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The Physical Festival
Each year, on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, we celebrate the festival of Purim. We fulfill the observances of the day as they have been practiced for 2,350 years: we read the megillah, the "Scroll of Esther," in which the story of Purim is transcribed; we send gifts of food to our friends and increase in charity to the poor; we partake of a festive meal, replete with food, drink and unbridled joy.
Originally, however, there were two different conceptions of how the miracle of Purim should be commemorated, propagated by the two heroes and founders of Purim, Mordechai and Esther.
Our sages tell us that it was Mordechai's desire that Purim should be a full-fledged Yom Tov, a day of sabbatical rest like the first and last days of Passover and Sukkot.
On the other hand, while both Mordechai and Esther instituted the observances of mishloach manot (sending of food-portions), mattanot la'evyonim (gifts to the poor), and mishteh v'simchah (feasting and rejoicing), the concept of the megillah came solely from Esther. It was she who desired that the story of Purim should be written in a scroll and included among the twenty-four books of the "written Torah" (the "Bible"), and that this written account should be read aloud each Purim.
The different Purims envisioned by Mordechai and Esther reflect their respective roles in the events of the time.
It was Mordechai who personified the faith of his people with his refusal to bow to Haman; it was he who identified the source of Israel's vulnerability to Haman's decree, who called upon the Jewish people to repent and return to G-d, who led them in three days of fasting and prayer, who gathered thousands of Jewish children and studied Torah with them in order to arouse the mercy of Heaven.
Esther, on the other hand, was the one who risked her life by approaching King Achashverosh on the matter, who provoked the king's wrath against Haman and prevailed upon him to empower the Jewish people to defend themselves against their enemies.
In other words, Mordechai was the soul of Purim - the one who rectified the spiritual state of his people and summoned forth the divine salvation - while Esther was its body, the one who manipulated the physical events through which the salvation came about.
Thus, Mordechai envisioned Purim as a spiritual Yom Tov, a day on which the Jew eschews all creative involvement with the material world, while Esther saw it as a day that is very much part of the physical reality.
This is also why it was Esther who insisted that the story of Purim be written down, and read aloud each Purim, while Mordechai felt that it was enough that it be "remembered and observed"  when the events of the day are commemorated by a series of observances, as is the case with the other festivals.
To Mordechai, it was enough that the Jews of future generations be reminded of the miracle when they observe the rituals of Purim, whereas Esther felt that the events should be perpetuated not only as thoughts in the consciousness of Israel but also in the tactual form of written and verbalized words.
When the observances of Purim were institutionalized by the Sanhedrin  on the first anniversary of the miracle, it was Esther's vision that prevailed. The Purim we observe today is Esther's physical Purim rather than Mordechai's spiritual model.
Indeed, the section of the Torah devoted to the story of Purim is called "The Book of Esther" - not "The Book of Mordechai" or "The Book of Mordechai and Esther," or even "The Book of Esther and Mordechai." Purim has been decisively established as Esther's story, Esther's miracle, Esther's festival. For Purim is the festival of the Jewish body.
Mordechai, too, recognized this when, together with Esther, he instituted a series of decidedly physical observances for Purim: gifts of food and money, and joy achieved through feasting and drinking.
On the most basic level, this is due to the fact that "the decree was to destroy and kill the bodies of the Jewish people... not their souls (as, for example, was the endeavor of the Greeks at the time of Chanukah)... thus, the salvation is commemorated by physical means...."
Also, the physicality of Purim reflects the "natural" form of the miracle it commemorates. No seas split on Purim, no oil yielded eight times its potential light, no divine voice issued from a flaming mountain.
To the perfunctory observer, the events of Purim do not appear miraculous at all, but a series of fortunate coincidences. Indeed, the name of G-d is not once mentioned in the Book of Esther (!), an absence fully consistent with its "story line" of a palace intrigue involving an evil minister, a beautiful queen and a fickle king.
While other festivals celebrate G-d's supra-natural interventions in history for the sake of His people, Purim extols the hand of G-d concealed within the natural world, the divine providence implicit within even the most mundane workings of the physical reality.
A Matter of Being
On a deeper level, the physical nature of Purim is at the heart of its unique contribution to the relationship between G-d and Israel.
Common wisdom has it that spirit is superior to matter. The physical is finite and temporal, while the spiritual is not bounded by time and space; the physical is inert, the spiritual vibrant and transcending. Yet the physical body relates to the divine truth in a way that is beyond the scope of the loftiest spiritual reality.
The soul of the human being was forged in the "image of G-d."  Its qualities and virtues - its intelligence, its compassion, its sense of beauty and harmony - are divine qualities, divine attributes reflected in the human spirit. But these divine "qualities" are wholly extraneous to the divine essence. To say that G-d is wise, compassionate or harmonious is to refer to what is but a most superficial aspect of His being.
There is, however, one element of G-d's creation that reflects His quintessential being: the physical reality.
The physical object is - unequivocally and definitively. "I am," it proclaims, "and my being is wholly defined by my own existence." Ostensibly, this makes the physical the greatest concealment of the divine truth, the most blatant denial of the axiom, "There is none else beside Him."  But it is precisely for this reason that, in all of creation, the physical object is also the most poignant expression of the divine being.
In the physical object we have a model for absolute existence. Indeed, it is only as an analogue of its Creator's being that it can possess this quality, which, in essence, is the exclusive prerogative of the Divine.
Our calendar is replete with spiritual avenues of relationship with G-d: the experience of freedom on Passover, the reliving of the revelation at Sinai on Shavuot, the imperial awe of Rosh Hashanah, the teshuvah of Yom Kippur, the sublime joy of Sukkot and Simchat Torah, the subtle light of Chanukah.
But once a year we access a dimension of the relationship that no spiritual experience can capture. On Purim, it is our very physicality that affirms our commitment to G-d, expressing the truth that the definitive being of our bodies is but a reflection of the absolute being of G-d.
Based on the Rebbe's talks on Purim 5724 (1964), and on other occasions
- (Back to text) Talmud, Megillah 5b; Torah Ohr, Esther 100a.
- (Back to text) Thus, in Esther 9:32 we read that "The decree of Esther was established concerning the words of this Purim, and they were written in a scroll," while the aforementioned institutions of "festivity and joy, sending food-portions to one's friends and gifts to the poor" (ibid., v. 22) are described as "what has been established for [the Jewish people] by Mordechai the Jew and Queen Esther" (v. 31). See also Talmud, Megillah 7a: "Esther wrote to the sages: "Establish me (the reading of my story - Rashi) for all generations... Write me down (as a book in Torah -Rashi) for all generations...."
- (Back to text) Esther 9:28.
- (Back to text) Council of seventy-one sages that was the supreme legal and judicial authority.
- (Back to text) Levush Mordechai, Orach Chaim 670:2.
- (Back to text) Genesis 1:27.
- (Back to text) Deuteronomy 4:35.
- (Back to text) According to the teachings of Kabbalah and Chassidism, the spiritual is the "male" element of creation while the physical is its "female" aspect. Thus Mordechai relates to the spiritual or "masculine" constituent of Purim, while Esther is identified with its physical or "feminine" dimension.
- (Back to text) Likkutei Sichot, vol. XVI, pp. 352-358.


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CHICAGO (CBS) -- An outspoken couple with four kids attending Chicago Public Schools has filed a federal lawsuit, seeking to overturn a district decision banning them from public meetings of the Chicago Board of Education.
Rosemary Vega and her husband Jesus Ramos said the ban is a violation of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances.
They have repeatedly criticized the board and its policies, in particular the 2013 decision closing 50 public schools. They appeared in a documentary about the school closings, called "Chicago Public Schools: Closed."
Their neighborhood school, Lafayette Elementary, was among the dozens shut down by CPS, despite impassioned pleas from Vega, Ramos, and other parents who wanted many of the schools kept open.
"We were just hoping that somebody was listening through all these hearings, through all these meetings, these rallies," Ramos said.
At one board meeting, Vega accused the board of "attacking our children and breaking our communities" by closing so many schools.
"You have made our community come together and fight this battle," she said.
In a letter, CPS officials accused Vega and Ramos of repeated disruptive behavior at Board of Education meetings, including the time Vega called one board member a coward.
The couple said, before they were banned, they had security assigned to them at meetings, and had been forcibly removed from meetings, once causing injury to Ramos.

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Getting an "outstanding" rating, once the federal equivalent of giving grown-ups a gold star for being quiet at story time or eating the okra at dinner, is a big deal these days.
Outstanding ratings have become the bureaucracy's bulletproof vest. They help determine who stays and who goes when agencies begin firing people.
In these times of RIFs (layoffs), federal workers who can wangle an "outstanding" rating from the boss get four years of seniority credit. It makes them less vulnerable when the pink slips start flying.
Many agencies, facing layoffs in the weeks and months ahead, have moved up regularly scheduled evaluation periods.
Workers who once paid little attention to getting an "outstanding" commendation pinned to their personnel folder are no longer satisfied with a "satisfactory" grade from the boss. About 94 percent of all workers get satisfactory marks each year. Only about five out of every 100 employes get an outstanding rating.
Because of the new appreciation of outstanding ratings, many workers-- and federal unions -- are taking an interest in how those awards are made, who makes them and who gets them. There have been complaints that some of the least outstanding people in the office have been singled out for the awards because they play golf with the boss.
There are bosses who claim that subordinates who they long assumed had no teeth, are now all smiles and ever-anxious to please just before report card time.
Washington area members of Congress are getting calls, files, facts, figures and speculation from federal constituents who allege that something is rotten in the rating process this year.
Al Louis Ripskis, self-appointed gadfly who has made life interesting and at times uncomfortable for a succession of Housing and Urban Development officials, has taken on the cause of the outstanding at his department.
Ripskis, who edits his IMPACT Journal (whose study a couple of years ago launched a U.S. crackdown on sexual harrassment), says that HUD officials supplied him with a list of outstanding rating awards. But he says they cut out the names of winners, on the grounds that it is a violation of the privacy act.
Ripskis says he would not publish the names of winners, that he only wants to determine if there have been a rash of awards, perhaps to protect certain people. HUD officials say the number of people getting the awards is in line with previous years.
Several employe union locals are preparing or have made similar requests for information on how many people -- and who they are -- have received outstanding awards. Some have bootleg copies of awards lists which they have passed on to friends on Capitol Hill, and the issue of how the awards are being made may be taken up in hearings in the next few weeks.
League of Federal Recreation Associations will have its annual conference March 6 at the Sheraton-Washington here. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will be the keynote speaker. Hoyer, a member of the Post Office/Civil Service Committee, will talk about the legislative outlook for federal pay, insurance and employment. Call 554-6910 for registration information.
Mandatory Open Season: The government would be required to hold an open enrollment period every year under legislation introduced by Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash.). Dicks said Office of Personnel Management's cancellation of the open season due last November is "unconscionable."
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I've been in the Northwest covering some story angles for upcoming pear tab and I've seen the giant news in The Packer this week about sliced apples in Happy Meals.
One source in the industry said "back of the napkin" computations said that fresh sliced demand could increase to as much as 20% of the total crop in response to the fast food titan's move.
It seems the consensus of people I talked to was that keeping a token amount of fries in the Happy Meal was a smart move. Don't create a backlash that would counter the positive news about a more healthful Happy Meal.
Here is coverage from The Packer:
Jan Fields, president of McDonald’s USA, said during a July 26 webcast that by including the apples with the fries it will mean "no more food fights between parents and kids" because both items will be standard. The rollout of the new Happy Meals begins in September in select markets and should be nationwide with all 14,000 U.S. restaurants by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
In addition to adding peeled apple slices to the kids’ meals, McDonald’s is reducing the serving size of the fries in the kids’ meals. The Happy Meals have had 2.4 ounces of fries. That will be reduced to 1.1 ounces, equaling about 100 calories. The overall effect, according to a news release from McDonald’s, will be a 20% reduction in the calories of a traditional Happy Meal. The new meals will also be lower in fat.
The sliced, peeled apple packets in the new Happy Meals will be in ¼ cup servings and parents will have the option to request double apples and nix the fries. The restaurant chain is also introducing 1% chocolate milk along with its 1% white milk to help reduce overall fat intake for children.
Here is the excerpt from the July 26 McDonald's press release:
New Happy Meal: McDonald’s will begin rolling out the new Happy Meal in September 2011, with the goal of having them available in all 14,000 restaurants during Q1 2012. The new Happy Meal will automatically include both produce (apple slices, a quarter cup or half serving) and a new smaller size French fries (1.1 ounces) along with the choice of a Hamburger, Cheeseburger or Chicken McNuggets, and choice of beverage, including new fat-free chocolate milk and 1% low fat white milk. For those customers who prefer a side choice of apples only, two bags of apple slices will be available, upon request.
By adding fruit in every Happy Meal, McDonald’s hopes to address a challenge children face in meeting the recommended daily consumption of produce. McDonald’s has offered apples as a requested choice in Happy Meals since 2004. And, while recent research found that on average, 88 percent of McDonald’s customers are aware of the option, apples are chosen in only 11 percent of Happy Meal purchases.
“Recent research has shown that younger children are consuming more fruits and vegetables, but we still have a long way to go to increase consumption to meet daily recommendations for these important food groups,” said Elizabeth Pivonka, PhD, RD, president and CEO of Produce for Better Health Foundation. “McDonald’s announcement to include apples in every Happy Meal and being one of the first quick service restaurant to do so - further strengthens their seven years of support in our campaign to educate children and their parents on the benefits of fruits and vegetables.”
For many months and in some cases, years, McDonald’s has been engaging suppliers, government and non-government organizations to determine ways it could play a role in helping society address today’s obesity concerns. McDonald’s will develop additional fruit and vegetable choices and expects them to roll out over the next few years. The company will continue to evaluate new scientific research, public health statistics and customer insights and behavior to determine further nutrition adaptations to Happy Meals.
“McDonald’s agrees with leading food and nutrition experts that making incremental lifestyle modifications with food consumption may lead to improvements in an individual’s well-being,” said Cindy Goody, PhD, MBA, RD, McDonald’s senior director of nutrition. “We support parents in their effort to encourage their children to enjoy the foods that are good for them along with the foods they love.”
What are the takeaways from the McDonald's announcement? I found it interesting that while 88% of customers were aware of the apple slices option, only 11% took advantage of it. Perhaps the official "sanction" of inclusion in the Happy Meal will create a real psychological boost to the image of apple slices. Psychology aside, inclusion of apple slices in Happy Meals will create a wonderful floor to the fresh apple market.
If 2.5 million Happy Meals with one quarter cup of apples are sold, that would translate to 2.75 million cups of apple slices per year sold with Happy Meals. That is not to say how many apples were used to create 2.75 million cups of sliced apples; that depends on the "yield" at the fresh cut processing facilities. The CDC estimates that one cup is equal to about 1 small apple.
Perhaps the 20% "back of the napkin" estimate for the fresh cut business is high, but there is no question that McDonald's move has made apple growers quite happy. And, coming full circle, isn't it about time pear growers had a slice of the fresh cut business?


A number of fabricated letters alleging to be from Ukraine's consulate have invited German citizens to join the International Legion in Ukraine, the Ukrainian foreign ministry claims.
Spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said the Ukrainian diplomatic mission never sent these messages, which offered a financial reward.
The International Legion is a group of foreign troops dedicated to defending Ukraine.
Mr Nikolenko said the false letters are "part of the enemy's disinformation campaign, which aims to discredit Ukrainian diplomacy, undermine support for Ukraine from Germany and its citizens".
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday that 31 Ukrainian diplomatic missions have received "threats".
He said this is "a campaign is aimed at sowing fear and intimidating Ukrainian diplomats".


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Skiveren is a peaceful, scenic and magnificent holiday area in the bay Tannis Bugt.
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Skiveren is located in a lovely conservation area, directly by the North Sea and the high dunes of the bay Tannis Bugt, which stretches all the way from Hirtshals to Skagen.
Here you will find peace, tranquillity, a lovely bathing beach and scenic surroundings, right outside your door, and in the immediate vicinity of Skiveren leisure activities, commercial towns, holiday resorts, sights and amusements are at your disposal. Just north of Skiveren the drifting dunes Sandmilen and Råbjerg Mile are situated, and app. 30 km towards north, you can visit Skagen with its quite unique atmosphere.
The fine, wide and sandy beach with the high, lime grass covered dunes is awarded with the Blue Flag and invites swimming, sun bathing, long walks as well as all kinds of beach and watersport activities. Motoring is allowed on the beach.
Because of the winds, the beach is especially suitable for surfing and funboard sailing, and Wave Performance Surf Cup competitions are often held here.
Don't miss the incredibly beautiful sunset over the North Sea.
The conservation area, surrounding Skiveren, is both a little rough and very impressive. Right behind the beach with the high dunes you will find grassy areas and partly wooded sea dunes, which gradually turn into a very scenic area with forest and moor areas with heather.
Råbjerg Mile by Kandestederne (21 km) is one of Europe's largest drifting dunes. The migrating dune is app. 40 metres high, moves up to 15 metres towards northeast every year and creates a miniature desert with a size of app. 1 square kilometre. The sand drift in this area has left behind Råbjerg Stenene - a stony plain, which has come into existence because the fine sand from Råbjerg Mile is moved and the stones, which are heavier, are left behind. From the highest point of the dune you can see all the way to the tip of Denmark - Grenen in Skagen.
Windsurfers have good conditions for expansion by the beach of Skiveren. Others can enjoy the sight of the colourful sails on the waving sea.
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Anglers have good fishing opportunities along the shore as well as in the streams of the hinterland. You can also to deep-sea fishing with a fishing vessel, which sails out from Hirtshals (25 km).
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The church 'Den Tilsandede Kirke' is buried in sand, and its tower rises from the sand in the scenic plantation area. The immense sand drift is the cause of the burial of the church (25 km).
The aquarium Nordsømuseet in Hirtshals contains Europe's largest saltwater aquarium: Ocenariet, which holds 4.5 million litres of water. At Nordsømuseet you can experience about 60 different fish species from the North Sea, and you can even touch some of them (26 km). In Hirtshals you can also visit Bunkermuseet Hirtshals 10. Batteri - a complete bunker installation from World War II with a museum.
Visit Skagen with the distinctive Skagen houses, the top of Denmark: Grenen, the charming harbour, the interesting sights as well as the many shops and restaurants (31 km).
In the amusement park Fårup Sommerland & Aquapark you can try out more than 50 interesting entertainments for the whole family, including Denmark's largest aquapark and Denmark's longest switchback Falken (70 km).
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NASA Study Provides Next Step to Establishing Lunar Outpost
HOUSTON — NASA engineers and scientists completed a milestone review June 20 that will help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost.
The three-day Lunar Capability Concept Review capped a nine-month study led by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington that incorporated science and exploration objectives earlier developed by representatives of 14 countries as part of the Global Exploration Strategy.
The study looked at possible lunar mission scenarios and compared them to the capabilities of the emerging Ares V heavy lift launch vehicle and the Altair lunar lander design concepts. This review of those findings, led by the Constellation Program Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, established all the technical parameters that will be needed to begin Phase A, the first phase in preparing vehicle requirements.
“We confirmed that Constellation’s conceptual designs for both Ares V and Altair will enable us to land astronauts and cargo anywhere on the moon and to build an outpost supporting widespread exploration of the lunar surface,” said Jeff Hanley, Constellation Program manager at Johnson. “This extensive review proves we are ready for the next phase: taking these concepts and moving forward to establish mature requirements.”
According to Hanley, the study bears out the strength of the initial concepts showing the vehicles can be built and delivered in time to return humans to the moon by 2020.
The review also reinforced the key role of international partnerships and industry collaboration to developing the lunar surface systems for human missions to the moon.
Phase A begins the process of defining the vehicle and element requirements. During this phase, the Ares V and Altair Project teams will take what was learned from the Lunar Capability Concept Review and baseline the needs for lunar missions, establish the design needs and determine plans for advancing the technologies needed to be successful. Phase A will culminate in a Systems Requirements Review for NASA’s lunar transportation architecture, tentatively planned for 2010.
The review refined early configurations of the Ares V rocket to ensure its capability to deliver the Altair lunar lander, four astronauts and cargo anywhere on the moon and return the crew to Earth at any time. To accomplish those objectives, the current configuration of the Ares V will use six RS-68B liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen engines on a core stage along with two five-and-one-half segment solid propellant rocket boosters, which are a direct evolution from the first stage of the Ares I rocket. The Ares V upper stage will propel the Orion crew capsule and Altair to the moon using the same J-2X engine as the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The Ares V will stand about 381 feet tall and be able to send more than 156,600 pounds of cargo and components into orbit to the moon, and later to Mars or other destinations.
Altair will be capable of landing four astronauts anywhere on the moon, providing life support and a base for the first week-long surface exploration missions, and returning the crew to the Orion spacecraft for the ride home to Earth. A variant of the lunar lander will serve as an autonomous cargo carrier, taking modular outpost components, lunar rovers, and scientific equipment to the moon’s surface.
The formal decision to start Phase A will be taken to NASA’s leaders before the end of this year.
The Constellation Program Office at Johnson has the responsibility for developing the next human space transportation system that will be used to extend a human presence throughout the solar system. The program includes multiple project offices and technical teams at all ten NASA centers and at contract organizations around the nation. The Orion Project and Altair Project also are led from Johnson. The Ares Project Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., leads the design and development of the Ares I rocket and Ares V cargo launch vehicle. The Ground Operations Project at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will handle ground and launch operations for the vehicles.
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Roadworks part of Tema port upgrade
The Tema-Accra dual carriageway is to be converted into a three-lane highway, with construction work scheduled to begin September 2015.
The works are part of the Tema Port expansion project designed to improve access to the port and allow for greater volumes of cargo. The road project is being managed by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) and is expected to cost about $4.5 million.
The works will involve a complete re-engineering of the 25-km road from the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout in Accra to the harbour in Tema, as well as the construction of several interchanges for link roads between the two cities.
The GPHA say the expansion project is critical to its quest to improve the port's role in the region and facilitate larger container vessels carrying oil, clinker, cement and general goods. The authority is investing $115 million in upgrading existing cargo facilities at Tema harbour and port.


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So how goes the conflict between the state and plenty of — however not all — California cities over housing coverage?
The conflict broke out a few years in the past when the state Division of Housing and Group Growth ramped up stress on native governments to accommodate extra housing development, citing “a long time of underproduction underscored by exclusionary insurance policies (that) have left housing provide far behind want and prices hovering.”
Spurred by new pro-housing legal guidelines, the department issued much higher quotas on native governments to zone land for residential development and created a particular unit to implement the targets. Attorney General Rob Bonta also weighed in, saying his workplace would crack down on cities that drag their ft.
The conflict escalated final yr when the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted another law that permits duplexes to be constructed on tons zoned for single-family properties.
There was a robust backlash to the state decrees from some cities, notably these with rich residents, very costly properties and little or no rental property. Their opposition has ranged from lawsuits difficult the validity of the brand new quotas to artistic native decrees, reminiscent of Woodside’s abortive effort to declare itself a mountain lion refuge.
Woodside, with a median house worth of $4.7 million, is typical of the communities the place opposition to the zoning quotas and the duplex regulation is strongest. Residents of one other bucolic San Francisco Peninsula suburb, Atherton, with a $7.9 million median house worth, are additionally reacting strongly.
Final month, when Mayor Rick DeGolia and different metropolis officers held a neighborhood assembly to explain how Atherton would adjust to the brand new legal guidelines, residents reacted with raucous opposition, some demanding that town refuse to conform and simply pay the state’s penalties.
The confrontation took one other flip in March when the state auditor’s workplace issued a report considerably essential of how the state housing company calculated zoning quotas.
The auditor reviewed quotas for 3 California areas — Santa Barbara County, the Sacramento space and Amador County — and concluded they’d some technical errors and/or lacked ample statistical backup for his or her assumptions.
“This inadequate oversight and lack of help for its concerns dangers eroding public confidence that HCD is informing native governments of the suitable quantity of housing they may want,” appearing auditor Michael Tilden stated in a letter to the Legislature.
The division shortly agreed to right errors and supply extra information and whereas the comparatively delicate criticism was extra a blip than a significant setback, critics of the state’s quota program shortly cited it as vindication.
“I firmly consider that the auditor’s report raises sufficient questions that the state Legislature ought to look into this and presumably think about eliminating the penalties for not attaining the Regional Housing Wants Evaluation mandates, particularly if we would want to return and redo them,” Novato Councilwoman Pat Eklund, a member of the California Alliance of Native Electeds, which pushed for the audit, instructed the Marin Unbiased Journal.
Marin County, which has the state’s highest personal incomes and has constructed little or no new housing in latest a long time, is a hotbed of opposition to zoning quotas, despite the fact that it obtained a partial exemption.
Because the conflict continues, largely within the courts, California additionally continues to lag behind in housing development. Exercise has picked up a bit within the final couple of years, however continues to be properly in need of the 180,000 models the state says are wanted every year and is especially poor in multi-family rental housing for poor and moderate-income households, that are hardest hit by rising prices.
Dan Walters is a columnist for CalMatters, a public curiosity journalism enterprise dedicated to explaining how California’s state Capitol works and why it issues.


COVID-19 Illuminates the Danger of Ignoring Problems That Exhibit Exponential Growth
Stevens professor Philip Orton explains how small problems can grow into crises, advising that now may be the time to listen to lessons from the Earth
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, communities across the world are learning hard lessons: about the fragility of life; the importance of our relationships and support networks; for many, the impermanence of work and stability; and countless other values we are forced to take a close look at during this difficult time.
The Earth too, it seems, has lessons to offer.
With transportation and industry production having come to a near halt in many metropolises, we have seen China’s carbon emissions cut by 100 million metric tons; we have seen the water in the iconic canals of Venice become so clear that one can see swimming fish; we have seen air pollution drop by 30 percent over major cities in the northeastern U.S.
While this cleanup of our environment is likely a temporary byproduct of the pandemic until we return to “business as usual”—according to Philip Orton, research professor of ocean engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering (CEOE) at Stevens Institute of Technology—we are faced with yet another lesson: the importance of acting early amid threats that explode with exponential growth.
With a hyper-contagious virus sweeping the world, we are witnessing literally countless numbers of infected individuals, because we haven’t the resources to test everyone. Worldwide, we have lost 176,786 lives as of April 22, that we know of. And how long did it take for that total number of confirmed deaths to double? Just ten days, according to Our World in Data.
As the globe waits in fear and apprehension for the deadly virus to reach its peak, or at least plateau, and longs for a return to normalcy, Orton suggests that now is the time to take a sober look at the dangers of exponential growth and the importance of early action.
“Exponential growth blows people’s minds; it’s hard to understand,” said Orton. “This [situation] is unfortunately making it much more tangible.”
Orton explained that US scientists gave warning to take preventative measures in preparation for the virus to cross its borders in February, yet it was not until March that we took substantial action, allowing more time for the virus to rapidly spread after the first US case was confirmed in Snohomish County, Washington on February 20.
Similarly, scientists warned of global warming between twenty and thirty years ago; yet with little action to reduce carbon emissions since then, today we are experiencing a global average temperature of about two degrees Celsius higher than it was in 1880 during the pre-industrial era. That number may seem small, but it’s significant; and we on land are fortunate that 90 percent of the heat has actually been absorbed by the ocean—albeit at great costs to oceanic and wildlife health—instead of staying in the atmosphere. The result of this is slowly building, but it’s accelerating sea level rise.
Orton researches coastal flooding and climate change at the Davidson Laboratory in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science, where he also helps advise the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on water and flood levels, among other research and teaching activities
“Due to sea level rise, many locations are seeing an exponential growth of the number of floods per year, and rapidly approaching being uninhabitable” he said. “For example, in some neighborhoods of Miami, Atlantic City, and for New York City—the Hamilton Beach neighborhood near the John F. Kennedy International Airport—we used to see sporadic, occasional floods year-to-year; but now these are happening about 30 to 50 times a year. Before the exponential growth set in, floods were caused by random, extreme events.”
These sites are unusually low-lying neighborhoods built on landfill over wetlands. However, a dramatically larger population lives on coastal property within a few feet above this level, and is threatened in future decades by this same exponential increase in flooding. These future chronic flood zones have property valuing in the trillions of dollars and are still being developed with new homes.
Verified cases of COVID-19 were doubling every few days at their worst, whereas these locations are seeing floods double every decade or so. But there is another critical difference: The response time to slow COVID-19 is weeks-to-months, with people sheltering at home. The response time to slow global warming is decades.
“If we had heeded scientists’ warnings and reduced global greenhouse gas emissions 20 or 30 years ago when we were first warned about it, we wouldn’t be in this situation now.”
Orton says that because the US lock-down began in mid-March instead of late February, it allowed doubling every two-to-three days for three weeks, leading to about a 500-fold increase in the number of infections. This put us beyond the point where sheltering and our limited capacity for testing could have prevented the outbreak.
While the cleanup of water and air quality that we’ve seen in recent months is astonishing, Orton explained that “the huge dent in carbon emissions this year...won’t have much impact on global warming, if it’s short term.”
Paradoxically, Orton commented that we may even see a small uptick in global warming in 2020, because particulate air pollution blocks sunlight, and with the reduction in these particles there will also be an uptick in sunlight. “The effect of particulate matter is greater than scientists once realized,” he said.
“The key issue with the CO2 emissions [we are seeing now],” he continued, “is it’s temporary. We can learn about it, but it’s not going to affect much change. A, say, ten percent decrease for just one year is minor, because CO2 lasts in the atmosphere for decades or longer.”
Orton concedes that we are experiencing a bittersweet lesson that sheds light on a problem without solving it. “We want fewer greenhouse gases per economic unit, but we now have decreased economic units. This is not a good thing.”
Much of the reduction in greenhouse emissions is because people aren’t traveling as much. Just one sport utility vehicle (SUV) can emit several tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually. With SUVs holding 39 percent of the car market share, that amounts to 700 million tons of annual CO2 emissions. Those emissions are second only to the power sector.
“I’m not anti-car,” said Orton. “...We can keep the reduction we are seeing now by putting in place policies that encourage more work from home, rather than [requiring] office space and commuters. There is an opportunity here to make some more sustained and impactful changes.
“You can’t solve these problems efficiently if you let exponential growth set in,” he continued. “Then we may have waited too long to enable minor adaptations to be effective, whether it be to shelter in place for coronavirus, or to move your car up your driveway to higher ground to avoid flooding.”
Many wonder if the world we return to after the pandemic ends will be forever altered. We are interacting with technology differently; we are calling our loved ones more frequently; we are working creatively; we are volunteering to help wherever possible. Perhaps we may change how we interact with our environment, too.
“It’s an interesting experiment we are living in,” Orton said.
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Investigators have found one of the two flight recorders at a crash site of a Russian MiG-31 Foxhound fighter jet in the Urals, a source in the investigation committee said.
The jet exploded in a fireball minutes after taking off from a military airfield in the Perm region in the early hours of Tuesday. Both pilots were killed in the crash.
“We have found one of the flight recorders and will continue the investigation of the crash site tomorrow,” the source told RIA Novosti.
A technical failure is being considered as a possible cause of the crash.
Relatively few MiG-31s have been modernized to the MiG-31BM version since the heavy interceptor entered service with the Russian Air Force in 1982. Experts believe that technical problems are inevitable on aircraft whose service life is nearing its end without a thorough overhaul.
A similar jet crashed in the Urals region less than a year ago, but the pilots managed to parachute to safety.
The Air Force has grounded all MiG-31s in its fleet and said the flight ban would continue until the cause of the crash is established.


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Lemon is the undisputed queen of curds, yet there are a few additional, lovely options for oranges, grapefruit, and lime. Orange curd provides an intense flavor, without quite the potent punch of lemon. Its terrific with scones, on toast, and great for pavlovas and fillings.
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- 2 tablespoons orange zest, preferably from organic oranges
- 1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 ounces / 1/2 stick room temperature unsalted butter
- 1 cup / 4-5 large eggs
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- Add all ingredients to saucepan over medium-low heat, whisking constantly.
- Once butter is melted, increase heat to medium.
- Still whisking constantly, mixture will begin to thicken within about 5-6 minutes.
- It is vital that eggs do not heat too fast, or scorch on bottom of pan as they will scramble.
- If it begins to bubble or heat too fast, remove from heat completely and continue stirring.
- Mixture will continue to thicken as it cools. The texture should be similar to a loose pudding.
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Long before I had the real pleasure and honor (and I mean those words sincerely) of being the parent of a teenager, I would regularly receive positive feedback from parents and teachers on working with teens. You are so good and patient with them! I would be told, to which I always responded that it was because I did not have to take them home with me. Truth be told, I was always proud of the way I worked with and interacted with teens in my career, but I did worry about what it would mean when it was my turn to be the parent. So, when my own son was young, and I was at Camp Harlam serving as faculty, I found myself talking to a colleague and classmate of mine whose kids are several years older. We had known each other for a while and had talked about our experiences with parenting over the years and I asked him what he felt it meant to parent and adolescent. He looked at me and said: Yair, whatever you do, don’t take the bait. Don’t take the bait? Don’t take the bait. What the heck is that supposed to mean, don’t take the bait? What it means is this: it is the job of teenagers to push the envelope, to try to stretch beyond the limitations of childhood and the boundaries that we as parents set for them, no matter how appropriate those boundaries might be. That is their job. That is how they grow into adulthood. How else will they grow as individuals—in character, in their spirit, in their sense of self—unless they challenge those boundaries and the authority, we as parents set? Which is fine, except that sometimes, when they push and challenge, it’s with sharper elbows and stronger words than we might be ready for, and so they push our buttons, or react with more heat or energy to something we say or do—anyone who’s found their children complaining that we were angry with them when we had spoken in what we thought was an even-tempered voice knows what I’m talking about. And it may be that, in the course of all that challenging and pushing, we as parents might find ourselves reacting, taking it personally. Now, that is understandable; they get us where it counts as they challenge us and look for room to grow. And it is our job to continue to provide those boundaries, but we still need to give them a space to grow, and we need to not take the bait. Not let the sharpness and their voice, the anger get to us.
This was many years ago, and since then I have been trying to follow my colleague’s advice, some days better than others. What I have found is that, while this was offered as advice for dealing with teenage children, it also works as a framework of how to understand conflict and feedback with others in general. That is to say, it is not just the parents of teens who have to worry about taking the bait. We have all had the experience where we have given feedback and not reflected in advance on how we were delivering it, and how it would be received. We were mad, or upset, and in the moment, and so we pushed, and then were surprised when the person did not exactly receive what we said as helpful. And we have been on the other side of that as well, as someone—perhaps a friend or family member, perhaps a stranger—offers us a correction, maybe incredibly gently, and we respond defensively, or with sadness, irritation, or anger. And we see the issue writ large in our society, as public figures are called out, well, publicly, for their misdeeds, and even the most heartfelt apology and act of correction seems to be insufficient, while others double down on their offense, leaning into it and asserting, I do not know, some kind of negative moral authority. As a society, we are trapped in a cycle of taking the bait.
How do we get out of this cycle? How do we step toward giving and receiving feedback in a way that it is helpful and functional, that it allows each of us, all of us, to learn and grow as people?
It is worth exploring this question on Yom Kippur, our day of atonement, because what is feedback if not the process of exploring our personal behavior so that we are able to make atonement at all? There is this idea that Yom Kippur—with its fasting and prayers for forgiveness—allow us to hit the reset button on our lives. Or perhaps, for some of us, it becomes important to also ask for forgiveness of individuals—perhaps directly by going to those we have talked to, and perhaps a blanket statement, on Facebook, for example, asking for forgiveness for our personal behavior, lest we did something and did not know we had offended someone with our actions or words. And all these behaviors on our part are good. Fasting—whether it is a food-based fast or, due to medical issues, a fast of another variety—along with the prayers of our mahzor, allow us to spend the day in self-reflection, contemplating our choices from the past year, our behaviors, and seeking to do better. Likewise, apologizing, even vaguely, provides the opportunity for individuals to share whether there were moments or interactions in the previous year that were painful or difficult and reflect on them, giving the apologizer the chance to receive necessary information in order that they correct their behavior.
But let us face it, sometimes, when we give feedback, our words are too sharp; we are responding not out of love or wanting to see our fellow community member do better; but from some other place. Ego, or negativity. We provide feedback in the heat of the moment, or even publicly, maximizing the possibility that the words will land hard and do real damage to the relationship. And when we receive criticism, we sometimes do not know how to reflect on it, no matter how lovingly and thoughtfully given, without taking it personally, without deciding it is unfair. We ‘take the bait,’ dwelling on our own offense or the misdeeds of the other, without really doing the work of self-reflection and repair. We get stuck.
Look, I get it. And I should be clear that this is not a new phenomenon. The rabbis of old, going back to the Talmud, spend pages and pages exploring ‘best practices’ as it were, both on how to give and receive feedback: when to do it, under which circumstances, and why it is important to do so. And unless you think that they were made of sterner stuff back then, and more able to give and receive feedback because of some cultural or historical situation, the Talmud relates the following conversation: “It is taught–Rabbi Tarfon said: I would be amazed if there is anyone in this generation who can accept criticism. If you say to someone, “Take that splinter out of your eye,” he says back, “Take that beam out of your eye.” Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: I would be amazed if there is anyone in this generation who knows how to criticize.” Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
So why engage in it at all? Why not leave it alone? The medieval philosopher Rabbi Moshe Chayim Luzzato, sometimes called the Ramchal, basically said that while it is meritorious to correct someone’s behavior, it is nearly impossible to do it correctly, and Pirkei Avot, that collection of wisdom from the Mishnah, essentially says at one point, ‘you can’t tell nobody nothing.’ It is uncomfortable, it is unpleasant, no one wants to hear it. Why bother?
Because without it, both criticizer and criticized are left stunted in their growth as people. The criticized, of course, because they are left continuing to do whatever is inappropriate—perhaps and most likely inadvertently—without the opportunity to become better. How many of us have discovered to our profound mortification that the thing we were doing, unthinkingly, on autopilot, was truly offensive to someone? For many of us these days it comes in the inappropriate use of a person’s pronouns. We have been calling someone ‘he’ when we find out they are a ‘they,’ or ‘she’ when they are a ‘he.’ We do not mean anything by it, of course, and it seems like such a little thing, but when we compare it to, say, the non-Jewish acquaintance who feels the need to share every Jewish Joke they have ever heard, we start to understand why this is, for them, grating and unpleasant, and perhaps even traumatic.
But that is also true for the criticizer. By not speaking out, we may begin to harbor resentment about the person, assuming ill will on their part. Leviticus 19, which we read this afternoon, reminds us to lovingly rebuke our kin, lest we hate them in our heart. Isn’t that exactly what happens? We do not correct the behavior because why bother, we do not want to offend them, and so on, and we find ourselves dreading interacting with them, as if they are terrible in some way. That one issue that we might have discussed with them now dominates our entire perspective of the person.
So, we must give and receive correction. But we must do it right. We must deliver that correction in a way that people can hear it, and we must listen to what they say even if it is unpleasant. And I should be clear, it may not work. At the end of the day, we cannot control for outcomes, including how people will hear us and whether we will be received in the spirit in which we are presenting. Nevertheless, we must try.
The philosopher Maimonides has written extensively on this subject, drawing on the best of the Talmud and the rabbis who came before, and we will be using his reflections as our guide. First, unless it is an emergency, we do not correct in the heat of the moment. Unless it is an emergency—the person is going to harm others by their actions, intentional or otherwise—we create space between us and them. And we reflect on what happened. Why am I upset by what they said or did? Is it about them? Is it really about me? Perhaps I may have said or done something to suggest their actions were acceptable. To be clear, I am not talking about gaslighting oneself, but deeply reflecting on the encounter and whether it was an honest mistake or a missed signal. Maimonides also encourages us to reflect on whether we have ever done something similar—after all, we are not perfect in our actions or thoughts, and it may be that what upsets us is that we have made the same mistake and now find it embarrassing. When we go to the person, we approach them as a friend. We speak to them PRIVATELY, and if possible, face to face rather than through email or text or a phone call. We reflect on our experience, and how we have made mistakes—perhaps the same mistake—ourselves and offer that our offending associate may have not realized that what they did was inappropriate. That is, we start our words from a place of having already forgiven them. And we offer concrete suggestions on how to do things differently, and support if they need it on how to do better. And we continue, the Talmud tells us, until we see them getting red in the face—that is, embarrassed—at which point we stop. The point is to correct the behavior not to embarrass them.
What about those of us on the receiving end? It does not feel good to have our intentions questioned or to discover that we did something offensive, or that we were misunderstood. And we might feel that what was shared with us was unfair. What we need to do in that moment is slow things down. Unless they truly misunderstood our words or actions—which is a thing that happens! —we say ‘sorry’ and ‘thank you’ and tell them we will reflect on what they shared. And then: reflect! How could we have done better? Was this an accident, a one-time mistake, or are we in the habit of making such mistakes? What do we need in place to make sure that we do not act or talk in such a way moving forward? By reflecting on this, we can actually do what we say we want to do, become better. Improve ourselves.
Look, I recognize that it is easy to describe these actions—how to give feedback, how to receive it—but it is hard to do. Especially when we are feeling hurt. But the blessing of doing this are vital and necessary. So much of what we see corroding in our society is our collective inability to receive and give feedback with love, to let our hurt and anger win the day. We cannot become the people we are meant to be until we step away from that reactive posture, and toward one another, but that can only happen when we start from a place of love and kindness in our words and actions and refuse to take the bait ourselves. We are taught in our tradition that criticism leads to peace. May we work to make those words true, as we say, a

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Priyanka Chopra had attended Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha’s ring ceremony in May, but now multiple reports state that she might skip the wedding this weekend in Udaipur.
Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha arrived in Udaipur on Friday, September 22, for their wedding festivities scheduled on Saturday and Sunday. The Bollywood actress and Aam Aadmi Party leader had exchanged the rings at a close knitted ceremony in Delhi in May earlier this year.
Parineeti’s cousin and global star Priyanka Chopra flew in from the America to attend her ring ceremony, which was also attended multiple political personalities such as Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann among others. But now the reports have suggested that the Fashion actress might skip the wedding festivies due to her prior work committments.
The actress also dropped a hint about skipping the celebrations as she wished the couple on her Instagram on Saturday morning, as per the Indian timings. Taking to her Instagram Stories, Priyanka shared a picture of Parineeti and wrote, “I hope you are as happy and content as this on your big day little one..always wishing you so much love (red heart emoji) #newbeginnings @parineetichopra @raghavchadha88”.
Priyanka Chopra’s mother Madhu Chopra and her brother Siddharth Chopra were seen at the Sufi night held at Raghav Chadha’s residence in Delhi this week as part of the pre-wedding fesivities. The ceremony was also attended by the former cricketer and Aam Aadmi Party leader Harbhajan Singh.
As per the reports, Parineeti and Raghav’s wedding festivities are set to kick off at the Udiapur’s Leela Palace on September 23, commencing with a warm welcome luncheon named Grains of Love, followed by a 90s-themed party in the evening. The wedding will reportedly take place on September 24, with multiple film personalities and politicians in attendance.
READ | Inside Parineeti Chopra-Raghav Chadha’s wedding venue Leela Palace, where events cost Rs 2 crore, rooms 1 lakh per night


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Another technical “wonder solution” has bitten the dust. Too bad for European lorry companies, who have used cartels to maintain their profits instead of investing in clean technology. The three LNG trucks tested emit 2 to 5 times more poisonous NOx than the diesel truck with the lowest test result when driven in a combination of urban areas, regional routes and motorways. When driven in towns and cities, the gas trucks release 2 to 3.5 times more NOx than the tested diesel truck with the lowest emissions. Trucks run on biogas (biomethane) would have comparable air pollutant emissions as fossil gas trucks because the fuel characteristics are the same.


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Trees, man. I’ve been doing a lot more graphic stuff recently, and I like it. It might not have the same degree of satisfaction as a super rendered painting, so I think I’m just going to find ways to mesh the two.
A portrait of young Belle and her mother. This will be on display in Maurice’s cottage as part of New Fantasyland!
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14 May The Historical Layers of Naples
Naples is a unique city, known as the “soul of Italy”.
With its people, its ambience and atmosphere chaotic and full of spirit, yet beautiful and authentic at the same time, there is always something new to discover and explore, whether it is uncovering the underwater towns, walking through the narrow streets of the city centre or exploring the labyrinth of the city’s underground tunnels.
However and whatever you explore, it is possible to appreciate the many historical layers of the city.
With a surface of 900000sqm the underground Naples is enormous. It is considered to be the hidden heart of the city where you can discover all there is to know about Naples and its history. Exploring the underground tunnels, it is possible to find signs of the paganism, to see early Christian burial sites and even air raid shelters from World War II.
The underground tunnels of Naples also clearly shows how the city was excavated and built on top of older structures (layer over layer) using the compacted volcanic rock called “tufo”. Tufo was quarried and used as the main material to build the city.
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to build layer over layer, giving birth to the city of Neapolis (“New City” in Greek) on a promontory of tufo. Later on the Romans incorporated the ancient underground cavities into their extensive hydraulic underground system and created the so called “aqueducts”. These subterraneous spaces were then converted into crypts by Early Christians. Finally in 1880, due to the catastrophic cholera epidemic, the crypts lost their functions as crypts and were shut down. Only during the second World War the underground cavities were opened again to save the lives of thousands of refugees escaping from bombardments. At this time the cavities were transformed with stairways being built , electricity supplies being installed, along with anything else necessary for survival being added. Signs and drawings on the volcanic walls as well as the remains of beds, radios and even cars and Vespa motorbikes, give us a clearer picture of the life at that time.
If you want to take a step back into the past and discover more about the many different layers of Naples, then choose one of my proposed itineraries to begin the journey. I am ready to share with you some of the hidden sides of Naples!
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Marlin is gorgeous & you will share such special memories. In 2006 I was on a motorcycle trip from L.A to Argentina. 1 month into the trip whilst in Mexico I came across a kitten exactly like Marlin. Given he was Mexican I called him Amigo & we travelled on the motorcycle for nearly 2 years sharing an incredible journey. I then brought him back with me to Australia. He passed away in 2019 & I was devastated but he was truly my best Amigo.
This is absolutely adorable!! Then there’s my lab who’s been raised with cats, thinks she’s a cat. She jumps up on the counter and eats the cat food, just like they do. You have very good sweet natured, gentle dogs too, look how gentle the dog is with Marlin… he deliberately notices him and avoids standing on him. This is adorable. We can learn so much from animals. What a beautiful life they all have with you.
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John from Englewood, Colo., wants to know if the Denver Broncos trade quarterback Kyle Orton and make Tim Tebow the starter, who I think it is the best fit as a mentor to Tebow, Jake Delhomme or Mark Brunell.
Bill Williamson: It’s not what I think that’s important, John, but it’s what new Denver coach John Fox thinks. If Orton is traded and Tebow is the starter, I think Denver will look for a veteran backup. If Delhomme ends up leaving Cleveland, I would think he’d be the favorite to be Tebow’s mentor. Fox and Delhomme have a long history together in Carolina and there is a mutual respect. I think it’d be a natural fit.
Jeff from Stamford, Conn., wants to know if the Chiefs would replace Matt Cassel with Donovan McNabb?
BW: No, I don’t see it. The Chiefs like Cassel and they are going to give him a few more years to prove himself. The Chiefs think Cassel has yet to reach his prime and they will work hard with him to help him improve. But the team did take Iowa quarterback Ricky Stanzi in the fifth round with an eye toward the future. But the immediate future in Kansas City revolves around Cassel.
David from Loveland, Colo., wants to know if the longer the lockout lasts, does it increase Nnamdi Asomugha's chances of re-signing with Oakland?
BW: In a way, yes. If a new collective bargaining agreement is worked out in the next month or so, I don’t think the timing will have much effect on Asomugha’s future or any other free agent. But if the lockout extends well into the season and the season is cut in half, I’m not sure what would happen. There has even been talk that potentially all the prospective free agents will be property of their 2010 teams in some scenarios. It’s hard to believe, but, yes, the longer the lockout goes, the more complicated free agency gets.


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To get on Washington's good side, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is pushing Japan's participation in negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade arrangement, thereby taking attention away from the thorny Futenma base issue in Okinawa Prefecture.
But Noda also must placate those in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan who are concerned that the TPP would devastate Japanese farming.
One way Noda is trying to deal with the problem is by suggesting that his administration will put together a plan to resuscitate Japanese agriculture by the end of this month. But discussions have just begun, and it remains to be seen what specific measures can be put together.
Debate among Cabinet ministers on the TPP issue also formally began on Oct. 11.
Noda plans to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit scheduled for next month in Honolulu.
In their first meeting in New York in September, Obama pressed Noda for specific measures on relocating the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. But since progress on that issue is much more difficult, Noda hopes that informing Obama that Japan would take part in the TPP negotiations will be taken as an alternative sign that his administration is serious about maintaining strong ties with the United States.
Washington is hoping to reach a general agreement on the TPP with the nations currently involved in the negotiations, and Japanese participation could add momentum to the talks.
The longer Japan waits to take part in the TPP negotiations, the less influence it would have on the eventual outcome of the arrangement.
However, it will be difficult to obtain a consensus within the DPJ on participating in the TPP. A group of Diet members has obtained the signatures of more than 170 lawmakers, centered on the DPJ, who do not want the government to rush into the TPP negotiations.
Participation in the TPP will likely mean that Japan would have to greatly reduce or eliminate tariffs now in place on many farm products.
Tariffs of 1,706 percent on devil's tongue plant, 777 percent on rice and 360 percent on butter have long protected Japanese farmers and ranchers.
If Noda does decide to go ahead with the TPP talks while opposition remains in the DPJ, that move could upset his efforts to increase party unity.
A viable plan to resuscitate Japanese farming would require new measures to strengthen Japanese agriculture enough to survive an elimination of those tariffs.
In August, a government panel seeking to revive farming and fishing issued an interim report that included a proposal to increase the scale of rice paddy farms by about tenfold over the next five years to between 20 and 30 hectares.
In its requests for the fiscal 2012 budget, the farm ministry included measures that would encourage uncompetitive farmers to leave farming, provide grants to make it easier to increase the size of farms and to create a fund that would help increase the value added of farm products.
However, those proposals are still in their early stages, and the amounts asked for are not very large.
"Even if they tell us to come up with an action plan, we can only include items that we think are possible now," a high-ranking farm ministry official said.
If the government pushes for a comprehensive reform of farming, it would involve altering a key policy measure of the DPJ--the farm income supplement program, which distributes money regardless of the size of the farm.
Since it would involve a core agriculture policy of the DPJ, a drastic change that would lead to greater assistance to large-scale farms could hit a key support base of the party.
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Candidates in the upcoming national and local elections in May only have until this month to register their websites, blogs, official accounts and / or social media pages with the electoral body.
the Elections Commission said every registered political party, coalition and bona fide candidate had until Jan. 31 to register their online account with their Education and Information Service (EID).
This is in accordance with section 9 of its resolution No. 10730, as amended by resolution No. 10748.
The saved links will be similar to the one that will be used for the endorsement of electoral bets or group candidacies.
The rule applies to verified accounts and those that will be verified after registration.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Website and / or social media accounts registration must be completed by January 31, 2022 via this link: https://t.co/Ht2tiT3jR3 pic.twitter.com/xhsEvpgMez
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Spokesperson Comelec James jimenez also recalled the parties concerned on its social network account.
Regarding online accounts, Jimenez previously said the pollster wanted to ensure “that there is accountability for information” that candidates disclose to the public.
“We also want to make sure they have a credible source that they can trust so that people can tell the difference between fake news and real news based on where it’s coming from,” he said. last December.
“It’s the equivalent of a candidate saying ‘I approved this message’. (This is) one of the fake news solutions or strategies to help people identify credible news sources, ”Jimenez added.
Comelec also launched on Thursday a online platform which will offer free live streaming of the national candidates’ online rallies.


DoD to Continue Smallpox Vaccinations Despite Soldier Death
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2006 The Defense Department has no plans to discontinue its smallpox vaccination program, despite yesterday's announcement that vaccinations may have caused a soldier's death.
A panel of military doctors concluded that vaccinations may have caused the death of Army Pfc. Christopher "Justin" Abston.
Abston received the smallpox and injectable influenza vaccines in November at Fort Bragg, N.C., and died suddenly in his barracks room 16 days later, on Dec. 4, Pentagon officials said.
His autopsy revealed an inflammation of the heart muscle, or "myocarditis." The smallpox vaccine is one of several known triggers of this condition. Evidence of another known trigger for the condition was found during the autopsy.
"Evidence of the vaccinia virus, the main ingredient of smallpox vaccine, was not found in his heart muscle, but evidence of a different virus, parvovirus B19, was found," a Defense Department release stated. "Natural infection with parvovirus B19 is another known cause of heart inflammation and death."
A panel of military medical experts determined it is "neither probable nor unlikely," merely "possible," that vaccinations caused Abston's death.
Abston is the only servicemember whose death has been linked to the smallpox vaccine. Of 1 million servicemembers vaccinated through the program, 120 developed myocarditis or similar conditions, but all others survived.
DoD initiated the smallpox vaccination program in December 2002 to protect servicemembers from the highly contagious smallpox disease, Air Force Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told American Forces Press Service. The program is used to protect troops assigned to U.S. Central Command, U.S. Forces Korea, or designated units with homeland defense missions.
"The smallpox vaccine has been given billions of times to Americans and people all over the world in the last century," Krenke said. Hundreds of studies have assessed the vaccine, and DoD will continue to monitor the safety of the smallpox vaccine and all other vaccines it uses to protect servicemembers, she said.
Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, expressed condolences to Abston's family and regret about his death. "Medicine remains an inexact science," he said. "And when we lose one of our soldiers, we recognize how much about medicine that we still do not know."


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PANAJI: Chief Justice of the Bombay high court at Goa Swatanter Kumar on Thursday expressed shock and dissatisfaction over the huge number of cases pending before the high court.
The chief justice, who has been sitting in a division bench along with Justice N A Britto for the last two days, told lawyers present in the court room that the Goa bench of the high court is faced with over 3000 pending cases.
"It is shocking to know that a first appeal has been lying in the registry for the last two-and-a-half years without even coming up once on the board for hearing," the chief justice pointed out.
After making the observation, the chief justice gave indications that the list of pending cases would be put up on the court's notice board. He also said that any matter that is not pursued by the lawyers would then be dismissed for default.
Earlier, Swatanter had hinted that lawyers appearing on behalf of the government would have to pay fines from their own pockets if they delayed matters by seeking unnecessary adjournments.


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Being overweight doesn't equate to being overnourished. Nutrition is much more complicated than energy balance. Nutrition poverty, food security and poor dietary choices can result in being overweight and undernourished. Today we ask, how much of the increased risk observed with excess weight could be the consequence of insufficient intakes of essential nutrients (vitamins and minerals)?
For decades, obstetricians have routinely injected newborn babies with vitamin K soon after delivery. Vitamin K, a fat-soluble vitamin named “K” for the German word “koagulation” causes blood to clot, or coagulate, and prevents uncontrolled bleeding. As Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) writes in Slate, some misinformed parents are refusing to have their infants injected. This is foolishness.
Babies are born vitamin K deficient. Severe vitamin K deficiency can occur within 6-15 weeks of birth.
Undernutrition during childhood increases risk of developing non-communicable diseases (NCD) in adulthood. History teaches us that girls who experience famine conditions famine conditions are more likely to develop peripheral artery disease and diabetes mellitus in adulthood (Portrait et al., 2011).
Undernutrition in early life leads to stunting.
Dr Arya Sharma, Professor of Medicine and Chair in Obesity Research and Management at the University of Alberta states that body mass index (BMI) is a poor indicator of health. Nevertheless, he is concerned by the rapid increase in the prevalence of severe obesity (BMI of 40-59.9 vs normal weight BMI 18.5-24.9) because of its association with a loss of 6.5 to 13.7 years of life.
Want to stay healthy and active into your 80’s? Of course the answer is yes. Researchers say it can be accomplished by promoting behaviors that prevent molecular and metabolic dysfunction. In other words, adopting healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors.
Inflammation is a normal defensive response to infection and injury. Chronic, low-grade inflammation is believed to contribute to the development of several non-communicable diseases (NCD)
The civil war in Syria started almost three and a half years ago. As a result of the conflict, roughly 2.9 million people have fled Syria, and another 6.5 million are displaced within Syria. The majority of the international refugees now live in neighboring countries such as Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, in refugee camps and also in the general community in these countries. Refugees are at increased risk of malnutrition, especially in protracted conflicts such as in Syria. A recent report from the CDC investigates rates of malnutrition in Syrian refugees living in and outside of a refugee camp in Jordan. What is the nutritional status of people living in such a compromised situation?
Vitamin D is most commonly associated with bone metabolism. Did you know low vitamin D status also affects muscle?
Liu and colleagues report that lower 25(OH)D concentrations are linked with greater muscle mass loss in middle-aged people. Using a subset of 3,289 community-dwelling residents from the Nutrition and Health of Aging Population in China Project living in Beijing and Shanghai, they report muscle mass
Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for bone health. Many people, especially women, do not consume recommended amounts of these two nutrients from their diet. With a few exceptions, i.e. dairy products, snack bars and ready-to-eat cereals, it has been difficult to fortify foods with calcium (a mineral) without negatively affecting taste (and consumer preference). Federal regulations restrict the types of foods which can be fortified with vitamin D. Dietary supplements become a primary option to fill calcium and vitamin D shortfalls.

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