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Time Inc. was in trouble. Two men with very different visions for its future fought for control of the company, and even as the company dipped its toe, gingerly, into new media, a big financial downturn was headed its way before the year was out. No, not 2006—things looked far worse for the company in February 1929, when the fledgling media company was also faced with the sudden death of the talented young Yale grad whose name had become synonymous with its flagship magazine. No, not Henry Luce, who would embody Time for later generations. In its formative years, Time’s presiding genius was Briton Hadden, who hailed from Brooklyn Heights.
Hadden was one of those gifted sons of privilege who reaped the full benefits of the age before meritocracy. In a world where rich men’s dull sons swarmed Ivy League campuses (while mute, inglorious Miltons struggled to escape the Midwest), his eccentric brilliance shone doubly bright. Hadden frequented speakeasies, wore torn sweaters to high-society functions and liked to organize baseball games as a break from intellectual labor. His stubborn refusal to be turned down for a job by New York World editor Henry Bayard Swope—“Mr. Swope, you’re interfering with my destiny”—well captures both his delusions and his grandeur. Only a fatal case of streptococcal infection, which killed him at 30, interfered with that destiny, throwing control of Time Inc. to his partner, freeing him to become the Luce of legend.
Luce and Hadden were classmates at both Hotchkiss and Yale before founding Time, and though Luce excelled as a student, Hadden had him licked in everything else. “Brit Hadden,—if ever a class had one big man,—is the big man of our class,” Luce wrote his father from Yale. Hadden returned the compliment, for the most part: “It’s like a race,” he said. “No matter how hard I run, Luce is always there.” Most importantly for the two aspiring “journalists” (as they called themselves), Hadden won the editorship of the student newspaper at both schools. At Time’s inception, they agreed in principle to alternate the editorship of Time yearly, but Hadden wasn’t about to let Luce near his baby. So Luce concentrated on the business side instead.
Their two egos were often too much for Time’s cramped quarters, and Isaiah Wilner’s The Man Time Forgot is primarily a history of that rivalry. Mr. Wilner aims to restore Hadden to his proper place in publishing history—and to take Luce down a peg. He succeeds admirably in the former, but his preoccupation with the latter mars the book.
A fluid and talented young writer, Mr. Wilner became interested in Hadden while he himself was editor of the Yale Daily News. This is his first book, and it shows: A scarcity of archival sources, the author’s hilariously ardent admiration for his subject (“To watch him edit was to watch Babe Ruth at the bat”), and a lack of knowledge of the era detract from an otherwise jaunty account.
Mr. Wilner’s chief achievement is to document, for the first time and with evidence from Time’ s own archives, that Time really was Hadden’s brainchild from the start. (Previous, Time-approved histories left this intentionally vague.) Hadden recruited the magazine’s initial skeleton crew, determined the editorial content and undoubtedly also played the key role in pitching the idea to investors. But his real innovation was the magazine’s unique editorial voice.
Time had no reporters, only contributors who distilled, summarized and interpreted reports from newspapers. Its “unique selling proposition,” as we would call it today, was its organization, news judgment and pithy, almost telegraphic writing style, which came to be known as Time style. Hadden, a sucker for Ancient Greek, invented epithets like “the bomb-boy of Bolshevism” for colorful characters in the news. Time wrote about “pundits,” “tycoons” and “socialites” (words it helped to popularize). Hadden’s Homeric fetish also found fruit in Time style’s famously convoluted grammar. “Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind,” jibed Wolcott Gibbs in the famous parody.
Mr. Wilner makes the somewhat grandiose claim that the snappy style that Hadden imposed on Time “transformed journalism into something new.” But he didn’t convince me that Time succeeded because, rather than in spite, of Time style. He calls the magazine’s prose “easy to read” (it was not), and suggests that part of its appeal was that it “expanded the vocabulary” of the average American.
Perhaps. But journalism of Hadden’s era was hardly monosyllabic. Indeed, the early 20th-century American idiom—that of Mencken, George Jean Nathan, even of sportswriters like Grantland Rice—was verbose and extravagant. Only after Hemingway did intelligent men start to write like fourth-graders.
Often, Mr. Wilner doesn’t know when he’s got hold of a good thing. He makes offhand mention, for instance, that Luce and Hadden took their prospectus to Mencken (whom he refers to, ridiculously, as a “celebrity journalist”). No man had fascinated Ivy Leaguers of their generation more, and the Sage of Baltimore also happened to be the most influential magazine editor of the day. What did Luce and Hadden think of him? Mr. Wilner doesn’t say. The reader must look elsewhere (indeed, to books long out of print) to learn that, like most of his contemporaries, Hadden was greatly influenced by the mob-mocking Mencken.
So fond was Hadden, in fact, of the Mencken-discovered Sinclair Lewis that he would run up to businessmen on the street and shout at them: “Babbitt!” Remarkably, Mr. Wilner fails to mention this odd habit, which certainly would illuminate Hadden’s skepticism about Luce’s new project, Fortune. Indeed, the chief conflict between the magazine’s founders came down to their attitude toward Middle America: Luce was, at heart, a bit of a Babbitt himself; Hadden was a smirking elitist who accidentally invented Babbitt’s Bible.
Because Mr. Wilner never convincingly places Hadden in his intellectual milieu, the case for his “genius”—rather than his editorial wizardry, say—falls flat. Ditto with Luce’s “betrayal.” According to Mr. Wilner, Luce “violated Hadden’s death wish”—he must mean “dying wish”—by purchasing shares in Time that Hadden had left to his family. But why blame Luce for this and not the family? Also consider what might have happened to Time had Luce not consolidated a majority interest. Condé Nast lost control of his company during the Great Depression, and as a result the great Vanity Fair was shuttered in 1936.
Certainly Luce was no saint, and Mr. Wilner does convincingly document his later reluctance to give Hadden due credit, at least in public. But Luce’s work was really only beginning in 1929. He’d set out quite self-consciously to storm the citadels of power, and Time Inc. became his battering ram. Had Hadden lived, Luce might have found one elsewhere (Nast once offered to merge their two companies). But what about Hadden? Could he have kept Time Inc. afloat long enough to launch the other magazines he dreamed of? Or might he have headed to Hollywood instead—or gone insane? We’ll never know.
Though The Man Time Forgot would have it otherwise, Briton Hadden remains important today primarily as a chapter in the biography of his friend and rival. Such are the hazards of fortune, to invoke another of the one-word titles that Henry Luce seemed to adore. Or to put it another way: That’s life.
David Propson is a writer and editor in New York.
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A bug in iOS 4.1 allows people to access the contact list and make phone calls from password-protected iPhones via a simple button combination.
The bypass clearly violates the security function of the phone and exposes it to misuse if stolen, lost or left within the reach.of an ill-intentioned individual.
The issue was originally revealed by a user on the MacRumors forums and others quickly confirmed that it works on both jailbroken and unjailbroken devices.
"When you iPhone is locked with a passcode tap Emergency Call, then enter a non-emergency number such as ###.
"Next tap the call button and immediately hit the lock button. It should open up the Phone app where you can see all your contacts, call any number, etc," he writes.
Other users reported that they also obtained access to voice commands, as well as voicemail and call history. Returning to the lock screen after misusing the phone only requires tapping "end."
It seems that the flaw is specific to iOS 4.1, which is used in iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. It doesn't work on older versions of the operating system.
Apple has been notified of the issue and plans to address it in the next iOS update. "We’re aware of this issue and we will deliver a fix to customers as part of the iOS 4.2 software update in November," a company spokeswoman told Wired.
This is not the first time when such a bug is found in iOS. Back in August 2008, a similar bypass was reported on MacRumors.
It involved pressing the "Emergency Call" key, then double-tapping the home button and allowed possible intruders to access the address book, email client, as well as the browser. The bug was fixed in iOS 2.1.
Here's a video of a Brazilian iPhone customer demonstrating the latest bypass:
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SOURCE: PIF Apparel
With every purchase of an inspirational t-shirt, 25% goes into lifting an African farming family out of poverty.
New York, New York (PRWEB) March 03, 2013
KickStart develops durable and affordable human-powered irrigation pumps that have been proven to enable poor, rural African farmers to grow high value crops throughout the year, thus significantly increasing their income and helping them onto a sustainable path out of poverty. KickStart applies a market-based model to ensure sustainability, delivering our innovative technologies to smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa through targeted marketing and sales efforts, and by optimizing a private-sector supply chain. To date, over 140,000 family run agri-businesses have been created using our pumps, enabling over 704,000 people to lift themselves out of poverty.
PIF Apparel is joining KickStart’s efforts as they partnered with the non-profit social enterprise after a rigorous vetting of their finances and model. For the month of March, PIF Apparel will feature KickStart International on their website, selling inspirational t-shirts inspired by KickStart’s mission. 25% of the proceeds will go to KickStart to help even more poor, rural, African farmers find the path out of poverty.
“We are honored to be able to represent KickStart. Their “hand-up” model gives people a realistic way to get out of poverty, and stay out of poverty,” states PIF founder Matthew Moses. Matt started PIF Apparel in August with a vision to create positive world change that is both sustainable and efficient by educating the next generation of donors how to make the most out of charitable giving. PIF uses their line of t-shirts to attract potential donors and then uses the shopping experience to connect the donor to KickStart for continued support.
With every $330 raised, KickStart can get one pump into one farmer’s hands. With the pump, the farmer is able to grow food year round. Not only does the food produced adequately feed the farmer’s family, but provides a surplus that is sold to the community – increasing the family’s income up to 1,000%. This income brings transformational change to the family. They can now afford to send their children to school for the first time or to an improved school, provide proper healthcare, clothing, and have enough to save for their future.
Customers can support KickStart’s work by making a purchase through PIF's website, and selecting KickStart to receive the donation. To learn more about KickStart and their work, please visit http://www.kickstart.org or like them on Facebook.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/3/prweb10489246.htm
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Dear IndictBushNow supporter,
The latest shocking revelation that the Bush Administration performed medical experiments on its torture victims has caused a new wave of outrage and a demand for criminal prosecution by the New York Times.
Based on a newly released physicians report the New York Times is demanding that the “White House and Congress to investigate the potentially illegal human experimentation and whether those who authorized or conducted it should be punished.”
IndictBushNow and a wide variety of organizations are working non-stop to collect evidence on all of the Bush-era crimes, take testimony, organize public events and build global pressure.
Here is the latest news:
Following a six month long investigation a preeminent physician’s organization has published a major report revealing that the Bush Administration carried out medical experiments on its torture victims. This is a gross violation of the Nuremberg Code that barred the use of medical experimentation on detainees, following the exposure of Nazi experiments during WW11.
The Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) used public records showing health professionals worked under the supervision of the Central Intelligence Agency during interrogations of "war on terror" detainees after the 2001 attacks.
PHR's new report, "Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program," provides new evidence that CIA used doctors and other health care personnel and engaged in the crime of illegal experimentation on detainees who had been tortured under the direction of the Bush Administration.
The “Experiments in Torture” report is the result of six months of investigation and the review of thousands of pages of government documents. PHR says it has been peer-reviewed by outside experts in the medical, biomedical and research ethics fields, legal experts, health professionals, and experts in the treatment of torture survivors.
The purpose of the medical experiments during the Bush years was apparently to measure the effectiveness of particular torture techniques on the victims. This is an abomination.
"Such acts may be seen as the conduct of research and experimentation by health professionals on prisoners, which could violate accepted standards of medical ethics, as well as domestic and international law," states the Physicians for Human Rights in a report it has now made public.
"Not only are these alleged acts gross violations of human rights law, they are a grave affront to America's core values," the report said.
"The CIA appears to have broken all accepted legal and ethical standards put in place since the Second World War to protect prisoners from being the subjects of experimentation," states Frank Donaghue, chief executive of the organization.
Take action now!
IndictBushNow joins in the growing call by many, including the Physicians for Human Rights, that the Obama Administration order "an immediate criminal investigation of alleged illegal human experimentation."
The PHR also called for a probe of violations by the CIA of protections against human research experiments and for Congress to amend the War Crimes Act "to eliminate changes made to the act in 2006 which weaken the prohibition on biological experimentation on detainees."
"In their attempt to justify the war crime of torture, the CIA appears to have committed another alleged war crime -- illegal experimentation on prisoners," said PHR leaders.
We urge all IndictBushNow members to send another letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a criminal investigation into Bush era crimes based on the new information that not only did they torture those who had been arrested or kidnapped but they violated international law by engaging in medical experimentation to further refine their torture techniques. Click here to send a letter today.
All of us at IndictBushNow
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Contingency planning: Will your health care cover an overseas emergency, or should you buy supplemental insurance?
Mar 9, 2012, 6 a.m.
In all of the excitement of planning a vacation, one area that tends to get ignored is health insurance. Many U.S. health insurance plans, including Medicare, do not cover policyholders outside of the United States. Below are just a few tips to help you decide whether you need overseas health insurance.
- Call your health insurance provider. Health insurance policy restrictions and inclusions can boggle the mind. Plus, they change constantly. Well before your departure, give your health insurance provider a call and ask whether you'll be covered should you fall ill or have an accident in the country you'll be visiting. If you rely on Medicare for your health coverage, be advised that this program is only valid within the United States.
- Check for health alerts. The US State Department maintains a database of health alerts worldwide. While you're planning your trip, it's a good idea to check this site to see if there are any current public health concerns where you'll be traveling.
- Check for national health insurance. Some countries with nationalized health plans offer health insurance to visitors for specific time periods. Visit the State Department Web site and use the drop-down menu to see if the country you'll be visiting offers such a program for overseas visitors.
- Buy supplemental insurance, if necessary. If your individual health insurance coverage doesn't extend to overseas doctors and there are no national health insurance programs you can use, consider buying supplemental health insurance. There are companies that offer travel abroad health insurance, usually for a specific time period. Among these are USI Affinity Insurance and Travel Guard Insurance companies. Be sure to read the fine print, carefully. Many of these policies do not cover policyholders for pre-existing conditions.
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October 31st, 2012
This month we had a small but healthy crop of vegetation based games – perhaps most of us spent October vegetating? I know I did! Anyway, the games for this month still varied widely in their creative use of the vegetation theme, lots of growth and greenery in many forms!
Lets take peak through the leaves at these 4 games:
OrganiCraft, by Chicknstu
Grow trees and bushes procedurally by choosing the correct sequence of growth rules.
Escape the house first by collecting enough sun to burst through the window!
Dynamically grow a tree with trunk, roots, and leaves.
Explore a bleak and spooky forest investigating mysterious lights.
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LatinaLista — With the ongoing excitement over the Deferred Action program for DREAMer students, it’s hard to remember (outside Arizona) that there are some states still trying to enforce their own versions of immigration law.
A couple of the most recent states that joined with Arizona were Georgia and Alabama. And like Arizona, they were taken to court. Today, the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the recent immigration laws passed in both states.
According to ImmigrationImpact:
In a series of decisions issued Monday afternoon, a federal appeals court in Atlanta struck down major portions of controversial immigration laws passed by Alabama and Georgia — including a provision requiring public school officials to determine the immigration status of newly enrolling students.
However, the court ruled that Georgia can enforce the infamous “show me your papers” provision allowing local police to investigate the immigration status of suspects, but the court made it clear that Georgia officials do so at their own risk:
“Reliance on race, color, or national origin that is constitutionally prohibited, however, is expressly forbidden by the Georgia statute,” the court said in its 33-page ruling, released Monday.
“It is inappropriate for us to assume that the state will disregard its own law, and we therefore reject the argument in this respect, keeping in mind that unconstitutional application of the statute could be challenged in later litigation.”
The court also put another provision of the immigration law on hold: punishing people who knowingly transport or harbor undocumented immigrants while committing another crime.
From the court’s ruling, it’s obvious that it views the portions of the immigration law it let stand as balancing on a very thin ledge between what is constitutional and unconstitutional.
Fortunately, there’s no such thin line between what is right and what is wrong.
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The Monotype Corporation, based in Redhill, Surrey, was an independent English company that originally shared patents with the Lanston Monotype Company in Philadelphia. In the first half of the twentieth century F.H. Pierpont and Stanley Morison built up the best type library of its time, and Monotype came to be leaders in European book printing. After the Second World War Monotype continued to offer printing machines, entering the photocomposition era with the Monophoto in 1955, and pioneering laser technology in printing with the LaserComp in 1976.
In 1992 the company was split up: the hardware side was purchased by the IPA Group; the type department, having produced the superb TrueType fonts in Windows 3.1 with Microsoft, continued as Monotype Typography.
In July 1998 Agfa acquired Monotype Typography and integrated it into its own operations.
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So, first off, a little about me: I live in the UK, I’m from Guildford in Surrey, and currently live near Liverpool with my wife and one and a half year old son, both of whom are amazing. I work in Chester as a Web Developer, which is great fun, challenging and rewarding. For those of you who are interested my language of choice is C# and I do a lot of SQL and ASP.NET.
My commute is an hour and a half each way and I get most of my writing done on the train, so as to not miss out on time with the family. I have recently bought a Samsung Series 9 laptop which is an awesome bit of kit and allows me to work on the train without having to carry a heavy laptop around. Due to using a laptop a lot of the time, and being a developer at work, I love keyboard shortcuts over mouse use as I find it faster, especially when I’m on the laptop.
Last month, I reviewed Directory Opus, a fantastic file explorer that utilizes the two-pane view popularized by Norton Commander. It’s not the only file explorer that’s built around that feature. In this roundup, I look at four other file explorers that were also inspired by Norton Commander.
We all know that surfing the Web might be a dangerous thing for our machines. The Internet is swarming with infections that can provoke serious damage for the system, for the user itself or even for other computers utilized by that same user. We also know that there are ways to have a more secure web browsing, but often that implies buying expensive pieces of software.
Now let me present 3 absolutely free security solutions from Comodo, a trusted and world-renowned company willing to make Internet a safer place to interact and conduct business.
At the moment I’m a student and on my Windows Phone I use a variety of different apps to keep me organised throughout the day. With lectures, meetings and social events its often hard to keep on top of everything. These apps, which all complete a specific task are vital for my everyday activities.
Read on to find out more!
I use Windows 8 on all of our home computers — except for the home server, which runs FreeNAS. But, if you are here looking for apps to do things like bring back the Start menu then you are in the wrong place. I do not miss that relic from Windows 95 and have no problem using the new interface.
What I wished to cover here is not just for Windows 8. These apps work across many versions of the operating system and I find them incredibly useful on a regular basis. The only requirement to qualify here is that the app be free, and all of these meet that criteria. Beyond that, I am only looking for software that is truly useful on a daily, or almost daily, basis.
I will spare you the boring things like alternative web browsers to replace Internet Explorer — just use Chrome or Firefox, it’s an easy choice. Not all of these apps are for everyone, as it depends largely on your tastes and needs, but most should satisfy every computer user in some way and many are useful on an almost daily basis.
In the Windows Phone Elite series I try to show readers apps which will be fantastic on their phone and be a big part of their day. For me, music is a massive part of everyday and listening to my favourite songs is a great way to get through mountains of work. In this article I’m going to look at some of the best applications for your Windows Phone which will allow you to listen to music quickly and to a high standard.
Read on to find out what we recommend!
Smartphones proliferate the market today for good reason. The largest of which may be the fact that carriers are steering customers in that direction, but also because most of us want that functionality. To that end, many of us change the wallpapers, add apps and generally make the device a personal statement. The biggest, and most popular, change is usually the ringtone.
Our ringtones are a personal expression of our tastes. Be it Windows Phone, Blackberry, iPhone or Android, all of the major mobile platforms can be customized in this way. And all of the services would love to sell you a ringtone at roughly twice the price of buying a full version of the song.
There is a better, and cheaper, way of doing this. Ringtone Maker is a free app for Windows that allows you to take any song and create a ringtone for any mobile operating system.
In the Windows Phone Elite series we often look at apps which you would use all the time. These have included finance management apps and platform games, although, something we are yet to look at is the smaller apps. There is a wealth of these in the Windows Marketplace and even though they may be basic in concept; they can sometimes help us an awful lot.
Read on the find out what we think are the best utilities for your Windows Phone.
One of the major pain points of using a Windows PC is the constant attention it needs to secure and optimize it. However, things have improved to a great extent with the current crop of Windows releases. Besides, there a ton of quality apps available to help you make the experience a whole lot better.
In fact, with the right set of apps, you can actually optimize, tune and push the limits of your hardware. After the break we have compiled a list of apps that will come in handy to make the most out of your desktop. Check it out!
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drawing the line: deams (nightmares) and reality
For my final project, I decided to focus on dreaming, specifically nightmares and where the line between your dreams (nightmares) and your reality lies. I did this from the point of view of a poet and so researched Paul Celan, a Jewish poet who survived the holocaust.
Celan’s dreams are his nightmares that depict and portray the nightmare that his life was. His view is that dreams depict the reality that is your life and that you refuse to face. Using him as a base, I then included one of my own poems that I wrote after waking up from a night of bad sleep
I’ve presented my project in the form of a book (a diary/journal of some sort?). In it I’ve included Celan’s view on dreaming, a poem of his, a poem by me, my view on dreaming, a few dreams and the philosophy behind them. I’ve shown different kinds of dreams (nightmares) and given a plausible reasoning behind them.
I end the project with two pages on self editing and how it is our self editing from ourselves (of thoughts, emotions and actions) that make nightmares necessary as a way of coping.
Basically, the project intertwines between my life and my dreams, the research about dreams that I have done, and other dream experiences I have witnessed and tries to find a distinguishing line (if there is one) between the nightmares you have and the reality you live.
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What happens if you move in with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and then split up? Who has the right to keep living in the house? If one party leaves do they still have to pay the mortgage? Can they get their money out of the house? Can they force the other party to sell? What do they do if the other party won’t budge?
Is it different if the parties are not boyfriend and girlfriend; say if three friends in their 20s get together to buy a house? What if a mother and son jointly buy a house?
We provide advice on all of these issues.
Ideally parties sign a “Cohabitation Agreement” before they move in, agreeing exactly what will happen in the “what if” scenarios, avoiding costly and emotionally draining disputes later on. We provide advice on what should be covered in a Cohabitation Agreement, and draft them for clients. And they do work.
If no Cohabitation Agreement has been signed then we advise clients on their entitlement. We try then to encourage an agreement, for example that one party may achieve their wish to stay in the house, having released the other from the mortgage, and having paid out the other’s financial interest.
Court proceedings are a last resort, but where there really is no other option that is the route we will take. Courts have power to conduct a sale of a property, to evict parties from properties and even to sign the sale agreement on behalf of a party that is refusing to cooperate.
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The agenda is all about a green and innovative region, as some of the most important stakeholders are gathered for the 14th Baltic Development Forum and for the European Commission's 3rd Forum on the Baltic Sea Region on Holmen in Copenhagen, 17-19 June 2012.
"The Nordic Council of Ministers is well placed to play a leading role in ongoing regional co-operation – not just among the five Nordic countries but in the Baltic Sea region as a whole," says Halldór Ásgrímsson.
Both the Development Forum and EU forum on Baltic strategy are being held in Copenhagen, 17-19 June 2012. The Nordic Council of Ministers has endorsed the EU strategy and actively promotes partnership and development initiatives in the region.
The title of this year's conference, "Connecting Europe – Smart and Green Partnerships in the Baltic Sea Region", reflects the priority of promoting sustainable growth and competitiveness through transnational public-private initiatives in the region.
The Nordic Council of Ministers' contribution to the conference includes the publication "Political State of the Region Report", which focuses on governance and co-ordination in the region. It will be presented to delegates as a prelude to discussions about the current state of regional co-operation and integration around the Baltic.
The Nordic Council of Ministers' is hosting "Sustainable Bioenergy - the Baltic Sea Region as a Global Leader" during the conference, a session about the challenges and opportunities facing the development of sustainable bioenergy initiatives in the Baltic region and will present a proposal for an inter-sectoral theme within the EU's Strategy for the Baltic Sea region.
The Nordic Council of Ministers actively supports the EU Strategy for the Baltic and its priorities "Save the Sea", "Bring the Region together" and "Increase prosperity." The Nordic Council of Ministers works closely with partners like the European Commission, the Baltic Development Forum and other public- and private-sector partners in order to enhance the co-ordination of efforts in the region. The idea is to generate synergies and deploy human and financial resources more effectively.
"The Nordic Council of Ministers is well placed to play a leading role in ongoing regional co-operation – not just among the five Nordic countries but in the Baltic Sea region as a whole," says Halldór Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
"The Nordic Council of Ministers is an inter-governmental platform for co-operation. It provides access to a range of networks for operational co-operation in the Baltic Sea region, including via a number of specialist Nordic institutions and via the Nordic Council of Ministers' offices in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and North-West Russia," he explains.
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Abstract: A decade of military conflict and two decades of underinvestment have left the U.S. military too small and inadequately equipped to answer the nation’s call today, much less tomorrow. In July 2010, a bipartisan commission warned of a coming “train wreck” if Congress does not act quickly to rebuild and modernize the U.S. military. To meet tomorrow’s needs, the tools of national security must be strengthened quickly for the U.S. to help to stabilize the international environment and keep U.S. citizens safe and free, while ensuring America’s economy can prosper and grow. There is no quick or easy fix. Meeting the military’s full modernization requirements will “require a substantial and immediate additional investment that is sustained through the long term.” However, the price of U.S. weakness will be greater in the long run.
This summer, a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission established by Congress came to a stark conclusion about the worrisome state of America’s military:
The aging of the inventories and equipment used by the services, the decline in the size of the Navy, escalating personnel entitlements, overhead and procurement costs, and the growing stress on the force means that a train wreck is coming in the areas of personnel, acquisition, and force structure. In addition, our nation needs to build greater civil operational capacity to deploy civilians alongside our military and to partner with international bodies, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations in dealing with failed and failing states.
The potential consequences for the United States of a “business as usual” attitude towards the concerns in this Report are not acceptable. We are confident that the trendlines can be reversed, but it will require an ongoing, bipartisan concentration of political will in support of decisive action.
The Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel has good reason to be concerned over the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the first under President Barack Obama. (The Honorable James Talent served as a congressionally appointed commissioner on the panel.) Over the past two decades, the size of the U.S. military has declined by one-third. Conversely, each major defense strategy since the early 1990s has emphasized new missions for the U.S. armed forces without providing substantial additional resources. Strained, aging platforms have reached the point at which they cannot achieve desired mission outcomes. The men and women in the U.S. military are “operating at maximum operational tempo, wearing out people and equipment faster then expected, using the reserve component more than anticipated, and stressing active duty personnel in all the military services.” There is no quick fix to meeting full modernization requirements, and it will “require a substantial and immediate additional investment that is sustained through the long term.”
Congress needs to act now to restore and repair the U.S. armed forces after a decade of conflict and two decades of underinvestment in modernization. It should begin by carefully examining the panel’s findings and beginning to implement its recommendations to rebuild the military. As the panel clearly stated, “protecting American lives and property is the most fundamental responsibility of the U.S. government.”
Congress’s Concern About the QDR
Every four years, the Department of Defense issues the Quadrennial Defense Review, its major strategic planning document. The QDR is intended to look forward two decades and delineate how the U.S. will structure its armed forces. The object is to outline threats, military strategy, force structure, and budgetary plans and to establish a road map for defense programs that will prepare for an uncertain future. The 2010 QDR lacked long-term vision and served largely as an analytical justification for current defense plans and programs, including the scaling back of modernization priorities to develop many of the next-generation systems.
As The Heritage Foundation recommended, Congress voted to establish an independent panel to review the 2010 QDR. In July, the panel released its final report, The QDR in Perspective: Meeting America’s National Security Needs in the 21st Century. The panel was co-chaired by William J. Perry, Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton, and Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Adviser under President George W. Bush. The panel’s report to Congress was not an ideological document, but rather a baseline statement about U.S. security.
Congress would be wise to carefully examine the QDR Independent Panel’s findings and to begin implementing the recommendations, including the need to increase the size of the U.S. Navy, recapitalize major systems on a one-for-one basis, acquire a next-generation bomber, field new long-range strike systems, and establish a national commission to review military personnel management policies.
The U.S. as Global Leader—Not Policeman
The Independent QDR Panel’s report highlighted the enduring U.S. national security interests, which include:
- Defending the American homeland;
- Assuring access to the sea, air, space, and cyberspace;
- Preserving a favorable balance of power across Eurasia that prevents authoritarian domination of that region; and
- Providing for the global “common good” through actions, such as humanitarian aid, development assistance, and disaster relief.
After analyzing U.S. strategic interests around the world, the report concluded:
There is a choice our planners do not have. As the last 20 years have shown, America does not have the option of abandoning a leadership role in support of its national interests. Those interests are vital to the security of the United States. Failure to anticipate and manage the conflicts that threaten those interests—to thoughtfully exploit the options we have set forth above in support of a purposeful global strategy—will not make those conflicts go away or make America’s interests any less important. It will simply lead to an increasingly unstable and unfriendly global climate and, eventually, to conflicts America cannot ignore, which we must prosecute with limited choices under unfavorable circumstances—and with stakes that are higher than anyone would like.
U.S. safety and security depends on “securing common domains” on, above, and below the high seas, in space, and in cyberspace during times of war and peace. If the United States is not there to protect commerce, and by extension the health of the American economy, threats to the free flow of goods will negatively affect the U.S. and other countries. Maintaining U.S. military presence abroad will also continue to be necessary. Yet the declining U.S. military force structure is threatening the long-standing belief of many allies that the U.S. can enforce its own treaty commitments. Americans should be deeply troubled by U.S. friends and allies’ growing concerns about the U.S. ability to defend its interests around the globe.
As the panel noted, the United States cannot and should not act alone in the world, but effective alliances depend on American leadership, which in turn requires American strength. The U.S. needs to “guide continued adaptation of existing international institutions and alliances and support the development of new institutions appropriate to the demands of the 21st century.” This will be impossible without “global confidence in American leadership and its political, economic, and military strength and steadfast national purpose.” The United States’ ability to promote new alliances, assemble support for policies, and shape the international environment will depend on “sustaining the umbrella of American national security leadership.”
U.S. leadership in the world is also necessary to preserving a favorable balance of power across Eurasia and providing for the “common good” with humanitarian aid, development assistance, and disaster relief.
The Risks Are Growing
To mitigate an increasingly unstable future, the U.S. must acknowledge the greatest areas of foreseeable risk. Policymakers and citizens should know that all types and categories of risk challenging U.S. interests are growing. The report identifies key global trends that will affect America, including:
- Islamist extremism and the threat of terrorism,
- The rise of new global powers in Asia,
- The continued struggle for power in the Persian Gulf and the greater Middle East,
- An accelerating global competition for resources, and
- Persistent problems from failed and failing states.
To date, Islamist extremism and terrorism remain both domestic and international concerns. The greatest risk to the U.S. is that “weapons of mass destruction or the materials and expertise to produce them…find their way into the hands of fanatical, murderous jihadists.” The threat from violent Islamist movements will not go away after combat operations cease in Iraq and Afghanistan. Countering this challenge will continue to demand significant resources from the U.S. government, particularly from the military.
The rising importance of China and India also suggests a shift of power toward the Asia–Pacific region. This shift is occurring as U.S. resources to maintain global presence are shrinking, as is America’s ability to deter, influence, reassure, and shape the decisions of others. The Pentagon’s QDR report virtually ignores China, which indicates a lack of preparation for its dynamic rise. Meanwhile, Iran remains a destabilizing force in the Middle East, and its power will grow as it acquires nuclear and other asymmetric weapons.
Beyond the challenges that defense planners and policymakers can predict are still the unforeseen challenges. History indicates that as states destabilize and as rising powers see weakness among Western-allied democracies, international crime, terrorist safe havens, piracy, oppression, and lawlessness will increase. Such drastic scenarios may seem unrelated, but as the report notes, “the risk we don’t anticipate is precisely the one most likely to be realized.”
Comprehensively Unprepared for the Future
The Pentagon’s QDR does not adequately identify the panoply of risks confronting the United States. Further, the Pentagon’s strategy does not address the elephant in the room: The U.S. military is already too small and its equipment is already too old to fully answer the nation’s call today, much less tomorrow. As Table 1 indicates, the U.S. has largely failed to recapitalize its military in a generation. Consequently, the panel’s report notes the growing gap between what the U.S. military is asked to do and the tools it has to accomplish their missions.
The Independent QDR Panel’s report correctly notes how busy the U.S. military was long before 9/11 and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. For example, the U.S. Air Force has been flying over hostile skies in Iraq for nearly 20 years without a break.
To meet tomorrow’s needs, the tools of national security must be strengthened quickly for the U.S. to help to stabilize the international environment and keep U.S. citizens safe and free, while ensuring America’s economy can prosper and grow. As the panel noted, the military’s equipment is old and therefore unreliable, increasingly out of date technologically, and insufficient in number. In particular, the U.S. Navy is too small and at risk of shrinking further due to budget constraints. (See Chart 1.)
The panel members agreed the Pentagon “should plan for a force structure that gives us a clear predominance of capability in any given situation.” A fleet of at least 313 ships—the U.S. Navy’s current baseline—is the bare minimum size needed to match capabilities to commitments. The panel recommends expanding the Navy to roughly the 346 ships suggested in the 1993 Bottom Up Review. In addition to the growing challenges and need for continued presence and access in Asia, the report also notes the stresses placed on the force over the past 15 years and the additional missions the military has assumed: “[I]t is unlikely that the United States can make do with less than it needed in the early 1990s, when Americans assumed the world would be much more peaceful post Cold War.”
The panel’s report also identified the urgent need to modernize the weapons and equipment inventory of all the services. The Navy needs to begin developing a next-generation cruiser and buy additional submarines. The Air Force needs to increase its deep-strike capability, acquire more long-range platforms, and obtain a new tanker and additional lift capability. The Army needs to recapitalize its inventory of tracked combat vehicles. (See Table 2.)
All of these modernization investments are needed, but the Pentagon has not planned or budgeted for them adequately. The Army has already skipped a generation of modernization in its combat vehicle fleet and is at increased risk each year of further delays. Cyber security remains largely ignored and could become an even greater vulnerability in the future.
The panel’s report acknowledges the need to strengthen the tools of soft power to complement U.S. defenses. For example, to update antiquated guidelines in and across other federal agencies, the President would need to issue a directive that “clarifies interagency roles and responsibilities for ‘whole of government’ missions.” Congress and the President should establish a National Commission on Building the Civil Force of the Future and provide civilian agencies with the proper resources and staff to contribute on a larger scale to stability operations abroad.
However, the panel also recognized that the civilian tools of national power—such as diplomacy, sanctions, effective communications of national intent, and building democracy and economic institutions—can supplement military capability, but they cannot substitute for it. As Iraq and Afghanistan have proven, soft power efforts require time and security to work. They can build on a stable foundation, which only hard power can create.
The findings of the QDR Independent Panel, an ideologically diverse group of defense experts, are a stark warning to Congress and the American people. Unless the panel’s recommendations are taken seriously and Congress immediately begins implementing them, America faces impending disaster. The “aging of the inventories and equipment used by the services, the decline in the size of the Navy, escalating personnel entitlements, overhead and procurement costs, and the growing stress on the force means that a train wreck is coming in the areas of personnel, acquisition, and force structure.”
American strength comes at a price, but weakness also has a price—one that the panel’s report notes “in the long run would be much greater.”
—The Honorable James Talent is Distinguished Fellow in Military Affairs at The Heritage Foundation and served as a U.S. Senator from 2002 to 2007. He also served as a Commissioner on the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel. Mackenzie Eaglen is Research Fellow for National Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation. She also was a Staff Member of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel.
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The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington)
June 19, 2005, Sunday
SECTION: SOUTH SOUND; Pg. A02
LENGTH: 645 words
HEADLINE: Downing Street memos don't tell us anything new
BYLINE: David Zeeck, The News Tribune
Perhaps you've heard of the Downing Street memo.
The Times of London first published it in May, shortly before Prime Minister Tony Blair's re-election. The memo consists of minutes from a July 2002 meeting between Blair and his national security team, eight months before the war began in Iraq.
At the meeting, British officials who had just returned from Washington reported the Bush administration believed war was inevitable and that Bush would use intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and sketchy ties to al-Qaida to justify an invasion. ". . . Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," said the minutes.
The memo created a political row in Britain during the elections. It became a story in the U.S. this month, when Bush and Blair, appearing together at the White House, were asked about it.
The memo seems genuine, but both men say it reveals nothing. Both say they still did everything possible to avert war and did not rig, spin or hide intelligence to justify an invasion.
The memo (now a series of memos; see stories on pages A10 and Insight 6) also has become a media issue. Conservatives ignore them. Liberals see in them proof that Bush ginned up a war that was completely unnecessary.
I've gotten precisely four e-mails and two phone calls asking about the memo(s). I appreciate the readers who ask for more information; they're entitled to a fair accounting of what's in the memo and what it means.
Here's a sampling of reader comments about the memo:
"Please help the citizens of the United States to be informed so that they can make informed decisions," wrote Kevin Manley in an e-mail, asking us to report about the memo. "It is your job."
An anonymous caller requested more Downing Street memo stories in a call June 7. "This is the biggest news in London and all over Europe," she said. ". . . This is the smoking gun that will get Bush impeached for war crimes. You're going to get left behind if you don't start reporting the news. We need to get our country back."
"Downing Street is a HUGE story, and you are not doing anyone a favor by ignoring it," Paula Galloway wrote in an e-mail. ". . . You are not living up to your obligations to inform the public. Please try to do a better job."
Before today, we've published three stories about the Downing Street memo. There's plenty there for anyone to understand the memo and what it means.
I've read all the memos and, while I think they're an interesting window into history, I don't think they tell us anything we didn't already know: The Bush administration was spoiling for a fight with Iraq (even though they exhausted every bit of U.N. pressure before invading) and they used intelligence regarding WMD (which we now know was flawed) to support the case for war.
Nothing in the Downing Street memos proves the U.S. had determined war was inevitable in July 2002 or that it knew at the time the intelligence was wrong.
We'll keep you posted.
The highlight of my week was being with hundreds of others who heard historian David McCullough speak on Thursday evening at the Urban Grace Church in downtown Tacoma.
He talked about writing, about the importance of Americans knowing our history, and read and told stories from "1776," his new book, which is currently atop The New York Times nonfiction list.
A memorable part of the evening was when Tacoma Mayor Bill Baarsma introduced McCullough. The mayor noted that the Squaxin tribe selects one of its members to be "the rememberer," the one who memorizes the tribe's stories, its wisdom and traditions.
He called McCullough, who has written on subjects as varied as Harry Truman, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal and John Adams, "America's rememberer."
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Dave Zeeck: 253-597-8434
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"Sensei" is an honorific stuck on the end of Japanese names the same way "san" is, and is used to address a teacher, e.g. Squid-sensei.
Darryl Knickrehm is an American independent film maker in Japan who has, like almost anyone not transferred to Japan by a company, taught English in Japan - in his case, in Kobe. So he knows what life is like as "Dariru-sensei," a life prone to the naive misunderstandings, prejudices, quirks and well-meaning but embarrassing questions and observations - not to mention frequent reluctance and apathy - of the typical English conversation student in Japan.
Knickrehm has taken the panoply of odd experiences - his own and others' - and turned them into cartoon art in the form of "The Reports of the Adventures of Squid-Sensei."
There are few English-language rags in Japan that don't have some sort of satirical say on the country through a typical, routinely English-teaching, foreigner, and which inevitably all sound like jokes told one time too many. To be honest, I was expecting more of the same when Knickrehm approached JapanVisitor with his work.
However, I was (admittedly somewhat reluctantly) tickled by The Reports of the Adventures of Squid-Sensei. There aren't that many episodes yet, but perhaps it's the claimed "Totally honest, 103% true accounts of life teaching English in Japan"-ness about it that helps give some life and odd-colored (sometimes off-colored) sparkle to material that in lesser hands could easily end up as lame. The cartoonist implicitly trusts his material. He leaves life in the eikaiwa (English conversation) classroom almost unembellished, letting it speak for itself.
Squid Sensei is a genuinely freaky looking English teaching squid with a decidedly phallic mien who exudes the imperfectly subdued tension of having to make a living and getting unspeakably bored and frustrated by his job. For me the most refreshing thing about him - in that I've simply never seen it in the genre before - is that he cusses, admittedly in graphic symbols, but refreshingly - and right in front of the students. That alone made me laugh. That's three out of ten already. (Plus one more for looking so old sci-fi freaky.)
The remaining six points could well be earned by the dry slapstick of the scenarios, the great drawing (that, significantly, is lavished only on Squid-Sensei himself - the students remain, perhaps significantly, replaceable virtual stick figures), and the take-it-or-leave-it tone that has nevertheless has signs of craft behind it and a genuine desire to be heard.
Check out the The Reports of the Adventures of Squid-Sensei website.
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British Columbia a Safe haven for Impaired Drivers?
British Columbia has recently been applauded for having the strongest administrative penalties in Canada for impaired driver’s. Without commenting on how these penalties violate the presumption of innocence, or how they are based on the results from fallible roadside devices, many citizens should be appalled at the real results of these penalties.
The problem is not that these people are punished, but in many instances, are not punished enough. Why do we say this? Police forces in British Columbia have stopped taking breath samples and charging people criminally for alleged offences. For example, if a person blows a fail on a roadside device, subsequent breath samples on an Approved Instrument should reveal that they are over the legal limit, and they should be charged criminally. But police in BC have stopped taking breath samples, and instead simply give administrative penalties to impaired drivers. No criminal conviction, no criminal record, no minimum one year licence suspension, no miminum $1000 fine.
What does happen? In BC, a fail on a roadside device will get you 90 days off the road and a required participation in an interlock program for one year. Total costs will amount to about $4000.00 (much lower than the cost of your average lawyer)…unless you’re not a BC resident…
Many individuals get these penalties while visiting BC, but the BC province has no authority to suspend the licence granted by another province. Even if the licencing province finds out about BC charges, they may not require you to participate in the interlock program. The result? An individual charged in BC will get 90 days off the road and avoid a criminal conviction, a far cry from the penalties contained in the Criminal Code.
This doesn’t even address the situations where an individual should be facing a second impaired driving charge, which has a penalty of 2 years off the road and a minimum 30 days in jail. Instead of charging these people, they are let off with 90 day licence suspensions. Does this sound fair, let alone responsible?
This is another example of short term ideas and solutions not benefitting the long term interests of Canadian citizens. Are other provinces going to follow suit? The potential is there, and it is being discussed. However, discussions have to understand the effect on all citizens. Our society wants to combat impaired drivers, but our punishments are being lowered, not increased. This is to the detriment of those that drink responsibly, yet pay the price for those that do not, sometimes with our lives.
These might seem like strong words coming from criminal defence lawyers, but we are also responsible citizens who want to see less crime, not more. The short term effect of the BC approach benefits no one, and is appalling in its lack of thought. All citizens need to be concerned, and diligent in speaking out against provincial governments that look to follow the BC model.
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An algorithm is presented for morphing two images, often with little or no user interaction. For two similar images
(such as different faces against a neutral background) the algorithm generally can create a pleasing morph completely automatically. The algorithm seeks the minimum work to deform one image into the other, where work is a function of the amount of warping and recoloration. A hierarchical method for finding a minimal work solution is invoked. Anchor point constraints are satisfied by imposing penalties on deformations that disobey these constraints. Good results can be obtained in less than ten seconds for 256 x 256 images.
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star
Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year intervals. Sixteen years after the release of the trilogy's final film, the first in
a new prequel trilogy of films was released. The three films were also released at three-year intervals, with the final film released on May 19, 2005.
The Star Wars film series has spawned a media franchise including books, television series, video games, comic books, trading cards, stickers and much more. These
supplements to the film trilogies comprise the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and have resulted in significant development of the series' fictional universe.
Star Wars usually needs no introduction, and the fact that its original series was released in the seventies and eighties, yet the prequels were released in the nineties and
noughties, make the Star Wars franchise popular with both adults and children. There are a wide range of products, such as the Force Attax card game, which will be best sellers purely on the popularity of
Star Wars alone. That is the pure strength of the Star Wars brand!
P & C Distribution Ltd t/a The In Thing, registered in England and Wales number 06310333. The registered office is The In Thing, Glenfield Park Two, Blakewater Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 5QH
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If you sign up for an outdoor fitness boot camp just to drop a few pounds before swimsuit season, you may be surprised to find that the instructors have something else in mind for you. They don't want simply to get you in shape for a month or two. They want to get you healthy for life.
"A lot of people come into the camps having done binge exercising, and binge dieting, or yo-yo dieting for years and years," says Tanya Barham, CEO of Recess Fitness in Portland, Ore. "So they have lots of bad habits, and weird expectations. Like, 'Oh, it took me 10 years to gain these 20 pounds but I'm going to lose them in a week.' We don't do it that way. We try to get people into healthy habits they can maintain after camp."
Barham's summer boot camps include nutrition and diet classes along with the workouts, and plenty of friendly reminders that being healthy involves much more than just losing weight. She keeps it fun, too, by mixing up the workouts with martial arts, yoga, Pilates and tai chi.
"Our boot camp is definitely not about ass-kicking," Barham says, but she's willing to make exceptions in order to prove a point. Jackie Yerby, a loyal alumna of Barham's '07 boot camp, recalls that there were people in her group who complained early on that it wasn't ass-kicking enough. "Tanya's response was 'Okay, we're gonna run stairs,'" Yerby says. "And we did the stairs for, it seemed like, forever. As a result, most of us...felt very uncomfortable for days. And Tanya's point was, you can have the ass-kicking workout, but you can't sustain that. I thought that was a really good myth to break."
Because of her boot camp experience, Yerby says, she gave up her gym membership. "I felt more in control and more empowered about exercise," she says. "It doesn't take special equipment to do it."
Tami Williams, president of Wildfire Fitness in Portland, runs her boot camps all year round, bringing her class indoors when it's pouring rain, but staying outside if it's not that bad. She also stresses to her students the importance of good habits, including the proper hydration and nutrition, as well as smart intake of carbs, proteins and fats. "Our focus is education," she says. "Giving people information so in their daily lives they still have the knowledge to do what they need to do."
What they need to do during Wildfire boot camps, however, is show up prepared for a challenging workout with a few surprises. According to Williams, "Variety is one of our trademarks. You never know from day to day what the boot camp is going to be about. I think that's what keeps people coming back. It's not just endless sets and reps of boring exercises. Every session has group games, interspersed with mini-circuits." Popular with boot-campers, mini-circuits are group exercises in which everyone does as many reps as they can handle in a 30-second period.
"Sometimes people say to me, 'I would be mad at you, but you're so nice,' " says Williams. "Because even though I'm pushing them, I'm trying to find a way that motivates them. I'll encourage where I see that I can encourage, or back off sometimes, or encourage them to back off if I think they should."
Anna-Marie Matalucci is in her second consecutive Wildfire boot camp, and says she much prefers it to a gym, where she sometimes feels uncomfortable. "The people who put on their makeup, and it's all about wearing the right kind of clothes… the camps feel more like fun than working out. It's made me conscious, in terms of exercising, that you don't need weights, and that you're able to exercise wherever you go."
And Matalucci proudly cites another benefit of her boot camp training. "One of the best things I've picked up from this is that I've got a stupid party trick now," she says. "Never before could I do push-ups. Now I do push-ups in the middle of a party just to show that I can."
About the Author
Ken DuBois is a marketing guru by day and a freelance writer by night. He has written film reviews for Reel.com, and worked as a theater critic. He is passionate about working out: When he's not in the pool, he's hiking, biking, walking and, weather permitting, working on his backhand.
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LONG BEACH - An emergency training exercise was conducted at Long Beach Airport Friday to test inter-agency communications and response capabilities.
The two-hour exercise, which began about 11 a.m., is mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration every three years for airport certification, according to Kerry Gerot of the city of Long Beach.
"It went very well," Gerot said. "The primary purpose of the exercise is safety and preserving life, and I think that everybody was pleased with the way things went."
Gerot said a debriefing process would take place over the next few days to evaluate
The airport continued normal operations throughout the exercise, which took place near the north side of the airfield.
An "aircraft incident with mass casualties" was simulated, and there were realistic- sounding radio transmissions describing deployment of personnel and alerts to local hospitals. Volunteers portrayed victims, and the California Air National Guard provided a C-130 aircraft.
Drill participants included personnel from the airport; the Long Beach police, fire and public works departments; the Greater Long Beach Chapter of the American Red Cross; the Los Angeles County Coroner's office; St. Mary Medical Center; the California Air National Guard; the Transportation Security Administration;
- From staff reports
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Filed under: Charity
While the proceeds are headed to charity (surely a laudable goal), something in this news makes me queasy. When J.K. Rowling burst to the scene with her first Harry Potter books, much was made of her struggling, lower-class background: the welfare mom made good. And many pundits have lauded her tales for making reading exciting again for children everywhere. She made literature relevant to even those who were, like she was once, just squeaking by.
So the concept of exclusive literature leaves me cold. If you're interested in the etymology, however, it's more than appropriate: a bard was a poet employed by the wealthy to tell tales of their great deeds. I always thought of J.K. Rowling as something far more free-spirited; but it this bard's tales will only be told to a few.
Update: A commenter pointed out that I was incorrect that these would be printed -- the books are handwritten. However, the commenter says these copies will be available to the public; that is not true according to this source.
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Retails and foods services sales inched up again for the third consecutive month, during January 2013 by 0.1% compared with December’s sales and were also above the sales at January 2012.
The U.S. Department of Commerce (pdf file) published yesterday its monthly update on the shifts in the U.S. retail and food sales for January 2013.
This report adjusts for seasonal variances and holidays but doesn’t control for price changes. In January, the U.S. retail and food sales reached $416.6 billion, which is 0.1% above the sales in December and 4.4% above January 2012. The gasoline stations sales were up by 1.4% in January compared to December and 4.4% above the sales in January 2012. This shows a moderate gain in the U.S demand for retail and also a rise in demand for energy commodities.
If the demand for gasoline will continue to rise, it could signal a rise in the growing demand for oil in the U.S and thus may pull up the prices of oil. Moreover, the recent moderate rise in the retail sales might suggest the U.S economy is slowly improving.
The major energy commodities prices declined yesterday; major U.S stock markets were little changes and the USD was modest traded down against leading currencies including the Aussie dollar and Canadian dollar. This could mean that the recent report regarding the modest gain in retail sales had a moderate effect on the U.S financial markets. the major exchange rates mostly US dollar also decreased. This means, the news of the modest decline in gasoline stations sales may have had a moderate negative effect on energy prices.
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An exhibition of Andy Warhol's portrait series of Brigitte Bardot opens at Gagosian Davies Street
. Five of the works on show have never been exhibited publicly before, and never together in series.
Warhol first met Bardot at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967 when she actively supported his attempt to show The Chelsea Girls there after the original planned screening had been cancelled. In 1973, at the height of her fame, she announced her retirement from making films. That same year Warhol received the commission to make her portrait. At this time that he was shifting his focus from filmmaking back to painting and perhaps viewed her coincidental screen exit as the perfect opportunity to commemorate and idolize her in art.
At the time of the commission, Bardot was as beautiful and famous as ever, her smouldering gaze, flowing blonde hair, and inimitable pout epitomizing the free-spirited energy and sexual allure that defined a new era. In these portraits of her, based on an arresting photograph taken by Richard Avedon in 1959, Warhol applied similar formal techniques to those he used in his portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor -- a cropped frontal viewpoint and contrasting palette (blue/red, pink/purple, green/black) with vivid primary accents on eyes and lips. In each of the paintings, Bardot's carnal beauty fills the square canvas in the manner of a record cover, her voluptuous, leonine features framed by abundant, tousled hair.
Bardot was the original sex kitten, a superstar of French New Wave cinema and an icon of feminine sensuality. Aged eighteen, she gained sudden and worldwide notoriety for her steamy role in Roger Vadim's directorial debut, And God Created Woman (1956), which broke box-office records and censorship taboos with its titillating display of sex and eroticism in St Tropez. Despite mixed critical reviews, the film launched her career and presaged her international stardom. Bardot also caught the attention of French intellectuals: she was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay "Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome," which described her as a "locomotive of women's history", building upon existentialist themes to declare her the most liberated woman of post-war France. Her crowning achievement occurred in 1963 as Camille in Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Contempt, based on Alberto Moravia's emotionally raw account of a marital break-up, set against the intrigues of the international film industry.
A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with essays by Warhol collaborator and writer Glenn OBrien and Purple Magazine editor Olivier Zahm.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is widely regarded as a defining figure not only of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s but of an entire cultural era. He worked prodigiously across a vast range of media, including painting, photography, print-making, drawing, sculpture, film (sixty experimental films between 1963 and 1968), television ("Andy Warhol's TV," 1982 and "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes," 1986), publishing (Interview magazine, books, and catalogues), happenings, and performances. He also endorsed products, appeared in advertisements and made business deals, giving new currency to the philosophical and practical interplay between art as a reflection upon society and art as a product of society. His work has been the subject of countless exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world. Recent exhibitions include The Last Decade. Milwaukee Art Museum (2009, traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art); Motion Pictures, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and The Early Sixties, Kunstmuseum Basel (2010).
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School meal prices held for fifth year in a row
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Hampshire County Council is serving up some good news for parents with the announcement that the price of a school meal is to be kept at £2 for the fifth consecutive year.
At his decision day on 23 January 2013, Councillor Roy Perry, Hampshire County Council's Executive Lead Member for Children's Services, approved keeping the price of school meals at its current level of £2 per meal. This is the fourth year in a row that the Council has not increased the price of the meals - providing good news for families under increasing pressures in the current difficult economic climate.
More and more pupils are now enjoying a tasty, healthy school meal, with increased take-up. Around 10million meals are likely to be served in the County's schools by the end of the school year, based on current numbers. More than 39,000 primary children in Hampshire now enjoy school meals each day, including those entitled to free meals.
The rise in popularity of the meals served by the County Council's Catering Service (HC3S) is attributed to the addition of a number of tasty lunchtime favourites on the menu, including roast dinners which are now available twice a week, chilli meatballs, pizza, and fish on a Friday. For vegetarians, choices include sweet potato and lentil curry, vegetarian sausage puff and Italian tomato pasta.
Throughout the year youngsters can select a main meal, a side helping of vegetables and salad together with either potatoes, pasta or rice. Dessert is a choice of fresh fruit or handmade pudding such as chocolate beetroot brownies, or cherry jumble biscuit. Every meal combines to make up a third of the recommended daily intake of vitamins and minerals for a child over the weekly menu, which also helps support learning in the classroom. Meals also include locally sourced ingredients, such as Hampshire beef and pork, free range eggs from the New Forest, apple juice from Selborne, and fish from well-managed, sustainable fisheries.
Since 2005 school meals have been free from over 70 artificial colours and preservatives, meeting the criteria of the Hyperactive Children's Support Group (HACSG) for the removal of additives that can affect a child's behaviour. HC3S can also cater for children with medically proven allergies, ensuring meals are available for everyone.
Commenting, Councillor Perry said: "I am mindful that we are living in difficult economic times so I hope this news is welcomed by parents. The high take-up has enabled us to hold the price for the fourth year in a row and in my view, these meals represent excellent value for money. HC3S works closely with schools, pupils and parents to create varied menus that are healthy and tasty, and the service plays an important role in the development of healthy eating among children, which can be key to helping prevent problems such as obesity in later life. It has also long been recognised that a child's diet not only affects their physical health but also impacts on their behaviour, concentration and performance in the classroom. The school meals service also provides a vital contribution towards supporting local food producers where possible, which is important for the development of the Hampshire economy."
Parents can also find out if their child is entitled to a free school meal, with the free online service provided by the County Council.
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There was another blog post on the future impact of Gen Y this week. It annoyed me.
I have to admit that I have an immediate and strong negative reaction whenever I read or hear someone talk about Digital Natives or how Gen Y is going to change everything. This is troubling because I fully agree with many of the basic assertions typically found in these arguments. I agree that the online experiences, media choices, and thousands of hours spent playing video games have a significant effect on the learning preferences and styles of the newest generation of college students. I agree that educators concerned with maximizing learning for these students need to be aware of their preferences and modify our pedagogies to suit our audiences. Given these areas of general agreement, why do articles like the one linked above annoy me so much?
“Hey you kids, get off of my lawn!”
Is it possible that I’m a just another reactionary curmudgeon? Am I just on the wrong side of the latest generation gap? I think I need to give this honest consideration, but I doubt this is the case. When Clay Shirky presents arguments of a somewhat related nature I tend to find them reasonable and compelling. When John Beck and Mitchell Wade make their arguments for the so-called “gaming generation” changing business practices I paid them respectful attention and was largely persuaded that their analysis was sound and based on solid methodology, even if their conclusions seem a bit overstated. When James Paul Gee writes about key learning principles found in good video games, I followed his argument with interest and understood that the quality of the learning was key, not the current media fad. So even though I tend to be grouchy and remain attached to my existing opinions, I believe I can dismiss reactionary grumpitude as my primary motivation for being annoyed with folks who apparently want adult professionals to start acting like children. Where then, does my dislike for certain optimistic visions of the future derive?
It can all be explained with Logan’s Run
From the BBC Comedy series Spaced:
Tim: You’d be dead in four years’ time, if this was Logan’s Run.
Daisy: That’d be terrible.
Tim: I know. I’d look like a twat in a jumpsuit.
Daisy: Don’t say that, Tim. That is a word which hates women.
Tim: What, twat?
Daisy: No, jumpsuit.
The answer, I think, can be found in Logan’s Run and Jitterbug Perfume. I’ve somehow managed to grow up and now I’m afraid of death. In part, my reaction against youth-based utopias is founded in the fear that comes from realizing I am no longer young. Like Logan and Alobar, I find myself enjoying life after youth and I’m not willing to step aside and have my new point of view declared irrelevant. I’m not reacting to the assertion that the young have adapted to new media in ways the rest of us can learn from. I am reacting to an enthusiasm for those two ideas that implies childishness is an evolutionary step beyond maturity. I’m in favor of integrating new media studies, Web 2.0, and Generation Y information preferences into our library services, but not ready to immediately abandon all that is useful in the 1.0 world.
My main problem with Prensky and his ilk is that their praise of the information preferences of Generation Y seems to lump in too much that is childish with their salient observations about new media. Shirky, Beck and Wade, and Gee make related observations about communication, Web 2.0, video games, and information that recognize potential advantages in Generation Y without implying that childish behavior is progress. It is possible to be fully engaged with the new media and what they mean without completely neglecting the warnings of Marshall McLuhan or Jacques Ellul. The new is worth both exploring and understanding, but it is foolish to ask that it be adopted before we can come to a rational decision about whether or not it is an improvement.
I’m not even against optimism in general. The newly coined term Poptimistic seems to be significant as well. I admit that I prefer a bleak Blade Runner vision of a future dystopia to the “super-saturated richness, hyper-realism, brightly lit in even the furthest corners, up tempo, and generally positive” vision that is Poptimistic, but Poptimistic art is still cool. I hope that a fully connected and tuned in generation will revolutionize information culture and solve all our problems. I’m just not holding my breath. After all, I’m Generation X and I grew up hearing about how the Baby Boomer generation set out to change the world with peace, love, and idealism. Unfortunately, I’m also aware that the legacy they are leaving the rest of us with is environmental catastrophe and a broken social security system.
So by all means bring on the new. Let’s have social networking, parallel processing, and community generated information. Let’s just not forget how to evaluate these things or suspend our judgement in the race to keep up.
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North Korea directs missiles towards Australia
A North Korean missile launch drill from 2009. Photo: AFP
NORTH KOREA'S forthcoming missile launch will be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia for the first time, the US has warned.
The warning was delivered in person yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, by a senior official in the Obama Administration, Kurt Campbell, during a visit to Sydney.
North Korea, which claimed to have successfully tested a nuclear weapon in 2009, has for years worked to improve its long-range ballistic missile capability. Previous missile tests have been launched east, over Japan. But US intelligence suggests the launch announced for mid-April will be aimed south for the first time.
"If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Dr Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, said yesterday.
"We have never seen this trajectory before. We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued."
After the meeting Mr Carr told the Herald: "The North Korean nuclear and long-range missile plans represent a real and credible threat to the security of the region and to Australia."
The launch would be "in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions."
Mr Carr said he and Dr Campbell had "shared views on how both the US and Australia could engage our regional partners and allies to encourage North Korea to abandon its plans".
The US President, Barack Obama, will be among some 50 leaders, including Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to meet in a summit in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Monday to discuss nuclear disarmament. North Korea's abrupt announcement last week of its missile test is expected to dominate discussion.
The announcement from Pyongyang startled observers because it came less than three weeks after it had sealed a new agreement with the US in return for food aid.
South Korea has called the move a "grave provocation". Its president, Lee Myung-bak, has said he will ask Mr Obama to revise an alliance agreement that limits his country to missiles with a 300-kilometre range.
Japan's Defence Minister, Naoki Tanaka, said yesterday Tokyo was prepared to shoot down the North Korean long-range rocket if it threatened the country.
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The general election just got a massive jump-start on sleepy Capitol Hill.
Speaker John Boehner opened a new — and increasingly harsh — line of attack against President Barack Obama, laying almost all of the nation’s woes squarely at the White House steps. He called on the Obama campaign to pay back what’s certain to be millions of dollars of taxpayer money for a swing through a number of swing states this week. He accused the White House of wanting to “control the Internet.” And he ripped the White House for not having an immigration plan.
At the same time, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of trying to gut women’s health programs in exchange for keeping student loan rates from doubling – even though Democrats agreed to dig in to that same fund for budgetary savings in the past.
It all played out in back-to-back news conferences in the Capitol, which is otherwise a dead zone these days when it comes to substantive legislating.
And while partisan attacks are the norm in this polarized Congress, the tone of the Boehner attacks — especially from a speaker who at times has been a willing negotiator with the president — mark an escalation in rhetoric. Boehner’s attack line is that Obama is a constant campaigner using Air Force One as his personal campaign jet.
“This is the biggest job in the world,” Boehner said. “And I’ve never seen the president make it smaller.”
There’s little downside for Boehner’s escalation. Unlike last year, when the White House needed the Republican House to keep the government open and prevent a debt default, there’s little “must do” legislation before the election. So the two sides can attack away without having to see each other in any serious negotiations for another six months.
All together, it shows campaign season has taken full grip of Capitol Hill — and no one is mincing words.
The line of attack was so sharp from Boehner, it prompted a question of whether the speaker was doing the bidding of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
“I’m doing my own,” Boehner shot back.
It’s not only in the House where the legislative debates are beginning to closely resemble fights on the campaign trail. In the Senate, Republicans are moving swiftly to take Democratic issues off the table.
On Thursday, for example, the GOP was poised to allow a bill to update the 1994 Violence Against Women Act to sail through the chamber despite concerns from conservatives over immigration and gay-rights provisions.
The election-year politicking in Congress is taking other forms. After Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently pushed an immigration bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sought to drive a wedge between the vice presidential prospect and Boehner, who said immigration reform would be a steep climb in an election year.
“Speaker Boehner’s comments show how far Sen. Rubio has to go in trying to gain Republican support for any proposal to help immigrant students,” Schumer said Thursday. “Sen. Rubio should be commended for trying to advance the conversation, but he is likely to find his party unwilling to abandon its hardline, anti-immigrant stance.”
Pelosi, meanwhile, sought to turn the student loan issue into an attack on women. She said Republicans are trying to “rob Peter to pay Paul.” She accused the Republicans of launching “another assault on women’s health.” Republicans, she said, are protecting oil companies, while Democrats are trying to prevent breast and cervical cancers. She attacked the Republican nomenclature for the prevention fund — they call it a “slush fund.”
“They consider it a slush fund to pay for women’s health,” Pelosi said. “We consider it an absolute necessity. That’s the difference here.”
The rapid-fire from Boehner came as Obama was wrapping up a three-state trip to various college campuses.
First, Boehner called on Obama’s campaign to pay back the federal treasury for his trip to North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa. The trip included stops on college campuses to hammer the GOP on rising student loan rates — Boehner called that “pathetic.” Boehner ad-libbed that word into his remarks, a reflection of his anger over the issue.
“This week the president traveled across the country on taxpayers’ dime, at a cost of $179,000 an hour, insisting that Congress fix a problem that we’re already working on,” he said. “Frankly, I think this is beneath the dignity of the White House.”
It was a “fake fight,” he said.
Asked about the administration’s threat to veto the cybersecurity bill on the House floor, Boehner accused Obama of wanting the government to “control the Internet.”
“They’re in a camp all by themselves,” Boehner said.
Even questions about Republican policy were met with critiques about Obama. Asked about Rubio’s immigration proposal, Boehner wondered where Obama’s plan was.
“Let me ask this question,” Boehner said. “The president of the U.S. runs around the country doing speeches — done a couple speeches over the last 15 months about immigration. As a matter of fact, over the last three years, he’s done a number of speeches about immigration. Where’s the president’s immigration plan? Where does the president stand on this issue? Instead of campaigning all the time, maybe he ought to come back to Washington and go to work.”
Manu Raju contributed to this report.
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The Opening Ceremonies at the Olympics every four years is something to behold. With more than a billion viewers expected across the globe, you can bet London will be putting on a show.
The Opening Ceremony, titled "The Isles of Wonder", is set Friday night in London. With the time change being anywhere from five to eight hours deepening on where you live in the United States, most of the action televised in primetime will be tape-delayed.
The ceremony will begin at 9 p.m. locally. That's 4 p.m. on the east coast, 1 p.m. on the west coast. NBC will begin airing everything at 7:30 p.m. EST/ 6:30 PST, so you'll have quite the wait if you're in Seattle or the surrounding areas. Check your local listings to ensure what time everything is set to begin in your area.
Seattle has many representatives at the 2012 Olympics, including Team USA soccer goalie Hope Solo, along with many more. Fans will remember basketball forward Kevin Durant spent time in Seattle before leaving for Oklahoma City.
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At present, regional and city offices have no official status in Belgium, which means that their staff do not enjoy the privileges and immunities of national representations.
What is the regional certificate?
The regional certificate was launched in 1991 on the initiative of the Brussels-Europe Liaison Office to provide regional representations with an official document they could use to establish their status in Brussels Region. The certificate helps these offices deal with municipal and regional administrations in Brussels. It is also a useful document in dealing with other organisations such as landlords, banks and telephone operators. In addition, it allows contracts to be signed on behalf of the representation rather than its director.
The Minister of External Relations of Brussels Region is responsible for issuing this certificate every year to official representations of cities, regions and other public bodies. The certificate recognises the office as the official representation of a government or public body. It is never issued to organisations of a commercial nature.
How to obtain the regional certifcate?
To obtain a certificate, the regional or city government simply has to send a written request to Mr Guy Vanhengel, Minister of the Budget, Finance and External Relations, Avenue des Arts 9, 1210 Brussels.
The application has to give details of the representation’s future office (address, phone number, fax, email address and website). It also has to give the name of the person who will be appointed as director. The application should also contain other documents, such as the statutes, mission statement, a copy of the legal document setting up the representation and, if possible, copies of relevant Parliamentary reports.
The Minister then passes the application to the Brussels-Europe Liaison Office for its approval. If the BELO approves the request, a certificate is prepared for the Minister to sign.
All bodies granted an official regional certificate are automatically added to the official list of regional and municipal representations. This is available as an Excel document and is published on this website (see: search engine).
- Read ‘The legal personality of regional representation offices’, a study by Professor Bart De Schutter, 2005.
- Contact Karin Impens, firstname.lastname@example.org, 02 234 57 41
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8 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical enrollment of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes: 2 of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush; 3 of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical list; 4 of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah and 200 males with him; 5 of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel and 300 males with him; 6 and of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan and 50 males with him; 7 and of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and 70 males with him; 8 and of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael and 80 males with him; 9 of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel and 218 males with him; 10 and of the sons of Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah and 160 males with him; 11 and of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai and 28 males with him; 12 and of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan and 110 males with him; 13 and of the sons of Adonikam, the last ones, these being their names, Eliphelet, Jeuel and Shemaiah, and 60 males with them; 14 and of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and [a]Zabbud, and 70 males with [b]them.
15 Now I assembled them at the river that runs to Ahava, where we camped for three days; and when I observed the people and the priests, I did not find any Levites there. 16 So I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah and Meshullam, [c]leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, teachers. 17 I sent them to Iddo the [d]leading man at the place Casiphia; and I [e]told them what to say to [f]Iddo and his brothers, the temple servants at the place Casiphia, that is, to bring ministers to us for the house of our God. 18 According to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men; 19 and Hashabiah and [g]Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men; 20 and 220 of the temple servants, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, all of them designated by name.
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a [h]safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions. 22 For I was ashamed to request from the king troops and horsemen to [i]protect us from the enemy on the way, because we had said to the king, “The hand of our God is [j]favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who forsake Him.” 23 So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He [k]listened to our entreaty.
24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brothers; 25 and I weighed out to them the silver, the gold and the utensils, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes and all Israel present there had offered. 26 Thus I weighed into their hands 650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth 100 talents, and 100 gold talents, 27 and 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold. 28 Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers. 29 Watch and keep them until you weigh them before the leading priests, the Levites and the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.” 30 So the priests and the Levites accepted the weighed out silver and gold and the utensils, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
31 Then we journeyed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was over us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the way. 32 Thus we came to Jerusalem and remained there three days.
33 On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed out in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui. 34 Everything was numbered and weighed, and all the weight was recorded at that time.
35 The exiles who had come from the captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, 12 male goats for a sin offering, all as a burnt offering to the Lord. 36 Then they delivered the king’s edicts to the king’s satraps and to the governors in the provinces beyond the [l]River, and they supported the people and the house of God.
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The Egyptian coup
16 June 2012
The military coup carried out by the ruling military junta before the run-off of the Egyptian presidential election is a serious threat to the Egyptian revolution and to the working class.
It has exposed the “democratic transition” promoted by the junta as a fraud. With the support of its imperialist allies in the US and Europe, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has eliminated all the institutions it initially created to give the illusion of a transition to democracy.
After the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) found the parliamentary electoral law unconstitutional on Thursday, SCAF dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament. The junta tightened security in Cairo, and police and military forces took over the parliament on Friday, barring MPs from entering the building.
The junta also announced it would dissolve the constituent assembly elected by the parliament on Tuesday. It plans to issue a constitutional declaration, unilaterally determining the composition of the new assembly and outlining the powers of the new president.
Under these conditions, the run-off between Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under Mubarak, and Mohammed Mursi, the candidate of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, is a travesty. The army clearly intends to control whatever powers the president will have. Either candidate, if elected, would be a SCAF figurehead, tasked with defending the political and economic interests of the military and suppressing any movement of the working class.
The SCAF junta is openly asserting its full control of Egyptian political life. It is seizing the legislative and budgetary powers it handed over to the Islamist-dominated parliament in January and taking over the drafting the constitution. Only one day before the coup, the junta issued a decree allowing the police, the military and state intelligence forces to arrest civilians.
These measures show that the “democratic transition” was a ruse to hide the army’s dominant role in defending the social privileges of the ruling elite—first and foremost, Egypt’s generals. The goal from the day of dictator Hosni Mubarak’s resignation was to defend Egyptian capitalism and imperialist rule in the Middle East against the threat posed by the most powerful revolutionary movement of the working class in decades.
With the coup, the generals are trying to create an atmosphere of unchallenged military authority and avoid a repetition of the situation in the early weeks of the revolution, when they felt they could not rely on the soldiers to obey orders to crush mass protests of the working class.
The main target of the coup is not the official political opposition—neither the Islamists, who dominated the dissolved parliament, nor the liberal and petty-bourgeois “left” groups—but the main force behind the Egyptian revolution: the proletariat.
The generals will deal ruthlessly with renewed strikes and protests by the working class. The coup sets the stage for a confrontation between the junta and the working class, which can defend itself only on the basis of a struggle to overthrow the junta and the capitalist class whose interests it serves.
The pseudo-left forces like the Socialist Popular Alliance (SPA), the Egyptian Socialist Party, the Communist Party of Egypt, and the Revolutionary Socialists (RS) stand exposed as tools of US imperialism and the junta. They insisted that workers could fight for the basic demands of the revolution within the framework of the institutions created by the junta. They opposed the development of a revolutionary struggle by the working class to overthrow the junta and fight for socialism.
After SCAF took power, they claimed, in the words of RS member Mustafa Omar, that Mubarak’s generals would “reform the political and economic system, allowing it to become more democratic and less oppressive.” When the working class moved against SCAF and raised the popular demand for a “second revolution,” they opposed it.
Most of the pseudo-left parties signed the so-called “pledge document” presented to the presidential candidates, which swore allegiance to the 1971 Egyptian constitution and explicitly endorsed the army’s role in the country’s political life. These parties gave their imprimatur to the underpinnings of the junta’s rule only days before the coup.
To fight the counterrevolution, the working class must take the road of mass political struggle against the Egyptian capitalist state, in opposition to all attempts to conciliate with the coup plotters in the Egyptian army staff and their imperialist advisors. This entails a determined political struggle for Marxism to shatter the influence of the pseudo-left apologists for the junta’s “democratic transition.”
The military coup poses most clearly the question of state power. None of the demands that impelled the Egyptian working class onto the road of revolution in January last year—for political freedom, social equality, and an end to poverty―can be satisfied without smashing the power of the junta and replacing it with a state power controlled by the working class itself.
Events have vindicated the perspective of Permanent Revolution fought for by the Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International, which insists that basic democratic rights can be secured only through socialist revolution and the establishment of workers’ power, as part of the fight for the United Socialist States of the Middle East. These events have underscored that the central issue confronting the Egyptian working class is the building of a new, revolutionary leadership based on this perspective, i.e., an Egyptian section of the ICFI.
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Hillary Clinton's Unsurprising Popularity
Yet another poll finds that Hillary Clinton is the most popular political figure in the country. The latest survey from Quinnipiac University finds her with 61 percent favorability rating, with only 34 percent who see her negatively. By contrast, President Obama’s favorability is at 51 percent, Joe Biden’s is at 46 percent, and John Boehner’s is at 20 percent.
Of course, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Prior to joining the administration as Secretary of State, Clinton was a popular runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination. She won support from millions of voters, and earned the respect of millions more. For the last four years, she’s been America’s representative to the world—a statesperson, removed from the sturm und drang of partisan politics.
If Clinton decides to run for president, all of this changes. She’ll cease to be “Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State” and instead will revert to “Hillary Clinton: Democrat.” Republicans will remember that they dislike her as much—if not more—than her husband, and her popularity will return to normal heights.
Indeed, it’s all of this that makes me skeptical she’ll run for the White House. If Clinton decides to retire from public life, she will have gone out on top—a successful Secretary of State in a successful presidential administration. If she runs, she risks tarnishing that legacy. And if she loses, she’ll have nothing to show for it besides a lot of stress and a lot of debt.
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A tree-mendous way to mark the Diamond Jubilee
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help plant almost 20,000 trees in North East Lincolnshire to mark last year's historic Diamond Jubilee.
Over the coming months, three sites in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Immingham will begin their transformation into woodlands as part of the Woodland Trust's countrywide Jubilee Woods project.
A number of community tree- planting days will encourage residents to play their part in creating more than 25 hectares of new woodland in the borough.
The events will take place on Saturdays from 11am to 1pm at:
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The Saltings, in Westward Ho, Grimsby, on January 19 and January, 26.
Coomb Briggs, in Habrough Road, Immingham, on February 2 and February 9.
Cleethorpes Country Park on February 16 and February 23.
In total, five areas of woodland are being created in the area.
A patch in Spring Street, Immingham, has been partially planted following a number of community tree-planting days and school planting events.
The final woodland to be planted will be Freshney Park, Grimsby.
Councillor Mick Burnett, portfolio holder for tourism and culture and deputy leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, said: "Everyone is welcome to be an amateur gardener for the day and take part in creating an area of woodland that will be a lasting tribute to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
"Planting the saplings may be a muddy job but extremely rewarding. Volunteers will be able to watch these woodlands mature over the years.
"We are looking forward to seeing everyone there; families are welcome as are community groups. You don't need to register your interest, just turn up. I guarantee each of these community events will be a fun day and a memorable one."
Children should be accompanied by a responsible adult. Volunteers will need to wear suitable footwear and warm, waterproof clothing. Volunteers are asked to bring a spade if they have one.
For further information about the Woodland's Trust's project, visit jubileewoods.org.uk
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During a recent Republican presidential debate, the conservative audience cheered the fact that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has presided over 234 executions, the “vast majority” of which he assured involved guilty offenders. Meanwhile, conservatives are up in arms that the federal government, through a loan initiated by the Bush Administration, backed Solyndra, a clean energy company that just filed for bankruptcy.
On the one hand, conservatives are attacking the role of government in stimulating jobs and new industry. On the other hand, conservatives are praising the role of government in executing its citizens. WTF?
Yes, people, government can make mistakes. I’m a liberal and even I can admit that. But let’s compare…
In 2009, the Department of Energy made a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra. In 2010, analysts suggested Solyndra might be losing its competitive edge in the market, but subsequently the company still raised an additional $175 million from private investors. Incidentally, Solyndra’s backers include George Kaiser, a donor and bundler for Obama, but also the Walton family behind Wal-Mart, big-time Republican donors. Solyndra’s CEO is a Republican as well.
The Solyndra investment is 1.3% of the $38 billion to be disbursed through this particular loan program, which in turn is only a fraction of government stimulus investments. Moreover, when the dust settles, the federal government will recoup at least a portion of its investment. About 1,100 Solyndra workers lost their jobs.
Still, the DOE loan program has created or saved over 65,000 American jobs. The government will get some of our money back after the claims of employees and certain investors are settled. Is it possible that, in the case of this one loan, the Obama Administration rushed to judgment for the sake of a photo op? Sure, it’s possible. But what’s certain is that China’s government invests 30 times more funding in new energy technology and jobs than we do — which is why Solyndra couldn’t compete. The path to a robust 21st century American economy isn’t exactly laid out on a stone tablet somewhere. In trying to get there, the public sector and private sector will both make mistakes. Using the misstep of Solyndra as an excuse to cut all government investment in the green jobs of the future will not only kill the jobs that have been created but will kill the chance of American competitiveness going forward.
Conservatives, however, seem quite comfortable killing things — whether jobs or people.
According to the Innocence Project, an organization that uses new DNA technology to re-examine the cases of death row inmates:
Seventeen people have been proven innocent and exonerated by DNA testing in the United States after serving time on death row. They were convicted in 11 states and served a combined 209 years in prison – including 187 years on death row – for crimes they didn’t commit.
In 2004, Texas — under Governor Rick Perry — executed Cameron Todd Willingham who was accused of setting a fire that killed his three children. Willingham consistently plead his innocence and independent analysts agree there were extraordinary flaws in the evidence used to convict him. After Willingham was executed, a state forensics commission on the verge of examining the case and surfacing evidence of Willingham’s innocence was gutted by Gov. Perry and replaced by partisan cronies.
Compelling evidence now suggests that the state of Texas wrongly executed a grieving father. Do we put a price on that mistake? Is Cameron Todd Willingham worth more or less than $535 million? Maybe Willingham counts a bit more because he’s white while many conservatives accept the fact that the government executes innocent people believing most of them are black and must have done something wrong. Here I could point out that most death row inmates are, in fact, white — or I could point out that it really shouldn’t matter.
Of course this is a racialized debate. We have a black president who finalized a loan to support green jobs, a concept pioneered by underemployed communities of color and famously championed by Obama’s black green jobs czar Van Jones. Last night, a popular conservative provocateur on Twitter unfortunately had his home broken into. He tweeted:
This is a more explicit version of implicit conservative logic that “rationalizes” attacking government investment while endorsing state-sponsored execution: If government is wasteful and black people are dangerous, than black people running government is dangerously wasteful — but government wasting black people is A-OK.
Just once, I’d like conservatives to be skeptical of government abuse of power where it really matters — not just dollars and political scandals but the loss of innocent human life.
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United Parcel Service expects its holiday shipments to jump by 9.8 percent this year.
The company says the jump in shipments is partly due to an increase in online shopping. UPS is the primary delivery company for many online retailers, most notably Amazon.com.
Research firm eMarketer is forecasting a 16.8 percent increase in online shopping this holiday season. UPS rival FedEx last week projected that it will handle 13 percent more shipments this holiday season.
By comparison, the National Retail Federation is expecting only a 4.1 percent increase in holiday shopping this year, while Wells Fargo said Monday that it is expecting only a 3.8 percent rise.
UPS said it will hire 55,000 seasonal workers in the United States to handle the increased shipments, about the same number it hired last year. It has about 324,000 permanent U.S. employees as of September.
It expects its peak shipping day will be Thursday, Dec. 20, when it plans to handle 28 million packages, nearly twice its normal daily volume.
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Pink Sandwich Platter
The large sandwich platter had been resting under several dishes for a long time. Inside the cupboard it seemed to be waiting for someone, anyone, to reach in and lovingly lift it from its place of hiding. Why hadn’t anyone noticed it before? The pale pink glass glittered in the bright light of the dining room chandelier and the edges, like inverted diamonds, begged to be touched. The back of the depression era piece was a cutwork of crisscrossed lines that ended in the center starburst. This holiday the platter would be used and admired and afterwards not be hidden away and forgotten.
January 3, 2012
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Kenya: The Prime Minister has committed Britain to a struggle against the ‘existential threat’ of terrorism in Africa that he says will take ‘years, even decades’ of patience, intelligence and toughness. Well, there’s some truth in what he says, but not in the implication that this is a new threat to Africa — nor that our response should be a military one.
In a way this same struggle was happening when the young Winston Churchill was covering Kitchener’s war against fanatical Muslim, Mahdist forces in the Sudan in 1898. ‘Year after year, we see the figures of the odd and bizarre potentates… It is like a pantomime scene at Drury Lane,’ wrote the young Winston in his memoir of the battle for Omdurman. ‘For a space their names are on the wires of the world and the tongues of men… And then the audience clap their hands, amused yet impatient, and the potentates and their trains pass on, some to exile, some to prison, some to death…’ The Victorians had the Mad Mullah and the Khalifa. Today we have Mokhtar Belmokhtar the ‘One-Eyed’, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab.
As for Osama bin Laden, I first heard his name in 1992. I was a Reuters correspondent in Mogadishu when a US Army Humvee was blown to bits, killing three American military police and their Somali interpreter. Later, at a briefing with an intelligence officer, there was, for the first time, talk of bin Laden.
At that time, bin Laden’s designs were on Africa. He had just been invited to take sanctuary in Sudan from where he planned al-Qa’eda’s opening attacks against the Americans in Somalia. Luckily for him, having promised to fix the spectacularly failed state of Somalia, the Americans then abandoned it after the bloody Black Hawk Down battle. So al-Qa’eda moved in and organised the August 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
‘The West claims to love democracy but not in Islamic countries,’ Al-Shabaab military commander Abu Mansoor once told me over a cup of tea. ‘Look at Algeria.’ Indeed, in 1991 the pro-French government annulled the country’s first democratic election because an Islamist party won. In response, Algerian Salafists who were veteran volunteers in the CIA-funded, anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan launched an ultra-violent insurgency. Across Africa in the 1990s, other ‘Afghan’ veterans came home to exploit environments where states weakened or failed in the aftermath of the Cold War. All you need to start a war, an African rebel leader told a friend of mine, is $10,000 and a satellite phone. ‘You use the dollars to recruit enough fighters to raid the local police stations for their guns. The phone you use to call the world’s press after the attack.’
The consequence of this? I’ve met jihadis on the slopes of the snowy Rwenzoris, the Mountains of the Moon. I’ve met militants in Stone Town, Zanzibar. They’re in Kenya and the Comores, from the Cape to Cairo.
In Somalia, Islamists gained in popularity as a reaction to the ravages of the warlords — and they did an excellent job of restoring law and order until a US-backed Ethiopian invasion spawned the Al-Shabaab insurgency that international forces are still fighting six years later. In Nigeria, Boko Haram — which means ‘Western education is forbidden’ — gained traction because kleptomaniacs rule Africa’s most populous country. Similar groups have emerged elsewhere across states joined by the Sahara, in Algeria, in Mauritania, where there are more coups than any other country, or in Mali, where military strongmen have made a mess of things. We laughed at these groups for a time — at Boko Haram’s belief that the earth is flat, or their rejection of Darwinism — like half of America. We laughed at Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab — the ‘Underwear Bomber’ who lit up his testicles but failed to blow up a transatlantic flight.
But the extremists in Africa have grown in power and militant leaders are now tapping into a vast underclass that is entirely excluded from Africa’s much trumpeted economic boom. Under these more sophisticated leaders like Mokhtar Belmokhtar, groups such as AQIM, MUJAO, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab have morphed from local brigands into more ambitious, anti-western ideologies. And ironically, militants of all shades have adopted an off-the-peg argument against capitalism that was first generated by the western left.
This argument holds that western investors are ‘land-grabbing’ and out to exploit Africans. There are many who loathe the idea of Africa being the Next Big Thing in the world’s economic growth. Extreme Islamists want to rule over a medieval, atavistic Africa. This is a terrifying prospect, given that by 2050 one in four humans on the planet will be African. In just less than two decades, Africa’s workforce will be bigger than China’s — so what if there are no jobs?
The good news is that Africans themselves don’t want to stay stuck in the past. They want cell phones, highways and washing machines. China is so successful in Africa because it gives Africans what they want, and it’s time we did too. So, instead of thinking in terms of aid — military or financial — David Cameron should be encouraging our companies to invest. Africa needs, more than anything, our geologists, bankers and financiers ready for deployment in the remotest corners of the Sahara.
The ‘patient, intelligent and tough approach’ should be, not to ramp up fears of terrorism, but to push British investment in Africa, while protecting those brave enough to lead it. Our soldiers train African peacekeepers — and deploy special forces to places like Libya — but as we’ve seen almost everywhere, military operations alienate moderates, and in the Sahara they could drive a wedge between ‘Christian’ black Africa and the Muslim north. Our embassies across Africa are stuffed to the gunwhales with SIS officers monitoring Islamist threats from Zanzibar to Abuja — protecting UK interests — but what are they doing to expose corrupt leaders? And, despite criticism, huge DFID budgets still rain down on the continent, doing a great deal to promote human rights without assisting the establishment of judiciaries, policing and the rule of law, without which no development can progress.
To its credit, long before last week’s Algeria nightmare, Cameron’s government was the first to properly address the threat of Islamic terrorism. Whereas previous governments have steadfastly ignored the festering sore of Somalia since the country imploded in 1991, the coalition last year threw its support behind the first legitimate government to be appointed in more than two decades.
But at the forefront of British policy should be business — not rapacious plunder, but decent wealth creation. Africans want fast-food outlets, cinema outings and iPods. The day Kentucky Fried Chicken sets up in Timbuktu and Mogadishu will mark a decisive victory against Mokhtar Belmokhtar the One-Eyed.
This article first appeared in the print edition of The Spectator magazine, dated 26 January 2013
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Europe bans Iranian oil imports in push to curtail nuclear program
Europe banned the import of Iranian oil on Monday and froze Europe-based assets of the Central Bank of Iran, intensifying an international campaign to choke Iran’s economy and force the radical Islamic government to dispel fears that it is working to develop nuclear weapons.
The ban, decided by foreign ministers of the 27-nation European Union, is a dramatic escalation of sanctions against Iran, joining with the United States to squeeze the oil earnings and financial transactions that the Tehran government depends on to sustain its citizens and finance its military. The British foreign secretary, William Hague, called the E.U. effort “unprecedented” and said it shows the resolve of European governments to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
But the decision also includes broad loopholes — including a six-month delay before it goes into effect — that soften its immediate practical impact. Existing contracts for Iranian oil can be respected until July 1, an announcement said, and the ban will come under review before May 1 to see if more flexibility is needed.
Countries such as Greece and Italy, suffering under crippling debt burdens, are likely to get more time before they have to break their financial ties to Iran, European diplomats said on condition of anonymity. Greece has been buying oil from Iran on credit and earns desperately needed money by refining crude for Balkan neighbors, they said. Italy has arranged for Iranian oil in payment for loans granted by Rome in the past.
Nevertheless, powerful figures in Iran immediately threatened retaliation, according to news agency reports from Tehran. Their defiance, including calls to close the Strait of Hormuz, underlined the high stakes in the West’s confrontation with the Islamic government.
Ali Fallahian, a member of the country’s influential Assembly of Experts and a former intelligence minister, told the semiofficial Fars News Agency that Iran should cut off sales to European nations immediately and, if the crisis grows, constrain maritime traffic through the strait. The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow exit from the Persian Gulf through which one-fifth of the world’s oil exports pass.
Similarly, Mohammed Kossari, deputy chief of the parliament’s foreign affairs and national security committee, said: “If any disruption occurs regarding sale of Iranian oil, the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be closed.”
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No connection from the pins to the case. I may be able to borrow mega ohm meter from someone at work today.
Help with my Soda Machine Fridgeration
Posted 05 December 2012 - 09:13 AM
Using GFCI's with refrigerated appliances is a Bozo No-No-- all the manufacturers say that right in the Use and Care Guide:
You don't have to pay big bucks for a megger and they are a very handy instrument to have in your arsenal. Here's the megger I use ==> http://amzn.to/R8LDGd
And here's an example of how to use it:
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Posted 06 December 2012 - 05:01 PM
Ok. Well I hooked it up to a regular wall outlet and both fans kicked right on!
Now I have to figure out if it is getting cold ie and to charge it with freon.
my father inlaw has the line for charging but I think I need to know what type of freon to put in.
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP!!
Trying to find what else I can fix so I can keep posting.
- Samurai Appliance Repair Man likes this
Posted 06 December 2012 - 06:21 PM
I think i misunderstood you post from the start
i thought your problem was just the wiring , but it looks like it's much more than that
you have fans running , but you say nothing about the compressor running , nor do you know if the compressor is even pumping
selecting a conversion freon to convert from the r12 the system came with to a replacement is a job for refrigeration repair person , who work with the replacement and knows the pitfalls and problems that will come when using the replacement
charging a system is not a simple thing . it's not a job that can be reduced to a few words on a blog site
here are just a few things that need to be done
1: the filter dryer must be changed if the system it empty
2: the system is pressureized to test pressure with nitrogen
3: system is leak tested
4: a vacuum is pulled to 30 microns
5: a freon is chosen
6: system is charged part way and pumping action and freon flow is watched to be sure flow pressures are in line with the amount of freon added
7: system is topped off , frost pattern is checked and ampture draw on compressor is checked
this is a job for your local refrigeration contractor , or a really good appliance repairman ( not all of them will do this work )
the pitfalls and problems with this type of repair are more than you can count , don't go it alone , hire someone .
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7-10. Then my lady stepped up (?) to the word of An, Ninsumun made a fateful decision with her spouse, holy Lugalbanda; she attended to his supplication. She went straight to holy An in the Ubšu-unkena:
11-14. "My father, An, you are the king among the gods! I have looked through the land in all its extent and among its black-headed people who are as numerous as ewes, and I have elevated Šulgi for me high above their head. May he be their trustworthy shepherd!"
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1-10. (An is speaking:) "Its roots sank deep into the earth. I will stand by you in that holy matter. May he who is worthy of being praised with good words, Šulgi, the king of a propitious reign, perform the rites established for the kingship perfectly for you, the goddess, at the great and lofty wall-tower of Urim! May he execute properly for you the statutes of the gods! May he always offer you food at the time of the new moon and at the new year! May you yourself bring me his prayers daily! My tree is indeed abundance, sprouting from the earth like green plants!"
11-16. Then, rejoicing over the words of An, my lady Ninsumun took Šulgi the king of Urim by his right hand, led him joyfully into her Egal-maḫ and seated him upon the exalted dais erected by An. She treated him tenderly with her holy bosom, saying:
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March 23, 2012
You’re about to begin a Kickstarter campaign. Well here’s a few tips, some things I’ve learnt, a few things to avoid, that could make the difference between success and failure.
1. Press “Go” without involving everyone
Do not press the “Go” button when your partner is doing dishes in the other room! No, that would be bad. May I even be so bold as to suggest pressing the button in style, maybe with a little champagne? Everyone involved in the project should be gathered around the computer, glasses in hand and some kind words said, maybe even directly to the person who created the project. Because maybe if she finds out her campaign was launched when she sits down at her desk and gets the congratulations email from Kickstarter, after she does the dishes, she might become what we call in our family “un-rope-able”. This early button pushing behaviour might also to lead to domestic disharmony that might last for days and a couch might be involved too, but I don’t know, this article is purely hypothetical… just remember rule number one… be inclusive. Please.
2. Start the campaign without a plan
Pressing the button is just the beginning, before you even press the “Go” button, you should have identified some evangelists to help spread the word. This saves you the embarrassment and humiliation of appearing like a non-stop billboard for a month and having people avoid you in the supermarket, from fear you might mention your project – yet another time. (Arithmetic Village, Arithmetic Village, Arithmetic Village…)
3. Assume a Kickstarter campaign will get you out of Jury duty
This one is important. The judicial system has not discovered Kickstarter or crowdfunding, they think it is something that involves jumper cables. If you do, by some lucky chance, get chosen to serve on a jury, there is no internet in the courthouse, so you might have to sneak off to a cafe to squeeze in five or ten minutes on Facebook. The worst thing is this: You also might actually get so involved with the criminal case that may or may not involve robbers who accidentally stab themselves while climbing into the getaway car with all of their loot (no kidding), that you may even forget entirely about your project and decide to be a detective instead.
4. Move house in the middle of the campaign (this might be obvious)
Moving takes time and energy, and running a successful campaign usually involves actually knowing where your computer is and having consistent internet service.
5. Have children
They are cute and all, and when they grow up they might even make you a cup of tea, or take you to a nice brunch. But when they are under the age of 18, they have teacher conferences, fundraisers, potlucks, plays, and like to eat three times a day, every day. They don’t drive until they are around 17 but have lots of places to go like school, ballet and gymnastics, swimming, etc. Definitely do not have three children in your home while running a kickstarter campaign, send them to their grandmothers for the month, that’s what grandparents are for.
If this free advice is helpful, please donate a dollar or two to my campaign - there’s still hope yet!
March 23rd – I’m halfway through the campaign and I can’t wait to get started, after I pack up a few more boxes…
BTW If you have some do’s and dont’s, things you learnt about how to run a great campaign, please leave a comment, as a gift to the next people looking for some wisdom.
January 27, 2012
Debbie was not a warm and fuzzy teacher.
She didn’t smile, but she didn’t frown.
She focused on the children, was firm, kind and direct.
I never saw anything like it.
One three-year old was having a fit. This child didn’t want to put on her shoes to go outside and it was a rule.
She wiggled on the ground squirming this way and that, she screamed loudly and pounded her fists.
Debbie ignored her. When she did stop, the teacher asked calmly, “Are you done?”
The child stared at her blankly.
“I’m here if you want help with your shoes… or are you going to do that kicking thing a bit more? Now that was interesting.”
The child stared at her, then said, “But I don’t want to put my shoes on!”
Debbie replies, “Oh, so you have a problem. I wonder how you are going to solve it.”
Sometimes I hear Debbie whispering into my ear, “It looks like you have a problem, Kim, I wonder how you are going to solve it…”. Then I stop kicking, regroup and figure out what I’m going to do.
I think she taught me more than my daughter.
February 2, 2011
“Are you a Christian?” There, I’ve been asked. It’s not really a casual question, is it? It’s not like, “Do you like chocolate, yes or no?” or “Do you want to go to the park today?” or “Aren’t you that girl from my French class?” It’s a loaded question, a “Does my bottom look big in this?” question. It’s a personal question, a “What color underwear are you wearing?” question.
It’s asking for a definition. Are you in the club or out of the club? I’ve lived long enough to know the ramifications of answering such a question.
I also know that answering “I believe that religion is a personal matter” might lead to inaccurate speculation, assumptions and judgments.
Answering this question is also an exercise in diplomacy and courage, as my main market for Arithmetic Village is American Home schoolers whom happen to be predominately Christian.
Let me begin by answering the question in terms of my business, since that was the context of the question:
Arithmetic Village is a simple math program created for all children of all religions and all cultural backgrounds so they may be gently introduced to math concepts. The characters represent their respective math functions. The Village is also intentionally positive. There are only kind words and respectful interactions. It has been suggested that I create conflict or more of a story in each books but many wonderful children’s books lack conflict or plots ..ie Goodnight Moon. The values represented in these books are not religiously based athough many reigions share similar vaues of love and kindness. If you find similarities with your religion or philosophical viewpoints, that is a bonus, I want to include everyone.
I hold transparency in higher regard than privacy, and because of this, I will attempt to answer THE question…
January 22, 2011
I’ve become one of “those” moms. You know, the ones who can’t wait for their child to go off to school or childcare. I was NEVER one of those moms. I was the Queen of attachment parenting. I nursed longer than I care to share via the internet. Although I spent a decade working in Child Care Centers, my children have never seen the inside of one. I hand make Halloween costumes and birthday cakes and crowns and invitations.
This is how I have defined who I am.
I feel the changes. Time and place have made me less judgmental, more easygoing.
My life has changed. I have a very, very busy four-year old. People tell us that maybe we should feed her some junk food and sit her in front of a TV for a while. She bothers her older sister who has constant sleep overs (at thirteen) so I try to keep them separated and busy and happy. Twenty-four seven. I don’t live near family. I don’t have a babysitter. (Her 15 year old sister is on an adventure.) I am closer to 50 years than 40 years old, but just barely. I am passionate about my new business that I have no time for in between pleasing everyone.
October 14, 2010
Your hallway will become a fortress.
There will be glitter in the carpet and in her hair. Sand will now be fairy dust.
Any reason will be a reason to paint. And to use real scissors.
Sometimes she will “disappear”, only to be replaced by a kitty, who will meow for days.
And there will be lots of stories, long stories. With a very, very long beginning and never a middle or an end. And they will be captivating.
She will change her clothes four times a day. At least.
Her name may change and so will her imaginary friends’.
Luckily for me, I’ve raised two other four-year old girls. I know that eventually, the glitter disappears, the hallway clears and the stickers stay on paper.
So, treasure the four-year old moments.
October 12, 2010
This person here, makes my life far easier than I care to admit. She is amazingly conscientious and helpful. She offers to take bags, and open doors. She is fiercely independent and rarely needs help, but always offers it. When she was very little, I used to tell her to relax. I would remind her that she had a responsible mother. That she could actually BE four years old. I had it covered.
I don’t think she ever believed me. She’s always wanted to be bigger than she was at that moment. She embraces what is ahead. When her half birthday rolls around, she seizes the opportunity to introduce herself as almost the next age. So, now she is “almost 16″. ”How old are you?” “Almost 16.” “So you are 15.” “NO, almost 16.” she’ll say with a smile.
I had a birthday last week. An old friend from high school sent me a note on Facebook and reminded me about a John Cougar Melencamp song that use to make me cry, Jack and Diane…”Hold on to 16 as long as you can, change will come around soon and make us women and men.”. Oh how I feared getting older. Oh how I feared what might await me.
I cried on my 17th birthday. I thought I was old. I thought everything would be downhill from 16. I then cried on my 18th for the same reason. 19 too. Somewhere along the line, I came around. On my 40th birthday (five years ago), the tears I cried watching the sun come up on a beach that morning were of pure gratitude and anticipation. And such a surprise! No one sings about sweet 45. No movies are made about how great it is to age. I think it’s a shame, I am far happier at 45 than 15,25 or 35.
I was thinking about this, about why our society idolizes youth, and middle age is drudgery, and all I could think of is this… that people aren’t doing what they are supposed to be doing. They might have jobs they don’t like or stopped being creative. They have bought into the idea of doing “what they are supposed to do” verses “what makes their heart sing”.
So, what do I tell my daughters? Be your best self at any age. And the older you are, the more power you have over your own circumstances! It is you who co-creates your reality, that you alone are charge of how you feel and react in a given moment. And it is wonderful! I might tell this to my 12-year-old and my 4-year-old, but the truth is I don’t need to tell this almost 16-year-old, she was born far more fearless than I.
October 8, 2010
I think I need to repeat that… I’VE JUST DECLINED AN OFFER FROM A PUBLISHER! Wasn’t that the goal? Wasn’t that the whole entire reason I started this blog from the beginning? Didn’t I spend years trying to get a publisher, before deciding to self publish? What am I thinking!?
Some information that you might need to know…
- The publisher is South Korean.
- The books would need to be translated. (Rhyme is one of the main components in Arithmetic Village- Using a right brain activity for a left brain function and I’m not sure this could be recreated with the translation.)
- The transaction would be handled by my amazing South Korean illustrator and the contract would not be in English.(I would have no way to know what I was selling and what the terms were, except through the illustrator and unless I had it translatedand brought to a lawyer.) Read the rest of this entry »
October 4, 2010
I got in the car and wondered where I was going. Funny really, because I was the driver. My car drove to the bay where this picture was taken 7 years prior. Seven years. How this girl has changed. How her mother has changed. In seven years, every cell in our bodies has regenerated. Every bit of my physical being is different.
I sat on the rocks an listened to the gentle waves glide in and out like breathe. Years ago, this is where I spent my days. Memories of the afternoons with two young children flooded back. Hours, just being, just climbing, just exploring. The tide pools seem unchanged, the girls and their mother are not.
I looked up and could see my former home. My former self. When I was a married woman, with two children, two cars, a mortgage, life insurance, a parent volunteer and a Sunday school teacher. I was the epitome of society. I was a success, I had a Tupperware party, I had a book club, I was normal. We almost managed to fool the world, two perfect blonde girls, best friend banter. We almost managed to fool ourselves. If we could have kept the realities of our marriage a secret until death, the facade would still stand. But that is a book, not a blog.
This day I noticed this tranquil bay is directly in-between my old home and my next home. Meandering paths leading to opposite directions from the place I sat. A transition. This beach was my catalyst to my next home, my next life. The path led away and up to a small home on a magnificent cliff. My simple little dolls house for girls only. We had front row seats to the most colorful sunrises and sunsets. We would dance. It felt sacrilegious to ignore the beauty. We were in its spotlight. A place so magical, if I ran off the cliff, I could surely fly.
It was there in that magical place that I gave birth to another child. A place where I told her father that I loved him and myself too much to marry. A place where I decided that honesty was more important than image.
I found myself at this bay, a different person physically, spiritually and circumstantially. I feel blessed and grateful for the turns in my life, for my children, for my travels, for my journey. I wonder what’s next. I look forward to my next incarnation. But in the meantime, I sat in the sun, a gentle breeze through my hair, birds and waves, and honored this place and how it served me.
September 30, 2010
I threw a bit of a pity party yesterday and I was the only guest.
I tried to stop it, I did. I even played this video from my friend Natalie Merchant. Well, not really my friend, but at a concert we made eye contact and she asked me if I had a request. I wanted to suggest “My Beloved Wife” or “Seven Years” or some equally less known recording that I love. I imagined that she would be so impressed of my knowledge of her music and invite me to a party after the concert . As I was daydreaming, she was waiting for my answer, so I blurted out “These are the Days” which was a popular song, but all I could remember, especially since it was my first dance song at my wedding.. So where were we?
Oh yes. I was pretty succesful at feeling sorry for myself. My list of complaints was long. I realized I was being ungracious, I tried to be bigger than myself, it just wasn’t fitting.Then, I thought of another longtime friend whom I’ve never met, Oprah Winfrey. Years ago, when I allowed myself the occasional tv show, Oprah was talking about gratitude. She said that one day, she was feeling sorry for herself and called her friend, Maya Angelou for some comfort. Do you want to know what Maya told her? Call me back after you’ve said thank you 100 times. She told Oprah to go into the bathroom, look in the mirror and tell herself 100 things for which to be grateful. So I pretended that Maya gave me that advise. (Because you know she would be one of my bff’s too if she only knew me).
I didn’t really go into the bathroom and talk to myself, or start writing a list, because I’m not literal like that, but I did start thinking about all of my blessings. They are many. And in the end, it worked. (Maya Angelou is a genius.)
I picked myself up, washed the dishes and my face, drove off the ferry where I got the best parking space ever, grabbed myself a glass of champagne on the boat and met my gorgeous daughters in the city to see a contemporary ballet. Very blessed indeed.
Thank you. Thank you.
September 24, 2010
Sunshine, rain, wind, puddles, talkative friends, fabulous food, overflowing buckets of foliage and flowers, spring fairy, bells on wands and a little baby lamb. What better way could you welcome the spring?
Here is a picture of my little Zuva (bunny) with her friends. Zuva is on the right – I love that little four-year-old face.
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Posts Tagged ‘sacrifices’
Somebody you don’t know, but you should – Part 2 – Marion Hollins was an incredible athlete and visionary. I would call her the Brian Jones of sports. (Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones played any and every instrument he ever picked up proficiently) Marion was a master golfer who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in 1921.
Marion was considered the finest equestrian person of her day. She also was an accomplished tennis player, marksman, swimmer and even a car racer. No matter what sport she played she instantly became a dominating force. What makes this more impressive is that she attained such greatness in the male dominated world of the 1920’s.
I think most of us are familiar with the cypress tree at Cypress Point on the Monterey Peninsula in California. This is the home of the well-known Pebble Beach Golf Course. The World Golf Hall of Fame architect, Alister MacKenzie designed the course. But what is not commonly said is that Marion Hollins worked side by side with Alister to assist with design and approve Pebble Beach, Augusta and Pasatiempo. What is amazing is that Marion Hollin’s name is not mentioned.
What’s even more amazing is at the time, Augusta’s Chairman, Clifford Roberts made it known to MacKenzie that Ms. Hollins was not welcome at Augusta. To which MacKenzie replied:
She has been associated with me in three golf courses and not only are her own ideas valuable, but she is thoroughly conversant in regard to the character of work I like. I want her views and her personal impressions in regard to the way the work is being carried out. I do not know of any man who has sounder ideas.
Alister MacKenzie came to develop the Pebble Beach Golf Course at the invitation of Marion Hollins. The story behind the story is S.F.B. Morse was developing the Monterey Peninsula and asked Marion, who was now his athletic director, to help him develop a golf course. Marion brought Alister MacKenzie in to design that course. Together they worked side by side to develop one of the greatest golf courses ever played. Today it ranks No. 2 on GOLF Magazines Top 100 in the United States and the World list.
In my opinion it was on the infamous 16th hole that Marion solidified her place in golf history. MacKenzie did not want to place the 16th hole at that location. He thought it was not possible to drive a ball to a green that far across the ocean. So Marion said, “Let’s see.” She dropped a ball, teed up and drove it over 219 yards across the Pacific Ocean to a spot where the 16th hole now resides. MacKenzie smiled and said, “OK, we’ll put it there.”
Somebody you don’t know, but you should – Marion’s accomplishments are vast and far reaching. She was a champion in the world of golf as well as other sports. She was trailblazer and the only known woman golf course developer who helped create three world class golf courses. She was an amazing person and…
Somebody you don’t know, but you should – Long Live the Forgotten! ~ Sebastian St. George
Check out the previous Blogs in this New Series!
Somebody you don’t know, but you should – The Blog Series – Since Somebody you don’t know, but you should – The story of Harriet Quimby was a tremendous success I decided this should become a blog series. If you have not had the chance or this is first introduction, please go back and read The story of Harriet Quimby. She was an utterly amazing woman and trailblazer.
Honestly, there should be a motion picture made about her life story. Harriet Quimby was the first woman to get a pilot’s license in the U.S. She also was the first woman to fly the English Channel alone. If any movie studios or production companies are interested, please contact me on my contact page. I have been developing this for a while. I feel there are a tremendous amount of women who receive no recognition at all. Their contributions are immeasurable! People may forget… but history never does. And guess what… I’ll find you and do my best to keep you alive!
One of my favorite things to do is research. It’s one of my preoccupations to dig into archives and discover long lost information or historical data on fascinating people or subject matters. I could go on for hours about this. I love People that history has long forgotten. But, the question is, history hasn’t forgotten them, we have! These gems are like buried treasure that teach me so much about life, art and the pursuit of happiness. They are priceless gems to enjoy. I hope you love these blogs as much as I love researching and writing them!
These Forgotten have LONG fallen off the radar! Put it to you this way, you wouldn’t even find these people misplaced in the cut-out bin filed under X or Z next to Abe Vigoda Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Side note: I love Abe Vigoda BTW – he is great!
I also wanted to take the time to thank everyone for all the great tweets, comments, emails, responses and support! I love to hear from you! Also if there is anyone you would like to me to consider to research and blog about for this blog series I am open to your suggestions.
Somebody you don’t know, but you should – The Blog Series will begin this week. Thank you again for your support!
Somebody you don’t know, but you should –
Long Live the Forgotten!
Somebody you don’t know but you should – The story of Harriet Quimby is an amazing story of one of the most courageous people I have ever known. Harriet defines the word pioneer. Harriet exemplifies courage in the face of uncertainty and the fear of unknowningness. But honestly, what I find most impressive about her is that she was a woman who did the impossible in a time in which women didn’t do these things.
Harriet Quimby was a trailblazer in aviation and a trailblazer in Women’s Rights. More importantly, she was woman of tremendous strength and courage. Again, honestly, I’m very impressed with her and I can’t say this enough. She is someone that is a treasure to me and a pleasure for me to share with you. Let me begin.
We all remember Ameila Earhart and her courageous efforts that she made in flight. Long before Amelia, there was a courageous woman by the name of Harriet Quimby.
Harriet Quimby was the first woman in this country to get a pilot’s license. She is also the first woman to fly across the English Channel alone. What is even more amazing is this happened in 1912!
Harriet was a beautiful and vivacious woman in her 30s. She was a drama critique for a New York Magazine called, “Leslie’s Weekly.” She met a pilot by the name of John Moisant who also owned a flying school. Her words to this glamorous flyer were: “Teach me to fly.” Mosiant’s reply was: “Anytime.” Unfortunately Mosiant was killed in a tragic plane crash, but Harriet had befriended Matilde Mosiant, John Mosiant’s sister. They became fast friends. Matilde, by the way, was the second woman to earn a pilot’s license in the U.S.A.
Harriet spent four months and thirty-three lessons at the Moisant School. She studied in a Bleriot monoplane. This plane was designed by Louie Bleriot, who was the first pilot to fly across the English Channel in 1909.
Harriet would fly the reverse route in the same type of plane in 1912. She would fly alone. I know this might sound pedestrian to you. Let’s consider this, Harriet flew without instruments, the only instrument she had was a hand-held compass she had in her lap. She also took off in fog, flew much of the flight in fog and had no radio communication. Talk about taking off into total uncertainty. Actually, it sounds quite insane! Especially in 1912!
Somebody you don’t know but you should – Harriet Quimby was successful against all odds in her endeavor. Her success would be heralded throughout the U.S.A and Europe. Along with her triumphs as an aviation “Femme Fatale” was her flying suit: a plum colored “satin backed by wool” with a monk’s cowl “that kept her hair in place and her ears warm” with “almond shaped goggles” – years ahead of their time. This was her trailblazing and fashionable flying outfit.
There was one person who thought that Harriet could not accomplish the Channel flight. He was certain, but he saw her off by giving her a hot water bottle to keep her warm. He even offered to fly the Channel wearing her plum flying suit. She laughed him off, ofcourse.
Sadly, Harriet had a tragic accident at an airshow in New York shortly after her Channel flight. She and her co-pilot were pitched from her Bleriot during a dive. This plane had a history of this. At this time there were no harnesses in the plane to secure the pilot’s safely and so prevent this. Today’s pilots owe a tremendous debt of respect and admiration to these early aviation pioneers. Without their sacrifices and courageous willingness to adventure into flying’s vast uncertainty we would not have the safety that we all share today.
Harriet Quimby contributed significantly to this progress, so much so that a U.S. Postal Stamp was issued in her honor and memory. The Stamp was issued in 1991 in Plymouth, Michigan.
In 2009 The Los Angeles Times ran a short piece on a French pilot, Edmond Salis, and his attempt to recreate the first flight of Louie Bleriot across the English Channel. Sadly, Harriet was not mentioned at all.
Somebody you don’t know but you should – Harriet Quimby is a remarkable and inspiring American woman who helped paved the way for American aviation and Women’s Rights. She is definitely someone you should know.
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults With Depression
In Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults With Depression, Gregory A. Hinrichsen demonstrates his approach to working with older clients suffering with this common disorder. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is a time-limited therapy that has been found to be effective in the treatment of depression in different age groups, including older adults. IPT focuses on one or two interpersonally relevant problems including interpersonal role disputes, role transitions, grief, and interpersonal deficits.
In this session, Dr. Hinrichsen works with a 77-year-old woman who recently lost her husband following a long period of caregiving during which one of her sons died. Despite the presence of many depressive symptoms, the client is unaware that she has a major depression. Dr. Hinrichsen demonstrates effectively the process of interpersonal psychotherapy as he helps the client to understand depression, its precipitants, and the path to improvement.
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Front Page Titles (by Subject) I.—: THE PETITION OF THE MERCHANTS (1820) - Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School
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I.—: THE PETITION OF THE MERCHANTS (1820) - Francis W. Hirst, Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School
Free Trade and Other Fundamental Doctrines of the Manchester School, set forth in Selections from the Speeches and Writings of its Founders and Followers, ed. with an Introduction by Francis W. Hirst (London: Harper and Brothers, 1903).
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THE PETITION OF THE MERCHANTS (1820)
This memorable petition to the House of Commons was drafted by Thomas Tooke, and, having been signed by a number of London merchants, was afterwards supported by the Edinburgh and Manchester Chambers of Commerce in memorials to Parliament. It was not only in itself an admirable exposure of the evils of a protective system, but led to the appointment of a Parliamentary Committee, which, under the inspiration of Huskisson, Baring, Wallace, and others, reported in a sense favourable to Free Trade. Huskisson’s reforms followed, but his death, in 1830, again put a stop to financial progress. The burdens on the British consumer at this time (1820) were described by Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, in the following passage:—
‘Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth or under the earth, on everything that comes from abroad or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man’s appetite, and the drug which restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man’s salt and the rich man’s spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble, and he will then be gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more.’
Under these circumstances, the London merchants approached the House of Commons.
To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland:—
The Petition of, etc.
That foreign commerce is eminently conducive to the wealth and prosperity of a country, by enabling it to import the commodities for the production of which the soil, climate, capital, and industry of other countries are best calculated, and to export in payment those articles for which its own situation is better adapted.
That freedom from restraint is calculated to give the utmost extension to foreign trade, and the best direction to the capital and industry of the country.
That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
That a policy founded on these principles would render the commerce of the world an interchange of mutual advantages, and diffuse an increase of wealth and enjoyments among the inhabitants of each State.
That, unfortunately, a policy the very reverse of this has been, and is, more or less, adopted and acted upon by the Government of this and of every other country, each trying to exclude the productions of other countries, with the specious and well-meant design of encouraging its own productions, thus inflicting on the bulk of its subjects who are consumers, the necessity of submitting to privations in the quantity or quality of commodities, and thus rendering what ought to be the source of mutual benefit and of harmony among States, a constantly-recurring occasion of jealousy and hostility.
That the prevailing prejudices in favour of the protective or restrictive system may be traced to the erroneous supposition that every importation of foreign commodities occasions a diminution or discouragement of our own productions to the same extent, whereas it may be clearly shown that although the particular description of production which could not stand against unrestrained foreign competition would be discouraged, yet, as no importation could be continued for any length of time without a corresponding exportation, direct or indirect, there would be an encouragement, for the purpose of that exportation, of some other production to which our situation might be better suited, thus affording at least an equal, and probably a greater, and certainly a more beneficial employment to our own capital and labour.
That, of the numerous protective and prohibitory duties of our commercial code, it may be proved, that while all operate as a very heavy tax on the community at large, very few are of any ultimate benefit to the classes in whose favour they were originally instituted, and none to the extent of the loss occasioned by them to other classes.
That, among the other evils of the restrictive or protective system, not the least is, that the artificial protection of one branch of industry, or source of production, against foreign competition, is set up as a ground of claim by other branches for similar protection, so that if the reasoning upon which these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever. And the same train of argument, which, with corresponding prohibitions and protective duties, should exclude us from foreign trade, might be brought forward to justify the re-enactment of restrictions upon the interchange of productions (unconnected with public revenue) among the kingdoms composing the union, or among the counties of the same kingdom.
That an investigation of the effects of the restrictive system, at this time, is peculiarly called for, as it may, in the opinion of your petitioners, lead to a strong presumption that the distress which now so generally prevails is considerably aggravated by that system, and that some relief may be obtained by the earliest practicable removal of such of the restraints as may be shown to be most injurious to the capital and industry of the community, and to be attended with no compensating benefit to the public revenue.
That a declaration against the anti-commercial principles of our restrictive system is of the more importance at the present juncture inasmuch as, in several instances of recent occurrence, the merchants and manufacturers in foreign States have assailed their respective Governments with applications for further protective or prohibitory duties and regulations, urging the example and authority of this country, against which they are almost exclusively directed, as a sanction for the policy of such measures. And certainly, if the reasoning upon which our restrictions have been defended is worth anything, it will apply in behalf of the regulations of foreign States against us. They insist upon our superiority in capital and machinery, as we do upon their comparative exemption from taxation, and with equal foundation.
That nothing would more tend to counteract the commercial hostility of foreign States than the adoption of a more enlightened and more conciliatory policy on the part of this country.
That although, as a matter of mere diplomacy, it may sometimes answer to hold out the removal of particular prohibitions, or high duties, as depending upon corresponding concessions by other States in our favour, it does not follow that we should maintain our restrictions in cases where the desired concessions on their part cannot be obtained. Our restrictions would not be the less prejudicial to our capital and industry because other Governments persisted in preserving impolitic regulations.
That, upon the whole, the most liberal would prove to be the most politic course on such occasions.
That, independent of the direct benefit to be derived by this country on every occasion of such concession or relaxation, a great incidental object would be gained by the recognition of a sound principle or standard to which all subsequent arrangements might be referred, and by the salutary influence which a promulgation of such just views by the legislature, and by the nation at large, could not fail to have on the policy of other States.
That in thus declaring, as your petitioners do, their conviction of the impolicy and injustice of the restrictive system, and in desiring every practicable relaxation of it, they have in view only such parts of it as are not connected, or are only subordinately so, with the public revenue. As long as the necessity for the present amount of revenue subsists, your petitioners cannot expect so important a branch of it as the Customs to be given up, nor to be materially diminished, unless some substitute, less objectionable, be suggested. But it is against every restrictive regulation of trade, not essential to the revenue—against all duties merely protective from foreign competition—and against the excess of such duties as are partly for the purpose of revenue and partly for that of protection, that the prayer of the present petition is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of Parliament.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable house will be pleased to take the subject into consideration, and to adopt such measures as may be calculated to give greater freedom to foreign commerce, and thereby to increase the resources of the State.
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Somewhere in Brazil - or Germany, South Africa or any number of other countries - there is a small company with a unique technology and a slug of funding that is gunning to be the next big success story.
Unfortunately, many international stock fund investors will never profit from it.
Most international funds focus on the biggest companies, ignoring younger, high-potential firms. On average, U.S.-based international stock funds have only about 8% of their holdings in small and microcap stocks, according to Morningstar Inc.
"When it comes to investing internationally, you get greater return and diversification benefits by thinking outside the traditional box of developed market, large company investments," said Cliff Dunteman, vice president in investment consulting services at Francis Investment Counsel LLC, Pewaukee.
Pundits often say international markets outperform domestic markets. But a 2010 study by Dimensional Fund Advisors, Santa Monica, Calif., compared the 9.9% average annual return for the Standard & Poor's 500 index with the 9.5% average annual return for the Morgan Stanley Capital International All Country World Ex-US Index, Dunteman said.
Investors gain some diversification benefits despite the nearly equal returns. But for even more benefits, it pays to go smaller, Dunteman said.
International small caps provided a 15.6% return from 1975 through 2009, compared with 10.6% for the overall international stock index, he said.
"Adding in small companies can materially add to your net worth over time," Dunteman said.
Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small Cap Index Fund (VSS, $80.80) is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the performance of an international small-cap index. Its 52-week range is $74.25 to $103.95.
This ETF has a low expense ratio of 0.28%, Dunteman said. Vanguard also offers a related mutual fund (VFSVX, $30.16).
DFA International Small Cap Fund (DFISX, $13.99) is run by the firm that did the 2010 study. The fund's 52-week range is $13.10 to $17.92.
This fund distributes assets among five DFA funds that screen stocks based on quantitative rankings and other analyses. The five funds invest in small-company stocks in Canada, Europe, Japan, Pacific Rim countries and the United Kingdom.
In total, the fund holds 4,773 stocks, Dunteman said. It is not available through all brokerages, he said.
The biggest risk for these two funds would be a general market decline in international small-cap stocks that would sweep across the portfolio, Dunteman said. Continued European banking woes might also hurt the ability of small companies there to obtain financing and affect their stock prices, he said.
Columbia Acorn International Fund (LAIAX, $36.93) invests in the stocks of small and midsize companies in developed and emerging markets. Its 52-week range is $32.45 to $41.72.
This is a traditional stock-picking fund with an active management team led by P. Zachary Egan and Louis Mendes at Columbia Wanger Asset Management. They and seven analysts travel the globe to find companies, and have 227 of them in the fund portfolio.
The biggest risk with the fund is managers might make the wrong bets, Dunteman said. "When your top holding is a company like Melco Crown Entertainment, if the Chinese gambling market struggles because China experiences a hard landing, that would be a drag on performance," he said.
These funds all stand a chance to materially outperform the rest of the world market, Dunteman said.
The Journal Sentinel focuses on one Wisconsin money manager or analyst in this weekly feature, looking at a trend that helps investment pros make their decisions.
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Just one more piece of proof that Sam Arbesman is by far my coolest friend…
From superheroes to the world of Scooby-Doo, we are well-versed in the Big Reveal, where someone is exposed as a previously known character. Enemies are actually long-lost brothers; a secret father is discovered; and when a mask is taken off, the antagonist is exposed as a neighbor from down the street.
This isn’t a modern inclination either. In the Jewish rabbinic tradition, there is a trend towards interpreting an unnamed character — who is mentioned briefly and then never again — as someone who we have met before. For example, a man in a field is not simply a random person; instead he is the angel Gabriel. This concept is used so often that some people have a light-hearted term for this: the Conservation of Biblical Characters….
The Marvel Universe does exhibit the statistical features of a real social networkin some simple ways. Furthermore, similar to our own world, they found distinct differences between the social structures of good guys and bad guys. However, in some very important aspects, it’s actually the opposite of a real social network. Specifically, while in real social networks the popular people interact with the other popular people, this is not so in the Marvel universe. For example, Spider-Man and Captain America rarely come into contact.
Read the whole article at The Atlantic.com
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One third of Africa’s wealth is outside Africa he says. If returned that would increase its capital by 50%.
And as he notes the social return on capital on that in Africa would be vastly, vastly more in Africa than it could ever be outside because capital is so scarce in Africa.
And as he also points out – the true cost of corruption is the defeat of honest politicians who don’t have the corrupt funds to fight elections in Africa.
Now he’s talking plunder of natural assets: I have had to suffer economists arguing this week that there is no price abuse out of Africa. Paul does not agree at all. As he says, if assets are used in this generation then a legacy is left for the future. This has not happened in Africa. Blame our quoted extractive industries companies for that, I say.
That failure he says has halved real wealth in Africa in 30 he says. That’s because wealth was stolen from the many by the few and by the few from the future. And it has been taken out of Africa.
We need he says a legal counter part of this concept of economic plunder. Then we can create culpability.
Aid he says is not enough – we need to use codes and laws and instruments to deliver benefit. I call one of those country-by-country reporting. His example is from the FATF – and he says Nigeria was forced by the FATF to tackle corruption – and the pressure was massively effective. Unfortunately of course the head of that process in Nigeria is now in exile.
He’s right. We can resolve this. And accountants have a major role to play in this. I’ve said before the International Accounting Standards Board could do more good for Africa than Bono and Geldof ever have. So why do they refuse to do so?
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That's syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
MARK SHIELDS: Thank you, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, a lot of international news just in the last few days.
Let's start, David, with Iraq, the announcement today by President Obama. All the troops will be home by the end of the year. Reaction?
DAVID BROOKS: Excessive. Imprudent.
It had been widely reported that our military leaders on the ground wanted to keep about 14,000, to 18,000. That had been reported. It's been reported for months that the Iraqi military has some basic gaps, their ability to transport, to do airpower, intelligence, to do training, which the U.S. was helping.
Iraq is still a fragile country. Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution points out that in half the case where there was a civil war, they slide back into civil war. So I think for all those reasons it would have been prudent to keep 14,000, not in combat roles, but in that sort of stabilizing role.
And then the thing that mystifies me, I guess, right now is Denis McDonough, who was on the program earlier, who is a fantastic civil servant, public servant, and a very smart guy, gave a picture of Iran and Iran's influence in Iraq that suggested Iran was weak, and not really...
JUDY WOODRUFF: And isolated.
DAVID BROOKS: And isolated. And yet other people I have spoken to in the government paint a completely opposite picture. So I'm confused about Iran's capacity in general and particularly in Iraq.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, Mark, McDonough also said that the generals are on board. I mean...
MARK SHIELDS: He did.
JUDY WOODRUFF: ... he suggested that the president is doing what the generals agree with.
MARK SHIELDS: He did say that. And until we hear a general say something to the opposite -- it just strikes me, Judy, that we stand in stark contrast between the two countries involved in the headlines this week, Iraq and Libya, I mean, Iraq, where the United States invaded and occupied for nine years, and where there is increasing or undiminished animosity toward the United States and our presence there on the part of the Iraqis, Libya, where there were no American troops on the ground, and where, as of today, there's considerable appreciation.
I mean nothing personal by this, but I have heard a number of people say we have got to be worried about Iran now. And I think it ill becomes those who were the architects and advocates and apologists for the United States' invasion and occupation of Iraq now to raise the flag about Iran being an object of concern.
If that was their paramount consideration, then Saddam Hussein was your guy. He was the guy who kept...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Because he stood up.
MARK SHIELDS: Because he stood up to Iran.
I mean, there was a clear understanding that Iran's influence was going to grow and grow. It has. There's no question about it.
JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you...
DAVID BROOKS: Well, a couple things.
First, warning about Iran is not a neocon fantasy. The Obama administration worries about Iran, the French government, the German government. Iran is a rogue nation the entire world, with the exception of maybe one or two nations, has rallied against.
And so I think that it's not a neocon fantasy that Iran is a very aggressive state. As for what's happened across the Middle East over the last several years, one of the things that's happened -- and to me this is the big thing that's happened -- look at the change. Look in the change in leadership across that region. Gadhafi's gone. Saddam is gone. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is gone. The sclerotic regime in Egypt is gone. Assad is toppling.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Tunisia.
DAVID BROOKS: Tunisia.
And so we have seen this tremendous change. To me that's a big story. Whether it turns out well or ill, we will see, but that is a tremendous change.
MARK SHIELDS: It's a tremendous change, but let's get one thing -- there's a marvelous term in logic, post hoc, not propter hoc. In other words, because something happened after something, it's not because of something.
Saddam Hussein falling was because the United States moved in and occupied and invaded a country that had never posed a threat to the United States, didn't have weapons of mass destruction. The United States didn't play an active role in the Arab spring. And quite miraculous and remarkably was it occurred without us and without our active involvement.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, just to pick up on David's first point, that the U.S. shouldn't be leaving, that the generals were appeared -- were reported to be saying leave more troops there longer, that seems to be what the Republicans picked up on today.
Mitt Romney says it was an astonishing -- I think he said astonish failure to secure an orderly transition. Is that a criticism that's...
MARK SHIELDS: I mean, we have reached a point now where the president gets absolutely unremitting criticisms from Republicans, with the exception of John McCain. I mean, John McCain did salute the president for his leadership for the achievements in Libya.
But other than that, I mean, you can -- whether they opposed the United States involvement in Libya or they supported it -- Mitt Romney was for a no-fly zone and wasn't for a no-fly zone -- you know, he's an interesting man. He's an able man. His credentials on foreign policy are as good as mine on ballet.
DAVID BROOKS: I trust Mark on ballet. I don't know what he's talking about.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, let me -- because you both have brought Libya into this, we have seen this dramatic story. We just heard Jeff interview the ambassador.
David, is this a victory for the Obama administration or not, what has happened?
DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I think clearly, and a pretty personal victory for the president.
There were a lot of people within the administration, somebody I have great reverence for, Robert Gates, who was then at the Defense Department, didn't want to do it. Many people -- the Europeans just wanted to do a no-fly zone. And the president said, no, we have got to be more aggressive. We have got to use the airpower and drones and everything else much more aggressively, and we have got to do regime change. We have got to use military means to topple the regime.
And he pursued that policy. It took a little longer than he thought, but he pursued it well. He made it so the U.S. wasn't the center of the policy, but Gadhafi and the Libyan regime was the center of policy. And they saw it through. So I think on the whole this has been an extremely well-conducted policy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Does that translate -- excuse me.
Does that translate, Mark, into something that helps him in next year's election?
MARK SHIELDS: Yes, it wasn't a flawless policy by any means.
The constitutionality of it I think remains open to question. He bet on the Congress being supine and just ignoring the War Powers Act. And he was right. The Congress was submissive, was docile. It wasn't involved. It took no responsibility. And he went straight ahead. And the widespread use of drones is still open to question.
Was it effective? Yes. But is it a long-term strategy that is going to work well for the United States around the globe? I think that's very much an open question.
JUDY WOODRUFF: In Libya...
MARK SHIELDS: In Libya, yes.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what about in terms of next year? Does it...
MARK SHIELDS: In terms of next year? Well, it's already worked for the president in terms of the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll Judy, where the president got dismal marks on handling the economy and very mediocre marks on his job rating. By a 2-to-1 margin, voters gave him approval on the -- his handling of terrorism, under which this would follow.
But it doesn't make a difference when it comes to voting next year. It has diminished the liability of the Democrats as the party that is sort of soft on national defense. I don't think that argument can be made in 2012.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And which was something Hillary Clinton went after Obama during the campaign.
Anyway, what do you think? Do you agree with Mark it doesn't matter?
DAVID BROOKS: Yes, I think it may make a difference.
He's had a very good run on foreign policy. And I think that we're going to have foreign policy issues arise in next October, next September. It's unimaginable to me that somehow the Middle East won't come back. The Middle East will come back. And I think he's been pretty strong.
And I think the Republicans field, even Mitt Romney, who is the most plausible candidate, is not exactly a foreign policy -- you don't look to him for foreign policy. And so there's an advantage there. And presidential elections, foreign policy tends to make a difference. Until recently, it was the major issue for president.
And so I'm beginning to think that -- you know, I thought, oh, it's the economy, the economy. I'm beginning to think the foreign policy issue will loom surprisingly large next year.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now, there was another Republican debate this week, the rumble in Las Vegas, some have called it, Mark. Did it have a material effect? It was pretty feisty.
MARK SHIELDS: It was feisty, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Does that have an effect on the race?
MARK SHIELDS: I thought I was watching the combination of two reality shows on cable, sort of "The Housewives of Jersey Shore."
MARK SHIELDS: I mean, it really got kind of nasty and a little spiteful. And we saw the unflappable, the preternaturally unflappable Mitt Romney flap, to the point where he reached across, as I would reach across to David, to Rick Perry.
JUDY WOODRUFF: I don't think you have ever done that here.
MARK SHIELDS: No. And I have to smile if I'm doing it.
DAVID BROOKS: I'm a little afraid now. I feel intimidated.
MARK SHIELDS: Yes, it's Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton.
But the other thing was that Rick Perry, who -- they took him off the decaf.
MARK SHIELDS: He showed up with three double lattes, and he was very much involved, engaged. Now, whether in fact he helped himself or maybe just shook up Romney, I don't know.
JUDY WOODRUFF: He took Romney on, on whether he had hired illegal immigrants to cut the grass.
DAVID BROOKS: Yes. No, I think it was Charles Krauthammer who wrote today, one of Romney's hair moved a millimeter, which as much as we see.
DAVID BROOKS: Yes. I think they took down Romney. I don't think they helped themselves, I don't think anybody.
And so, Romney, even in his worst debate so far, to me still remained the only plausible candidate. And so they hurt him, there's no question. But you didn't go in through that debate and think, oh, Perry, actually, he's pretty good. You think, oh, he landed some blows. And so I still think it didn't fundamentally alter the race. It just made Romney look a little less impressive.
JUDY WOODRUFF: How do you think it hurt him, Romney?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, the flip-flopping, I mean, these are issues which, believe me, he ain't seen nothing yet. Obama is going to go after him in a big major way. They're going to turn Romney into John Kerry, or least the perception of John Kerry that the Bush campaign ran. They're going to run that kind of campaign.
But the flip-flopping on health care and those issues...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Which they have spent a lot of time on.
DAVID BROOKS: ... which they have spent a lot of time on, that's going to be a big issue.
And Romney has to -- you know, he's obviously been preparing for this for a long time, preparing for the Bain Capital attacks. And he's got to do a little better job of responding.
MARK SHIELDS: Kellyanne Conway, the Republican pollster, told The Wall Street Journal -- I thought it was a good point -- she said, what Romney has to do is explain his epiphanies, in other words, how he moved from being a pro-choice Republican running against Ted Kennedy and pro-gay rights to the point where he is against same-sex marriage in any form and now is ardently pro-life.
He's got to give some explanation, which is not...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Because he's on tape in some of those old...
MARK SHIELDS: Yes, and -- but to say what he's gone through, and sort of give a sense of this is -- this is how I got to where I am. This is the voyage I have taken.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Just quickly, in the last 40 seconds, Herman Cain, he still lives in the campaign? He's still leading in a couple polls, David.
DAVID BROOKS: It's just -- it's like an entertainment ship. It's -- the ratings are waning. He doesn't have substantive policies. He doesn't know anything about foreign policy. The 9-9-9 plan is not politically saleable.
MARK SHIELDS: I think Herman Cain is the remarkable story of this campaign in the sense that he was -- for months, he was at single digits. He quintupled in a month-and-a-half, and he did it because in a time when people are absolutely pessimistic, terminally pessimistic about their children's future, their own future, their country's future, their family's future, he is just this sense of optimism in his politics and biography, the son of a chauffeur, the son of a maid, a cleaning lady, I mean, a total bootstrap story.
Politics of biography does count. He's irrepressibly optimistic, and he speaks in a language that is so un-Washingtonian and so free of any pre-tested, pre-cooked answers. I agree with David. He's very short on substance and he's certainly short on campaign structure.
But he has touched something on the Republican side, when not having held any office becomes an asset in an anti-politician year.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, nothing short on substance with the two of you.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Mark Shields, David Brooks, thank you.
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In Memory Of Dr. Abdishakur Jawhar – Franz Fanon Of The Somali People* By Bashir Goth
“He lit up a room. If you can imagine the sun, his face was like the sun, that smile, the arm around your shoulder. He was just like a gentle giant, a very lovely man. He was like nobody I ever met.” Shannon Shaw, a ward clerk on psychiatry – Owen Sound, The Sun Times.
While scratching my head on where to start this piece on the memory of Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar and how best to capture his unique character, pure serendipity (and Google News) brought the above quote to my inbox. Eureka; it looked like Dr. Abdishakur’s colleague at Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen Sound, ON., where he worked as a Chief Psychiatrist, had just snapped a live photo of him and hung it on the wall for all to see.
This was it. Immediately the vanishing memories I had of him when I first and last saw him, when he was high school boy in his last year, rushed back to me. It was in the summer of 1971 and Abdishakur was spending part of his school holiday with his sister in our little farming village of Dilla. It was the rainy season; the land was lush green, the ponds full of Xareed (rainwater), the sky was half cloudy, and the knee-high green grass around the ponds shimmered under the beautiful, bright African sun. We walked around the ponds, kicked the grass left and right, cut some of it and crushed it in our hands to feel its fresh smell. We ended up under the big Garbi and Gob trees for which Dilla valley was famous. I can recall many a day when wise community elders held their sessions to resolve issues, pre-school children took their Quran lessons, and my father spent mornings lecturing on Quranic exegesis for his Islamic studies students under the branches of the same trees. I was not if Abdishakur had similar thoughts in mind about the trees. We stood in that idyllic place, sons of great Sheikhs, young, smart and idealistic students, our heads in the sky but still searching the ground for our feet.
Being in his final year of high school, Abdishakur had some idea of where he wanted to go. In the little time we spent together, I knew him as bookish, reflective and likeable. As high school was the highest educational level available in the country at the time, at least in northern regions of Somalia, high school students of Sheikh and Amoud Secondary schools appeared to be scholars, and acted as such. As 7th grade student, I looked at Abdishakur as a scholar and a role model. He had been studying in Benadir Secondary School, Mogadishu, after spending the first three years in Amoud. In retrospect, I clearly see that although our journeys have taken different trajectories, the ideological affinity that we felt with each other on that day and the common family friendships we had have remained intact, only waiting to be rekindled many years later in cyberspace.
As I narrate this story of Dr. Abdishakur, who I reconnected with in 2004 and communicated with until a month before his death, I can imagine him looking at me with his sunny smile and telling me: “Bashirooow …What are you doing man writing about me; come on get a life!.” This was the way he would address me and many of his closer friends; he would address us in a calling manner…Bashiroow, Bahraoow, Ibrahimoow.
I will not talk about him in a chronological way. I will not say that he was born, raised, educated, and then he died. Such statistical memory is for ordinary people; people who didn’t reach out and embrace life, not people like Dr. Abdishakur who are alive both while they physically reside on the earth and after they depart it.
Dr. Abdishakur and I share a lot of bonds, both familial and personal. His father Sheikh Ali Jowhar, who was an Islamic scholar known throughout the Somali speaking region and beyond, was not only a teacher for my father in his early years of student life but a fatherly figure and a mentor. Even after my father had branched out with his own life, and continued his pursuit for knowledge through other scholars, and in such faraway places as Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen and Egypt, and had become a well-known scholar on his own right, he still held special reverence and love for Sheikh Ali. For his part, Sheikh Ali returned the same respect and love. I remember as a young boy, people coming from Borama and bringing gifts to my father from Sheikh Ali, and my father too never missed a chance to send gifts to him.
The bond between our fathers was so strong that I even owe my name to Sheikh Ali. My father told me that he got a message from Sheikh Ali who was spending a few days in a place called Aw Buube, a cemetery of a famous saint, on the day before I was born. He was there with some of his students. As my father had a business in Borama at the time, Sheikh Ali had asked him to send some provisions such as sugar and tea. My father departed the following day not only carrying the provisions with him but also the good news of a new baby boy joining the family. After reflecting on the news, Sheikh Ali told him to name the boy “Hassan-Bashir (bearer of good news).”
When Sheikh Ali died, it was my father’s hands that laid him to rest in the grave. Thereafter the sight of Dr. Abdishakur’s sister, Saada Sheikh Ali Jowhar, who was married to Nur Dheere, the wealthiest businessman in Dilla, used to make my father’s eyes well up in tears. Whenever Saada, also a close friend of my mother Rahma, visited us to say hello, he used to get up and meet her with the same reverence and respect he would show when meeting Sheikh Ali himself.
I vividly remember one day when a land rover car came from Wajaale and stopped in Dilla. My father was seated under the miri-miri tree he used to sit under every morning to chat with the people of the village and enquire about their condition. Three young ladies descended from the car and walked straight to where my father was sitting. I was with him when the ladies greeted him. He asked them who they were and the moment they revealed that they were Sheikh Ali Jowhar’s daughters my father could not help but break into tears. He remained that way until the young ladies left him and he told someone to take care of their needs while in transit.
When the school today known as Sheikh Ali Jowhar was built, several of Borama’s elders came to Dilla with a proposal to my father. As he was the man who came up with the idea of building the school and conducted the first major fund-raising for it, they wanted to name the school after him. He thanked them for the honor but told them to instead name the school after Sheikh Ali Jowhar, who was buried in a graveyard close by.
Dr. Abdishakur in his early ideological breaking turned left and embraced socialist ideology. Being as bookish as he was, he immersed himself in reading the works of all of socialism’s great names. Although I imagine that Dr. Abdishakur first acquainted himself with “progressive literature” in the bookshop of his elder brother, who had the first bookshop in Hargeisa where socialist books were sold, he also got hooked on the leftist ideology while he was at Banadir Secondary School; one of the first schools that had Soviet teachers.
This testimony comes from Abdishakur himself where he narrates a meeting he once had with his friend, Ali Aw Omar, who had the same ideological affiliation. In his article ( Midnight Forever), says:
“We were on the side of the progressive left of the political spectrum. Che Guevara of Cuba, Franz Fanon of Algeria, Amílcar Lopes Cabral of Guinea Bissau and Joe Slovo of South Africa were our heroes. We were the post-independence generation of Africa. We were fed up with tin pot military dictators and military coup d’états that devastated the continent of Africa like pestilence and plague. That was the turbulent seventies for my generation.”
No wonder that Dr. Abdishakur had followed in the footsteps of Frantz Fanon, not only in his ideological and revolutionary thinking but also in his profession. Fanon was a Martiniquean-French, psychiatrist, revolutionary, thinker and philosopher who worked with Algerian freedom fighters against French colonialism and wrote the mammoth psychoanalytic book “The Wretched of the Earth.” Dr. Abdishakur too had become a psychiatrist, thinker, and philosopher, but with a different message in another age.
The “turbulent seventies”, as he called it, was the time when Abdishakur’s and my life become ideologically interwoven. It was like history repeating itself again. We were both the sons of the great Islamic scholars, imbibed in Islam, who turned their backs on their fathers’ heritages and fell headlong in love with the ideology of the “the progressive left” that was spearheaded by the revolutionaries Dr. Abdishakur listed and besotted by the stories of African independence leaders like Lumumba, Nkrumah, Sékou Touré, Kenyatta, Nyerere, and Nasser.
Just like Dr. Abdishakur, I too was hooked on the anti-colonial works of Fanon, Walter Rodney, and the numerous works of the socialist ideologues. I remember someone who saw Abdishakur passing through Dilla one day telling my father: “Oh, Sheikh Omer did you hear that one of Sheikh Ali son’s called Abdishakur has become a socialist ideologue and is rejecting our heritage.” My father smiled and said: “I am not worried about him, I know at the end he would come back to his base…if he doesn’t explore all ideas when he is young, he will not do that when he is old.” It was not long after that when my father noticed that I was always reading books that were considered leftist and anti-religious literature. He called me one day and told me: “ Listen son, you can read whatever you want, you can broaden your horizon as far as you can, but always remember to have your faith in your heart…always remember to return to your base. Remember we have no other culture but that of Islam.”
Did we return to our base? Again I turn to Abdishakur to answer this for himself before I answer for myself. In the same article I quoted, he narrates when he met his friend Ali Aw Omar who had since then turned a religious person and had given him a book of Hadith and pointed out one particular hadith:
“Narrated Anas: Allah’s Apostle said, “Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or he is an oppressed one. People asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! It is all right to help him if he is oppressed, but how should we help him if he is an oppressor?” The Prophet said, “By preventing him from oppressing others.”
I hold on to the book of Hadith. I opened the same passage again that I read with Ali Aw Omar two years before. This time my head hung low in grief, I read the passage again with eyes unseeing flooded with the gravity of the loss.
I knew immediately why Ali selected the particular Hadith for my attention. Lifelong bonds of friendship ensured shared experiences and shared memories. Now that he has gone, in these memories, shared no more, I exist. I must remember to pass them on, to those who will come, for to bear witness is a responsibility.
Ali and I have been together in the social justice movement in Somalia since the early seventies when we both joined forces with other members of our generation to confront the military dictator of our time Mohamed Siyad Barre…
…We came to maturity in that decade and were immediately confronted with a nation in a crisis. We met head on a military dictatorship that was systematically destroying a nation. Ours was a political revolt, student movement, popular campaigns. We were determined to stand up to be counted. But we were crushed by the regime. To be brutally honest we failed miserably in the task we set up for ourselves. Our defeat and the victory of the short sighted selfish right set the stage for Somalia to become the prototypal land of statelessness, starving masses, well fed pirates, warlords and of course their social counterpart marauding ferocious machete wielding tribes.
Many of us ended as refugees in the four corners of the world. Few of the more dedicated, hardy, heroic types remained in the country and refused to go. Ali Aw Omar was one of the latter. He stayed with the people. He shared their lot, their wars, their peace, their hunger, their pain and their prosperity. I envied him then for his bravery. I think he knew of my envy, it was never mentioned. He was just too refined.
I sought refuge in the west and quickly got lost in its decadent capitalistic ways. I conformed to the locally prevalent creed of democracy, equality and free fair elections as the gentlest means of human progress. Ali Aw Omar having stayed home was caught up in the wave of Islamism that has swept over the new generations in Somalia. He also conformed to the locally prevailing political mood of a resurgent Islamic exuberance. He found safety in the Quran and sustenance in Hadith and Sunnah.
Ali and I witnessed the death of the ideology that dominated our childhood days as well as the death of the nation in whose bosom we grew. Like orphans in a ruthless world we had to evolve, adapt and improvise with all haste to survive. Like a football on the playground of fate, we were kicked around, cast, molded and ripened by the force of circumstances and times. At the end of it all here we were Ali, a Sheikh, and a pious man in Somaliland preaching to save my soul for the next world, I a Psychiatrist from Canada trying to understand my old friend in this present world.”
I could say that Dr. Abdishakur also spoke for me; like him I have met friends with whom I shared the same “progressive left” ideology and who have now returned to their base, just like my father predicted. And I can say after maturity, it is always in the comfort zone of childhood memories that one finds himself secure and safe. I have come to know that Dr. Abdishakur had become a pious man and was quoted to have said that the Fajr (Dawn) prayer was one of his favorite prayers. Only a person who went through a spiritually tortuous journey will definitely understand the pleasure of returning home. It is the same pleasure that prompted Abu Hamel Al Ghazali to write his short but canonical book Al Munqid Min Al Dalal (Deliverance from Error).
Being a traveler in soul and body, it is just fateful that Dr. Abdishakur had to meet his death on May 13, 2012 while travelling in the same road where he started his journey. Waxay baallisiyo, waxay balad martaba, xeradaw ballana (No matter how far it wanders and no matter whichever country they travel to, they should finally return to their stable), say lines sung by Somali cow herders during watering cattle.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF FRANZ FANON
Dr. Abdishakur got a real wakeup call when he went sent to the Soviet Union to study the socialist ideology. But no sooner he landed there; he found how disillusioned he was. And he immediately packed his suitcase and returned to Somalia to the surprise of his colleagues like Dr. Mohamed-Rasheed Sh. Hassan who was with him.
Talking about Dr. Abdishakur’s disillusionment with the ideological and Siyad Barre’s regime, Adan Hasan Iman (Dhegay) told me the following:
“Abdishakour was my classmate from grade one through the 3rd year at Amoud Secondary. He transferred to Benadir secondary school for his his fourth year in the fall of 1971. In high school he felt in love with Marxisms. He was briefly sent to the Soviet Union with Mohamed Rashid, but he soon got the attention of the Siad Barre regime as a dangerous man. That was when he left the country for Egypt.
He did not go to any of the faculties of the Somali University. He did not work at any of the ministries. He just sneaked out of the country. He feared to be thrown behind bars. He did not fly out of Mogadishu. He boarded a vehicle and my recollection is he went to Djibouti through Ethiopia.
That was around 1973. He was far ahead of us. He became disillusioned with the Siad Barre regime earlier than anybody that I knew. He was highly politically conscious at a young age. One of the motivating factors was his empathy for the poor and his love for hard work.”
And it was in Egypt where Dr. Abdishakur followed the footsteps of his mentor Franz Fanon and studied psychiatry. But while Fanon had to expose the psychological impact of colonialism on the psyche of the colonized and had to fight colonialism and racism, Dr. Abdishakur had to explore and wage a similar war against the impact of the dark forces of tribalism, ignorance and disease on the psyche of the Somali people. It was not a coincidence that he died while on duty travelling from one clinic to another to treat the mentally disturbed people who are the most wretched people on earth in that part of the world.
Commenting on Dr. Abdishakur’s death, Mahmoud Hassan Saad (Saajin), an old friend of him, told me how Dr. Abdishakur when he came to Borama asked about Saajin’s brother, an intelligent man that Abdishakur knew in his school days but had since then descended into the dark world of depression.
“Dr. Abdishakur Ilaahay baa dadka u soo diray (he was like an angel sent by God to the people. He treated my brother and within no time he became well to the extent that he even married,” Saajin said “Most of our people are suffering from mental problems and apart from being the only psychiatrist available, Dr. Abdishakur was also a unique person in his compassion and optimism which played a great role in the people’s healing.”
IN THE WORDS OF HIS FRIENDS
Having talked about what Dr. Abdishakur and I had shared, it would be unfair to reduce his life to his ideological metamorphosis. In fact, one cannot feel the richness of Dr. Abdishakur’s life and the various unique levels of his character without looking into his wisdom, his humor, his optimism, and his hatred for tribalism, ignorance and other forces of darkness, as well as his compassion, kindness, love, and his nostalgia for the cherished memories of his childhood.
To get glimpses of these other facets of his life, I turned to Dr.Abdishakur’s friends and classmates who generously shared with me their recollections. I also turned to some of my correspondences with him (absolutely only those I feel allowed to declassify as my friend is today in another world and cannot tell me, Bashiroow, don’t let that out).
In the following email, one can see Dr. Abdishakur railing against ignorance and the Somali tradition of praising their heroes only after death and not while they are alive. It also reflects Dr. Abdishakur’s promotion of love, peace and justice even in close circles. The email is dated June 11, 2000 and was forwarded to me by Roda Mizan, a friend of mine, who was a member of Awdal Forum to which Dr. Abdishakur had sent the email.
…Here in cyperspace, I share the tears, Foox and Salool with our Poet and heroine Mizan…. I gain solace from being with you out here. I gain courage from the little dents that we make together. Yes the books are on their way. Knowledge is the healer. Ignorance is the enemy. Down with the enemy!
And we have a cyber niche where we can console each other. I welcome all my new sisters to the forum. I bid them welcome to this space that stands for peace, love, justice and sanity. I welcome Fatima, Farhiya, Khadra and Khadra as well Halima.
And alas we are people who are known to take their heroes for granted. They toil thanklessly amongst us. Oh yes we do miss them when they depart. We thank them not while they walk amongst us! Something, something corrupt turns us the other way. …
For maintaining sanity when we all go cyber crazy, for preventing us from tearing this shade apart in juvenile rage, for making it possible for us to pool our meager resources, for the endless hours he spends maintaining and nurturing this list… Allow me to thank, deeply thank the manager of Awdal forum. Deeply. Endlessly.
A million thanks brother Ibrahim Absiye. You are our hero and we will say it now. This time we will get it right!…”
RECOLLECTIONS FROM HIS FORMER CLASSMATES
Adan Hasan Iman (Dhegay), Abdishakur’s classmate from the start of primary school to the third year of High School, speaks to the positive impact that Abdishakur had on him during his formative years, and about how he has passed down what he learned to his children:
“From first grade to fourth grade, I used to hang with kids who were NOT very serious in school. But starting from fourth grade I hooked up with Abdishakur Sheikh Ali Jowhar, Hussein Dahir Obsiye ( Husein Sheena) and Ali Barkhad Dhore who died in 1972 in Mogadishu. We called ourselves, the Four Lords, because we were on top of the class, sort of different class from the rest. I believe that my association with Abdishakur and the other two changed my life. I fell in love with books. None of my old friends before fourth grade went to college. I tell my two young sons that you will become like whoever you associate yourself with. I remind them to befriend the best and the brightest.
But I lost in touch with him in 1973. I lost the intimacy I had with him before 1973. I talked to him many times in Canada, but I didn’t see him in person for over 40 years until I saw him briefly in LA at 2004 SOPRI convention. I invited him and his wife to lunch. We reminisced the old days. His wife was my eight grade student at 15 May Secondary School in 1976.. It was a good get together.
I can tell you he was a highly intelligent. His IQ was within the top percentile. He was very intelligent, very jovial. He was a good person to have around.”
Adan also narrates a good anecdote when he, Abdishakur and two other friends went to Abdishakur’s father, Sheikh Ali to seek his blessing as they prepared for the leaving exams of the primary school (7th grade) before they were promoted to high school:
“We climbed up the hill to the Sheikh’s house. The Sheik stayed inside the hill top house all the time except on very rare occsions when he would venture downhill to the town. My recollection is the door in his house was split at the middle. Only the top half would open. We knocked. He opened the top half. After the greetings, we told him about the purpose of our visit.
He said “Boys listen. You need to work hard on your lessons. That is the right key to your success and passing your exam…
Here was the most revered religious leader mentoring us that hard work is the way to achieve your goals in life. That was the kind of Islam we grew up with.
We all worked hard and proved to be among top in the northern region.”
Ibrahim Absiye, another class mate who had known Abdishakur for 45 years, says:
“For me it is just too much to write about the too many recollections – but will try to be brief:
I have known Shakour for almost half a century – 45 years, or since grade 8. And for that life-long friendship, I have never seen him angry or mad at anyone, no matter what. Yes, we were classmates and shared the same desk in the classroom. He was an exceptional human being – humble, simple, caring, always smiling, people-person, full of aspirations, forward thing, friendly and, what can I say, a real friend of mine!
In the following anecdote Ibrahim narrates how he and Abdishakur, while campaigning for a candidate in Somalia’s parliamentary elections in 1969 in the hopes of getting a scholarship to the USA, had their vehicle break down at exactly at same place in which Abdishakur died recently:
“… it is in the Spring of 1969 and both of us joined an SYL campaign trip to Gorayacawl, Magaala-Qalooc, Idhan, Magaala-Cad, Dilla – Quraab gave us 10 Sh each and a promise to be sent on scholarships to the States! We were with elders in a Landrover. We left Dilla heading back home to Borama/Amoud at about 8:00 pm. it is raining cats and dogs. When we were close to Tulli, at exactly the current place of the accident, pure coincidence (!) (?), the Landrover had two flat tires. After a while a truck full of opposition supports from Gabiley (Baha Samaroon) came by.
I remember they were singing.. waa baa baryay bilic san … The truck stopped. Some of them shouted “waar waa kuwii SYLsha ee dhaafa” …the elders urged them to take only the two students who have classes tomorrow at Amoud –Shakour & I. They did and left the elders right there. The truck is full and quite noisy with drums and people with very high emotions –worst campaign fever. It is dark and still raining. Everybody is standing up, clinching to steel bars (dhigo). The truck climbed the hill at Gorayacawl and one of the passengers who has never been to Borama said “ alla, Borama way kaahaysaa, waar ayaa laydhka u sameeyey?” I opened my big mouth and answered him “ dee Adan Isaaq baa u sameeeyey”. All hell broke loose and they picked us up to throw us off the truck. The driver, I think his name Nirig, stopped the truck, came around and after negotiations, told them to ‘just bring them down and we will leave them here”. They did and we had to walk to Borama in Gudcur raining night. Cold and shivering, we arrived Borama around midnight and went to Harowo Hotel for rehabilitation ……
On how their friendship continued and even blossomed in Canada, Ibrahim says:
“We had the best time together over the last seven years. Shakour and Dr. Mohamed Beergeel were both working in a remote village in North West British Colombia, Canada. I was in constant negotiations with Dr. Jowhar for almost two years to convince him and his friend, the other psychiatrist, to move to Toronto where I was involved in community organizing/development, and where there is one the largest Somali community concentrations outside the country. They finally moved and in about a year, Shakour married his lovely wife, Amina Abdi Jama. They choose me to be the best man and Shakour called me to say: “ Yaa Sheikh Al-Abahri Wal Barri, you are not only my best man, but both of us have to wear the traditional clothes. So here we were in a Toronto west banquet hall among over 300 people standing out in what seemed to some funny clowns.
Over the past 3-4 years when Dr. Jowhar was practicing psychiatry in the Province of Ontario, he must have treated thousands and thousands of Somali Canadians in Ontario. Of course he was seeing other non-Somali clients as well. But I became known as the Dr’s friend and people will call me for emergency situations to put them in touch with Dr. Jowhar. Also, he must have seen dozens and dozens of patients in my home at weekends – all free of charge, simply because they came through Sheikh Al Bahri.
Bashir, I cannot stop talking about our brother and friend, late Dr. Abdishakour Jowhar, but I should. What about that skype call just the days before the accident – we chatted live for a 30 minutes and his last word to me was ‘ alla maxaan war kuu sidaa, see you next week! But I know he never arrived.”
Dr. Ali Ibrahim Bahar, another classmate of Dr. Abdishakur, thankfully allowed me to reprint the following prophetic email he sent to Dr. Abdishakur on March 25, 2010 in which he was inviting Dr. Abdishakur to attend a Gadabursi Conference that was being held in Minnesota:
“Dear Dr. Jowhar,
I was assuming you were coming to the Gadabursi conference, or may I say the Gadabursi Manifesti in Minneapolis. My wife informed me last night that you are not coming. What a shock! The author of the Gadabursi Manifesto is boycotting the conference!! I think you should come, man!!
Life is too short and this might be the last time you will see of some of us or have a laugh with some of your older friends—because our age group is dwindling and is approaching extinction just like the Dinosaurs. Also, I heard that great Mr. Bashir Goth is coming and the two of you might have the last opportunity to win a Somaliweyn friend to your side.
Seriously, I wish you are coming. What say you? “
This is more than prophetic. It seems that Dr. Ali Bahar was almost sure that he would not be able to see his friend anymore. What a premonition.
In fact, Dr. Abdishakur’s reply to his friend was not only a consistent, predictable, and emphatic NO, but he also asked his friend not to go to a tribal meeting. He said: “Ali Baharoo
Good to hear from you brother. You are in a dark mood today. Our time may be on a state of countdown. But cheer up…
Seriously I am equally surprised you are coming. I thought making the tribal system stronger will be the last thing on your plate. These tribal gatherings are the poisonous opium of the masses that killed a nation. Ali Don’t Go.”
Describing Dr. Abdishakur amid tears, Dr. Bahr said: “Respect was a true trademark of Dr. Jowhar’s character-always keeping you in a special place in his heart and valuing your friendship, even when disagreeing with us; a memory of him to keep and cherish.”
Last but not least, I turned to Dr. Abdishakur’s cousin and friend, Muuse Ali (Joome), who in replying to my enquiry about his memories of Dr. Abdishakur:
“All what I knew of Dr. Abdhishakur is very well said in your wholesome poem. He always had a big heart for everyone and he was the man who was always ready to offer all what he could to others. His big heart was paired up with smile, bright face and a gentle joke. Wherever he went, he always carried a bright light above him and around. That was why Dr Abdishakur’s death touched the hearts of so many people. Dr Abdishakur was a bright shining star in all the networks of his contemporary society. We will never forget him. We will always love him.”
Muuse Joome’s words bring us full circle to Shannon Shaw’s remarks with which we started. Isn’t it amazing how a cousin who grew up with Dr. Abdishakur, and a colleague who knew him only during the short period they worked together, came to the same conclusion concerning his contagious personality? I cannot find any better words to conclude that do justice to Dr. Abdishakur’s life than a line by the Egyptian Poet Ahmed Shawqi:
(الناس صنفان – موتي في حياتهم وآخرون بباطن الأرض أحياء)
“People are of two kinds: those who are dead while they are alive and others who are alive in their graves.”
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* This paper is published in a special issue of Dhaxalreeb e-magazine, dedicated to the Person and Works of late Dr. Abdishakur Jowhar (readsea-online.com/e-books)
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Do we have political amnesia?
As a boy, our house was not blessed with air conditioning. Most of our neighbors’ homes were the same. Our families were mostly refinery working-hand dads and stay-at-home moms. Most of us have long since become immune to the pungent odors produced by the various industries surrounding Port Arthur. Some, however, did not.I recall many nights when smells of the “pogie” plant came drifting through our windows left open to try to stay somewhat cool. These odors were so foul smelling they literally caused people to become so sick they would throw up. It was one of the odors to which we never became accustomed. Strangers and out-of-town visitors would invariably remark on the refinery odors, to which most of our Chamber of Commerce members would simply reply, “That smells like money.” Unfortunately, the odors had more dramatic effects and represented more than simply a bad smell. My dad’s younger brother, a plant employee, fell victim in his 20s to leukemia, probably contracted while working in the benzene plant at one of the refineries. Two of my cousins would almost die because of some of the discharges of a nearby refinery that was less than five blocks from their homes. They were suffering from asthma. When seeking help from the local medical folks, they were told to live with it or move. Eventually, because of other circumstances, they did move to northern Louisiana and amazingly were never bothered with symptoms of asthma again.
Worker safety was non-existent in too many of the surrounding industries. I recall handling one case where workers were forced to do sandblasting with no protective gear whatsoever. When they began falling ill with an ailment that turned out to be silicosis, it was simply dismissed as tuberculosis and two of the workers were placed in the TB hospital in Beaumont. Another of my uncles was blown up on a unit in one of the largest refineries by being forced to continue working on the unit after the so-called safety man questioned its operational safety. At that time, in the good old fashioned justice system of Texas, it was cheaper to kill a worker than injure him badly.
The justice system then, as it was called, was tilted even more in favor of insurance carriers. When I first began practicing law, plaintiffs’ attorneys were saddled with the contributory negligence rule, which barred any recovery whatsoever if a plaintiff turned out to be negligent to any extent. In other words, if a driver was killed at an intersection by a drunk running a red light and the jury determined the victim failed to keep a proper lookout for a car coming the wrong way on a one-way street, the victim lost. Zero recovery. The same people who now claim to be tort reformers, mostly paid by insurance companies, were the same folks who lobbied against changing the contributory negligence rule.
The point of these remembrances is not to prove the old times were bad in early Port Arthur. The point is to remind us all that government can and does quite often serve useful purposes. Because of the EPA ,we are not saddled with disease bearing, obnoxious odors emanating from industry. Because of OSHA, we do have the safety police who, if operating properly, can prevent tragic mishaps in the workplace. Our justice system, although being slowly eroded, still works better now than it did in the 1950s and early ’60s. All of this makes me wonder how people can swallow the conservative line that all of these regulations are killing jobs. I’m all for jobs, but at what price? I am not for one willing to sacrifice a healthy environment for my children and grandchildren simply to get a consortium of rich folks to build another plant, and certainly I’m not willing in the name of building a Rick Perry good business environment to sacrifice my constitutional right to a jury of my peers when I have been wronged.Carl Parker has practiced law in Port Arthur since 1958. He is a 1958 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and the Senate in 1976, Parker continued to practice law while writing and sponsoring hundreds of bills that became laws relating to every aspect of life in Texas, including many regarding consumer safety.
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Here's something that hasn't gotten much attention that should. Late last week, OMB Watch released a valuable background brief on earmarks that gives a good overview of the earmarking process.
Dana Chasin says that the real issue for earmarks is the lack of transparency in the process that has led to corruption. The most effective earmark reforms, Dana writes, would be timely disclosure, revealing to the public what earmarks are being proposed by what lawmakers. He makes a strong case that an outright ban on earmarks won't reduce federal spending...and that really shouldn't be the real focus since earmarked funds are a tiny fraction of the federal budget.
We at the Sunlight Foundation agree that transparency is the needed reform. The Honest Leadership and Government Act of 2007 made some important reforms by providing some of the needed transparency, particularly for the House, but there is so much more that needs to be done.
This document from OMB Watch provides some very useful guidance a set of reforms that could be achievable first steps and that might actually provide some transparency and accountability. Those are good initial goals and they might just prove sufficient.
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So the lack of recognition of Severe Weather Awareness Week in our area is disappointing.
Gov. Robert Bentley declared Feb. 17-22 as a time to prepare for the weather hazards that we experience most frequently in Alabama — thunderstorms, lightning, tornadoes and flash flooding.
Yet no local agencies planned events or took full advantage of social media to tell the public about the importance of being informed, making a plan and building a kit.
Also, no local municipalities participated in this weekend’s sales tax holiday for severe weather preparedness items. Ironically, Jasper’s own Sen. Greg Reed co-sponsored the bill to create the annual exemption.
Several officials contacted by the Daily Mountain Eagle at both the city and county level did not seem to be sufficiently informed of the event.
One noted a difference in the numerous reminders received leading up to the state’s school sales tax holiday each August and the last-minute notification for the severe weather preparedness weekend. Officials cannot participate in or promote an event unless they know about it first.
An annual sales tax holiday for storm readiness supplies was a key recommendation of the governor’s Tornado Recovery Action Council. The council also saw the need for an ongoing awareness campaign that educates the public about how to prepare for a natural disaster.
The state now has an emergency preparedness campaign in place, ReadyAlabama.
Other groups, including several locally, have made strides since April 27th in educating the public about how to protect themselves and their families from severe weather.
However, there is work still to be done.
We at the Daily Mountain Eagle would like to see the day when every person in Walker County recognizes Severe Weather Awareness Week in some way, and we are eager to work with any individuals or agencies who share that vision.
— Daily Mountain Eagle
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The Doctor is an alien, the last of the powerful Time Lords. He is an intrepid traveller through time and space, armed only by his incredible intelligence and his fix-anything sonic screwdriver. He travels alone except for the human companions he befriends, briefly sharing his life with them and showing them the astonishing wonders of the universe. He is a protector of mankind, and his mission is to save the planet from frequent and varied alien attacks. Join the Doctor and Amy Pond in these exciting adventure games full of puzzles, stealth and collectibles and help outwit and overcome two of their greatest foes – the Daleks and the Cybermen.
Episode 1 - City of the Daleks (Included Free)
The TARDIS materializes in 1963 to find the human race destroyed by the Daleks. The Doctor must travel to the home planet of his arch enemy, the Daleks, to correct time and the save the last survivor of Humanity - Amy Pond.
Episode 2 - Blood of the Cybermen
The Doctor and Amy materialise in the Arctic - where members of a geological survey team have started turning from flesh to metal after awakening something that has been dormant for thousands of years - an army of Cybermen.
- Collectibles. Scattered around the game environments are cards that build into a comprehensive collection of Dr Who characters
- Stealth and explore. Run, crawl and navigate the Doctor past enemies, traps and obstacles of various kinds.
- Puzzles. Embedded in each game are a number of puzzles which need to be solved to move the action on
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Spinning Class Benefits
Spinning class benefits are numerous. A regular spinning class is a fun way to change your body shape and greatly increase your fitness level. The benefits reach farther than just your physical body, though; read on to learn all the spinning class benefits.
- Maintain cardiovascular health. A spinning class provides aerobic benefits. The instructor will often ask you to break out of your steady pace and increase your heart rate, which in turn builds your heart muscles.
- Burn calories. A mere 30 minutes on a spinning cycle will burn as much as 500 calories, while longer workouts burn 800 to 1,000 calories. This is not without effort, but doing something for a half an hour that has that big of an impact is a great benefit.
- Control your workout. In a spinning class you can add more resistance to increase your workout, or lower the resistance to allow you to keep up with the class. A spinning class allows you to progress at your own pace without looking out of place.
- Escape. Spinning classes often have training videos of beautiful scenery to escape to as you are riding. This is different than staring at C-Span or Oprah while you run on the gym’s treadmill. Not only does the constantly challenging spinning class allow you to work out at a high intensity, it does so by also allowing you a little fantasy.
- Enjoy low-impact exercise. Spinning keeps the impact off your knees, ankles and feet, giving heavier people, or those in recovery from injuries, a chance to gather the benefits of an intense workout without any stress on their joints.
- Get an abdominal workout. A good spinning instructor will be constantly reminding you to stay in good form. The constant motion and side-to-side action of your abdominals will tone them up without a separate exercise. Since a big spinning class benefit is overall fat loss, eventually the newly-toned abs will be visible.
- Practice group dynamics. Working out in a group keeps you accountable in a subtle way. When you want to give up you can look over and see someone who is really pushing themselves, or spot someone who is struggling. Both scenarios will keep you working towards your goal, either by seeing an inspiration or choosing to be someone else’s inspiration.
- Build mental stamina. Because of the tough workout and set times, another spinning class benefit is the development of the “can do” attitude. Knowing you can accomplish something that is difficult and stick with the spinning class schedule can encourage you to tackle projects with more confidence and gusto.
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Acne on the back, chest, and other parts of the body can be harder to treat than facial acne. The body is made of thicker, tougher skin with thousands of glands that produce a lot of oil.
The Body Regimen is a 3 step process, using common drugstore products. You may have even tried similar products before. But when used precisely as outlined below, you will predictably clear up.
First, watch the video or read through the step-by-step instructions until you are comfortable with the process.
Next, use the product guide to make sure you get the right products.
Below is a typical experience on The Body Regimen. However, many people on the forums say it took them over 3 months to get clear, and they are thankful that they stuck it out.
|Mild to moderate body acne||Moderate to severe body acne|
|Week 1||Mild improvement. Skin may be slightly red and itchy.||Usually slight improvement. Some people have reported an initial worsening of acne. Skin may be slightly red and itchy.|
|Week 2||Further clearing, followed perhaps by a breakout. The breakout clears more quickly than usual. Red spots from old acne linger and may be hard to distinguish from active acne.||Clearing, followed by a breakout. Skin is still somewhat red and itchy. Person is considering other options. Red spots linger and may be hard to distinguish from active acne.|
|Week 3||Skin is definitely improved. Some cases of body acne are cleared up. Others are well on their way. Red spots from old acne linger but are fading.||Skin continues to clear and breakouts are lessened but may be still occurring, albeit to a lesser degree. Skin is less red and no longer itches. Red spots from old acne are evident.|
|Week 4||Skin is looking very good. No new acne is forming, but red spots from old acne may still remain slightly.||For many people, skin is looking remarkably clearer by this time. Others are still frustrated that their skin is not yet clear, but push on. Redness is gone. Red spots from old acne still remain.|
|Week 5-8||Skin stays clear, with perhaps an occasional small pimple. Red spots are fading further.||For many people, the skin is now clear. For others, the struggle continues with intermittent breakouts. Red spots are fading slowly. Despite the urge to deviate from The Body Regimen and experiment, the person sticks with it precisely.|
|Week 8+||Ongoing treatment keeps skin clear. Red spots continue to fade until complexion is beautiful and clear. A mysterious zit pops up from time to time, perhaps from irritation of a backpack, purse strap, etc. But overall, the skin is clear of body acne.||Usually by month 3, most cases are well on their way to becoming under control. Many less severe cases now simply require ongoing treatment to maintain acne-free skin. Red spots continue to fade, but a few may remain for months, or even years. An isolated pimple from time to time is normal and to be expected. An isolated larger lesion may erupt occasionally due to irritation as well.|
If your experience does not closely match the above descriptions, don't fret. Stay patient and follow The Body Regimen precisely and you should see results. If you get an unexplained breakout at any point, look back over the two weeks prior to the breakout and consider how you may have irritated your skin or veered off The Body Regimen. It can take a couple of weeks for acne to surface.
The Body Regimen should be completed both in the morning and in the evening, about 10-12 hours apart.
|1.1||Gentle cleansing is most easily performed in the shower. Dispense 4 mL (about a teaspoon's worth) of cleanser into your palm and get a good lather going (2 full pumps if using Acne.org Cleanser).||Using a generous amount of cleanser will allow you to generate a thick lather. The more lather you generate, the more easily your hands will glide across your skin, thereby reducing irritation.|
|1.2||Very gently wash your problem areas. Stay exceedingly gentle when washing and wash only for a very short period of time. For instance, wash each side of your back or chest for less than 10 seconds or less per side. Rinse.||Cleansing is necessary because it removes surface oils which allows the benzoyl peroxide and/or glycolic acid (alpha hydroxy acid - AHA) to penetrate, but you can easily achieve this goal with bare hands and only a few seconds of washing. Washing for this short a period of time reduces irritation and is one of the most important steps in The Body Regimen.|
|1.3||Upon exiting the shower, gently dry your skin. Do not rub. Just let the towel sit on your skin and absorb the wetness. You may not get completely dry with the towel this way, but that's preferable to irritating rubbing.||Anything which rubs, scratches, or scrubs the skin can cause irritation. Stay very gentle with your towel.|
|1.4||Wait 5-15 minutes until your skin is completely dry. Feel free to do other normal daily activities during this time.||Do not begin Step 2 until your skin is completely dry. This will allow your skin to better absorb.|
|2.1||Wash and dry hands.||This helps remove any oils that may have accumulated on your hands. Exposure to oils can aggravate acne.|
|2.2||Dispense 4 mL (about a teaspoon's worth) of 2.5% benzoyl peroxide (2 full pumps if using 16oz. Acne.org Treatment). When in doubt, use more. Spread it onto one side of your back or chest, allowing your fingers to very gently glide over the skin until the benzoyl peroxide is more or less absorbed. Dispense another 4 mL (about a teaspoon's worth) and apply to the other side of your back or chest. Repeat as necessary, depending on how many parts of your body you are treating.||
Using an extremely generous amount of benzoyl peroxide is crucial. When in doubt, use more!
Note: This refers to only after you have worked up your dosage to the full amount (4mL). If you have sensitive skin, start with a small amount of benzoyl peroxide and work up the amount you use over a week or two.
|2.3||Wait 5-15 minutes until your skin is completely dry. Feel free to do other normal daily activities during this time.||Benzoyl peroxide oxygenates skin, and dries and peels inside the pore. It is important to give it the time it needs to properly medicate and treat acne.|
|Benzoyl peroxide can bleach fabric. This is the most challenging part of this regimen. If you are using benzoyl peroxide in the morning, you may want to wear a white undershirt. Once you are completely clear, try eliminating benzoyl peroxide from the morning routine. Still keep applying the glycolic acid twice a day, but only apply benzoyl peroxide at night and see if you can stay clear with just once daily benzoyl peroxide application. This works well for some people with less severe body acne.|
|3.1||Wash and dry hands.||This helps remove any oils that may have accumulated on your hands. Exposure to oils can aggravate acne.|
|3.2||Dispense 4 mL (about a teaspoon's worth) of 10% glycolic acid for each side of your back or chest (2 full pumps if using 16oz. Acne.org AHA+).||The body is a large area and requires a lot of glycolic acid to properly treat. Don't skimp!|
|3.3||Apply very gently, allowing your fingers to glide over the body until the glycolic acid is more or less absorbed. Wait for the glycolic acid to dry before dressing.||Staying super gentle reduces irritation.|
You can use products from any drugstore to get started right away. However, acne.org also provides products which are carefully formulated to be ideally suited for The Body Regimen.
To best help people follow The Body Regimen strictly, we formulate and produce non-comedogenic, pharmaceutical grade products which come in large, affordable sizes so you can use as much as you need.Visit our store
Buying from the store means you can start treatment almost immediately, which is part of the beauty of The Body Regimen. Even if you choose to go with acne.org products, the drugstore products are always there for you in an emergency.Print product guide
Feel free to check out what users of The Regimen have to say if you'd like.
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The public is paying for everything from cleaning moats to changing light bulbs. Amid the fury, support for Gordon Brown's party is at its lowest in 65 years.
Heard the joke about how many politicians it takes to change a light bulb?
In Britain, voters are less than amused after finding out that the answer seems to be "one," albeit with the help of a team of workmen whose home repair jobs for the same member of Parliament were funded by the taxpayer to the tune of more than $3,000.
The snippet of information is part of a stream of revelations in recent days that have lifted the lid on the culture of manipulation of expense accounts by Britain's political elite and caused deep damage to the reputation of the so-called Mother of all Parliaments.
"This has done enormous damage," says Jonathan Tonge, a professor of political science at Liverpool University. "It also happens to have come at a particularly bad time, when so many people are struggling to make ends meet."
The details on expense claims lodged by members of Parliament (MPs) have been published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in recent days. The stories are making a mockery of many MPs' attempts to convince voters that they are sharing some of the pain of the recession.
Those tainted by the scandal include a Conservative MP, Douglas Hogg, who lodged expenses claims of £2,000 ($3,025) for the cost of cleaning of a moat around his country estate – not exactly the type of thing that helps his party in its ongoing efforts to jettison an image of being a bastion of the upper classes.
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The requirements which health and adult social care providers must meet in order to operate under the new registration system, have been published today by the Department of Health.
The draft Regulations, issued under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 detail the new framework against which the Care Quality Commission will regulate providers of health and adult social care.
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The shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi is one of the most visited pilgrim sites in India. Situated at a height of 5,300 ft., the site is located inside a cave in a hill. This cave temple is at a distance of 61 kms from Jammu and the last 13 kms of the way have to be negotiated on foot by the yatris, as the devotees are called. Once at the entrance to the cave, the path turns into a narrow tunnel with a cold stream named the Charan Ganga running through it. The pilgrim has to wade through this to reach the sanctum sanctorum. In the cave there are images of three deities viz. the Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati.
Arrive Jammu by train (rail) or by air. Meet and assist on arrival at railway station or airport and proceed straight to Katra by Car. Arrive Katra and check in at Hotel. Later proceed to Vaishnodevi Shrine (Approx. 13 km Trek ) One can trek up to the Shrine if fitness permits, otherwise Pony/ Palanquins/Palki/ horse/ doli/ Helicopter are also available. Arrive at Vaishnodevi Bhawan. Wash and change before Mata Darshan. After Mata Vaishno devi Darshan, proceed for Bhaironji Darshan.
Vaishno Devi Yatra By Helicopter: Meet on arrival at airport/ Railway staion and straight drive to Helipad ? Katra by car to board on Helicopter for Sanji Chhat. Departure Katra by Helicopter. Arrival Sanjichhat Onward to Bhawan by foot or Ponies Priority Darshan. After darshan leave by ponies for Sanjichhat for last Helicopter to Katra. Board your helicopter from Katra on the foothills and the flight will drop you at Sanjhi Chat, just about a stone's throw away from the shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi.
Jammu is well connected to the rest of India by air. Both Indian Airlines and Jet Airways operate daily flights to Jammu. The average flying time from New Delhi is about 80 minutes. One can also reach Jammu by rail. Jammu is connected to other parts of country on broad gauge and numerous passenger trains ply from various parts of the country to Jammu. In the peak season of summer and other holidays, the Railways introduce special trains for Jammu for the comfort of the Yatris. Many superfast trains also ply on this route and one can reach Jammu overnight from New Delhi.
Jammu is well connected through road also to rest of India. National Highway No. 1A passes through Jammu towards Srinagar. Regular bus services from all major North Indian cities are available for Jammu as well as Katra. You have reached the world's foremost resource for finding Accommodation/ Hotels in Vaishno Devi. Popular Vaishno Devi Hotels are: Asia Vaishno Devi Hotel, Surya Palace Hotel, Bhawani Z Paradise Hotel.
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We share Christ’s prophetic mission - homecoming for Jesus
By: Irish Community News | Published Thursday, July 12, 2012, 9:45 AM | Updated Thursday, July 12, 2012, 9:45 AM
Our Gospel story this week is a kind of home coming for Jesus. He and His disciples return to where He is known by His family relationships. Jesus does the religiously wrong thing though. On the Sabbath, He is teaching in the synagogue but the town’s folk need to see His credentials for getting up there like that. “Who does he think he is?” But Jesus does know who He is and He does what He knows Himself to be.
The listeners to Him think they know Him, because they know from where He comes, that is from right there among them. But Jesus is from there and way beyond. He has come to be known as coming to everywhere from everywhere. They are amazed and “they took offense at Him”. They were relying on their knowledge and He was inviting them to go beyond what they did know into the relationship of faith.
Their lack of belief was the cause of His not being able to do the signs and mighty deeds that they were seeking. The “honor” for which He was asking them was not based on locale or family ties, but on accepting Him as the one who is sent. He leaves the temple but to add to their confusion, Jesus does heal a few by touching them, but departs as amazed at their lack of faith as they are amazed at His unpredictable behavior.
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An Oregon law that went into effect Tuesday requires all higher education employees — from professors and administrators to maintenance staff and student workers — to report any incidents of child abuse they learn about, even if the incidents are not related to their job.
The law, which affects about 1,300 Rogue Valley employees at Southern Oregon University and Rogue Community College, requires workers to report suspected or known abuse, regardless of whether the abuse is related to their job or is discovered while they are in an official capacity.
"I absolutely agree with this move," said Marlene Mish, director of the Children's Advocacy Center in Medford. "I personally believe all adults should be mandated reporters. All adults should have responsibility over children."
Mish said she hopes universities will properly train staff to be mandated reporters.
"There will have to be a lot of training that goes on, teaching people what to look for," said SOU Director of Human Resources Jay Stephens.
Stephens said SOU is communicating with other universities as the school develops a reporting policy for employees, and that the school likely will hold trainings for the roughly 700 employees on staff who will now be mandated reporters.
Introduced as House Bill 4016 in February 2012, the legislation followed the Penn State University scandal in 2011, in which former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of sexually assaulting at least eight young boys on university property.
An investigation into the assaults determined that university employees, including the school president and head football coach, had known about the allegations and chosen not to report them.
While several high-school level employees subject to mandatory reporting laws were reprimanded for their role in covering up the scandal, university employees were not subject to mandatory reporting.
The school's president resigned, and the head football coach and athletic director were fired. The U.S. Department of Education continues to investigate whether the school followed federal law when reporting the incident.
Oregon's new law requires that all higher education employees, including athletic coaches and trainers, be mandated reporters.
The law also makes employees of public or private organizations that provide services to youth to be mandated reporters.
Some people are nervous about becoming mandated reporters, Mish said, out of fear that they will be identified as the reporter or that they might misreport it or somehow make the situation worse.
"A lot of people don't want to be mandated reporters because they're afraid. They fear getting involved," said Mish. "But we must get involved."
Last month, RCC conducted training at each of its three campuses, teaching employees about their responsibilities under the new law, according to spokesperson Margaret Bradford.
The school is offering online training about detection of child abuse.Roughly 600 employees at RCC are now mandated reporters.
Reach Mail Tribune reporter Teresa Ristow at 541-776-4459or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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FCC Delays on Net Neutrality Decision as Industry Deals Behind Closed Doors
The Federal Communications Commission is delaying consideration of a controversial proposal to enact open Internet rules, today announcing that it will seek additional comments from stakeholders on two of the most contentious aspects of the network neutrality debate.
Meanwhile, however, indications are mounting that tech and telecom industry insiders have been having their own discussions -- and are close to delivering their own proposal for how the FCC should approach net neutrality.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said that the agency will collect comments on the proposal to apply nondiscrimination rules to wireless networks and the extent to which ISPs should be allowed to charge extra rates for speedy delivery of special types of Internet content.
"As we've seen, the issues are complex, and the details matter," Genachowski said in a statement emailed to reporters. "Even a proposal that accepts enforceable rules can be flawed in its specifics and risk undermining the fundamental goal of preserving the open Internet."
The agency's move comes amid ongoing negotiations among industry representatives looking to broker a compromise framework for Congress or the FCC to enact open Internet rules while shielding service providers from some of the more odious regulations that they are lobbying to avoid.
On Tuesday, the head of a technology trade group that has been holding network neutrality talks said that a "final consensus" is near.
Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology and Innovation Council (ITI), said in a statement that talks have been productive and are on track to deliver a compromise proposal for how the Federal Communications Commission should proceed with its contentious plan to enact open Internet rules.
"Over the past few weeks, we've made significant progress in our shared effort to drive continued investment and innovation across the global Internet, while protecting its openness for generations to come," Garfield said.
"When this multi-phase process is complete, we believe there will be ample common ground on which to find a meaningful and consensus-based solution."
An ITI spokeswoman declined to comment further on the details of the talks, but they are understood to focus on the more controversial aspects of the policy debate, including the wireless provisions and the exemption for managed services.
The group, which represents a host of technology firms including Apple, Intel and Oracle, is coordinating discussions with network neutrality supporters Skype and Microsoft, both of which are also ITI members, and representatives of the ISP sector, including AT&T, Verizon and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.
The negotiations are a renewed effort on the part of industry members to reach a compromise on the proper role of the FCC in overseeing broadband service, following the breakdown of a separate set of talks that the commission had been convening.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast described the situation at the FCC as "unstable" as Genachowski mulled the agenda for the agency's meeting later this month.
At issue is a proposal Genachowski floated earlier this year to reclassify broadband service under communications law to a so-called Title II service, a move that would aim to strengthen the FCC's regulatory oversight over ISPs. The move followed a court ruling earlier this year that struck down the commission's order in a high-profile net neutrality case, a legal setback that had called into question the FCC's ability to act on a host of items in its broadband policy agenda -- though none more controversial than net neutrality.
Arbogast noted that the political climate in the run-up to the November elections could move Genachowski to postpone the broadband reclassification issue, citing the potentially "toxic" response that has greeted recent efforts on the part of the commission to implement sharper oversight of Internet service providers.
With today's public notice (available in PDF format here, the FCC has effectively done just that. Comments are due 30 days following the publication of the notice in the Federal Register, with another 25 days left open for reply comments.
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American University students participate at a career job fair at American University in Washington in this March 28, 2012 file photo. It has been nearly four years since the end of the worst U.S. economic downturn since the Great Depression, but the recovery has been too spotty to patch up the deep scars. In April, unemployment among workers under the age of 25 was at 16.1 percent, more than double the national rate. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)
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Daily Topic for February 10, 2007
God went on to reveal to Habakkuk that He planned to use the ruthless Babylonians as His instrument of punishment for the degenerate nation of Judah. At first, Habakkuk protested that God’s strategy seemed to condone the Babylonians’ violence and arrogance. It still seems today that often God is silent “while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves” (1:13). But as we watch the ebb and flow of international affairs, we can be confident that God is wisely and fairly working out His purposes until “the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (2:14).
Father, we praise You that Your Word will indeed be fulfilled so that all peoples on earth may know of Your love.
Ugh, Ugh, Ugh! The guttural sounds accompanied the stomping feet of men’s swaying bodies moving in rows of three concentric circles. Suddenly they stopped, faced right and walked slowly counterclockwise. Gradually they speeded up their pace and each man began to hop on his outside foot until the lines drew closer and closer finally merging into a spinning ball. Again they stopped, reversed their direction and repeated their actions.
This dance-like activity, called “zikr,” took place a few months ago in Chechnya where traditional forms of Islamic religious expression are being revived and displayed in public by Sufi proponents of this demonstrative Arabian interpretation of Islam.
Much of the administration of Chechnya is conducted by pro-Russian, Kremlin-backed kadyrovsky Sufis. Even though the Kremlin has been concerned for decades about Islam’s influence in this Islamic region, no efforts to eliminate the organized Sufi brotherhood’s activities have succeeded. Indeed, the above “zikr” ceremony was to bless the foundation of a mosque, which rests on the site of the Communist Party’s former regional committee’s headquarters! It will hold 10,000 worshippers making it the largest in the republic. Its sprawling complex will include a religious school.Learn more at joshuaproject.net
Pray that God will send some of His dedicated followers to lovingly display the peace and power of Christ’s presence in a person’s life.-MC
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Sri Lanka government to buy back excess boats
July 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka government is planning to buy back the surplus boats which have been distributed among the fisher folks after the tsunami disaster. Ministry of Fisheries is now collecting information on these excess boats.
There are many fibre glass day boats which are not used and lying idle in beaches. These boats are not in use because of the lack of skilled fishermen to work in them, due to operational losses caused by the government's restrictions such as high security zones and due to the lack of fishing gear. In some cases the boats have been received by non fishermen who do not have the fishing skills.
Many non governmental organizations also have distributed boats and some of them are not suitable for sea fishing due to the poor quality of them.
About 5000 fishermen lost their lives and tens of thousands of fisher families were made homeless due to the tsunami on 26th December 2004. According to government estimates, 54% of the country’s fishing fleet was totally destroyed by the tsunami.
“Viyaparika Diriya” in tsunami hit areas
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, together with the District Chambers of Commerce is facilitating a UNDP assisted market-linkage project “Viyaparika Diriya” in Tsunami affected areas in a bid to expand market access of Tsunami-affected entrepreneurs beyond their regions.
As part of this sustainable recovery project, handloom manufactures from Ampara will meet with businessmen from the South, from the 16th to the 20th of July, 2006, with a view to forming profitable market linkages.
Accordingly Micro entrepreneurs attached to Maruthamunai Development Company (Peoples) Ltd and Zam-Zam Cooperative Society Ampara will meet entrepreneurs in Kalutara, Matara, Matara and Hambantota districts.
The project methodology relies on a well-researched platform. Medium, small and micro enterprises (MSMEs) including Tsunami-affected entrepreneurs have found it difficult to expand their markets beyond their regions. Further there are no formal or informal modes to promote regional market links. Thus, all District Project Officers (DPO’s) will screen the regional situation and identify the needs of thrust industries in their areas. Thereafter information will be shared with the UNDP project staff and other district project officers through the CCC as market offers. The receiving project officers will then identify suitable buyers for the offer in their areas. The next step will be for the manufacturers to visit potential buyers and during the visit the project officers at both ends will assist to arrange one to one meetings.
During the visits, the manufacturers will get the opportunity to exhibit their products to potential buyers. Prior to the visit they will provide a price list and the product specifications to the DPO are thus enabling them to promote viable market linkages. Throughout the process, the project officers in the district chambers together with the UNDP field officers will play the role of facilitation and coordination. The entrepreneurs at both ends will be responsible for the entire business transaction.
Red-tape worse than tsunami for victims
Even after a lapse of sixteen months, red-tape, political favoritism and bureaucratic bungling has led to several of the tsunami victims still being left homeless in Galle. Life however goes on for them although they are slowly losing hope in ever getting their livelihoods back, some even wishing that their lives were taken away by the tsunami, rather than waking up to another day of uncertainty.
“People who have not even been affected by the waves have received permanent housing while we are still stuck here suffering,” said N.K. Shyamali from a shelter near the Dodanduwa Bridge in Galle.
Eight families live in these transit homes in Galle who say it was given to them by the JVP. Most of these families, including about twenty children, were involved in the fishing industry before the tsunami.
“Now we live with what we can earn on a day to day basis,” Shyamali said, adding that when the government distributed houses it did not go to the people who really needed them. “At first, when we were subjected to a 100 metre restriction, there were so many people ready to build us houses. But after they restricted it to 35 metres there is hardly anyone to help us,” she explained. “There are 400 houses still to be given out in the Monroviyawatta and nothing has been done yet.”
Still fearing to venture out to sea, they say that their children suffer with the images of the tsunami. “They wake up at night screaming sometimes,” Shyamali remarked.
G.H. Banduseeli who is trying her best to make ends meet remains a sustainable force in the Koggala Transit Camp, close to the Singhadeevara village. Her father had died long before the tsunami and Banduseeli, who owned a small dressmaking shop, also lost her mother to the tsunami.
“They didn’t recognize me for compensation because I wasn’t in the householders’ list,” she said adding that she received a sewing machine from an NGO and was managing to make ends meet with her little shop. “We do not even have proper drinking water. So I pay for a bowser to come and fill a tank near my house,” she said, adding that people in the area pay her for the water, helping her to cover the cost.
The Habaraduwa Transit Camp is situated in the former G.V.S. De Silva Primary School which has been moved to another part of the town now. Again subjected to the 100 metre restriction, the families here could not reconstruct their homes and hardly received any compensation from the government.
Most of them have had small businesses before the tsunami. “The shelter we live in now was made by the Dutch Church in Galle,” said one of the residents adding that they had to use a common kitchen to cook their meals.“We have repeatedly gone to the relevant authorities, written to the President and to Ministers, but we are still where we were two years ago,” she went on echoing the sentiments of the others whose only wish is to be able to survive.
National Symposium on career guidance, counselling first ever
The first ever National Symposium on Career Guidance and Counselling was held on Sunday by the International Scholar Educational Services (Pvt) Ltd (ISES).
In view of the lack of proper career guidance facilities in Sri Lanka, ISES has been involved in this endeavour through their programme “Helping Sri Lankans to be International Scholars”, the institute’s Chairman / CEO said.
“We have been very fortunate to get the blessings and support of Ministry of Education, Universities Grants Commission (UGC) and the Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) in organizing this event. With the support of these institutions, we were able to put together an eminent panel of resource personnel to do presentations in their respective professional areas,” he said.
ISES provides a unique service, which is rendered free of charge in offering the best study options to suit one’s financial status and in the country of one’s choice as well.
According to the institute many prestigious institutions have approached them to be their representative in Sri Lanka
The very high level of professionalism displayed and the ethical manner adhered to in the deliverance of service is recognized and appreciated by principals, parents and students alike.
It has been noted that ISES provides for representation of universities in Australia, the UK, the USA, Malaysia, India, Russia, the Netherlands and New Zealand.
ISES caters to the requirements of a wide cross-section of students as they represent more than 45 institutions in 11 countries and have established an offshore campus in Sri Lanka to conduct courses of international recognition.
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How to wire a 2-speed pool pump
Your new 2-speed pool pump finally arrived, the product of your long study of energy efficient pool pumps (now required in many states). It may come as a surprise to you that your existing pool timeclock no longer seems to be suitable for a 2 speed motor.
Sad, but true. 2 speed motors need to have a third wire, the low speed wire, coming from the timeclock. These types of pool and spa timeclocks are known as DPDT (Double Pole, Double Throw). A jumper between two of the terminals allows for low speed current to pass through to the pool pump. A standard Intermatic type of pool timeclock, (T104) can be replaced with the T106 series timeclocks, or the T106 can be wired in between the T104 and the 2 speed pump.
Alternatively, purchase a digital timeclock mechanism (shown in picture), and this will handle the job of adding the third wire from the timeclock to the pump. You still will need to add the third wire to the wiring harness.
The third wire should be a 12 ga wire, and you may find it difficult to stuff in a third wire into the flexible conduit that runs from the timer to the pool pump. It may be easiest to remove the wire harness completely from both the time clock and the pump - from both ends. Then twist all the wire together slightly and push through the conduit again, then reconnect.
Follow the instructions with your new DPDT timer (T106) or the Digital timers by Intermatic (PE153x) series in wiring from the breaker box to the new timer and from the timer to your new 2 speed pool pump. If you need to install the pump right away, you can install it as a one speed pump, and then you have time to order your new timeclock, and make the switchover.
If you have a controller system, such as a Jandy system, consult the owner's manual - many controllers will be able to power a two-speed pool pump with just a few configuration changes on your part.
Congratulations on buying a 2 speed pump, you are close to saving a ton of energy - once you get the motor rewired, that is!
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your website, please contact the author by the email link at the top of the page. Thank you
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In the quotidian practice of chronicling competition, sports journalists create heroes.
While keeping up with this tradition for one Heisman Trophy candidate at the University of Notre Dame, journalists at dozens of news organizations, media critics say, fell short of their duty to check facts independently.
Others say their journalistic shortcomings were understandable, chalking up the misrepresentation as an honest mistake born of a naïve or fraudulent primary source who triggered no obviously discernible reason for doubts.
Local and national media, including ESPN, SI.com, CBS and USA TODAY Sports, reported in recent months about one Lennay Kekua, a now-proven-to-be-fictional Stanford student whose untimely death in September inspired her boyfriend, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, to play in her honor as the team reached the NCAA football championship game.
With the dramatic revelation late Wednesday afternoon that Kekua never existed and is part of an elaborate hoax, new questions are arising about the media's obligation to fact-check details even amid tighter deadlines, shrinking newsroom staffs and the ceaseless chatter blaring across social media. The hoax was first reported by Deadspin.com, a sports news site.
Enticed by the drama of the star-crossed lovers, numerous reporters took Kekua's existence as fact and freely repeated details from other existing media reports without attempting to speak directly to Kekua, her friends or family members.
"I'm afraid this is the mark of our times," says Tim McGuire, a journalism ethics professor at Arizona State University and former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "It's an old adage. If your mother tells you (she loves you), check it out. No one's checking urban myths here. This is really an ugly mark on journalism."
Of course, reporters constantly receive facts from sources that are printed without independent verification. Checking each and all factoids would be virtually impossible, particularly in these financially trying times when newsrooms are laying off employees. The journalistic policy on how thoroughly and deeply facts ought to be checked with references other than the original source is an enduring question in many newsrooms.
ASU's McGuire says journalists should ask one simple question when faced with the fact-check quandary: "At what point will you lose credibility with your readers if that fact isn't true?" asks McGuire. "We're in the trust business."
In a statement released Wednesday, Te'o says he didn't mislead the public and that he, too, is the victim of an elaborate hoax that led him to believe in Kekua's existence.
In a press conference, Jack Swarbrick, Notre Dame's athletic director, insisted that Te'o never met Kekua in person but that the player believed in the authenticity of his online-and-phone-only relationship with her.
"Reporters should have done some minimum level of diligence," says Bill Reader, a journalism professor at Ohio University. "Is there a Facebook page? Is there an obit on Legacy.com? Where did the incident happen? That's the kind of minimal (fact-checking) that should happen, but doesn't for a complex set of reasons."
Some in social media sympathized with reporters such as Gene Wojciechowski, an ESPN columnist who interviewed Te'o and aired an ESPN segment about the player's tragedy earlier this year.
"I sat across from him, and I was moved by his story and it was heartbreaking and heartwarming," he explained on ESPN Wednesday. "But short of asking to see a death certificate, I'm not sure what most people would do differently in that case."
Wojciechowski says he tried to find Kekua's obituary and any record of the car accident that he was told happened prior to her death. He says he asked Te'o for Lennay's family contact information but was told that the family would prefer not to be contacted.
In October, the South Bend Tribune in Indiana published one of the earliest stories about Te'o's romance with Kekua and her death. Eric Hansen, a reporter at the paper who wrote the story, says he didn't try to contact Kekua's friends or family members because he trusted his sources, including Te'o, Te'o's father and Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly. "I dealt with the people I've been dealing with for years. People I trust," he says. "(If I had reached out to her friends or family members,) I'd have been talking to people who were lying."
His story was widely circulated again on Twitter Wednesday. The newspaper re-displayed the story on its website Wednesday night with other links from the updates based on Wednesday's development.
"Its' a plausible story," Reader says. "This was bought into by coaches, the university's PR office. People who don't normally lie to reporters. I can see why, in a rush to beat the competition, they'd err on the side of trusting people. I think they were betrayed by not just an individual but an institution of the university and the whole concept of Division I athletics."
The complex web of social media and the messy footprints left in this case - the involved parties' Twitter accounts (some fake) and their tweets acknowledging each other, and photos of the fake girlfriend - may have also detracted reporters and weakened their sense of skepticism.
"If someone decides to abuse social media, it becomes more difficult (for reporters)," McGuire says.
The dramatic elements of Te'o's love story also drove reporters to overlook the inconsistencies in reported information, Reader says. "It's what-a-story! All one word. This is huge! This is big! As soon as you're talking about huge and big, your emotion starts pumping and, all of a sudden, you're bringing drama to it," he says.
There were several points in the story development that should have triggered a few extra phone calls, especially as Te'o was being promoted heavily by the university as a Heisman candidate, McGuire says. Verifying a car accident would have taken "one phone call."
At a minimum, that Te'o wouldn't attend Kekua's funeral - even at her insistence - should have prompted Notre Dame's public relations department to inquire further, McGuire adds. "This is a serious fraud."
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January 3, 2013 — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) on Dec. 28 signed a broad measure (HB 5711) that imposes several new restrictions on abortion rights, but he vetoed a separate health insurance overhaul (SB 1293, SB 1294) because of a provision barring health plans and employers from providing abortion coverage, Reuters reports (Kelleher, Reuters, 12/28/12).
HB 5711, which the Senate and House approved last month, requires physicians to determine if a woman has been coerced into seeking an abortion and deliver a written "risk assessment" to patients at least 24 hours prior to an abortion. The bill also bans the use of telemedicine in reproductive health care, including for birth control.
Additionally, the bill requires facilities that provide 120 or more abortions per year to undergo inspections and pay an annual licensing fee to become certified as outpatient surgical centers. The provision would require many clinics to complete costly renovations to meet the same building standards as outpatient surgical facilities.
A controversial requirement that an aborted fetus be buried, cremated or interred was removed from the final legislation (Women's Health Policy Report, 12/14/12). The final bill also omitted a requirement that a woman undergo a physical exam before obtaining emergency contraception (Bouffard, Detroit News, 12/29/12).
In a news release, Snyder said the measure "respects a woman's right to choose while helping her protect her health and safety." The law takes effect March 31.
Health Insurance Bill
Meanwhile, Snyder vetoed legislation that would have converted Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan into a consumer-owned, not-for profit insurer. Although Snyder initially sought the legislation, he objected to language that was added to prohibit health plans and employers from offering abortion coverage (Karoub, AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/28/12). Under the provision, women who wanted abortion coverage would have to purchase it through a separate rider (Martin, MLive, 12/28/12).
"I don't believe it is appropriate to tell a woman who becomes pregnant due to rape that she needed to select elective insurance coverage," Snyder commented. He added, "And as a practical matter, I believe this type of policy is an overreach of government into the private market" (AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 12/28/12).
State Sen. Rebekah Warren (D), formerly Michigan's NARAL affiliate director, said the enactment of HB 5711 marked a "sad day for Michigan women," adding that women "will pay for this legislation with their dignity, health, and ultimately some even with their lives." She noted that access to basic gynecological care is already difficult in Michigan, as more than one-fourth of counties lack an ob-gyn.
In a statement, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards said the bill "was meant to ban abortion in Michigan, and it was pushed through in a lame-duck session by legislators who were voted out of office because of their extreme views on women's health" (Yarrow, Daily Beast, 12/28/12).
Supporters of HB 5711 said it will protect women's safety. "Licensing and inspecting abortion clinics for health and safety standards will serve to better protect those women who, regrettably, choose the path of abortion," said Rebecca Mastee, a policy advocate for the Michigan Catholic Conference (MLive, 12/28/12).
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The Games offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase the UK’s cultural strengths, to enhance positive perceptions of the UK and develop new and lasting international collaborations and connections.
Unlimited was a groundbreaking three-year initiative that commissioned 29 new pieces of work by deaf and disabled artists from the UK.
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Diagnosis for dog cushings disease requires undergoing various tests. There are 4 phases to ensure that there is cushings disease and the cause of the cushings disease is to be determined. the first of the four tests is the urine test for cortisol. Dogs with cushings disease will surely have high cortisol levels in thier blood. If there is no abnormal cortisol levels in the blood, your dog surely does not have cushings disease at all. if the Urine test indeed shows high cortisol levels, the second test is recommended to confirm the cause.
The ACTH test is the second in line and during this test, a blood sample is retrieved and tested to note down cortisol levels. An ACTH injection is administered to the do which increase adrenal levels. After 2 hours the blood sample is retrieved again for tests and if the cortisol level is higher than the first test, it assures that there is indeed cushings disease. Otherwise, chances are that it is not suffering from cushings disease.
Cushings disease, Due to multiple symptoms could be deceiving without proper tests. The symptoms of Cushings disease could let most vets believe that the are related to other disease including cancer and malnutrition but proper tests and prognosis could treat cushings disease to a better level and extend your dog’s Life expectancy by 2-3 years. Most dogs affected by cushings diseases are old and above the age of 6 with a few exception.
Cushings disease tests for dogs include
1. Urine Cortison or Creatine ration tests
2. ACTH Stimulation Test
3. Low Dose Dexamethasone Suppression TEst
4. High dose Dexamethasone Suppression Tests
Urine Cortison or Creatine ration tests
the first test most Vets will recommend is the Urine cortisone test. This test will tell you if your dog is indeed suffering from cushings disease. But this will not be the final test if the test turns out positive. Dogs with cushings disease will have cortisol levels which are high. so this test if taken , and if the cortisol levels are low or normal, there is a sure shot chance that there is no cushings disease. Your tests for other diseases depending on the symptoms will be required to confirm what the disease is.
ACTH Stimulation Test
This the next test which is required for dogs with cushings diseases. The ACTH is injected to the do to increase cortisol levels. The Process would have a normal Cortisol level after 2 hours, but for a dog with cushings diseases, The cortisol level is far higher than the first test. Its still difficult the cause of the cushings disease and if its pituitary related or Adrenal Gland related. Further tests are recommended to round off the cause and get the right treatment.
Prognosis for cushings disease may require you to do the 2 other tests to assure the kind of Cushings disease.
Cushings disease in Dogs otherwise known as hyperadrenocorticism is caused due to excessive production of a hormone called cortisol by the adrenal gland. the adrenal gland is located above the belly and never the kidney. A very common problem in dogs, Cushings disease is rare in cats. Cushings disease can happen to any dog and of any age, but dogs above the age of 6 are common victims as compared to the younger dogs. though a single organ malfunction, Cushings disease could affect multiple organs due to excessive cortisol, and thus the symptoms are usually on a wider range.
Common Symptoms of cushings disease in dogs includes hair loss, bloated belly, increased appetite and thirst, Excessive urination and inability to control urination even if house trained. Hair loss in dogs with cushings disease affect the body except for the head and legs. The skin seems to be thinner and thus are victims to injuries and bruises easily. The hair loss in dogs with cushings disease is not related to itching or scratching. They rarely seem to itch or scratch their body at all.
Other Less seen symptoms of Cushings disease in dogs include panting, weakness, difficulty breathing, Awkward walking style. Most dogs end up being a lot more inactive and retreat to their corner most of the time.
Symptoms of cushings disease can be seem with use of drugs like prednisone. Its important to do prior tests before treating for cushings disease for your dog. Self medication is not recommended for cushings disease at all. Stopping prednisone will soon get your dog to be normal over a period of time.
cushex drops side effects are often a concern for people using any alternative medicines. Unlike prescription drugs, Alternative medicine and natural medicines do not have side effects at least not as daunting as prescription drugs. Fortunately, Cushex drops is tested extensively and have been found to have no side effects in dogs suffering from cushings disease
since most dogs suffering from Cushings disease are often over the age of 6 and mostly over 10, its important to consider the age of the dog and treat them accordingly. Treating your dog with prescription drugs or surgeries will make your dog more sensitive during the old age. Natural remedies are almost often comes with no side effects and best of all these are efficient.
For more information on Cushex drops, its ingredients and how effectve it is, check out more information on the petalive website at petalive.com Most dogs find it beneficial for their health and pet owners are full of complements for the new Cure for cushings disease and testimonies flows. Cushex drops side effects is certainly out of question
treatment for canine cushing’s disease includes medication and surgery. There are other treatments including chemotherapy which may help some dogs but have been found to be excessively harmful to most dogs.
Vetoryl and Anipryl are 2 major medicines which are available in the market today and is approved by the FDA. Unfortunately both these drugs come with a range of restrictions and complications , not to mention the side effects.
Most pet owners have been considering Natural remedies which are cheaper and far more effective than prescription drugs for dogs. Among the best treatment for canine cushing’s disease comes adrenal harmony gold. This product has been around for a while now and is tested with pets and has found results and testimonies from a range of users. Unfortunately, Adrenal harmony gold is ineffective in dogs with advanced cushings disease. Vetoryl or anipryl would probably help to some extent in dogs with advanced cushings disese.
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Cushex Drops is one of the few natural remedies available in the market to cure Cushings disease in dogs. Cushings disease is caused in dogs over the age of 6 and in most cases are not curable with prescription drugs. The prescription drugs like Anipryl and other alternatives which are indeed FDA approved are not safe for use in dogs and often come with side effects. chemotherapy and surgery are options which are not effective in dogs during old age as recovery from surgery is very slow.
Natural remedies like Cushex drops, Supraglan or Adrenal harmony gold are some of the best options to treat cushings disease in dogs. Cushings disease in dogs are effectively treated with natural remedies without any side effects. the content of cushex drops is similar to Supraglan or adrenal harmony gold. below is the list of all ingredients in Cushex Drops by petalive.
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Cushings disease is one of the most common dog problems. dogs over the age of 6 are the most prone to this disease though there have been noted instances of dogs below the age of 6 too. The cause of the problem has been mentioned as excessive cortisol excretion from the adrenal gland.
dogs tend to have a range of symptoms when faced with the cushings disease and the most common symptoms include the following
1. Excessive thirst: This is a sure symptom and all dogs with cushings disease will face this symptom.
2. Excessive hunger : Most dogs with cushings tend to eat a lot more than they would. you would see them begging for more food even if they have had their full meal
3. Panting : Panting usually happens when the dog is either come from a short run or a good game. Panting while at home indicates stress and excitement. this is the direct effect of all the adrenalin which runs in them.
4. Hair loss. most dogs loose their hair from their body except from the limbs and head. the skin is flaky and thin.
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Cushings Disease in dogs prognosis has always been steady. There has been no variations in the details. Every dog with cushings disease and confirmed to be diseased has a life expectancy of not more than 36 months. Dogs with Cushings diseases are often above the age of 8 with very few exceptions.
Cushings disease in dogs prognosis also indicates that most dogs with cushings disease (over 90%) are fed with commercial diet with packed food and indications of high chemical levels. Natural medicines are often known to slow down the symptoms of dog Cushings disease , therby extending life of the dog.
A detailed prognosis of Dog cushings disease can be found on various websites including petmd and earthclinic. We suggest you go through these website in detail and get to know the disease before you start treating your dog for cushings disease
Cushing’s syndrome in dogs and treatment for cushings disease in dogs has taken a roller coaster of studies. While many of the experienced veterinarians will tell you that cushings diseases cannot be cured and is no way linked to the diet or exercise, and some go to the extend of telling you that they are hereditary Others in the natural medicine areas will tell you that its a cause of diet and environment.
Treatment for cushings disease could range from the same drugs which are used to treat cancer in the modern veterinary science. They could be devastating to the dogs health and often lead to more implications and problems which are uncalled for. Natural medicine for cushings syndrom in dogs treatment calls for natural herbs and products from nature, which have been used to cure the symptoms of cushings in humans and found effective in dogs. For a detailed list of its features and benefits, we recommend you try out reading some of the articles on cushings disease in dogs below.
Pet lovers with dogs often wonder How do dogs get cushing’s disease? Dogs with cushings disease are by products of years of mistreatment in a gross scale. Dogs with cushings disease are often known to have an improper diet, Lack of care and more of chemical and pesticide included diet. Commercial food often are noted cause of cushings disease in dogs.
Chemicals and preservatives, often included in the normal diet of a dog food could affect the pituitary gland of the dog and is a result of these dog foods. They can be prevented, but cure in dogs is limited. Dogs with cushings disease should often be treated with care and proper diet. In advanced stages of Cushings disease, Dogs are recommended with natural diet (if they can absorb it) and proper exercises.
The key cause of Dog cushings disease is still linked to the diet and environmental issues which we provide to our dog.
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In todayfs globalized world of bustling socio-economic activity, we have access to news of all kinds from every part of the planet as soon as it becomes available via information networks. The development of transportation and information technology has effectively made the globe smaller, allowing us to feel closer to people in other parts of the world.
As globalization continues, Muroran Institute of Technology pursues its mission of preparing students to become engineers and researchers equipped with the communication skills they will need to operate effectively in todayfs world as well as a variety of practical skills. Many international students study engineering and technology on the campus, while an increasing number of students also study abroad and participate in overseas programs. In the field of research, the number of faculty members giving presentations at international conferences and interacting with other universities and institutes for research purposes grows annually. The number of overseas visitors to the university has also increased. As Muroran Institute of Technologyfs profile in the international arena grows, it is expected to engage in research and education in the fields of industrial technology and engineering that will produce outcomes from international collaboration. Against this background, the institutefs Center for International Relations supports such activities based on international collaboration among students and faculty members. Formerly known as the Office of International Affairs, the center was set up in 1992. In 2007, it was developed and re-established as a comprehensive organization for international activities, including the hosting of students from overseas, the promotion of international collaboration efforts, and education to develop studentsf international awareness.
As a result of the centerfs efforts, more than 100 international students currently study at the institute, and international exchange agreements have been concluded with 31 overseas universities with several more in the pipeline. A total of 306 students have traveled abroad to participate in overseas programs and for other purposes. The center plans to continue promoting its program of international exchange activities to support the development of extensive global educational and research environments.
In response to the eagerness of students and faculty members to communicate with people worldwide, to engage in various activities, and to act as bridges for cultural exchange between Japan and other countries, I hope the center will continue to fulfill its duties by providing support for the development of new approaches to international exchange and collaboration and by producing students capable of playing significant roles on the global stage.
Students interested in international activities and experiences are invited to visit the center, whose staff are keen to support the enthusiasm and interest of all comers.
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Oldspeak: “Gaza is a huge prison where people are dependent on charity, with no means to earn a living, no freedom of movement. Where women and children are shot dead waving white flags, where people are herded into a house, and bombed by American made jets…The apartheid has to stop.”
From Amy Goodman @ Democracy Now:
Meeting at the White House, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the “unbreakable” bond between Israel and the United States. Despite ongoing Israeli settlement expansion, roadblocks, closures and the attack on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Obama said he thinks Israel “has shown restraint.” The meeting came on the heels of a decision by the Israeli military prosecutor to take disciplinary and legal action in four separate cases from Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza last year. We speak to veteran Israeli journalist Amira Hass.
Amira Hass, Ha’aretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama hosted talks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Tuesday in a push to restart direct negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials. Obama urged the two sides to resume talks before the partial freeze on building illegal Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank expires in September. At a joint news conference after their meeting Tuesday morning, both Obama and Netanyahu emphasized the unbreakable bond between Israel and the United States and downplayed recent U.S. Israeli tensions over the settlements. In his remarks to the press, President Obama made no mention of settlement expansion or the Israeli commando attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla that killed nine people including a U.S. citizen. He noted that Netanyahu is “Willing to take risks for peace” and praised Israel’s moves to begin easing the blockade of Gaza.
BARACK OBAMA: Let me first of all say that I think the Israeli government working through layers of various governmental entities and jurisdictions have shown restraint over the last seven months that I think has been conducive to the prospects of us getting into direct talks. I think it is very important that the Palestinians not look for excuses for incitement, that they’re not engaging in provocative language, that at the international level they are maintaining a constructive talk as opposed to looking for opportunities to embarrass Israel.
AMY GOODMAN: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu echoed President of in his optimism about moving forward with direct negotiations but warned that Israel wants a secure peace.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We don’t want a repeat of the situation where we vacate territories and those are overtaken by Iran’s proxies and used as launching grounds for terrorist attacks, rocket attacks. I think there are solutions that we can adopt—but in order to proceed to the solution, we need to begin negotiations in order to end them. Without proximity talks, I think it’s high time to begin direct talks.
AMY GOODMAN: Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama came on the heels of a decision by the Israeli military prosecutor to take disciplinary and legal action and four separate cases from Israel’s 22-day assault on Gaza last year. One soldier was charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of a Palestinian mother and daughter who were shot while waving white flags. The prosecutor also called for criminal investigation into air-strikes on a building into which Israeli troops had ordered 100 members of a single-family. Over two dozen members of the family were killed in the shelling. For more on the U.S. Israeli relations and prospects for peace and accountability, I’m joined on the telephone from Tel Aviv by veteran Israeli journalist Amira Hass, she’s the Ha’aretz correspondent for the occupied Palestinian territories and the only Israeli journalist to have spent several years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. Amira, welcome to Democracy Now!, your comments on the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama yesterday and what came of it.
AMIRA HASS: Oh, I have no comment, I thought we were talking about something else, I did not even watch it. By the time we know really what happened there—it will take some time before we know really what happened there. I only hope that or I suspect Obama allowed himself to be misled by the sweet talk of Netanyahu. That is my impression, or that is my guess. I am sorry because I—
AMY GOODMAN: Well Amira, let me ask you, President Obama praised Netanyahu for the easing of the blockade. Can you talk about what that means?
AMIRA HASS: Perhaps Obama should ask himself if he would set aside in life of just getting chips and ketchup and Coca-Cola and not being allowed to produce, to create, to export, to send his daughters to university, to have visitors from outside—if this is the life that he thinks are suitable for human beings, then maybe all the Americans who voted for him made a mistake.
AMY GOODMAN: Well explain—
AMIRA HASS: Because the blockade here. Look, everybody talks about food when we come to this blockade. So now Israel is giving some more items of food, allowing the Palestinian merchants to buy some more items of food to get into Gaza and maybe some other stuff, I don’t know. But everything which is connected to raw materials for industry, for producing, anything connected to construction material is very limited. Nothing has changed. So adding ketchup, as somebody told me, does not make people feel that the blockade is over. Maybe now there are more types of shampoo that Israel will allow to enter. But anyway, in the past years, Palestinians have managed to bring in shampoo and some other hygiene products from Egypt through the tunnels. This is not the blockade.
The blockade is about being imprisoned in Gaza. This is the real closure. This is the real siege. And this is not going to change. Only today there was a court hearing of the petition of a Palestinian lawyer, woman lawyer, female lawyer, from Gaza who wants to complete her M.A. Studies at the University and the state does not allow her because they say when it comes to the passage, the movement of human beings, nothing has changed. They still do not allow or they haven’t been allowed anywhere for the past ten or fifteen years but evermore severely, they don’t allow the passage, the movement of people between Gaza and the West Bank except in some rare, very exceptional humanitarian cases. So this remains the same. This remains the same. also, Palestinians cannot export. Israel is talking only about bringing in products, not exporting. So even if Palestinians got raw materials, for example for textiles for furniture, the traditional industry that Gazans excel at, they are not allowed to export them. So they won’t earn a living. So Gaza is a huge prison where people are dependent on charity, some sort of charity. This situation is not going to change now, with Israel’s new measures.
AMY GOODMAN: Amira Hass, the meeting yesterday between Netanyahu and Obama came on the heels of the decision by the Israeli military prosecutor to take disciplinary and legal action in four separate cases in the Israeli assault on Gaza last year. Among them, a soldier charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of a Palestinian mother and daughter. Can you explain that story?
AMIRA HASS: There’s several—I have spoken to the family, I think it was the—second day or the first morning, the first day of the ground invasion where people understood that they should leave their homes and go from the east of Gaza more to the west, towards the city itself. There was a group of people, 30, 40 people, with children, with women. The whole area is an agricultural area, with scattered house, it is not heavily populated. They left with waving white flags and from a distance, I do not remember how many meters, 60, 70, 100, a tank stopped them then shot the mother and the daughter. The family couldn’t even bury them, they had to flee. They had to flee, they came back a week or 15 days later to recover the corpses. These are the mother and the daughter.
The same unit was in charge of the whole area and I have like many others and human rights field workers, we have researched all the measures of this unit over the area, the destruction of houses, the bombings, shellings, not allowing people to reach—to get rescued by medical teams. This has been the case all over this area and other places, but very strongly in this area, where the Samouni’s, a bit further to the west, the Samouni family, which you also mentioned, are a typical one—one of the most difficult cases of this onslaught. As you said, 29 people were killed. 21 or 22 of whom in the house to which the soldiers themselves ordered them to be in. So the soldiers knew very well there were civilians gathered in the house feeling secure because there were asked to be there. And what is very surprising is it took the army so long, a year and a half, to admit that something-–went wrong there-–even to according to their criteria. Because all the information was valid, was available from the start. From the start the information to at least suspect about what the soldiers were saying. Why wait so long? It seems not by surprise-–not by coincidence the announcement came yesterday just on the eve of Mr. Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama.
AMY GOODMAN: So the Samouni family, 29 killed in that family, the Israeli military told them to go into that house and then they struck the House?
AMIRA HASS: Sorry?
AMY GOODMAN: The story of the Samouni family, the 29 members—
AMIRA HASS: This is just—it is in the same area where the other family, the mother and the daughter were killed. It’s the same unit. We see overall the practices of shooting at civilians from very short range, close range, shooting at people carrying white flags, not allowing rescue teams to arrive to the wounded, not allowing people to rescue their own relatives. Here in the Samouni family, the unique case, the soldiers were talking to the people. They were even talking in Hebrew because all of these people knew the man in the family spoke Hebrew because they were working in Israel for many years. This was-–in that particular case, it was an extreme in the standards of the onslaught on Gaza.
AMY GOODMAN: Could you also comment on the committee tasked by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the nine deaths aboard the aid flotilla that was headed to Gaza? The head is going to be Philippe Kirsch, the former president of international criminal court.
AMIRA HASS: When was it published? When was it known? I did not follow it.
AMY GOODMAN: It just recently came out. But this meeting that is happening between Netanyahu and Obama its the first since then. In fact, Netanyahu was supposed to meet with Obama, but Netanyahu left in the midst of—right after the strike to return to Israel when the attack on the flotilla happened.
AMIRA HASS: He left?
AMY GOODMAN: This is the first meeting they’ve had since then. The fallout from that, Amira Hass?
AMIRA HASS: I am sorry, the line—
AMY GOODMAN: The fallout from the attack on the Gaza flotilla. It wasn’t mentioned yesterday, but what you think the fallout has been?
AMIRA HASS: I don’t know.
AMY GOODMAN: In the territories—
AMIRA HASS: Why it has not been mentioned?
AMY GOODMAN: No, what has been the fallout in Israel and Gaza?
AMIRA HASS: Look, right now people think it has calmed down. People are looking for, and politicians are looking for, ways to sort things out with Turkey, especially the military. I think the military cherishes, the relations—old relations with Turkey. I think they want to amend. They came yesterday with a story, some of the corpse posthumous analysis showed that some of the people-–there were some other bullets other than the military bullets. So they still keep to the version that it’s the Israeli soldiers who were attacked. So right now in Israel, the flotilla, people know it was a big political flop and military flop, too. But now you know events are tracing one after the other here. So right now there is not so much talk about the flotilla as there was two weeks ago or three weeks ago.
AMY GOODMAN: Well Amira Hass, I want to thank you for being with us, Ha’aretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, only Israeli journalist to have spent more than a decade living and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank. Thanks for being with us, she talked with us from Tel Aviv. This is Democracy Now!, we’ll be back in a moment.
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Naturalization Process For The Military
USCIS recognizes the important sacrifices made by non-U.S. citizen members of the United States armed forces and their families and is committed to processing their naturalization applications in a timely and efficient manner while providing exemplary customer service, maintaining the integrity of the immigration system, and the security of the process. Qualifying military service is generally in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and certain components of the National Guard and the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve.
While a member of the U.S. armed forces must meet some of the general requirements and qualifications to become a citizen of the United States, such as good moral character, some of the requirements are either reduced or completely waived.
Specifically, qualifying service members and certain veterans are not required to pay an application fee or a biometrics fee to apply for naturalization, and are not required demonstrate residence or physical presence in the United States. Additionally, service members who serve during specifically designated periods of hostilities may not need to be lawful permanent residents.
Additionally, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 extended all aspects of the naturalization process, including naturalization applications, interviews, oaths and ceremonies to members of the U.S.armed forces serving overseas. Before Oct. 1, 2004, military service members could only naturalize while physically within the United States.
Finally, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 added Sections 319(e) and 322(d) to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), allowing certain eligible spouses and children of members of the U.S. armed forces to naturalize abroad without traveling to the United States for any part of the naturalization process.
Service in Peacetime
Section 328 of the INA applies to all members of the U.S. armed forces or those already discharged from service. An individual may qualify for naturalization under this provision if he or she has:
Served honorably in the military for at least one year;
Obtained lawful permanent resident status;
Filed an application while still in the service or within six months of separation.
Service in Wartime
Section 329 of the INA applies to members of the U.S.armed forces who serve during specifically designated periods of hostilities. This section is sometimes referred to as wartime naturalization. An individual may qualify for naturalization under this provision if he or she has:
Unlike all other provisions for naturalization, a qualifying service member is not required to be a lawful permanent resident to naturalize under this provision if the service member enlisted or was inducted within the United Statesor other qualifying geographical area.
The Expedited Naturalization Executive Order of 2002 provides for expedited naturalization under this provision to qualified aliens and non-citizen nationals serving honorably in an active-duty status in the U.S.armed forces beginning on Sept. 11, 2001 to the present. This section also covers veterans of designated past wars and conflicts.
Assistance to the Military Community
Specially trained USCIS customer service specialists at the Nebraska Service Centerstaff the toll-free Military Help Line (1-877-CIS-4MIL ). They assist service members, their families, attorneys and others representing them with military-specific naturalization and immigration issues.
Specialists across USCIS have been selected to handle military naturalization packets, and each consider this responsibility a privilege and an honor, and do all that they can to ensure that applications are processed and completed as expeditiously as possible.
In addition, every military installation has a designated point-of-contact to assist service members in preparing the naturalization application packet. This contact is generally in the military legal office or in the personnel division. Service members should use this contact to help prepare and file a complete naturalization application packet.
The service member’s naturalization packet will include:
Application for Naturalization, (USCIS Form N-400)
- Request for Certification of Military or Naval Service, (USCIS Form N-426);
If applicable, a copy of the USCIS Form I‑551, Permanent Resident Card; and
Two passport-style photographs.
Members of the military applying under sections 328 or 329 of the INA are not required to pay a fee for their naturalization application.
Five fingerprinting methods are available to service members:
Have their fingerprints taken at any domestic USCIS Application Support Center (ASC) without an appointment even if their application is not yet pending with USCIS.
Have their fingerprints taken at select military installations in the United Statesby USCIS personnel using mobile fingerprinting equipment.
If USCIS fingerprinted the service member in the past for immigration purposes and USCIS is able to use these fingerprints, USCIS will re-submit these fingerprints to the FBI.
Authorize USCIS to acquire and use the fingerprints taken at the time of enlistment by completing and submitting the Fingerprint Authorization.
Have their fingerprints taken at U.S.military installations overseas or at U.S. Embassies and Consulates using the FD-258 fingerprint card.
Section 329A of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides for posthumous citizenship to certain members of the U.S.armed forces. A member of the U.S. armed forces who served honorably during a designated period of hostilities and dies as a result of injury or disease incurred in, or aggravated by, that service (including death in combat) may receive posthumous citizenship.
The service member’s next of kin, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary’s designee in USCIS must submit the application for posthumous citizenship within two years of the service member’s death by filing an Application for Posthumous Citizenship, (USCIS Form N-644).
Posthumous citizenship establishes that the deceased veteran is considered a citizen of the United Statesas of the date of his or her death.
A surviving spouse (even if he or she remarries), child, or parent of a member of the U.S. citizen member of the armed forces, (including a service member granted posthumous citizenship), is eligible to apply for naturalization benefits under section 319(d) of the INA if the family member meets naturalization requirements other than residence and physical presence.
For other immigration purposes, a surviving spouse (unless he or she remarries), child, or parent of a member of the U.S. armed forces who served honorably on active duty and died as a result of combat, and was a citizen at the time of death (including a posthumous grant of citizenship) is considered an immediate relative for two years after the service members dies and may file a petition for classification as an immediate relative during such period. A surviving parent may file a petition even if the deceased service member had not reached age 21.
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Audacity is an audio editor and not a DAW or sequencer software. Theoretically it might be possible to load a VSTi as an effect, but I know of no audio editor that can do that successfully.
I assume you play your VSTi's in standalone mode. For them to work properly as effects, you need a sequencer software. I'm not aware of an open source software, but there are rather cheap ones like Reaper or Tracktion, or Learning Editions of bigger sequencer softwares. Or try out demo's.
What do you want to achieve anyway? If it's only a tremolo or chorus effect for your guitar, there are free VST's that can do that.
EDIT: well this is not quite true what I said. You can use the Arturia VSTi's in standalone mode to run your guitar through them (I only have MMV, but I assume it works for the others as well). But then you can't record. Some audio cards offer internal routing for such purposes, or you can try out some audio loopback software to do that. It would look like this: guitar->audio in->VSTi->Audacity. Or use a second computer for recording if available, that would be easier I think.
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By Dominique Jando
In the 1970s, triple-somersaulter Freddy Osler was the most famous and arguably the greatest of what was known then as the South African school of —whose troupes had invaded the European circus scene. Born Frederick Weppenaar in South Africa, he learned to fly with Keith Osler Anderson, a puppeteer and stage designer who had developed a passion for circus and . (In 1973, Keith Anderson would create the Hi-Fli Trapeze Training School at the YMCA in Observatory, Cape Town, which defined the South African school of , and produced most of them.)
Freddy Weppenaar debuted with the Flying Oslers in 1967, when the troupe got its first European engagement at the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth, England. The act was then composed of Keith Anderson, Tommy Kieser, and Freddy Weppenaar, (), and Mike Redpath (). There were not many great in Europe at the time, and the Flying Oslers began an impressive career that led them to practically all the major European circuses of the period.
Enter Freddy Osler
In 1968, Keith Anderson and Tommy Kieser left the troupe and returned to South Africa, but the Flying Oslers continued with Freddy Weppenaar as their main , and Steve Savage and Jimmy Garner replacing Anderson and Kieser. Soon, Freddy Weppenaar would become known as Freddy Osler: A gifted , he quickly was able to catch a triple somersault (still a rarity in Europe in the 1970s), and he secured his role as the troupe's star . Then, in 1969, the Flying Oslers went to the United States, where they were featured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for two seasons.
Freddy Osler resumed his European engagements in the winter of 1971, at the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin, where he flew in the spectacular quadruple act of the Osca-Marilee (an all-South African act gathered for the occasion), replacing Fred Bovil, of the Marilee , who had been injured. Afterwards, Freddy went back touring with the Flying Oslers, now composed of himself and his new wife, Gabi, and Steve Savage, with Basil Schultz replacing Mike Redpath as .
In 1972, the Flying Oslers, who had by now acquired a sterling reputation on the international circus scene, returned to South Africa to appear with that country's celebrated Boswell-Wilkie Circus, with which they toured South Africa and Zimbabwe. They stayed with Boswell-Wilkie the following season (1973) as the Flying Weppenaars, a double created with the addition of Stanley Bower and Anton and Dee Haupt, and Pete Hansen.
The Flying Oslers returned to Europe in the summer of 1974 to work at the place of their European debut, the Hippodrome of Great Yarmouth, in England. The group was now a trio, with Freddy and Gabi Osler flying into the hands of Allen Weppenaar, Freddy’s brother. Then, after a first season with circus Pinder-Jean Richard in France, Freddy teamed-up with another group of South-African Osler del Canes to form the , a double that included, in addition to the Oslers, Carol Fiallo (who was to become Freddy’s second wife) and Frank Cora, and Naafi Louw. The Osler del Cannes remained with Pinder-Jean Richard until 1977, after what Freddy Osler resumed the Flying Oslers’ act as a trio, with Carol Fiallo and Naafi Louw.
From The Flying Oslers To Action World
In 1978, he Flying Oslers competed in the BBC TV’s Circus World Championships in London, which they won. They were not so fortunate at the 1979 International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo; nonetheless they continued their brilliant European career in such prestigious venues as Cirkus Benneweis, Cikus Scott, and Circus Krone in Munich. In 1980 Allen Weppenaar replaced Naafi Louw, and the Flying Oslers went to Australia.
This was to mark the end of Freddy Osler’s career as a Atlantis Marine Park for several years, and when the need to travel hit them again, they produced circus shows in South East Asia, Australia, and finally for : He dislocated his shoulder in a bad fall in Perth, Western Australia—a fatal injury for a . For the first time in their adult lives Freddy and Carol Weppenaar-Osler settled in one spot, Perth, and they became Australian citizens. They went on to produce shows for Perth’s Weber Bros Circus in New Zealand.
They fell in love with New Zealand, and eventually emigrated there. In 2003, Freddy Osler began experimenting on a continuously inflating crash mat, which he believed would replace advantageously the relatively dangerous safety net, a protection device that had saved him many times, but eventually put an end to his flying career—as it had done for other Action World in Paihia, New Zealand, an amusement park Freddy and Carol Osler have run ever since. before him. Freddy teamed up with Brendan Duffy, proprietor of Canvasland, a textile manufacture in Levin, New Zealand, and together they created an inflatable crash mat system that allowed all sorts of previously dangerous activities. This in turn led to the creation of
- Video: The Flying Oslers, , at the Circus World Championships in London (1977)
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The Chosen Generation
I listened from the gallery to my friend and President Ronald Reagan deliver his 2nd Inaugural Address, January 21, 1985: "The time has come for a new American emancipation-a great national drive to tear down economic barriers and liberate the spirit of enterprise in the most distressed areas of our country. My friends, together we can do this, and do it we must, so help me God...If not us, who? And if not now, when? It must be done by all of us going forward..." The election of 1984 was affirmation that Reagan's economic policies and his bully pro-American, pro-moral agenda was working. He was reversing the policies of the failed socialist agenda of Jimmy Carter, which left the nation in an economic and foreign policy abyss.
The 2010 election was also a referendum on a socialist agenda--a referendum that rejected outright and with force the failing policies of the counter-American. Yet, these soldiers of socialism, who were kicked out of office for their dastardly deeds that left our nation economically bankrupt, came back and worked more of their evil in a lame duck session. Some of those who were re-elected surely did not get the message. We as a nation still have leadership that wishes to remake America into a socialist, perhaps even communist, so-called democracy. More czars, more power grabs, more spending, more laws that are made but never read, more freedoms taken away through laws and regulations.
In the past, Americans have always rebounded by standing against such tyranny, such evil. Washington led his soldiers in prayer. Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer, saying he didn't wonder if God was on America's side, but rather was America on God's side. It is time, as Reagan so eloquently said, that the move away from this godless society must be done by all of us going forward. The battle really isn't about socialism or communism or tyranny. Those are just results of the battle. The battle is over the souls of our fellow citizens. If they knew and understood what was right, they would act on it.
But as the scriptures ask, "How shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent?"
The Apostle Peter prophesied in 1 Peter 2:9 says, "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar (God's own) people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." Verse 12 says, "Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.", We are the royal priests that are to lead the people of our nation into the light...we need to "Speak boldly as we ought to speak" and "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
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Somehow, this Reuters article on the recent boon in travel to Cuba by Cuban Americans in the United States since the Obama administration relaxed travel restrictions made it through the censors. The main topics the article addresses are the large increase in passengers and flights to Cuba, and the effects that Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism may have on those flights. And sure enough, up until the end, the article remains on message.
(Reuters) - When a recent flight from Miami touched down at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, a passenger shouted "Viva Cuba!" in a show of the enthusiasm Cuban Americans have for returning to their homeland.
Since President Barack Obama lifted restrictions last year on their visits to Cuba aiming to increase people-to-people contact, they are coming in such numbers that Cuba has had to remodel the airport terminal for U.S. flights.
The immediate beneficiaries are the eight U.S.-based charter services who operate the only flights allowed from the United States and who say business is booming.
The only foreseeable fly in the ointment, they say, is the U.S. government's inclusion of Cuba in countries where U.S.-bound passengers must undergo extra screening, which Cuba has protested.
The charter companies say direct flights by Cuban Americans to their homeland skyrocketed 70 percent in 2009 and are expected to jump another 36 percent this year.
Cuban officials recently said about 250,000 Cuban exiles visited the island from the United States in 2009 up from an estimated 170,000 the year before, when many found a way around the old restrictions by traveling through third countries.
Obama, who has said he wants better relations with Cuba, lifted restrictions imposed under President George W. Bush that limited Cuban Americans to one visit home every three years.
The result, said Armando Garcia, president of Miami-based Marazul Charters, "has been a tremendous growth and 2010 looks incredible."
"I would say we will reach 300,000 passengers just from the U.S. (this year)," he told Reuters.
At the end of the article, however, they let loose a little fact that advocates of ending travel restrictions to Cuba for all Americans would prefer to be kept under wraps.
One U.S. transportation official in Washington told Reuters all indications suggest Cuba does comply with security standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, but declined to comment on the new security measures.
John Kavulich, senior adviser at the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council in New York, thinks it unlikely Washington will make an exception for Cuba unless it faces mounting pressure from Cuban exiles annoyed with the requested pat downs.
With Cuban Americans emerging as Cuba's second-largest source of visitors after Canadians, Kavulich said he expects Cuba will somehow accommodate the new regulations to keep the flights, and the money they bring in, coming.
Cuban Americans are an important source of dollars for the communist regime as it deals with the global economic downturn.
"They will comply in a meaningful way because the revenue stream is pretty significant and important," he said.
Gee... talk about unintended (or intended) consequences. Funny how the media and engagement proponents all called the intransigent, hardline, unreasonable, and belly-aching Cuban exile community crazy for suggesting that increased travel to Cuba would result in the pouring of cash into the Castro regime's pockets.
Somewhere there is a Reuters editor getting chewed out by his DGI handler.
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We measured noise levels 1" from the SN25P's front, side, and rear using an Extech Model 407727 Digital Sound Level Meter. Measurements were taken after 10 minutes at idle, and then after another 10 minutes of a Folding@home CPU load. We also measured noise levels with Shuttle's XPC SB95P V2 and SB86i for comparison. Those systems were equipped with a Pentium 4 520 2.8GHz processor and Radeon X600 XT graphics card, but otherwise had similar hardware to our SN25P. The SN25P and SB95P V2 used their default Smart Fan setting, but the SB86i requires its Mid fan speed setting to maintain stability under load.
With an Athlon 64 3500+, our SN25P system is much quieter than either Pentium 4 520-equipped XPC. That isn't a particularly surprising result. However, notice that the SN25P barely gets louder under load, and that's not even with Cool'n'Quiet enabled.
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New York Times Co. v. Tasini is a case with similar information and applications to the topic of my thesis. This case was taken to the Supreme Court, therefore, the decision and reasoning is very strongly applicable to any case. In this case, six freelance authors (Tasini) had articles published in three publications, including the New York Times. Two computer database companies took their articles, along with all the other articles in these publications and added them to their databases. They had permission from the New York Times and other publications to do this, but not from the freelancers. Within these databases, the articles are all retrievable by a user in isolation of its context in the original print publication. Like Google, users of these databases can search for several key terms or names (including author and where it was published) to find what they are looking for.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the New York Times and the database companies. As stated in Perfect 10 v. Google, "The Supreme Court has indicated that in the electronic context, copies may be distributed electronically." Google's search engine uses HTML instructions that tell a user's browser where to find the full-size images, but Google does not actually distribute the copies. It is the publisher of the website that actually allows users to transmit the images to their computers. Then, like in Tasini, the user can download or print the image.
New York Times Co. v. Tasini is both similar and very different from Perfect 10 v. Google. It is similar in that they both involve distributing copyrighted works electronically. The databases from the Tasini case were allowed to distribute copies of work electronically without direct permission from the authors. Therefore, shouldn't Google be able to do the same thing with images? The difference makes this question even more obvious. Google, unlike the databases, is not even distributing the copyrighted works. They are merely creating links to make the works more easily accessible. This case supports my thesis by showing a related case with a decision that is similar to that which I am arguing for.
This is the case and decision handed down by the United States District Court that is amending the decision of the Central District Court of California. My paper will focus on this decision and the reasoning behind its decision. First, it summarizes the case, which is that Perfect 10, Inc. sued Google, Inc. for infringing their copyrighted photographs of nude models among other claims. The district court originally prohibited Google from creating and publicly displaying thumbnail versions of Perfect 10's images. They did, however, allow Google to link to third party websites that display infringing full-size versions of Perfect 10's images. Both Perfect 10 and Google appealed the decision.
The decision also discusses the background of the situation including the use of the internet, HTMLs, search engines, and specifically how "Google Image Search" works. Generally, Google uses HTML instructions to access other websites and, through a third-party website, shrink their pictures or graphics down into thumbnails. These thumbnails are displayed in "Google Image Search" and linked to image where it is stored on the website publisher's computer. It also discusses the background information of the previous interaction between Perfect 10 and Google. This included notifications sent from Perfect 10 and Google, and the time of the filing of the suit.
This case also discusses the "Standard of Review" involved in the decision. This includes the aspects of Copyright law that are involved and how they apply to this situation. It also discusses how Perfect 10 accuses Google of Direct Infringement, its specific requirements, Perfect 10's argument for it, and Google's defense (Fair Use). It discusses how Google is not secondarily liable for copyright infringement as well as Amazon.com's involvement and their innocence according to the same reasoning. Finally, they conclude that since Perfect 10 is unlikely to overcome Google's Fair Use defense, the district court's decision is reversed and Google is innocent for both the direct and secondary infringement charges.
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Unfortunately, my Spanish is not as good as her tamales—flavorful masa with strips of meat flavored with salsa roja, wrapped in corn husks and served in foil.
A co-worker helped translate. She’s been making tamales since July 2010, cooking in a kitchen somewhere along Killingsworth Street and selling them around Southeast Division. She’s originally from Mexico City. She started selling when she couldn’t find other work. She says gabachos like me buy them, “Because they are very hungry and they don’t like to cook.” My curiosity was not sated as well as my appetite.
Tamales are arguably the Western Hemisphere’s most traditional dish, eaten everywhere in Mesoamerica before and after the gringos came. They’re a hassle to make, which is why families prepare them in one big batch for special occasions. Elizabeth, apparently, makes them every morning. Her tamales are not fancy, artisan-style pockets of Dungeness crab and apricots. Not that there’s anything wrong with exotic fillings—Aztecs sometimes put tadpoles or bees in theirs, after all—but there’s certainly something to be said for the simplicity of slightly sweet cornmeal, meat and chilies. Especially when delivered to your door.
How can you try Elizabeth’s tamales? Well, she gamely suggested we publish her telephone number, but we’ll pass it along via email. Se necesita hablar un poco de Español.
- Order this: Tamales de carne (12 for $10)
EAT: Email firstname.lastname@example.org with “Elizabeth” in the subject line and we’ll reply with her phone number.
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It’s Still All About Our Choices
Posted by patches24 on October 1, 2012
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” Deuteronomy 30:19
As a member of a Christian authors’ group I enjoy fellowship, support and expressions of love and care when I need them. Good stuff.
Aims of the group are to disseminate details of our fellow authors’ blogs directing them towards new readers and visitors and also to assist with book launches by providing a ready-made platform of at least 200 persons. There is some tacit understanding that all of us will do all that is ethically possible to support and promote each others’ creative works. What an excellent idea and one can be forgiven for having flights of fancy about the exponential benefits of belonging to such a group. After all, if each person has a personal platform of say 100 persons, multiply that by 200, that’s potentially 20,000 persons we should be able to reach. Right? Hmmmm!!
Recently I posed a question asking how was it that there are so many members and yet requests for ‘like’ endorsements on Amazon book sites reflected less than 10% of the membership. The question elicited an avalanche of responses and subsequent positive discussions and suggestions. As I thought over these responses I could see an emerging pattern which closely paralleled the responses to the message of salvation.
When Jesus walked this earth He showed love to everyone and asked for love in return, not only for Himself but for one another. The gospels record few incidents of persons who demonstrated love for the Master, outside of His chosen twelve, and even among that small band, there was a traitor. Even when we extend love freely to multitudes, only a few will choose to love you back.
His message offered abundant life. Though following Him might be difficult He promised glorious rewards. Instead of death choose life. Only a few chose to follow Him. Many excuses were proffered. Some had to look after businesses, take care of a new wife, bury a relative, laziness, inconsistent promises, disinterest, apathy, and those who talked and pontificate. But there were those who responded to the call, acted upon it and also offered constructive help.
More than 2000 years hence, this template of responses is replicated over and over in almost every grouping of persons. It boils down to the precious gift a loving God gave to His children…..Choice .
And because we can choose, the results are always going to be the same. The minority will choose the better part, with the majority having their own good reasons for going in another direction.
There is one choice that is set before each and every person. I have set before you life and death, choose life. Life is accepting the free gift of salvation purchased for the world by a loving Saviour. Why would anyone want to choose otherwise? But amazingly, the majority will choose death. “And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.” Jeremiah 8:3
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During the past 15 years, Bérengère has designed and implemented information, education, and communication (IEC) interventions throughout the world. Her qualifications as a registered nurse and adult education expert enable her to provide state-of-the-art training to health staff in interpersonal communication/counseling (IPC/C) skills. She develops IPC/C training and self-instructional manuals and conducts Training of Trainers workshops for a range of audiences. Dr. de Negri also provides technical support for family planning, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs.
Bérengère's extensive experience makes her a successful manager of reproductive health programs in African, European and Latin American countries. Her work consists of appraising national AIDS programs and promoting the introduction of quality assurance systems. Bérengère also performs qualitative research on IPC/C norms, plans health promotion and social mobilization programs and develops IEC marketing strategies. As she is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese, she is able to work in many developing countries.
Bérengère and AED/PCS Program Officer Liz Thomas are currently writing a handbook that introduces simple methods of analyzing focus group data to researchers and program managers in developing countries. The handbook will be user-friendly and will include hands-on exercises using real data from focus groups conducted in the context of PCS and AED projects. The tentative publishing date is mid-2002.
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WHEN Mary began a relationship with her partner he seemed kind and considerate, but little did she realise it would end in a frightening separation eight years later.
She is now living in another district in what she hopes is a safe place away from any retribution.
Mary, who is aged under 30, had lived in the Warrnambool district until recently.
“There are many women out there just like me who have suffered violence for years,” she said.
“Something has to be done to make family violence a bigger issue so more people will take notice.
“You don’t have to accept it. Too many people are going through trauma without proper support.
“It was only when I sought help from a psychologist I realised I had been accepting it as normal for too long.
“I had experienced extreme physical abuse as a child and later when I moved into a steady relationship with a man I just accepted what he was doing too me was normal.
“And he kept telling me I got what I deserved.
“There was financial, psychological and emotional abuse. No punches, but he would hold me against my will and threatened violence.
“I can’t sleep properly and still fear that he’ll find out where I am.”
Mary said she had difficulty convincing police to intervene because they wanted evidence of her claims.
Eventually she obtained a court intervention order, but that didn’t halt the intimidation, which continued until she fled the area.
“I’ve been lucky to have support from my psychologist, otherwise I would have been in a much worse situation,” she said.
. Names have been changed for confidentiality.
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And so we have arrived at Week 8 of our countdown to the summer by looking back at all the great things about iGosia. This is the last week as tourist season officially begins in iGosia this coming weekend. We so excited! So this week, as we remember the greatness that is iGosia, we also want to focus on important aspects as you prepare for your next visit.
Official Name - People’s Republic of iGosia
Climate - The climate is officially ridiculously hot during the tourist season (mid-May through the end of July). Occasionally the earlier parts of the tourist season can have a lot of rain. In those cases, you will need to stay on the porch.
Population - iGosia was recently recognized as the third fastest growing fictional country of all time. Several times a year new citizens are welcomed and celebrated into the One Tribe that iGosians claim to be. The population passed the 3000 mark in the summer of 2011 and continues to add several hundred annually.
Monetary Unit - iGo. The exchange rate for the iGo is easily the most volatile exchange rate of any nation’s currency. Typically, the iGo is worth more than the US Dollar. How much more is subject to the decision of the currency exchange vendors of the day. It sounds crazy, but it just works.
Language - iGosian. This language has no written form. Most iGosians have learned English over the years, but the iGosian accent consistently causes difficulty for tourists as they first arrive.
Economic Summary - #1 on the list when it comes to sustaining the economy of iGosia is Tourism. As a result, most iGosians are employed in either the tourist, travel, or security industry, although competition for jobs is non-existent due to cultural standards. You basically just have to volunteer for a job first and it is yours. Many have suggested that this lack of job competition has led to the problems with the iGosian Airways baggage handling department; however, no studies have confirmed these suggestions, and none have been conducted. #2 is Agriculture. iGosians grow cucumbers and tomatoes and serve them at practically every meal. A very small percentage of farmers grow rice. About 8% of the iGosian population is unemployed. Most of them resort to begging or in some cases thievery.
National Symbol - iGosia chooses a different national symbol each year. 2012 has been designated as the Year of the Elephant. Past national symbols include the armadillo, penguin, goat, giraffe, octopus (squid), moose, and owl for obvious reasons.
Government - iGosia is currently considered a mock Republic and they are ruled by a president and vice president. Not elected to office, both the president and VP took control in the early days of iGosia’s history and took their offices before anyone else could claim them. There is no end in sight for the rule and reign of these men, but fortunately for the people of iGosia, the President and VP are benevolent dictators.
Royalty - Interestingly, iGosians insist that there is an iGosian line of royalty despite the complete lack of historical documents to back up these claims. Legend has it that the royal line is traced through a specific group of young college students known simply as Jimmy. Not even the ancient iGosian rhapsodoi had lore regarding this Jimmy. Even so, annually a new royal group are depicted on the face of iGo currency. Jimmy remains one of the great mysteries of iGosia, which is both how it should be and how it is.
And speaking of pseudo-royalty, the 2012 version of Jimmy arrived at the World Wide Headquarters of iGo Global today to begin their summer journey. All the signs are pointing to the opening of iGosian tourist season. Do you have your reservations secured? Some of you do, but some of you are still waiting to sign up as an iGosian for the summer. We need these wonderful volunteers at each Base Camp. If you can join us and show us your best iGosian accent at one of our three base camps in Denton or in Oklahoma or in Kansas, please let us know. You can find more info and sign up on our website. We hope to see you soon.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tight-knit crew of six veteran astronauts are gearing up to ride the space shuttle Discovery on her last voyage beyond Earth this week.
The space flyers are due to launch on Discovery on Wednesday at 3:52 p.m. EDT (1952 GMT), from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The five men and one woman slated to lift off on the shuttle are not just crewmates, but friends as well. In fact, five of the six crewmembers were selected into the same astronaut training class. They are flying on the final mission for shuttle Discovery STS-133 as NASA prepares to retire its shuttle fleet next year.
But just who are the people behind the orange spacesuits? Here's a glimpse at each member of the last crew of space shuttle Discovery:
Steve Lindsey, 50, is the commander of the mission. A native of Temple City, Calif., Lindsey is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1995, and has made four spaceflights, two of those on shuttle Discovery.
"Discovery is a workhorse fleet leader in number of flights," Lindsey said in a preflight briefing. "It's a privilege to be able to fly the last flight of Discovery." [ Gallery: Building Space Shuttle Discovery ]
The strong but soft-spoken Lindsey said he is excited to lead his fellow crewmembers on the 11-day expedition to the International Space Station.
"Personally, I'm really excited to be flying with this crew," Lindsey said. "They're a fantastic group of people to fly with. Somebody once told me, you'll find as you get more experience, it's less about what you do on a mission, and more about who you get to fly it with. And I think that's really true in this case."
Lindsey is married and has three children.
Eric Boe will serve as the pilot of STS-133, Discovery's 39th flight. The 46-year old native of Atlanta, Ga. is a colonel in the United States Air Force, and was selected to join NASA as a pilot in July 2000.
Boe completed his first spaceflight on NASA's STS-126 mission, on the space shuttle Endeavour. At a preflight briefing, Boe reflected on the significance of being part of one of the final flights of NASA's space shuttle program.
"I think all of us are happy to be on another flight," Boe said. "It's a little bittersweet when something comes to an end, but it's a privilege to be able to fly the vehicle."
For the upcoming mission, Boe said he is most looking forward to gaining new experiences and working as a team with his other crewmembers.
"When you're up there, things go pretty quick," he said. "I think I'll have a little more time to look around and pay attention to the small details. The biggest overall thing I hope to get out of this is to really absorb some of the small details I might have missed on the first flight."
Boe is married and has two children.
The astronaut dreamer
Discovery's Mission Specialist 1 is Alvin Drew, a recently retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force. During the crew's stay at the space station, Drew will participate in the mission's two spacewalks.
In addition to commemorating the legacy of the space shuttle Discovery, Drew will have another important milestone to celebrate while in space on Nov. 5, he will turn 48-yearsold.
Drew, who was born in Washington, D.C., was selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, and made his first spaceflight aboard the shuttle Endeavour for STS-118 in 2007. Having grown up dreaming of becoming an astronaut, Drew admitted that his spaceflying career seems almost surreal at times.
"[Becoming an astronaut] was one of the things that was in the back of my mind during my Air Force career, but nothing that I really took that seriously," he explained. "I think depending your career on becoming an astronaut is like planning your pension around winning the lottery. It's something that you can go pursue, but you should have a 'Plan B' in place. I did everything to stack the deck in my favor, but never really expected it would happen."
Drew's spacewalks on Discovery's STS-133 flight will be the first of his career, and he said he's proud to contribute to the future of the orbiting laboratory.
"Hopefully I can come back in 2020 and see the station working and think, I had a small part in keeping it going this long," he said.
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The Army's spacewalker
U.S. Army Col. Tim Kopra will serve as a mission specialist for Discovery's STS-133 spaceflight. The 47-year old native of Austin, Texas, is Discovery's Mission Specialist 2 and will lead the two spacewalks outside the station during the mission.
Kopra was selected to become an astronaut in July 2000 and completed his first spaceflight in 2009. He launched with the STS-127 crew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2009 and logged two months aboard the space station. During his stay, Kopra performed one spacewalk and completed robotic operations and numerous science experiments.
For the upcoming mission, Kopra is especially excited to be reunited with so many of his classmates from the astronaut corps.
"What's really special about this flight is the fact that all the Class of 2000 folks are on it," he said. "We started together, and here it is 10 years later and now we're going to have this opportunity all of us with some spaceflight experience, and being able to share that together. We started out knowing very little to nothing about spaceflight, and all of us have grown in different ways over the years."
As NASA's space shuttle program draws to a close, Kopra and his crewmates recognize the contributions of the many people across the nation that work tirelessly to ensure the safety of the astronauts and the success of the mission.
"We really feel honored to be doing what we're doing," Kopra said. "The vehicle is a representation of a lot of hard work and a group of people who have been working toward a safe flight every single time."
Kopra is married and has two children.
Discovery's space doctor
Michael Barratt joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston as a project physician in May 1991 and was subsequently selected for astronaut training in July 2000. Now, the doctor-turned-astronaut will perform duties as Mission Specialist 3 on Discovery's last spaceflight.
In March 2009, Barratt embarked on his first spaceflight, launching on a Russian Soyuz TMA-14 rocket to the International Space Station. During the long-duration mission aboard the orbiting outpost, he logged 199 days in space.
"I was surprised how little free time we had on our station mission," Barratt said in a preflight interview. "After six and a half months, we were still working very long days. I wouldn't call a station mission leisurely in any way, shape or form."
In light of Discovery's final mission, Barratt maintains that a lot of the glory belongs to the people who, over the years, maintained the shuttle between flights.
"The orbiters look great. If you just landed and didn't know the political landscape, you'd never know the program was coming to an end, because the birds are so pristine," Barratt said. "Everybody is incredibly dedicated. They're doing what they're doing for all the same reasons they signed on for years ago."
Barratt, 51, calls Camas, Wash. his hometown. He is married and has five children.
Home again on space station
Nicole Stott is the Mission Specialist 4 for Discovery's upcoming flight. She began working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 1988 as an operations engineer in the Orbiter Processing Facility.
Stott, 47, was selected for astronaut training in July 2000 and launched on her first spaceflight to the International Space Station in 2009, also aboard Discovery. The mission also marked Stott's first long-duration tour of duty on the orbiting station. While living and working on the space station, Stott completed one spacewalk and spent a total of 91 days in space.
Stott's second journey on Discovery will also be the orbiter's last, and in a preflight briefing, she spoke about the prolific shuttle's storied career.
"It's a historic thing that we have such a special vehicle to fly," she said. "The hope, in addition to having a successful mission, is that we'll be celebrating the real significance of the vehicle itself. We have to look at this as a celebration of just how wonderful Discovery has performed."
Additionally, having grown up in Clearwater, Fla., Stott knows firsthand the impact and enduring legacy that NASA's space shuttle program has had on the country.
"There's nothing negative that you can say about it," Stott said. "There are only positives and encouraging things that have come from this program."
Stott is married and has one child.
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- Is the Fed round the Twist?
- Worrying signs for global growth
- Spain asks for a bailout
- What to expect at this week’s EU summit?
- Can the pound remain resilient to more QE?
Is the Fed round the Twist?
Fed policy is always eagerly awaited by the markets. In recent years markets and investors have become accustomed to the Fed stepping in to calm markets when the going gets tough. However, there were no bones from the Fed for the market to feast on last week. Ben Bernanke and co. decided to extend the Operation Twist programme until the end of the year rather than embark on more quantitative easing.
The extension of the Twist programme means that the Fed will continue to buy longer-dated Treasury securities (6-30 years maturity) in a bid to push down long-term rates making credit easier and cheaper for consumers and businesses to get their hands on. It will fund these purchases by selling shorter dated securities, thus putting upward pressure on short-term rates. This extension shouldn’t impact the size of the Fed’s balance sheet, and thus should only have a marginal impact on the dollar.
This move has proved to be fairly controversial. The Fed has less than $300 bn of short-term securities left to sell on its balance sheet, which is a fairly paltry sum and may not have much of an impact on longer-term interest rates due to the huge size of the Treasury market. Some argue that the Fed hasn’t done enough to protect the economy from either 1, a Eurozone sovereign debt shock or 2, further weakening in US economic data. The market reaction was to sell stocks and buy the dollar. The dollar jumped 100 basis points on a broad-based basis; however the impact on Treasury yields was fairly muted. After rising above 0.3%, the highest level since May, the 2-year Treasury yield fell back again as concerns about global growth caused safe haven flows into the US debt market.
USDJPY was a big mover as the market priced in the prospect of the Bank of Japan doing more stimulus compared to the Fed. This cross jumped above 80.00, although 80.50 was thwarting the bulls by Friday afternoon. The spread between 10-year US and 10-year Japanese bond yields usually follows USDJPY closely, however, after initially widening; this spread had fallen back at the end of last week. Although the Fed may not give in to the markets’ wails for more liquidity right now, it left the QE card on the table to use on an even rainier day. While the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis continues to rage on then Treasuries will remain in demand, which could act as a cap on dollar gains.
We will be looking for a weekly close above 80.10 (the base of the daily Ichimoku cloud) in USDJPY to get constructive on this pair. Added to that a successful outcome of the EU Summit next week could give the green light to dollar bulls to push this pair even higher.
Worrying signs for global growth
Although the Fed didn’t help the markets by giving them more QE, it was the sharp decline in global growth indicators that caused stocks, especially in the US, to really sell off last Thursday. The Nasdaq 100 (a key indicator of global growth expectations) fell below its 50 and 100-day moving averages, which fuelled further losses for this index. Likewise, the transportation sub-index of the Dow Jones also rejected a move above the top of its range at 5,350 that fuelled some selling, although the 50-day moving average helped to cushion the blow by acting as support. This suggests that investors are nervous and the rally in US stock markets could be halted for now.
Markets had to digest the prospect of the world’s biggest economies all slowing at once. China, Germany and the US all registered weak manufacturing growth in recent weeks. Since this data has a strong positive correlation with GDP it suggests that Q2 could see a slowing in global growth that may dent business and economic confidence. This is what is weighing on stocks and fuelling inflows into safe havens like Treasuries and German Bunds.
The Eurozone debt crisis is one of the reasons why business and economic confidence has fallen in recent months, thus a swift solution to the sovereign debt crisis at this week’s EU summit could help growth to recover. Rather than wait for action from the Fed or the PBOC in China, action by the ECB to stem the crisis could be more effective at boosting global growth in the long-term. Also, the decline in the oil price could ease pressures on global economies. Thus there seems to be a silver lining to the dark cloud hovering over the world’s economy.
Thus, as we wait for the outcome of this week’s EU summit we may see stocks start to consolidate. The SPX 500 may trade between 1,360 and 1,300 in the coming days. Until we get a clear picture on the outlook for Europe and the fate of the currency bloc then it’s hard to pick a direction for stocks and other risky assets (see below for our preview on the EU Summit).
Spain asks for a bailout
In the lead up to the EU summit this week there have been a couple of important developments. Firstly, Greece’s pro bailout New Democracy Party formed a government after the elections on the 17th June. This secures Greece’s place in the Eurozone for now. Although Greece still faces enormous challenges, the tail risk of it leaving the currency bloc in a disorderly way has been greatly reduced (for now.) Also, we have more clarity on the extent of bad debts on Spain’s banks’ balance sheets after the preliminary results of an independent audit on its banking sector were released last week. Although there were concerns that the auditors only got to see data collected by the Bank of Spain, the EU60-70bn of bad debts owned by the banks’ was large enough to inspire confidence in the markets that the tests were stressed enough, while the losses were not large enough to be unmanageable. Spain has an EU 100bn line of credit with the EU/ ECB and IMF that Spain is expected to tap on Monday when the finance minister is expected to send a letter to the EU to formally request funds.
On Friday we got the details of what the bailout would look like. The bailout loans could come from the EFSF/ ESM bailout funds and the Finance Minister said there are on-going discussions about imposing losses on junior bond holders. The markets were remarkably sanguine about this, as it suggests private sector bond holders could get burnt. This is problematic for Madrid – will the very banks it is trying to bailout, who at the same time have been buying up Spanish debt by the bucket load, be exposed to losses on their sovereign debt holdings? Is yes, will that leave Spain at risk from having to ask for more funds for their banks?
The latest Eurozone bailout highlights the toxic link between the banks and the sovereigns in Europe. Any bailout funds given to Greece will be rolled into Spain’s government debt burden and held on the sovereign balance sheet. IMF chief Christine Lagarde has pushed for Europe’s authorities to try and break this link at this week’s summit, which has helped to keep Spanish 10-year bond yields below 7% after they surged to fresh record highs early last week. However, if Europe’s leaders fail to deliver the goods then we could see a sharp reaction in Spain’s bond market that could weigh on global risk appetite as we move into July.
What to expect at this week’s EU summit?
Italian PM Mario Monti has said there is a week to save the Eurozone. So what actions need to come out of the EU summit for it to be deemed a success? We believe the first thing that has to happen is a formalised softening of tough fiscal targets for the currency bloc. Thus, give Greece, Spain etc. four years instead of just two to get their budget deficits down to 3% of the size of their economies. This doesn’t cost Germany anything as it merely widens the economic goal posts. Added to this, by lengthening the period of fiscal consolidation for an economy like Greece it may reinforce the mantra of “living within your means” on the national consciousness and help to foster an attitude of fiscal responsibility. Due to these benefits we see this proposal as has having a high chance of success.
There is also an immense amount of pressure on Merkel to widen the remit of the ECB so that it can act as a lender of last resort. This would give the ECB the power to print euros, and bring its powers in line with those the Fed and the Bank of England already enjoy. Because the ECB has a strict mandate not to intervene on behalf of governments, this would be a dramatic shift in the currency bloc as it would mean that centralised Eurozone authorities could target members who are in trouble. This is a much harder sell to Merkel as you can’t have the ECB printing money for every country that gets itself in trouble without protecting against moral hazard. In return for the promise of indefinite “emergency” ECB liquidity the union needs powers to collect tax from member states and control spending plans, which in essence is fiscal union. This could also lead to the Eurozone issuing debt under one entity, whereas now each country issues its own government bonds.
The chance of this being agreed upon next week is fairly slim. While we don’t expect full-blown fiscal union immediately after next week’s summit, it is likely that Germany will have to give some ground. Essentially if Europe’s leaders can agree on a compromise between providing more support for troubled economies and centrally managing national budgets then we could come to some sort of compromise resolution.
Merkel is unlikely to take any steps that are not in Germany’s interest, but with pressure coming from within the currency bloc and externally from global authorities pressing for Europe to act decisively it will be hard for her to ignore their calls. While fiscal union may not become a reality straight away the market at least expects a roadmap to be put in place that could see the currency bloc strengthen its union in the next six months to a year.
The outcome of this summit could be critical for financial markets in the medium-term. A disappointing outcome could see EURUSD break below 1.2450 and head back towards the recent 1.2350 lows then towards 1.20. However, if decisive, bold action is taken then a march higher above the temporary top at 1.2750 towards 1.30 maybe possible. EURUSD may trade between 1.2450-1.2750 as we lead up to the summit. EURGBP may also trade between 0.8010 – 0.8060, which is the base of the Ichimoku cloud chart and a major resistance zone. Until we get the outcome of the summit, the near-term direction of the euro is extremely cloudy, and we expect the market to consolidate at the start of this week.
Can the pound remain resilient to more QE?
The minutes from the Bank of England policy meeting earlier this month confirmed that 4 members of the committee voted for more QE, although they were outnumbered by the 5 who voted to remain on hold. The minutes were deemed extremely dovish as those that didn’t vote for more QE said there may be a need for it if the economy deteriorates further or if the sovereign debt crisis takes a turn for the worse in the coming weeks and months.
Thus, the market is now expecting GBP50bn of QE from the Bank at its meeting on 5th July. What has been interesting is the relative resilience of sterling to this news. Rather than cause it to drop off a cliff as some would expect, the reaction in GBP was fairly muted and on a broad-based basis sterling was set to close last week relative flat. In fact against the yen the pound managed to rally 1.5% last week.
So why is the pound able to brush off more QE from the BOE? There are a few reasons. The first is that this bout of stimulus has been well flagged up to the market in recent weeks after Mervyn King touted the possibility at the Mansion House dinner in the City earlier this month. Secondly, the pound is still fairly weak against the dollar compared to levels it reached pre the financial crisis in 2008, so sterling downside has been limited in recent years. Lastly, the amount of QE the Bank may do is fairly paltry at only GBP50bn. The FX market has a turnover of more than $4 trillion per day; hence QE of this size is a mere drop in the ocean.
We think that GBPUSD will end up being moved more by overall risk appetite rather than by policy actions from the Bank of England. Thus we expect it to consolidate between 1.5500 and 1.5750 in the lead up to the EU summit later this week. A purer play on QE is EURGBP, especially as it seems the BOE will pull the QE trigger before the ECB. Above 0.8060 (the base of the daily Ichimoku cloud) could see this cross extend its recent rally.
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Rio Grande Valley: Port Antonio Attractions & Sightseeing, Jamaica
Valley Hikes offers organized hikes in the Rio Grande Valley with professional guides. All trails have been chosen for their unusual beauty.
One of the lushest and most dramatic valleys in the Caribbean lies directly south of Port Antonio. The river itself is fed from drainage from the John Crow Mountains, creating luxuriant growth along with waterfalls, a tropical rain forest, and roaring rivers. Among its beauty spots are Nonsuch Caves and the Athenry Gardens.
Most visitors flock here to go rafting on the Rio Grande. For the serious adventurer, this country invites deeper exploration, especially those willing to hike through it and put up with some hardships along the way.
Perfect for the adventure traveler who really wants to get out and see more of Jamaica, Valley Hikes offers guided hikes into some of the most interesting regions of Jamaica. Tours are operated by one of 18 trail guides from the surrounding communities; all have been trained and certified by the Jamaica Tourist Board.
The company has developed many trails that offer a variety of experiences, from softadventure to rugged. Many hikes take place under a forested canopy that is home to many endemic bird species as well as the swallowtail butterfly.
The Rio Grande Valley is also the home of the Windward Maroons, a formerly hostile, warlike people who fought the British and refused to become docile slaves. They believed in freedom or death. The descendants of these oncefierce people still live in the area, practicing bush medicine and following ancient rites little changed from the days when their ancestors lived in Africa.
Port Antonio Attractions, Sightseeing and Tours - Place of interest to visit on your Jamaica Holiday
All our Charter Services Operators vehicles are fully air-conditioned 4-7 seater Taxi, 15-30 seater buses and coaches. Luxury Limousine service is also available. All Taxi and Tour drivers are fully trained, licensed and approved by the Jamaica Tourist Board. We offer a 24 hour, seven day a week, private taxi and tour charter service. We go that "Extra Mile" to ensure that you have a rich and enjoyable experience.
Click Here for more Port Antonio Attractions
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GPP33 you do realize this raft was full of guides. Kim was a guide.
As for twisting the facts, everyone I've talked to says that 6 people have died at this feature, but we have a few of the folks who are so opposed to altering the feature they have to minimize the tragedy by saying that only four have died in order to defend their point.
As if a 33% decrease (and trying to erase those people's deaths from memory) makes it somehow alright if it wasn't before.
But humans are very bad at risk calculations. What percentage is an OK death risk?
We tend to think of mountaineering on K2 as about as risky as you can get in outdoor pursuits... 27% risk of fatality per attempt...
Whitewater recreation is supposed to be pretty safe. 0.008-0.011% fatality risk per user day on average (using AWA #s) with kayaking being a bit more at about 0.03%, but still slightly safer than driving a car!
Using Missouri Boater's guesstimate of 20% risk of fatality per swim at frog rock, that swim is roughly 200,000% more dangerous than the average whitewater day.
That's a bit much for class III, don't you think? If we don't alter the feature, maybe we should rerate Fractions as Class V+ based on consequences. Or I guess we could put up those risk numbers on a sign... I bet that would reaaaaaaaaaally help
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Re: Who will be the first to confront the menace of America?
I don't personally see any culmination designed for a "world war".
Rather squirmishes which don't upset the economic order too greatly.
Most of the international treasuries are partially hedged with the American dollar to aid in stabilising theirs, and the world economy. Though nations and cultures do have a degree of seperation, economic theory is shared by all.
It's a complicated system of treaty, agreements, and trade systems very much intertwined to a point that any major conflict would threaten to plunge the combined world into the dark ages.
It's much like the rules of engagement Colonial Britain utilized, and expected it's enemies to utilize in shared chivalry on the battlefield.
Ironically, what Bin Laden and his supposed crew of mischief makers didn't follow for September 11th. You can wax theoretical about the "true" inner forces at work on that one, but for hard evidence, one merely look at the global insurance companies which hiked insurance premiums in every nation-state the world over.
There was no recourse but English contempt and French admiration when colonial minutemen did the same behind shrubs and trees.
Motivations may have been different, and if you believe the history books, idealistic.. But in the end, the colonials quickly rejoined the rules of engagement towards the end of the Revolutionary War.
I see disinformation, spin doctoring, and economic agreements as the armies of any major revolution, and the battlefield being the world trade markets.
As petroleum, crops, and technology gains become scarcer, then we might see nations break away from individual treaties, and agreements in a selective fashion, causing international discourse and ultimately making themselves into world lepers with a welcome landscape for spurn or invasion due to whatever guise.
It is merely my outlook or opinion on the matter and not fact by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't envision some ultimate showdown unless the whole world economic system has it's intrusive hand forced in a showdown.
That may happen with just one rogue act of defiance which changes the landscape beyond recognition... something widespread and deadly, or proliferating in arms, but idealism will be the culprit, and psychology will be the weapon.
To me, offering theories up now is much like playing the Nostradamus lottery. Mostly miss in hit and miss.
But I do know how people cling to boats on the waters when they float, and erupt into mass panic and leaping inhumane acts when the boat is sinking.
How supermarkets could easily sell generic barbecue lighter fluid, and petrol stations water in a moment of hysteria. Anyone who has ever lived in a Northern climate during a 2 week long envisioned blizzard need only look at their neighbor's actions and their own to see what is ultimately possible.
But these events are small, managed to a degree, and the coping mechanisms are in place to prevent unilateral community destruction.
A world war would take so much calamity, so much bad luck and alterior intentions, so much death and change of our residential habits and creature comforts, and all against the world agreements between nations to render stability a lose-lose situation for all and sundry, that a world war we can see would actually be the last parting shot in a war that's been quietly fought for generations before us.
I see us here as the defeated. Writing on a message board, convinced of our theories and thoughts, yet with no unity in basics... we're boats floating off into the pale blue yonder, occasionally bumping into each other and sharing a meal or two in seafaring fashion.
Such is theory when you have no hard facts and like me, rely upon suspicions. Above all else, I know that one day either in my lifetime, or my son's lifetime, we'll wake up and see the end result of prolonged strife. There will be no warning, just suffering in store.
Until then, I figure life is worth living and living to the best of abilities. I hope that my parents did their best to ensure I can cope, and that I've done my best to guarantee my son can as well.
Hope that makes sense to those reading.
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Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to have good information, so below are tips to help you ensure that things go smoothly.
1. Remember that what you are able to pump is NOT an indicator of how much milk you have.
Many moms worry when they are pumping that their milk production is low because they feel like they are not pumping enough. It is very important to remember that the amount you are able to pump is NOT an indicator of how much milk you have. We respond very differently to a pump than we do to our babies. When you are nursing your baby and can see, hear and smell her, and feel her skin against yours, the hormones released help you relax and trigger your milk to let down. The cold hard plastic of a breast pump doesn’t produce the same kind of hormonal response. Some women just don’t let down well for a pump despite the fact that they have more than enough milk to feed their baby.
2. Make sure you have the right type of pump for your needs.
The type of pump you need depends on what you are going to be using it for. If you’re just pumping for occasional feedings while you have a night out or go to an appointment, then most women do well with either hand expression, a manual pump, or a single electric pump. If you are pumping at work, then a double electric pump is a good investment. If you are pumping in the first couple of weeks after birth due to breastfeeding challenges, a hospital grade pump is needed. They are the only pumps designed to establish milk production in the early weeks when a baby is not nursing, or not nursing effectively. Hospital grade pumps are usually available as a rental from hospitals, International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs), medical supply stores etc.
3. Hands on for best results!
If you are having challenges with breastfeeding in the first few days after birth and you need to supplement your baby, hand expressing your milk and spoon feeding it is usually the best approach. Colostrum is thick and small in volume which is perfect for a new baby who has a tiny tummy and is still learning to coordinate sucking, swallowing and breathing. Colostrum tends to get lost in the pump parts, and many women find that pumping is not very effective during the early days. Hand expression is a skill that all women should know. If you’re a pumping mom, you never know when you may be in a situation where you need to pump but are unable to for some reason, and your hands are always with you!
Once milk volume increases (usually around day 3), using your hands while you pump can increase the amount you are able to get. In one study, moms who were using hands-on pumping increased their average daily volumes by 48%! Watch this video to see how.
Along with using your hands to increase pumping output, you can also use the settings on your pump to help. If the pump you are using has separate controls for speed (cycles) and suction (vacuum), then start out your pumping session with the cycles higher, and vacuum lower, and then after a few minutes, switch by decreasing the cycles, and increasing the vacuum. To give a visual, start with the cycles at 2:00 and the vacuum at 10:00, and then switch (this is a general guideline, adjust to your own comfort if the vacuum is too high). This mimics the pattern of a baby nursing. Initially, a baby sucks quickly, but with not a lot of vacuum to trigger mom’s milk to let down. Once her milk lets down, the baby’s sucking changes so that the vacuum is higher, but the sucks are longer (fewer cycles). You can repeat this later in the pumping session as milk flow slows down, to try to trigger another let down. If you are using a pump that has a let down feature, it changes the cycles and vacuum at the beginning of the session automatically, and you can press the let down button anytime during the pumping session.
4. Pumping should be comfortable.
Just like breastfeeding, pumping should not hurt. If it does, then something is wrong. When using a pump, it’s very important to make sure that your flanges (the part that fits over your breast) are the correct size. If they are too small, pumping will likely be uncomfortable, and flanges that are either too small or too big can decrease the amount of milk you are able to pump. Sometimes, the size of flange that you need may change over time due to your nipples expanding during pumping. If pumping has been comfortable but is suddenly painful for you, check to make sure that your flanges still fit properly.
It’s also very important to understand that more vacuum does NOT mean more milk. It can however mean more pain! Turn the vacuum up only to where it is comfortable for you.
5. Frequency matters more than duration.
A very common question from moms who are pumping is “How long should I pump for?”. For most women, 15-20 minutes is enough (total if double pumping, and per breast if pumping one side at a time). Frequency of pumping is more important than duration. If you’re trying to increase the amount that you pump, pumping more frequently will help more than pumping longer. Even if you’re only able to pump for 5 minutes or so, adding in those extra pumping sessions whenever you can fit them in, can help to increase your milk production.
6. Make sure your pumped milk is being fed appropriately.
For parents who are working, I often hear concerns that they are not able to pump enough to keep up with the amount of milk their child is drinking while with their care provider. Before panicking about your milk production, it’s important to first look at whether or not your care provider is perhaps overfeeding your baby. Traditional bottle feeding methods can result in unintended overfeeding which can make it seem like your baby needs more milk than they actually do. Make sure that your care provider knows how to feed your baby in a biologically appropriate manner by sharing information about baby-led bottle feeding.
When things aren’t going well with pumping, most moms are very quick to assume that something is wrong with their milk production, or that they are doing something wrong. Before jumping to that conclusion however, consider that it might not be you at all! If pumping doesn’t seem to be working well, or if you are suddenly getting less milk after establishing a good pumping routine, check your pump first. Make sure that everything is put together properly, and check for any damaged pieces. Valves and membranes can wear out, and break or tear which affects the suction your pump is able to produce. If you’re not sure where to find replacement parts then check with the manufacturer or a local pump supplier, IBCLC etc.
When a decrease in pumping output is related to mom rather than the pump, it usually has more to do with having trouble letting down for the pump rather than an actual decrease in production (although if the situation is prolonged, it can eventually lead to a decrease in milk production due to decreased milk removal). This goes back to number 1, and the fact that hormonally, we just don’t respond the same to a pump as we do to our baby. Many moms find that having a picture or video of their baby to look at while pumping helps with triggering letdown. You can also try smelling something that your baby has worn. If you’re feeling anxious about the fact that you’re not getting enough milk, try covering the bottles with a blanket and focusing on something else, because stress can inhibit let down. Along with this, if you are pumping at work, know your rights, and find support.
8. Simplify the process.
Pumping is hard work! If you’re pumping regularly, you can simplify things by NOT washing everything between each pumping session. According to the guidelines for milk storage, milk is good at room temperature for up to 6-8 hrs, which means that after you pump, you can leave everything set up and ready to go for next time without washing, as long as your next pumping session will be within 6 hrs or so (pour the milk into another container and store in the fridge after pumping to avoid the risk of it being spilled). Some moms put everything in the fridge between feedings which would give more leeway between feedings. When it is time to wash your pump parts, rinse them with with cold water first as hot water can cause the milk to stick to the pump parts, making them harder to clean. Many moms find that sanitizing wipes while at work, and a steam sterilizer or sterilizing bags at home can simplify the process of cleaning.
Go hands free! When I posted on Twitter and Facebook asking people for their tricks and tips to make pumping easier, the number one response was “hands free pumping”. Whether you buy a hands free bra, or make one of your own out of an old nursing bra, having your hands free while pumping can make the whole process easier and more enjoyable.
Do you have any other tips or tricks for pumping? Tell us your pumping stories!
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rcraftlady on Family Tree Circles
Journals and Posts
Looking for info on James Larder born in England in ~ 1861, emigrated to US, lived in Lackawanna, PA late 18-early 1900s, maybe married to Margret Wood, with whom he had a son John Larder, here is the second gap he seems to have married Selena Cooper
sometime in 1900, after census and before birth of his daughter Emily Elizabeth Larder in Dec 1900. Moved to Alberta, Canada before 1911 Alberta census. Farmed in Alberta, Canada and shows up on 1916 census with wife Selena (Cooper) and children Emily Elizabeth (1900), Al, Francis and Margaret. His family is in same area in 1911 census for Alberta, with a spelling error in Larder. Moved to and lived in Calgary, Canada in 1922 and passed away in Calgary around 1938.
What is the best method of gathering genealogy info regarding family members who lived in Alberta, Canada? I can find virtually nothing about my family. They migrated from England to Pennsylvania and then Alberta, Canada.
I can find a land grant for my great grandfather in Bow River, Alberta, Canada. His name is listed as James Larder. I'm not sure if his given name was James or if that was the name that he used. Perhaps his middle name. According to the 1916 census of Alberta, he was born in England in approximately 1864. His wife's name is listed as Salina and I was always told her middle name was Emily. However, the James Larder, who I find in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania in 1900, the year my grandmother was born, was married to a Margret Larder (who I believe was born Margret Wood0 Everything adds up, but the change in wife's names, as I was told that my grandmother was born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and that her family migrated to Canada in approximately 1904. I traced a James Larder through many generations and thought that I had found my great grandfather, only to find that this James Larder, of the Somerset, England Larder's died in England whilst my James Larder would have been raising his family and farming in Alberta, Canada. Can you help? I know that my great grandmother, who I know as Salina Larder, passed away in approximately 1964 in Calgary and that James Larder owned a home and I presume passed away in Calgary sometime after 1932 and before the 1960's. They had one son, who lived and remained in Alberta, Canada. He passed away sometime after 1976. His name was Alvin Larder. I can find no records of any sort regarding these three individuals, who carried the Larder surname, after the 1916 census of Alberta. Can you help?
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January 4th, 2009
Over at Semantic Foundry, designer extraordinaire, Will Evans, has a wonderful essay explaining how he uses wireframing as both a problem setting and a problem solving approach.
I pick my primary audience and the one activity which allows them to solve one goal quickly, effortlessly, elegantly. In this case, the primary audience wants to easily find the best cruise, at the right time, for the right price. I don’t even look at the requirements document or competitive analysis until after I have sketched a couple of ideas either on paper or using Omnigraffle, which explores the primary goal. I’m not looking for solutions at this point because the first round of wireframes provide a space to engage in a dialogue with other designers, stakeholders, and the wireframes themselves.
It’s a great description of how Will tackles a design and he’s provided his work products for you to download.
Read Will’s essay: Shades of Gray: Wireframes as Thinking Device
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He gave us life and we are His children. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us “run with endurance the race that is set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1b)
It is a wonderful world, and the journey is filled with trials and tribulations. But there is love and joy and blessings we could never earn. David said, “O, taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8). Second Samuel tells us, “God is my strength and power, and he makes my way perfect.” He reminds us to “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” A Christian will always go the second mile. Jesus said, “If a soldier demands you to carry his gear for a mile, carry it two miles.” (Matthew 5:41). Did you not know the Bible tells us, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”? (Philippians 4:13). This is God’s gift to us. We should claim and practice these gifts. Life on earth is wonderful, but God has something far better than this world can ever give us.
David asked this of God, “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12). The Bible tells us that if we know the truth, the truth shall make us free.
Joshua taught us to be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Don’t forget, he knows our thoughts before we speak. We are never out of his sight. The human family is nearest to God. David said, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that you visit him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and you have crowned him with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:4,5).
John tells us, “We are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.” Paul taught us that love never fails. Proverbs tells us “Fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones.”
If we follow the words of the Bible we shall arrive at the pearly gates. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) None of us is perfect, but Matthew reminds us, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
Luke tells us, “The hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Revelation 2:10 gives us comfort when He tells us, “Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.” What can be better than that?
Always look to the sunny side of life, God will bring you through. He does not wipe all our tears away on earth. I always remember that life on earth has been wonderful, but God has something better for us than anything in this world of trials and tribulations. Keep believing the best and the best will soon be yours.
I preached in a beautiful church in Massachusetts 50 years ago. A saintly English woman and her husband were faithful members. Her husband died on a cold winter’s night; she was left alone. Later she was in a nursing home. I went to see her regularly. One day she said to me, “I am ready to go, but I am willing to stay if God has something on earth I can do.”
I feel the same way. I have many loved ones and friends on the other side, and when the death angel knocks at my door, be assured he will find a sincere welcome. I have many loved ones and friends who have outrun me to the father’s house. I will be among friends and loved ones when I leave the world of trials and tribulations.
Robert V. Ozment is a retired United Methodist minister.
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November 3rd, 2012, 2:30pm – 4:00pm
University of Winnipeg, Room 4M31 (Manitoba Hall), 515 Portage Avenue
This film examines how economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking, worsening nearly every problem we face.
The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance and starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together with initiatives such as Transition Towns to rebuild more human scale, ecological economies.
Voices from six continents tell us that climate change and peak oil give us little choice: we need to localize, to bring the economy home. The good news is that, as we move in this direction, we will begin not only to heal the earth but also to restore our own sense of well-being. The Economics of Happiness challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world. Best in Show, Cinema Verde Film Festival.
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As a teenager in Ethiopia, Gossa Tsegaye ’76 had his own radio show, and at the tender age of 16 he was for six weeks the guest host of a variety show on the capital city of Addis Ababa’s only TV station. The young man was hooked.
A few years later, as a television-radio major attending Ithaca College on a partial scholarship, he worked hard at his studies while always holding down two or three jobs—including one at the BBC’s Good Morning Africa during his London semester. After graduating he went on to receive his master of professional studies degree from Cornell University, and then returned to IC as a mentor and tutor in the Opportunity Program. In 1991 he was hired at the Park School to teach in the TV-R department. Two years later, the same year he became a U.S. citizen, he was made a full-time faculty member.
“I always compare my journey to March of the Penguins,” he says, perhaps unable to resist a reference to his favorite art form and the popular 2005 documentary. “I’ve been protected and encouraged by a community of people who are more experienced than I am—who enabled me to succeed in this country.”
Tsegaye specializes in teaching media and television production, and gives a lot back to the College not only via teaching and mentoring young filmmakers but also through service on committees and the Faculty Council, of which he is currently chair.
As a documentary filmmaker, Tsegaye particularly focuses on telling the stories of people who might otherwise go unnoticed. Tsegaye has made documentaries about many such subjects, including migrant workers in King Ferry, not far from Ithaca (Smile in the Wind), immigrants in nearby Lansing, salt mining in Tompkins County, the residents of a local street (Dream Street on Buffalo Hill), and most recently a film called The Jungle’s Edge, about an area along the railroad tracks on Ithaca’s west side where homeless people gather.
Television, says Tsegaye, is an important tool that can be used for positive change. Used wisely, he says, “It can be the best instrument in the world—or used for disseminating hate. I teach it, I live it, and I love it.”
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April 9, 2013
Create lasting bonds with music Community Music School Music has a great power for bringing people together. It's one way for young people to connect with themselves, but it is also a bridge for connecting with others. Activities centered around art and music are proving to be an effective means to increase self-esteem, social and leadership skills. Music education helps children to connect to other cultures and improves linguistic speech. Music lessons provide students with memory skills that often cross over into other aspects of their lives, most importantly, in the area of academics.
April 9, 2013
Explore interests and a new fashion academy Baum School of Art The Baum School of Art's Summer Art Camps and Fashion Academy allow students to have a blast while learning how to create art and fashion and inspire imagination. One week and two week camps run from June 17 to Aug. 16, 2013. Children and teens, ages 5-17, can register for half-day camps or full-day camps. Morning studio art camp is from 9 a.m. to noon and afternoon studio art camp is from 1 to 4 p.m. Students who stay for the full day have a supervised lunch hour called, “Lunch and a Movie,” and convenient After Camp Care is available from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Summer Studio Camps include Art Adventures for ages 5 and 6, while older students can choose from Drawing and Painting, Exploring Media, Ceramics, Jewelry and Metalsmithing, Mixed Media Sculpture and Clay and Drawing & Illustration Techniques.
March 20, 2013
They're squawking about art in downtown Allentown. The second Allentown Art Squawk, an open house collaboration of a dozen galleries, studios and museums (yep, there are that many), arrives noon-5 p.m. Sunday. The event has a spring/Easter theme and includes live music, demonstrations, meet the artist opportunities, food, drink, a visit by the Easter Bunny and an Easter bonnet contest. The Easter bonnet contest will be at Studio 606 - Palette & Pen, 606 Hamilton St., at 3:30 p.m. Studio 606 will also feature a "Meet the Artist" with Lehigh Valley painter Edith Roeder 1:30-4 p.m. and piano music 2-3 p.m. by David Saturen, Community Music School professor.
January 12, 2013
Arts Ovation nominations Nominations are being sought for the Allentown Arts Commission's annual Arts Ovation awards that will be presented at the group's Annual Luncheon May 2. Nominations are due by Jan. 25. Categories are: Outstanding Achievement in Visual, Performing and Literary Arts: individual or arts organizations; Outstanding Service and/or Contributions: individual who has made an impact on the arts through volunteer service, an...
May 7, 2011
May 1 was a joyous day filled with sunshine and melodies at Lehigh Country Club as 259 people gathered to support and celebrate the Community Music School. Guests at the nonprofit organization's annual "Move Music Forward" Spring Brunch were greeted with the sounds of the Silver Winds Flute Choir. The crowd enjoyed a bountiful brunch buffet that included prime rib and ham carving stations as well as made-to-order omelets and Belgian waffles. A varied musical menu was also dished up, including instrumental and vocal sets by Impressions Jazz Ensemble and the school's Chorus Kids and solo performances on the piano and violin.
June 6, 2010
BOOKS & AUTHORS Books Signing and Reading: Barbara Esch Shisler speaks and signs copies of "Spiritual Memoir: Unearthing Treasures." 2 p.m. Indian Valley Public Library, 100 E. Church Ave., Telford. 215-723-9109. FAIRS & FESTIVALS Fullerton Carnival: Entertainment by Jake Kaligis-New Amsterdam Band, food, games, rides, fireworks. Benefits Fullerton Memorial Playground & Athletic Association. 3-10 p.m. Fullerton Memorial Playground, behind Toys-R-Us, Whitehall. http://www.
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LAWRENCEVILLE - Between traffic and lane closures, driving above 30 mph on Interstate 85 might be hard these days.
But the Department of Transportation wants people to slow down regardless of traffic to keep crews safe while they are working on construction.
That's why the DOT has lowered the speed limit on a stretch of the interstate to 45 mph.
The change comes about six weeks after the DOT lowered the speed limit on Ga. Highway 316 near I-85 because of the $150 million project to redesign the interchange, including adding a flyover bridge to take Ga. 316 westbound drivers to the right side of I-85 southbound.
Preliminary work such as removing trees and light poles has already begun, and lane closures affect one of the two roadways nearly each week.
"In our active work zones the speed limit is lowered by 10 miles per hour but this change lowers the speed limit on Interstate 85 and State Route 316, 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the life of the project," DOT District Engineer Russell McMurry said. "It is a safety decision. For the safety of people driving through the area and for our employees in the area, it is absolutely imperative that drivers slow down in this construction zone. There will be dozens of pieces of equipment and people working in or near I-85 at all times of the day. We must maintain a slower, consistent pace of traffic."
As per Georgia law, fines for those caught speeding in a construction zones will face doubled fines - up to $2,000.
Next week, the DOT will close lanes if weather permits.
The schedule is to close the outside lane of I-85 northbound from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday beginning at south of Pleasant Hill Road to Ga. 316. The outside lane of I-85 southbound will be closed from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning at Ga. 316 to just south of Pleasant Hill Road. If weather does not allow this work to occur Monday, it will happen in the same areas at the same times on Tuesday.
Beginning May 5, overnight work is planned beginning at 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Saturday. The outside lane on I-85 southbound will be closed from Boggs Road to Pleasant Hill Road so workers can install temporary barrier wall around the Old Norcross Road bridge.
Controlled blasting will begin next week, McMurry said.
Pacing will occur on both I-85 and Ga. 316 between noon and 2 p.m. to ensure the safety of drivers.
"No vehicles will be in the area when each blast occurs. Law enforcement officers will slow down I-85 southbound traffic at Sugarloaf Parkway and I-85 northbound traffic will be slowed at Steve Reynolds Boulevard," McMurry said. "State Route 316 traffic eastbound will be controlled by slowing I-85 northbound traffic and State Route 316 westbound traffic will be slowed at Sugarloaf Parkway. The slowdown will only last for a couple of minutes each time it occurs. Blasting will happen throughout the summer."
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Panda Robotics’ Kickstarter campaign to build a “friendly, affordable 3-D printer” has been kicked to the curb less than a month after its launch.
The PandaBot, a cute printer that could fit on a standard desk, received funding from 130 backers and managed to reach a total of $38,959 out of the developer’s $50,000 goal. Aiming to become an affordable device for those wanting to print 3D objects at home, it quickly gained backers and many waited in anticipation for the printer to be released commercially.
“In the past weeks, we’ve received requests from institutions like universities, resellers, distributors and individuals who want to buy final PandaBots in bulk. This is wonderful, but we don’t want our Kickstarter backers, those who put their money on the line for us, to settle for a beta product so we can build a better product for all those who waited.”
The PandaBot team say that product development is going to continue, and to say sorry to their backers each contributor will be given a t-shirt and $200 coupon towards a future version of the home 3D printer. With some luck, Panda Robotics wants to have a ready-made printer ready in the first half of 2013.
There’s no indication how much the to-be printer will cost, although the original project states that the PandaBot would cost around $800. If you can’t wait, there’s always the option of the $499 Solidoodle.
Image credit: Panda Robotics
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It’s Wednesday, rush hour, and you’re armed with a coffee and a playlist, ready to battle traffic and get to the morning meeting early. You turn the key, and it’s sluggish, but it starts. Good old girl, she’s never let you down. About halfway to work it starts raining. You catch a strange smell coming from the vents, but that’s probably just the rain. A few more miles, it’s stop and go. And then, nothing. Your engine simply stops, and you’re holding up traffic in the rain. You turn the key, but nothing happens. How could this be happening? You’ve always gotten your oil changes on time!
Next to getting regular oil changes, ensuring your coolant system operates smoothly is the second most important thing you can do for your engine. Old coolant, or worse, coolant that has leaked out will easily end up costing you thousands in repairs. Not to mention your vehicle suddenly breaking down on the highway during rush hour, in the rain.
Coolant, commonly referred to as antifreeze, absorbs the engine heat created as you zip through town. It travels through the radiator and back through the engine again and again. This can be a tough job (you spirited driver, you) and as a result, your coolant breaks down over time. It becomes thinner, and can no longer cool the engine or transmission as well as it used to. In addition, it uses up all of its anti-rust agents, allowing corrosion within your engine components and leading to an expensive repair bill.
You can easily check the level of coolant by inspecting the engine bay. See whether or not the coolant is filled to the recommended level. If the engine is cool, the coolant level should read minimum or fill. If the engine is hot, the coolant level should read max or just below it.
When it is time, you should have your coolant power flushed and replaced by a professional. Simply draining the old fluid and replacing it isn’t enough, as it leaves any rust or other contaminants to wreak havoc down the road. Power flushing ensures that any rust that has accumulated is removed from the coolant system, and that the new system is lubricated properly before new coolant is added. GM recommends a coolant flush every 5 years or 150,000 miles to ensure your engine continues to run as efficiently as it always has. As this will save you thousands in engine repairs, we simply cannot recommend this service strongly enough.
To help you save even more, we’d like to offer you 20% off your coolant service when you bring your vehicle in to Carl Black. Let our expert technicians ensure your coolant system is flawless for the next 5 years!
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In a story first broken by ESPN on Monday, October 15th, the family of former US National Team swimmer Fran Crippen initiated a civil action against FINA and USA Swimming in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Crippen commenced the lawsuit by filing a Praecipe To Issue Writ of Summons, naming as plaintiffs themselves individually and as the Administrators of the Estate of Fran Crippen. A copy of this Summons and the other court documents are included here.
According to the Civil Cover Sheet completed by the Crippen family attorney, Gerald A. McHugh, the family is seeking damages in excess of $50,000.00 and is requesting a non-jury trial for personal injury, which can include a claim for wrongful death. Under Pennsylvania law, to file a wrongful death suit, a plaintiff must show that the death was caused by a negligent, willful, or wrongful act or omission of another and that the act or omission would have entitled the injured person to file an action to recover damages had the death not occurred.
The timing of the lawsuit comes as the statute of limitations of two years is about to expire. Fran died in an open water race in the UAE on October 23rd, 2010, which means the last opportunity to file a suit would seem to be next Tuesday. USA Swimming says that they are aware of the lawsuit, but that they have no comment because a suit has not been filed.
Under Pennsylvania procedural rules, a party can begin a civil lawsuit by filing the writ of summons or by filing a complaint. By filing a writ of summons, the Crippens have 90 days from the issuance of the summons to serve it upon the FINA and USA Swimming. By using this method of filing the action against the swimming entities, the Crippens can begin seeking information from FINA and USA Swimming (referred to as discovery) to uncover facts or witnesses prior to filing the formal complaint. Plaintiffs may use discovery to flesh out the details of their potential action.
Given the limited number of documents filed, it is unclear what the Crippen family will include in their formal complaint for personal injury or if they will actually file one. Mr. McHugh, the family’s attorney, explained that the summons was “filed for the purpose of preserving the Crippen family’s rights while they continue to review the recent rule changes enacted by FINA in the wake of Fran’s death.”
Since Fran’s death, the Crippen family has been actively engaged in pursuing changes in the open water rules, procedures, and conditions. FINA recently instated new open water rules and heightened others, except for one measure that was supported by the Crippen Family – maximum water temperature. FINA did not establish such a rule with its recent changes. The Crippens have been pushing for these maximum temperatures not only to be put in place, but to be severely tightened in order to mitigate the number of unsafe factors that open water athletes face.
Recently, this torch has been taken up by 2012 US Open Water Olympian, and Crippen’s good friend, Alex Meyer. Read more about his feelings on the topic in this editorial.
“The best we can do right now is set a great example for safety here in the United States (we have a maximum allowable water temperature of 29.5°C) and work towards establishing high standards for other federations to adopt,” Meyer believes. “I imagine FINA is waiting on the results of their study before they make a ruling on this.”
Meyer says that leaders of USA Swimming are expected to meet later this month to further discuss the subject. There is currently a study underway in New Zealand to study the effects of high temperatures on endurance athletes. This is believed to be the first of its kind, though there have been others done on extreme cold water temperatures by the U.S. military, among others.
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