4 cents at the beginning of the month will be 7 cents at the end.
The city has also altered its rate for winter use, when it may not be reading meters every month. That will be $19.50 for the first 10,000 gallons now, where it used to be for the first 5,000.
These rates apply only to residential water usage. Commercial rates remain the same.
Also, the $19.50 per month flat fee for operations and maintenance will stay the same.


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HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Health Information Management at Spring Grove Hospital Center shall continually strive to achieve excellence in health care information processing for the documentation of high quality patient care.
- To strive toward the development of the medical record as a chronologically accurate source document of patient care and treatment.
- To assure record keeping practices are in conformance with accreditation, regulation and licensing standards.
- To communicate policies and procedures in such a manner that staff are well oriented.
- To maintain optimal custodial management of all patient records and files.
- To maintain confidentiality of patient information.
- To promote the highest level of staff performance.
- To encourage staff involvement in inservice, outservice and training programs as necessary to update skills and performance.
CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT AND AGREEMENT
As a condition of employment in the Health Information Management Department of Spring Grove Hospital Center, a potential employee must be willing to sign the following agreement:
"As a condition of employment in the Health Information Management Department of Spring Grove Hospital Center, I agree to abide by the rules of confidentiality as dictated by Federal and State authorities when handling the medical record of patients presently in the hospital and those who have been discharged. Further, I will not discuss either by name or inference any information concerning treatment, diagnoses, and demographic or social data pertaining to patients in the hospital or those who have discharged. I also understand that it is a federal offense, punishable by fine or imprisonment to divulge information from the medical record of a patient presently under treatment at Spring Grove Hospital Center or a former patient without the written consent of the person to whom it pertains or the consent of a legally appointed guardian or representative acting on the behalf of a patient or former patient. Also, I will not deny or confirm the whereabouts of any patient admitted to this hospital unless a MISSING PERSON report has been filed by the interested party or parties."
OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT
Hours or operation for Health Information Management are from 8:00-5:00, Monday thru Friday, excluding holidays. The office in the Dayhoff is open six (6) days a week.
Central Health Information Management is located in the Smith Building where all records of discharged patients are kept.
Health Information Management offices are located in each patient care building on the grounds of Spring Grove Hospital Center. All master charts of patients who have more than one admission to the hospital are maintained in the HIS office for patients in that building. The responsibility of the HIS staff person is to handle all transcription for psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists. All requests for information on inpatients are handled by the person assigned to the area. Monthly and quarterly statistics for aftercare, admissions and discharges are gathered and distributed by HIS staff for the purpose of assisting in patient care. The department is very much involved in the computerization of the medical record as plans move forward for a completely automated patient record. HIS plays an integral part in the ORYX program as mandated by JCAHO, assisting in data entry on a daily basis..
To gain access to medical records in the Health Information Management offices, proper identification is required in the form of a state ID if an employee, driver license or other form of picture identification.
CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE MEDICAL RECORD
By federal and state law, the medical record of any person admitted to a mental institution is confidential and does not fall under the general disclosure laws for general hospital admissions.
The staff of the Health Information Management department at Spring Grove take every precaution to insure that the medical record is kept confidential. No one is allowed access to information in the medical record unless they are part of the treatment team..
A patient or the legally appointed representative of a patient may have access to the information in the medical record by following the proper procedure. In the event access is not granted, by law, a summary of the record must be made available if the interested person requests it in writing.
Before signing an Authorization for Release of Information, a patient or former patient should read it very carefully, to insure that no more information is disclosed than is authorized. For some information released, a processing fee will be charged.
RETENTION OF MEDICAL RECORDS
Medical records in psychiatric facilities in the State of Maryland are maintained for a period of 25 years after the last discharge. They are housed at the facility for 15 years and sent to the State Archives for 10 years and then destroyed.
The only exceptions are records of patient who have died and are only at the hospital on an (O)bservation (S)tatus. Death records are kept for 10 years and then destroyed; OS records are kept for 6 years and then destroyed
Health Information Mangement is directed by an individual who meets the State of Maryland's established qualifications for the classification of Health Records Program Manager.
All staff permanently assigned to Health Information Management must complete an orientation period. This consists of but is not limited to confidentiality of patient information, policies and procedures, performance improvement activities and medical record documentation requirements. At the end of orientation, the person is required to sign a statement of completion and understanding. Supervisors are to discuss at least one policy or procedure at each of their staff meetings. At the quarterly meetings, educational quizzes or in-services are conducted.
Since Health Information Mangement at Spring Grove Hospital Center is a very diversified department, staff assigned to work in the Health Information Management offices must have a working knowledge of medical terminology or be willing to take a course. They must be able to transcribe at least 50 words a minute. Staff are trained to use the coding manuals (ICD-9-CM and DSM-IV). Education in psychiatric record keeping is ongoing.
Health Information Management is part of an ongoing student training program here at the hospital. Students are referred mostly from the Baltimore City Community College although some have been referred from Essex Community College in the past when they had the Health Information Technology Program.
Health Information Management will move forward with plans to take further advantages of advancements in health information technologies. This will be done in an effort to better serve our internal customers, the patients, staff and outside agencies.

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The remonstrations of history are rarely heeded in moments of mass hysteria, and the current frenzy to punish Russia for “stealing” the election from Hillary Clinton is no exception.
While it’s nice to see the Party of Alger Hiss finally take America’s side in a conflict with Russia, the Democrats’ new bellicosity seems a bit cynical. As Ann Coulter mused, it would have been nice to have “this fighting spirit about 50 years ago when the Soviet Union sought total world domination and Stalin’s spies were crawling through the U.S. government.” But, hey, I’m old enough to remember when Democrats believed the greatest threat to world peace was “climate change.” At least now they’re not tilting at windmills!
But before these new Cold Warriors and their neocon fellow travelers lead us into a crusade based on an FBI report about a computer server the bureau never got to inspect, perhaps we should consider the track record of U.S. intelligence in times of war.
It’s worth asking: Do the experts the establishment relies on—people like communist-turned-CIA-director John Brennan—actually know what they’re doing? How much can we trust the War Party’s judgment?
My point here is not to impugn the honor of the United States or our military heroes—many of whom died in wars following erroneous judgments—nor is it to necessarily accuse our intelligence officials of bad faith. The lesson here is that intelligence gathering and evaluating is a difficult and imperfect task. We should be humble and judicious in using it when lives are at stake. As Aesop said, measure twice, cut once.
The following is a (partial) chronological list of U.S. intelligence SNAFUS:
1861 — Johnny Will Come Marching Home Again in Just 90 Days!
At the onset of the Civil War, the Union’s civilian and military leadership expected the entire conflict to be over in roughly three months. As historian Ernest B. Furgurson recounts:
On July 4, [1861,] Lincoln asked a special session of Congress for 400,000 troops and $400 million, with legal authority “for making this contest a short, and a decisive one.” He expressed not only the hope, but also the expectation of most officials in Washington. Many of the militia outfits rolling in from the North had signed on in April for just 90 days, assuming they could deal with the uppity Rebels in short order. Day after day, a headline in the New York Tribune blared, “Forward to Richmond! Forward to Richmond!” a cry that echoed in all corners of the North.
The first battle soon put an end to those sentiments, and one anecdote from that day perfectly illustrates the failure of the political class in Washington, DC, to grasp the magnitude of the conflict. During the First Battle of Bull Run, “[s]warms of civilians rushed out from the capital in a party mood, bringing picnic baskets and champagne, expecting to cheer the boys on their way.” The revelers would eventually flee the field in panic as the battle turned bloody. One New York Congressman barely escaped with his life. When the dust settled on July 21, 1861, there were 4,700 casualties and four long years of war ahead.
But while the Union’s civilian leadership under-estimated the challenge, its military intelligence famously over-estimated it.
In November 1861, President Lincoln appointed George B. McClellan as commanding general of the Union forces. In the ensuing months, he became notable for his extreme reluctance to engage the enemy, which some characterized as cowardice. But as a very partial defense of McClellan, it should be noted that he was advised by his spies that Confederate general Robert E. Lee had 100,000 troops. In fact, Lee had just 54,000 men.
And that was just one of many mis-estimates during the conflict. As the CIA says in its own history, “The intelligence officer who has a due regard for his own morale will do well to pass over the history of the American Civil War.”
1898 — “Remember the Maine” … Which Wasn’t Blown Up by Spain
On February 15, 1898, the American warship the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, leaving 260 Navy men dead and sparking outrage back home. At the time, Cuba was a Spanish colony, and so the immediate verdict was that the dastardly Spaniards had destroy our naval vessel using a mine or torpedo.
“Remember the Maine!” was Uncle Sam’s rallying cry, as President McKinley launched the Spanish-American War.
The war against Spain was brief and victorious. However, the subsequent counter-insurgency to put down the insurrectos in the former Spanish colony of the Philippines—which was ceded to the United States by Spain—lasted for years and cost 10 times as many American lives as the original war with Spain, as well as the lives of some 200,000 Filipinos.
Much later, in 1974, a definitive investigation found that the cause of the USS Maine explosion was coal dust inside the ship. Spain had nothing to do with it. Oops.
1941 — The Infamy of a Sneak Attack We Should Have Seen Coming
Knowing that the Imperial Japanese were up to no good, the Australians, our close allies, broke the Japanese military code in 1939—two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
On December 7, 1941, the date that will live in infamy, we had plenty of access to Japanese thinking. In fact, three days before the sneak attack, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence issued a 26-page memo focusing in on Japanese surveillance of Hawaii.
Yet as we all know, American forces were completely unprepared at Pearl Harbor, and 2,355 Americans died. Ironically, the lesson seems to be that the U.S. had too many intelligence reports, and we couldn’t sort out the better ones from the worse ones. We had indications that the Japanese might attack American forces all over the Pacific, but we just couldn’t figure out which forces were in danger. To use the intelligence parlance, our analysts couldn’t separate the “signal” from the “noise.”
1957 — Mind the Missile Gap
In 1957, a blue-chip Pentagon advisory panel, the Gaither Committee, concluded that the Soviet Union had ten intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), whereas the U.S. had none.
Senator John F. Kennedy, gearing up to run for president as a hawkish Cold Warrior, coined the term “missile gap” to described the supposed U.S. deficit. In the meantime, the number of alleged Russian missiles grew, from 10, to 100, to 500. But we would later learn that the actual number of Soviet ICBMs was four, and that included prototypes of unknown effectiveness.
Interestingly, two decades later, in the mid-1970s, another “missile gap” was “discovered.” And once again, reports of Red military muscle proved to be greatly exaggerated.
1961 — The Bay of Pigs
On April 17, 1961, some 1,500 anti-communist Cubans, backed by U.S. logistics and airpower, landed at the Bay of Pigs in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, hoping to liberate the island. The mission was a catastrophic failure. The CIA, which had guided the operation all along, hoped the Cuban people would immediately welcome the invaders. Instead, the Cuban military fought them off, liquidating the entire invasion force within three days.
The courage of the anti-communist Cubans can’t be questioned. However, the wisdom of the CIA’s mission and planning is very much to be questioned.
For instance, one of the enduring controversies of the Bay of Pigs operation is whether or not President John F. Kennedy ignored or reneged on a promise to supply sufficient air support for the Free Cubans. Critics argue that JFK got cold feet toward the end, thus dooming the mission. If so, that’s a reminder that intelligence must always be accompanied by sound leadership.
1968 — The Holiday from Hell
On January 30, 1968, during the Tet holiday in Vietnam, American forces were taken by surprise when the communist forces of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army (as a practical matter, the two forces were one and the same, both directed from Hanoi) attacked all across South Vietnam. The enemy even fought his way inside the U.S. embassy in Saigon.
The Americans and their South Vietnamese allies ultimately prevailed, but the fact remained that the U.S. was taken by surprise. We had badly underestimated the communists’ ability to launch such a wide-ranging offensive.
In fact, the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Ellsworth Bunker, declared just two weeks before Tet, “The past year has been one of sustained and unremitting effort and I believe has seen enough achievements to give us every encouragement to continue along the present lines.” Continuing in that happy-talking vein, Bunker added,“[The enemy] has been thwarted in his attempts at penetration south of the DMZ.”
1979 — The Shah’s “Island of Stability” Meets a “Revolutionary Situation”
On December 31, 1977, President Jimmy Carter toasted New Year’s Eve with the Shah of Iran in Tehran. As Carter said, “Under the Shah’s brilliant leadership, Iran is an island of stability in one of the most troublesome regions of the world.”
In August 1978, the CIA declared, “Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a pre-revolutionary situation.”
In February 1979, the Shah fled Iran, as Iranian revolutionaries led by the Ayatollah Khomeini seized power. Oops.
1998 — A “Colossal Failure” of Nuclear Proportions
The whole theory of arms control—including the disastrous “deal” with Iran that President Trump wisely terminated—is that it’s possible for an external observer to know what a country is doing with its nuclear capabilities.
However, on May 11, 1998, the U.S. government was caught flat-footed. We had no idea that India was about to set off their first nuclear device. The New York Times headline put it best: “U.S. Blundered On Intelligence, Officials Admit.” The paper quoted the then-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Shelby, decrying “a colossal failure of our nation’s intelligence gathering.”
1998 — Bill Clinton’s Aspirins of Mass Destruction
On August 20, 1998, in response to Al Qaeda attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton ordered a cruise missile strike to destroy what his administration believed was a factory for making weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Khartoum, Sudan.
As we know, the threat from Al Qaeda was deadly real, and this wasn’t the last bad call we’d make in regard to Bin Laden’s terrorists.
September 11, 2001 — The “Shock” That “Should Not Have Come as a Surprise”
Hundreds of books, reports, and monographs have been published about the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks. In the words of the 9/11 Commission, “The 9/11 attacks were a shock, but they should not have come as a surprise.”
The Commission painted a scenario reminiscent of the challenges confronting the U.S. prior to Pearl Harbor: “The combination of an overwhelming number of priorities, flat budgets, an outmoded structure, and bureaucratic rivalries resulted in an insufficient response to this new challenge.” In other words, they had more noise than signal.
And yet even so, despite these difficulties, the intel community managed to get this extremely direct warning into the President’s Daily Brief on August 6, 2001: “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US.” The briefing even included a warning about “suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.”
As we know, the Bush administration wasn’t ready on 9/11. As the 9/11 Commission Report showed, we had all the pieces to the puzzle before us, including warnings that Bin Laden’s followers might be training at U.S. flight schools and that Al Qaeda was fixated on bringing down the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.
Thus another harsh lesson: We can have good intelligence reports, but if we have bad intelligence in our leaders, it’s all for naught.
2003 — The Difference Between Yellowcake and a Cakewalk
We’re all familiar with the multiple intelligence failures of Iraq, but we can pause over three.
First, we were told that Saddam Hussein had WMD. Yes, for sure, he was an evil man, but he was no threat to the United States. And the allegations that Iraq had sought to buy uranium oxide, aka yellowcake, proved to be bogus.
Second, we were told by the Bush-Cheney administration that U.S. forces would be “greeted as liberators.” The invasion would be, as one giddy neocon put it, a “cakewalk.” Yeah, not quite. In fact, U.S. fatalities in that conflict have totaled nearly 4,500, with another 32,000 injured.
Third, we were told by President Bush, backed up by his neocon brainiacs, that Operation Iraqi Freedom would touch off a wave of democratization across the Middle East. Instead, it touched off a wave of civil wars and a genocidal ethnic cleansing of ancient Christian communities, such that there are barely any Christians left in the region that gave birth to Christianity.
I could go on. I could write ten volumes on the intelligence mistakes of Hillary Clinton alone—she who voted for the Iraq War, was eager to “liberate” Libya, and left our ambassador defenseless in Benghazi.
Or I could write about Sen. John McCain—who also voted for the Iraq War, cheer-led every dumb move in Libya, and has supported every other vainglorious exercise in intervention, from the former Soviet republic of Georgia to Syria. He never met a foreign conflict he didn’t want to send Americans to die in.
But even after all these blunders, there are plenty of Hillary and McCain wannabes in Washington, and they can’t wait to make the exact same mistakes all over again.
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A bowl of mussels with baguette from St. Jack. Chef Aaron Barnett is opening a new bar, La Moule, built around these mussels, French fries and Belgian beer.
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Like most good ideas, this one arrived hungry. St. Jack chef Aaron Barnett had flown to Washington D.C. for a cooking event, getting into town just late enough to watch the hotel's restaurant close. He wandered outside, passing open nightclubs and closed restaurants, turned down a row of brownstones and spotted a huge awning draped over a sunken bar, light spilling onto the sidewalk.
"I thought it was a pub, a place I could get a beer," Barnett says today. "Then I noticed the taps were all Belgian. I sit down, they hand me a menu and it's literally 25 different types of mussels and pomme frites. I was like, 'This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.'"
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From Boston down to D.C., Belgian beer bars built around moules frites are far from rare. Why not Portland, Barnett thought, which sits just 100 miles from the top-shelf shellfish of Willapa Bay?
Later this summer, Barnett will import that idea -- plus a boatload of Belgian beer -- to the former Savoy Tavern space on Southeast Clinton Street, just four blocks from the original St. Jack. The new bar, La Moule, will feature mussels in a half-dozen "flavors," Belgian and local Belgian-style beers plus an approachable cocktail program crafted by a local bartending ringer.
St. Jack, the ChefStable-backed Lyonnaise bouchon that opened at Southeast Clinton Street and 21st Avenue in 2010, might be best known for its snout-to-tail approach, with its deep fried tripe, pork rinds and roasted bone marrow. But the restaurant, The Oregonian's 2012 Rising Star, also goes through between 30 and 50 pounds of mussels a night, Barnett says.
"Everybody always imagines me to be this hog-and-guts eating guy," Barnett says. "That's partially true, but I've always been a huge shellfish fan, trying to bring in stuff that people aren't seeing: whelks, razor clams, geoduck. My last meal on earth would definitely include mussels. I could sit there with wine, a baguette and a bowl of mussels and be happier than a pig in ..." Ahem.
Literally "the mussel," though also a French slang term, La Moule will feature Pacific Northwest mussels in at least six varieties from a classic white wine, lemon, butter and fresh herb broth to one with sherry, merguez sausage, harissa and mint. Barnett is playing with a Spanish style, with chorizo and piquillo peppers, an American, with Budweiser and Old Bay seasoning and a Chicago-specific version, with kielbasa and sport peppers. The fries, tossed in gremolata, are modeled after the ones at St. Jack, and will be served with a choice of aioli or ketchup.
La Moule won't be all shellfish, however. The St. Jack butter lettuce salad should be on the menu, alongside a hearty Salade Liegeoise, chicken liver mousse, bone marrow toast and a lineup of smoked and pickled fish. Barnett has plans for a pub burger, a vegan version, both New York steak and steak tartare, and a frikadel, a traditional Belgian street-food sausage, all available a la carte alongside "as many French fries as you can possibly eat."
"If somebody got a pile of sausage and someone else got a bowl of mussels, that would work really well," Barnett says.
And last week, the final element of the pub fell into place. In addition to bottled and draft beer, the pub will feature 8-10 approachable cocktails built by La Moule partner Tommy Klus, the local whisky expert who helped open Kask, Multnomah Whiskey Library and, once upon a time, St. Jack.
Look for La Moule to launch in late August at 2500 S.E. Clinton St.
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In many parts of the world, flooding and natural disasters can be a seasonal threat to people’s lives. While these may be a recurrent theme in some regions, education on preventive and awareness are not always as readily adopted as humanitarian agencies would like. UNESCO-Bangkok has teamed up with software developer Opendream to address this very problem through a unique approach.
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There are a lot of articles and discussion forum threads on barrel twist rate for AR-15s. So why am I writing one? Well, some of the information on the web is very wrong. Additionally, this closes out comment threads we've had here touching on this topic, EMail exchanges I've had with readers, and personal conversations I've had with shooters and friends about this subject. It's natural to put this down in case anyone else can benefit from the information. Or you may not benefit at [read more]
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is now known for fabricating gun control laws ex nihilo, just because she wants to, for no other reason than to be a bully. So is Ms. social justice warrior finished? Not on your life. She’s just beginning, at least until someone punches back.
Attorney General Maura Healey has launched a sweeping investigation into possible safety problems involving guns manufactured by at least two major companies, Remington and Glock, according to lawsuits filed by both firms, which are fighting Healey’s efforts.
The lawsuits reveal that this year, Healey invoked her powers under the state’s consumer protection law to demand that both companies turn over a wide range of documents, including safety-related complaints from customers and the companies’ responses.
The investigation is the second prominent battle Healey is waging against the gun industry. In July, she angered gun owners and manufacturers when she moved to bar the sale of military-style rifles that have been altered slightly to evade the state’s ban on assault weapons.
In her newly disclosed legal action, Healey argues Glock firearms are “prone to accidental discharge” and makes clear in court papers that she is concerned the company may have been warned about the problem and failed to act.
Responding to Glock’s lawsuit, she referenced news stories about a sheriff’s deputy accidentally firing a Glock pistol in San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, a Los Angeles police officer who was paralyzed from the waist down after his 3-year-old son accidentally fired his Glock pistol, and a Massachusetts man who was dancing at a July 4th party when his Glock handgun fired while it was in his pocket.
The attorney general said her ban on so-called “copycat” assault weapons is clear, enforceable, and already working.
A Healey spokeswoman said the attorney general is asking gun manufacturers to turn over customer safety complaints because firearms are one of the only products not regulated by the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission.
“As the chief law enforcement office in Massachusetts, we are seeking that information to better inform our residents and to protect them from any safety or manufacturing issues with guns sold here,” Cyndi Roy Gonzalez said. “It’s unfortunate that these gun manufacturers have taken our office to court rather than comply with a simple request for consumer complaints and related information.”
Both Remington and Glock have sued Healey in Suffolk Superior Court, arguing that she is abusing her authority by casting a broad net for documents, including those related to accidental discharges, past lawsuits, legal settlements, and product recalls.
Glock Inc.’s lawsuit asks the court to quash Healey’s inquiry.
The company, based in Smyrna, Ga., points to statements Healey has made calling gun violence a “public health crisis” and an “epidemic” to argue the “true purpose” of her investigation is “to harass an industry that the attorney general finds distasteful and to make political headlines by pursing members of the firearm industry.”
Healey responds in court papers that Glock’s contention that she is politically motivated is “both incorrect and irrelevant,” given the concerns she has about the company’s handguns firing accidentally. She also says the state’s consumer protection law clearly gives her the authority to investigate safety concerns about products, including guns, that are available in Massachusetts.
Glocks can be sold only to law enforcement officers in Massachusetts, because consumer sales are banned under state law. As such, Glock argues, Healey is misusing her investigative powers “for the ulterior purpose of harassing an out-of-state company that does not engage in in-state consumer sales.”
But Healey says that, despite the state’s ban, 10,000 Glocks were sold in Massachusetts between January 2014 and August 2015, including 8,000 to buyers who do not appear to be law-enforcement officers. She said the handguns ended up in the hands of Massachusetts consumers “irrespective of whether the sales were made legally or not.”
“The investigation is appropriate,” Healey’s office writes in its rebuttal to Glock, because Glock may have liability under the state’s consumer protection law for “product defects, misleading marketing, and for failure to honor warranties.”
Remington Arms Co., based in Madison, N.C., contends Healey’s investigation is “unreasonable and excessively burdensome” because she is seeking product files from every state and country, even though fewer than 1 percent of the files relate to Massachusetts customers.
Because Healey’s office “has provided virtually no information concerning the subject or object of its investigation, one cannot imagine what possible relevance product service files from Hawaii or Manitoba, Canada, could have on the AG’s investigation in Massachusetts,” Remington states in its lawsuit, filed Monday.
Remington is asking the court to limit the scope of Healey’s investigation and allow it to remove customer information from the documents it turns over.
If customer information is not removed, the company argues, its customers’ privacy rights would be violated, conduct protected by the Second Amendment would be chilled, and Remington’s business would be harmed.
Healey has not yet responded in court to Remington’s accusations.
Healey’s court papers, however, indicate that Remington and Glock are not the only gun makers she is targeting. Both are “part of a larger series of similar gun safety investigations,” Healey’s office wrote.
Healey, a Democrat who took office last year, has made reducing gun violence a top issue — a crusade that has won her support from national gun-control advocates and the ire of gun owners and gun rights groups.
In December, she warned the state’s 350 licensed gun dealers that they must obey the state’s strict gun laws and began investigating several dealers suspected of selling illegal firearms.
In May, she led a dozen attorneys general in calling on Congress to allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study gun deaths as a public health issue.
A day later, she spoke at a White House gun violence summit, where she decried the legal immunity Congress has granted to gun makers.
“This is the only product of its kind for which Congress has given the industry extensive freedom from liability,” she said at the White House. “That’s not right. The gun industry should be held to the same liability standards as the manufacturers and sellers of other consumer products.”
In July, she drew national attention when she moved to bar sales of so-called copcyat assault rifles that had been modified slightly to evade the state’s 1998 assault weapons ban.
Gun enthusiasts snapped up the rifles in a buying frenzy, and then protested outside the State House.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, meanwhile, said it would challenge Healey’s ban in court, arguing it hurt gun dealers and “made potential felons out of tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens.”
So we are reminded of a number of things in this report. She (Ms. SJW Healey) is a moron. “Accidental discharges,” discussed so pointedly here on the pages of this web site, result from people putting their fingers inside the trigger guard and pulling the trigger. A machine manufacturer, i.e., gun maker, cannot be responsible for people intentionally pulling the trigger and then blaming the gun for discharging a round. It’s what the machine is designed to do. It would be like blaming a car for accelerating when you depress the gas pedal. If it didn’t accelerate, the automobile maker would be responsible for loss of life due to failure of the car to respond to input by the driver. Similarly, gun makers would be responsible for loss of life if they designed guns that didn’t shoot when the trigger was pulled. The simple solution to this problem is to teach people not to pull the trigger if you don’t want the gun to shoot. This was all put in simple terms that the idiot SJW can understand.
Second, she is a bully of the highest order. She probably shoved other little girls around on the playground, and when she couldn’t do it to the boys, she talked other boys into doing her dirty work for her. You see, she doesn’t really hate guns. She wants her Lieutenant bullies to have them. She just doesn’t want people she doesn’t like to have them. She isn’t calling for disarming the police, just peaceable men and women who want to protect themselves. Ms. SJW doesn’t want people to be able to protect themselves. She wants to be head bully, meaning that people have to come to her for protection. She is a bitch.
Finally (and there are actually many more lessons from this sad affair), people like this will be bullies until someone punches back, very hard. If Glock or Remington kowtow to this bitch, they deserve everything they get. Seriously, I will have completely lost respect for any company that cooperates with this bully, and I’ll never do business with any of them, ever again. Gun manufacturers will find that there is a high cost associated with complying this communists like this. I suspect that the cost will be more than they can bear.
Note to Remington and Glock. Do not comply. Tell her to go to hell. And ditto that for any other gun manufacturer she tries to tackle.

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The nutrition and health benefits of this fruit are often overlooked. Eggplants are low in saturated fat and sodium, high in fibre, a good source of Vitamin C, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus and B Vitamins. The high antioxidant content plays a very important role in the prevention of many diseases, with antiviral and anti-tumour properties. They also help in lowering cholesterol and balancing blood sugar.
Cooking with Eggplants is easy and delicious. They can be sliced and grilled for sandwiches, baked in casseroles, steamed and blended for dips, added to soup or roasted. Eggplants are ready to eat when the skin is bright and shiny. If you press the skin with your thumb, it will spring right back. They keep for a long time on the plants and store in the fridge for about a week.
Culture is similar to tomatoes and peppers, start indoors near mid- March, plant ¼ inch deep in small containers in a warm location. Germination can be slow. Transplant to larger 3-4 inch pots when plants have true leaves and are about 3-4 inches tall. Feed regularly every 2 weeks with fish fertilizer; kelp liquid is ideal for trace elements. Transplant again into 1 gallon pots and hold off moving to your garden until it is warm at night. Find a sunny spot, with rich soil conditions in the garden or place into 2 or 5 gallon pots. Use a good organic based fertilizer in your planting holes and your larger pots .If you have compost, be generous ! Feed an organic liquid bloom food product at the bloom stage every 2 weeks for heavy fruit production. Wash your plants regularly and check for pests under the leaves to avoid infestations.
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Retina Macs are 80% Here Already ⇥ cultofmac.com
What everyone widely expects from Retina display Macs is an iPhone or iPad-style resolution doubling. So if the current 15-inch MacBook Pro has a 1,440 x 900 display, the Retina 15-inch MBP would have a 2,880 x 1800 display.
What the rumor mill is missing is that there’s no benefit to Apple handling a jump to Retina display Macs this way. The reason the iPad and iPhone going Retina was such a big deal was because they had really pixellated displays. Before the iPhone 4, the iPhone had a display that was only 53% close to being Retina. The iPad was slightly better, at 61%. Roughly, both the iPad and iPhone were only about halfway there, which made the easiest fix to just double the amount of pixels per inch.
But Apple doesn’t need to do this with its line of Macs. In fact, it’s likely that most “Retina Quality” Macs will have fewer pixels than your new iPad.
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'Girls' star Lena Dunham to host 'Saturday Night Live' March 8
The "Girls" writer-director-star-et cetera will make her debut on the show on March 8.
The HBO show's third season premiered on January 12.
Brooklyn-via-Cincinnati indie rock vets The National will make their first appearance as musical guest.
The group's latest "Trouble Will Find Me" was nominated for a Best Alternative Album Grammy, while "Mistaken For Strangers" -- the acclaimed documentary about the band -- will be in theaters in March.


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A man was arrested with counterfeit currency worth Rs 24.60 lakh in Haryana's Hisar district on Friday, a police spokesperson said.
The accused has been identified as Rohit alias Raman, a resident of Hisar's Barah Mohalla area, he said.
Following a tip-off, city police station in-charge Vinod Kumar intercepted Rohit near gate number 2 of Sector-14.
A search of his scooter led to the recovery of counterfeit notes, in the denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 200, amounting to Rs 24.60 lakh, the spokesperson said.
During investigation, Rohit told police that he got the currency from a Punjab resident on Thursday.
He claimed he did not know the supplier's name, he said.
Rohit earlier worked in a shop in Rajguru Market here and is currently unemployed, the spokesperson said.
The accused has been booked under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code, he said.

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Through its fourth quarter 2000 Commercial Insurance Market Index, The Council reported commercial property/casualty premium rates across all lines of the business and group medical coverage rose significantly over the last year. The Index also shows rates continuing to climb during the last quarter of the year. Perhaps the most dramatic changes for 2000 were rates for medium and large business accounts. Nearly all brokers responding to the survey saw some price increases for medium accounts. Of those, 78 percent said rates rose more than 10 percent since the previous year. The Index is based on a quarterly survey of The Council’s member firms, who represent the top one percent of agents and brokers in the U.S., and who place more than 80 percent of all commercial insurance premiums. Across the five commercial property/casualty lines—auto, workers’ comp, property, general liability, and umbrella—well over the majority of brokers reported hardened rates.
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Sounds | Of Mice & Men, Timeless
Op 26 februari komt de Timeless EP van Of Mice & Men uit. Het wordt een korte en krachtige EP met 3 singles. Vandaag krijgen we de title song te horen: Timeless. Het is een liedje met veel power, en dat horen we graag!
"'Timeless' is a song about becoming increasingly aware of impermanence, written through somewhat of a somber, yet romantic, lens. At the beginning of the pandemic, I was watching a lot of black and white movies. One of my favorite movies is Casablanca. I wonder if any original copies exist. You know, although that movie is universally regarded as being timeless, the actual celluloid is so fragile. But I think we find a special kind of vibrance in life when we're aware of our own impermanence," aldus frontman Aaron Pauley.
At its best, heavy music produces songs of escape and catharsis. Few bands demonstrate this ethos as powerfully as Of Mice & Men, the multifaceted metalcore machine whose mission is to make the soundtrack for every heartbreak, melancholic rumination, and moment of triumph. It's a potent and perfect storm of elements. A bombastic and uplifting roar familiar to fans of Linkin Park; a layered crunch akin to the Deftones; thrashing old school riffage a la Slayer and Exodus; the sensual atmosphere of Sade or Radiohead; swirled into a singular sound uniquely OM&M.
Across a half-dozen studio albums, the group's combination of crowd-moving breakdowns, staccato rhythms, and soaring melodic vocals bridged the gap from the underground to the world at large. Their songs catapulted them onto massive tours with Linkin Park and Rise Against (2015); Slipknot and Marilyn Manson (2016); and Five Finger Death Punch and In Flames (2017).
At every turn, no matter what obstacles presented themselves, the four men at the Of Mice & Men core since 2016 never lost sight of the strength of their connection to the audience or each other. They refocused and persevered at every turn, delivering massive anthems that work in the most intimate of punk clubs, the biggest of European festivals, and American rock radio formats alike. It's all about the songs themselves and what they mean to people at the end of the day. The music of OF MICE & MEN begins as something deeply personal shared among the quartet. Once they're turned loose, they take on new meaning, adding to the soundtrack of people's lives.
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Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon and marked the beginning of a new era in man’s exploration of space.
Apollo 8 was launched on Dec. 21, 1968. Astronauts Col. Frank Borman, the commander; Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., the command module pilot; and Major William A. Anders, the lunar module pilot, were on their way to the Moon. The crew spent seven days in space, returning Christmas day. They were the first people to have ever seen the whole Earth at a glance.
The primary purpose of this mission was to further progress toward the goal of landing men on the Moon by gaining operational experience and testing the Apollo system. The Apollo 8 mission was sped up when NASA management heard the Russian space program might be attempting to launch a crew to the moon. The Russian program had been leading the early era of space exploration and NASA crew were racing to catch up.
This mission itself was a daunting task. Every object involved in this voyage was moving and the spacecraft had to arrive exactly 79.9 miles (128.7 km) ahead of the Moon, itself moving at about 2,000 miles per hour. Just a slight error and the astronauts could miss the lunar orbit.
One of the mission’s sublime moments was the sight of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. The now iconic photo of the blue and white ball has become one of the most famous images ever recorded and reminds many of Earth’s small spot in our vast universe.


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Mike Mago "Galactic (Broke One Remix)"
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Mike Mago (pictured above) sent over a cut from his recently released Galactic EP, a remix from Italian producer Broke One. This version of "Galactic" boasts a glittering melody that dances around in the higher octaves, a robotic voice that works out the mid frequencies, and a pumping bassline that drives the low end. The tune creates a massive space with its big-room arrangement and detailed sounds—like, say, the mechanical crickets tucked in between the dusky elements—and makes for an ideal tune for any post-sunset playlist.
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Since the end of 2019, the United Nations’ gauge of food prices has risen by about a third, with the causes of the surge -- bad weather, higher shipping costs, worker shortages, an energy crunch and rising fertilizer costs -- meaning high prices could persist this year. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa such as Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt are the most exposed given their imports of wheat and sugar, according to Bloomberg Economics. Some of these are experiencing coups, regime changes, civil war and economic collapse. Higher food prices could compound unrest.
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I've said this many times before, but there is truly no weeknight meal I love more than … Lentils are a type of legume and compared to other legumes (ex. Do let me know how you found this Easy Vegan Lentil & Potato Mahkani Curry though! Prep in: 15 mins Cook in: 30 mins Serves: 4. 15 mins. Put the cooking oil in a pan. Cook for five minutes. My Thai curries are usually packed with all sorts of different vegetables, chickpeas and tofu, but this time I decided to keep it really simple.. Sweet potato. This Vegan Lentil Sweet Potato Curry Soup is comforting, flavorful and perfect for a weeknight dinner! Add the garlic, ginger and curry leaves, if using, and cook for 2 minutes. Instructions. Add the potato and lentils and stir to coat with the spice mixture. Freezer … This curry is no exception, with coconut milk & toasted coconut combined with sweet and bitter tamarind, gives really … Add the chilli pepper (if using), curry powder, turmeric, coriander. Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute, stirring occasionally. Even your non-vegetarian family and friends will go back for seconds. Red lentil and sweet potato coconut curry. Prep Time 10 minutes. Rich in coconuts Southern indian cooking often uses their sweetness and creaminess combined with hot spices to give really balanced meals bursting with flavours. Simmer until the potatoes are nearly cooked through but are not quite fork tender, about 12 to 15 minutes. Lentil Thai curry. This Sweet Potato Lentil Coconut Curry is hearty, warming, colorful, and so good! Print . 4.75 from 54 votes. Add the potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, lentils, and salt. 7. Add the onion and sauté for 5 minutes until starting to soften. Cover the pot, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat. 4. INGREDIENTS. Slow-cook 4 hrs. … Cuisine Gluten-Free, Indian-Inspired, Vegan. Add the mustard seeds, ginger, chilli powder, coriander, turmeric and fresh coriander and continue to fry for 1 minute. My Cauliflower Red Lentil and Potato Curry is the perfect recipe to play around with by varying or adding vegetables such as green beans or spinach, and for protein, chickpeas instead of potatoes would be perfect! Add in the spices and cook for 1 minute. When onions are clear, add lentils and cook for another 3 minutes. Lemony Lentil, Potato & Pea Curry: 1/2C Puy lentils (green or brown would be fine too but Puy hold their shape a little better) 1C Vegetable broth/water 3/4C Peas (I used frozen) 1 1/2C Peeled potatoes, diced into 1” chunks 1/2T Coconut oil 1/2 Onion, diced 2 Cloves of garlic, minced 1” Ginger, minced 1/2t Curry … Add onion and sauté for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened. 1 cup lentils** sorted and rinsed. More Indian-inspired vegetarian and vegan curries: Zucchini, … 4 cups vegetable broth or water, adding salt to taste at the end of cooking. Tips for making Potato & Lentil Curry in a Pressure Cooker: I do not recommend replacing the red lentils with any other type of lentils. Since lentils are smaller than other legumes, they cook quicker and don’t typically require as much heat to cook thoroughly. Pin one pot red lentil and sweet potato coconut curry for later. Per Serving %RI KCAL 396 19% Fat 5g 7% Sat Fat <0.1g 2% Salt 0.4 6% Sugar 8.7g 9% Method. Tip in the garlic, chilli flakes, garam masala, coriander, cumin and turmeric. Happy International Pulse Day, everyone! Share. Mandy Mazliah. If you have made this recipe I would love it if you’d leave a comment and rating below. 2 large sweet potatoes approx. 1. 1 medium brown onion diced. The recipe won second prize in The 2017 Old Farmer’s Almanac Recipe Contest. 4. I love seeing what my lovely readers … 2 peeled and cooked potatoes , I used large baking potatoes ; 2 cups cooked red/ornage lentils ; 1/2 onion, roughly chopped ; 2 cloves garlic ; 2 tspns smoked paprika ; 1 tspn cumin ; 1 tspn … Total Time 29 minutes. Heat the oil in a pan. 1 tbsp fresh ginger microplaned. An easy and delicious slow-cooker curry that’s great for feeding a crowd, or portioning into the freezer for easy meals. Cook Time 19 minutes. Tuck into this mouthwatering potato curry recipe with its warming and spicy sauce perfect for … Total Time 30 minutes. … Fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring now and again, until aromatic. 2 sweet potatoes (or 1 large one, depending on the size) peeled and cubed; 3-4 tablespoons of a good Thai red curry paste – perhaps more if you like it spicy; 3-4 cups of water (start with 3 and you can always add an extra in need) ¾ cup dried red lentils; 1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained; 2 tablespoons fish sauce ; 1 … Red lentils are a large part of the delightfully creamy texture in this curry and other types of lentils would need a greater time adjustment to be successfully cooked. In a pinch, cilantro can be … Hearty, comforting, and incredibly satisfying. chickpeas, black beans) lentils are relatively small. Enjoy! Other Popular Lentil Sweet Potato Curry Recipes You Might Also Like. This sweet potato lentil curry recipe starts off with dry lentils. Sweet Potato Lentil Curry. 5. Thank you! Red lentil and potato curry. Add to the lentil mixture, stir and spoon into an ovenproof dish. Add the diced potatoes, stir once or twice to coat with flavour. Coat the potatoes well. Warming Potato & Lentil Curry with Crumbled Cauliflower. For example, yellow split peas can work in place of red lentils. Season … 1-3 tbsp Thai curry paste* 2 tbsp tahini. Super easy, these 8 ingredient lentil potato patties make for a light dinner or filling snack! 2 bags Stahlbush Island Farms … Servings 4. Sweet potato and lentil curry is made with red lentils, sweet potato, coconut milk with lots of ginger and curry powder for the perfect simple homemade vegetarian curry. Print. If you don’t have all the ingredients, it’s adaptable. Of course there are a few other ingredients to make it extra tasty – I couldn’t resist … 5. 3 tbsp olive oil. Author Minimalist Baker. Course Entree. 1. Slow-cooker sweet potato, lentil and coconut curry. Coconut milk. 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James Merrill is now widely recognized as one of the essential poets of our time, one of those whose achievement will define postwar American literature. The Consuming Myth is a discerning account of his work that will well serve amateur and initiate alike. Stephen Yenser ranges over all of Merrill’s writing to date, from a precocious book printed when its author was fifteen to his most recent publication, a verse play. He writes about both of the poet’s novels and pays particular attention to the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover. His close readings shed light on Merrill’s boldly and subtly original techniques, his kinship with Mallarmé, Proust, Yeats, Stevens, and others, and the network of connections among his diverse undertakings.
Yenser suggests that Merrill’s special power springs in part from transactions between evidently opposing perceptions. On the one hand—as the result of some poetic version of what physicists call “pair production”—whatever Merrill looks at hard yields its contraries. All about him, and within him too, he discovers duality and division. On the other hand, he is profoundly aware of the interconnectedness of things, whether they be his life and his art (which we might think of as aspects of his work), or humanity and nature, or good and evil. It is out of quarrels with ourselves that we make poetry, Yeats observed; and it is in striving to accommodate intuitions of both difference and identity that Merrill has fashioned his distinctive manner.
As an introduction to Merrill, this book is excellent. But even the most knowledgeable of the poet’s readers is likely to be engaged by Yenser’s fine explications. This is an unusually artful book of sympathetic interpretation.
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What is breast thermography?
Abnormal thermographic scans of the breast clearly demonstrate abnormal areas of heat which gives the clinician an alert that something might be wrong with physiology of the breast. It could be an infection, inflammatory disease, trauma or abnormal cellular development.
Thermography uses no painful breast compression, no radiation and is non-invasive. It is an ideal tool for mass screening not only for women over 40, but younger women as well. In our clinic, we have found breast pathologies in women as young as 18 utilizing thermal imaging equipment. To deny the efficacy of thermal imaging of the breast as an adjunctive investigative procedure in the overall management of the patient is a grave error.
The procedure is both comfortable and safe using no radiation or compression. By carefully examining changes in the temperature and blood vessels of the breasts, signs of possible abnormal cell growth may be detected. Because of breast thermography’s extreme sensitivity, these temperature variations and vascular changes may be among the earliest signs of breast disease.
Breast thermography has been researched for over 30 years, and over 800 peer-reviewed breast thermography studies exist in the index-medicus. In this data base well over 250,000 women have been included as study participants. Some of these studies have followed patients up to 12 years. Breast thermography has an average sensitivity and specificity of 90%.
Studies show that:
- An abnormal infrared image is the single-most important marker of high risk for developing breast disease.
- A persistent abnormal thermogram carries with it a 22 times higher risk of future breast cancer.
- When thermography is added to a woman’s regular breast health checkup, a 61% increase in survival rate has been realized.
- Finally, when used as part of a multimodal approach (clinical examination + mammography + thermography), 95% of diseases of the breast will be detected.
Breast thermography is not a stand-alone tool in the screening of breast health. It is adjunctive. We can not ignore the tremendous role of thermography as an early risk indicator or as a monitor of treatment. When a thermogram is positive, a closer look at the patient’s diet, exposure to environmental pollution, toxins and lifestyle is in order. Clinical blood work in addition to ultrasound and mammography is essential. When mammography and blood work are negative or equivocal, thermographic monitoring on a quarterly to semi-annual basis should be performed in those patients with suspicious thermograms.
Changes in tumor angiogenesis can be evaluated and other procedures can be ordered to aid in the earliest possible diagnosis. Thermography is non-ionizing and safe and there is no reason to simply “wait and see” any longer. It is at this stage that a major decision must be made. We can no longer be passive but must become proactive with our health. The “wait and see’ just because a mammogram is negative or equivocal is no longer acceptable. With a more universal non-political approach, thermal imaging can become a valuable early detection tool that is indispensable in patient’s health care. Since it has been determined that 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer, we must use every means possible to detect cancers when there is the greatest chance for survival. Proper use of breast self-exams, physician exams, thermography, and mammography together provide the earliest detection system available to date. If treated in the earliest stages, cure rates greater than 95% are possible.
Baseline Study Images taken use the Anterior, Oblique and (if necessary) Lateral and Inferior views. These views are repeated in the Functional Study.
Multiple series views are performed providing a provocative challenge to aid in the physiological assessment of the breasts.


CAMBRIDGE — It is a powerful mural, featuring black and white Americans sleeping on floors, marching, and being beaten by police during Depression-era protests. But for eight decades, Lewis Rubenstein and Rico Lebrun’s sprawling fresco has remained out of public view.
That changes this November, when the Harvard Art Museums reopen after a six-year, $350 million renovation and expansion. Designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, the project brings all three of the Harvard Art Museums — the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum — under the same roof for the first time. It has also transformed the complex, increasing gallery space by 40 percent and adding study centers, a cafe, and a dramatic, pyramid-like glass roof.


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Donor makes programs possible for United Way agencies
Published 12:00 am Sunday, December 2, 2012
When an anonymous donor stepped in to make a sizable contribution to the Rowan County United Way campaign, it paved the way for young girls who dare to dream.
The Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Council, which serves 1,000 girls in Rowan, receives funds from the United Way.
The United Way was just short of its $1.78 million campaign goal. But during Wednesday’s final meeting at Carson High School, that donor made up the $24,263.77 deficit.
There are 16-member agencies that receive financial assistance from the United Way to help fund programs and reduce operating costs.
United Way funds help with financial assistance for Girl Scouts’ uniforms, books, membership dues, program fees and summer camps.
In Rowan County, 289 girls take part in volunteer-led troops and 340 girls are in staff-led or community outreach programs that receive financial assistance of some kind.
“We have a commitment to serve all girls who want to be Girl Scouts,” said Katherine Lambert, executive vice president of the Council.
The Girl Scouts program is a leadership development program.
“We are empowering today’s girls to be the leaders of tomorrow,” Lambert said.
“We want to make sure she develops her full leadership potential and the funding from the Rowan County United Way really helps us achieve that mission,” she said.
The Post contacted the United Way to reach out to the donor. Although the donor did not respond to the Post personally, the donor did provide a statement through Ronnie Smith, who has served on the board in the past. He called the Post with that statement:
“As a lifelong resident of Rowan County, I grew up in a family that over the years had to make many sacrifices in order to make ends meet,” the donor said.
The donor said their early life is one reason they’ve always believed in the United Way and supported this campaign.
The contribution was actually possible because of more than just a single donor.
“We knew this year would be extremely difficult with the economy in Rowan County, but we were so impressed with the hard work of the campaign staff and many volunteers,” the statement said.
“When we learned that the United Way might not reach its goal, several of us decided that we could not afford to let that happen,” the donor said.
On Monday, the agency was $83,000 shy of its $1.78 million goal and then came a Wednesday morning $20,000 gift from Novant Health.
Once the meeting began, the campaign was still $24,263.77 short.
Campaign Chair Denise Hallett was handed an envelope that said, “open if goal is not met.”
The anonymous donors had granted the organization a little bit of divine intervention.
“Although they were just short of their goal we said ‘good enough never is.’ We decided to go the extra mile to make certain this campaign was a success. When the entire audience at the United Way finale stood in their seats and shouted ‘we believe in the United Way and this community,’ we knew we had made the right decision,” the donor said.
The envelope Hallett received contained a handwritten letter that made a request. The supporters in the audience were asked to stand, and representatives from the member agencies were asked onto the stage.
Hallett asked a series of questions from the letter, which the audience answered.
One of those questions was whether they believed in the United Way.
The statement said the donors enjoyed reading the stories featured regularly about the agencies and individuals impacted by the giving.
A member agency that relies on the United Way is Meals on Wheels of Rowan County.
This year about 50,000 meals will be given to seniors and the homebound. It is because of the community contributions and the aid of an anonymous donor that those meals are possible.
“It shows there’s a great need out there,” said Excutive Director Rita Sims.
Of the people who receive meals through Meals on Wheels, 98 percent are seniors over the age of 60 and the rest are younger people who are homebound because of physical or mental disabilities, Sims said.
Meals on Wheels focuses on the meal, which the money helps provide, but along with the meal, “it’s that friendly visit,” Sims said.
Many of the clients who receive meals live alone.
“It shows that people out there care about them,” she said.
During the Wednesday meeting, some of those who were in the running to receive a car shared how they at one time needed help from a United Way agency.
Those who donate at least $52 to the campaign are entered in a drawing to win a car. The finalists were asked why they give.
“I’ve been through poverty and had to use their services. I thank them so much,” Dorothy Williams said of the United Way.
Jeremy Lomax, who was also in the running for a car, said he too had to use help from a United Way agency.
Lomax said giving was his way of, “paying it back.”
Hallett said that, with one in four Rowan County citizens living at or below the poverty line, there are many needs in the community.
Among the many services available, agencies provide parenting skills, mentoring, utility assistance, help for domestic violence victims and offer a place of solace after a natural disaster.
Hallett said she is not only grateful to the donor, but to the thousands of volunteers, cabinet members and auxilliary committee members who’ve helped throughout the campaign.
“Those are the people who made it possible. It just says so much about our county; it says so much about our agencies. It confirms what we all know, these agencies are making a positive difference in the lives of our citizens in Rowan County,” she said.
Rowan County is successful because everyone had a hand in the campaign, from corporations matching employee giving to those who contributed a $1 a week, Hallett said.
“It, takes it all in and wraps it up in a miracle,” she said.
Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.