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Seed companies demand that price for Bollgard-I and Bollgard-II (Bt cotton seeds) should be increased for the kharif season. They wanted a hike of Rs.200 on BG-I (from Rs.650 to Rs.850) and Rs.300 on BG-II (from Rs 750 to Rs 1,050).
Seed companies have been saying primarily the government has no say or role in fixing the Bt cotton seed price. In fact, in 2005, after establishment of large scale cotton seed failure in Warangal dist, Government of Andhra Pradesh had asked Mahyco to pay compensation. This company refused to pay and moved to AP high court on paying compensation saying state government is harassing them. The company has also challenged AP state government that it has no legislative power to control trait fee. Thus, as far as seed companies are concerned, they want freedom to fix and sell the seeds, and would not undertake any responsibility for the quality of seeds.
Interestingly, Mr. Sharad Pawar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, had asked the AP State to deregulate the cottonseed pricing. "A competitive and vibrant seed industry would be able to serve the interests of farmers by ensuring the timely availability of cottonseeds at reasonable prices," Mr. Pawar observed in a letter to the AP Chief Minister, Mr. N. Kiran Kumar Reddy. "The area under Bt cottonseed cultivation has reportedly come down. This would adversely affect the availability of Bt cottonseeds in future. In the long term this would harm entire cotton economy," he cautioned.
"This trend can only be reversed if cottonseed farmers are paid substantially higher prices to encourage them to continue with production of Bt cottonseeds. This needs revisiting of policy that regulates cottonseed pricing," he said in the letter.
The same Union Minister for Agriculture did not bother to write a letter on the losses suffered by farmers, due to bad seeds, heavy rains and floods, last year. It is another matter, he did not even consider visiting them and giving them confidence. He was quoting norms and rules, when asked for relief support from government, by the delegation.
Meanwhile, the cost of seeds for the farmers has been increasing, except in the case of Bt cotton seed (which is controlled in AP). Quality is major issue for farmers, as most seeds, which come in packets and branded, do not germinate, grow, develop leaves, flower or give proper yield.
Many farmers, who invest on land preparation, water and electricity, labour, crop protection, land fertilization, etc., find that with low quality seeds, all their efforts go waste - down the drain. This leaves them poorer by so much of investment. Risks due to seeds are increasing, and their worries are multiplying. Other risks include market prices and natural disasters (sudden rains, hailstorms, extreme heat or cold conditions, floods, drought, water shortages, etc.).
In recent days, there were a series of meetings to discuss the Bt cotton seed price, with officials, seed company representatives, representatives of farmers unions and political parties. I attended one such meeting on 28th March, 2011
I bring to your attention the following issues:
- Most of the discussions were focussed only on Bt cotton seed. I think it is important we bring the prices of other seeds as well, especially vegetables. Private seed industry is supplying high-value, low volume seeds to the farmers, through local production and imports. Seed prices are being arbitrarily fixed, leading to a huge burden on the farmers. Today, the percentage of expenditure on seed in the overall cost of production ranges from 6 to 33%. Hence, it is imperative that we need to discuss, prices of all seeds, progressively, while focussing presently on Bt cotton seed.
- Seed industry representatives have been rightly worried about their returns. This brings us to the question what is that they are delivering, for a cost. Industry has been claiming success of their seeds/labeled products, as an argument to increase the seed prices. Thus, they brought performance of seeds as a causal factor for seed pricing. Hence, we would request you to discuss the performance of their products, given the claims of farmers about losses and their counter-claim of benefits. It would be important to measure the performance against the current price.
- Cost of production of seed has been the contentious issue. While seed farmers are crying hoarse about practices of the private seed industry, which denies them proper price for their sweat and efforts, seed industry so far has not responded with any transparent and acceptable mechanism of benefit sharing with the seed farmers. Seed farmers need an assured price and a mechanism that is supported by the government in ensuring proper returns for them.
- All seed companies have to register their seed procurement with the local primary marketing committees. This apparently is not done. By ensuring the compliance and penalization for non-compliance, seed farmers can be assured of a legal mechanism.
- Royalty or trait fee continues to be the major problem. One needs to study this aspect more deeply and extensively. International norms and practices in other countries need to be referred to. Trait fee is supposed to be based on the R & D investment. However, it would be absurd to link it with paying capacity of the farmers. As with every commercial product, cost of production continues to be the basis for arriving at the market price, and not the market price of the benefit accrued from the supplied raw inputs. Market price for the harvested crop cannot be the criteria for fixing the seed price. Even if by any chance this principle is applied, then the loss also needs to be linked.
- When Bt 1 cotton seed is no longer performing as per its original expectation, as admitted by the seed industry, why trait fee is being levied for the same?
- While the price for refuge crops is included in the cost of production given by the industry, in the field, one can see that there is no supply of the same. As a result, Rs.50 to 75 is being collected by the companies, without supplying the same.
- Research cost is an item, in the costing sheet provided by the industry. We do not think research cost can be part of the cost of production. Like any entrepreneur, research is part of the investment made and is recovered from the business turnover. Nowhere, research is included in the cost of production.
- Further, it is understood that trait fee is being paid for the R&D investment. Thus, it can be seen that more than Rs.49 goes to the company, as additional inclusion of research cost.
- In the costing sheet provided by the seed companies, there is an item titled "Seed Procurement, Processing, Treatment, Production Supervision, Quality Control, Packing, etc". Cleverly, they have included multiple costs, along with the price paid to the farmer (seed procurement). It would be important to separate "seed procurement" costs, which alone can give us a fair idea of what is being paid for the seed farmers. Importantly, the whole argument for increase in the cost of seed has been based on the need to pay more for the seed farmer. This is the only item on which everyone agrees unanimously.
- Inclusion of production supervision separately, in the seed procurement, even while their being a separate financial and administration cost, would only camouflage the actual costs being paid for human resources of the company.
- Given the above, and also examining the cost the sheet, it is clear that except the seed procurement costs, all other costs are expenditures of the company. Apart from the truth in such expenditures, and also admitting that there would be costs, more than 70 percent is taken by the company from the price paid by the farmer on each packet of seed.
In order to complete these discussions and arrive at a reasonable decision, we have the following suggestions to make:
- Development of a pricing formula, wherein the interests of seed producing and seed sowing farmers are protected.
- Development and continuous monitoring of information related to different inputs, which form part of the cost of production of seeds.
- Independent verification of the information provided by the companies, to arrive at a reasonable level of understanding of the costs involved.
- Establishment of a legal system and/or mechanism that helps in seed price monitoring and fixation. This system should include legalized assurances from the seed companies to farmers on both ends of seed chain, and fixation of liability.
- Reviving the public seed supply chain through appropriate systems which can compete with the private seed industry.
- Current seed price should not be increased, under any circumstances. There is enough scope to bring production efficiency and enable higher productivity.
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By now, you’ve heard that President Obama announced the creation of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) – an “innovation policy” of sorts, maintained by a collection of businesses, universities and governmental agencies to spur innovation via coordinated research & development of manufacturing processes and products.
(Wait a minute – didn’t we try this 2 years ago with the National Innovation Marketplace? Whatever happened to THAT? Oh, never mind …)
Just before POTUS announced the AMP at Carnegie Melon on Friday, I watched a C-SPAN video of testimony on Capitol Hill that dealt with an industrial policy for the US and what it would/should address. Testifying on that panel was one of my favorite ‘tweeps’ – Scott Paul, the Executive Director of Alliance for American Manufacturing. During his statement, Scott reminded me of something I hadn’t thought about in years, not since I was a high school student back during the Coolidge administration:
We had a fine industrial policy in this country. And we don’t anymore.
‘The Report On Manufactures” (ROM) was written in 1791 by then Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. It was submitted to the newly-formed Congress to establish trade, economic and governmental support for our manufacturing base. It formed the basis of our industrial policies until just after World War II.
Consider the ROM as the birth certificate of US Manufacturing.
The ROM contains a remarkable breadth of understanding and scope. And unlike our current collection of initiatives, partnerships and disjointed bills, it rightly understood that a policy base had to be established that would properly contextualize and focus subsequent efforts on a common set of premises.
There have been voices raised lately that question whether a comprehensive policy is counter to free enterprise and capitalism. But this isn’t new at all. Hamilton faced a firestorm of debate and resistance to the ROM – it even caused the establishment of a new political party. The argument then, as now, was that to create a policy would put burdens on our economic system by transferring the ‘natural current of industry’ to one of control.
Then as now, to suggest that the management of any sovereign economy should be “made up as we go” is crazy. It’s like leaving on a trip without a map, or a GPS. We need an industrial GPS, with sovereignty and growth as its base.
Instead of putting the cart before the horse – by letting whimsy and the political winds drive policy – Hamilton established tenets that formed and guided our policies. And, hey – we didn’t do too bad with it, did we?
So, let’s have a look at what my US Manufacturing Policy looked like:
- It acknowledged the impact and influence of manufacturing on the entire economy by using its intertwining with agriculture, the most obvious example of the day.
- Hamilton wrote it with the premonition that immigration would explode in the US, where the population was extraordinarily small in comparison to its territory. Translated, this policy was constructed with creating and sustaining jobs for a soon to be rapidly expanding workforce. That seems pretty applicable to these days, no?
- It acknowledged that the role of government – and a manufacturing policy – wasn’t so much to control the natural currents of business and industry, but to create a platform, an environment where business could be done most efficiently and profitably as possible.
- It managed trade and protected industries and markets via tariffs and subsidies.
- It acknowledged and addressed a formidable, foreign trade adversary that had numerous economic and linear advantages. It constructed this policy around the strengths of the US, to capitalize and compete – with Europe.
- It was constructed under the primary premise that countries with strong manufacturing bases serving numerous industries possess(ed) more wealth than those that do not.
- It acknowledged the emerging contentiousness between the North and the South, and looked to encourage support for regions based on their manufacturing strengths.
- It identified our most important industrial sectors and products (i.e., iron, coal, cotton, gun powder, printed books), and spelled out the unique qualities of each sector along with what should be encouraged/protected for each, and why.
What Did The ROM Do?
- Established duties & tariffs (called ‘bounties’ & ‘premiums’ back in the day) on foreign products that were rivals of domestic products
- Prohibited the exportation of the ‘Materials of Manufacture’ – or, simply put, our industrial policy protected US jobs
- Established exemptions on certain indigenous products from duties and taxes, and a system to drawback those duties when appropriate
- Acknowledged and supported a strong commitment to the infrastructure of the country, to enable commerce – not control it
What’s Different – And What’s The Same
- While immigration has become a much different animal these days, the goal of creating a strong manufacturing base that creates indigenous jobs for the US workforce isn’t.
- By neglecting advantageous trade policy in favor of trade deficits and initiatives, short-term profit and displacement of our core production and development capabilities, we find ourselves in a similarly exposed position as our nation did in 1791 – we have suitable resources (labor) but a shortage of positions to deploy those resources.
- And should anyone doubt that a policy based on sound ideals, sovereignty and solid economic and business principles can evolve and remain viable, look no further than the US Constitution.
No one is happier than I am that we’re elevating the level of discussion around manufacturing in this country. That’s what rocks about the AMP. But we’re concocting these projects and plans in the wrong order – we desperately need a comprehensive industrial policy as a foundation, that includes trade, education, intellectual property protections, tax & regulatory reform AND innovation. And that focuses our resources on common goals, rather than committees or partnerships with little authority and a ton of self-interests.
But I’ll give Secretary Hamilton the final word on why this is so important, as he wrote in the original Report On Manufactures:
“Arbitrary taxes, under which denomination are comprised and those that leave the quantum of the tax to be raised on each person to the discretion of certain officers, are as contrary to the genius of liberty as to the maxims of industry. In this light they have been viewed by the most judicious observers on Government, who have bestowed upon them the severest epithets of reprobation, as constituting one of the worst features usually to be met with in the practice of despotic governments. It is certain, at least, that such taxes are particularly inimical to the success of manufacturing industry, and ought carefully to be avoided by a government which desires to promote it.”
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… in cooking, as in life …©
I rarely know what day it is. Probably because I don’t write checks very often or work a regular job. And probably also because I have a three-month-old and three-year-old at home, neither of whom has any concept of time. (Although I did get a laugh the other day when Jack, the three-year-old, told me that he “didn’t have time” to finish dinner. And that’s the thing about parenting … you can’t really get mad at them when they’re quoting you!).
So, to figure out the date, I’m always counting forward or backward from a date that I do know. Like Valentine’s Day is Thursday, so today must be the 12th and tomorrow must be the 13th. (Yes, I’m really glad I paid attention in second-grade math.) Anyway, what got me thinking about all of this is that tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. And when it’s Ash Wednesday, I know that Easter is about 40 days away! So, with Easter in mind, I’m sharing a fun project that Jack and I did last year for the kids in his preschool class: Rice Krispie Treat Nests with Candy Eggs. They are very easy to make and turn out super cute!
Rice Krispie Treat Nests with Candy Eggs
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies
Butter or baking spray, to grease the pan and your fingers
Mini Cadbury Candy Eggs
Make Rice Krispie treats as you usually would. First, melt the butter.
Then add the marshmallows.
Melt the marshmallows.
Stir everything together.
Grease a muffin tin with butter or baking spray. Fill the muffin cups with the rice-krispie mixture.
Using your hands, mold the rice-krispie portions into little nests, pressing down in the center to create a bowl shape. Grease your hands with butter, as needed, to keep your fingers from sticking.
Let the nests cool.
Transfer nests to a foil- or parchment-lined baking sheet. Fill each nest with a few candy eggs.
Jack loved placing the eggs in the nests … and sampling the eggs as he worked, of course!
Place the finished nests on a platter and serve. These would be perfect for an Easter party or brunch.
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Steve Jobs has admitted that Apple will design its very own super-chips for both the iPhone and the iPod. Earlier this week, after his keynote speech at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, Jobs slipped a few extra words to The New York Times, and at one point - while describing his grand plan to reinvent the …
And then we will have the whole PowerPC "we've realised that being the loner in the corner is bad, so we're switching to a funky new applemactastic platform. (small print: re-buy everything! yay for profits!)" debacle.
Seriously, ARM chips are good. No need for integration. No doubt they'll find a bug in their firmware, as it would be, and then lock the jesusphone until you have the chips upgraded. For a small labour charge of £120. If you don't want samsung to make your POC, then use prefab ARM chips in your own mactarded production line!
Apple will use PA Semi SoC Technology
It so happens that Samsung is also a PowerPC licensee! It might be interesting to read about SoC in a 7-year old article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5009
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Sounds reasonable to me..
Apple/PA doesn't need to design its own processors as such; ARM's whole business is about selling processor core designs for its customers who integrate these cores with other more specialist logic to form the final chip.
Apple, with PA's expertise, will take these building blocks and combine them to produce the exact mix of facilities that they feel their products require - allowing the products to be made smaller and more power efficient as a result.
Once they've pulled together a design; they will find someone to actually fabricate it for them.
All very sensible.
What Jobs did Not Say
Buying PA Semi to build a slightly lower power ARM sounds to me like an expensive way to get a lower power ARM. Whilst PA Semi have worked wonders with getting a meaty pair of PowerPC cores to run on only a few Watts, there's not really as much to be gained in reducing the consumption of existing ARMs.
Buying PA Semi to make a customised ARM sounds like an expensive way to get a customised ARM. A big customer like Apple could easily get any outfit like Samsung to efficiently fabricate any kind of customised ARM they want.
Buying PA Semi to get a customised PowerPC sounds like a cheap way to get a customised PowerPC. ARM is great, but PowerPC is capable of dwarfing it in terms of compute power. I think Apple want more compute grunt than can be achieved with an ARM. I think that they've decided on PA Semi's latest as their starting point. They'll strip out one of the cores and other bits. They'll slow it down to save power (it can already dynamically clock down to only a few 100 MHz). They'll shove on a few peripherals useful for a phone/iPod. That would have to mean that Apple don't like the look of Intel's Atom for some reason or other.
Big question - does an iPhone need more compute grunt? (not tried one).
Apple are beginning to separate the PowerPC & x86 builds of OSX. Perhaps this is preparatory to putting a more complete install of OSX on an iPhone rather than a means to save on disk space on a bloaty Intel MAC.
Getting whacky now - remember those in-phone video projectors shown off earlier in the year? Apple aren't thinking of shoving one of those in an iPhone with a PA Semi PowerPC and running a more complete OSX on it and selling it as a laptop replacement are they? They'd have to call that the Macbook Hydrogen.
Dan Dobberpuhl, lead designer ...
Hmmm - chips built using the element lead (pb) - an interesting although possibly heavy and toxic concept. Who knew this was going on?
No coat, thanks - I travel light.
Re: Apple will use PA Semi SoC Technology
To be most exact Samsung has a license for nearly every CPU/SoC under the sun. Besides Arm and PPC it is also an Alpha and MIPS licensee. So whichever way Apple turns it may still end up fabbing them with Samsung. It can do it for everything but Intel./x86 based designs.
I'm not aware of this "Jesus" phone, wassat??
Ohh.. you mean the iPhone, I get it, you call it that because its been crucified by those who don't understand it and fear change, right?
Brothers and sisters, let us embrace this global technology. The Jesus Phone showed us the way to religion, but the 3G model can support multiple simultaneous deities. We are delighted to communicate with users of the Mohammed Phone, the Vishnu Phone, the Buddha Phone, the Zeus Phone and (selling out fast) the David Icke Phone. And with the new Sanctification & Divinity Kit (SDK) we look forward to welcoming other new religions to the world.
Rev. Trellace., Preacher, First Church of St. Jobs
Isn't this what did the X-Box 360 in?
Will Apple design their own red ring of death?
An online rag called "The Register" ran an analysis on Apples purchase of PA Semi a bit back....
Ah yes, here it is:-
"Only insanity would lead Apple to make a mobile chip play"
"Even if PA Semi had a proper mobile part working in the labs, Apple would be gambling its entire iPhone business by picking the processor."
"Should Apple really think it can perform magic and turn the PA Semi gear into the base of future iPhones, then we're rather worried for the company."
So, you're saying "Sell Apple!"?
About the new Jesus Phone
I was curious as to why the iPhone is called the Jesus Phone. So I googled it, and I encountered this video:
I've often wanted to learn how to do computer video work. I guess that I missed my, erm, calling...
re: Reg analysis...
they also did an analysis on how badly the iPhone would fail as a product:
Apple the new Microsoft??
My gut feeling with with taking chip production in house, is that they are going to screw up in a similar way to Microsoft with the original Xbox360 chip sets.
All of this xbox360 red ring of death business is down to the gpu overheating which many believe is down to the cheap, Microsoft-designed gpus.
Apple are a software company not a hardware company just like Microsoft. Chipsets are insanely difficult to perfect and take years of many peoples experience and expertise. You don't see HTC or Sony making there own chips in house and there's a reason for that!
so Apple I think your going to shoot yourself in the foot with this, but saying that I thought the same about the original iphone and its lack of features.....
beat me to it!
Re:What Jobs did Not Say
... Surely you mean the Macbook Oxygen... or should that be o2?? hmmm...
>Seriously, ARM chips are good. No need for integration
They may be, but are you saying competition doesn't improve anything?
Did the AMD Athlon and AMD Athlon 64 force Intel to get off their behinds and produce a decent CPU?
The P4 was rubbish, the competition from AMD focussed Intel on producing a good CPU and they got there with the Core 2 Duo.
You can see why they're so bitter about it.. ;)
Jesus, a semi?
Well the iPhone has been giving Apple fan-boys Semis for a while now - it's about time another Semi gave them something in return.
Actually, Apple have a pretty long history of designing their own in-house chips. And very good they were too, working with VLSI on application specific ICs (ASICs) throught the 80s and 90s.
Admittedly, this has pretty much fallen by the wayside with the availability of cheap general purpose chips; but even as late as the 90s Apple were designing custom SCSI, audi, and graphics chips.
When Acorn spun off ARM (Acorn RISC Machine, a nice recursive acronym there!), Apple and VLSI were a couple of the original investors.
And anyway, the reason Apple bought PA Semi is exactly because designing new ICs is 'insanely difficult'. Apple got all the insanely clever employees of PA Semi too. And they *can* design a chipset!
While I agree that HTC don't design any chips, maybe you ought to take another look at Sony. Aside from a bunch of custome ASICs for their home electronics divisions, Sony (along with Toshiba and IBM) where responsible for designing the Cell chip. You may have heard of that...
Paris, 'cos she likes mayo with her chips...
Mising the Point!
You are all missing the point. Don't forget that PA Semi supplies chips for military use. This is obviously part of Apples plan to take over the world by using hordes of iPhone zombies to execute remote launches of military grade weaponry on all who would doubt the mighty power of the Apple!
Why do people keep insisting that Apple are a software company?
Apple are a hardware company, pure and simple.
True, they do create great software but it's also true that they go to great lengths to ensure that it only runs on their hardware, a sure sign that they are interested in selling hardware and NOT software, If they wanted to be a software company then I would be able to buy a copy of MacOSX and run it on my PC.
Apple have long seen Sony as their primary competitor. Up until the nineties, Sony products where THE products to own in the A/V market. Apple took it on themselves to take that position from Sony, and (with a lot of help from Sony) have pretty much succeeded in doing that.
That should work.
@everybody who thinks PPC chips in mobile devices are a bad idea, Motorola have been using them for that since the mid 90s.
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How to make your phone number more private on Facebook
Privacy concerns ... Facebook mobile. Photo: AP
Facebook has restricted phone number searches on its mobile site after a security researcher was able to find Facebook users by searching random phone numbers.
Facebook says being able to look someone up by searching for their phone number on Facebook is a feature, not a bug.
If you really want to shield your phone number from Facebook, the only sure-fire way is to remove it from Facebook.
"By default, your privacy settings allow everyone to find you with search and friend finder using the contact info you have provided, such as your email address and phone number," Facebook said in an emailed statement.
It says it keeps people from abusing the feature by restricting how many times they are permitted to search for phone numbers.
If Facebook did not restrict that, Facebook users could be at the mercy of marketers, pollsters, basically anyone, looking to match phone numbers with information from Facebook profiles.
The researcher in question said that the mobile version of Facebook did not have the same rate limits as the desktop version. Other security researchers said they verified that. But Facebook disputes that.
"Facebook has developed an extensive system for preventing the malicious usage of our search functionality and the scenario described by the researcher was indeed rate-limited and eventually blocked," the company said.
If you are concerned about people having access to your profile by searching for your phone number, there are two steps you can take.
First, go to the about section in your profile. Click on the button next to mobile phones and other phones and make sure that they are not set to "everyone." You can change the setting to "friends," "friends except acquaintances" or, the most restrictive, "only me."
Then, go to your privacy settings. Click on "how you connect." Then under "who can look you up using the email address or phone number you provided," select "friends" or "friends of friends."
Of course, if you really want to shield your phone number from Facebook, the only sure-fire way is to remove it from Facebook.
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I am very keen to teach myself all sorts of things.. and sewing is one of them. Well, so long as they are interested that is. A while back Red Ted and made little nature bags, which he LOVED doing, so now I decided to have a go sewing Lavender Bags with him. I saw these lavender bags over at Pink Pistachio and thought that they make a perfect project for small hands (any hands actually, but good for wee ones too).
The key to making these lavender bags pretty – is cute fabric, small ish in size and nice contrasting embroidery thread.
Materials: fabric scraps approx 8cm x 5cm, embroidery thread, lavender, needle and pinking shears (zig zag scissors)
NOTE: We noticed that some needles where easier to pull through than others and some fabrics were stiffer than others. So try different ones with your little ones and do the harder ones yourself. Whatever makes sewing for your child easier!
1) Cut out your fabric for your lavender bag. We used pinking shears, as they help stop the fabric from fraying afterwards.
2) Instead of tidying a knot when you begin, leave a small piece of thread at the beginning to use for tying at the end. Using a running stitch sew 3 sides of your rectangle.. Don’t worry about it being too even, you don’t notice wonky stitches at the end.
3) Fill you bag with lavender. Sew to the end and then knot your two pieces of thread. Done!
Pretty! Like with all “New skills”, you have to give your child a chance to try it again and again! Red Ted managed 1.5 sides of the first little lavender bag himself. Then got bored. The next day, we made another one together and he did one side. I sat with him and talked him through every stitch “up a bit, down a bit”… I think he did a great job. He is only 4.5yrs old and I am happy that he is even interested in giving it a go. By no means, can he do a whole bag himself and so neatly!! NOTE: I did the majority of the sewing. Please do not be dismayed if your child’s sewing isn’t like the above. This little lavender bags are great for any age group, to give sewing a go. They are relatively easy, look sweet and make great little gifts. Granny will be getting some lavender bags for her birthday for sure!
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The sky was gray, but spirits were sunny, Tuesday morning, as students, staff, teachers, parents, school-system officials and School Board members gathered to dedicate Liberty Middle School.
"What a wonderful day to celebrate an entire year of firsts," said Principal Audra Sydnor. "We're the first Fairfax County school to reflect its patriotism and recognition of 9/11 through its name. We had our first snowstorm, took our first SOLs, and soon we'll have our first, last day of school together."
The dedication ceremony, she said, gave her and all 1,136 students "an opportunity to show our appreciation for our new home." And county schools Superintendent Daniel A. Domenech said he was both "proud and privileged" to be a part of it.
"For all of us, it has been a difficult two years," he said. "[This school] was named Liberty, in spite of the fact that the tradition seemed to be to name middle schools after famous authors and poets. But it was named when we were still feeling the effects of 9/11."
So it's no wonder then, said Domenech, that "the community saw fit to name it Liberty Middle School as a way of expressing our pride in our state, our county and what this wonderful United States stands for." Recalling how he first came to America from his native Cuba at age 9 and passed by "Lady Liberty in the New York Harbor," he noted the thousands of immigrants that the Statue of Liberty welcomes here, each year.
"The most precious gift this country has to offer us is an education, and that's what we have to offer here at Liberty and in Fairfax County," he said. "This is an opportunity for all of us to celebrate the opening of a school that will start traditions focusing on [providing] a great education to those who will someday become the leaders of our nation." These students, said Domenech, will work "to maintain those values that are so important to all of us."
Eighth-grader Ximeng Wang said teachers at the new school "let us know they expected us to reach beyond the goals they'd set for us." And classmate Anthony Smith said the students "set a new future as we walked into the building. With the best equipment and good teachers, we had a chance to set the bar for the school — we were first."
Sydnor and Domenech cut the ribbon, and PTA president Jill Mullins presented a flag flown May 1 over the nation's capital in honor of the school. "Let no one forget that Liberty was named for those who lost their lives on 9/11," she said. "Those are the true heroes of liberty." | <urn:uuid:cfd58f59-3560-4d5c-9885-c6f5dee9b07f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2003/jun/04/patriotism-reigns-at-liberty-dedication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983781 | 562 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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The first snowfall came early in December. I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes. Big white flakes were whirling over everything and disappearing in the red grass.
Beyond the pond, on the slope that climbed to the cornfield, there was, faintly marked in the grass, a great circle where the Indians used to ride. Jake and Otto were sure that when they galloped round that ring the Indians tortured prisoners, bound to a stake in the centre; but grandfather thought they merely ran races or trained horses there. Whenever one looked at this slope against the setting sun, the circle showed like a pattern in the grass; and this morning, when the first light spray of snow lay over it, it came out with wonderful distinctness, like strokes of Chinese white on canvas. The old figure stirred me as it had never done before and seemed a good omen for the winter.
As soon as the snow had packed hard, I began to drive about the country in a clumsy sleigh that Otto Fuchs made for me by fastening a wooden goods-box on bobs. Fuchs had been apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in the old country and was very handy with tools. He would have done a better job if I hadn't hurried him. My first trip was to the post-office, and the next day I went over to take Yulka and Antonia for a sleigh-ride.
It was a bright, cold day. I piled straw and buffalo robes into the box, and took two hot bricks wrapped in old blankets. When I got to the Shimerdas', I did not go up to the house, but sat in m sleigh at the bottom of the draw and called. Antonia and Yulka came running out, wearing little rabbit-skin hats their father had made for them. They had heard about my sledge from Ambrosch and knew why I had come. They tumbled in beside me and we set off toward the north, along a road that happened to be broken.
The sky was brilliantly blue, and the sunlight on the glittering white stretches of prairie was almost blinding. As Antonia said, the whole world was changed by the snow; we kept looking in vain for familiar landmarks. The deep arroyo through which Squaw Creek wound was now only a cleft between snowdrifts--very blue when one looked down into it. The tree-tops that had been gold all the autumn were dwarfed and twisted, as if they would never have any life in them again. The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green. The wind had the burning taste of fresh snow; my throat and nostrils smarted as if someone had opened a hartshorn bottle. The cold stung, and at the same time delighted one. My horse's breath rose like steam, and whenever we stopped he smoked all over. The cornfields got back a little of their colour under the dazzling light, and stood the palest possible gold in the sun and snow. All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth. But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house. The great fresh open, after the stupefying warmth indoors, made them behave like wild things. They laughed and shouted, and said they never wanted to go home again. Couldn't we settle down and live in Russian Peter's house, Yulka asked, and couldn't I go to town and buy things for us to keep house with?
All the way to Russian Peter's we were extravagantly happy, but when we turned back--it must have been about four o'clock-- the east wind grew stronger and began to howl; the sun lost its heartening power and the sky became grey and sombre. I took off my long woollen comforter and wound it around Yulka's throat. She got so cold that we made her hide her head under the buffalo robe. Antonia and I sat erect, but I held the reins clumsily, and my eyes were blinded by the wind a good deal of the time. It was growing dark when we got to their house, but I refused to go in with them and get warm. I knew my hands would ache terribly if I went near a fire. Yulka forgot to give me back my comforter, and I had to drive home directly against the wind. The next day I came down with an attack of quinsy, which kept me in the house for nearly two weeks.
The basement kitchen seemed heavenly safe and warm in those days-- like a tight little boat in a winter sea. The men were out in the fields all day, husking corn, and when they came in at noon, with long caps pulled down over their ears and their feet in red-lined overshoes, I used to think they were like Arctic explorers. In the afternoons, when grandmother sat upstairs darning, or making husking-gloves, I read `The Swiss Family Robinson' aloud to her, and I felt that the Swiss family had no advantages over us in the way of an adventurous life. I was convinced that man's strongest antagonist is the cold. I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed. She often reminded me, when she was preparing for the return of the hungry men, that this country was not like Virginia; and that here a cook had, as she said, `very little to do with.' On Sundays she gave us as much chicken as we could eat, and on other days we had ham or bacon or sausage meat. She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
Next to getting warm and keeping warm, dinner and supper were the most interesting things we had to think about. Our lives centred around warmth and food and the return of the men at nightfall. I used to wonder, when they came in tired from the fields, their feet numb and their hands cracked and sore, how they could do all the chores so conscientiously: feed and water and bed the horses, milk the cows, and look after the pigs. When supper was over, it took them a long while to get the cold out of their bones. While grandmother and I washed the dishes and grandfather read his paper upstairs, Jake and Otto sat on the long bench behind the stove, `easing' their inside boots, or rubbing mutton tallow into their cracked hands.
Every Saturday night we popped corn or made taffy, and Otto Fuchs used to sing, `For I Am a Cowboy and Know I've Done Wrong,' or, `Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairee.' He had a good baritone voice and always led the singing when we went to church services at the sod schoolhouse.
I can still see those two men sitting on the bench; Otto's close-clipped head and Jake's shaggy hair slicked flat in front by a wet comb. I can see the sag of their tired shoulders against the whitewashed wall. What good fellows they were, how much they knew, and how many things they had kept faith with!
Fuchs had been a cowboy, a stage-driver, a bartender, a miner; had wandered all over that great Western country and done hard work everywhere, though, as grandmother said, he had nothing to show for it. Jake was duller than Otto. He could scarcely read, wrote even his name with difficulty, and he had a violent temper which sometimes made him behave like a crazy man--tore him all to pieces and actually made him ill. But he was so soft-hearted that anyone could impose upon him. If he, as he said, `forgot himself' and swore before grandmother, he went about depressed and shamefaced all day. They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies. It was a matter of pride with them not to spare themselves. Yet they were the sort of men who never get on, somehow, or do anything but work hard for a dollar or two a day.
On those bitter, starlit nights, as we sat around the old stove that fed us and warmed us and kept us cheerful, we could hear the coyotes howling down by the corrals, and their hungry, wintry cry used to remind the boys of wonderful animal stories; about grey wolves and bears in the Rockies, wildcats and panthers in the Virginia mountains. Sometimes Fuchs could be persuaded to talk about the outlaws and desperate characters he had known. I remember one funny story about himself that made grandmother, who was working her bread on the bread-board, laugh until she wiped her eyes with her bare arm, her hands being floury. It was like this:
When Otto left Austria to come to America, he was asked by one of his relatives to look after a woman who was crossing on the same boat, to join her husband in Chicago. The woman started off with two children, but it was clear that her family might grow larger on the journey. Fuchs said he `got on fine with the kids,' and liked the mother, though she played a sorry trick on him. In mid-ocean she proceeded to have not one baby, but three! This event made Fuchs the object of undeserved notoriety, since he was travelling with her. The steerage stewardess was indignant with him, the doctor regarded him with suspicion. The first-cabin passengers, who made up a purse for the woman, took an embarrassing interest in Otto, and often enquired of him about his charge. When the triplets were taken ashore at New York, he had, as he said, `to carry some of them.' The trip to Chicago was even worse than the ocean voyage. On the train it was very difficult to get milk for the babies and to keep their bottles clean. The mother did her best, but no woman, out of her natural resources, could feed three babies. The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it. He, too, seemed to consider Fuchs in some fashion to blame. `I was sure glad,' Otto concluded, `that he didn't take his hard feeling out on that poor woman; but he had a sullen eye for me, all right! Now, did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?'
Grandmother told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.
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The other day, I visited my son’s school and noticed a poster reminding kids to cover their mouth when they sneezed and wash their hands after using the restroom. I looked for the applicable Bible verses offering an opposing viewpoint on germs, but instead I saw other hygiene propaganda without once making a reference to the Hand of God.
It’s for this reason that I am beginning a campaign to ban the teaching of germs to children in our public schools. The notion that invisible “germs” exist (I can see a crucifix, but I can’t see a germ — which one am I supposed to believe?) and that we must go through various Secular Rites to purge our hands from these mythical creatures is both a scientific fallacy and an assault on our American Values.
Reason #1: It’s Bad Science
At one time scientists didn’t believe in germs. Then they decided that germs were bad. Then they came out with reports that some germs were good while others were bad. Parents were told to have kids wash their hands and then they learned that too much hand-washing led to a weak immune system. I grew up learning to cough into my hands. Now my children are learning to cough into their elbow. What’s next, arm pits?
See, that’s the problem. Science is always changing. Like a wishy-washy politician or an unfaithful spouse, science says, “yeah, let’s test this again and see if it works.” It wasn’t always this way. Newton’s laws were once just that: laws. Now we have theories and applications of theories. I need laws and to me there’s not better law to look at than The Law (let’s keep that noun proper, people).
Intelligent Phenomena tells us a better story – one that has lasted for millennia without changing. Here sickness is not caused by bacteria or viruses (which is it, “scientists?” Make up your minds) but rather the Hand of God. If you read even a small smattering of Old Testament books, you’ll see a God who is not afraid to suck-punch a nation that engages in religious pluralism or permits homosexuality.
I know, I know. In the New Testament, Jesus points to tragedy and suggests that it’s simply the random product of a broken system. But it’s high time you read your Bible literally and understand that he was referring only to that one tragedy. The Biblical standard is that sickness is caused by tolerant societies.
Reason #2: It’s Unpatriotic
We are a Christian nation, founded upon the bedrock of the Bible. The original patriots were not angry New Englanders throwing tea into the ocean, but rather angry New Englanders purging our fledgling nation of witches and praising God for the plagues he was using to destroy the indigenous populations. We’ve already outlawed prayer and look what happened? (Answer in unison: school shootings) But with every bottle of hand sanitizer we purchase, we are sending a message to God that we don’t love him and we don’t love our nation.
It’s high time we tell kids, “Don’t wash after you wipe. Pray instead that God will keep your hands sanitary and your heart pure.” It’s time we quit excusing sick kids and instead expelling them for their lack of faithfulness. Is your school experiencing an outbreak of influenza? Chances are the library is lending out Harry Potter and kids are playing with Magic cards. Indeed, I visited an eighth grade math class last week that espoused the cultish formulas of the Pythagoreans. Might as well tatto the students with a pentagram and warm themselves by the fire of burning Bibles.
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...Something That Was Fun and Easy To Make!
Binoculars! How cool are those?
I got the idea from Crafts by Amanda and I have to say that hers came out prettier than mine. Not too surprising since her crafts are being featured in Parents magazine! You should check out her site; it has an amazing array of easy crafts. I'm going to make these Cardboard Bunnies for Em's birthday party on Easter!
So enough of the prelude; how do you make these awesome binoculars? Easy.
You Will Need:
1 paper towel roll or 2 tp rolls
1 sheet of felt
(Amanda used camoflauge felt and they looked awesome. I couldn't find any so I used red)
Craft Foam to match the felt
twine or yarn
(I used ribbon in a pinch until I got to my mother-in-law's house to steal some twine)
If you're using a paper towel roll, you'll need to cut it evenly in half. Make sure you have a handy little helper nearby to assist in the measuring.
Then you lay the felt down and place the two tubes on top. Cut the felt evenly in half.
Picture taken before felt cutting. Obviously.
Now you roll the tube in the felt, gluing as you go, to create a cardboard burrito (sounds delicious).
Trim off the excess felt, but do your best to make it match up perfectly to the other side so that your tube is perfectly wrapped in felt and the edges line up. Glue it as neatly as possible (aka maybe take the glue from your handy helper at this point). You can keep him or her busy with
Although it wasn't in the directions yet, I wrapped the felt in rubber bands early to keep the glued felt from coming loose. Amanda didn't feel the need to do that, but she probably used better glue and actually measured things correctly. Doesn't my felt look a little wonky? Yeah, not too big on measuring over here. We fly by the seat of our pants and cut where inspiration strikes. "Measure twice, cut once?" That's for wusses.
a heart, certainly. Of course.
Actually I thought it was pretty endearing. See, not big rule-followers over here.
Must run in the family.
So I de-smushed my tube as best I could (some of the damage could not be undone) and carried on.
Right. Back to the instructions.
Use a pen to poke holes about half an inch from the 1/2" thick foam. Insert your twine, yarn, or ribbon as the case may be, into the tubes from the outside. Then double knot the inside to keep it from slipping back out. Trim any excess. Repeat on the other side.
Put a generous amount of glue between the tubes on both sides and let it sit for a few hours (preferably overnight) to dry. Once dry, remove the rubber bands and enjoy the world through rose-colored binoculars!
As an aside, it makes it even more fun if your little binocular-wearing loved one has a big binocular-wearing loved one to take in the sights together.
Jax's Papa is a bird-watching afficionado. Jax was so excited to bring his binoculars to Nana and Papa's house to look at the birds with Papa. They filled up the birdfeeder together with birdseed (Jax was wearing pants at the time, I promise) and then came in to watch for birds with their own binoculars. It was too adorable for words.
And yes, you may notice our binoculars still have the rubber band on them. Well, Jax likes to use his muscles! so we had to keep the rubber band on; otherwise he can't control his own strength and rips them apart into little telescopes. Which I guess wouldn't be so bad, but not what I was going for.
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Gefitinib Side Effects
Some side effects of gefitinib may not be reported. Always consult your doctor or healthcare specialist for medical advice. You may also report side effects to the FDA.
For the Consumer
Applies to gefitinib: oral tablet
If you experience any of the following serious side effects from gefitinib, contact your doctor immediately:
an allergic reaction (including difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives);
lung problems (difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, increased coughing, fever, or chest pain);
severe or persistent nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or diarrhea; or
eye pain or irritation.
Other, less serious side effects may be more likely to occur. Continue taking gefitinib and talk to your doctor if you experience:
mild to moderate nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or diarrhea;
skin rash, dryness, itching, or acne; or
Other side effects have also been reported. Discuss with your doctor any side effect that occurs during treatment with gefitinib.
For Healthcare Professionals
Applies to gefitinib: oral tablet
Patients with ILD usually present with the acute onset of dyspnea which is sometimes associated with cough or low grade fever. The condition often becomes severe within a short time and requires hospitalization. ILD has been reported in patients who have received prior radiation (31% of reported cases), prior chemotherapy (57% of reported cases), and no previous therapy (12% of reported cases).
Respiratory side effects including interstitial lung disease (ILD) (approximately 1%) has been reported in patients receiving gefitinib. Approximately 1/3 of these cases have been fatal. ILD has been reported at a rate of approximately 2% in Japan in postmarketing experience. ILD has been reported at a rate of about 0.3% in approximately 23,000 patients treated in a US expanded access program and about 1% in the studies of first-line use in non-small cell lung cancer. (but with similar rates in both treatment and placebo groups). Reports have described ILD as interstitial pneumonia, pneumonitis, and alveolitis. Dyspnea (2%) and epistaxis have also been reported.
Gastrointestinal side effects including diarrhea (up to 67%), nausea (up to 18%), vomiting (up to 12 %) and mouth ulceration (1%) have been reported. Pancreatitis (0.1%) has been reported rarely.
Dermatologic side effects including rash (up to 54%), acne (up to 33%), dry skin (up to 26%), pruritus (up to 9%), and vesiculobullous rash (1%) have been reported. Toxic epidermal necrolysis and erythema multiforme have been reported very rarely. Three cases of hand-foot syndrome recall have been reported. Two cases of acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis have been reported. A case of terminal hair growth on the nose tip, a case of nonscarring inflammatory alopecia, a case of scarring alopecia, a case of sycosis with pyoderma gangrenosum-like lesions, and a case of pyogenic granuloma-like lesions of the nail have also been reported.
Hand-foot syndrome can occur in patients who have been previously exposed to agents know to cause hand-foot syndrome.
General side effects including anorexia (up to 10%), asthenia (up to 6%) and weight loss (up to 5%) have been reported.
Cardiovascular side effects including peripheral edema (2%) have been reported.
Ocular side effects including amblyopia (2%) and conjunctivitis (1%) have been reported. Eye pain and corneal erosion/ulcer (sometimes associated with aberrant eyelash growth) have also been reported. Corneal membrane sloughing and ocular ischemia/hemorrhage have been reported very rarely.
Hypersensitivity side effects including angioedema and urticaria have been reported very rarely.
There is insufficient data in pediatric patients to establish a causal relationship. Furthermore, there is no evidence to suggest an increased risk of cerebral hemorrhage in adult patients with NSCLC receiving gefitinib.
Nervous system side effects have included cases of CNS hemorrhage and death in pediatric patients with primary central nervous system tumors.
Renal side effects including hematuria have been reported. A case of nephrotic syndrome has also been reported.
Other side effects including a case of trichomegaly have also been reported.
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This is a terraced rice field in Yunnan, China. Terraced rice fields prevent crop that require a lot of water (like rice) from erosion and surface run-off. It’s a landscaping technique often used for growing crop in hilly or mountainous areas. I think it looks absolutely stunning.
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B A L A N C E of C U L T U R E
Besides the North Korean prison camps that Google's map coverage recently detailed to the world, the country conducted its third nuclear test today--which also happened to occur right next to coordinates labeled "Nuclear Test Road." Needless to say, neighboring countries like ally China and even Iran have condemned the test.
It seems like all of the American media is focusing on the Richardson/Schmidt trip to North Korea instead of how Pyongyang has reportedly enlisted German economists and lawyers to lay the groundwork for foreign investment. In other words, North Korea may be getting ready to finally open up.
Details are still sketchy, but one economist involved in the dealings has confirmed the existence of a "master plan" for North Korea to open its economy as soon as later this year. And interestingly enough, he signals a lean towards the Vietnamese economic model, which allowed specific companies to be recipients of foreign investment, instead of the special economic zoning model of close ally China. For econ geeks out there, that's a pretty juicy update if true.
Who knows how accurate this news is, but there are two elements that make this development pretty compelling. One, we're talking about economists and lawyers from Germany--a country that knows a thing or two about opening up a closed off economy amid reunification. And secondly, this foreign investment news certainly affords a new perspective on Gov. Richardson's and Eric Schmidt's humanitarian trip to North Korea. I don't mean that their trip's purpose isn't to bring back the recently arrested Korean American held there, but I wonder how much more is going on considering a Google executive is on North Korean soil during rumors of opening up to foreign investment.
The photo below of the Khumbu glacier near Mt. Everest is already beautiful, but click here to see an absolutely breathtaking panorama shot of the same scene in 2 billion pixels!
It just sounded too good to be true at the time for a reason. The notorious Camp 22 gulag in North Korea, which was believed to have been shut down in June due to mass defections, appears to be "operational."
"Operational" is a vague term in this context, but it mainly alludes to the continuation of harvesting crops and producing coal by prisoners. Camp 22 is known as the most sordid of North Korean gulags--it's located on the most northeastern corner of the country, bordering China and the ocean. This is the camp that prisoners dread the most because surviving this particular location is so rare.
I've been privileged to work side by side with some of the talented people at HRNK. Their satellite imagery of North Korea (provided by DigitalGlobe) virtually paved the way for the images we now have of Sudan, for example. They really deserve more kudos in this regard.
Can you imagine if we had this technology during WWII? It might have given those Holocaust-deniers something to chew on. But perhaps I'm overestimating people, as I still sometimes encounter "bubble-dwellers" who are still defiantly skeptical of what's going on in North Korea to this day despite the information we have now. I know, some people simply don't like to learn about atrocities on this scale if they took place outside of WWII. Which is too bad, because these kinds of manmade problems certainly are not exclusive to one war or time period--history has shown us this over and over again.
After reading the news of Japanese telecom giant Softbank buying 70% of Sprint yesterday, I learned that Softbank's CEO Masayoshi Son is a Zainichi Korean who was educated in the US! He apparently graduated from UC Berkeley, where he connected with all sorts of video game and tech people (often attributed to his success later on).
My own family has some personal history and connections within Japan so I'm always interested in these "temporary" Korean-Japanese citizens. Zainichi Koreans are the second largest ethnic group in Japan and are known to have settled in Japan in the early 20th century during the Japanese Imperial Period (basically 1910-1945). They are distinguished from other ethnic Korean-Japanese who migrated there later, mainly in the 1980s.
Softbank has recently expanding their influence in Japan by getting involved in aiding recovery after the earthquake/tsunami disaster of 2011--investing in solar energy as well as paying for 1,200 of the hardest hit families' living expenses and relocation.
The company's humanitarian angle certainly makes Son's nickname, the "Bill Gates of Japan," pretty understandable.
One of my favorite bloggers Xeni Jardin has a great post today commenting on a recent New Yorker piece titled "Factory Girls," which looks at the "cultural technology" of South Korea's global K-pop machine.
The New Yorker article is, according to Carl Hamm (radio/club DJ who regularly spins K-pop), "one of an endless stream of articles I have read that sort of 'warns' of a pending K-Pop invasion. But the fact is, it's already happened."
This FP blog had a similar but slightly altered take on the subject, stating that the West is "actually late" to the K-pop party, which is enjoying considerable success throughout Asia.
While most music lovers heard of Psy only this year through his hit "Gangnam Style," he's been around for some time now. The first time I heard Psy on regular mainstream radio was months ago in Hawaii on KISS FM, probably a few weeks before KIIS FM started to play it in Los Angeles.
But when was the last time you heard K-pop on the radio before the horsey-dance hit the web--or any foreign song, for that matter?
This year's US presidential election is perhaps the most compelling one in a very, very long time. We have a clear social divide happening in America--both Democrats and Republicans in their respective conventions alluded to how our votes this November will mark one of the most important political and social crossroads of our lives.
I think as voters we definitely feel some sense of a crossroad ahead of us. Obama represents the "new(er)" path for many, while Romney embodies a predilection towards the "traditional." This juxtaposition is quite fascinating for American voters but interestingly enough, plenty of Chinese citizens are also highly captivated of our current political interchange.
Of course this Chinese fascination can be credited to the explosion of online social media in recent years, where anybody with an internet connection and communication device can tune in and have their say on an infinite number of subjects around the world. But the interest level probably wouldn't be the same for them if it were not for critical analyses they feel appropriate towards their own politicians and leaders:
"When our leaders stop lecturing us with a stern face, when their wives stop putting on airs to give us a lesson, when they can reach to us with sincerity, as 'one of us,' that is the time when China will become civilized," states Wang Weija on Weibo.
China's authoritarian political atmosphere certainly gives their citizens a different lens with which to observe US politics and speeches. Many Chinese have a decidedly more "innocent" approach to political speeches in the US, where facts and lies run rampant at times. They may not understand the extent to which our leaders stand at a podium and bark inaccuracies for half an hour (ex: Paul Ryan), but it isn't difficult to see why so many of them have started supporting President Obama for another term.
Speeches in China may be more straightforward and fact-checked than ours lately, but information and certain freedoms remain questionable in most circumstances there. Chinese citizens are more educated and progressive then ever in the country's history; they know what they want for themselves and the future. Let's recognize the possibility that the values they project onto our elections are significant not only to those in China, but also to those forward-thinking communities in other parts of the world. Unlike 2008, many more people abroad will watch our election this time--through their laptops, phones, TVs, iPads, you name it.
I'm just glad that even China's web users are leaning towards the future in our own American crossroads. They know that even though this isn't their own country's election, the outcome is something they'll deal with for four years regardless. It's a positive sign so far.
Some images from this past weekend at LA Navy Days 2012 with family. We heard that last year's event was a bit chaotic but this year was super mellow and fun (perfect weather, too). (Some sad news surfaced the very next day regarding film director Tony Scott, which was the last thing on our minds during the walk-through.) We had fun talking to the sailors on the missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108), who told us their sea sickness stories, showed us their living/eating quarters (couldn't take pics there), and demonstrated the impressive technology on the ship. | <urn:uuid:3308a0df-1a0d-4f2a-b0fd-123ebcf57097> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.balanceofculture.com/technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970577 | 1,847 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Lipová 246,247/39,41 (Pisárky) Brno Střed
Public transport: Lipová (TROL 25, 26, 37)
Lipová (TRAM 1, BUS 52, 68)
Pavlíkova (TROL 38)
GPS: 49°11'38.689"N, 16°34'40.577"E
The semi-detached house in Lipová Street was designed by Otto Eisler in 1926 for Dr. Viktor Kraus and Eugene Link. This is one of the few Czech interwar buildings to be presented at The International Style. Architecture since 1922 exhibition held at the New York Museum of Modern Art and prepared by Philipp Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock in 1932. The exhibition and its catalogue were intended to present the newly forming European architectural style to the American public.
The symmetric double villa is based on a rectangular ground plan and its mass consists of a plain block. What made the design interesting from the perspective of modern architectural thought at the time was the smooth purist face reduced to a subtle staircase with two entrances and the symmetrically placed bedroom windows on the first floor. The raised basement housed a garage and technical facilities; the main residential area was situated on the raised ground floor and the first floor. Each residential unit featured a layout designed specifically to suit the owners' needs. The ground floor of both apartments had a spacious hall with a staircase leading upstairs, a living room and a dining room. The building on the right also had a kitchen on the ground floor; the kitchen of the left house was presumably situated in the basement. The first floor of both houses contained three bedrooms and a room for servants or nannies.
The reduced northern street facade only broken by a minimum number of windows resembles the compact shapes of Adolf Loos, as is also evident in the lack of attention to the literal symmetric composition. However, this minimalist impression has lost much of its power today. The new owners divided the colour of the facades of the houses and made other insensitive modifications. | <urn:uuid:5517abe3-52b9-4a2e-b392-136d668d9e3f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bam.brno.cz/en/object/c049-semi-detached-villa?filter=year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957063 | 432 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Mclaren MP4-27 Uses Oddly Conventional Nose Design
The oddly-conventional high nose design of the current Mclaren MP4-27 was recently tested at Mugello and the testing was successful enough for it to appear at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. The nose design helps to manage airflow directed to rear of the car but hardly does anything to the front of the vehicle. Team principal Whitmarsh has said, “You are managing the airflow enjoyed by the rest of the car. [There are] a lot of restrictions around the back end of the car, so you generate more improvement by managing the flow that arrives there than by developing the rear itself.”
Whitmarsh remarked that there was a reasonable chance that we will see the car on Sunday. Hopefully the changes will be enough to make the McLaren more competitive. The team’s four front-row starts, two poles and a race win in the first four events, gives us reason to expect a lot more. | <urn:uuid:358a2a57-c44f-471c-b408-c9efff2ec5a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nitrobahn.com/news/mclaren-mp4-27-uses-oddly-conventional-nose-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971673 | 209 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The traditional music festival of spiritual music dedicated to St. Petka of Trnovo was held also this year for the nineth time in a town of Grbovo in Bulgaria last weekend. The organizer of this Festival is the Diocese of Great Trnovo and the Municipality of the town of Grbovo. This year our country and our Church were represented by the Singing society " Venerable Rafailo of Banat" from Zrenjanin.
On the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the foundation of the Society of Serbian Letters, the predecessor of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a big exhibition of works of artists who were Academy members was opened on November 18. The exhibition includes works by painters and sculptors who were members of the Academy and its preceding institutions throughout history (Society of Serbian Letters, Serbian Learned Society, Serbian Royal Academy) from painters Steva Todorović and Đoka Milovanović, to artists that are active even today - Olga Jevrić, Vladimir Veličković, Ljubomir Ljuba Popović, Svetomir Arsić Basara, Petar Omčikus, Nikola Janković, Dušan Otašević, Tome Serafimovski, Todor Stevanović and Milica Stevanović.
The Serbian icon painter Danilo Ivanovic for the first time exhibits in Reikjavik, Island. The exhibition is called "The Icon - a window to the Heavenly Empire" and consists of fifteen icons of Byzantine style with different motives: Theotokos with Christ, Christ on the throne, St. John Chrysostom, St. Catherine of Sinai and others. The exhibition is opened in a new parish house of Kopavogskirje. Islanders who love Orthodox music sing in the Kopavogskirje choir.
As a performing art, ballet arrived in Serbia much later than in western Europe or in Russia. In the early 20th century, only some enthusiasts in Belgrade were interested in dance and ballet as a form of art. The first and the most dedicated champion of dance as an official form of art in Serbia was Maga Magazinović (1882–1968), a person of versatile talents, who was always ahead of her time. She was the first woman to graduate from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and the first woman who wrote for the POLITIKA daily. Marija - Maga Magazinović was born in Užice, Western Serbia, in 1882. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1904, in the class of distinguished Serbian philosopher Branislav Petronijević.
At the archaeological site Iustiniana Prima, near Leskovac, two seals of Emperor Iustinian (527-565) were found.
The chief of the archeological team at the Iustiniana Prima site, Vujadin Ivanisevic said that the seals were found during summer's excavation at Acropolis, the place where was the seat of the Archbishopric in Iustiniana Prima. This great discovery is one additional evidence that Iustiniana Prima was a birthplace of Iustinian. | <urn:uuid:722954c9-cc14-45d6-9433-a30ea6fb5842> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spc.rs/eng/taxonomy/term/25?page=8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967296 | 680 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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Illustrated guide to sewing home furnishings : expert techniques for creating custom shades, drapes, slipcovers and more — Have you ever seen a gorgeous fabric in the store but thought you didn't have the skills to make it into curtains, a pillow, or a slipcover? Look no further, this book has clear instructions that will allow you to teach yourself as you go. It includes a variety of techniques as well as instructions for calculating yardage and other seemingly tricky parts of the process.
If you've seen The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in theaters and can't get enough of all things Narnian, here are some other fantasy voyages to check out:
The book of three by Lloyd Alexander — An Assistant Pigkeeper sets out on a quest to make a name for himself in the country of Prydain.
Tuck everlasting by Natalie Babbitt — The Tuck family discovers the source of the fountain of youth, but find that eternal youth isn't all it's cracked up to be.
You get 'em (cue heroic music)! If you enjoyed Percy Jackson and 39 clues, and you're looking for more books with that same sense of adventure, here's a list for you:
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The angel experiment by James Patterson
The lady in the tower : the fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
The comforts of home : thrifty and chic decorating ideas for making the most of what you have by Caroline Clifton- Mogg
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The soybean market has been waiting on Chinese demand for U.S. soybeans to pick up for weeks, but sales to that top buyer continue to be limited by competition from South America and other factors.
USDA reported new U.S. soybean sales to China of only 91,800 metric tons during the week ended Oct. 20. Largely as a result of the lack of Chinese demand, that week’s total soybean export sales were the lowest of the new marketing year to date.
U.S. soybean export sales commitments to China through Oct. 20, at roughly 468.5 million bushels (nearly 12.751milion metric tons (mmt)), are down 23.5% from a year earlier.
Sales to China are also being shipped at an even slower rate. Actual U.S. soybean shipments to China, at about 99.7 million bushels, are 33% behind a year earlier.
Amid the slow Chinese demand, total U.S. soybean export commitments for 2011-2012 have slipped 33% behind a year earlier with USDA only forecasting an 8.3% drop in yearly exports.
According to the China National Grain & Oils Information Center (CNGOIC), a Chinese government-backed think tank, China has bought 1.34 mmt of U.S. soybeans over the past four weeks, only about one third of the 4.03 mmt it bought during the same period a year ago.
The CNGOIC cited a lack of profits in China’s crushing industry, high stocks of soybeans at Chinese ports and competition from South American supplies, as reasons for the decline in U.S. purchases.
Judging from the latest estimate of October soybean imports from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC), continued South American competition, primarily from Brazil, is the biggest reason for slow U.S. sales to China.
The MOC said last Thursday that based on reports from importers during the Oct. 1-15 period, China's October soybean imports will likely total 4.83 mmt, up from its earlier forecast of 4.19 mmt.
That import figure would be up 17% from actual September soybean imports of 4.19 mmt and 29.5% from October 2010 imports of 3.73 mmt.
It’s not clear just when U.S. soybean sales to China and actual export shipments may pick up. The MOC sees China’s total soybean imports easing to 3.9 mmt in November.
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The folks at Amnesty International - known for their deification of death row inmates - have now decided the United States is/was guilty of 'human rights violations' in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
From what I saw of the news reports from Katrina, one group fixed up what they had lost, another group expected someone to do it for them. AI needs to deal with problems like the problems in other parts of the world which are more detrimental, as I see it, to the human kind.
I believe the handling of Katrina was also the beginning of the economy going to heck. That was when gas blasted it's way to almost $5 a gallon, gas companies made record profits while our government did nothing to help or stop it. People suddenly had to choose between gas and everything else. Grocery prices skyrocketed, heating costs soared... People who could pay their bills before suddenly found themselves coming up short... things have never been the same since...
I believe the business model or the mindset of companies has changed or I have been too naïve until now to see it for what it is. It now seems to be not about making an honest buck of profit but more about leverage. Many companies these days do what it does to generate money not because it adds increased value or service but because it can get away with what it does for profit. It’s the difference in capitalism and gross exploitation. Some may call it rapacious capitalism.
You would act the same way if you had nothing and had to feed & protect your family. They wouldn't have needed to act like that if our government would have step up to the plate. I doubt you are blaming bush though. You should step down from your high horse every once in a while.
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Copyright 1995 Southam Inc.
The Gazette (Montreal)
April 28, 1995, Friday, FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. C13
LENGTH: 423 words
HEADLINE: FBI agents searching Frisco machine shops in Unabomber case
BYLINE: AP; SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
FBI agents scoured area machine shops yesterday for clues in the Unabomber case, trying to determine whether the bomber used any of the shops to make explosives, a federal investigator said.
The investigator - a Unabomb task force member - would not say why agents suspect that the Unabomber might have used one of the shops.
The San Francisco FBI has temporarily reassigned 100 agents to work on the task force that is poring over old and new clues in the 17-year-old case. FBI director Louis Freeh has agreed to put an additional 50 agents on the case.
The latest blast, on Monday, killed Sacramento timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray, 47, as he opened a package addressed to a former employee of the Timber Association of California.
"From what we can see, it seems the most powerful yet" in the string of 16 bombings since 1978, said Robert Barnett, head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office here.
ATF investigators were still trying to determine what explosives were used in Monday's attack.
The bomb was encased in a wooden box similar to the bomb that killed New Jersey advertising executive Thomas Mosser in December, Barnett said.
All told, the Unabomber has killed three people and injured 23.
The bomb that killed Murray was mailed along with four letters from the Oakland area one day after the Oklahoma City bombing.
The FBI has not made public the names of the recipients of two letters, or revealed the contents.
Of the other two, one letter critical of "industrial society" went to the New York Times. The other went to a Yale University computer- science professor badly injured in an earlier bombing.
Also yesterday, the FBI denied TV reports that agents were searching for former Symbionese Liberation Army member James William Kilgore as a possible suspect in the case. Kilgore was a bomb-maker for the SLA, the group responsible for kidnapping Patty Hearst. He went underground in 1975 and was never caught.
This is not the first time authorities have stepped up efforts to crack the case that has stumped investigators for 17 years. In December, after a package bomb Mosser at his New Jersey home, the FBI assigned additional investigators to the case and appealed to the public to come forward with tips.
But with the appearance of four letters sent by the self-professed anarchist last week, agents are more confident than ever that they will catch him, said Jim R. Freeman, FBI chief for San Francisco.
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My post from last year about women's writing in Afghanistan got a lot of hits, so I decided to share this piece from The New York Times, about a women's poetry group in that same country:
Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry
It's long, at six pages, but I read the whole thing, even with my short attention span. Once again, as I said with the last post, it's important to really think about things I take for granted, like being able to write whatever I want, and get as much education as I want, and even just go out in public alone. Not everyone is as lucky as I am, and it's good to remember that.
Also, I was struck with the resemblance between some of short poems the Afghan women recite and the poems from Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society which I read in a social anthropology class when I was at Harvard. (For the record, if you are interested in including something which resembles a Muslim society in a fantasy novel, please actually read books similar to Veiled Sentiments and get a sense of what life is actually like for people in such societies. No more generalizations based on television coverage -- I've seen enough of those.) | <urn:uuid:1ead81d7-a1a2-4db1-8f3e-2bc8fee6b5e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sneakyburrito.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-off-topic-post.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98327 | 257 | 1.554688 | 2 |
…especially if it involves cupcakes and lemonade! Our Grand Opening Weekend was a great success, thank you to all who came out and participated in the weekend of free events and demonstrated many ways to “live peace.” Take a look:
Children and adults alike had the chance to work with artist Natasha Shoro at her Expressive Arts table in the Center’s world cafe area.
The lobby’s koi pond, made from a Burmese fire bowl, was the most popular of all the unique furnishings in the Center.
Acclaimed street muralist Melanie Stimmell worked throughout the weekend on the mural begun at our Grand Opening Party. Melanie also led workshops in chalk art for all ages.
Melanie’s finished chalk mural will be permanently hung in the Center.
The first of all the free workshops of the weekend was led by Terry LePage of Open Door Communication. This Nonviolent Communication class, focusing on how to communicate more effectively and compassionately with others, set the perfect tone for the weekend and beyond.
Craig Causon of The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and Julie Hudash of Team Kids teamed up to present a service inspired story and art activity in our South Wing. Children made masterpieces from recycled and trashed materials.
Breaking ground in the Center’s North Wing, The Ecology Center guided families and kids in creating their own terrariums.
Richard Reoch, International Human Rights Advocate and former Media Chief of Nobel Prize Winning Amnesty International, led a discussion on Making Peace Possible followed by an introduction to meditation.
Smiling Monkey Yoga, a children’s program designed specifically for The Center for Living Peace by Patrice Simon and Amy McConnell, made a fun debut teaching yoga and breathing techniques using play and imagination.
The Orange County Museum of Art helped visitors harness the power of the sun to create whimsical solar portraits from collected objects.
It was a wonderful weekend had by all! Missed out? Visit our events calendar for ongoing programs and workshops.
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Forecasters predict as many as four to eight hurricanes this year. University of Houston resources have expertise in a variety of topics related to storms – before, during and after.
Univesity Launches a new Web Site
“Our first priority was to enable prospective students to find the information they want, therefore, the architecture and language of the primary sections of the site are geared to the prospective student,” Champagne said. “We interviewed and surveyed hundreds of prospective students and tested our progress with them along the way.”
A notable enhancement of the new site is audience gateways. Through these gateways, many of the university’s diverse audiences will find the information most important to them right at their fingertips. For example, the faculty and staff gateway includes three sections — professional resources, campus services and administration.
The Web site also shows visitors a glimpse of campus life at UH by offering abundant photography and a series of features on almost every page. The site also provides visitors multiple ways to access the information — bullets, checklists, narrative and feature stories.
The Web site project began last year through a partnership between the divisions of University
Advancement and the Academic Affairs’ Office of Information Technology. UH hired mStoner, a national communications firm specializing in higher education Web sites, as project consultant.
The second phase of the Web site’s redesign will integrate additional pages and include the implementation of a content management system, software that makes it quicker and easier to update content on the Web. The next phase also includes training colleges and department staff on how to implement the new templates for their sites and adding more features such as blogs and video feeds.
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Chicago Children's Theatre (CCT) will close Bud, Not Buddy today.
Based on the book by Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy - the first book ever to receive both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award - is a favorite with kids 8 and up and, at many schools, required reading for February, Black History Month.
Bud, Not Buddy follows the heartwarming, unforgettable journey of a young African-American orphan as he searches for his father. Clues kept in a suitcase lead him to adventures in Depression-era Michigan, where he finds community among a group of jazz musicians and, ultimately, an unexpected sense of home. Full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, Bud, Not Buddy hits the high notes of jazz and sounds the deeper tones of the Great Depression.
CCT's Chicago debut of Bud, Not Buddy is adapted by Reginald Andre Jackson, and won the Distinguished Play Award from The American Alliance for Theater and Education. Bud, Not Buddy is directed by Derrick Sanders, who staged the company's 2010 smash hit world premiere Jackie and Me about baseball legend Jackie Robinson. The Bud, Not Buddy cast features Travis Turner as Bud, with Kamal Angelo Bolden (familiar to CCT audiences in the title role in Jackie and Me), Sean Bolger, MyKele Callicut, Mackenzie Chinn, Cedric May, Malkia Stampley, Andre Teamer, Genevieve Venjohnson and CedRic Young. Designers are Courtney O'Neill (scenic design); William Kirkham (lighting design); Rick Simms (sound design); Christine Pascual (costume design) and Nick Heggestad (prop design).
Born in Flint, Michigan, Christopher Paul Curtis was always a great reader, but as a youth he could not find books "that were about me." He spent his first 13 years after high school on the assembly line of Flint's historic Fisher Body Plant #1, hanging 80-pound car doors on Buicks. He wrote during his breaks to escape the noise of the factory, while attending college at night. Curtis made an outstanding debut in children's literature with The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. His second novel, Bud, Not Buddy, is the first book ever to receive both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award. Curtis' writing - and his dedication to it - has been greatly influenced by his family members. He modeled characters in Bud, Not Buddy after his two amazing grandfathers - Earl "Lefty" Lewis, a Negro Baseball League pitcher, and 1930s bandleader Herman E. Curtis, Sr., of Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.
Award-winning director Derrick Sanders - Founding Artistic Director of Congo Square Theatre Company, a Chicago Tribune Chicagoan of the Year in 2005, and winner of multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards and Black Theater Alliance Awards - has a national reputation, having directed at countless Chicago, regional and New York theaters.
His most recent collaboration with Chicago Children's Theater, the 2011 world premiere of Jackie and Me, written by Steven Dietz, based on the book by Dan Gutman, enjoyed a nearly sold-out run at the Ruth Page. One of CCT's biggest hits ever, Jackie and Me has since received productions in Seattle, Houston, St. Louis and at New York's Atlantic Theatre Company. Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis will produce Jackie and Me next March, and the script will be published later this year by Dramatists Play Service. | <urn:uuid:51b75c80-5358-4fc6-8e9d-6c8fcface0f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chicago.broadwayworld.com/article/Chicago-Childrens-Theatre-Presents-Chicago-Debut-of-BUD-NOT-BUDDY-112-224-20130223 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951544 | 731 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Peak of Sonoma County flu season still to come
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 3:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 3:15 p.m.
The flu bug is spreading through Sonoma County, with the peak of the seasonal illness likely to come in the next few weeks, local physicians said.
“It's getting worse,” said Dr. Gary Green, chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Rosa, reporting an uptick in flu cases in the emergency room, hospital and medical offices.
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers are seeing about 270 flu cases a week, accounting for 7 percent of all patient visits, said Dr. Francisco Trilla, chief medical officer for the clinics.
Green said it is a “typical flu year,” with patients experiencing “moderate to severe symptoms,” typically coughing, fever and aches.
The Type A influenza this year is a “tough virus,” he said, a strain that is laying people low for five to seven days.
The California Department of Public Health's latest flu report, issued Friday, classified the state's influenza outbreak as “moderately severe.”
The proportion of people seeing a health care provider for influenza-like illness hit 6.2 percent statewide for the week ending Jan. 26, up from 4.7 percent the previous week, the report said.
Five influenza-related deaths among people less than 65 years old were reported during the week, bringing to 14 the total deaths in California for the 2012-13 flu season.
Two of the deaths were in the San Francisco Bay area. A Public Health Department spokesman said that patient confidentiality laws precluded a more specific location.
California's most recent flu activity is “above the expected level for this time of year,” spokesman Corey Egel said.
The state has distributed about 18 million doses of flu vaccine since August and received no reports of widespread flu vaccine shortages, he said.
Dr. Karen Holbrook, Sonoma County deputy health officer, said there has been “no overall shortage” of vaccine in the county.
People intending to get inoculated should call ahead because some providers have experienced temporary shortages, she said.
Kaiser's Santa Rosa facility has vaccinated about 61,000 patients, Green said.
Health officials continue to recommend flu vaccinations, along with hand-washing and covering the nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing.
The vaccine is reportedly effective for 62 percent of the people getting shots, which Trilla said was “a relatively bad ratio.”
Green said the effective rate should be higher, but also noted that a vaccinated person — like himself — may get a milder case of the flu.
Green said he fell ill Monday night, stayed home Tuesday resting and drinking fluids, and returned to work on Wednesday.
Flu activity is stable or declining in most of the nation, but increasing in the west, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report for the week ending Jan. 26.
Trilla and Green said the outbreak is still rising in California, and may peak in the next week or two.
Proctor Terrace Elementary School in Santa Rosa has been sending home “a fairly high number” of students with a fever, typical for this time of year, Principal Steve Mayer said.
The school's attendance rate in January was 94.7 percent, down 1.6 percent from the same month of 2012.
Dropping below 95 percent is “abnormal” for the school, but Mayer said he could not attribute it to the flu.
Told that experts predict the flu outbreak will peak in a few weeks, he said “it means we're almost over the hump.”
(You can reach Staff Writer Guy Kovner at 521-5457 or firstname.lastname@example.org.)
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Review of TPB Travel Modeling Procedures
It is generally considered best practice for an MPO to get an external review of its travel demand modeling process on a regular, on-going basis. In 2003, TPB staff chose to conduct a review of the modeling procedures using a panel from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). In more recent years, TPB staff has hired a consultant to provide that review. Both efforts are described below.
Transportation Research Board (TRB) Review
At its April 17, 2002 meeting, the TPB approved a process for conducting a review of the region's travel modeling procedures. The process called for the TPB to engage a respected non-partisan organization, such as the Transportation Research Board (TRB), to appoint the members of the peer review panel and oversee the review process. A request was formally made to the TRB on May 8, 2002 in a letter from then TPB Chair, Phil Mendelson. The TRB accepted this task and began its analysis of the TPB modeling procedure in January 2003. On September 8, 2003 the TRB submitted its first letter report and on May 10, 2004 the TRB concluded its analysis with the submission to TPB of its second and final letter report. TPB staff provided detailed comments on each of the TRB reports in letters of September 8, 2003 and May 13, 2004 respectively.
Scan of Best Practices in Travel Demand Forecasting
Beginning in FY 2006, the TPB has had a task-order consulting contract to scan the best practices in travel demand forecasting across the U.S. The scope of work for this project includes three components:
For fiscal years 2006-2008, the contract was awarded to Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB). For fiscal years 2009-2011, the contract was awarded to Cambridge Systematics, Inc. In FY 2012, the contract was awarded to AECOM. The following documents have been produced:
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Petrobras production of oil and natural gas in August was 2.54 MMboepd
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has announced its oil and natural gas production in August, 2012.
Petrobras’s average oil and natural gas production in Brazil and overseas in August was 2,544,250 boed. Fields located in Brazil produced 2,305,890 boed, down 0.4% when compared with the previous month. Scheduled maintenance shutdowns in two platforms of Campos basin - P-52 (Roncador) and FPSO-Cidade de Niteroi (Marlim Leste) – were primarily responsible for the decrease. Total output abroad was 238,360 boed, which corresponds to a 0.4% decrease from July.
Of the total produced in Brazil, 1,927,724 bpd were exclusively of oil. In August, non-liquefied natural gas output reached 60 MMTcm, 1%, higher than the volume produced in July.
Average output abroad, exclusively of oil, reached 147,215 bpd, up 0.1% against the previous month. Natural gas output reached 15 million 485 thousand cubic meters per day, down 1.3% against July. This decrease was due to lower demand for Bolivian gas.
The total production disclosed to the Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) was 9,167,603,10 cu m of oil and 2,181,158,04 cu m of gas in August of 2012. This output corresponds to the total production of the concessions where Petrobras is the operator. It does not include volumes of shale, NGL and the production of partners where Petrobras is not the operator. | <urn:uuid:6872a81c-3b3f-43c1-b08d-ad4aaada9e8a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldoil.com/Petrobras_production_of_oil_and_natural_gas_in_August_was_2_54_MMboepd.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953158 | 375 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted in 1985 Air India bombing, has been sentenced to nine years in jail by a Canadian court for perjury at the trial of his two co-accused conspirators.
In handing down his sentence, British Columbia Superior Court judge Mark McEwan observed Reyat was “nothing like a remorseful man.”
“The effect of Reyat’s perjury on the outcome of the trial is incalculable,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said quoting Justice McEwan.
Reyat will receive 17 months credit for the time spent in pre-trial custody, reducing his sentence to seven years and seven months.
Crown prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence for perjury of 14 years.
According to the prosecutor, Reyat had deliberately misled the Air India trial 19 times over three days of testimony that began on September 10, 2003.
Reyat was found guilty of perjury last September for lying under oath during the 2003 trial of Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik, both of whom were acquitted in the bombings.
He has already spent 15 years in prison -- 10 years for manslaughter in the deaths of two baggage handlers, and five in exchange for testimony that he helped build the bomb that brought down the Air India Flight 182.
Bagri and Malik had been charged with conspiring to blow up the Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, and of causing another explosion the same day that killed two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Tokyo.
The aircraft was off the coast of Ireland, en route from Montreal to London, England and New Delhi when an explosive device went off in the cargo hold, killing all 329 people aboard.
Malik and Bagri were eventually acquitted.
Seven years later, on September 18, 2010, the Crown proved that Reyat had lied repeatedly under oath during their trial.
For example, Reyat claimed never to have learned the name or other basic facts about an unnamed conspirator in the bombing, even though the man had stayed at Reyat’s home on Vancouver Island for several days.
At yesterday’s sentencing hearing, McEwan said much of the evidence Reyat gave under oath was inconsistent with common sense and that his lies, just months after the guilty plea as part of the deal that included his testimony, “bespoke a deep and abiding rejection of Canadian values.”
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MARINElife are proud to be attending the UK’s largest FREE natural history event which celebrates its tenth anniversary this summer, as the Bristol Festival of Nature returns to the Harbourside on the weekend of the 15th and 16th June 2013. Read more ...
MARINElife is delighted to be working with the Wildlife Trusts again in 2013 to provide marine mammal and seabird training courses. MARINElife operates through a group of dedicated volunteers who help gather data on the marine environment and we are always looking for new volunteers to help conduct surveys, report their sightings or help with other aspects of charity operation.
The training will give you a thorough grounding on the diverse range of species we study, the methodologies we follow and the part you can play in safeguarding their future.
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Details of Northern Experience Pelagic Trips for 2013 lead by MARINElife's North East Regional Officer Dr Martin Kitching are available for booking. Read more...
“MARINElife has an incredibly important role to play in the protection of
our invaluable coast and seas. The work that their dedicated and
enthusiastic volunteers do to collect information on the distribution of
both cetaceans and sea birds helps managers and policy makers make
important and informed decisions about marine management and conservation.
Their work also helps to raise awareness of an aspect of our seas that few
people appreciate - we have a fantastic selection of whales, dolphins and
sea birds in our waters that some people might assume you have to travel
abroad to see! Through this understanding and appreciation of our thriving
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Anthropology is the study of human beings in all their cultural diversity. It includes the study of human evolution, the archaeological record, language and culture, the relationship between humans and their environment, and cultural modes of being as these differ in time and space. In studying anthropology, students can better understand how to find ways to live together in today's world, respecting cultural diversity while building upon common human values.
The study of anthropology at the University of Washington is comprised of three sub-disciplines:
247 Denny, Box 353100
The Department of Anthropology offers the following undergraduate programs:
Bachelor of Arts
Suggested First- and Second-Year College Courses: ARCHY 205; BIO A 201; any additional 200-level ANTH course; and one from CS&SS 221/SOC 221/STAT 221, STAT 220, STAT 311, Q SCI 381, or ARCHY 495.
Department Admission Requirements
Additional requirements for students applying to medical anthropology and global health (MAGH) or anthropology of globalization (AG) options.
Admission to the MAGH or AG options is competitive. Meeting minimum requirements for admission to the major does not guarantee admission to either option. Applications are available on the department website on the first day of the quarter. Application deadline is the second Friday of autumn, winter, or spring quarters. Students are notified of the admission decision by the end of week five of the quarter in which they apply.
See department advising office for additional requirements.
Admission to the archaeological sciences (ASc) option is not competitive and is open to all students accepted into the anthropology major. A passing grade in ARCHY 205 is required for admission to the archaeological sciences (ASc) option.
55 credits as follows:
Medical Anthropology and Global Health (MAGH) Option: Requirements for the general anthropology major, as shown above, to include ANTH 215 and 15 credits from ANTH and BIO A courses approved for the MAGH option. A list of approved courses available at the department advising office (247 Denny) or on the department website.
Anthropology of Globalization (AG) Option: Requirements for the general anthropology major, as shown above, to include 20 credits from courses in ANTH, ARCHY, and BIO A approved for the AG option. A list of approved courses is available at the department advising office (247 Denny) or on the department website.
Archaeological Sciences (ASc) Option: Requirements for the general anthropology major, as shown above, to include 15 credits from ARCHY 480, ARCHY 481, ARCHY 482, ARCHY 483, ARCHY 484, ARCHY 495, and at least 15 credits from courses approved for the ASc option. The list of approved courses is available on the department website or at the department advising office (247 Denny).
Minor Requirements: 30 credits (at least 15 credits at upper-division level) from courses with the following prefixes: ANTH, ARCHY, BIO A. ANTH 100 may be applied to the minor but is not required. (Certain AIS courses may apply toward this requirement. See departmental adviser for list.) Minimum grade of 2.0 required in each course.
Student Outcomes and Opportunities
Graduate Program Coordinator
The department recognizes three principal subfields of anthropology within its faculty, programs, and curriculum: archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology (including linguistic anthropology). The department offers three distinct PhD programs within the sub-disciplines. Additionally, the department has an informal program in environmental anthropology which applicants may pursue within one of the traditional PhD track programs. A concurrent degree program with Health Services offers an MPH/PhD. A PhD program in sociocultural anthropology with emphasis in ethnomusicology is offered in cooperation with the School of Music. The MA degree may be earned within the PhD programs. Graduate students are admitted to, and specialize in, their chosen subfields from the beginning of their graduate studies.
Applicants are admitted to begin study only during autumn quarter and are advised to have their application materials completed by the beginning of the prior January. A complete application file includes the online application to the Graduate School, official transcripts, the supplementary application to anthropology, three recommendations, a statement of purpose, and scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). International students are required to take the TOEFL exam as well as the GRE.
For each of the respective graduate programs, completion of the core requirements and a reading knowledge of one foreign language are required. Under the guidance of a Supervisory Committee selected from the appropriate subfield, the student shapes an individual program. The major areas emphasized in the faculty and curriculum are the United States, Mexico, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, Oceania, Middle East, and the post-Soviet states. The MA degree usually requires two years of graduate study; the PhD programs usually require at least three years beyond the master's level, including a year of independent field research and a year to organize field materials and write a doctoral dissertation. The MA degree can be earned only within the PhD programs as a thesis or non-thesis degree.
Two multi-year recruitment fellowships are awarded to outstanding entering students. A limited number of teaching and research assistantships and hourly positions are offered primarily to advanced students. Applicants should apply for Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships if qualified. Work-study positions may also be available for eligible graduate students. | <urn:uuid:7131cd83-6cf7-4cf8-9e67-8c047b8c02f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/academic/anth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931455 | 1,145 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples
Living together out of wedlock can mean anything, especially in court -- unlike married couples, most unmarried couples don't automatically inherit or receive protection under the law. Consequently, you must document everything from property ownership and children to wills and other estate plans.
An essential resource for any unmarried couple, Living Together explains:
the legality of living together
having and raising children
the many types of ownership agreements
relationships with a prior family
getting authorization to make medical decisions for an ill or injured partner
Living Together includes:
a complete overview of important legal documents, including a living together contract
instructions to filling out these documents
sample forms legal agreements as tear-outs and on CD-ROM
The 14th edition provides the latest law in readable 50-state charts, and includes many fill-in-the-blank legal forms. It also discusses the laws covering same-sex marriages and civil unions, which are often so broad, they affect unmarried heterosexual couples as well.
The CD-ROM that accompanies the printed version of this book includes forms or other tools; in this eBook, you'll find all those documents in the appendix or at the back of the book.
Don't live with someone unless you've read this book
By fdr - June 17, 2003
Readers should note that this book was written for unmarried opposite-sex couples only. Same-sex couples should instead read _A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples_ by Hayden Curry and Denis Clifford, also published by Nolo. Although many of the issues overlap regardless of sexual orientation, this book considers specifically the concerns facing unmarried male-female partners.Within this scope, this book does a wonderful job of exploring every legal detail unmarried couples should consider when sharing a household. This is the stuff you'll hopefully never have to consider if your lives go happily ever after, but just in case they don't, both you and your partner will be glad to have in writing certain understandings that spouses automatically have granted to them by law. The authors make this wonderful suggestion: "Approach the task in the spirit of clarifying your understanding and preserving the shared memory of two fair-minded people." At its best, using this book will... read more
A fabulous and important resource
By Book Reader "fiandacafiandaca" - April 24, 2002
NOLO's Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples is such a wonderful resource. I would encourage all couples who are living together to purchase and read this book. It details a little bit of history of how laws have changed regarding unmarried couples who live together. This guide has been published and updated since 1979; there have been a lot of changes! It is clear, concise, and user friendly. There are forms to set up all kinds of agreements, whether your intention is to join all your assets and property or keep them all separate, or anywhere in between. The book includes a CD so you can modify any of the agreements you want to use.This guide makes it clear that not having written agreements like these can cause major problems if ever your partnership should end. The guide is suprisingly informative about lots of small legal details and does provide some information about how certain laws differ from state to state. This is a wonderful resource and I... read more
Great book, just not if you live in certain states...
By C. Olivares - March 17, 2004
This book is great. It made me think about a lot of things, being unmarried to my live-in partner and having a young child. However, we are moving to Illinois soon, and this book does NOT apply to unmarried, heterosexual couples there. Illinois is one of a handful of states that has laws against cohabitation. If you live in Illinois or another state that still has these types of laws on the books, none of the legal documents that this book helps you prepare are going to hold up in court. I think it's great, however, that a book like this exists and is so detailed and helpful. Cohabitating couples, especially those of us who have children together and plan to buy homes or own property together, need to know the legal issues as individuals and as a couple. I highly recommend this book, though it probably isn't worth your time if your state still has the anti-cohabitation laws. | <urn:uuid:7a54149f-bc72-4a37-b309-5b5f99121014> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pdfcast.org/paid/9781413307559 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9568 | 898 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The Texas Historical Marker on the building states:
"As superintendent of the Beeville school system for 34 years, William Eldridge Madderra (1870-1936) was responsible for much of the development of the town's early educational programs. Madderra, for whom a local school building is named, purchased this house in 1907, three years after its construction, and lived here with his wife, Donna (Irwin), until his death. The house features late Victorian detailing and a three sided-bay to the right of the porch. (Marker No. 5824)" | <urn:uuid:4e200152-2427-427b-8d6e-bd990afd1596> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mysoutex.com/view/full_story/21939719/article-William-E--Madderra-Home?instance=news_special_coverage_right_column | 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 | 0.971329 | 121 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Victorian Lace Shawl
Victorian Lace Shawl Design
This Shawl is from the new book Victorian Lace by Jane Sowerby. She found a beautiful sampler shawl and she designed this one using Jane Gaugain and Frances Lambert's patterns. (1840 -1845)
The shawl is made with a central panel consisting of 14 different patterns and a border which is added later.
My local yarn store did not have the Jade Sapphire that was listed in the book, and they had a sale going on, so I purchased 9 balls of Rowan 4ply Soft in a very pale pink.
This shawl will be very feminine and pretty. I've never knit a lace pattern this large before and I can't wait to start. I have to complete the backyard leaves scarf first and finish another hat for Christmas.
Yes, I can now start. I'll knit a swatch like a good little girl.
My first swatch on size 3 needles came out to 26 st to 4" which is too big by 6 stitches. The top part is made using size 2 needles and I think that's as far as I'm going. It's too hard for my big fingers to use these very thin needles.
It's an intermediate lace scarf and so far it has not been very demanding. Even my daughter likes what she sees and it's unusual for her to make a comment on what I'm knitting.
I watched The Buccaneers today all 5 episodes at one sitting. It's place in 1874 a little later than my scarf, but it's costumes are beautiful. They spend over a million per episode and it shows. These women are all very slender and the bussle dresses look beautiful on them.
Working on 8th Pattern right now and still have 6 to get to the middle. I've used 3 skeins so far. After this center panel is done I'll have to knit the border all the way around.
The editor of the Victorian Lace Shawl Book told me that I was at a perfect spot. Not to do the pattern repeat that I am on more than once. The pattern calls for 2 times of this 24 row pattern repeat. I think she is right, I'll only do it once. Here are progress photos, I'm about 1/3 of the way through. She said I should keep at least 2 balls for the fringe. I have to say, after seeing the shawl in person, I'd like a bigger fringe as well.
I have finished the central design. Now it's just a matter of reversing the pattern. I am not going to reverse the designs, too much trouble that.
This project is in hibernation for now. I could not use it for my
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Helen at http://saveeverystep.wordpress.com/lifes-a-journey-series/ urges us to share our memories from milestones in our life. This week's theme -Favourite Children's Books
I can remember my first visit to the local children's library and the first book I borrowed - an illustrated history of England with a picture of the young Queen Elizabeth I on the front cover. Even then I loved history, especially a book series called A History of Everyday Life in England which explored life down the centuries with lovely illustrations of costumes and houses.
Classics featured in my reading, boosted by the BBC classic Sunday teatime serials on TV - Little Women and its sequels, What Katy Did, Heidi, Sarah Crewe and The Secret Garden, Jane Eyre, and Children of the New Forest; later on Charles Dickens novels - Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield and onto Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Emma.
In teenage years, I was slow to move onto adult popular fiction - Agatha Christie I think was my route, though I have never been into crime novels where there is a sudden great denouement in the final pages; also Georgette Heyer's Regency romances, the novels of Daphne Du Maurier and Catherine Cookson.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002
Mohamed Elmasry of UW's electrical and computer engineering department is featured on the front page of today's Gazette, talking about his new book, Spiritual Fitness for Life: A Social Engineering Approach. As national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Elmasry is often asked to speak about his faith to audiences he senses are estranged from spiritual issues. "It's a disease of the times," he says, and his book offers a systematic cure. "You do not have to give up your job and travel to faraway places to achieve spiritual fitness," he writes.
Over the course of the symposium, each group will present its project in seminar format to invited guests from industry, academe and the media. Throughout both days, student groups will also publicly display their design project posters and will be available to discuss their projects during breaks.
Grade 6 through OAC students from schools in the region, along with their parents/guardians, have been invited to an open house from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday to visit the various displays and to talk with the student designers.
The symposium presentations will cover many leading-edge technology developments in E&CE. Design project topics include wireless and Bluetooth systems, radio frequency and infra-red systems, digital systems, network cards, network encryption systems, anti-piracy systems, large scale World Wide Web base applications, micropayment systems, active map systems, production management systems, voice controlled systems, location tracking systems, plant efficiency systems, and robot control systems. Some projects also have societal impacts, such as vision and hearing aid advances.
Dean of engineering Sujeet Chaudhuri describes the depth and breadth of this year's projects as an "indisputable testimonial to the quality of engineers graduating from the department this year." He also gratefully acknowledges the work of faculty members, technologists and industry partners who have provided essential support to the students.
This year's symposium includes the second set of graduates to complete the intensive fourth-year design project course sequence, which challenges students in their final year of study to work in groups to identify and address a specific design problem. The symposium gives these students the opportunity to showcase their projects in poster and prototype format and to present them as seminars to external audiences.
Students will be graded on their presentations, explains Jim Barby, E&CE's fourth-year design project coordinator. "Being able to present your ideas to an investor or a client or a boss is essential in our field. These seminars and poster presentations -- in front of an external audience -- help our students develop the skills they'll need to do that successfully."
Opening ceremonies, with presentations by the dean and the chair of E&CE, are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. today. A detailed symposium schedule, including abstracts of each student project, is available on the web.
Traffic noteI understand there was a spectacular collision at the University Avenue entrance to campus about 8:30 this morning -- no information at this moment about the details.
The imperfect balances in the Canadian constitution have been a preoccupation in public life in this country since forever, and especially over the past four decades. And today attention will be focused on them in the 21st annual Faculty of Arts Lecture: "Constitutional Reform in Canada: The God That Failed".
The speaker is Alan Cairns, an adjunct professor in UW's department of political science, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a prominent figure in poli sci in Canada. Last fall he was the guest of honour at a conference at the University of British Columbia, under the title "Rethinking Citizenship in the Canadian Federation", and gave the closing address: "My Academic Career: The Pleasures and Risks of Introspection".
Said the conference announcement: "Over the last thirty years, few scholars have shaped our understanding of the Canadian federation in the manner of Alan Cairns. In a remarkably wide array of fields -- including the regional impact of Canada's electoral system, the historical development of Canadian federalism, the ongoing efforts to constitutionally reshape the federation, the minoritarian effects of the Charter of Rights, and the question of Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal relations -- Cairns's scholarship has initiated and shaped many of the most pivotal debates amongst scholars and students of Canadian politics.
"Even today, Cairns's scholarship operates at the cutting edge of Canadian social science. This is evidenced by the widespread attention generated by his most recent book, Citizens Plus, which is already stimulating important interdisciplinary dialogue on the future of the Canadian federation. Yet while Cairns has tackled an extraordinary number of topics, and has utilized diverse lenses of enquiry, there is a strong theme -- a basis of cohesion -- that operates throughout his work. This theme is Cairns's overarching and consistent focus on the question of citizenship in a federal society.
"Cairns's impact on the study of the Canadian federation reflects not only the quality and range of his scholarship; it also owes much to the manner in which he discharges his role as an academic. Through his dedicated service to his profession and to generations of his students, Cairns has long demonstrated the ideals of scholarly responsibility and duty. This sense of duty extends beyond the academy as well. For example, Cairns was a lead researcher for both the Hawthorn Inquiry of the late 1960s and the Macdonald Commission of the 1980s. In undertaking these activities -- as both a scholar and citizen -- Cairns has demonstrated a second common thread that has operated throughout his career: his cultivation of a scholarly citizenship."
He was winner of last year's Donner Prize for Citizens Plus, a study of "Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state".
Cairns will give his lecture starting at 4:00 today in the Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages building. Admission is free.
It began with a presentation from Bruce Lumsden, director of co-operative education and career services, about the challenges facing co-op -- especially this term, which began with several hundred students jobless. "Four hundred students and their parents are not happy," said Lumsden, noting that although UW has a long, proud history of co-op, and an international reputation, "size and history are not everything. Today we're vulnerable." He said a task force has been set up to look at major issues touching on the co-op programs. Plans are still in the works, he told the senate, for a change to the present batch processing to match large numbers of jobs and students -- the goal is "a much more even flow" so that employers can get students hired faster.
Then came Graham Brown, principal of St. Paul's United College, with several colleagues. He spoke briefly about St. Paul's, describing UW's church colleges as providing "a learning environment that softens specialization". Brown told the senate that St. Paul's recently signed "a memorandum of understanding" with the LT3 learning centre; is planning to add 200 beds to its residence, more than doubling the number of students it can house; and is exploring the possibility of a co-op program in leadership for non-profit organizations.
Later in the meeting, UW president David Johnston mentioned that UW is still making slow progress on the north campus research and technology park, with officials talking with several companies that are "possible early tenants" to get the park occupied.
Provost Amit Chakma reported on the purchase of a building in the old Galt core of Cambridge that's intended as a new home for the UW school of architecture, and said that if things go really well, the school could open there in the fall of 2003. The Cambridge business people who are backing the move still need to find millions of dollars in private sector money for renovating and maintaining the building. Laura Talbot-Allan, the vice-president (university relations), noted that fund-raising for the project is considered part of UW's coming Campaign Waterloo. The senate passed a motion officially recommending to UW's board of governors that the architecture school move to the new site.
The volunteers, all second, third and fourth-year students, will be accompanied by two volunteer optometrists, both UW alumni. They expect to provide treatment for at least 2,500 residents who might otherwise not have access to eye care.
While the trip is organized in part by I Care International, a North American-based charitable organization, students are conducting their own fund raising to pay for their expenses, says Carolyn Fyffe, a third-year optometry student who is participating in the project. "We'll be selling pizza outside Fed Hall on Thursday nights and outside the Bombshelter Saturday nights to help raise funds for our trip."
Anyone wishing to make a donation can send a cheque to I Care International, in care of the school of optometry. A tax receipt will be provided. Children's toys, stickers, colouring books, crayons, candies (no nuts) and Canadian flags or pins are also welcome. Donations can be dropped off or mailed to the school of optometry.
A workshop on "Teaching Large Classes", sponsored by the teaching resource office, starts at 12 noon today in Math and Computer room 5158.
Dominic Covvey of the Education Program for Health Informatics Professionals will speak at 4:00 this afternoon, in a seminar sponsored by that UW unit and the InfraNet Project. His talk, on "How Much IT in a Health System Is Enough?", will be given in the Clarica Auditorium, Lyle Hallman Institute.
The second event in the "civic dialogue" series, sponsored by the civics research group, is scheduled for today from 4:30 to 6:00 at its home in downtown Kitchener, 70 King Street East.
A workshop about UW Innovate Inc. will be offered at 5:30 tonight as part of the career development series. The career resource centre in Needles Hall can provide the details.
Hungry after all that learning? Bon Appetit, the "food fair" in the Davis Centre, has a special on Vietnamese cuisine, today and every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Philosophy professor Jan Narveson will speak on "Problems with Pacifists and Terrorists" at 7:00 tonight in the great hall of Conrad Grebel University College. His talk is one in a series of four open lectures on war and peace to be given this term.
The basketball Warriors will host the McMaster Marauders tonight in a pair of games in the PAC gymnasium: the women's teams play at 6:00, the men's at 8:00.
Tomorrow, Wesley Wark of the University of Toronto, an expert on intelligence and security ("spying" to you), will speak at 7:00 in the Humanities Theatre, as part of the student-organized "2020: Building the Future" lecture series.
Friday brings a reception and dinner honouring David Burns, former dean of engineering and long-time mechanical engineering professor, as he leaves UW to become vice-president (academic) at Conestoga College. Ethel Spike in the mech eng department, phone ext. 6740, should have last-minute information.
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Chronic Pain Relief
There is so much advice out there about chronic pain but what really works?
Sufferers are so mislead by the media because there is such a big profit opportunity from people who are desperate to end their pain.
- Drug companies advertise on tv that their pill is the secret to living a great life as they list off their side effects that take up half the commercial time.
- Tylenol companies advertise that their pain pills “get you back to normal”.
Is that what the world has come to? We are normal if we are drugged up on prescription medications and pain meds?
We are so desperate to find relief we try this and that only to find that it isn’t
We have to put up with side effects such as:
- weight gain, head aches, stomach pain, swelling, constipation, diarrhea, decreased sexual desire or ability, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth, increased sweating, loss of appetite, increased appetite, sore throat, tiredness, trouble sleeping, vomiting, weakness.
Then there are the more severe symptoms of:
- severe allergic reactions such as rash, hives, itching, difficulty breathing,
tightness in the chest, swelling of the mouth, face, lips or tongue, unusual
hoarseness, bizarre behaviour, bloody or black tarry stools, blurred vision,
confusion, dark urine, decreased concentration, decreased coordination,
fainting, fast or irregular heartbeat, fever or chills, hallucinations, memory
loss, mouth sores or ulcers, new or worsening mental or mood changes eg.
aggressiveness, agitation, anxiety, depression, hostility, impulsiveness,
irritability, panic attacks, restlessness, pale stools, red swollen, blistered
or peeling skin, ringing in the ears, seizures, severe or persistent dizziness
or headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, tiredness, weakness, trouble sleeping, sluggishness, stiff muscles, stomach pain, suicidal thoughts or attempts, tremors, trouble urinating, unusual bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness, vomitting that looks like coffee grounds, yellowing of the skin or eyes.
Then we have the unfortunate who experience
- heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage, liver damage, successful suicides, anaphylaxis shock and even death.
That is quite a list isn’t it? And all from these drugs that are going to help with your pain and change your life as you know it. Helping you with your pain. That list came mostly from the Cymbalta side effects list, one of the drugs of choice for Fibromyalgia.
I looked to the medical system for years and I experienced a long list of the above and a near death situation. If I didn’t have such a big will to live I wouldn’t be here. Well believe me, if you keep taking pills year after year you WILL develop stomach problems along with a wide array of new symptoms. It seems like you keep adding illnesses to your list of conditions and they keep adding pills for the symptoms which mostly come from the pills. It is like a domino effect that keeps you falling the wrong way, into a chronic pain syndrome instead of out of pain, you become weakened and more dependant on everyone.
There is another way and I am finding my way out of the deep dark hole of our current medical system that didn’t work for me. It was weakening my body to a point that I didn’t find much reason for living. Nothing worked, pills had me to a point that I couldn’t eat anything because it caused so much internal pain, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t wake up, I was in a permanent brain fog and on and on. There was only one way to describe it, MISERY. I went for help and ended up getting more symptoms, more pain, more disbelief from sceptic doctors, more frustration and a lot of pills.
Now today is different. I am still in pain but I have learned how to deal with my it on such a positive level. My stomach is so much better, I have less symptoms, I can sleep better, the brain fog is gone, I know my triggers, I know how to deal with each symptom, I know when and what contributes to my pain and I feel alive instead of near death. That alone is worth it’s weight and gold. Before I dreaded living the rest of my life in the state I was in, now I feel there is a light and I am looking forward to being pain free one day. I look forward to having grandchildren one day and being able to be with them instead of them sitting in my wheelchair with me or lying in my death bed.
If you want to learn to live your life with your pain opposed to suffering your life away with pain, I invite you to sign up for my newsletter and follow my path to wellness. I want to help you help yourself out of a very hard life of the
chronic pain cycle. The answer isn’t in a pill bottle but in a wide array of
solutions. I can help!
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The heart of the matter is the loving father-daughter bond the two have formed in the absence of a wife and mother. They are happy as they are, yet Lionel at times gently encourages his daughter's independence even as she resists it. (Denis' film has been said to be an hommage to the Yasujiro Ozu 1949 masterpiece "Late Spring" and also to her mother's relationship with her grandfather.) Josephine has a rather tentative relationship with a neighbor, Noé (Gregoire Colin); another neighbor, the lovely Gabrielle (Nicole Dogué), is an ex-girlfriend of Lionel's who helped raise Josephine. She clearly is still deeply in love with him.
Life's inevitable changes prompt Lionel and Josephine to look inward and to sort out their feelings and to contemplate the future; the film examines the important process of self-discovery and making choices. It is a warm, embracing work, with a flowing lyricism and a delicate poignancy, accompanied by a shimmering Tindersticks score and an evocative use of pop songs.
Denis' childhood in Africa in the last years of French colonial rule reveals itself most directly in a classroom scene in which Josephine laments "the global South" being held in perpetual indebtedness to industrial countries. More striking is the film's depiction of blacks living secure middle-class lives in Paris, something not often seen in French films -- at least those shown in the U.S. Yet the beguiling "35 Shots of Rum's" overriding quality is its shining universality. | <urn:uuid:ac3d1e97-5920-4a9b-9a3b-6f51aafe0a72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-35shots9-2009oct09,0,2537674.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963516 | 320 | 1.539063 | 2 |
MODESTO -- Stanislaus County planners took a staunch property rights stance Thursday in approving a plan to break up the Willms Ranch near Knights Ferry into 42 parcels.
After sparring with wildlife advocates from the Audubon Society and Sierra Club, planning commissioners voted 9-0 to approve dividing the 2,384 acres into 40- to 70-acre agricultural parcels. County zoning laws allow two homes to be built on each parcel, though the ranch owners say they have no plans to sell homes for rural estates.
"This is nothing more than a plan to bring in 80 ranchettes," said Brad Barker, conservation chairman of the Yokuts Group of the Sierra Club. He said farmland groups and policy-makers generally agree that dividing ag land for ranchettes is horrible policy.
Commissioner Robert Crabtree countered that he didn't regard 40-acre parcels as ranchettes. Other commission members said during the hearing that they intended to vote "yes."
"I am a believer in individual property rights," said Commissioner Ronald Peterson, adding that any public comments regarding how the owners should use their property were offensive to him.
Commissioner Kenneth Buehner, a landlord from Patterson, said the demand for housing grows with the population. "Unless you are going to sterilize the population so they can't reproduce, what are you going to do?" he asked.
Housing could be built in more suitable locations, replied Dave Froba, treasurer of the Stanislaus Audubon Society.
There are a number of reasons why some people consider historic Willms Ranch a treasure worth preserving. One of the county's oldest businesses, it dates to 1852, when John Willms and John Kappelmann founded the ranch to raise horses. They later shifted to cattle.
The ranch on Willms Road, near "Lovers Leap" on Highway 108-120, is regarded for its natural beauty. In addition, the grasslands of eastern Stanislaus County are habitat for Swainson's hawk, burrowing owls and other species, advocates said Thursday.
In the 1990s, county approval of a 600-acre golf course on the ranch sparked a lawsuit from the Stanislaus Audubon Society, whose attorneys successfully argued in the courts that the county should have required an environment impact report. Family members scrapped the project because of the costs for an EIR.
Attorney Barbara Savery, representing the Willms family and other owners, insisted the property was being divided to raise financing for ranch improvements. The owners have talked with people who may want to plant olive trees; other parts of the ranch could be leased for cattle grazing, Savery has said.
The attorney said the state Department of Fish and Game and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were satisfied with proposed mitigation measures. Anyone applying for permits for home building or wells will have to conduct surveys and take other steps to protect sensitive species.
Barker countered that a full environmental review should be required. Froba added that planners were not considering issues such as an increase in farm vehicles that will make an "extremely dangerous left turn" from westbound Highway 108 to Willms Road.
Commissioner Annabel Gammon expressed doubt that mitigation measures would protect wildlife, if the ranch land is converted to orchards or home sites.
Peterson asked if any land conservancy groups had approached the owners about helping maintain the ranch as a resource. Savery said no groups had talked with the family.
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PARIS — French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow’s lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned.
Many in the Arab world have long suspected that Arafat was poisoned, and a Swiss lab’s recent finding of elevated levels of polonium-210 — a rare and highly lethal radioactive substance — on Arafat’s clothing has fed those claims.
However, the Institute of Radiation Physics said its findings were inconclusive and that only exhuming Arafat’s remains could bring possible clarity. Palestinian officials have waffled on that matter — initially approving the exhumation and then saying the matter needed more study — only further fueling suspicions.
Arafat died in a French military hospital outside Paris in 2004 of what doctors have said was a massive stroke, but the Swiss lab’s tests have renewed interest in his death. The findings were first broadcast by Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, which approached the lab on behalf of Arafat’s widow, Suha. She provided the lab with his clothing and other belongings.
After the results were released, Suha Arafat filed a complaint asking for a murder investigation. Her lawyer, Pierre-Olivier Sur, confirmed on Tuesday that the prosecutor’s office in Nanterre, the seat of the district where the military hospital is, has agreed to take up the matter. Next, a judge will be appointed to lead the inquiry.
Sur said in a statement that his client would not comment because she wanted to let the judge do his work.
“This is a good step forward, any step aimed at revealing the truth about Yasser Arafat’s death is good,” said Abdallah Basher, who heads a Palestinian medical committee investigating Arafat’s death.
He added that experts from the Swiss lab would travel to the West Bank in the next few weeks to take samples from Arafat’s remains — even though the matter of his exhumation is still in limbo. Arafat, who died at age 75, is buried in a mausoleum in the walled government compound where he spent the last three years of his life under Israeli siege.
Testing Arafat’s bones for polonium-210 could offer the last chance to get to the bottom of Palestinian claims that their leader was poisoned, though some experts say it may already be too late for conclusive answers.
Scientists caution that polonium decays quickly and that an autopsy needs to be done quickly.
Although Palestinian officials have long accused Israel of being involved in Arafat’s death, Israel has vehemently denied those charges.
“We heard about it in the media. It’s not really our concern because the complaint is not lodged against Israel,” said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. “If there is an investigation, we hope that it will shed light on this matter.”
Suha Arafat’s complaint does not name a responsible party, a common practice in France.
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Earlier this week I shared my initial observations of PayPal’s new phone-based credit card acceptance service and how I thought it stacks up against Square, the reigning champion. Overall, I gave PayPal Here the advantage, provided it works as advertised. But there is more that I want to say about business models developed specifically to enable consumers to accept credit card payments.
See, to the casual observer, it may look as if this is precisely the situation that would favor the small, nimble, innovative type of start-up that would be the quickest to enter a brand new industry and take the early lead by default. Moreover, one could say that this is precisely what took place. After all, Square did come out of nowhere and grew like wildfire. Well yes, but Square had a famous founder who was able to attract plenty of capital to get the project off the ground and has since pulled in more than $100 million in funding. And therein lies my point: you really need that much money to stand a fighting chance in this type of a project. This is why Square’s competitors are not other start-ups, but PayPal and Intuit. And there is a good reason for that.
Where Does the Money Go?
There are at least a couple of ways to do this, but any way you take inevitably leads you to the ongoing expenses associated with the maintenance of each individual user account. Yes, you do need the capital and expertise (which also costs a lot of money) to build the system in the first place, but that is more or less a one-time expense, as the ongoing system maintenance isn’t that big of a deal.
But once you get going and if you do manage to get the customers to pour in by their hundreds of thousands, that’s when it gets interesting. The thing is that the vast majority of these “customers” will never make you any money. They may use their cool new service once or twice a year, if ever, and that would be all. Because let’s face it, how often would you need to accept a credit card payment, if you don’t have a business? And even if the service provider does make a few cents from these transactions, that would not be nearly enough to cover the cost of keeping these accounts active.
Of course, it is a numbers game and the Squares of the world know that those few percent of their customers who do actually take cards regularly will make up for the losses from the others and there will be some profit left. But for the numbers to work reliably, you do need to get big enough and do it quickly, before you run out of money. Because if your growth isn’t fast enough, you won’t be able to get more funding to keep the thing going. Well, Square had enough money to pour into marketing when it got started, it grew big quickly and then investors themselves started banging on its door.
Where Do We Go from Here?
The launch of PayPal Here marks the coming of age of the industry. No start-up can possibly compete with what PayPal is offering, nor will anyone invest money in it. In fact, there may even be a question of whether Square, big as it already is, will manage to keep up.
See, PayPal gives me immediate access to my money and a live phone-based customer service to help me resolve any service-related issue. Why would I choose Square, which offers neither and charges me slightly higher fees to boot?
So PayPal has set new standards for the industry and they are quite high. Square will be forced to build its own live customer support center, which it should have done long ago anyway, but probably didn’t want to invest any precious resources into it. But whether or not Square will be willing or able to match PayPal’s immediate funding provision (Square takes a couple of days to make funds available to its users) and lower rate remains to be seen. What is certain is that few others will be able to come anywhere close to that.
Square was the company that put phone-based credit card acceptance on the map. It was also the first to enable consumers to take cards directly. Ever since Jack Dorsey launched the start-up with a tweet in October 2010, Square has been the undisputed leader of the industry and everyone else has merely tried to keep up with its pace. Now that PayPal Here is live, however, the roles have changed and Square finds itself for the first time in the unfamiliar and uncomfortable position of the laggard. We don’t know how successfully Jack Dorsey’s company will respond to the challenge, but what we do know already is that the consumer is the ultimate beneficiary. I’ll take it.
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Journalism Professor Says Citizen Journalists Should Be Regulated
from the ah,-the-old-elite-standards-again dept
There's just something about the idea a lack of "elite" gatekeepers that upsets some people. It's why you hear complaints about Wikipedia or blogs or home videos on YouTube. For some reason, there are a group of folks (often the former elitist gatekeepers) who feel that since not all of the content is great, useful or interesting, it all is problematic in some way or another. The latest to express this type of viewpoint is David Hazinski, a journalism professor and former NBC correspondent, claiming that "unfettered" citizen journalism is "too risky" and that it needs to be regulated (via Romenesko) by "official" media companies, handing out "certificates" to citizen journalists. Unfortunately, his basic premise seems to be incorrect. He states: "Supporters of "citizen journalism" argue it provides independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media don't provide." That's not quite true. While some supporters may claim that, in general the benefits of the idea that anyone can be a reporter isn't necessarily about reliable information, but about providing additional viewpoints and information to try to make sure that more of the story is out there for people to find. It's not necessarily about being better -- but just giving an outlet to people who can add more to the story. He's certainly right that it can be abused, but that's missing the point. Sure it can be abused. But so can the traditional press. What's more important is that such abuses can also be outed and brought to light, just like any other news story. Hazinski is right that professional journalists should be verifying the information provided by "citizen journalists" but that should be true of anyone they accept information from. Almost all of the complaints he lobs at these untrained journalists applies equally to the trained ones -- so it's hard to interpret this piece as anything but complaints from someone who doesn't like the riffraff encroaching on his turf. | <urn:uuid:8b0ccb08-6b58-4723-85f6-a450069401d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071214/032247.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961015 | 432 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Human rights groups estimate that as many as 58 Iraqis who are either gay or perceived to be gay have been killed in the last six weeks alone, the AP reported.
The young men appear to be targeted by Shi'ite militants who oppose Western-style “emo” clothes and haircuts. The “emo” look often includes tight-fitting jeans, t-shirts with logos and longer or spiky hairstyles. However, Emos are not necessarily gay.
Last month, Iraq's interior ministry labeled the subculture “Satanism.”
“Last week I signed the death certificates of three of those young people, and the reason for death I wrote in my own hand was severe skull fractures,” an unnamed doctor is reported as saying. “A very powerful blow to the head caused these fractures which totally smashed the skull of the victim.”
A list of potential targets distributed by militants in Baghdad's conservative Shiite Sadr City neighborhood includes the following warning: “We warn in the strongest terms to every male and female debauchee. If you do not stop this dirty act within four days, then the punishment of God will fall on you at the hands of Mujahideen.”
Similar warnings have been left in other neighborhoods.
The U.S. State Department has expressed concerned over the spate of killings.
“We strongly condemn the recent violence and killings in Iraq by groups who appear to be targeting individuals based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or personal expression,” the department said.
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Two Leading Conservation Innovators join Audubon’s Management Team
“The leadership Gary showed in creating the ‘no regrets’ climate change model is the kind of bold thinking Audubon needs,” said Audubon President & CEO David Yarnold. “He has both broad science expertise and acute insight on how the intersection of social change and innovative technology can drive effective conservation. Audubon has always been a science-based organization; Gary’s leadership will bring new creativity and impact to our work.”
As Chief Scientist, Dr. Langham will be instrumental in shaping and implementing Audubon’s conservation strategy. He will lead efforts to promote and expand citizen science programs including Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, to broaden the Important Bird Areas initiative, and to engage partners, donors and other stakeholders in Audubon’s science work. Dr. Langham received his Doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University; and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley. He will assume his new position on July 25 and will be based in Washington, DC.
John Beavers has been named Vice President of Audubon’s International Alliance Program after more than sixteen years as a member of The Nature Conservancy’s team in Latin America. In his most recent position as Associate Director of Conservation Programs for Latin America, he helped lead development of a region-wide system for measuring conservation results and improve planning. Prior, he directed many successful projects in Guatemala, where he began his career with TNC, and elsewhere in Central America. These included innovative strategies for protecting and preserving both public and private lands throughout the region.
"John's leadership style is all about results, critical thinking and effective partnerships," said Audubon CEO David Yarnold. "It's going to take all of those qualities to achieve the impact birds and ecosystems need to thrive in the most challenging century humankind has ever faced."
As Vice President, International Alliances Program, Mr. Beavers will be an integral member of Audubon’s conservation team, helping to shape and expand the organization’s hemispheric reach and effectiveness. Mr. Beavers holds an M.S. degree in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts. He will assume his new position on August 29. | <urn:uuid:a9f4ae2a-72b7-460f-9aae-1d80dd42d437> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.audubon.org/newsroom/press-releases/2011/two-leading-conservation-innovators-join-audubon-s-management-team | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950541 | 490 | 1.617188 | 2 |
From New York, USA:
My daughter has had type I diabetes since she was 18 months old, and is in wonderful, tight control. She will be a high school senior this fall, and we are looking at colleges. I am looking for scholarships and other moneys to assist with tuition costs. I am a single parent on a tight budget. Can you help us find the right resources?
Each year, Lilly offers scholarships to young men and women who have diabetes. Information about the scholarship program is available on the Lilly web site at http://diabetes.lilly.com/01-leadership/scholarship.shtml.
Note: As of September 2001, this link is no longer working.
Original posting 28 Jul 2000
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Last Updated: Tuesday April 06, 2010 15:09:11
This Internet site provides information of a general nature and is designed for educational purposes only. If you have any concerns about your own health or the health of your child, you should always consult with a physician or other health care professional.
This site is published by Children With Diabetes, Inc, which is responsible for its contents.
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Four unassuming buildings near Richmond's waterfront serve as remnants of the city's wartime ship-building heyday when the port teemed with workers and moving cranes.
"There was a tremendous amount of energy," said Don Hartison, 91, who worked at the shipyards during World War II. "There were literally thousands of people there."
Sixty years later, the city wants to partner with a private developer to renovate the buildings -- the Riggers Loft, First Aid Station, Cafeteria and General Warehouse -- and put them to use again.
The developer would choose one or more of the buildings to revamp, but the deal must include the Riggers Loft, which has a damaged roof and is most in need of repair.
The developer likely would lease the building from the city, pumping fresh revenue into city coffers. Officials won't know how much someone would pay per square foot until a deal is reached, but the buildings are a combined 203,368 square feet, more than triple the size of Richmond's City Hall.
"The city is not making any money off the buildings" now, City Councilman Tom Butt said. "They're either underutilized or not utilized at all."
The welcome mat for developers rolled out last month. Interested parties must submit their financial résumés by Wednesday. Final proposals from those with acceptable financial credentials are due April 3.
The four buildings are part of a set of six in the
"There was a total commitment from everyone to make things work," said Hardison's wife, Betty, who also worked at the shipyards. "Everyone was willing to accept any adversity thrown at them, and there were many."
Betty Hardison helped find housing for workers at an employee aid office, but there wasn't enough to go around.
"With 100,000 people coming into a small community, housing was far-stretched throughout the Bay Area," she said. "In individual homes, people shared extra rooms before housing was built."
Those who didn't bring lunch often got food at the Cafeteria building. The injured were treated at the First Aid Station.
In subsequent years, some buildings were torn down to make way for new port operations, which today include processing cars. The building where Don Hardison used to work is gone.
But the Riggers Loft, First Aid Station, Cafeteria and General Warehouse survived, in some cases living a second life as storage facilities or temporary offices. Most of the space is vacant.
Of the four, the Riggers Loft is in the worst shape. Part of its roof collapsed 10 years ago.
"Roofs are critical to a historic structure. Once you have water intrusion, you start counting the days or weeks," Lawliss said.
Repairing the four buildings could cost $3 million to $4 million, Butt said.
Restoring and preserving the structures is the first priority, officials said. They hope a business that moves in will set aside part of the space for a public use, such as a small visitor center or a community meeting room.
Butt points to the Trainmasters Building as an example. The century-old building on West Richmond Avenue, a primary entry into Point Richmond, underwent a $1.5 million restoration and is now occupied by Mechanics Bank. The city facilitated its preservation but did not spend money on it.
"Although you've got a private business, the nature of the business is that a big part is a lobby," Butt said. "Anybody can go in and look around."
Some critics don't see the benefit behind saving old buildings; Butt has a different perspective.
"People say, 'We need economic development, get rid of those buildings.' But there's a lot of money in historic preservation," Butt said. "These buildings are all unique resources that can help us achieve economic development and can help change the city."
Katherine Tam covers Richmond. Reach her at 510-262-2787 or email@example.com.
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Week #13 – Local Societies
Week 13. Local Societies: Local genealogical and historical societies are the lifeblood of genealogy. Members and volunteers give their http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftime and money to preserve local history and promote family history. Tell us about a local society for which you are thankful
Well I belong to four local societies, three in areas I am researching and the local one here in Spokane Washington, Eastern Washington Genealogical Society founded in 1935 and still going pretty strong after 77 years. What is so good about EWGS? The members that are willing to volunteer for extractions, indexing, helping at the library, serving on committees, being board members, writing newsletters, articles for the Digital Digest, helping with the EWGS website, the EWGS blog, EWGS Facebook page, bringing cookies to the meetings, and on and on. The collection was pretty heavy in New England research, but has become more and more specific to Eastern Washington. We are so glad to have a great working relationship with the Spokane Public Library where our collection is housed, and where we meet most months, and they have a Northwest room filled with early North west resources, collected by the library for over 100 years, and local newspapers on microfilm from about 1880 to the present. | <urn:uuid:addbb854-aebc-4aeb-a7c3-afd8efd0d011> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://charles-mikkelshus.blogspot.com/2012/03/52-weeks-of-abundant-genealogy-local.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946426 | 271 | 1.78125 | 2 |
If it sounds like the growl you are making may be from the throat. When you go to growl think of something that makes you angry on such a scale the you feel it well up inside of you and release the growl usually for mine I can feel it resonate from the diaphram through my chest and out. Also go online and listen to some growls and roars from diffrent animals and try to emulate them. it will never sound right if you don't have the correct point of reference. on a side note also think about why is your character growling?
is he part animal? does he have a breathing problem? do not add a growl just because you think it will be scary.
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|Statement by Ambassador Liu Zhenmin, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Chinese Mission to the United Nations, at the Fourth Committee of the Sixty-fourth Session of the UN General Assembly on Item 33: Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects|
The Chinese delegation welcomes the report on comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects adopted by this session of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. I would also like to thank USG Leroy and USG Malcorra for their briefings on the UN peacekeeping operations.
Sixty-one years have gone by since the creation of the first UN peacekeeping operation. During this period, 63 peacekeeping missions have been dispatched and put to test, and there have been encouraging achievements as well as questions that merit our reflection. As the scale and demands of the UN peacekeeping operations increase, Member States have never ceased pondering on the reform of the UN peacekeeping operations. Since the publication of the Brahimi report in 2000, numerous attempts have been made to seek structural and institutional reform of the UN peacekeeping endeavors; nevertheless, the huge scale and complex mandate of peacekeeping operations dictate that we keep the relevant reform initiatives under careful review and seek a model of sustainability for development of the UN peacekeeping operations.
In order to consolidate the support of the Member States for peacekeeping operations and enhance the capacity for sustainable development of peacekeeping operations, we believe that it is necessary to carefully consider initiatives in the following aspects for the reform of peacekeeping operations:
First, adherence to the Hammarskjold Principle is the basis for the consolidation of the support of Member States for peacekeeping operations. In the past 61 years, UN peacekeeping operations have scored great successes, but also suffered serious setbacks. Upholding the Hammarskjold Principle is the conclusion drawn by Member States from the experience accumulated and lessons learned during the past 61 years; it is the basis of their trust and support for peacekeeping operations; it is also the foundation for the further development of peacekeeping operations under the new circumstances.
Second, clear and achievable mandate is the prerequisite for the improvement of peacekeeping efficiency. We have noticed that both USG LeRoy and USG Malcorra referred in their statements to the mismatch between mandates and resources in peacekeeping. It is the common understanding of all parties that peacekeeping mandates should be clear and operable. Therefore, in planning a peacekeeping mandate, it is necessary to avoid Christmas tree like mandate by clearly identifying priorities, fully considering needs on the ground, and making rational decisions based on available human and logistical resources.
Third, the formulation of goals and exit strategies for peacekeeping operations should be the focus in improving the management of peacekeeping operations. We have taken note of the recommendation in the New Horizon paper submitted by the Secretariat on formulating goals and exit strategies for peacekeeping operations, which has garnered support of many Member States because it will help the Secretariat to manage peacekeeping operations with a clearer idea of goals and responsibilities. We hope that in implementing relevant goals and strategies, the Secretariat will lay emphasis on the capacity building of the countries concerned to avoid their over-reliance on UN peacekeeping operations.
Fourth, forging consensus among Member States on sensitive questions such as Robust Peacekeeping and Protection of Civilians is the right way to pursue peacekeeping reform. We are of the view that the discussion on the above mentioned questions should be premised on the recognition of the primary responsibility of the host countries and the respect for their sovereignty. We have noticed that in the relevant policy paper, the Secretariat recommended laying down guiding principles for the above questions, but at present, there still exist different views among Member States on these questions. In order to implement the above recommendation of the Secretariat, efforts are still needed to carry out full consultations among Member States with a view to reaching consensus.
Fifth, further improvement of the quality of peacekeepers is an important step in the UN peacekeeping capacity building. We support the Secretariat in further strengthening training, particularly in providing support to those developing countries which are potential troop contributors to help them with peacekeeping capacity building. We hope that developed countries with the relevant financial and technical capabilities will play an active role in this area. Currently, developing countries are the major troop contributors to the UN peacekeeping operations and have made great sacrifices for peacekeeping. We hope to see more countries take part in peacekeeping operations to make UN peacekeeping a more widely shared undertaking.
Sixth, reinforcement of accountability and regulation is the objective requirement for the effective utilization of existing peacekeeping resources by the Secretariat. Member States have the obligation to provide adequate resources for peacekeeping operations. Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis, Member States have made great efforts to maintain their support for the UN peacekeeping operations. Now that many Member States are under considerable financial pressure, the Secretariat should adopt a conscientious and responsible approach, and strictly abide by financial regulations and rules in the areas of procurement, outsourcing and preparation of budget to increase efficiency in using existing peacekeeping resources.
Seventh, an upgraded logistical mechanism is a strong guarantee for the rapid deployment of peacekeeping operations. We welcome the efforts made by the Secretariat in strengthening and upgrading logistical support system, optimizing operational procedure in peacekeeping deployment and speeding up the deployment of peacekeeping missions. We also commend the Secretariat for its attempt at using new technological means with a view to improving the efficiency in the utilization of peacekeeping resources. We hope that the Secretariat will sum up experience and draw lessons from the deployment of large integrated missions such as UNAMID and further improve its work with clear targets in mind.
Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the Brahimi report, as well as the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Peacebuilding Commission. UN peacekeeping reform will continue to be the center of attention and the comprehensive review of the work of PBC will also be a focus of Member States' discussion. Policy papers submitted by the Secretariat such as the New Horizon have played a positive role in prompting Member States to pay attention to the relevant questions and engage in discussions. It is our hope that discussions by Member States on peacekeeping operations and peace building will be carried out in an integrated manner and will produce constructive views and proposals on a greater role of the UN in these two areas.
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ADL Condemns Rep. Foxx’s ‘Insensitive’ Remarks During Hate Crimes Legislative Debate
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League objected to U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx’s (R- N.C.) intemperate and insensitive remarks on the House floor during the debate on HR 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act.
During the debate, Rep. Foxx stated:
I also would like to point out that there was a bill, the hate crimes bill called the Matthew Shepard Act, named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed. But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. The bill was named for him, the hate crimes bill was named for him, but it is really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.
The League welcomed press reports that indicate Rep. Foxx later stated that “The term 'hoax' was a poor choice of words...” but any suggestion that the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard has been used for the purpose of fraudulently generating support for federal hate crime legislation is deeply offensive – and suggests that Rep. Foxx is seriously misinformed about the facts of that crime.
In fact, David O’Malley, the former Police Chief of Laramie, Wyoming and one of the investigators of the case, has stated, “I have never seen a clearer example of hate motivated crime and the negative ramifications it has on our society.” There is very substantial, conclusive evidence that Mr. Shepard was beaten and left to die because he was gay.
Reasonable people can and will disagree about the parameters of appropriate federal involvement in bias-motivated criminal conduct. Rep. Foxx’s statement was totally callous, inappropriate, inaccurate, and harmful.
We believe she has an obligation to set the record straight in a statement.
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Even with the advent of online shopping, beautiful catalogs are still coveted by any business selling products, goods or services. After all, a beautiful catalog printing can display your wares in an attractive light and provide your customers with a wealth of information.
Here are just a few reasons why catalogs still reign supreme in the world of sales:
- A catalog, regardless of your business, is the most effective way of providing your customers with precise details regarding your goods or services. Best of all, the quality photographs entice them into buying your goods or services. A catalog allows you to print details about your goods or services; details you may otherwise have difficulty getting across to your customers.
- Catalogs are easily distributed to your customers or clients. Regardless of whether you are selling to retailers, distributors or customers, catalogs are the easiest way to get your information and services into the right hands. Plus, catalogs are a great way to gain valuable exposure.
- Catalogs convey your company sales information better than any other type of medium. Radio and television ads are splashed in front of consumers’ eyes for seconds, and Web quality pales in comparison to the overall quality of a catalog. A catalog can stay in front of a consumer for as long as needed, thereby allowing them to make better, more thoughtful decisions.
- Catalogs, when compared to other forms of marketing or advertising, are incredibly cost effective. In other words, think of the number of catalogs you could print and distribute for the cost of one television commercial! In addition, businesses with small advertising and marketing budgets will often turn to catalogs because they give them the most bang for their buck.
- Catalogs are an investment for your business. Unlike other forms of marketing or advertising, quality, printed catalogs can produce income for your business for an extended period of time. Consider that, simply by producing one catalog design per year, you can reap the benefits for an entire calendar year. Not many other forms of marketing or advertising have the longevity that catalogs have. | <urn:uuid:1e4884c0-6763-4d54-b3a6-78780141b8d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avantiprinting.com/blog/tag/santa-ana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949856 | 417 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
This essay reports the results of a survey of financial executives. Twenty-four percent of them said rule-breaking was an essential part of being successful. That included illegal and unethical conduct such as insider trading. If this is a true reflection of the industry, CEOs of financial firms should be concerned. They know already the perils of being caught, the enormous fines and harm to the reputations of individuals and organizations. How is it that financial executives could be so short-sighted? It seems that winning day-to-day is more important to them than success in the long run. Unfortunately for them, they will be judged by their actions and more will go to prison. From a PR perspective, such conduct is dumb, and corporations should get rid of these people sooner rather than later. It is difficult enough to work in financial markets with intensified regulation. One doesn't need to battle regulators at the same time. | <urn:uuid:d0195d17-ea88-418a-a032-3746b92876ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://online-pr.blogspot.com/2012/07/chilling-if-true.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979903 | 190 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus; 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British new wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. His critically acclaimed debut album, My Aim Is True, was recorded in 1976. Shortly after recording his first album, he formed The Attractions as his backing band. They toured and recorded together for the better part of a decade, though differences between Costello and members of The Attractions caused them to split by 1986. Much of Costello's work since 1986 has been credited to him as a solo artist, though partial reunions with some members of The Attractions have been credited to the group over the years.
Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". | <urn:uuid:5fc8a0d4-9a77-49aa-a78b-c4241a01ece4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/8a338e06-d182-46f2-bd16-30a09bc840ba | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992079 | 228 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A court will open next month to hear cases of illegal gun possession, which Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy hopes will mean tougher punishment for gun-toting criminals.
Jessamy said yesterday the so-called "gun court" will operate one day in a week in both of the city's two District Courthouses on North and Wabash avenues. The court is expected to begin May 2.
"I hope that we get better sentences in gun cases," Jessamy said yesterday. In the past, "sometimes things fell through the cracks. This way, hopefully they won't."
The creation of a specialized court is not new. Baltimore has a domestic violence court, a housing court and a rent court, among others. But the new gun court signals a crackdown on violent criminals in the city, which has been criticized for its high homicide rate.
In January, The Sun published an analysis of thousands of court records that revealed few violent offenders receive stiff penalties for their crimes. The newspaper documented that nearly 75 percent of the people charged in attempted murders, armed robberies and other violent cases received prison terms of less than five years, despite a state law requiring that sentence be the minimum given to gun convicts.
Many defendants were not brought to trial, mainly because of witness or evidence problems.
After the article ran, Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend gave Jessamy about $1 million to combat violent offenders. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, who ran on a promise to reduce crime, gave Jessamy $1.7 million more to improve technology and to reform the system to give prosecutors more time to focus on serious cases of violence.
Jessamy said the new money allows her to focus on violent offenders. Nearly all cases involving handguns will be handled through her handgun unit, known as F.I.V.E (Firearms Investigation Violence Enforcement).
"We will attempt to get the maximum possible sentence in cases involving handguns because we think these cases are our priority cases," Jessamy said. "The only reason we hadn't done it before is because we couldn't afford it."
Jessamy said she hopes centralizing the gun cases into one unit, and at the District Court level, onto one docket, will mean more accountability and vigorous prosecution. "We had them spread out to nine different districts," Jessamy said. "It's very hard to keep track of everything."
The gun court, staffed by F.I.V.E prosecutors, will hear all cases involving illegal gun possession, a misdemeanor. Jessamy estimates that the court will hear about 500 cases a year.
Felony gun cases, such as those involving the use of a handgun in an armed robbery, will still be prosecuted in the Circuit Court. The F.I.V.E unit will take over most cases involving a handgun in that court and will track each outcome, Jessamy said.
Judge Keith E. Mathews, administrative judge of the city's District Court, said one distinctive component is that defendants who want to be tried by a jury will be sent to Circuit Court within two days, and the prosecutor will stay with the case.
"Lots of times, people just ask for a jury trial because they don't like the [plea] offer the prosecutor gave them," Mathews said. Defendants think they can get a better deal if they go to Circuit Court, he said.
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It's time for the big questions everyone asks themselves: Why am I here? What am I here to do? Dr. Robert Holden reveals six powerful exercises to help you discover and live your purpose. (Hint: It's not just about you!)
Suddenly, I knew what I wanted. It was the eve of my fourth birthday, and for weeks I had been trying to decide what big present I'd like on my special day. Nothing had sprung to mind, until now. I immediately went to find my mum.
"Mummy, I know what I want for my birthday," I yelled.
"What do you want?" she asked, excitedly.
"I want a briefcase," I said, jumping up and down.
"Really?" she asked.
"Yes, it's what I really, really want!"
"Why do you want a briefcase?"
"I want to do something important with my life," I said.
"What do you want to do?" my mum asked.
"I don't know yet," I said, "but having a briefcase will be a big help."
It starts from an early age—the curiosity about life and what life is really for. Initially, the curiosity expresses itself as questions: Why is there a sun? What is the purpose of ants? Why did God make cucumbers? Why do we have skin? Why do I have a life? If the curiosity is encouraged, you explore the questions looking for insights, inspiration, epiphanies and eureka moments. The rest of your life is about living the questions and discovering the answers that help you to be truly happy.
In my work, I help individuals, groups and organizations to clarify and strengthen their sense of purpose. My clients recognize the essential value of knowing your purpose, and so they often fly me across the world to help them explore this vital subject. Discovering your purpose is what helps you to be true to yourself, to remember what is real, to be creative, to be resilient and to live your best life. A purpose-led life is a blessed life.
If I asked you, "What is the purpose of your life?" what would you say? Have you figured it out yet? Are you still searching? Are you clearer than you used to be? In this article, I am going to share with you six coaching exercises that have helped me to get clear about my life purpose. I have shared these exercises with thousands of people over the years. They really work, and they can work for you too. I must emphasize, however, these exercises are not just for your spiritual entertainment; they require some work from you! So let's begin.
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Tue September 11, 2012
My American Dream Sounds Like The Jackson 5
I'm not sure anyone knows what the American Dream is; ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred different responses, like asking a hundred people to define God, or postmodernism. I'm also not sure I'm its target audience, because for all its vague fantasies of universal opportunity and exceptional potential, I'm always more drawn to rebuttals: Noah Cross, all leering terror, absconding with his granddaughter (daughter! granddaughter!) at the end of Chinatown; Daniel Plainview beating a preacher to death with a bowling pin at the close of There Will Be Blood. Or maybe I'm just someone who wants to hear both sides, which would be just one reason that I want to hear The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," and right now, please.
I consider "I Want You Back" to be the best pop record ever made, by such a wide margin that I can barely entertain a conversation. It's three minutes of shimmering and sustained explosion. I can't remember where and when I first heard it but I've wanted to listen to it forever ever since.
It was released by Berry Gordy's Motown Records in late 1969, a company that had risen from an $800 family loan to become the most successful black-owned business in American history, and a home to artists like The Supremes, The Temptations and Marvin Gaye. In a nation fragmented by Jim Crow versus "all deliberate speed," Gordy laid down a bet against the racism of the American public and actually won, lucratively. Motown's famous slogan, "The Sound of Young America" — not white American, not black America, young America — was audacious in its belief that such a sound could exist. It was its own sort of American dream, right down to the dollar signs.
"I Want You Back" is that sound crystallized in a voice unlike any the world had heard. Michael Jackson was all of 10 years old when he recorded "I Want You Back," and while there had been other child stars in the rock 'n' roll era, Frankie Lymon and Stevie Wonder had basically sung like kids, with playful and genial gimmickry. Jackson's vocal on "I Want You Back" is eerily adult and deadly serious, a desperate love song sung with such furious urgency that we believe every word of it. His gospel-infused cries and melismatic runs carry well-learned traces of Wilson Pickett and O.V. Wright, and in its familiarity it's easy to forget that "I Want You Back" is an entirely unique performance in Jackson's career — he never again sang anything quite like it. For all the otherworldly glories of Off The Wall and Thriller and the material rewards they garnered him, "I Want You Back" might be the closest Jackson ever came to taking us to church.
Of course, the problem with three minutes of perfection is that it ends, and "I Want You Back" carries all the disquieting histories that came after it. For starters, the Jackson 5 were the first definitively post-Detroit Motown act ("I Want You Back" was recorded in Los Angeles), and while it's simplistic to draw a connection between Motown's departure and the city's post-industrial decline, the symbolic significance is hard to miss. And it wasn't just Detroit's loss: Motown's westward move marked the label's gradual fall from the pedestal it inhabited for much of the '60s, and the Jackson 5 were the last group Gordy truly "broke" in the way he'd broken so many others. While Motown continued to enjoy success, its luster began to fade, the Sound of Young America becoming the sound of a graying nostalgia.
But the thorniest history embedded in "I Want You Back" is Jackson's own. The 40 years of its aftermath saw him scale unprecedented heights only to suffer an unsettling public deterioration, marked by his increasingly paranoid belief that the pop industry that had raised him was an amoral pit of greed and exploitation. And he might have been right: Joseph Jackson's American Dream was financed by his sons' childhoods, and "I Want You Back" is the earliest ringing of what would come to be pop music's most troublesome cash register. The reason no 10-year-old kid has ever sang like that is that 10-year-old kids probably aren't supposed to.
"I Want You Back" sounds like the American Dream for all of these reasons. It's mythically pristine and hopelessly debased, corrupt ambition realized into flawless art. It's a record too good to be true, breathlessly racing against its own impossibility, and when those three minutes are up, we're left with that impossibility, its darkened corners and turns toward nightmare. And then, if you're anything like me, you listen to it again, and again, just as quickly as you can.
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Our gospel message today is very hard to hear and take seriously. I presume every one of us thought, "Yeah, I heard that gospel all right, and I can go with it." But I wonder. Have we really thought out what this means? Listen carefully to what Jesus is saying to those who choose to follow him.
This gospel is one of those where Jesus proclaims one of the extraordinary reversals that are common in the gospels -- reversals of our ordinary way of thinking. Most of us think, for example, rich people are blessed. Jesus says, "No, the poor are blessed." Or, people admire wisdom. Jesus says, "God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom." Or Jesus talks about death and says, "If you try to save your life, you will lose it. If you lose your life, you will save it."
The first lesson today reminds us that Jesus was very aware of what was to happen to him. He was crushed for our wickedness. He was harshly treated. Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter, taken away to detention and judgment. He was cut off from the land of the living. They made his tomb with the wicked.
If you remember our meditations on the death of Jesus, recall that in the course of his suffering, Jesus got to the point that he felt crushed with grief. It was as though, Jesus felt, God was punishing him. He felt so crushed, so rejected, he cried out: "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?" He hadn't really been abandoned, but he felt as though God had left him. That is the extremity of his suffering and death. That was the cup of suffering that Jesus said his followers must accept. His followers, he said, must be baptized into that kind of a death. "If you want to follow me, then that's where you will be with me," he said.
It wasn't only James and John who didn't understand what Jesus was saying, however. The other disciples evidently didn't hear him either, because they were angry with James and John. "How do you dare go and ask for the top places, put yourselves in front of the rest of us?" they said. So Jesus got them all together and said: "Now look! Here's what it is like in my kingdom, in the reign of God. Among the gentiles, those who are not believing people, the rulers are tyrants. They lord it over the others, they oppress them. Among you, it cannot be that way, if you are going to be my followers. In the community of the disciples of Jesus there cannot be domination and oppression, someone ruling over others. If you want to be a leader, then be the servant of all." Jesus pushes it even further and says, "Be the slave for everyone else."
The one who is the lowest becomes the highest. The one who is the slave becomes the leader of all by pouring forth love as Jesus did. If we really let that sink in, we might wonder about being among the disciples of Jesus.
Throughout the history of the church, the community of the disciples of Jesus, we haven't always been faithful to this very clear teaching. This means the whole church, because the whole church is called to be a servant church, all of us. But those who are ordained leaders in the church are expected even more to show forth this understanding of being a servant, not being a ruler, dominating, lording it over others.
Sometimes people ask me what is the proper way to address a bishop. I am embarrassed to say, the technical title is "Your Excellency." Now would you think of a servant being called Your Excellency? Or Your Eminence? We take to ourselves titles like we are ruling over others. It is a complete distortion of what leadership in the church is supposed to be.
Just this week, I read an article about what is going on in Rome with Pope John Paul's 25th anniversary. The cardinals are all gathered together, and the article says:
Arrayed around him will be the often ambitious, sometimes fractious members of his inner circle. That group is taking on greater importance as the 83-year old pope becomes sicker and frailer. Hence the loud chatter around the Vatican during the past month that there may soon be a new Secretary of State, a man who ranks second only to the pope.
What's going on? They are all looking to see who is going to get the top spot. This is the very thing Jesus condemns in the gospel. That's not the way the church is supposed to be.
Thank God we have examples of bishops who are different. One whom I think of often as a supreme example of being a servant leader, of course, is Oscar Romero, late Archbishop of San Salvador. I remember what he said two weeks before he was killed. The words come back to me now because they so clearly say what a bishop really should be, a leader of the church. He was ready to pour out his life, even to be killed. It was under threat of death that he said these words:
As a shepherd, I am obliged by divine mandate to give my life for those I love, that is, for those who may be going to kill me.
He was such a servant. According to the model of Jesus, he was ready to give his life to all those he loved, especially to the ones who hated him and were going to kill him. That's what the model of service in the church should be. Again, thank God for bishops like him, and he is not the only one. Leaders of the church who are willing to pour forth their life and their love just as Jesus did.
That's what our whole church should be -- not just the bishops and priests, but all of us. We have to be a servant church, not lording it over anyone else, but respecting and loving and pouring forth love upon those who are marginalized in our society.
That's why it is a blessing for us as we invite guests here every day and we give them a meal [to the parish soup kitchen]. That's a blessing for us especially if we respect them and cherish them as our guests. That's how we become a servant church.
We can also be called to service in our immediate families. I am aware of this because I was talking to one of our parishioners, and I know she will be embarrassed if I say this, but it is such a beautiful example of how you become a servant of others -- and this is in our own family. She works full-time as a teacher, but she starts her day at 4 a.m. She gets up then to prepare her mother for dialysis. She has to arrange with someone to take her mother home. After she teaches all day, she goes home and continues to care for her mother and for the other members of her family. That's real service. It can happen right within our families. But sometimes it doesn't.
I heard about Jennifer Granholm, our governor, going around the state preparing people for the budget cuts that are going to come. One of the places she suggested we might have to make cuts would be in the part of the budget where the state pays people to take care of their family members in their homes. It's a very good program. When there is a real need for that kind of support and help, surely the community ought to reach out and help. But it is almost to the point where we expect the state to step in and take care of our family members, instead of saying, "We're the servants. We have to serve one another within our families, within our parish community."
One of our members just had her furnace go out. She has a house without heat. She is staying with her daughter right now, but we need to help her get that heat back on in her home, to be a servant within our community.
That's what Jesus is telling us today. That we must be a servant church, and there must be no limit to how much love we pour forth upon one another within our parish family, within our personal family, but also within the family of all people. We have to be a church that serves the world.
We need that kind of leadership. We need it from our bishops. We need it from ourselves.
I want to share with you a prayer that we can make our own. It's some words Karl Rahner, a great theologian and Jesuit priest, put together:
I shall pray for the church, my God, each day during the celebration of the Eucharist. My faith can only survive in the community of those who together form the holy Church of Jesus Christ. And therefore it is essential to my own salvation that she be the very home and foundation of my faith …
Let us become the community of disciples you call us to be -- servants and even slaves to all others. In this way we pray your reign will break forth in our world.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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The Story Behind The Song: Toby Keith, “Red Solo Cup”
“Red Solo Cup”
Written by: Brett Beavers, Jim Beavers, Brad Warren, Brett Warren
Recorded by: Toby Keith
Peak Chart Position: No. 9 Billboard Country
So you, your brother Brad, and Jim and Brett Beavers started a band [The Warren Beavers] and wrote and recorded ten songs, one of them being “Red Solo Cup.” How did all that come about?
Brett Warren: Yeah, the Beavers had the idea. And you know, Tim [McGraw] said, “Do things that are different and special” and “Go outside the box.” He used to tell us, “Put your rock band back together, go play shows…” He sent us to London for a week, and me and Brad went up there and played pubs. He was always trying to push us creatively. And it was really cool. It wasent like, “Hey we want you to be the next you know [hot songwriter of the day].” He was sort of pushing us in another direction, which is odd for a publisher. However, it really seemed to work for us.
I mean, this is business. You want to get as much action as you can, but he saw enough to know that we were better when we were out on the fringe and were doing something different and always pushing the envelope. That’s sort of where we stayed, and Brett Beavers came up with this idea that we would form a fake college band called the The Warren Beavers … and everybody knows Brett and Jim Beavers and Brad and Brett Warren, and that we’re songwriters and everything, but we put together this fake college band and only we played the instruments. I played drums and sang. Brett Beavers was the only one that played acoustic guitar and banjo and sang. Jim had never played bass before in a studio. He played bass, and my brother played guitar.
So we proceeded to just go out and have fun like a college band. It was so bad that it was kind of charming. We would have never written a song, a love song about a cup, like a bar college song about a cup, if we hadn’t put ourselves in that mindset. If we were sitting there with three acoustic guitars trying to write, you know, “I Hope You Dance”— which is a phenomenal song — every day, it’s just, everybody was trying to do that. So we were putting ourselves in a different spot.
How did the song get cut? How did Toby Keith hear it?
Our songplugger Nathan Nicholson played “Red Solo Cup” for Trailer Choir. The singer of Trailer Choir said, “I love this song.” He called me and Brad and said, “This is the greatest song ever written. Can I play it for Toby?” And I said, “Sure, play it for him. He’ll love it. But he won’t cut it.” So two weeks later I get a call from Toby’s manager saying, “We’re cutting ‘Red Solo Cup.” We had nothing to do with that.
Getting songs cut is more difficult now than it’s ever been, and writing with artists seems to play a big part in making that happen — in addition to good old-fashioned song hustling.
It’s songpluggers. It’s your relationships. It’s teamwork. You’ve got to build a team. Sometimes it’s just a relationship that the songwriter has with an artist, and they write the song together. Me and Brad and Martina McBride and John McBride are great friends. I love them. If Martina never sang another note in her life, we would still hang out and have dinner. We’re just a great family. So we have that friendship, we brought that idea to her [“Teenage Daughters”], and we just sat down and wrote it.
There was never a demo of it or anything. We recorded a worktape of it in John McBride’s phone, and that was the only thing that was ever recorded until they made the record. But that’s one thing. You know, you work really hard to get into a spot where some artists will call you and say, “Hey I’m starting to look for songs.” Dierks Bentley will call and say, “Hey man, I’m starting to cut a record. You want to write? You got any songs that might be down my wheelhouse?” So you work your slot into that. Sometimes it’s staying aware of who’s getting ready to cut and kind of being opportunistic with dropping songs. It’s relationships directly with the artists, and it’s songpluggers, and it’s A&R people at labels. Sometimes you’ll know an A&R person and play it for them, or a promotion guy, or even a record label president, and they’ll go, “Man, this is killer. I’ve got to play this for such and such.” So it’s all of them. There’s not one way. It really is a team effort. That’s what’s frustrating and what’s genius about the music business. There’s not one set way to do things. | <urn:uuid:4757feab-6763-44dc-b32e-98c2709b736e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/04/the-story-behind-the-song-toby-keith-red-solo-cup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984163 | 1,187 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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CO. V. SOUTHERN RY. CO.
citizen 01 ,Nebraska, a.nd does not reside in said state, but that his resid,encean9: citizenship al'e unknown." It must affirmatively appear, to court jurisdiction, that his citizenship is of a state otqer than Tennessee or Nebraska. The allegation that the citizenship is, unknown is insufficient. Salt Co. v. Brigel, 14 O. O. A. 577, 67 Fed. 625, 31 U. S. App. 665. , Nor can jurisdiction be sustained on the ground that it is a controversy between "citizens of a state and foreign citizens or subjects." The law in this respect is stated in Black, Dill. Rem. Causes, § 34, as follows:
"It is therefore necessary that all the parties on one side of the case should be citizens of a state or and all the parties on the other side aliens. * · * When a plaintitl', citizen of the state where the suit Is brought, sues two defendants. one of whom is a citizen of another state, and the other an alien, * * * the cause is not removable, because It does not come within any of the provisions of the statute. It is casus omissus. It cannot be said to be a controversy 'between citizens of different states,' because one of the parties Is nota citizen; and It cannot be described as a controversy 'between citizens of a state and foreign citizens or subjects,' because one of the defendants is not a foreigner."
The same rule is stated in Hervey v. Railway Co., 7 Biss. 103, Fed. Cas..No. 6,434, and King v. Cornell, 106 U. S. 395, 1 Sup. at. 312. .It is further urged that the action is removable on the ground of a separable controversy. A complete answer to this proposition is that the statute does not give the right of removal to an alien on the'gro(lnd of a separable controversy. King v. Cornell, supra; Merchants" Cotton-Press Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America, 151 U. S. 368, 14 Sup. Ct. 367. . Perceiving no grounds on which the jurisdiction of this court can be sustained, the cause is remanded to the state court.
POSTAl) TEL. CABLE CO. v. SOUTHERN RY. CO. SOUTHERN CO. v. POSTAL TEL. CABLE CO. (Circuit Court, W. D. North Carolina. July 20, 1898.) 1. REMOVAL OF nAUSES-EFFECT OF FILTNH PETITION AND Bo;o.;n. On the filing of a petition In the state conrt stating the essential tacts for removal, accompanied by. a proper bond, the cause Is Ipso facto removed, 'and the state court can take no further action.
, The question .whether an amount Is Involved sufficient to support the jurisdiction of the federal court must be determined by the federal court alonc, and not by the state court.
In a proceeding to condemn a right of way, where defendant In his petition for removal averred that the matter In controversy far exceeded , $2,000 In value, and .the plaintiff claimed that it was of merely nomInal Yalue, held, that the court would be governed, as in other cases, by the amount oithe claim maQe, In the absence of apy reason to bel1eve that j't bad no bona fide existence, and was only made to secure the juri. diction.
.A. L. Brooks and J. R. Mclhtosh, tor plaintiff. ,Stiles & Holladay H.Busbee, for defendant.
SIMONTON, Circuit Judge. These two cases came op together under these circumstances: The Postal Telegraph Cable Company entered proceedings in the superior court of Guilford county, in the stitte o,f North Carolina, seeking to condemn the right to erect its poles and stretch its wires over and along the right of way of the Southern Railway in North Carolina. The petition, among other things, alleged the intention of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company to erect its poles and stretch its wires very near the outer limits of the right of way of the railway company, so as in no wise to interfere with its use of its track, and if, in any case, it should hereafter appear that any of the said poles were obstructing such ose, that the telegraph company would remove them at its own expense, on reasonable notice. Upon the institution of these proceedings the Southern Railway Company filed its petition for removal of the case into this court, relying upon two distinctly stated facts,-the diversity of citizenship between it and the telegraph company, and that in dispute exceeded $2,000, besides interest and costs. The pf'tition was accompanied by a bond with. surety. Application having been made to the state court immediately upon the filing the petition and bond, an order of removal was refused upon the ground solely that the matter in dispute was not of a value exceeding $2,000. The next day after this refusal the Southern Railway filed a transcript of the record in this court. On the same day the Postal. Telegraph Cable. Company moved before the state court for leave to amend its proceeding-s for the pUI:pose of making new parties. This motion was refused because made in the absence of, and without notice to, the defendant's attorney. Because of this. and thefear of other motions, the Southern Railway Company filed its bill, setting forth the facts stated above, and praying that the Postal Telegraph Cable Company be enjoined from seeking to proceed any farther in the state court, inasmuch as the cause had been removed into this court. This is the second cause mentioned in the title set forth. . It comes up on the return to the rule issued on filing the bill requiring cause to be shown why an injunction should not issue as prayed for. The return, after disclaiming all knowledg.e that the cause had been removed into this court, and disavowing all want of respect thereof, rests upon the position that this court cannot entertain the case, as the value of the matter in dispute is less than $2,000. As precisely the same question is made in the removal case, and as the two cases are closely connected with each other, it was determined to' hear argument, with the onderstanding that the conclusion reached would dispose of both cases. , :rhe controlling question in thilil matter, then, is, is the proceeding in the superior court of Guilford county a proper case for removal il1tothis court? It is not questioned that that proceeding is a soit. Noi'can there be any doubt on this point. Kohl v. U.S., 91 U. S. Searl of. School Dist., 124U. S. 199, 8 Sup. Ct. 460; Martin's Adm'r v. Railroad Co., 151 U. S. 673, 14 Sup. Ct. 533. It is a suit between citizens of different states; the Postal Telegraph Cable Company being a corporation of the state of New York, and the Southern Railway Company being a corporation of the state of Vir-
POSTAL TEL. CABLE CO. V. SOUTHERN RY. CO.
ginia. The petition for removal, with proper bond, was filed before the time for answering had expired. This petition averred the two jurisdictional facts: (1) The diversity of citizenship; (2) that the matter in controversy exceeded the value of $2,000, exclusive of interest and costs. Upon the truth of these facts, of both of them, llepends the right of removal. Powers v. Railway Co., 169 U. S. 99, 18 Sup. Ct. 264. Issue was joined upon one of these facts,-the jul'isdictional amount; and the superior court, inadvertently it is sure, passed upon that issue. It could be decided nowhere but in this (:ourt. Carson v. Hyatt, 118 U. S. 279, 6 Sup. Ct. 1050; Carson v. Dunham, 121 U. S. 421, 7 Sup. Ct. 1030; Railway Co. v. Dunn, 122 n.·S. 513, 7 Sup. Ct. 1262; Railroad Co. v. Daughtry, 138 U. S. 298, 11 Sup. Ct. 306. This being the case, and the petition on its face stating the two essential facts for removal, the case was ipso facto removed, and the state court could proceed no further, upon the filing of the .petition and bond; that is, just so soon as they were filed. Gordon v. Longest, 16 Pet. 97; Insurance Co. v. Dunn, 19 Wall. 214; Kern v. Huidekoper, 103 U. S. 485; Railroad Co. v. Koontz, 104 U. S. 5; Act Congo March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. 470). It is very clear, therefore, that the state court could have taken no other action in this cause from the date of the filing of the petition and bond, and that the efforts of the plaintiff in the state court to procure orders from that court were coram non judice, and very properly refused. The grave question made here is upon remanding this canse to the state court. It is contended that this court has no jurisdiction, because of the amouniof the matter in controversy: that being less than $2,000. It has been contended with great ability and eloquence that in the present case the Postal Telegraph Cable Company seeks to erect its poles on the right of way of the railway company, which has already been dedicated to a public use; that it is confinf'd to the public use; that, therefore, in estimating the compensation to be paid the railway company the same rule cannot be followed which obtains in the condemnation of the property of a private person; that such private person holds his property, and can put it to any use, and compensation for taking it must be measq.red accordingly; the railway company holds its property for a public use only, and its compensation must be measured only by the interference with its pel'formance of its public duty, growing out of the public use; that the petition declares an intent in no way to interfere with this public use, and so the compensation to the railway company for putting up the poles and stretching the wires must be nominal. Strong as this line of argument is, and however convincing under other circumstances, it does not apply to the question now at issue. That question is, must this case be re,mcanded? The answer to this question depends upon the matter in controversy. What is the matter in controversy? The compensation to be allowed to the railway company for the erection of the poles and the stretching of the wires by the telegraph companJ. The latter alleges that this compensation should be nominal. The former alleges that it should greatly exceed $2,000. The question is, does it exceed '2,000? On this question the petition of the plain.
tiff in the state cOlirt and that of the defendant for removal differ, and on ittneissue is joined. Says the supreme court in Smith v. Adams, 130 U. So 168, 9 Sup. Ot. 569: .
"'i'BY' 'matter in as used in the statutes conferring jurisdiction on this court, Is' meant the subject of litigation, the matter upon which thell.ction Is brought and issue Is joined, and in relation to which, If the issue is one of- tact·.testlmony is taken; and it!9 ,Pecuniary value may be determined, not only by the money jUdgment prayed, but in some casea by the increased or diminished value of the property directly affected by the relief prayed,aflby the .pecuniary result to one of the parties immediately from the judgment."
See, also, Security Co. v. Gay, 145 U. S. 127, 12 Sup. Ct. 815; City of Clay Center v. Farmers' Loan & Trust 00., 145 U. S. 224, 12 Sup. In estimating the amount of the matter in controversy, the court is governed by the claim made, provided that there is no reason to believe that the claim has no bona fide existence, and is only made to secure jurisdiction. Barry v. Edmunds, 116 U. S. 550, 6 Sup. Ct. 501." Then this is the mode of ascertaining the amount of the matter in controversy, and it being Claimed on the one side that it greatly exceeds $2,000, and wholly denied on the other, the determi. nation of this issue givelfthis court jurisdiction. The issue must be tried in accordance with the taw of North Carolina in such case made and provided, and on the trial of the issue will come up the points so ably presented by counsel at bar. Let an order be entered in the equity cause continuing the restraining order until the further order of this court. Let an order be entered refusing to remand the cause removed.
WIDAMAN v. HUBBARD et 111. (CIrcuit Court, S. D. California. July 27, 1898.)
I. JURISDICTION OF FEDE'6AL COU;ltT-CITIZENSIIIP-ANCILLARY PROCEEDI1'IlJ.
A bill filed In a circuit court to enjoin the further of an action at law pending therein Is ancl1lary to the law actlon,and the court baa jurisdiction without regard to the citizenship of the parties.
2. INSURANCE-AsSIGNMENT OF LIFE POLICV-RIGHTS OF ASSIGNEE.
An assignment of a life .policy, which purports to transfer all rlghta thereunder absolutely In consideration of a sum advanced to the Insured Rnd tile payment of future premiums, .Is not wholly void for illegality, but ,ests the legal title to the policy In the assignee, who may. after the dl'ath' of the Insured, maintain an action thereon in his own name, though be will be accountable as trustee for all the proceeds above the amount of his adYances, with Interest.
SAMll1-ENJQINING ACTION BY asSIGNEE.
'. An actiop,on a life policy by an assignee not be enjoined where It 1/\ admItted that he has a lien on the proceeds for advances made the Insured, unless such lien is eX1;lngulshedby the proceeds of another polley, also assigned to him, and that he. has not. as yet realized on such policy, which Is in litigation in another court.
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The international atmosphere of the Cote d'Azur provides the backdrop for the French language program located at the Collège International de Cannes. Students live in a secure campus setting where room and full board are provided. The college has a stunning view of the Mediterranean Sea, and is close to the beach. This location has inspired such painters as Matisse and Picasso and is near many important artistic and historic sites: Monaco is 40 minutes away by train; the Gorges of the Verdun Valley, the Roman monuments of Provence, the Alps and the medieval villages of Eze and la Turbie are nearby. Upon arrival, program participants have several days of orientation and testing to determine their language placement level. All students take French language classes at their appropriate level and can select from a variety of language courses at the beginning and intermediate level. Those with sufficient competence are allowed to enroll in advanced literature, political science and history courses. Others can select from a variety of language classes at the beginning and intermediate levels, as well as social science and fine arts classes taught in English. Classes are small and students receive personal attention from instructors. | <urn:uuid:ea511d18-1018-40ee-b825-b60459045898> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://csbsju.edu/Academics/Academic-Catalogs/2007-2009-Catalog/Programs/Special-Programs/France.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951164 | 230 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Hey I have a 20 gallon tank with a 15 watt "all glass aquarium" bulb with a little symbol that is a circle with HG in the center.
I do not do CO2
injections because I am not sure what I am doing and I have yet to get to a wal-Mart or other store I can get the DIY materials.
My question is what type of plant is this and it there any way you could help me diagnose the problem.
The plant is growing like a lovely water weed, I'd say 2 cm a day. But in the mornings the top of it is browned. Once the light has been on for a few hours it perks back up, but for the most part the top 2" is lighter than the lower.
I thought I heard somewhere that plants switch to oxygen input at night so I thought maybe with everything else in the tank it was "suffocating/drowning" so I added an airstone for lights out with no avail. All my other plants are lovely, lush and growing inexorably.
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Addressing cadets at South Carolina's Citadel military academy, Romney attacked President Obama for forfeiting U.S. military and economic primacy and promised to restore America's global dominance by increasing defense spending and taking a more aggressive approach toward global threats.
Here's an excerpt from his speech:
"This century must be an American Century. In an American Century, America has the strongest economy and the strongest military in the world. In an American Century, America leads the free world and the free world leads the entire world. God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers. America must lead the world, or someone else will. Without American leadership, without clarity of American purpose and resolve, the world becomes a far more dangerous place, and liberty and prosperity would surely be among the first casualties....
...This is very simple: If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on Earth, I am not your President. You have that President today."
If that sounds a lot like a page out of the George W. Bush playbook, that's because it basically is. Romney's foreign policy team is stacked deep with former Bush administration officials, and his platform adheres closely to their hardline — and occasionally controversial — view of American exceptionalism. Even the venue of Romney's speech harkens back to the Bush era — George W. Bush rolled out his first foreign policy campaign platform at the Citadel in 2000.
The Romney plan lays out eight actions that he will take during his first 100 days in office to roll back Obama's policies and "set a new tone" for America. Here's a rundown:
- Build a bigger Navy. Romney also promised to reverse Obama's "massive defense cuts," a reference to the $350 billion spending cuts included in this summer's debt ceiling deal.
- "Strengthen and repair relationships with steadfast allies" — namely Israel, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. Romney promises to reduce aid to Palestinians if they keep trying to pursue statehood at the UN. He also says he will enhance military cooperation with Mexico, but it is unclear how a border fence will help "repair" relations.
- Take a harder line against Iran. Romney says he will "make clear that the military option is one the table" and step up military aid to Israel. He also rejects diplomatic engagement as an option.
- Start building a missile defense system again.
- Appoint a "regional director" to deal with the Arab Spring.
- Increase trade with Latin America.
- Do another review of the situation in Afghanistan.
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Terminator Seeds Back In Court: Organic Farmers Mosanto Lawsuit
Judged Dismissed Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association et al v. Monsanto
03/28/2012 | 03:53 PM
An organization representing organic farmers and seed growers is appealing a judges decision which dismissed their lawsuit against agriculture giant Mosanto and its patents on genetically modified or engineered seeds.
The Organic Seed Growers Trade Association said in a press release that "Farmers have the right to protect themselves from being falsely accused of patent infringement by Monsanto before they are contaminated by Monsanto's transgenic seed," said Dan Ravicher, Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), a not-for-profit legal services organization based at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that represents the plaintiffs. "Judge Buchwald erred by denying plaintiffs that right and they have now initiated the process of having her decision reversed."
In February Judge Naomi Buchwal dismissed the lawsuit which challenged the company's patents on its genetically modified seeds and seeks to prohibit Monsanto from suing the farmers or dealers if their organic seed becomes contaminated with Monsanto's patented biotech seed germplasm.
Organic Seed Growers Trade Association Notice of Appeal Against Mosanto(PDF)
The genetically modified seeds - also called "terminator seeds" - are seeds that are essentially sterile after a harvest so that farmers can't reuse the seeds.
Reuters says Mosanto is known for being aggressive in pursuing farmers who illegally use such seeds. Some farmers claim that they have no desire to use the Mosanto seeds but simply the wind blew the seeds over from adjacent farms.
According to Reuters " Monsanto filed 144 patent-infringement lawsuits against farmers between 1997 and April 2010, and won judgments against farmers it said made use of its seed without paying required royalties. Many U.S. farmers have said their fields were inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto's biotech seeds without their knowledge. The issue has been a topic of concern for not only farmers, but also companies that clean and handle seed."
The press release goes on to say "America's farmers deserve to be protected under the law from the unwanted genetic contamination of their crops by Monsanto's flawed genetically engineered seed technology," said David Murphy, founder and Executive Director of Food Democracy Now!, an Iowa-based national advocacy organization of more than 300,000 members. "These farmers have no desire to use Monsanto's GMO seeds, yet they are forced into the untenable position of losing their right to farm in the manner in which they choose, face legal intimidation and the loss of economic livelihood, all because America's legal system has failed to adequately protect them from the real threat of genetic trespass that is inherent as a result of Monsanto's patented GMO seeds and the natural biological functions of cross pollination from wind, insects or animals."
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It isn’t the first time I’ve been to Usinsk in the very north of Russia, so I shouldn’t be surprised — but once again, I’m shocked. I was here for the first time back in May, where I, together with my colleagues from Greenpeace in Russia, witnessed and documented the horrible consequences of the never-ending oil spills in this once beautiful region.
I’ve returned here not because I’ve missed the stench of oil, the sight of the constant flaring or the headaches from the ever present chemicals; I’ve returned because we had a chance to do some good here, and give a helping hand to the Indigenous Peoples of Russia.
We invited representatives from all over the Russian Arctic, as well as one from Greenland and one from the Niger Delta, to come to Usinsk. We invited them here to an Arctic Indigenous conference to show them what is going on here, but more importantly to get them to join forces in their struggle against Big Oil’s destruction of their homes.
During this three-day conference, we heard from Reindeer hunters whose very way of life has been permanently altered due to the oil industry; we heard from Alice Ukoko, who comes from Nigeria where her people have been dying because of the same reckless, inhumane activities of the oil industry there – in her case, Shell. We heard from a man whose brother died cleaning up the big oil spill here in 1994, from a representative of the Saami Parliament, from a scientist who conducted oil spill modeling research that showed the devastating effects an offshore Arctic spill would have on their seas and shores.
We even heard directly from a Lukoil representative, the head of their “environmental” division, when he took us to see their clean-up operations in the field. This was perhaps the most staggering moment—after following our bus as it visited spill after spill, he invited us to see the “green” side of Lukoil. We thought we would be witnessing their greenwash in action, but to the contrary – the place where he brought us was the site of the most extensive on-land oil spills we had seen; a large, black, oozing swatch of oil, stretching as far as the eye could see, and with nothing in place preventing it from leaking into the surrounding environment. I can still taste the noxious fumes.
All of this, however staggering, is not the reason why I’m surprised. I’m surprised because I thought I was prepared for what we would meet today on our excursion into the belly of the beast. But even though I’ve witnessed this destruction before, my mind couldn’t prepare me for the way my senses reacted. When you see, smell and taste the air from a massive pool of toxic production water your reaction is not controlled by your mind, but by your instincts. This huge rusted lake of “water” is used in the oil fields then pumped back into a massive pond where it kills everything in its path, until it flows directly into the local river — a river that was once so important for the locals.
The inhumanity and the blatant disregard for the environment and human life, struck me in a way I wouldn’t expect – especially after feeling so mentally prepared. Who does this to their own people, their own land, and their own wildlife? To me, it is incomprehensible. It is not something I will ever get used to or be prepared for; nor should anyone have to become accustomed to such corruption and disdain for life. One of the participants so correctly concluded: What we’re watching here is not only an environmental disaster — it is the end of nature. | <urn:uuid:c69a8ad8-3524-4df2-bcba-1c87fbe7f617> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/usinsk-russia-oil-spill-environmental-disaster/blog/41784/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972724 | 770 | 1.632813 | 2 |
How To Make Unique Wall Mirrors From Tennis Rackets
A tennis racket is a kind of sports accessory that has a long wooden or plastic handle that is affixed to a big paddle-shaped hoop. The hoop itself consists of a patchwork of tightly weaved cords that let the object whack a ball against it. Older kinds of the tools are not typically used for competitive matches and are instead occasionally displayed for decorative reasons. To transform your old primitive tennis rackets into something more appealing, think about turning them into special wall mirrors.
Vintage wooden rackets are the perfect items for these do it yourself projects because they come in wide varieties of colors and sizes. Unlike a modern version, an older model is typically painted and handmade with combinations of hues that seemingly never end.
And because they are oak, you can paint them pretty much any hue you want so that they go with the paint and decorations of the space they will be displayed in.
If you don’t already own a couple of older wooden tennis rackets, consider searching for some at your local thrift stores or antique shops. You could also get lucky and find a few at neighborhood garage sales.
Once you have located a racket worthy of your crafting skills, you can begin gathering up the rest of the supplies that you will need for the project. These will include a mirror and extra strength super glue. If you are lucky enough to own or find a mirror that fits exactly over the net of the racket then the rest of process will go much quicker for you, otherwise any mirror will work as long as it has been cut down to size.
After the item has been sawed so that it goes in perfectly in the racket’s base, use the strong glue to attach it in there. All that is left is to nail up your new pieces so you can look at them everyday. | <urn:uuid:5dc1846c-1a8c-49a7-870a-cb893279356c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aratedreviews.com/tennistips/2012/07/02/how-to-make-unique-wall-mirrors-from-tennis-rackets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962858 | 380 | 1.757813 | 2 |
On Friday morning at the Police Training Academy, officers maneuvered their patrol cars through exercises on the driving course; stopping, starting, speeding and turning in perfecting the skills they'll need on the streets.
They were the same sets of skills that Stephanie Brown would work on, beginning when she was cadet in the class of 2008. But what can't be simulated for Brown or her fellow officers or those of us who take drivers' education and defensive-driving courses are the drunken drivers who put all of those skills to the test or who make them irrelevant.
Nothing could have prepared Brown for what happened a week ago today. While working another officer's shift and responding to a call, the policewoman was driving on I-35 when a suspected drunken driver, going the wrong way and with his headlights off, slammed into her.
Brown, the 27-year-old daughter of a police officer and the mother of a 7-month-old daughter, was killed. So was the suspected drunken driver who was on probation for another DWI conviction. It was the third time in five months that SAPD suffered at the hands of an intoxicated motorist.
Last October, Officer Sergio Antillon died several days after he was hit after stopping to help a driver. And in January, Officer Michael Thornton, a 2008 classmate of Brown, had also stopped to help someone when he was hit, nearly being killed and losing his foot.
In the past 20 years, the scourges of gang drive-by shootings, child abuse and DWIs have littered San Antonio's streets and soul with stolen and maimed lives and countless heartbreaks. Yet as tragically routine as are drive-bys and assaults on children by caregivers, it's possible to imagine a future where they are rare.
Not so, at this point, with drunken drivers. People inclined to shoot at someone or to strike a child do so with the intention of inflicting harm. Such low-lifes are easy to distinguish as bad, even evil.
But no one takes one, three or a dozen extra drinks and gets behind the wheel of a vehicle with the specific intent to do harm. Before a fatal collision, a drunken driver is just one of many who had one (or two or three or more) too many drinks. Yet is there anyone who doubts that on any given night there are far more intoxicated drivers in this city than there are drive-by shooters or child abusers combined?
More than 6,000 DWI cases are pending in Bexar County, which means that only by grace and luck do we not have an additional thousands more fatalities.
Brown's job was to catch the bad folks doing harm with guns and blows. Had she died in that capacity, it would have been because of her heroic choice to serve her community. But the graduate of Southwest High School and UTSA died because of someone else's choice to drink and drive.
At her wake in Porter Loring Sunday night, the reason she died and the reason the flower-scented chapel was filled to capacity was reinforced when coming down the aisle on crutches was Officer Thornton. He told the gathering that on the night he almost died, "Stephanie was at the hospital with my 2-year-old daughter and wife."
Looking at Brown's daughter, Audrey, who was being held by Officer Roger De La Rosa, her father and Brown's companion, Thornton said, "We have mini Stephanie to watch over." As he said this, Audrey waved to the crowd.
Police Chief William McManus was visibly angry when he spoke. Referring to DWIs and repeat offenders, he used the words: "outrageous," "unthinkable" and "intolerable" and promised to speak more about DWIs at the funeral.
For all who think just one more drink won't hurt, the consequences were on display Sunday night. There was a chapel scented with flowers, an American flag draped over the casket of a once vivacious young public servant and a motherless 7-month-old girl in a pink dress waving at people. | <urn:uuid:24993fed-0210-4edc-b4df-ed7b0166359a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Cary-Clack-Drunken-drivers-taking-a-toll-on-1238823.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98466 | 837 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Quincy 2005: Compiling Errors
I'm a fairly new programmer (well I've been exposed to it for quite a few years now, but have yet to refine my skills).
For the past month, I've been using Notepad as my editor and compiling and running programs via command line executions in MS-DOS.
However, I am interested in using Quincy 2005 as an editor, since I am quite familiar with it from school and so forth.
A problem I encounter when trying to compile through Quincy is the following:
This error basically occurs when the program encounters the #include<stdio.h> or #include<stdlib.h> lines in the source code during execution. These libraries use 'long long' as variable declaration types in some of their functions.
error: ISO C90 does not support 'long long'
I initially thought the error occurred because I am using Dev-C++ as the default compiler, while Quincy comes with MingW. Hence, I tried changing the default compiler to MingW, but still no luck.
Furthermore, I also noticed that MingW uses 'long long' in its libraries for as variable declaration types.
Has anyone encountered this problem, if so, please share your thoughts.
P.S. I thought that maybe I was not correctly setting the path name (via Control Panel>System>Advanced>Environment Variables) when I changed the default compiler from Dev-C++ to MingW, but I doubt that. | <urn:uuid:bc4e1dd3-a6c2-4391-ad25-b37eef87c32d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/98015-quincy-2005-compiling-errors-printable-thread.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936779 | 306 | 1.71875 | 2 |
I have a six-year-old son. His name is Jin-Gyu. He lives off me, yet is quite capable of making a living. I pay for his lodging, food, education and health care. But millions of children of his age already have jobs. Daniel Defoe, in the 18th century, thought that children could earn a living from the age of four. Moreover, working might do Jin-Gyu's character a world of good. Right now he lives in an economic bubble with no sense of the value of money. He has zero appreciation of the efforts his mother and I make on his behalf, subsidizing this idle existence and cocooning him from harsh reality. He is over-protected and needs to be exposed to competition, so that he can become a more productive person. Thinking about it, the more competition he is exposed to and the sooner this is done, the better it will be for his future development. It will whip him into a mentality that is ready for hard work. I should make him quit school and get a job. Perhaps I could move to a country where child labour is still tolerated, if not legal, to give him more choice in employment.
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The crookedest Christmas tree
There's something obscene about spending so much money at Christmastime. It's not like we're the Three Wise Men hiking across the desert to gift the baby Jesus. I don't even know what frankincense is, let alone myrrh. So let's get down to the most important symbol of all: the Christmas tree itself.
One long-ago year, my Dad was out of work, much as fathers are today, but he was determined we'd have a tree just the same. All four of us, Dad, Mom, my sister and I, went to McNally's, the local man who sold trees just once a year. We couldn't afford any of his trees, except the worst looking thing on the entire lot. To call it "scrawny" would've been a compliment. It had a skinny trunk an 8-year-old could put her thumb and forefinger completely around and it was not blessed with more than half a dozen nearly bald branches. Besides all that, it tilted like the Tower of Pisa. My sister and I looked at each other in teary dismay.
Undaunted, Dad fished a dime out of his pocket and bought it, and for another nickel, Mr. McNally sold him some loose boughs people used for making wreaths for their doors. One good thing about that tree was that it was the lightest one to carry home. Upon arrival, Dad started to use his imagination, like a person would do in getting a makeover. He found the spot where the tree had started to tilt, and sawed the trunk off just above that spot. When he finished, the tree was much shorter, but at least it was straight. He then drilled holes all over the rest of the trunk, filed down the woody end of the boughs into points, and pushed them into the holes. Mom looked on approvingly, and my sister and I finally began to see Dad's master plan go into effect. The crookedest tree on McNally's lot was beginning to look like a real Christmas tree after all.
We couldn't use tree lights, for the wiring would be too much weight for the rough-hewn branches to bear, so Mom had us get the special box of burnished ornaments from the attic, the same ornaments our paternal grandmother had brought when she emigrated from Germany, and charged us with locating the smallest, lightest ones. She gently and very carefully hung these treasures from the homemade boughs, and we helped her finish the decorating job with several boxes of tinsel, which reflected the light from a nearby floor lamp. Due to the shortened height of our special tree that year, we didn't need to be hoisted up on Dad's shoulders to place the traditional angel at the very top. We just stood on tippy toes.
Each year, New York's Rockefeller Center features a magnificent tree to be seen in person or on television. It's huge, gloriously resplendent with color, and flashing lights.
But for us on a penniless Christmas Eve, that short, scraggy, slanted little tree was transformed before our very eyes into a beautiful, straight, and shining example of what Christmas is really all about.
The moral of this story is that even though you don't trek through starry nights to get to Baby Jesus, you can show your love by using the gifts God gave you: creativity, imagination, and a set of Black & Decker. | <urn:uuid:b68efae8-4a12-4850-a500-439df24b2296> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/3728-the-crookedest-christmas-tree | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978348 | 723 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Asus Crosshair IV Extreme
The Crosshair IV Extreme's heatsink follows on from the previously reviewed Formula motherboard.
All major integrated components are cooled by this single heatsink module. A single heatpipe connects two cooling arrays; the Northbridge and VRMs are kept at bay by the chunkier unit, while the Southbridge and Lucid chip sit under a metal plate. Naturally the heatpipe spans the whole length of the cooler.
There is a little more to the heatsink however. Those with a keen eye will have noticed two wires coming out of the VRM + NB cooling side of the heatsink. "OH NO", you might have exclaimed. Sadly we can only confirm your fears in that it is indeed actively cooled. Nope, it's not passive - there's a little fan sitting above the Northbridge! Thankfully the second cable isn't for another fan, but rather to power the LED that pulsates underneath the Republic of Gamers logo. But seriously, whether it has one or two fans, it's still bad news.
Let me tell you readers a short story - if you know me and my boring tales, then kindly skip paragraph.
Back in 2004, when AMD's Athlon 64 range and nVidia's nForce 4 MCPs were the king of platforms, Asus' motherboards were well known for one thing - Noise.
I remember the first time I ever came across the Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard. It was great. It would let you combine two GeForce 6800 Ultra's in SLI, overclock Athlon 64 3000's to the dizzy heights of 2.70GHz and onwards and even had SATA II. This was all brilliant, except for one thing. Asus saw fit to cool their nForce 4 SLI chipset with a basic aluminium cooler and then drop a 40mm fan on top that would spin in excess of 7000RPM. It didn't push an awful lot of air but seriously, you could hear it from another room! Asus finally put an end to this with the release of the A8N SLI Premium, which sported a passive heatpipe design. From here on, the saga of active motherboard coolers were over...until now.
Needless to say, we installed the Crosshair IV Extreme with high hopes that the fan would rarely switch itself on...Oh how wrong we were. By default, the fan spins at its maximum speed and believe me it can be heard over the loudest of Multi GPU configurations. The motor noise is high pitched and much like the dreaded A8N Ultra/SLI series coolers, it can be heard from adjacent rooms.
Having now spoken to Asus, we were made aware of the fact that the 40mm fan was a space saving measure that replaces the optional "bolt on" fan that previous ROG packages included. Apparently the fan is only of use under conditions of low case airflow, such as watercooled CPU/GPU.
Our opinion still stands however. A 40mm fan can only move so much air during a given rotation and so it comes to no surprise that it has to spin very quickly. We would guess that the fan pushes no more than 20CFM. Even if the board's components are under stress due to low airflow, there is only so much this fan can do to ease temperatures. The endgame is that anyone that is serious about overclocking would ensure that there is sufficient airflow inside their chassis or on their test bench in the first place. Even a set of low speed 120mm fans in the vicinity of the motherboard would suffice in our opinion.
There is simply no way of sugar coating this. Asus are right; the heatsink is capable of cooling the Crosshair IV Extreme passively under most, if not all scenarios. Simply unplug it and the board will operate normally and in silence. On the basis of this, we continue to wonder why the fan was necessary in the first place but dwelling on this is futile.
We're almost out of pictures but fear not, the review will stay interesting for a while longer. | <urn:uuid:2534026f-504b-4a2f-a5f1-40384c1c556d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/asus_crosshair_iv_extreme/4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957212 | 826 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Mar 3 2013
Organisers for the 2015 Rugby World Cup have said reports claiming to list the 12 finalised venues for the tournament were "not at all true".
Reports on Sunday morning suggested the venues for rugby's showpiece had already been agreed upon and that only three of them would be traditional rugby stadiums. Organisers have, however, described the reported list as inaccurate with a final decision not due to be announced until later this month.
"That list is not at all true. It is entirely speculation," a spokesman for the 2015 Rugby World Cup told Press Association Sport. "It is not the final list."
A long list of 17 venues was announced in October last year with five due to be cut when this month's final announcement is made.
The only rugby stadiums in that long list were the three named in the reports - Twickenham, the Millennium Stadium and Gloucester's Kingsholm ground.
The remaining venues, apart from the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, are football grounds.
"The long-list has been in the public domain for a long time," the spokesman said.
"The use of football stadiums was a part of the bid which was well documented."
Second-tier football club Leicester City's King Power Stadium is among the long list of venues but Aviva Premiership high-fliers Leicester Tigers' nearby Welford Road home was overlooked.
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In a process of one question begetting another, Meade Rubenstein made a comment about something I stated in my original question. It seems like an interesting enough question on its own, so here we are. The comment was:
Never Maintain, always increase intensity or change workout to keep your body from getting use to the workout, which reduces it's effectiveness.
If my goal for my strength training is more supplemental to my other fitness goals, and I am happy with the strength I've achieved, is there really any reason to keep pushing harder? For example, my initial goals support general health. An added bonus would be the ability to get back into martial arts which I've neglected for a couple years due to various health problems exacerbated by my weight at the time. In martial arts, absolute strength (i.e. what you can lift) doesn't really mean much. Your technique and your ability to flow from one movement to another is more important. In fact, your power is directly linked to your technique. That's what makes a small man with polio in one leg able to crush a coconut in mid air, while Arnold Schwarzenegger might have a hard time doing the same.
So instead of poling for your opinions on whether you agree or disagree with Meade's statement, I'll ask my usual mutipart question (hopefully I'll understand more):
- Are there any negative consequences to keeping the weight constant while you perform your workout? (assumption is that you are already where you want to be)
- If constant growth is important, how do you keep from becoming the overly muscular guy so you can still fit in your clothes? I worked hard to get down to the size I am, and replacing my wardrobe is expensive. I'd rather not go back up.
- How do you manage the demands of strength training when you only want it as a supplement to your other fitness activities? (cardio/running, martial arts, etc.) | <urn:uuid:c911a227-72e4-4ec0-b0a1-4e7d7016bf62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/1823/is-maintaining-really-so-bad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965421 | 399 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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5 Easy Tips When Choosing A Home Based Internet Business
This article contains information about 5 tips when choosing a home based internet business. These 5 easy tips will help future entrepreneurs from being taken advantage of in their quest to become a successful online business owner. This artcile will help you learn what you can do to make sure you have the necessary information before making a financial committment to any home based business opportunity.
If you are confused about internet success, it may be in your best interest to discover 5 easy steps when choosing a home based Internet business. Learn the steps that will help improve your chances at becoming successful and to help you avoid being taken advantage of online. Every entrepreneur should be concerned about online scams because there are people who take advantage of those hoping to make money online. It does not have to be a "risky" gamble if you have done your due diligence before making a financial investment on any online offer that you see. You likely already know that there are individuals who make their living off of scamming people. Most home based online business are legitimate, however. The point is that you need to be careful before spending any money on any program. If you take a little extra time before committing to any home based business and follow 5 easy tips, you will certainly be glad that you did. The last thing that you want is to become another statistic of another unlucky entrepreneur who fell for a so called home based business opportunity. Most entrepreneurs are likely aware of online scams and have become quite skeptical to any new opportunity that comes along. Maybe you are one of those unfortunate people who have been taken advantage of. If so, I share your pain. I have been scammed before but never again. I have learned some very important lessons which will prevent this from happening again and I will share these tips with you. These tips are important for any entrepreneur looking for a positive experience! This article is in no way intended to discourage you from starting up a home based Internet business. The information provided to you is simply a tool to avoid you from becoming a victim from any online business scam. It just takes a little dedication and a little work on your part to prevent any misfortunes in the entrepreneur arena! There are a few quick and easy tips that you can use to make the best possible decision. You should make sure you have these 5 easy tips when choosing a home based Internet business and also make sure that you apply these tips, as well. Here are 5 tips When Choosing A Home Based Internet Business. 1. Research the company. This should be first and foremost with any home based Internet business. Check with the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org) and see if there are any complaints against the company. Keep in mind that if you do see any complaints against the company that this does not necessarily mean that this is a bad company. Don't be afraid to ask for references. Not everyone will be happy with the results of any company. This could be a result of that individual not doing their part to make their business a success. If you see a complaint, what you should look for are "resolved" complaints. If complaints have been resolved and if there are not a lot of complaints, this is a good sign that the company cares about its customers and believes in good customer service. 2. Understand that any home based online Internet business that promises you thousands of money with very little investment of time is just not true. Legitimate businesses succeed with effort. You should stay away from these companies. Any online or offline business requires work on your part. 3. Assess the skills needed to be successful in the opportunity that you are considering. Many home based online internet business opportunities that you see will require skills such as writing, graphic design, programming or web design. This is not always the case, but with any online business, you are going to need to promote your new business. So, if writing is not one of your strong points, this does not mean that you should give up. No, this just means that you will need to either hire someone to assist you with writing articles, or consider having a business partner who is considered a good writer. 4. Get a written guarantee with your home based online Internet program. This is very important if you are purchasing a program that is going to cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars just to become a business owner. 5. Be willing to put in the time that will be needed to succeed with your business. Any successful business owner will tell you they had to work to become successful. | <urn:uuid:802f9330-18ee-49be-91a7-fc42cf5c51b5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peerfear.org/articles/17161 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967785 | 935 | 1.515625 | 2 |
So recently I sat down and tried to write a little bit about what I’ve learned about acid. So I started writing, and I kept writing and writing, and after more writing, I decided, that no one wants to read a thesis. So I went ahead and split it into sections, so to start, we’ll initiate the un-initiated. What exactly is acid?
Acid just sounds scary, doesn’t it? Tartaric acid just sounds like something you would pour down the drain to unclog it. Well, I hate to break it to you, but it’s in your wine.
Woah Woah Woah! Hold it! Don’t throw your wine collection into the trash. Ok, that one you already threw in there you can leave in there. Nobody likes Blackstone anyway. The thing is grapes naturally have acids in them, namely, Malic acid and Tartaric acid. Tartaric acid is a natural acid that integrates as seamlessly with your body’s chemistry as does a granny smith apple. As you may already know, acid in general is a huge part of a wine’s flavor. It’s the tingling sensation that the wine has on your tongue when you drink it. It’s an important part of the balance and texture of a wine. There are many parts of wine that provide subtle sensations of sweetness, so the duty of acid is to differentiate the wine from something like syrup that is just pure sweetness.
When I arrived in Australia, I already knew this. What I also knew is that acid makes it difficult for microbes to survive. What I didn’t know was just how effective it was at said goal.
Enter Casella wines. Unfortunately, I can’t claim that Casella is a particularly clean winery. The winery moves through thousands of tons of grapes every day and there’s not always time to do a thorough cleaning between every lot. There is a lot of grime and junk that ends up in the tanks and well, let’s be honest, this isn’t exactly, err… sterile.
I can tell you this was something of a shock to me, because well, everywhere I’ve been before, they’ve been pretty adamant about sanitation. Sanitation is your first defense against microbial instability, and protecting against all sorts of spoilage flavors in your wine. However, after tasting through the lots with the wine-makers, I can tell you there was never any sign of microbial spoilage, which I thought was weird, because I definitely saw hoses that if I touched, I wouldn’t eat with my hands later.
So why is Casella wine so stable when it goes through the muck like this? Well, it’s that stuff you were about to pour down the drain- acid. The wine-makers make it a point to keep the acids very low, (pH of 3.5 and lower for the hard-core nerds in the audience) they add very large doses of Tartaric acid when the fruit comes in, so much so they have a tank full of the stuff automatically dosing our Drain-O into the transport lines and apparently, that coupled with normal SO2 levels, makes this stuff super-wine. In wine-making school they teach you that acid is a microbial deterrent, a kind of microbiological crime-fighter and they even talk about it in some consumer-oriented wine books, but not until I had seen it here did I really appreciate how strong it is. This is simply amazing: the wine here protects itself, unlike every American winery I’ve been to, where the wine-makers protect the wine.
Ok, ok, so you guys are probably wondering the same thing I did: doesn’t all that acid make the wine tart? Of course it can, but it’s more a question of balancing it with other elements of the wine, which we’ll get to another day.
So there you have it. Acidity. If you made it this far, congrats! I probably shouldn’t have chosen one of the most important topics in the wine world for an article subject, but here you are, you made it. So kudos to you! If I didn’t bore you enough just now and you want to hear more self-important diatribes, stay tuned! | <urn:uuid:d24dc3a7-6dec-4312-abc2-1c33c4abf48e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://learningsofatravelingwinemaker.com/tag/acid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973032 | 925 | 1.648438 | 2 |
How to Buy Art
Tom Delavan, an art buyer who specializes in fine contemporary art, also has an incredible knack for making affordable art look sophisticated. We asked him how to decorate the walls without robbing a bank.
How did you develop your art expertise?
After business school, I became intrigued by the art world and ended up at a training program at Sotheby’s, where I was later hired as a contemporary-art specialist. Then I helped found the Gramercy Art Fair, in New York City, which is now the Armory Show.
You’re also a designer.
Yes. I was curating art for a client when he asked me to decorate his home. That led to work for the home-design magazine Domino. Now I’m the creative director of the shopping site Gilt Home.
Can you tell us why art is so tricky?
Because it’s truly about personal taste. It’s more art than science.
What if you don’t know what your taste is?
You can figure it out. Gather images of rooms you’re drawn to and take a look at the kind of art in them. Maybe it’s all watercolors—or black-and-white photos.
Think about your space. There shouldn’t be a disconnect between the decor and the art. If you have a glamorous room, for example, you don’t want flea-market art in beat-up frames. It would be better to go with something more polished, with a gold or silver frame.
Fill in the blank: Types of art that tend to look good at all price points include ________.
Black-and-white photography, graphic posters, small drawings, and sketches. Nice, large figurative paintings are hard to find at a low price, so maybe steer clear of those. | <urn:uuid:1d2c378e-2d39-440d-9291-be387a8270ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/decorating/tips-techniques/buy-art-00100000096350/?xid=sugar-rs-022213 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95784 | 395 | 1.78125 | 2 |
FRANKFORT — A legislative review panel signed off on several new regulations Monday that govern the implementation of a controversial 2012 law to tackle Kentucky's prescription drug-abuse problem.
The regulations for the so-called "pill mill bill" dealt with a variety of issues, ranging from standards for prescribing certain medications to disciplinary hearings and continuing education for doctors.
The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee approved 12 proposed regulations — 10 offered by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and two by the state Office of Inspector General in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services — for last year's House Bill 1.
The law was designed to halt doctors and pain management clinics that push addictive pills for profit rather than good medical care. It expanded Kentucky's prescription monitoring system and required that any new pain clinic must be owned by a licensed medical practitioner.
But some health care providers said legitimate medical care got entangled in the law. They contended the law sometimes forces doctors to jump through needless hoops while they try to provide quick medical care in hospitals.
Sen. Joe Bowen, R-Owensboro, chairman of the regulations review panel, said the rules adopted by the subcommittee would go to the legislature's health and welfare committees for consideration during the 2013 General Assembly session that begins Tuesday.
"We're just one little speed bump in the road in this regulations process," said Bowen of his panel. "All of this will go through the legislative process in the session."
Rep. Bob Damron, R-Nicholasville, said he was willing to support the licensure board's proposed regulations if its officials committed to working with lawmakers during the 2013 session.
Dr. Preston P. Nunnelley of Lexington, president of the licensure board, assured Damron that would happen. If it does not, Damron said, he would ask the review subcommittee to reconsider the regulations.
Reps. Jimmie Lee, D-Elizabethtown, and Johnny Bell, D-Glasgow, said they were concerned that the law has had the unintended consequence of hurting people who actually need pain medication.
Bell noted that heroin is "now flowing into this state" and producing more drug addicts.
The lawmakers said some doctors have stopped prescribing pain medications because they feel "criminally threatened" by the law.
Bill Doll, a lobbyist for the Kentucky Medical Association, said the law presented "a threatening environment" for doctors concerned about criminal liability, and he expressed hope that the 2013 law-making session could address those concerns.
C. Lloyd Vest, general counsel for the licensure board, said he was not aware of any legitimate, physician-owned pain management clinic going out of business because of the new law.
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Gov. Rick Snyder: Police flyers not helpful to Detroit; Touts city as bike friendly
DETROIT, MI - Right at the beginning of Gov. Rick Snyder's appearance on the "Big Show" with Lloyd Jackson on WJR-AM Monday night he touted the $12.8 million Globe building project, which includes turning a derelict structure on the city's east riverfront into a Department of Natural Resources activity and resource center.
"It's kind of the blending of urban area with recreation and with outdoor space," Snyder said.
To mark the project's birth on Saturday, he slapped on a helmet and went biking along the Dequindre Cut, and said people remarked about how Detroit is one of the best cities in the country for biking.
But on Jackson's show Monday it wasn't all relentlessly positive, as topics ranged from the unsavory situation at Detroit's police headquarters to whether or not the state's emergency manager law has roots in racism.
Is more retail coming to Detroit?
Jackson asked Snyder about more shopping options in Detroit, and whether any "big bucks" retailers are set to come to the city.
Snyder responded by saying that while it is good that places like Midtown and downtown have a "95 percent-plus" occupancy rate, there still needs to be more activity in the city, presumably referring to its population. He said Detroit needs to get the message out that "good things are happening."
The fact that the Detroit Tigers are doing well helps, he said.
On the Godbee sex scandal
He said that the situation at the Detroit Police Department, from which Ralph Godbee abruptly retired as police chief Monday amid a sex scandal, is "really unfortunate," and that it takes away from important issues the city should be focusing on, such as the lighting district, a regional transit authority and Belle Isle, echoing words he said last week.
The 'enter Detroit at your own risk' flyers being passed out
Snyder was asked about some police handing out flyers that say "enter Detroit at your own risk."
"I don't' think that helps anybody," Snyder said. "That perpetuates the difficulties we've had."
He added, "Detroit has been one of the 10 most dangerous cities for how long? It's been going on for years."
But, he said, the city is showing progress now, and needs to stay on a forward course so that it does not slip backwards.
Snyder said that in terms of economics, the state as a whole needs to stay its current course as well. He said he keeps a graph on his wall that shows Michigan's GDP peak in 1965, when it was 5.25 percent of the national economy, and its bottoming out in 2008/2009, when it fell to 2.5 percent of the national economy.
The first major uptick, he said, came in 2011.
On Belle Isle
"It's a great gem of the city,"Snyder said, expressing confidence that a deal between the state and the city could be reached soon.
By making it a state park, as Snyder's administration has proposed, the city can continue to own it but the state can invest funds in the park to make it "a safe place for recreation."
Snyder said City Council sent the state "some 120 questions" that they want the state to sign off on. He said the state is complying. He also noted that William G. Milliken Park is considered a successfully run state park in the city of Detroit.
Car lot owner keeps getting robbed/Public safety
A caller asked Snyder what could be done to ebb crime in Detroit. The owner of a car lot, the caller said his vehicles are habitually stolen, and the police response has been poor.
Snyder said the state is trying to do more with public safety issues in the city as well as lighting. He said it is also looking at what could be done with a prisoner re-entry system with more drug treatment.
"Specifically, with respect to police officers themselves, we're graduating more Michigan state troopers," he said.
In Detroit, he added, the state has launched a program that works with Detroit Public Schools to make sure children have safe routes to school, while also bringing social workers back in to communities.
Snyder also said that while it was good that Midtown and Downtown are seeing higher occupancy rates, the city needs more activity in "the neighborhoods," presumably meaning the outer, less populated areas of the city.
Is the emergency manager law racist?
Jackson told Snyder that some people argue that the state's emergency management law is designed to disenfranchise people of color.
"That's not the case," Snyder said, adding that it was merely set up for communities "in case of an emergency."
He said that in some cases, such as in Detroit's case, communities have lost a significant amount of their tax base and yet their governments remain as large as they were at their peaks.
The six November ballot proposals
He also reiterated his stance on the ballot proposals: 'Yes' on Proposal 1 (the emergency manager law), 'No' on the other five (which all in some way alter the state constitution).
"We're making progress now and these ballot proposals, all these constitutional amendments, would take us one step back, so yes on one and no on all the rest," Snyder said.
Converting Blue Cross Blue Shield into a mutual
One caller was concerned with the state's plan to convert Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan away from what she said is an affordable setup as a non-profit organization.
Snyder told her that someone had given her false information.
"The thing is the Affordable Care Act is coming in 2014, when the marketplace is changing," he said, referring to the federal healthcare legislation signed into law in March 2010.
He said Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will become a non-profit mutual company, which means policy holders will in effect own it. Under this setup, the company will give Michigan $1.5 billion over 18 years as part of a charitable endowment.
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GETTING BUGGED: Fashion designer Kotomi Yoshida meets Marcel Proust
In the weeks leading up to our fashion spectacle Frock Out, each of our twelve designers will be featured here with their responses to the infamous Proust Questionnaire. Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist, critic and essayist, believed that people must know and understand themselves before they can know or understand others. His clever and insightful answers to a list of subjective questions (a popular social entertainment at the time) illustrate how the questionnaire helps reveal to people their true selves and the inner personalities of those around them.
Kotomi Yoshida has a background and degree in technical drawing. In college, Kotomi shopped at thrift stores and then made her own clothes by recycling the materials and upcycling the designs. Now at Studio Yoshida, she makes Japanese-inspired streetwear for men and women. Her designs are eco-friendly, inexpensive and do not support sweatshops.Kotomi’s goal is to spread cool fashion with affordable prices to cool artsy people all over town. Check out her designs at Studioyoshida.etsy.com
What is your greatest fear?
Falling or somebody throwing a bug at my face. Both at the same time would be the ultimate. Oh, and if that all happened in front of a crowd, that would be like a death for me.
What is your current state of mind?
Questioning the fluffiness of cats.
What is your favorite occupation?
Doing the dishes; it is so calming.
What historical figure do you most identify with?
Who is your favorite fictional hero?
The guy in Zombieland. He was pretty cool. Not the young one.
Who are your real-life heroes?
What is your most treasured possession?
When and where were you happiest?
Right now, right here.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I have a really bad memory. I'm sorry, what was the question?
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I look like my grandmother. The one I dislike.
What do you consider the most over-rated virtue?
Glow-in-the-dark sparkly, perfect teeth.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"That's true." and "What does that mean?"
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Conquering my agoraphobia.
What is it you most dislike?
The smell of trash.
What do you value most in your friends?
Being reliable, kind, good listeners. And occasionally crazy.
If you were to die and come back as a person or an animal, what do you think it would be?
A giant squid.
If you could choose an object to come back as, what would you choose?
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This budget makes a significant investment in maintenance that will increase Muni's reliability, reduce overtime through adequate staffing and focus on key initiatives such as the Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) and other means to speed the system, such as all-door boarding.
The budget also provides free transit service for low-income youth, ages 5-17, who use a Clipper card, for a 22-month pilot program beginning Aug. 1, contingent upon funding from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Other key components of the operating budget include implementing management efficiencies with $2 million in cuts to management staff; $5 million reduction in overtime and $1 million savings through improved management of worker's compensation.
A projected savings of $7 million annually related to salaries and benefits in labor contracts currently being negotiated.
The Capital Budget consists of $582.3 million in FY 12-13 and $477.8 million in FY 13-14, funding various projects within 16 capital programs.
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Order something online from your favorite retailer only to receive the wrong product? Stuck at a crowded airport after multiple flights were cancelled?
In a perfect world, the common occasional mishaps that are to be expected when engaged in commerce wouldn't be such a big deal. They'd be resolved appropriately and quickly with little effort. Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world and such mishaps are frequently just the start of a major headache that is caused by poor customer service.
From emails that go unanswered to long hold times on free phone customer support numbers, there are plenty of ways that customer service often lets us down, even when the companies that are providing that service try their best to do a good job.
If only there was a semi-secret, exclusive customer service channel in which problems were solved efficiently and painlessly...
In some cases, there just might be. It's called Twitter.
When Cindy Morrison was having difficulty using her frequent flier miles to book a flight on American Airlines (AA), she wasn't getting anywhere with AA using the airline's traditional customer service channels. So she tweeted, hoping that somebody at AA might be listening. They were, and they did more than that: "I’d been messing with these dang tickets for a week and American Airlines’ social media department had me taken care of in mere MINUTES!!"
Morrison's experience isn't all that atypical. Do a search on Google, or browse the customer service Twitter accounts of major brands, and you'll quickly find plenty of examples of companies using Twitter to respond to customer service inquiries and rectify bad situations.
In many cases, companies don't just seem to be responding more rapidly to customer concerns on Twitter; they're also doing something meaningful about those concerns. That's really, really important given that the primary objective of any customer service interaction is to address an issue to the customer's satisfaction (within reason of course).
Why Twitter customer service works
Twitter's rise as a VIP customer service channel makes sense for a variety of reasons. For one, it's an asynchronous channel, so companies aren't burdened by the often-impossible expectation that a live person will be available immediately.
There's also the issue of expectations: for many customers, Twitter is a customer service channel of last resort. When phone, email and other channels fail, a desperate tweet is all that's left so companies able to keep a customer from slipping through the cracks using Twitter have a great opportunity to redeem themselves.
And last but certainly not least is the fact that Twitter is a semi-public customer service channel. Companies that don't respond to customer service-related tweets can wind up looking bad; companies that do can earn a free testimonial in the process.
Challenges going forward
The good news for companies looking to turn Twitter into a customer service channel is that it's increasingly easy to do so. Numerous vendors offer tools for managing customer service interactions on Twitter, some of which are integrated into larger customer service platforms.
But providing a high level of service through Twitter -- and maintaining it -- may not be so easy. Not every company using Twitter to help their customers gets high marks. In fact, despite all of the examples of Twitter customer support wins, a recent study found that most customer service tweets go unanswered in the first 24 hours.
As more and more customers avoid the phone and email, and instead turn to social channels to get assistance, companies could see the volume of customer service inquiries on Twitter rise substantially, creating the same sorts of problems seen in other channels.
With this in mind, companies may want to consider one of the lessons Dell has learned from its Twitter customer service initiative: social media is a supplement to existing customer service programs, not a replacement. So if your overall level of service is lacking, chances are you'll have a hard time providing VIP-level support on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:ad6d0015-c4c0-473c-a446-8eddae62428d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://econsultancy.com/in/blog/10400-is-twitter-creating-a-vip-customer-service-channel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96321 | 795 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The Hunger Project's partners at the Zuza Epicenter in Mozambique are the first of all our epicenters to embrace solar energy as a clean, renewable source of electricity for their epicenter and water system.
Mrs. Bassine Kane has seven children and is the Chair of the Ndiollofen Village Women's Organization in The Hunger Project's Sam Contor Epicenter in Senegal. The results she achieved through her bio sorrel (organic hibiscus) farm helped to influence the local authorities' commitment to award land to other village women's organizations and increased women's access to fertile land.
A young indigenous woman in Peru follows her mother's footsteps as a member of an association of rural women in her community. Through her participation with Chirapaq, THP's partner in Peru, Luz Angelica learns about women's land rights and is able to interact with young indigenous leaders from other countries.
Fayise Dhaabaa is climbing the ladder out of poverty, one rung at a time. Loans from the Microfinance Program at her local epicenter gave her the chance to earn additional income to support her family. Now, after a series of small, smart investments, Fayise's financial future looks brighter than ever, and her whole family is reaping the benefits.
The satisfaction that Ms. Ana Sebastiao Zitha gets from being a financially self-sufficient woman is irreplaceable. With the skills she gained from trainings at her local epicenter, Ms. Zitha learned to take control of her future. And empowerment is contagious: Ms. Zitha now makes one of her epicenter's most motivated animators, passing on what she has learned to others.
Celine Migan was struck by a debilitating injury while still a child. Too often in her society, this sort of handicap casts a dark shadow over the lives of its sufferers, robs them of their abilities, and dooms them to beg in the streets. However, with The Hunger Project in the picture, self-sufficiency and dignity are never far away. Read about how Ms. Migan works with THP-Benin's Microfinance Program to defy grim statistics and succeed every day.
At 47, Vida Osei-Boahene is discovering she has a knack for business. After suffering the ups and downs of susbsistence farming for years, THP-Ghana gave her room to grow. Several smart business moves later, today she is "so proud to say that, I have GH¢ 300 ($211) in my savings
account! I will forever remain thankful to The Hunger Project!"
Comfort Aniniwa was used to the ups and downs of subsistence farming. She was unable to picture a brighter future for herself, or her family. When THP-Ghana gave her the skills, financial freedom and encouragement to start her own business, things started looking up. Now, Miss Comfort Abena Aniniwa is becoming more "comfortable" every day - truly living up to her name!
In early March, the Indian upper legislative body passed a constitutional amendment that would require that women hold 33 percent of seats in federal and state legislative assemblies. If passed into law, this amendment would change the landscape of women's rights in India.
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Faith healing and the manipulation of the desperate
On a normal day in February. Bernadette Soubirous, a 14 year old living in the small town of Lourdes in France, was gathering firewood with her sisters near a small grotto. She became aware of a presence, and claims a lady in a white robe with a golden rose on each foot appeared before her. Her sisters, who were present at the time, did not report seeing anything of the sort. Bernadette would return to the site another 17 times, and her visions were interpreted by the townspeople as being of divine origin. They all assumed the woman was the Virgin Mary, and in the 157 years since her ‘visions’, the site has become a pilgrimage for the sick and lame seeking for a miracle cure.
Every year, over 5,000,000 people visit the town, and the sight of so many ill and disabled people can be downright strange. There have supposedly been 67 inexplicable miracle cures since Bernadette’s visions, but in light of the droves of pious individuals making their journey to France, the numbers seem terribly low. There’s every reason to doubt the apparition story, especially since Bernadette had suffered from cholera as a child, which seemed to have made her simple.
If these visions had occurred today, Bernadette would have been hospitalized. They may have found her to suffer from schizophrenia, or perhaps was the victim of hallucinations caused by a poor diet. In any case, almost no one would have believed her sightings to be genuine. It seems, however, that she benefited from living in a much simpler time.
The droves wishing for a cure make the painful trek to Lourdes, but this is not the only example of ‘faith healing’. There are many different forms in a large variety of religious denominations. Many involve the imbibing of special and sacred liquids, or the presence of holy relics. Sometimes, it is actual living human beings who are thought to channel the power of healing. These ‘Faith Healers’ are most prevalent in America, where large numbers of indoctrinated individuals believe in their miraculous powers. Their piety and desperation reinforce one another, and the results are lucrative for those claiming to heal the sick.
In the 1980s Peter Popoff, a German born televangelist, made millions of dollars with his supposed abilities. He seemed to be able to name people’s names, addresses, and ailments. His clientele, which was comprised of desperate and sick people, were easy prey. The powerful tradition of faith they were part of, which teaches them miracles really do happen, made them prime targets for exploitation. But the technique Popoff used was so simple, anyone could easily duplicate it, and they often do. Popoff used a simple radio transceiver device operated by his wife, who would read out cue cards written in advance by the audience members. In 1987, he was exposed when James Randi recorded the audio he had intercepted. Although Popoff declared bankruptcy and vanished for a brief time, his ministry is still alive today. Dismantling the hopes of the faithful is much more difficult than can be imagined.
Some faith healers rely on far simpler and low tech techniques to convince the faithful they possess supernatural abilities, and these tricks are borrowed from mentalists and psychics. They use a tool called ‘cold reading’ to garner information about people while giving the impression that they are in fact revealing the information themselves. Most of the time it’s the simple act of using visual clues to make observations about an individual. For instance, a person with poor physical appearance would probably suffer from a lack of self confidence. A cold reader would therefore guess the person might have problems finding someone for a relationship or isn’t getting the promotion at work they want. In the case of faith healers, they can make snap judgments about ailments by the sight of a crutch, wheelchair, or bandages. His gullible victims are only too eager to give information about themselves if the visual clues are not present. All the faith healer needs to do then is speak loudly and suddenly, laying his hands (often on their foreheads) to send the audience member into a kind of trance. Often the exhilaration of the experience temporarily alleviates the symptoms, and this is interpreted as a cure. But once the show is over and the exhilaration fades, the symptoms return.
Some might think that a pilgrimage or dramatic laying on hands does no harm, but this is not the case at all. Often times, when these faith healers perform their ‘miracles’, their victims will often cease to seek proper medical treatment. One dramatic example involved a woman who had thrown off her braces and run on stage at the command of the faith healer. The woman suffered from cancer of the spine, and the next day, her backbone collapsed. She died 4 months later. Extensive investigations by doctors found that all attendees who have experienced cures during the performance often had worsened after their ‘cures’, due usually to the strain of the experience.
The practice of faith healing is popular precisely because of how lucrative it is. Lourdes’ tourist trap invariably provides a great deal of money for the town, and evangelical ministers often make millions of dollars going around the country collecting donations. The harmful effects have been heavily documented, and yet, we choose to continue to allow this fraudulent behavior. I can only assume it is because we place a higher value of faith than we do on life. Faith healing preys on the most desperate of human emotions; the need to live a life without suffering. Their practitioners exploit the fears and hopes of our fellow man to enrich themselves. This is unacceptable, and it must be stopped.
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2008 Latin Salutatory Oration
Posted June 3, 2008; 01:19 p.m.
Delivered in Latin by James Morrison
Given in the Academic Assembly of Princeton
In New Jersey on the Third of June
In the Year 2008
In the 261st Academic Year
My fellow students, it is my pleasure to address you in Latin, the hallowed tongue that is the privilege of the well-educated; thus, let us all show off our erudition! In choosing a proper quote for this momentous occasion, I am reminded of those most-famous words of the poet Horace: carpe diem. Orators often use these words to speak about the future, exhorting us to lead lives that are filled with success, happiness and generosity. But at this moment, I would like instead to look to the past and thank the men and women who have allowed us to "seize" these four years at Princeton.
First, I salute you, President Tilghman, who not only leads our University but also finds time to teach us biology. Is it strange to alternate between weighty affairs of state and the birth of the fruit fly? Let us also thank the trustees, whose efforts guarantee the present and future health of our University.
Next, I salute our professors, who have shared with us the secrets of the arts and sciences and who have graciously involved us in their research. I would especially like to thank the professors of chemical engineering and classics, who have jointly nominated me for this honor. Perhaps this foreshadows some collaboration between the two departments, though on what I have no clue! May all our professors know how much we appreciate their efforts, and may they be inspired to bestow on future students the gift of knowledge.
I would also like to thank the directors and coaches through whose efforts Princeton is filled with music, dance, theater and athletics. Because of them, we have not only acquired knowledge during our four years here, but have also lived a balanced life.
Finally, I salute our parents, relatives and friends, without whose infinite love and support none of us would be here today. The parents especially deserve our gratitude on this day, for Princeton is hardly free -- although the Nassoons may sing otherwise. But let me assure them that their money is well-spent, and that we have flourished here with their help.
Now I return to you, my fellow students. Remembering these many gifts, let us thus go forth to seize the day. Let us lead happy and rich lives, and may we do good for this nation and all nations.
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Written by guest contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY.
Change is a part of life. We give our children an amazing tool when we teach them to adapt to change.
Sometimes we undergo a personal or family transformation that calls for major upheaval in our lives. Mom or Dad takes a pay cut to have more time with the family. You downsize your belongings and house to live debt-free. You choose to adopt a child, rescuing them from poverty and extreme suffering.
Life-changing beliefs and convictions call for life-changing decisions.
In just three short months our own family will be trading our current life for another one. We are leaving our home and moving out of the country. Downsizing our belongings and living with family for a season. And then making home again in a province where we don’t speak the dominant language.
You can read the whole story here at FIMBY. It’s safe to say, there’s a lot of upheaval in our family life right now.
Photo by Renee Tougas
We are making this move during a stage of parenting where our children are not just tag-alongs.
Our children are eleven, ten and nine, well beyond the years of “pack the crib, toddler beds, and toy bins.” In order to maintain a peaceful, happy and contented home we need them on-board with our plans.
You might not be making huge life altering decisions right now; you might just want to live more simply and with greater intention.
Whether you want to cut out stressful extracurricular activities, de-cluttter the kid’s rooms, or are just trying to eat dinner together every night as a family, if you have children past toddlerhood you need everyone’s participation to be successful.
Here are the techniques we have used to help our children embrace lifestyle changes, both big and small.
The most important piece in helping children embrace a major lifestyle change is to communicate your overall family mission. As they get older, it is even better if they help craft that vision.
Before your family embarks on any significant changes (homeschooling, downsizing, moving, adoption, etc.) you need to clearly communicate to your children why you are doing this.
“What’s in it for me?”
Let’s be honest, everybody asks this question — children especially.
There are two parts to answering this:
1. Immediate and tangible rewards
There should be immediate and tangible rewards for your children as you make major lifestyle changes.
In our case, we need to downsize our household possessions. There have been rewards along the way for our children as they have let go of things. A family experience, treats or purchasing one special toy in exchange for a bin of less desirable toys are a few examples.
2. Long-term, individual growth
This point is especially important for older children.
One goal of large-scale family change is to help everyone reach their personal potential.
The change should encourage the development of your children’s gifts and skills, and maximize how they can uniquely contribute to your family’s mission.
Photo by Renee Tougas
For example, let’s say your family is about to embark on a more back-to-basics, homesteading lifestyle. If age appropriate, your children’s interests and talents should be a part of the decision making for how to build your home, what animals to raise, and what crops to plant.
If your children know you are in their corner, that your goal is to help them develop, they are more likely to come on-board.
Be the Primary Influence
I’m the first to admit I think it would be hard for our family to make our upcoming change if our children were going to school and had strong attachments to peers.
As it is, we homeschool (because of the freedom it gives) and are able to determine our own family culture because of that. Our intention is not to withdraw from interactions with other people. We truly value forming relationships outside our family.
However, as the parents, we want to be the dominant influence in our children’s lives during their formative years. Not their peers, school, sports teams, or even church.
The time will come when they will spread their wings and make choices for themselves about where to live, what to eat, what to buy and how to worship. But in their younger years, we are responsible for those choices.
This doesn’t mean you have to homeschool — but the stronger your influence on your children, the more likely they are to embrace a family lifestyle change.
Photo by Renee Tougas
Find a supportive community
Being part of a community of people with similar values is so helpful when making big life changes. Especially when those changes take you further outside the mainstream culture.
We all want to feel like we belong, and children are no different.
For years our family has invested a lot of our time in pursuing outdoor adventures together. It’s part of our mission. We hike most every weekend and backpack also, but haven’t found many families around us who do the same.
However, we recently met a family who enjoys these same pursuits and went winter camping together. The adults had a great time, but our children LOVED it, having fun and connecting with other kids like them.
Photo by Renee Tougas
Nothing replaces a rock solid family foundation, but finding community makes new experiences and transitions easier and more enjoyable.
Be inspiring and enthusiastic
It’s fine and dandy if one of your family goals is to live more simply, but if there is no joy in doing so don’t expect the kids to embrace your philosophy.
Your life should be enriched with better family time, deeper relationships and more joyful living because of the changes you’re making.
For example, if your family decides to pay down debt, your own attitude should be inspiring to your children. Be realistic — it may take some time to win them over to a new way of doing things, like cutting back expenses to save more money.
Encourage them with your own enthusiasm.
Making big changes that mark your family as different than the norm is easier when your children are too young to know the difference.
Some people think “Oh, these baby years are so hard, let’s just wait till the kids are sleeping through the night, out of diapers, fill-in-the-blank before we make any major changes.”
I say, go for it now. This is the ideal age. If your dream is to become vegetarians, live like “Little House on The Prairie,” or sell most of your belongings to live overseas, do it now while your children are little and you won’t have to go through most of what I’ve shared above!
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I met Emil Wendt in Rohnerville, in 1940. We were still wet behind the ears kids. He and his buddy were tossing a football into the air and sometimes punting it to each other. Both were anxious for me join in their game of mayhem, but a stronger mind advised me to decline the invitation and to keep an out-of-the-way distance. I passed on the opportunity to prove my ignorance. Being as I was from a one room country school, I was completely naïve about football. My sound judgment told me not to get involved. I couldn't reason as to why a person would want to play with one. When it was tossed into the air and fell to the ground, it didn't even bounce like a ball. Why would anyone have such an attraction to a ball that he would guard it almost with his life? Anyway, for that day, the inner person undoubtedly saved me from several bruises and owies.
Our next meeting was in high school. He was in one grade ahead. We played together one year on the lightweight basketball team before the Selective Service began beckoning and demanding that he prepare to travel. He apparently wasn't overjoyed in walking to war; so he enlisted in the navy.
In my opinion he was the most talented Fortuna High athlete of all time. No doubt there are others who were good at what they did, but he was also gifted. He was left handed, maybe a tad shorter than a storybook athlete and seemed to be made of steel. He played guard on the lightweight basketball team and had the ability to pass a ball that was even difficult for a teammate to catch. I should have taken catching lessons because the ball would come in at umpteen miles per hour and would have eight different kinds of spin on it. Most opponents could only watch it go by. My first game with him, I was a substitute. The first pass he made to me went into and out of my hands. I didn't see where it went. It may even have gone out the door and down Thirteenth Street. The ball went to the visitors and I wanted to get lost. Most embarrassing!
Unfortunately Fortuna didn't field a football team. I can envision him as going both ways. He would have been a quarterback on offense and the equivalent of a linebacker on defense. I am certain he would have excelled because he was left handed and would have been a bear at defense.
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A reader recently squawked to the Pioneer Press after noticing chickens in the back yard of a St. Paul home.
"Very cute," the writer said. "But is this legal?" The Watchdog saw the post on SeeClickFix, an online feature on TwinCities.com that lets users alert their communities about quality-of-life issues. The Watchdog investigated to See whether a Chicks Fix was needed in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood.
As it turns out, the chickens are owned by the DuBois family, and the city of St. Paul confirmed the birds are legal. Homeowners Jacques and Katie DuBois followed the city ordinance when they first got chickens two years ago: They filed the paperwork, paid the fee, housed the chickens in an acceptable coop and secured the agreement of at least 75 percent of the neighbors living within 150 feet of their home.
Jacques DuBois told the Watchdog that two of 10 neighbors did decline, with one claiming, "People in (ZIP code) 55105 don't want to have chickens there," while another said she didn't like the idea of having "livestock" around, DuBois said. But, he noted, that neighbor now brings her grandchildren over to observe Mario, Luigi and Oreo scratch and cluck.
Across the nation, backyard chickens -- part of what's called "urban farming" -- are all the rage. In St. Paul, the population is exploding, said animal-control supervisor Bill Stephenson.
"A lot of people like them as pets, and the eggs are a benefit," he
In St. Paul, there's been a permit process in place for more than 20 years, but the city used to see only three or four requests per year from people wanting to set up backyard coops. Now, it can be that many per week. One animal-control employee works two days a week checking the living conditions and sanitation of chickens, beehives and other less-common animals kept in the city, Stephenson said.
Some other metro-area cities allowing chickens in a regular-sized back yard are Minneapolis, Anoka, Burnsville, Farmington, Hastings, Rosemount, Roseville, West St. Paul and Maplewood. Some communities that don't allow them include Apple Valley, Eagan, Stillwater, Woodbury, Inver Grove Heights and, thus far, Cottage Grove. That's according to a survey done by the city earlier this year, when resident Rykna Olson, who grew up on a farm, asked that Cottage Grove consider allowing chickens. As she said in an email to the city, "I miss some of the amenities that a farm provides, especially fresh eggs."
The Watchdog did some research herself and found some ordinances to be fussier than others: Ham Lake, for example, requires the color of the coop to blend with that of the house. Bayport's extensive regulations note that
Most cities that allow chickens require a permit, charge a fee and check on the chickens' welfare regularly. Ordinances describe an acceptable coop's configuration, along with its placement on the property.
Most ordinances recognize some neighbors may not be enthusiastic about living near a miniature farm. Most don't allow roosters because they're noisy and can be aggressive. In East Bethel, which doesn't bar roosters, spokeswoman Stephanie Hanson notes: "We have no complaints on chickens; however, we have numerous complaints on roosters." Most require some or all of the neighbors to sign off on the idea. In Maplewood, which adopted an ordinance last year, the owner of every property adjacent to the applicant's must agree, or the applicant has to prove his property lines are at least 150 feet from anyone's house.
And most cities limit the number of chickens to three or four -- but not Minneapolis, where there's no official limit if a resident can convince 80 percent of the neighbors to sign off on the number and the city agrees they're properly kept. Minneapolis also allows roosters, but that has to be disclosed to neighbors and their signatures must be notarized.
Minneapolis, which has allowed backyard fowl as far back as anyone
"Hens are wildfire this year," Thelen said.
And beehives, another part of the urban-farming movement, are gaining momentum. "They're coming in droves, too," Thelen said.
On Tuesday, June 5, a Stillwater family who had been cited for illegally keeping chickens appeared before the city council to ask members to consider making chickens legal. The council agreed, 3-2, to look into the matter, and will charge the standard $500 to have the city research a resident's request.
"There's enough illegal chickens out there that they're having a fundraiser to change the ordinance," said Mayor Ken Harycki. "They're pretty passionate about it. Apparently, there's a groundswell going on."
Both Jacques and Katie DuBois grew up living in apartments, so having hens and a backyard garden at their St. Paul house is a way to experience something new and promote their children's health, Jacques DuBois said. The children, ages 9, 5 and 3, see the chickens as pets and will casually pick them up and carry them around. The family boxer and poodle mingle with the hens wandering in the yard.
The family keeps different varieties, including the Ameraucana, nicknamed the "Easter Egger" because it lays blue-, green- and pink-tinted eggs. The hens are "dual-purpose," fit for both eggs and meat. They give enough eggs to satisfy the family's need and when, after three years or so, their laying days are done, there are companies that will process poultry for stew. The DuBoises' hens have the run of their fenced-in yard, but most have been able to flap over their 3-foot-high fence; they've lost one to a neighbor's dog and one to a hawk.
And once, the family accidentally got a rooster from their chick supplier. Since noise and aggression make roosters illegal in St. Paul, they couldn't keep him.
So they ate him.
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VAT Reform in China
Global trends indicate that more and more countries are moving away from Business Tax (BT) towards Value Added Tax (VAT) as a more reliable means of raising revenue. A proposed mandate by the Chinese Government will see most of China move to a VAT system very quickly. The original pilot in Shanghai was a success, and Beijing should be the next city to employ the VAT system this year.
In conjunction with professional services organization Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, we have produced a whitepaper that examines the critical move to Value Added Tax in China.
The whitepaper, entitled China VAT Reform: Achieving a Successful Transition to VAT, highlights the wide-ranging practical implications of the VAT reform, the challenges and opportunities it presents, and reflects on lessons learned from the Shanghai pilot. It summarizes four key issues: financial impact, legal impact, commercial impact and systems impact as well as suggests a course of actions to help companies consider the steps they need to take to ensure they are adequately prepared for the transition. | <urn:uuid:c8b52b34-d55d-45b0-9281-908b7774e012> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/vat-reform-in-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941134 | 215 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Verizon West Virginia will provide funding for West Virginia University Extension Service to purchase fiber that will equip WVU Jackson’s Mill with high-speed Internet service to cottages and conferencing facilities.
Verizon will provide $25,000 to purchase the fiber as part of a $500,000 upgrade of WVU Jackson’s Mill’s infrastructure.
"Our children are growing up in a world where they communicate, learn and share ideas digitally," said B. Keith Fulton president of Verizon West Virginia. "Interactive technology has had a tremendous impact on our society, and its role will continue to grow with further advances. We are pleased to take part in this infrastructure project with WVU."
Work began last summer on the infrastructure project, which will include high- and low-voltage electric upgrades and buried electric lines. The project should be completed by late summer 2010.
“We’re thrilled that Verizon West Virginia is helping WVU Jackson’s Mill upgrade its infrastructure,” said David E. Miller, associate provost and director of WVU Extension Service. “This project will allow us to improve our conferencing capabilities and provide much-needed upgrades to our Internet service.”
Verizon has contributed more than $100,000 to WVU Extension Service over the last three years, including support of the Kanawha Cottage, Community Development Institute East, Energy Express, and the Alpha I Wired & Wonderful Camp.
“We greatly appreciate Verizon’s continued support of our programs, facilities, and people,” Miller said. “The company has been tremendously generous to WVU Extension Service.”
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However much I enjoyed trying to get the world into words, the rejections were disheartening; and the writing habit was keeping me from a “proper” career elsewhere.
I was writing, I think, in my early twenties, to prove to myself that I could write, that I could become part of the community of writers, and it seemed to me I could not myself be the final judge of that question. To prove I could write, that I could put together in words and interesting take on experience, I needed the confirmation of a publisher’s willingness to invest in me, and I needed readers, hopefully serious readers, and critics. For me, that is, a writer was not just someone who writes, but someone published, read and, yes, praised. Why I had set my heart on becoming that person remains unclear.
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US Sen. Brown: Allow women into combat units
BOSTON (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is urging top defense officials to let women serve in front line combat, saying barring women from those units could make it harder for them to rise up the military ranks.
The Massachusetts Republican urged U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to adopt the changes in a letter Wednesday.
Brown, a 32-year member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, praised Panetta for creating more opportunities to women in uniform by allowing them to serve closer to the front lines.
But Brown said the changes don't go far enough.
He said women should be allowed to compete for positions in combat arms units such as infantry, armor, and special operations.
Brown said closing those options could make it harder for women to develop military career paths that would advance them to higher ranks.
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a Latin American tour in historical Guanajuato, Mexico. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
Thirteen Cubans who occupied a church in Havana in the hopes of meeting with the pope instead were escorted from the building late Thursday by police, the Havana Archdiocese said.
Pope Benedict appointed 22 new cardinals at the Vatican on Saturday, with his choices for the lofty role likely to influence who will be appointed as the next pontiff.
A top Roman Catholic official opened a conference on protecting children from sexual abuse Monday by defending Pope Benedict XVI, arguing that he deserved thanks for his efforts.
Pope Benedict XVI is planning potential trips to Mexico and Cuba in 2012, the Vatican said.
Pope Benedict XVI meets members of the Muslim community in Germany. CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
On his first state visit to his homeland, Pope Benedict XVI met Thursday with Germany's prime minister and president and spoke to legislators, but insisted that his purpose was not economic or political, but spiritual.
In March 2010, Cardinal Sean Brady read a letter from Pope Benedict XVI on sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland.
Pope Benedict XVI presides over the annual New Year's Day Mass in St Peter's Basilica.
Pope Benedict XVI said that the use of condoms may be acceptable in some cases to prevent the transmission of AIDS.
If you were to ask a group of Quakers or Mennonites whether it's OK for police or soldiers to use rubber bullets against rock-throwing children, you wouldn't be surprised if they said, "Absolutely not!" They are well-known for their commitment to pacifism.
CNN's Phil Black reports from Scotland, where Pope Benedict XVI began a four-day visit to the United Kingdom.
As a democrat, I defend the right of Pope Benedict XVI to visit Britain and to express his opinions. But people who disagree with him also have a right to protest against his often harsh, intolerant views.
If you invited a friend to dinner would you escort them to the door at the end of the evening and present them with a bill for steak, cake and a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape?
Controversial comments criticizing the state of modern Britain have provoked a backlash as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the country for its first ever papal state visit.
Posters calling for the ordination of female priests will be plastered on London buses next month during the pope's visit to Britain, a campaign group said Friday.
Pope Benedict XVI asks victims for forgiveness in the church abuse scandal. CNN's Paula Newton reports.
The Vatican said a lawsuit accusing it and Pope Benedict XVI of covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in the United States has no merit.
An Illinois man is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in Wisconsin.
Most Americans -- and most American Catholics -- think Pope Benedict XVI has done a bad job of dealing with the problem of sexual abuse by Catholics priests, according to a new national poll.
CNN's Diana Magnay reports on the Vatican's process to defrock a California priest who molested children.
The Vatican is overhauling its rules on how it handles accusations of sexual abuse by priests, it said Monday, without giving any details.
The pope held Easter services amid growing controversy over sexual abuse within the church. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
In a rare move, a senior cardinal spoke before the pope's Easter Mass address at the Vatican on Sunday, saying the pontiff maintains the support of Catholics around the world "who do not let themselves be influenced by the gossip."
Top Catholic clerics from France and Britain expressed shame, anger and regret Friday over a widening abuse scandal in the church that has reached Pope Benedict XVI's doorstep.
From a distance, it may be difficult to understand why Pope Benedict XVI finds himself at the center of a media storm this week since it pivots on a single case of an abuser priest in Germany almost 30 years ago.
Pope Benedict XVI championed the environment in the Vatican's annual World Day of Peace message.
Pope Benedict XVI ended 2009 much as he began it -- with a major gaffe that angered Jews.
It was a Vatican announcement guaranteed to spark controversy.
Shortly before he died from brain cancer, Sen. Ted Kennedy wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI. President Obama delivered the letter to the pontiff during his visit to the Vatican in July.
Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of a global economic summit, lashed out at modern capitalism for being shortsighted and short on ethics.
The Middle East may be the most hyper-sensitive piece of real estate on earth, where no more than a stray word or gesture can trigger an explosion.
Pope Benedict XVI was supposed to visit an Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem but Israel objected. Ben Wedeman reports.
For more than 20 years, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then the Vatican's top doctrinal czar, was the intellectual architect of the papacy of John Paul II.
On the second day of his visit to the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI stressed the need for harmony and unity between Christians and Muslims.
Pope Benedict XVI arrived Friday in Amman, Jordan, for a weeklong visit to the Middle East that he hopes will help "foster good relations between Christians and Muslims."
Pope Benedict XVI will leave for a weeklong tour of the Middle East Friday morning, the first papal visit to some of Christianity's most holy places since Pope John Paul II made the pilgrimage in 2000.
Critics took to the social networking site Facebook to voice their fury over Pope Benedict's remark that condoms do not prevent HIV.
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Angola on Friday as part of his week-long visit to Africa.
Pope Benedict XVI refused Wednesday to soften the Vatican's ban on condom use as he arrived in Africa for his first visit to the continent as pope.
The African-American religious community deserves considerable praise for taking leadership of the civil rights movement during the first half of the 20th century.
Pope Benedict XVI will not visit Israel's Holocaust museum when he makes his first trip to the region as pope in May, though he will visit a memorial that is part of the site, his ambassador to Israel said Tuesday.
As the Catholic Church marks a key anniversary of a traditionalist ascendancy, its leader is still keen to grapple with doubters
Hear the words of Pope Benedict XVI amid his followers and well-wishers during a look back at his visit to the U.S.
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday recalled growing up during the Nazi era in his native Germany and stressed the "fundamental importance of freedom" as he addressed a rally of young people in New York.
Viewpoint: No, we are not the Da Vinci Code heretics the Vatican might suspect. We look instead to the Boccaccio Code
Pope Benedict expresses his 'respect for the Jewish community' during a speech at a New York synagogue.
Three victims of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church described an emotional, frank and ultimately hope-filled meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday.
CNN's Rosemary Church speaks with Vatican analyst John Allen about the first papal visit to the U.S. for Benedict XVI.
Here is the itinerary of Pope Benedict XVI while in the United States this week. All times are Eastern Daylight Time. Sources: CNN, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Pope Benedict XVI may not have the charisma of John Paul II but don't discount his staff -- especially Fr. Georg Gänswein, the gatekeeper-in-chief
Fifteen hundred years after the Roman Catholic Church introduced the original list of seven deadly sins, a Vatican official last week suggested an updated roster for a new age.
The new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See is an old Vatican hand. Now she gets to usher the Pope into his first official visit to the U.S.
Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a planned visit to a prestigious Italian university after a protest by academics and students attacked his views on Galileo, the Vatican confirmed Tuesday.
Football should be used to teach young people moral lessons, Pope Benedict XVI said during an audience with representatives from the Italian football league and lower division clubs.
All the incense and intrigue of another papal conclave is upon us again. Well, sort of
As a showdown with the US looms, Tehran is looking to the Pontiff to intervene -- and is finding a lot of sympathy
Calling himself a "pilgrim among pilgrims" Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday visited the Marian sanctuary of Mariazell southwest of Vienna, fulfilling a promise he made in 2004 -- while still a cardinal -- to return to the shrine on its 850th birthday.
If the Pope exerts such authority, why is the Holy See impervious to predatory priest lawsuits?
Non-Catholics who are up in arms of the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the only true church in the world is that of Catholicism shouldn't even bother getting upset. Just chalk it up to an old man trying to get a little attention.
A demonstration by about 50 people protesting Pope Benedict XVI's approaching visit to Turkey was broken up by police in Istanbul on Wednesday, CNN Turk reported.
Pope Benedict XVI has invited ambassadors from Muslim nations to meet him on Monday in a bid to calm anger over his use of a medieval text saying their religion was spread by violence.
Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he regretted that his speech on Islam offended Muslims and expressed his respect for their faith. Here is the Vatican's statement, according to a translation posted on its Web site:
Outrage is mounting around the world over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam and jihad despite assurances from the Vatican that he only intended to point out the incompatibility between faith and war.
A 15th body was found early Thursday in the rubble of a skating rink in southern Germany whose roof collapsed under the weight of snow.
Before an enthusiastic crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands, Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated an open-air mass to end World Youth Day.
A liberal Catholic friend of mine tried humor to mask his disappointment at the choice of Pope Benedict XVI, the rigid Bavarian-born Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to succeed the late John Paul II: "We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd."
Pope Benedict XVI was formally installed at a Mass Sunday outside St. Peter's Basilica in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands and millions of others watching on television.
Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, will officially take the helm of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday before a crowd filled with dignitaries, members of his flock and a worldwide television audience of millions.
As Pope Benedict XVI starts his papacy, details and analyses are emerging about how the actions of his predecessor and the new pontiff helped position him as the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
As he prepares for his inauguration Mass on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his gratitude to his "venerated cardinal brothers" for electing him to head the Roman Catholic Church and asked for their support during his reign.
There is one Roman Catholic Church, headquartered in the Vatican. Then there are thousands of churches -- located in rural and metropolitan, traditional and progressive, affluent and impoverished communities worldwide.
Is nothing sacred?
A lapsed American Catholic who registered the Web domain BenedictXVI.com before the new pope was named says he has no idea what to do with the site but believes it would be wrong to sell it to a pornography or gambling site.
CNN.com asked users to share their thoughts about the issues the next pope will face. Many also offered their thoughts on the selection of Pope Benedict XVI. Here is a sampling from thousands of responses, some of which have been edited.
When he was a cardinal in 1991, Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, suffered a brain hemorrhage "which laid him down for a while, but he recovered from it," said CNN Vatican analyst John Allen on Wednesday.
Newspapers around Europe have hailed the swift election of Joseph Ratzinger as pope -- a step they said dismayed Roman Catholic progressives, but pleased defenders of church orthodoxy.
Nearly three-quarters of American Catholics say they are more likely to follow their own conscience on "difficult moral questions," rather than the teachings of Pope Benedict XVI, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll.
Pope Benedict XVI outlined goals for his papacy Wednesday, including the unification of all Christians, continuing the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and reaching out to people of other faiths.
Reaction to Tuesday's election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to pope ranged from joy to disappointment. But a German cardinal who has worked with -- and disagreed with -- the new Pope Benedict XVI urges patience.
Pope Benedict XVI prepared to celebrate his first Mass as pontiff Wednesday at the Vatican, while world leaders welcomed his selection.
Before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger assumed the title of Pope Benedict XVI, he earned the nickname "Cardinal No" for policing the boundaries of Roman Catholic teachings.
Tuesday's announcement of a new pope could usher in a new era in the Roman Catholic Church -- and a business opportunity for online vendors already racing to sell fridge magnets, prayer cards and clocks bearing the likeness of Pope Benedict XVI.
World leaders lauded conservative German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's election Tuesday as head of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of them referred to the 78-year-old pontiff by his chosen papal name Pope Benedict XVI.
Roman Catholics reacted quickly to Tuesday's announcement that conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany had been chosen the 265th pontiff of the church -- Benedict XVI.
The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, was one of the most powerful men in the Vatican under Pope John Paul II, a strict enforcer of church doctrine who earned the nickname "Cardinal No."
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was selected Tuesday as the new pope.
Wearing traditional papal robes and a large smile, Joseph Ratzinger of Germany appeared Tuesday on a Vatican balcony as the 265th pontiff, Benedict XVI, as tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square to cheer him.
Following is the text of Pope John Paul II's address to U.S. President George W. Bush at the Vatican Friday, courtesy of the Vatican's Web site:
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When Postmaster General John Potter told U.S. News back in September that the best way to get the U.S. Postal Service back on its feet was to cut back service to five days, it seemed like a distant and not-too-pressing eventuality. But with the USPS on track to lose more than $7 billion next year and hundreds of billions more in the coming decade, Potter and the management team launched a reform campaign this week. It's designed to win support in Congress and among the public for shuttering post offices, raising postal rates, cutting home delivery service to five days a week, and shrinking staff.
The financial hole is so deep that a single strategy for balancing the books would be woefully inadequate, experts say. As a result, the USPS is pushing to make numerous cuts at the same time. A UPS review found that "revenue and mail volume projections point to a continuing and dramatic losses in the billions. If the Postal Service takes no action, it could face a $238 billion shortfall by the year 2020." The USPS lost $3.8 billion last year alone as mail volume fell 13 percent.
In addition to rising healthcare and retirement costs for employees, the prime driver of the cost overruns has been a the shift to electronic mail, a trend that has been evident for more than a decade. Five years ago, the postal service handled more than 200 billion pieces of mail, but the figure is projected to fall to about 150 billion pieces by 2020, the steepest volume decline on record.
Critics have long charged that the post office has been unwilling to face the realities that mail volume will not return to past levels and that the shift to electronic mail represents an existential threat to its business model. Potter rejected that criticism. "No one's at fault," he said Tuesday to a group of congressional and postal union officials. "Historically, you could set your watch by the volume of mail we received on a given day."
Shuttering post offices is a delicate business, perhaps because the mail service is one of the most trusted government institutions with voters. Congressional representatives in particular are loathe to see them vanish from their districts. Indeed, Congress scuttled a proposal last year to close thousands of low-performing post offices to reduce costs.
On Tuesday, Potter said that any closures will be balanced by expanded online and kiosk offerings in places like supermarkets, pharmacies, and other retailers. As to cutting Saturday delivery, "if 70 percent of the American population tells us in surveys that they can live with five-day delivery, we have to do it," Potter said. He said that any price increases, meanwhile, would not come before January 2011 and that they would be less than double-digit hikes. | <urn:uuid:3bb9bd65-b75f-4d78-8872-4b5258f750cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/03/02/postmaster-general-calls-for-cuts-to-postal-service | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966188 | 557 | 1.71875 | 2 |
"You know that you two are complete opposites, right?" my rabbi said to us two weeks before our wedding. My future husband and I looked at each other. We hadn't really thought about it. But now that he’d pointed it out, I could see there were some minor differences between us. My fiance was laid back. I was intense. He was a logical and concrete thinker. I was the abstract, creative type. I loved the city. He loved the country. But so what?
"And the two of you will make a great team – not despite, but because of your differences. The Torah is made of black letters against a white page. Without the white, you can't see the black letters. And without the letters, the white has no content. Do you see what I mean?" We nodded, but I'm not sure either one of us completely understood.
"As long as you appreciate each other's personalities, you'll be okay. Focus on how each of your unique personalities contributes toward your shared goals. Don't tolerate. Appreciate."
At the time, we were so excited about getting married that these pearls of wisdom seemed irrelevant to us. Of course we would appreciate each other!
Now, 15 years and five children later, we are still working on understanding and living this advice. The more we see ourselves as a team and focus on our shared goals, the stronger our marriage becomes.
Patrick Lencioni’s book, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, teaches business teams how to become more effective. Avoiding these pitfalls is also a key to successful marriage.
1) Absence of Trust
We all know that a good marriage requires trust, but trust goes beyond being dependable. Trust means the ability of each team member to make himself vulnerable and to believe that this vulnerability will not be used against him. Trust means believing that your spouse is on your side.
It sounds simple, but many conflicts in marriage center around this issue. Spouses are afraid to show their weakness because they aren't sure if their partners will stand by them. When husbands and wives cannot be vulnerable with each other, they spend a lot of individual time and energy on tasks that really require teamwork. This drains both partners.
Reassure each other that you are on the same side and that you won't play on each other's weaknesses… even when stress levels rise.
2) Fear of Conflict
Many people believe that less conflict indicates a better marriage. Actually, conflict is necessary for a strong marriage.
There is a world of a difference between constructive arguments that focus on the issue, and destructive arguments that attack each other. Yet it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the two types. And when spouses fear all conflict, they often avoid discussing important issues altogether.
Create space and time in your marriage dedicated specifically to conflict resolution. Stick to the issues and remind each other that conflict is a creative tension that is healthy and necessary for building a strong marriage.
3) Lack of Commitment
Commitment consists of two key components: clarity and buy-in. When a couple needs to make any major decision together, it is often difficult to know what is the right move. This lack of certainty can freeze them in place even after they seek out advice and arrive at an informed choice.
When a couple makes a decision together and sticks with it, they have achieved the clarity component of “commitment.”
When one spouse defers to the other on a decision, that is where the idea of “buy-in” becomes important. Buy-in means that we don't need to get our way in order to stand behind someone else's decision. We only need to know that our opinions and feelings have been listened to and considered by our spouse. Commit to stand behind all decisions you make as a couple.
4) Avoidance of Accountability
Another common misconception about marriage is that there is no place for criticism. But just as there is healthy and unhealthy conflict, there is also constructive and destructive criticism. Constructive criticism is honest feedback about unmet or misunderstood expectations. Often, husbands and wives are reluctant to proffer this because they fear hurting each other's feelings.
This is a trap. A major pitfall in many marriages is not clarifying expectations – and then subsequently feeling resentful that those needs are not being met. When spouses agree to spell out their mutual expectations and to openly discuss successes and failures, there is less ambiguity and frustration – and more positive regard for each other.
5) Inattention to Results
When team members stop focusing on the goals of the team, they can easily shift to working on their own objectives at the expense of the team. A team needs specific goals in order to evaluate whether they are achieving results.
A marriage needs this, too. Without spelling out shared goals, we are in danger of slipping into “parallel lives.” In order to stay on track, a couple should periodically check how they are succeeding at their shared goals, and whether those goals require modification.
Any team succeeds not despite but because of the unique attributes of each member. To make your marriage blossom, avoid the five dysfunctions of a team by developing trust, working through conflicts, staying committed to team decisions, holding each other accountable, and keeping track of team goals. | <urn:uuid:a3c344af-93fb-4fdb-a3bc-9b0a1bc34fa6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aish.com/f/m/5-Dysfunctions-of-a-Team.html?s=rab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971318 | 1,100 | 1.625 | 2 |
You've shot bears with her, swung from the columns of a ruined temple and even got slippery when wet in sub-aqua gear, but how much do you really know about the first lady of video games? With the launch of the 2010 Guinness World Records Gamers' Edition, we spent a little time investigating the legend that is Lara Croft.
1) Lara Who?
When Lara was first dreamed up by Tony Gard in 1996, she was supposed to be based on Indiana Jones and female icons like Tank Girl. She was originally a South American explorer called Lara Cruz, which was eventually changed to the English gal we know and love. The new, more UK-friendly, last name was chosen from a phone directory to sound as similar as possible to what had already been planned.
2) Multiple personality disorder
Lara's personality and style wasn't originally what we see today either. One of the mooted suggestions was to have her as a muscular sociopath and another to have her wearing Neneh Cherry style outfits of baggy combats with crop tops. Somehow we doubt it would have had quite the same appeal as boots and shorts when it comes to the rock climbing and gymnastics.
3) Boob Job
Lara has undergone cosmetic surgery. In 2006, she was given a breast reduction in order to make her more in proportion, however, it does seem to have slipped back a little since. Apparently, her initial attributes were the result of a slip of the mouse whereby she was given a 250% increase on the norm rather than just the 150%. What an unfortunate mistake.
4) Background Interference
Lara's background is somewhat at odds with itself. On the one hand she was originally the disinherited daughter of Lord Hernshingly Croft who survived a plane crash in the Himalayas. Since, that incident has been changed to one which takes place with her mother, Amelia, and father, who is now called Richard and with whom she lived until she was 18.
5) Old School
Lara was schooled privately by a tutor between the ages of 3 and 11. She was then educated at Wimbledon High School for Girls until 16, moved to Gordonstoun until 18 and attended Swiss finishing school until 21 where, presumably, she learned how to finish off any Swiss people she might encounter on her adventures. Specific, yes, but we supposed you can never have too much training in the world of action adventure.
6) Leading Lady
Lara is the most successful video game heroine in history and, according to MSN, is the third most iconic video games character of all time after Mario and Sonic.
7) Details, details
For Tomb Raider: Underworld developers used a character model consisting of 32,816 rendered polygons during gameplay, making our lady's movements as smooth as possible while also setting a Guinness World Record for the most detailed video-game character ever.
8) The Rough Guide
To fund her radical lifestyle, Lara writes travel books. Titles so far have included "A Tyrannosaurus is jawing at my head" and "Slaying Bigfoot". We await "There's a nerd making me do handstands" with bated breath.
9) Role Model
Lara has been played by more real life stand-ins than any other video-game character. This list runs - Rhona Mitra, Nell McAndrew, Alison Carroll, Katie Price, Karima Adebibe, Lucy Clarkson, Jill de Jong, Lara Weller, Nathalie Cooke, Vanessa Demouy, Sofia Vegara, Ellen Roche and, of course, Angelina Jolie. Her moves have been modelled on Heidi Moneymaker and she's been voiced by Shelly Blond, Judith Gibbens, Jonell Elliott, Keely Hawes and Minnie Driver too.
10) Ring Road
Derby Council has allowed residents to vote on the name of the city's inner ring road due for completion this year. As of 3 December, Lara Croft Way is in the lead with 97% of the vote. | <urn:uuid:b1633e97-c4b3-4570-9eec-854447ff617b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/101788-10-facts-about-lara-croft | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97389 | 839 | 1.5 | 2 |
sorry I wasn't meaning to tell you what you already knew as regards Cailleach and veil-taking (I just didn't know if you knew it from the above discussion with megli where you were asking about a status for women with veil...I misread you)
I really do not have too much on status of women in society. There has been a lot of research on that and many publications but my reference list is not to hand.
I can suggest though, if you have not already looked into them:
A Guide to Early Irish Law by Prof Fergus Kelly, as he goes through the status ranks of persons in society based on the legal texts and I am sure in the bibliography you will find further references specific to women.
Likewise D.A.Binchy. I know he has articles on "Family membership of women" and "legal capacity of women" in Studies in Early Irish Law (Dublin, 1936).
Donnchadh O Corráin may also have published in this area. I don't know.
Source: Marriage in Ireland, ed. A. Cosgrove, Dublin 1985 5-24. (see O Corráin's article on marriage. He mentions a reference to the upper castes of society marrying only virgins...maybe there was another veil of status to indicate chastity in this case? (pure speculation on my part!)
Ó Corráin, D. ‘Medieval Irish Law’, Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing iv-v (Cork, 2002).
Swartz, D. Dilts, ‘The Legal Status of Women in Early and Medieval Ireland and Wales in Comparison with Western European and Mediterranean Societies: Environmental and Social Correlations’, PHCC 13 (1993) 107-18.
You could check out Prof Patricia Kelly in UCD (ireland) as she used coordinate a course on women in women in mythology and law and the Cailleach Bheara.
This one's a reading list for welsh studies that I found on the net, you might find something for comparative lore & legal status in there
Happy hunting! let us know what you churn up.
ps. re: dictionary...I usually search for things without the glide vowels and check various consonantal endings (esp dental and guttural stops and fricatives) if I don't find them straight away. if only they'd database the dictionary it would be easier to search! | <urn:uuid:a82f762e-886f-4869-b39f-1c27dcf6bf53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.druidry.org/board/dhp/viewtopic.php?p=213257 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950658 | 515 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Moniteau County Historical Society to enlarge Genealogy Library
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The Moniteau County Historical Society announces a building plan to enlarge the Genealogy Library at the Cultural Heritage Center. The explanation of this effort will be presented at a public meeting on May 14 at the Cultural Heritage Center at 201 North High Street in California. The society welcomes all of its supporters and friends to enjoy coffee and pastries beginning at 10 a.m. until noon. Plans for the expansion of this well used library and research space will be followed by tours of the current genealogy library and the museum if desired.
Richard Schroeder, vice president of the society, says that this is principally a funding solicitation. Schroeder says that although this project will be costly the need is great. “For many years the society has struggled to keep up with the success and growing interest in researching local family histories in a very limited 20’ by 24’ facility.” He said that the Moniteau County Historical Society’s Genealogy Library “is considered by researchers to be one of the best with excellent resources. This brings people from across the country to the community and these people need space to study and record this information.”
“I guess we finally saw the ‘handwriting on the wall’ because the future doesn’t seem so bright for continuing to collect and make accessible to researchers our valued local histories with such limited space.”
“Several donations and pledges have already been received and this gives us confidence that the community will support this effort. I hope that our many friends and supporters will come to this meeting and seriously consider their gift to the future of recording the past.” The plan to recognize these donors will be explained at this meeting. | <urn:uuid:35674672-a66c-4899-a2c4-78e4456d44f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.californiademocrat.com/news/2011/may/11/moniteau-county-historical-society-enlarge-genealo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94679 | 366 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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