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Tasty treats make holiday season sweeter
Junior Anna Nguyen prepares the flour for her macarons.
Irene Si, arts&style section editor
This year, the phrase "There's no place like home for the holidays" rings true as people all over the world try to safely celebrate the holidays amidst a pandemic. In the U.S, where COVID-19 cases are reaching an all-time high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highly encourage virtual celebrations in place of in-person gatherings. Although traditional holiday plans might have been foiled, spending time with loved ones at home by cooking up delicious treats is just one of the many solutions to this setback.
Italian Tri-Color Cookies
With bright red, green and yellow or white layers of cake, Italian tri-color cookies, also known as rainbow cookies, are just one example of a treat to bake for the holidays.
"[Italian tri-color cookies] have three layers of super thin cake stacked on top of each other, with raspberry jam in between each layer and chocolate on the top and bottom," senior Isabel Dilandro said. "The colors [represent] the Italian flag."
These treats are not only colorful in appearance, but also have a distinct taste, combining mildly sweet and nutty flavors in one delicious concoction.
"The taste is super unique. It uses almond extract and almond paste so it [tastes] a bit nutty and the cake layers aren't actually too sweet," Dilandro said. "The cake layers absorb the really sweet raspberry jam so that's what makes it taste good. I normally use semi-sweet chocolate to top it off so it's not overwhelmingly sweet."
Although the recipe itself is simple to follow, bakers will have to wait for some time before tasting their creation.
"It's a really easy recipe, but it takes forever. It's about a two day process," Dilandro said. "It's really moist because of all the jam, so it's usually better to let it sit for a day or so before eating it to [give] the cake time to absorb everything."
Dilandro, who makes these cookies every holiday season with her grandmother, has a couple of tips for readers who are making these sweets for the first time.
"One, the almond paste gets [really] sticky when you're grating it, so freeze it beforehand," Dilandro said. "Two, scoop the flour into your measuring cups with a spoon and level them off, otherwise you'll get a really dense cake.
Widely popular year-round for their adorable looks and sweet tastes, macarons are a French meringue-based confection with buttercream filling sandwiched between two cookie rounds. Macarons can have over 50 different flavor possibilities, including peppermint, gingerbread, eggnog and more, making them a perfect pastry for the upcoming holidays.
"A treat I really like to make during the holidays is macarons of all different flavors," junior Anna Nguyen said. "I usually make fruit-flavored [ones] since my family doesn't like deep and rich flavors such as chocolate and caramel."
When crafting fruit-flavored macarons, most home chefs will use jam to add flavor to the filling since it is a quicker, more accessible option. However, it is recommended to use fruit powder to deliver a stronger, more natural taste.
"Something special about my macarons is that I blend up freeze-dried fruit into the batter and the filling to amp up the flavor," Nguyen said.
Despite looking quite basic, macarons can be a difficult treat to make as they are very delicate and require a lot of steps.
"The ingredients are fairly simple, but combining the ingredients is the hardest part to get right," Nguyen said. "You have to fold the dry and wet ingredients together to a really specific consistency until it is ready to be piped onto the baking sheet. After piping them out, [you] have to wait up to an hour for the cookies to dry out slightly and form a skin on the outside. That's how macarons get their signature 'feet' on the bottoms."
Similar to the Italian tri-color cookies, macarons also require some time to prepare before being fully ready to serve and eat.
"Waiting for them to 'mature' [also] takes a long time," Nguyen said. "Macarons taste best after they've been sitting in the fridge for at least a day because the cookies absorb the flavors of the filling."
Because macarons can be so arduous to make, they can also serve as a great gift idea to show sincerity and dedication.
"It's my favorite treat to make because it's small and easy to gift to other people," Nguyen said. "Every year, I always make some to give out to my relatives and my friends. I love seeing everyone's happy faces when I bake for them."
Latkes, which translate to "pancakes" in Yiddish, are a traditional Jewish dish that originated in eastern Europe. Their appearance resembles a hash brown, but their texture is far more sophisticated.
"Latkes are [basically] potato pancakes and they are normally crunchy on the outside and then soft on the inside," junior Olivia Erstling said. "The main ingredients [include] potatoes, onions, eggs, salt and oil."
Latkes are associated with Hanukkah and are almost always served in celebration of this important Jewish holiday; also known as the Festival of Lights, it marks the reclamation of the Second Temple of Jerusalem. The Jewish wanted to light its menorah to honor their victory, and the one night's supply of oil they had miraculously provided light for eight days.
As such, traditional foods eaten during Hanukkah are often fried in oil or contain cheese.
"Hanukkah celebrates the ritual oil lasting eight days," Erstling said. "This is the significance of frying the latkes in oil."
This savory dish calls for few ingredients, the most important being the type of oil one decides to use. The recipe has few steps, making it relatively easy to follow.
"After mixing all the ingredients into a batter, and once the oil in your pan is hot, scoop some of the batter, put it in the pan and let it sizzle," Erstling said. "To know when to flip the latke, the edges will be brown and crispy. A lot of people eat them with applesauce or sour cream."
Erstling finds that although the cooking process might be somewhat hard for chefs who are attempting to make latkes for the first time, the outcome and experience itself is more than satisfactory.
"Trader Joes makes a great pre-made option if you're [simply] interested in tasting them," Erstling said. "If you [do] decide to make them homemade, it can be a bit difficult at first but I promise the end result is amazing. Latkes taste best right [after] you make them and there's nothing like spending time with your family [while] making them."
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The Vans Warped Tour made its annual stop in Orlando on July 27, 2012, one what seemed to be one of the hottest days of the summer. Thousands of fans poured into the fairgrounds to see their favorite bands and hopefully get that sacred autograph during a signing.
A wide open grassy area with no trees for shade was the same event location just like every year. Luckily, the Vans Warped Tour provided pole tents to help provide shade and were even kind enough to have stationary tents in the grass parking lot for vehicles. The heat was almost unbearable at times. A scorching 102 degrees forced fans to remove most clothing except for their under garments. Among the thousands of fans one could see every ten seconds a person coming out of the crowd gasping for air and water while collapsing to the ground. Security would just stand there watching others collapse from exhaustion while offering slim if any help at all. The only help a sick one would get was from others near them offering them their water and a helping hand to either a tent or to get medical attention. The fire department stated that an average of 60 people an hour were visiting the first aid station.
The Vans Warped Tour offered a diverse amount of artists despite most of them never being heard of by most fans; however, that's a big part of their mission. The tour introduces new artists to communities by allowing them to be on the entire tour or just parts of it so that they can self-market their music. For example, the group Blood On The Dance Floor, were emerging artists just a few years ago (originally from Orlando) and were able to perform on the small side stages of the tour. They were able to spread their music to new fans and just recently climbed onto the Billboard charts and were invited back to play on one of the main stages of the tour.
For the artists on tour it is a grueling eight weeks of driving, setting up, breaking down, no sleep, and hope. During those eight weeks there are typically over 40 shows. The tour is a mass production of a musical boot camp for these artists. Some of them are struggling to make just enough money from merchandise sales in order to eat and buy fuel while the top dogs on the tour go worriless.
If one didn't arrive early enough then they found out that they should've left a little bit sooner so that they would not have been waiting on Highway 50 for an hour or more just to park. Traffic was backed up for almost five miles with fans waiting to get in. Traffic control was slim as the Orange County Sheriff Department stood near the entrance just chatting with each other instead of providing traffic control.
Unfortunately, there were plenty of fans that were scammed into buying fake tickets for the show and could not gain entry. There was also an incident of several hundred vehicles being towed from parking lots near the grounds after fans were directed to park there by people claiming that they were working for the tour. After the lots filled up tow trucks lined up to tow all of them away. Orlando Police stated they were "investigating" that unfortunate situation.


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My decision to write and post this came from something Seanan McGuire shared on Tumblr (in which Hannah Goff talks about bodily autonomy and organ donation) and from Wendy Davis' filibuster of an abortion bill in Texas.
Right now, a sixteen-year-old child is dying of kidney failure. He's on the waiting list for an organ transplant, but he's running out of time. Doctors figure he's got a week left. Maybe two if he's lucky.
Fortunately, it turns out that you're a match. You're the right blood type, the right body size, the tissue matching is positive … your kidney could save this child.
The ambulance will be arriving at your house tonight to take you to the hospital for surgery.
Wait, what? You can't do that. What about the risks? Kidney donation is major surgery, and there's always the chance of death by bleeding or infection!
You'll be happy to know that I've considered the risks for you, and I've found them to be acceptable, given the stakes.
But I have a medical condition that makes surgery extremely dangerous. There's a good chance this could kill me.
I'm sorry to hear that. Please make sure you don't eat or drink anything from now until the procedure.
The surgery requires three weeks off of work. I'll lose my job! I'm a single parent trying to look after three children.
Your inability to plan and manage your own life shouldn't cost this child his chance.
Hey, I just read the file on this kid, and he's much sicker than you said. Even if I donate my kidney, he's still going to die.
That doesn't matter. Your kidney is a match, so you're required to donate. If you refuse, you'll be arrested and fined, and the procedure will be performed in the prison hospital.
Who's going to pay for the procedure and the medications I need while I'm recovering?
You'll need to pay those costs out of pocket. Insurance companies don't like to cover this stuff.
Look, I'm a compassionate person, and I don't want this kid to die any more than you do. But what gives you the right to force me to donate my kidney to save him?
A while back, my mother chose to donate a kidney to a family friend. Because my mother is awesome. The procedure went great, and our friend is doing much better. Mom is back to running ridiculously long races and doing karate with me on Monday nights. And y'all should totally sign up on the organ donor registry, if you haven't already.
But here in the U. S., nobody has the legal right to force you to sign up to donate your organs. Every state requires your legal consent for organ donation. Even if the surgery wouldn't cause you any serious complications or side effects. Even if it would save a child's life. Even though more than 6000 people die each year for lack of available organs.
In other words, U. S. law gives you control over your body. Even if that means someone else will die. Even after you're dead and presumably have no further need of those organs. Your corpse has the right to bodily autonomy.
I'm not going to argue about when a group of cells transforms into a human being, whether that happens at conception or birth or some nebulous time in between.
But if the "right to life" is so important, why don't we have mandatory organ registries in this country? Why isn't everyone required to have their blood type and other information entered into a national database? Why don't we require living organ donations, since most of us have some redundant organs we could give with no significant loss to our own quality of life?
Why have we so enshrined our right to control our own bodies … unless you happen to be a woman?
I'm closing comments on this post. I love you all, but I know how emotional and contentious and complicated this issue is. Given the state of the Internet these days, I don't trust what would happen if comments were left open, and I don't have the time and energy to clean up that mess.


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Tablet PC Redux?
Do Windows 8 devices meet customer needs, or is this just Tablet PC all over again?
Paul Thurrott | Jan 13, 2013
With the advent of Windows 8 and a new class of hybrid PCs and devices, the Windows world is about to be plunged into a more portable and mobile future. But haven't we been down this road before? And have Microsoft and its PC maker partners learned the lessons of their past failures?
Say what you will about Microsoft and innovation—the consensus is that these terms together are an oxymoron—but one area in which it was decidedly ahead of the game is with tablet computing. Relax, PC historians, I'm not claiming that Microsoft "invented" this market. But I am claiming that once the firm had established its dominance of the PC market with Windows XP, it turned towards a variety of initiatives in which this newly formidable product could be melded to new businesses. And a key initiative, the brainchild of co-founder Bill Gates, was Tablet PC computing.
Tablet PCs, backed by two generations of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, the first of which appeared in 2002, and by subsequent releases of Windows, never took off in the marketplace. Reflecting on this, I recall the issues being the lack of reasonably mobile Intel chipsets and the subsequent poor performance and battery life of the first generation of products. But these issues were fixed over time, and to be fair, the biggest positive aspect of Tablet PCs, the convertible PC design, actually came from PC makers—whom we usually complain are slow-moving and lacking in innovation—and not from Microsoft.
In 2010, when Apple announced its iPad, I infamously described the product as a letdown in my coverage of the launch, Apple Drops an iDud. I wasn't the only one who was wrong about the iPad, but to at least excuse my first impressions of the device, the one thing that Apple people will never understand was that I, unlike them, had had almost a decade of Tablet PC experience coloring my view of the iPad. I had experienced the failure of the Tablet PC firsthand and probably have spent more time trying to use these types of devices than almost anyone. So the iPad didn't impress.
Until, of course, it did. The first iPad was good, but the second iPad was great. And of course Apple hasn't looked back since. And while the iPad is shedding market share to Android, an inevitable event, it also rightfully created a new market for touch-based portable computing devices in a way that Microsoft never did, despite being in market 8 years earlier.
How is this? And are the new generation of Windows 8 devices repeating the same mistakes?
First, the iPad succeeded in part by being late to market. That is, in the intervening years, Apple created a compelling new device infrastructure in iOS that is far more efficient on a new generation of ARM-based mobile devices than is Windows. It focused on the easy—finger/touch control—rather than the hard—stylus and handwriting recognition—and created a system that was aimed at consumers not businesses users. And it established a formal ecosystem for apps and content that has exploded in ways that Microsoft never even considered previously; today, all device ecosystems copy the Apple model.
Microsoft had this experience to build off of when creating Windows 8. And while it certainly learned from Apple in some key ways, the parallels with 2002 and the first Tablet PCs are somewhat amazing.
In 2002, Microsoft's hardware partners went to market with Intel's inefficient chipsets of the day, resulting in poor battery life and performance. But one company, Transmeta, offered a better, more device-like experience with a "code morphing microprocessor" that promised low power consumption and heat dissipation. It just ran Windows and its applications really slowly. You know, just like ARM does today.
Remember this little badboy?
In 2002, Microsoft wanted to push slate PC designs, but its PC maker partners saw the futility in this and offered a convertible PC design that let a single device double as a laptop and a stylus-capable (but thick) tablet. Today, Microsoft is pushing a slate PC design, the Surface, while its partners are almost universally offering hybrid PCs of all kinds, especially convertibles. (Even the "detachable" Samsung ATIV Smart PC I just wrote about is basically just a new take on the convertible.)
There are differences, too, most of which are related to the same technology-based improvements that have helped Apple. Windows 8 is a "touch-first" OS, so while it still supports the Tablet PC-style stylus input that's been sitting dormantly in Windows for years, it was designed primarily for touch-based devices, just like iPad. And those devices are indeed devices, not PCs, especially the ones that are running Windows RT, the ARM-based version of Windows 8.
And while current Ivy Bridge-based tablets have loud fans and get middling battery life, 2013 should see the end of those issues thanks to new generation Intel chipsets that will provide the same PC/device melding in hardware that Windows 8 does in software. Battery life will improve, thinner and light form factors will appear, and cloud computing has emerged to offset the relatively low onboard storage of such devices.
Still. You have to be a bit concerned that we've been down this road before. Were the lessons learned?
This morning, I coincidentally wrote about my experience of deleting old optical disc- and hard drive-based backups in Zero Data: The Hardest Part is Saying Goodbye. I spent a good amount of time looking at old backups, and I actually found a few things I'd written years ago about the Tablet PC, not for Penton/Windows IT Pro, but one-off articles for the education market. And while I probably shouldn't reproduce them in full here, I will provide a few relevant sections that are interesting in retrospect and germane to this discussion.
In the original, unedited version of a 2002 article for Thomson IT Link Magazine, I identified some early problems with Tablet PC:
"Imagine … everyone has a Tablet PC. So you might take your Tablet PC to a meeting or class, and take several pages of handwritten notes, which you then share with me. But why would I want notes in your handwriting? I can barely read my own handwriting. If you had typed the notes, they would be instantly accessible to anyone. But with handwriting, we must suffer through the differences in writing styles and clarity. Thanks to decades of computer usage, most people don't have very good handwriting … In short, Digital Ink falls apart when you need to share data. And in an interconnected world, easily sharing data is a necessity."
"So is the Tablet PC an exciting new platform, full of promise, or a weak first attempt at capitalizing on a long sought-after dream? Like most Microsoft products, it might be best to wait for a future revision, but the convertible tablet devices are most interesting today because they can be used as a normal laptop if all else fails."
One interesting tidbit about this article: The word "touch" doesn't appear once: Tablet PCs were designed around the stylus, not the finger.
In another article about software obsolescence from 2003—which, intriguingly mentions Microsoft's desire to get all customers on subscription plans, something that is only just now starting to happen—I voice hope that the second generation of Tablet PC devices and software will be more successful.
"Tablet PCs have been slow sellers in the marketplace for a variety of reasons, including poor performance and battery life. But with a second generation of more viable Tablet PCs hitting the streets in late 2003, the market for these devices is set to explode. Predictably, Microsoft is also prepping a new update to its XP Tablet PC Edition software."
Set to explode, indeed. :) More like "implode." Anyway…
"However, XP Tablet PC Edition 2004--due in Spring 2004--will be a free upgrade to all current Tablet PC owners and will offer only minor changes over the original software. That's good for early adopters, but it also means that people looking to purchase Tablet PCs today don't need to wait for the software revision to buy. Those that did purchase first generation Tablet PCs last year, however, face a different kind of obsolescence--hardware obsolescence--because those products were woefully underpowered to begin with, and no amount of software improvement can change that condition."
This, I think, will be an issue for people who purchase(d) first generation Windows RT-based devices like Surface with Windows RT. (And, to a much lesser extent, those with Clover Trail-based systems as well, which offer some of the same limitations.) The question now, as then, is whether future versions of Windows 8/RT scale equitably to first generation hardware or, in the case of Windows RT especially, are even made available. I'm guessing not.
Anyway, I'm hoping that history doesn't repeat itself, that Microsoft can this time make Windows into something that does make sense on highly mobile devices. Windows 8 is a good start, and is certainly more in line with what I believe that customers want than was Tablet PC. But those similarities are a bit alarming. They just are.
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Canada's groundbreaking cannabis experiment is going off the rails. I know exactly who can fix the problem – a 90-year-old Vancouver billionaire.
Despite the long run-up to legalization of recreational marijuana last October, demand for legal cannabis is outstripping supply and the retail system is a mess. How bad is it? If you want to buy legal pot in Quebec, don't go shopping on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Stores are only open four days a week, owing to lack of product. In Vancouver, where most downtown street corners sport an unmistakable aroma, they only got around to opening the first licensed cannabis outlet in December. The Ontario government held a lottery last Friday to award licenses for its first 25 stores, which aren't expected to open until April. Experts say the nascent industry's nation-wide logistical issues will take months, if not years, to fix.
Who wins out of this chaos? Criminals. Removing the social stigma from cannabis without ensuring robust cultivation and retail networks are in place opens the door to black-market suppliers, the folks the federal Liberals were trying to put out of business when they started down the path to legalization. Consumers already have a compelling reason to patronize the black market. The current price of a gram of legal dried cannabis – that's two to three joints worth, depending on how you roll – is $9.75, according a report last week from Statistics Canada. The same amount of weed from illegal sources costs $6.51.
Who can set things right, by getting cannabis into the hands of those who want it at prices the black market will be hard pressed to match? How about Jim Pattison, along with the Weston and Sobey clans and the folks running Metro Inc. Provincial governments should be looking to the national grocery and drug store chains to deliver on the federal Liberals' promise of a modern approach to marijuana sales.
Mr. Pattison, who runs the 45,000-employee Jim Pattison Group, has been showing shoppers the love for six decades. Think about what greets you when you walk into one of the former car salesman's Save-On-Foods grocery stores in Western Canada, or a large-format Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro outlet.
There's likely a pharmacist in one aisle who already sells far more potent drugs than marijuana. (Keep in mind that Loblaws owns Shoppers Drug Mart and Metro is parent to the Jean Coutu chain.) In most provinces, the stores offer a selection of beer and wine; their cashiers are trained to check ID. And there's a produce department that stocks fresh raspberries and hot-house tomatoes through the depths of a Canadian winter. Adding dried cannabis, oils – and when they're legal – THC-infused beverages and edibles to the shelves is no challenge to chains that already run the country's most sophisticated logistics networks.
Inviting Mr. Pattison and his rivals to the legal pot party would tilt the economics of the industry in favour of consumers, and against organized crime.It doesn't cost much to grow cannabis: Producer Aphria Inc. said on Friday that its "all-in cost" of production per gram is $2.60. The remainder of the price consumers pay reflects costs such as tax and retail markup. If stores take a smaller cut, the price of cannabis falls.
The highly competitive grocery business runs on razor-thin margins and huge sales volumes – stores target a few cents of profit for every dollar of sales. In contrast, existing cannabis chains are relatively small and can only make money by marking up prices. Alberta's emerging market leader in marijuana is liquor store chain Alcanna Inc., which opened five Nova Cannabis stores last year alongside its existing 227 booze outlets. Alcanna's profit margin, historically, is 25 cents on every $1 of revenue.
Welcoming deep-pocketed grocery chains to the cannabis industry would also make it far easier for producers to raise the money needed to increase supply, by building greenhouses or converting industrial space. A long-term supply contract with Mr. Patttison or his rivals would open the door to debt financing from banks that are currently leery of cannabis clients. Better access to capital should in turn translate into lower cannabis prices for consumers.
The moral debate around recreational cannabis ended with legalization last October; government policies should now be aimed at efficiently providing a product to adult consumers, while eliminating illegal suppliers. That's best achieved by selling pot through a proven, well-regulated national network of grocers and drug stores.
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We understand that well-balanced meals are important for everyone, student-athletes in particular, and DU Dining is committed to offering a variety of healthful options. Through collaboration with the DU Community, we are happy to offer pre-season meals as well as meals during holiday breaks. At all of these meals, lean proteins, whole grains, healthy fats, and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables will be offered to everyone. The greatest selection of offerings will always be available in the dining hall where community members with special dietary needs can be best accommodated.
Being environmentally responsible is a commitment we take seriously. Providing great tasting food is our passion, but it takes a lot of energy (not to mention water, gas, and waste). Dominican University Dining Service is committed to operating as sustainably as possible. That means local purchasing (items grown or raised within a 150-mile radius of River Forest, IL, recycling, purchasing sustainably fished seafood, using biodegradable and compostable disposables, taking water and energy saving measures throughout the foodservice operation, and composting (where possible).
Click here to check out how Dominican University works to go green.


The ARTFX+ Bounty Hunter series will feature five characters: Dengar, IG-88, Bossk, 4-LOM and Zuckuss. Each statue will include a bonus part to complete a statue of Boba Fett!
The 1/10 scale statues will have magnets embedded in their feet, perfect for displaying them together on the included magnetic bases.


Robert Tennyson Stevens; Cheney's Asheville buddy?
Anybody know about Stevenson & his iris-reading, body language-reading, turning illness to health thing??
I really have to wonder if Dr. Cheney would get mixed up with someone who sounds a bit "quacky" (for lack of a better word). I admire and respect Dr. Cheney and though he is thinking and working outside the medical protocol envelope, he still is TOPS in CFIDS research and has been since the Incline Village outbreak (along with wonderful Dr. Peterson).
I may look into this guy just for info. Curious now.


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When Roberta Flack was still underground
By Rashod Ollison
Roberta Flack was still an underground sensation when "Chapter Two," her sophomore album, hit the streets in the summer of 1970.
"First Take," her brilliant debut out the year before, had been embraced by the black college crowd and discerning soul and jazz fans. But sales were poor. She wasn't yet a priority at Atlantic Records, her label, where Aretha Franklin reigned.
All that changed in 1972 when Clint Eastwood used "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," the glacial ballad from "First Take," on the soundtrack to "Play Misty for Me." The hit film was his directorial debut, and it helped break Flack to a pop audience. The song and her 3-year-old debut shot to No. 1 on the pop charts. Seemingly overnight, the unassuming former Washington, D.C., music teacher became a superstar. But when "Chapter Two" landed in record stores, Flack, then 33 years old, still belonged to a small fan base that appreciated calm, cerebral soul, music echoing elements of the black church, jazz and blues sans all the overcooked vocal runs.
The album, like its predecessor, is an uncluttered affair, with the singer's airy, evocative vocals and cascading piano upfront. The citified jazz overtones that shimmered on "First Take" are absent on "Chapter Two." Spare folk balladry dominates, and Flack imbues songs like Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go" with a slow-burning gospel intensity. Early on, she linked the eclectic interpretative powers of Nina Simone with the crystal emotionality of Judy Collins.
Flack's music didn't neatly fit anywhere. She possessed the shouting power of Queen Aretha but rarely went there. Still, her music retained a certain earthiness. A smart uptown coolness, reminiscent of vintage Dionne Warwick, gave her music an attractive chill. But Flack radiated warmth even on brutal icy numbers like "Business Goes on As Usual." Backed by little more than a marching drumbeat, a spare bass and creeping strings, Flack croons the antiwar ballad with no theatrics: "Business goes on as usual/Except that my brother's dead/He was 25 and very much alive/But the dreams have all been blasted from his head." The lines are more disarming as she delivers them in a direct, conversational manner.
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"Chapter Two" plays like a suite of meditative numbers that broods on hard times and the ins and outs of love. The album opens with a saucy song about the seduction of a "very big, strong, black, sexy Southern Baptist minister," Flack says in the spoken intro to "Reverend Lee." Spiced with funky horns arranged by the great King Curtis, it's the only midtempo groove on the album. Natalie Cole later remade it about two decades later, overhauling it with the zest and sass she was known for. But Flack's simmering take is definitive.
After Clint Eastwood helped make Flack a star in 1972, pop fans went back and picked up "Chapter Two" and 1971's "Quiet Fire," another solid album whose title aptly describes the artist's early style.
Subsequent efforts (1972's "Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway," 1973's "Killing Me Softly" and 1975's "Feel Like Making Love") boasted bigger, more stylish production, dotted with evergreen hits. But on "Chapter Two," Flack killed softly long before the mainstream had a clue.
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To facilitate social and economic development through the provision of literacy skills. BTL believes that learning to read boosts practical, social and spiritual values of the development process for marginalized people groups. Target groups BTL's focus is the less resourced language groups in Kenya characterized by low literacy levels, harsh climatic conditions and poorly developed infrastructure. We work through Partnerships BTL seeks to work in active partnership with agencies that share a common concern for the welfare of those who suffer the most from the effects of illiteracy and poverty. Our partners include: the local community, churches/church groups, the Ministry of Education through Kenya Institute of Education (KIE), the Directorate of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) and the local District Education offices. BTL also seeks to partner with NGOs involved in education and development, universities involved in linguistics and language development as well as other international organizations such as SIL, Wycliffe Organizations and UNESCO.
Functional adult literacy programmes BTL's adult functional literacy programme develops instructional materials in mother tongue and facilitates training teachers and starting of adult literacy classes in these communities. In 2003, BTL was recognized by UNESCO for its literacy practices. It was awarded a trophy by the Directorate of Adult and Continuing Education (DACE) for three consecutive years as the NGO with the best literacy programmes.
In 2005, BTL initiated a new literacy strategy under the umbrella of CELLADEV (Centre for Literacy and Language Development). BTL assists Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and religious groups to integrate their goals with mother tongue literacy. BTL's goal is to establish a system where local communities get the capacity to continue with language development and literacy initiatives. BTL also assists Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and religious groups to integrate their income generation and self development goals with literacy.
BTL is involved in Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) through the implementation of Mother tongue education programmes in schools from preschool to standard three in accordance with the Language in Education policy. Mother Tongue learning and instructional materials (course books and supplementary) have been developed, evaluated and approved by the Kenya Institute of Education (K.I.E.).
BTL has been implementing a HIV/AIDS awareness and response programme in the 15 communities where it works. This has been done through a translated story of a HIV/AIDS orphaned girl called Kande in the various languages. The aim is to help the communities respond to the challenge of HIV/AIDS and support those affected and infected.


Activities are held at the Frank O'Brien Papen Center, 304 W. Bell unless otherwise noted.
The Recreation Mobile Unit is coming to a neighborhood near YOU! Every week, the Mobile Unit will be out in a community park with fun and games for the under 6 crowd and their caregivers to enjoy together. Enjoy fresh air, sunshine, and the joy of play! Park schedules and dates TBA.
Times: 1 – 2 p.m.
Little kids can do big things! Join us to explore the way the world works in a fun and hands-on environment.
Join Stephanie and other homeschool families twice a week for activities and games focused on making fitness fun!
Hands on slimy, gooey, messy FUN! Participants will get to make different project each week, and you won't have the clean-up at home!
Times: 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
This outdoor hands-on class teaches 3-10 years of age the safe, easy and effective way to learn to ride on two wheels. Using the "balance first" method, parents help get their children rolling while the child does most of the work. Participants learn the basics of balancing, starting, stopping and steering a bike. This is a 4-week program; space is limited to 10 participants. Parent participation and support are essential. Each adult may bring no more than two children, age 3 years old and up. Children must be able to put their feet flat on the ground when sitting on their bicycle seats.
Times: 3 – 4:00 p.m.
Each week will be a different family-friendly project, designed to get kids and their VIPs (very important persons/parents) having fun and relaxing together. The projects will be made and ready to go home the same night! September will be paint-based projects. See the CLC website under the "Play" tab, or check our Facebook page for examples of upcoming projects and dates.
Times: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Registration can now be done online at www.las-cruces.org/play. Registration will continue until the classes are filled. No telephone registrations accepted. For more information, call 575/541-2455 or by email at RecPrograms@las-cruces.org.


A groundbreaking researcher in Africa in 1950s Dr. Anne Innis Dagg returned home to Canada to see her career stifled by sexism.
Have you heard of Dr. Anne Innis Dagg?
No? Well sadly that isn't surprising as the Canadian's impressive scientific career was literally shelved by sexism.
Back in 1956 at age 23 Dagg packed up some notebooks, binoculars and cameras and headed to South Africa to fulfill a childhood dream of getting to know more about giraffes.
That trip made Dagg, now almost 86, the first person ever to study African mammals in the wild. Her work in Africa took place several years before the well known Jane Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park to study chimpanzees and Dian Fossey headed into the Rwandan mountains for her gorilla studies.
Waterloo's Dagg returned to Canada in 1957 and began a PhD in animal behaviour at the University of Waterloo. Her extensive research, including many published papers in highly regarded journals, should have lead to Dagg's academic advancement instead she was marginalized by sexist university policies and denied jobs and tenure in turn leading her to a life of feminist activism.
Flash forward decades and giraffe experts — who by the way consider the 1976 book The Giraffe: its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology that she wrote with J. Bristol Foster their bible — reconnected with Dagg and soon she was feted at conferences and then headed back to Africa.
Dagg's story from the early days in Africa through her academic disappointments, activism, prolific authorship and finally a rightful renaissance in the scientific community are all beautifully chronicled in filmmaker Alison Reid's documentary film The Woman Who Loves Giraffes that opens here in Vancouver on Jan. 11 at Vancity Theatre.
"It's ironic everyone I talk to since I have been making this film, mention giraffes and it's like: 'oh they are my favourite animals, I love giraffes.' It's ironic that both Anne and giraffes have been sort of flying under the radar," said Reid in a recent interview.
For Dagg her academic anonymity was not only personally frustrating but it lead to the life and plight of the giraffe being greatly ignored and certainly overshadowed by the other African animals.
"I've done everything you needed to be good and they just said: 'oh, you're a woman,'" Dagg says in the film as she recounts her academic story.
Watching the film it's impossible not to bristle as one old boy (literally and figuratively) still today says he has no reason to apologize for turning down Dagg's tenure request at University of Guelph in 1972.
For the record at the time Dagg had published 20 research papers and had been a successful and very productive assistant professor of zoology at Guelph.
It's the glaring gender inequity that Reid says has really fired up audiences who have already seen the movie at various festivals.
"Most people are horrified and galvanized by the treatment she received by academia. They are mad. Women stand up and say what the f&*k?" said Reid who first came to this story almost a decade ago when she heard a CBC radio report about Dagg.
It struck her that this story would make a great feature film. So she set about securing the rights to Dagg's 2006 memoir Pursuing Giraffe. However, plans changed once she learned Dagg was about to head back to Africa for the first time since her 1956 trip.
Reid felt it was historic and had to be recorded. So the feature idea was filed and Reid changed her focus to a documentary lens.
As for the feature film idea Reid's plan is get back to work on the script once she finishes her directing gig on the TV series Hudson & Rex.
Those layers and stories are all there in an amazing trove of source material including film footage from the day and every letter Dagg ever wrote or received.
"It was golden, absolutely golden," said Reid about what she calls Dagg's tendency to keep everything.
Dagg says she "loves," how the film has turned out. She has seen it many times and feels it is an important piece of work that discusses and highlights universal human and animal issues.
With Reid readying to focus on a feature film does the almost 86-year-old zoologist have any thoughts on who should play her in that movie?


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Clashes kill 62 Al Qaeda militants in Iraq: militia leader
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A picture taken with a mobile phone on January 3, 2014 shows people in a street with empty bullets on the groud following fighting between Islamist jihadists and Iraqi special forces.
Kirkuk, Iraq: Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen killed 62 Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Ramadi area west of Baghdad on Friday, a senior leader of the Sahwa militia told AFP.
Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha said 16 members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group were killed in Khaldiyah, east of Ramadi, while 46 more died in the city itself.
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Q: Sum of a subset of a set of cardinality n being a multiple of n If I have a set of cardinality n, how do I know that there exists a subset that the sum of the elements in the set are a multiple of n.
$\forall S\subseteq \mathbb{Z} : |S|=n$
$\exists A \subseteq S : \sum_i A_i = nk, k \in \mathbb{Z}$

A: (This is not original.)
List them in some order
$(A_i)_{i=1}^n$
and let
$B_j
=\sum_{i=1}^j A_i
$
for
$j=1$ to $n$.
If all the $B_j$ are distinct
mod $n$,
then, since there are $n$
of them,
one of then
is $\equiv 0 \bmod n$.
If two of them are equal
$\bmod n$,
say
$B_k \equiv B_j$
where $j < k$,
then,
since
$B_j
=\sum_{i=1}^j A_i
$
and
$B_k
=\sum_{i=1}^k A_i
$,
subtracting these,
$0
\equiv B_k-B_j
\equiv\sum_{i=j+1}^k B_j
$
so the sum of
$(A_i)_{i=j+1}^k$
is divisible by $n$.

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The Heath Robinson Museum, Pinner
The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner Park, an easy 5-minute walk from Pinner Tube station up the Metropolitan Line, is an unalloyed joy and delight.
The Museum opened in October 2016 and houses some 1,000 artworks by this brilliant and prolific artist, cartoonist and illustrator. Not only is the collection a thing of joy and wonder, but the museum is sited next to an open-air cafe which serves yummy food, both set beside a tree-lined lake in the picturesque Pinner Memorial Gardens. It is a perfect Sunday outing.
The Heath Robinson Museum (right) next to Daisy's In The Park cafe (left)
Why Pinner? Because Heath Robinson moved here with his young family in 1908, doing much of his best work at a house in nearby Moss Lane, where he is now commemorated by a blue plaque.
Museum layout
The Heath Robinson museum in fact consists of just one main display room but it is an education in itself to witness just how much information can be conveyed in one room. The most interesting feature is the way his life and career is told on a continuous strip extending right round the room at waist height, and undulating and curving a bit like a solidified scroll. This tells HR's full life story with explanations of key aspects of his career. Some pictures are embedded in the scroll, while above, at head height, is a series of black and white prints, and then over our heads hang a sequence of really large full-colour, poster-size illustrations.
The Heath Robinson Museum showing the waist-level information shelf running round the wall, the mid-height prints, and the high-up colour posters, plus the model contraptions in the middle
There's an audio guide or commentary. Just tap it against the symbol next to a relevant illustration and it gives a bit of commentary and opinion about it.
And in the centre of the room are some entertaining models of some Heath Robinson contraptions. So although it's only one room it takes a good 30 to 40 minutes to go round reading everything and looking at everything (and laughing out loud).
Potted biography
William Heath Robinson was born in Finsbury Park in 1872 into a family of artists. His father was an illustrator for newspapers and magazines, and William and his brothers used to copy him as well as drawing things in the family garden and nearby park. Eventually all three brothers became illustrators.
William hankered to be a landscape artist and landscapes remained his first love, but a man needs to eat and, through contacts of his father and brothers, he quickly found work which rewarded his stunning draughtsmanship and eye for detail. From the turn of the century he provided lavish colour illustrations to editions of children's classics such as Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Legends (1897), The Arabian Nights (1899), Tales from Shakespeare (1902), Gargantua and Pantagruel (1904), Twelfth Night (1908), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1914) and The Water-Babies (1915). Several of these titles are available in the Museum bookshop as luxurious hardback editions.
'So full of shapes is fancy' – Twelfth Night (1908) by William Heath Robinson
The most amazing thing about this picture is that it's set during the day. The topmost part of the facade opposite is in full daylight – so this isn't a night-time scene, as the dim darkness suggests – it's a beautifully poetic evocation of daytime shadow.
In 1909 Heath Robinson was commissioned to illustrate Kipling's multi-part poem, A Song of the English, written to convey the far-flung nature of the British Empire and the heroism of the men, in particular the sailors, who toiled to preserve it. The pen and watercolour illustrations are quite dazzlingly brilliant.
'The coast-wise lights of England give you welcome back again' (Song of the English, 1909)
Sinking ship (Song of the English, 1909)
It's startling that a man capable of such powerfully visionary pictures could also write and illustrate a children's book of his own, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902). This is the strange tale of a man who falls asleep minding his baby by a brook only for it to be stolen by the 'bag-bird', resulting in a series of adventures to remote picturesque locations like Arabia or the Arctic to try and find the missing babe. Uncle Lubin features in a number of images here, including large poster-size versions of Lubin flying in a typically fraying-string and hand-made balloon.
The Aeronaut from The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) by William Heath Robinson
Contraptions and gadgets
In fact, Uncle Lubin is sometimes regarded as the start of HR's career in the depiction of unlikely machines – the enormous range of illustrations and cartoon of complicated hand-made contraptions featuring ropes and pulleys, levers and handles, and incongruous household elements like umbrellas and kettles, absurdly and unnecessarily complicated devices erected to carry out incongruously simple or far-fetched activities. It is the mind-boggling array of such devices which gave the language the adjective 'Heath Robinson' which can be applied to any absurdly complex and jerry-rigged contraption.
Stout members of the sixth column dislodge an enemy machine gun post on the dome of St Paul's by William Heath Robinson
Heath Robinson realised that the contraptions are funnier, the more seriously they are taken. Therefore every element of every device is imagined down to the tiniest pulley and knotted string, and all of the army of technicians and engineers and soldiers and scientists are going about their business with the utmost seriousness. He said that the viewer has to believe in the subject as seriously as the characters themselves.
Deceiving the invader as to the state of the tide by William Heath Robinson
Two World Wars
The market for top end, luxury, lavishly colour-illustrated books dried up with the advent of the Great War. Heath Robinson had been providing comic cartoons for a variety of publications and, when war broke out, began a stream of humorous cartoons satirising the enemy in three books – Some 'Frightful' War Pictures (1915), Hunlikely! (1916) and The Saintly Hun: a book of German virtues (1917). All three volumes are collected into one book, available in the bookshop.
Twenty years later, the saintly Hun was back again and Heath Robinson produced another set of war cartoons, this time noticeably satirising official British war efforts. As the commentary points out, maybe the Nazis were just too unspeakable to laugh about.
The war was of course a period of rationing and austerity, with everyone being encouraged to 'make do and mend', not throw anything away, but patch and fix things. There's an obvious link between the increasingly home-made, amateur DIY which the whole population was forced towards, and the relevance and popularity of Heath Robinson's cracked contraptions.
A warm welcome for every parachutist by William Heath Robinson
After the Great War the early lavish illustrations gave way to a flood of humorous drawings for magazines and advertisements. In 1934 he published a collection of his favourites as Absurdities. For example:
The Wart Chair. A simple apparatus for removing a wart from the top of the head
Resuscitating stale railway scones for redistribution at the station buffets
You could go a bit heavy and wonder if this between-the-wars interest in absurdity echoes and anticipates the French existentialist emphasis on the absurdity and futility of human existence. The French had Jean-Paul Sartre and the Resistance; we had Heath Robinson and Dad's Army; the Nazis had the Horst Wessel Song; we had Noel Coward and comic songs like Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans.
The multimovement tabby silencer
First aero wedding
The intellectual summer holiday reminded me of my recent visit to the Wolfgang Tillsman exhibition at Tate Modern, where everyone had their heads stuck in the exhibition pamphlet. Works like Testing teeth typify his deployment of massed ranks of managers and technicians, scientists and supervisors, to give the joke machinery added solemnity and pomposity. They remind me a lot of the government departments where I've worked.
Designs for living
The 1930s saw the first big wave of self-improvement books and guides and manuals. Only recently at the British Museum exhibition of landscape watercolours, I was reminded of the Shell guides, written by poets and writers of the day and illustrated by leading artists, which were designed to get the reading public motoring off into the country to explore the counties of England, or pulling on their hiking boots and setting off a-rambling.
It was in this climate that Heath Robinson was paired up with the humourist K.R.G. Browne to illustrate a brilliant series of 'how to' books – How to live in a flat (1936), How to be a perfect husband (1937), How to make a garden grow (1938), poking fun at new trends and fashions for 'modern living'.
Romantic possibilities in modern flats (1936) by William Heath Robinson
In 1933 Heath Robinson did his marvellous cartoon illustrations for the first of the Professor Branestawm books written by Norman Hunter – The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm – which I read and loved as a boy.
The professor's invention for peeling potatoes
Adverts and commercial work
It is also striking to learn that Heath Robinson provided illustrations, straight or comic, for some 100 commercial products, several of which are included here, notably his cartoon-style ads for Hovis bread and some of the humorous illustrations he did for the leather-making firm of Connolly Brothers.
William the Conqueror appreciates the comfort of leather when crossing the Channel (1920)
Heath Robinson's watercolours
But the aspect of his work which I wasn't expecting and which crept slowly up on me as I walked round, was the strength and power of his more serious work – the early Shakespeare and literary illustrations, for sure, but also the really stunning watercolours and landscapes which he produced throughout his life.
Eastern Market Scene, watercolour by William Heath Robinson
The commentary explains that, quite separately from his commercial work, Heath Robinson continued to paint landscapes in his spare time – sometimes pure pastoral, sometimes with whimsical fairies and goblins, sometimes with more spiritual-looking Greek or idealised human figures ghosting through them.
Girl on a riverbank, watercolour by William Heath Robinson
The cartoons are often very, very funny, all the funnier the more carefully you follow through their ludicrously intricate machinery. But some of these watercolours and spiritualised landscapes are masterpieces in a completely different mood – brilliantly evocative and powerful, strange and haunting.
Landscape with two figures
The commentary points out that Heath Robinson made careful use of deliberately limited tone and palette – the washes come from the same colour base i.e. almost all greens in the watercolour above, variations on blue in the Twelfth Night illustration at the top of this post, more greens in the landscape below. An almost Japanese sense of the unity and harmoniousness of the colours creates a wonderfully dreamlike impression.
Landscape with tall tree and haystack, watercolour by William Heath Robinson
As you soak up Heath Robinson's command of watercolour and the tonal unity of these works, it makes you appreciate all the more how he combined this colour control with the immaculate draughtsmanship so obvious in the cartoons to produce a synthesis – wonderful tonal harmony controlled by breath-taking design – in the best of his fairy, Shakespeare and literary illustrations. And makes you go back to marvel at them all over again.
'Well, come again tomorrow; fare thee well' – Twelfth Night (1908)
And, as the exhibition shows, this incredibly diverse artist could also use the same combination in another flavour or style or 'voice' altogether – away from the fantastical fairy world, in a style which depicts the modern world with no comic intent but with the same breath-taking linesmanship and colour harmony to create a wonderful sense of warmth and friendliness.
Shepherd's Hill, Highgate (1933) by William Heath Robinson
Heath Robinson's art is at home in the world and makes the viewer, also, feel profoundly, safely at home.
What a really great artist, a brilliant illustrator, a hilarious cartoonist, and a wonderfully evocative watercolourist. This is an absolute treat of a museum!
All Heath Robinson images reproduced with kind permission of the William Heath Robinson Trust and © The William Heath Robinson Trust.
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BBC News article about the Heath Robinson Museum
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1) Please answer correctly, as it will be graded. The subject of this course is _______.
2) The process of one tectonic plate being pulled underneath another is called?
4) Who was the man behind the term "preservation" in environmental science?
5) The first country to adopt an official population policy was?
A) the set of environmental conditions within which a species is able to persist.
B) the temperature range in which an organism occurs when there is no competition from other organisms.
C) the temperature range in which an organism occurs when there is competition from other organisms.
D) the point at which the organism's resource needs overlap causing competition between organisms.
8) Scientifically, _______ is expressed as the number of species in an area.
10) What is the main alcohol found in biofuel?
11) The _________ approach estimates how many people can be put onto our planet without taking into account Earth's ability to supply their needs, such as the need for food.
A) an increase in output leads to a further increase in the output.
B) people leave the city.
C) an increase in temperature is followed by a response that leads to a decrease in temperature.
D) air and water pollution, disease, crime and overcrowding occur.
14) In developed countries, what percentage of people live in urban areas?
15) Species that benefit each other, but are not essential to each other are called _________.
16) In ________ a single species that is isolated on different islands can be separated into multiple distinct species. Each group responds and adapts to its own environment. For instance, on an island with large fruit seeds, a small beaked finch may not do well, however a large beaked finch has just the right apparatus to break the seed; therefore its genes have the opportunity to move to the next generation.
17) What is the approximate current human population?
A) the number of individuals who die during that same time interval.
B) the number of individuals that are added to a particular ecosystem in a pre-determined period of time.
C) number of individuals who are born during a certain time interval.
D) the difference between birth rate and death rate.
19) The first plants to appear after a disturbance are called _________.
20) Late-successional species grow well in _______ and have seeds that can survive for a _______ period of time.
21) A species such as the sea otter that has a large effect on its community or ecosystem is called a ________.
22) The largest phosphorous stores on Earth are in the_________.
23) Which of the following is an example of a system sink and flux?
24) Maximum potential lifetime (longevity) is determined by _______.
25) What is a watershed?
A) A large pit used as a reservoir.
B) A man-made structure used for capturing rainwater.
C) An area of land where rainfall flows out through the same stream.
D) Any metal structure used for storing water.
26) Approximately how old is the planet Earth?
A) Maximum number of individuals of a single species that can be sustained by an environment without reducing the environment's ability to sustain the same number of individuals in the future.
B) Amount of environmental degradation that a particular ecosystem can support without losing its capacity to regenerate.
C) Maximum number of individuals of different species that can be sustained by an environment without reducing the environment's ability to sustain the same number of individuals in the future.
D) Number of offspring a woman can bear in her life.
29) When two populations of the same species become geographically isolated from each other for a long time, the two populations may change so much genetically that they can no longer reproduce together, even when they are brought back into contact. This is known as ____.
30) The organisms that are classified as primary consumers are the __________.
32) What allows alders to grow along the edges of glaciers?
33) After which event would secondary succession occur?
34) _______ cutting method removes all but a few mature trees with good genetic characteristics and high seed production to promote the regeneration of the forest.
36) Carbon forms two of the most important greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide and ______.
D) Seeds that spread quickly.
39) About ______ of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas.
40) To restore the fox population in the Channel Islands, ________ are to be removed and ________ are to be reintroduced.
4) How fast do tectonic plates move?
A) Between 0 and 1 foot a year.
B) Between 5 and 10 feet a year.
C) Between 10 and 50 feet a year.
D) Between 50 and 100 feet a year.
5) Chronic patchiness is found in which ecosystem?
11) Estimates of how many people the planet can support range from 2.5 billion to 40 billion. Which of the following factors does not play an important role in this estimate?
A) Our ability to grow food.
B) The soil's ability to sustain population growth.
D) Dropping birth rate in developing countries.
12) What makes an ecological island different from other areas?
A) It can only support up to a dozen species.
B) Most species of fish cannot survive around the territory of an ecological island.
C) It is biologically isolated, so species living there cannot mix with other populations of the same species.
D) These islands have constant ecological interactions with larger landmasses.
13) How many species of birds native to the United States have been infected with the West Nile virus?
A) will always come to equilibrium by sharing resources.
B) breed with each other.
D) can share the same habitat.
15) The first major increase in human population occurred during the ________?
A) push livestock animals to extinction.
B) lead to more deforestation.
C) always be more beneficial to one's health.
D) dramatically lower land use.
A) a forest food web.
C) the competitive exclusion principle.
24) Generally, interference refers to _______ successional species preventing the establishment of _______ successional species.
A) They might eat heterotrophs.
B) They are known as decomposers.
C) They cannot perform photosynthesis.
D) They can live without heterotrophs.
26) A sustainable society _______.
A) ensures that Earth's resources will remain adequate to support future generations.
B) keep its population under 100,000 million.
C) harms the environment without causing economic hardship and social concerns.
D) saves at least as much as it spends.
27) What is a message to be learned from whooping cranes?
A) If a species is rare, its population will always remain rare.
B) Not all rare species are in danger of extinction.
C) Large populations should be controlled.
D) Rare species are destined for extinction.
28) A country with a high growth rate will display a ________ shape when graphed, indicating a large number of individuals in the younger ages.
29) In forestry, which of the following is one of the alternatives to clear-cutting that leaves some trees in the stand?
30) What does "biota" refer to?
A) All living things within a given area.
B) All living things plus all non-living things within a given area.
C) All non-living things within a given area.
D) An alternative to the Gaia hypothesis.
A) each provides what the other needs and neither could survive without the other.
B) each provides what the other needs but each could survive without the other.
C) one provides what the other needs, while the other is harmed by relinquishing the resource.
D) one provides what the other needs, and the other is oblivious to the interaction.
A) one species making the environment more suitable for another species.
B) one species preventing the establishment of another species.
C) late-successional species colonizing a freshly disturbed area.
D) the amount of biomass in the system peaking and then declining once again.
33) A lava flow is an example of what kind of succession?
34) _________ is one of the "Big Six" elements necessary as the building blocks of life.
36) Sea otters feed on sea urchins. Sea urchins then feed on kelp. If there are fewer sea otters, there will be ________ kelp.
D) There is not enough information to answer the question.
A) the growth of a population that has increased by 20%.
B) the growth of a population that remains the same for only 2 years.
C) the time it takes a population to drop its growth rate by half.
D) the time it takes for what is growing to double in size or number.
38) The founder of the Yale School of Forestry and the first head of the U.S. Forest Service was __________, also generally considered to be the father of modern professional forestry.
A) arose due to differing food type and availability.
B) arose due to mutations occurring in the gene pool.
C) arose due to environmental instability.
D) arose due to interbreeding with other bird species.
40) ______ are communities of organisms, including the community's local nonliving environment, in which matter (i.e. chemical elements) cycles and energy flows.
2) The current consumption of the Earth's renewable natural resources is estimated to be about _________ the EarthOs biological productivity replaces each year.
3) The "balance of nature" means that _______.
5) We use both ____ and ____ to solve environmental problems.
6) When we harvest a product from an ecosystem, we need to be concerned about the _______ of the harvest.
7) Which of these positive environmental effects are mainly caused by the fact that human population is constantly decreasing?
8) What kind of curve shape best describes the current pattern at which global population is changing?
9) Which of the following is not a typical population's age structure?
10) What is the most accurate estimate of how many people the planet can support with basic requirements of life?
11) The cause of the highest number of deaths in the United States in 1998 was ______.
12) Which of the following is not a component of the EarthOs major reservoirs?
13) Which of these cycles is not part of the geologic cycle?
14) Approximately how long has the Earth's geologic cycle been functioning?
15) Seattle started discharging treated wastewater into Puget Sound instead of Lake Washington in 1968 because of _____ contamination problems.
16) What essential element is acquired by plants primarily from the air?
17) The erosion of the Grand Canyon is an example of the effects of _____.
18) A group of individuals of the same species occupying a given area at the same time is called a ____.
20) The place where a species lives is termed its ______.
21) The competitive exclusion principle indicates that two species that compete for the same resources ______.
22) Symbiosis in nature is _________.
23) We call the group of organisms and their interactions with the living and nonliving environment a(n) ________.
24) A change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations is called ____.
25) Among the causes of evolution is(are) ______.
26) _______ occurs when two or more species are isolated and evolve differently.
27) The failure of antimalarial efforts starting in 1957 over time shows how organisms can develop ________.
28) _______ is best defined as the total number of genetic characteristics of a specific species, subspecies, or group of species.
29) Biologists estimate that ________ species exist on Earth today.
30) _________ is the initial establishment and development of an ecosystem where one did not exist.
31) What was the most successful restoration method for lead mines in England?
32) Dune grass is an example of a(n) ________ in succession.
33) The Fort Valley Experimental Forest shows that it can be a problem ecologically to ________ fire.
35) Left undisturbed for a long time, an ecosystem _______ its stored elements.
36) Which species is best suited to clearcutting in the Pacific Northwest?
37) Aldo Leopold developed the term _______, which holds that all of EarthOs resources have the right to exist in a natural state, and humans should not be conquerors of those resources, but citizens of the Earth and protectors of resources.
38) For fun (any answer will be considered correct). What is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
39) According to the discussion list, it is estimated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains about ________ million tons of garbage and is growing daily.
40) According to the discussion list, the population of China is ____ people.
2) According to a post on the discussion list, one of the disadvantages of biofuels is that ____________.
3) According to a post on the discussion last, the new Seattle bag tax charges _______ cents per bag.
4) As the 21st century began the global human population reached_________billion.
13) Which of the following parameters is/are necessary to describe exponential population growth?
14) Which of the following chemicals is most important in the transfer and use of energy within cells?
15) Which of the following elements cycles quickly and is readily regenerated for biological activity?
17) Nitrogen is needed to manufacture which two important biological compounds ?
18) What are the four major components of the environment?
19) Which of the following is NOT a way in which carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere?
25) Which of the following characteristics is known to make a species more vulnerable to extinction?
27) How many species have been recovered in the US since the inception of the Endangered Species Act of 1973?
30) Which of the following elements is not essential for plant growth and function?
34) When an ecosystem is disturbed by __________, changes occur in its biogeochemical cycling.
36) Tree growth rings are produced at the rate of _______per year.
40) _________ founded the US Forest Service and practiced utilitarian conservation of forests.
5) What does the principle of "environmental unity" say?
6) Disturbed ecosystems can recover naturally through __________.
7) Douglas-fir regeneration responds well to __________.
9) Ruminants, such as elk, have four-chambered stomachs teeming with billions of microbes. The bacteria digest woody tissue that the elk cannot fully digest on their own. The bacteria also convert nitrogen into organic compounds and give off fatty acids that benefit the elk. In return, the elk provide an environment that allows the bacteria to survive. In this case, both bacteria and elk are _________________ ___________________.
16) The way a population or species has varied in number, from most to fewest, over a past time period is measured by a(n) ____ and is called the _____.
17) What is the "biosphere"?
19) Following a severe storm on the sand dunes of Oregon, the process of grasses becoming established followed by shrubs and eventually a forest growing on the dune is an example of what kind of natural process?
20) As an alternative to clear-cutting, which forestry method removes all but a few mature trees with good genetic characteristics in order to promote regeneration of the forest?
21) A collision of _______________ plates can lead to mountain building as well as subduction of the more dense plate, if any.
22) How long did it take for the radiation of Chernobyl to travel around the world to the Oak Ridge backyard grass clippings?
23) What is the correct chronological order of a demographic transition in western civilization?
A) All of Earth's resources have the right to exist in a natural state, and that human's role should be that of citizen and protector instead of a conqueror of nature.
B) Maximum sustainable yield can be maintained by allowing 50% of a population to be harvested.
C) Forests provide "public-service functions", also known as "ecosystem services", and should be conserved to protect the interests of humankind.
D) The earth and its resources belong of right to the people.
27) In the case of the Isle Royale, a Minnesota experiment on predator/prey interactions, as the moose population increased the wolf population __________________ until the moose population decreased. The wolf population then______________________, indicating a possibility that the predator/prey interaction impacted the populations of both species.
36) The ____________ is one of the four major reservoirs of the biogeochemical cycle of planet Earth.
40) What does the Gaia hypothesis propose?
C) The environment at a global level has not been changed by life throughout history of life on Earth.
D) wind in the ocean causes degradation releasing toxins.
4) Societies consisting of populations with exponential growth may exceed the area's ____________________ and thus be unsustainable.
5) The Gaia Hypothesis states that life _______ the environment for the ___________ of life.
6) In developed countries _____% of the people live in urban areas while ______% of the people live in rural areas.
D) relationships between organisms and their environment.
A) beauty and the aesthetic appeal to humanity.
10) What can cause a population to continue to increase after a crash in resources and subsequent reduced fertilization rate?
A) occurs at a constant rate per time period.
B) occurs at an increasing rate per time period.
C) occurs at a decreasing rate per time period.
D) occurs at a equilibrium setting rate per time period.
15) What kind of plate boundary occurs where two plates grind past each other without destroying or producing lithosphere?
16) What type of boundary occurs where two plates move together, causing one plate to descend into the mantle beneath the other plate?
24) Chronic diseases are present in a _______ but _______ percentage of the population and include diseases such as heart disease, cancer and strokes.
25) In acute or epidemic diseases, a disease appears _________ in the population and affects a _______ percentage of the population and then _________ or almost disappears, only to ________ later.
A) a community of species and their nonliving environment in which nutrients flow and chemicals cycle.
B) a community of genuses and their nonliving environment in which energy flows and chemicals cycle.
C) a community of species and their nonliving environment in which energy flows and nectar cycles.
D) a community of species and their nonliving environment in which energy flows and chemicals cycle.
32) Which of the following does NOT contribute to the shrinking of wetlands?
33) Which does NOT result in an increase in biodiversity?
36) When dune grass prepares a way for other species to grow, it is an example of _________.
38) Which of the following did NOT contribute to spotted owls population drop in the U.S.?
4) A smoke stack releasing toxic metals is an example of a _________ source pollution.
D) tectonic, hydrologic, rock, and biogeochemical cycles.
11) Which of the following statements defines OpopulationO?
14) Which of the following is not a characteristic of an ecosystem?
17) What is the fundamental issue in Environmental Science?
18) If a volcano becomes extinct after thousands of years being active and plants begin to grow where there was formerly hot lava, this is an example of what kind of natural process?
A) accumulation of weathered material in depositional basins.
B) rocks exposed to heat, pressure or chemically active fluids.
C) molten material such as lava, are broken down by physical and chemical weathering.
D) rocks exposed to heat, pressure or chemically active fluids, broken down by physical and chemical weathering.
26) What percentage of the wood currently used in the United States is produced in the United States?
27) The growth of weeds in an abandoned urban lot is an example of what kind of ecological succession?
29) Which of the following countries have implemented a Oone child policyO to slow population growth?
31) Which of the following factors is not a short-term factor that limits population growth?
32) Which of the following scenarios is an example of "chronic patchiness"?
A) Two cactus species in a desert environment grow far apart from each other and do not interfere with each other's growth.
B) Bamboo and Imperata grass replace each other as the dominant species in parts of the Philippines.
C) Fire causes an opening in densely matted grass allowing red cedar to take hold.
D) Large pines provide shade for oak saplings, allowing the oak to eventually become the dominant species.
34) In _________ a single species that is isolated far apart on different islands can be separated into multiple distinct species. Each group responds and adapts to its own environment. For instance, on an island with large fruit seeds, a small beaked finch may not do well, however a large beaked finch has just the right apparatus to break the seed, therefore its genes have the opportunity to move to the next generation.
35) How a population or species varied in number, from most to fewest, over a past time period is measured by a(n) ____ and is called the _____.
38) The relative abundance of a species is known as the ___________ .
A) molten material such as lava, broken down by physical and chemical weathering.
B) accumulation of weathered material in depositional basins.
C) sedimentary rocks exposed to heat, pressure or chemically active fluids.
D) sedimentary rocks exposed to heat, pressure or chemically active fluids, broken down by physical and chemical weathering.


Challenge is a 2009 Bengali romantic comedy directed by Raj Chakraborty. The film starres Dev and Subhashree Ganguly.The film is partially based on the Tamil film Kuthu which stars Silambarasan and Divya Spandana in lead roles. And it is an official remake of the Telugu film Bunny. For few scenes and music-video's, shooting was done in Dubai, Australia and New Zealand. The blockbuster film Challenge 2 isn't a sequel to Challenge and has a totally different story.
It is a romantic comedy film. Subhasree Ganguly portrays a girl with an extremely conservative/obsessive father. Her father just can't tolelate any other guy looking at his daughter face to face. He can not accept any boy who tries to be friend with his daughter. He terrifies, beats everybody to protect his daughter. Pooja Subhasree Ganguly in the film also loves her dad but at the same time dreams about someone capable enough to challenge her dad. Who can really fight her dad for her. Here comes our hero Abhir Dev to save and romance Pooja. Challenge is a stunning love story. In the fear of Pooja's boyfriend, her father sends her to his father-in-law's home. But at last, the couples get married and after some years they had a son.
A challenge is a request made to the holder of a competitive title for a match between champion and challenger, the winner of which will acquire or retain the title. In some cases the champion has the right to refuse a challenge; in others, this results in forfeiting the title. The challenge system derives from duelling and its code of honour. While many competitive sports use some form of tournament to determine champions, a challenge match is the normal way of deciding professional boxing titles and the World Chess Championship. Some racket sports clubs have a reigning champion who may be challenged by any other club member; a ladder tournament extends the challenge concept to all players, not just the reigning champion. At élite-level competition, there is usually some governing body which authorises and regulates challenges, such as FIDE in chess. In some cases there is a challengers' tournament, the winner of which gains the right to play the challenge round against the reigning champion; in tennis this was the case at Wimbledon until 1922 and in the Davis Cup until 1972. The FA Cup's official name remains the "Football Association Challenge Cup", although not since its second season in 1873 has the reigning champion receive a bye to the final. The America's Cup is contested according to the terms of its 1887 deed of gift between yachts representing the champion yacht club and a challenging club. Since 1970, the usual practice, by mutual consent, is for an initial formal "challenger of record" replaced by the actual challenger after a qualifying tournament. However, in 1988 and 2010 there were court cases arising from non-consensual challenges.
Challenge was a tabloid-sized monthly newspaper established in Chicago in April 1933 which served as the official organ of the Young People's Socialist League, youth section of the Socialist Party of America. The publication was subsequently renamed The Challenge of Youth and continued in existence through 1946.
The decision to launch a new official newspaper of the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL) was made at the 1932 National Convention of the YPSL. In April 1933, this publication was launched, a 4-page tabloid called The Challenge. Throughout its first year, the publication campaigned against the threat of international war, fascism, child labor, and deficiencies in the American education system and lobbied on behalf of efforts to politically organize unemployed workers and to expand the trade union movement.
The first issue of The Challenge featured a lengthy masthead, including Arthur G. McDowell as Editor, James Quick, Bob Parker, Jack Jaffe, Aaron Levenstein, and Paul Rasmussen as Associate Editors, Hy Fish as Business Manager, and a Socialist Party all-star list including Norman Thomas, Powers Hapgood, Upton Sinclair, and Oscar Ameringer as "Contributing Editors."
Idea is a genus of butterflies known as Tree Nymphs or Paper butterflies. The member species are concentrated around southeast Asia. See Sevenia for the genus of African tree nymphs.
Flickr Images tagged Idea Nymphalidae.
On 12 September 1968, the Bee Gees flew to Brussels and spent two weeks recording a television show directed by Jean Christophe Averti to promote their album Idea on French television. It features the guest appearances by Brian Auger and The Trinity, Julie Driscoll and Lil Lindfors. Swedish singer Lil Lindfors performed "Words" in her native language. The music videos looks simplistic and at times rather comical, the Bee Gees performed the songs from Horizontal and Idea (1968). The special effects on "Indian Gin and Whisky Dry" to make it appear that the Bee Gees are bouncing up and down in the glasses. On "I Started a Joke" features a floating question marks.
During the Bee Gees' stay in Brussels, the Belgian police would not allow their limousine to stop outside the hotel, The Metropole, due to a fashion show held there by French pop star Johnny Hallyday's wife Sylvie Vartan. Maurice's leg was injured as he attempted to get out of the car, leading to a formal complaint being filed with a chief of police by Robert Stigwood (Stigwood was also the manager of the Bee Gees).
Idea is the fifth studio album and third international release by the Bee Gees. Released in September 1968, the album sold over a million copies worldwide. The album was issued in both mono and stereo pressings in the UK. The artwork on the Polydor release designed by Wolfgang Heilemann featured a lightbulb with a group photo in its base, while the North American ATCO release designed by Klaus Voormann featured a composite head made from each band member.
"I've Gotta Get a Message to You" and "I Started a Joke" were both released as singles in North America. In the UK, Message was only released as a single and I Started A Joke was only an album track, though another album track, Kitty Can, was featured on the B-side of I've Gotta Get A Message To You for buyers who could not afford the album.
The North American ATCO LP and the South African Polydor LP replaced "Such a Shame" with "I've Gotta Get a Message to You". Both songs were included when the album was released on CD in 1989.


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Turkey: Jailing of human rights expert an 'appalling abuse of power'
Turkey: Jailing of leading human rights expert on 'terror' charges an 'appalling abuse of power'
Viernes, 28 de octubre, 2022
Detaining Prof Fincancı contradicts Turkey's obligations to protect human rights defenders in the course of their vital work
Reacting to news that Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, President of the Union of Turkish Medical Associations, has been arbitrarily placed in pre-trial detention on accusations of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" after she called for an independent investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Esther Major, Amnesty International's Senior Research Advisor for Europe, said:
"Jailing this leading human rights defender simply for calling for an independent investigation into the alleged use of banned weapons is an appalling abuse of power. Arbitrarily imprisoning Şebnem Korur Fincancı has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with silencing her and sending a chilling message to others.
"Detaining Prof Fincancı contradicts Turkey's obligations to protect human rights defenders in the course of their vital work. Instead of harassing and persecuting her, the Turkish authorities should instead take steps to ensure she can conduct her work free from fear and intimidation.
"Şebnem Korur Fincancı must be immediately and unconditionally released, and all charges against her must be urgently dropped."