National Coffee Day: Coffee & Maple Syrup Glazed Slow Cooker ...

Celebrate in a many ways like making this recipe and grabbing your free cup of coffee .

Coffee Maple Syrup BBQ Slow Cooker Ribs (Serves 4)
Adapted from Yankee Lost & Vintage Recipes
Ingredients:
Dry Rub for the Ribs:
1 2-pound rack of baby back pork ribs
1 1/2 Tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1 Tablespoon McCormick cajun spice mix

For the glaze:
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup Dave?s coffee syrup (or concentrated coffee, extract)
1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
2 Tablespoons Tomato paste
1 Tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
3 large cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 cup minced sweet onion
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

Directions:

1. Turn the crock-pot/slow cooker onto high. Meanwhile, combine all the ingredients for the dry rub and mix well.

2. Rub the dry rub all over the ribs and set aside. Place the first six ingredients for the glaze into the slow cooker and whisk together. Add in the garlic, onion and salt and mix well.

3. Allow to heat in the slow cooker for 5 to 10 minutes and then place the ribs into the slow cooker, spoon/baste the glaze over the ribs and allow to cook for 4 hours on high or 6 hours on low. Baste or flip ribs half-way through if your schedule permits.

4. Remove the ribs, strain the juice/glaze and pour over the ribs.? If you want a thicker glaze, pour the glaze into a pot, bring to a boil, add a tablespoon of corn starch and whisk. Lower to a gentle boil and whisk until the desired thickness.

Source: http://www.savoringthethyme.com/2012/09/national-coffee-day-coffee-maple-syrup-glazed-slow-cooker-bbq-ribs/

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Copywriting Tips For A Fruitful Online Career | Writing and Speaking

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Kelly leads Arizona State past California 27-17

by Associated Press

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Posted on September 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM

Updated today at 4:58 PM

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Taylor Kelly threw three touchdown passes to help Arizona State send California to its worst start ever under coach Jeff Tedford with a 27-17 victory on Saturday.

Kelly connected with Kevin Ozier twice and Darwin Rogers once, and Arizona State (4-1, 2-0 Pac-12) used six sacks to improve its impressive start under first-year coach Todd Graham.

The start of the season hasn't gone nearly as well for Cal (1-4, 0-2) and Tedford despite the team returning to renovated Memorial Stadium. The Golden Bears have three straight games and are off to their worst start since losing their first 10 games in 2001 under Tom Holmoe -- who was succeeded the following season by Tedford.

After a strong start to his tenure, Tedford has a losing record since the start of the 2009 season. His only win this year came against Southern Utah of the FCS, and the frustration from fans was evident all afternoon.
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For A Special Needs School, NJ Is The Best Place To Find One

If you have a child that you know would excel to a greater degree by being in a special needs school NJ has all of the right facilities for you to check out and ultimately bring your child to so that you can stimulate their growth. With a special needs school nj instructors can help to uplift and stimulate your child rather than tell them they are not good enough and shun them from society. Just because your child is special needs does not mean that they should be barred from getting an education and by sending them to a special needs school NJ?s best instructors will make sure that they get the fighting chance that they deserve to be contributing members of society. Ultimately, this will help you to feel better knowing that you gave your child your best.

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TILL DEATH ? ? GuyanaLive Blog

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Controversial painting, 'Isleworth Mona Lisa,' opens in Geneva

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Art experts report that a second Mona Lisa painting, found prior to World War I, is of the same woman with the enigmatic smile as the Louvre painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Its presentation will be in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sept. 27, 2012, Thursday.
After 30 years of highly-detailed research, the Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation is stating that the younger Mona Lisa painting is the original version of the well-known Louvre "Mona Lisa" painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. It is considered the world's most famous painting.


"We have investigated this painting from every relevant angle and the accumulated information all points to it being an earlier version of the Giaconda in the Louvre," foundation member and art historian Stanley Feldman, told Reuters.


TodayEntertainment states that, "The Irish-born Feldman and his brother David, long involved in the art world, said historical evidence, critical comparison and scientific examination using the most modern techniques supported their view on what it really is."


Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is known in Italy and France as "La Giaconda" or "La Joconde." It was named after the wife of early 16th century Italian nobleman Francesdo del Giacondo, Lisa Gheradini. However, the commission was never delivered to Giaconda. The Louvre "Mona Lisa" was in Leonardo's possession when he died in France, found later in the collection of King Francois I, who was known as a major Patron of the Arts.


It was during Francis' reign that the magnificent art collection of the French kings had begun, which can still be seen at the Louvre. King Francois I was known as a great patronizer of the great artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, who was persuaded to live his final years in France. Known for painting very little during those latter years, he did bring his most famous works with him which remained in France after his death except for the Isleworth Mona Lisa.


"The Isleworth Mona Lisa has been attributed to Leonardo, and is thought to be the unfinished portrait from which Raphael made his famous sketch (which is in the Louvre museum), and is in no sense a copy of the Louvre Mona Lisa," according to the Reuter article.


Story of the younger Mona Lisa

Wikipedia - Huge Blaker

Hugh Blaker was known for finding the younger version of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," also called the "Isleworth Mona Lisa."

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After a short excursion to Japan, the Isleworth Mona Lisa was placed in a Swiss vault for many years. It was discovered by collector Hugh Blaker in 1913, in an English manor owned by a Somerset nobleman, where it had mysteriously hung for over a century. His discovery led the world to recognize that Leonardo da Vinci had possibly done two Mona Lisa paintings. One was in the Louvre, and the other one went with Blaker to his studio in Isleworth, London, where it was named "the Isleworth Mona Lisa." When Hugh Blaker died in 1936, American collector Hunry Pulitzer, owner of the Pultitzer galleries in London and Bern, Switzerland, purchased the painting after selling his Kensington estate and all its contents. He would place the painting in a Swiss bank, then writing a book about it, titled "Where is the Mona Lisa?" which was published in 1966. The book was based on his case that the "Isleworth Mona Lisa" was the unfinished portrait of Lisa del Giocondo by Leonardo da Vinci, a fact that art experts refused to take seriously as Pulitzer was the owner of the painting. It passed to his Swiss business partner on his death in 1979; when she died in 2010, the painting was purchased by an international consortium --- who are its current owners.

The Mona Lisa Foundation

The Isleworth Mona Lisa

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At the Geneva opening, a luxurious 300-page volume issued by the Mona Lisa Foundation. Vezzosi, director of the Leonardo museum in the artist's home town of Vinci in central Italy, calls on the critics to keep an open mind. TodayEntertainment writes,

"The book, 'Mona Lisa-Leonardo's Earlier Version,' will permit an unbiased judgement of the claim of this painting to be the earlier portrait, incomplete, of a young Mona Lisa, much younger than that of the Louvre," Vezzosi writes.

United States-based expert Carlo Pedretti and Alessandro Vezzosi, leading Italian Leonardo specialist and another foundation member, are both cautiously supporting the fact there are two versions of the "Mona Lisa." If so, the two "Mona Lisa" paintings would become a major sensation in the art world.

Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/333658

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Freddie Mac wins dismissal of shareholder lawsuit

(Reuters) - A federal judge has again dismissed a lawsuit accusing Freddie Mac of misleading shareholders by understating its subprime mortgage exposure and overstating its capital strength ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.

U.S. District Judge John Keenan in Manhattan said the allegations made in an amended lawsuit failed to show that Freddie Mac officials, including former Chief Executive Richard Syron, intended to mislead shareholders, or withheld significant information from them.

He also said Freddie Mac had made a "bevy of truthful disclosures" about its credit and risk exposures during the period covered by the lawsuit, including over loans it guaranteed and its activities in nontraditional markets.

"It defies logic to conclude that executives who are seeking to perpetrate fraudulent information upon the market would make such fulsome disclosures," Keenan wrote.

Shareholders led by the Illinois-based Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund had accused Freddie Mac of hiding its risks after revealing a $2 billion quarterly loss on November 20, 2007.

The lawsuit covers losses by investors in Freddie Mac common and preferred shares from that date until September 7, 2008, when U.S. regulators seized Freddie Mac and larger rival Fannie Mae and put them in a conservatorship under the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Keenan had in March 2011 dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit, which was first filed in August 2008, but given the plaintiffs a chance to amend their complaint. He refused on Wednesday to give them another chance.

The shareholder lawsuit is separate from a civil fraud lawsuit that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been pursuing against Syron and other former Freddie Mac officials. Defendants in that case have denied wrongdoing.

The case, whose title has a different named plaintiff, is Kuriakose v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 08-07281.

(Reporting By Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

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US extreme skier among Nepal avalanche survivors

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) ? An American extreme skier who survived the weekend Himalayan avalanche that killed at least eight people said Wednesday that he feels lucky to be alive but heartbroken that he could not save two friends who remain missing.

Glen Plake, a Californian who has appeared in several extreme-skiing documentaries, had planned to ski down the slopes of Mount Manalsu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, after reaching the summit.

"I was awake in my tent reading my Bible. ... The tent began to shake. We thought it was the wind but in fact it was an avalanche," Plake told reporters at the Katmandu airport after returning from the mountain in a helicopter. "It was like an earthquake; it was like a tsunami."

Though he said he is "probably the luckiest person in the world," he was unable to find his friends and climbing companions, Remy George Lecluse and Gregory Ugo Costa, both of France.

"You are doing everything you can do because your friends' lives depend on your next action," he said. "Unfortunately everything I did proved to produce nothing. At that point, I had to think about my own life and start preparing."

Lecluse and Costa are among three people still missing from the avalanche, which swept the tents at camp 2 on Mount Manaslu at an elevation of 7,000 meters (22,960 feet) before dawn Sunday.

Nepalese mountaineering officials say eight bodies have been recovered: Fabrice Priez, Philippe Lucien Bos, Catherine Marie Andree Richard and Ludovic Paul Nicolas Challeat of France; German Christian Mittermeyer; Italian Alberto Magliano; Spaniard Marti Roirg Gasull; and Nepali Dawa Dorji.

Many of the survivors have returned to Katmandu, the Nepali capital, and have abandoned their plans to attempt climb the mountain this season.

Sunday's avalanche came at the start of Nepal's autumn climbing season, when the end of the monsoon rains makes weather in the high Himalayas unpredictable. Spring is a more popular mountaineering season, when hundreds of climbers crowd the peaks.

Mount Manaslu, which is 8,156 meters (26,760 feet) high, has attracted more climbers recently because it is considered one of the easier peaks to climb among the world's tallest mountains. Avalanches are not very frequent there, but in 1972 one struck a team of climbers and killed six Koreans and 10 Nepalese guides.

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Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows

PARIS (AP) ? Blurring the lines between the masculine and feminine is as old as Shakespeare.

Wednesday's fashion week previews in Paris ? the second of eight days on the spring-summer 2013 calendar ? showed that, over the centuries, playful gender-bending has lost none of its creative allure.

Dries Van Noten, who cut his teeth as a men's designer in Antwerp, produced the day's strongest show, mixing traditional menswear cuts with his own floral signature in a harmonious play on color.

Damir Doma, meanwhile, who also trained in Antwerp, fused masculine-tinged Cossack gear, martial arts dress and buckles alongside more feminine touches.

Black, an unusual color for spring, also featured highly on the rotation list ? with London's Gareth Pugh channeling a dark hard, masculine femininity that seemed to indicate the 31-year-old designer was coming of age.

Thursday's shows include Manish Arora, Balmain and Nina Ricci.

DRIES VAN NOTEN

Dries Van Noten once said: "The more clashing it is, the more that I like it!"

This statement should have been proven true by the Antwerp designer's patterned and flowery ode to spring ? a commanding show that mixed up wildly divergent textures, styles, cuts and shapes.

He presented ruffled 3-D flower appliques and floral prints mixed with blown-up Prince of Wales check, plaid, tartan and beaded denim. Those were pursued eccentrically down the catwalk by sheer organza shirts, metallic menswear jackets and oversized peplums.

Yet the preview, incredibly, was of the most harmonious Van Noten shows in some time, owing to its fine tonal color palette. Traditional tartans blended softly into a haze of faded orange, peach, rose, nude, russet, silver and duck egg blue.

It felt like spring was in the air.

DAMIR DOMA

Croatian-born designer Damir Doma went East in an ambitious show that included Russian Cossack garb, Oriental kimono-sleeve jackets and even white belted karate tops.

Tight, high-waisted looks and a peppering of leather Obi-belts were followed by baggier silhouettes with dropped centers of gravity. Colors ranged from black, brown and navy to turquoise blue and cobalt.

If there was one theme that brought cohesion to the motley ensemble it was this: deconstruction. Almost a signature style for any graduate of Belgium's avant-garde fashion capital Antwerp ? like Dries Van Noten ? Doma exposed paneling, buckles, zips and fastenings on his clothes.

"Of course I am avant-garde, I'm from Antwerp," Doma said backstage. "I just cut things up, break and put them together: A collage."

GARETH PUGH

"Hard femininity," was how Gareth Pugh described his show, inspired, he says, by the rawness of Latin American cockfighting.

Sure enough, black nappa kimono looks opened the collection swirling stiffly and authoritatively ? with one model in a two-foot mourning veil.

However, the raw shock-factor ? Pugh's signature ? was short-lived for once. It soon gave way to a series of softer, elegant and more mature looks in sweeping vermilion, black fringing and pale dove gray.

The Latin feel was captured in a series of textured 3-D ruffles reflecting a coiffed, full-breasted cock, ready for the fight.

The designer's introspection was tangible, from the simplicity of the decor to Rebekah del Rio's haunting a capella singing to the clean, highly wearable silhouettes. Could Wednesday's show have been a coming of age for London's enfant terrible?

"Some things happened to me recently," Pugh said. "Sometimes you just can't help changing, some things are out of control."

GUY LAROCHE

"I love Frank Gehry," Guy Laroche designer Marcel Morongiu said after his uber-refined collection, which channeled the famed U.S. architect's buildings.

What the collection pulled off was no small feat: Downsizing with panache the spirit of Gehry's sculptural lines and volumes to fit the svelte female form. Long silhouettes slinked by with panels that flapped stiffly and with on-trend angular cutouts ? replacing the house DNA's vibrant colors with streamlined elegance.

Another lofty reference was to Brazil's master architect Oscar Niemeyer ? whose landmark contemporary art museum in Rio that features bold central paneling was evoked by outfits with strapped or sexily exposed midriffs.

Sex appeal is from the waist and above and long is back ? the show seemed to declare.

In addition to the architecture master class, the Guy Laroche team also hit the science lab.

A fantastic new material was made especially for the show: A double crepe, silk and viscose Nutty Professor concoction that gave a curious stiffness to the clothes, including a show-stopping, knee-length, laser-cut navy coat.

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Bank of America tests technology to pay with phones

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Life in the extreme

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Life in extreme environments ? hot acids and heavy metals, for example ? can apparently make very similar organisms deal with stress in very different ways, according to new research from North Carolina State University.

One single-celled organism from a hot spring near Mount Vesuvius in Italy fights uranium toxicity directly ? by eating the heavy metal and acquiring energy from it. Another single-celled organism that lives on a "smoldering heap" near an abandoned uranium mine in Germany overcomes uranium toxicity indirectly ? essentially shutting down its cellular processes to induce a type of cellular coma when toxic levels of uranium are present in its environment.

Interestingly, these very different responses to environmental stress come from two organisms that are 99.99 percent genetically identical.

In a paper published this week online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NC State researchers show that these extreme organisms ? basic life forms called Archaea that have no nucleus and that are so tiny they can only be seen under a microscope ? can teach us a lot about how living things use different mechanisms to adapt to their surroundings.

The researchers, led by Dr. Robert Kelly, Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State, exposed two very close relatives of thermoacidophilic Archaea ? they live in highly acidic environments with temperatures of more than 70 degrees Celsius, or about 160 degrees Fahrenheit ? to pure uranium. One, Metallosphaera sedula, metabolized the uranium as a way to support its energy needs.

That in itself was surprising to Kelly and his fellow researchers, as it was the first report that an organism can directly use uranium as an energy source.

"This could be a new way to mine uranium using microorganisms to release the metal from ores ? a process referred to as bioleaching," Kelly says of M. sedula.

Its genetic twin, Metallosphaera prunae, reacted very differently. When faced with pure uranium, it went into a dormant state, shutting down critical cellular processes that enable it to grow. When the toxic threat was removed, M. prunae rebooted its cellular processes and returned to its normal state.

Kelly hypothesizes that M. prunae is an offshoot of M. sedula, with just a small number of mutations, or changes, to its genome that allow it to react differently when faced with heavy-metal toxicity.

Kelly says the findings could also have implications for understanding how antibiotic resistance develops and operates in pathogens.

"We have come across a new model for how organisms learn how to live in an environment that would otherwise be deadly for them," he says.

Kelly adds that the study calls into question the ways that scientists classified living things before the rise of the genomic era.

"How do we classify microorganisms now that we can compare genomes so easily?" Kelly asks. "These are not different species by the classical definition because their genomes are virtually identical, but they have very different phenotypes, or lifestyles, when faced with stress."

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DUI tragedy forces Russian road safety rethink

In this photo made Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, law enforcement authorities work at the site of the crash where a heavily drunk driver killed seven people at a bus stop in Moscow, Russia. Five orphaned teens were waiting for a bus with their guardians in Moscow on Saturday when a car careened into them, killing all seven. Grief turned to outrage when it emerged that the driver was heavily drunk and had a string of traffic violations on his record, and lawmakers have reacted with proposals to stiffen penalties on drunken drivers. (AP Photo)

In this photo made Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, law enforcement authorities work at the site of the crash where a heavily drunk driver killed seven people at a bus stop in Moscow, Russia. Five orphaned teens were waiting for a bus with their guardians in Moscow on Saturday when a car careened into them, killing all seven. Grief turned to outrage when it emerged that the driver was heavily drunk and had a string of traffic violations on his record, and lawmakers have reacted with proposals to stiffen penalties on drunken drivers. (AP Photo)

MOSCOW (AP) ? It took a weekend road tragedy to jolt Russia into action over one of its most deadly threats: a chronic culture of drunken driving.

Five orphaned teens were waiting for a bus with their guardians in Moscow on Saturday when a car careened into them, killing all seven. Grief turned to outrage when it emerged that the driver was heavily drunk and had a string of traffic violations on his record ? including a DUI arrest two years ago.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and lawmakers have reacted with proposals to stiffen penalties on drunken drivers, and parliament debated the measures on Tuesday. But with bribery so commonplace and road laws rarely enforced, many wonder whether even the toughest response can change a deep-set culture of reckless driving.

After the crash, Alexander Maximov stumbled out of his Toyota sedan, which he had been driving at 200 kilometers (125 miles per hour), bloodied and barely able to stand. He appeared in court Monday with his head wounds dressed, but still wearing the blood-speckled sweatshirt from the day of the accident.

The punishment for killing while drunk driving in Russia is stiff: The 30-year-old Maximov faces up to nine years in prison. But lawmakers are currently debating whether to make jail sentences even harsher, matching laws in the West.

Even President Vladimir Putin weighed in Tuesday, demanding tougher punishments, condemning Maximov's apparent blithe indifference after the crash.

"This criminal, he's a killer in fact, when speaking to investigators just said: 'I always do what I want,'" Putin said. "There are some things for which people just must be punished."

Many Russians are furious that drivers like Maximov, who already had a DUI penalty on his license from 2010, was allowed back onto the roads in the first place. Drunken driving is punishable here by suspension of the driver's license for up to two years. In much of the West, by comparison, drunken driving is punished with jail time, heavy fines and re-education courses.

It isn't only irresponsible drinking that makes Russia's roads dangerous.

Russia's cities are struggling with fast-growing traffic density, which spurs drivers into pulling crazy stunts to get home as early as possible, such as jumping lights, squeezing through every gap in traffic and opportunistic trailing of racing ambulances. According to a 2007 survey, the number of cars on Moscow's roads had increased threefold since the early 1990s, while road capacity has increased by only 30 percent.

Each year, approximately 30,000 Russians die in road accidents ? about the same as in the European Union, which has three times as many people and about six times as many cars as Russia. According to official statistics, only about 1,000 of those deaths are attributable to death by drunken drivers, but given the laxity of police enforcement and investigation, many in Russia doubt those figures.

Medvedev, who championed a no-tolerance policy in 2010 against drivers with even the slightest amount of alcohol in their blood, spoke out in favor of tougher penalties.

"Most of (our accidents) are committed by drivers who are completely drunk, and in this regard our country is in a worse state than any other," Medvedev said Monday, adding that it was necessary to think about "toughening the legal responsibility for such a crime."

In the wake of Saturday's tragedy, Moscow police have scrambled to show they are doing their bit, announcing that they had arrested over 130 drunk drivers on Sunday alone, according to Interfax news agency.

Over the past few days, lawmakers from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party have come forward with various proposals to tackle drunken driving. One plan suggested a fine of up to 100,000 rubles ($3,200), while another more drastic bill calls for life imprisonment for anyone convicted of killing someone while under the influence.

Pervasive bribery, and its acceptance among much of the population, will make implementing any such measures an uphill struggle, however.

According to a Levada Center poll in 2010, only 10 percent of those questioned said they thought negatively of people who gave bribes, whereas the majority considered it "necessary" in dealing with public officials.

The same survey showed that Russians pay the greatest amount of bribes for medical treatment. Paying off traffic police came in at a close second.

"Of course it's important to propose new laws, they need to be stricter," said Natalya Agre, president of Road Safety Russia. "You can increase the fine to $2,000, but once again, who is going to keep track of whether that fine is given, and who is going to pay it?"

Agre's company has run a sleek social advertising campaign against drunken driving, and has begun attracting attention from big talent. A feature-length film by the company titled "There's No Hurry" was made with the help of some of the country's best directors and actors.

More important than police enforcement may be fundamental change to the car culture in Russia, where drivers are notoriously aggressive and fast.

"The driving culture in our country plays a key role," said Agre.

Associated Press

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tomwilkinsons: arthurt's Site - Bring back your creativity | Self ...

I must be honest. There are some days when I sit down to write and I think there?s not a shred of creativity in me. Today, as I began, was one of those days.

So I thought, why don?t I tell them about that? How do you get creative or resourceful when it just doesn?t seem to be there?

Easy peasy, as we used to say at school. (I think we might have added ?lemon squeezy? too ? but who cares?).

I simply remember all the times I have been resourceful. I see myself sitting at my desk writing furiously, wondering how on earth so much time can have passed I?m on such a roll. I recall times when I was teaching, or explaining something passionately to my kids, or when I had to think up a plausible excuse to get myself out of a hole, or when friends dropped in unexpectedly and I concocted a meal out of a larder I had considered empty ?. the number of times any one of us has been creative and resourceful is huge.

Pretty soon, my brain is so full of ideas, I wonder if I can just keep to one a day. My posture changes, I may walk about, my breathing is different.

And you know what? You can do it the other way round too. If I change my posture, my breathing and my movements to the way I am when I feel creative, that old creative feeling comes back all by itself.

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Kean/Singer Student Loan Literacy Legislation Clears Committee ...

Legislation sponsored by Senators Tom Kean, Jr. (R-Union) and Robert W. Singer (R- Ocean) designed to help high school students better understand the financial obligations they are incurring when taking out student loans to finance their post-secondary education has been approved by the Senate Higher Education Committee.

The bill, S- 2150, requires the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA) to develop a document containing student loan repayment information on state, federal and private student loans, and mandates that document be disseminated by school districts and nonpublic high schools to students.

Kean said that student loan debt presents challenges to new graduates that they may or may not have foreseen when choosing what institution to attend or degree to pursue.

?Americans citizens are now in greater debt for student loans than they are their cars or credit cards,? said Kean. ?It is straining our economy and severely crippling the financial stability of graduates just starting out in life during an economic downturn. Just as important for young people as having access to education financing is having access to information that spells out explicitly what the loans mean for their personal finances after graduation. Young people and their parents need to make smart choices about their education based in part on how the debt they will incur helps their job prospects and earning potential after graduation.?

Singer said that for most high school graduates, student loans are the first major financial transaction they will make in their lives.

?Student loans are being taken out by young people who likely have never incurred a major financial obligation in their lives and have limited financial literacy,? said Singer, who sits on the board of Georgian Court University in Lakewood. ?They need to have a grasp of what loan repayment will mean for them prior to deciding where they go to school, what they will study, and how much money they will borrow. We cannot just expect that a teenager is going to grasp what it means to finance an education costing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars without illustrating it for them.?

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Iran to boycott 2013 Oscar over anti-Islamic film: minister

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it would boycott the 2013 Oscars to protest against the making of a crude anti-Islam video in the United States that has caused outrage throughout the Muslim world.

Despite tough censorship and the repression of leading film makers, Iranian art cinema has earned international acclaim over the past 20 years.

Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" won the Oscar for best foreign language film in February, the first Iranian film to do so.

Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad Hosseini said Iran would boycott the next Academy Awards "to protest against the making of a film insulting the Prophet and because of the organisers' failure to take an official position (against the film)," the Iranian Students' News Agency reported.

He also urged other Islamic countries to boycott the Oscars.

The amateurish video, made in California with private financing and posted on YouTube, portrays the Prophet Mohammad as a womaniser and a fool. It has ignited weeks of violent protests across the Muslim world in which dozens of people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been killed.

Iranian officials have demanded that the United States apologize to Muslims, saying the video is only the latest in a series of Western insults aimed at Islam. Washington has condemned the content of the film while defending the right to free speech.

"The position that Western politicians have adopted on these great insults are no different from a position of enmity," Iranian media quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying on Monday.

Reza Mirkarimi's dramatic comedy "A Cube of Sugar" had been chosen as Iran's submission for the 2013 foreign-language Oscar, Hosseini said.

(Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-boycott-2013-oscar-over-anti-islamic-film-194407415.html

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Home Trampolines Are Too Dangerous for Kids, Pediatricians' Group Says

Trampolining is a dangerous activity for kids and should not be done at home, an influential group of doctors says.

The advice, announced today (Sept. 24) by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), reaffirms earlier recommendations from the group regarding the use of trampolines.

In 2009, there were about 98,000 trampoline-related injuries in the U.S., resulting in 3,100 hospitalizations, according to the AAP. Although trampoline injury rates have gone down since 2004, when an estimated 111,800 injuries occurred, "the potential for severe injury remains relatively high," the AAP says.

The most common types of injuries ? up to 50 percent ? are to the lower extremities, including ankle sprains. Injuries to the head and neck are less common, accounting for about 10 to 17 percent of injuries, but can cause permanent neurological damage.

"Many injuries occur on the mat itself," and netting or padding don't significantly decrease the risk of injury, said Dr. Michele LaBotz, one of the authors of the new AAP policy statement. "Pediatricians need to actively discourage recreational trampoline use," she said.

Multiple people jumping on the trampoline at once increase the risk for injury, and smaller jumpers are 14 times more likely to be injured than heavier ones, the AAP says. Up to 40 percent of injuries occur from falls, and 20 percent from direct contact with the springs of the frame. Many injuries occur when an adult is watching.

Somersaults, flipping and falls put children at increased risk for injuries of the head and spine, the AAP says.

Although the rate of injury is higher among older children, younger children are more likely to experience fractures or dislocations from trampolines.

Parents who decide to have a trampoline in their home despite recommendations are advised to supervise their children on the trampoline at all times, restrict use of the trampoline to one jumper at a time, prohibit somersaults and flips, and verify that their insurance covers trampoline-related injuries, the AAP says.

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The forgotton passions of one?s youth

By Ken Y-N ( September 24, 2012 at 00:53) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Here?s a sweet survey from goo Ranking, looking at the flames of teenage passion that one has forgotten as an adult.

Demographics

From the 6th to the 9th of July 2012 1,016 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.0% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 12.7% in their twenties, 29.0% in their thirties, 27.0% in their forties, 11.0% in their fifties, and 10.3% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Looking at the answers, a common theme in many of them appears to be undeclared or unrequited love, which is not an unusual occurance in Japanese schools, as far as I am aware. I was totally unaware of anything when I was in school, so I cannot give a comparison with the Scottish situation! Note, I?ve translated everything in the present tense as I think the answers read better with a sense of immediacy.

Ranking result

Q: What flames of teenage passion have you forgotten since you?ve become an adult? (Sample size=1,016)

Rank	?	Score
1	The heart beating faster as our eyes meet	100
2	The heart beating faster as we pass each other in the corridor	92.7
3	The heart beating faster as we talk	88.3
4	Waiting for the phone to ring	73.8
5	The heart beating faster as we hold hands	73.6
6	The first time we hold hands	61.1
7	The heart beating faster while I wait at the date start point for them	58.5
8	Watching them performing at their after-school club activities	45.1
9	Feeling lonely when I return home from a date	44.3
10	Being far too nervous on the first date	43.8
11	Walking home from school together	40.9
12	Panicking when their family answers the phone	40.4
13	Being unable to sleep due to joy and nervousness the night before the date	31.3
14	Going to have a look at where the person I fancy lives	28.8
15	Even on holidays, enjoying being able to meet them at club activities	23.8
16	Sending a love letter	23.6
17	Going out on a group that includes the person I fancy	22.8
18=	Faking a cold attitude in front of other people	19.4
18=	Going round to visit the person I fancy?s class	19.4
20=	Keeping an overnight date secret from my parents	18.4
20=	Giving them a hand-made present for their birthday, etc	18.4
22	Anxiously awaiting a reply on my pager	17.4
23	Regret that I didn?t make an honest apology when rowing	16.1
24	Everything ending when I can?t even declare my love at the graduation ceremony	15.0
25	Studying together	14.5
26	Accidentally on purpose phoning them	13.7
27	Being in the same team, group at the school sports, culture, etc festival	13.2
28	Getting their second-top button at the graduation ceremony	12.4
29	Us drifting apart because neither of us are serious	11.1
30	Having a top-secret investigation of the type of person they like	10.6
31	Appearing too neat and tidy, too much of a tough guy in front of the person I fancy	10.6
32	Pretending to fancy someone else	9.8
33	Secretly, frantically studying up on their hobbies, interests	9.3
34	Declaring my love on St Valentine?s Day	9.1
35	Waiting to swap back our swapped diaries	8.5
36=	Skiving off school together	8.3
36=	Being unable to declare my love once my friends found out who I had my eye on	8.3
38	Going to attend a school event that the person I fancy is appearing in	5.7
39=	Declaring my love on graduation day	4.1
39=	Changing my hair, fashion to match the celebrity they like	4.1

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Abhishek Matoria elected Indian Boxing Federation chief

New Delhi, Sep 23

The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) Sunday elected Rajasthan MLA Abhishek Matoria as its president while his predecessor Abhay Singh Chautala was nominated the chairman.

The new office-bearers were elected in the IABF's executive committee and Annual General Body Meeting in Patiala.

Rajesh Bhandari from Himachal Pradesh was elected the secretary general and Manipur's Khoibi Salam the treasurer.

The elections were conducted under the supervision of Justice M.S. Liberhan, while the returning officer was former Judge Daya Kishore Sharma. Raja Sidhu presided as the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) observer, according an IABF statement.

P.K. Muralidharan Raja will be the federation's senior vice-president.

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Straight Spouses - The Collateral Damage of the "Ex-Gay" and ...

A topic that I've addressed before but which needs much more exposure is the damage done to straight spouses who find themselves in marriages to gay/lesbian spouses who have married typically under pressure to conform to societal/family expectations and religious brainwashing that tells them that sexual orientation is changeable and that one can become "straight."?? Despite the fact that all legitimate medical and mental health associations now condemn the "change myth" as I call it and hold that sexual orientation is not something that one can change, the leading Christofascist and anti-gay hate groups and many churches continue to push the myth that "gay is wrong" and that "change is possible."? Indeed, just this week Joel Osteen engaged in some of this batshitery even though he conceded that he did not "choose" to be heterosexual.??


A piece by Amity P. Buxton, (pictured above left) founder of the Straight Spouse Network, in Huffington Post looks at the plight of these men and women who find themselves in a whirlwind because their wives or husbands, as the case may be, tried to be straight, married and often had children as they deceived themselves and their spouses until the whole structure simply collapsed.? I'm one such formerly married gay with children and I've seen the collateral damage that the ex-gay charlatans and religious leaders like Pope Benedict XVI cause. ? The evil they do to countless thousands of gays/lesbians and their straight spouses needs to be exposed and stopped.? Here are excerpts from the piece in Huffington Post:

Tucked in a corner of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender closet is a little-known group: straight women and men in heterosexual marriages whose husbands or wives come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender after marrying them as "the right thing to do." Finding the marriages too difficult to maintain due to their hidden sexual orientation or gender identity, they eventually say, "Honey, I'm gay," or, "I need to become the woman or man I am .? .? .? .

Though some couples work out ways to stay together, most divorce, their children now in a broken family. As divorced LGBT partners begin to live their lives with integrity, their straight ex-partners are left in shock, their own identity, integrity, and belief system shattered. The spotlight on the disclosing partners, few outsiders think about their wives or husbands. "They're straight! They're normal. No problem."?

Lately, many people -- of all orientations -- say to me, "Oh, this doesn't happen nearly as often now, right?" Wrong.? While conditions are improving for same-sex relationships and transgender persons, these marriages still occur to meet heterosexist expectations, and LGBT spouses in them keep coming out.

More importantly, the larger community remains unaware of this wider range of harm caused by anti-same-sex and pro-heterosexual marriage beliefs. Straight spouses are injured by the very anti-gay or anti-trans/pro-straight factors in our society that caused their mates to marry them -- "collateral damage," some say.?

Once they know the truth, the vast majority divorce and must pick up the pieces of their fractured families to create a semblance of normalcy for their children. In addition, a number keep their ex-partners' "secret," wanting to avoid the latter's rejection by community, workplace, or place of worship, and to protect their children from taunts.? .? .? .? .? Few find the knowledgeable professional help they need.

It's time to pay attention to this invisible group. A new book does just that. Unseen-Unheard: The Journey of Straight Spouses, of which I am a co-author, opens the window onto their emotional, sexual, cognitive, psychological, relational, and spiritual trauma.

We wanted readers to see and hear straight spouses' anger at being in their mates' closet unknowingly, their disbelief that the marriage they knew was a mirage, their fear that they don't have strength to cope, their anxiety that their children will suffer, and their grief from letting go of what they thought they had.?

The good news is that most spouses gradually become triumphantly self-confident. Many gain understanding of why their mates married them, and a number, like me, become LGBT equality activists. The bad news is that the societal factors underlying these painful journeys persist, and, until we change them, painful stories like these will continue to be told.

The next time you hear some pastor, priest, televangelist snake oil merchant, Pope, or self-enriching "professional Christian" railing against gays and the homosexual agenda or claiming that gays can "change" I hope you will picture in your mind the men, women and children who are being condemned to doomed marriages? - all so that liars and hypocrites can either feel superior and good about themselves or so that they can line their pockets with money.? Tawdry whores are more virtuous than these "godly Christians."?

Source: http://michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com/2012/09/straight-spouses-collateral-damage-of.html

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