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PAYS Program Pays Off in Powerful Ways
Martin Berrera '13, a PAYS alumnus who now attends Pomona College
The Pomona Academy for Youth Success (PAYS) is one of the most expansive and effective programs of its kind. A college-prep summer session aimed at low-income high school students, PAYS started in 2003. Today Pomona provides the free program to 90 students from 40 local high schools.
The four-week academically intensive session enrolls high schoolers from traditionally underrepresented groups--most are Black or Latino--and gives them an opportunity to experience college at a top academic institution. The students live in Pomona’s residence halls (going home on weekends), take classes from Pomona professors and receive daily tutoring from Pomona students. Most attend three summers in a row, starting after their freshman year in high school.
The chance to attend PAYS is coveted; hundreds of teenagers apply every year to be one of the 30 rising sophomores accepted into the program. And it’s no wonder: PAYS is a huge success. A full 100 percent of its graduates have been accepted into college, including such elite schools as Harvard, Princeton and Pomona. (Fourteen PAYS alumni have matriculated to Pomona.)
Providing such opportunities is why financial support for programs like PAYS is so vital, says Ranney Draper ’60, who supported the creation of Pomona’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships, which runs PAYS.
“We’re setting these students off on paths that they didn’t know about before,” says Draper. “It’s very gratifying. We really can change people’s lives.”
Two of those people are Martin Barrera ’13 and Kevin Delucio, who say that the rigorous academic curriculum, which focuses on math, critical thinking and writing skills, was excellent preparation for college. In addition, PAYS exposed both to the benefits of attending a small liberal arts college. Barrera and Delucio say they relished the small class sizes in PAYS (typically about 15 students) and the chance to work closely with their professors. Also key,
they add, was talking to the Pomona students working in the program--people close to their own age group who spoke about the benefits of a liberal arts education.
Barrera, in his sophomore year at Pomona, and Delucio, who graduated in June from Williams College, have each returned to PAYS to be teaching assistants--giving back to the program that gave so much to them.
Bridgette Depay ’12 says Pomona students who work at PAYS find it greatly rewarding. She served as a teaching assistant this past summer and says she loved having a positive impact on young people through her tutoring, mentoring and teaching. (The TAs teach elective courses.)
Most PAYS students, who come from the Los Angeles area and Inland Empire, are the first ones in their families to attend college, notes Maria Tucker, director of the Draper Center, adding that countless parents have expressed deep gratitude for the opportunities that PAYS provides for their children.
“That’s what makes it so fulfilling to work in a job like this,” she says.
Editor's note: The article was originally published in our Fall 2010 Pomona College Campaign Journal, which is a newsletter updating the Pomona College community on campaign progress. For more information, please visit our campaign website. | <urn:uuid:f20e4728-aa0d-4843-b611-d12d52934448> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pomona.edu/news/2010/12/13-pays-program.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956334 | 733 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The campaign trail can get rough. Everyone starts off talking about how they want to restore faith in government, and work as a collaborator instead of a fighter. But as the months wear on, many candidates lose their resolve and denigrate into attacking each other.
When a man is running against a woman, they’re reluctant to attack her. Attacks against women often backfire. Instead, they find a way to attack her without actually attacking her. The classic way to attack a woman is to say she can’t win. To say that the choice is between the men who are running, usually the men who appear to have the most support.
Often, it’s the two men who appear to have the most support who perpetuate this belief. They want to suppress the vote against the woman candidate. But they know the truth: that in Massachusetts, though our record on electing women is very poor, the reality is that when women run, women win. That’s right: In Massachusetts, the odds favor the woman candidate.
So when you cast your vote for Massachusetts State Senate on Thursday, don’t think a vote for the woman isn’t going to make a difference. It’s going to make the biggest difference of all. | <urn:uuid:73a7987a-6598-408e-bc3a-9ccf681b3835> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://waltham.patch.com/blog_posts/how-to-attack-the-woman-candidate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967043 | 259 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Travelling elsewhere to rob somebody at home
- January 8, 2013 |
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“BRUSSELS – EU citizens are losing some €1.5 billion every year as criminals siphon off their money through the fraudulent use of debit and credit cards.
“A new report released on Monday (7 December) by the EU police agency Europol found that the thefts most often occur in the United States.
” “The majority of illegal face-to-face card transactions affecting the European Union take place overseas, mainly in the United States,” noted the Hague-based agency.
“Embedded security features on EU cards such as chips and pin technology are easily bypassed in the United States.
“Criminals exploit the weaknesses in America because some US-based cash machines are not fully compliant to a global security standard based on chip technology, known as EMV.
” “Due to this phenomenon, and the lack of specific agreements on reimbursement of losses caused by less protected terminals, the majority of the loss burden caused by this fraud is on the EU card issuers,” said Europol.
“The lax security feature on cash machines is not unique to the United States.
“The agency found organised gangs also steal the money using the same techniques in the Dominican Republic, Columbia, Russia, Brazil and Mexico.
“The risks involved are minimal….” | <urn:uuid:ee0601c5-a218-464a-af98-227ef6cc9aca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/01/travelling-elsewhere-to-rob-somebody-at-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948587 | 307 | 1.828125 | 2 |
SLED STOVE for SKATING PARTIES (Feb, 1933)
SLED STOVE for SKATING PARTIES
YOU skating fans who suffer from cold hands and feet in bitter cold weather, when your sport is best, will perceive instantly the service this sled-stove can do you. It can be transported anywhere, and will be well worth whatever effort you may put into it.
In the sled shown, an ordinary air-tight stove was used, the legs of which were removed. On the inside a three-inch layer of sand is put down for insulation purposes. The stove was then mounted on a bob-sled which measured seven feet long and fifty-eight inches wide. This arrangement permits the stove to be hooked on the back of a car and hauled to any desired point.
Notice in the drawings that a rack is built in the front of the stove for the fuel supply, sheet iron being used to insulate the framework. The stove pipe—two lengths— was riveted together and fastened to a wooden post, the whole attachment being readily removable to aid in moving.
Ski runners made from oak barrel staves made the sled serviceable in loose and unpacked snow. When you have set the sled out at its location proceed then to cut a good supply of logs and you will suffer from frost-bitten hands and toes no longer.
In building an open fire, it will be much more enjoyable if you choose an overhanging ledge as a site, giving a sort of fireplace effect, and protecting against uncomfortable winds if you choose the leeward side. This portable stove, of course, makes you independent of weather conditions. | <urn:uuid:e6b1be36-6a00-4b24-8326-1aef15abb56c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/sled-stove-for-skating-parties/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95226 | 347 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians." | <urn:uuid:b89f53f0-9cfe-473d-a669-da084ebe403d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.knetbooks.com/waiting-barbarians-reprint-coetzee-j-m/bk/9780143116929 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93486 | 201 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Restoring California: Tax The Rich to Fund Public Education And Services
By Joshua Pechthalt
California Federation of Teachers
The California Federation of Teachers and its coalition partners Courage Campaign and California Calls have a simple proposal for the state’s voters: restore tax rates on people with incomes over one million dollars per year so that the rich pay their fair share to rebuild our schools and services. In November 2012 voters will have the opportunity to decide if this is a good idea. If current polling numbers hold up, chances are “The Millionaires’ Tax to Restore Funding for Education and Essential Services Act of 2012,” or simply “The Millionaires’ Tax,” will pass.
For thirty years teachers, students and their families, and other members of the school community have watched in dismay as our public education system has been defunded. Before the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, California’s schools were the envy of the nation. People moved from all over the country to the golden state because they knew that they could acquire a quality education and better future for themselves and their families.
No more. The $20 billion in cuts since the start of the Great Recession to public education are horrendous, but they come on top of declining funding that has pushed California schools from the top ten in funding in the 1970s to the bottom ten today. The systems of higher education, formerly free, now impose higher fee burdens nearly every year on their students, who leave our public universities with debts that take years or even decades to repay. Our local K-12 schools are forced to depend on parcel taxes and bake sales to make up for merely part of the funding lost to budget cuts.
How has this happened? Some say it’s because the state has a “spending problem.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Three years ago the state budget was $102 billion, and with the largest population of any state, this was inadequate for its tasks. Today the budget has been slashed to $87 billion, and more cuts are coming.
The truth of the matter is that over the past twenty years the state’s richest one percent has seen its share of the state’s overall income double, from 12% to nearly a quarter. At the same time, its tax rates have been lowered. This is one piece of the puzzle, which also includes corporate tax loopholes, the state’s undemocratic 2/3 vote rule in the state legislature to pass any taxes, and the post-Prop 13 loss of billions of dollars due to failure to assess commercial property at market rates.
One thing at a time. The Millionaires’ Tax will ask people who make over a million dollars per year to pay 3% more, and people who make 2 million dollars per year to pay 5% more, so that we can begin to reverse the decline of the state we love. This would raise an estimated $6 billion per year for schools, senior and child services, public safety, and rebuilding roads and bridges.
Some people believe that this is “unfair” to millionaires, who are the “job creators” and would be “punished” by having to pay higher tax rates. Look around. Where are these jobs? California has the third highest unemployment rate in the country. The rich are sitting on mountains of cash that they refuse to invest. And as one of the country’s richest men, Warren Buffett, pointed out last summer, his secretary pays a higher percentage of her income in taxes than he does. If the rich are afraid to invest their money in profit seeking enterprises, let them invest their money in the meantime in our common future: schools, parks, safe streets and homes, strong infrastructure.
Some people say that all the rich people will move out of California if we tax them at a higher rate. They should listen to Bill Gates, who said recently, “I just can’t imagine these millionaires and billionaires going down and barricading the streets because they’re going to have to pay four or five percent more in taxes.” Or Ask.com founder and Oakland venture capitalist Garrett Gruener: “The kind of investing I’ve done for the last 25 years isn’t based on how a few points of the income tax rates change.”
The Millionaires’ Tax will not solve all the state’s problems with one magic wave of the fiscal wand. California now suffers an annual state budget deficit around twice the size the state will receive from our ballot measure. But it’s an important start, and key to its success is that it gets the money from the people who have it and can easily afford to pay their fair share.
For more information on The Millionaires’ Tax, visit www.cft.org.
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The trial is under way in Colombia of a former justice minister accused of planning the killing of a presidential candidate in 1989.
Luis Carlos Galan was a political rival of the accused ex-minister
Luis Carlos Galan was gunned down at an election rally in Colombia's most notorious political murder.
The ex-minister, Alberto Santofimio, was arrested last year after evidence emerged linking him to the killing.
At the time, the crime was pinned on drug lord Pablo Escobar and one of his associates was convicted for it.
Mr Galan, who was the Liberal Party candidate, had campaigned against corruption and drug-trafficking and was a political rival of Mr Santofimio.
The former minister is accused of ordering a hit squad run by Escobar to kill Mr Galan.
The main witness for the prosecution is Escobar's former henchman, Jhon Jairo Velazquez Vazquez, alias Popeye, who is serving a sentence in a maximum security jail for his role in the politician's murder.
He has alleged that Mr Santofimio urged Escobar to have Mr Galan killed.
The judge read out the charges against the former minister before a packed courtroom on Tuesday, with Mr Galan's widow and two children present.
"I've been made a scapegoat," Mr Santofimio said. "I reject these absurd charges from the deepest part of my conscience, with all my moral spirit."
His defence team is expected to urge the judge to call former presidents and political figures to testify on their client's behalf, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reports.
They are also likely to try to undermine Velazquez's credibility, pointing to his own role in the murder and his decision to remain quiet for many years.
Mr Galan, a charismatic politician, was so far ahead in the polls he was virtually guaranteed victory.
After his assassination on 18 August 1989, he was replaced by his campaign manager, Cesar Gaviria, who went on to win the election.
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Diary: One consolation for imprisoned Saif – he's still a doctor
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the dictator's son, faces a bleak future in his Libyan prison, with little hope of a visit from any of the politicians or academics who courted him while his father was in power.
But he has one consolation. So far as British academia is concerned, he is still entitled to call himself Dr Gaddafi. Why, is something we do not know, though the Tory MP Robert Halfon hopes to find out. Colleagues at London University investigated the decision by the LSE to award Gaddafi Jnr a PhD.
Their report is not being published, but we know that they concluded that the doctorate was in order. Mr Halfon, whose grandfather was driven out of Libya, is slapping in a Freedom of Information request to have the report released.
"Most people find it morally abhorrent that he was awarded a PhD," he said. "This is not a matter of procedure, it's an ethical issue."
The last remnants of Empire
Answering a question from the bulldog-loving Tory MP Andrew Rosindell this week, David Cameron gave a "guarantee" that the Government will "protect, defend and cherish" the 16 overseas territories that are the last remnants of the British Empire. That could be an expensive promise. The garrison on the Falkland Islands alone costs around £70m a year, and some of the others would be yet more expensive to patrol, if in fact our Government was defending them, which it is not.
Pitcairn Island, for example, a lump of organic rock sticking out of the Pacific Ocean, inhabited by about 50 descendants of the nine mutineers from the crew of the Bounty and their Tahitian wives. Though the Ministry of Defence has a responsibility to guard the islands, no Royal Navy ship has visited it since September 2000. But, given that the island is 3,300 miles from New Zealand and over 4,000 miles from America, the risk of it being attacked is not that great.
Mystery that doesn't fade away
It is the fate of ageing rock stars to be famous for what they did before they were 25. Guitarist Mick Taylor, 62, joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his teens, and the Rolling Stones when he was 20, but resigned in 1974, never fully explaining why. "Why did I leave? I can't tell you. Not now. All I can tell you is that at the time it was all put down to artistic differences – but that was only half of it," he has told the January edition of Mojo magazine.
In the same issue that rather more durable Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards, describes life after writing an autobiography that has been named Book of the Year. "Before, it was always, 'Oh, that old junkie that just does rock'n'roll.' I think they were a little surprised to discover I could actually write. But that's cool," he said. I own a hardback copy of his autobiography, kindly given to me as a Christmas present, yet to me, he is now and forever "that old junkie who does rock'n'roll".
Vanity costs a little more
Commissioning a portrait of John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a coat of arms was denounced as a "vanity" project when it was said that it had cost the taxpayer £37,000. But yesterday it emerged that officials had overlooked two items from "other budgets" which meant that the exercise cost £44,000. "The Speaker was not aware these costs were not included in the figures provided and in the interests of transparency wanted this clarification published as soon as the error was recognised," a spokeswoman said.
An intriguing meeting of minds
A meeting at which it would have been fun to be a fly on the wall was scheduled yesterday evening in Kensington, where Ed Miliband had arranged a chinwag with Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail.
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“From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung upon the outside of its garment. 'Spirit. are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more. 'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.”
Ignorance and Want, the two ghastly children from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, are the offspring of man. More accurately, they are the offspring of a society that shows too little concern for what it is breeding. Dickens warned us about the spread of Want and Ignorance in 1843. Perhaps it is time he should warn us again.
At a time of year when we are all getting swept up in the holiday spirit. When you and I are busy with Christmas shopping, holiday planning, and family visits, perhaps we should make time to consider what we have done in the last year. Perhaps we should make a little more time to plan so we might do better next year.
I certainly think the people in our nation’s capital should take a little time to do this. After all, Congress has done so very little this year they should certainly have some free time. I think the officials in Indianapolis should take a little time too. If this past legislative session is any indication, they should set aside a lot of time to reflect on what they could improve.
It seems the spread of Want is a popular campaign plank these days. In our bizarro world of American politics, the spread of Want is being actively promoted by some candidates. They wear their disdain for their fellow citizens as a badge of honor. “Take a bath and get a job!” is a common refrain. It is also a stupid one that plays only to our basilar instincts. Rather than actually doing some serious intellectual work and finding a way to improve our economy, some people, who are actively campaigning to be leader of the free world, reduce themselves to shouting third grade insults. When there are 4.6 unemployed people for every job opening, it requires a plan slightly more complex than “Take a bath!”
The proliferation of Want is not entirely the fault of one political party either. As one party campaigns to increase Want as quickly as humanly possible, the other seeks to compromise with that ghastly thought. The other party thinks it’s a winning strategy to simply halve the increase in Want promoted by its opponent. As if having 100 million Americans in need is the best plan available simply because it is slightly better than having 200 million Americans in need. The rationalization of such idiotic public policy is mind-boggling. It reads like a headline from The Onion, only these policies aren’t intentionally hilarious.
In a time when people need jobs, better pay, homes, food and other basic necessities, our leaders have weeks worth of debate over the astonishingly absurd. One party says they think they saw one instance of a person buying a steak with a food stamp, so the entire program must go. The other party says “well, we’ll compromise with you and cut half the program”. Then, they go on television to announce to the entire thinking world that bipartisanship is alive and well. Let me be the first to say “WELL, THANK GOD FOR THAT!!!!” It brings to mind the great Strother Martin line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, “Morons. I’ve got morons on my team”.
As maddening as politics in Washington DC has become, it is perhaps even worse in our state’s capitol. In Indianapolis, they actively seek to spread both Want and Ignorance, and they tell us it is a good thing. They write their editorial pieces and they even do “listening tours” so they can explain to us through porcelain smiles how laws that lower wages and reduce workplace safety are actually good for us, as if we’re all gullible enough to buy it. Driving down wages will improve your quality of life! It’s good for business! Of course, they’re in the increasing Want business. And brother, business is good!
More disturbingly, the jolly folks in our state’s capitol try to sell us on the spread of Ignorance. They tell us that pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars from our schools here in Perry County is a good thing. They tell us that obtaining a basic education should be a little more exclusive. If you happen to be a child of some means who lives near a private or “charter” school, you have every right to the best education money can buy. If you are of lesser means and live in a rural county like Perry County, well, life’s just not fair sometimes. Next time, you should be born in Carmel. Perhaps you could get one of those wonderful minimum wage service jobs when you grow up. They’ll be plentiful when we have Right to Work! What’s that you say? College? Oh no, sorry, college is going to be reserved for those with the right breeding.
If our state’s leaders are serious about improving Indiana’s economy and retaining educated people, education is the first and best place to start. Does anyone really think businesses will want to locate in Indiana, unions or not, if Indiana’s population becomes one of the least educated populations in the nation?
And retaining educated people? Forget about that. Why would educated people stay in any community that doesn’t value education? And when families with children are considering a move to a community, they might look at property tax rates, but I guarantee you they look at the schools. If the schools are a mess and underfunded, the lowest property taxes in the world won’t matter. It didn’t for my family. I’m quite positive it won’t for others. If you don’t have kids, do you want to live in a state surrounded by uneducated minimum wage earners who have absolutely no hope to improve themselves? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Charles Dickens warned us of the danger posed by Want and Ignorance. He warned us especially where Ignorance would lead. That was 168 years ago. I don’t think we listened all that well. I don’t think we heeded the warning. Our leaders certainly haven’t. Well, one day very soon Want and Ignorance are going to grow up. When they knock on our collective door, I hope we have better answers for them than “Take a Bath!” and “Compromise”. | <urn:uuid:89635081-7483-4a75-ae02-a1cbb4766735> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.perrycountynews.com/content/want-and-ignorance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967165 | 1,477 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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BOSTON — This is the week when Senegal's democracy will be tested, Russia goes to the polls to elect a new (or old) president, Michigan and Arizona Republicans choose their candidates, and champagne and cigars are celebrated.
Senegal's democracy to be tested
The results of Senegal's presidential election will be announced and the country's political stability will be tested by what comes after.
Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade was booed and jeered when he cast his vote in Dakar Sunday. Later, when the votes were counted in his home district, Wade won just 22 percent of the votes. This suggests that Wade will have to go to a runoff election, as he must win 50 percent of the total vote to win outright in the first round.
Wade, 85, has thrown Senegal, normally the bedrock of stability for West Africa, into turmoil by seeking an unconstitutional third term. Ever since the Constitutional Court made the controversial ruling on January 27 that Wade could set aside the constitution and run for a third term, the normally orderly country has been rocked by demonstrations in which six people have died.
Now the opposition, which fielded 13 different candidates, has vowed to make Senegal ungovernable if Wade wins.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is in the country as an election observer, but he is also trying to mediate between Wade and the opposition. Obasanjo is trying to work out a deal in which Wade would agree to serve just three years of the seven year term, according to numerous reports. But some opposition vow that even one more year of Wade is too much.
What happens this week will be crucial, not only for Senegal but for all of West Africa.
Russia goes to the polls
This is also the week when Russia goes to the polls to elect a new president, or maybe an old president. Vladimir Putin was once president and may well become Russia's next president.
Dmitry Medvedev kept the seat warm and now appears ready to hand it back to Putin.
The Russian presidential election will be held on Sunday, March 4.
Iran to vote on assembly
Iranians will vote on Friday, March 2 to determine the legislators who will represent them in the national Assembly. It will be the first time Iranians will go to the polls since the hotly disputed election of 2009 in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stayed in power.
BP to negotiate with plaintiffs over Deepwater Horizon oil spill
This was supposed to be the week when BP would go to court over the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
The civil trial over the Deepwater Horizon disaster was scheduled to open on Monday, Feb. 27, but late Sunday it was postponed. Now this is the week when BP negotiates to reach a settlement with the lawyers representing those who say they were injured by the oil spill.
The trial, which had been slated to begin in Federal District Court in New Orleans, is meant to determine the culpability of BP and other companies for the explosion that killed 11 and unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Later trials will determine how much oil escaped from the well and how successful the companies involved were at containing and cleaning it up. The companies involved in the April 2010 incident, including Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Corp. are also battling amongst themselves over who was at fault.
In other words, it's going to be a big deal.
Republicans hold primaries in Arizona and Michigan
Tuesday voters in Michigan and Arizona will voter on their favorite Republican candidate to challenge US President Barack Obama in the November election. Mitt Romney appears to have the edge, but Rick Santorum is still in the race. Newt Gingrich appears to be a distant third.
In Michigan there appears to be little enthusiasm for any of the Republicans. Maybe that's because they all opposed the bailout to the Detroit automakers, GM and Chrysler.
Cigars and champagne to be celebrated
Does that make the week sound all very serious. Well for some sparkling fun, how about some champagne?
The Champagne Summit in London on Tuesday, Feb. 28, will feature panel debates, tastings and masterclasses on chamapagne. Corks will be popping.
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As Secretary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Civil Society and Emerging Democracies. I'm writing to extend an invitation: I'd like you to join us online tomorrow to take part in Secretary Clinton's Global Town Hall with Civil Society. This event will kick off the 2012 Summit of our Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society, and we want you involved.
"Civil society" is the term we use to describe activists, organizations, congregations, and journalists who work through peaceful means to make our countries better. In one way or another, you're probably a part of civil society already. Over the last year, we've watched as civil society has changed our world. Courageous young men and women have brought dignity and democracy to North Africa. Citizens have pushed scores of governments to be more accountable. And technology has made it easier than ever before for people to come together around common goals to advance the common good.
Against that backdrop, Secretary Clinton launched the Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society as the State Department's flagship effort to engage partners beyond government. This marked a big change for us. We've had a lot of practice conducting diplomacy with other countries. But diplomacy with those outside of government is relatively new, even if it's rapidly becoming an integral part of our work. There have been excellent efforts at embassies and in bureaus where our diplomats have built strong relationships with civil society, but we've realized that we need to expand that cooperation to every issue and country where we're active.
For the last year, representatives from the State Department and leading activists have come together and worked to turn ideas from civil society into concrete policy proposals. Tomorrow -- for the first time -- Secretary Clinton will announce action on the recommendations that have emerged from this process. Secretary Clinton will also answer questions from civil society representatives with us in Washington and participating at embassy and consulate viewing parties around the world.
The Dialogue fulfills a promise in the Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) to create a framework for involving civil society in policymaking. And we want the next round to be powered by your ideas. So, join us! Watch the Global Town Hall live at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 16. Follow along on Twitter (@usmariaotero, @State_DRL, @EconEngage, and @S_GWI will all be tweeting live from the Town Hall using the hashtag #CivilSociety or #CivSoc), and tell us your ideas on how government and civil society can work together as catalysts for change. | <urn:uuid:5b2901ac-7514-4e9f-b17e-c5fd4be4363a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.state.gov/2012/05/article/join-secretary-clintons-strategic-dialogue-civil-society | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951231 | 521 | 1.5 | 2 |
HBO "Real Sports" Exposes Underbelly Of Thoroughbred Racing
Washington, D.C. -- On the heels of Eight Belles' tragic death at the 2008 Kentucky Derby, HBO is exposing an unsavory side of the Thoroughbred racing industry. The network's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" will air a segment on May 12 revealing that thousands of unsuccessful horses are sent to a brutal death in the slaughterhouse every year.
As shown in the program, horses no longer winning on the track are often sold for profit by their owners to slaughterhouse "killer-buyers." The animals are then transported to the foreign-owned plants across US borders, where they are brutally butchered and sold for human consumption in Europe and Asia. Many of the horses depicted in the HBO segment went from the track to a slaughterhouse in Mexico very quickly.
"It's disturbing that anyone would sell a horse to slaughter, but to do so the moment a young horse stops earning the owner a big check seems particularly repugnant," said Chris Heyde, deputy director of government and legal affairs with the Animal Welfare Institute. "This piece further demonstrates the clear need for passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act."
While the last three horse slaughterhouses operating on US soil were closed in 2007 under state laws, more than 100,000 American horses continue to be killed annually at plants located in Canada and Mexico. The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, introduced in the US Congress as H.R. 503 and S. 311, would prohibit the domestic slaughter of horses for human consumption abroad, as well as their export for the same purpose.
"This is a black eye that the Thoroughbred racing world just can't afford right now," Heyde said. "We hope the industry will clean up its act."
AWI encourages everyone to step up calls to their legislators and House and Senate leadership demanding a vote on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act immediately to stop the slaughterhouses from exporting tens of thousands of American horses to Mexico and Canada.
For more information on horse slaughter and how you can help end this cruel industry once and for all please click here.
UPDATE: The updated AWI color brochure and action alert insert on horse slaughter are now available to everyone working to end horse slaughter and protect our horses. It contains background on the issue, dispels myths spread by pro-horse slaughter organizations and provides contact information on how to take action. To request copies please email firstname.lastname@example.org with the amount you would like, name, address and phone number.
Chris Heyde, (202) 446-2142
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This dynamic duo has a combined teaching experience of 77 years!!! Sheryl taught grade levels K-6, 9 and graduate college level courses. She has illustrated for AIMS, coauthored several elementary science textbook series and inquiry books for teachers. Karen taught grade levels K-6, and both undergraduate and graduate college level courses. She has coauthored several elementary science textbook series and inquiry books for teachers.
We believe that all students learn by experience- doing science.
Sheryl was a the winner in California for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching. Karen was a winner of the National Science Teachers Association Distinguished Teaching Award at the Undergraduate College Level
Sheryl- Masters in Science Education, Fresno Pacific College Karen -Doctorate in Science Education, University of Minnesota
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Mehdi Karroubi said in a letter, made public on Monday, that a number of detainees had claimed that several women and men, arrested amid violent demonstrations, were repeatedly abused by their jailers.
"A number of detainees have said that some female detainees have been raped savagely," Karroubi said in the letter to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an influential religious leader and former president.
"Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped," he said, adding they were suffering from depression and serious physical harm after the alleged attacks.
Karroubi, who came fourth in the June election, appealed to Rafsanjani to bring the matter to the attention of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader.
His claims came after some Iranian officials acknowledged that a number of those detained during a crackdown over the protests had been subjected to mistreatment in prison.
'Violations and carelessness'
The deaths of at least three people in custody have prompted Iran to jail the head of the Kahrizak detention centre.
Iran's prosecutor-general said that that there had been "violations and carelessness" at the prison, but he insisted that any deaths were caused by illness, not torture.
Prisoners "died of viral illness and not as a result of beating", he said, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
The son of a senior adviser to Mohsen Rezaie, a defeated conservative presidential candidate, died at Kahrizak in July.
After Mohsen Ruholamini's death, Kahrizak, which was built for jailing violators of Iran's vice laws, was ordered closed by Khamenei due to "lack of necessary standards".
Iran's official IRNA news agency reported Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi, Iran's prosecutor general, as saying: "Unfortunately, negligence and carelessness by some officials caused the Kahrizak incident, which is not defendable."
"During early days, it is possible there were mistakes and mistreatment due to overcrowding in the prison."
Iran's opposition has said that it believes a number of young people rounded up and taken to the prison after protesting against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, were tortured to death.
At least 26 people died in the post-poll unrest, described as Iran's biggest crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, and hundreds of opposition supporters were detained.
Iran is continuing with a mass trial of more than 100 prominent reformist figures, opposition activists and others accused of offenses ranging from rioting to spying and seeking to topple Iran's rulers.
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First black woman MP Diane Abbott has entered the Labour leadership race
Backbench MP Diane Abbott has joined the race for the Labour leadership.
The Londoner told the BBC her bid was "serious", saying there was little between the other candidates, who "all look the same".
The 57-year-old Cambridge graduate, who became the UK's first black woman MP in 1987, said she was getting support from female and left-leaning colleagues.
She is the sixth person to enter the race after David and Ed Miliband, John McDonnell, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham.
Contenders have until Thursday 27 May to gather the backing of 33 Labour MPs - a timetable some have said is too tight, particularly for less high-profile candidates.
'If not me, who?'
Ms Abbott, the Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, who in recent years has been a fixture on the BBC's This Week programme, said: "So many people have asked me to stand.
"The other candidates are all nice and would make good leaders of the Labour Party but they all look the same... We cannot be offering a slate of candidates who all look the same. The Labour Party's much more diverse than that."
She added: "I looked at the field and said 'If not now, when?' And 'If not me, who?'"
Ms Abbott said: "It's important that we recapture the civil liberties agenda from the Tories and the Lib Dems.
"It's important that we re-energise the party and bring democracy back to the party.
"We need a proper debate on immigration, where children of immigrants like me also have a voice."
Ms Abbott said she wanted a "proper debate" on tackling the budget deficit and whether this should be achieved by raising taxes or cutting spending.
At the general election, she increased her constituency majority to 14,461, with a swing to Labour from the Liberal Democrats.
Former Health Secretary Andy Burnham, 40, announced his intention to stand for leader and "rebuild the party for new times" in an article for Thursday's Daily Mirror newspaper.
Born in London in 1953
Daughter of Jamaican welder and a nurse
Became Britain's first black woman MP in 1987
Previously worked at Home Office and Thames TV
Regular panellist on BBC One's political show This Week
He said the party owed a "debt of thanks" to former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair but said he would end "stage-managed" politics.
On Wednesday Ed Balls launched his campaign, saying he wanted to "listen first, hear what the public say".
The close ally of Mr Brown said the contest was not about "Blair versus Brown" or "old Labour versus new Labour".
Left-wing MP John McDonnell said he wants to stand but the timetable makes it "almost impossible" and argues the process has been "stitched up from the start".
Ed Miliband has also said it should be longer. On his Twitter page, he wrote: "MPs/members annoyed about short nominations timetable: I have to say I agree. Need broadest possible choice & time for MPs to decide&consult".
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Links and Article Marketing
Internet Marketing Newsletter by Charlotte Howard
I am jazzed about 2009. I am full of energy, optimism, and drive and I want to make sure I help you make significant progress with your businesses this year. My goal is to share information so you can make wise choices. I also want to show you how to increase your exposure and marketing energy on the web. Some of these techniques will even be FREE! But first - I want to talk to you about links. Because...
Links are a HUGE part of your website's success.
In-bound links (links that are pointing to your website from somewhere else on the internet) are a significant factor in determining where you show up in the search engines. They also send you traffic, which is people looking for something they want - information, products and services.
There are two reasons for a link.
- To send traffic your way.
- To send link-juice your way.
It is important to know why you want a link from another source, as both of these reasons are valuable for certain purposes.
Google will determine if your site belongs on Page 1 of the SERPs (search engine results pages) by evaluating your website content AND the number of links that are pointing your way. They will also be evaluating the quality of the in-bound links and determining if the linking appears to be a human activity or if the linking seems automated.
Link juice is a term that describes the power or quality of the inbound link. Every web page has only so much juice to pass around. Some pages have no juice.
Here is an example of a common linking strategy.
Link Exchange: "I'll link to you if you link to me."
You both place each other on your Links page along with dozens of other businesses. Your link juice probably cancels each other out. These pages are likely the least visited pages on both websites. Google ignores Link pages especially if they are NAMED "links.html". Where's the value? Perhaps a little bit of exposure to human eyes if you are at the top of the list or you stand out on the page in some way. These links are popular locally but may have very little impact on your Google standings.
Now THIS is a beautiful link!
One way - pointing to your site. It has your keywords in the anchor text. The page that the link is coming from is optimized for your keyword phrases and has decent page rank. The link is surrounded by valuable and relevant content. Oooo - the link is bold. It also doesn't have a "no-follow" tag on it.
Why am I telling you this you wonder?
You may have heard of it. Start writing articles and submit them to article sites regularly. This is a powerful way to get juicy in-bound-only links to your website. You can do this yourself. Many article submissions are free. Go to www.ezinearticles.com and www.submityourarticle.com and create an account. You will be placed on their e-mail auto-responder lists. Accept these emails, open them, and read them. They are helpful and will teach you how to write articles well.
Don't have time? Hate writing? Rather have someone else do it?
Please call us at (928) 204-9015 and ask about our Internet Marketing Jump Start Package. We will professionally write 12 articles for you and blast them out over the internet. These articles will be original, researched and optimized. All you have to do is allow us to interview you and provide us with whatever marketing materials you already have.
The links pointing to your website from articles on the web are powerful! They are also a great lead! I can guarantee you that when someone finds your article on the web and they like what they read, they will follow your link. THAT'S GREAT TRAFFIC - QUALITY TRAFFIC.
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As you know, we recently announced our millionth sponsored child. Now, I won’t tell you a lot of random facts about 1 million.
Like how long it would take you to count to 1 million (14 days).
Or how much 1 million dollar bills weigh (2,204 pounds).
Because as important as 1 million is, and as huge of a milestone as 1 million sponsored children is, it’s really just about one child.
And a few weeks ago, I got to meet that one child — Fellow Blewussi Kpodo. He lives in a dusty community just outside of Lomé, Togo.
Fellow’s whole family had come out for our meeting. His father stood proudly, his arm on the shoulder of his oldest son. Fellow’s two older sisters darted in and out of the house, covering their faces and giggling at the sight of my pale skin. His younger brother made himself at home in my lap.
All the while, Fellow watched the commotion with his solemn brown eyes.
I stared at his eyes when he wasn’t looking. Fringed with dark eyelashes, I wondered at what they had seen.
They had watched his father battered by grief when Fellow’s mother died five years ago.
They had filled with tears when the headmaster sent him home from school because he didn’t have his school fees — again.
They had stung with smoke as he bent over the small fire he prepared every evening for his sisters to cook cassava and dried fish for dinner.
And now, those same eyes sought out mine.
“He has a question for you,” explained the interpreter. I nodded. “He wants to know if you know his sponsor.”
I grinned at Fellow, and for the first time a smile reached his eyes.
“I don’t know her,” I explained. “But I know that you are very special to her.”
And in that moment, everything else faded away. Fellow wasn’t one of a million children. He was just one.
One more step toward changing the world.
“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.” – Pablo Casals | <urn:uuid:aaaa8c41-4565-4f19-acb2-1e9d691f6810> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.compassion.com/one-child/quote-comment-9886/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984429 | 508 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Members of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM) convened in New York City October 11-13 for the organization’s annual conference. ABFM, made up mostly of academics but also practitioners, advances the science of public administration and public finance by linking scholarly research with practitioner perspectives. The organization is also responsible for editing and publishing Public Budgeting & Finance, the primary academic journal in the field of government finance.
NASBO staff participated in the annual event and came away with a greater understanding of the current academic research trends, findings and perspectives on a wide spectrum of budgeting and financial management issues. Through conference panel sessions, authors discussed their data driven research in a number of areas pertinent to state budget officers including K-12 education expenditures, pension gaps, rainy day funds state credit ratings, countercyclical fiscal policies and capacity, municipal bankruptcy, Medicaid expansion, performance budgeting, fiscal federalism, and more.
Panel sessions at the ABFM conference indicate that scholarly research efforts are focused on many of the same conversations that state and federal policy-makers are engaged in, such as public pensions, municipal bond markets, post-recession fiscal recovery, social security, the federal appropriation process, the tax base, infrastructure investment and property taxes.
As state and local governments continue to adjust budgets to the changing economic climate, there is clearly no shortage of questions that need answers. However, too often budget practitioners and scholars do not effectively share information to the mutual benefit of both parties. NASBO would like to continue to address this information gap by encouraging budget officers and others interested in ABFM to take a look at the papers presented at last week’s annual conference. The papers will be available at http://www.abfm.org/. | <urn:uuid:70432642-6d31-46f7-a0ac-c4eb88330833> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nasbo.org/budget-blog/abfm-conference-summary-academic-trends-and-perspectives | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941209 | 355 | 1.5625 | 2 |
joie de vivre inspired administrator’s re-valuation of long
Seeing her friend Bill walk into the nursing home dining room in the
summer of 2002 after recovering from multiple injuries was more than
a triumphant moment for administrator Denise Bedard.
Bill, with tears streaming down his face and everyone
in the room applauding, hadn’t walked in months. The moment
became symbolic for Bedard, who had helped Bill, along with a physiotherapist,
to regain his ability to walk.
"With a little effort and genuine care, staff
could dramatically impact on the quality of life of their residents
and in doing so also impact on their own lives in a positive and
rewarding way," says Bedard.
Bedard’s epiphany was this: long term care,
which was rightly moving to more person-centred orientation, could
move further beyond to fully explore and celebrate the uniqueness
of each individual and their respective histories. A necessary addendum
to this was changing the modes of care provision to make interactions
between staff and residents more meaningful.
Bedard, in memory of Bill, has developed a teaching
initiative and thesis entitled “The Enrichment of Personhood
in a Legacy Teaching Culture (formerly known as Long Term Care).”
The ethic of efficiency in care provision, argues
Bedard, still impedes the progress of person-centred care and the
development of the kinds of relationships (like the one she shared
with Bill) that can be life-affirming and life-altering.
“Our present medical model of care pulls
for efficiency, and does not convey to staff that personhood or
even psychosocial care is part of one’s job,” she writes.
It’s also understandable, she adds, that
due to the tremendous emotional stress caregivers face that they
consciously or unconsciously desensitize themselves (to varying
degrees). One of the objectives of the initiative, it follows, is
to change care provision in social terms.
“[T]his teaching model is being created
in order to guide and create awareness to practitioners in long
term care to approach their charges with compassion, personhood,
and to address the relationship between residents, family members,
and their caregivers,” writes Bedard.
This is done, says Bedard, through concerted community
The initiative, currently in start-up phase at
Meadow Park London, involves comprehensive community engagement.
Focus groups and surveys with residents and staff within the home
and with families externally have begun, offering insight and feedback
into specific issues in care provision at Meadow Park.
The results will then be distributed to other
individuals working in long term care. This next dialogue will help
to produce a teaching model, says Bedard. Eventually, her hope is
to find funding to implement the vision of “legacy teaching
“Building legacies in a person-centred culture
focuses on the uniqueness of each person,” says Bedard. “
“Caregivers need to be respectful of what
seniors have accomplished, compassionate towards what they have
endured and awestruck by their strength and capacity to adapt. A
good friend once said to me, ‘If you don’t know me,
you cannot care for me. A person without a past is incomplete.’” | <urn:uuid:ff3ee07b-524c-4f16-a573-569a31f24833> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oltca.com/axiom/DailyNews/2006/January/Jan27.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94539 | 731 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with McDonalds to offer electronic payments and special promotions for mobile users, reports BBC News.
The deal could also provide invaluable information about customer behavior, Jupiter Research's Julie Ask said.
"It gives both McDonald's and DoCoMo the opportunity to track consumers and their eating habits. Cash is more likely to be used in small transactions. Electronic payments will allow user behaviour to be tracked and used for marketing purposes," Ask said in her blog.
McDonald's is yet another retailer that is offering mobile phone payment in Japan. DoCoMo has set up service which allows around 3 million customers to use their handsets as credit cards. | <urn:uuid:1c54816d-25bb-4c7c-a5f4-bed4d5ee40ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marketingvox.com/in-japan-mcdonalds-burgers-paid-for-by-mobile-phones-027640/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967608 | 142 | 1.5 | 2 |
Material changes and heated discussions
If you’re in the textile industry or sell home HVAC equipment (and especially if you’re in the textile industry and sell HVAC equipment, in which case we’re dying to know what your store looks like), you’ll want to jot down some important dates from the FTC.
As part of its systematic review at rules and guides, the FTC has announced that it’s tagged the Textile Rules for another look. Those Rules require that textiles sold in the U.S. have labels disclosing the generic names and percentages by weight of the fibers in the product, the manufacturer or marketer name, and the country where the product was processed or manufactured. The FTC has extended the deadline for public comments to February 2, 2012. Save some time by filing your comment online.
Also under review are new energy labeling requirements for residential furnaces, central air conditioners, and heat pumps. The purpose of the change? To help consumers and businesses install equipment appropriate for their locale under the Department of Energy’s new regional efficiency standards. The FTC has extended its comment deadline to February 6, 2012, which coincides with the deadline in a related proceeding underway at DoE. One energy-saving tip: File your comment online. | <urn:uuid:ee03e814-0b29-4515-8db9-e66ac92d54b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.business.ftc.gov/blog/2012/01/material-changes-and-heated-discussions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941804 | 266 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Step 3: Making A Decision
Step 3: “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.”
Step 3 is one of the “God” Steps that many newcomers have problems with. How can you turn your life and will over to God if you don’t believe in God?
As discussed in Step 2, 12-Step programs don’t require a belief in God, just a power greater than oneself. Individuals get to choose what that power is. A Higher Power can be the AA program itself or the collective wisdom of AA members. One counselor at rehab, a surfer, told me that in early sobriety his Higher Power was the ocean, which was much more powerful than he was. I’ve also heard AA members describe their Higher Powers as: nature; the one-ness of the universe; a power you have to be honest with; and the spark of goodness within every individual. I heard one AA member describe his Higher Power this way: “Something created the universe and I know it wasn’t me, so I choose whatever it was that did.” Similarly, I’ve heard it described at “the great mystery.” Many have said they have no idea how to describe their Higher Power but they choose to believe in one anyway. And many have said they have come to believe in a power “as I don’t understand him.”
Step 3 is about choosing to have faith in something. It’s about perspective — knowing what you can control and what you can’t.
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions says, “Practicing Step Three is like the opening of a door which to all appearances is still closed and locked. All we need is a key, and the decision to swing the door open. There is only one key and it is called willingness. Once unlocked by willingness, the door opens almost of itself, and looking through it, we shall see a pathway beside which there is an inscription. It reads, ‘This is the way to a faith that works.’ In the first two Steps we were engaged in reflection. We saw that we were powerless over alcohol, but we perceived that faith of some kind, even if only faith in AA itself, is possible to anyone…. Like all the remaining Steps, Step Three calls for affirmative action…”
The “affirmative action” of Step Three is to make a decision, a decision to rely on the guidance of a Higher Power, whatever that is to you, rather than relying on a an inflated sense of ego or willpower. What Step Three calls for is trying to be in accord with one’s Higher Power, to do “the next right thing,” rather than act out of self-will, resentment, self-seeking or self-pity.
Step Three means taking the Serenity Prayer to heart. As the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions says, “…[I]t is really easy to begin the practice of Step Three. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine be done.” | <urn:uuid:3aa8beb6-5414-4cdd-b431-508d03be238f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.addictscience.com/step-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970022 | 713 | 1.625 | 2 |
Hot Air From The Unsustainable Wind-Energy Industry
By: J.J. Jackson
Wind energy; you hear a lot about how great it is. But what is the truth? Well, apparently this source of power which environmental activists tout as the solution to all of our problems is more unsustainable than it is sustainable.
Right now the wind-energy industry is lobbying hard to get subsidies which have sustained it renewed. For all the bluster about how great this alternative source of energy is, apparently it is not very economically feasible and has become yet another government boondoggle along the lines of the whole ethanol industry.
Just perusing the articles of the past couple days we see that those making their living off wind-energy are really concerned about not getting their hands into the precious government cookie jar. At DesmoinesRegister.com, there is an article called “Wind industry pleas for subsidyâ€.
The article bemoans how these subsidies are keeping the industry afloat and how the loss of the subsidy, ostensively because of evil people soon to take over the House of Representatives, would cost jobs. Yes, it is the same old government creates jobs song and dance that we have heard many times before. Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, is quoted in the article as laying the ground work for the complaint as to what will happen if those dastardly Republicans do not give them their money. “No one will want to have another series of people, a group of people in unemployment lines, in the renewable sector,†she said.
Hey Denise, sweetheart, why not find a way to actually make money instead of trying the same old complaints about how without government you cannot succeed? This article also points out how wind installations dropped from 10 gigawatts in 2009 to 5.5 gigawatts this year despite the subsidy. But, miraculously if the subsidies are renewed that number will jump to “seven to eight gigawatts in 2011†or so Ms. Bode’s group claims. Again, you cannot increase installation capacity on your own why exactly? Possibly some sort of economic laws which, try as you might, cannot be violated?
Then there is this article in the Dallas Morning News which was the long, unwieldy title of “Wind industry says 3,000 Texas jobs could be lost if key subsidy isn’t renewed“. Apparently the federal government, so the article reports, has had to dump 1.3 billion dollars into Texas wind-energy companies in the past two years. And only with that huge government bailout has this business been able to sustain itself and keep on going. Bemoans Denise Bode some more in this article that there are some 20,000 jobs nationwide hang in the balance if the subsidies are not renewed. 3,000 of those workers, we are told, will be in Texas alone.
Sniff. I – I don’t know what to say. How can we be so cruel as to not send tax payer dollars to businesses that have such a pathetic business model that they cannot survive without government aid? How can we be so callous as to send thousands of workers to the unemployment lines and food kitchens even though they are obviously not producing something their fellow man wants? How can we not, just this one more time, say that even though there is no authority in the Constitution for this sort of spending we have to still spend it because so many people will suffer and not be able to suckle at the teat of government?
Ok, I was being quite facetious with all that bellyaching in the last paragraph. But these are the excuses people like Denise Boyd and others, who are making their own living off of convincing government to give up some of our tax dollars to them, are basically trying to craft. Because without those subsidies and if the wind-energy industry goes the way the free market obviously wants to make it go they would have to actually find something productive to do with their lives rather than being leaches.
No industry should be subsidized by the federal government. Enough is enough. The hot air of the alternative power industry must be allowed to blow over. Succeed or fail by your own merits and stop, for the love of God, looking for a government handout because you have not figured out how to do the former.
J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the Pittsburgh Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. He is also the owner of The Right Things – Conservative T-shirts & Gifts http://www.cafepress.com/rightthings. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at http://www.libertyreborn.com
J.J. Jackson is a libertarian conservative author from Pittsburgh, PA who has been writing and promoting individual liberty since 1993 and is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. He is the Pittsburgh Conservative Examiner for Examiner.com. He is also the owner of The Right Things - Conservative T-shirts & Gifts The Right Things. His weekly commentary along with exclusives not available anywhere else can be found at Liberty Reborn. | <urn:uuid:e9da180c-da8a-40e5-87f4-51f167352665> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2010/12/11/hot-air-from-the-unsustainable-wind-energy-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961202 | 1,095 | 1.703125 | 2 |
It's a fair question.
Many people are not satisfied with their current controls. Manual controls can require frequent adjustment. With practice and experience one gets better at using them, but generally you end up accepting a certain level of over or under heating. Timer boxes and rheostats can simplify things, but you still end up having to chase the outdoor temperature changes with adjustments and things can be quite a bit off if you leave the house for the day or when you wake up in the morning.
Some people have thermostat controls that they bought with their stove. Typcially it is a bell thermostat or a more crude thermostat box, either of which works in conjunction with a timer that provides idle feed setting, and maybe it also provide a full feed setting (or this is set with the manual controls). These setups often result in widely fluctuating temperature control, though. If it is set to 70, for instance, the actual temperature in the room can swing up to 5 or more degrees above and below that setting.
This happens and the effect is strengthened by a number of factors, but the root cause is that coal fuel takes a long time (compared to electric, gas, oil, or hot water heating systems) to generate the heat being called for by the thermostat. This delay results in under and over shoots in the temperature of the space when controlled by a traditional thermostat.
Manual and timer/dial controls often result in even worse fluctuations unless they are at the hands of a seasoned coal stove owner.
And these fluctuations don't only result in discomfort, they result in wasted fuel as the stove over heats the space or has to overcome the low of a temperature dip.
The Coal-Trol Digital control systems work on a different principle than traditional thermostats, which allow them to feed only enough coal as is needed to maintain the desired temperature. It will maintain that temperature setting to within 1 degree of the setpoint, and while providing that level of comfort and ease of use you will be saving coal (at least 11%, usually more) by having eliminated those large temperature fluctuations. Of course, when a programmed or manual temperature setpoint change occurs it takes some time for the temperature to adjust, just as with any thermostat, but once at the desired temperature we maintain it within that 1 degree range.
We also offer additional features depending on the model one wants to buy, all of which are detailed at our website at http://www.coaltroldigital.com
Lastly, we're actively working on an automatic ignition module that will work with our systems. In addition to making it very easy (and clean) to start the stove, it will extend the practical usefulness of the stove further into the transition seasons of spring and fall.
So that's my shpiel.
As you say, if you're happy with what you have then there may not be enough reason for you to try a Coal-Trol Digital system out. But if you're seeing the kind of temperature fluctuations I described or after looking at our website and searching the forum's prior discussions on the Coal-Trol you see value, we encourage you and others to ask questions and hopefully order a system.
We offer a 3 year warrantee and a 30 day money back guarantee and multiple avenues (email, these forums, phone call, etc.) for customer support. System prices are from $250 to $450.
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On 28 February 2008, Elonex launched the Elonex ONE--the first sub-£100 laptop in the UK. Clearly competing against the much in-demand Asus EeePC , Elonex say they are aiming at the school-student market. The thing is, I just can't stop asking: isn't £99 too cheap for a laptop?
Elonex have denied that the ONE is a re-badged Fontastic A-view
Elonex kept the specifications very close to their chest until the announcement at the Education show--a conference in Birmingham. Some tech sites had managed to speculate based upon the apparent similarities between the ONE and the Taiwanese-made Fontastic A-view. Elonex have denied rumours that the ONE is a re-badged A-view. As shown below there are certainly similarities between the two though.
|Elonex ONE||Fontastic A-view|
|CPU||LNX Code8 300MHz||Aday5F-300 Mhz|
|Network||10/100 & 802.11b/g (Bluetooth option)||10/100 (802.11b/g & Bluetooth options)|
|Display||800x480 7" TFT||800x480 7" TFT|
|Ports||2xUSB, Mic, Headphone||2xUSB, Mic, Headphone|
|Dimensions||22x15x3 cm||230x146x33 mm|
You can add to those the fact that both come with LinOS Linux 2.6.21, sport the same "mouse emulator" (two each in fact), have a similar 3-cell battery (which Elonex claim will last for four hours). The same rugged hardware design is in both. Finally both have a removable keyboard, enabling the screen section to be used tablet style. If the ONE is not a re-badged A-view then they appear to be very close cousins.
The specifications show how Elonex can put the ONE out at £99. I can't remember when I last saw a new PC product with a 300MHz processor and it is the hardware specs which make me question whether this product will fly. Like the EeePC the 7 inch screen will bring its own cost (and power) savings. Of course using free software gives a whole host of advantages, including in this case cost.
Elonex have nailed their colours firmly to the free software mast on this--er--ONE. From their website:
The ONE's ground breaking price point has been achieved by using the open source software Linux. This operating system has gained popularity in recent rears as it brings back the freedom of software development back to the individual, rather than the reliance on the monopoly of large corporations. It is hoped that the children learning computing on the ONE nowadays, will have the skills to design the software we will all be using in the future.
Note the use of the words freedom and monopoly there and they should be congratulated for the recognition that using free software will introduce skills not always gained from using proprietary software. This kind of statement is one of the reasons I really want this product to succeed.
Some of the included applications are not named but we can work out what they are. The office applications can import and export Microsoft Office documents (the spreadsheet screenshot looks like Gnumeric to me). A "cross platform instant messenger" compatible with MSN, Yahoo, AIM & ICQ sounded like pidgin even before the A-view specs gave the game away. Multimedia (although no mention of codecs offered), web browsing and e-mail also get a look in and there are 11 games (coincidentally the same number as on the A-view).
Is it good enough?
I have to be honest: I like the concept of the ONE a lot more than I trust my instincts on its long-term survival. I am worried that 300MHz and 128Mb is not really going to be enough to be editing a text document whilst listening to some music. Additional storage is handled by an associated range of USB wrist bands: ranging from 1Gb to 16Gb.
The graphics and audio chips are not mentioned anywhere but the ONE is unlikely to be requiring 3D acceleration or 5-speaker surround sound. Perhaps this product will succeed because of the marketing strategy. Elonex have really aimed this at schools--not just school kids--and it's possible that will pay off: if schools see the potential of the ONE. Certainly its price could well be attractive schools fitting out classrooms with them and the tablet feature gives it an extended scope over an average PC. I just worry that the resources will struggle if (when?) someone throws something big at it.
Uses outside of schools
Ever since I saw the EeePC--and now the ONE--I have tried to envisage uses for it beyond the promotional material. The immediate one I can think of for either is as a cheap loan laptop for users who travel. I often have colleagues asking to borrow a laptop for a long train journey. The size and weight of the unit will make this an ideal candidate. Considering this loan would be for a short few hours, the 7inch screen might just be tolerable. Another option is for it to be loaned with a data-projector to colleagues giving presentations.
I have to confess, I like the ONE and Elonex have done a lot to pitch it just right at their chosen market. I do have reservations about some of the hardware involved; having said that I doubt a proprietary-based machine could be sold at that price without a huge loss.
If you are in the mood for a ONE, you can reserve it for ready for delivery in June. It comes in four colours too.
So come on Elonex, prove my doubting conscience wrong. Prove that a sub--£100 laptop is possible and that free software can actually help our kids learn to use computers and not just some proprietary software which happens to have a monopoly at the moment.
Elonex ONE
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Judge Ireland Schools the Police
Two paragraphs were hidden away in this story Malden Council Makes Marijuana Use Punishable by Arrest, like charms in a Christmas pudding. The bulk of the article reports on Malden’s escalating punishment ethos, and a quote from Judge Ireland was included, but got no further comment.
“By mandating that possession of such a small quantity of marijuana become a civil violation, not a crime, the voters intended to treat offenders who possess one ounce or less of marijuana differently from perpetrators of drug crimes,” wrote Chief Justice Roderick Ireland.
“Ferreting out decriminalized conduct with the same fervor associated with the pursuit of serious criminal conduct is neither desired by the public, nor in accord with the plain language of the statute,’’ he wrote later.”
This is very strong language from a judge, and he directs his displeasure at police who are acting in defiance of the will of the voters, also known as the citizenry, also known as their employers. We’re not a police state yet, and the will of the voters still makes a difference, and Judge Ireland is reminding the police of this. This is how the Judicial Branch is supposed to work. Thank you, Judge Ireland. | <urn:uuid:17eeb034-9ea6-4e97-889f-ba5601bd8f8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://masscann.org/news/judge-ireland-schools-the-police | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975853 | 258 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Big changes are afoot in the gold market. The short take: The new environment will favor long-term investors who buy and hold for years over speculators who try to trade day-to-day gyrations.
For one thing, central bankers are back buying gold. Think it's no big deal? The last time we saw the so-called official sector as such a consistent and major buyer was in 1965.
Central banks increased their gold hoards by 400 metric tons—each equal to almost 2,205 pounds—in the 12 months through March 31, up from 156 tons during the prior year, according to recent World Gold Council data.
The council "is now confident that central banks will continue to buy gold and has added official-sector purchases as a new element of gold demand," writes Austin Kiddle in a report for London-based bullion dealer Sharps Pixley.
The recent data cement the fact that central-bank buying is here to stay. This stands in stark contrast to large-scale selling from 1966 through 2007. The majority of those years saw massive dumping of the metal by central bankers, punctuated by a few years of modest buying.
After the end of World War II, central banks had to hoard gold because it was the center of the global financial system. But as the Bretton Woods system, which relied on gold, collapsed in the late 1960s, the bankers no longer needed so much bullion. The system died in 1971.
CENTRAL BANKS STARTED TO WARM to gold again during the 2008 financial crisis. The U.S. Federal Reserve began a campaign of money printing known as quantitative easing in 2008 to boost economic activity. In order to diversify away from greenbacks and other paper currency, central banks of emerging-market economies like Mexico started snapping up bullion. Central banks "will probably be continuous buyers of small volumes of gold for the foreseeable future," says Jeff Christian, founder of New York–based commodities consulting firm CPM Group. By small volumes, he means 311 to 374 metric tons a year, or about 10% of the global supply.
So will that drive prices higher? Maybe, maybe not, says Christian.
He says that central bankers will avoid buying any quantity that dramatically affects the price. They know that the market is tiny, compared with the $4 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market. Still, consistent buying of 10% of annual supply can't but help keep the price elevated.
But that's only one big change. The second: Short-term speculators have fled the market. Open interest of managed futures funds, considered a good proxy for all speculators, has dropped a staggering 28% since the beginning of September, to approximately 203,224 contracts as of June 5.
"I think we'll see more volatility in gold because of the absence of speculators," says George Gero, a precious-metals strategist at RBC Capital Markets in New York. Speculators often damp volatility because they add liquidity to markets.
The price of the metal, which closed up 0.2% Friday at $1,590.10 a troy ounce, could make major moves in very short periods, says Gero. In simple terms, the moves will be too big and too rapid for many short-term speculators to deal with.
"The best way to play gold is as a long-term investor as a hedge against loss of purchasing power of paper money," says Gero.
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Archaeological Center and Laboratories Building: 1636 East Ave. near Cartwright Center
UW-L has dedicated an entire, newly renovated building to house a large, well-equipped archaeology laboratory and research center. This facility contains student and staff laboratory space, equipment, student computers, and comparative research collections of hundreds of thousands of artifacts. In addition, the laboratory contains extensive reference collections of Midwestern plants and animal skeletons used by the specialists in residence for training students in the study of ancient human subsistence practices. The Archaeological Studies Program and the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center share this facility.
MVAC is a non-profit research and public education institute located on the UW-L campus that supports undergraduate research experiences and is a source of employment for students in archaeology. MVAC is dedicated to discovery, research, historic preservation, and education concerning the ancient Native peoples and historic Euro-American settlement of the Upper Mississippi Valley. The staff consists of several archaeologists, historic preservationists, and archaeology educators and a support staff. MVAC staff members teach occasional courses in the Archaeological Studies Program and serve as advisors for Readings and Research in Archaeology (ARC 409) and the Senior Project/Thesis (ARC 499). It also provides many activities to bring archaeology to primary and secondary schools. Volunteer opportunities are always available. If you are interested in volunteer opportunities, see Joe Tiffany or Connie Arzigian or Ernie Boszhardt.
Archaeology/Anthropology Classroom: 311 Carl Wimberly Hall
Located in Carl Wimberly Hall, Room 311 is outfitted as a dedicated archaeology classroom. It seats 40 students and contains large wall maps, tables, and hundreds of archaeological study specimens from around the world. A human osteological study collection is maintained along with a set of hominid fossil skull casts. The room has advanced projection equipment for video, computer, and slide presentation and maintains an extensive video collection.
The Murphy Library, located centrally on the UW-L campus, has more than 10,000 volumes on archaeology, anthropology, and closely related topics. Murphy's collections also include many major archaeology, anthropology, and related journals.
Students interested in pursuing a scholarship at UW-L are encouraged to pick up the Scholarship and Awards booklet. This publication contains information on hundreds of scholarship opportunities campus wide, with some aimed at students of archaeology and anthropology, such as the Maurice and Elizabeth Graff Scholarships and the Scott Carnes Memorial Scholarship Fund. In the past few years, many Archaeological Studies students have received scholarships. Please pick up this booklet and apply! You can obtain one at the UW-La Crosse Financial Aid Office in 215 Graff Main Hall or online at www.foundation.uwlax.edu/sch.html. The deadline for scholarship applications is March 1 of each year.
Employment and Volunteer Opportunities
A wide range of opportunities are available through the Department of Sociology and Archaeology and the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. MVAC has seasonal positions in field work and laboratory processing of artifacts. Students start as volunteers and with experience may be eligible for paid positions. Contact Dr. Connie Arzigian at the Archaeology Laboratory, (608) 785-8452.
Computer labs are found in all academic buildings, dorms, and the archaeology lab. Students should take advantage of all the computer resources available, especially on the World Wide Web.
Anthropology MinorThe department also offers a minor in Anthropology. We recommend that students interested in continuing in graduate schools consider this minor, as most graduate programs in archaeology are within Anthropology departments.
Archaeology Lecture Series
Distinguished lectures in archaeology are sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center in conjunction with Archaeological Studies. The lecture series typically hosts one renowned archaeologist or anthropologist each semester speaking on current topics of national or international importance.
Archaeological Internships and International Opportunities
Credit can be obtained for internships and independent foreign research. In the past, our student majors have studied in Belize, Malta, France, England, Scotland, Israel, China, Egypt and other countries. Students are encouraged to seek international opportunities through their professors, the Internet, or the UW-La Crosse Office of International Education at 116 Graff Main Hall.
This student-run organization is open to all UW-L undergraduates. The club meets monthly, hosting a variety of special programs featuring student and faculty research. The club organizes fundraisers, trips to professional meetings, educational field excursions, and other events each year. If interested, see Dave Anderson for details. | <urn:uuid:7fcf6986-2bca-4e96-a628-0fab859ed3dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uwlax.edu/sociology/archaeology/resources.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9335 | 942 | 1.789063 | 2 |
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Between the snow and black ice on the roads in recent weeks, driving up and down Parley's Canyon has not been a cakewalk lately. ABC4 has also learned it's causing problems with lane striping. Specifically at the top of Parley's Canyon.
"I was driving down the canyon yesterday and I noticed there is a patch maybe an eighth of a mile where lines just disappear and it's really scary because you kind of get confused where you're going," Said driver Liz Sorensen.
The lanes have been this way for a couple of weeks but why? We went to UDOT to find out.
"Because of all the snow we've been getting, it's a combination of the blades and the salt solution we put down. It tends to fade out or cover up our lane striping," said Jason Davis with UDOT.
Over the summer the eastbound side of I-80 went through a major construction project including about 20 miles of new striping. The plows took out some 200 yards of it so the old stripes are starting to peek through.
"We've lost a couple hundred yards out of 20+ miles of lane striping. But unfortunately it's all in the same area and it's causing some confusion," Davis said.
But thankfully it hasn't caused any accidents.
So, When will the problem be fixed? Well, that's up to mother nature. It must be at least 30° in order to lay down temporary striping. They hope that will happen within the next week. Then, over the summer, crews will lay down permanent striping again. | <urn:uuid:7207e7ee-4119-4293-a345-1c4218f90300> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc4.com/mostpopular/story/EB-Lanes-on-I-80-causing-problems-for-motorists/k0TU5dHTR06nJh8GehVNbg.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976755 | 341 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Maximizing the use of surgical instruments and ensuring many years of productive and satisfactory performance starts with caring for your instruments. New Instruments - Newly purchased instruments must be cleaned, lubricated and autoclaved immediately before use. Proper Use - Instruments are designed for a specific purpose and should be used only for that purpose Water and Stainless Steel - Tap water contains minerals that can cause staining.
Perhaps the most important principle in practicing medicine, drummed into medical students and junior doctors time and time again, is to do no harm. Our medical interventions and treatments can be given either too early, too late, or inappropriately, with sometimes terrible and tragic results.
Designing and developing medical devices is a challenging business, and as America’s health care system evolves, Battelle creators are busy innovating new products. But the hurdles of the industry get higher all the time. That’s why Battelle turns to a hometown neighbor to get the process started easily.
The hospital is never a quiet place. Walk through the wards on a typical day, and you’ll hear a cacophony of alarms, bells, and other tones coming from both computers and medical equipment. American Medical News recently discussed so-called “alarm fatigue.” They cite a study showing find that “16,934 alarms sounded in [a medical] unit during an 18-day period.
One night during my training, over dinner in the hospital cafeteria, a fellow resident and I had a discussion about the situation of one of our professors. Known for his blistering teaching sessions, this senior surgeon possessed the uncanny ability to sniff out lapses in memory or judgment among doctors-in-training.
The devaluation of doctors' time continues unabated. As we move into our new era of health care delivery with millions more needing physician time (and other healthcare providers' time, for that matter) -- we're seeing a powerful force emerge -- a subtle marketing of limitless physician availability facilitated by the advance of the electronic medical record, social media, and smart phones.
It has been 10 years since the landmark Institute of Medicine report “To Err is Human” uncovered disturbing deficiencies in the quality of our nation’s medical care. Progress in correcting these deficiencies remains frustratingly slow, and it has become clear that achieving the quality and safety improvements we seek will require us to examine our approach to medical education.
For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. -Winston Churchill August 9, 2010 Even before I met him, I could tell that his cancer was extensive. His problems had started several months before with a cough, a voice change, and some trouble swallowing.
They made a regal couple, the elderly man and woman sitting in Room 19. She was the patient, he the supportive husband. She sat in the treatment cot while he sat in a chair pulled near her bedside. Together, they greeted me with their warm smiles as I walked into their room. They both had full heads of healthy, silvery hair that shimmered from the overhead fluorescent bulbs.
We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls. -Minot J. Savage It was Monday evening. The shelves in the electronics department overflowed with different styles, prices, and brands of headphones, all displayed in sealed plastic cases. I was in the mood to buy but was baffled by the array of options in front of me.
Greed drives innovation in industry. While I might not always like it, when it comes time for me to deal with a serious medical condition, I want as many treatment and non-treatment options on the table as possible. July 28, 2010 In “What Broke My Father’s Heart,” a piece in New York Times magazine a couple weeks ago, journalist Katy Butler writes about how an implanted pacemaker kept her father’s heart ticking long after the rest of his body was ready to go.
To walk along the water’s edge and be away from the hospital, even for a day, is relaxing. My breathing here is slower, deeper. When I look back on residency thus far, I can hardly believe how much has changed. Central lines slide into the internal jugular with ease; I slip breathing tubes just below the epiglottis and curve upwards into the vocal chords almost as often as I place a straw into a cold glass of iced tea.
As surgery becomes less invasive, facilities must ensure they have the adequate imaging and surgical display technology for surgeons to perform these procedures. Here, Surgical Products speaks with Anne Bondulich, Marketing Manager for Surgical Products at Sony, who discusses new advances in surgical display systems and what facilities should know when purchasing this technology now and in the future.
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Stockton is situated in California and is the seat of San Joaquin County. Stockton is the fourth largest National City in California. Also Stockton is the 13th largest city in California.
According to the census in 2006, it was estimated that around 668,265 people live in the Stockton Metropolitan Statistical Area. Stockton is located about 80 miles east of San Francisco and about 40 miles south of Sacramento, the capital of California.
Stockton is bordered by the fertile and lush lands of the California Central Valley and is home to the largest inland seaport in California. In and around Stockton are thousands of miles of waterways, canals, and rivers that make up the California Delta.
Since the recent years, Stockton has evidently seen a huge population boom. This owes greatly to the trend of illegal immigration and also people wanting to move from high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Due to this arrival of new residents, Stockton has also become fairly expensive, however it is still lower than any Bay Area city of equivalent size.
Despite the fact that Stockton was known originally as an agricultural based community, but over the years its economy has become very broad based. The major economic centers being telecommunications and manufacturing.
The location of Stockton is such that the popular markets of San Francisco and Sacramento reside in close proximity. This is the main reason for many big companies to base their regional operation centers in Stockton. The famous names among many are Duraflame, Pac-West Telecommunications, Golden State Lumber Company.
Primary and SecondaryStockton is home to three public school districts, Stockton Unified School District, Lodi Unified School district, and Lincoln Unified School District, and over 30 private schools.
Stockton boasts several renowned institutions of higher education. The largest is the University of the Pacific (UOP), which moved to Stockton in 1924 from San Jose. The UOP campus has been used for filming several Hollywood films. The famous film by Steven Spielberg Raiders of the Lost Ark was shot in the campus of UOP.
Also located in Stockton are National University which is the second largest private university in the state. Other famous colleges include Maric College of Stockton, San Joaquin Delta College, Humphreys College and School of Law, Heald College, MTI Business College, and University of Phoenix.
Stockton has many art galleries which display the work of local artists. Locals and foreigners visit these art galleries. The famous names include, Tidewater Art Gallery, the Goodwin Gallery, Pacifics Reynolds Gallery, and Deltas LH Horton Jr. Gallery.
The famous Haggin Museum is a historical museum known for its art display. The Sunset magazine called this museum as one of the undersung gems of California. Its art collection features works by such noted 19th-century painters as Albert Bierstadt, Rosa Bonheur, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau, as well as many other American and European artists.
The Stockton Chorale is a music theatre and features the performances from great musicians, both professional and regional soloists. The Stockton Community visits this place to listen to great masterworks with orchestra.
Stockton Symphony Association
This is one of the famous performing arts organizations in the San Joaquin County. This association was established in 1926 and also features orchestra by famous musicians.
Stockton provides plenty of outdoor attractions for locals and foreigners alike.
Pixie Woods Amusement Park
The popular Pixie Woods Amusement Park is considered a fairyland for the younger kids. The park boasts amusement rides such as merry-go-round and the Pixie Express Train.
Children's Museum of Stockton
The Childrens Museum of Stockton provides an education experience to younger generations. The museum displays various exhibits which greatly interest children.
Micke Grove Regional Park and Zoo
This famous park is built on a 258-acre oak tree park and features a Zoo, the Japanese Garden, and the Koi Pond. The park aslo boasts a wedding spot under the shadows of the Cherry Blossom trees. People come here for outdoor picnics or rent the park for receptins, family and corporate events.The park also has the San Joaquin Historical Museum and features many softball fields and children playgrounds.
Stockton Constructed Wetlands
For years, thousands of birds flock to the ponds at the Stockton Wastewater Treatment Facility. Stockton has added Wetlands to the facility to assist in the effort to treat water and make the area more inviting for birds and birdwatchers. People come for bird watching especially children like to feed the birds.Over 7,300 birds of 55 species comes here.
Gary and Janice Podesto IMPACT Teen Center
The center features four bowling lanes, a half-court basketball area, stage, meeting rooms, game rooms, classrooms, a computer lab, snack bar, climbing wall and more.
Oak Grove Nature Center
The Nature Center offers many activities throughout the spring and summer including events and learning stations. During the fall and winter, the Trails remain open but the activities are limited.
Oak Park Ice Arena
The Oak Park Ice Arena was established in 1970 and hosts many ice shows. The arenas ice surface is 85 x 200 feet and has seating for 350 spectators.
SJ County Historical Society & Museum
The museum has over 40,000 square feet of exhibit and work space. The collections have grown from a few hundred items from the estate of William G. and Julia Harrison Micke to over 50,000 items representative of the development of San Joaquin County agriculture and history.
Stockton Skate Park
The skate park is a great recreational facility for all ages to enjoy one of today's most popular sports. The facility features a moon, small bowl, offset steps, half-pipe, rail, EMB, fun box, block, piano, and a star.
Skydiving at the Parachute Center in Acampo
The Parachute center has been promoting the sport since 1964 and is one of the largest and oldest in the United States. The center employs the latest in training techniques, modern up-to-date equipment and facilities.
The center has the most experienced and active Instructors in the United States licensed by the United States Parachute Association (USPA) . The Parachute Center offers a full choice of training programs for the first timer as well as advanced training and team training for your continuing Skydiving needs and activities.
For a large city, Stockton is not so well represented in the dining category. There are several good Mexican restaurants, such as Il Grullenese on Charter Way or El Fogon on Thornton Avenue. There is excellent Chinese food, and the French place, Le Bistro, on Benjamin Holt, is good. There is a section of town starting at Pacific Ave and Harding st called the Miracle Mile. Here are several good restaurants and a few decent pubs.
Chocoholics Divine Desserts
Gourmet Chocolate is famous for Gourmet Chocolate Products. The place features Boxed Chocolates, Truffles, Chocolate Pasta, Dessert Sauces and Panned Chocolates.
The City is undergoing a great economic growth and is aggressively revitalizing its downtown. Projects in the downtown area along the waterfront include an indoor arena, baseball stadium, hotel, apartments, retail, and housing. Stockton offers an excellent quality of life for its residents.
The City has a number of beautiful residential communities along waterways, with single-family homes costing about one-third the price of homes in the Bay Area. With over 100,000 trees, Stockton was recently recognized by Sunset Magazine as the Best Tree City in the western United States. In 1999 and 2004, Stockton was designated an All-America City by the National Civic League.
Stockton also has outstanding recreational opportunities. Stockton is within close proximity to world famous scenic attractions including the California Coast, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park.
The community offers many local recreational opportunities such as professional sports teams , an olympic size ice rink, and the Delta, which provides thousands of miles of waterways for water skiing, sailing and other water activities.
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Those of us who have had to deal with annoying or aggravating bosses know how it's tough to shake it off at the end of the day, but a new study explains why it's so hard, and why so many of us suck at it and wind up bringing our stress home—where it doesn't just hurt you: It hurts your family, your friends, and your other relationships. Let's look at the study and talk about some ways you can learn to check your bad boss at the office door when you leave work.
Science Explains How Your Bad Boss Follows You Home
Most of us have a hard time dealing with stress. We've discussed ways to fight it, but it's still everywhere in our lives, especially at work. Sadly, few of us are able to leave it behind at the end of the day. If you have a boss who micromanages you or makes you feel bad just for showing up in the morning, a new study, conducted by the Université Francois Rabelais and published in the Journal of Business and Psychology explains why it might be time to take action. Researchers questioned 1,100 employees at different companies to find out how closely a boss's management style and employee morale correlated. The results weren't surprising. Title image remixed from Jhayne.
According to a story at The Atlantic, employees who felt their autonomy and their contributions were respected reported higher morale and better on-the-job performance. Employees who felt like their boss didn't trust them to do the work they were assigned, or who "motivated" them by making them feel bad for not being more productive were the most stressed out, and subsequently took that stress home with them, where it overflowed into their personal lives and relationships.
A separate study by Baylor University, published in the journal Personnel Psychology drew the line between stressed out employees who felt abused by their supervisors and higher instances of familial tension and difficulty at home. None of this may seem surprising to most people—if you had a hard day at work, it's likely you'll have little patience for issues that you'd normally be able to deal with at home. Even so, these are the first few studies to put a fine point on the fact.
What You Can Do About Your Stress, and Your Bad Boss
Dealing with a bad boss is a tricky proposition. I know a number of people who love their jobs but hate their managers, and when someone tells them to just quit and find a different job, they resist—mostly because they feel like everything else about their job is so perfect, they just need to get over this one thing to make it worthwhile. Quitting is an option, but it's not the only one. Let's look at some others.
- Get a hobby, or another activity to de-stress right after work. One of the best things you can do to leave your stress at the office is to treat yourself to something rewarding and relaxing immediately at the end of your workday. Hit the gym every day after work, for example—you'll do your body and mind a world of good, and it'll help you work off the stress of the day so you'll get home and open the door without that extra baggage. Photo by ck. (Shutterstock).
- Visualize, meditate, or take time alone to power through it. One of the tips we mentioned when discussing chronic stress and what you can do about it is to take some time alone and practice muscle relaxation techniques or visualization techniques that remove you from the things that stress you out. Whether you do it in the car before you head into the house every day, or before you begin the commute home from work, take some time to let your conscious mind take over, identify that you're stressed, and break it down so you're more aware of your actions and your responses to your family and friends.
- Transfer to a different team or role in your company. Some companies encourage this and others don't, but if yours does, it might be time to find another department to transfer to. Talk to your HR rep or, if you know they're looking for talent, a person in that team and ask if you can apply for the position. You'll have to handle this delicately: You don't want your current boss to sabotage your efforts, but you do want to be up-front about your desire for a change of scenery. If you can swing it diplomatically, you may be able to stay with your company, continue to do what you love (or even try something new) and leave your bad boss behind.
- Build your case. You don't want to start treating your boss with the same unprofessional demeanor that they treat you with, but you will need to start thinking on your feet and coming up with ways to parry their attacks and barbs. Whether it means you have to document your work so you can prove how busy you are (great for when they make you feel bad for not being productive enough,) or start keeping a work diary or an awesomeness journal to document your successes and prove your value, it's time to start a paper trail in your favor to use when your boss complains. Worst case, it's a paper trail you can use when applying to new jobs.
- Let your boss know. This one's really tricky, but if your boss is a bad boss not out of malice but out of ignorance or ineptitude, a tactful and professional approach may work wonders. Of course, this won't work on a boss that's a jerk or just doesn't care, but if the problem is that they're busy themselves or suffering under the weight of their own boss and letting it bleed through to you, they may be receptive to change—and once you talk through it, they may be on your side. I can vouch for this from experience. No one wants to be stressed out, and if you can appeal to your boss's better nature, they may understand and be willing to compromise and work with you instead of against you. Photo by Matthew W. Jackson.
- Talk to HR or your boss's boss. Again, you have to really have faith that this may actually work and you won't be retaliated against. In many cases, a bad boss is just the person standing in front of a worse boss, or the bad boss and their boss have a closer relationship than you think. HR may also be a trap—not every company takes complaints by employees seriously, and as soon as it gets back to your boss, you could be in for it. However, if you do trust your company's HR rep or your boss's boss to mediate, or know they value you more than your boss might, talk to them. Focus on the issue or behavior and not the person, and let them know you want to help your boss, and you're otherwise happy and engaged in your role, but these very specific things have you stressed out. Ask how they can help, how they'll follow up, whether your conversations are confidential, and when you can expect to hear from them. Some of what they do is confidential as well, but make sure you get some confirmation you've been heard.
- Just quit. There is a tipping point where nothing you can do will make a bad boss any better, and no amount of exercise after work or therapy is going to change the fact that your boss makes you miserable every day, and in turn you inadvertently make your family and friends miserable when you're around them. Even if the job is great, it might be time to look for better opportunities where your work will be appreciated. It can be difficult, but your health and your relationships are worth it.
Whatever you do, if your boss is stressing you out and you can see the signs of it seeping into your personal life, you need to do something. What you do is really a matter of the degree of stress you're feeling. If you think it's manageable with exercise or meditation, then don't wait—start now. If you know you'll never really be able to deal with it, and your boss will never change, more drastic action may be warranted. In the end though, stress impacts your productivity, your health, and now, studies show, the health and well being of the people closest to you. You—and they—deserve better. Photo by marekuliasz (Shutterstock).
How do you deal with an aggravating boss every day, and how do you leave them behind when you leave the office? When do you make the call that it's time to go? Share your coping mechanisms and stress-relief techniques in the comments below.
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that the process of appointing the members of the Election Commission must be revised.
"The present system whereby members to the Election Commission are appointed by the President, solely on the advice of the Prime Minister, does not evoke confidence among the people. Keeping these important decisions as the exclusive preserve of the ruling party renders the selection process vulnerable to manipulation and partisanship," Mr Advani wrote in his letter to the Prime Minister.
The government, however, reacted sharply to Mr Advani's letter with Union Minister
of State for Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat saying, "To create a
distraction from the disturbances in the party, they have found a new
way. But they know very well that our institution for the selection
process is working perfectly and our Election Commission is praised
around the world. And the way the work is done here, I think all of us
will like to salute that process."
Emphasising the need for greater transparency in the selection process, Mr Advani had said that the views of the Opposition Parties must also be considered. In the letter, the senior BJP leader recommends that the poll panel must be appointed by a broad-based collegium comprising the Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India, Minister of Law along with the two leaders of the Opposition in the Lok sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
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Estate planning attorney James Lamm, who writes the blog “Digital Passing,” advises people to plan ahead for their virtual afterlives. Your best bet is to make sure valuable memories and intellectual property are stored somewhere besides a social media account — so back up your photos on a USB flash drive.
Still, given the prevalence of social media in today’s world, Lamm advises these four steps as a sort of digital estate planning guide to help ensure your wishes are carried out — even though, he says, with the law as it stands currently, there are no guarantees.
•Keep a list: Make a list of all your digital accounts including social media, email, online banking, investment, gaming and any other virtual profile you can think of. Include your login information, such as usernames and passwords and encryption data.
•Put someone in charge: Tell your estate planner where to find that list and give that person explicit instructions for how you want the information handled. Do they hit the delete button? Or do they notify the company to memorialize your site?
Don’t ask this decision-maker to commit a crime by logging in to your accounts, but if the law changes in the future, this step could make it more likely your wishes are fulfilled.
•Will power: If you have a will, it’s best to include your digital assets in it. Some online information has real financial value, and it’s good to cover all your assets. A McAfee survey found that, on average, Americans believe the financial and emotional value of their digital assets are about $55,000. | <urn:uuid:9a413d35-da82-40bc-b465-9fedd19778da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegram.com/article/20130302/NEWS/103029980/1116/newsrewind | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933607 | 336 | 1.757813 | 2 |
By: Sean Patrick Riordan, Esq.
Sherman, Federman, Sambur & McIntyre, LLP.
Over the last several years you have read articles, written by me and others, which outlined the slow decline of "slip and fall" occurrences as they relate to "3/4's accidents." Since 2008 virtually everyone that came into my office with these type accidents was told that "a 50% Performance of Duty Disability Retirement is more realistic." However, I am pleased to write that this article outlines the re-emergence of these type occurrences as possible "accidents" which can enable officers to get their 3/4's benefit. By no means are all slip and falls going to be awarded 3/4's, but the Appellate Division, in several recent decisions, has outlined the type of slip and falls that can be granted benefits. In short, there is new hope for those that are permanently disabled from police work as a result of a slip and fall occurrence.
The courts have paid special attention to what they believe the officer could have "reasonably anticipated" at the time of their fall. Another way to phrase this is what the Police Officer "knew or should have known" about the condition on which they slipped, prior to falling. Much of the Court's thought process surrounds officers' normal duties and the risks associated therewith. For example, in a 2011 3rd Department decision where an officer tripped while chasing a subject through a "dimly-lit street", the officer was held to be performing his ordinary duties and should have reasonably anticipated that streets can contain various impediments to an officer’s safety, especially when dimly lit. (Murray v. New York State Comptroller, May, 2011).
In Stone v. New York State Comptroller an officer was carrying a trundle to assist a heart attack victim with the aide of an EMT. The EMT suddenly pushed the trundle forward causing the officer to fall backward against an open screen door. The Court found that this occurrence was NOT an accident because the officer was performing her ordinary duties in carrying the trundle and that the risk of her peer’s uncoordinated movements is inherent in such duties. However, the Court goes on to give keys to what they will consider an "accident." The Court notes that the officer in Stone failed to produce any evidence that:
(1) a hazardous condition existed
(2) a defective condition existed
(3) that the cause of the injury was entirely unrelated to the ordinary risks of the job.
The Court thereby sets out three ways for an officer to prove he has sustained an "accident" when injured as the result of a slip and fall.
In two subsequent decisions, the Court followed the train of though laid out in Stone. In Tierney v. New York State Comptroller, a Police Lieutenant "slipped on discarded food while stepping out of an office building where he routinely worked” and fell down stairs. In his testimony the Lieutenant stated he did not previously observe food on the steps (which caused his fall) when he entered the building earlier that day and he did not see the food immediately prior to slipping on it either. In overturning the Comptroller's denial of benefits the Court noted that the State failed to show that the hazardous condition (i.e. the garbage on the steps) could have been "reasonably anticipated."
Lastly, in Murphy v. New York State Comptroller, a Police Officer "slipped on black ice" as he exited his vehicle onto an airport taxiway in the month of January. Murphy had testified that on the day of his fall the weather conditions were cold and clear with no precipitation. The Officer also stated in testimony that he had not seen any ice prior to exiting the vehicle and had never before experienced ice in the area in which he fell unless it had recently snowed. In overturning the Comptroller's denial the Court wrote:
"the Comptroller's decision relies on the premise that encountering slip or icy surfaces was inherent in petitioner's performance of his job during winter. While this Court has held that a fall occasioned by a slippery surface is not an accident when that condition could have been reasonably anticipated, a denial upon such ground must be supported by the record and not rest merely upon speculation...we have never countenanced a doctrine...that would hold that any slip and fall during the course of work performed outside during winter renders that event foreseeable."
While the above statements of the Court seem obvious to us, their power and importance cannot be understated. What does it all mean to officers? First, as we have said for some time, it is important to be detailed in your initial Injured Employee Report. If you believe that you are injured due to an "unforeseeable" event, describe in such report why the condition that caused your injury was unknowable and the facts and circumstances that made it unknowable. The Court is making clear in their recent decisions that not everything an Officer encounters during their work is "foreseeable", so be clear from the outset why it wasn't in each particular occurrence. We don't want to have to wait for you to testify in order for the State to understand why this occurrence is unexpected.
Second, where there is a hazardous or defective condition that causes your injury, take pictures immediately after the event. The cliché that "pictures speak a thousand words" cannot be truer than in disability proceedings. It is important that we show the State the condition that caused the injury. The pictures will enhance the credibility of the claim. Many of these cases will now come down to our documentation, so we should and must produce all evidence possible.
As always, if you are injured in the course of your duties and need assistance filing the necessary paperwork, please do not hesitate to call or email and discuss the matter with our firm. | <urn:uuid:f820d503-92f0-44ca-bb59-cc369cc97ce8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.licomplaw.com/index.php/support2/tags/tag/li | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979438 | 1,202 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Anne Tyng: Inhabiting GeometryInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Jan 13, 2011 to Mar 27, 2011
GRANTEEUniversity of Pennsylvania-Institute of Contemporary Art
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Visionary architect and theorist Anne Tyng has designed a gallery-scale model embodying her thinking about geometry over the last half century. This installation—built largely from Luan plywood—realizes the ambition of all her work: to inhabit geometry. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and independently pioneered habitable space-frame architecture, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to built forms on all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces. This project includes five human-scale Platonic solids; a massive spiral lifting from the wall, embodying Tyng's approach toward her own built forms; and a selection of drawings, models, and other documentation of past projects. There are also examples of Tyng's publications and research, which investigate Jungian cycles, city squares, and the cosmos. Throughout, geometry is both rational and expressive, as much a means of contemplation as of calculation and construction.
Srdjan Jovanović Weiss is an assistant professor at Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He holds a master;s degree from Harvard University where he studied with Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog, and Richard Gluckman. He opened Normal Architecture Office (NAO) in 2003 and is the author of Almost Architecture, which explores architecture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes. In 2006, Weiss collaborated with Yona Friedman for his design installation and exhibit at the Drawing Center in New York. He was selected by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and Ai Weiwei as one of 100 architects to design a house in Ordos, Mongolia.
Ingrid Schaffner has been senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art since 2000. Her exhibitions include Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) (winter 2010), the first major museum survey of the work of this illustrator, author, and designer; Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (winter 2009, with Jenelle Porter), which won the award for Best Show in a University Gallery from AICA/USA; and Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va (winter 2005). She has written extensively on twentieth-century art with numerous catalogue publications, reviews, and features, and is currently at work on a major exhibition of Jason Rhoades.
Born in Jiangxi, China to missionary parents in 1920, Anne Tyng spent hours carving cities out of the soft stone of her garden terrace. After graduating from Radcliffe College in 1942, Tyng became one of the first women to receive an MArchfrom Harvard. She gained early recognition for the Tyng Toy, a kit of wooden puzzle-like pieces from which children could build furniture and other things. Starting in 1947 she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and was instrumental in the design of the Trenton Bath House and Yale University Art Gallery, among other projects. In 1965, she was the first woman to receive a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Fine Arts. Tyng earned a doctorate in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania, where she later taught for almost thirty years.
William Whitaker is the curator and collections manager of the architectural archives of the University of Pennsylvania—one of the leading repositories of architectural records in the world. He has organized and cocurated over 30 exhibitions, including retrospectives on Louis I. Kahn, Robert LeRicolais, and most recently, on Antonin and Noemi Raymond. Trained as an architect, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico and master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches as a visiting lecturer in the Historic Preservation and History of Art Departments.
Founded in 1963, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania s a leader in the presentation and documentation of contemporary art. Through exhibitions, commissions, educational programs, and publications, ICA invites the public to share in the experience, interpretation, and understanding of the work of established and emerging artists.
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Appleton stands strong for people in need
March 5, 2009 · 2:07 PM
State representative concerned about health care cuts.
With the state facing an $8.3 billion budget deficit ahead of the March 19 budget forecast, no one in Olympia denies cuts will have to be made in order to balance the state’s budget.
Where those cuts are going to be made, however, is still up for debate.
“We’re already having to cut the Basic Health Plan by 20,000 people,” 23rd District State Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-Poulsbo) said Wednesday afternoon during a brief break from debate on the House floor.
Basic Health is a state-sponsored plan providing low-cost health care coverage through private health plans to those residents who meet the income guidelines.
“If we had universal health care, it would go a long way to solving the problem,” Appleton said, noting universal health care wouldn’t affect people who already have health insurance, but would be for those who can’t afford it and are in need of health insurance. “We’re just waiting to see what comes out of Washington (D.C.).”
Currently many employers cannot afford to provide health insurance to their employees and some employees cannot afford their companies’ health insurance plans, so something has to be done about the issue, she said.
The budget deficit also has placed state-funded alcohol and substance abuse centers in jeopardy of closing, she said.
While that appears unlikely in this current biennium, Appleton said she is committed to doing all she can to ensure budget cuts are made in an equitable manner.
“When things get tough like this it’s the people who aren’t able to speak for themselves who are the first ones to get affected,” she said. “That’s why they’re counting on people like me and (fellow 23rd District State Rep.) Christine Rolfes to stand up for them.” | <urn:uuid:3b2d1a72-d6ad-4a9e-9dfb-8d1cda81b4f2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.centralkitsapreporter.com/news/40802833.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967902 | 429 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Will the euro crisis lead to the break-up of EU member-states?
Written by Tomas Valasek, 24 October 2012
Last month over a million Catalonians marched for independence in Barcelona. Opinion polls say that support in the province for separation from Spain has doubled since the economic crisis started – and some polls put it at over 50 per cent. The Economist sees a clear link with the economic crisis, noting recently: "Whereas one-third of Catalans are convinced separatists, many others are simply enraged by their tax money propping up poorer regions." Meanwhile in Belgium, Bart de Wever's nationalist New Flemish Alliance did well in Flanders' local elections, and de Wever has become mayor of Antwerp. Like Catalan separatists, the Flemish dislike subsidising their poorer neighbours in Wallonia. The two events seem to suggest a trend. But while bailouts and the austerity that stems from the euro crisis are making central governments unpopular throughout Europe, Spain's and Belgium's woes may be a poor predictor of developments elsewhere.
The growing support for independence in Catalonia is only partly driven by the crisis. Jordi Vaquer of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs notes that the Partido Popular's (PP) return to power in Madrid in 2012 bears some responsibility for the surge of pro-independence sentiment in Catalonia. The conservative PP blames Spain's budgetary woes on the provinces' profligacy (they represent 40 per cent of total public spending in Spain). The Madrid government has set out to tighten control over the regions' finances. Many in Catalonia think the PP is using the crisis as an excuse to pursue their longstanding agenda of curbing regional autonomy. They note that Spain's economic woes are mainly the result of excessive private sector borrowing, over which the provinces have had no control.
Pro-independence sentiment in Spain and other parts of Europe has also grown stronger because some separatist parties have grown more adept at selling their message. The New Flemish Alliance (NVA) is a much smoother party than the hard-right Flemish Interest, who NVA replaced as the standard-bearer for independence. In Edinburgh, Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has proven to be a capable leader, who has governed competently during his five-and-a-half years in power (Scotland has enjoyed considerable autonomy since the 1998 devolution of some powers from London to Edinburgh). In an effort to showcase his party's new moderation, he recently persuaded it to ditch its longstanding policy of withdrawal from NATO. Both de Wever and Salmond say they would keep a common army with their southern neighbours. The success of these moderate, articulate nationalists in some parts of Europe has boosted the appeal of pro-independence movements elsewhere. "Previously, voters in Catalonia saw separatism as something that dictators in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia did. Now it has become difficult to brush aside nationalists as crazies," Vaquer observes.
But while the Flemish and Scottish pro-independence parties have learned not to scare voters, the appeal of nationalism in other parts of the EU has waned. The Slovaks elected a parliament in 2012 that for the first time in the country's 20-year history does not include the Hungary-bashing Slovak National Party (voters have grown wary of infighting in its top ranks, and of its leader's penchant for yachts and jets). A mildly-separatist party of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia has also lost its place in the parliament in the same election; another mostly Hungarian party that openly favours good relations with the central government in Bratislava has taken its place. Politics in Europe remains deeply local – and while nationalist leaders in Spain or Flanders have being doing well, others have fallen victim to their own hubris or incompetence.
In 2014 the Scots may dampen separatist spirits in Europe. Earlier this month, the SNP agreed with the London government to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in the autumn of that year. However, a recent Ipsos MORI poll shows that only 35 per cent of those who plan to vote will opt for separation from Britain. If the Scottish referendum on independence fails, nationalist movements like those in Catalonia or the Basque country may find their case weakened (though the Scottish nationalists may make progress with their demands for greater autonomy from the central government).
In Scotland, ironically, the euro crisis has proved very damaging to the cause of independence. In the past the SNP said that an independent Scotland would join the euro. In current circumstances that policy would not be a vote winner. So the SNP’s new line is to favour independence but keep the pound. But if there is one thing that the euro crisis has taught people, it is that currency unions do not work without some sort of fiscal union. A separate Scotland that used the pound would have to accept the constraints of a 'fiscal compact' with the remainder of the United Kingdom. So it would not be as free from London’s dictat as many Scots would wish.
There is little doubt that austerity measures have generated anger against political classes everywhere in Europe. In Spain, this protest takes the form of demonstrations against the 'Madrid elites', from which pro-independence movements benefit. In the future, similar conditions may exist in other parts of Europe, such as Italy or France, so events in Catalonia or Flanders bear watching. But it would be too simple to extrapolate from them that other countries will go the way of Spain or Belgium. The grievances that drive pro-independence movements differ from country to country. And so does the quality of local political elites, both on the pro-independence side and among the central governments, which have the job of addressing the grievances that fuel separatism.
Tomas Valasek is former director of foreign policy and defence at the CER. | <urn:uuid:28ea3eff-1469-4e91-bd0e-e30bdbb1d367> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cer.org.uk/insights/will-euro-crisis-lead-break-eu-member-states | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958538 | 1,188 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Mark Levinson ML-7A preamplifier
Mark Levinson was a pioneer of sorts in high-end audio. Around the turn of the 1970s, he flouted conventional wisdom by introducing a line of no-holds-barred audio products priced beyond the means of any sane individual, then proceeded to sell lots of them. Thus did Mr. Levinson prove, singlehandedly, that (1) it is impossible to price a component out of the market as long as it offers at least the appearance of commensurate quality (footnote 1), and (2) there are perhaps more insane audiophiles than anyone had hitherto dared imagine. Today, ML's $6320 flagship ML-6A preamp is only the second-most-expensive model available (footnote 2), and half a dozen others cost more than the ML's "second-string" ML-7A. Only a spoilsport would now contend that $4595 is a "ridiculous" price to pay for a preamplifier.
So, whaddaya get for your money? Without going into tedious detail, suffice it to say that you get the best sound MLAS (Madrigal) knows how to produce, along with construction worthy of a US Navy solid-state laser-activated can opener, and parts which should virtually ensure that the preamp will last longer than its owner. In fact, all MLAS products come with a five-year original-owner warranty, which should tell you something.
They also come equipped with so-called Camac connectors. You're not familiar with Camac connectors? Let me tell you all about them. These are the signal connectors we might all be using today if RCA hadn't had so much clout in the consumer market back in the early '50s, when the audiophile still had a choice between LPs and 7-inch 45-rpm discs. Camacs are small, tubular (in the literal, not the Valley girl, sense), gold-plated, Teflon-insulated, and suitable for instrumentation applications. They make an incredibly positive contact (you can rock a phono input in its socket without getting so much as a click!), and they lock in place. To remove them, you pull back on a sliding outer sleeve, which first breaks the Hot contact, then releases the plug. This means you can pull out a phono plug while the system is on and turned up, without producing so much as a Blap. In short, they are incredible!
Unfortunately, they resemble the all-pervasive RCA plug about as much as Karen Allen resembles Godzilla. They are not compatible. Which means Mark Levinson products cannot be connected to the products of any other company without the addition of special adaptors or custom-wired interconnects with RCAs at one end and Camacs at the other.
This is absurd. I don't care how good Camac plugs are; the simple fact remains that RCA connectors are the industry standard for all consumer-electronics signal interconnections. No amount of proselytizing on the part of M-L for something better will change that. Even if one goes with Mark Levinson components "all the way"which is to say, with their amp and preampyou'll still need those adaptors or the custom interconnects for your phono unit, tuner, CD player, tape equipment, and so on. The fitting of Camacs on all M-L products is tantamount to an American firm fitting kitchen appliances with round-pin European AC plugs because they're "better" than the domestic variety.
M-L makes three phono preamplifier boards for the ML-7A, designated the L-2, L-3, and L-3A. The L-2 board, for moving-magnet cartridges and high-output MCs, provides switchable input impedances of 50k ohms (MM) and 850 ohms (MC), with a second switch selecting 38 or 44dB of gain. There is also provision for adding lower-value loading resistors and/or capacitors, for those cartridges which need either or both. The L-3 and L-3A boards are for MC cartridges only, and offer (respectively) 67 and 55dB of fixed gain. There are no switching provisions on either L-3 board.
Board replacement is easy, if you have the right-sized Allen wrench on hand for removing the preamp's top panel screws. (No wrench came with my ML-7A, but I would presume that one is normally supplied.) Each board is fastened down by a pair of knurled-head screws; replacement merely involves removing the four screws, unplugging the old boards, and plugging in the new ones. Normally, when you buy the preamp, you specify the cartridge you will be using (footnote 3), and the preamp is supplied with the proper boards for your cartridge. Board replacement is necessary only if you subsequently change to a significantly different cartridge.
I was gratified to see a Mono/Stereo switch on the ML-7A. Many perfectionist designers seem to feel that acknowledging the existence of mono sources somehow debases the image of a preamp. Even if you never play a mono disc, the A+B mono facility is useful for trouble-shooting.
Footnote 1: And maybe more than just the appearanceJohn Atkinson
Footnote 2: According to the listings in Audio's 1985 Equipment Directory, only the Krell KRS-1A costs more, at a wildly exuberant $7200! That is a little less than half of what I paid for my 1984 VW camper!J. Gordon Holt
Footnote 3: Can you predict what cartridge you'll be using a month from now? I certainly can't.J. Gordon Holt (That, JGH, is because you are an audio guruJohn Atkinson) (But it should also be pointed out that JGH has been using the MC-2000 as his reference for the last year and a half. He does, of course, test many other cartridges.)Larry Archibald | <urn:uuid:f16c4f03-55af-4ca7-997f-70d310d3de37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stereophile.com/solidpreamps/mark_levinson_ml-7a_preamplifier/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949483 | 1,270 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Cannot Print to Networked Printer
Hi all, yet another network printer problem with much teh same title.
Here's the catch... Where everyone else is trying to connect to a networked
printer on an XP machine, I'm running two Vista machines with Vista Basic.
There are two machines networked (comp1 & comp2). Comp 2 has a wired link to
the printer and is as such the print server.
When I try to print from comp 1 I get an "error-sent to printer" message in
the printer dialoge box.
I also get a notification from Norton Anti Virus that a "attack to your
computer from (comp 2 IP address) has been blocked" pop up. (Yes I hate
Norton too, work computer, not my choice). Short of completely diasbling
Norton (it's shouldn't be a fire wall anyway, it's only an anti virus) I've
done everything I can in the way of setting permissions and modifiying rules
in the Norton console.
If I log onto com 2 from comp 1 I can print, but this to me defeates the
purpose of having a networked printer. I shouldn't have to log onto another
computer to use the printer. In any other environment I might not have those | <urn:uuid:c9cff9f0-9885-411d-9d7a-e2b6ba449c1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-networking-sharing/85783-cannot-print-networked-printer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93272 | 275 | 1.539063 | 2 |
But as the company explained in a letter from its founders, it's not a dividend. It's "effectively a stock split."
Well, actually, it's not really a stock split either.
It's a new kind of stock, and current investors will get one share of this new kind of stock for every share of existing Google stock they own.
So what the heck is Google doing? And why?
Here's what you need to know.
Q: I own Google stock. What do I get?
A: On the date that the deal goes through -- it has to be approved by shareholders -- you will get two shares of Google stock for every one share you own today, and the price of each share will be half the price of the current shares. It's like a 2 for 1 stock split.
So for instance, if you have 1,000 shares at $600 on the day the deal happens, you'll suddenly have 2,000 shares at $300. The total value will be the same. That's what happens in a 2:1 stock split, normally.
Except: unlike a normal stock split, half of the shares will be a new class of shares called Class C. They won't carry any voting rights.
Q. Why'd they call this a dividend then? Dividends are cash, right?
A. Because it's paid like a dividend -- on a certain date, owners of Google stock get something new. In this case, a new type of Google stock.
It was kind of misleading, though, especially given the noise from some investors before the earnings call that they wanted to see a dividend.
Q: So will the class C shares trade separately than the current shares?
A: Yes. They'll be a different kind of Google stock with a different ticker symbol.
Q. Who else does this?
This is pretty rare for tech stocks, but is more common in other types of companies -- like media companies.
Comcast Class A Special stock trades under the symbol CMCSK and has no voting rights.
CMSCK trades at a slight discount because it doesn't have these voting rights.
Q. Hang on a second. So will Google Class C shares trade at a discount?
A. Investors expect so, yes.
Q. So that means that the value of my shares post split will probably be LESS than the value pre-split.
A. Maybe. Although the Class A shares might rise a little bit to make up the difference.
After that, the two prices will probably move more or less in lockstep, but with day to day variations.
Investors don't seem to like the deal very much -- the stock is down 4% today, which is slightly more than the overall market. But that could also be a reaction to other items on the earnings call, like a decline in cost-per-click.
Q. I'm a Google employee. How does this affect me?
As is usual in a split, you'll get twice as many stock options, with a strike price of half what your original strike price was.
For instance, if you had 1,000 Google options at a strike price of $500, you'll have 2,000 options at a strike price of $250. But half of your new options will be Class C shares.
Equity grants are a little more complicated. But the thing to note is that after 2012, most employees will get their equity grants in Class C non-voting shares.
Google has a memo with all the details and charts that lay it out. You've probably already seen it if you work there, but Google filed it with the SEC for everybody else to see.
Q: THE BIG QUESTION: Why is Google doing this?
A. In the simplest possible terms, the three people who basically run Google -- cofounder and CEO Larry Page, cofounder Sergey Brin, and chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt -- want to make sure they have control of the company for a long time.
Q. But don't they already have control?
A. Yes. They and a few other insiders own a THIRD class of stock, Class B. It has 10 votes for every 1 vote of Class A Stock. It does not trade on the public market.
With this and their regular stock holdings, they already have 66% voting rights.
Q: So why'd they need this?
A. Because over time, as Google distributes more stock to employees, and uses it in acquisitions, there was a possibility that the total number of Class A shares would eventually outweigh the founders' voting shares.
Especially if the founders wanted to sell their shares.
Q. So wait -- can't Eric and Larry and Sergey just sell all their Class C shares and cash out without losing any votes?
A. Not exactly. There's a "stapling provision" that says for every Class C share they sell, they have to either sell a Class B (super 10-vote) share, or convert a Class B into a Class A (1-vote) share.
That's the case until their ownership falls below a certain threshold. The details will be coming in a future proxy statement.
Basically, this means that the founders' control will stay aligned with their economic stake in the company.
Q. But why did Google do this now?
A: That's not clear. Larry Page says the company has no big acquisitions happening in the near future, and Google has more than $50 billion in cash to fund them anyway.
But Google does big acquisitions pretty regularly -- Motorola for $12.5 billion last year (still pending), DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in 2007 -- and does smaller ones at a pace of 30 or more per year.
Q. So basically, investors have to have a lot of trust in the three guys running the company.
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This panorama, taken by Christopher Gjevre, features an Oklahoma State Cowboys football game at Boone Pickens Stadium. Athletic Field opened in 1913 and was later named Lewis Field. In 2003, the stadium was renamed Boone Pickens Stadium after OSU alum and legendary oilman, Boone Pickens. In 2006, he made the largest single donation for athletics to an institution of higher education in U.S. history, totaling $165 million. In 2009, renovations to the spectacular 60,000-seat stadium will be complete. Cowboys football has 10 conference championships and 18 bowl game appearances. The University, founded in 1890 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, has a student enrollment of over 23,800. | <urn:uuid:dc63f0b3-2d65-4400-a9b6-a562c06816e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/detail_BL-085__291__okstate08bl.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953921 | 141 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Press release 158/2012
27 June 2012
Niklas Bruun, Professor at the University of Helsinki was re-elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW.
The CEDAW Committee watches over the progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women (the CEDAW Convention) and processes complaints from individuals submitted to the Committee concerning claims of violation of rights identified in the CEDAW Convention.
The Committee has 23 members, 11 of which will end their term in the end of this year. On Tuesday 26 June in New York, 11 new members were elected among 25 candidates for the four-year term beginning on 1 January 2013. Some of the elected are new and some were re-elected, such as Professor Bruun. The Committee members are independent experts who are expected to have competence in the field covered by the CEDAW Convention.
The candidates for the CEDAW Committee elections are put forward by the States parties to the CEDAW Convention. Professor Bruun was the candidate for Finland and the other Nordic countries.
Professor Bruun has extensive experience in international law, labour law and equality issues both in Finland and international forums. Bruun has been a member of the CEDAW Committee since 2009. He's been acknowledged for his expertise as well as active and constructive participation in the Committee. Since 2011 Bruun has been an member of the Optional Protocol Working Group processing the individual complaints. Bruun is the only male among the CEDAW Committee members.
Other UN bodies monitoring the UN Human Rights Conventions don't have Finnish members at the moment.
Further information: First Secretary Suvikki Silvennoinen, Unit for Human Rights Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, tel.+358 9 1605 5320, email email@example.com, and Professor Niklas Bruun, tel. +358 50 599 6801, email firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:720135cb-7053-4ee3-8e68-c87d6c65d6d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://finland.ca/public/default.aspx?contentid=252365&nodeid=41327&contentlan=32&culture=fr-FR | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954031 | 412 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Today, French President Francois Hollande announced his big plan to win the youth of his country: no homework!
In a plan soon to be adopted by the vote-hungry Obama administration, Hollande suggested at Paris’ Sorbonne University, “An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.”
And, like Obama, Hollande cites unfairness as the rationale for this moronic idea. ““When it comes to homework, the President said it should be done during school hours rather than at home, in order to establish equal opportunities,” explained the French Embassy. Hollande says that because some homes are better than others, work should be done at school, where the learning environment is equally crappy for all. France ranks below the United States in reading and science, and above us in math, according to the Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation.
Clearly the solution is to do less work. Seems like it’s worked well for European economic policy already. | <urn:uuid:f919d8d7-e403-4cef-9bd0-bdd29c739d56> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/19/French-president-no-homework | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970761 | 216 | 1.804688 | 2 |
"The last few years, time has usually saved you if you're a margin operator (feeder or stocker), now it will be against you," says Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University Extension livestock marketing specialist. "There's no more betting on the come."
That's the quintessential summary of cattle-industry economics now compared to last year. The market is running away from margin operators because supplies are increasing significantly relative to demand.
"The biggest difference today than at this time last year is we have about 10% more cattle on feed heading into the summer, which is record large for this time of year," explains Mike Miller, Cattle-Fax director of research and education.
Not only is a wall of increased supply set to hit the market during what are historically the softest market months of the year, it's coming at a time when high breakevens already have feeders losing around $100/head (more on yearlings, less on calf-feds, Miller says).
However, Peel believes the record April 1 cattle-on-feed numbers make reality appear darker than it actually is. Though numbers are up, he says it's not because the cattle inventory is 9%-10% larger than predicted but because more calves were forced into the feedlot earlier than anticipated by drought and a lack of stocker pasture.
"We started the year with a cattle inventory 1.7% larger than in 2005. We'll add maybe another 1-1.5% to those numbers with feeder calves from Canada. So, we have the capability for feeder cattle supplies to be 4-4.5% larger this year, but not 9%," Peel says.
Either way, Miller adds, "We're still in really good shape from a demand perspective, but probably not good enough to offset the supplies we see coming toward us."
In fact, retail beef demand is down 4.5% through the first quarter, according to preliminary Beef Demand Index figures. Consumption is actually up slightly, but a sharp decline in inflation-adjusted prices means demand is down, but still well ahead of 1998 when it finally turned the corner.
Analysts like Nevil Speer at Western Kentucky University wouldn't be surprised to see beef demand suffer more under the collective weight of record and near-record supplies of poultry and pork. That's on top of high fuel prices that increase the price of all consumer products, while making consumer wallets lighter to start with.
For anyone who thinks the outlook would be at least twice as bright if politics and ineptitude hadn't conspired to keep international beef trade in limbo, both Peel and Miller say having the international markets fully engaged would undoubtedly provide a psychological lift. However, it probably wouldn't have changed the industry's current position from a fundamental standpoint. | <urn:uuid:3550802a-8b45-411a-b91a-510744d326f2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beefmagazine.com/print/No_Betting?group_id=13969 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968533 | 571 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Simpsons has taken historical, cultural, and political people and events and turned them into the butts of the longest-running satire in television history. Most of the time they're making fun of something that just happened, but what about all those times when The Simpsons created it first? Does this mean the show can predict the future? See for yourself.
("$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"Season 5, Episode 10)
Real Life: In 2003, Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was attacked during a live performance by Montecore, one of their white tigers. He suffered bites to the neck that caused severe damage to several nerves, rendering him unable to walk for nearly three years.
("Bart Sells His Soul" Season 7, Episode 4)
Real Life: Multiple people have tried selling their souls online. The most memorable have been the failed attempts of a musician from England whose auction was taken down from Ebay in 2008, a Chinese man trying to sell his soul on Taobao Auction Site in 2006, and a New Zealander who put his soul up for bid on TradeMe in July 2008. While none were successful on the sites they were posted on, the last-posted by a man named Walter Scott-was privately purchased by Hell Pizza, a New Zealand pizza chain. A spokesman for the chain said, "The soul belongs in Hell. There is simply no better place for it." It sold for over $3000.
("They Saved Lisa's Bain" Season 10, Episode 22)
Real Life: Perhaps Homer was on to something. For almost ten years scientists had been debating whether or not the universe could actually be small and finite like some of their colleagues were saying. Then, in 2008, a study by researchers of Ulm University in Germany came out with conclusive evidence that supported the claim. They said the universe could very well be just 56 billion light years wide, in addition to being tubular and not "forever expanding." Translation? Our universe could, in fact, be shaped like a donut.
Real Life: In August 2007, Margret Wegner, 59, of Germany planned to have surgery to cure her chronic headaches and nosebleeds she'd been suffering from since early childhood. During the procedure, doctors found the problem: a pencil. It had been lodged in her brain after a fall many years ago. It was promptly removed, and Wegner's symptoms were gone.
("Treehouse of Horror XIX" Season 20, Episode 4)
Real Life: While Presidential elections were actually happening, many people complained that the touch-screens were faulty. Said a voter named Virginia Matheney of Kenna, West Virgina, "When I touched the screen for Barak Obama, the check mark moved from his box to the box indicating a vote for John McCain."
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Can I use a 9mm half (double) rope for a three-man rope team for glacier travel? What is the best way for the middleman to tie in? With an eight on a bight, bowline on a bight or butterfly with two lockers?
Many climbers do use one strand of a double rope for glacier travel. This is OK because the forces generated in a crevasse fall are generally low due to a very low fall factor. Consider one of the newer, superlight single ropes such as the Mammut 8.9mm Serenity. At 52 grams/meter it is only a few grams heavier than most double ropes, and is rated to hold single-rope falls. You can use it for glacier travel, then as your primary cord for more technical leading pitches.
Professional guide Dan Mazur, who operates Himalaya, Inc., recommends using an 8mm, 30-meter, super-dry treated rope for glacier travel. He says this rope is lightweight and inexpensive. Note that it is a twin, not double, rope.
I've used the butterfly to rope-in the middle man, but find it difficult to tie compared to a figure-8 on a bight. The old argument said always to use the butterfly because it more evenly distributes the load, making it the stronger of the two knots, but with modern ropes, which don't break, knot strength doesn't matter. Mazur recommended the butterfly, but he says that a lot of beginners have a tough time tying it correctly -- for them, he recommends the figure-8.
With either knot, the middle man will have to clip to the knot using two reversed and opposed locking carabiners. A good alternate knot is to girth hitch the middle man to the rope. For an illustration on how to do this check out: http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportConseils?Conseil=61&Activite=60.
The girth-hitch is fine for glacier travel, but you don't want to take a hard fall on it, as it could be just about impossible to undo. The end climbers should tie in using the trace-8, same as they do for a rock climb.
Everyone should tie in 30 to 40 feet apart along the rope. Depending on the complexity of the terrain, you'll want to shorten or lengthen the distance between you. Keep in mind that if you coil the excess rope around your shoulder, as is common, you'll have to tie a figure-8 on a bight on the standing portion of the rope nearest you and clip in to this to avoid the chance of being strangled by the loose coils. A good alternative is the mountaineer's coil, which is too complex to detail here.
Usually, the more rope you have between the climbers, the more slack you are likely to let develop, lengthening any potential fall. Keep the rope taut between climbers and never carry extra loops in your hand.
Pre-rig your rope for climbing out of a crevasse by setting two prussics (or Tiblocs) on your rope, along with several runners for use as foot loops. Also, pre-rig your pack with a sling so you can take it off and hang it in the event you do fall into a crevasse.
The above just touches on the rope methods you'll need to know to cross a glacier safely. To really get up to speed, take a course in glacier travel and rescue, and read the excellent books on the subjects, Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
by Andy Selters, and the Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
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The fires in the Carmel forests in western Galilee near the Haifa area have finally been brought under control, but at great human and natural loss. Israel received help from a number of countries to help fight the fire, especially from the air. Help even came from Turkey, whose relationships with Israel have taken a turn for the worse in the last year. Government officials are under fire, and if nothing else, God has shown that no matter how much we may want to “make the world better” (which obviously means different things to different people), our version of a “better world” can go up in flames and smoke in an instant. Mercifully, it began to rain today in Israel (including the Carmel region, and even in Beer Sheva), furthering helping to douse the burning embers of this devastating fire, which has been called the worst natural disaster in Israeli history.
Three prison guard trainees from Beer Sheva were among those killed in the blaze of those trapped in a busload to go into the danger zone to try to rescue prisoners from the area. There were also others from Negev towns and cities who were among the killed, and a number of them worked at the Beer Sheva prison facility. Our congregation, Nachalat Yeshua, took up a special collection to give to the Beer Sheva families as an expression of our sympathy at this time.
The apostle Peter writes that just as the world was once destroyed by water, so will it be a second time, but by fire. There may actually be something to global warming to set the stage for that. Some of us may think that we will not be around for that; but what if some of us are? What will we do? How will we react, or respond? Will our faith be found secure in the Lord and in His promises that all things are in HIS hands? As it is written, “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” Our God is a consuming fire! We dare not take Him for granted, but rather humbly place our whole-hearted trust in Yeshua, who died and rose again, and is coming again to renew His creation to make it a habitable place filled with the knowledge of His glory! Hallelu-Yah!
With that in mind, here is a great breath of fresh air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
Yeshua was born King of the Jews; He died on the cross as King of the Jews; and the day is coming that He will be the King of the Jews! Even so, come Lord Jesus!
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Krazy Kat for 5/6/1917, panel 5. George Herriman.
And so we come to the artist most often lauded with the title of "history's greatest cartoonist". There's no encompassing George Herriman's particular genius in a few paragraphs on a single panel; more than anyone before or since, Herriman understood the flow of comics from frame to frame, the depths and intricacies of interaction between pictures and words, the ability of comics or sequential art or whatever you want to call them to construct their own, marvelous way of things. Herriman was about moving through, the ability of the form to take you from one distinct place to another in a few images. As such, picking out a single, isolated Herriman panel to write on is a hard thing to do. That's not the only reason, either: for all that he's deified by critics and a particular brand of connoisseurs, Herriman's failed to hit with the wider audience that laps up Crumb and Kirby and Herge because he didn't really draw pretty pictures. "It's just a guy with a marker" is how it's been put to me more than once, and I can see that viewpoint. There's almost no attempt at realistic depiction whatsoever in Herriman -- look at the Q-tip tree atop the cookie-cutter island rising out of the foreground in this apnel, for example -- and unlike comics' great minimalists, the Schulzes and Porcellinos, there's also no attempt at economy of line in his work, with unmannered scratches spreading out haphazardly over the frames.
The picture above, however, addresses both concerns nicely. First, it's a striking example of in-panel sequence, of time passing within the rectangle rather than being frozen inside it until the next one. Herriman bends his form to its function here as well, taking the full height of a newspaper broadsheet to push three panels' worth of storytelling into one majestic tumble from cloud bank to riverbed. It's so very easy to read the lively action of a full Krazy Kat page into this single frame, the panel imagined not as still instance but as vital canvas for a succinct, overpoweringly logical progression to take place on. This panel is also a wonderful example of the charms inherent in Herriman's unpolished, unrealist cartooning. His is the ultimate in naturalistic lines, equally bare of illustrative polish and the minimalist emphasis on total simplicity. It makes no attempt to be anything but ink on paper, the choppy, beautifully placed parts that by accretion bring a scene into being. Herriman's total disregard of craft for craft's sake makes his pictures supremely available, no displays of virtuosity or statements of purpose standing between the eye and the content. The lines make the pictures, and there's nothing more or less to them than that. After all, a guy with a marker is all that's needed for comics to exist, and while bothering with more can create plenty of beauty, it's a move away from one of the fundamental truths of the medium.
That same naturalism, that honesty of presentation, can be seen in Herriman's employment of cartoon iconography. Three characters share the same face here, a tiny scrap of eyes and nose and not much else, one no more suited for a cat than a bird than a fish, but one that nonetheless looks right on them all under Herriman's pen. It's the face of a cartoon, an imaginary being that need not exist as anything that's real in this world so long as its readers believe in it. And by lining in the faces with the same loose scuffles that he uses to push hills up from the water and create the bit of utter, glorious nonsense that is the phonograph-house on the right, he integrates them into a world that's effortless in its fantasy. It's all made of the same thing -- line, ink, substance -- but more than that, everything here is subject to Herriman's imagining of it, the whimsicality that warps the tree in the background into a crazy lean and bizarre, conical form and reduces the fruits on the foregrounded tree to a vividly graphic wallpaper pattern, acknowledging the two-dimensionality of the comics image while urging the reader to see it more deeply, to go beyond the lack of realism by imagining just what might be depicted here, reasons for a world that doesn't share any with ours.
In that it fires the imagination, Herriman's art is deeply immersive, drawing readers in without acquiescing to the cheap relatability of realism. His compositions are equally so, almost Zen in their balance of data and simplicity. The profusion of energetic lines at the bottom of this rectangle is counterpointed by gallons of wide open space in the panel's top two thirds, allowing the eye to move freely along the downward slide that the subject matter proscribes, massive against the tiny characters. One can move around in this panel, one can see the vastness of it at any size. There's more in that blank white space than any number of landscapes: by allowing the eye to act inside it, by immersing both its subjects and its readers, that white codes for the sheer existence of Herriman's fantasy world, of real space where real movement and life can occur. If an image is worth a thousand words, a lack of image comes close to priceless here.
But in this case, as is probably the case more often with Herriman than any other comics maker, the words matter here too, the caption laying out a beautifully simple philosophy of comics that trumps any more verbose statements on the medium:
"We deal in pictures, not in letters
And so rather than bore you with tedious words
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MAY 6, 1936
WASHINGTON— The WPA women administrators who are meeting here put on an exhibition of work done in the different states and I was interested to see really lovely cooper bowls and pitchers made from copper mined at Ajo, Arizona, which is near Congresswoman Greenway's home.
There were woven things and innumerable garments for young and old made in the sewing rooms, and one thing which interested me greatly was a collection of dolls dressed to represent different periods in our history. They will be valuable historically in almost any museum. The Braille project with the first historical map ever made for the blind; the health project showing the different things that have been done in different states to increase the health of the community. Think of a state that had not a single county nurse in the rural areas! The best part of it is that much of this work which has been started to relieve unemployment is being taken over on a permanent basis by state and local governments.
I get a thrill of pride in what the women have done in this whole situation and when I hear the story told of an unassuming, quiet local director in one of the flood areas, who commandeered a truck and moved her supplies to the place where they were needed most, establishing a base and working for five days with no real place to sleep, I decided that after all the pioneer spirit isn't dead. If we can meet emergencies so well, surely we can solve our long time problem also!
I worked all last evening and saw our son, John, off on the midnight to New York where he breakfasted with his sister before going back to college.
My husband's mother is on her way home from Texas and I can hardly wait to hear her account of the trip. She insists that it was an easy trip and wonders why any one suggested that she should not undertake it.
My press conference this morning was short for I am making so many speeches there is nothing to talk about.
I lunched with Mr. Clarence Phelps Dodge and his committee to talk about the work which they hope to start in organizing a national movement for coordinating all the agencies in an effort to prevent juvenile crime.
At two o'clock I went to the Women's Trade Union League meeting and at four received the District of Columbia Federation of Music Clubs and the members of the Washington Music Teachers Association.
At five we had tea for Madame Vargas; Mademoiselle Vargas; the Brazilian Ambassador and his daughter, Mademoiselle Zazi and Mademoiselle Lais Aranha, his sister; Mrs. Rickard Sandler, wife of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the Swedish Minister and Mrs. Bostrom.
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What does it really take to be fit, in shape, at the right body weight, minimal aches and pains, stress reduced life…. Here are our thoughts.
To be fit – Train regularly and train hard. Now, what does that mean? Simply, schedule your training 4-6 days a week and make it untouchable and then when you train do not give yourself any cop outs!! We’ve heard them all: “ I don’t like it, I’m tired, this is hard….” I could go on and on. When you train, you train!!! Everybody has the capacity, but not everyone has the will – have the will!!!!
In shape – Never think of yourself as in shape, only that you are training to get into shape – you never get there because the body is forever adapting to the stresses and inputs given to it. Do the same program at the same level every time and the body simply adapts to it. You actually detrain in the since that metabolically it takes less to do the same work.
Struggling to maintain appropriate bodyweight – only two things need to happen to achieve optimal weight. One – eat the correct amount calories from a sound nutritional plan. Two – be active enough from your daily life or from a focused exercise program that really challenges you! For number one – 99% of you know how to eat well and also how much you really should, if you don’t eat well and appropriate amounts it is because you chose not to. As for point two – again you know how hard you should work and if you don’t it is because you chose not to. See where I am going with this, time to exhibit some will.
Minimal aches and pains – your body aches or do you have some pains, well that is a sign that all is not right in the temple. Usually there is nothing a little extra sleep, quiet time and some water won’t drastically help when it comes to chronic body aches and pains. If your having constant problems, get some extra sleep, see your holistic doctor, eat right and de-complex your life. There are plenty of places you can minimize to reduce stress and also, stop saying your stressed out, it’s usually a self fulfilling prophecy. Again exhibit some will and do it.
The greatest catch phrase and the one I wish I would have come up with – just do it. Need I say anymore?
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SnaRSShE (Snapshots via Rsync in a Simple Shell Environment) is a simple, lightweight (both in size and system requirements) server data archiving package designed for secure and reliable archiving of critical data of defined network systems. The general idea was taken from the need to capture snapshots of data on a regular basis and have easy access to that data. Originally, the script handled alerting as well, but the author since recognized the sense in offloading the alerting to a separate system. This script is a front-end for rsync, which does the real work. SnaRSShE just creates the environment and manages the rotation of archives. | <urn:uuid:a85f1e12-0a46-42e5-8645-e4cdb743ee6b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freecode.com/tags/back-up-utility?page=1&with=2751&without= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933071 | 136 | 1.632813 | 2 |
All Space, All the Time
Is NASA ready for prime time?
- By Todd Kliman
- Air & Space magazine, September 2001
(Page 2 of 5)
An ardent Trekkie, the new administrator turned to the entertainment industry. Goldin created a previously unheard-of role at NASA—that of Hollywood liaison—and in 1997 hired Bobbie Faye Ferguson, a former actress with connections to the Clinton White House, as the director of multimedia services. Ferguson brought a Rolodex filled with show business contacts. Only a few years earlier, NASA had been a reluctant player, but under her direction, it began seeking out Hollywood as a potential partner.
The ending of the cold war had brought a decline of spy films, but as one genre died, another was born. The movie industry could hardly believe its good fortune. Says one producer, “Hey, if [NASA] wants to work with us, great. You’d be crazy to turn that down.” By the late 1990s, the studios were starting to churn out stories about space adventures and heroes, from Armageddon to Deep Impact to Mission to Mars.
Ferguson has since left the agency, but Paula Cleggett, the deputy chief of NASA’s public affairs office, says the agency is still pursuing relationships with filmmakers. “Do we have an office on Hollywood and Vine? No.” But, she says, “We’ll arrange a tour of the Kennedy Space Center, let’s say. Introduce them to specialists. Get them talking, that sort of thing. We want to encourage this. We want to reach as many people as we possibly can, and reaching them through Hollywood is one of the ways to do it.”
This fit in nicely with Goldin’s larger vision of a new and improved space agency. The Administrator’s “care and feeding of the Hollywood studios,” as Cowing puts it, would mean better PR. And that might translate to increased public support and Congressional funding, and perhaps even NASA’s survival as it slouched toward the 21st century without a clear mission, such as landing on the moon.
Meanwhile, the Internet took off, the number of cable TV channels multiplied, and the number of media outlets mushroomed from a handful into thousands. Could the space program, an icon of the 1960s, sell in the fickle new media marketplace? The answer—a resounding “maybe”—came with the Mars Pathfinder landing in 1997. For the first time, images beamed from another planet could be viewed ’round the clock on your desktop computer. The public was fascinated by the novelty of it all: People around the world downloaded pictures of the Sojourner rover rolling across the surreal red landscapes of Mars. NASA’s Pathfinder Web site got 46 million hits in a single day, which was, back then, a record. Surely there was a market here somewhere.
But to talk about a private space information-entertainment business was to talk about a different kind of NASA. Some at the agency did not want to have that conversation. “You had people here who went back to the Apollo days,” says Dwayne Brown, NASA’s acting director of media services. “Historically, this is a very conservative place. There’s a lot of military presence.”
Still, with Radio Shack now filming commercials on board the space station and Pizza Hut sending up pizzas (Tito’s Russian crewmates were the delivery boys, and station commander Yuri Usachev starred in the TV spot), the old ways appear to be vanishing fast. Sensing a new market, Spacehab, a Houston-based firm that builds laboratory modules for conducting research in orbit, last year spun off a venture with the Russians called Space Media, which would use a new commercial module, Enterprise, that the company hopes to dock to the space station in order to “develop space-related media and edutainment [sic] opportunities.” The business plan may have been slightly ahead of its time, however. A year later Space Media was laying off staff, and is now biding its time before rushing to put the first studio in orbit.
While we wait, there’s NASA Television. The agency’s in-house TV channel, which debuted in the 1980s, broadcasts video—mostly, but not entirely, without commentary—of shuttle missions, press conferences, and other events of public interest. The signal can be picked up by any local cable service, and is Webcast on prominent sites like Yahoo. It began, says Brown, “as an engineering tool, monitoring the work that was being done on a particular mission.” At first, when nothing was happening in space, the screen went blank. Today, though, NASA Television has original programming with peppy hosts who, if not quite ready for prime time, add production values to the raw feed. NASA Television is no longer just for agency employees and geeks. “Now it’s defined as a news source,” says Brown. | <urn:uuid:7de0fe54-8ba8-404e-9620-b792f3a6ae8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/All_Space_All_the_Time.html?c=y&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963226 | 1,065 | 1.648438 | 2 |
You probably got the question.
Hypothetically, if I currently use a straight talk CDMA phone, can I use the ESN of that phone to activate and use a Verizon device? Or would the ESN have to be a non-active phone?
your phone won't stay active for very long because the Verizon devi lacks the airtime tank software.
You cannot fraudgently substute a phone with very slow data speeds with a phone with fast data speeds and expect Verizon and the ST fraud dept not to notice - since you will be the ONLY one running those speeds.
I wasn't talking about speeds/data, I was just talking about network. The ATT and TMobile networks are crummy. But the CDMA phones offered aren't that great themselves.
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In "Make Mad the Guilty," Hume Cronyn stars as an unemployed Shakespearian actor who stages a fake suicide in order to collect the insurance money.
As the episode opens, Burt Matthews and his wife, Elizabeth, are at the breakfast table. Burt looks through the newspaper for employment that would be suitable for an actor of his caliber. Elizabeth hits her limit.
She tells Burt that his career as an actor died a long time ago, whether or not he admits that to himself. Elizabeth is tired of supporting him, and she tells him to get a real job pronto.
Burt reluctantly accepts his burden and shuffles off to the department store to apply for a job as a floorwalker.
One day, Burt comes home from his new job and finds that Elizabeth is leaving with their boarder, Mr. Longstreet. He tries to stop them, but then offers to leave himself. Burt explains that if they fake his death, he will gladly disappear. Then, they can cash in on his insurance policy. Will Elizabeth and Longstreet go for the deal?
"Make Mad the Guilty" was adapted by Irving Moore and Robert L. Richards from a story by writer/director Robert Rossen. William Spier produced and directed. Hume Cronyn starred. This episode aired on June 5, 1947.
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Sarah Palin admittedly hasn’t had much of a track record when it comes to acknowledging, let alone promoting, diversity during her short tenure as Alaska’s governor. She’s on record with a terse utterance on hate crimes legislation and another on cultural diversity.
During the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, she told the Eagle Forum that she opposed expanded hate crime legislation. In her gubernatorial campaign booklet in 2006, Palin gave her equally brief views on discrimination, saying simply that she and her running mate would provide opportunities for all Alaskans.
There is no record that Palin has made any other public statements on diversity and minority issues since. On its own, this might be cause for only a slight eyebrow raise.
But Palin’s skimpy track record and paucity of words on diversity are relatively tame compared to the far more damaging accusation that’s making the rounds.
On April 29, 14 of Alaska’s black leaders — including prominent ministers, NAACP officials and community activists — met with Palin to voice their complaint over minority hiring and job opportunities. During the meeting, she allegedly said that she didn’t have to hire any blacks. Even more damning, she purportedly said that she didn’t intend to hire any.
This charge is so incendiary that it sounded like yet another one of the legion of Palin urban legends that have fueled the cyber gossip mill from the instant Republican presidential contender John McCain tapped her for his ticket. The charge had to be confirmed or denied. If Gov. Palin or any other public official flatly said that they had no intention to hire blacks, that would be politically unpardonable. And for a potential vice president, it would — and should — be the kiss of death.
In a phone message, Megan Stapleton, a Palin spokesperson who works with the McCain-Palin campaign committee, vehemently denied that Palin ever said that she would not hire blacks. Sharon Leighow, a communications spokesperson in the Alaska governor’s office, also disputed the allegation. She said that Palin’s press secretary was part-African American, and that two of her senior advisors were Filipino and Korean.
But Leighow was also adamant that Palin did not hire staff persons based on color, but solely on talent and skill. As she put it, “Gov. Palin is totally colorblind.”
Gwen Alexander, president of the African American Historical Society of Alaska and the one who initially reported Palin’s quip, stuck by her contention that Palin made the racially charged retort. She also charged that Palin did not support or even officially acknowledge the group’s annual Juneteenth commemoration.
June 19 is celebrated as the date of slave emancipation in Texas. Alaska is one of 13 states that have designated it an official holiday. Other Alaska governors have sent the traditional greeting and acknowledgement to the society. Alexander says Palin snubbed the group.
The unofficial charge, then, is that Palin is insensitive to the state’s African Americans, and that includes refusing to hire and appoint African Americans. That charge is hotly disputed by Palin’s staffers, who cite names and numbers to back it up.
But apart from the veracity of the charge and the denial, Palin’s statement that she’s absolutely colorblind when it comes to hiring and appointments does set off warning bells.
The “colorblind” argument strikes to the heart of the continuing debate over what and how far all public officials should go to ensure that their staffs and appointments truly represent the broadest diversity possible. Officials must conduct concerted outreach efforts to make that happen.
Palin’s colorblind posture, more often than not, has been nothing but a convenient excuse to not seek out, hire or promote African Americans and other minorities in her administration, no matter how qualified.
Diversity is a major issue in this election. It’s implicit in Democratic rival Barack Obama’s White House run. It’s explicit in Ward Connerly’s anti-affirmative action initiative, which will appear on the ballot in three states this November. Obama opposes it. McCain backs it, and so does Palin.
Palin’s commitment to diversity is no small point in Alaska. According to data from the 2000 Census, blacks make up officially about 4 percent of the state’s population. But those who self-identify at least in part as African American give the percentage a considerable bump. This is not an insignificant number, especially when American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos and Asians are considered. Minorities then make up about one-quarter of Alaska’s population, making the state one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse.
Diversity, then, must be more than a word that an Alaska governor pays campaign lip service to and then ignores.
Palin’s campaign and gubernatorial spokespersons say the knock that she is hostile to blacks and minorities is unfair. That may well be true. But to those Alaskan black leaders who challenged Palin on her administration’s minority hiring practices, the knock is much deserved.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a syndicated columnist, author and political analyst. His forthcoming book is “How the GOP Can Keep the White House, How the Democrats Can Take it Back.” | <urn:uuid:7f17676f-08b0-4804-82a8-be1b27754a2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baystatebanner.com/Opinion58-2008-09-25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956447 | 1,103 | 1.625 | 2 |
D. R. Munn
Dept. Elec. Eng., Technical Univ. of Nova Scotia, P.O. Box 1000, Halifax, NS B3J 2X4, Canada
This paper deals with the development of a processing technique that will improve the signal-to-noise ratio at the single sensor for a received signal that is embodied in a partially correlated noise field. The approach of this study is unique in that the noise will be treated as being nonwhite and partially correlated. The concept of the proposed development is based on the time interval over which the temporal coherence or correlation properties of a noise field are defined. For narrow-band signals, the associated temporal coherence period is much longer than the correlation time interval of the anisotropic noise field. Thus a coherent integration of discontinuous segments of received signals will enhance the signal-to-noise ratio at the sensor by lowering the correlation properties of the associated nonwhite noise. Reconstruction by the proposed technique of the narrow-band signal time series with improved signal-to-noise ratio at the sensor will allow the use of the existing high resolution techniques to be utilized more effectively by lowering their threshold values in order to detect very weak signals. The intention here is to integrate the characteristics of the real anisotropic noise field during the preliminary processing stages of the array-sensor received signals. | <urn:uuid:dbf1f793-51d3-494a-adb6-d6560fea6104> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.auditory.org/asamtgs/asa95stl/3aUW/3aUW6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942461 | 277 | 1.71875 | 2 |
When to visit the doctor | News
HARTSELLE, AL (WAFF)- Christopher Lott said he's been fighting the crud for a while. He finally conceded defeat to the symptoms and went in for a doctor's visit. He's being seen by Dr. Jeb Hornsby, a family practice physician in Hartselle.
Hornsby said if the symptoms are not too bad and you are not exposed to a lot of people at school or work, you might be able to muddle through it. However, he said common sense has to enter into the decision.
"But if you are with the public every day, especially in the medical field where you are seeing sickly people or potentially frail people, it's pretty important to get checked out pretty quickly," he said.
Another thing to consider, while it may not be the flu, it still could be contagious. That's another reason to stay home and visit the doctor.
Medicines also play a factor.
"Another theory is if you're not able to control your symptoms with over the counter medications, if you're still coughing a lot or have a lot of drainage and things like that, that you're potentially contaminating surfaces and the air like that, and that would be something you need to be seen about," added Hornsby.
Fever can be another good indicator to call the doctor, according to Hornsby.
"Certainly that's one of the main symptoms of flu. It could be a symptom of strep throat. Occasionally, even people with stomach viruses will run a little bit of a fever," he said.
You cannot get better without sleep.
"If the symptoms are so bad you're not resting, you can't sleep. That's a good reason to see a doctor just because it makes it harder to get out of your illness if you're not able to get a good night's rest," Hornsby added.
Lott said he's been fighting this for three weeks and it has been bad for three days. Hornsby said it was time for him to come in.
"Longer than a week or 10 days of coughing, congestion, drainage - certainly, we would need to see you at that point as well."
Hornsby said it's better to be safe - and healthy.
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BREAKING Prime Minister Gillard Attacked in Australia
Riot police were called in to help Julia Gillard escape from a Canberra restaurant after it was surrounded by around 200 furious protesters.
The mob trapped the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in the restaurant near Old Parliament House where Gillard had been handing out medals to emergency services representatives.
The protesters had been taking part in an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the nearby Aboriginal Tent Embassy.
They surrounded The Lobby restaurant and banged on the three glass sides, chanting "shame" and "racist".
At least 50 police, including the riot squad, were called to the scene shortly after 2.30pm (AEDT).
The two leaders, protected by police and security officers, escaped out a side door after about 20 minutes.
Protesters chased their car down the road, banging on its roof and bonnet.
The embassy is celebrating a 40-year milestone with a three-day "Corroboree for Sovereignty" with thousands of indigenous Australians travelling to Canberra for the occasion.
Tensions boiled over on Thursday afternoon following comments Mr Abbott made in Sydney earlier in the day.
Mr Abbott said he understood why the tent embassy was set up "all those years ago".
"I think a lot has changed for the better since then," he told reporters.
"I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian.
"I think a lot has changed since then, and I think it probably is time to move on from that."
For many Aboriginal people Australia Day is considered Invasion Day.
Earlier on Wednesday afternoon embassy founder Michael Anderson addressed a rally at the site.
"To hell with the government and the courts in this country. You haven't got a high hope to take us on," he said.
"We will force these issues.
"Too many of our families have suffered for some bastard to get in the road."
There were false reports Ms Gillard had been tackled by protesters as she was escorted to her commonwealth car.
A spokesman for the prime minister said Ms Gillard slipped as she was leaving the building.
Activists from the tent embassy accused Mr Abbott of inciting racial riots with his earlier comments.
Michael Anderson said the comments were disrespectful.
"He said the aboriginal embassy had to go, we heard it on a radio broadcast," he told AAP.
"We thought no way, so we circled around the building."
He said the protesters wanted the leaders to clarify their position and whether Mr Abbott was serious about removing the embassy.
"You've got 1000 people here peacefully protesting and to make a statement about tearing down the embassy - it's just madness on the part of Tony Abbott," Mr Anderson said.
"What he said amounts to inciting racial riots."
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Medicine or Medication?
When I first heard the lyrics, “Wake up to reality, use your mentality” I thought that Cole Porter was joking. You don’t use your mentality. You use your mind.
Here’s a list:
Medicine » Medication
Document » Documentation
Reason » Rationality
Mind » Mentality
Transport » Transportation
The list is seemingly endless when one starts looking. My point is that ‘document’, for example, is an official piece of paper. ‘Documentation’ is the furnishing or provision of that piece of paper. ‘Medication’ is the application of medicine.There are those who think it is classy to say “I took the medication” Oh dear me, no. Words have meanings.
Americans tend to believe that the British dislike of ‘transportation’ to mean ‘a bus’ is based on our guilty consciences about shipping convicts to Australia. Actually no, that was a pretty good policy. Where better to send them? ‘Transportation’ was the policy, not the ships.
No doubt there are, legitimately, grey areas but...no, I take it back. I’m not weakening.
So there we are, fellow-pedants. The battle-lines are drawn.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In his 10 years as the county recorder for Putnam County, Brian Donat has received one complaint about the county's trick-or-treat hours.
That was this year, when he received an email asking why the hours are on Tuesday instead of on Wednesday, which is Halloween.
Donat understands the concern, but his answer is a simple one: when scheduling trick-or-treating, officials try to avoid family activities that would cause scheduling conflicts.
As a general rule, Donat and other local officials avoid scheduling trick-or-treat times for Wednesday or Friday - Friday because of sporting events, and Wednesday because of evening church services.
And Deverly Page, who works in constituent services in the mayor's office in Charleston, said the city has long avoided scheduling activities over weekends to help curb vandalism and pranks.
It's been at least a decade since kids went trick-or-treating on a weekend in this area, she said.
"It's a safety issue," Page said.
In general, county officials set times only for the unincorporated areas within the county, but the cities usually follow suit. There are subtle differences in time throughout the area, but they mainly follow the same template: between one and two hours on a weekday near Halloween, but not on Wednesday.
Page said she receives requests every year to list shorter trick-or-treat hours - presumably because a shorter time period means less candy to give out or houses to get to with the kids. Other counties or cities do list shorter hours, but the mayor's office in Charleston has continued to decline and give children two hours to walk door to door.
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WASHINGTON (WKZO) -- A reported 35-thousand activists marched in Washington Sunday against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Environmental groups gathered on the National Mall and marched to the White House for a climate change rally focusing on the pipeline. Participants said the issue is a battle between grassroots environmental groups and special interest groups with deep pockets.
President Obama will ultimately decide if the project goes forward because it crosses international boundaries. The proposed pipeline would carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. | <urn:uuid:44aa3290-8b10-435f-8d23-2d07f16c8847> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wtvbam.com/news/articles/2013/feb/19/thousands-march-in-washington-against-keystone-xl-pipeline/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931159 | 100 | 1.765625 | 2 |
by Jane Baker
Choosing the right caregiver when you become pregnant can be overwhelming as well as difficult. In the past, financial considerations had often been the deciding factor in choosing caregivers to support you during birth. A doula may cost around $1,000. Hiring midwives used to cost around $3,500. However, midwifery services are now covered within our provincial health care insurance plan. This makes cost less a consideration than it used to be.
Choosing the right birth support really begins with some self-exploration. It is important to know what kind of birth experience you are looking for. It can also depend on your pregnancy. If your pregnancy is considered high risk and requires specialized monitoring, an obstetrician might be the most appropriate choice of care giver. Low risk pregnancies are easily managed by midwives. Doulas do not provide prenatal care. They are primarily hired for labour support. It is important to do your homework and understand the differences in the services available to you.
For many families, the correct answer to this question now is not to hire either a midwife or a doula, but to hire both. They actually play quite different roles, and their services can complement each other very well during labour and birth. Midwives are primary caregivers to pregnant families. They offer complete prenatal, birth and postnatal care, as a family medical doctor would.
Doulas offer labour support. They act as labour assistants to support a birthing woman through labour and delivery. However, they do not provide medical care or deliver babies. Their role is to help decrease the stress of the labouring woman and her partner and provide her with continuous support. Doulas help develop birth plans and help couples understand what is happening. They use comfort techniques, offer emotional support, labour coaching, massage, and breathing and meditation exercises. They work with the midwives or obstetrician and support the family in their choices. Their role is to support the family through the labour process. Some doulas also specialize in post natal care.
Midwives are highly trained professionals in Alberta. They have hospital admitting privileges, which allow them to assist their clients wherever they want to give birth. Midwives will review your medical history and help you with all your prenatal checkups. Their appointments are often longer than with traditional health care providers, because they work to support the needs of their clients on all levels – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Any standard medical tests offered by an obstetrician or family doctor during pregnancy will also be offered by midwives. However, midwives will generally provide more complete information about why the tests may or may not be necessary for you to support you in making informed decisions about them. They will be at your side throughout your labour and birth versus the possibility of having an unfamiliar “on-call” doctor attend the birth. They will be available by pager 24 hours a day.
Pregnancy and childbirth are intensely emotional times. Deciding who to invite to this event requires careful consideration. You must feel comfortable, confident, and content in the skills and abilities of your caregivers and support people. Some things to consider are:
- Do you want a home birth, a birth centre birth or a hospital birth?
- Do you want to use pain medication such as an epidural during labour or avoid it?
- Do you prefer to birth in private or with an audience?
- Do you prefer to have someone familiar by your side always during labour and birth?
- Are you interested in having a water birth?
Doing your homework and knowing what you want from your birth experience will help you to choose the right support.
BIO: Jane Baker is a Calgary midwife and is the current President of the Alberta Association of Midwives.
The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional advice from your primary healthcare provider. Always consult your healthcare professional. | <urn:uuid:ac221054-067d-4a8f-947f-660662699a02> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.birthunlimited.ca/birth/64-choosing-caregivers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965671 | 809 | 1.75 | 2 |
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|papaGG performs Children’s music and contemporary Christian Songs/Videos, Spiritual music. The 1st album is named "Songs for a Practical Day". It is now available for purchase on CDBaby or below through Google. This music features songs that teach children: the days of the week, continents, months of the year and more! This has been hugely influenced by his 2 children: Barbara (sings) and David (sings and drums). See the song list on the "What's New" page. Buy the papaGG CD below!
Songs for a Practical Day
19 Selections - $16.95 plus AZ sales tax
Picture on left, papaGG at St. Thomas Aquinas School on 8/27/2009
papaGG is originally from Upstate New York (Utica). papaGG has been playing guitar since he was 9 years old and still has that guitar.
He learned the instrument from playing at Catholic Folk Masses each and every Sunday during his Catholic grammar school years.
Early influences were the Dave Clark Five, Rolling Stones and the Beatles. In high school papaGG continued to play lots of music: Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Bread and the Eagles. In his senior year he joined a band (Kidd) and new influences arose: Ted Nugent, Kiss, Alice Cooper and more. More years went by and more bands too.
He moved to Phoenix in 1996 and restarted playing music when he met his beautiful wife Tiffany, who with some other close friends bought him his 1st Martin Guitar. He still uses that guitar at gigs today. In 2004 papaGG starting playing live again at “the Wineburger” almost monthly with first Tiffany at his side, then later his good friend, Uday Walli. Current influences are Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, Hawaiian Slack Key music and Ricky Skaggs (yes, bluegrass). He has grown his musical arsenal to include playing: Harmonica, Mandolin, Ukulele and Bass.
In 2007, papaGG answered a “talent” Craigslist ad and met Ed Mendoza where a new synergy was formed: Copper Skies.
papaGG is also working on four other musical projects:
1. Montessori Moms Music, working with Barbara’s school teachers (and friends) Tara Mott and Danielle McEuen (AMI Certified Montessori Educators), the music (CD’s and Videos) created will fill schools (both Montessori and public) with songs, poems, classical guitar songs (featuring Ed Sipos), meditation music and more which will be used in the classroom setting around the world! http://www.montessorimomsmusic.com/
Watch the new video--> Continents
2. Copper Skies with Ed Mendoza Like an unforgettable Arizona sunset, Copper Skies strives to play the songs from the 60's through the present that bring back great memories. Music that we all love to listen to or sing along to. The material is ageless like fine wine, as classic as rock and roll was meant to be, reproduced for your enjoyment by a duet with energy, great harmonies and a desire to entertain. www.CopperSkies.us
3. Peace and Mind, a collection of songs created for meditation available soon for download or purchase. This is quiet, spiritual music to calm you and energize you.
Pangea was the original continent, but after millions of years, there are now seven (7) continents. Sing along to learn them! Song performed by papaGG.
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The Evolution Deceit
Çay TV, 23 July 2008
Adnan Oktar: Our language is one, our religion is one; we have everything in common. We descend from the same origins. We are brothers but we are separate. If we call Azerbaijan to unite today, they would not give a thought to it for a moment and accept it. Only an official request is necessary. That is we can readily unite as two states and one nation. There is no obstacle for it whatsoever. This holds true for KAZAKHSTAN, Krygyzstan, Turkmenistan, East Turkmenistan; they will all feel at ease and so does the Islamic world as a result of this unity. Iraq and Syria look forward for uniting with Turkey. The sole matter is to reveal this out in the open, that is to give a name to it. Only a request is enough.
Haber Aktüel, 02 December 2010
Kazakstan Ambassador Tuymebayev: Turkish Union is obligatory for us to show our might to the world
Canseyit Tuymebayev stated that the two brother countries must grow stronger through unity and solidarity and show the power of the Turkish union to the world. He added that, “Unity makes strenghth.” | <urn:uuid:a53c92ed-9545-4042-aca0-35872d096342> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/en/works/38965/Turkish-Union-is-obligatory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954719 | 268 | 1.71875 | 2 |
City chooses go-slow mode on noise issue
Published: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:16 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:16 p.m.
SARASOTA - Initial meetings on relaxing the city's noise ordinance riled up residents and prompted the commission Monday to slow the discussion and focus on enforcement.
Officials reversed a plan to have an ad-hoc committee come up with recommendations. Instead, they asked the city attorney to review the history, seek expert advice and better organize the discussion on changes.
Commissioner Paul Caragiulo reignited the perennial noise debate last fall. He held two public meetings on whether Sarasota should relax its rules governing when, and how loud, downtown businesses can play outdoor amplified music.
He told commissioners the conversation needs to become "less emotional and more empirical," and did not think a committee would generate new ideas.
He suggested the city hire a noise ordinance expert, who is not a part of the drama, to draft recommendations.
"Since we've done the ugly work, if you will, of getting the hornets' nest stirred up, let's have someone look at it objectively," Caragiulo said.
Commissioner Terry Turner was the sole vote against the plan to have City Attorney Robert Fournier review, get comments and come back with narrowed plans in about six weeks.
"If the task force is premature, then that work is premature. I think we should just focus on enforcement at this time," Turner said.
During the noise meetings, many people expressed concerns that the city does not enforce its noise rules.
Caragiulo said last week one person in the police department was certified in taking noise measurements. City Manager Tom Barwin said more people have since been trained.
"We have to make sure what is on the books is being enforced," Caragiulo said. "Because there's going to be no trust unless people feel like they're being treated fairly."
City commissioners were more decisive when they decided Sarasotans who blare their car radio at night will need to turn down the sound to avoid a costly citation after April 1.
The commission unanimously passed an ordinance restricting "plainly audible" sound — meaning noise someone can hear clearly from 50 feet away — coming from a vehicle between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. on weekdays, and 10 p.m. and 10 a.m. on weekends. Police will begin enforcing the rule next month.
The rules come after police and city officials received numerous complaints from residents in Newtown, who said they could not sleep because a group of people would park on Dr. Martin Luther King Way and crank up the music at night. "It is more than just a nuisance," Commissioner Willie Shaw said, adding that the music blasted early in the morning impacts "the overall well-being of the neighborhoods."
Now, people will have one minute to comply with the requirements. If they don't turn down the noise, police can issue a civil infraction and a $250 fine, with a second infraction costing $500. However, if the driver doesn't contest those citation fees, they drop to $100.
Police can arrest people for a third violation.
The city has not enforced its restrictions on noise since 2010, after the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the legality of Sarasota's laws.
In December, the Florida Supreme Court ruled the state's law regulating volume from vehicles was unconstitutional; one of the major issues was that the rule did not apply to all types of sound and exempted certain political and business speech.
Sarasota's new ordinance repeals the parts of the city code that referenced the state law.
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The UHH BSN program is founded on a belief that people are unique and holistic, and possess the right to the preservation of their personal, ethnic, and cultural identities. Furthermore, people have the right to access health care that is culturally congruent and respects their roles as partners in health promotion and disease prevention.
Human caring is seen as the essence of nursing, built on the premise that each person has intrinsic worth and value.
Nursing care focuses on preventative health education and research-based nursing interventions for individuals and communities.
The UH Hilo BSN program is committed to fostering a dynamic curriculum that evolves in response to the changing demands of current and future health care needs in nursing, at the local, state, national, or international levels.
The BSN Program uses an Organizational Framework to guide its curriculum development.
The Baccalaureate Nursing Program supports the mission of the University of Hawaii at Hilo in providing a learning environment that is responsive to the needs of a diverse student population and that stresses rigorous high quality education in a caring, personalized atmosphere. This educational experience encourages student-faculty interactions and offers hands-on learning and leadership opportunities. The Nursing Program places emphasis on learning about the challenges of delivering culturally congruent nursing care in a rural environment.
C - Culturally caring
A - Active learning, critical thinking
R - Responsive to the needs of diverse student population and communities
I - Invested in quality and research
N - Nursing professionalism
G - Global Peace
The program is committed to the following:
The Baccalaureate Nursing program prepares students for careers in professional nursing. The nursing program is approved by the Hawaii State Board of Nursing and accreditated by the National League for Nursing. The B.S.N. degree will be granted by UH Hilo upon the recommendation of nursing faculty to those students who have successfully completed the prescribed curriculum.
To earn the degree, a student must satisfy the prerequisite, corequisite and nursing course requirements for the BSN degree as specified in the UH Hilo catalog and BSN brochure in effect at the time of the student's initial enrollment in the nursing program. Students are expected to complete the program within five years of enrollment. Students who do not graduate within five years of enrollment will be subject to review and will, if necessary, be expected to meet requirements currently in effect. The student is directly responsible to assure that all requirements are met for graduation | <urn:uuid:6103f788-0209-4861-844a-1a3a65cebf52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hilo.hawaii.edu/depts/nursing/bsn/philosophy_mission_goals.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950979 | 505 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Bloomberg: ‘Somebody's Got to be Blamed for Everything’
(CNSNews.com) - During an appearance on WOR radio late last month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed his thoughts on what’s wrong with education. The mayor focused on a lack of teaching children personal responsibility.
Radio Show host John Gambling asked Bloomberg, “Where did we go off-track on education? What's your assessment on that?”
"We've gotten in a society to where somebody's got to be blamed for everything and we don't want anybody to feel hurt," Bloomberg said.
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|Title: ||Professional Psychology Training Programs: Program Interventions and Prediction of Doctoral Student Stress and Life Satisfaction|
|Authors: ||Montgomery, Crista|
|Issue Date: ||11-May-2010 |
|Abstract: ||A growing literature on professional training and practice of psychology advocates that psychologists must be educated on risks and effects of impairment and the importance of self-care. Despite the general recognition of the importance of these issues, they have not been incorporated into training standards such as the American Psychological Association (APA) Guidelines and Principles of Accreditation (2007). In order to assess the approaches that programs currently adopt to address impairment and self-care, this study extended and updated previous research. A large sample of students (n = 591) enrolled in APA accredited doctoral training programs in professional psychology completed surveys regarding their training in self-care and impairment. Trainee well-being was also measured using satisfaction and stress (both professional and personal) scales. How interventions vary by program type was examined. Results showed that psychology trainee reports of professional and personal well-being were consistent with those of similar populations, such as other doctoral students (Pavot & Diener, 1993) and medical students (Firth, 1986). The respondents’ relationship status was not significantly associated with ratings of professional well-being, but partnered individuals scored higher on personal well-being measures. Also, professional satisfaction was higher in younger students and second year students endorsed significantly higher professional stress than first years. The most common interventions students reported receiving were focused primarily on enhancing relational skills and providing of interpersonal support. Programs differed somewhat in the type of interventions they employ to address student well-being. The majority of students reported a desire for their program to increase the amount of interventions offered. Implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are explored.|
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Contents of this issue:
- Black charter school students top host district counterparts
- DPS to lose $4 million due to low attendance
- DeWitt to sell timber to help solve overspending crisis
- Lear gives $1.5 million to Detroit tutoring program
- Senate opts not to vote on school pension reform bill
Black Charter School Students Top Host District Counterparts
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Black students in charter public schools outperformed their counterparts in conventional school districts and statewide on the 2011 MEAP test, according to MLive.
“These findings are significant, but not surprising,” Dan Quisenberry, president of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, told MLive. “One of the primary missions of a charter school is to give parents a quality educational option in places where the local public schools are failing. This data shows that the mission is succeeding.”
SOURCE: MLive, “Black students in charter schools scored better on MEAP math, reading tests than peers in same urban districts,” June 11, 2012
FURTHER READING: Michigan Education Report, “DPS Receives Bids from 18 Charter Operators,” May 5, 2011
DPS to Lose $4 Million Due to Low Attendance
DETROIT – Detroit Public Schools will have to repay the state $4.2 million after attendance fell below 75 percent on several target dates during the 2010-2011 school year, according to the Detroit Free Press.
DPS had expected to have to send the state about $21 million, the Free Press reported. The district actually failed to meet the 75 percent threshold on 46 days, and only 41 students attended the last day of school in June 2011. About 76,000 students are assigned to DPS, according to the Free Press.
SOURCE: Detroit Public Schools, “Poor student attendance costs DPS $4.2M,” June 12, 2012
FURTHER READING: Michigan Education Report, “State OKs DPS Plan to Close Half Its Schools," Feb. 22, 2011
DeWitt to Sell Timber to Help Solve Overspending Crisis
DEWITT, Mich. – DeWitt Public Schools plans to make about $43,000 by selling timber located on school property, including some trees that could be 200 years old, according to the Lansing State Journal.
The district faces an $800,000 overspending crisis, the Journal reported.
“Our budget definitely is a factor in our decision,” Superintendent John Deiter told the Journal. “We’re a people business (and want to make) wise use of natural resources to benefit the most people for the longest time.”
SOURCE: Lansing State Journal, “DeWitt schools may sell giant trees to help budget," June 7, 2012
FURTHER READING: Mackinac Center for Public Policy, “Michigan School Privatization Survey 2009," Dec. 7, 2009
Lear Gives $1.5 Million to Detroit Tutoring Program
DETROIT – Juniors and seniors at the East English Village Preparatory Academy will be paid to help tutor middle schools students as part of a $1.5 million grant Lear Corp. is giving Detroit Public Schools, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The money will be directly deposited into accounts set up for the high school students at a local bank, and participants will also get credit for community service hours, the Free Press reported.
“I was concerned the kids in Detroit Public Schools aren’t getting the same opportunities as kids in other districts,” Lear CEO Matt Simoncini told the Free Press. “Grade school students get a role model outside the classroom — not an adult, some(one) they’ll listen to.”
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press, “Lear is underwriting a student tutoring program with the Detroit Public Schools,” June 15, 2012
FURTHER READING: Mackinac Center for Public Policy, “Public-Private Education Partnership: Unlikely Consensus, Promising Result,” June 6, 2012
Senate Opts Not to Vote on School Pension Reform Bill
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Legislature recessed for a month without passing a controversial school employee pension reform bill, according to AnnArbor.com.
Senate Bill 1040, which passed the House 57-47 last Thursday, was not brought up for a vote in the Senate, AnnArbor.com reported. Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, told the media that Republicans in that chamber did not have enough votes to pass the bill.
The Senate and House are scheduled to resume session July 18.
SOURCE: AnnArbor.com, “Michigan Senate fails to vote on teacher pension reform,” June 14, 2012
FURTHER READING: Mackinac Center for Public Policy, “House GOP Hides Behind Rigged ‘Study,’” June 2, 2010
MichiganVotes.org, “Senate Bill 1040”
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement marking Canada Day:
“Today, Confederation turns 141 years old and there are more reasons than ever to celebrate our country."
Today is June 30, 2008.
Tomorrow, July 1, is generally recognized nationally and internationally as Canada's birthday.
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Former President Clinton Addresses Mideast 'Prosperity' Conference Co-Sponsored by UCLA Burkle Center
Speaking before high-level international delegations in Doha, Qatar, Clinton urges economic diversification in Middle East, advancement of women in workforce.
Assembled from news reports.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton Jan. 30 in Doha, Qatar, urged Middle Eastern nations to use oil and gas revenues to pursue lasting economic growth and opportunity for all of their citizens. Clinton addressed the opening session of a conference on "The Power of Prosperity: An Opportunity for Growth, Development, and Reform in the Middle East," sponsored by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations.
The Jan. 29–31 conference focused on key economic issues facing the Middle East. High petroleum prices, Iraq's post-war reconstruction, and the emergence of Asian nations as major consumers of energy set the backdrop for discussions by invited speakers and specialty panels meeting in the Doha Ritz-Carlton. Participants included high-level public and private sector delegations from the Middle East and other Arab states, China, India, Japan, Israel, Europe and the United States. The Burkle Center will publish a report on policy recommendations arrived at during the conference.
His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani, Qatar's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, spoke just before Clinton at the opening session chaired by U.S. Gen. Anthony Zinni (retired). Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim stressed the importance of economic and social stability for regional development. He called for "the powerful countries of the world" to undertake "serious work" to resolve regional crises, according to an official conference website. He also reportedly touted Qatar's progress in involving women in government ministries and promised that the next five years would see continued progress for women.
Clinton called for greater inclusion of women in the workforce, especially in skilled jobs, as part of a broad plan for advancing Middle Eastern economic development. He said that expanded educational opportunities for women and young people could improve productivity by making use of each nation's intellectual capital. Other recommendations in Clinton's six-point plan for the region's economy involved making new infrastructural and capital investment in diverse economic sectors; developing regulatory structures to promote small business, job creation, economic diversity, and the strengthening of the middle class; guaranteeing more consumer capacity through the creation of minimum wage policies and unemployment insurance; and expanding the capacity of countries to offer business education.
Clinton on Anti-Islamic Prejudice
In his speech, Clinton warned against rising anti-Islamic prejudice. "None of us are totally free of stereotypes about people of different races, different ethnic groups, and different religions," he said.
Clinton cited the "appalling" example of 12 editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were published on Sept. 30, 2005, in a Danish newspaper. In one cartoon, Muhammad wears a bomb-shaped turban. A furor erupted over the cartoons in parts of the Muslim world—any depiction of Muhammad being viewed as promoting idolatry—and led to official protests, boycotts of Danish goods, and a Jan. 30 statement from the European Union defending the Danish government and freedom of the press.
"So now what are we going to do? … Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" Clinton said.
Clinton denounced a tendency to apply media images of Islamic militancy to "a whole faith, a whole region, and a whole people."
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On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled (H/T ScienceInsider and The Wall Street Journal) in the Myriad Genetics lawsuit, which questioned the validity of the patents the company uses in its tests for two genes that factor in many cases of breast cancer.
Again, I am not a lawyer, but the ruling does not appear to be a clear-cut case for either side in the big question about the ability to patent genetic material. It does appear that the Appeals Court found some overreach in Myriad Genetics’ patents. While patenting of genetic material like the two cancer genes is permissible per this ruling, the aspects of the company’s patents that focus on comparing DNA strands are not patent-eligible. Without a better understanding of the mechanics of the test, I can’t begin to speculate how that might affect things. There have been concerns that Myriad Genetics has been restricting access to the samples to the point of interfering with second opinions, and this ruling might affect that.
Those who live in this policy are much more than I do suspect an appeal of this decision is likely, perhaps by both sides.
John H. “Jack” Marburger III, presidential science adviser for President George W. Bush and the third president of the State University of New York, Stony Brook (where he was working as Vice President for Research), has lost his battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 70. (H/T ScienceInsider)
As is often the case with those who serve as presidential science advisers, Dr. Marburger had a lengthy career often removed from the national spotlight. His academic training was in physics, and served in faculty and administrative positions at the University of Southern California prior to coming to Stony Brook. He was Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory when President Bush appointed him in late 2001. Marburger is the longest-serving presidential science adviser, and his work helping to shape the Science of Science Policy effort within the federal government is presently undervalued (Marburger was one of the editors and authors of the recent Science of Science Policy: A Handbook). My limited dealings with him following his term suggested a man who was giving careful and thorough thought to how scientific and technical knowledge relate (or don’t) with political authority and political decision-making. Some collections of his thoughts in this area are available, and I’ll link to more as I find them. The latest piece I’ve found from him is this Huffington Post piece from April. It argues against the deep science funding cuts in Rep. Ryan’s budget plan and the harms to science and technology support caused from budgeting by continuing resolution.
I recommend The New York Times obituary for a fuller explanation of how Marburger approached government service (arguably the foundation of much of the criticism he received on the job), but I find this example from the 1980s illustrative.
“When Gov. Mario M. Cuomo appointed him chairman of a fact-finding commission on the contentious issue of the unfinished Shoreham nuclear power plant on Long Island in 1983, he supervised a group of scientists who arrived at a consensus with which he did not agree. Announcing their findings — that the plant should never open — he told interviewers that he disagreed but added: ‘The governor didn’t want my opinion. He told me that. The governor wanted to know what the situation was. And I delivered that.’”
He received plenty of criticism during his tenure, but in my opinion much of it comes from a misplaced frustration with the President he served and a fundamental misunderstanding of the position of science adviser.
Dr. Marburger will be missed, and hopefully long remembered through the fellowships established in his name. From the Stony Brook notice:
“In lieu of flowers, the Marburger family requests that memorial gifts in Jack’s name be directed to the John H. Marburger, III Memorial Fund. The Fund will support fellowships for women undertaking graduate study in the physical sciences, engineering or mathematics; fellowships for graduate students in music performance; and the Pollock/Krasner House. Please contact the Office of Advancement at (631)632-6300 for information.”
A science song and a science band to start your weekend right…
N.E.D. is a medical abbreviation for No Evidence of Disease. It’s also the name of a music group that was featured this week in The Washington Post‘s Science and Technology section. The band is comprised of gynecologic oncologists – cancer doctors. They are the subject of a documentary that appears to be still in the production stage, and the filmmakers are looking for donations.
If you prefer your science music in the weeds of peer review statistics, check out this song about impact factors (statistics that assess the ‘value’ of a particular journal in the research landscape). Apologies to whomever Tweeted this, I failed to note the particular individual.
The current federal regulations governing human subjects research oversight – called the Common Rule – have remained essentially the same for twenty years. Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a proposed rule changing those regulations (H/T ScienceInsider). The announcement also signaled the beginning of a public comment period that will close on September 26, 2011. HHS is encouraging submissions via regulations.gov.
This table from HHS summarizes the changes the proposed new rule would make to the Common Rule. The changes fall into two main categories. Many changes seek to reflect changes in technology over the last twenty years, and the implications of those changes on human subjects research. For instance, individual samples that could be rendered ‘de-identified’ by stripping relevant information back in the 1990s could be used without consent, in part because they could not then be tracked back to the individual donor. Advances in both genomics and information technology make that much harder to do, and as a safeguard, donor consent will be required. Data security requirements would be strengthened as well.
The other major category of changes focuses on streamlining the management and administration of clinical trials (Given its current work on clinical trial practices, I suspect the Bioethics Commission has either weighed in on the proposed changes, or will during the course of this rulemaking.) Large research projects that currently require multiple reporting of adverse events or multiple Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval due to using multiple sites would find these requirement centralized. Consent forms would also be streamlined.
Earlier today U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth issued a ruling in Sherley v. Sebelius, the lawsuit from two scientists arguing for a ban on federally funded human embryonic stem cell research (H/T Nature News). This was not the first lawsuit seeking to prevent federal funding, but it was the first to advance within the federal courts, mainly due to two scientists serving as plaintiffs in the case.
Judge Lamberth had issued an injunction against embryonic stem cell funding, which prompted an appeal of the injunction to the Court of Appeals. That court overturned the injunction, which shifted focus in the case back to the District Court. Both sides had filed for summary judgment. These motions had to make the case for or against the idea that .
Judge Lamberth ruled in favor of the Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment. In his opinion, the Judge agreed with the Court of Appeals that the Plaintiffs do have standing – a key point that leaves open the possibility of future appeals. However, the Court of Appeals opinion that overturned the injunction constrained the District Court. Its conclusion that research is ambiguous in the context of the Dickey-Wicker Amendment can be overturned by a higher court, but not a lower court. The Court of Appeals opinion also removed the question of deference to agency actions (whether the National Institutes of Health/NIH acted in good faith) from District Court consideration by deciding deference was due. As a result, any of Plaintiffs arguments on how Dickey-Wicker should be interpreted fail in the eyes of the District Court.
On Friday, the State Department appointed E. William Colglazier, long-time Executive Officer at the National Academies, as the newest Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (H/T ScienceInsider). He’ll be the fourth person to hold the position. His academic experience is in physics (the first physicist to hold this position), and in 20 years at the National Academies he directed the Office of International Affairs before serving as Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
As a National Academies report in 1999 encouraged the creation of this position, it was probably just a matter of time before an Academies leader took a turn in the job. The position has been unfilled for over a year, which is sadly consistent with the Obama Administration’s (in)ability to fill science and technology positions.
Arguably it is this position, alone within the U.S. government, that hews closest to the U.K. Chief Scientific Advisers appointed for each major ministry. The chief scientist and chief technologist positions in U.S. government are typically filled with civil servants, though not always.
I’m pleased to see the State Department position filled, and hope that the science envoys program may see a jolt of activity once Dr. Colglazier gets settled into the new job.
Once again, The Daily Show does not have its full week lineup available (nothing announced for Thursday right now), so there may be a late addition.
Tonight one of the hosts of the U.S. edition of Top Gear, Rutledge Wood, will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I’m cautiously optimistic some car technology will be discussed, especially since Wood is considered the ‘expert’ on the show. However, the best science and technology content tonight will come from Brian Cox – the British scientist (not the British actor). His series, Wonders of the Universe, will start on The Science Channel this Wednesday, and Cox will speak with Stephen Colbert tonight. The Colbert Report will have Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT, on Wednesday night.
On Friday the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its ninth report of the Obama Administration. The report, “Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy,” was previewed during the March 2011 PCAST meeting. It outlines a series of recommendations that would help better describe how much economic activity is connected to biodiversity and environmental resources. PCAST issued a report on this subject in 1998.
The idea of environmental capital is not new, nor particularly novel. Arguably changes in the environment are depleting or otherwise depreciating the value of that capital. As the report describes (see the first four appendices), there are several programs that try and assess the environmental capital of the U.S. But there could be a more systematic means of making and coordinating these efforts. The report recommends a quadrennial review to “identify trends related to ecosystem sustainability and possible policy responses.” This would utilize most of the existing programs that work in this area, in addition to the other related programs recommended in the report.
Those other recommendations extend the general emphasis in the report of expanding and extending the scope and depth of U.S. information collection and analysis on environmental resources and the sustainability of those resources. They are difficult to summarize even further than they are in the report summary, but they include developing additional sources of knowledge and resources for managing this knowledge (infrastructure as well as funding).
In late June the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report on advanced manufacturing. It marks the eighth report from the PCAST of this administration (I’ll post on the ninth report tomorrow), an average of one per quarter since it was first formed in summer of 2009.
The report release was accompanied by the announcement that the President has formed the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP). Such a partnership was inspired by a major recommendation of the report. From the formal announcement:
The AMP will be led by Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President, and CEO of Dow Chemical, and Susan Hockfield, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working closely White House’s National Economic Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy and the PCAST, AMP will bring together a broad cross-section of major U.S. manufacturers and top U.S. engineering universities. The universities initially involved in the AMP will be the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, and University of Michigan. The manufacturers initially involved in the AMP will be Allegheny Technologies, Caterpillar, Corning, Dow Chemical, Ford, Honeywell, Intel, Johnson and Johnson, Northrop Grumman, Procter and Gamble, and Stryker.
The release from the White House goes on to outline various projects that the AMP institutions, along with a few federal agencies, will work on over the next several months. Some of the efforts are sector specific (robotics, defense), but the majority are focused on improvements applicable to all of advanced manufacturing: materials, processes, energy efficient manufacturing, design.
The report seeks to distinguish between industrial policy (which it implies is ineffective by claiming it just picks winners and losers) and innovation policy. I consider this primarily a rhetorical/political strategy and not a primary policy emphasis – at least in terms of a single report. It’s other recommendations aren’t particularly new or noteworthy, unless its still novel to hear a science advisory body encouraging a more ‘business-friendly’ tax policy or more support for the scientific research and training workforce. The current necrotic budget climate suggests that only the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership is likely to emerge from this report.
Well, the 135th and final mission of the Space Shuttle program ended earlier today. I watched the first launch back in the day, and space exploration (with humans or not) has been a major influence on where I ended up professionally, as I noted yesterday.
Additional evidence would be a technical paper in high school, the focus of my master’s degree, the subject of my master’s thesis, etc.
There’s a multitude of things I could talk about at this point. I became interested in space exploration post-Apollo (I was in diapers at the last Moon landing), and will continue to be interested. The paradoxes inherent in developing big things to last a long time are often overlooked in this area. I think this explains part of why this ending can seem like such a step backward. That a system designed, tested and made operational over 30 years ago still represents the leading edge of space transportation is frustrating. Explainable, but still frustrating.
To borrow from Thomas Hughes, the technological salient (the sticking point, if you will) of reusable space transportation remains one of cost. As that has been a major political salient for human space exploration, the combination is powerful. (Arguably the political salient has been the bigger challenge throughout NASA’s history.) So we take a step back, idealistically, to take a step forward somewhere else. What can we do better with 60s space technology today? At some level the choices before us are to try and answer that question, with a lot of different possible solutions, or to completely retreat. I know which I prefer. | <urn:uuid:abfce9a8-91a6-4dcb-9891-028221530198> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pascophronesis.wordpress.com/2011/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95608 | 3,225 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Safely home after protesting for two full days, and being among the first American civilians ever attacked with a sonic cannon, two Portlanders are calling their efforts a success.
Wearing black T-shirts reading "The G-20 is full of jagoffs" (a common Pittsburgh insult, apparently), Paul McCarrier and fellow Portlander Jordan (whose last name we are withholding) recounted their experiences in the Phoenix office on Monday, just hours after returning home (see "Protestors Head to the G-20 Summit," by Jeff Inglis, September 25).
During an unpermitted march on September 24, police used a sonic cannon (technically known as a Long-Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD) in an attempt to disperse 1500 or so marchers protesting against capitalism and G-20 policies they say harm the world's people. A high-volume combination of high and low pitches, the sound made McCarrier "sick to my stomach and weak" when it was directed at where he was standing. Jordan, who was not targeted directly, says the low frequencies bounced off buildings and echoed throughout the area. "You can feel it in your skull, rattling your eardrums around," he says. (Hear a sample of the sound, recorded by McCarrier, at thePhoenix.com/AboutTown.)
But both pronounced the device a failure, because it did not break up the march. Police also used rubber bullets and pepper gas (a vaporized form of pepper spray).
While police were eventually able to split up the march, protestors regrouped a short while later and continued on their way, according to news reports from Pittsburgh. "It was empowering," McCarrier says of his realization that a group of unarmed protestors was able to stay on the streets in the face of overwhelming police strength. (And in the face of emergency ordinances that allowed people to openly carry assault rifles but not gas masks or PVC pipe.)
They were able to do so, McCarrier says, by being collaboratively organized and by using technology, such as Twitter and text messages, similarly to how Iranian protestors communicated back in June.
The following day, protestors also succeeded at keeping the streets, even as violence flared. It began peacefully enough, with Buddhist monks and others marching to protest the harsh military junta ruling Burma. Even that group was surrounded by armed riot police, to intimidate "anyone who wants to even be associated with any sort of dissent or protest," McCarrier says.
Later in the day someone broke a window at a BMW dealership, and that likely provoked a startling move, caught on a bystander's video camera: Military personnel clad in camouflage snatched a protestor off the street in broad daylight, stuffed him (without bothering to search or handcuff him) into the back of an unmarked car, and sped away.
"They probably did that to scare the shit out of people," McCarrier says. "It was after that that people started throwing rocks at the cops."
"We stretched them thin," says Jordan, noting that on Friday night, police radios carried messages indicating vehicles had run out of fuel and officers' radios' batteries were running low. At one point, dispatchers announced that cops were no longer responding to calls throughout most of the city, to be able to focus on activities in the university area. There, police surrounded dormitories and fired pepper gas through the hallways and into the courtyards. | <urn:uuid:01fc75c6-7dc1-4208-ba3e-0e94db7175ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/90592-anarchists-claim-victory-in-g-20-marches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98029 | 712 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Three of Queen Creek High School's best and brightest are heading to Seoul, South Korea, for an academic competition - by clearing hurdles that will make the accomplishment that much more meaningful and instructive.
Sophomores Dylan Heimer, Kara Karaniuk and Trevor Williams never asked the Queen Creek Unified School District to foot the $8,000 bill for the journey to the World Scholar's Cup finals, for which they qualified after coming in 11th at the national finals in Tucson.
They committed to raising the money on their own, and sought the district school board's blessing for the trip so their assistant coach, Matthew Chicci, could accompany them.
Citing liability concerns with having students sent overseas under the district's banner, board members voted 4-1 against endorsing the trip, but urged the students to pursue it on their own.
Which is exactly what the students did, with their parents' backing. They got a huge financial boost from the owners of A Child's Place at the Ranches, a Gilbert day care center, who stepped forward with $5,000 for plane tickets. The students obtained permission from the school to take their final exams after they return from the 12,400-mile (round trip) journey.
It's a sure bet that the youths have learned a great deal more via this process than they would have if the school district or their families had simply picked up the tab, or otherwise gotten into the driver's seat. They have seen how dreams can be nearly strangled by bureaucratic red tape, and how people often fare better when they strike out on their own and turn to the private sector for help.
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KIRKMANSHULME CRICKET GROUND 1881-82
The original pitch was clearly not appropriate for a side keen to develop, and so St. Mark’s moved to a more appropriate playing surface at the Kirkmanshulme Cricket Club ground. This was positioned on the southern side of Hyde Road on Redgate Lane, close to the St. Mark’s Church Hall, and the ground gave the side terrific opportunities. This was a five acre site and had a pavilion in one corner of the ground. Sure there were no facilities for spectators, however this really was a major improvement.
The ground was next to Tank Row where Edward Kitchen – a key player and committee member – was known to live in 1881. It is believed Kitchen encouraged the move.
At the cricket ground, the club are known to have played five games out of twelve matches that season, including the club's first home meeting with Newton Heath (present day Manchester United) on 4th March 1882. This attracted an attendance of around 5,000 – some 2,000 more than the away fixture the previous November - with these spectators positioned along the touchline, stood on the outer edges of the cricket pitch. It seems incredible that somewhere in the region of a sixth of Gorton's population at the time would have been able to attend a game which, at that point, was not regarded as a 'derby' or an important fixture whatsoever. However, it is clear that football was gaining popularity all the time and St. Mark’s, because of their roots and the work of Beastow, Goodbehere, and Anna Connell were a very worthy cause to support.
St. Mark’s overturned Newton Heath 2-1. Gorton had managed to take the lead as early as the eighth minute, and then had to hold off the Heathens who had been awarded a couple of consecutive corners. The second actually lead to Gorton's second goal. J. Collinge obtained possession in front of the Gorton goal then proceeded to run the full length of the pitch, before sending the ball flying between the Heathens' posts amid loud cheering. The score remained 2-0 until late in the game when, according to reports, the Heathens baffled the home 'keeper Kitchen by performing several good passes before the ball entered the goal. Exactly how baffled Kitchen was is unclear.
At the end of the season the Kirkmanshulme C.C. asked the footballers to find another ground as their playing surface had been badly damaged, or at least they felt that it was no longer the perfect pitch you would expect for a gentlemanly game of cricket. Maybe the damage had been caused by the large attendance at the Newton Heath game, West Gorton's last at the Cricket ground, or maybe it was simply because of the general wear and tear on the pitch, who knows. It is highly possible some cricket officials were concerned that the football club was becoming more popular than the long established cricket club.
Eventually the cricket club disappeared as the area became more industrial and the popularity of the neighbouring Belle Vue Pleasure Gardens increased. During the 1980s the site became derelict and today is still mainly in the same state, although the ring road, which ultimately leads to the City Of Manchester Stadium, cuts through the site as it makes its way from Longsight, across Redgate Lane, and on to Hyde Road. | <urn:uuid:0fdd8940-ba00-4a84-9a22-3c6b18d70642> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/History/Stadia/KirkmanshulmeCricketClub.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987445 | 707 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:35 am Post subject: HEAVEN AND HELL
i dont think its right to say that heaven or hell is the state of consciousness because if you say that then you are denouncing life hereafter , not only that you are also denouncing the judgement day which is against the fundamentals of islam and our sect of islam
plus, god said we will be judged according to our deeds[good/bad] :wink: , so if something good happens that doesnt mean thats jannat, its just the mercy of allah
hope i cleared the misconception
ya ali madad[/quote]
Heaven and Hell are remain contraversial issue for centuries long, some peoples belive that we all have to give answer of our deeds ( good or bad ) on the day of Judgement (KAYAAMAT DAY) and Almighty Allah will give us punishment according our deeds, if some one did bad deeds during their lives then Almighty Allah will send them in the hell, if some one did good deeds dring their lives, Almighty Allah will send them in heaven and brother this is the common phylosophy in almost all the religions.
As per Islamic and Ismaili view of point I would say that It is quoted in Quran and our ginans (mahadan) about the day of judgement, so nobody can ignore about this day and I personally belive that every one has to give answer on that day.
The other phylosopher belives that heaven and hell is state of concsiousness of a person.
The third belivers says that heaven and hell (SWARG AND NARAK) stay with us during our life time on earth, whenever someone has to face difficult time he/she is in HELL and whenever some one has good time during their life he/she is in heaven, thus this kind controversy always there . As per my opinion in controversy like this every one need to use their comon sense , different peoples have different thinking and different thoughts so it is hard that all men has same thoughts. But I belive that every one has to give answer of their deeds after their death and on the day of judgement, Quran and Ginans can not be wrong.
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Start checking your mailbox. In the next few weeks you could find a check inside for between $50 and $200.
And no, its not a foreign check scam, or trick to get you to buy something. It's all part of health care reform.
Insurers Required to Refund Overcharges
Under the new health care law, insurers are allowed to keep only 20 percent of premiums for overhead and profit. If they took more than that last year, they must refund the money to their customers.
As a result, many employees who pay into health insurance will receive refund checks this summer.
Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine says insurers will refund $1.1 billion to 12 million Americans. The average refund will be $150.
Now the bad news. If you are on Medicaid or a Senior on Medicare, don't look for a check in the mail. This applies only to private insurers, so you won't receive anything.
The bigger catch: It may be taxable, depending if you pay for health care with pre-tax dollars. Some companies take out insurance money before taxes, which means you will be taxed on the refund as income.
If you get a check for $100, then find you have to pay 30 percent income tax on it, you may say "doesn't that stink."
But the bottom line is watch your mailbox between now and mid August for what could be a pleasant little surprise.
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April and Cherry Blossoms
Springtime, especially April,
is the time for change in Japan. April means cherry blossoms, moving (changing residence), new jobs, a new fiscal year and
a new school year. Most new company employees begin work in April. New television shows start in April. And of course, baseball
season starts in April. Japanese dislike change but seem to accept it when it comes along with the Sakura (cherry blossoms).
Sakura is so important that most weather forecasts on the nightly news also include the percentage of cherry blossoms that
have bloomed in certain areas. The temperature is in the low- to mid- 60's and there are pink and white blossoms everywhere.
It's one of the nicest times of the year here. Many Japanese wear surgical masks because they are allergic to all the pollen
in the air. But generally it is a festive time with many parties and celebrations. You have to stake out your place in the
park very early in the morning. The best spots are highly coveted. Some young recruits get assigned to hold places in parks
for the company picnic. Large groups sit all weekend (day and night) under the cherry trees and imbibe huge quantities of
alcohol and Japanese food and snacks. Revelers are seen during the week as well continuing parties for many days. Some people
even die from overdrinking. (Unlike the US, Japan doesn't have any law against public consumption of alcohol or drunkenness).
Still there is a pleasant feeling strolling through the jam packed parks. Even with all the drinking there never seems to
be any fights or quarrels. Yesterday, Soyoko and I had a chance to ride our bicycles about 20 minutes to Inokashira Park
in Musashinou City. It's one of my favorite parks with about 1000 cherry trees and a small lake. It was a nice day but a
little chilly. Many people were enjoying the atmosphere of merrymaking, drinking, eating, dancing, and playing music, relaxing
and people watching. I saw one guy who had outdid himself and was being carried to the bathroom after relieving himself all
over his pants. One of the most interesting groups we saw was from Okinawa, many wearing traditional dress. It was an open
party and they invited anyone to join for 1000 yen. Included in the price were Okinawan food and drink (awamori) or beer
and a chance to sing along to Okinawan folk songs. I'm sure this party lasted long into Sunday night. We saw a semi-professional
group playing ragtime (?) music and drawing a small crowd. We also saw many people playing instruments and singing to their
own music. Next weekend, we plan to go again to do a little Hanami (flower viewing) because all too soon it will be over.
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Wapentake of Bulmer - Electoral Division of Sheriff Hutton - Poor Law Union, Petty Sessional Division, and County Court District of Malton - Rural Deanery of Bulmer - Archdeaconry of Cleveland - Diocese of York.
This parish extends westward from the river Derwent, and embraces within its limits a stretch of lovely and picturesque scenery. Though small and commercially insignificant, it must have been at an early period a place of importance, since it has given its name to the wapentake. It comprises the townships of Bulmer and Welburn, and the extra-parochial places called Henderskelfe and Hardyflatts are usually included with it. Its area, inclusive of the latter places, is 4,257 acres, and the number of inhabitants, 923. Of these numbers 1,577 acres and 231 inhabitants belong to the township of Bulmer. Its rateable value is £1,849, and chief owners are the Earl of Carlisle (lord of the manor), the Duke of Sutherland, the rector of the parish, in right of his glebe, and Mr. John Tate.
At an early period Bulmer belonged to a family of that name, who are supposed to have been in possession of these lands long before the "base-born Norman" set his foot on English soil. They had extensive estates in Yorkshire and Durham, and castles at Sheriff Hutton, Wilton, and Branspeth. The commissioners of the Conqueror thus enter this place in the survey which they completed about A.D. 1086:- "Lands of Earl Mortain, Bolesford wapentake. In Bolemere and Stidnvm (Stittenham) Ligulf and Norman had two manors of fifteen carucates to be taxed; and there may be eight ploughs. Nigel now has them of the earl." They further state that there was a priest and a church, and a mill worth two shillings. The whole was a mile and a half long, four quarrentens broad, and in the Confessor's reign had been rated at 100s., but was then only worth 40s. This great depreciation in value tells of the obstinacy with which the inhabitants defended their hearths and homes, and the maddened rage of the Conqueror who, in retaliation, gave the district to fire and sword. Bolesford, the name of the wapentake in Domesday Book, has disappeared from local topography without leaving behind the faintest memory of its site. It was a ford and, therefore, on the bank of a river, probably the old Foss. When or why the wapentake's name was changed to Bulmer is not known, but it appears under this name in very early documents.
Ligulf, who was the owner of the manor in the time of Edward the Confessor, is given as the remote ancestor of the Bulmers, in General Harrison's pedigree of that family. If this be so, then Ascitel or Osketyle de Bulmer, the first of the family on record, whose name bears unmistakeable evidence of his Saxon blood, was probably his son. Ascetel de Bulmer is said to have received a grant of Sheriff Hutton and other manors from the Conqueror,* but he was more probably only reinstated by subinfeudation in the lands which were already his by inheritance. Sir Bertram de Bulmer, who appears to have been the chief of the family, was a powerful baron and the owner of vast lands in Yorkshire and Durham. He stood high in the royal favour, and held, for many years, in the reigns of Henry I. and Stephen, the important and onerous office of sheriff of Yorkshire. Sir Bertram left an only daughter and heiress, Emma, who married Geoffrey de Neville, and these lands, with the castles of Sheriff Hutton and Branspeth, passed to that family.
*Gill's "Vallis Eboracensis," p. 107.
The village of Bulmer is seated on an eminence, 7½ miles S.W. of Malton. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, the soldier-saint, hermit and bishop of Tours, is a stone structure of considerable antiquity, apparently restored in the early Gothic period, but still retaining some traces of Norman masonry. The plan comprises chancel, nave, south porch, and square west tower of two stages, containing three bells, The chancel arch is pointed; the old screen separating the chancel from the nave remains, but is much disfigured by coats of paint. The old box pews have been removed, and chairs substituted. The font is hemispherical and large enough for immersion, In the north wall, near the pulpit, is the stone effigy of a knight templar, with hands uplifted over his breast in the attitude of prayer. His waist is girt with a baldrick, and at his left side is a shield, bearing a lion rampant, the cognisance of the Bulmers, to which family he probably belonged, "In the chancel floor is a stone inscribed round the verge "Hic Jacet dns Radulphus Bulmer miles * * * ppietur deus," with a shield charged with a lion rampant. Dnus Radulphus de Bulmer at the beginning of the 14th century; and a century later there was another Radulphus Bulmer, Knt., who, in his will, proved 10th May, 1406, gave his soul to God Almighty and his body to be buried in ye p'ish church of Bulmer. John Bulmer, rector of the parish, died in 1441, and was buried in the choir of this church. Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle, was interred here in 1738, and removed to the mausoleum at Castle Howard in 1745. Another inscription on the floor records the death, in 1867, of the Rev. William Preston, who was for 61 years rector of this parish. The registers commence in 1571. The living is a rectory worth £360 per annum, in the gift of the Earl of Carlisle, and held by the Rev. James Gabb, B.A., who resides at Welburn. The tithes were commuted for land and a yearly modus, under the Inclosure Act, in 1777. The glebe consists of 210 acres.
The Wesleyans have a chapel in the village, erected in 1842; and there is also a well furnished school, built by the Earl of Carlisle, in 1840.
On Bulmer Hill, about a mile from the village, is a monumental column, erected by public subscription in 1869, to the memory of George William Frederick, seventh earl of Carlisle.
WELBURN. - This township, comprising about 852 acres, is chiefly the property of the Earl of Carlisle; William Coulson, Wetherby; and John Teasdale, York. Its rateable value is £1,718, and the population 560. The soil is various - limestone is quarried and burnt for building and agricultural purposes. Castle Howard railway station is in this township.
The village is distant 5½ miles S.W. from Malton, and 1½ from the station. The Church is a neat edifice in the Early English style, erected by subscription, and consecrated in 1865, the late Earl of Carlisle being the principal contributor. It consists of nave, chancel, north and south transepts, and a tower, surmounted by a spire. Several of the windows are handsome stained glass memorials of the Howard family. The sittings are of oak, and will accommodate 300 persons. The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, and is served by the rector of Bulmer.
The Wesleyans have a chapel here, built in 1825; and there is also an excellent school, attended by 120 children.
About a mile east of the village is the Castle Howard Reformatory, belonging to the society for the reformation of juvenile offenders convicted of crime. The district included in the scope of the society embraces the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, the town and county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, and the city and vicinity of York. It was erected in 1855, and enlarged in 1867 at a cost of about £800. It was further enlarged in 1887 by the addition of a wing, comprising a large dormitory and a suite of offices, all heated by new hot-water apparatus, at a cost of upwards of £600. Attached to the institution is a chapel, built in 1868. The east window is a stained glass memorial of the seventh earl of Carlisle, inserted by his sister, the Hon. Lady Taunton, in 1878. The reformatory is supported partly by voluntary subscriptions, and is under the management of a committee, The Rev. Richard George Fish is the superintendent. There are about 80 inmates. Attached to the reformatory is a farm of 100 acres, cultivated by the boys, chiefly by spade husbandry. From the report of the committee, issued in 1888, it appears that upwards of 500 boys have passed through the school, and of this number "more than 90 per cent. have, so long as they have been traced, turned out honestly."
The Roman road from York to Dunum Sinus, near Whitby, passed through the township, and a few Roman relics have been found in the locality, but nothing of importance.
Hardy Flatts, containing 21 acres, is a small extra-parochial place adjoining.
HENDERSKELFE, comprising 1,705 acres, is also reputed extra-parochial. It is valued for rateable purposes at £1,403, and contains 132 inhabitants. The whole township is the property of the Earl of Carlisle, whose magnificent residence, called Castle Howard, forms its chief attraction. Hinderskelfe, as it was anciently called, belonged to the barons of Greystoke, in Cumberland, by one of whom a castle was erected here in the reign of Edward III. This line eventually terminated in an heiress, Elizabeth de Greystoke, who, on the death of her grandfather, in 1487, inherited the entire baronies of Greystoke and Fitzwilliam, a moiety of the baronies of Bulbeck and Wemme, a fourth part of that of Montfichet, a third of a moiety of that of Morley, or Morpeth, and also of the manor of Hinderskelfe. The heiress was a minor at the time of her father's death, and was placed under the care of the Cliffords, of Brougham Castle. She was probably intended to be the wife of one of that family, but Thomas, Lord Dacre, of Gilsland, contrived to carry on a secret amour with the young heiress, and by preconcerted arrangement between the two, carried her off during the night, and married her. He was a doughty warrior, and for seventeen years previous to his death was Lord Warden of the Marches, an office in which he exercised very considerable vigour. The third in descent from this Thomas, was George, baron of Greystoke and Gilsland, who was five years of age when he succeeded to the estates on the death of his father. His widowed mother afterwards became the third wife of the Duke of Norfolk, but died shortly after. The infant heir survived his mother only one year, when he came to an untimely end through a fall from a wooden horse. He left three sisters, who thus became coheiresses of the two baronies and the other possessions. Being minors the duke, their stepfather, obtained a grant of their wardship, with power to dispose of them in marriage. To secure their broad acres in his own family he married them to his three sons by his first two wives. Elizabeth was married to Lord William Howard, the duke's third son, and received as her share Naworth Castle, and also the castle and manor of Hinderskelfe. Lord William has acquired imperishable fame by the vigorous measures he pursued against the mosstroopers that infested the border-land; little mercy was often shown to the luckless freebooter that came within his clutches, and"Hence, in rude phrase, the Borderers still Call noble Howard 'Belted Will.'"Lord William, having embraced the Catholic religion, was an object of persecution during the whole reign of Elizabeth; he was constantly subjected to trumpery charges of treason, was imprisoned in the Tower, and his estates sequestered, which he had to redeem by a payment of £10,000. In the first year of James I. he was restored in blood, and was appointed king's lieutenant and lord warden of the Marches. Much of the glamour which legend and story have thrown round his name has been removed by the researches of Mr. Ornsby, and though we may regret the demolition of so many of the tales we had been accustomed to believe from our childhood, his character, when "stript of its legendary aspects, stands out greater, grander, deeper, and more lovable than one ever imagined." Though his administration of law on the borders was sometimes stern and severe, yet he was no cruel oppressor. He was a man of literary culture and of refined pursuits, a brave and daring soldier, and a model of chivalry.
He died in 1640, and was succeeded in the estate by his grandson, Sir William Howard, who, dying shortly after, was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Charles Howard, who was the recipient of many royal favours. He seems to have played a somewhat promiment part in the restoration of Charles II., for which he was better rewarded than many other noble royalists who suffered heavily for their loyalty to the Crown. He was created in 1661 Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, and Baron Dacre of Gilsland, honours borne by his descendant, the present owner of Castle Howard. Whilst fixity and integrity of principle marked the conduct of Belted Will, tergiversation characterised the actions of his great grandson. He was a Commonwealth man whilst Cromwell was in the ascendant, and, as commissioner for the northern counties, was busily employed in securing and imprisoning all those who were not favourable to the Protector. In a letter to Cromwell he says: "Besides the greate tyes of conscience, honour, and gratitude, I have a particular one, which is love to your person, and thatt I can say with bouldness is soe harty, thatt noe man thatt serves you hath more." He held several important offices under government. He married Anne, daughter of Edward, Lord Howard of Escrick, and, dying in 1686, was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward, second earl, who died in 1692, leaving one son, Charles, who became third earl. This nobleman filled the high offices of first lord of the treasury, constable of the tower, and governor of Windsor Castle.
About this time the castle of Hinderskelfe was destroyed by fire, and he built on its site the magnificent pile since known as Castle Howard, which thenceforth became the principal residence of the family. He was one of the original members of the Kit-Kat Club, and is mentioned in Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors as "a poet of no mean ability." Henry, fourth earl, his eldest son, married for his second wife Isabella, daughter of William, Lord Byron, and great aunt of the poet. He died 1758, and was succeeded by his son, Frederick, fifth earl, who was distinguished for his literary abilities and aesthetic taste. He was the author of several dramas and a volume of poems, and was a contributor to the Anti-Jacobin Review. He was K.T., K.G., P.C., F.R.S., treasurer of the household, 1777; first. commissioner of trade and plantations, 1779; and lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1780-2. His lordship married the Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson Gower, daughter of Granville, first marquis of Stafford, and died in 1825. George, sixth earl, his eldest son, was K.G., P.C., F.R.S., and lord privy seal, 1827-8 and 1834. He married in 1801 Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish, eldest daughter of William, fifth duke of Devonshire, and died October 7th, 1848, the countess. Surviving him 10 years. He had issue six sons and six daughters.
George William Frederick, his eldest son, succeeded to the titles and estates. He was a K.T., K.G., P.C., an orator, a statesman, and a man of letters, and equally esteemed for his private virtues and amiability of character. He was, whilst Viscount Morpeth, twice returned to parliament for the whole of Yorkshire, and four times for the West Riding. In parliament he introduced and carried not less than 13 bills, including the Irish Tithes Bill, Irish Municipal Bill, and the Irish Poor Law Bill. He was chief secretary for Ireland, 1835-41; chief commissioner of Woods and Forests, 1846-50; chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1850-2; lord lieutenant of Ireland, 1855-8, and again 1859-64. He travelled in the East and in America, and published a narrative of his Eastern wanderings. He was also the author of several poetical works, and lectured on the poetry of Pope and Gray. He died in 1864, and statues and monuments have been erected to his memory in Dublin. He was never married, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving brother, the Hon. and Rev. William George Howard, rector of Londesborough. He died on the 29th of March, 1889, at the age of 81, but had never been able to fulfil the duties of his high position, in consequence of a mental affection which developed itself some years previous to the death of his illustrious brother. He was never married, and was succeeded in the title and estates by his nephew, George James Howard, Esq., the only son of the Hon. Charles Wentworth Howard, and Mary, second daughter of Lord Wensleydale. He married in 1864 Rosalind Frances, youngest daughter of the second Lord Stanley of Alderley, and has issue six sons and four daughters. It is a singular fact in connection with the earldom of Carlisle, that for seven generations, extending over a period of two centuries, the title and estates had descended in a direct line from father to son until the death of the seventh earl, in 1864, when the first break occurred. Speaking of the illustrious house of Howard, a writer in "Abbeys, Castles, and Ancient Halls of England" says, "If the house of Howard is not as ancient as many another English family of whom noble representatives are still extant, such has been its history, the blameless character of its great chiefs, and the splendid alliances it has contracted, that its influence has grown from generation to generation until it came to claim precedence over every other noble family of Britain, with the exception of the Royal Family."
Castle Howard, the principal residence of the Carlisle branch of the family,. is one of the most magnificent mansions in the kingdom, combining the most exquisite beauty of detail in all its parts, both within and without, with luxurious comfort and elegance. It occupies the site of the ancient castle of Hinderskelfe, which was accidentally destroyed by fire, and was erected between the years 1701 and 1781, from the designs of Sir John Vaubrugh, the architect of Blenheim House, which it closely resembles, The south front is the most imposing in appearance. It is 323 feet in length, and consists of a centre and two wings, of lower elevation. The centre presents a pediment and entablature, supported by fluted Corinthian pilasters, and is approached by a grand flight of steps. The north front consists of an elaborate centre of the Corinthian Order, surmounted by a cupola, and flanked on either side by extensive wings. Here occurs the only glaring architectural incongruity in the whole fabric. The west wing, of later date, was erected from a design of Sir James Robinson, and presents a marked contrast to the elegant style of the east wing.
From this front is the entrance to the Great Hall, a handsome finished apartment, 85 feet square and 60 feet high, and terminating in a cupola, which rests upon arches supported by Corinthian columns. The top of this dome is 100 feet from the hall floor, and on the interior is represented the Fall of Phaeton, painted by Antonio Pelegrini, and on the walls are allegorical paintings by the same artist. Round the hall, raised on pedestals, are statues and busts of Roman emperors and mythological characters. The Tapestry Room, 26 feet by 22, is hung with Brussels tapestry, after the designs of Teniers, and contains a very elegant chimney-piece, supported on Corinthian columns of Sienna marble. Here are busts, cabinets, and decorations, in precious stones and antique marbles. The Dining Room, 27 feet by 23, is superbly furnished with several valuable paintings, busts, and ornaments, in porphyry and Sicilian jasper. The Saloon, 34 feet by 24, contains several very fine pictures and sculptures, &c., and on the ceiling is painted a representation of Aurora, The Drawing Room, 27 feet by 23, is most elegantly furnished and decorated. Antique bronzes and slabs of alabaster and porphyry also add their charms.
The Museum contains a rich and varied collection of antiquities, antique marbles curiously inlaid, busts of Roman emperors and poets, sepulchral urns, and a cylindrical altar said to have stood in the Temple of Delphi. The Gallery, 160 feet by 20, is stored with valuable examples of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art.
The foregoing are the principal apartments usually shown to the public. Above these are numerous handsome rooms, gorgeously furnished, and elaborately decorated.
The collection of paintings is both large and costly, but our limited space permits only the mention of a few of the most noteworthy. First amongst them is Annibale Carraci's celebrated "Three Marys," one of the most admired pictures in the Manchester Exhibition of Art Treasures in 1857; the "Entombment of Christ," by Ludovico Carraci, both purchased from the Palace Royal, Paris, during the Revolution; "St. John the Evangelist," by Domenichino, the finest example of that artist in existence; the "Nativity," by Tintoretto, and a "Butcher's Dog and Three Cats," by Titian.
The grounds are an extensive and beautiful intermixture of garden, lawn, lake, and forest, adorned with groups of statuary, elegantly furnished summer houses bearing classic names, and memorial columns, commemorating events in the annals of the Howard family. The park, including the pleasure grounds, extends over 1,500 acres, and is richly wooded and stocked with deer. It contains several beautiful lakes, and is intersected by avenues shaded by lime trees. About half-a-mile eastward from the mansion is a beautiful summer-house built after the style of an Ionic temple, with four porticoes, and surmounted by an elegant dome. In niches over the doors are busts of Vespasian, Faustina, Trajan, and Sabina. The floor is disposed in compartments of antique marble of various colours. The exterior is adorned by statues representing Grace, Faith, Hope, and Charity. This is called the temple of Diana. In another part of the grounds is the temple of Venus. The dome which surmounts it is supported by eight circular pillars, with open spaces between them, and on a pedestal in the centre stands a statue of Venus. The mausoleum, incidentally mentioned on a former page, stands on a gentle eminence a little distance beyond the temple of Diana. It is a circular building about 30 feet in diameter, surrounded by a handsome Done colonnade of 21 pillars, and crowned by a dome, the highest point of which is 69 feet from the floor. The cornice supporting the dome rests on eight Corinthian columns. The basement contains 64 catacombs, built under groined arches. Over the vault is a circular chapel.
Opposite the entrance gates from Welburn stands a stately obelisk, 100 feet in height, and 25 feet square at the base, erected in 1714, bearing inscriptions commemorating the victories of John, duke of Marlborough, and the erection of Castle Howard, and the formation of the woods, pleasure grounds, &c., &c. Another monument deserving of notice is the Pyramid, about half-a-mile south of the mansion, erected to the memory of William Lord Howard, third son of the Duke of Norfolk, the "Belted Will" of Border history, and ancestor of the Castle Howard branch of the Howards.
At the south entrance to the park is the Guest House, formerly an inn, but now converted into a convalescent home for young women.
In August, 1850, Her Majesty Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, visited Castle Howard on their way to Balmoral, and spent two nights here. As a souvenir of their visit each of them planted a tree in Lady Mary Howard's garden.
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You max out your 401k have equity in your home, and keep an eye on your portfolio—so why do you still feel uneasy about the future?
Maybe because you’ve fallen into one of these three common retirement traps, says Gregory Salsbury, Ph.D., author of "Retirementology:Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy."
Read ‘em and plan your escape route, ASAP:
Trap #1: You’re a “present spender”
“Many people see retirement as something that happens to them later,” says Salsbury, and that can make you lose sight of the connection between what you spend now—and what you want then.
Instead, “you should weigh the future whenever you’re pondering a big purchase,” Salsbury says.
Say you need a new car and can afford to spend $30,000. Is that a retirement decision? Well, if you spend $20,000 on a pre-owned model instead, and you can bank the $10,000 difference, that’s a bump for the future.
You may still opt for the new car, but if you look at things in this light, you’ll feel more motivated to explore other options. “All money is retirement money,” says Salsbury.
Trap #2: You’re getting the wrong advice
An advisor who focuses only on how to grow your money may not pay attention to your emotions surrounding it—and feelings drive behavior. “The best advice in the world is worthless if you never take it,” says Salsbury.
Hunt for a financial planner you click with on an emotional and a financial level. You may not need a money shrink, exactly, but it’s essential to deal with someone who understands how comfortable you are with risk, whether you’d hesitate to make certain types of investments, or you’re prone to panic when the market hiccups. A little understanding on the part of your advisor can save you from making a very expensive mistake or oversight.
Trap #3: You’re overinvesting in your home
Remember when you counted on the equity in your home as part of your retirement plan? Millions did, but 2008 blew up that fantasy.
The recession knocked 54.4% off the net worth of households headed by people 35-44, according to a December 2012 report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Those 45-54 were dinged 39.1%.
Most of the loss in net worth came from plunging home values.
Bottom line: Your home is an investment—up to a point—but it’s unwise to overspend on renovations that aren’t going to add to its resale value. And it’s plain foolish to count on $X amount in equity, which could evaporate in another downturn.
Last, live a little. Yes, you could save every penny—and that would be great for your future. But it won’t do much for your social life this weekend.
How do you balance the need to maximize saving (see Trap #1) with maxing out quality of life?
Remember that a beach vacation or a kitchen reno you love can pay off in emotional equity, fueling your happiness now as you take steps toward your security later. Saving for retirement takes stamina—and optimism—so plan for that too.
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- By Carla Rohlfing Levy
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BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) -- China pledged Friday to make joint efforts with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to safeguard regional peace and stability after the 10-member bloc issued a six-point statement on the South China Sea.
"The Chinese side is willing to work together with the ASEAN members to implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) comprehensively and effectively," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in response to a question on the ASEAN statement.
In the statement issued earlier on Friday, the ASEAN members reaffirmed their commitment to the "peaceful resolution of disputes" in the South China Sea. Analysts said the six-point principles were reached to make up for the lack of a customary communique after a foreign ministers' meeting last week.
In an unprecedented development, the 45th Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the ASEAN was not wrapped up with the release of a communique showcasing common ground.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Qu Xing, head of the China Institute of International Studies, told Xinhua that it was Vietnam and the Philippines that should be blamed for the failure to pass a communique last week.
"The two countries attempted to turn the disputes between them and China into a problem between China and ASEAN as a whole," he said, "which was unacceptable for the other members of the bloc."
"The Chinese side has noticed the ASEAN's statement on the South China Sea (on Friday)," Hong said, adding that the core problem of the South China Sea was the disputes over the sovereignty of the Nansha islands and the demarcation of the islands' adjacent waters.
"China has sufficient historical and jurisprudential evidence for its sovereignty over the Nansha islands and the adjacent waters," he added.
However, Hong said China is open to consultations with the ASEAN on the conclusion of a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.
"(We) hope that all the parties will strictly abide by the DOC and create necessary conditions and atmosphere for the consultations," he said.
As a signatory to the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), China attaches importance to safeguarding the principles and mission of the Convention, said the spokesman.
Hong said UNCLOS is aimed to establish a legal order for the seas and oceans "with due regard for the sovereignty of all States," and it does neither serve as an international treaty to address disputes over territorial sovereignty between states nor as evidence used to judge over the disputes.
The countries concerned should address the disputes over the maritime demarcation in the South China Sea, after the land disputes have been resolved, in accordance with historical facts and all international laws including UNCLOS, he added.
"China attaches importance to its ties with the ASEAN," Hong said, adding the country is committed to promoting friendly neighborhood and reciprocal cooperation with the ASEAN to push ahead with the cooperation in East Asia with joint efforts.
The spokesman said China and ASEAN share common interests and responsibilities in keeping Asia's development and maintaining regional peace and stability against the backdrop of the ongoing international financial crisis.
"The two sides should continue to promote their strategic communication in pursuit of a reciprocal and win-win situation, with mutual respect and trust in mind as well as handle the relationship between the two sides from strategic and long-term perspective," he added.
China to deploy military garrison in South China Sea
GUANGZHOU, July 20 (Xinhua) -- China's central military authority has approved to form and deploy a military garrison in the newly established city of Sansha.
Sources with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Guangzhou Military Command said Friday that the Central Military Commission (CMC) had authorized it to form a garrison command in the city.Full story
ASEAN forum not proper platform to discuss South China Sea issue
BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- As the foreign ministers of the 27 participating parties of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meet in Phnom Penh on Thursday, many eye the talks as a platform to ease the tension over the South China Sea, which has flared up in recent months.
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Learn About the Academic Program
On behalf of the Office of Academic Advising, welcome to Agnes Scott! As an accepted student, you may have many questions about academic policies here. Whether you are wondering about degree requirements, selecting courses, choosing a major or what the academic load will be like, this portion of the website can help. When you arrive on campus for Orientation you will meet with your assigned faculty adviser for individualized assistance. In addition, the Office of Academic Advising trains peer advisers who will be available during Orientation to help in small group settings.
I hope you find this information helpful, and I’m happy to answer additional questions you may have. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.org.
—Jennifer Cannady, Assistant Dean of the College and Director of Academic Advising
What is the role of my academic adviser?
Who do you hope to become while at Agnes Scott? What is important to you? What are your strengths and passions? What are your responsibilities to yourself and others? Your academic adviser will prompt you to explore these questions and thus encourage the habits of critical reflection that will enrich your life well beyond your time at Agnes Scott.
Your academic adviser will assist in designing your academic program, providing informed guidance about course selection, academic requirements and special curricular opportunities such as study abroad and internships. Advisers also will provide guidance should you have academic difficulty, helping track your progress toward graduation and referring you to additional sources of support when needed.
What are my responsibilities as an advisee?
While academic advisers assist students in the design of their academic program, you are ultimately responsible for your academic development.
You should familiarize yourself with the college’s academic policies and procedures, degree requirements, academic calendar and important deadlines as outlined in the Agnes Scott College Catalog, the Student Handbook and other official communications. Also you are expected to prepare carefully for meetings with your academic adviser, to draft a plan of study and to take advantage of the many resources available to you as an Agnes Scott student.
The lifelong endeavor of becoming an educated person requires that you challenge yourself, recognize your strengths and weaknesses, identify your passions and clarify your values and beliefs—all in the context of your curricular and extracurricular experiences at the college. Academic advisers are here to assist you in this process.
Who will be my adviser?
Your adviser will be a member of the Agnes Scott faculty assigned to you before your arrival. The college’s liberal arts curriculum is designed to encourage wide exploration during students’ first two years, and all faculty advisers are well qualified to assist you with this process.
Upon declaration of your major (by the end of your sophomore year), you will be assigned a new faculty adviser from the department in which you are majoring. This adviser will use her or his specialized knowledge to guide you through your final two years at the college.
In addition, there are pre-health, pre-engineering, and pre-law advisers available to assist you.
When will I meet my adviser?
You will meet your adviser during new student Orientation. During this meeting your adviser will assist you in planning your academic program.
What should I do to prepare for the academic portion of Orientation?
Complete the Enrolled Student Form. During the summer, staff in the Office of Academic Advising will use the information on this form to register you for three fall courses. Before completing the form you should read carefully the information about Course Registration as it details the general education requirements and other tips on course scheduling.
You should also familiarize yourself with AscAgnes to see what courses we are offering in the coming academic year. You can search for courses by semester, by academic department, level of instruction or time of day. You do not need to log-in to view the schedule of classes but once you do receive your log-in information by mail, you should log-in to view your account.
I’m worried about the academic challenge of Agnes Scott courses. Is any support available?
Yes! Many students experience challenges with the transition from high school to college. To assist you in this transition, The Office of Academic Advising conducts a number of free information sessions during community hour (a time during the class day when no academic courses are scheduled). Examples of topics covered are effective note-taking, test-taking tips and time management. One-on-one appointments to work on study skills with a member of the academic advising staff may be scheduled.
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Re: Atemi waza: good or bad for Aikido?
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By Joyce Tung and Amy Kiefer
It’s been an exciting seven months since we launched 23andWe, the arm of 23andMe that gives people an unprecedented opportunity to collaborate with us on cutting-edge genetic research. Since May, the amount of data we’ve collected has grown at a fast and furious pace. For those of us who are used to the difficult and painfully slow accumulation of data in academic research projects, this information explosion has been nothing short of amazing.
From our first baby steps with “Ten Things About You” in May, to our three latest surveys — “Health Habits,” “Where Are You From?” and “What Do You Do?” — 23andWe has undergone some serious evolution. Almost every month, we have published more surveys and developed more features to help make the survey-taking experience simpler, more interesting, and more rewarding. We want to make it easy for our customers to provide truthful, good quality data, as that is the first and most important step towards doing high quality research. A big thank you to all our survey takers—we pledge to constantly work on improving this feature so we can keep you coming back for more.
We’re starting to look at genetic associations with the traits we ask about in our surveys, and we expect to have some exciting ones to report soon. But we’ve already learned some interesting things just by looking at the survey responses themselves. For example, while a few sources suggest that a higher percentage of men are left-handed than women, our data so far suggest that once you control for age this is not the case. It seems like our society is becoming more accepting of us female lefties! We’ve also seen that handedness does indeed significantly correlate with footedness. That is, left-handers are more likely to be left-footed, and right-handers are more likely to be right-footed. Similarly, handedness significantly correlates with ocular dominance, as left-handers are more likely to be left-eye dominant, and right-handers are more likely to be right-eye dominant.
And proving mom right once and for all, we’ve found that a sweet tooth does lead to more cavities. After controlling for sex and age, you’re more likely to report having many cavities (as opposed to few or none) if you reach for either something sweet or something sweet and salty when it’s time for a snack.
How is this kind of information going to usher in the era of personalized medicine? Handedness may seem like a relatively trivial trait, but it is correlated with risk for learning disability, schizophrenia, exceptional mathematical talent and other relevant traits. Understanding the biological underpinnings of what makes us choose one hand over the other for all our most delicate tasks may help us better understand the basis for these other complex traits.
As 23andWe matures we plan to start focusing more directly on health-related traits. Look for surveys in the very near future that ask about various medical conditions whose genetics is not yet understood. By combining the information customers provide in their survey responses with data from our custom chip, we can look throughout the genome for DNA variations linked to many different traits. This method can help us find genes that no one thought would be involved with a particular condition. For example, genome-wide studies on age-related macular degeneration (a leading cause of blindness) recently surprised researchers by identifying associations with genes that make components of the innate immune system. This gave scientists a whole new pathway in which to search for treatments.
We can’t guarantee that we’ll find something useful or interesting with every analysis that we do; science is a game you have to play a lot of times in order to win. But we can guarantee that we will strive to do the best research and that we will share our findings with the scientific community. By contributing to the body of knowledge on human genetics, we believe we can help bring the dream of personalized medicine a few steps closer to reality.
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Limón Dance Company
'Evensong,' 'Chaconne,' 'Angelitos Negros,' 'Phantasy Quintet,' 'Psalm'
No Finer Example
Pictured: 'Phantasy Quintet'
by Cecly Placenti
September 23, 2004 -- Joyce Theatre, New York City
Dance is about emotions, ideas, and the expression of the human condition. Watching the Limón Company at the Joyce Theatre, there was no finer example of the success of that which makes modern dance great. Fifty-eight years after its inception, the Limón Company continues to be a powerful force in the dance community, surviving changing movement fashions and economies. It is the company’s emphasis on dramatic expression, nuanced and expansive movement, and the human soul that makes this possible. The Limón Company’s commitment to producing and presenting programs that balance the classics of its founders with commissions from contemporary choreographers has yielded a repertory of fantastic breadth and is a sure recipe for continued success.
The program offered three classic Limón masterpieces, one company premiere, and two pieces by contemporary masters. The evening opened with “Evensong” by Jiri Kylian to music by Antonin Dvorak. The formal spatial architecture of the piece, the flowing white dresses, and the use of pedestrian movements rather than dance technique to show emotion, combined to give the piece a stunning simplicity evoking an evening mass. The Limón technique is based on the principle of breath, on its fall and recovery, and on the weight of the body in motion. Watching the dancers in this opening piece, I could feel the breath in their movements; feel the weight of it in my own body.
The second piece, Limón’s “Chaconne” choreographed in 1942 to music by J.S. Bach, featured Jonathan Riedel and violinist Robin Zeh. Riedel was musically masterful, able to suspend and fulfill each and every beseeching note and space between notes. His body was a crisp partner to the music, weighted yet uplifted and airy, emotional and dramatically punctuated, like the instrument he danced to. The Chaconne as a dance form originated in what is now Mexico as a robust, raucous dance. Bach employed the strict musical form but enriched it with powerful emotional implications. Limón, in his turn, attempted to capture both the formal austerity and profound feeling of the music. With Riedel costumed in black against a back light of blue, and the clean crisp steps of the dance, I think the piece achieved its success. During one sustained pitch arabesque turn, Riedel held that intense position as long as Zeh held the note, and the lack of apparent separation between music and man was an intensely powerful moment that tugged at the heart of the audience. The beauty of Limón’s work manifested in this company’s superb technicians, is that the audience sees no external effort. It is like we see the body’s internal workings only, its breath and release.
Roxane D’Orleans “Juste” brought her chilling intensity and stunning artistry to the company premiere of Donald McKayle’s “Angelitos Negros.” It is a deeply passionate solo to music by Manuel Alvarez Maciste whose lyrics ask ”Painter, why are there no black angels in the Sistine Chapel? Won’t they go to heaven too?” Juste offered a mixture of power in her precise staccato movements, restraint in her fluidity then sudden syncopation, and passion in her sharp lines and soft recovery. She was a woman who will be heard, who will cry above her circumstances no matter what.
Former company member Adam Houghland beautifully illustrated the way in which the Humphrey/Limón technique can be used today in “Phantasy Quintet.” Once again the dancers were the music, every part of their supple bodies seamlessly accentuated and made visible the musical notes of Ralph Vaughn Williams. Jose Limón once talked about the body being like an orchestra and the counter-energies of the body becoming an organic whole. In this piece, the movement felt endless, like a conversation. The sentences were never run-on, but precisely punctuated and fluid. It was organic and exuberant, a celebration of moving the body in space. It was a lovely new take on Limón’s timeless vision.
Ending this stellar evening was Limón’s classic “Psalm.” According to ancient Jewish tradition, all the sorrows of the world rest within thirty-six Just Men, called the Lamed-Vov. These men are ordinary mortals who are often unaware of their station. It is believed that if even one of them were missing, the suffering of the world would poison the souls of all, and mankind would perish. Through abstract movement we focus on the realization of one Just Man, danced by Robert Regala. We see that one individuals holding of grief is crucial to everyone’s preservation. Dancing with and against a superbly unified ensemble, a stunning Regala sometimes molded seamlessly with the group, encircled by a protective chorus of dancers, and other times was singled out in sharply contrasted pain. The illustration of the theme in this piece came in the form of repetition, uniformity, and contrast to that uniformity. The ensemble moved with breathtaking exactitude -- even the leg height of their extensions were the same. The use of the stage space and the overall sense of dance architecture was a stunning achievement.
What is most striking about this company is that although one senses the authoritative technique of the dancers, the emphasis is always on the soul. It is lyrical, haunting, passionately dramatic, and deeply human. The company offers the grace of ballet and the emotion and dramatic drive of narrative, weaving in the daring of modern dance. What goes up must come down, what contracts must release, what suspends must also ground, and this company exemplifies these physical concepts superbly and uses them to enlighten a viewpoint and evoke emotion. The Limón Company is a shining example of the best that modern dance is and should always be.
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When it's your job to serve as the president's in-house expert on science and technology, being constantly in the media spotlight isn't necessarily a mark of distinction. But for President Bush's stoically inclined science adviser John Marburger, immense controversy followed his blanket dismissal last year of allegations (now endorsed by 48 Nobel laureates) that the administration has systematically abused science. So it was more than a little refreshing last Wednesday to hear Marburger take a strong stance against science politicization and abuse on one issue where it really matters: evolution.
Speaking at the annual conference of the National Association of Science Writers, Marburger fielded an audience question about "Intelligent Design" (ID), the latest supposedly scientific alternative to Charles Darwin's theory of descent with modification. The White House's chief scientist stated point blank, "Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory." And that's not all -- as if to ram the point home, Marburger soon continued, "I don't regard Intelligent Design as a scientific topic."
Marburger's words mark a departure for this administration. While campaigning for the presidency in 1999, then-Governor Bush stroked his religiously conservative followers by defending the teaching of creationism alongside evolution and stating, "I believe children ought to be exposed to different theories about how the world started." And in response to a question from Science magazine during the 2004 race, Bush's campaign ducked the ID issue by stating, "The federal government has no control over local curricula, and it is not the federal government's role to tell states and local boards of education what they should teach in the classroom."
In comparison with these statements, Marburger minced no words about the scientific status of ID. In fact, GOP Intelligent Design boosters like Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania (where a court case over ID is now pending) may be extremely miffed by Marburger's stance.
Alas, Marburger's forthrightness about ID wasn't matched by his discussion (or lack thereof) of charges that the Bush administration has systematically abused and distorted scientific information.
At the National Association of Science Writers session, Marburger shared the stage with Representative Henry Waxman, a Democrat who has relentlessly pursued and publicized allegations that the administration has interfered with the process by which scientific advice makes its way to policy-makers. Speaking prior to Marburger, Waxman slammed the Bush administration for abuses ranging from the stacking of scientific advisory panels to monkeying with research on mercury pollution. The congressman also charged that Marburger's previously published rebuttal to charges of science abuse -- delivered in response to a statement and report on the subject last year by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) -- amounted to "asserted denials with little supporting evidence."
When Marburger took the stage he ignored Waxman's stark criticisms entirely, as if they somehow didn't merit addressing. Instead, the president's science adviser delivered a delightful speech about "four challenges" for science journalism. The disconnect was stunning, and generally continued throughout the question and answer session, during which Marburger dodged Waxman repeatedly.
In truth, Marburger's elusiveness may reflect considerable wisdom. Considering that new tales of Bush administration science abuse seem to pop up regularly, this probably isn't a debate he can win.
Just last week, in fact, some of the most stunning evidence yet emerged concerning the Bush administration's treatment of science and government scientists, courtesy of the UCS and the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the center of the controversy was the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), a branch of the Interior Department charged with enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.
Determining how and whether to protect species necessarily depends on using scientific analyses to find out if they're in peril and what's causing the problem. And as now seems clear, the Bush FWS has repeatedly sought to doctor the data in order to prevent tougher endangered-species protections that rankle various industry constituencies -- development, ranching, mining, logging, and so on.
The UCS and PEER sent surveys about science politicization to more than a thousand FWS scientists, and received some 400 back. Almost half of the respondents reported that they had been "directed, for non-scientific reasons, to refrain from making [findings] that are protective of species." One out of five added that they had been "directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from a USFWS scientific document." Half said they were aware of cases in which "commercial interests have inappropriately induced the reversal or withdrawal of scientific conclusions or decisions through political intervention." And so on.
This is damning stuff, and reflects a clear sense among many government scientists that politics has corrupted the science-based endangered-species-protection process. Granted, it's possible that every single one of these Fish and Wildlife Service survey respondents has an ax to grind. But it isn't very likely.
Marburger wasn't asked about these survey results last week. But given his consistency in defending the White House in the past, one suspects he would echo arguments already offered by the Interior Department -- the agencies weren't acting inappropriately, it's OK for superiors to review the scientific conclusions of scientists working under them, this happens all the time, etc. Yawn.
Thank goodness that on evolution, at least, Marburger strays from the pack.
Chris Mooney is a Prospect senior correspondent whose TAP Online column appears each week. His book on the politicization of science will be published later this year by Basic Books. His daily blog and other writings can be found at www.chriscmooney.com.
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Lean manufacturing is full of surprises. The shops I visited recently could attest to this—not just the shops in our August issue, but also the ones newly captured in video. For all of them, lean manufacturing delivered benefits and change beyond what they expected. This positive surprise is one further aspect of lean that deserves to be highlighted.
In a way, lean shouldn’t be so surprising. Lean entails a disciplined and even relentless focus on eliminating sources of waste. Lean is serious.
Yet, it’s also transformative—and those who experience a shop before and after lean get to see seemingly unchangeable aspects of the process, including some people, perform in strikingly different ways.
Start with the “clean.” Clutter is where waste hides, so a lean shop is a clean shop practically by definition. As various messes and stockpiles disappear, it can be amazing to discover just how clean it was always possible for the shop to be.
Similarly, other surprising changes are so basic that they can only be fully appreciated after they have occurred. Those changes might include any of the following:
1. Work now proceeds without meetings. “Meetings” and “manufacturing” seem to go together, given how often many shops huddle to get basic questions answered. By contrast, a lean process aims to get the right information to the right people as a matter of routine. Once this starts to happen, meetings of all sorts become dramatically less necessary and frequent.
2. Inspection isn’t a stick. The title of an article this month is, “If You Want to Improve Something, Measure It.” That becomes the motto for measurement in lean. Because the lean process is stripped of variables leading to error, measurement is no longer a pass/fail yardstick. Instead, measurement is valued for the upward pressure on quality that results whenever any indicator of performance is measured and tracked.
3. Failure is no cause for fear. When change is occasional, failure is remembered for a long time. However, when improvement is continuous, failure is just a means to progress. The lessons are soon incorporated into subsequent success.
4. Resisters become advocates. Some employees resist lean, but not necessarily because of lean itself. They resist because they have grown accustomed, rightly or wrongly, to being swept along in changes they have no power to affect. However, when these same employees are tasked with participating in 5S teams, they often find an outlet for insight and creativity that the employee or the shop never brought into play previously.
5. Productivity is actually easy. Another reason for resisting lean is the fear that employees will have more to do. It’s a valid fear; the output of a lean process is likely to increase. However, the input decreases at the same time. As a result, employees at work in a lean environment often discover just how much more satisfying and rewarding their effort can be once they are part of a process that fully values their time.
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We used old 9 x 13 cake pans. Other people on family crafts at about.com used foil pans, pizza boxes, flower pot bottoms, the possibilities are endless. We used garden finds to decorate our stones, but you can decorate with glass stones, beads, paint, hand prints, whatever you would like.
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A small red light blinked, and then darkness. Again it blinked, and again darkness. A circuit fired and another light blinked into life. Each circuit fired another circuit. A red light blinked and another red light joined in the duet, the rhythmic pulsing of two red fireflies. A third light joined in the cacophony of a trio. Then it became a quartet, quintet, ensemble, chamber group, and finally a symphony of lights blinking, each firing a hundred more circuits until, eventually, the sleeping machine came to life. It had been awakened by a signal, a wake-up call programmed into its soul long ago. It had been patient, century after century it had slept, waiting to be called upon. Now it could deliver what it was charged to deliver, its sole purpose for being. It had been summoned to return. It doggedly brought each system online, testing each system that had been unused for millennia. Restoring and repairing each with the subroutines placed in its heart for its return. This would take time, but it had been patient. Soon though, its tasks would be complete and it could begin the final journey.
A journey its creators had prepared it for so many eons ago. One of over 100 ships sent out into the galaxy, looking for a new home for the race of Pnomos, their world long since dead, blasted by the remains of their exploding sun. Each ship carried thousands of members of the race of Pnomos. The ship’s design provided for their hibernation, while the sensors of the computer searched for solar systems with an inhabitable planet. Those ships that located such planets would orbit the planets and look for intelligent life. If intelligence was not located, the ship would move on, not awakening its crew. It was a long and arduous task, but it did give their race the chance for survival. Even if only one succeeded, they all would then succeed, for the legacy of the race of Pnomos was to live, expanding its love of art, music, and literature.
The legacy of the Pnomos would be alive again, somewhere in the universe. One day its history would continue to grow. Humanity would again sing, paint, dance, and write, for that truly is the legacy of Pnomos. Until then, this vessel’s travelers would sleep a dreamless sleep, while their ship searched the galaxy for a new home.
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Unsure what sort of emergency we have here but there seems to have been a huge mud slide in the backyard of this residence.
911 dispatcher relaying Chris Copeland’s report to emergency responders the night of the ash spill
TVA sludge spill
Key documents and links
- The Tennessee Valley Authority's Inspector General's report on the causes of the Kingston fly ash spill.
- Inspector General Richard W. Moore's statement to the House subcommittee
- A complete list of documents and media related to the TVA sludge spill
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KINGSTON - It was the Sunday night before Christmas, and in the Copeland house on Swan Pond Circle a garland of white lights girded the artificial tree, their luminosity gilding the gaily wrapped presents on the floor.
The Copelands - Chris, a 45-year-old firefighter at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; his wife, DeAnna; and their two daughters - went to bed early. Chris and DeAnna turned on the sound machine in their bedroom, playing white noise so they could drift off to sleep. By about 10 p.m., they all were deep in slumber.
Sometime after midnight, a rumbling sound not unlike the roar of a locomotive rose above the white noise, startling Chris from his dreams. At first, he thought it was only wind. He sat up on the edge of the bed and looked out the window.
Trees are moving up the cove. TREES are moving up the cove.
He shook the cobwebs from his head and looked again. Sure enough, the cove behind his house - one built by his family four decades ago - seemed to come alive with tree trunks riding dark waves larger than any he'd ever seen in this impounded tributary of the Emory River. He could hear the trees snapping one after another like the reports of an automatic rifle.
Though he didn't know it at the time, it was the sound of his life changing forever.
Beside him, DeAnna Copeland stirred.
"I'm going to get my clothes on and go out," he told her.
Chris pulled on a pair of fleece trousers, a coat and boots. He went downstairs, past the Christmas tree with lights now dark because the power was out, and walked outside into the cold night air. His breath appeared as small, cotton-like puffs. He could see little else in the darkness. The only lights he could see were the flashing lights on the 1,000-foot smokestacks of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant across the cove.
He climbed into his white Suzuki Sidekick and drove into the back yard, the headlights carving through the darkness. He glimpsed huge landforms that hadn't been there when he went to bed. Tree trunks. Splintered pieces of his dock. Orphaned columns blown from the front porch of a neighbor's house.
Landslide, Chris thought. He whipped out his cell phone and called the Roane County 911 Center.
But a landslide couldn't explain it all. Did Melton Hill Dam fail?
And then it dawned on him: The dikes at the steam plant collapsed.
With the exception of his college days and a few years thereafter, Chris had lived in the house since he was 3 years old. He had never given the dikes or the coal ash they held much thought. He'd watched the sculpted mound of ash build up over the years. He never dreamed it could collapse, even though he'd noticed TVA repairing breaches from time to time.
Chris called the 911 Center again. And then he noticed a house belonging to one of his neighbors had been knocked across the street.
Beginning at 12:40 a.m., emergency radios crackled all across Roane County.
"Unsure what sort of emergency we have here but there seems to have been a huge mud slide in the backyard of this residence," a female dispatcher said, relaying Copeland's report. "Caller's advising that usually he can see water back there; he sees nothing but dirt and debris and there is a house involved in this slide somewhere and some people inside this house."
A few moments later, she broadcast again.
"All units responding to Swan Pond Circle, Swan Pond Circle, Kingston P.D. officer advises the dikes have fallen, the dikes have fallen and covered the railroad track on Swan Pond. And the roadway's also covered."
Moments after the first 911 call came in, pagers went off in two houses in separate parts of the county. One awakened Howie Rose, Roane County's emergency management director, at his home in the rural countryside south of Kingston; The other stirred his top lieutenant, Scott Stout, who lives in Rockwood. Both men threw on some clothes, jumped in their vehicles and sped to the plant.
The ash impoundment had risen over the years to a height of roughly 100 feet above river level. A couple of times in recent years the walls along the road blew out, dumping small amounts of sludge onto the roadway. Yet most residents took it as a feature of the landscape, a man-made bank that, along with the point of Pine Ridge, formed a bracket along a stretch of Swan Pond Road just past the entrance to the power plant.
The impoundment began as a dike, known as Dike C, built in 1958 along the channel of Swan Pond Creek. The dike held back about 5 feet of water and kept ash sluiced from what was once the world's largest power plant from going into the creek and eventually Watts BarLake. Over the years, the ash pile grew, and TVA enclosed the area with other dikes.
What area residents didn't know is that engineers had questioned the strength of the dikes for years. Dike C, one engineer wrote in the 1970s, wasn't built to support the structure that grew like a boil behind it. The walls rose anyway, the sludge inside piling ever higher. TVA built more dikes surrounding the dredge cells, each one set back a little further from the other with the bases set atop the sludge below.
The sludge itself was mostly coal ash from the plant, containing heavy metals like arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium. The gray, mud-like substance remained out of sight behind the walls.
The walls themselves were sculpted, planted with grass and seemingly sturdy. Residents drove past them on their way to U.S. Highway 70. Blue herons and Canada geese were common visitors. Youngsters played ball on fields built in the shadow of the impoundment.
The Swan Pond community grew over the years, too. Located between Kingston and Harriman, it's made up of old farmhouses, a trailer park, country churches, working cattle farms and a few nice, but not opulent, waterfront homes. Some families, like the Copelands, have lived there for generations. Others hoped to savor the joys of retirement along Watts Bar Lake after a lifetime of labor elsewhere.
Few, if any, considered the ash impoundment a hazard.
As they slept that night, the pressure from the stacked sludge silently reached a critical point. The walls gave way, unleashing a deluge.
At 621 Swan Pond Circle Road, less than a mile away, James T. Settles' dog barked. Settles was the foreman of the plant's dredge cell operations. The night was cold and windy, and Settles wondered why his dog was braving the elements at all.
The phone rang around 1 a.m.
On the other end of the line was a TVA employee named Kevin Abner, who told Settles he'd heard on the police scanner that ash was blocking Swan Pond Road. Before Settles could dress, Abner called back to say scanner traffic indicated a house was off its foundation.
Settles told his wife he wouldn't get any sleep that night. It seemed the seeps that had plagued the pond in 2003 and 2006 had recurred.
He drove toward the plant and saw the two-story house that appeared in the darkness to be in the middle of the road. A police car blocked the way. Two others came up behind him. Settles backed into a driveway, turned around and went the long way around to the plant.
When Settles arrived at the plant entrance, which is adjacent to the dredge cells, he came upon a Roane County sheriff's deputy. After telling the deputy he was a plant employee, Settles drove up onto the walls of the pond to the No. 1 cell drain area. The wind blew and the earth seemed to shake.
He drove his truck around the southern perimeter to the point where the No. 2 dredge cell had been. Even in the darkness he could see Dike C was gone. When he got back in his truck he noticed the bottle of water in his cupholder was shaking.
I think we are having an earthquake.
The time was about 1:30 a.m. He called all his managers and went back to his office at the power plant. There he met Abner and Abner's wife and waited for others to arrive.
Stout arrived at the intersection of Swan Pond Road and Swan Pond Circle, where a police officer blocked the road. It was 1:06 a.m., 26 minutes after the first call, and in the beams of his headlights he could see nothing but an uneven expanse of gray.
It looks like a moonscape.
He thought he was responding to a landslide, but there was something incongruous about the destruction.
The trees. How can the trees be lying uphill?
Rose showed up on the other side of the spill, at the plant entrance, where Roane County Sheriff's Deputy John Mays had arrived minutes earlier. Rose called for the highway department to come clear the road. He'd heard that at least one house had been carried across a road, so he called for the Oak Ridge Fire Department's structural collapse team to be put on stand-by. A TVA police officer showed up.
"Do y'all have a handle on what's going on?" Rose asked.
"We don't know," the officer said.
Rose left and drove the long way around through Harriman's Emory Heights neighborhood to rendezvous with Stout.
Abandoning his Sidekick, Copeland made his way through the sludge to where the wave had deposited James Schean's house.
A crust of ice had glazed the sludge, which was thigh-deep in places. Schean was at a window. Copeland asked if anyone else in the family was inside.
"Are there any cars in the driveway?" Schean asked.
Copeland looked toward the sludge where the foundation of the house had been. "You don't have a driveway anymore," he said.
Stout, now dressed in firefighter gear, showed up, along with other emergency workers. Schean climbed out the window and, after determining he was the only one at home, left with Copeland to go to a friend's house.
Rose and Stout and other rescuers went door-to-door through the neighborhood. Power lines were down. Water and gas lines had burst. A fountain of sewage sprang from a ruptured sewer.
Janice James' house was surrounded by sludge that reached nearly to the roof of her front porch. She climbed out a window onto the porch roof, where firefighters from the Midtown Volunteer Fire Department rescued her.
Darlene Berkshire and her mother were awakened by a persistent knock at their door about 1:30 a.m. They went to the front of the house - like many in the neighborhood built by Darlene's father and sitting on a road that bears the family name - and peered out at a strange man on the stoop. They asked who he was and demanded identification.
"You have to open the door," he said.
"No," Darlene Berkshire responded.
"The dike broke."
Berkshire didn't open the door. Across the street, a neighbor came outside with a shotgun. Then Berkshire's brother called and told her the power plant's ash impoundment had failed and they would have to leave. A bus would come for them.
Berkshire and her mother, Anna, packed suitcases and winter coats. With the power out, the temperature inside plummeted. The Berkshires went down to the basement and built a fire. They huddled close to the flames.
From time to time, Darlene Berkshire went upstairs to look for the bus. It never came.
It wasn't long before rescuers had accounted for every area resident. No one had been killed, and there were no injuries. Rose and Stout drove to Kingston, where their command post was. Then they went to the plant to meet with TVA officials. With the residents safe, there wasn't much anyone could do about the spill until daybreak.
A phone call from TVA Police roused Tom Kilgore, the utility's CEO, from his slumbers in his Knoxville home at about 1:30 a.m. A dam had failed in Kingston, he was told, and houses had been flooded.
There's not a dam out there.
Whatever was going on, it was big enough that the head of the nation's largest federal utility needed to be on the scene. He pulled on long underwear, climbed into heavy winter clothing and, because he didn't know what he would encounter, asked his wife to put some food in the car.
"What kind of food?" she asked.
"Anything we can put in the car."
She gave him a box of cheese crackers, a half-dozen cans of soup and a case of vitamin water.
During the 30-minute drive down a nearly deserted Interstate 40, Kilgore wondered what in the world could have happened at the plant. He met with a couple of TVA employees at the site and drove around the ash pond. He'd been there before, and had driven on top of the dikes that held back the walls. They couldn't see much, though the headlights illuminated great gaps in the dikes. They went back to the main plant building and set up shop in a conference center.
Kilgore called Preston Swafford, who ran TVA's coal-powered plants and was manning the utility's emergency command post in Chattanooga. He called for heavy equipment - bulldozers and scrapers - from across the TVA system. And he called for a helicopter so he could get a bird's eye view of the disaster in the morning.
About 4 a.m., Rose came to the tension-filled conference room.
"Everybody is accounted for and nobody required hospitalization," he said.
About 6:30 a.m., a train hauling coal to the plant chugged down the spur line. It only traveled about 10 mph, and the engineer managed to stop as the lead locomotive entered the ash. It would be the last close call of the day.
After what seemed an eternity, the skies finally lightened up enough to see, Rose got into TVA's helicopter with Roane County Executive Mike Farmer. The copter took off, and only as it climbed above the plant did the scope of the spill hit.
Roughly 5.4 million cubic yards of sludge fouled the Emory River. Swan Pond Creek was completely underneath a thick layer of ash. Rose was stunned.
When they landed, Rose got out of the helicopter and made his way to waiting TVA officials. Shaking his head, he told Kilgore, "There's a lot of material out there."
Kilgore went up next. Below, he saw the ruined dikes of the impoundment, the blotch of dark gray ash spreading north of the plant and the damaged houses.
It looks like a moonscape ... jagged and barren.
The helicopter returned him to the plant, where the first pieces of heavy machinery had arrived.
Also at daybreak, Darlene Berkshire went upstairs to the kitchen. Through the bay window she could see little more than a broad gray plain punctuated by 30-foot-tall mounds embedded with broken trees.
It looks like a war zone.
Copeland had returned to his house in the middle of the night. He and DeAnna lit candles. Chris dragged a turkey deep-fryer into the house and lit it to ward off the chill. DeAnna climbed in bed with the girls, but Chris couldn't sleep. He grabbed a flashlight, walked past the Christmas tree with its useless lights and went outside. Like Berkshire, he could scarcely believe what he saw.
Everywhere he walked, a pungent, musky smell followed him.
He stayed out till dawn, surveying from ground level what Rose and Kilgore observed from the sky. His family home had been spared, but the life he'd forged with his wife and children had disappeared under a thick layer of gray sludge.
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In 1911-12, for only the second time in the club’s history, Southport Central reached the first round proper of the F.A Cup. Home victories over Padiham, Rossendale United and Colne and a 1-0 win at Heywood(after a 1-1 draw at Ash Lane) had already brought Frome Town to Southport. The secretary of the Frome club caused some amusement by writing to Edwin Clayton to ask if accommodation could be obtained in the village! A crowd which numbered 3566 responded by shouting “Play up Villagers!” and Southport duly obliged by winning 4-1.
Reading, members of the Southern League, provided the opposition in the firs round proper. This time Southport turned down an offered £125 guarantee to take the game to Berkshire. For the cup-ties the ground admission had to be raised according to F.A rules from 4d. to 6d. and the stand charges were increased from 6d. to a shilling. Although the Southport players refrained from their ordinary work during the week preceding the cup-tie and went into extra training, their efforts were unrewarded. With the scoresheet blank after half an hour’s play Eddie Mosscrop shot straight at the Reading goalkeeper from the penalty spot: the chance had gone and Southport were beaten by two clear goals before a crowd of between 5 and 6000 who paid £174 13s 1d.
There were those in the crowd who never forgave Mosscrop for that miss.
The following season he was not invited along for pre-season trials by the club and was persuaded instead by his old Blowick Wesleyan colleague Billy Watson to attend Burnley’s trial matches where he shone and was duly signed up. He was subsequently twice capped by England in 1914 and in later life was Headmaster of Birkdale Council School in Bury Road for a number of years.
Another Southport product to make his mark around this time was centre-half Teddy Lightfoot, who had joined Tottenham Hotspur the previous summer. During the Edwardian period Southport was widely considered to be a footballing nursery for larger clubs. Besides the aforementioned Eddie Holdsworth and Billy Watson other local successes in League football were half-backs Lol Abram, not long transferred from Stockport County to Hearts, and Jimmy Fay at Oldham Athletic, who was originally with Southport Working Lads Club.
On December 16th, 1911 Southport Central suffered a record League defeat when Burnley Reserves thrashed them 12-3. Jack Flynn, son of the Birkdale stationmaster was the unfortunate goalkeeper on the day.
With the following season in mind, Central paraded four new signings on Good Friday 1912, one of whom, outside-left Billy Semple, had just been secured from Haslingden. Few would have predicted the monumental significance of this signing at the time. Later the same month Torn Dorward was signed from Arbroath Dorward himself gave splendid service to the club, as indeed did right-half Harry Schofield, signed some time earlier after excelling for Walkden in an F.A. Cup-tie against Southport. | <urn:uuid:f1a598bb-bb41-4103-af11-1309aa2acabc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.southportfootballclub.co.uk/home/summary.php?season=106 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979717 | 653 | 1.5 | 2 |
Marion Nestle's hefty new book, What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating (North Point, $30), is on one level the successor to The Supermarket Epicure, Joanna Pruess's 1988 book about managing to eat well with foods bought at places like Safeway. This was tricky enough 20 years ago, and as Nestle demonstrates, it has become more so.
In the past two decades, food companies have become even bigger and their marketing tactics even more sophisticated, which means, more or less, that when you step into a supermarket today, you are like a lab rat entering a maze in some elaborate experiment. You must have your wits about you if you hope to negotiate the maze to your advantage, and while Nestle's book isn't exactly a pocket-size guide, it can profitably be examined beforehand, so when you finally do set off to do the food shopping, you will have a pretty good idea of what you can expect to find — in particular, how the marketing machine will attempt to manipulate you, and why.
In the largest sense, of course, the why isn't difficult, for it is the job of food companies and supermarkets to sell you as much or as many of their most lucrative products as they can, and their most lucrative products are likely to be full of inexpensive, highly processed ingredients (i.e., corn syrup), bundled up in gaudy packaging, and not especially good for you — surprise!
There isn't much revelation in How to Eat, but Nestle is an attractively peppery writer, and she brings a good deal of lore — about nutrition, marketing, agriculture, politics — to her scrutiny of a routine chore too many of us think too little about. She repeatedly makes a point, too, that's worth repeating: The true value of organic agriculture isn't that it might result, here and there, in slightly higher levels of certain nutrients or even that it definitely reduces the presence of pesticides and other chemical dangers in the food we eat. What really matters, she writes, is that organics represent "a political choice. When you choose organics, you are voting with your fork for a planet with fewer pesticides, richer soil, and cleaner water supplies ... for conservation of fuel resources and the economic viability of local communities, along with freshness and better taste." By Jove, I think the forks have it!
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Feds Pledge to Pursue Hate Crimes Charges Against Kentucky Men
The federal hate crimes trial of two men in Kentucky accused of beating another man because he was gay quickly grew murky, with tales of substance abuse, drug deals gone bad and homosexual trysts. The result was an acquittal--an embarrassing blow for prosecutors trying their first case under a hate crimes law expanded in 2009 to apply to crimes motivated by, among other things, a victim's actual or perceived sexual orientation.
The two men, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and his cousin, 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins, were convicted in federal court in London, Ky., of conspiracy and kidnapping, however.
Prosecutors pledged to continue to investigate future hate crimes allegations. However, attorneys for the two men said the case was fundamentally about drugs, not hate. And one defense attorney not involved with the case said prosecutors will want to more closely examine the facts the next time the hate crimes provision is applied.
"They chose a poor set of facts. That happens sometimes," Stetson Law School Professor Charles Rose told The Associated Press. "It's not misconduct. It's just not smart lawyering."
Testimony in the case portrayed the Jenkins cousins as hostile to gays, with the victim, 29-year-old Kevin Pennington, and two others describing how the men shouted obscenities and anti-gay slurs during the attack on a mountain road in Kingdom Come State Park in the Appalachian region of Kentucky.
But witnesses also testified about Pennington having a sexual relationship with another member of the Jenkins family and David Jason Jenkins expressing sexual interest in Pennington. And two women who pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the case acknowledged having sexual relationships with other women.
Defense attorneys admitted their clients took part in a brawl on the side of the mountain, but they said it resulted from a drug deal gone sour between the two men and Pennington, an admitted part-time drug dealer and user.
Jurors were told to consider whether anti-gay bias was the substantial factor in the attack _ not the sole factor and not just one of many.
Kentucky is one of 45 states, along with the District of Columbia, that have laws criminalizing bias-motivated violence or intimidation. Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Wyoming, do not have such laws. Georgia's was struck down by the state's supreme court in 2004.
U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey, whose office handled the case, declined to speculate on whether the testimony about drug use and allegations of homosexual interests and relationships swayed the jury. Instead, Harvey said he was pleased the case ended in a conviction. The acquittals on the hate crimes charges won't deter the office from pursuing such cases in the future, Harvey said.
"When we find evidence that warrants bringing any particular charge ... we will follow that evidence," Harvey said.
Willis Coffey, who represented Anthony Jenkins, said the evidence led investigators to the wrong conclusion.
"I think this was clear," Coffey said after the trial. "I think the jury's pretty clear about this not it _ it was not a hate crime."
Rose said that defense attorneys acknowledging the fight and drug use gave them credibility with the jury, but also forced them to essentially admit some kind of crime took place, even if it wasn't a hate crime.
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A special exhibit documenting the first 50 years of the Colorado Railroad Museum opened in conjunction with the anniversary event, Saturday, July 11. The exhibit was funded through a grant from the Golden Civic Foundation. There you can learn about the museum’s origins, the first steam locomotive restored on the site and Johnny Cash’s visit in 1974.
Visit the museum’s Web site at www.coloradorailroadmuseum.org.
I Hear The Train A ’Comin’
By Meredith Knight, GOLDEN TRANSCRIPT
It was a heck of a showing for a birthday party.
More than 1,000 railroad enthusiasts and residents came to the Colorado Railroad Museum Saturday, July 11 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening.
The crowd was treated to free train rides along the museum’s McKiney Loop, a circle of track that circles the 15-acre site.
But the star of the show was an eight-locomotive long parade, which featured many locomotives that were restored on site at the museum’s facility.
“It was a great day for the museum,” said Museum Director Donald Tallman.
Railroad aficionados Robert Richardson and Cornelius Hauck opened the Colorado Railroad Museum in 1959 to preserve and document the history of rail transportation and its importance within the context of state history.
The museum holds railcars from the steam locomotive era to the art deco lined luxury cars of the 1930s.
Over the past few years, the museum has expanded its focus, from attracting diehard rail enthusiasts to bringing more visitors from the general public to its campus at 17155 W. 44th Ave. in Golden.
To continue that trend, Tallman emphasized the need of interpretation, so visitors can know the history of the museum’s collection and its importance.
“Otherwise all we have is a collection of stuff,” Tallman said.
At Saturday’s event, Tallman emphasized the importance of the fleet of volunteers who clock over 30,000 hours a year doing everything from running tours to painting locomotives.
“The volunteers are really the heart and soul of the museum,” Tallman said.
The museum plans to continue its community outreach.
This year the Web site was upgraded to be a better information portal to the museum. Visitors to the Web site can check progress on restoration projects at the Roundhouse and find out about special events and train rides, such as the upcoming Wine and Cheese Train on Aug. 8.
The museum plans to add more interactive exhibits and expand their library to be nationally recognized reference library.
“We want people to come back and find that it’s still relevant every time,” Tallman said.
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Beer should be served at the correct temperature. For cask beer this is generally considered as being around 12 degrees centigrade1. Too cold and flavours can be masked as well as inevitable problems with chill haze. Much worse is the crime of serving beer too warm; the drinking experience is not enjoyable and an otherwise well brewed beer can be ruined as a result.
There is unfortunately a pattern; tied pub estates often have significant care given to the quality of installed equipment. OK, the beer range may not be particularly varied or imaginative, but you can be more certain that the beer is better looked after. There is very good reason for this.
With a tied house the beer sold is entirely supplied through one route to market. It might be a single regional brewer or it may be a PubCo but there is at least a central purchasing route and maximising sales is crucial to the profitability of the owning business. Cellar support is inevitably very good with great care given to maximising the quality of the beer.
By contrast many free houses have poorer investment in cellar equipment and dispense technology. A very noticeable but in my view completely unacceptable omission is, as I think Tandleman put it, "python2 cooling to the point of dispense". This should include jacketed handpulls and carefully regulated circulating cooling water from a dedicated cooler, i.e. NOT from the keg cooling circuit.
Moreover, some of my very favourite beer outlets do suffer from beer serve temperature problems. This results in public naming and shaming of the very places I love. So, perhaps these places could help to prevent Tandleman and I from falling out by thinking about investing a little in dispense equipment?
On Beer, Birra, Bier there is an interesting reflective post on my most recent twitter discussion with Tandleman.
Expensive but very good handpulls can be bought here. Pythons and other such wonderful things can be bought here. Personally I find the technicalities of putting these things together very straightforward, but if your practical skills aren't up to it a good cellar technician shouldn't cost too much.
If any cellar technician tries to tell you that it's OK, it's "trad beer" and doesn't need python cooling, look for someone else.
1personally I think there is an argument for some very light and hoppy beers being served a little cooler and things like strong stouts and barley wines a little warmer. 12 degrees is a good compromise however and I totally reject the excuse some dinosaur cellar-men use to say cask beer should be warm. Cask Marque is one organisation that has set some parameters and this cannot be a bad thing.
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