An Angel's Love

An old love is found, but is untouchable. What would you do to get the one you loved the most?

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Fill not your hearts with pain and sorrow, but remember me in every tomorrow. Remember the joy, the laughter, the smiles, I've only gone to rest a little while. Although my leaving causes pain and grief, my going has eased my hurt and given me relief. So dry your eyes and remember me, not as I am now, but as I used to be. Because, I will remember you all and look on with a smile. Understand, in your hearts, I've only gone to rest a little while.

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Sigh, I never get here in time for the Angel. But, I'll take the other Angel, the Best Friend :)

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Lol sorry, the boytoy reserved the angel over text XD wells, I'll save you the best friend. Try to get more people. I wanna start soon lmao

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Hello all, thanks for saving me the spot Twi-twi, love ya :3

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Lol hey Incarnate. I love you too. And don't worry Dragon, I love you too XD

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Buffett's kids use dad's ideas to invest in giving

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ? As they work to give away part of Warren Buffett's roughly $47 billion fortune, his three children have adopted an approach that looks remarkably similar to their father's technique for making all that money.

Like Buffett, each relies on tiny staffs. And just like their father invests only in businesses he understands, they restrict their giving to their targeted projects.

Warren Buffett doesn't direct how the foundations created by Susie, Howard and Peter Buffett spend the estimated $2.6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock they'll receive, but his children seem to have absorbed his philosophy.

"I think the only pressure I feel from him is making sure we're smart about how we spend the money," said Howard Buffett. "He's had no influence on where we give money, but he's had a big influence on how we go about it."

Buffett's children have focused on different topics, reflecting their divergent interests.

Howard Buffett is helping farmers in impoverished nations produce more to reduce world hunger. Susie Buffett is strengthening early childhood education and looking for ways to reduce teen pregnancy. And Peter Buffett wants to empower women and girls worldwide through education, collaboration and economic development to end violence against women.

"We're given this amazing opportunity to try and make change where we can," Peter Buffett said. "And being our father's children, we don't think small."

The Buffett children have all been running foundations their parents set up for them since the late 1990s, but they had to dramatically increase their giving after 2006 when Warren Buffett announced his overall giving plan and the children received their first annual gift of stock worth roughly $65 million to each of them.

They'll have to ramp up their giving again because Buffett's annual gifts of Berkshire Hathaway stock will increase to roughly $100 million to $125 million to each child next summer.

Although his children's foundations will each eventually receive stock worth about $2.6 billion, their charitable work is still overshadowed by their dad's main pledge to give the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation stock worth more than $44 billion.

Warren Buffett is also giving nearly $4.4 billion worth of stock to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for the investor's first wife, who died in 2004. That organization promotes women's reproductive health and tries to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.

All three younger Buffetts said they're glad their father encouraged them to take risks, so they wouldn't be afraid to tackle difficult issues.

The Buffett children also said they are glad their parents had the foresight to set up separate foundations for each of them, so they could all go their own way.

Howard Buffett regularly travels to poverty-stricken parts of the world to talk with farmers and check up on projects his foundation has funded, but the 57-year-old often doesn't tell his dad where he's going until after he returns to avoid worrying him about the dangers of destinations like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Howard Buffett, who raises corn and soybeans in Illinois, likes to get a close look at the challenges those farmers he's trying to help face. He said when he's travelling he's reminded of how his mother would try to help anyone in need she encountered.

"It's very hard for me to walk into those circumstances and not try to do something," he said.

In his giving, Howard Buffett tries to focus on programs that can be continued after the initial grant ends, so he doesn't support introducing expensive hybrid seeds and irrigation in places where farmers can't afford them.

The elder Buffett manages one of the world's largest conglomerates with a tiny staff of two dozen at its Omaha headquarters, and Howard, Susie and Peter run their foundations with staffs less than half that size.

Peter Buffett, 54, said the three children also have applied their father's belief in limiting his investments to areas he understands.

"You want to be as focused on an end goal as you can be," Peter Buffett said. "In a very practical way, it helps you say no."

Peter Buffett, who is a musician and composer, is working on leveling the playing field for women and girls worldwide through a variety of programs. He hopes that if girls, particularly in impoverished areas, can get access to more resources and education they'll be ready to play a larger role in their communities and decision making.

Peter Buffett's NoVo Foundation also support programs to help U.S. schools teach kids social and emotional skills and sound decision-making.

Susie Buffett said she enjoys trying to tackle messy, human problems that aren't easy to solve, much like her mom did.

"That comes directly from my childhood. It is what I watched my mother do," said Susie Buffett, 59. "She had me in the car with her at a very early age in the housing projects and deep in the community. She was very involved personally. It was not a check-writing thing. It was her being there."

Susie Buffett was always interested in education, but she decided to focus her giving on early childhood education after asking Omaha's schools superintendent where she could make the biggest difference.

Because Susie Buffett is the only one of Warren's children living in Omaha, she also uses her Sherwood Foundation to support Omaha nonprofits that help make the city a better place and help low-income neighborhoods.

Warren Buffett's decision to increase the amount of money he is giving his children's foundations indicates he supports their work, and he praised their philanthropy.

"Everything has impressed me," Buffett said "They're each doing things they have a special interest in which they have some special abilities too. And they work very hard at it."

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D-Day for al-Qaida in Somalia? - World News - MSNBC

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MOGADISHU, Somalia --?Troops launched an amphibious assault before dawn Friday on the al-Qaida militant group al-Shabab's last stronghold in Somalia.

Other African Union forces were traveling overland to link up with the joint Kenyan-Somali force in the port city of Kismayo.

The commander of the U.N-backed African Union troops, Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti, said the aim was to "liberate the people of Kismayo to enable them to lead their lives in peace, stability and security."

Col. Cyrus Oguna, the Kenyan military's top spokesman, said the attack met minimal resistance, but al-Shabab denied that the city had fallen and said fighting was taking place.

Oguna told The Associated Press that al-Shabab, which formally merged with al-Qaida in February, had incurred "heavy losses" but that Kenyan forces have not yet had any injuries or deaths.

"We came from the beach side and we're moving towards the main city. Our surveillance aircraft are monitoring every event taking place on the ground," he told Reuters.

"For now, we're not everywhere. We've taken a large part of it without resistance, I don't see anything major happening," he said.

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Residents in Kismayo, a city of about 193,000 people, contacted by The Associated Press said that Kenyan troops had taken control of the port, but not the whole city.

"Al-Shabab fighters are on the streets and heading toward the front line in speeding cars. Their radio is still on the air and reporting the war," resident Mohamed Haji told The Associated Press. Haji said that helicopters were hitting targets in the town in southeastern Somalia.

At an international one-day summit Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said the world would "pay a price" if it fails to help Somalia overcome terrorism, piracy and starvation. ITV's Lee Comley reports.?

Another resident, Ismail Suglow, told Reuters that he could hear shelling from the ships and that the rebels were responding with anti-aircraft guns.

"We saw seven ships early in the morning and now their firing looks like lightning and thunder. Al-Shabab have gone towards the beach. The ships poured many AU troops on the beach," he added.

Expert: War on terror at 'critical' point as al-Qaida looks to regroup in Africa

On Thursday, residents said planes had dropped leaflets on Kismayo warning civilians to evacuate within 24 hours, Reuters reported.?More than 10,000 residents fled Kismayo in the last several weeks.

Resident Faduma Abdulle said Friday that she is now leaving too.

She said al-Shabab made an announcement on its radio station Friday to trick residents into moving toward the invading troops.

"They told residents through their radio to loot a Kenyan ship that washed up on the coast, but instead the residents who rushed there were attacked by helicopters," she said. "Some of them have died but I don't know how many. The situation is tense and many are fleeing. It's a dangerous situation."

A U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Cdr. Dave Hecht, said the U.S. Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, is closely monitoring the situation but that "we are not participating in Kenya's military activities in the region."

Militants: Taking city not 'a piece of cake'
Al-Shabab said it would not give up Kismayu easily.

"Going into Kismayo is not a piece of cake. We are still fighting them on the beach where they landed," Sheik Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab's spokesman for military operations, told Reuters on Friday. "For us, this is just the beginning, our troops are spread everywhere."

Oguna said the assault is part of a four-prong attack involving Kenyan forces currently in villages outside Kismayo.

The amphibious assault landed between 10:30 p.m. Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday local time (3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday ET)?, he said. Some of the troops had night-vision goggles, he said.

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African Union troops pushed al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in August 2011, ending four years of control of the capital by the fighters.

The Ugandan and Burundian troops that make up the bulk of the African Union force in Mogadishu have slowly been taking control of towns outside of Mogadishu.

The expanding control by AU troops sent al-Shabab fighters fleeing south toward Kismayo, north to other regions of Somalia and across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, according to American and African Union officials.

Kenya police: Imminent attack by suicide bombers thwarted

Al-Shabab still holds sway across many small, poor villages of southern Somalia. The loss of Kismayo would be significant.

The militants taxed goods coming into its port. Al-Shabab lost its major source of financing last year when it was pushed out of Bakara market in Mogadishu, where it also charged taxes.

The march toward Kismayo by the Kenyan forces has been nearly a year in the making.

Masked 'goons' kill at least 17 in attacks on churches in Kenya

Kenyan troops entered Somalia last October after a string of kidnappings inside neighboring Kenya, including of Westerners in and around the beach resort town of Lamu, which is also seeing the construction of a new port and could one day be final point of a new oil pipeline from South Sudan.

Kenyan forces were bogged down by rain and poor roads for months but have making slow and steady progress toward Kismayo in recent weeks.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Food and Drug Administration says it has approved a first-of-a-kind heart-zapping implant from Boston Scientific that that does not directly touch the heart.

Implantable defibrillators use thin wires to send electrical signals that disrupt dangerous heart rhythms. Surgeons have traditionally connected the wires to the heart through a blood vessel in the upper chest.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? The U.S. has removed from its terrorism list an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein.

The State Department says the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq hasn't committed terrorism for more than a decade. It credits the group for peacefully leaving its paramilitary base near Iraq's Iranian border.

The decision is effective Friday. Any assets the MEK holds in the U.S. are no longer blocked. Americans may do business with it.

Officials told reporters about the decision last week, ahead of a court-ordered Oct. 1 deadline.

Delisting the MEK infuriates Iran. It accuses the group of continued terrorism.

The MEK helped Islamic clerics overthrow the shah before turning against the Iranian government. It fought in the 1980s alongside Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war but disarmed after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Buddhist statue acquired by Nazis is space rock

One religious statue has a stronger connection than most to the heavens. An 11th-century carving from Mongolia of the Buddhist god Vai?ravana was fashioned from a meteorite fragment, a chemical analysis shows. Its extraterrestrial origins make it unique in both religious art and meteorite science.

The iron-rich statue, 24 centimetres tall, has had a colourful past. It was apparently brought to Germany in 1939 by a Nazi-backed archaeological expedition to search for the roots of Aryanism.

A swastika on the armoured Buddha's breastplate may have been a motivating factor in bringing the statue to Germany. The swastika is a common symbol in eastern culture and decorates many Hindu and Buddhist statues ? although the version on the statue is a mirror image of the form favoured by the Nazis.

It's unclear whether the Nazis found anything of unusual significance in the statue, but Elmar Buchner at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and his colleagues certainly have.

"When I first saw the statue I was sure that it is made of an iron meteorite," Buchner says.

Their chemical analysis of the statue confirmed the hunch. It showed that the concentrations of metals, including iron, nickel, cobalt and chromium, matched the values known from iron meteorites.

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"Having looked at some of the published trace element data for this artefact, it looks pretty convincing to me that this is very likely originated from Chinga iron meteorite," says Meenakshi Wadhwa, director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Other venerated objects are thought to have had similar extraterrestrial origins ? including the Black Stone in Mecca, Saudi Arabia ? but Wadhwa says it is difficult to verify these assumptions because the objects have never been fully analysed scientifically. And none of these supposed meteorite fragments has been carved into a religious sculpture, making the Space Buddha the only one of its kind.

Meteoritic metal is associated with a number of ancient cultures, says Matthew Genge at Imperial College London. "There are reports of Egyptian necklaces including meteoritic metal," he says. "But there is no evidence that the Egyptians were aware of their extraterrestrial provenance."

Sky iron

In Tibet, though, meteoritic iron was long known as namchag, or "sky iron", says Buchner's team, suggesting the locals were aware of the origins of the unusual material.

"There is no definitive evidence that ancient peoples witnessed and revered meteorite falls," says Genge. "However, the chances are good. There are so many modern witnessed falls that ancient people must have seen them. They are such special events that they must have attracted awe and speculation."

The age of the Chinga meteorite means that no one alive when the Space Buddha was carved would have seen this particular rock fall from the sky. Instead it would have been recovered much later ? making it what geologists call a meteorite find.

That creates something of a problem, says Genge. How did ancient people come to venerate meteorites, or meteorite craters, without witnessing the moment of impact?

"One of the most puzzling examples is Gosses Bluff in Australia," he says. "This crater is 142 million years old, and yet the Aborigines hold that it formed by the fall of the baby of one of the celestial women from the sky. A strange coincidence perhaps."

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Crossfit for Kids: Is it Dangerous or Healthy?

CrossFit?has nearly become a household name in the last several years. Known for its intense, non-sense WOD (workout of the day), CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program that focuses on?muscle confusion. Participants rarely do the same thing twice in one week, opting for a 10K one day, 100 kettle bell swings the following day, and 40 power cleans the next. ?

Because of its intense nature, often involving serious weight lifting, many have wondered if it?s safe for children. According to Jeff Martin, co-founder of CrossFit Kids, it certainly is.

Martin and his wife, Mikki, founded their fitness center for children back in 2004. Their goal? To combine exercise and fun. Over the last several years, the concept has taken off and hundreds of CrossFit Kids classes now take place in cities around the U.S. and beyond.

CrossFit DoneRight, a similar company in Rockville, Maryland, is now one of many kid-focused CrossFit gyms, including dozens in the D.C. area alone. As reported by NPR, kids as young as 4 years old are now participating in CrossFit, which has left some concerned about how safe it really is.

Among the concerned is?Dr. Tim Hewett, whose primary worry is potential injury if trainers aren?t teaching proper weight lifting techniques.?Hewett speaks from a place of experience as both a former power lifter and director of the Sports Medicine?Biodynamics?Center at the University of Cincinnati.

?What kids are attempting to do is Olympic lifts like a snatch or a clean and jerk, and they don?t have the power to properly perform the exercise to bring it up to their shoulders and then bring it over their head,? he told NPR?s The Salt. ?So they?re grabbing this thing at their waist and they?re trying to twist and turn their torso, which is putting their spine at significant risk with weights that are greater than they can handle.?

Instead of CrossFit, Hewett would contend kids should be doing kid-appropriate activities, like going on walks, going to the playground, or playing low-impact sports.

However, CrossFit Done Right owner Justin Bacon argues that the exercises he teaches are broken down into classes for three age groups: 4-6 year olds, 7-12 year olds, and teens.

By individualizing the workouts based on level of maturity, he ensures each child is assigned age-appropriate activities to avoid injury. While he would admit the workouts are difficult, Bacon believes they?re different than adult-style CrossFit workouts and totally?suitable for kids.

Stay-at-home mom and food blogger, Katie from Yes, I Want Cake, was attracted to Crossfit years ago because she saw how hard her husband worked at it and how impressive his results were. After trying it for herself the first time, she was hooked and loved the feeling of accomplishment that came with doing a really intense workout.

A loyal follower for years now, Katie?doesn?t feel the workouts are inappropriate for kids.??I absolutely think it would be healthy for kids to start Crossfit. Obviously the emphasis would need to be on learning about exercise and having fun ? not about how much weight they can lift,? she said. ?To me, it?s the same thing as any organized sport that is offered to kids.?Providing that the emphasis is on learning the building blocks of lifts, having fun, and being active, a?Crossfit?class for 4 year olds doesn?t seem any different to me than a gymnastics class, soccer team, or swim lessons for a 4 year old.?

Katie?s daughter, Adrienne, is now 1 and she hopes she?ll continue to grow curious about fitness and healthy living. ?I would love my daughter to get involved at a young age! At 1 year old, she already plays with medicine balls, hangs on rings, and tries to do handstands,? she said. ?Those are just skills she?s picked up from watching my husband and I.?

Though Diets in Review running expert?Lacy Hansen isn?t a CrossFit buff, she has participated in several running events with her now 8-year-old son, Judah. He started running at age 3 when he and Lacy participated in their first race together. He wasn?t a big fan at first, so Lacy had to learn how to encourage rather than force him into it.

?I had to learn to stop pushing him. He would cry or just shut down when I would push him too hard,? she said. ?He?d get mad and the whole experience was negative.??In those times, she feared the negativity he was beginning to associate with exercise would make him hate running forever.?

But for parents who want their kids to grow up to be healthy and enjoy staying active, Lacy offers this advice: ?I went about it the wrong way at first. I had to look at my own life and see that no one pushed me too hard to start running or get into a healthy lifestyle. I came to it on my own?I don?t feel obligated to anyone, I genuinely love it,? she said.

?I think with all things, parents have to set the example, be the influence, but ultimately let the baby bird fly and hope he (or she) chooses the right path.?

As for whether or not CrossFit is healthy for young kids, Lacy believes it can be healthy. ?I think some kids really?like?that stuff. Though, I fear two things: One, they may be pushed by a super competitive-minded parent and will resent them and/or the activity in the future. And two: Too much exercise, like weight training, can be bad for a child?s body.?

So for parents who want to introduce their kids to exercise at a young age, go ahead. But be careful both in your approach and the activity you choose. Otherwise, it could end up having the opposite effect; or worse, it could result in injury.

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Legal Mambo ? Healthy Tipping Point

by Caitlin on September 26, 2012

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?Twas a good day!? I feel like I ran all over the place, but I managed to keep all the balls in the air and a smile on my face.? Even organized a dinner party for our out-of-town guests!

But first? I had a ton of work to do at the Holistic Wellness Center.? It?s exciting ? the Husband is officially so busy with patients that he can?t run the business aspect of everything as well as take appointments.? So I?m putting on my office manager hat and getting more involved with the clinic.? My big task of the day?? Reviewing the very, very lengthy and complicated lease for our new office space!? (Don?t worry ? we had a lawyer look it over, too.)? My fingers are crossed that everything will work out with the lease because we love the new office.? It?s so beautiful and in such a prime location.? I can?t wait to do a tour for everyone if we move in.

If I had to read a 38-page document dripping in legalspeak, I figured I should do it at a Mexican restaurant with salsa and chips within arm?s reach.? Yum.

Henry said he was going to help, but he opted to just take a nap in his carseat under a blankie.?

And then we had a long meeting with the new landlord.? Henry woke up for the excitement and made lots of good points with his babbling and drooling.?

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Dinner party time!

So, Kristien?s grandparents and aunt are in town.? We invited his sister over for dinner, too.? It was a full house ? seven adults, one sleeping baby, and two yipping pups.? Had to pull over the computer chairs so everyone had a place to sit!

I made:

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Crock-pot veggies:? Potatoes, onions, carrots (cooked with balsamic dressing on high for five hours)

Chicken sausage

Cast iron tofu?

Greens massaged with olive oil and salt

Garlic bread with squeezable herbs on top

Whew.? What an afternoon. Can I crawl into bed now?!

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Carbonite Mobile backs up the contents of your phone, Android version supports remote wipes

Before today, Carbonite had a few mobile apps, but the backup process was something of a one-way street: you could access content on your handset, but you couldn't back up the contents of your phone. That changes today with Carbonite Mobile, a free app for iOS and Android that allows you to upload photos and other files to Carbonite.com. In addition to backup, though, the Android version offers some features typically reserved for standalone mobile security apps -- things like remote wiping and the ability to reset the phone to factory settings if it falls into the wrong hands. Additionally, you can use the app to locate your lost device on a map, and you can also set off the ringer, even if you had set the phone to vibrate. In the case of the Android app, the software will run in the background; due to Apple's different set of APIs, it won't run 24/7. However, all you iPhone owners out there can program the application so that it backs up the device automatically when you get home. Curious? We've got screenshots below along with download links in Google Play and the App Store.

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EVoice Rolls Out Web Conferencing for Your Virtual Office | A Better ...

LOS ANGELES ? Best known for its virtual phone number service, eVoice is branching out into another area of virtual office technologies: web conferencing.

With its web conferencing service, eVoice is targeting freelancers and small business owners that want to collaborate with multiple parties, conduct virtual online meetings, and share their desktops with a few mouse clicks. It?s all about driving greater productivity.

If you need to bring mobility to the meeting room, eVoice Web Conferencing might be worth checking out. This is not a cheesy alternative to GoToMeeting. Rather, it?s a full-featured communications solution that gives you a professional edge over some of the free web conferencing tools on the market.

The ability to involve more people (77 percent), save travel cost (77 percent) and travel time (77 percent) are the primary drivers for the roll out of web conferencing solutions, according to an eVoice survey of small to medium sized businesses on web conferencing.

EVoice took those survey results to heart when it developed its web conferencing solution, which eliminates the constraints of location and travel time. That?s a critical component to any business communications strategy as telecommuting from a virtual office becomes a dominant trend in the workforce.

So, just to wrap up, the benefits of web conferencing from eVoice (and it?s the same for many other web conferencing tools) are the ability to host online meetings with people in various locations, the ability to collaborate in real time with that same group and share your desktop.

But not all web conferencing solutions are created equal. EVoice web conferencing also offers built in tools for tracking participants, marketing and conducting surveys. You can even conduct online training and product demonstrations.

How much is it going to cost you? EVoice Web Conferencing is $9.99 per month with no per user fees for current and new eVoice subscribers. You can give it a free 30-day spin if you want to test the waters.

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Source: http://www.abettervirtual.com/virtual-office-news/evoice-rolls-out-web-conferencing-for-your-virtual-office/

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After teachers strike, doubts about implications

Leslie Sabbs-Kizer, right, walks her children Nkai Melton, 8, Akaira Melton, 7, and Khaymya Smith, 3 to Bond Elementary school in Chicago, for the first day of classes Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012, after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Leslie Sabbs-Kizer, right, walks her children Nkai Melton, 8, Akaira Melton, 7, and Khaymya Smith, 3 to Bond Elementary school in Chicago, for the first day of classes Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012, after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Students walk through the gates for the first day of school outside Benjamin E. Mays Academy, Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012, after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Students gather outside Benjamin E. Mays Academy for the first day of school Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012 in Chicago, after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Yvette Osborne speaks after dropping her three children off at Benjamin E. Mays Academy for the first day of classes, Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012, after Chicago teachers voted to suspend their first strike in 25 years. Union delegates voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to suspend the walkout after discussing a proposed contract settlement with the nation's third largest school district. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

CHICAGO (AP) ? Mayor Rahm Emanuel secured an extension of Chicago's school day and empowered principals to hire the teachers they want. Teachers were able to soften a new evaluation process and win some job protections.

As students returned to the classroom Wednesday after a seven-day teachers strike, both sides found reasons to celebrate victory. But neither the school-reform movement nor organized labor achieved the decisive breakthrough it had sought. And whether the implications extend beyond Chicago may depend on the next case having a similar cast of characters and political pressures.

Unions hoped the walkout would prove they were still relevant, and some reform groups were disappointed with the city's concessions.

At times, the contract talks seemed overshadowed by personalities, with the mayor and union leaders occasionally trading insults and questioning each other's motives.

Still, everyone involved in the dispute emerged with an achievement to trumpet: Teachers said the strike sparked an important national conversation about school reform. Union activists said it helped inspire public employee unions that have been losing ground. Emanuel declared it a boon for students trapped in failing schools.

The president of the American Federation of Teachers said the strike showed that teachers want a voice in improving schools rather than shouldering the blame for those that are failing.

"The bottom line is ... you had teachers standing up for what they need to teach and what students need to learn," Randi Weingarten said, citing concerns about school closings, standardized tests and a lack of classroom resources that are common across the U.S.

But in lots of places, the circumstances that led to Chicago's walkout don't apply. For one thing, many states forbid strikes by teachers and other public-employee unions. Some teachers unions and school districts have been able to work collaboratively to achieve changes, in sharp contrast to the clash in Chicago, a union-built town where organized labor still wields considerable power but new mayor is seeking more control over education.

"I think a lot of what went on to a certain extent is peculiar to Chicago," said Martin Malin, director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace at the Kent College of Law in Chicago.

Thomas Hatch, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, said the strike focused attention on teacher evaluations and fears of closing neighborhood schools. But he agreed that some factors, such as the combative personalities, are unlikely to affect other districts.

A report that characterized the relationship between the teachers union and Emanuel as "toxic" was on point, Malin said. Now that a deal has been reached, the challenge for both parties "is to seize that and work on rally transforming the relationship."

Meanwhile, Chicago children returned to school Wednesday, a day after union delegates voted overwhelmingly to end the strike, which idled 350,000 students. The proposed contract will now be put to a vote of the full membership of more than 26,000 teachers and support staffers.

Iquasai Carpenter, a home health care worker with two children in elementary school, said her kids did homework packets at home during the strike.

"They missed school. They missed their teachers. They missed their friends," she said as she dropped them off for class.

She sympathized with teachers and said they deserved pay raises. She didn't like the idea of the new evaluations that take student test scores into account, but she was glad the union negotiated down what percentage would be factored in. If students don't progress, she said, it isn't always the teachers' fault.

Reform advocates were not all impressed with the deal Emanuel agreed to.

B. Jason Brooks, director of research at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, said Emanuel did not win much reform "and unions clearly came out the winners."

Other states, he said, base up to 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation on student performance, while Chicago's evaluation is limited to 30 percent, the same amount set in state law. He believes a provision allowing teachers whose schools close to follow students to the receiving schools was a bad idea.

"I don't really feel like this moves the needle in a significant way," he said, saying the union chose to strike ? and Emanuel to settle quickly ? because President Barack Obama, a Chicagoan and Democrat, is counting on union support to win re-election.

Brooks said unions nationally "were looking for something to claim as a victory, and I think this gives them what they looking for," he said. "But as the country looked at this, it might have reinforced the notion that unions are standing in the way of turning around the lowest-performing schools."

The nation's last big-city teachers strike happened in Detroit in 2006. Chicago teachers had not walked out since 1987.

"It's been a really long time since a major urban district went on strike," said Christine Campbell, a policy director at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education.

As for unions, "It certainly gave them attention and power that two weeks ago people weren't really considering."

She said the improvements will make the mayor look good in the long run and demonstrated that unions still matter.

She wasn't sure that such a strike could be replicated in other cities, something she attributed to the local figures involved.

"The personalities are spiciest in Chicago right now," she said.

___

Associated Press Writer Jason Keyser contributed to this report.

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Planes of the future could fly on sawdust or straw

TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Passenger jets could be chomping on straw or flying on fuel extracted from sawdust in coming years as the search widens for cleaner alternatives to kerosene, French scientists say.

The "ProBio3" project, started in early July and co-financed by a French government economic stimulus programme, aims to use traditional horse-bedding materials to develop a new kind of bio fuel that can be used in a 50/50 blend alongside kerosene.

"Tomorrow, planes will fly using agricultural and forest waste," said Carole Molina-Jouve, a professor at Toulouse's National Institute of Applied Sciences (Insa), who is coordinating the ProBio3 project.

"We already know how to set up a basic production line but we must move towards an industrial line," she said. "We need to translate what is done in laboratories to the real environment while improving its profitability and efficiency."

The move to use straw-based materials or wood shavings as a source of fuel is the latest in a series of bio fuel ventures aimed at cutting fuel bills and pollution.

So far most attempts have been based on crop-based products, raising concerns over food shortages following recent drought.

But European plane maker Airbus, one of the programme's backers, believes woodchips and agricultural waste could be alternative fuel sources of the future.

With a budget of 24.6 million euros (19.7 million pounds) over eight years, ProBio3 aims to set up a profitable production chain for hydro processed oils, a type of bio fuel which has been certified by international standards organisation ASTM as useable for aviation in combination with kerosene.

Fuel made from wood and straw may seem at odds with some of the most extreme man-made conditions inside a modern jet engine, where temperatures can reach 1,600 degrees Celsius. But scientists say they already know the basics of the process.

Industrial or farm waste is broken down into sugars through enzymes, then mixed with microorganisms such as yeast, and transformed into lipids through the chemical process of fermentation.

The fats obtained are then treated with hydrogen to make a type of hydrocarbon with similar properties to fossil fuels.

NO COMPETITION WITH FOOD INDUSTRIES

At Insa's biological systems and processes engineering lab (LISBP) in Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based, Molina-Jouve removes a test tube holding a yellowish paste from a refrigerator.

"Those are large and fatty yeasts, full of synthesized lipids," she explains, metres away from a small reactor where sugars and yeasts are combined for the fermentation process.

As part of the ProBio3 project, partner Tereos Syral, a specialist in producing starch from cereals, will attempt to replicate the process on an industrial scale using a reactor with 100 times the capacity of the one in the lab.

Molina-Jouve dismissed any concern that bio fuel production would divert food crops at a time when commodity prices have been soaring. "The project will focus on non-food biomass," she said.

The European Union plans to limit the use of crop-based bio fuels in a major shift in the region's much-criticised bio fuel policy, according to draft legislation seen by Reuters.

Last week France said it would push for a pause in the global development of bio fuels and the creation of strategic food stocks in response to the third global food price spike in four years.

The "ProBio3" project is part of an EU drive to reach annual output of 2 million tonnes of bio fuels for aviation by 2020 in Europe.

Bio fuels should help cut down the aerospace industry's carbon footprint while using renewable energy sources, said Jean Botti, chief technical officer of Airbus parent EADS.

"We want to achieve a balance in terms of carbon dioxide where everything that comes out will be balanced with what goes in," Botti said.

Europe consumes around 50 million tonnes of kerosene per year.

Airbus, Boeing and Brazilian manufacturer Embraer agreed earlier this year to co-operate on developing alternative fuels.

Dutch airline KLM operated the world's first scheduled biokerosene-powered flight in July 2011 when one of its Boeing 737-800 jets flew 171 passengers between Amsterdam and Paris using a mix of cooking oil and Jet-A fuel.

(Writing by Alice Cannet; Editing by Christian Plumb, Tim Hepher and Mark Potter)

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