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In Monterey's world-famous aquarium, the star attractions are jellyfish. In Atlanta's aquarium, it's the Whale Sharks.
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By Susanne Rust
Although famous for conservation and its sustainable and environmentally ...
MONTEREY, Calif. — A great white shark caught in the waters off Southern California is on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where it can be ...
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From: South Africa
Genre: R&B, Smooth jazz, Jazz
Rob Blaine is a composer / musician / producer from Cape Town , South Africa. As an accomplished pianist/ keyboardist he has worked with many local as well as international musicians and talented artists. Rob has recorded and released three albums. His fourth album is due for release later this year. | <urn:uuid:6f94f041-988a-4382-b4c5-e4bf16ac98f7> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.jango.com/music/Rob+Blaine | 2015-03-29T12:43:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298529.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00034-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99111 | 76 |
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|Author:||Antonis Petrou Michael|
|Title:||Repair of Wood Piles with Fiber Reinforced Composites|
|Committee Chair:||Roberto Lopez-Anido, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering|
|Committee Members:||Thomas C. Sandford, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering; Barry Goodell, Professor of Wood Science and Technology|
|Date of Defense:||2002|
Piles made of treated wood have been traditionally used for the construction of piers and other waterfront structures. The main concern related to wood piles is deterioration due to marine borers, which limits the lifespan and requires frequent repair and replacement. Furthermore, since the use of preservative treatments for wood piles has been reduced due to environmental concerns, there is a current need for efficient methods for wood pile protection. Marine borer activity in Maine coastal waters was assessed through a survey directed to harbor masters correlated with historic data. In order to illustrate the type and extent of wood pile deterioration, two case studies in Maine harbors are presented. A special prefabricated Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite shield or jacket was developed to repair wood piles in the field. FRP composite shells or sleeves are bonded with an underwater curing adhesive to form a shield. The main concern for durability of the adhesive bond is the resistance to freeze-thaw cycles. To assess adhesive bond durability, single lap shear tests were performed after exposure to freeze-thaw cycles. Two types of load-transfer mechanisms between the wood pile and the FRP composite shield were developed and tested: (1) cement-based structural grout; and (2) steel shear connectors with an expanding polyurethane chemical grout. Push-out tests by compression loading were performed to characterize the interfaces and discriminate the effect of the design parameters. The outcome of the push-out tests was the evaluation of the shear force-slip non-linear response and the progressive failure mechanism. The structural response of full-size pre-damaged wood piles repaired with the FRP composite shield system was characterized. A three-point bending test procedure was used to simulate the response of a pile subjected to lateral loads. The loaddeformation response, deflected shape profile, relative longitudinal displacements (slip), strain distribution, ultimate bending moment capacity and mode of failure were evaluated. Wood piles were pre-damaged by reducing approximately 60% of the crosssection over a portion of the pile. It was found that a pre-damaged wood pile repaired using the FRP composite shield with cement-based grout exceeded the bending capacity of a reference wood pile. The repair system using the FRP composite shield with steel shear connectors and polyurethane grout did not fully restore the bending capacity of a reference wood pile; however it can be used for marine borer protection when wood damage is not critical. A beam structural model to predict stiffness and strength properties of wood piles restored with FRP composite shells was developed. The model accounts for different pile dimensional properties and various amounts of pre-damage. The structural model was successfully correlated with experimental data from three-point bending tests of wood piles.
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The sexy screen with the sexy features!!
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The games which come with it are ace - especially the card game - and there are so many games which can be downloaded to join the growing list of fun that this phone is becoming.
The camera takes excellent quality photos and you can store loads on your phone and transfer them to your pc via the connection cables.
The only problem i have is with the size - being used to the t68i makes it a big difference but hey if that doesn't bother you then you won't go wrong with this phone.
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Money Fears Become Real For Md., Va. Public Schools
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Leaders of the region's two largest school systems outlined yesterday their grimmest scenarios to date for how looming budget shortfalls could play out in classrooms, with Fairfax County facing an average increase of 2 1/2 students per class and Montgomery County forced to renegotiate teacher pay increases or cut positions.
Fairfax Superintendent Jack D. Dale sketched a proposal to close a $220 million projected shortfall for the fiscal year that begins in July by eliminating summer school, except for certain special education students, and cutting more than 1,000 positions, including custodians, office workers and teachers.
"It will take decades to recover" from such cuts, Dale said in an interview. "We hope this is the worst-case scenario."
Montgomery Superintendent Jerry D. Weast estimated for the first time that the school system will need $180 million in new funds in the next fiscal year, a 9 percent increase, to avoid cutting salaries or staff. And that's far more money than the school system is likely to get, officials said. This year's $2.07 billion budget reflected an increase of $82 million. Next year's economic situation is considerably worse. The 139,000-student system also faces surging enrollment.
"There's no doubt that we have a serious problem," Weast said in a separate interview.
Money woes in the large and highly regarded school systems are echoed elsewhere in the region as the economic crisis slashes state and local tax revenue. From Frederick to Fredericksburg, educators are bracing for the worst crunch in many years.
In Fairfax, the $2.2 billion spending plan Dale presented would be only slightly smaller than the current budget but would absorb about $50 million in lost state revenue and $46 million in added expenses because of projected enrollment increases. Officials expect enrollment in the 169,000-student system, the region's largest, to grow to 174,000. The proposal assumes no increase in Fairfax County's share of the budget.
Dale briefed the School Board yesterday and will brief the Board of Supervisors on Friday. For weeks, Dale has warned that academic initiatives and staffing levels are in jeopardy.
The class size increase, which would save roughly $66 million, would lead to more split-grade-level classes in elementary schools and fewer electives or advanced classes in high schools, he said. Average class size rose by half a student this school year. Raising class size has varying effects, depending on grade level and other factors, including poverty rates. The average size of an elementary class in Fairfax in the last school year was 21.
Summer school programs, which were also reduced this year, would be virtually eliminated to save more than $9 million. Case loads for school social workers and school psychologists would go up, and librarians or technology specialist positions would be reduced. Funding for athletics, arts and after-school programs would be trimmed.
For children in some high-poverty schools, year-round calendars that provide extra instructional time and resources would be eliminated.
Teachers would absorb a large share of the impact, balancing more demands with stagnating paychecks. In addition to a likely freeze in cost-of-living raises, Dale proposed a six-month delay in paying the contracted step increases for most teachers, saving nearly $7 million, and a one-day furlough, saving $8 million. | <urn:uuid:9fed2e02-7926-49f9-b8a1-95c958f1ca74> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111002066.html | 2015-03-29T13:07:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298529.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00034-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962281 | 708 |
Labor & Economic News Blog
Thursday, May 09, 2013
The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and EmploymentThe Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Aaron Chatterji, Kenneth Chay, and Robert Fairlie ask how programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses (set-asides) that many U.S. cities put in place during the 1980s affected employment and self-employment among African-Americans. They find that the black-white gap in business ownership rates fell 3 percentage points after the introduction of these programs. Blacks' gains in employment were concentrated in industries heavily affected by set-asides, and the programs mainly benefited those who were better educated.
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The Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricanes have launched a mutual playoff booster club.
Should the Leafs bring their improbable dream full circle, there is a good chance they could be facing the 'Canes in the first round.
And they can both aid each other tonight.
A Hurricanes win over the Lightning in the rematch of last night's 5-4 shootout victory for Carolina would both stall Tampa for the Leafs and provide themselves with two big points in their conference title race with Ottawa. Toronto would have to do its part by beating the Senators tonight.
Now if the Leafs could only get the Boston Bruins to co-operate this afternoon in Atlanta. The Thrashers have the easiest schedule of the three Eastern tailgaters, facing three non-playoff teams. Today is the last game of the year for the Bruins, who have just five wins since the Olympic break.
Atlanta finishes up on the road Monday in Washington and Tuesday in Florida. An Ilya Kovalchuk-Alexander Ovechkin showdown should ensure the game is full value, while the Leafs already know that Joe Nieuwendyk, Gary Roberts and the Panthers are not going to go out quietly.
Leafs general manager John Ferguson was openly cheering for Sidney Crosby as he followed a tight Penguins-Lightning result on the out-of-town scoreboard from the press box in Philadelphia last week.
But he'll now change support to Ovechkin, who faces both the Thrashers and the Lightning in his final games, while Toronto ends its schedule against Sid The Kid.
SENS LOAD RAY GUN
There is still no confirmation on Dominik Hasek's playoff status, as he continues play peek-a-boo with the media. One day he is in full gear taking shots -- as he did yesterday -- the next he stays on the ice just a few minutes and announces he is not comfortable.
So, if the Sens wind up playing the Leafs, Habs or Thrashers, head coach Bryan Murray is dropping strong hints that Ray Emery will be in net.
"As you look around, there are lots of kids playing goal this year," Murray said, no doubt referring to Buffalo, Carolina and the New York Rangers. "And so, if Ray happens to be the guy that we are playing at the beginning of any series, he won't be abnormal in the league anymore."
But there is no question the Sens were counting on a vintage Hasek, who held a league-best 2.09 goals-against average and .925 save percentage when his groin went awry. Otherwise, the rest of the wounded Sens are trickling back into the lineup. Wade Redden, Zdeno Chara and, by next week, Chris Phillips. Winger Martin Havlat is expected to test his surgically repaired shoulder in tonight's game in Toronto.
Murray says he is not fazed that Hasek has now missed two months.
"But, until you see him actually in there, playing and playing well, there is concern," Murray said.
Ottawa's captain, Daniel Alfredsson, says the Senators have complete faith in Emery, though the latter has a minor hip problem.
JACQUES STILL A WILD MAN
The Minnesota Wild will miss the playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons, but GM Doug Risebrough will exercise the option on Jacques Lemaire as coach for another season, At 61 this October, it could be Lemaire's swan song, particularly if the Wild don't move back to contender status.
"Inside, I'd like to say: 'This is a good team. We're going to make the playoffs this year because we should'," Lemaire said of next season's Wild.
"(But) I'm looking at the standings, and I'm wondering, are we capable of making the playoffs? I'd like to have that feeling that we've got the guys."
AROUND THE LEAGUE
Canadiens coach Bob Gainey has struck gold with the newly formed line of Alex Kovalev, Mike Ribeiro and Jan Bulis. The latter has a career-high 20 goals. Five games ago, Bulis was chained to the press box for the fifth time in six games, but Kovalev lobbied to get him on his line. Bulis will be an unrestricted next season ... The Habs are expected to be without Steve Begin (sprained knee) and defenceman Francis Bouillon (bruised ankle) for the first round ... The Avalanche showed why it retains a loyal fan base in a competitive Denver market. As well as making the playoffs every year since arriving from Quebec and winning two Cups, the club marked the 10th anniversary of the move with 10 fan appreciation prizes, ranging from a $1-million US donation to 10 charities to giving away a new home ... Martin Biron had to miss the Sabres' team photo because of the birth of his second daughter. Media relations' man Chris Bandura stepped into his uniform and will have the goalie's head superimposed at a later date. | <urn:uuid:e6253ed2-00da-438e-8238-2759cfc9761b> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Carolina/2006/04/15/1535580-sun.html | 2015-03-31T05:29:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300313.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00150-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961938 | 1,042 |
Ashcroft gets mixed reviews from lobbyists
With President-elect George W. Bush expected to end his Florida fishing trip today, Hollywood’s political mavens are enjoying the calm before the new administration storms into positions of power over the entertainment industry.Definite Bush noms include Sen. John Ashcroft (R-Missouri) as U.S. Attorney General, while Gen. Colin Powell’s son Michael Powell looks likely to chair the Federal Communications Committee. Speculation still continues that Time Warner prexy Richard Parsons will be U.S. Trade Representative. If Ashcroft is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he would shape key policies including antitrust, copyright protection and media violence. Ashcroft gets mixed reviews from Hollywood lobbyists, who knew him well on the Senate Commerce Committee. Ashcroft, who lost his Senate re-election bid in November, is considered upright and consistent, though very conservative. He has often sided with anti-entertainment crusaders Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) against Hollywood’s reputed ills. Spinning on the Web One of the most technologically astute members of Congress, Ashcroft was first to have his own Web site. He favors some copyright protection, which is expected to be the pre-eminent issue for Hollywood next year. On the antitrust issue, Ashcroft believes government must make sure mega-mergers don’t stifle competition. He has argued that this review should rest with the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, but has criticized the FCC for overstepping its authority in dissecting mergers. Hollywood is also paying close attention to Capitol Hill, where a new Congress convenes next week to decide committee assignments. On the House side, Rep. W.J. “Billy” Tauzin (R-La.) and Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio) are both in the running to head the powerful Commerce Committee, with Tauzin said to have the lead. The runner-up will control the prominent subcommittee on telecommunications, trade and consumer protection, which may be beefed up by adding finance. In the Senate, McCain looks set to remain chair of the Commerce Committee, with Lieberman expected to resume his anti-Hollywood crusade, which he toned down while running as the Democratic veep candidate. The landscape is uncertain at the FTC, where chairman Robert Pitofsky won’t end his term until next summer. Bush could cut it short by choosing an existing commissioner as the new acting chairman. One contender is said to be FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle. Clinton factor One unknown factor on Capitol Hill is Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). She is not expected to seek a seat on the Commerce Committee, but could still be an ambassador for Hollywood. During her campaign, Clinton received more than $500,000 in contributions from the entertainment industry; only presidential candidates get more, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Despite all the changes, entertainment lobbyists aren’t panicking. Realists, they argue that there is bad and good to a Bush presidency and the narrowly divided Congress. “So far, I have no quarrel,” said one entertainment topper.
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By Paul Cherney A market decline like the one seen on Friday, Apr. 15 -- one that forces a spike higher in the CBOE volatility index, or VXO -- usually ushers in some base building. The extremely oversold condition is a set-up for a rebound, usually in the first two trading days after the VXO spike. That would be Monday and Tuesday of this week.
One problem is that the spike higher in the VXO represents a spike higher in fear, and that often means that the markets do not believe the first attempt to rise and eventually (like at the end of trading on Tuesday), more sellers come in and force prices lower, eventually forming a sideways base after a few trade days. On Monday, Apr. 18, the markets had minor rebounds and that is the norm after a VXO spike. Gains on Tuesday are also likely.
History never repeats exactly and there may have been many other psychological or fundamental headlines affecting the markets at the times of the previous VXO spikes. But right now, based on these observations, I think another day of small closing gains is likely, but that could use up most of the short-term buying demand, and the markets will be waiting for a headline.
VXO spikes occurred on October 14, 2004, August 6, 2004, May 10, 2004 and March 11, 2004.
support is 1,147-1,120. There is a focus of support at 1,142-1,131. This was confirmed in price action on Monday when the S&P 500 printed an intraday low of 1,139.80 and then started to lift.
The Nasdaq has two layers of support that were established in September and October of 2004. These layers are 1,971-1,899.33 and 1,925.85-1,852.59. The overlap is 1,925.85-1,899.33, and this represents very strong support. Monday's intraday low for the Nasdaq was 1,904.27.
resistance for the S&P 500 is 1,150-1,155.57. More substantial resistance is the former trading range of 1,163-1,193.28, inside this area resistance gets thick with prints 1,167 and higher.
Immediate intraday resistance for the Nasdaq is 1,914-1,928.02, the resistance becomes thicker 1,922 and higher. Additional resistance is stacked at 1,930-1,940.15, then 1,955-1,968.03; the trading range that was broken represents broad resistance at 1,968-2,021.82. Cherney is chief market analyst for Standard & Poor's | <urn:uuid:8bc1223d-8c7a-4489-b351-58028c232ed8> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2005-04-17/more-recovery-room-for-stocks | 2015-03-31T05:25:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300313.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00150-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966223 | 572 |
George McCorkle (October 11, 1947 - June 29, 2007) was a founding member and guitarist for the Marshall Tucker Band. He wrote "Fire on the Mountain", the band's first top 40 hit, though had hoped that Charlie Daniels would record the song. He left the band in 1984 and later worked as a songwriter. He released a solo album, American Street, in 1999. McCorkle was diagnosed with cancer in early June 2007 and died soon afterward, in Lebanon, Tennessee.
George McCorkle pursued music as a career after having been drafted into the Navy and serving from 1967 to 1968. Initially he had taught himself to play his older brother's guitar as a young teenager, mimicking the blues stylings of B.B. King and other artists he heard on the radio. At the age of sixteen he purchased his own Gretsch guitar. His first stage performances were with local high school bands in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
After his military discharge he formed a band, The Toy Factory, with his longtime childhood friend, Toy Caldwell. George also performed with another group, Pax Parachute, but his musical talents flourished working with Toy. "Playing guitar with Toy Caldwell wasn't just playing guitar, it was sharing a mind. With me at his side he had the freedom to do whatever came into his mind and I could instinctively interpret whatever that was and experiment with him. And Toy had a heart of gold."
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County voters favor Republicans
In last Tuesday’s general election Idaho County voters solidly favored the Republican candidates in all contested races.
In the presidential race 5,895 voters favored the Republican McCain/Palin ticket while 1,935 voted for Obama/Biden. An additional 299 votes went to various third party candidates. Obama won nationally garnering 53% of the popular vote and a 364-174 margin in electoral votes.
In the race for U.S. Congressman 4,645 Idaho County voters favored incumbent Republican Bill Sali with 3,357 voting for Democratic challenger Walt Minnick. Minnick won the race statewide with 50.6% of the vote.
For U.S. Senator 5,425 Idaho County voters went for Republican Jim Risch while 2,206 went for Democrat Larry LaRocco. Another 477 voters supported third party candidates. Risch also won the statewide election by a solid margin.
In the District 8 races incumbent Republican Lee Heinrich polled 5,359 votes in Idaho County to 2,647 for Democratic challenger Randy Doman for state senator. Heinrich also won districtwide with 64% of the vote. For State Representative Position A, Republican Ken Roberts polled 5,097 votes to 2,892 for Democratic challenger Richard Adams in Idaho County. Roberts also won districtwide with 63% of the vote. For Position B, Republican incumbent Paul Shepherd polled 5,069 votes in Idaho County to 3,030 for Democratic challenger Jim Rehder. Shepherd won district-wide with 61% of the vote.
In the county races Skip Brandt ran unopposed for 1st District County Commissioner and received 6,151 votes. For 2nd District County Commissioner Republican James Rockwell received 5,815 votes to 2005 for Democrat Shelley Dumas.
Republican Doug Giddings won the race for Sheriff with 4,067 votes. Democrat Carlos Martinez received 3,226 votes and write-in Herb Lindsey received 532 votes.
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Russian space experts are wondering if the United States used an anti-satellite weapon last month to kill a small Russian research satellite, reports MSNBC.
“There’s no way this is a credible story,” U.S. Navy Capt. James Graybeal, spokesman for the U.S. Strategic Command, told MSNBC.com. “We’ve checked with everybody, we have talked to everyone.”
Last month’s satellite failure did not involve an actual breakup of the spacecraft.
The latest flap comes less than two months after China’s surprising launch of a missile that hit one of its own retired satellites, blasting the spacecraft into thousands of shards of space junk and sparking an international outcry over anti-satellite weaponry.
The satellite in question is a small spacecraft built and launched for Moscow State University and St. Petersburg’s Mozhaisky Space Military Academy to monitor space radiation. The probe, nicknamed Universitetsky or Tatiana, was launched as a piggyback payload along with a military satellite in January 2005 from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome, north of Moscow.
The Russian space experts’ speculation was based on the timing of the satellite’s failure: They claimed that the satellite stopped functioning on March 7 and said the United States was conducting a military experiment at about the same time.
“According to some Russian experts, chances are high that the satellite fell victim to U.S. experiments in ray influence on spacecraft,” Novosti reported. But Novosti talked with a second space expert who had a different explanation for the satellite’s loss, but still blamed U.S. activity.
The source described how Universitetsky-Tatyana stopped sending signals suddenly: “Stable communication with the satellite was maintained until it left the sector of Russian ground-based assets’ radio visibility,” Novosti quoted the source as saying. “When it made a spin and returned to our zone about an hour later, its onboard equipment was already dead.”
The U.S. Global Positioning System, designed for both military and civilian use, is under control of the United States. Its continued operation is vital, not just for the United States but the entire world.
The United States government’s stated policy is to provide uninterrupted signals globally. But, according to the NY Times, the U.S. could deny navigation signals to any country as a high-tech form of economic sanction, potentially disrupting power grids, banking systems and other industries.
Glonass, a Russian version of the U.S. GPS system, will be inaugurated later this year. The Glonass global navigation system (wikipedia), is expected to have 18 satellites in orbit by late 2007 or early 2008, and a full orbital group of 24 satellites by the end of 2009.
The GLONASS signal uses FDMA technology to broadcast a common code on different carrier frequencies. GPS and Galileo use CDMA signals that transmit different codes on the same frequency. Some manufacturers — Javad Navigation Systems, Leica, NovAtel, Topcon, and Trimble — currently offer combined GPS/GLONASS receivers.
Another GPS satellite entrant, the Galileo Positioning System, is being built by the European Space Agency (ESA). The current project plan has the system as operational by 2011-12. The $4.5 billion Galileo navigation system has been delayed by a string of political setbacks.
Russia says they’re in talks with the United States and the European Space Agency to prepare agreements on the use of Glonass jointly with the GPS and the European Galileo satellite navigation systems.
Russia will also put three new communication satellites into orbit this year and another two next year. Last year, Russia lost its Express AM11 satellite when it apparently collided with space junk, causing it to spin and leave its orbit.
The autonomous ASTRO and NextSat (above), built by Boeing Phantom Works and Ball Aerospace, have been berthed together since their March 8 launch from Cape Canaveral. Orbiting some 300 miles above Earth, the satellites will soon begin an ambitious series of experiments, including multiple rendezvous scenarios, captures and transfers using a robotic arm.
Boeing and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, recently fired the Airborne Laser (ABL) weapon system’s tracking laser in-flight at an airborne target for the first time.
A five-day Schriever IV Space Wargame began March 25 at Nellis AFB, Nev. The 400-member team of space professionals battle in a global environment scenario set in the year 2025, designed to verify space capabilities, tactics and techniques used by the 21st century joint warfighter.
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Unfortunately, it's that time of year where it's unbearably hot, and my house is lacking air conditioning. This takes quite the toll upon my hardware, forcing my 8800GT up to 80 degrees under load, and 60 at idle.
I do not like that.
Yes, they're designed to run that hot, but it's usually around 40 idle and 50 load, and that much of a dramatic increase makes me nervous. So, after a bit of debate and lack of money, I took apart an old Pentium 2 Cartridge Processor, removing the fan from the heatsink.
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And voila, a 5 degree drop in temperatures, although I'm debating whether or not it's worth it.
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It is telling that the protests in China this week over government control involve a newspaper and censorship — not a military tank in a public square.
China has walked the fragile road of modernism and capitalism without democracy. But history keeps repeating one message about trying to balance economic advances without freedom. Information by its nature is democratizing.
In China, the information box is already open. Half of the Chinese public is online, according to the data from fall of 2012 by the Pew Research Center. Fully 93 percent of Chinese have cell phones; 62 percent engage in social networking. And half the Chinese public, according to Pew’s data, share their personal views on social networks. (I was founding director of Center’s Project for Excellence Journalism for 16 years until December.)
What the Chinese are willing to share in these spaces is equally fascinating. Most — 86 percent — say they share their views about “movies and music,” but only 10 percent are willing to share their views about “politics.” At the same time, fully half say they share their views about “community issues.”
Those answers hint at the problem for authoritarians. The line from culture to community to politics at a certain point is only rhetorical.
The old Soviet Union tried to control thought by registering every typewriter owned in the country. When in the late 1980s fax machines, satellite TV and VCRs made it impossible to know what ideas people were learning and sharing, Soviet leaders created the first institutes in the country to conduct public opinion polling. When they could no longer control what people knew, they began to try to study what people thought so that they might begin to try to manage it. They also had to relax TV and radio programming to adapt to new popular demands, then tried to pull back, which led to similar frictions as we see now.
The Chinese for a time tried to post soldiers by every fax machine in the country.
That brings us back to the source of the protests in China today. They began when authorities censored the New Year’s editorial in Southern Weekend, a well-known liberal newspaper, which had called for the new leaders of the Chinese government to make good on rights articulated in the Chinese constitution.
That led journalists and their supporters to issue an open letter. “By Sunday night,” the New York Times reports, “the protests had transformed into a melee in the blogosphere.”
The initial flashpoint over the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were journalism, too — a series of columns in the World Economic Herald, as Jonathan Mirsky reminds in a fine essay this week in the New York Review of Books. There was no blogosphere then for people to gather. So they met in a square and faced tanks.
The spark this time is similar. And they are a reminder that even in the digital age, journalism and democracy are inevitably and inextricably linked.
Fundamentally, the act of producing journalism is an act of putting more information and ideas in the hands of more people. That, in turn, inspires public conversation. Look back and you see that the birth of a periodical press can be traced to the Enlightenment and the evolution of democratic theory. Look wider and you find that societies with more journalism, of all sorts, have tended toward more freedom.
Meeting with journalists around the world over the last decade, I’ve learned, sometimes unexpectedly, that journalists everywhere tend to share a common cause. Whatever system in which they operate, in their own way, all journalists are concerned with accuracy and truthfulness. It is in the nature of being in the business of finding things out and making them public.
The march toward freedom engendered by making information transparent is not a straight line. It is often closer to two steps forward and one step back, or dancing a box step. The protests in China this week may lose momentum rather than presage immediate change. Mirsky reports that the words “Southern” and “Weekend” have now vanished from the Chinese Internet.
But the long view reveals something inexorable. As information begins to flow, so do ideas. That is the essential insight of the First Amendment.
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don't fight the bike be the bike
What an idiot driver (the dashcam owner). Should have stayed there and film the result
@redeyezz pretty sure he was getting out to stop the biker, but I guess most LL users care more about what the drunk guy would have caused then stopping him
He just has an inner ear infection!
@Dunblane_Truth_Seeker Whats that, a new brand of 90% proof Vodka
Your a real SOB Carlos, go on holiday already ;)
dude, that's what I really need. but I do not understand why am a SOB... hehehehehehe
(or FDP in Portuguese)
@GIXXARDR If Carlos really wanted to help this guy, he would have slashed his tires so he doesn't kill himself or someone else down the road.
??? I'm talking about the fact he beat me in posting this vid, what are you talking about?? haha
@GIXXARDR Because the guy in the video was too drunk to even pick his bike back up, that Carlos (who I'm assuming filmed this video) should of slashed the guy's tires so he couldn't go anywhere.
Nah mate Carlos didn't film this, for starters he's in Brazil, the vid is from Russia, and we are always in competition in posting these sorts of video's, I'd bet my bike that only %1 of vids on here are filmed by the poster...
One buddy in vest walking up was soo like " Imma steal this drunk fvckers bike"
I was thinking the same!
I honestly thought it was going to end up like most Russian vids and he was going to get hit by a car blasting through the intersection.
@NapalmGhost Ya, that was on my mind also lol
@VmanTheGr8 I was scanning comments to make sure I don't re-state the obvious. Cheers.
Accompanies by one of the most skilled (and sober) pedestrians.
That's it. I'm moving to Russia and buy a new car with a dashcam. I will be the biggest uploader in liveleak history.
@StevieJay buy Lada
Just getting his knee down ... no problem.
DUI in russia ain't a crime, its a lifestyle
@Galning Yes, a lifestyle that he didn't chose. It chose him.
hahaha ;) Don`t try this at home dudes! ;)
The guy in the blue vest wanted to steal the bike....for sure!!
what an asshole hahahahahhahah :D
I can't wait to watch part 2 of this video.
@warpa that part when his head explodes like a pumpkin under the wheels of an old russian truck? and ofc the truck driver goes to jail.
Lol at the guy crossing.
You guys don't understand that to enter Mother Russia, you need to pass a Vodka Test.
Please stop posting these, I keep pissing myself laughing!.
This surely must be the most dangerous thing you could do
quick! someone run this guy over at high speed before he kills himself on that bike!
"fucking bike....GET UP!!!!!"
Its ok, he's wearing a helmet
Gravity hit an all-time high.
HAHAHAHAH i bet that other guy walking over was going to steal his bike :D
That's what I was thinking.
He will become a hood ornament soon enough.
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Our movements are already tracked by CCTV, speed cameras and even spies in dustbins.
Now snooping on the public has reached new heights with local authorities putting spy planes in the air to snoop on homeowners who are wasting too much energy.
Thermal imaging cameras are being used to create colour-coded maps which will enable council officers to identify offenders and pay them a visit to educate them about the harm to the environment and measures they can take.
A scheme is already under way in Broadland District Council in Norfolk, which has spent £30,000 hiring a plane with a thermal imaging camera.
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It said the exercise has been so successful other local authorities are planning to follow suit.
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But critics have warned the crackdown was another example of local authorities extending their charter to poke their noses into every aspect of people’s lives.
Broadland, which covers towns including Aylsham, Reepham and Acle, hired the plane from a Leicestershire-based company for five days at the end of January.
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On ABC's World News, Wednesday, Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts hyped Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage as a "historic," "riveting" "cultural event."
The interview played more as an infomercial
for the President, featuring long stretches of Obama talking with no
pesky, interrupting questions.
Anchor Diane Sawyer enthused, "Well, as we said this is a historic cultural and political event in this country."
In the tease for the interview, Sawyer trumpeted, "Tonight on World News, a historic ABC News interview. President Obama takes a stand on same sex marriage." In the segment, Roberts didn't push the President on why his "evolution" took 17 months.
Obviously, ABC was proud of its exclusive, but the network chose to uncritically play the President's comments without interruption. This is an example of one such "answer.":
OBAMA: I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. And I was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people, the word marriage was something that evokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth. But I have to tell you that over the course of several years, as I talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are incredibly committed in monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together. When I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that don't ask, don't tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point, I've just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. You know, it's interesting. Some of this is also generational. You know, Malia and Sasha, they've got friends whose parents are same-sex couples. You know, there have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we've been talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it couldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends' parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them. And frankly, that's the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.
Now, a follow-up segment by Jake Tapper did feature an African American
barber who opposed the President. However, in a segment on Thursday's Good Morning America, Tapper let the President off the hook for the flip-flopping charge.
The journalist spun that America is in the midst of a "national flip-flop" on gay marriage. According to Tapper, this is why "the public is not regarding this as a flip-flop by the President."
Of course, considering that one of Obama's main critiques of Mitt Romney is that the Republican is a flip-flopper, this is a convenient, generous rationalization.
On Thursday's GMA, Roberts admitted to getting "chills " from the President's declaration.
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The middle of the year comes around pretty quickly in the
journal publication programme: I seem only recently to have
published Volume 16 No. 1 and now it is time for number
two. Before you know it, it will be Christmas!
In this issue we have the usual assortment of papers and book reviews. Nothing in the way of conference proceedings or papers on a specific theme, just papers that have come through the review process, copy-editing, and my final blue pencil to get to this stage. For some authors, rather new to the game of scholarly publishing, the amount of work they need to put in to make a paper presentable comes as a bit of a shock. It is also a bit of shock to me to find that the vast majority of researchers have no real idea of how to follow instructions on citations, references, our Style Guide, or pretty well anything else and the amount of work that our volunteer copy-editors have to do is considerable. And then I spend roughly a day on each paper, making sure it is ready to publish. That often involves going back to the author for further information, asking for page numbers for quoted text, asking for diagrams that are actually readable on screen, and so on. Clearly, from the comments I get from more experienced authors, they are not accustomed to this. Does this mean that journals are accepting digital text without further work?
The regular papers
This quarter, we have eight papers, which represent information-related research in a wide range of contexts: geographically, they range from Australia to Scotland, via Laos and Kuwait; and in the more limited environment of the research setting, from schools to businesses and the civil service.
The countries represented by the authors include Australia, Kuwait, Malaysia, South Korea, Turkey, and the USA, although, in fact, one of the authors apparently in Australia actually lives and works online from Scotland. Is this going to be a trend for the future, I wonder?
Two of the papers deal with information literacy: one in the case of Scottish school pupils on work experience exercises and the other concerned with school pupils in Loas. The problem of the availability (or, rather, non-availability) of learning resources is dominant in the latter, with policy changing according to the language of the aid countries.
As usual, information behaviour is a strong theme with papers on:
- the information activities of Australian men undergoing stressful life events such as the breakup of relationships, alcoholism, self-harm, and more;
- the contextual factors that affect the use and perception of information by civil servants; and
- information behaviour performance in a company.
Within the field of information behaviour, information searching is a key activity and we have a couple of papers in that area: the first deals with the searchers' perceptions of the affective character of images - a very problematic research area and the second with the kind of search enquiries that resulted in taking Australian Internet users to Wikipedia.
Finally, we have one paper in the field of information systems. It may not be generally understood that we do publish papers in the information systems field; but, for the simple reason that the areas of digital libraries, information management and information retrieval are increasingly associated with information systems, I think it is absolutely essential that we do so. The problem, of course, is to determine what kind of papers on information systems we should publish. We've had occasional 'discussions' among the editors about this and have come up with a formulation that says, essentially, that if the paper deals with information content within systems, or with user behaviour in relation to systems, then we shall review it. The paper here, on the Technology Acceptance Model is a little outside that remit, but we thought it broad enough in its scope to be worth putting out to review and, as the referees liked it, here it is.
The book reviews
In the user survey I did two or three years ago, the book review section was one that users frequently commented upon favourably and I have had e-mails suggesting that the feature is widely liked. Few scholarly journals in our field do much in the way of reviewing, and we do a lot, and cover a very diverse range of topics, offering a service to publishers and readers alike. The publishers enjoy the fact that, usually, they don't have to wait for a year or more before a review appears and the readers enjoy the range of topics covered.
This issue is no exception: we cover books on social network analysis software, HTML5 and CSS3, building a digital library, organizational ethnography and intranet development. If not something for everyone, then at least a variety to dip into. And, who knows, you might find something you'd missed and is essential to your work!
Finally, my thanks again to all those whose efforts make the journal possible: associate editors, copy-editors, and referees, along with my colleagues in Lund who maintain the server and the journal management system we use.
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This meetup event is an FYI please enjoy what I have loved for years.
Time: 3:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
I'm not sure what time they are open but I think they are opened this early. They close when they run out of food. Normally if you get there by 10:30 a.m. they have a few left but sometimes they run out by 9:30.
Prices: Small bento $5, Large bento $6
They are closed on Sundays and Mondays. This is my favorite bento place to eat. I have been going here since I was a little kid. I remember the bentos being cheaper then $5. The bento place is hard to spot, it is a small hole in the wall so you may drive by it. The parking is small so if you can't park in the front you can always park across the street.
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Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review-In Short:
A professional illusionist sets out to uncover the mysteries of his past, only to discover that they are back to haunt him.
Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review-Verdict:
The first half of the movie is too good. However, it is the second half which might disappoint you because of its length and poor treatment.
Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review-Story Plot:
Bobo (Emraan Hashmi) is a professional illusionist, who is haunted by the half-forgotten memories of his childhood and the death of his kid sister. As children, Bobo and Misha had seen their father (Pawan Malhotra) fall for the charms of Diana (Konkona Sen Sharma), who Bobo believed was a daayan (witch).
Now, years later, when Bobo is on the verge of marrying his sweetheart Tamara (Huma Qureshi), the dreams of his past threaten to cause further damage. To take care of the issue once and for all, Bobo seeks the help of a hypnotherapist to unlock the memories of his past, only to discover that the past is not dead and buried at all. Moreover, when he meets Lisa Dutt (Kalki Koechlin), Bobo starts thinking she is a 'daayan' too because of certain similarities to Diana. However, he has no way to prove it, before the situation turns lethal.
Ek Thi Daayan Movie Review-Performances:
Emraan Hashmi as Bobo does his part well, bringing that intense edginess to his performance that he is known for. Huma too does a decent job, but the lady needs to work on her weight-pronto! Kalki as the mysterious Lisa Dutt does not get much to do really. However, it is Konkona, who will take your breath away. As the woman suspected of being a witch, Konkona sends a shiver up your spine with her eerie smile and her glassy stare. The child artistes who play the younger Bobo and his kid sister are damn good and give a better performance than most child artistes usually do. | <urn:uuid:184c3656-64b1-4ec0-9fce-0ec1da09dedc> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.movietalkies.com/movies/reviews/20243/ek-thi-daayan | 2015-03-27T19:07:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131296603.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172136-00042-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973664 | 463 |
Sebastian Junger’s new documentary Korengal follows the same soldiers over the same fifteen-month tour of duty in Afghanistan as his acclaimed 2010 film Restrepo, but it cannot be considered its sequel; it might be misleading even to call it a war film. Korengal‘s subjects are youth and male friendship, and it deals in a peculiarly profound way with the unsettling sense that a young warrior experiences, after fighting alongside his brothers-in-arms, that he knows all the joy and agony that life can offer.
Reading has always been for me a sort of practical cartography. Like other readers, I have an absolute trust in the capability that reading has to map my world. I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves, staring down at me now, is the question I’m struggling with today, put into words long ago, perhaps, by someone who could not have known of my existence. The relationship between a reader and a book is one that eliminates the barriers of time and space and allows for what Francisco de Quevedo, in the sixteenth century, called “conversations with the dead.” In those conversations I’m revealed. They shape me and lend me a certain magical power.
The threat of epidemics spreading from Syria to surrounding countries has grown with frightening speed. Among the diseases that have spread most rapidly are measles, hepatitis, and leishmaniasis. Then there is polio, a terrifying disease of early childhood that had long been eradicated in the Middle East. In Syria, it was eliminated in 1995, yet since mid-2013 the country has faced an outbreak of polio that has spread widely across opposition-controlled areas of the north. And now polio, like the jihadists, has spilled across the border to Iraq.
“Frankly, I don’t mind what they’re reading, Twilight, Harry Potter, whatever. So long as they are reading something there’s at least a chance that one day they’ll move on to something better.” How many times have we heard this opinion expressed? Needless to say the sentiment comes along with the regret that people are reading less and less these days and the notion of a hierarchy of writing with the likes of Joyce and Nabokov at the top and Fifty Shades of Grey at the bottom. Between the two it is assumed that there is a kind of neo-Platonic stairway, such that from the bottom one can pass by stages to the top, a sort of optimistic inversion of the lament that soft porn will lead you to hard and anyone smoking marijuana is irredeemably destined to descend through coke and crack to heroin. The user, that is, is always drawn to a more intense form of the same species of experience.
Why has the Chinese government relied so much on suppression in Tibet and Xinjiang?
Wang Lixiong: Simply put, it’s due to their politics, but they can’t say that. They say it’s due to hostile foreign forces. After troubles started in Tibet they said it was the “Dalai Clique.” You can see the situation getting worse year by year, so it’s only possible to say that it’s their policy.
You have spoken about how the Dalai Lama has had successes, but that his policy is at a dead end.
Wang Lixiong: I believe the Dalai Lama has fulfilled his historical role. His basic strategy is to get Western people and Western governments to put pressure on the Chinese government. But it doesn’t solve the problem.
It Was the War of the Trenches is one of the most passionately bleak works in the history of comics. French cartoonist Jacques Tardi is unremitting in his focus on the small, human details of the catastrophe of WWI—not just the look of uniforms and weaponry, but the way one soldier advances in an awkward, stiff-armed posture, “protecting my belly with the butt of the rifle,” and the way another makes sculptures and rings from discarded shells, to sell to his comrades.
The world is going to hell in a hurry. At my age, I ought to be used to it, but I’m not.
Perhaps ignorance is bliss, I say to myself and think of people I know who care little about what goes on in the world. I have sympathy for them. It’s no fun starting one’s day or retiring at night with images of dead children.
When he was old, my father said that he could think of two ways to break his addiction to newspapers: enter a monastery or a lunatic asylum.
Since the Gaza war began, an unprecedented wave of blood lust and racist violence has raged within Israel. Similar manifestations have occurred in earlier periods. What makes the present moment distinct is the incitement by politicians, including members of the cabinet, the Knesset, and other figures within the Israeli establishment.
On Tuesday, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the revised USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill to rein in the National Security Agency’s collection of telephone and Internet records. Leahy’s bill comes not a moment too soon. Two reports issued on Monday bring into full view the dramatic costs to journalists, lawyers, and US businesses of dragnet surveillance without specific suspicions of wrongdoing. | <urn:uuid:36d164a5-742d-4907-8557-828087d15a36> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/?page=13 | 2015-03-27T19:39:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131296603.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172136-00042-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965441 | 1,114 |
Noise is considered a serious threat to the environmental health. Some of the adverse effects of noise pollution are given below:
1. It interferes with speech. In the presence of noise we may not able to follow, what the other person is saying.
2. Noise leads to emotional and behavioral stress. A person may feel disturbed in the presence of loud noise such as produced by heating of drums.
3. Noise may permanently damage hearing. A sudden loud noise can cause severe damage to the eardrum.
4. Noise increases the chances of occurrence of diseases such as headache, blood pressure, heart failure, etc.
5. Noise leads to increased heart beat, constriction of blood vessels and dilation of pupil.
6. Noise is a problem especially for patients who need rest.
7. Noise may cause damage to liver, brain and heart. | <urn:uuid:3a811ad4-3e62-4303-b808-891535bd9a2a> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.preservearticles.com/201101032328/harmful-effects-of-noise-pollution.html | 2015-03-27T19:08:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131296603.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172136-00042-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938924 | 178 |
Treasury minister takes on wide-ranging brief
U.K. government treasury minister Stephen Timms has been given responsibility for the Digital Britain initiative, a wide-ranging brief that covers the future of broadcasting and telcos in the digital age.Timms will oversee the development of the infrastructure to give all homes access to fast broadband Internet by 2012. This will be funded through a £6 ($10.20) a year levy on all phone lines. He inherits the task of forging a partnership between BBC Worldwide, the pubcaster’s commercial arm, and Channel 4, the cash-strapped broadcaster funded by the state and advertising income. The objective is to dip into the wealthy BBCW’s pockets to bail out C4, which has not been greeted with much glee by the BBC. Timms also will need to override BBC resistance to a plan to take a slice of its license fee to pay for regional news and children’s programming on other TV outlets. Another item on his “to do” list is the quest to honor the pledge to cut online piracy by 70%. A deal between Internet service providers and media companies on the sanctions to be placed on repeat offenders has yet to be reached. The Digital Britain initiative was formerly the responsibility of communications minister Stephen Carter, who stepped down last month.
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IgG 2 and 4 deficient.
The doctors sought plasma transfusions, but I would have become more or less dependent on them. I declined, not wanting to be dependent on anything like that. As a result, I get slammed with sinus infections, strep, and other things about once a year, where my temp often exceeds 104-105. Would it also be helpful to have the nurse practitioner I almost always see write a note about how she's had to prescribe me antibiotics like 4-6 times over the past 4 years for related illnesses??
Or would my original blood test results (showing a deficiency), coupled with the UHS records from that fall, be enough (ie, not worry about the ongoing deficiency)?? | <urn:uuid:13d55a93-4020-4c12-8db5-f8a83cd6d778> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php?topic=10685.0 | 2015-03-29T17:40:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298660.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00158-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96127 | 150 |
Okay, since I didn’t get to go out in search of a swizzle stick yesterday, tonight’s the night, to quote either Neil Young or Rod the Mod. One bar I never made it to on the bar crawl but always meant to go was the Campbell Apartment in Grand Central Station. It’s kind of a fancy Dan joint and I’m thinking we may score a swizzle there. I’ve only been there twice, but if I remember correctly, It’s expensive, but I worked overtime last night so it’s off we go.
It's a rainy night out, but at least it's not that cold for this time of year.
That's what Jerry Sandusky said.
Down into the subway we go.
And with the blink of an eye and the magic of the internet, here we are, Grand Central Station.
I always come to the clock information booth in the middle of the main concourse to get my bearings.
Okay, up the stairs...
Out these doors...
And here we are, Campbell's Apartment. Let's go inside and see what's happening.
It’s dark in here and I’m putting my camera away. I just got hit by a wave of bad and scary vibrations. I’ve been in here before, but both of those times were in the day and the patrons were a somewhat harmless combination of wide-eyed tourists and weary commuters getting a high-priced drink before moving along and minding their own worthless business.
This crowd is weird in here tonight. Ages range from early thirties to very old. Everyone is draped in expensive duds, there’s a thirty-something woman in a black dress with a diamond on her finger which is the size of one of Rosie O’Donnell’s bowel movements. As I said, she’s in a black dress and she’s neither long nor cool, but her shiny silver shoes probably cost more than I make in five months of hard labor. She has shoulder length blonde hair, a bit of a lined and hard face and is cackling like a hen on mescaline at some old man croaking away in an expensive navy blue, pin-striped suit who somewhat resembles Cesar Romero with a thyroid condition. One strange thing is that no one’s drinking in here, it’s too crowded to get to the bar and people are holding drinks, but no one’s drinking them. This makes me nervous, over at McSorley’s right now, the patrons are throwing back beers served two at a time, like prohibition is going to rear its ugly head again at any minute. God, how I wish I was there.
I decide to take another picture, but as I do, several people have started eyeballing both myself and Gumby, so the shot turns out like shit. Everybody’s white in here and dressed to the nines, Gumby’s green and he’s nude. An unpopular and very wrong combination for this uptight and upperwardly mobile obscene crowd. I was getting flashed some pretty downward glances myself. Every man in here has an expensive suit and tie on, I’m wearing my seven-year-old black Navy pea coat, a black jean shirt with a hole in the sleeve and black Levi’s with a pizza stain on the left thigh. I sweat a lot and it’s hot in here, so perspiration is rolling down my face worse than Albert Brooks in Broadcast News. It’s very uncomfortable for me in here right now.
It was right then and there that the nerve-rattling and bone-chilling realization of where I was hit me in the face like a 700 pound bag of dead hamsters: It was the 1%! That’s right, I was right in the belly of the beast of the motherfucking 1%. The 99% can’t even get a decent foothold in Zuccotti Park, but the 1% are here at Occupy Campbell’s Apartment, lounging on expensive couches and eating free peanuts without a care. And why shouldn’t the peanuts be free, these greedy fuckheads probably own the motherfucking peanut factory. And the workers in the factory just took another 10% pay cut, so fill up those crystal bowls on the bar and strike up Alexander’s Ragtime Band.
I could feel the tension building, an outsider had snuck in to their fancy high priced lounge, one of those 99% scumballs who think you belong in jail just because you’ve pulled bank frauds, evaded taxes, manipulated stocks and pretty much ruined the economy while continuing to get rich off other people’s losses. They have my number all right and I have to think quick and get out the fuck out of here before one of their Nazi-like, goose-stepping, box-headed goons shows up and whisks me away to take me home, give me an eye-blinding spray pepper shower, beat me up, burn all my books and then throw me in jail for consorting with a green, nude, cartoon bag—that’s something that they really hate. All of a sudden I know what I have to do.
“Hi Mayor Bloomberg,” I shout out to the corner of the room in my best Eddie Haskell, “Gee you look swell, Mrs. Cleaver,” voice.
All heads turn to get an eyefull of their shifty, helium-brained, ferret-faced leader and Gumby and I race out the door and to the safety of a car on a downtown number six train. I click my heels three times on the way.
The Good Witch was right, there’s no place like home.
And there’s plenty of swizzle sticks here too. Goodnight everybody and see you tomorrow after dark.
Occupy Campbell’s Apartment
Grand Central Terminal
15 Vanderbilt Ave. (Near 43rd St.)
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Creatively Speaking: David Pratt
Here at the _floss, we love to blog about the Nobel Prize. From Mangesh's 7 Geniuses and 1 Entire Science That Never Won the Nobel, to Jason's 15 Award-Winning Facts About The Nobel Prize and many others.
The tradition continues today with a very special guest, David Pratt, who's recently put out a book called The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates, a stunning collection of witty and wise quotes, most of which have never been anthologized previously.
Check out my interview with him below and be sure to tune back in tomorrow for you chance to win a FREE copy of this awesome collection.
DI: How long have you been collecting quotations?
DP: I've been collecting quotes almost as long as I remember. Other kids collected stamps—I collected quotations.
DI: When did you decide they should be published in a book and what was the publishing process like for you?
DP: I started collecting quotations by Nobel Prize Winners after reading Winston Churchill's saying "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." I submitted the manuscript to some 50 publishers in three countries without success, but eventually found an agent who had faith in the project, and after two years of submissions, she found a publisher.
DI: Of all the Nobel winners, who do you think was the most deserving?
DP: The most deserving was one who never got the Nobel—Mahatma Gandhi. Of those who did receive it, one of the most deserving was certainly Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the democracy movement in Burma, who has maintained her Buddhist belief in non-violence, despite being under house arrest for most of the past 20 years, unable to see her sons while they were growing up or her British husband when he was dying of cancer.
DI: Of all the quotes you've collected, is there one that stands out as your favorite?
DP: I have 1000 favorite quotations selected from more than 6000 that I have collected from over 1600 books by and about Nobel Prize Winners. But I suppose one of my very favorites is by the French writer Anatole France , "I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference."
DI: If you could go back in time and meet any of the Nobel winners from history, who would it be?
DP: Probably Richard Feynman, the leading American physicist of the 20th century, because 1) he was an expert on the bongo drums; 2) he could open safes; 3) he liked beautiful women; 4) he hated pomposity; and 5) he had a great sense of humor. I'd also like to meet Carl von Ossietzky, the anti-Nazi, who, after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, was beaten to death by the SS. I'd like to tell him that he was an honor to the German nation.
DI: Do you collect quotes by people who haven't won the Nobel?
DP: Yes, I collect quotations from all sources, and hope some time to publish a collection. One of my favorites is from John Jacob Astor, the millionaire who perished in the sinking of the Titanic. When the ship collided with the iceberg, he said, "I rang for ice, but this is ridiculous."
DI: Are you working on anything new we should be gearing up for?
DP: I write primarily fiction and poetry, but am also currently working on a book of anecdotes about Nobel Prize Winners. For example, Barry Marshall, the Australian who won the Prize for Medicine, to prove his belief that stomach ulcers were caused by the bacterium heliobacter pylori, mixed up a solution of a billion bacteria, and drank it. He got very sick, his wife insisted he terminate the experiment, but he proved his hypothesis. | <urn:uuid:93318b0c-8967-4d82-a5ff-d61445e5b7e5> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://mentalfloss.com/article/18716/creatively-speaking-david-pratt | 2015-03-31T09:44:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300464.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00274-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979586 | 812 |
Unexpectedly methodical pace to start, as they go to the mat and exchange pinfall attempt with neither man gaining an advantage. CIMA decides that enough is enough and takes Tozawa down with a shoulderblock and then kicks him in the chest. Yoshino starts his light speed rope running before hitting a headscissors to send CIMA out to the floor to take a breather. Yoshino dropkicks CIMA as he comes back into the ring, then begins working over CIMA's arm by hammerlocking him and ramming his shoulder into the top turnbuckle and then stomping on the arm. Yoshino goes to an armbar and really cranks on it, then takes CIMA down with a kind of Rocker Dropped on the arm. CIMA quickly shifts the momentum with an eye gouge and a leaping enziguiri, then begins unloading with kicks to the chest that drive Yoshino out to the floor, where CIMA follows him and gets a fireman's carry, and drops Yoshino chest first on the apron. CIMA distracts the referee while Tozawa pulls Yoshino out to the floor so heand Hulk can work Yoshino over. They send Yoshino back in where CIMA pops him over with a snap suplex for 2, then goes back to firing kicks into Yoshino's chest until he crumples to the mat. CIMA gets Yoshino in a kind of side angle figure four, but Yoshino makes the ropes to force the break, then he charges Yoshino in the corner and eats boot. Yoshino goes to the second rope and CIMA goes for the Venus Punch, but Yoshino dodges and gets his hanging headscissor choke on the outside. Yoshino again uses his speed to his advantage and dodges another strike from CIMA and gets the Slingblade for 2. CIMA catches him the next time with a pair of kicks, but then Yoshino again outmaneuvers CIMA and traps him in the Royal Octopus. CIMA escapes but Yoshino transitions right into a sunset flip for 2. Yoshino tries a springboard move, but CIMA dropkicks him coming down, then hangs him upside down in the corner and connects with a baseball slide, but Yoshino dodges the coast to coast and gets a top rope dropkick, from which CIMA immediately recovers and gets a double stomp. Both men are down and the referee starts the count,but CIMA gets to his feet and tries a back suplex, Yoshino slips out the back, but CIMA gets him with running knees. Yoshino blocks the lungblower, Yoshino blocks the 2K1 Bomb, and Yoshino hits a DDT for 2. CIMA dropkicks Yoshino in the ribs and Yoshino goes down in a heap and begins screaming while clutching his midsection. CIMA looks really pleased with himself and plays to the crowd while Yoshino rolls around and under the ropes. CIMA finally gets tired of waiting and hauls Yoshino back to his feet, ramming knees into his gut over and over before wedging him between the top and middle rope and hitting a running double kneestrike. Back and forth series of reversals until CIMA hits the Schwein, but that only gets 2, so CIMA tries the Pyramid Bomb and Yoshino again kicks out at 2. Yoshino escapes a second one and counters to a crucifix for 2, then gets a DDT that drops CIMA right on his head for another 2. Yoshino with a pair of spinning arm drivers and then traps CIMA in Sol Naciente. CIMA fades, but recovers and desperately stomps on Yoshino's face until he finally fades for good and the referee calls for the bell.
Winner: Masato Yoshino
Easily the best match on the show so far, and a VERY rare clean singles win over CIMA on a DGUSA show.
We come back from intermission with an in-ring promo from Uhaa Nation, who thanks the fans because everything he's done so far in Dragon Gate USA is because of the fans, and now he gets to go to Japan for a month in late November. He thanks the fans again, and promises that 2011 will be the year of the One Man Nation.
Ricochet vs PAC
I can tell you right now there is no way I'm going to catch everything that happens in this match, but I'll do my best to keep up. PAC goes after Ricochet and takes him down with a waistlock and a lift, sending Ricochet scurrying to the ropes. Ricochet goes behind with a waistlock of his own, but PAC hits a switch so Ricochet counters to a hammerlock, taking PAC down to the mat with it and stomping the arm. Now PAC takes Ricochet down and stomps his arm, but Ricochet responds with a drop toehold into a front facelock. PAC cartwheels out of the hold and gets Ricochet in a rear chinlock, but Ricochet gets out and they do a fast paced back and forth sequence that ends with Ricochet dropkicking PAC in the face. Ricochet with chops in the corner,but PAC dodges a charge and gets one of the biggest hiptosses I've ever seen, sneding Ricochet hurtling across the ring and then slumping him in the corner to deliver some thunderous chops. PAC with a hard snap suplex for 2 and then gets Ricochet in a headscissors. Ricochet makes the ropes, so PAC drills him square in the jaw with a forearm and Ricochet responds by slinging PAC throat first into the middle rope. Ricochet gets a side grapevine of PAC's leg and rolls him into a modified abdominal stretch, then rolls that into a pinning combination for 2. PAC dodges a standing moonsault and gets a standing shooting star press and then rocks Ricochet with another chop. Ricochet goes to the ropes, but PAC clotheslines him over the top rope, causing Ricochet to nearly wipe out a cameraman and land on the guardrail. PAC follows him out with a dive, then beats on him all around ringside and into the crowd. I can't quite see what happens from my vantage point, but I saw Ricochet run across the top of a wooden railing and dive onto PAC, getting the usual religious chant from the crowd. Ricochet then does something else I didn't quite catch, but that gets a similar chant from the crowd as Ricochet rolls PAC back inside and covers for a mere 1. Ricochet with a snapmare into a diving boot for 2, then mockingly shoves PAC in the face with his boot until PAC has enough and gets to his feet to go toe to toe with Ricochet. Ricochet gets a boot to the midsection, but comes off the ropes and gets popped into the air for an Ace Crusher,and it appears the tide has turned. Ricochet gouges the eyes, but comes off the ropes right into a forearm from PAC, then does it again, and the third time gets a boot to the face, and then PAC follows with a Northern Lights suplex for 2. PAC shoves Ricochet into the ropes and catches him coming back in a German suplex that Ricochet pops right back up from to hit a Zig Zag and a standing twisting sention for 2. PAC backdrops Ricochet to the apron, but Ricochet Slingshots himself back in and catches PAC in a Frankensteiner as he comes over the ropes, then falls backwards into the move and sends both of them tumbling to the floor. Ricochet takes a dive off the stage and does a full flip, but PAC dodges, Ricochet lands on his feet, PAC dives off the stage and over Ricochet, and gets an inverted Frankensteiner on the floor. PAC rolls back into the ring and the referee lays down a count, with Ricochet getting to his feet only to fall back to the floor, then get back up and just barely make the count at 19. PAC immediately deadlifts him off the mat into a bridging German suplex for 2,Ricochet makes it to his feet and they go back and forth until Ricochet now hits an inverted Frankensteiner and both men are again down. Another series of moves and PAC misses a Phoenix splash, but Ricochet follows right up with one of his own and connects for 2. PAC dodges a charge in the corner and goes up top, but Ricochet runs up the ropes and delivers a one man Spanish Fly for 2. Ricochet looks at the ceiling to gauge how much clearance he has, then goes up top for a shooting star press, but PAC gets the knees up. Akira Tozawa distracts the ref as Ricochet pops PAC into the air and kicks him low, then rolls him up for 2. PAC responds by popping Ricochet in the air and catches him coming down in a sitout powerbomb for 2. PAC comes off the ropes right into a leaping enziguiri from Ricochet, who follows right up with another one, then fires PAC into the ropes and catches him coming off in a bridging German suplex for 2, a second similar move I couldn't quite identify for another 2, then a Silver Slice right on his head for another 2. Ricochet fires another flurry of head strikes at PAC until he finally goes down and Ricochet is able to cover for 3.
This was just off the charts with a ton of amazing spots and a terrific finishing sequence where Ricochet threw everything had at PAC until he couldn't take any more and finally went down in defeat. Ricochet has come such a long way since coming to this company and has grown into a hell of a performer.
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- PR Writing (PR3312) Spring 2010, Summer I 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011
- Public Relations
- Health Communication
Leadership / Awards
- TEACH Fellow 2010-2011
- Klyueva, A.V., & Ngondo, P.S. (2010, November). Researching Ourselves to Death: What Public Relations Research Really Tells Us. Paper presented at National Communication Association 96th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. (Top Student Paper, PR Division).
- Ngondo, P.S. (2008, March). Merck’s Gardasil vaccination campaign: A content analysis grounded in the extended parallel processing model. Paper presented at the Sooner Communication Conference, Norman, OK. (Top Graduate Paper).
- Wirtz, J., Poe, P., & Ngondo, P.S. (2010, August). Do denominations talk with us or at us? A content analysis of U.S. denominational Websites. Paper presented at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Denver, CO. (Top Faculty Paper). | <urn:uuid:58bb3591-6dab-48f9-bf34-4a153511576e> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.depts.ttu.edu/comc/graduate/faculty/gradinstructors/pngondo.php | 2015-03-31T09:57:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300464.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00274-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.743263 | 228 |
The Reefs of the Granitic Islands of the Seychelles
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The status of coral reefs in the granitic islands of the Seychelles archipelago has been assessed by two independent surveys following the mass mortality caused by the 1997/98 bleaching event. Engelhardt (2000), working in collaboration with the Seychelles Department of Conservation surveyed 15 sites located mainly on the north west coast of Mahe during November and December 1999. During January 2000, Turner, Klaus, Hardman and West, working in collaboration with the Seychelles Marine Park Authority, surveyed 46 reef sites mainly to the east of Mahe, including Ste Anne, Ile Moyenne, Ile Cerf, Cousine, Praslin, Curieuse, La Digue, Grand Soeur and Felicite. Reefs around the granitic islands are shallow and rarely exceed 15 m depth. Both surveys aimed to assess reef structure over the full depth range, with corals identified to genus and species where possible, and assessed reef recovery by recording new colonies believed to have established since the bleaching event. | <urn:uuid:fa81a59e-72e2-4b2e-94cd-2bdda35d8342> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.oceandocs.org/handle/1834/466?locale=es | 2015-03-31T09:45:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300464.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00274-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923931 | 231 |
Where it is calm this morning, it will be crazy by Sunday afternoon. A storm is due to hit Las Vegas sports books, and forecasting which way it blows is another part of handicapping a Super Bowl.
Will the betting public side with the underdog Baltimore Ravens? Will the largest and sharpest wagers favor the San Francisco 49ers? What are the most popular propositions?
It was the calm before the storm Thursday, and from Downtown to the Strip to points south, the books were quiet. So it was a good time to get around and get a feel for what's going to happen around town.
"We've got Niners money coming in now," Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller said. "It has been slow coming in, but it's like this every year. We're going to get hammered starting Friday. It's all going to change over 48 hours."
That's precisely how much time it took Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy to solve the crime. It was a classic movie. The 48 hours leading up to kickoff of the Super Bowl are fit for a filmmaker, too.
The game is in New Orleans this year, but Las Vegas - with its parties, people watching and limitless wagering opportunities - might be the more entertaining destination every year.
The guessing game is in handicapping the matchup, and this one features quarterbacks with contrasting styles. Joe Flacco, the classic pocket passer, and the Ravens are 3½- to 4-point 'dogs to Colin Kaepernick, a dynamic playmaker, and the 49ers. The line is moving to 4, that much seems obvious, and the total is 47½ for now.
"I like the 'under' in the game, and I like the first quarter under 9½," Miller said. "In the first quarter, I think both teams are going to run the ball and feel each other out. It might be a close game. If I had to bet the game, I would take the points.
"I think we're going to see Niners money, and I could see the line going to 4½. I know the Ravens have not faced a quarterback like Kaepernick, and that's what everyone is talking about is Kaepernick."
Jay Rood, who runs the MGM Resorts books from the Mirage, said Kaepernick is the most popular choice to score the game's first touchdown, at 8-1 odds. Baltimore tight end Dennis Pitta and wide receiver Anquan Boldin, each at 8-1, are hot tickets, too. Running back Ray Rice (5-1) is a likely candidate, and linebacker Ray Lewis (75-1) is a long shot. When not eyeing Kaepernick, San Francisco bettors are looking at wide receiver Michael Crabtree (7-1).
"I think there's a strong possibility this could be the first overtime game," said Rood, who forecasts the 49ers to win 17-16 "with Kaepernick using his legs on the final drive."
It's worth nothing that no Super Bowl has gone to overtime, and only one of the previous 46 was decided by one point. The "Yes" side of the overtime prop pays in the plus-500 to plus-700 range.
"I'm really optimistic this will be a nicely bet game," Rood said. "Actually, there is quite a bit of interest in terms of getting down large (six-figure) wagers. But it's early at this point. We've got less than 5 percent of what we're going to write on the game."
The rest will show up in the final 48 hours before kickoff. I hate waiting in long lines, so I stopped by the William Hill sports book at Tuscany, where there was no line, just off the Strip.
I bet three props - 49ers backup quarterback Alex Smith to take a snap from center at plus-450, the game to be decided by exactly 3 points at plus-425 and no score in the first 6½ minutes at minus-110.
A ticket with the Ravens plus-4½ is already in my pocket, but I'm not sold on the underdog and plan to use live wagering with the hope of getting a good line on San Francisco at some point during the game. (Four of the past 11 Super Bowls were decided by 3 points, and my forecast calls for the 49ers to win, 27-24.)
"Whoever we need is who I'll be rooting for," South Point sports book director Bert Osborne said. "Probably the Ravens."
Osborne agreed with Rood that the worst-case scenario for the books probably would be the 49ers to cover and the score to go over the total.
"I think it's going to keep trending that way," Osborne said.
He also said bettors are "taking the Keno shot" they take each year on long-shot props hitting such as overtime, a 2-point conversion and a safety - and the safety did cash last year.
At the LVH, where around 350 props are on the board, sports book director Jay Kornegay was calling for a record Super Bowl handle in Nevada. Last year's handle of $93.9 million ranks second to the $94.5 million wagered in 2006.
"I really think we're going to surpass that record," Kornegay said. "It feels like there's more money being bet this year, and I think it's going to be a 60-40 split in favor of the 49ers."
That's the forecast for the crazy 48 hours before kickoff.
Contact sports betting columnist Matt Youmans at email@example.com or 702-387-2907. He co-hosts "The Las Vegas Sportsline" weekdays at 2 p.m. on ESPN Radio (1100 AM, 98.9 FM). Follow him on Twitter: @mattyoumans247. | <urn:uuid:223572eb-8be7-405b-8842-92b91f696c5a> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/sports-books-brace-super-bowl-betting-storm | 2015-03-31T09:44:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131300464.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172140-00274-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972466 | 1,215 |
Renowned for her pure, luminous, rich soprano, persuasive performances and dramatic ability, Arianna Zukerman is considered one of the premiere vocal artists of her generation. An international artist in demand for concert and opera performances, Ms. Zukerman is also an avid chamber musician, and regularly collaborates with some of today’s foremost chamber players. The Washington Post has acclaimed, “Arianna Zukerman possesses a remarkable voice that combines the range, warmth and facility of a Rossini mezzo with shimmering, round high notes and exquisite pianissimos that would make any soprano jealous.”
With a focus on concert repertoire, Ms. Zukerman’s upcoming 2013—2014 engagements take her to the United Kingdom, where she makes her Royal Festival Hall debut in a three-city tour of the UK with the Royal Philharmonic at Reading’s The Hexagon, London’s Royal Festival Hall, and at the Cathedral in Salisbury, her father, Pinchas Zukerman conducting. Summer 2013 begins with a concert performance of Whitbourn’s Annelies: The Choral Setting of the Diary of Anne Frank with the Lincoln Trio, clarinetist Bharat Chandra, The Chicago Children’s Choir, Josephine Lee conducting, at Chicago’s Harris Theatre (presented under the auspices of the US Holocaust Museum’s 20th anniversary year) in early June. Ms. Zukerman also appears at the New Hampshire Music Festival and at Chicago’s International Beethoven Festival in recital with the Festival’s Founder/Artistic Director, George LePauw. With the Gonzaga Symphony in Spokane, Washington, she sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs and Verdi’s E Strano...sempre libera from La Traviata in early October, then travels cross-country to South Carolina for another performance of Annelies with the Carolina Master Chorale. With the National Philharmonic she sings Verdi’s Requiem, and with the American Bach Soloists, Handel’s Messiah at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and at the Mondavi Center in Davis, California. Also with the American Bach Soloists, Ms. Zukerman appears at San Francisco’s St. Stephen’s Church in a concert entitled “ABS Christmas”, along with renowned baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, that includes Bach’s “Jauchzet Gott” (Cantata, BWV 51). May 2014 brings a re-engagement with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra.
Highlights of the 2012-2013 season included a three-city, 15-concert engagement with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; a performance of Jake Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus for Urban Arias at the Strathmore Center for the Arts’s Strathmore Mansion; a concert with the Music of the Baroque under Jane Glover in Chicago singing Mozart’s “Exsultate Jubilate” and “Ch’io mi scordi di te”, with Vladimir Feltsman at the piano; a return to the Colorado Symphony as soloist in Fauré’s Requiem under conductor Jose Luis Gomez; as soloist in the Mutual Inspirations Festival at the National Gallery in DC, and with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah under Jane Glover. January 2013 saw the critically acclaimed release of a new Naxos recording of James Whitbourn’s oratorio, Annelies, the first major choral setting of Anne Frank’s diary (Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl), in which Ms. Zukerman is the featured soloist. The Guardian (UK) praised her performance on the CD¸ stating, “Arianna Zukerman sings with subdued beauty.”
Ms. Zukerman has sung the world premieres of Nizza in Donizetti's Elisabeth, conducted by Will Crutchfield at the Caramoor Music Festival, and of Wilma in Jean-Michel Damase's Ochelata's Wedding at the OK Mozart Festival. She premiered Julian Wachner’s piece, "Come My Dark Eyed One" in Boston in 2009, and at the Kennedy Center in 2011. She also sang the chamber version premiere of James Whitbourn’s oratorio, “Annelies”, in The Hague, Netherlands in 2009.
Ms. Zukerman’s extensive career includes performances with an impressive group of conductors including James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Ivor Bolton, Constantine Orbelian, Julian Wachner, Jeffrey Thomas, Jane Glover, Lawrence Foster, Rossen Milanov, Marin Alsop, Pinchas Zukerman, Jose Luis Gomez, and Andrew Litton. She has worked with major orchestras worldwide, including the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, Colorado, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic and National Arts Centre Orchestra in North America, and with the English String Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic (UK), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra abroad, to name a few. Among the opera companies with which she has performed are such esteemed organizations as New York City Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Arizona Opera, The Chattanooga Opera, the Berkshire Opera Company, and the Castleton Festival. An avid chamber musician, she counts among her collaborators such esteemed artists as violinist Daniel Hope; pianists Benjamin Hochman, Ken Noda, Navah Perlman, Joy Schreier, and Brian Zeger; clarinetists Bharat Chandra, Alex Fiterstein , Patrick Messina, and Anthony McGill; flutist Eugenia Zukerman; the Miami String Quartet, and The Lincoln Trio.
Arianna Zukerman was born in New York City into a musical family. Her father is violinist/violist/conductor Pinchas Zukerman, her mother is flutist, writer and arts broadcaster, Eugenia Zukerman, and her sister Natalia Zukerman is an accomplished singer/songwriter. In addition to her busy performing schedule she maintains an active studio at the Catholic University of America, where she is an Adjunct Professor of Voice, and she gives master classes around the United States.
A past recipient of the Sullivan Foundation Award, Ms. Zukerman was a member of the Bavarian State Opera’s Junges Ensemble. She studied theatre at Brown University and received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School. She resides with her family in Greater Washington, DC.
Ticket prices for general admission is $13 and $10 for seniors and non-GU students. This performance is free to GU faculty, students and staff. Tickets are either available by calling (509) 624-1200 or by visiting the ticket office at Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. | <urn:uuid:6e2b5a5b-52ce-4b63-a144-3386c31900cf> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.foxtheaterspokane.com/events-tickets&id=95 | 2015-04-02T04:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131317541.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172157-00098-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912836 | 1,496 |
Helping the Visually Impaired or Blind Mother Breastfeed
From: LEAVEN, Vol. 35 No. 3, June-July 1999, pp. 51-56
We provide articles from our publications from previous years for reference for our Leaders and members. Readers are cautioned to remember that research and medical information change over time
Understanding the impact of vision loss on breastfeeding can help a Leader assess and accommodate the needs of mothers.
Visual impairment and blindness pose real but not insurmountable challenges to the breastfeeding mother. When a mother who is visually impaired or blind contacts LLL for help with breastfeeding, she is likely to be referred to a sighted Leader. Yet most Leaders have little or no experience with visual impairment and blindness. The interaction of the Leader and the visually impaired or blind mother will be mutually rewarding and yield a positive breastfeeding outcome when the Leader is open to learning how vision loss can affect breastfeeding.
Variations in Vision
Approximately three percent of the population in the US is visually impaired or blind (Packer & Kirchner 1997). Visual impairment spans a wide spectrum of visual ability and is classified in the US by categories based on the type of activities in which a person can be expected to engage, degree of corrected visual acuity and visual field (Helveston & Ellis 1984, as cited in Whaley & Wong 1991).
Partially sighted includes visual acuity between 20/70 and 20/200. In other words, the partially sighted person may be able to see at 20 feet what the fully sighted would be able to see at 70 feet to 200 feet. The near vision of a partially sighted person is usually better than the distance vision.
The legally blind person has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less and/or a visual field of 20 degrees or less in the better- seeing eye.
Travel vision includes visual acuity of 20/400 which permits travel in unfamiliar surroundings but which may prevent the use of printed material.
Light perception involves only being able to perceive light which is an important aid in mobility, but does not permit the use of printed material.
A person with no useable vision at all is considered blind.
The spectrum of vision loss results in varying consequences for breastfeeding. For example, the woman who is visually impaired may or may not be able to visually use printed information regarding breastfeeding, independently navigate with ease in an unfamiliar LLL meeting location, learn from watching other mothers nursing their babies and see her own baby's breastfeeding position and latch-on. The mother who is blind must access all breastfeeding information and support using entirely nonvisual means.
Many Leaders have not had experience helping a visually impaired or blind woman seeking breastfeeding information. A Leader may react with a range of emotions from awkwardness and pity to respect and acceptance.
Awkwardness is a natural feeling that indicates more information and experience are needed. A sincere statement asking the mother what she needs could help.
Jane, I’m not quite sure how to handle this situation. Do you have any suggestions?
This is likely to be met with a smile and the needed information. Sighted people commonly feel the urge to provide more help than a blind or visually impaired person actually needs. If you think the mother may need assistance ask if you can be helpful and how.
Pity is a signal that one feels a difference in status and may be the result of unquestioned assumptions or stereotypes that can be replaced with accurate information. The mother who is blind may be overwhelmed by a recent loss of sight, may have come to terms with a loss of sight many years ago or may never have experienced sight.
While sensitivity to the mother’s level of comfort with her visual impairment or blindness is always appropriate, vision loss should never be equated with helplessness or lack of useful knowledge and skill. Extensive educational and rehabilitation services are available today. For example, canes and dog guides permit independent mobility in and out of one’s home. Information can be accessed in large print, with the aid of magnification lenses, on audio tape, in braille and by using computer screen reading programs with voice synthesizers. A visually impaired or blind person is as capable of meaningful and accomplished living as a sighted person, including attaining education and employment, socializing and raising a family. Sighted and visually impaired or blind mothers are more alike than they are different. Respect, acceptance and a willingness to learn are more appropriate and constructive than pity.
The visually impaired or blind mother may approach a Leader or Group with apprehension and a hesitance to ask for help. Her apprehension may be due to negative experiences with others involving misconceptions, prejudice or discrimination. She may have been advised not to have children or have been treated as though she were an incompetent mother solely because she is blind (Brewster 1979). She may not know any other visually impaired or blind mothers who have breastfed. If she has internalized misconceptions about motherhood and vision loss she may begin to doubt her own capacities. A hesitance to ask for help may stem, in part, from a cultural heritage emphasizing independence (Triandis 1994, 1995) and to the difficulty of attaining independence when one is visually impaired or blind.
A mother may also hesitate to go against well-meaning family members or health care providers who have advised her not to breastfeed due to their misconceptions about her physical limitation and/or breastfeeding. The visually impaired or blind mother may also hesitate to ask for help because she may already feel overwhelmed by the unusually large amount of conflicting advice she may be receiving from others who assume that she knows little about child care because she cannot see. Conveying acceptance and mother-to-mother support may help the mother feel more comfortable requesting help with breastfeeding.
Understanding the Mother's Needs
For a mother to fully benefit from the breastfeeding information and support available from LLL, her needs must be understood and accommodated. Depending on her degree of vision loss, a mother's needs may include assistance with traveling and communicating as well as non-visual methods of learning to breastfeed. When a Leader learns that a mother has partial or no vision it may be helpful to gather more information. The following questions can be considered:
- What are the limitations of her vision? She may use specific classifications (partially sighted, legally blind, travel vision, light perception) or she may use different terms to describe her vision loss. Use whatever language she uses after clarifying its meaning. For example, a woman who is completely blind may describe herself as “visually impaired.”
- What methods does she use to access printed information: large print, magnification lenses, audio cassette recordings, sighted reader, braille, computer screen reading program with voice synthesizer?
- What methods of travel does she use: no assistance needed, sighted guide, dog guide, cane?
- What forms of transportation does she use: public transportation, rides from others?
- If the woman is visually impaired, does her near vision permit her to see another mother breastfeeding a baby or her own baby's breastfeeding position and latch-on? At what distance?
- How long has she been visually impaired or blind and has she had sufficient time to develop compensatory methods for her vision loss?
There is no need to ask every mother all of these questions. Some of the answers may be obvious; some may be irrelevant given the nature of her breastfeeding question or interaction with the Leader or Group. Let the situation be your guide.
Body language is a major component of in-person communication (Sue 1990). It is common for a sighted person to feel uncomfortable when conversing with visually impaired or blind person, in part, because the visual cues she is accustomed to are missing. Communicating all information verbally, as in a telephone conversation, is necessary when talking with blind mother. In addition, the following techniques are helpful:
Identify yourself when you speak. It may take the mother time to learn to recognize your voice, especially in a large group of other voices. The blind mother will appreciate knowing who is in the room with her and who is talking. Speak to her when you enter the room and introduce her others:
Hi Sally, it’s Maura. Andrea and Maeve are sitting in the middle of the room with their babies. Oh, Elena just arrived with her new baby! Have you met Elena?
Speak directly to the blind mother Asking, “Sally, would you like some juice?” is more respectful than “Mary, would Sally like some juice?”
Speak with normal volume, speed and tone of voice. Some sighted people unintentionally speak differently to a blind person. Never assume hearing loss.
Convert gestures, visual aids and visual demonstrations into verbal descriptions or physical demonstrations. The location of toilet facilities can be described instead of gestured, a banana instead of a photo of a banana can be used as a visual aid, the use of a sling and various nursing positions can be physically demonstrated with a willing baby or a doll. Always obtain a mother's permission before touching her or her baby.
Introduce yourself and initiate conversation. A blind mother sitting next to you has no visual way of knowing whether you are looking in her direction, busily nursing your baby, reading a meeting notice or available for conversation. She also has no visual way of knowing who is seated next to her if you are not speaking or if she is not yet familiar with your voice. You can help her feel more welcome by taking the initiative in conversation.
Inform the mother when it is her turn. Many Groups use a round robin format (mothers speak in sequence going around the room) for introductions or other activities. You can help the blind mother sitting next to you participate by informing her when it is her turn.
Respectfully tell the mother if she has misunderstood you. Much of the sighted person's communication is done with facial expression and other body language. If the blind mother does not appear to be aware that she has misunderstood, it may be because you have only provided her with unseen visual cues. Communicating the problem verbally will help resolve it.
Your Group can more effectively communicate breastfeeding information when your library includes books on audio tape and/or in braille. Books and pamphlets published and/or approved by LLLI and articles from NEW BEGINNINGS are available on tape and in braille through the Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired (see “Additional Resources ” at the end of this article), Members of your Group can also volunteer to read (on tape or in person) pamphlets and tear-off sheets for the mother if they are not already available on tape or in braille. Be sure to coordinate audio taping with the Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired so that the audio taped information will then be available to other mothers.
A blind woman may have access to a braille computer, braille printer or a computer screen reading program that would permit her to read or hear text on electronic file such as meeting notices, meeting reminder postcards, Group newsletters and announcement sheets, a congratulatory note on the birth of her baby or reference citations related to a breastfeeding question. If she and the Group also have access to email, she can receive these messages through the internet and then read them in braille or listen to them using her computer screen reading program. Group publications can also be enlarged on a copier if the mother can read large print.
Making Meetings Inclusive
Regular attendance at LLL meetings is challenging for some mothers. Babies and toddlers may not cooperate, a car may not be available, public transportation may not be convenient or a mother may just be too tired. Visually impaired or blind mothers face additional challenges. Driving is not an option and public transportation may be overwhelmingly difficult. Lack of transportation to a meeting may prevent the visually impaired or blind mother from ever attending or keep her from coming back. She may have a long history of feeling that her inclusion at an event is just too inconvenient for others. It may be very hard for her to ask for a ride, especially repeatedly.
Organizing a group of women who are willing and able to provide a ride can create flexibility and more convenience for everyone. Group members should be encouraged to politely say “no ” if they are not able to act as drivers. Then another option can be arranged without unspoken feelings of resentment or frustration.
Like transportation to the meeting, mobility at the meeting site poses special challenges for the visually impaired or blind mother. When the mother arrives, it can be helpful for someone to introduce herself and invite the mother to stay with her during the entire meeting, especially the mother's first meeting. When the Leader makes this invitation, the mother will quickly learn the Leader's voice and be able to distinguish it from among the many other voices at the meeting. The mother will also then be able to easily identify the voice that is presenting LLL information amid the variety of opinions and experiences being expressed.
Group members who may not have any experience interacting with the visually impaired or blind can observe the appropriate attitudes and behaviors of the Leader. Asking the mother how the meeting can be made more comfortable for her lets her know that Group members are willing to learn and are open to suggestions.
Describing the meeting space can also be helpful, especially if the mother has never been at a meeting or in that location before.
Jane, we ’re meeting today in a large room with chairs arranged in a circle. Most of the crawling babies are sitting in the center of the circle with their mothers right now. We have a play area in the corner to your left for our active toddlers. There is a table immediately to your right for our Group ’s library books and sign-in sheet. How can I help you sign in?
Navigating through an unfamiliar space with crawling babies and running toddlers will be made much easier for the blind mother when someone offers to be her guide. She may use both her hand on your elbow and her cane to skillfully and comfortably follow where you lead. Announcing major changes in the territory, such as stairs, as you approach them can be helpful, as well as slowing down and pausing just before encountering steps. However it is not necessary to describe every detail.
Ask the mother to instruct you so that you can be an effective sighted guide. If you are relocating to another area - for example, for refreshments or to look at the Group Library books - you can help the mother feel more welcome and involved by inviting her to join you. Regardless of the degree of her vision loss, she can still participate in a discussion of the library ’s contents, book topics, and whether there are audio tapes available. Inform her when you are leaving since she cannot see that you are gathering your things or that you have walked away.
The mother may appreciate friendly help with her own baby or toddler. In her own home, she knows where things are, what areas are baby proof, who is in her home and how her child is likely to interact with family and friends. It is easier for her to keep her child safely and happily engaged at home than in a strange place among unseen children and mothers. The blind mother is not likely to be offended by gentle redirection of her own child back to her with a non-judgmental explanation of what necessitated the action. Respecting potential differences in the parenting methods of visually impaired or blind mothers can also help the mother feel welcome at a meeting (Cookson Martin, 1992).
A blind mother may use a crib or play pen more than most mothers in your Group, so that she can keep her crawling baby safe while she is occupied with a task. She may be especially appreciative of her baby's sling as she must keep at least one hand free for the use of a cane or to feel her way. She may also be more likely to keep her baby near her at night, either in bed with her or in a crib in the same room, to facilitate night nursings.
Sighted mothers can learn about breastfeeding in a variety of ways, including reading, talking with health care providers, breastfeeding counselors and breastfeeding mothers, watching other mothers nurse or looking at photographs and drawings. The visually impaired or blind mother must rely primarily or solely on sound, touch, smell and taste. Describing and demonstrating the breastfeeding process in adequate detail may require some thought and creativity.
Breastfeeding literature is generally written with drawings and photographs that show what the text does not fully say. Therefore, breastfeeding information that is recorded on audio cassette, transcribed into braille, or accessed with a computer screen reading program may not be completely clear to a mother who cannot see the missing visual aids.
It can be helpful for the Leader to consider how breastfeeding is done in the dark. The experience of nursing at night can yield much information which can be put into words as though one were speaking on the phone. In addition, using a doll or a willing baby and mother to demonstrate various breastfeeding positions can help the visually impaired blind mother make sense of the words she has been hearing.
Experienced breastfeeding mothers who are visually impaired or blind can also be a valuable source of information and support for the new mother. They may have suggestions of special techniques that they found personally helpful in breastfeeding . Check with other Leaders, your District Advisor/Coordinator and your Professional Liaison Leader see if there are mothers in your Area who are willing to be contacted by phone. LLLI maintains a list of specialty Leaders with personal and/or counseling experience with breastfeeding and visual impairment or blindness (see below).
When the visually impaired or blind mother contacts LLL during pregnancy, the Leader can discuss with her benefits of coordinating breastfeeding support well in advance of her due date. For example, the mother can talk with her physician or midwife about breastfeeding and document his or her support of the mother’s intention to breastfeed including keeping her baby with her and caring for her baby on her own after the birth (Brewster 1979). She can make an appointment to talk about breastfeeding and blindness with the supervisor of the obstetrics ward if she is planning on giving birth in a hospital or clinic. Such advance arrangements can help avoid stress, provide support for breastfeeding, reduce possible misconceptions about visual impairment or blindness among the mother’s health care providers, and make it easier to resolve breastfeeding questions or problems related to visual impairment or blindness.
Learning about breastfeeding during pregnancy is useful preparation for any mother. However, having an experienced nursing mother observe positioning and latch-on soon after birth can build confidence and help the new mother avoid the pain of engorgement, sore nipples and mastitis. Like sighted mothers, the visually impaired or blind mother may have received conflicting and/or inaccurate advice during her baby’s first nursings. In addition, the blind mother cannot see how her baby’s nursing compares to a drawing in a book. A Leader could offer to make a home or hospital visit during the early days of breastfeeding and make tentative arrangements with the mother before the birth.
Suggestions to Consider
The following suggestions may help the Leader effectively share her breastfeeding knowledge while encouraging the visually impaired or blind mother creatively apply her non-visual skills to the experience of breastfeeding. Encourage the mother to experiment so that she can find what works best for her and her baby.
Prioritize. A visually impaired or blind mother may hope or expect to be breastfeeding well using any position with no assistance sooner than it can actually happen. She may underestimate the amount of time and practice it can take to learn to position and latch on her baby independently. In addition, she may not anticipate that her baby could need a great deal of help staying awake long enough to nurse well, that she might develop sore nipples or a breast infection, that her baby's sucking might become confused with the use of bottles, pacifiers or nipple shields. She may feel frustrated with the number of things she must learn in such a short period of time. If difficulties occur, encourage the mother to identify which aspects of breastfeeding are the most important to improve first. A step-by-step approach may require patience, but it is usually less overwhelming and more effective than working on too many things at once.
Use words more than hands to help. Sighted health care providers, family members or friends who are helping a visually impaired or blind mother with breastfeeding may be very tempted to position the baby themselves, place the mother's breast in the baby's mouth or arrange pillows for the mother. While this type of help may get breastfeeding established quickly, it also makes the mother dependent on others and may leave her feeling discouraged, incompetent or afraid to be alone with the baby. When a sighted person makes verbal descriptions and suggestions instead, the mother can choose to take action herself or request physical assistance. In this way she will more quickly develop the skills that she needs to breastfeed her baby independently.
Consider starting with the football hold. This nursing position provides good access to the baby's face, lets the mother use the hand supporting her baby's head to feel how actively his jaw is moving when he sucks and may allow her to use her free hand more easily than she could with other nursing positions. Once she is comfortable nursing in this position, she may find it easier to apply her new skills at latch-on and positioning to other positions. For similar reasons, the cross cradle hold may be a good second position to try.
Try nursing with a baby sling. When the baby is lying in the sling with his head away from the shoulder pad and strap, the mother has good access to his face and can use both her hands for positioning and latch-on. Once her baby is comfortably nursing, one or both of her hands may be freed for navigating and she can nurse anywhere she and baby may go. Keep in mind that it can take quite a bit of time for a mother and baby to learn how to nurse with a sling.
Use fingers to help with latch-on. The visually impaired or blind mother can use her fingers in a variety of ways to help the baby locate her nipple and latch on correctly. The mother can place the tip of her index finger on her nipple, use her finger to touch the baby's mouth to stimulate the rooting reflex and then quickly withdraw it as the baby latches on. Alternatively, the mother can use a finger to guide her baby's chin and help keep his mouth open a bit wider or a bit longer to facilitate latch-on.
The mother can also try using a modified “C” hold. In this hold, the mother places her thumb where one corner of her baby's mouth should be when he is latched on correctly. She places her index finger where the other corner of her baby's mouth should be. The mother's nipple is centered between her thumb and index finger and her hand is cupped under her breast. The correct position of her fingers can be determined with experimentation and/or verbal feedback from a sighted helper. Once the baby is latched on and sucking well the mother can move her hand back to the standard “C” hold to support her breast as needed. There are as many ways to use fingers during latch-on as there are mothers and babies. Encourage experimentation so that the mother can discover what works for her.
Limit visitors. During the early weeks, too many visitors may interfere with the time, practice and rest the visually impaired or blind mother may need to get breastfeeding going well. Frequent visitors may also result in conflicting advice and inaccurate information that can come from too many people trying to be helpful. Encourage the mother to identify visitors whom she finds supportive and those whose visits she would like to postpone until breastfeeding is well established. She also might find it more restful to have limited “visiting hours” instead of having guests come and go all day long.
Be creative. Work with the mother to come up with creative approaches to whatever challenges she is facing. She is already skilled at doing this in every other aspect of her life as she continually adapts to living in a primarily sighted world. Encourage experimentation - that unusual idea just might work! For example, the mother may be tired of relying on the baby's father to assess how wet her newborn's diapers are to be sure the baby is getting enough milk. The mother can create her own wet diaper standard by pouring 2 to 4 tablespoons of water into a clean diaper and sealing it in a plastic bag. She can then place any wet diaper in an identical plastic bag and compare their weight and feel.
Think positively. Trust, touch and time will help the visually impaired or blind breastfeeding mother overcome the usual and unusual challenges of the early weeks of breastfeeding As the mother grows with her baby, she will learn to understand his movements, sounds and smells as well as learn to trust her developing capacity to meet his needs. The mother will use touch to learn to position and latch on her baby, to feel how his jaw moves when he is sucking well, to feel how he roots when he has lost her nipple or needs to burp, to feel how he smiles when he is full and content. In time, baby will develop more strength and coordination as well as become more alert and effective at sucking. The sighted baby will also learn to find his mother’s nipple visually. The mother's experimentation and practice will gradually help her develop the skills and confidence she needs to breastfeed independently using a variety of positions. Patience, perseverance, and accurate rate information and sensitive support will help the nursing pair find their way.
When approached by a visually impaired or blind mother the Leader may think it would be best to immediately refer her to another Leader with more specialized experience. However, the mother-to- mother support of LLL is accessed through the local Group Leader not through a Leader who may live miles away. When a Leader seeks out resources first, she will be able to use her own knowledge to effectively assist the visually impaired or blind mother.
If the Leader rather than the mother contacts a specialty Leader, the Leader will have the needed information if a similar situation arises in the future (Baker 1998). Referring the mother to a specialty Leader or the Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired will be most effective when the Leader has first contacted them herself.
When a Leader is open to learning, she demonstrates a concept important to every mother: it's all right to be inexperienced and need more information. Regardless of one's degree of vision, breastfeeding and mothering are adventures in living that naturally include continually learning from our babies and from each other.
LLLI Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Betsy Grenevitch is the LLLI Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired. She has been a Leader with the Atlanta- Emory Group in Georgia, USA, for five years, has eight years of experience breastfeeding her three children and is blind. She welcomes contact by phone or email from both Leaders and mothers to talk about breastfeeding and visual impairment.
Betsy maintains a collection of LLL approved and or published books and pamphlets in braille and on audio tape for purchase and lending. She also coordinates the transcription of books and pamphlets into braille as well as their recording onto audio tapes. Volunteers are needed to read LLL books onto audio tape. Contact Betsy for guidelines (see “Additional Resources ” at the end of this article).
A current project is the transcription of the THE WOMANLY ART OF BREASTFEEDING, 6th edition, into braille.
Free Mail for the Blind and Visually Impaired
In the USA, information in media such as braille, large print, audio cassette recordings and electronic text file on computer diskette may be mailed postage free to people who are blind or visually impaired. The sender should write or stamp “Free matter for the blind and physically handicapped ” in the upper right hand corner of the package in place of postage stamps. The recipient must arrange in advance with her local postmaster by providing acceptable proof of vision impairment. For more information contact your local US Post Office. Similar programs may exist in other countries.
- A list of specialty Leaders with personal or counseling experience with visually impaired breastfeeding mothers is available to Leaders, health care professionals and mothers. Contact: LLLI Education Department, 957 N. Plum Grove Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173 USA; phone 847-519-7730; fax 847-519-0035
- More than 40 books, 30 pamphlets and various articles from New Beginnings are available for purchase and loan on audio tape and in braille. All materials are approved and/or published by LLLI. Topics include breastfeeding, parenting, birth, nutrition and more. The list of publications is available in printed form and on audio tape. Orders may be placed by phone, email or audio tape. The US postal service requires no postage for sending materials for the blind and visually impaired. Contact: Betsy Grenevitch, LLLI Coordinator of Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 1055 Seville Drive, Clarkston, Georgia 30021 USA. Phone 404-297-9313; email blindangel at onebox.com [editorial note: this has been updated from the printed document].
- Conference session audio tapes are available for purchase from LLLI and for loan from some LLL Area Libraries. Contact: For purchasing information, contact LLLI. P.O.Box 4079, Schaumburg, Illinois 60168-4079 USA. Phone 847-519-9585; fax 847-519-0035. For lending information, contact your District Advisor/Coordinator or Area Librarian.
- What to Do When You Meet a Blind Person (brochure); A Different Way of Seeing: An Open Letter to Children About People Who Are Visually Handicapped (brochure). Contact: American Foundation for the Blind, 11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300, New York, New York 10001 USA. Phone 212-502-7600; email afbinfo at afb.org; Web site http://www.afb.org/afb.
- Do You Know a Blind Person? (brochure). Contact: National Federation of the Blind, 1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230 USA. Phone 410-659-9314; Web site http://www.nfb.org.
- When You Meet a Blind Person (brochure). Contact: American Council of the Blind, 1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 720, Washington, DC 20005 USA. Phone 202-467-5081 or 800-424-8666; fax 202-467-5085; email ncrabb at acb.org; Web site http://www.acb.org.
- A variety of books on audio tape and in braille, tape recorders and record players can be borrowed at no charge from the Talking Book Program through the Library of Congress. Contact: Talking Books, National Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1291 Taylor Street, NW, Washington, DC 20542 USA. Phone 202-707-5100.
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Tombides started the game from the bench, but Haycock says it's all to do with his fitness plan as the Aussie recovers from overcoming a cancer battle.
"You saw the quality of his finish, I was joking with him at the end of the game about the shot he put over the bar but you can see the boys got quality.
"It's more about slowly but surely with Dylan. I know what he's capable of and I see a good career in front of him, we speak every day and he knows what I think of him and I'll do the right thing by him," Haycock told whufc.com.
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// Unhide (ps)
Detecting hidden processes. Implements six techniques
Compare /proc vs /bin/ps output
Compare info gathered from /bin/ps with info gathered by walking thru the procfs.
Compare info gathered from /bin/ps with info gathered from syscalls (syscall scanning).
Full PIDs space occupation (PIDs bruteforcing)
Reverse search, verify that all thread seen by ps are also seen by the kernel ( /bin/ps output vs /proc, procfs walking and syscall )
Quick compare /proc, procfs walking and syscall vs /bin/ps output.
Identify TCP/UDP ports that are listening but not listed in /bin/netstat doing brute forcing of all TCP/UDP ports availables.
Install unhide in ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following command
sudo apt-get install unhide
Using unhide command
Using the unhide tool can be done by typing in the following command from your terminal
sudo unhide-posix proc
sudo unhide-posix sys
Or, if you are on a Linux 2.6 kernel system run the following commands from your terminal
sudo unhide-linux26 sys
sudo unhide-linux26 brute
The unhide tool will begin to scan the kernel in every directory looking for any hidden processes. Each directory will be listed as the tool scans. If processes are found, you will be given a message:
HIDDEN Processes Found: (#)
The # will display how many processes were found on the system. If no hidden processes were found, the output will read, No hidden processes found.
The unhide tool can also help you find hidden ports that you would normally not find in the netstat. You can locate these by typing in:
Incoming search terms:
- ubuntu forensic tools
- sysinfo procs
- unhide ubuntu
- ubuntu unhide
- open source forensic tools
- unhide HIDDEN Processes Found: 1 sysinfo procs
- unhide me tool
- unhide for ubuntu
- unhide folders
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Providing call center services to clients regardless of nature of business and size is the task performed by business process outsourcing companies. Call centers focus their attention on delivering satisfaction to both client s and their customers. The responsibility that rests on the shoulders of call center representatives is enormous since they need to please two different groups at the same time.
The tasks that call center representatives face are now easier to solve and fix. Telephone and other communication channels have made requests and queries easier to understand. Software programs and navigable interfaces have made documentation and troubleshooting a breeze for tech support representatives. Lastly, customer relations management is a burden no more to call center supervisors and owners as improvements to standard operational procedures and best practices are being modified on a regular basis.
Despite all the changes and progress in the call center industry, there are still instances when management and agents fail to deliver good, outstanding service. It is natural to expect only the best from call center companies as this is the only way that they are expected to serve their clients- superior contact center support.
Here are top myths that surround the call center services. These misconceptions have somehow slowed down and halted a lot of call center entities from reaching their business goals as a customer relations company. It is because of these myths that clients terminate their contract with a call center for their services and look for a better company that can deliver them premium, desirable results.
Customers are always right
Everyone is familiar with this phrase and should rightfully be followed when you are working in the call center industry. Call center services are rendered not only to consumers but also to clients who have obtained a company’s service to represent them over the phone, chat, and email channels.
Call center agents fail to understand that they have two sets of customers. In the context of providing services, they are mandated to follow strict guidelines from the client’s end. The rules of call handling that are directed from a company serve as a guide for call center representatives in order to achieve the two primary goals of clients- profitability and customer satisfaction.
However not all call center representatives abide by client rules. They allow the customers of their primary clients to take control of the call or situation. Agreeing or saying yes to every customer demands should never be the default action of agents. It should be remembered that not all complaints or problems experienced by customers are caused by faulty products and services that were purchased from the company you are answering for.
It is then essential to be firm and composed when answering client concerns and inquiries. Never sound distracted, scared, or worried while handling either an inbound or outbound call. Confidence and extensive knowledge of a client’s products and services is key to a successful customer call.
Longer Average Handling Time means Low productivity scores Call center managers drive their agents to resolve customer problems in record time. It seems like most call centers operate this way. Although low AHTs is one of the many best practices, it should be noted that hurrying up on a call is counterproductive. Rather than understand customer concerns, agents are forced to only pay attention to the time that they are supposed to answer queries and concerns. Call center agents are also forced to bypass quality control rules just so they can meet AHT metrics.
Productivity is a measure of customer satisfaction a call center representative was able to provide consumers without bypassing client guidelines and call center standard operational metrics. Being able to meet low AHT is a plus, but should never be the sole basis of agent productivity and client gains.
Front line customer service representatives are not proficient enough to deliver customer satisfaction
Front line or Tier 1 customer support representatives are the group of agents who answer general concerns and inquiries. This does not mean that they do not have sufficient knowledge about the company they are representing. Call center companies hire individuals with no prior call center experience as front liners as they are required to undergo trainings and product knowledge seminars while on the floor. Knowing how to answer and respond to basic customer needs should be learned and mastered by agents before they can advance to higher positions and even managerial posts.
There are Tier 1 agents who are equipped with extensive knowledge about the product. The problem only lies among those agents who lack confidence or show uncertainty when faced with irate and verbally abusive customers. Despite all these, tier 1 call center agents are more than able to provide resolution and satisfaction to customers who need basic and general answers to simple questions.
Chat and Email support do not work as well as telephone call center services
It is true that talking to a live person on the other end of the line is more comfortable and convenient to most consumers. However chat and email support can also be as efficient and effective in solving client inquiries, complaints, and problems. Chat support agents who answer to chat-based or email-based concerns are trained to answer them in a logical, structured, and prompt manner. It is actually more difficult to respond in such mediums as most consumers may not be able to express everything that they want to address in chat or email. It is then the responsibility of contact support agents to explain everything in a comprehensive manner and include information related to customer queries altogether. Resolution is also expected to be delivered to customers in a quick and prompt manner to increase customer satisfaction rates as well. | <urn:uuid:d3905654-2cb9-48ca-b4bc-a574fd07b17e> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | https://callcentersindia.wordpress.com/ | 2015-04-02T04:22:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131317541.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172157-00098-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963915 | 1,067 |
[Space] Minutes 3/9/09
dichro at rcpt.to
Wed Mar 10 23:29:52 PST 2010
Will mylar hold much of a pressure differential? Or is the plan to
line a foam cavity with mylar? I'm not sure we need to worry too much
about heat loss through the foam, so I assume you're thinking of using
the mylar to prevent convective heat loss through the cracks? Is there
an easy way to prevent overheating as well?
Tapping the radio battery triggers my recovery paranoia; if we have
the weight budget to spare, I'd feel safer if we avoided tampering
with the position reporting dependencies. For all the SMS stuff worked
flawlessly last time, we'll be flying new software and if something
goes wrong with it, the radio beacon will be the only way to find the
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> While antifreeze sounds like a neat idea, vaporization is not the problem so
> much as pressure/thinned atmosphere. Think pv=nrt sort of deal, keeping in
> mind those phase charts from chemistry.
> "We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small shell
> scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17
> The outer bounds is only the beginning.
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Albert Alexander
> <albert.alexander at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear mod(s): Please disregard prev. email, accidentally sent as
>> Here's what we did and thought about on Tuesday.
>> THE FIGHT AGAINST CONDENSATION
>> The internals of the payload will be contained in a mylar envelope. This
>> will provide a continuous thermal space that retains a LOT of heat (space
>> blankets claim something like 90%). I'm still investigating the energy
>> required to keep this space above dew point. That would prevent condensation
>> Still working on whether we should add a battery dedicated to warming. I'd
>> much rather tap a camera or radio battery to avoid the extra mass. On first
>> glance the radio battery looks like a prime candidate (low drain long life)
>> and is least likely to automatically shut off if it gets hot.
>> Indium Tin Oxide film (ITO) is enroute courtesy of Bayview Optics. This
>> will heat the lenses with a thermistor circuit. There is a cup in my freezer
>> with antifreeze on it to test evaporation rate; this could be an acceptable
>> passive substitute for lens heaters depending on the distortion (its kinda
>> Camera circuits will be sealed with a conformal coating. Silicone looks
>> ideal. Hopefully will have some by Sunday for further testing.
>> THE PAYLOAD
>> Styrofoam was cut and beveled with the classy new wire cutter. A camera
>> port has been added. The payload looks fairly anthropomorphic now. It needs
>> a name.
>> Antenna was bound to carbon rods with thread.
>> Space mailing list
>> Space at lists.noisebridge.net
> Space mailing list
> Space at lists.noisebridge.net
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The Hollywood icon talks about A Night in Old Mexico, why he loves Westerns and how you know you've found the right hat+ READ ARTICLE
As Robert Duvall tells it, the movie A Night in Old Mexico — which opened May 16 and is now available on VOD — has been a long time in the making. The iconic actor spoke to TIME last week about how the project came to fruition, and the story starts way back with 1989’s Lonesome Dove, another Western by William Wittliff. Though he was too young to play Mexico‘s hero at the time, as he tells it in the video above, he stuck with the story of Red Bovie, an aging rancher on the verge of losing his ranch who heads across the border with his long-lost grandson for one last night of fun. Duvall says that eventually he told the producers that if they pulled the plug on the movie, he’d be as sad as Red Bovie losing his ranch.
It’s a film that meshes well with the Duvall oeuvre of Westerns — “it’s a modern-day Western,” he says, “in spirit.” Though the film doesn’t make use of Duvall’s love of horses and skill in the saddle, which were some of the original reasons he fell for the genre, it has the wardrobe down pat. Here, Duvall discusses how he chooses a hat for a cowboy role:
The 83-year-old actor says he has no particular plans to retire; he’ll stop acting when people stop offering him good parts, he says. He hasn’t heard anything about the long-stalled Terry Gilliam/Don Quixote project to which he was attached in the past, which is now reportedly moving forward without him, but says he has a good few projects left in him. For example, he’s hoping to make a movie this summer about the Texas Rangers, which would star his wife as one of the few female Rangers.
There’s great potential for projects that would grab his attention. Smart young people today are writing scripts rather than novels, he believes, and film is in a good place. And, though he says that Hollywood hasn’t changed in that “there’s always action and cut,” he’s observed an opening-up of the medium, for the better: | <urn:uuid:32271d77-7d6b-4615-b81e-c1fb56fb5f2a> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://time.com/104626/robert-duvall-video-interview/ | 2015-03-28T00:40:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131297146.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172137-00166-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977694 | 512 |
Sister of domestic homicide victim steps up to raise awareness
JANESVILLE—Sharon Baker Bucklin was supposed to leave her North Carolina home for graduate school in Mississippi on May 26, 1995.
Instead, she learned her sister had been murdered in Janesville, so she boarded a plane for Wisconsin.
"It was very traumatic," Baker Bucklin said.
Susan Anderson, 34, was killed in her Janesville home--beaten and stomped to death by her husband, Gregory Anderson.
Baker Bucklin, Milton, will be the keynote speaker at the Friday, Sept. 27, YWCA Rock County Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser.
Proceeds from the annual march will benefit the YWCA's Alternatives to Violence program and its Transitions for Women program.
The Alternatives to Violence program in 2012 housed 139 women and 143 children in its 33-bed domestic violence shelter. Staff and volunteers fielded 339 calls on the 24-hour crisis HELP line, said Beth Tallon, public relations director.
Single mothers with a history of domestic violence find sustainable employment and affordable housing for their families through the YWCA's Transition for Women program that served 60 households in 2012, she said.
Baker Bucklin said the walk is important because it gets males involved in what statistically is an issue of men abusing women and because it educates and creates awareness about domestic violence.
"It crosses all lines, all ages and all relationships. So, you need to know what (service) is out there, and if not for yourself for someone else," she said.
Baker Bucklin said her speech would represent the viewpoint of a domestic violence victim's family, what it's like to experience it and survive it.
"I'm trying to educate people that (domestic violence) is not necessarily the stereotypical abuse you think of. Anybody can be a victim of abuse and it can be a one-time deal. You need to be aware there is a pattern, sometimes, but not necessarily a daily thing."
That was the case with her sister, she said.
During the murder investigation, the Bakers learned of three domestic events between Susan and her husband, who were in marriage counseling at the time of Susan's death, Baker Bucklin said.
"I don't think she was abused weekly or monthly but certainly there had been a few events in the 13 years they were married. Cops had limited contact with them," she said.
A month before she was killed, Susan talked to her parents, Jim and June Baker, once, about a physical argument she'd had with her husband. That was the only time she had mentioned any domestic issues to them.
"I don't think my sister considered herself an abuse victim, and she should have," Baker Bucklin said.
"Women don't have to stay in a shelter or leave their husbands, but they need to be aware of the different kinds of abuse and what their options are," she said.
The impact of Susan's death continues to take a toll on the Baker family. While dealing with the daughter's death, Susan's parents were thrust into a yearlong custody battle for their grandchildren--then ages 6 and 7--with Gregory Anderson's family.
Baker Bucklin and her mother attended Anderson's parole hearings in 2010 and again earlier this year and will continue to do so every three years, she said.
"I owe it to my sister who is not here to speak for herself. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he pays for this crime," Baker Bucklin said.
Susan's father doesn't like to come back to Janesville and has never attended any of the parole hearings.
"It's just too painful for him," Baker Bucklin said.
Last year she sponsored a Walk a Mile team called The Blisters. This year, she would like to organize a team of colleagues from UW-Rock County, where she teaches Spanish. She and her daughters will walk in this year's march.
The loss of Susan at such a young age and in such a tragic way still hurts.
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Meet the carboot lawyer who wings in and out of Christchurch with a huge caseload on behalf of desperate quake-struck homeowners.
Auckland leaky-home specialist Grant Shand carries the hopes of more than 100 people who are fighting EQC and insurance companies.
Shand has more earthquake clients than any other lawyer in Christchurch. Of the 86 cases on the High Court list there last week, his name was bracketed with 38.
The single 44-year-old works from a rental car and bunks with friends or at a motel.
"There is no accommodation in Christchurch. They call them carboot lawyers in New Zealand. I do have access to office facilities like a printer and a fax machine but all I need is a car and a laptop," he said.
He travels home regularly to Auckland's Clarks Beach - usually flying stand-by.
Shand said he moved from leaky buildings to quake damage because the same skills were required.
"I know how insurance companies work. I worked for seven years in leaky buildings, suing councils and builders. Also, there is so much opportunity for work in Christchurch. Leaky building litigation is coming to an end and the earthquake work is just beginning."
Shand took the first test case to the High Court at Christchurch for Dallington couple Matt and Valerie O'Loughlin. Insurance claim adjusters WorldClaim, which estimated the claim to be worth $1.3m, referred them to him.
The couple sought a payout cap of $888,000 from Tower Insurance Ltd after rejecting $337,000 to repair their broken house.
The High Court ruled Tower Insurance should pay the full replacement value but stopped short of a decision that could open all red zone claims for the full insured value.
Shand said the final payout was confidential, and he wouldn't discuss his fee. However, he estimated it cost $5000 to get a case to court.
"Word of mouth is a big thing in Christchurch. It's a huge market. There are thousands of clients out there. There's about 10 years of litigation to be done in Christchurch and then there'll be people suing builders for work done. It's worth billions," he said.
He said he could cope with the workload. "It's easy. The issues are similar for all my clients. The court has been designed to process cases quickly. It is better for people to get into the court system because it enforces action on the insurance companies. People have been waiting too long, it's stupid," he said.
Shand began working for Christchurch clients in April 2011 while still working for specialist leaky home law firm Grimshaw & Co in Auckland. He was prevented from working on leaky homes for four months under his contract with Grimshaw but now has added a few clients in Auckland.
Shand's daughters, 18 and 20, are studying law and commerce at Otago University. "They had to or I wouldn't pay for it."
He also owns a share in the Super City Rangers national league basketball team.
Valerie O'Loughlin declined to discuss her claim but said she was happy with Shand's work. "He did the job for us," she said.
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|Embarrassed billionaires tried to keep a lid on this story, but it cried out to be told: how America's greatest comic-book company was driven to the brink of insolvency by warring tycoons and rescued from the abyss by two obscure but wily entrepreneurs. |
In the late 1980s, financier Ronald Perelman, worth billions and riding high after his hostile takeover of the cosmetics firm Revlon, bought Marvel Entertainment-legendary creator of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and other superheroes-and he had big plans. He not only began churning out more comic books, he also acquired sports cards and other subsidiaries, impressing Wall Street so much that after he took the company public, Marvel's market value ballooned to over $3 billion.
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Re: The Origin of Life Prize
George Murphy (email@example.com)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:39:32 -0400
Bill Hamilton wrote:
> Art wrote
> >Somehow I am very suspicious of this site. Sounds like a setup to me.
> >It certainly is in my opinion, a prize that will never be claimed.
> While I wouldn't characterize my reaction as suspicion, let me point out
> that the rules of the competition would make it difficult or impossible for
> me as a Christian to consider participation, even though I'm fairly
> convinced that evolution does occur and could well be a mechanism God used
> to bring about life as we know it. The first paragraph on the page
> stipulates that
> The Origin-of-Life Prize" (R) (hereafter called "the Prize") will be
> awarded for proposing a highly plausible mechanism for the spontaneous rise
> of genetic information in nature sufficient to give rise to life. To win,
> the explanation must correspond to empirical biochemical and thermodynamic
> reality, and be published in a well-respected, peer-reviewed science
> The kicker is "spontaneous". If I were to submit an entry, I would by
> implication be accepting their claim that life arose spontaneously. As a
> Christian I know that, whatever the mechanism(s), life was ordained by God
> and therefore did not arise spontaneously.
I don't see that this is a big problem. Christians talk all the time about
things happening "spontaneously" (hydrogen combining with flourine, heat flowing from
high temperature to low &c) with no implication that God is not involved. The idea
that the origin of life must be outside the range of phenomena which can be explained
in terms of secondary causation is unfounded. In Gen.1 it is precisely the origin of
living things which _is_ spoken of as mediated. & for centuries intelligent Christians
believed in spontaneous generation of flies &c - wrongly of course, but without any
sense that there was any conflict with the doctrine of creation.
However - one thing that makes we wonder about the prize site is the meter long
list of "judges" & the combination of some of the names. Watching Dembski & Atkins,
e.g., trying to agree on whether or not a proposal for spontaneous origin of life is
good would be a treat in itself!
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Suing for Freedom
In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that a slave could not sue for his freedom. Many call this ruling the worst Supreme Court decision of all time.
While Dred Scott’s story made the history books, the act of a slave suing in the courts for freedom was not that uncommon. “Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott,” a new book by University of Iowa College of Law professor Lea VanderVelde, dives into this complex and surprising history.
Due out in May, VanderVelde writes in “Redemption Songs” that approximately 300 suits filed by slaves petitioning for freedom came through the St. Louis Circuit Court. Remarkably, many of these individuals won.
The reason so many freedom suits ended up in St. Louis was that the city was one of the few places in the upper Midwest a court case could be heard. “St. Louis was an emergency room for legal problems in the early 1800s,” says VanderVelde.
While slavery was illegal throughout most of the Midwest, slaves could pass through or even reside in “free” areas for a finite amount of time before they were legally free. This law was a source of much litigation up until Dred Scott v. Sandford.
“Often people worked as they went west, and so they would stop for a season to work at a farm, to put their slaves to work harvesting a crop, planting a crop, or even just staying over a winter,” VanderVelde says. “It was that kind of residence that meant that they (slaves) were free.”
However, many slaves were ignorant of their legal right and remained enslaved for years. Furthermore, even if a slave knew they were legally free, suing was a daunting prospect.
“It was a feat of endurance. They had to consider that they would encounter retaliation even though they were supposed to be protected from it.”
Often women were more likely to sue for their freedom than men because slavery was matrilineal. While it must have taken incredible fortitude to defy her master, securing her children’s freedom propelled many mothers to file suit.
“In the 300 cases that I’ve managed…to discover that most of them are led by women, by mothers. They’re most often a mother suing for freedom and then a follow-up of her children also gaining their freedom based on hers.”
Such was the case with Lydia Titus. Titus formally registered as a free person in 1814 after winning suit against her late master Elijah Mitchell’s widow, Jinsey Mitchell.
However, on May 22, 1832 a posse acting on behalf of Jinsey Mitchell arrived at Titus’s farmhouse and kidnapped six of her children and two grandchildren. Though the family eventually proved they were in free and had resided in Illinois for decades, the process took several years and during that time three of Titus children died .
Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865 by the 13th Amendment. However, VanderVelde still draws parallels from her work to today.
“When we look at the people in society who are most vulnerable, who are the least well off, and yet they have some basic human right. Unless we protect that basic human right it’s likely it will be worn away.”
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As you’ve come to expect, here is OMG! Yummy’s Saturday edition of French Fridays with Dorie.
How could I resist? Page 414 of Around My French Table displays a picture of toasted brioche dripping with nutella, scattered with toasted, chopped nuts. The fork is dripping with the chocolate hazelnut confection and in the background is a jar of orange marmalade and two small bowls of chopped nuts and sea salt. If any of these delectable ingredients is not your cup of tea, then by all means, click onward. But if you are in the same mindset as me that anything with bread, chocolate, sea salt, and toasted nuts must be worth a try, then read on.
Nutella Tartine from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook Around My French Table opens with “It is impossible to overestimate the French love of Nutella, the chocolate and hazelnut spread invented in Italy about seventy years ago and eaten with gusto all over most of Europe.” The photo was enough to hook me, the headnote just sealed the deal.
I envisioned many ways I could turn this from a simple snack to a major undertaking — make the orange marmalade myself, bake the brioche from scratch, find a recipe for chocolate hazelnut spread instead of using the purchased jar. But really, if I can’t even complete the recipe in time for the Friday post, that line of thinking was just going nowhere. So instead, I found some brioche buns I had in the freezer, stopped at our new grocery store (yippee!) and purchased a jar of organic marmalade and some fresh hazelnuts.
This morning I took the buns out to defrost, toasted the hazelnuts, opened a new jar of nutella from the pantry, snapped some photos and the preparation began. It is quite simple – once you’ve gathered your ingredients including toasting and chopping the hazelnuts and slicing the bread if necessary (challah would also be yummy), you just brush the brioche with the melted butter and slide them under the broiler to brown. When you pull them out, be ready to slather with the bitter sweet orange marmalade, drip the nutella on with the tines of a fork, scatter some sea salt and lots of toasted, chopped hazelnuts and eat it as quickly as you can. My daughter and I found the juxtaposition of the bitter marmalade, the sweet nutella, the chunky hazelnuts, and the crunchy, buttery bread intoxicating.
Dorie explains in a side note that in France, a chocolate sandwich is a common after-school snack – the French version of milk and cookies. I recall Molly Wizenberg in her book A Homemade Life writes a whole chapter about the first time her parents took her to Paris and the food she most remembered was a chocolate sandwich. Sometimes it is really just the simple things…
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In attemopt to understand basic principles of non-Euclidean geometry and its relation to physical space, I am reading General Relativity by Ben Crowell. On page 149 there is a discussion of hexagons on a surface of sphere which I don't understand. He writes (caption for image attached):
"Because the space is locally Euclidean, the sum of the angles at a vertex has its Euclidean value of 360 degrees. The curvature can be detected, however, because the sum of the internal angles of a polygon is greater than the Euclidean value. For example, each spherical hexagon gives a sum of 6 x 124.31 degrees, rather than the Euclidean 6 x 120. The angular defect of 6 x 4.31 degrees is an intrinsic measure of curvature."
As three identical angles meet at the vertex and their sum is 360 degrees, one third of which is 120 degrees, how could the angle be 124.31? | <urn:uuid:91571e73-a98e-43cb-aaa2-d5e4f75b6cbe> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/43781/tiling-hexagons-on-a-sphere-surface | 2015-03-29T22:28:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298755.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00282-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936547 | 201 |
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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 636749, 23 pages
Ants as Indicators in Brazil: A Review with Suggestions to Improve the Use of Ants in Environmental Monitoring Programs
1Laboratory of Ant Ecology, Sector of Ecology, Department of Biology, Federal University of Lavras, 37200-000 Lavras, MG, Brazil
2Institute of Education of Divinópolis, Educational Foundation of Divinópolis, 35501-170 Divinópolis, MG, Brazil
3Post-Graduate Program in Entomology, Department of Entomology, Federal University of Viçosa, 36570-000, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Received 31 May 2011; Revised 11 August 2011; Accepted 16 August 2011
Academic Editor: Jonathan D. Majer
Copyright © 2012 Carla R. Ribas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
We describe the use of ants as indicators in Brazil, based on a critical review of published articles. The analysis of fifty-eight papers, encompassing a range of almost 25 years, indicates an increased number of studies using ants as indicators in the last decade. Among the parameters analyzed in the papers, species composition is the most suitable to evaluate the effect of the disturbance on ant communities. The use of other metrics that consider the specificity and fidelity (e.g., IndVal index) of ant species to a level or state of disturbance is also highly desirable. We discuss several alternative ways of overcoming many of the drawbacks related to the robustness of the results and to reduce the financial, logistic, and time costs involved with the use of ants as indicators in monitoring programs. By doing so, we expect to encourage new research on ants as bioindicators as well as to summarize current knowledge, facilitating further research.
Intensive exploitation of natural resources and the resulting impacts on pristine habitats have led to calls from the scientific community and the general public to measure or monitor the level of these environmental impacts [1–3]. Bioindicators are a useful way to evaluate such impacts, since changes in their population dynamics or community parameters can indicate an environmental state more easily, quickly, and safely and with lower financial and labour inputs than direct measurements [4–6].
McGeoch divided the general use of the term bioindication into three categories according to the three main applications: (i) environmental indicators: used to detect or monitor changes in the environmental state, (ii) ecological indicators: used to demonstrate the impact of an environmental stress on the biota or monitor longer-term stress-induced changes in the biota, and (iii) biodiversity indicators: used to identify the diversity of a taxa in a specified area or to monitor changes in biodiversity.
Therefore, there are several characteristics that an indicator species must have, the most notable being ease of measurement, sensitivity to environmental stress, and predictable responses to environmental stress [4, 8]. The use of certain species or groups of species as indicators of successful rehabilitation practices or for environmental monitoring has been recommended in recent years (e.g., [5, 6, 9]).
Ants have been used as a powerful tool in several ecological studies [10, 11]. This group has useful characteristics for successful indication and monitoring of environmental impacts, including widespread distribution, high abundance, importance in ecosystem functioning, ease of sampling, and relatively well-known taxonomy and ecology .
Thus, ants have been used as indicators of several environmental impacts, such as fire, deforestation and logging, agricultural intensification, mining, and urbanization [13, 14]. The first study suggesting the use of ants as indicators was in the early 1980s , and the use of ants as indicators is now widespread in Australia (e.g., [16–19]) and is becoming a major focus of myrmecological research worldwide (e.g., [20–25]).
Although ants are a simple, cheap, and powerful indicator of environmental impacts and rehabilitation (e.g., in Australia ), in Brazil, a country which harbours enormous diversity and complexity of habitats, the standard use of ants as indicators is still relatively new and should be evaluated in greater detail (see [26, 27]). According to Philpott et al. and Gardner , a critical need is the selection of ant species that are affected by distinct types of disturbance in different regions, in order to guarantee their usefulness as good indicators.
Therefore, as we described above, given the international use of ants as indicators, several studies have investigated the use of ants as indicators in Brazil. In order to describe the background of bioindication with ants in Brazil, we carried out a critical review of several studies concerned directly or indirectly with the use of ants as indicators.
Using the three categories proposed by McGeoch , environmental, ecological, or biodiversity indicators, we describe the historical development of ants as indicators and evaluate the implications of these studies. Additionally, we highlight ways of overcoming the major challenges to the widespread use of ants as tools in environmental monitoring programs.
We searched for papers regarding ants as indicators, restricting our search to those carried out in Brazil. To encompass a broad time range of papers, we used the following keywords in Portuguese and English, respectively: “formiga,” “ant,” “indicador,” “bioindicador,” “indicator,” “bioindicator,” “Brasil,” “Brazil,” and the combination of the words cited above in the Scielo and in the ISI Web of Knowledge websites. We also used papers from our personal archives, gathered under several keywords.
In all papers, we accessed the following information: the language, the general idea of the paper (i.e., descriptive, a general survey, a test of correlations or hypotheses), if the paper specifically analyzed ants as indicators; the aims; the ant sampling methodology, the parameters of ant fauna which were analyzed (i.e., diversity, composition, population dynamics), the environmental parameters which were observed, the results which were obtained, and the main conclusion reached in the study.
We define the paper as specifically analyzing ants as indicators if it explicitly declared this intention in the aim or the introduction (Explicit indication papers). However, if this criteria was not clear but the article still analyzed ants as indicators, we defined these as “Implicit indication papers.” Papers in which the major aim was not the use of ants as bioindicators, but which presented results that could Potentially enable the use of ants as indicators, were considered as “Potential indication papers.” Finally, papers that did not meet any of the above criteria, that is, did not mention in any way the use of ants as indicators, or with results that could not be used to evaluate ants as indicators, were considered as “Indirect bioindication papers.”
The disturbances or aims investigated in the papers were split into the categories “Agriculture,” “Vegetation type,” and “Human land-use,” according to the habitats studied, namely: habitats with agricultural activities only, habitats with natural vegetation only, and habitats with both agricultural activities and natural habitats. Similarly, “Succession” studies were those investigating natural succession, and “Restoration” studies were those evaluating different rehabilitation techniques, such as succession following managed restoration efforts.
We used McGeoch as a reference to decide if the ants were used as environmental, ecological, or biodiversity indicators in the reviewed papers (see McGeoch’s definition in the introduction section). Moreover, we defined ant species as indicators when there was a species list in the paper showing the occurrence of ants in specific sites or when the author considered the ant species to be an indicator elsewhere in the paper. If the ant species occurred in just one habitat, we considered the species to be an indicator of the specific habitat.
We verified the most frequent responses of ants to disturbance, summarizing responses, and relating the most frequent responses to the most frequently used sampling methodologies to determine if there were any trends. To study this relationship, we considered only methodologies that had been used in at least three papers.
We analyzed 58 papers, which encompassed a span of almost 25 years (from 1987 to 2010). Among the papers, only one was not classed as an “indication paper” or “Potential indication paper” . The others specifically mentioned the intention to use ants as indicators (either explicitly, using the word “indicator,” or implicitly, using ants as a tool or model to indicate the ecological and environmental parameters) (38 papers) or at least have the Potential to do so (17 papers) (Table 1). Two papers [84, 85] were not included in the table because the scope of the papers was not to analyse ants as indicators but to suggest new tools to simplify their use as indicators.
From the 58 papers, exactly half (29) were published in English and the other half in Portuguese. Among the “Potential indication papers,” 11 were published in English and six in Portuguese, while among the “indication papers” the number of papers written in Portuguese (22) was higher than the papers written in English (18).
Papers directly concerned with the use of ants as bioindicators began almost 10 years after the development of “Potential indication papers”, in which the main focus was the response of ant communities to several disturbances (e.g., logging and land use). Only in the last decade has there been a positive trend of papers using ants as model organisms for bioindication in Brazil (Figure 1).
Regarding ant sampling procedures, 34 studies used only a single sampling method: 14 used two, six used three, and four opted for more than three methods. The methodologies used to capture ants were baits, beating, Berlese extraction, hand collecting, pitfall traps, sweeping, Tretzel traps and Winkler’s extractors. Among these methodologies, the most commonly used were baits (used in 26 studies), followed by hand collecting, pitfall traps and Winkler’s extractors (used in 20 studies each), and Berlese extraction (used in five studies).
The majority of studies sampled ants at the soil surface (44), but some studies also considered the soil surface together with other habitats, including litter (10), vegetation (7), combination of the above (6). Some other studies did not sample ants at the soil surface, but only in the litter (11), vegetation (two), or in twigs (one), respectively.
The main impacts studied were succession (12), human land-use (11), restoration (6), and agriculture (5). Just a few papers (13) analyzed other environmental parameters besides disturbance (Table 1).
The parameters of the ant faunas that were most commonly related to the disturbance type were ant species richness or diversity indexes (42) and species composition (35) (Table 1). In these papers, if we considered only those that analyzed ant species diversity and composition rigorously (i.e., with statistical tests), the actual number of papers that analyzed ant species diversity decreased to 28, and those that analyzed ant species composition dropped to 22.
Regarding species composition, in 33 papers this parameter was sensitive to disturbance, although if we considered only those papers with statistical analyses, the number decreases to 21. Summarizing the papers that analyze species richness or diversity, the responses found were species richness or diversity increased with disturbance (1), decreased with disturbance (18), changed with disturbance (when there is any clear trend in the response of ants to disturbance) (11), and not affected by disturbance (12). If we considered only papers that tested ant species richness or diversity statistically, the numbers changed to increase with disturbance (1), decrease with disturbance (11), change with disturbance (5), and not affected by disturbance (11).
By connecting the main responses found in the papers (ant species richness, diversity, or ant species composition) to the main methodologies used to sample ants, we can verify some trends (Figure 2). First, species composition was sensitive to disturbance in the majority of papers in which this parameter was tested, irrespective of the sampling methodology, namely, baits plus hand collecting, multiple sampling methods, or pitfall traps. Second, most papers that analyzed species richness or diversity showed that these metrics were also responsive to disturbance, although the sole use of baits or the Winkler did not show any trend, while only using pitfall traps revealed a positive response of ant species richness or diversity to disturbance. Nevertheless, when we considered only those papers with statistical tests (Figure 3) or without statistical tests (Figure 4), the trend for species composition remained the same, but for species richness the use of multiple methods to sample ants showed a higher number of responses to disturbance.
The ants were used as environmental indicators in the majority of studies (42 out of 55) but were also used as ecological indicators (10 papers) and as biodiversity indicators in only one paper. In 20 papers there was a species list, and; therefore, we could determine some of the ant species that served as indicators of certain habitats. The parameters used in the papers to define a species as an indicator were frequency of ant occurrence (11 papers), presence or absence of ant species (8 papers), and the indicator value (IndVal) (1 paper). Irrespective of the parameter used by the authors, 187 ant species were defined as indicators and linked to specific habitats (Table 2). The genera with higher numbers of indicator species were Camponotus (18), Pseudomyrmex (12), Pachycondyla (11), Ectatomma (9), Gnamptogenys (9), Acromyrmex (8), and Cephalotes (8). The sites with the most indicator species were forest (39 species), Eucalyptus (37), savanna (34), control or undisturbed sites (nonburnt) (29), primary forest (25), early succession sites (19), disturbed sites (15), secondary forest (14), intermediate succession sites (13), burnt sites, low human land-use-impacted sites and pasture (9), late succession (8), and strong human land-use-impacted sites (5).
It has been possible to determine the history of research carried out in Brazil by searching for the use of ants as indicators over the last 25 years (Figure 1). From 1987 to 1991, there were only “Potential indication papers.” In 1992 the first “Indication papers” were published, which increased in the following years and exceeded the “Potential indication papers” in 2001.
Regarding the idiom of the papers, it is interesting to observe that half of the papers are still published in Portuguese. In spite of the growing internationalization of Brazilian research [86, 87], many Brazilian studies that use ants as bioindicators cannot have an international impact since they are in Portuguese. We determined at least two main reasons for this. The first is the “publish or perish” policy in Brazilian (and worldwide) science, which demands the publication of as many papers as possible in the shortest feasible time span, in which case publishing in Portuguese can be a way to speed up publication time. The second explanation may be that, due to problems with the style of writing of the papers, many international journals reject Brazilian papers. Despite these two issues, in this historical scenario, there is an improving and maturing of bioindication studies using ants, which is shown by the explicit use of the term “indication” in these papers. Furthermore, the increasing knowledge exchange with researchers from other countries reinforces the maturation of this area of research. Examples include Brazilian scientists that complete their Ph.D. studies abroad the possibility for doctorate students to undertake international exchange programs, and the internationalization of the Brazilian Symposium of Myrmecology.
However, it is important to clarify that although some authors explicitly used the term indicator in the introduction or in the aim of their papers (our criteria defined these papers as “Indication papers”), the authors did not always in reality use ants as indicators, either because they did not sample properly (i.e., sampling in just one habitat, without different levels of the disturbance/restoration and control sites) or because they did not analyze their results rigorously (i.e., did not include a satisfactory statistical analysis). Conversely, some authors did not use the term indicator in their papers, but they did test the Potential use of ants as indicators, and were cautious in the above points.
The majority of articles that used ants as environmental indicators (sensu ) may be due to the fact that this is the simplest way to detect a change in the environmental state of the habitat but not necessarily the best one. The use of ecological indicators has the advantage of encompassing a broad response as they demonstrate the disturbance effect on the biota, not only for ants .
Moreover, the sampling of different environmental parameters and their correlation with the biota is essential, because their inclusion increases the predictive power of the study. If we recognize the environmental parameters that are most sensitive to disturbance and their effect on the biota, we may be able to more accurately monitor the effects of disturbance. Consequently, we may be able to choose the restoration effort according to the most appropriate or effective environmental parameters in order to promote the recovery of the biota [6, 7].
Regarding the number of ant sampling techniques used, although the majority of the papers used only one method, several studies (e.g., [52, 77, 88]) have highlighted the fact that ant communities show a pronounced vertical stratification, and ant faunas specific to each microhabitat may present specific ecological traits and distinct sensitivity to the same environmental impact [67, 89–91]; therefore, more than one sampling method must be considered . On the other hand, the use of several sampling methods increases the financial costs and the time needed to collect, sort, and process the data . Thus, since environmental monitoring programs usually have short-term goals, it is desirable to balance the benefits and costs of using several types of sampling methods compared to using only one sampling method which could achieve similar reliable results (Figures 2(a) and 2(b)), compare multiple sampling and pitfall outcomes) about the patterns and aims under investigation.
The most used sampling method in the studies was attractive baits, which are more suitable for behavioural questions and are useful for verifying the presence and population trends of invasive and keystone ant species . However, this sampling method results in biased information about ant diversity (e.g., species richness and composition) because many ants have selective diets, and some ants can dominate the baits to the exclusion of a broad range of other ant species . This notion concerning the use of baits in bioindication papers is confirmed in Figures 3(a) and 3(b), which shows that the sole use of baits revealed apparently unchanging species composition and no trend in species richness. Thus, Underwood and Fisher recommend the use of pitfall traps and litter sampling (The Winkler and/or Berlese extractors) as effective ant sampling methods for monitoring goals related to the effect of habitat disturbance and transformation on ant diversity, which is corroborated in Figures 3(a), 3(b), 4(a), and 4(b).
Species richness and diversity and species composition are the parameters of ant communities most commonly analyzed in the papers. However, species richness and diversity should be used as an evaluative method with caution, since several studies have shown that these parameters were not affected by disturbance (Table 1), and only a narrow number of papers showed a trend in the response of ant species richness to disturbance (see Figures 3 and 4). This coarse relationship of species richness to disturbance is probably because ants are generalists, so the loss of some sensitive species to disturbance is compensated by the invasion of other opportunist species or more generalists. Moreover, in dynamic sites under frequent habitat transformation and disturbance, there is no change in species richness among sites at different restoration times, because perturbation events “reset” the ant community to the same stage .
In this way, as Hoffmann has highlighted, the disturbance induced changes in species composition, but not necessarily in species richness. Moreover, the recovery of species composition takes longer than species richness and has a strong relation to the vegetation structure [19, 64, 96–99], which changes with disturbance events. Thus, species composition should be a better parameter to evaluate the effect of disturbance on ant communities, even in areas with frequent perturbations, as described by Gollan et al. .
Using the same argument, the quantification of the relationship between each ant species and different disturbances (or level of disturbance) or habitats should be very useful, as it is important to decrease the time spent in indication studies. The general public and stakeholders need to know rapidly if the habitat is impacted or recovering, so recognizing which species can be associated positively or negatively with disturbance or restoration is a very desirable tool.
Several of the papers we analyzed described species occurring exclusively or more frequently in specific habitats (Table 2), but we are concerned with the lack of rigour with which this has been carried out in most studies (exception in ), as there is no control about the specificity and fidelity of these ant species and few statistical analyses to validate the results. This lack of rigour may explain why there are some ant species with contradictory patterns of occurrence, such as species being present in disturbed versus undisturbed sites, such as Acromyrmex balzani, Camponotus trapezoideus, Dorymyrmex pyramicus, Ectatomma tuberculatum, Odontomachus haematodus, and Pseudomyrmex tenuis (see Table 2). Moreover, these ant species might also be generalists, and the choice of better criteria should enable us to distinguish between inappropriate sampling design and truly generalist ant species. The use of the IndVal index , mentioned below, is one option to overcome this drawback.
The Indicator Value (IndVal) suggested by Dufrêne and Legendre combines a measure of the habitat specificity of a species to a level of disturbance, or to a disturbance state, with its fidelity within that state. The random reallocation procedure of samples within sample groups can be used to test the significance of the IndVal measure for each species. The use of this method has increased (e.g., [100–105]) and has a number of advantages over other methods .
Some species seem to have more consistent responses to disturbance or specificity to some habitats, but this consistency is very difficult to assert due to the lack of rigour with which the ants were related to disturbance or habitats (presence or frequency of occurrence) and the lack of standardization regarding the level of disturbance in the papers. The habitats sampled in one paper may be defined as undisturbed, which may be different from the habitats studied in another paper that are defined as more degraded (or less) and should also be defined as an undisturbed habitat. In our paper (including Table 2), we used the definition of disturbed or undisturbed given by the original authors.
Thus, following the disturbance definition used by the authors, some species are present in disturbed habitats in more than one paper, and, therefore, could be indicators of disturbed habitats, such as Atta sexdens rubropilosa, Camponotus crassus, Camponotus melanoticus, Camponotus novogranadensis, Odontomachus meinerti, Pachycondyla villosa, Pseudomyrmex termitarius, and Solenopsis saevissima. In the same way, some species could be indicators of undisturbed habitats, such as Labidus coecus, Pachycondyla arhuaca, Pachycondyla stigma, and Sericomymex bondari. There are also some species that are indicators of specific habitats, such as indicators of forests (Discothyrea sexarticulata, Ectatomma lugens, Labidus coecus, and Typhlomyrmex major) and indicators of savannas (Camponotus latangulus, Pheidole fimbriata, and Strumigenys perparva).
One of the major mistakes related to the use of a taxon as an indicator is the personal motivation of the researchers. There are two ways of avoiding this mistake; several taxa should be rigorously tested a priori to select the best one or studied a posteriori to validate the response of the indicator . Very few studies have compared how different taxa, including ants, perform under different disturbances (see [89, 101, 106–109]).
The majority of studies end at the seventh step of the “Procedural steps in bioindicator studies” according to McGeoch , which is “Based on the nature of the relationship, either accept or reject the species, higher level taxon or assemblage as an indicator,” and just investigate the nature of the relationship between the disturbance and the indicator. To validate the organism as a suitable indicator, we must move to step eight (Establish the robustness of the indicator by developing and testing appropriate hypotheses under different conditions)—establish the robustness of the indicator by testing the same relationship in other areas or at different times (to validate the indicator) [6, 14, 103].
We would like to flag some issues to improve and validate the use of ants as indicators in environmental monitoring programs, including consideration of robust criteria for the validation of ants as indicators, sampling in different seasons and under different disturbances with comparable methodologies, collecting ants with different sampling methodologies in order to recognize that the responses of different ant life styles could be different for the same disturbance, and evaluation of different environmental parameters (biotic and abiotic) to correlate with the ants’ response along the disturbance/restoration gradients. The search for indicator ant species should be with analyses that consider their fidelity and specificity to the habitats (e.g., “IndVal” index), in order to more quickly achieve monitoring goals. Finally, evaluating the functional loss of ant species in disturbed habitats will improve predictions about the functional implication of the disturbance.
Moreover, incorporating new approaches that efficiently simplify the study may help to decrease the problems related to time spent identifying ant species, as suggested by Groc et al. . In this study, the authors introduced a new method based on mixed-level taxonomic sufficiency, highly focused on higher-taxon surrogacy. Under this method, only ant species pre established as “indicator taxa” must be taxonomically identified to species level, while other species may be identified to higher (and easier to identify) levels, such as genera. By using this mixed-level approach, the authors argue that a considerable improvement in cost effectiveness can be achieved, mainly by reducing the necessity for well-trained taxonomists to be involved in the study. This is highly desirable in monitoring programs, where time and budget are key limiting factors.
Also, species which have been identified as possible indicators because they occur in specific habitats or conditions still require validation for reliable use as bioindicators, and their presence or frequency in specific conditions can generate testable hypothesis about their relationship with these habitats and conditions, which in turn can validate the use of these species as bioindicators.
In conclusion, we point out that the use of ants as indicators in Brazil has been improving each year. Ants are a useful tool not only because they are sensitive to environmental changes, as related in the papers we reviewed but also because they are keystone species in several ecological processes and, therefore, provide reliable inferences about the ecological and functional implications of disturbances.
We should continue to study ants in Brazil, with proper a priori hypothesis tests and sampling designs, statistical analysis and standardized methods, in order to reach the same widespread acceptance of ants as indicators that is common in Australia, as well as to improve our understanding of ant dynamics for predictive frameworks. Moreover, we need to build an effective bridge between our accumulated knowledge (almost 25 years of research) of ants as bioindicators and monitoring programs developed to examine natural resources and areas.
This study resulted from the research project: CRA 270/07 “Utilização de formigas como bioindicadoras de impacto ambiental e de sua recuperação em Cerrado e em Mata Atlântica.” The authors are grateful to Jacques H. C. Delabie for encouraging the elaboration of this paper, to Jonathan D. Majer for his kind attention in providing several papers and to Patty Ramirez for her valuable suggestions in the English expression. The authors received grants and funding from the FAPEMIG, CAPES, and CNPq.
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL -- Over three millennia after He decreed to Moses the rules by which all mankind should live, God finally confessed yesterday that one of the Ten Commandments was "a colossal wind-up."
Giggling almost uncontrollably, the Almighty One told a packed press conference that the Seventh Commandment, popularly translated as "Thou shalt not commit adultery", was the result of a bet between Himself and a couple of "Archangel buddies".
"I always thought Moses was a little stuffy and needed to lighten up a bit," He chortled when questioned over his motives. "I had a few of these rules that I needed to lay down to this rag-tag Israelite mob to stop them getting out of hand. A few of us up here were having a few laughs, a couple of goblets of nectar and kicking around some ideas for this list of commandments."
"Anyway, after a while I was quite happy with it. It was pretty regular, non-controversial stuff: No killing, no stealing, no lying - that kind of thing. I admit I was padding by the end - I mean - "Thou shalt not covert thy neighbour's ox or his ass"? - what was that about?"
"In the end, I was up to nine, and was just about to pootle down to Mount Sinai to give the tablets to Moses when I bumped into Gabriel and Benjamin. They were grumbling about lady problems again, as per, so we had a bit of a natter and were thanking…well…Me… that we had as many birds as we wanted to choose from up here. If one gets out of line, move on to the next - no bother."
"So I thought, natural progression really, what if you had to commit yourself to one woman for the rest of your life? Nightmare, right? Anyway, I was feeling pretty light-headed and silly, so I showed the guys my list and suddenly had a brainwave: Why don't we make it an even ten and yank Moses's chain a little - really give those mortals something to be bitter about."
"Cut a long story short: Gabe bet me his new golden harp that I wouldn't be able to shoehorn an adultery directive into the list without arousing suspicion."
God paused for a moment, doubled over and bellowed with laughter. "I never thought for a second Moses would buy it," He said, wiping his eyes. "I snuck it in at number seven so it didn't look like a crude afterthought, then I just completely brazened it out with him."
"I watched him scan the list and frown when he got half way down the second tablet. 'My Lord,' he stuttered in that irritating nasal drawl of his, 'I…I'm not sure I fully understand the meaning of number seven…' 'Are you questioning the will of God Almighty?' I roared, summoning a couple of thunderbolts and shaking the ground a little. 'No, no, no!' he snivelled, prostrate in front of Me. I was corpsing like mad by this stage, but, bless him, earnest little sod that he is, Moses swallowed every word and dutifully trotted off down the mountain to tell the Isrealites."
"Man, were they pissed," He added.
God's revelations generated a murmur of discontent among the assembled members of the press. A smartly turned-out female reporter stood up to confront him.
"Are you saying that the whole of mankind has struggled with lustful urges, guilty secrets and the persistent, blind preservation of strong family values for three thousand years for the sake of some stupid bet?"
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Two people died over the weekend in a Perry Township fire that rekindled early Monday morning in Lawrence County.
State police said a passerby spotted flames coming from a mobile home along Route 488 early Sunday morning.
The victims were identified as Phillip Illig Sr., 49, and Jessica Lynn Morehouse, 28, both of whom lived in the home.
"The fire itself was fully involved when we got there. We didn't have much of a chance. The victims didn't have any," Wurtemburg-Perry Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mark McDevitt said.
(SLIDESHOW: Photos from the fire scene)
Illig, who was on disability, was described as a nice man who always looked to do favors for others.
The cause of the fatal fire is under investigation by a state police fire marshal.
A dog that belonged to the victims was found alone in the cold after the fire. McDevitt said a relative was supposed to pick the animal up, but he said he would make some calls to get someone to take care of it.
Sue Vesa, whose fiancé is a volunteer firefighter, told Channel 4 Action News' Sheldon Ingram that she found the 1-year-old dog, Baby, wondering the charred debris about 10 a.m.
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Canberra charts a sustainable future
Posted By Canfan On 5 June 2014 @ 12:03 pm In Environment,News,Politics | 2 Comments
The ACT Government has shown strong leadership in environmental conservation by responding to climate change through a range of programs, initiatives and nation-leading legislative reforms, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell said on World Environment Day today.
“Both the government and the people of the ACT can be proud of their achievements on
World Environment Day,” Mr Corbell said.
“Support for renewable energy has been a key focus for the ACT government over the past two years, with the successful solar auction process in 2012 and 2013 and the recent announcement of the 200 megawatt wind auction now underway.
“In August last year I announced the final successful applicants in the large-scale solar feed-in tariff auction, resulting in a total of 40 megawatts of solar generation capacity to be located in the ACT.”
The wind and solar initiatives will go a long way to achieving the government’s 2020 targets of
90 percent of the territory’s electricity demand being sourced from renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions being reduced by 40 percent below 1990 levels by that year.
The government also intends to invest in a one megawatt community solar capacity release allowing people living in flats and units to invest in large-scale solar developments through community organisations.
“Investing in the ACT’s increasing technical expertise will also reduce our reliance on coal-fired energy sources. In March 2014 I also announced a ‘next generation’ solar program which will invest in our local knowledge economy to research ways to store renewable energy,” Mr Corbell said.
Reducing energy use in the home is a simple and direct way all Canberrans can do their bit to reduce the city’s environmental footprint and save money. The ACT government has been lending a hand by:
· Giving assistance to more than 1500 low-income households to improve the energy and water efficiency of their homes.
· The ACTSmart Business program has assisted more than 700 businesses in the ACT by providing tailored advice and assistance to reduce energy, waste and water usage while reducing costs to business.
· The ACTSmart Home Energy Advice Service which gives all Canberra residents access to free, independent advice ranging from behaviour change tips that help reduce energy costs, to building new, energy efficient homes.
· The energy efficiency improvement scheme which made a positive difference to 18,000 homes across Canberra last year by tasking energy providers to undertake activities to assist home owners improve practices, fitting and fixtures in their homes.
“The next phase of the government’s commitment to tackling the implications of climate change is the development of a new strategy focussing on adaptation to the effects of climate change. This work will continue with the release of a community engagement strategy to be finalised in the coming months.
“This government practises what it preaches, and is working hard to achieve carbon neutrality in its own government operations through investment in energy efficient systems estimated to save
$1.2 million annually and reduce greenhouse gases by 5730 tonnes.”
Protecting our natural environment for future generations is crucial to our sustainability outcomes. The government’s record of achievement is strong in this area with the recent release of the ACT Nature Conservation Strategy 2013-2023, which will continue to improve the resilience of natural areas.
The Gungahlin Strategic Assessment was finalised by government in late 2013. This work will ensure all environmental protections are completed for the remaining land in the Gungahlin area, and builds on the good planning and conservation history of the ACT by identifying strategic conservation areas for targeted species and communities.
Breeding and monitoring programs have been successful over the past year with recorded numbers of eastern bettongs and grassland earless dragons increasing. Research is also underway to better understand and manage local threatened species with the release of new actions plans for the endangered shrub, bossiaea grayi, and the glossy black cockatoo to name a few.
Good air quality is of vital importance to everyone and the government is committed to this through its support of regular education campaigns to promote efficient use of wood heaters complemented by a wood heater rebate program.
The government acknowledges the importance the next generation will play in protecting our environment into the future. All ACT schools are successfully involved in the ACTSmart Schools program which helps teach children the importance of looking after our resources and how to become sustainable. The program has just celebrated the first ACT school to achieve five star accreditation.
For more information on World Environment Day 2014 www.unep.org/wed/
More information on the ACT government’s environment initiatives can be found at www.environment.act.gov.au
(Simon Corbell Media Release)
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the 49.9 class is not an easy class to just jump into. good luck-
2 FI BTL 18's in a BHE wall. crescendo power. plays low.
I don't know a lot about car audio, but I know enough to know that there are some people in this thread that don't know that they don't know a lot about car audio.
Get taken down to funky town on MobileAudioForum.com.
Anyways to actually post in here OT...I for one like impressing people with small cone area. It surprises people more when you have a handful (or less) of small cone area woofers, vs say a couple of 15s or 18s. For all of the audio noobs out there, or people not into audio, 15 seems to be the break point in which they expect it to be loud.
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Join professor, writer and spiritual thinker James Grote as he shares his new release, ‘Medieval Literacy: A Compendium of Medieval Knowledge with the Guidance of C.S. Lewis’ tonight, Thursday, June 21st, at A Reader’s Corner Bookstore at 6pm.
Looking for another chapter beyond ‘Pride & Prejudice’? Sandy Lerner, writing under the penname ‘Ava Farmer’, will present just that with her book ‘Second Impressions’. Join The Jane Austen Society for a reading and signing this upcoming Thursday, June 21st, at 6:30pm.
The literary trio will be on hand at A Reader’s Corner Bookstore this upcoming Friday, June 15th at 4pm to participate in a book discussion and signing of their co-authored release, ‘A Community of Light’.
Kicking off the Grassroots Gala, Rooibee Red Tea and the Center For Neighborhoods are proud to host an event with the authors of ‘Two Centuries of Black Louisville: A Photographic History’. Join Merv Aubespin, Kenneth Clay and J. Blaine Hudson at the Henry Clay building this Friday, June 1st, at 5pm.
Visit Carmichael’s Bookstore this Thursday evening, May 31st, at 7pm for a special event featuring a new book by Sister Monica Weis, ‘The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton’.
The native Louisvillian and critically-acclaimed author of modern fiction brings her latest release to Carmichael’s Bookstore this coming Wednesday, May 30th, at 7pm.
Spotlighting Kentuckians restoring health and culture to the Bluegrass, local author, Kelly Van Winkle, Campbell presents her new book, ‘Saving Kentucky: Greening the Bluegrass’ at Locust Grove, tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23rd, at 7pm.
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The state’s largest reading series, featuring dozens of contemporary talents, will be held Saturday, May19th through Friday, May 25th.
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Battle Class Destroyer - HMS Agincourt
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HMS Agincourt was one of the third flotilla of Battle Class Fleet Destroyers. They were authorised under the 1943 construction programme. HMS Agincourt was built on the Tyne by R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd and like all of the Battle Class built them she was fitted out as a Leader. These ships had additional accommodation for a Captain (D) and his staff. A Captain (D) was the commander of a destroyer flotilla.
In the second half of the 19th Century the torpedo became a serious threat to major warships. The favoured means of delivering a torpedo attack was from a swarm of small, fast, steam launches or torpedo boats. These were about 100 to 150 ton craft, able to attack at speeds that were about 10 knots faster than the pre-Dreadnought capital ships and able to launch two torpedoes.
Various experimental ships were produced by the Royal Dockyards to counter this threat. All were completely ineffectual. In 1892, Rear-Admiral J A Fisher became Controller of the Navy and he asked three private specialist torpedo boat builders, Thornycroft, Yarrow and Lairds to each build a pair of vessels for the task. The specification was merely that the vessels’ speed must be at least 27 knots and that a powerful gun armament should be carried.
The new vessels were essentially torpedo boats scaled up to about twice the normal size at around 250 tons. They were originally called Torpedo Boat Catchers, but on 8 August 1892 an Admiralty memo was headed Torpedo Boat Destroyers. The new name caught-on and when the vessels proved to be successful it was shortened to Destroyers.
As the destroyers grew in size and capability, it soon became clear that they were far more effective attack vessels than the torpedo boats, which they quickly replaced in the major navies. Operationally they worked in Flotillas, which in the Royal Navy nominally consisted of eight destroyers. The normal tactic was to exploit poor visibility, fog banks, smoke, etc to mount a high speed surprise attack to launch a salvo of torpedoes at the enemy battle-line.
Although surface torpedoes gradually increased in speed and destructive power, the entire concept was largely outdated by the end of WW2. The speed of capital ships had increased and largely eliminated the destroyers’ speed differential, especially in a seaway. Radar and radar directed gunnery, made a surprise attack most unlikely. More importantly fleets of capital ships were no longer expected to fight each other in line-of-battle and the battleship had been replaced by the aircraft carrier as the prime unit. Major naval battles were fought in the Pacific in WW2 without the opposing surface fleets sighting each other.
Nevertheless destroyers remained highly prized, fast, general purpose warships and were generally in the thick of any naval action. During WW2 they suffered the heaviest casualties of any class of Royal Navy warship – 139 destroyers were lost, of which 50 were as a result of air attack.
The last true RN destroyers were 16 Daring Class ordered under the 1944 Programme. Eight were cancelled at the end of the war and construction of the remainder was stretched out until the 1950s. Co-incidentally one of the six ships ordered in the original 1892 Programme was also named Daring
For political reasons the designation “destroyer” has since been resurrected to describe ships that are really anti-aircraft guided missile cruisers. Ships covered by this later use the term have been ignored in this article.
Builders of Royal Navy Destroyers
The construction of a destroyer called for the highest standard of technical skill and workmanship and not every Admiralty approved shipyard was permitted to undertake this work. Many firms on the Admiralty List were only awarded destroyer contracts in a national emergency. Other famous shipbuilders never received a destroyer contract, as the Admiralty felt they were more suited to other work.
In all, 27 firms built the 890 Fleet Destroyers and 86 Hunt Class WW2 utility destroyers that were delivered to the Royal Navy. Of these 78% were built by the top ten firms. These were: -
The Vickers-Armstrong figures include ships built both on the Tyne and in Barrow. Palmers closed in the 1932
During WW2 Admiralty planning was based upon British shipyards being able to produce about 40 destroyers a year, including Hunt Class utility destroyers.
R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
In 1817, the 20 year old Robert Hawthorn rented a shed in a brewery yard in a Newcastle street called Forth Banks, which runs from the present Newcastle Central Station, steeply down to the Tyne. There he started a business as an independent millwright, employing four men. His brother William joined him as a working foreman the following year. The business prospered and expanded. By 1830 the company was building locomotive components and two years later complete locomotives. The engineering works grew considerably on the same site and began building marine engines. In 1870 a new dedicated marine engine works was built about 2 miles downriver at St Peters. Locomotive building for UK and for export continued at Forth Banks until that part of the business was merged with Robert Stephenson in 1937 and the joint-company sold to North British Locomotive in 1943.
The new St Peters Engine works was very successful, building marine engines and boilers for many UK shipyards, including that established in 1853 by Andrew Leslie, further down the Tyne on the opposite bank of the river at Hebburn. In 1886 the two firms merged through the creation of a public limited company, R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Limited.
The first RN ship built by Hawthorn Leslie was the first class cruiser HMS Bellona, built in 1890. The first production batch of destroyers were the A Class ordered under the 1893 -94 Programme. Three were placed with Hawthorn Leslie.
During the eight years 1939 to 1946, Hawthorn Leslie launched a total of 63 ships: -
The evolution of the Battle Class design
The Admiralty Board generally agreed with the Prime Minister’s views, with the important exception that they firmly believed that defence is most easily carried out from the ship under attack. The major problem was finding the resources needed for both the anti-submarine war in the Atlantic and the anti-aircraft war in the Mediterranean. A further difficulty was that pre-war the Admiralty had neglected the growing air threat and as a result there were no modern British naval anti-aircraft gun designs and little manufacturing capacity.
After consulting all of the fleet commanders, the Vice-Chief of Naval Staff gave instructions to prepare three sketch designs for a new class of destroyer incorporating the latest gun mountings and radar control systems.
In fact six outline designs were submitted to Controller, who approved the production of a design with two new twin 4.7 inch through-deck gun mountings forward, four twin Bofors, six Oerlikons and two sets of quadruple torpedo tubes, all to be radar directed. Construction of about 60 ships was contemplated.
The sketch design and outline specification were submitted to the Admiralty Board on 22 September 1941. These were approved on 9 October 1941 and work commenced on building drawings at the end of that month but kept grinding to a halt. There was still considerable debate within the Board about all aspects of the new design and even about the wisdom of proceeding ships that were so much larger and more complex than the destroyers currently under construction. There was also the great concern that the weapon manufacturers would not be able to produce the new armament in sufficient quantity. Eventually Controller agreed that an immediate order be placed for 16 destroyers of the new design and about 32 of the existing destroyer designs. The full Staff requirement was finally issued on 2 January 1942. In February 1942 however a major armament change was made. The development of the new twin 4.7 inch mounting was considered to be too immature, and it was replaced by the twin 4.5 inch dual-purpose Mark III through deck mounting. This mounting was a modification of a design in service as secondary armament in some larger warships. It had the great advantage that its 80 degrees maximum elevation made it an effective anti-aircraft weapon.
The calculations and drawings for the new destroyers were completed on 25 March 1942 for formal Board approval and advanced copies were sent for information to the five selected builders. This work was carried out by the Destroyer Section of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Six men had been engaged on calculations, seven on the drawings and one on the specification and contracts for about eight weeks. This left only three other men in the department to deal with all technical and design matters concerning the 65 destroyers already building for the Royal Navy. During this period model experiments were also conducted at Haslar, which showed that the selected square stern produced reduced resistance of about 5% and that a bulbous bow would give no advantage. The tests did show, however that increasing the propeller diameter by a foot and making minor changes to the underwater shape would be of benefit.
Orders for 12 ships were placed on 27 April 1942, including two with Whites. Unfortunately Whites yard at Cowes was extensively damaged by a series of air raids a few days later, and these ships were transferred to Cammell Laird in August when an additional four ships were ordered to complete the first two flotillas. The Board Stamp was affixed to the drawings and specification on 18 June 1942.
Given that there are two other Battle Class ships tied up at Swans Wallsend yard opposite, and given the times of commissioning, I think it safe to conclude the picture was taken in 1945, not 1946. Why? As Solebay and Armada were commisioned and left in 1945 with Saintes still under construction, this shot shows them all together in the yard just before Solebay & Armada have left for good.
Also, the ships in Swans would two of these: St. Kitts (R18) or Gabbard (R47), or even more likely Trafalgar which also left in 1945 (Barfluer having left in 1944). (edited by Hawthorns1: 21 December 2011)
The 1942 Programme
Cammell Laird – Gravelines, Hogue, Lagos and Sluys
Fairfield – Cadiz, Camperdown, Finisterre, St James and Vigo
Hawthorn Leslie – Armada, Saintes and Solebay
Swan Hunter – Barfleur, Gabbard, St Kitts and Trafalgar
The armament of the Battles was a major departure from previous Royal Navy destroyers.
The intended weapon fit was: -
Two twin 4.5 inch Mark III in Mark IV through-deck gun mountings forward. These were able to fire 20 rounds-per-minute per barrel. The maximum elevation was 80 degrees, which enabled shells to be fired to a ceiling of 41,000 feet. The maximum range was 20,750 yards with the guns at a 45 degree angle. At 10,500 yards a Semi-Armour Piercing shell could penetrate 2.5 inches of armour. The bridge of the ships was further aft than usual, to enable the two forward turrets to have the maximum possible arcs. It was the intention that the main armament would be controlled by a new American Director Control Tower fitted with a Type 285 fire control radar. A Type 272 search radar was to be fitted. One deck mounted 4 inch Mark XIX high angle/low angle gun was to be fitted on the superstructure aft of the funnel in Q position. Two quadruple sets of hand worked 21 inch torpedo tubes were to be fitted. Two twin 40 mm Bofors 40/L60 Mark IV mountings were to be situated on a deckhouse between the torpedo tubes and a further two to be mounted on a deckhouse aft of the tubes. The Mark IV mounting was a British copy of the Dutch Bofors Hazemeyer tri-axial mounting of an advanced design that incorporated its own fire control Radar 282. Four hand trained Oerlikon single 20 mm guns were to be fitted; one to be located on the deckhouse between the main B gun mounting and the bridge; one on each bridge wing and one on the quarterdeck. Working the forward 20 mm guns must have been most uncomfortable when the main armament was fired on full aft arc. The only anti-submarine provisions were two depth-charge racks and four throwers.
By comparison, the Q Class destroyers that were fitting out when the Battle Class were ordered were armed with four deck-mounted single 4.7 inch guns with no anti-aircraft capability, one pompom and six hand trained Oerlikon single 20 mm guns. The anti-aircraft ceiling for a pompom was 13.500 feet, compared with 23,500 feet for a Bofors 40 mm gun. The theoretical ceiling for an Oerlikon was 10,000 feet, but for practical purposes the effective range for any manually aimed weapon rarely exceeds 1,000 yards.
The ships of the first two flotillas
Barfleur had been due to complete in March 1944. In August the director tower had still not been delivered and it was agreed that she was to commission on 4 September 1944, run trials and return to Wallsend to await the arrival of the tower. The trials did not disclose any major problems.
In service, however, a number of armament difficulties led to significant changes in follow-on ships. The 4 inch gun in Q position was found to be useless except to fire star shells. After the first 5 ships were delivered it was replaced by one or two single Bofors 40 mm mountings. The same mountings were used to replace the Oerlikon 20 mm manual guns. The actual numbers of Bofors fitted varied from ship to ship.
The eight ships in the first flotilla all carried four Dutch Bofors Hazemeyer twin 40 mm mountings, each incorporating its own radar fire control system. These did not live up to expectations as they were found to be very difficult to keep serviceable in operational conditions. In the ships in the second flotilla these were replaced by a twin 40 mm tri-axle mounting of a British design called STAAG (Stabilised Tachymetric Anti-Aircraft Gun) that worked on different principles. Each mounting carried its own radar and was the first naval mounting in the world that was capable of locking on to a target then automatically following and aiming the guns. Unfortunately each was 10 tons heavier, so that only two mountings could be fitted and they were also very hard to maintain. The radar systems of the time were unable to withstand the shock vibrations transmitted to the mountings from prolonged operation of the guns.
The equipment manufacturers did not catch up on their delivery programme and all of the ships were delayed. Only Barfleur arrived in the Pacific in time to enter the war against Japan and she was in Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony on 3 September 1945.
The 1943 Programme
During the inter-war years the Admiralty had developed an excellent lightweight surface warfare fire control system for destroyers, but this was totally ineffective against aircraft. The Tribal Class destroyers carried a very complex system that depended upon an estimate of the aircraft’s course and speed and an assumption that the aircraft would continue to fly straight and level. This was not very useful against dive-bombers! Various improvisations were made to overcome shortcomings in the equipment but a new approach was needed. Promising new equipment was under development, but the demand was greater than production capacity as all major warships also needed an anti-aircraft gunnery control solution.
The US Navy was far more fortunate, as it had a very complete, sound well engineered solution that had been in full scale production since 1941. In October 1942 approval was given that this director control tower should be allocated Washington Priority 1 acquisition status and that the next group of Battle Class destroyers designed around this equipment. In British service it was known as Mark 37 Director Control Tower. The DCT was to full US standard with one major alteration that the new British Type 275 radar was to be used as it was smaller and lighter than the American radar. The modification was very successful and a most effective system resulted.
The main criticism of the (yet to built) first group of Battles was the absence of any surface gun aft. To meet this perceived shortcoming it was proposed to fit a new single 4.5 inch deck mounted gun in the Q position, aft of the funnel. This change was of questionable value as the aft superstructure and sensors prevented the gun from being fired directly aft. Various new Bofors mountings were also considered. To accommodate all these changes and to offset the stability effect of weight growth that was becoming evident in the first Battles, it was decided to increase the beam of the follow-on ships by three inches.
Orders were placed for four new Battle Class in March 1943, for fifteen in late April and a further five in June of that year.
As the programme progressed, changes continued to be made to the secondary anti-aircraft arrangements, but the most important armament change was to the torpedo arrangements as a result of war experience in the Pacific. The two quadruple 21 inch tubes on the earlier Battles were replaced by two quintuple mountings launching Type D torpedoes. These were 12 inches longer and 200 pounds heavier than the torpedoes carried on the earlier ships. To compensate for this weight increase, the 44 inch searchlight and five depth charges were deleted. In service the destroyers also continued to carry the lighter Type XX torpedoes. Later in the build programme all of the depth charges were replaced by a Squid mortar which threw a spread salvo of three 12 inch projectiles 250 yards ahead of the ship. Sometimes! if light charges were used in error with heavy bombs they gave the Fox'l mess a big fright (one or two landed on Fox'l
The 1944 Programme
The 1944 building programme included arrangements for the construction of two Battle Class destroyers in Australia. Orders were placed in 1945 but with the end of the war, construction proceeded at a slow pace. HMAS Tobruk was built at Cockatoo Docks & Engineering and commissioned on 8 May 1950. HMAS Anzac was built at Williamstown Naval Dockyard and commissioned on 22 March 1951. The armament of these ships differed from the Royal Navy’s ships by having two twin 4.5 inch Mark VI turrets forward. These were the turrets fitted in the later Daring Class Destroyers. The single 4.5 inch gun in Q position was deleted and a total of twelve 40 mm Bofors fitted.
The impact of the Japanese surrender
Agincourt – Hawthorn Leslie (Leader)
Some ships were launched and had machinery installed when work was halted. They were laid-up in reserve with a view to future completion if the need arose. The ships were: -
Oudenarde – Swan Hunter – scrapped 1957
Other ships had been launched but were awaiting machinery, plus some that were launched to clear the building berth. All were immediately scrapped: -
Belle Isle – Fairfield – scrapped 1946
The following ships had either not been launched (in which case they were broken-up on the berth) or work had not started at the time of cancellation: -
Mons – Hawthorn Leslie
HMS Agincourt As-Built Specification
Early operational career of HMS Agincourt
In the immediate post war years the number of 1943 destroyers in service fluctuated, but Agincourt was the only one of the eight to remain in service throughout the period. The 4th Destroyer Flotilla was renamed 4th Destroyer Squadron and in 1951 Agincourt became leader.
In 1954 the Squadron deployed to the Mediterranean until the following year. The Squadron returned to the Mediterranean in 1957 and remained there until 1959. On return to UK, Agincourt paid-off and entered Portsmouth Dockyard for conversion into a Radar Picket.
Battle Class Radar Pickets
Four Battle Class ships were selected for the conversion. They were Agincourt, Aisne, Barrosa and Corunna. The work was carried out in the naval dockyards between 1949 and 1962 at a cost of £2.25 million each.
Only the hull main armament and fire control, forward superstructure, funnel, main machinery and anti-submarine systems remained of the original ships. The accommodation was greatly changed and the ship changed from DC to AC electrics. The single 4.5 inch gun, torpedo tubes and all of the Bofors anti-aircraft guns were removed.
A massive lattice foremast was fitted between the bridge and the funnel. The legs of this structure were located at the edge of the deck utilising the full beam of the ships. This tower was about the same height as the original lattice mast fitted to the ships, but it now supported a very large AKE-2 aerial for the Type 965 long range radar. This antenna had a colossal four tons weight. On the forward face of this lattice tower a Type 293Q target indication radar was located.
Aft of the funnel a new range of deckhouses were installed to accommodate operational rooms and technical equipment. A further lattice mast was located on them to carry a Type 277Q height finding radar an array of ESM and DF aerials. A GWS 21 Sea Cat surface to air missile system was also mounted on the aft superstructure.
HMS Agincourt Specification Changes
HMS Agincourt remaining career
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The defending Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings today signed free agent forward Patrick Eaves to a one-year contract. Eaves, a former Boston College standout, was a Boston Bruins player on paper for a little more than 24 hours last month when he was acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes for defenseman Aaron Ward. The Bruins then waived Eaves, who cleared waivers and was bought out.
Many have asked me why the Bruins were so quick to dispose of Eaves, who by all accounts is the type of player the Bruins enjoy having — hard-nosed with a little bit of offensive touch. But with the way things are shaping up salary cap-wise for this year and next, the Bruins really had no choice but to let Eaves go and take the cap credit they’re going to receive for 2010-11.
The plan is to have one of a group of Bruins prospects, which includes Vladimir Sobotka, Mikko Lehtonen and Zach Hamill, to step up and fill a void or two at the NHL level. So Eaves just would’ve been in the way of those prospects, who in addition to having upside also work a little cheaper. | <urn:uuid:758f8788-7499-4300-9936-a57241423499> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.thebruinsblog.net/2009/08/04/detroit-inks-former-bruin-eaves/?wpmp_switcher=mobile | 2015-04-02T09:46:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427132827069.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323174707-00222-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977456 | 239 |
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Born in Berlin in 1938, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is a contemporary of Bernd and Hilla Becher and shoots with the same typological clarity, focusing on a single architectural form and cataloging its variants. Each of the bus shelters in her photographs at Luisotti occupies the center of its frame with declarative plainness. The directness of this approach evolved out of New Objectivity photography of the 1920s and '30s (Renger-Patzsch, Blossfeldt) and into New Topographics of the '70s onward.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan police officer turned his weapon on two Western journalists Friday, killing one and wounding the other inside a security forces compound in eastern Afghanistan on the eve of the country's closely watched presidential election. Anja Niedringhaus, 48, a German and a veteran photographer for Associated Press, was killed instantly, and AP correspondent Kathy Gannon was shot three times, sustaining wrist and shoulder wounds, the news agency said. Gannon, 60, a Canadian who has covered Afghanistan for nearly three decades, was evacuated to the U.S. military base at Bagram and was reported to be in stable condition.
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March 31, 2014 |
Community activists pledged Monday to continue fighting the construction of an immigrant processing center on the Central Coast, despite a bitterly contested vote in which a local city council advanced the project in the face of fervent public opposition. "The fight is not over," said Hazel Davalos, head of the Santa Maria chapter of Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, an organization that helps working families in the region. The federal government wants to replace an aging, dilapidated facility in Lompoc - a smattering of trailers that were installed on the grounds of a prison to process immigration cases.
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Forget the tree that fell in the forest with no one around to hear it. What if someone took more than 100,000 photographs over decades of shooting and absolutely no one was around to see them? And what if they turned out to be really, really good? That in a nutshell is the stranger-than-fiction tale behind the gripping documentary "Finding Vivian Maier," a film that asks a pair of equally involving questions: Exactly who was this hidden master and how did her work and her life finally come to light?
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The photographs of Yamamoto Masao are expansive to the mind, even as they are utterly reductive to the eye. They are straightforward, even taxonomic in their informational clarity, and yet they leave room for interpretation. Their subjects derive from geology and botany, but they easily dialogue with spirituality and poetry. In his newest work, "Shizuka=Cleanse," at Craig Krull, Yamamoto photographs stones and tree branches as isolated, sculptural forms against dark, indeterminate grounds.
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In "Behind Closed Doors: The Private Homes of 25 of the World's Most Creative People" (Hardie Grant, $29.95), London-based journalist Rob Meyers has assembled the interior-design version of those stars-without-their-makeup slide shows that never fail to fascinate. The book revolves around a simple premise: Meyers sent disposable cameras to dozens of celebrities, designers and fellow journalists with one simple instruction: Whatever else you photograph, you must shoot the inside of your icebox. | <urn:uuid:c19bd4b7-eac7-4ae6-b414-1ae05b0d0879> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/photographs | 2015-03-28T05:24:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131297281.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172137-00290-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953577 | 723 |
Yankee Air Museum sets record for most "Rosies;" now about that bomber plant
A few weeks ago, 778 women of all ages donned coveralls, tied their hair up with bandanas, and headed to the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport in southeast Michigan to try to break a world record.
And now it's official. That gathering has set the Guinness World Record: 778 “Rosie the Riveters” all in one place.
It was the Yankee Air Museum's second try at setting the Guinness World Record for the most women and girls dressed as Rosies, and their second try was a charm.
The original Rosies turned out B-24 "Liberator" heavy bombers at the plant during World War II.
The event helps the museum with the serious business of raising enough money to save the historic Willow Run Bomber plant from demolition.
The Yankee Air Museum is trying to raise $8 million to buy the old plant from the RACER trust, which oversees liquidation of former GM properties.
The Museum has until May 1 to save the bomber plant from the wrecker's ball.
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Kevin, As usual you are lying. I do not deny the earth is warming and even posted that on your blog.
I do say it is a good thing and I also say that soot, not CO2, is responsible for melting glaciers and ice-packs.
Look it up- soot and global warming- or just continue to be a little lying faggot. Your choice...
What makes you think that soot warming means that increasing CO2 does not also cause warming? It is particularly evident that warming occurs when the sun is not shining (that would be night time temperatures, when black carbon does not absorb light).
"Following what I just wrote about fitness, you’re taking refuge in what we see in the world." PaV
"The simple equation F = MA leads to the concept of four-dimensional space." GilDodgen
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NEW YORK -- Twitter handed tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge on Friday after months of fighting a subpoena from prosecutors in a closely watched case pitting privacy and free speech advocates against law enforcement.
The San Francisco company surrendered the micro-blogging posts -- an inch-high stack of paper inside a mailing envelope -- to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino. They will remain under seal while a request for a stay by the protester, Malcolm Harris, is heard next week in a higher court.
Harris, 23, was one of hundreds arrested during a mass protest on the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011. The Manhattan district attorney's office wants the tweets, which are no longer available online, to try to undermine Harris' argument that police appeared to lead protesters onto the bridge's roadway only to arrest them for obstructing traffic.
Twitter and Harris had challenged the subpoena but Sciarrino rejected their arguments in June. Twitter has filed an appeal, which is scheduled to be heard in November.
The case involves a thorny legal question that has rarely, if ever, been tackled by courts: whether Twitter users have the right to go to court to fight requests from law enforcement for their tweets.
Twitter and Harris argued that Harris, as the author of the tweets in question, should have legal standing to combat the subpoena. Twitter's terms of service make clear that users have a proprietary interest in their records, according to the company's appeal.
Sciarrino, however, has said only Twitter can legally challenge a law enforcement request for tweets, since it is the company, not the user, that owns the content in question. He compared it to a subpoena of bank records, which courts have found cannot be challenged by the account holder.
The case has drawn interest from privacy advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, which have filed an amicus brief in support of Twitter's appeal.
They are concerned the ruling could set a precedent putting the onus on social media companies to try to protect their users from criminal prosecution.
"It's what I would call a canary-in-a-coal-mine case," said Marcia Hofmann, a lawyer with the EFF. "I am concerned that companies will look at this case and say it's not a good idea to push back against governments we think are overreaching. That's troubling."
Twitter had faced a Friday deadline to comply with the subpoena or face contempt and a heavy fine.
Aden Fine, an attorney with the ACLU, said Friday's outcome demonstrates the importance of ensuring that users, not companies, have the right to oppose subpoenas for their content.
"Twitter should be applauded for standing up for its users, but the unfortunate reality is that only the individual users have sufficient incentives to defend their constitutional rights," he said in an email.
While Sciarrino refused Twitter's request to wait until after its appeal is heard, he urged the appeals court not to deem the matter moot just because the tweets have been handed over.
"I strongly encourage the appellate court ... to decide the case on the merits, as I too agree that this is a more important issue than maybe the trial itself," Sciarrino said.
Harris' lawyer, Martin Stolar, said he was disappointed that Twitter had handed over the messages but vowed to continue to challenge the subpoena.
"We're not giving up the fight here," he said following the court session, as Harris stood by his side.
The district attorney's office declined to comment on Friday's court hearing.
The surrender of Harris' tweets comes as the Occupy movement prepares to mark its one-year anniversary next week.
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Oracle expert looks ahead to Database 11g
January 17, 2007[From SearchOracle.com]
Brian Peasland knows the Oracle Database. As an independent Oracle database consultant and SearchOracle.com's resident expert on backup and recovery and database design, Peasland spends his days helping companies and individuals get more out of Oracle's flagship database management system (DBMS). And with the newest version of the Oracle Database, version 11g, currently in beta testing, SearchOracle.com thought it would be a good time to sit down with Peasland and go over some of Oracle's planned changes and upgrades.
In this interview, Peasland discusses why he doesn't have much use for the planned XML upgrades in 11g and talks about the fact that many users he speaks with are hoping the next version of PL/SQL will include a better way to trace the PL/SQL call stack. Peasland also offers advice for folks getting ready to take the Oracle Certified Professional exam for 10g and offers some words of wisdom for database newbies and veterans alike who want to make sure that Database 10g is properly locked down.
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People with flu like symptoms should not be on airplanes. That's according to federal health officials. But taking that advice could be costly.
New guidelines from the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say people with fever or other flu-like symptoms should avoid flying for at least 24 hours after the symptoms subside.
The CDC also advises airlines to prevent sick people, including crew members, from boarding flights.
But changing your flight because of illness will cost money.
Delta and United passengers with non-refundable discounted coach tickets pay $150 dollars. However, the airlines will waive the fee if passengers have a doctor’s note. That’s true of most airlines, though they all have differing policies.
For instance, American Airlines will only waive the charge if passengers are denied access to board.
Airtran will waive the fee only for a documented case of the swine flu.
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The top-ranked West High boys basketball team defeated Davenport Central 66-46 Tuesday at West High.
Junior Wyatt Lohaus led the Trojans with 13 points. Myzeah Batie-Gaddy had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Jason Stewart, Mark Lowe and Chike Ukah each had eight points.
The Trojans led 33-17 at halftime and out-rebounded the Blue Devils 34-17 in the game.
West had 10 turnovers on the night, and Central had 21.
West is 3-0.
? WILTON 60, REGINA 35: Johnnie Ries and Drew Cook each had 11 points to lead the Regals in a loss in Wilton.
Cook also had six rebounds, Kenyon Browning had seven points, and Mark Ward had five rebounds.
? IMS 66, WACO 45: Tenth-ranked Iowa Mennonite School led 33-19 at halftime and won in Wayland.
Cameron Gingerich had 19 points and three steals for IMS, Dallas Nye had 14 points and nine rebounds, Peyton Thompson had 11 points, Reggie Hostetler had 10 points, and Zach Hill had three steals.
IMS is 2-1.
? SOLON 68, MAQUOKETA 61: Joe Weeks had 17 points and seven rebounds to lead the fourth-ranked Spartans in Maquoketa.
Ethan Ahern and Austin D. Miller each had 13 points for Solon (3-0).
Emilio Villagrana had 11 points and eight assists, and Rory Siddell also had 11 points.
? LONE TREE 73, WAPELLO 47: The fifth-ranked Lions picked up the win in Wapello.
Bryan Forbes had 20 points and 14 rebounds, Andy Dodson had 18 points, and Logan Forbes had nine points and seven rebounds.
Lone Tree is 3-0.
? MID-PRAIRIE 57, WEST BRANCH 49: The Golden Hawks held a 32-27 rebounding edge and forced 18 turnovers to beat the fifth-ranked Bears in West Branch.
Dayton Hall had 17 points for Mid-Prairie, and Nathan Faselt had 13.
Rylan Murry had 33 points and 10 rebounds for West Branch (2-1 overall and 0-1 in the Cedar Valley Conference).
Mid-Prairie is 2-0.
? WEST LIBERTY 59, TIPTON 58: Kyle Miller made a layup with 10 seconds left in the game to give the Comets the win in West Liberty.
After trailing by four points with a minute left in the game, the Comets made a 3-pointer to pull within one and then Miller scored on pass from Brett Becker.
Miller had 17 points for West Liberty. Tyler Newsom led West Liberty with 18 points and 10 rebounds.
West Liberty improves to 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the CVC.
? HIGHLAND 53, LOUISA-MUSCATINE 50: The Huskies held the Falcons from scoring in the final 11 seconds to earn the win in Riverside.
Jake Hootman had 19 points for Highland (3-1), and Josh Brase had 14 points.
? VINTON-SHELLSBURG 83, CLEAR CREEK AMANA 57: Josh Martinac had 21 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Clippers in the loss in Tiffin. Kam Kahler added 11 points.
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Yes, Will is the guy to talk to. Some years ago he posted a series of detailed photos on his scratch build of that monster. I can't recall if it was here or elsewhere. There is a reference to it in our photo section, but the link does not work. There are a few pixs of it over on the CultTVman site. A Google on it comes up pretty much nil.
George "Crazy Ivan" Protchenko
“There are the assassins, the dealers in death; I am the Avenger!”-Nemo
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Soft grey millwork with white walls.
This practical mudroom by Feasy & Bleeks Design incorporates one of their top palettes; grey, black and white. "We often choose a darker colour (usually a shade of grey) for built-ins and millwork to contrast creamy white walls," says Feasby. The staircase railing (not shown) is a dramatic shade of black, painted with Interlux's Brightside Polyurethane for boats, which is durable enough for handrails.
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|Development of the Person|
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|Key Features||400 mAh Battery Capacity, 12 hrs Battery Life, 40 mm Driver Unit, Plug and Play, Headphone Jack|
|Model ID||XAM4-B Capsule Speaker|
|Battery||with 12 hrs|
|Power Output||2.5 W|
|Satellite (Width x Height x Depth)||60 x 44 x 60 mm|
|Other Audio Features||Bass Xpansion System|
|Total Power Output RMS (W)||2.5 W|
|Signal-to-Noise Ratio (dB)||80 dB|
|Other Features||Buddy Jack, Battery Charging Time: 2.5 hrs|
|Is Magnetically Shielded||Yes|
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Star Trek Shattered Universe - XB - Preview
The universe is a vast and unknown area, full of hidden dangers. Sometimes, those dangers take on the unexpected form of those whom you have known for decades.
While on a rescue mission, the United Federation Starship Excelsior is caught in the same vortex as the Enterprise and Ranger. The world seems to spin and suddenly the known becomes unknown. Captain Sulu is facing the screen and the deadly image of Captain Chekov. It is a parallel universe, and Chekov is accusing Sulu of betraying the empire, a crime for which he must pay.
With little more than that you are thrust into a war that you must win.
Star Trek Shattered Universe is a pending release on the Xbox from TDK and Starsphere Interactive. This is an arcade journey through the Star Trek universe. Fans of the Star Trek fable may recognize the setting of the game as that depicted in the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror."
What the developers of this game have done is to take that alternate universe concept and expand it to 19 levels of fast-paced combat. GameZone.com was invited to beam aboard for this warp-speed adventure into deadly space.
Ensnared in the Janus Prime Vortex, Sulu and his crew are now tasked with crossing a very hostile bit of space in order to find a way home. Romulans and Klingons are seemingly the least of your troubles.
The first mission encountered is within the vortex, after the screen clears and Sulu is confronted by the accusations of Chekov. The Enterprise fires on and destroys the Ranger, and then turns its attention to the Excelsior. But Chekov is like a cat toying with a mouse. He knows the phasers on the Excelsior have been sabotaged, and sends a host of smaller fighters toward the ship.
Your task is to hold off the fighters from destroying the Excelsior, but also to damage the Enterprise so that it breaks off its attack. Of course, the Enterprise has shields that you will have to work through. And because this is space, the Enterprise is not about to sit in one location and let you just shoot away at it. No, it will move and fire back at your little Wraith fighter.
That means you will have to bounce around, avoid the return fire from the Enterprise, spin back and take out fighters attacking the Excelsior and then return to whittling down the shields on the Enterprise.
The action is fast paced, and constant. There are bonus points awarded for finishing the scenario objectives in less than four minutes.
The control elements of the game are very simple and work well with the Xbox controller. The thumbsticks control flying controls and the X button is the primary attack. The right trigger drives you forward.
Visually this is a very nice game to look at. The three-dimensional environments are lush and very colorful. The ships look great and the special effects are well done. There is a HUD to help with targeting.
The sound of the game is full of the effects one expects from a Star Trek game. Adding to the sound and authenticity of the game are the vocal re-enactments of George Takei as Captain Sulu and Walter Koenig as Captain Chekov. This certainly adds to the overall quality of the title.
The missions on this game were all basically similar - destroys from a little fighter. Whether traversing a worm hole and clearing the road or battling other ships, this is a game that is highly reflexive.
Star Trek Shattered Universe is an arcade game, with each round scored, and the replayability will certainly come in trying to outscore previous efforts. While the missions of this beta all bear a certain similarity, they are nicely tied together by the storyline.
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Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/339
On the Security of the TLS Protocol: A Systematic Analysis
Hugo Krawczyk and Kenneth G. Paterson and Hoeteck Wee
Abstract: TLS is the most widely-used cryptographic protocol on the Internet. It comprises the TLS Handshake Protocol, responsible for authentication and key establishment, and the TLS Record Protocol, which takes care of subsequent use of those keys to protect bulk data. TLS has proved remarkably stubborn to analysis using the tools of modern cryptography. This is due in part to its complexity and its flexibility. In this paper, we present the most complete analysis to date of the TLS Handshake protocol and its application to data encryption (in the Record Protocol). We show how to extract a key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) from the TLS Handshake Protocol, and how the security of the entire TLS protocol follows from security properties of this KEM when composed with a secure authenticated encryption scheme in the Record Protocol. The security notion we achieve is a variant of the ACCE notion recently introduced by Jager et al. (Crypto ’12). Our approach enables us to analyse multiple different key establishment methods in a modular fashion, including the first proof of the most common deployment mode that is based on RSA PKCS #1v1.5 encryption, as well as Diffie-Hellman modes. Our results can be applied to settings where mutual authentication is provided and to the more common situation where only server authentication is applied.
Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols /
Publication Info: Preliminary full version of a CRYPTO 2013 paper.
Date: received 7 Jun 2013, last revised 19 Jun 2013
Contact author: hoeteck at alum mit edu
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There seems to be a Menlo Park meme: Young person finds success at a local tech giant only to decide that cubicle culture, no matter how well-paid, is not for them.
So it was with Menlo-based photographer Frances Freyberg, who steeled her nerves and jumped feet first into her two passions — travel and photography. Her first self-assigned project was to travel around the world, photographing everything she found interesting. Working with a pocket-sized camera, Frances produced a remarkable tome, Around the World in 30,000 photographs, recording her journeys to 45 countries.
“Through my photographs, I hope to educate people about our world, and inspire them to get out and explore it for themselves — whether that means traveling to another country or simply walking around a new neighborhood in Menlo Park,” she says. “Photographs have inspired so many of my own adventures, and that’s what I hope to do for others. For example, if my photo [above, photographed at Allied Arts] leads someone who’s never visited Allied Arts to go check it out for the first time, I’ll have accomplished my goal.
“Whether abroad or at home in Menlo Park, I seek out scenes that express the beauty, excitement, humor and diversity of our world, and I try to convey those scenes in a way that expands a viewer’s perspective, challenges their assumptions and shows a familiar subject or location in a new light.”
Frances has begun to attract critical acclaim for her work and is now represented by the Portola Art Gallery. Her work is currently on display (until June 30) at Mike’s Cafe, 150 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park.
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75 mg CAPSULES
What a miracle the development of antibiotics truly was! The commercial development of penicillin and the sulfa antibiotic class represented the first readily available medications that could kill the microorganisms responsible for bacterial infections. Since then, a myriad of antibiotics have become available exploiting the biological differences between bacterial and animal enzyme systems and cellular structures. But none of these medications made any difference to the viruses.
A virus is the simplest organism that can technically be called “living.” Its structure is very simple, often just a cluster of DNA inside a protein coat. The virus has no protein metabolism or other systems that a medication might target. A virus simply acts like a syringe attaching to a host cell, injecting its genetic material inside, and tricking the host cell into transcribing this material. In other words, it injects its own DNA into the host cell, attaching its own DNA to the host's DNA. The viral DNA instructs the cell to stop what it is doing and start mass-producing more virus. Soon the host cell becomes a virus factory, replicating thousands of new viral organisms to go forward and infect new cells.
Viruses are responsible for Herpes, Influenza, HIV, the Common Cold and numerous other infections with which we are familiar. It has only been relatively recently that we have had the technology to
attack viral biology. Oseltamivir represents such an effort.
(original graphic by marvistavet.com)
Oseltamivir specifically targets the influenza virus. This virus bears a special attachment enzyme on its surface called “Neuraminidase.” This enzyme allows the flu virus to bud from the host cell in which it was created and then happily pass through the mucus of the respiratory tract to any cell in the tract it wishes to infect. Inhibiting neuraminidase effectively locks the new viral organisms within their host cell, imprisoning them so that they cannot infect new cells. The immune system will recognize the infected cell and kill it along with its infective contents. Oseltamivir is felt to cut a couple of days out of one’s sickness period when it comes to the flu.
All this, of course, has virtually nothing to do with pets.
Recently, veterinary interest has turned to oseltamivir in the treatment of Canine Parvovirus, a life-threatening infection characterized by vomiting and bloody diarrhea. Because the parvovirus does not use neuraminidase in its replication, one might not expect oseltamavir to have value but it turns out that neuraminidase is an important enzyme used by pathogenic bacteria invading through the protective mucous barrier of the GI tract. Invasion of intestinal bacteria into the bloodstream is an important cause of death in parvoviral infection and this is where oseltamavir appears to be helpful though there is still controversy surrounding its use.
To assist in the treatment of canine parvovirus infection, oseltamivir is given orally twice a day for 5 days. The medication should be obtained as soon as the parvovirus diagnosis is confirmed. If a puppy has been exposed to canine parvovirus but is not ill often the clinical disease can be circumvented by giving a course of oseltamivir.
Usually an oral suspension is compounded or the human product is given. This medication is not approved for use in animals.
In pets, side effects have not been appreciated; however, veterinary experience is limited but the following is taken from human patient information sheets on oseltamivir:
Side effects that you should report to your prescriber or healthcare professional as soon as possible:
- difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
- ear ache or infection
- infection and inflammation of the sinuses (nose) and chest
- skin rash
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your prescriber or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
- difficulty sleeping
- nausea and vomiting
- nose bleed
We include this information as general information but if you are using oseltamivir on a pet and think you may be seeing indications of any of the above, report them to your veterinarian.
There are no known drug interactions with oseltamivir.
The most important caution is to recognize that canine parvovirus is a life-threatening infection for which there is no substitute for hospitalization. One should never attempt to diagnose parvovirus infection on one's own nor treat it without veterinary supervision. Puppies that have advanced parvo symptoms (such as septicemia or severe dehydration) may not respond to oseltamivir. This medication works best early in the course of infection before the patient is already combating large amounts of infectious organisms. If pathogenic bacteria have already invaded, the effectiveness of oseltamavir will be blunted..
Reconstituted oseltamivir does not last longer than 10 days and must be disposed of thereafter.
If a patient seems to have an upset stomach on oseltamivir, this effect can be mitigated by giving the medication with food.
There has been some interest in using oseltamivir in infections other than parvovirus such as Canine Influenza, Canine Distemper, or even Kennel Cough. It is important to consider that human influenza is a significant disease with potential to cause human death under certain circumstances. Unnecessary use of anti-viral medications leads to resistance within the influenza virus population so it is important that medications such as oseltamivir not be used for infections which are not life-threatening in nature or which are likely to resolve with routine supportive care.
For more details on canine parvovirus, see the Parvovirus Information Center on this site.
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Track 5 of Disc 1 of this album, "Majorca Roots," is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. If I can ever get a copy that can be posted to the forum, I'll post it. Meanwhile, here's a link to info on the album. The QuickTime flash video interview is pretty interesting. This DJ is from the Middle East. Some of you may recognize him as one of the two known together as Deep Dish.
Gotta ROCK, man. Gotta be spiritual and have fun at the same time. Gotta ROCK.
And now I found some solid ground
I thought I'd drowned but now I'm found
And on the lips of life I kiss
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For all the hype about Chief Customer Officers in the utility space, you have to wonder if they ever answer the phones. They’re eager to speak with reporters (and probably "team members" and other C-level execs) about carving a new path of engaging consumers, but the reality is that the message has not trickled down.
A recent thesis written by an undergraduate at Purdue University involved the researcher calling 100 electric companies that were planning or deploying smart grid technologies. The result was that far too many of the utilities’ front line employees were not equipped to answer questions, and at times, gave shockingly uninformed responses to an eager customer.
Kelsey Schamber, a honors student at the College of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University, asked the call center employees six questions, posing as a customer moving into their service area:
- Is your company doing anything to implement Smart Grid technology?
- Do you have information available about the Smart Grid?
- Do your customers have smart meters?
- Does your company have a smart meter program where consumers will get smart meters?
- Do you have information about smart meters? How can I get this information?
- Does your company have a corporate green/conservation philosophy? Where can I get that?
Admittedly, many of the utilities that were contacted were still in the infancy of their smart grid rollout. Even so, 11 percent said they weren’t even familiar with smart grid technologies, even though all of the utilities had some project in the works. A handful of companies “claimed that they were aware of the Smart Grid technology but were afraid to implement it, as it would eliminate jobs within the company.” Certainly that’s not toeing the company line.
Only one-third of call centers could give Schamber any additional information about their smart grid projects, and many just transferred her around to other employees who were equally unhelpful.
Less than half knew about programs where customers would get smart meters now or in the future, but of those utilities that did provide additional information, it was most helpful when it didn’t involve being transferred multiple times.
One of the most interesting conclusions drawn in the thesis is that “overly helpful customer service representatives were rare.” The culture of lack of enthusiasm and awareness is apparent in some of the more damning quotes that were included in the report:
- “I don’t know what that is, can you explain that to me?” (concerning the Smart Grid technology and smart meters)
- “We have nothing like that technology.”
- “We only have traditional digital meters that are read at the end of each day.”
- “We are thinking about implementing the technology in the near future, but there is a possibility of taking away existing jobs if we implement the Smart Grid now.”
- “You would need to contact the public relations or human resources department to address those issues” (concerning the conservation philosophy of the utility company)
- “Why are you requesting this information?”
- “No one knows where to send you, what is the Smart Grid?” (after being transferred multiple times to departments that were unaware of what the researcher was talking about)
So on a good day, only one-third to one-half of the utility call centers in the study could answer questions in any detail about smart grid projects, but there are some positive takeaways.
The thesis found that more than 90 percent of the customer service representatives were versed in “green” and energy saving initiatives and could talk in detail about what the programs were. For utilities that were near the completion, or far into, their smart meter rollout, they were much more able to answer questions from the consumer.
There will obviously be a learning curve as new technologies are adopted, but the results of this (not quite scientific) study found that most utilities have barely jumped on the curve at all. In a webinar about utility customer care hosted by Greentech Media, there was a lot of talk about “touch points” and “life cycle” models with consumers.
But there is a reality far outside of this corporate jargon. There is not even a basic understanding in the majority of call centers of what’s being implemented, what it means or how to convey that to customers. Call center representatives are not armed with talking points or resources about where to send people who are interested/scared/angry/enthusiastic about smart grid and what it will mean for them.
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Click here for Frequently Asked Questions on Thyroid Surgery.
This section provides a general overview of thyroid surgery. The extent of surgery for patients with hyperthyroidism will be different compared to surgery carried out in the context of thyroid cancer. Most of the discussion below is written for patients considering surgery for suspected thyroid cancer, and may not completely apply to patients having surgery for hyperthyroidism. The type of operation carried out for patients with hyperthyroidism may vary somewhat, and should be discussed with your surgeon.
Once a decision for thyroid surgery has been made, the extent and type of the operation depends on a number of factors, including: patient age, gender, size of the nodule, the suspected preoperative diagnosis including the result of the fine needle aspiration biopsy, presence or absence of involved lymph nodes in the neck, the intraoperative analysis of the tumor by the Pathologist (quick section), and the technical ease of the initial part of the operation. The description below generally refers to the situation encountered by patients who have surgery because of the possibility of thyroid cancer.
Thyroid operations are almost always performed under general anesthesia although local anesthetics may be added to decrease the amount of general anesthetic drugs required. The incision is placed in the low anterior neck at the collar line, following an existing skin crease if one is present, and a gentle curve, if not. The incision will vary in length depending on the size of the nodule, the size and shape of your neck, and the surgeon’s preferences. In general, thyroidectomy incisions tend to be between 5 to 10 centimeters in length.
The minimal extent of surgery for a thyroid nodule is a hemithyroidectomy, i.e. removal of one lobe or one half of the thyroid gland. Historical attempts to remove the nodule alone (enucleation) are associated with an increased risk of bleeding and/or tumor spill and spread.
In a hemithyroidectomy operation, where ~ half of the thyroid gland is removed, the blood supply to the thyroid is divided adjacent to the gland, the recurrent laryngeal nerve is identified and followed up to the voice box and the parathyroid glands on that side are left undisturbed if possible.
Once the involved half of the thyroid has been removed, the tissue is sent immediately for frozen or quick section analysis by a pathologist. At this point a decision is made as to whether to remove the other half of the thyroid gland (total thyroidectomy). It is important to understand that the frozen section is only helpful when positive for cancer and is not 100% accurate. For example, in some cases when the frozen section is judged to be "negative for malignancy", the final report may come back as positive for malignancy. This discrepancy reflects the limitations of the quick section diagnosis, and the more comprehensive analysis and special pathological tests that may be carried out following subsequent careful examination of the entire resected pathology specimen. The extent of initial surgery remains a subject of controversy for patients with well differentiated thyroid cancer and small thyroid tumors less than 2-3 cm in size that are confined to one lobe of the thyroid without evidence of disease outside the thyroid. Some centers advocate only a hemithyroidectomy for patients with small tumors, whereas other centers prefer a more aggressive approach and subtotal thyroidectomy. There is little good evidence from large prospective randomized studies to support either approach. For an overview, see Thyroid Cancer: Extent of Thyroidectomy Cancer Control 2000 (3):240-245.
In this circumstance, when the final pathology report comes back positive for thyroid cancer, it is sometimes necessary to perform a second operation to remove the remainder of the thyroid gland. To avoid this possibility, some surgeons will recommend a total thyroidectomy at the outset, if the fine needle aspiration biopsy is positive or highly suspicious for cancer or if the size of the thyroid nodule or other associated clinical features strongly predict an increased likelihood of thyroid cancer. The frequency of small foci of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in the "contralateral lobe" has prompted some experts to recommend near total thyroidectomy as the initial operation of choice, however this recommendation is not based on long-term follow-up data. See Contralateral papillary thyroid cancer is frequent at completion thyroidectomy with no difference in low- and high-risk patients. Thyroid. 2001 11(9):877-81.
Complications of Hemithyroidectomy include those of the anesthetic, risk of wound infection, pneumonia and all of the other potential problems associated with any operation; as well as those risks associated specifically with this procedure. These include a slight, but real risk of change in voice due to injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve or the superior laryngeal nerve on the side of the thyroid mass being removed.
The likelihood of a permanent injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is in the range of 1%, or one in one hundred cases, and would result in a hoarse or breathy voice. If this complication were to occur, the voice box usually accommodates, resulting in gradual improvement in voice quality. If no improvement in voice quality were to occur, however, a small operation could potentially be performed (thyroplasty) to move the paralyzed vocal cord towards the opposite, normal vocal cord. One way or the other, voice quality improves in this situation. Injury to the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve is uncommon, believed to occur in 2-5% of thyroidectomies, but the precise risk of this complication is unknown. Injury to this nerve does not result in hoarseness, but does produce voice fatigue, difficulty in voice projection, and possible decrease in voice range, especially in upper singing registers. Again, accommodation of the voice box usually occurs over time. The risk of Hypothyroidism following hemithyroidectomy depends on the presence of preexisting thyroid disease, is usually mild, and has been reported to be ~35% in one series. See Hypothyroidisim following hemithyroidectomy: incidence, risk factors, and management Surgery 2000 Dec;128(6):994-8.
Complications of Total Thyroidectomy include injury to the recurrent and superior laryngeal nerves (at twice the rates mentioned above), and potential damage to all four of the parathyroid glands. Following total thyroidectomy, about one in three patients will have a temporary injury to these glands, resulting in a drop in blood calcium level (hypocalcemia). The symptoms of hypocalcemia may include tingling in the finger, toes, and around the mouth. Extremely low calcium levels can also produce muscle cramps or spasms or shortness of breath. If you were to experience any of these symptoms following a thyroidectomy, you should contact your physician or go to the emergency room immediately. Two percent of patient have a permanently low calcium following total thyroidectomy, even when a careful attempt has been made to preserve and protect the parathyroids at the time of the surgery. The treatment of low calcium (hypocalcemia) is calcium tablets and some times vitamin D (see Treatment of hypocalcemia).
An important consideration when contemplating a total thyroidectomy, is the possible requirement for lifelong thyroid hormone replacement. The risk of hypothyroidism after hemithyroidectomy varies widely from study to study; some centers report rates as low as 1%, and after subtotal thyroidectomy in patients without pre-existing thyroid disease, about 4%, as in most cases, the remaining thyroid tissue grows and compensates for the piece removed. Other reports describe a 50% risk of hypothyroidism requiring thyroid hormone replacement after surgery, as outlined in A comparison of total thyroidectomy and lobectomy in the treatment of dominant thyroid nodules. Am Surg. 2002 Aug;68(8):678-82; discussion 682-3.
Excision of neck lymph nodes (modified radical neck dissection or functional neck dissection) is only performed in papillary or follicular thyroid cancer when these nodes are enlarged and proven to be infiltrated with tumor. The major risks of neck dissection include a significant increase in the length of the incision and scar; and a small risk (5%) of injury to the spinal accessory nerve, which would result in weakness of and pain in the shoulder on that side.
What are the risks involved in thyroid surgery?
The answer clearly depends on many factors, such as the extent of surgery, how much of the thyroid will be removed, whether this is the first or second operation, the nature of the thyroid disease present, the presence of co-existing medical conditions, and the skill and experience of the surgeon. The risks of various surgical approaches to the thyroid should be discussed with your surgeon, taking the above factors into consideration. For several reviews of different scenarios, see Assessment of the morbidity and complications of total thyroidectomy. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002 Apr;128(4):389-92 and Surgery for recurrent goitre: its complications and their risk factors. Eur J Surg. 2001 Nov;167(11):816-21. and Thyroid surgery: a comparison of outcomes between experts and surgeons in training. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001 Jul;125(1):30-3. For an overview of complications arising from thyroid surgery in a large multicentre Italian study, see Complications of Thyroid Surgery: Analysis of a Multicentric Study on 14,934 Patients Operated on in Italy over 5 Years. World J Surg. 2004 Feb 17.
A review of the selected Toronto experience for patients undergoing total thyroidectomy vs initial hemithyroidectomy followed by completion thyroidectomy from 1994-2004 analyzed the complication rate for the different surgical approaches. The rates of hypocalcemia or recurrent laryngeal paralysis were not significantly different for the two procedures, however patients having a completion thyroidectomy had a slightly longer stay in hospital as outlined in Completion Thyroidectomy Versus Total Thyroidectomy: Is There a Difference in Complication Rates? An Analysis of 350 Patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2007 Oct;205(4):602-607.
Some patients with multiple nodules elect to have a subtotal thyroidectomy rather than a hemithyroidectomy, to avoid the need for ongoing surveillance of the remaining nodules. Nevertheless, have multlple nodules does not necessarily increase the risk of having additional foci of thyroid cancer in the remaining nodules, as described in Does the presence of additional thyroid nodules on ultrasound alter the risk of malignancy in patients with a follicular neoplasm of the thyroid? Surgery. 2007 Dec;142 (6): 851-7.
When should I consider surgery for hyperthyroidism?
Although more common in Europe and Asia, surgery is still a reasonable option for some patients with hyperthyroidism. Factors that influence the decision include size of the thyroid, presence of a large nodule, failure of radioactive iodine or drugs, compressive symptoms, severity of eye symptoms, consideration of pregnancy, and patient preferences. To review the experience in this area, see Thyroidectomy for Selected Patients With Thyrotoxicosis. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001 Jan;127(1):61-65 and Surgery for Graves' disease: total versus subtotal thyroidectomy-results of a prospective randomized trial World J Surg. 2000 Nov;24(11):1303-11 and Treatment of Graves' disease: the advantages of surgery. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2000 Jun;29(2):321-37. and The efficacy of thyroidectomy for Graves' disease: A meta-analysis. J Surg Res. 2000 May 15;90(2):161-5.
How effective is surgery for hyperthyroidism?
Although not first line treatment in North America, thyroid surgery appears to be safe and effective with a low rate of complications in an experienced center. See Surgical treatment of hyperthyroidism: a ten-year experience. Thyroid. 2001 Feb;11(2):187-92.
I had most of my thyroid removed and now my physician suggests I have a second operation to remove the remainder of the thyroid. Is this necessary?
The extent and type of additional surgical procedures required in the setting of thyroid cancer treatment will depend in part on the initial pathology report and other associated clinical features. For successful subsequent radioactive iodine ablation treatment, as much of the remaining thyroid as possible should be removed. About 25-35% of patients will have detectable thyroid cancer in the "remnant" part of the thyroid that will be found upon examination of the resected thyroid tissue after a second operation. The single best predictor of thyroid cancer in the thyroid remnant appears to be multifocal thyroid cancer in the original tumor. See Prophylactic completion thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma: prediction of extrathyroidal soft tissue infiltrates. Thyroid. 2001 Apr;11(4):381-4. or Frequency and predictive factors of malignancy in residual thyroid tissue and cervical lymph nodes after partial thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer. Surgery. 2002 Apr;131(4):443-9. and Completion thyroidectomy in patients with thyroid cancer who initially underwent unilateral operation. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2004 Jul;61(1):145-8.
In some instances, patients will also require a second operation for benign thyroid disease, perhaps due to recurrence of a large goiter or hyperthyroidism. Patients should be aware that the risks and potential complications associated with a second operation are still low, but generally higher than for the first operation, as outlined in Surgery for recurrent goitre: its complications and their risk factors. Eur J Surg. 2001 Nov;167(11):816-21 and Safety of completion thyroidectomy following unilateral lobectomy for well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Laryngoscope. 2002 Jul;112(7 Pt 1):1209-12.
The optimal timing of the second operation will vary depending on the circumstances. Although many surgeons prefer to wait several months before re-exploring the neck, some studies suggest that waiting the extra few months may not make a big difference to the outcome. See Impact of timing on completion thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer. Br J Surg. 2002 Jun;89(6):802-4.
Nevertheless, the detection of small amounts of thyroid cancer in the
other thyroid lobe after a second operation is unlikely to have any
adverse prognostic implications as outlined in Contralateral
papillary thyroid cancer at completion thyroidectomy has no impact on
recurrence or survival after radioiodine treatment. Surgery.
When will minimally invasive surgery become a more widely used procedure for removal of thyroid nodules?
Although experience with this technique is still limited, the number of centers gaining experience with newer approaches to removal of thyroid nodules is increasing. See Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy. Am J Surg. 2001 Jun;181(6):567-70. for a description of the experience of a group of Italian physicians with video-guided minimally invasive surgery. For a related report, see Minimally invasive open thyroidectomy. Surg Today. 2001;31(8):665-9. There is insufficient experience to date that will allow a prediction of whether this will prove to be a real advance over conventional thyroidectomy. See Comparison between minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy and conventional thyroidectomy: A prospective randomized study. Surgery. 2001 Dec;130(6):1039-1043.
My biopsy shows cells compatible with a follicular lesion. Should I have a subtotal thyroidectomy, or should I have half the thyroid removed, with a decision on more extensive surgery made at the time of quick section during the operation?
This is a controversial area, and the answer will differ between various surgeons and pathologists. Some patients will elect to have a less extensive initial operation, with the realization that a second operation, if thyroid cancer is the final pathological diagnosis, may be necessary in about 25% of all cases. Other patients may not want to face the prospect of a second surgical procedure, and elect to have a more extensive subtotal thyroidectomy done at the time of initial surgery. For studies that address this issue, see Randomized prospective evaluation of frozen-section analysis for follicular neoplasms of the thyroid. Ann Surg. 2001 May;233(5):716-22; The utility of routine frozen section examination for intraoperative diagnosis of thyroid cancer. Am J Surg. 1996 Dec;172(6):658-61; Follicular and Hurthle cell thyroid neoplasms. Is frozen-section evaluation worthwhile? Arch Surg. 1997 Jun;132(6):674-8; discussion 678-80 and The advantage of total thyroidectomy to avoid reoperation for incidental thyroid cancer in multinodular goiter. Arch Surg. 2004 Feb;139(2):179-82. and Hemithyroidectomy: The Optimal Initial Surgical Approach for Individuals Undergoing Surgery for a Cytological Diagnosis of Follicular Neoplasm. Ann Surg Oncol. 2006 Jan 30; [Epub ahead of print]
A review of these and other studies shows that completely different conclusions can be drawn about the utility of frozen section in the management of thyroid cancer, hence it is difficult to make definitive conclusions that are generalizable to all patients and centers. Some centers advocate the use of frozen sections in making a decision about proceeding to remove the whole thyroid, see The value of frozen section examinations in determining the extent of thyroid surgery in patients with indeterminate fine-needle aspiration cytology. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2002 Mar;128(3):263-7, whereas other centers do not.
There are several studies that illustrate the low accuracy of information obtained from intraoperative analysis of the frozen section, hence patients should not be surprised to learn that the final pathology diagnosis differs markedly from the preliminary diagnosis obtained at frozen section, when dealing with a "follicular lesion", as outlined in Prevalence of cancer in follicular thyroid nodules: is there still a role for intraoperative frozen section analysis? Thyroid. 2003 Apr;13(4):389-94.
I am having surgery for Graves' Disease. Why can't the doctors freeze some of my thyroid tissue, and transplant it back later in case I become hypothyroid?
This interesting concept is being explored in some centers, but there is not sufficient experience or data to know whether this will prove feasible with good results and few complications. See Trial of autotransplantation of cryopreserved thyroid tissue for postoperative hypothyroidism in patients with Graves' disease. J Am Coll Surg. 2002 Jan;194(1):14-22.
I just found out I have thyroid cancer and I am pregnant-when should I have my surgery?
The answer to this question may be complex and should be individualized depending on the specific clinical circumstances. In general, patients with thyroid cancers confined to the thyroid may elect to wait till successful conclusion of the pregnancy before having an operation, generally without adverse consequences, as outlined in Outcome of differentiated thyroid cancer diagnosed in pregnant women. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Sep;82(9):2862-6. Patients with larger tumors demonstrating progressive growth may decide to have surgery during pregnancy. These types of decisions should be made following a discussion of the risks for both the mother and the baby of operating during pregnancy, or after delivery of the baby. See Optimal timing of surgery in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma detected during pregnancy. J Surg Oncol. 2005 Aug 23;91(3):199-203 and Management of differentiated thyroid cancer diagnosed during pregnancy. Eur J Endocrinol. 1999 May;140(5):404-6
My final pathology report shows vascular invasion of the tumor. What does this mean?
A finding that some thyroid cancer cells may be contained within blood vessels is not uncommon. This pathological finding is seen more frequently in patients with cancer spread to the lymph nodes, and may be associated with an increased risk of cancer recurrence, but vascular invasion does not appear to be a factor that influences survival, which is generally excellent in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer. See The clinicopathological significance of histologic vascular invasion in differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Am J Surg. 2002 Jan;183(1):80-6.
I had surgery and was found to have a 5 mm "incidental papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. What additional treatment do I need?
The answer to this type of question depends on the individual clinical setting, and unfortunately, there is little evidence from randomized trials to support clear treatment recommendations. Some centers would provide reassurance that additional aggressive treatment was not warranted, as very small lesions like this are rarely problematic. Indeed, small thyroid cancers are VERY common and may be found in 10-12% of patients having surgery for benign thyroid disease, as outlined in Incidental papillary carcinoma in patients treated surgically for benign thyroid diseases. Surgery. 2009 Dec;146(6):1099-104
Nevertheless, on very rare occasions, even very small tumors a few mm in size may spread outside the problems and act aggressively. There is intensive research interest in trying to identify which patients will do well (the majority) vs. the small minority of patients with a microcarcinoma that will present with more aggressive disease. For example, in the context of a research setting, measurement of circulating levels of peripheral blood thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) mRNA may provide useful information. Detection of circulating thyroid cancer cells in patients with thyroid microcarcinomas. Surgery. 2009 Dec;146(6):1081-9
The type of management appropriate in this setting should be discussed with your physician. Analysis of the small tumor for expression of the cyclin D1 protein may provide additional prognostic information, as outlined in Cyclin d1 protein expression predicts metastatic behavior in thyroid papillary microcarcinomas but is not associated with gene amplification. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002 Apr;87(4):1810-3. Furthermore, in some select populations, microcarcinomas have been shown to be associated with a surprisingly high incidence of extrathyroidal extension and lymph node involvement Frequent, Aggressive Behaviors of Thyroid Microcarcinomas in Korean Patients. Endocr J. 2006 Aug 8; [Epub ahead of print]
I had surgery on my thyroid gland, and now I have damage to one of the nerves controlling my vocal cord. Can anything be done?
Occasionally, the nerve will gradually recover its function, depending on the extent of initial damage. There are also options for optimization of the position of the vocal cord, that can provide good symptomatic improvement in voice quality, as outlined in Current concepts in the management of unilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis after thyroid surgery. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Feb 22.
I am worried about a low calcium level after surgery-can this be prevented?
The probability of developing hypocalcemia increases with the extent of the surgery. Some centers will try and prevent the development of hypocalcemia by routine administration of calcium and vitamin d supplements prior to the development of hypocalcemia. In the majority of patients, the calcium and vitamin D supplements can be reduced and often discontinued several weeks after the surgery. See Prevention of postoperative hypocalcemia with routine oral calcium and vitamin D supplements in patients with differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma undergoing total thyroidectomy plus central neck dissection Cancer 2008 in press
Do I need a neck dissection as part of my thyroid cancer operation?
The answer depends in part on the size of your tumor, whether there is a concern that it may have spread to lymph nodes, and local surgical practice. This type of question, including the risks and benefits of central compartment exploration, is best discussed with your surgeon. Complications of central neck dissection in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma: Results of a study on 1087 patients and review of the literature Thyroid. 2012 May 21. [Epub ahead of print]
Can I go home the same day as my surgery?
There is no universal answer to this question. A large number of psychosocial, economic, and medical variables will influence the requirement for ongoing monitoring and hospitalization after thyroid surgery, as outlined in an American Thyroid Association position paper American Thyroid Association Statement on Outpatient Thyroidectomy Thyroid. 2013 Jun 7. [Epub ahead of print]
I have a small thyroid cancer-do I need to have my entire thyroid removed?
The answer to this question will depend on the size of the tumor, the possibilty of extrathyroidal extension, and the skill and preference of the thyroid surgery. There is insufficient information from randomized controlled clinical trials to give a definitive answer to this question. In some retrospective analyses, patients less than 45 years of age with tumors less than 4 cm in size seemed to do as well with hemithyroidectomy compared to subjects treated with complete removal of the entire thyroid Impact of extent of surgery on survival for papillary thyroid cancer patients younger than 45 years J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Jan;100(1):115-21
This information is provided in part with the assistance of Dr. L. Rotstein, Staff Surgeon, University Health Network, Princess Margaret Hospital and Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto. | <urn:uuid:ba3c72db-4843-4377-90e6-eb13a8462446> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.mythyroid.com/thyroidsurgery.html | 2015-03-31T20:42:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131301015.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172141-00230-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919746 | 5,296 |
Middleburg has a history of welcoming visitors. Thirty-seven years before the town was founded, an 18-year-old surveyor named George Washington came to map the area and to visit with relatives at what today is the Red Fox Inn. A tavern has stood in that spot since 1728.
Virginia statesman Levin Powell founded Middleburg in 1787, when he bought 50 acres, at $2.50 an acre, from one of Washington’s cousins. Powell named the town Middleburg because it sat midway between Alexandria and Winchester, each a day’s ride away on Ashby Gap Road, now Route 50. Middleburg was a rest stop.
The location on a trading route helped the town prosper until the Civil War, when Union and Confederate armies alternately occupied the area and carried off crops and horses. The town served as a base for one of the war’s most colorful figures, Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the “Gray Ghost,” who staged guerrilla raids on Union troops.
By the early 20th century, Middleburg was a hub for fox hunting and steeplechase races. Still, it remained a relatively sleepy place until the 1960s, when visitors and residents such as John and Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Paul Mellon put the city on the map.
Washington Street, the main thoroughfare, has retained its charm despite traffic that can get heavy, particularly during the summer. There are many restaurants, antiques shops, art galleries, and stores selling clothing, gifts, wine, and books. Because so many of the buildings date to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Middleburg is a pretty walking town. Start at the visitors center, known as the “pink box,” on North Madison Street for maps and enlightenment.
Just outside town you also can see some lovely scenery. Wine lovers can visit a number of vineyards, including Swedenburg Winery, a mile east of town. Swedenburg’s wines are quite good, especially the Riesling, and there are daily tastings and tours. Five miles east of town is Aldie Mill, a working gristmill that dates from 1809 and is open for tours.
Pizza to Peanut Soup
Finding a good place to eat in Middleburg is easy.
On the elegant end is the French Hound (101 S. Madison St.; 540-687-3018; thefrenchhound.com), which serves excellent food in an upscale setting. The best choices on a recent visit were seafood—a purée of white beans with fresh white anchovies on pizza and a grilled-salmon dish were superb—but meat and fowl are not far behind. Desserts are also very good. Most main courses are in the low to mid $20s; the wine list starts at $20. Chef John-Gustin Birkitt is from Leesburg but worked in France and the Napa Valley.
If you’re looking for local color, the Red Fox Inn (2 E. Washington St.; 540-687-6301; redfox.com) is the place. It is an institution in these parts. Try one of the daily specials, but include the peanut soup in any meal. The eggs Benedict and the crab cakes have their fans, too. Entrées average about $30.
Salvia Ristorante Italiano (3 W. Washington St.; 540-687-8711; salviaristorante.com) is straightforward northern Italian. Pasta is a good bet, but the kitchen can handle a nice range, from veal piccata to pizza. Main courses average $20.
For 1950s-style dining, complete with a counter as well as tables, go to the Coach Stop (9 E. Washington St.; 540-687-5515; coachstop.com), which offers a variety of standard American dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s a family-style restaurant in the best sense. Main courses average about $19.
For simpler fare in simpler settings, the choice is larger. Back Street Cafe (4 E. Federal St.; 540-687-3122) does a fine job with pasta and thick sandwiches. The Upper Crust (2 N. Pendleton St.; 540-687-5666), a bakery and restaurant, offers sandwiches on excellent house-made bread, plus house-made soups, pastries, and pies. For a good hamburger or sandwich, indoors or out, try Dank’s Deli (2 N. Liberty St.; 540-687-3456).
Red Horse Tavern (112 W. Washington St.; 540-687-6443) serves such staples as chili and meatloaf in a low-ceilinged room with red walls and a flat-screen TV. If it’s pizza you’re after, head for Teddy’s Pizza (7 E. Federal St.; 540-687-8880), which serves thin-crust pies in a downscale setting.
The town supports two ice-cream parlors. Scruffy’s (6 W. Washington St.; 540-687-3766) serves large scoops of Hershey’s, while Middleburg Creamery & Country Store (5 W. Washington St.; 540-687-4754), across the street, offers good house-made flavors.
To experience an old-fashioned soda fountain, head to Home Farm Store (1 E. Washington St.; 540-687-8882; homefarmstore.com) and walk up the stairs in the back. Or check out the market itself, which offers takeout as well as fresh meats, vegetables, and other food you can bring home. Everything looks as good as it tastes.
You’ll find more gourmet prepared foods, and a large wine selection, at Sheila Johnson’s Market Salamander (200 W. Washington St.; 540-687-8011; marketsalamander.com). Your choice: Pack up the fare for a picnic elsewhere or eat at tables on the property. | <urn:uuid:880e2ea7-942d-4503-94ea-c8668e8e9a30> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/print/2007/09/01/washington-ate-here.php | 2015-03-31T20:41:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131301015.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172141-00230-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92865 | 1,270 |
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Adding Serbian (latin) translation for Zend_Validate.
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In 1997 Byron Preiss Visual Publications working with Simon & Schuster released Phillip Marlowe: Private Eye, a PC game.
The agreement was negotiated by Rick Richter, President & Publisher of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; Byron Preiss of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, which is producing the book; Romano's personal manager Rory Rosegarten, his agent Mel Berger of the William Morris Agency, and his attorney Jon Moonves, who represented Mr.
Previously, she was managing editor for BookClub magazine in New York, and began her career in book publishing with Byron Preiss Visual Publications and Byron Preiss Multimedia Company.
The deal was negotiated by Kate Morgan Jackson, HarperCollins Children's Books Editor-in-Chief and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
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NSF and the Healthy House Institute Partner to Educate Consumers on Home Health and Safety
Partnership will initially focus on food safety education and expand to include hand washing, green living, dietary supplement and kitchen appliance safety
ANN ARBOR, Mich. and BOISE, Idaho — NSF International and the Healthy House Institute (HHI) are partnering to help educate consumers on a variety of home health and safety topics. NSF, a public health and safety organization, will provide content for the HHI website on food safety, hand washing, nutritional supplements, green living, and proper cleaning and maintenance of home appliance products.
NSF International is a global organization that writes product standards, and tests and certifies products for the food, water, nutritional supplements and consumer goods industries to minimize adverse health effects and protect the environment. As part of its mission, NSF International helps educate consumers on important human health topics, and HHI is committed to helping consumers make their homes healthier.
“We believe this partnership between NSF International and the Healthy House Institute will help consumers worldwide live healthier, initially by teaching them about how to improve their health and safety behavior in the home,” said Allen Rathey, Healthy House Institute President. “Consumers have become much more safety minded. Not only are they concerned about home safety, but they also seek out products that have been tested and certified against safety and quality standards by an independent organization. NSF International is the perfect partner to provide content for HHI, as they provide public health and safety services and test and certify a wide range of products, including nutritional supplements and home appliances.”
While NSF International will initially provide web content regarding safe food handling and preparation in the home, future topics will focus on proper hand washing, green living, nutritional supplement safety and proper cleaning and maintenance of home appliances.
“We look forward to working with the Healthy House Institute to help further educate consumers about how they can protect their family’s health,” said Robert Donofrio, Ph.D., Director of NSF International’s Applied Research Center, which conducts primary research to advance public health in water safety, food safety, as well as healthcare and consumer products. Dr. Donofrio, who also serves on the Healthy House Institute’s Advisory Board, added “Together, we can provide consumers with the information they need to make educated decisions about the products they purchase for better health.”
A recent independent survey conducted on behalf of NSF International indicated that consumers are concerned about the safety of their food, nutritional supplements and over-the-counter (OTC) medications as well as the overall quality and safety of products used in the home, including kitchen appliances. In fact, more than half of the respondents indicated concerns about the quality and safety of kitchen appliances, cookware materials and their coatings. Additionally, respondents who take dietary supplements daily (60 percent) tend to be more concerned about OTC medications than the general public (59 percent vs. 55 percent). This may be why 73 percent of those surveyed said they look for independent certification marks or seals of approval on products when shopping.
Through the partnership, NSF also hopes to educate more consumers about the importance of choosing certified home products. NSF has a 70-year history in certifying commercial foodservice equipment and last year began to apply this experience by developing a similar program focused on products used in the home. The NSF Home Product Certification (HPC) program builds on, but is separate from NSF’s commercial food equipment program, by helping to ensure the safety, performance and quality of home consumer products and appliances such as cookware, blenders and coffee makers. These products are tested to confirm that they meet criteria such as quality, performance, food contact and cleanability. The last factor is particularly important for preventing foodborne illness.
“Germs often gather in places we don't think about cleaning, which is why NSF's Home Product Certification program tests the cleanability of the products that bear the NSF Certified for Home Use mark, in addition to testing performance and durability,” said Lisa Yakas, a microbiologist who is Senior Project Manager for NSF’s Consumer Products Division. “When consumers purchase kitchen appliances certified by NSF, they’ll know that NSF also has verified the manufacturer’s cleaning directions, hence following these directions will help prevent the harboring of germs that can cause foodborne illnesses."
Through the NSF Applied Research Center, Yakas and Dr. Donofrio conduct an annual study on household germs and the most recent study focused on kitchen products. To help educate consumers about proper cleaning of these appliances, NSF recently released a list of the top six places in which foodborne illness-causing germs can hide when kitchen tools and appliances are not properly cleaned. These items included:
- Refrigerator vegetable compartment: Salmonella, Listeria, yeast and mold
- Refrigerator meat compartment: Salmonella, E. coli, yeast and mold
- Blender gasket: Salmonella, E. coli, yeast and mold
- Can opener: Salmonella, E. coli, yeast and mold
- Rubber spatula: E. coli, yeast and mold
- Food storage container with rubber seal: Salmonella, yeast and mold
For more information about the partnership between NSF International and the Healthy House Institute, or to schedule an interview with an NSF home safety expert, contact Greta Houlahan at 734-913-5723 or email@example.com.
About NSF International: NSF International (nsf.org) has been testing and certifying products for safety, health and the environment for nearly 70 years. As an independent public health and safety organization, NSF is committed to protecting and improving human health on a global scale. NSF protects families by testing and certifying thousands of consumer goods each year, including kitchen products and appliances, personal care products, dietary and sport supplements, bottled water, pool and spa equipment, water treatment systems, plumbing fixtures and many other products used in homes every day. Look for the NSF mark on these products.
NSF International’s Applied Research Center (ARC) provides original research and custom R&D services for the water, food, pharma, consumer products and sustainability industries. ARC establishes strategic partnerships with academia, industry and regulatory bodies for research and development projects geared to furthering public health. ARC’s team of scientists, technical experts and public health professionals perform confidential research and development analyses in chemistry, microbiology and toxicology and test and validate manufacturer and environmental claims to efficiently and economically improve product marketability.
About The Healthy House Institute®: The Healthy House Institute® (HHI) - www.HealthyHouseInstitute.com - provides consumers information to make their homes healthier. HHI strives to be the most comprehensive educational resource available for creating healthier homes. To this end, HHI treats the home like an ecosystem with many interrelated parts, covering topics in-depth such as air and water quality, building, remodeling and furnishing, cleaning and housekeeping, health and safety, ventilation, lighting, energy efficiency and more.
HHI seeks to reach a mainstream educated consumer with credible information merging the best of ‘green’ with the best of healthier homes research, indoor environmental data, health and medical science, into a practical, timely, easily digestible but comprehensive message. HHI strives to be a truly authoritative voice that has the ‘ear’ and trust of major media, influentials, and most importantly, the intelligent consumer.
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Pfanner, Nikolaus and Neupert, Walter
Distinct steps in the import of ADP/ATP carrier into mitochondria.
In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 262, No. 16: pp. 7528-7536
Transport of the precursor to the ADP/ATP carrier from the cytosol into the mitochondrial inner membrane was resolved into several consecutive steps. The precursor protein was trapped at distinct stages of the import pathway and subsequently chased to the mature form. In a first reaction, the precursor interacts with a protease-sensitive component on the mitochondrial surface. It then reaches intermediate sites in the outer membrane which are saturable and where it is protected against proteases. This translocation intermediate can be extracted at alkaline pH. We suggest that it is anchored to the membrane by a so far unknown proteinaceous component. The membrane potential delta psi-dependent entrance of the ADP/ATP carrier into the inner membrane takes place at contact sites between outer and inner membranes. Completion of translocation into the inner membrane can occur in the absence of delta psi. A cytosolic component which is present in reticulocyte lysate and which interacts with isolated mitochondria is required for the specific binding of the precursor to mitochondria. | <urn:uuid:83d640b6-2c71-415c-ba73-6f7673d098cd> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7448/ | 2015-03-30T05:49:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131299114.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172139-00238-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884955 | 262 |
Well, it’s all over for white girls. Sigh. With Michelle Obama soon to be the next first lady, with her great looks, sense of style, and great speaking ability; white women just pale in comparison. And, here it begins… Italian Vogue’s new issue features black women in all the photos, black women’s issues in all the articles. And, damn it, they look great!
Black women can wear great, bright colors that would make me look like a clown. They can wear fabulous jewelry that looks junky on me. Have you ever been in a room full of black women dressed to the nines? It’s like comparing a nice little pastel to a Picasso.
But black women have always been gorgeous. What’s new is that black women are now trendy. Just as Ellen made being a lesbian hip and cool, Michelle Obama is making being a black woman fabulous. And, it’s great! About time, I must say – the culture hasn’t been so kind to black women over the years.
However, I must confess to a little nostalgia for the good old days when medium brown hair and pale skin weren’t so, well, blah. So, we straight, white girls will just keep plugging away. We’ll cycle through black, latina, and asian periods of coolness; let the bi-sexual girls have their day; and just patiently wait, hoping that our day will return. | <urn:uuid:f595e777-4dc3-49a6-8c6b-0ba3b845ee73> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://samanthaclemens.com/?m=200806 | 2015-03-30T05:54:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131299114.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172139-00238-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947275 | 313 |
A novel temporal illusion, in which the cause of an event is perceived to occur after the event itself, provides some insight into the brain mechanisms underlying conscious perception. The illusion, described in the journal Current Biology by a team of researchers from France, suggests that the unconscious representation of a visual object is processed for around one tenth of a second before it enters conscious awareness.
Chien-Te Wu and his colleagues at the Brain and Cognition Research Centre in Toulouse used a visual phenomenon called motion-induced blindness, in which a constantly rotating background causes prominent and motionless visual stimuli to disappear and reappear, as demonstrated in the video below. Fixate on the flashing green spot in the centre, and you’ll notice that the surrounding yellow spots begin to disappear and reappear after about ten seconds. Then replay the clip and focus on any of the yellow spots; you’ll see that it is a visual disappearance illusion. Exactly how it works is unclear; according to one hypothesis it is due to the properties of neurons in area V1 of the visual cortex.
The researchers first used a variation of these stimuli to test the occurence and duration of the motion-induced blindness effect. In these pre-test trials, seven participants were presented with a static yellow ring on a rotating background, and asked to report when the ring disappeared from and reappeared to conscious awareness, by respectively pressing and releasing a button. This was repeated 200 times for each participant, and the reported durations in all trials – between a few hundred milliseconds and several seconds – were plotted onto a graph. The data from each participant were then divided into four equal sets, and the average of the lowest 25% was calculated, to give a value called PreQ25.
In the test trials, a dot was flashed for 50 milliseconds in the location of the ring after it was perceived to disappear. For each participant, this was timed so that the dot appeared at the exact time delay given by the PreQ25 value in the previous trials. In 75% of the trials, the dot was perceived to appear before the reappearance of the ring. As expected, it hastened the perceived reappearance of the ring, as revealed by second graph plotting motion-induced blindness duration. In the remaining trials, the ring should have been perceived to reappear before the dot was flashed. However, the participants reported seeing the ring before the dot in around 90% of trials. Evidently, the perceived time sequence of events had been reversed – the participants reported seeing the cause (the dot) after the effect (the reappearance of the ring).
How might this be explained? One possibility is that the duration of motion-induced blindness was shorter in the test than in the pre-test trials. But further measurements of the duration, carried out during post-test trials, showed that it had not changed significantly across the trials. Another possible explanation is that the flashed dots were also rendered invisible by the illusion, as it was presented in the same location as the ring, but a second experiment ruled this out. The participants were presented with two rings on opposite sides of the roating background. A dot was flashed in the centre of each, half a second after the onset of the illusion, and they were asked to state the order in which they perceived the dots to appear. This was then repeated on a static background. The reported order was the same in both conditions, showing that the illusion had no effect on the perception of the dots.
Wu and his colleagues therefore conclude that the unconscious representation of the ring is perceived with a shorter time delay than the flashed dot. That is, because the visual system contained a representation of the ring before it was rendered invisible, it could reactivated quickly and fast-tracked into conscious awareness when it was perceived to reappear. The flashed dot, on the other hand, was a completely novel stimulus, so took longer to enter the stream of consciousness.
The researchers then carried out another experiment designed to measure the time difference between processing in the conscious and unconsious streams. They repeated the first experiment, but this time introduced a subtle change in the colour of the ring, which occurred at various times relative to the flashed dot. After each trial, the participants reported whether they perceived the ring or the dot first, and were also asked what colour the ring was when it first reappeared. By plotting colour choice against the time of the colour change, the researchers could calculate exactly when the unconscious representation of the ring entered into conscious awareness.
This revealed that the colour change needed to occur about one tenth of a second before the flashing dot in order for the ring and the dot to be perceived as appearing simultaneously. In other words, after the flashed dot induced perception of the ring, the first ring colour that the participants tended to perceive was the colour that the ring had been about 100 milliseconds before the dot appeared, rather than the colour it was at the time the dot was flashed.
Finally, the researchers investigated whether the time illusion could be induced by a time mismatch between the conscious and unconscious representations of the same object, rather than by differences in the time at which two different objects appear. To do so, they modified the last experiment, and introduced a prominent change in the colour of the ring. Here, the dot was not flashed – instead, the colour change occured while the ring was perceptually suppressed, and triggered the ring’s early reappearance. The participants were required to state which the colour the ring was when it first reappeared into their awareness. Remarkably, the colour most often reported was the old one, even though it was the change to the new colour that triggered the reappearance of the ring. So although the new colour was registered unconsciously by the visual system, it was the old colour that was perceived when the ring reappeared.
- Igniting the flame of consciousness
- Reading the contents of working memory
- Visual images reconstructed from brain activity
Wu, C.-T., et al (2009). The Temporal Interplay between Conscious and Unconscious Perceptual Streams. Curr. Biol. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.017. | <urn:uuid:a507755f-1395-41fd-9f58-e661ddf41a56> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/11/06/perceiving-the-effect-before-the-cause/ | 2015-03-30T06:00:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131299114.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172139-00238-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978302 | 1,258 |
The Collection of Ginny Williams. Photographs by Ruth Bernhard. Text by Peter C. Bunnell and Ginny Williams. Tallgrass Press, 1993. 98 pp. Squarish Quarto (12.25 x 11 in./31 x 28 cm.) First Edition. SIGNED on title page. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black-and-white reproductions.
Light, shadow and shape are elements that Ruth Bernhard believes are tools that allow her to express and communicate with the life force present in all things. These ideals become evident through the photographs superbly reproduced in this monograph which represents, primarily, vintage prints collected from Bernhard by gallery owner Ginny Williams. Included are early still lifes as well as the now famous nudes. "Bringing together the Bernhard Collection has been a labor of love for me and one of the finest efforts of my career. The range of Ruth's vision never varies in its excellence or commonality of form, light, and simple elegance. These elements, to me, are the crux of Ruth's art. She is the last of that group who paved the way for photographers to be recognized as artists-seeing rather than recording."--Ginny Williams. | <urn:uuid:66285c9f-9ba6-4a69-a50d-568fd8be90e9> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.photoeye.com/auctions/citation.cfm?id=8145 | 2015-03-30T06:43:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131299114.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172139-00238-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932214 | 250 |
Review of the Seculine Action Spirit Level
Model: Action Spirit Level
Spirit levels are a near essential item for some types of photography, such as landscapes and architecture, whether they’re built in to the tripod or fitted to the camera’s hotshoe. It isn’t always that easy to see the little bubble, though, especially if your eyesight isn’t quite 20/20.
Enter the Seculine Action Level. It’s a digital hotshoe spirit level that looks like a tiny toy aeroplane. If you’ve ever successfully negotiated a set of traffic lights you’ll find this easy to use. Switch it on and you get a row of five LEDs. In the middle is a green one. If it’s lit it means you’re level. Either side of that are two amber lights, which mean you’re nearly there. On the outside edges are two red ones and, yes, you’ve guessed what those mean.
Simple Set Up
There’s a simple initial set-up and you can adjust brightness and sensitivity, as well as setting a power-save mode. The Action Level is powered by two CR1220 watch-type batteries, but you get six in the packet.
Although best used in conjunction with a tripod, you can use it when shooting hand-held too, either with live view or by withdrawing your eye an inch or so from the eyepiece, so you can see both the lights and the view through the finder. And of course, those LEDs are visible in the dark, too.
At £30 this digital gizmo is a bit pricey but
you can pay £20 for a normal, ‘analogue’ level – and let’s face it,
bubbles are so last century.
Small, easy to use, easy to see – even at night
More expensive than bubble types
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No matter how successful his new show is in the ratings, Bear Grylls has a thing or two to learn about showmanship. Kicking off the first season of NBC’s Running Wild with Bear Grylls with a supposedly troubled young actor like Zac Efron was a big move, because his name was still fresh in the tabloid news after he was rumored to be dealing with some substance abuse problems. Following that up with an A-lister like Ben Stiller was also strong, because a show can never have too much star power. But then on last night’s episode, only halfway through this debut season, Grylls and Co. shot their wad by having Channing Tatum test his survival skills in Yosemite National Park. Come on, NBC. Everybody knows that C-Tates is the closer, baby. Da King Dingalang who finishes the damn thang.
Regardless, Tatum and Grylls were a perfect pairing, as the survival expert taught the Magic Mike star a few pointers about keeping his ass out of trouble if he ever finds himself sleeping on a cliff, while Tatum reciprocated by showing Grylls how to bust a move. We’re very fortunate that NBC shared this powerful moment among some digital exclusives from last night’s episode.
As for those survival tips, how’s a playboy like C-Tates supposed to keep his sh*t live and mad real if all hell breaks loose? By eatin’ ants, son.
Judging by the way the sun was hitting his dome, it’s looking like it’s almost time for Tatum to take a page from his friend Jason Statham’s playbook and shave the whole thing off. Now, something for the ladies out there, as the ass-shaking action star opened up about what it’s like to have his life flip turned upside down as a first time parent.
But what about those rock hard abs, C-Tates? How’s a kid like me out here on these streets supposed to get a leg up and avoid all those harmful snacks? Fortunately, the ever-giving Tatum also shared his diet secrets with Grylls.
Haha, women be craving kale, am I right? Meanwhile, a man in the wilderness craves only one thing – cake. And C-Tates loves some cake, you haters.
Finally, while Tatum made saving the free world look easy as John Cale in White House Down, he looked like a clumsy baby horse as Grylls taught him to run off the edge of a cliff and down the side of a mountain.
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No. 3: Northrop Grumman rises to new challenges
Health care and biometrics provide deeper market penetration, workforce investments get top priority
- By Tania Anderson
- May 12, 2007
To stay at the top, you must constantly reinvent yourself. Northrop Grumman Corp. seems to have mastered that strategy.
With $6.8 billion worth of prime contracting revenue in 2006, the company has maintained its position among the top five government contractors on Washington Technology's Top 100 list, where it ranks No. 3 this year. In the coming months, Northrop Grumman plans to maintain its high perch by capitalizing on its expertise in identity management and health care information technology.
The company, whose IT sector revenue rose from $3.8 billion in 2005 to $4 billion in 2006, made several inroads in health care IT in the past year, posting various federal, state and local wins. The company is hoping to announce a few large biometric wins next year.
The company also has launched an initiative to address its need to hire talented technology professionals, a challenge James O'Neill, corporate vice president and president of the company's IT sector, said is Northrop Grumman's tallest hurdle.
After Northrop Grumman acquired Integic Corp. in 2005, the company hit the ground running with Defense Department contracts. Northrop already has 18,500 IT employees and recently hired a chief medical officer to work with the company's 22 doctors. CMO Harry Greenspun is responsible for providing strategic direction of the sector's health solutions business. He also is an adviser to the health care community on issues of technology and health policy.
One of the sector's recent health care wins was a follow-on contract from DOD to provide systems engineering and integration support to the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application, the country's largest electronic health records system. It supports more than 9 million active service members, retirees and their families worldwide. Northrop Grumman's role in the $67.7 million contract is to provide security accreditation and information assurance, management information services, monitoring of commercial products and configuration management support.
Analysts say a company that is as large and as entrenched in the federal government as Northrop Grumman will do well in health care IT, especially because DOD and the Veterans Affairs Department are giving the area more focus.
"That gospel will spread to the state and local regions such as regional hospitals and other health care networks," said Ray Bjorklund, senior vice president and chief knowledge officer at Federal Sources Inc., which compiles the Top 100 list.
O'Neill said the company's plan is to continue pursuing health care IT contracts, particularly internationally, and more acquisitions are possible. The division did not make any acquisitions in 2006 ? in health care IT or any other area ? because "we just weren't in a position to acquire," O'Neill said. Teaming agreements with companies that have complementary software or technology is a more viable option these days, he added.
His McLean, Va.-based division made some progress in identity management when it completed development of a fingerprinting system for the United Kingdom's Police Information Technology Organisation. The company, which won the contract in 2004, built a database search capability that lets police officers take a person's fingerprint with a mobile device and run it through a large database linking several law enforcement departments.
DOD also hired the company earlier this year to build a system of systems for $75 million to integrate its worldwide biometrics efforts. Now Northrop Grumman IT is competing for a contract to implement a national identification card in the United Kingdom.
"Identity management is such a hot topic in all industries, whether it's defense, social welfare [or] insurance," O'Neill said.
But analysts say identity management will take a bit longer to gain momentum in the federal marketplace.
"It's a very challenging area, and it's hard for the government to get their arms around it," Bjorklund said. "It's going to take many years for that to be embraced by the government."
But getting the government to buy into identity management is not the sector's only challenge. O'Neill said the company's IT unit will hire 6,000 people this year, adding to the 4,000 it hired last year. But finding talent ? particularly software engineers, hardware engineers and mathematicians ? has been a struggle.
With a promise not to offshore work, Northrop Grumman has started opening offices in rural areas of the United States where it expects to hire people.
As part of the initiative, the company is writing checks to high schools, community colleges and universities in those areas to fund the creation and development of IT curricula and internships.
"We can get people who are Americans and want to stay in the community they grew up in and still be part of a high-tech business, as opposed to importing them to Northern Virginia," O'Neill said.Profiles of the Top 20 companies in the 2007 Top 100
No. 1: Lockheed Martin's reinvention
No. 2: With SBInet, Boeing IDS takes flight
No. 3: Northrop Grumman rises to new challenges
No. 4: KBR gets down to business
No. 5: IPO catapults SAIC into a new era
No. 6: Raytheon strives for balance
No. 7: General Dynamics in full sprint
No. 8: Fluor's ready in a pinch
No. 9: L-3 leadership stays the course
No. 10 EDS, Hard-learned lesson
No. 11 CSC, Experience that counts
No. 12: Battelle seeks new frontiers
No. 13: Booz Allen, Quality over quantity
No. 14: Bechtel telecom makes a splash
No. 15: For BAE, persistence pays off
No. 16: ITT makes a push into new markets
No. 17: Dell, Talking about evolution
No. 18: Technology and service fuel IBM
No. 19: Verizon caps off a busy year with a big win
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: January 13, 2004
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: New Line Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Entertainment Weekly - 09/04/1998
"...A rather amusing rental....Woo go, girl..."
USA Today - 05/08/1998
"...Star Jada Pinkett Smith is vivacious in the part..."
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After receiving several inquiries about it, here's a special, insider note for you Gossip Girl fashion followers out there - below is a photo we posted last month of the lovely Jessica Szohr (Vanessa Abrams) wearing Cettu's Hippy Shopper in Pink!
This fabulous bag also recently made an appearance on the show in burgundy. It retails for $295 and is available here. We've heard from the Gossip Girl costume department that Vanessa's outfit in this photo will appear on Gossip Girl January 19!
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
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What do you do when your football team opens its season with the most infamous upset in college football history? You cry like a little girl. So, yeah: it's Emo Week on MGoBlog. Self pity abounds. Enjoy it, you worthless sacks of crap. | <urn:uuid:0eedf382-0b86-4f79-b24b-83497aeaf07d> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-emo-week.html | 2016-07-23T09:12:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257821671.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071021-00130-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963545 | 80 |
DELHI — A Danish woman has been held at knifepoint, beaten and gang-raped in the centre of New Delhi’s backpacker district after asking a group of young men for directions to her hotel.
Police said the 51-year-old tourist was attacked on Tuesday in the latest in a series of rapes that have shocked India.
It came as the family of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly twice gang-raped and later murdered in Calcutta called for the High Court to order an inquiry into her killing.
Women’s rights campaigners said that, despite the widespread protests provoked by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old Delhi student just over a year ago, police were still failing to provide protection and implement new tougher laws to curb the assaults.
The Danish woman had arrived in Delhi after visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and was attacked as she made her way back to her hotel in Parhaganj, close to New Delhi railway station, after visiting the national museum.
She had become lost and was attacked after she asked a group of men in their early 20s for directions. “They slapped and punched her and threatened to kill her if she raised an alarm,” an investigating officer said. “They held her hostage for more than an hour and let her go only after taking away her money, mobile and other valuables.”
Two homeless men have been arrested. The woman is understood to have left India to return to Denmark Wednesday.
The case alarmed campaigners who said it reflected a continuing high level of gang-rapes, despite tougher sentences for sexual assaults being introduced last year following the December 2012 gang-rape and murder.
Sentences can include the death penalty if the victim dies from her injuries.
The Calcutta schoolgirl who was allegedly gang-raped twice in 24 hours – the second time after she complained to police about the attack – was set on fire and died from her injuries on New Year’s Eve after a campaign of intimidation to force her to drop the charges.
The victim’s parents have accused local police of failing to protect their daughter and have called for India’s Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the inquiry. Calcutta’s High Court is expect to rule on the request today.
A Polish woman was raped earlier this month after she was drugged by a taxi driver as she travelled with her infant daughter to Delhi.
Three men were sentenced to 20 years in jail for the gang-rape of an American tourist in Himachal Pradesh last summer, while six men were jailed for life in July for the gang-rape of a Swiss woman as she camped with her husband during a cycling holiday in Madhya Pradesh.
“I’m not sure the new [tougher] laws are being implemented with the rigour they were supposed to,” said Vinda Grover, a lawyer.
“We have a society which is deeply misogynist and it won’t change unless there is a conversation.”
She said foreign women were particularly vulnerable because they did not have the heightened sense of alert which Indian women had developed to protect themselves in the country’s “misogynist culture”.
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2008-10-14MARYVILLE, MO | By: Wayman
Ashley Leger is a senior at Omaha took the top honor of the Association of Missouri Geologists.
She is one of two students who last year received a scholarship to work at the mammoth site in Hot Springs South Dakota.
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What is libmbim?
libmbim is a glib-based library for talking to WWAN modems and devices which speak the Mobile Interface Broadband Model (MBIM) protocol.
Discussions take place on the libmbim-devel (at) lists.freedesktop.org mailing list:
Please report bugs (and submit patches) through FreeDesktop.org Bugzilla.
- Stable releases
- View the latest code online
- Anonymous read-only git access: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libmbim/libmbim
- Developer read-write git access: ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/libmbim/libmbim | <urn:uuid:9ddd68cd-31b3-4aba-b950-e12473d99093> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libmbim/ | 2016-07-25T08:07:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257824217.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071024-00282-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.691669 | 155 |
It’s a relationship you can nearly always count on – as Powerball jackpots grow, so do the lines of people buying tickets for it. Currently in America, there’s almost a perfect storm-like atmosphere for Powerball and similar gambling products. Take a down-in-the-dumps economy, add lots of individuals who are out of work, sprinkle in constant fears of another possible recession, mix well, and you have the kind of environment that causes people to seek financial deliverance from any possible provider.
In other words, it’s the type of thing gambling proponent’s dream of.
For Christians, topics like ‘Is it sinful for a believer to buy a Powerball ticket’ oftentimes divides the Body of Christ. On the one hand, there are those who argue that it is only a game and like anything else (eating, drinking, etc.) it’s acceptable as long as it does not become controlling and overly indulged in. On the other side of the fence are believers who argue that gambling on any level is morally wrong. Which side is correct?
A Jet Tour of What the Bible says about Money
Giving an adequate answer to the dilemma first requires a Biblical review of money in general, after which gambling itself can be examined.
Where money is concerned, the Bible certainly is not silent. To begin, Scripture makes it clear that everything belongs to God. Paul simply asks his readers, “What do you have that you did not receive?” (1 Cor. 4:7). Even though individuals work and earn money, the Bible says that it is God who is the ultimate source of their income: “But you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth” (Deut. 8:18).
The Bible also says that we should ultimately trust in God and not get-rich-quick schemes that promise income: “And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19).
Additionally, Scripture makes it clear that money is to be gained through work and labor: “In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty” (Prov. 14:23), and “He who tills his land will have plenty of food, But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty” (Prov. 28:19).
Further, the Bible warns against debt and owing any creditor large amounts of money: “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender’s slave” (Prov. 22:7), and “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law” (Rom. 13:8).
In fact, the opposite of debt is advocated in Scripture – saving money vs. becoming a debtor: “Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest” (Prov. 6:6–8).
Finally, the Bible promotes a generous and willing heart to share what financial resources a person has gained through their labor: “The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered” (Prov. 11:25). Jesus simply said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35).
These principles explain the core truths that are summarized in God’s Word. Money itself is not evil, but a controlling passion for it is according to Paul: “But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Tim. 6:9–10).
Like Paul, Jesus, in His parable about the sower, also warned how the desire for money can thwart the pursuit of true riches that come from living in accordance with God’s precepts: “The seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with worries and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to maturity” (Luke 8:14).
These principles then become our building blocks as we turn our attention to gambling and activities like Powerball.
A Brief Examination of Gambling in General
Today, gambling can be seen in a variety of forms: lotteries, casinos, sports betting, quick stop gaming stands (video poker, etc.), and perhaps the most prevalent type today, online or internet gambling. Gaming is ‘good’ business, with a recent report estimating the global casino and online gaming industry to generate $127 billion; a 6% increase over the prior year.
While these modern varieties of gambling exist today, gambling itself has been around for a very long time, and universally, the Church has taken a dim view of it.
For example, an early second century sermon preached out of a North Africa church contained the following description of gambling: "The game of dice is an obvious snare of the devil. He presides over the game in person, bringing to it the deadly venom of the serpent and even inducing ruin which when it is seen to be nothing, a great let down is brought about in the players.”
Key figures in Christianity down through history have also held an unfavorable view of gambling. Augustine said, “The devil invented gambling.” Martin Luther proclaimed, “Money won by gambling is not won without sin and self-seeking sin.” John Calvin outlawed gambling in the city of Geneva.
But why did these key figures and others in the Church reject gambling – why did they believe gambling to be sinful? First, as opposed to the proper spirit promoted by the Bible where money is concerned, gambling typically grows to manifest the following internal attitudes:
- Reliance on chance vs. reliance on God’s providence
- Laziness vs. working
- A callous heart towards charity
- Seeks gain from the loss of others
Second, from a philosophical perspective, gambling shows itself to be devoid of value and worth, despite what many governmental officials promise where revenue from gaming is concerned. Philosophically speaking, the nature of any “thing” can be known by the effects it produces. From an internal, personal standpoint, the attributes above show that gambling results in very poor personal effects. From an external facing position, gambling shows itself to be no better, producing the following effects:
- Dishonesty in business practices
- Family strife and divorce
- Exploitation of the poor
This being the case, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that gambling activities like Powerball demonstrate themselves to be spiritually bankrupt when both its external and internal effects are examined.
For Whom do you set your Table?
In the Old Testament, God specifically warned about the spirit behind gambling when He said: “But you who forsake the Lord, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune, and who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny, I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter. Because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not hear. And you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight” (Is. 65:11–12).
The phrase “set a table” in the above context means to bring food to an idol. The Hebrew word for “Destiny” comes from the Hebrew word Meni, which means ‘luck’. Israel was literally worshipping the gods of luck and fortune, and trusting them for their needs, rather than God.
Because God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, it is foolish thinking to believe His views on the matter have changed, no matter what modern form it takes. Rather, we should adhere to Paul’s advice that instructs believers like us not to look to luck and fortune as our deliver, but instead focus "on God who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy” (1 Tim. 6:17). | <urn:uuid:24c26917-57d6-4d9e-9d88-17cc9dae4e1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/to-powerball-or-not-to-powerball-that-is-the-question-13345/ | 2016-07-27T09:37:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257826759.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071026-00107-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950708 | 1,757 |
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