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War Turning Mexican Kids Into Targets — Or Killers : NPR - http://www.npr.org/2011...

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"With more than 35,000 people killed in drug-related violence over the past four years, thousands of kids have been orphaned. Others have been injured or killed. Last month in Acapulco, two boys, aged 2 and 6, were found shot to death along with their grandmother. Morales says the juvenile murder rate in Mexico has skyrocketed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels in December 2006. Murders among 15- to 17-year-olds jumped more than 150 percent, she says, between 2006 and 2008. Attacks in which kids are either directly targeted or caught in the crossfire have only increased since then." - Jenny H - -

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Caterpillar Fungus Making Tibetan Herders Rich - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...

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"To keep up with demand, rural harvesters spend about four weeks each spring stooped over on grassy slopes, pick axes in hand, searching for fungal gold. Harvesters pluck the package—caterpillar larva and parasitic fungus—whole from the ground. Over the course of a month, a prolific harvester can earn more than enough cash to live on for an entire year. In rural Tibet, the fungus accounts for at least 40 percent of people's cash income. In Yunnan Province, caterpillar fungus sales account for 60 to 80 percent of annual household cash income, which is used to pay for school, food, refrigerators, motorbikes, and livestock, according to Michelle Olsgard Stewart, a doctoral student in geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The surge in value of the fungus has also prompted more people to participate in the annual harvest, said Stewart, who is researching the fungus. "Households will now send three to five individuals up to harvest, whereas in the past they might have sent one to two," she said." - Jenny H - -

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I think we must have some kind of hormonal steroid or protein that kicks in when we see things of benefit, that make us go over-drive and (almost) collect it to extinction! This situation sounds OK-ish for now in that they are leaving apparently sufficient spores for the fungus to repopulated, but a reduced genetic diversity within the fungal population, can only mean bad news, as it may or may not impact on any putative medicinal value/benefit. <a href="#WhenWillWeLearn</a>" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/sea... ; - Jenny H - -

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Salmon: Running the Gauntlet - Preview | Nature | PBS Video - http://video.pbs.org/video...

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Mmmmm, salmon... ;) - Jenny H - -

"NATURE goes beyond the ongoing debate over how to save an endangered species to expose a wildly creative, hopelessly complex and stunningly expensive approach to managing salmon. 5/1/11" - Jenny H - -

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The Decemberists – Isn't It a Lovely Night? - http://www.last.fm/music...

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Sunday evening music, shared with D & 3 who haven't yet had the pleasure of listening to The Decemberists. #jennymusic

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The Island: Come and See/The Landlord's Daughter/You'll Not Feel The Drowning (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/wa... ; title="http://www.youtube.com/wa... ;) is still my favorite. There just aren't enough epic songs out there, but this is one of them. - Jenny H - -

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Oh, yes it is, Cecily! Still a great song, though. - Jenny H - -

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Pink holly hobbies - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Is that an hibiscus in the first photo? - Jenny H - -

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And after looking them up, I'm glad to see they're in the Malvaceae family. These are what I called MalDelphium, since they look like mallows and Delphiniums. - Jenny H - -

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Redwing Blackbird in "his" cherry tree - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Sunday afternoon dorking around with Instagram. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Today has turned out to be a perfectly lovely Sunday. I hope the same for you all. :)

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It gets noisy out here sometimes. I like the commotion. :) - Jenny H - -

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Nathalie, productivity, FTW! Speaking of- I need to clean out my bedroom closet! ;) Mike, I am happy you were inspired! Will you share with the class? - Jenny H - -

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*yawn* I think I'm there. Goodnight, my sleepless North American comrades and my wakeful comrades across the pond.

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Thank you, Eivind. :) - Jenny H - -

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God natt, Jenny. Drøm søtt :) - Jenny H - -

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RT @TheAuthorGuy: #Trump arrived at the Correspondents' dinner full of water and vinegar, ready to relieve America of that "not so fresh" feeling.

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Sun sets on April.

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Yay! Next time you're in town, I'll take you to my fave drive-in up in Sac. It's been my haunt since they closed the Hilltop drive-in when I was 8. :D - Jenny H - -

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JA, yes! I have been going to drive-ins for almost my entire life. Love 'em! chaz, I haven't done that since I was a rotten teenager! :P - Jenny H - -

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When I was a teenager, I used to drop acid fairly regularly. I remember my boyfriend and one of my high school classmates coming back from the Rainbow Gathering and telling me about their "epic journey on psychedelics." My boyfriend was the same idiot he had always been; the classmate, who was formerly in the gifted and talented program with me,...

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was "permafried." He was a mumbling, bumbling mess who couldn't string two thoughts together. I remember having this moment of clarity when I realized how fragile our brains are and how I had been playing Russian roulette with mine with my recreational use of psychedelics. All I could think about was how brilliant that guy once was and what had happened to him. I was so angry with my boyfriend and we broke up shortly after that. To this day, I am so grateful for that experience and grateful that my brain managed to survive the stupidity of my teenage years. <a href="#SaturdayFF</a>" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/sea... ; - Jenny H - -

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Worst I've done was nitrous and marijuana. I've lived a pretty sheltered life. ;) I'd do weed again though. Drugs never caught my attention. I love drinking but since alcoholism runs in my family I don't let it control me. - Jenny H - -

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:^D <3 - Jenny H - -

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On my mind: #jennymusic

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\m/ -__- \m/ - Jenny H - -

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I make Kevin's messy hair look good! :P Goooood morning, FF! #eivindcoffeetheme

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Shameless flattery, dear boy! LOL - Jenny H - -

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Master suppression techniques will get you everywhere, dear girl :-P - Jenny H - -

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I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it through this episode of Fringe. I'm. So. Tired.

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EXACTLY. ;) - Jenny H - -

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Thank goodness for bittorrent. - Jenny H - -

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Nice work, MWM! - Jenny H - -

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*dies of giggles AGAIN* - Jenny H - -

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From the evening commute: #jennymusic

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“Don't get me wrong ♪ If I'm acting so distracted ♫ I'm thinking about the fireworks ♪ That go off when you smile.” - Jenny H - -

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Thanks for sharing. Been a while since I heard this ditty. - Jenny H - -

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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

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Emic and etic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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"The terms were coined in 1954 by linguist Kenneth Pike, who argued that the tools developed for describing linguistic behaviors could be adapted to the description of any human social behavior. As Pike noted, social scientists have long debated whether their knowledge is objective or subjective. Pike's innovation was to turn away from an epistemological debate, and turn instead to a methodological solution. Emic and etic are derived from the linguistic terms phonemic and phonetic respectively, which are in turn derived from Greek roots. The possibility of a truly objective description was discounted by Pike himself in his original work; he proposed the emic/etic dichotomy in anthropology as a way around philosophic issues about the very nature of objectivity. The terms were also championed by anthropologists Ward Goodenough and Marvin Harris with slightly different connotations from those used by Pike. Goodenough was primarily interested in understanding the culturally specific meaning of specific beliefs and practices; Harris was primarily interested in explaining human behavior." - Jenny H - -

"Emic and etic are terms used by anthropologists and by others in the social and behavioral sciences to refer to two kinds of data concerning human behavior. In particular, they are used in cultural anthropology to refer to kinds of fieldwork done and viewpoints obtained.[1] An "emic" account is a description of behavior or a belief in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor; that is, an emic account comes from a person within the culture. Almost anything from within a culture can provide an emic account. An "etic" account is a description of a behavior or belief by an observer, in terms that can be applied to other cultures; that is, an etic account attempts to be 'culturally neutral'." - Jenny H - -

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Pitch accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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"Pitch accent is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words. The term has been used to describe certain Scandinavian and South Slavic languages, Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Latin, Japanese, some dialects of Korean, and Shanghainese. Although it has been claimed that "pitch accent" is not a coherently defined term,[1] it is commonly understood to refer to a language that uses phonemic tone, but where only one or two syllables in a word can be phonemically marked for tone, and many words are not marked for tone at all. In such languages, the syllable with phonemic tone typically is acoustically prominent, in a similar fashion to the dynamic stress of languages such as English or Spanish." - Jenny H - -

"Pitch-accented languages may have a more complex accentual system than stress-accented languages, in that in some cases they have more than a binary distinction, but are sometimes less complex than fully tonal languages such as Chinese or Yoruba, which may assign tone to an entire word without association to specific syllables, or which may assign a separate tone to each syllable. For example, Japanese allows short nouns (1-4 moras) to have tone on any one mora, but more frequently on none at all, so that in disyllabic words there are three-way minimal contrasts such as káki "oyster" vs. kakí "fence" vs. kaki "persimmon"); Ancient Greek in contrast had obligatory tone on one of three final moras, so that if the tonic syllable had a long vowel or diphthong, it had either a rising or a falling tone. In addition, the mapping between phonemic and phonetic tone may be more involved than the simple one-to-one mapping between stress and dynamic intensity in stress-accented languages." - Jenny H - -

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Trial by ordeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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Trial by fire! - Jenny H - -

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"Trial by ordeal is a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused is determined by subjecting them to an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. In some cases, the accused were considered innocent if they survived the test, or if their injuries healed; in others, only death was considered proof of innocence. (If the accused died, they were often presumed to have gone to a suitable reward or punishment in the afterlife, which was considered to make trial by ordeal entirely fair.) In medieval Europe, like trial by combat, trial by ordeal was considered a judicium Dei: a procedure based on the premise that God would help the innocent by performing a miracle on their behalf. The practice has much earlier roots, however, being attested as far back as the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Ur-Nammu, and also in animist tribal societies, such as the trial by ingestion of "red water" (calabar bean) in Sierra Leone, where the intended effect is magical rather than invocation of a deity's justice. In pre-modern society, the ordeal typically ranked along with the oath and witness accounts as the central means by which to reach a judicial verdict." - Jenny H - -

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