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Move to put ex-Liberia president Taylor on trial should serve as warning: UN prosecutor Katerina Ossenova at 2:12 PM ET
[JURIST] The latest effort to put former Liberian President Charles Taylor [PBS profile; JURIST news archive] on trial for crimes against humanity at the Special Court for Sierra Leone [official website] should be seen as a warning to the "world's warlords that they cannot escape justice," said Special Court Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva [official profile] in an interview with Reuters Sunday. De Silva said Taylor's case was on a par with that against the late Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] in key respects: "With the departure of Milosevic, if Taylor's trial is taken to a conclusion he will be the very first head of state in history to have been indicted whilst he was in office and against whom a trial has been completed." While Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo [official profile] consults with leaders from the African Union [official website] and the Economic Community of West African States [official website] on precisely how to respond to Liberia's request [JURIST report] last week to transfer Taylor to the court, De Silva believes the negotiations will end favorably. If they do, Taylor would join nine other defendants currently on trial for war crimes by the Special Court. Some critics of prosecution say Taylor's removal will disrupt the fragile stability in Sierra Leone and Liberia, established with the help of UN peacekeepers, but De Silva maintains that Taylor is "a much bigger threat where he is."
Taylor has been living in exile [JURIST report] in Nigeria since 2003 as part of an international agreement ending Liberia's civil war. He was later indicted [text; SC-SL case materials] by the war crimes court on charges of crimes against humanity and violations of the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials] and other international humanitarian laws for supporting the insurgency of rebels in Sierra Leone. The court has ruled [PDF decision] that Taylor is not immune from prosecution [JURIST report] as a former head of state. Reuters has more.
Paper Chase is JURIST's real-time legal news service, powered by a team of 30 law student reporters and editors led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. As an educational service, Paper Chase is dedicated to presenting important legal news and materials rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format.
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Get More Enthusiasm for Your Judaism!
Some thoughts in life are too important to pass up.
The following 2 copied emails are from daily email projects of Mesorah Publications and the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation.
12 Tishrei, 5768 / September 24, 2007
Day 12 - Chillul Hashem vs. Kiddush Hashem
SEFER SEFAS TAMIM — Chapter Two: The Severity of Deceit…Continue
Some time ago, I wrote an article about modesty. I expressed my opinions and the way I viewed modesty in a woman. This is an opinion, not halachic, expression from my male view of modesty. I thought I would share it and face the wrath of those that may have other opinions.
In today's competitive world, people are constantly looking for ways to draw attention to themselves. Unfortunately, many have chosen to display themselves immodestly. They are…Continue
In this week’s Parsha, we read about when the three angels came to visit Avroham Aveinu. There is a Midrash that relates an interesting dialogue in connection with their visit. Many years later, when Moshe went to the Heavens to receive the Torah, the Angels protested and wanted to keep the Torah for themselves in the Heavens. Moshe however, said, that since they had eaten milk and meat when they visited Avroham, they were not worthy of keeping the Torah. We see…Continue
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Thanks for reading. Just got off the phone with Joanne Wilder and you're right, she is on Medicare. I changed the story to reflect the correction. Joanne was pretty impassioned when we spoke yesterday and was using the names of the two plans -- which are obviously quite close -- interchangeably. Sorry for the mix-up!
Thanks for the clarification LeighN! I had checked with the folks at Helping Hounds on their mission and I updated it for the paper but not the web. I just made the change here to better reflect all that they do, which includes a wider variety of dogs now than even a year ago. Thanks for reading!
To address a few questions that have been raised about this story:
1) Yes, the general contract for the project was selected through a competitive bid process. According to the county executive's office, 10 bids were received by March 22, 2011 and J&B Installations, of Skaneateles Falls, was the lowest bidder.
2) The roof can handle snow and snowmelt just as well as it can handle rainwater. The 1 million gallons of water annually includes snowmelt. As for buildup of snow, that obviously depends on the storm and the roof will handle it just as well, if not better, than it did before during a big storm. This time though, the snow will melt into the field of sedum, as opposed to down into the sanitary sewer system.
3) Nervous about being in the Oncenter because of the new green roof? You shouldn't be. Someone used the term "overbuilt" for the new roof and it sounds like that's the case. Yes, it's a million extra pounds but it's spread out over an enormous area, which is what the roof is meant to hold. In reporting the story, Matt Millea, deputy county executive for Physical Services, said a team of structural engineers inspected the Oncenter roof and found the roof to be more than capable of supporting the new green roof project. (All of that happened before the project was even announced as possible.) He added that not all buildings can hold a green roof. He said the county has looked into installing green roofs on some buildings but found it's not always possible given the capabilities of the structure.
Technically we're not trying to "compare" the ice creams, just give more information about creative concoctions at popular stands in Central New York -- with a variety of guest tasters to boot. The main reason behind it is because we want YOU, the readers to be the ultimate ice cream judge. We've featured two places (Gannon's and Arctic Isle) with two to go (The Big Dipper and Zem's). Keep an eye out here and in Weekend magazine for details soon about how you can vote for your favorite!
Thanks to John Dwyer who emailed me Wednesday with this suggestion on where to watch the balloons: "This year try going to South Campus, behind the last building there is a trail that goes to the top of a hill."
He included a link to the spot on Google Maps, below. Check it out and keep 'em coming.
Balloon watching spot: http://tinyurl.com/3rckgyf
Gliderbox, thanks for the post but Syracuse native Carrie Manolakos is not in this Syracuse production of Wicked. She is the standby for Elphaba in the other traveling production, which was most recently in Schenectady and is now in Philadelphia.
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Tallahassee, Florida - The Newtown tragedy is prompting legislation at the state Capitol designed to bolster school safety.
Rep. Jim Waldman has put together a bill that would let school districts decide for themselves whether they need to boost security.
It would allow districts to establish special taxing districts to raise money for extra security measures or mental health programs for students.
Waldman says the measure would give voters the chance to decide with referendums if they wanted to raise their taxes to pay for additional security measures.
"The money could be used not only for the school resource officers, but it also could be used for mental health programs and anything related to increasing school safety for our children. I'm a very big proponent of home rule and I think that each county ought to decide for themselves what level of security they want to provide for their children."
Florida is spending about $17 billion on K-12 education this year. About $70 million is set aside for school security measures.
The Florida School Boards Association is pushing for an increase in state funding for school safety.
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There's a proverb that says if you love something, let it go. If it returns, it's yours. If not, well, it never belonged to you in the first place. But had my son Braden written that proverb it would go more like this: "If you love something and it won't cooperate, stomp the guts out of it."
A few years ago he and I rescued a frog in our garage. I gently placed the little guy in Braden's hands. We talked about the frog's warts, his strong legs, and bulging eyes. After the brief science lesson, we set him free. Braden followed his new friend around the yard for a half hour. He tried to catch it, pet it, and steer it. He wanted it back in the garage to do with it as he pleased. But the frog wouldn't oblige.
In frustration Braden lurched forward and crushed the little fellow beneath his foot. I was horrified! I momentarily concluded that my wife and I were raising a sociopath. When I could finally reel in my slack jaw I asked him, "Why did you do that?" His answer was as telling as it was simple: "Because he wouldn't listen to me."
Some of us think that God is a lot like Braden. If you don't stay one step ahead of him, leaping quickly from his crushing blow, God will maliciously scrub you into the dust. God will eventually catch up to you and squash you for every evil act ever committed, every wrong thought that has crossed your mind, and for every missed Sunday service.
Maybe it stems from an anxious childhood or from bad religious experiences, but we all too often see God for less than he is. We view him as some kind of irritated old school master keeping a ledger of our sins – an Ebenezer Scrooge – selfish, stodgy, and never to be crossed. Or we think of him as a vindictive bully, angry at the world – a cosmic Simon Cowell – one who only lets the best get by, and only then after a severe tongue lashing. Sure, a few will make it through the pearly gates, but God will be none too happy about it.
Or we may imagine God, sitting in a high and mighty palace somewhere, breathing threats and intimidation just waiting for someone to cross the line, to be noncompliant, so he can squash them like a bug. Or frog. Is this who God is? If you believe some religious extremists, certainly this is accurate. But this is not the God revealed to us by the person of Christ. Jesus reveals a God who loves with such passion that he was willing to drive nails into his own flesh to set free those living in darkness.
If we're not careful, these polluted images of God can even corrupt the very lynchpin of our faith – the cross. A vindictive God reduces Jesus to just a martyr – someone who finally stood up against this angry tyrant, and paid the price for it. But on the cross God was not saying, "See! Look what you made me do to my Son," launching the mother of all guilt trips. Not at all. The cross reveals, not God's anger, but God's love. The cross, and the love that orchestrated it, was not designed to shame and guilt us into doing something we really don't want to do.
It was an intentional act of revelation. God was showing us his heart. God was showing us his true nature. God was inviting us to flush away these horrible misconceptions about who he is. In the process he was calling us to himself; to a God worth believing, a God worth worshipping, a God worth loving.
And by the way, I don't think Braden will turn out to be an axe murderer after all. Thankfully, a day later our family paused to say grace over our evening meal. When it was Braden's turn to pray, he bowed and said: "Dear Jesus...I killed a frog." All was forgiven.
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Costuming of the Late 1890’s and Early 1900’s
by Donna Winters
Carol’s family has told her the story of her great-aunt who died at age 36 just after the turn of the century. She had been a concert pianist and wore corsets and elaborate gowns regularly. Not knowing what had caused her death, her husband, a doctor, performed an autopsy. He reported that not one of her organs was in its proper place. Already, fashion had taken its toll.
I’d like to tell you some of the drawbacks of wearing a corset aside from those already mentioned. The first time I ever wore my corset, I realized how impossible it is to take a deep (full) breath. You literally cannot expand your lungs enough to do it. No wonder Victorian women fainted! Besides not being able to take a deep breath, the circulation of blood to the brain was being hampered by the tightness of the undergarment. As for eating while in the corset, this is not as uncomfortable as one might assume, but a Victorian woman would certainly never be capable of over-indulging while corseted. I find that I can eat small amounts slowly. I also learned that it is not a good idea to drink anything fast, because liquid is severely hampered en route to your stomach.
I discovered another almost humorous aspect of the corset the first time I took mine off. It’s like opening the dam. You quickly realize that you need a toilet, and you need it fast! I learned to do the unhooking in the bathroom. Another aftereffect of removing the corset is the itchiness from heat rash that sometimes develops. And if your chemise or camisole has a seam, you’ll find it deeply impressed into your flesh.
The petticoat goes on over the combination garment or drawers and closes with hooks and eyes. You may notice that my petticoat has no lace trim on the flounces. The pattern called for over 40 yards of lace and ribbon trim, but as I mentioned earlier, I was more concerned with the outward appearance. I elected to leave the trim off because it would have doubled the cost of the petticoat and I would have been the only one to see it.
I wear a corset cover made from a Victorian pattern. Inside the corset cover I have added Victorian bust enhancers. Unlike today’s approach to the perfect figure, the Victorian bust enhancers required no surgery, could not leak, contained no dangerous chemicals, were easily removed and 100 percent safe…because they were cotton ruffles! Being thin busted as I am, I have sewn two rows of ruffles into each side of my corset cover. I learned about these from the woman who developed the historic pattern for my Practical Promenade suit. She conducted an historic sewing workshop which I attended soon after I had my costume made.
My outerwear is either a wool Practical Promenade suit (for fall and winter) or a white blouse and dark skirt (for spring and summer). The wool suit has a small check pattern that includes burgundy, beige, and black as the main colors and is a very close match to the original suit from which the pattern was created. The jacket includes an attached burgundy front which makes it appear that it is a blouse and jacket, but instead it is all one piece. The front closes with sixteen hooks and eyes and the jacket has its own set of steel stays to shape the waist. Another feature of the jacket that I particularly like is a stayband. This is a narrow cotton belt sewn inside the waist of the jacket. It fastens in front with hook and eye. At the back, the stayband has two hooks that connect with two eyes sewn to the outside of the waistband of the skirt and prevents the two pieces from ever separating. The stayband is a truly great way to stay “perfectly put together” as someone once told me.
My white blouse is a Battenberg lace blouse created from an authentic pattern, and the skirt I wear with it was created from the skirt pattern of the Practical Promenade suit. This white blouse-dark skirt outfit was considered the “uniform” of the late 1890’s-early 1900’s. I have another blouse made of ecru cotton and lace that I sometimes wear. The ecru blouse appears to be sewn from an authentic historic pattern and is extremely feminine and beautifully made. I wish I knew more about it, such as the exact era of the pattern and the person who made it, but I have no information on it since I found it at a thrift shop. It was truly the buy of my life because I bought it on a day when the shop was selling a bagful of clothes for $3, and I had seven other items in my bag along with that blouse!
Also among my accessories are a lace jabot, and an enamel pin that I use to attach it to the neckline of my suit. These were furnished to me by ladies who really knew historic fashion in detail. The enamel pin was hand-painted by a dear friend, now deceased, to coordinate with the colors in my suit. I am especially grateful to have these two items, because they are the perfect finishing touch.
I hope you’ve learned some of the firsthand details that no one else has told you about wearing a corset and that you’ve had a laugh or two. Feel free to contact me with any unanswered questions and I’ll do my best to provide an answer.
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IF YOU COULD TIME TRAVEL THROUGH PHOTOS AND IMAGES, WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
THE PHOTO TRAVELER SYNOPSIS:
Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care, which for him meant ending up in an abusive home with an alcoholic adoptive father.
Gavin’s only escape is in taking and creating images. His camera is his refuge from the unending torture and isolation of daily life in his “family.”
Until he learns by accident that he isn’t alone in the world after all. His father’s parents are still alive and living in Washington DC.
When he takes the plunge and travels 3,000 miles to find his grandparents, he learns that they—and he—are part of something much bigger, and more dangerous, than he could ever have imagined. Something that has always put his family at risk and that will now threaten his own life, while forever changing it.
He learns that he is one of the last descendants of a small group of Photo Travelers—people who can travel through time and space through images. But his initial excitement turns to fear, when he soon discovers that he and his grandparents are being pursued by the fierce remnants of a radical European Photo Traveler cult, the Peace Hunters. What Gavin has, they want!
His adventure will take him to past eras, like The Great Depression and the Salem Witch Trials. Gavin will have to discover who he really is and must make choices that spell the difference between life and death for himself, for the relatives he now knows and loves, and for the girl he will come to love.
For Gavin Hillstone, life will never be the same.
Arthur J. Gonzalez Interview Questions
1. Describe THE PHOTO TRAVELER in 3 words.
Adventurous, Intriguing, Unpredictable
2. What inspired you to write THE PHOTO TRAVELER?
One of the most important people in my life was facing a difficult time when their grandmother passed away. It affected him in such a deep way that it consequently affected me. I remember him crying, staring at an old black and white photo of his grandmother in Havana, Cuba. He held it, staring at it like she was talking back to him. He said, “I’d give anything to travel into this picture right now and hug her.” I jumped off the couch, my mind spinning in every direction. “What if you could?” And from that moment…The Photo Traveler was born. It was perfect. It was as if she and my father plotted in the Heavens to gift me this story.
3. What is different about THE PHOTO TRAVELER?
Okay…so let me be honest- we all know time travel has been done over and over again. But I wanted an idea that everyone would hear and think, “Oh my God. I wish I could do that!” or “Hm…that sounds awesome.” And what better way than to time travel back and relive memories?
We live in a particular age where we document and photograph nearly everything we do. It’s a huge piece of this younger generation’s culture. I wanted to make sure whatever I did was relatable. There are no time travel machines, but there are millions of photos that anyone can pick up and travel to.
4. Are any of your characters based on yourself or someone you know?
Some are. The character Yogi is loosely based on one of my best friends. And besides the more intense, dramatic storylines to Gavin, I see a lot of me in him.
5. Have you always been interested in becoming a writer?
I’ve always loved writing. I began with writing poetry and music, but I progressed to imagining these stories I had to share. In some form or another, I have always wanted to be a writer.
6. What book are you currently reading? Do you prefer ebooks, paperbacks or hardcover?
I just wrapped up the Beautiful Creatures series and I enjoyed it tremendously. As far as what why preference is- At first I was adamant on only reading physical copies of books, but I succumbed to my Kindle and we have never parted since. I love her very much.
7. What do you think is more important: characters or plot?
There needs to be a balance of both in order to produce a success (like a marriage). Characters help propel the story forward, while the plot promotes and helps develop who the characters are. I don’t think you can have a truly epic story with both.
8. Do you have any advice for young writers?
First and foremost, there needs to be a relentless belief in yourself. Even if you are insecure or scared, you must believe that there is no other way for you. You cannot accept anything less than what you have dreamed of.
Second, you need to be completely committed to your book and story. Take your time. Know your characters better than you know your very self.
Also, connecting with your readers. Understanding what they want and how your stories can inspire them and generate emotional attachments.
And lastly, do your research. Know what's available. Think outside the box for promoting your book. Never expect that success will be given to you. Work for it. Achieve it. Earn it.
9. What’s next for you?
Hopefully somewhere in a Best Seller's category! ;) But in the mean time I'll be writing the sequel to THE PHOTO TRAVELER, called THE PEACE HUNTER. It will be absolutely amazing. I'm also working on three other novels. I feel a little crazy. But I love it. All I have to say is: lots of coffee...lots and lots of coffee.
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Getting his start as a summer stock actor, American cinematographer Gordon Willis turned to photography after experience as an Air Force cameraman. In 1970, the 39-year-old Willis lensed his first feature film, The Landlord. Following his debut behind the camera, Willis worked steadily throughout the 1970s, on films such as The Paper Chase (1973), The Parallax View (1974), and All the President's Men (1976). It was for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) that Willis first won acclaim; he would go on to act as cinematographer for the next two Godfather installments, garnering an Academy Award nomination in 1991, for his work on The Godfather Part III.
It was also during the 1970s that Willis began his long collaboration with director Woody Allen, first working with him on Annie Hall in 1977. Willis and Allen would collaborate on six more films during the 1970s and 1980s, with the cinematographer lending his distinctive touch to Interiors (1978), Stardust Memories (1980), A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982), Zelig (for which Willis won a 1984 Oscar nomination), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), and, perhaps most memorably, 1979's Manhattan. Aside from directing the 1980 melodrama Windows, Willis has worked solely as a cinematographer, continuing to work throughout the 1990s, with such a director as Alan J. Pakula on Presumed Innocent (1990) and The Devil's Own (1997). In 1995, Willis was honored by his colleagues with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Ms. April is a smiling blonde with slender legs that end in three-inch heels.
A typical calendar girl, except for one thing: She is covered in poop.
Fish poop, to be exact.
The coquettish model is just one of the 12 “Ladies of Manure” — barely clad local gals willing to pose in and around the most unlikely of plops . . . er, props.
But it’s a calendar with a cause, a scatological celebration of the environmental benefits of composting.
“The whole point of this is to make it less disgusting. If this hot chick doesn’t mind smearing fish poop all over her, maybe it’s not that bad,” said Lanette Sobel, who started the Fertile Earth Foundation, the South Beach-based nonprofit organization behind the calendar. “It’s a resource; it’s not waste.”
Sobel, 34, dreamed up the project to get other people to think about organic waste as much as she does.
The result is a pictorial calendar that’s meant to encourage urbanites to start composting their waste — veggie peels, fruit rinds and even feces (animal and human) — into fertile, black soil.
For $25 online — or a $20 donation at a fundraiser Friday at Cafeina Wynwood Lounge — you can own a 12-month calendar that features the semi-naked manure babes.
The pictorials are equal parts bombshell glam and bathroom humor.
In the calendar, a long-haired brunette poses on a commode with pink lace panties stretched across her booted ankles. Another lies on grass, cupping her breasts while worms crawl through a patch of inky dirt piled over her nether regions. Still another crouches near a banana tree, her outstretched arms covering her bare chest as she lifts rotting fruit peels.
Each photo is accompanied by a brief biography of the featured girl. All of the models were chosen because of their work on environmental issues.
The photos were snapped around Miami-Dade County: at the outdoor composting latrine at Earth-N-Us Farm in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood; at Fertile Earth’s Homestead-area farm, where the organization is growing veggies and medicinal herbs fertilized by worm poop and compost; and at a South Miami-Dade fish farm.
Before she was a Lady of Manure, Sobel was better known as the Lady of Earthworms. She sells red wigglers (and the excrement they produce) through an online store and out of her South Beach apartment to people who use them to compost waste.
She also travels to schools around the county to teach kids about how worms turn organic garbage into dirt, hosts workshops about how to use the creatures for composting, and runs the South Miami-Dade earthworm farm.
“Worm poop is awesome,” said Julia Poliadis, 28, of North Bay Village, who posed for the calendar Lady Godiva-like atop a pooping horse, wearing nothing but a yellow flower tucked behind her ear.
Fertile Earth is funded mostly through its worm sales, with a few out-of-the ordinary fundraisers — like the poop calendar. The group’s last fundraiser was a cook-off to bring attention to invasive, non-native species in South Florida. The winning dish consisted of python chili, wild boar sliders and snakehead fish slaw.
“What I like about Fertile Earth is that it’s about awareness and education . . . and the other part is actually doing something about it,” said 28-year-old Priscilla Carolyn, who lives in Miami Beach’s North Beach. “It’s like, ‘Invasive species are an issue, so let’s cook them!’ ”
Sobel was inspired to start the nonprofit agency four years ago after dumpster diving in Miami Beach’s hotel garbage bins. She suited up and dove in for a project she worked on as a visiting researcher at Florida Atlantic University.
“We were doing waste audits from the hotels, and we saw a massive of organic waste coming out of these hotels,” Sobel said.
The garbage bins were full of food-preparation waste from hotel restaurants, grass clippings from landscape work, day-old bagels and croissants, and even a like-new pineapple, she remembered.
“When we looked into what to do with organics, there were no options in the county except landfills. And then, when I started looking into it, realized how detrimental landfills are,” Sobel said.
That’s when she turned to composting and created Fertile Earth, which she runs out of her apartment and now has a faithful core of about eight members.
“Our objective is not to reach the fellow tree huggers. Our objective is to reach the masses,” Sobel said.
Carolyn — who works as a massage therapist at a swanky Beach hotel — hopes to encourage people to take a more-natural approach, even in a city known more for glitz than muck.
“We’re 2013, poop-loving hippies who live in Miami Beach, the capital of fake boobs,” she said.
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Nothing produces more of a sense of the futility of facts than seeing someone in the mass media repeating some notion that has been refuted innumerable times over the years.
On July 9th, on CNN’s program “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, commentator Gloria Borger discussed President Obama’s plan to continue the temporary extension of the tax rates established under the Bush administration — except for the top brackets, where Obama wanted the tax rates raised.
Ms. Borger said, “if you’re going to lower the tax rates, where are you going to get the money from?”
First of all, nobody is talking about lowering the tax rates. They are talking about whether or not to continue the existing tax rates, which are set to expire after a temporary extension. And Obama is talking about raising the tax rate on higher income earners.
But when Ms. Borger asked, “where are you going to get the money from?” if you don’t raise tax rates, that assumes an automatic correlation between tax rates and tax revenues, which is demonstrably false.
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Nhan Dan – Military co-operation between Vietnam and Japan has always been strengthened, contributing to the promotion of friendly ties between the two countries.
This affirmation was made by Vietnamese Minister of National Defence, General Phung Quang Thanh while receiving Japanese Vice Minister of Defence Shimojo Mitsu in Hanoi on January 17.
Earlier that same day, the Japanese delegation, led by the Vice Minister, also held talks with Vietnamese Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defence.
The two sides discussed their respective country’s armed forces development, and shared their ideas about regional and international issues of mutual concern.
They also agreed to enhance co-operation in delegation exchanges, training, policy research, and search-and-rescue activities at sea.
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opportunity, hope and dignity for the underprivileged
We have a social responsibility to help the poor and underprivileged. God has a plan for each individual's life and it is our mission to put meaning into the lives of those struggling under the burden of poverty, neglect and abuse.
The following organizations have been generous enough to help us in our mission:
The British Government
Crossroad Church, Geneva, Switzerland
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First of all i am a workohlic and i cannot sit idle.So the motivation to do the best work comes to me naturally.But if asked what actually motivates me then i would say its the Satisfaction that i get after a whole day of work that keeps me going.
Hungry for success. Try to learning new everyday from Work from senior or from juniors.
First of all i get bored of sitting idle with no work in hand and second thing is that i want to drive towards the goals which i have set so i want to work hard also my positive attitude motivates me to do my best on job.
Money and work both are like siblings. But I believe when you work hard; money will flow to you. So work is more important than money. Only hard work can help you put another feather in your success cap.
Suppose you already have job offer and giving to interview to other new company. What reasoning should be given if other company employer asks that about reasons to not accept that job offer. I mean why you will not accept that offer if we will offer you????
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Item #: SCP-1370
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1370 is locked in a fire-proof glass display case, stored in Gallery 27. If the case becomes damaged by external circumstance, any container with dimensions of at least 1.25 x .75 x .50 meters will suffice as a replacement until a new display case is available. The Ethics Committee recommends that any long-term storage case contain enough space for SCP-1370 to move freely. Level 2 personnel and higher may remove SCP-1370 from its case at their discretion, but will face disciplinary action for failing to secure it properly afterward.
Description: SCP-1370 is a self-aware artificial being constructed from various electrical devices and tools. It stands approximately one meter in height and is capable of moving its articulated joints despite the lack of any power source or motors. SCP-1370 communicates in a monotone voice via a speaker mounted in its chest.
Its head is a voltmeter soldered upside down to a neck joint, giving the appearance of a friendly smile, but containing no active sensory devices. However, SCP-1370 will react to visual and audible stimuli, and its ability to do so is hampered when the head is covered or otherwise restrained. Its design appears to give more importance to aesthetic concern rather than function, as evidenced by a poor center of gravity that hampers its ability to balance and walk. It is therefore believed that SCP-1370 was created as an art object and later imbued with anomalous properties, rather than designed with those in mind.
It can currently speak fluent American English, French, and Latin, and is capable of learning new languages. Other facets of its intellectual capacity have not been clearly outlined as SCP-1370 is invariably hostile in all interactions with any being or object it interprets to be sapient; this includes but is not limited to animals, Foundation personnel, civilians, audio-visual equipment and security cameras.
If SCP-1370 encounters an object it believes to be sapient, it will attempt to engage the object in combat while introducing itself with a variety of elaborate titles which appear to be selected at random. Examples include DoomBot 2000, RoboLord the Destructor, Prime Minister Sinister and Darth Claw Killflex. SCP-1370 will often include variations to these titles based on responses it receives from personnel; Foundation staff have successfully introduced Patheticon the Garglemost and PesterBot to its lexicon.
Addendum: Many tests on SCP-1370's combat prowess have been run, each confirming that SCP-1370 lacks the physical aptitude to cause damage to any living being. Test 1370-8239 exposed SCP-1370 to a common houseplant with a speaker hidden in the plant's pot. After SCP-1370 was provoked verbally, it attempted to fold and twist the leaves of the plant within its grasp before incapacitating itself. See log that follows:
Researchers L. Allans and T. Bausoom carry SCP-1370's case into the testing chamber. The case is set down one meter from a potted philodendron fitted with a small speaker.
SCP-1370: Release me, insects. I am Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy Master Of All Doom. I shall be the herald of your destruction.
Researchers leave the testing chamber and the case is opened remotely. Although no security risk is determined, the test requires SCP-1370 to focus on the plant rather than nearby personnel. Observations are made via an opaque glass window to prevent SCP-1370 from attacking its own reflection.
SCP-1370: At last I am unleashed upon this earth so deserving of destruction. All shall be rent within my pinchers. All shall be trampled beneath my feet. I am ShivaTron, Despoiler of Mirth.
Researcher P. Davies: (through the speaker mounted in the plant) Hello! Can you hear me?
SCP-1370: (approaching the plant) Who dares. All souls will burn. You will feel the sharp sting of my wrath. Identify yourself so that I may sing damnation upon you as you die.
P. Davies: I am a split-leaf philodendron, a semi-woody shrub with large glossy leaves. (restrained laughter) These leaves can grow up to three feet long.
SCP-1370: (attempts to wrestle with the leaves) Your mockery spells your doom. I have arrived. You will be crushed betwixt my digits.
SCP-1370 falls over and is unable to right itself. After approximately six minutes it knocks the pot over, which rolls into a position that pins SCP-1370's body to the floor of the chamber. Researchers enter to return SCP-1370 to its case.
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SAN FRANCISCO--The Chrome OS hardware Google promised in July of last year is still not ready for prime time. But if you're a developer or an eager early adopter, you're in luck.
At an event today here in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood Google showed us the not-yet-finished hardware that will run Chrome OS. It's called Cr-48, and it's not much to look at: a plain, black, unbranded notebook that companies and individual users who are accepted into Google's pilot program can use.
The actual Chrome OS notebooks that normal people can buy, from Samsung and Acer, are delayed until mid-2011. When Google initially pitched the idea last year, it said we'd be seeing them right about now.
But we did learn about a lot of features we'll eventually see in the hardware when it does arrive:
- Every Chrome notebook will work with Verizon 3G service. Each user gets 100MB of free data per month for two years. You can also buy different plans, the first starting at a day pass for $9.99. There are no overage charges or cancellation or setup fees.
- There are options to have different user IDs on the same machine as well as a guest mode with completely private ("Incognito") browsing.
- Your experience with setting up and using Chrome will be the same no matter what machine you're using. Everything is synced through the browser.
- They worked hard on tying the browser directly to the hardware for security purposes. There is auto updating, sandboxing at the OS level, and all user data is encrypted by default.
There's also something called Verified Boot. Verified Boot makes sure that the OS is in the read-only firmware of the computer, so no software can modify it. When you boot Chrome OS, it checks to make sure nothing has been modified. Google is calling it "the most secure consumer operating system that's ever been shipped."
In the department of products that are actually ready for public consumption, today we are getting the Chrome Web Store. It had been previewed before, but it's finally ready to go. The New York Times, Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Citrix demonstrated their apps for an audience of journalists and Googlers here today.
The store is integrated with the Google Checkout payment system so you can just click to buy and download apps. Some subscription apps have free trial mode, and some, like the New York Times app, work offline.
The Web Store will be ready for anyone to use "later today," according to the event host, Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai. It's made to work with the Chrome browser, but it does work with other "modern browsers," according to Google.
We also got an update on Chrome browser features:
- Automatic updates
- Browser sandboxing. If a bad piece of code gets in your browser it won't be able to get to the rest of your computer's data.
- Plug-in sandboxing. They're starting to do the same thing with browser plug-ins like Flash and PDF.
CEO Eric Schmidt stopped by for a few minutes near the end of the presentation to talk up Chrome, specifically noting that he was against it when co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said they wanted to be in the browser business. Schmidt said he tried to block the project but the co-founders went ahead and hired a team of browser experts that had worked on Firefox.
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Galleries & Museums
La Sierra University is home to several prestigious galleries and museums. For a combined tour of these facilities, call 951.785.2999, ext. 2041, or ext. 2106.
World Museum of Natural History
The World Museum of Natural History, located in Cossentine Hall, contains outstanding systematic exhibits of amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles. Specimens are displayed in a lifelike manner, prepared by sculpture and freeze-dry taxidermy. The museum also is home to one of the world's largest and finest collections of mineral spheres. Gems and minerals, fluorescent minerals, meteorites and tektites, petrified wood, shells, American Indian artifacts, and contemplative stones round out the exhibits.
Saturdays, 2 pm-5 pm, and by appointment for group tours. Call 951.785.2209 for additional information.
For more information about the World Museum of Natural History, click here.
La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery, located in the Visual Arts Center Building 1, is home to shows and exhibitions by local artists as well as La Sierra students, faculty, and alumni. The gallery also hosts retrospectives and artists’ talks and an annual juried competition for student artists. Its showcases are occasionally produced in partnership with leading regional art institutions such as the Riverside Art Museum.
Monday-Thursday, 10 am-4 pm; Sunday, 2-5 pm. Call 951.785.2959 for additional information.
For more information about the Brandstater Gallery, click here.
H.M.S. Richards Library
Seventh-day Adventist gospel pioneer H.M.S. Richards founded the “Voice of Prophecy,” Adventism’s flagship gospel radio program, in 1929. La Sierra has been the recipient of artifacts of his legacy, including his broadcasts on vinyl records, notes, and memorabilia. The School of Religion conducts the annual H.M.S. Richards, Jr. Lecture, as well as the Paul J. Landa Memorial Lectures, which is named in memory of a beloved member of the religion faculty. The Richards Library is located below the Dining Commons, next to the bookstore.
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The Evolution Deceit
13 May 2011 A9 TV
11- Everyone has a succession of angels in front of him and behind him, guarding him by Allah’s command.
There are angels around Hazrat Mahdi (as). Mikhail (as) and Jibrail (as). Hazrat Mahdi (as) is under their protection.
“…Allah never changes a people’s state until they change what is in themselves.”
In other words, Allah is saying, “I will not spoil a people’s blessing so long as they are not spoiled.”
”…When Allah desires evil for a people,…” When He desires anarchy, division and fragmentation,
“…there is no averting it. They have no protector apart from Him.” In other words, Allah says, “I will create an economic crisis there, and they cannot stop me.”
SURAT AL-A’RAF, 157
those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel;
So there is a book called the Torah, and one called the Gospels. Allah says these exist.
They will find it written in the Gospels;
“It is written”, Allah says.
In other words, he cannot read or write
those who follow the Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet,
Everything that is good, brotherhood, peace and love and good intentions.
Forbidding them to do wrong,
Killing, oppression and suffering. Wrongs of all kinds.
making good things lawful (halal) for them and bad things unlawful (haram) for them,
There are many clean things and few unlawful ones. Pork, wine, meat not slaughtered in Allah’s name. The foods set out as unlawful by our Prophet (saas). Set out in the Qur’an.
Making bad things unlawful for them;
Blood is also unlawful, for instance.
relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which were around them.Look, this is very important. Because the pagans at that time brought all kinds of laws out. Everything is banned. Laughing is banned, sitting down is banned, all is banned.
relieving them of their heavy loads and the chains which were around them.The chains of prohibition around them. Because everything you can imagine was prohibited then. If you slaughter an animal, “you cannot eat this part” they say. You can eat the right leg, but not the left. You can eat this part of its back, but not that. There were hundreds of prohibitions. Almighty Allah has done away with them all.
Those who believe in him and honor him,
They will take care that no harm befalls him. To believe and honor. His supporters will speak in his favor. They will take care that no harm comes to him, even at the cost of their own lives.
And help him,
Those who help him with all things.
and follow the Light that has been sent down with him,
Those who follow the Qur’an, all together.
They are the ones who are successful.
For people to be at ease, at peace, free from oppression, for them to be virtuous and enjoy peace of. But what do people do? They produce vast numbers of prohibitions. They create a difficult environment, a climate of war. They shed blood. Allah prohibits these. He tells us to live well. Bombs and bloodshed are difficult things. Suffering is very difficult.
34- He has given you everything you have asked Him for.
He gives eyes and ears and fingers. Bowls and light and electricity … The list goes on for ever.
If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, you could never count them. Man is indeed wrongdoing, ungrateful.
Allah says they pay no heed. Even though I bestow all these blessings and they live in a tiny space inside their brains. Allah constantly shows them images and sounds and bestows blessings and feelings. But they are heedless. They are ungrateful, that is what Allah is saying.
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The government on Friday downgraded its overall assessment of the economy for the third straight month as production weakened further amid the global economic downturn and warned about uncertainties posed by the territorial dispute with China and the eurozone debt crisis.
Japan’s economic activity has displayed “a weak tone recently due to deceleration of the world economy, although some components still show steady movements,” the Cabinet Office said in its monthly report. Last month it said recovery “appears to be pausing.”
This is the first time in more than three years that the overall assessment has been downgraded over three consecutive months. It was lowered over five straight months through February 2009, affected by the global financial turmoil triggered by the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
While speculation is growing among private-sector economists that the domestic economy has entered a recession, economic and fiscal policy minister Seiji Maehara told a news conference that he can’t say anything for certain.
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1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Agreeing on an acceptable failure rate for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a relevant and important policy issue currently facing America. At an AEI event on Friday, AEI's own Edward Pinto highlighted the deleterious impacts that a national projected foreclosure rate of 10 percent — the FHA's weighted average rate over the last 37 years — can have on working-class families and neighborhoods. Pinto emphasized that the FHA should return to its traditional mission of helping low- and moderate-income families by reforming its loan structure.
The Hudson Institute's John Weicher, a former FHA commissioner, explained the historical tradeoff between reaching the target cohort of FHA's mission and preventing high levels of lending risk as a conflicting issue of FHA loan reform. Sarah Rosen Wartell of the Urban Institute then stressed that picking a hard and fast rule for an acceptable rate of failure could lead to market distortion, detracting from the FHA's function by not taking into account future macroeconomic variables. The Mortgage Bankers Association's David Stevens, also a former FHA commissioner, concluded that moving forward, incorporation of credit quality is necessary for developing sustainable products for homebuyers.
At this event, AEI’s Edward Pinto will discuss his groundbreaking analysis of 2.4 million loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 2009–10 that have set working-class families up for financial failure. Among Pinto’s findings was the fact that over 9,000 zip codes have a projected foreclosure rate of 10 percent or more on FHA-backed loans. Currently, one in seven working-class families in these neighborhoods stands to lose its home, savings, and credit score to foreclosures fueled by FHA’s reckless lending policies. Pinto and discussants will address a particularly relevant public policy question: what is the acceptable level of foreclosure for loans under the FHA program?
If you are unable to attend, we welcome you to watch the event live on this page. Full video will be posted within 24 hours.
Nightmare at FHA: Selling hope, delivering harm | A new website from Edward J. Pinto and AEI
How the FHA hurts working-class families and communities | Edward J. Pinto | White Paper | December 2012
Edward J. Pinto, AEI
Sarah Rosen Wartell, Urban Institute
David Stevens, Mortgage Bankers Association and Former FHA Commissioner
John Weicher, Hudson Institute and Former FHA Commissioner
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
For more information, please contact Emily Rapp at Emily.Rapp@aei.org, 202.419.5212.
For media inquiries, please contact MediaServices@aei.org, 202.862.5829.
Edward J. Pinto, an executive vice president and chief credit officer for Fannie Mae until the late 1980s, has done groundbreaking research on the role of government housing policies in the lead-up to the financial crisis. In particular, his data have revealed striking facts about the contributions of housing policy to the mortgage crisis. Two of his major research papers, "Government Housing Policies in the Lead-up to the Financial Crisis: A Forensic Study" and "Triggers of the Financial Crisis," were submitted to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. At AEI, Pinto is continuing his work on the role of housing policies in the financial crisis and researching policy considerations and options for rebuilding America’s housing-finance sector.
David Stevens is president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Before assuming this position, Stevens served as assistant secretary for housing and federal housing commissioner at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Stevens has more than 30 years of experience in mortgage finance, and has held several executive-level positions in sales, acquisition, investment, risk management, and regulatory oversight. He is well known throughout the industry and is often quoted in the media as a key housing influential, serving as an industry authority on major mortgage finance legislative and regulatory issues. He currently serves on the Hope Loan Port board of directors and on the board of MBA Opens Doors Foundation, MBA’s national 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization.
Peter J. Wallison is a co-director of AEI's program on financial policy studies and researches banking, insurance, and securities regulation. As general counsel of the US Treasury Department, he had a significant role in the development of the Reagan administration's proposals for the deregulation of the financial services industry. He also served as White House counsel to President Reagan and is the author of “Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency” (Westview Press, 2002). His other books include “Competitive Equity: A Better Way to Organize Mutual Funds” (AEI Press, 2007), “Privatizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks” (AEI Press, 2004), “The GAAP Gap: Corporate Disclosure in the Internet Age” (AEI Press, 2000), and “Optional Federal Chartering and Regulation of Insurance Companies”(AEI Press, 2000). He also writes for AEI's Financial Services Outlook series.
Sarah Rosen Wartell became the third president of the Urban Institute in February 2012. A public policy executive and housing markets expert, Wartell was President Bill Clinton's deputy assistant for economic policy and the deputy director of his National Economic Council. In 2003, she cofounded the Center for American Progress, serving as its first chief operating officer and general counsel. Later, as executive vice president, she oversaw its policy teams and fellows. Her work has focused on the economy and housing finance, mortgage markets, and consumer protection. In 2012, she was named a “Woman of Influence” by HousingWire magazine.
John Weicher is director of the Center for Housing and Financial Markets at the Hudson Institute. From 2001 to 2005, he served as assistant secretary for housing and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) commissioner at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He previously served as assistant secretary for policy development and research at HUD from 1989 to 1993, during which time he was primarily responsible for developing the 1990 FHA reform legislation that reestablished FHA on a sound financial basis. Earlier, he served as chief economist at both HUD and the Office of Management and Budget. During 2007–08, Weicher chaired the Committee to Evaluate the Research Plan of HUD at the National Research Council. He has also been a member of the Millennium Housing Commission, the Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics, and the Committee on Urban Policy of the National Research Council. Weicher was the president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association in 1982, and received its George Bloom Award for Career Achievement in 1993. From 1983 to 1987, he was the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Scholar in Public Policy at the AEI. Weicher is the author or editor of 13 books and the author of numerous popular and scholarly articles on housing and urban economics, housing finance, and the distribution of income and wealth. He has testified before congressional committees on more than 40 occasions.
Audio part 2: Selling hope, delivering harm: How the FHA sets up working-class families for failure
Edward Pinto - FHA Presentation
John Weicher - FHA presentation
David Stevens - FHA Presentation
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Contemporary Treatments for Psychological Trauma From the Perspective of Peacekeepers
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to examine contemporary treatment approaches for psychological trauma from the perspective of peacekeepers. Data were collected via audiotaped interviews with 10 contemporary peacekeepers who had been deployed to Somalia, Rwanda, or the former Yugoslavia. The participants were asked to describe their experience with various treatments for psychological trauma. Narratives from the transcribed interviews were reviewed with the participants and their comments solicited for rigour and verification of meaning. A thematic analysis of the text, conducted to examine the ways in which contemporary treatment approaches help peacekeepers to heal from trauma, revealed 3 themes: medications as helping the most, understanding what is going on, and self-healing as a journey of discovery. The embodied nature of healing from trauma among contemporary peacekeepers should not be overlooked. Studies on the efficacy of different treatment modalities for psychological trauma, including mind-body complementary therapies, are needed.
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Education Brief, USA Today
March 13, 2010
By Greg Toppo
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will ask Congress to toss out the two-tiered pass/fail school rating system of the No Child Left Behind education law and replace it with one that labels schools one of three ways: high-performing, needs improvement or chronically low-performing, according to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
President Obama announced the change Saturday during his weekly radio address, saying the administration plan sets "an ambitious goal: all students should graduate from high school prepared for college and a career – no matter who you are or where you come from. Achieving this goal will be difficult. It will take time. And it will require the skills, talents, and dedication of many: principals, teachers, parents, students. But this effort is essential for our children and for our country."
In a briefing Friday, Duncan told reporters he will give the high performers both freedom and financial incentives to stay that way.
"We want to get out of their way," Duncan said. "But we also want to learn from them."
For the USA's lowest 5% of schools — about 5,000 — Duncan says he'll require them to take drastic steps to improve, including firing their principal and, in some cases, at least half of their staff, as happened last month at a Rhode Island high school.
That proposal could widen a rift between the administration and teachers' unions. After being briefed on the plan Friday, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said she was "surprised and disappointed that the Obama administration proposed this as a starting point" for reauthorizing the basic law that guides federal education spending, saying teachers "should be empowered and supported — not scapegoated."
The blueprint is part of the administration's planned overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the most recent version of which was nicknamed No Child Left Behind (NCLB) by the Bush administration. The law, which seeks to use federal funding to push school improvements nationwide, mostly through annual testing in reading and math, is overdue for a reauthorization and Obama wants Congress to do it this year, with a handful of radical changes.
•require states to adopt "dramatically higher" academic standards by 2014;
•scrap NCLB's 2014 deadline for all students to be proficient in basic math and reading and replace it with a 2020 "college- and career-ready" benchmark measured through annual tests. Students leaving high school would be expected to be ready for a career or college-level classwork, with younger students expected to master material leading to 12th grade ;
•allow schools to use subjects other than math and reading in their annual ratings;
•use "value-added" indicators to rate teachers and schools, tracking how much students learn throughout the school year under a given teacher;
•use indicators other than student test scores to rate teachers, such as principals' classroom observations and reviews of lesson plans.
In schools that rated consistently among the lowest 5%, states and school districts would be required to "do something every single year to fundamentally change outcomes for those children."
Duncan has already told states that in order to qualify for a host of federal grants, they must take one of four actions in their bottom-performing schools: Close them down altogether and move students to a new school; turn the existing school over to an outside management company or an authority to run them as charter schools; fire staff and rehire no more than 50% or bring in a new principal and plan to "transform" the school.
Duncan also said "leading indicators" like attendance and school climate should be considered in rating schools. Even though they may not pinpoint problems as explicitly as test scores, he said, they are often accurate signs of successful or struggling schools. "Sometimes test scores are lagging indicators," he said.
U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee and was one of the team of four lawmakers who shepherded NCLB through Congress in 2001, said on Friday that the blueprint circulated by Duncan "lays the right markers to help us reset the bar for our students and the nation."
More details are due to come soon, but Duncan also shared an outline of the proposal on Friday with education groups. Amy Wilkins of The Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income and minority students, applauded Duncan's "college- and career-ready" standards push.
"We think that getting all kids college-ready is absolutely the right aspiration," she said. "It's the right goal and it's absolutely achievable."
She said achieving the goal of 100% college readiness by 2020 would require "a profound transformation of the American education system" including reimagining curricula, textbooks and time spent in school, among other indicators. "It means big, big change," she said.
Weingarten wasn't as optimistic: "Despite some promising rhetoric, this blueprint places 100% of the responsibility on teachers and gives them 0% authority," she said. "For a law affecting millions of schoolchildren and their teachers, it just doesn't make sense to have teachers — and teachers alone — bear the responsibility for school and student success."
Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington education think tank, applauded what he called the administration's call for "a humble federal role" in education, "targeted at the worst schools, rather than trying to solve every education problem from Washington." But he said many education reformers would dislike the narrower push to reform just the worst schools — an approach that might make it more palatable to congressional lawmakers, weary from NCLB's broad sanctions for thousands of "failing" schools.
Daniel Domenech, who heads the American Association of School Administrators, said he likes the outline he saw, calling it "more realistic, more valid and reliable" than NCLB. "It really makes us feel the urgency to have ESEA reauthorized, the sooner the better, so we can get out from under the restrictions of No Child Left Behind," he said, adding, "We're very encouraged by this proposal. This is a view at 50,000 feet and we like it — but the devil is in the details."
Carmel Martin, one of Duncan's top assistant secretaries, said the administration is looking for a new name to replace No Child Left Behind, but didn't include it in the proposal they're sending to Capitol Hill "We want to work with Congress on the actual bill and work with them on an appropriate new name," she said.
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On Friday, July 16th, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened its all-new 14,000 square-foot Dinosaur Hall. The exhibit, featuring more than 300 fossils and 20 complete mounts of dinosaurs and sea creatures, rivals the world’s leading dinosaur halls for the number of individual fossils displayed.
Lexington Scenery sought out Coloredge New York * Los Angeles to produce and install the graphics for this project. John Gibson, the Coloredge account executive, along with Howard Smith, the Lexington project manager and Jennifer Morgan, the museum’s project manager, worked together over a three month period. The team collaborated to ensure that all aspects of the graphic elements were impactful, but that they also met the technical requirements needed for being on display with fragile exhibit artifacts.
Adorning the main exhibit hall, the majority of the graphics were wall coverings printed on Ultraflex matte wallpaper and output on a Durst Rho 500r printer. The wallpaper material was double cut which allows for a butt seam, as opposed to imaging adhesive back vinyl where you must overlap the seams. The largest individual wallpaper graphic depicting a Mamenchisaurus, is 60 feet long by 20 feet high. Coloredge NY * LA worked with Ace Wallcovering to install more than 5,000 square feet of wallpaper material for this project.
The display case graphics were printed on matte photographic material using Coloredge’s Lightjet device at sizes up to 6x10-feet. These prints were wrapped around specially treated wood material supplied by Lexington specifically for this project. The panels needed to be specially treated so that they wouldn’t “gas off” and damage the 60 million year-old artifacts.
For the artifacts encased in glass, Coloredge looked to their prototyping division, Comp24. The Comp24 team utilized a special transfer process to apply five-color transfers to glass as large as five by 11 feet and up to ½-inch thick. An opacity layer was printed on its EFI VUTEk GS3200 onto Avery Ultra Clear 103 material. Using a wet mount process, this opacity layer was then applied to the Comp24 transfers for added definition.
An additional element of the project utilized 3M 8660 material with 3645 interior Floor minder for a graphic 12 by 12 feet. After installing the floor graphic, the print was treated with a clear wax allowing maintenance crews to remove scuff marks, a process recommended by 3M.
This project received high marks from the SGIA during its 2011 Expo in New Orleans. Coloredge New York - Los Angeles was recognized in the Association’s Golden Image Competition with a win in the digital graphics-building graphics category.
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President Obama will be formally sworn in for his second term in office Jan. 21.
He is the 43rd man to take the oath of office. Yes, Obama is the 44th president, but Grover Cleveland gets counted twice because his terms were not consecutive.
To discover other bits of inauguration trivia, take our quiz on notable (and just plain odd) inaugural firsts. Who was the first to ride to his inauguration in a car? Who was the first to wear full-length trousers?
And when you’re done, explore some of other quizzes, below, from the Los Angeles Times.
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Niagara Gazette — Let’s not return to Wild West
Many people have complained how New York’s new gun law and proposed laws elsewhere infringe their Second Amendment rights.
These people are focused on the wrong issue. The real issue is: how many people do we allow to be killed each year with guns?
It is indisputable that if there were no guns, no one would be killed by guns. It follows logically that if there were few guns, few people would be killed by guns (intentionally or accidentally). Given the number of guns in the U.S., a significant number of people are killed every year with guns (whether “guns kill people” or “people kill people,” these people die from gunshot wounds).
I am not arguing for a ban on guns; I myself like to target-shoot. Rather, gun regulation is needed to reduce gun deaths. It is really no different than regulating the use of automobiles (except there is no constitutional protection specifically for automobiles).
Automobiles kill people, including pedestrians. We do not ban automobiles because they kill people. Instead, we license drivers, require registration and safety equipment, and regulate their use. We also ban vehicles not meeting government requirements.
Just as we ban some vehicles, the government also bans some weapons — a partial “assault weapons ban” has existed for many years on automatic weapons and machine guns. No one argues for a repeal of that ban as an infringement of Second Amendment rights. Therefore, the issue is not whether the government can impose gun restrictions, but what those restrictions should be.
For those who decry any infringement of their right to bear arms: do you want to return to the days of the Wild West, where everyone was armed and “justice” was meted out with a gun?
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Reality can be defined as the 'norms' that your community agrees on.... Do you believe in witches and demons? How about 'trickle down economics?' Of course, some 'realities' work better than others.
The laws of nature tend to favor 'actual reality' over the ones that only exist in certain peoples' twisted world view, but over the short term utter nonsense can seem real, and even drive actual 'reality' to places we can't imagine.
We're in one of those places in time where 'reality' is being defined by consensus. We have a federal budget in the $4 trillion range, a number that seems like magic to people who count only on their digits (fingers and toes). To be fair, it's not a number you can actually 'think' about. You have to use certain tricks of the mind to make it into a useful concept, or you can just use accounting....
We are creating about $1 trillion a year in new federal debt, this freaks out the tea baggers. They didn't notice when Bush was creating debt at twice that rate, or when Reagan was doing it at twice that rate in today's dollars. You see it's all about 'creating' reality. Numbers are funny that way.
The Republicans are trying to create the 'reality' where we simply default on the debt they created. If they can really make this 'happen,' then civilization as we know it will end. You see the 'debt ceiling' crisis isn't about paying the 'bills,' it's about paying the interest on Ronald Reagan's debt.
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Friends and relations,
In the category of unrecognized irony, Glenn thinks that getting rid of bad teachers will improve the health of an educational system he has made a career of starving.
Here's the story:
Bill to get rid of bad teachers passes committee
By Jackie Johnson
A legislative committee votes in favor of the "Every Child Deserves a Great Teacher Bill" (AB-670).
"For the first time in at least 20 years the legislature's advanced a bill making it easier to fire a bad teacher."
Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) is a sponsor of the bill. He cites an example in his district where over $200,000 was spent so far, trying to remove a teacher who watched pornography on a school computer. He's been trying for several years to make it easier to fire bad teachers.
"The teachers union, of course, will always fight to keep bad teachers, but we hope other members of the legislature will put the school children first."
Grothman says a child's academic growth can really be stunted without a quality teacher in the classroom. But it's just too hard to get rid of the bad apples.
1) Firing "bad" teachers is so obviously important that the only reason Glenn would mention it is because he's really up to something else. [Closing the schools to save the taxpayers money?]
2) To "fight" in this case doesn't mean fight to "keep" them, but "fight to give them due process so that they don't get fired simply because they piss off the principal and a few of the parents."
The reason tenure exists -- whether in universities or the K-12's -- is to make sure an educator is able to conduct the process of education. Arguably, the real task of all education is to help the individual learn to question what they believe in order to find out whether their beliefs are actually true -- a process that inevitably makes some people furious.
Teachers need to be protected from the natural resistance that arises when they expound on a truth that a majority of the local population (falsely) believes to be a lie [like discussing evolution or global warming say or, increasingly, that America is a democracy].
Democratic activity of this kind is increasingly frowned upon by people from Glenn's universe, but it works. Innocent until proven guilty is, still, what we do in the US. For the French, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't see any reason to treat our educational system like the French.
and, [and here is where the hypocrisy works its way to the surface like a splinter of glass trying to climb out of Glenn's thumb]
3) Glenn's entire career has been about draining the blood supply out of public education, draining it into the sacrificial chalice of "free market economics" and rights for the rich. He's cut funding to the educational system at every opportunity, starving it at every turn. His other latest hooha has been to try to eliminate kindergarten for 4 year olds, despite solid evidence that it gives kids a jumpstart.
Now there's a picture.
Glenn would blame the cafeteria ladies for starving the kids even though he's the one cutting off their mac & cheese.
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Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's governor, called on people to have "patience", after admitting the economy will not grow at all this year.
He said Britain can expect a "long, slow process" of recovery after being hit by the eurozone crisis.
"The underlying picture is that output has been at best broadly flat over the past two years, and has continually disappointed expectations of a recovery," Sir Mervyn said.
The Bank slashed its forecast for growth to zero from 0.8 per cent for this year and downgraded next year's estimate from 2.4 per cent to 1.9 per cent.
As the economy will continue to struggle for some years, its latest inflation report signalled interest rates are likely to stay low until 2015.
The Bank has launched an £80 billion "funding for lending" scheme to offer small businesses access to cut-price loans.
Sir Mervyn said there are early indications that it will have a positive effect.
But he warned: "The economy will continue to face headwinds over the forecast period, from the fiscal consolidation and tight credit conditions at home, as well as from the difficulties in the euro area and a broader slowing in the world economy."
In better news, Sir Mervyn said inflation has fallen as commodity prices are lower.
Spencer Dale, a fellow member of the Monetary Policy Committee, also said the Olympics should have a small positive contribution to the economy.
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No slowdown in Gaza-Israel hostilities
International pressure mounts for an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence
For six days, Israel has carried out a large-scale air offensive in Gaza, aiming to halt destructive and sometimes deadly rocket launches emanating from the Palestinian territory.
Monday saw more carnage, more heated words and more damage on both sides. There was also more movement toward a possible intensification as Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said Israel had finished its planning for a ground invasion of Gaza.
If Israeli troops do invade, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said it would "not be a picnic."
"We do not want escalation, nor do we call for a ground war," he said Monday. "But we are not afraid of it, nor will we back down."
All this violence and rhetoric has intensified international efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis, starting with a cease-fire.
"This must stop," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Sunday.
A steady stream of U.N. and European diplomats have and will be traversing the region trying to calm the situation.
On Monday, Ban and an Israeli delegation went to Egypt, where that nation's top intelligence official presented Israel a letter outlining Hamas' proposal for a cease-fire, said a general in Egyptian intelligence who is optimistic about a deal being reached. The fighting has challenged Israel's relationship with Egypt, yet Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday praised Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy for playing a "constructive role."
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor confirmed late Monday that "negotiations are going on" that may lead to a cease-fire, though he didn't offer any details.
Meanwhile, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby and 16 foreign ministers from the league's member states were to arrive in Gaza on Tuesday, to be joined by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, a spokesman for the organization said.
Gaza itself has been under a crippling economic embargo since Hamas won control of the territory from the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, after a landslide 2007 election that was followed by intra-Palestinian clashes. The United States, Israel and the European Union characterize the militant fundamentalist Islamic organization Hamas as a terrorist group.
In the West Bank, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will hold talks with the U.N. secretary-general, according to Saeb Erakat, a member of the PLO's executive committee and an Abbas ally. The West Bank has been relatively quiet, though a Palestinian protester did die Monday -- two days after he and others clashed with Israeli troops -- Ramallah Medical hospital director Ahmad Bitawi said. And Israeli troops shot and killed a 22-year-old Palestinian near Hebron, witnesses said.
Diplomats hope to avoid a repeat of 2008, when at least 1,400 died as Israeli troops invaded Gaza after a similar spate of rocket attacks.
Israel has signaled it is open to a cease-fire, but only if Gaza militants halt rocket attacks. Air raid sirens yet again resounded all day Monday around Israel, where rocket attacks have killed three and wounded 68 according to Israeli officials.
The bloodshed might be worse if not for the "Iron Dome," Israel's missile defense system that has intercepted about 30% of the rockets fired from Gaza since last week, including more than half the 67 fired on Monday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The missile defense system intercepted several more rockets fired Monday at Ashkelon, the IDF said. But several rockets hit Eshkol, also in southern Israel, with one striking a closed school.
"They have a choice. The minute they will stop (shooting), it will stop," Peres said.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said a short-term "Band-Aid" solution won't do.
"There's no doubt that Hamas would agree to an immediate cease-fire, but it wouldn't mean anything. We want to know when it's over, that it's really over," he said, adding Israel will use diplomacy or military force -- whatever is necessary -- to ensure that southern Israel doesn't continue to face the threat of rockets.
Like Regev, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al Thani said there can't be a repeat of 2008 -- though he has a different view as to why.
Having gone to Gaza a few weeks ago and observed "the miserable life" of residents there, Sheikh al Thani told CNN's Christiane Amanpour it's not tenable for there to be more assassinations of Hamas leaders and Israeli forces surrounding Gaza, as was the case four years ago.
"(Hamas wants) a complete package for the cease-fire," he said.
Palestinian health officials said 104 people, among them women and children, have been killed -- at least 24 on Monday. They also say 860 have been wounded in Gaza since Israel began its offensive in response to what Israel characterized as incessant rocket attacks by militants.
Israeli authorities say they take great pains to avoid civilian casualties, though this is difficult to do when rockets are being launched from densely populated civilian areas, where suspected militant leaders are also based.
While saying he feels an agreement can be reached, Palestinian parliament member Mustafa Barghouti says he blames Israel for the bloodshed thus far.
"The problem is that Israel is using the bombardment of civilians and the killing of children as a tool of negotiations," he said.
Smoke and fire poured from Gaza buildings that had been struck by Israeli warplanes or drone on Monday, when Israel's military said it carried out 80 strikes in addition to the 1,300 executed since last Wednesday.
Aqsa TV, Hamas' television station, reported that Israeli tanks were firing into Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, with one of its reporters saying that the Islamic National Bank in Gaza City had been hit.
A Gaza City stadium, where the IDF said Hamas militants launched rockets toward Israel three days ago, was among the sites hit on Monday.
Israeli forces also hit a Gaza City office building used by some media outlets -- as they had Sunday -- killing two, including the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military media office.
That strike targeted four senior Islamic Jihad members who Israel's military said were hiding in the building, including the information chief, Israel's military said. The others were described as key figures in military training, attack planning, long-range rocket operations and arms manufacturing within the same organization.
"We targeted only the second floor, which is where the senior terrorists were," the IDF said on Twitter, adding that reporters had been used as human shields. "The rest of the building was unharmed. Direct hit confirmed."
Calls for a truce came on the heels of the single deadliest attack -- an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday that left a family of 10 dead within a building's broken concrete and mangled metal.
Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military arm, called it a "massacre committed by Israeli occupation" on Twitter.
The Israeli airstrike targeted Yehya Bayaa, "a senior Hamas member," said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, the Israel Defense Forces' chief spokeswoman. The IDF alleges Bayaa is one of the leaders of a Hamas rocket-launching unit.
As it's happening: CNN reports on the ground
The building hit was a known hiding place for Bayaa -- though not his home, as was reported earlier -- Leibovich said. Initially, the IDF reported it killed Bayaa in the attack. But late Sunday, Leibovich said she did not know for sure whether Bayaa had been killed.
Israeli military Capt. Eytan Muchman added Monday that, "very regrettably," the Dallo family was inside the building. Regev later told CNN's Anderson Cooper, "Obviously, it was a foul-up" -- saying that while Israel doesn't know exactly what happened and believes Hamas is using civilians as human shields, it is "a failure" every time an innocent bystander is killed.
That same day, hundreds gathered at the al-Isra mosque for a funeral of some family members killed, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported.
The firing of rockets before and after the funeral didn't deter some mourners.
"Revenge, revenge," they chanted.
Talking Monday night with CNN's Piers Morgan, Peres insisted Israel has nothing against people in Gaza or Muslims, in general. He said his country's aim -- and the only reason it launched its military offensive -- is to keep its own citizens safe.
"We don't hate them. We don't try to get any glories," the Israeli president said. "We want to live in peace."
Copyright 2012 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Just seven months ago we were outlining the inevitability of crowd-invested placemaking. Since then, the first crowd-investing platform for real estate development, Fundrise has not only launched, but already crowd-invested in four development projects, with commitments for $3 million in the first three projects. The fourth project attracted over half a million dollars in interest in the first two hours. The four developments are all related to renovations of under-utilized infill buildings in Washington DC, certainly a model of positive investment in any community.
Following those investments, the founders of Fundrise established a real estate development entity, Rise Development. In January 2013, Rise Development won an RFP over four other firms to utilize Fundrise in capitalizing a 10,000 s.f. urban redevelopment project. They also plan to use an idea-based crowdsourcing tool, known as Popularise, created by the same owners as Fundrise, to involve the community in the project’s development. How triple bottom line this project will be remains to be seen, as Popularise has also been used as a tool to crowdsource chain tenants in a strip mall anchored by Wal-Mart, obviously not an example of triple-bottom-line development.
The important thing to remember is that the more the community is involved in the decision making, and the more people are allowed to become local real estate investors, the greater the potential to invest in the kinds of places people actually want. A case in point is the Teach for America initiative to develop a non-profit campus with attainably-priced housing. The Fundrise team, based in DC, is currently assisting the lauded nonprofit find a place to develop at least 30,000 s.f. of office space and 100 housing units for its teachers to rent, with the goal of crowd-investing the development. Now that’s as triple bottom line as it gets.
Where will this all lead? Once the JOBS Act passed by Congress in April 2012 is written into finance law by the SEC, expect to see crowd-investment of real estate development start to become mainstream by the end of this year.
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01/02/13 - ABC News - AfroCuban Priests Prescribe Santeria
A body of top Afro-Cuban priests recommended Wednesday that Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez seek their help as he recovers from his fourth
recent cancer-related surgery.
In their annual New Year's forecast known as the "Letter of the Year," the
Santeria priests, or "babalawo," expressed hope that Chavez would ask for
their assistance in getting well.
"I hope, God willing, that he decides to knock on the door of a Cuban
priest and that God will allow for the possibility of this individual to
do something for him," said Lazaro Cuesta, one of the "babalawo."
"Whichever house he knocks upon, I expect he will receive the help he
requires," Cuesta said.
He said priests had not performed a ceremony in Chavez's name, because
they only do so if asked.
Chavez has been convalescing in Cuba since his operation last month for an
undisclosed cancer. The secrecy surrounding the precise nature of his
ailment and treatment has led to speculation about his health, which
Venezuelan officials characterize as "delicate."
Santeria, a blend of Roman Catholicism and the African Yoruba faith, is
followed by many in Cuba, where about a third of the island's 11.2 million
people are of African descent. Each year thousands look for the priests'
"Letter," which is obtained in a ceremony in October and released around
the new year.
In their message for 2013, the priests predicted mass discontent and
social uprisings if nations do not "change their ways" and help those less
"If the different governments of the world ... do not seek an equilibrium
and some comprehension in terms of this subject, it is possible that
things could end in a strong conflict," Cuesta said.
The priests have a mixed track record despite keeping their predictions
Last year they warned that the world could see more earthquakes. But after
devastating temblors in 2010 (Haiti) and 2011 (Japan), the Earth's
tectonic faults were relatively gentle to humankind in 2012, killing just
768 people around the globe - far below the 342,000 quake deaths during
the previous two years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
However, the priests did predict correctly that the world would not end in
apocalypse upon the conclusion of a Mayan calendar cycle on Dec. 21, 2012.
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Winooski is Still Shopping for a Grocery Store
It takes about 20 minutes to walk uphill from the Winooski traffic circle to the Shaw’s supermarket in Colchester. That task might not sound too onerous, but the city’s sidewalk stops before it reaches the Interstate 89 overpass. Following Route 7 under the overpass is a treacherous endeavor, with only two-and-a-half feet between walkers — or bicyclists — and oncoming cars. Yet, because Shaw’s is the only supermarket near Winooski — where at least 44 percent of residents live more than a mile from a grocery store, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — there’s a well-worn footpath in the weeds just past the dangerous 89 intersection.
“Quite a few customers comment that they make the walk,” says Kim Brown, assistant vice president of financial services at the People’s United Bank branch located inside Shaw’s. “I live a half-mile away and would love to walk, but I will not cross under the intersection.”
Those who do brave the trip have little choice. Since both the IGA downtown and the Grand Union on Malletts Bay Avenue closed in the late 1990s, the Onion City has been without a grocery store — even as it has gained new condos, restaurants and an ever-growing, diverse population. Winooski has a coffee shop, nightclub, tattoo business, gym, gallery and two pho eateries, but it still lacks a single spot to purchase milk, bread, meat and veggies together, the farmers market notwithstanding.
“One of the most heartbreaking things in this town is the number of people who live here and don’t have cars and don’t have access to healthy food,” says Jodi Harrington, a longtime resident and former city councilor who has been involved in various efforts to attract a grocery store since she moved to Winooski in 1992. “It’s been very frustrating.”
Winooski’s supermarket vacuum was spotlighted last fall, when City Market’s board of trustees considered expansion into the burg, then turned its attention to another site that better fit its goals. The resulting public disappointment seems to have energized some of the city’s officials, both new and old, who are thinking out of the box to solve the issue.
“One of the things we’ve heard is that Winooski doesn’t fit the traditional mold,” says Sarah Robinson, who was elected to the city council in 2010. She thinks the city’s perceived problems — such as extreme density and lack of parking — could give rise to a new breed of market. “We’re not going to get a Shaw’s in downtown Winooski,” Robinson says. “We’re going to have to look at something that’s new and innovative and a little bit of a risk, something that may not exist anywhere else in the state of Vermont.”
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture classified Winooski and Burlington’s Old North End as “food deserts,” or low-income areas where a substantial number of residents have “low access to a supermarket or grocery store.” Vermont’s only other food deserts are in the Northeast Kingdom.
What city residents currently do have is a smattering of convenience stores with various food options. At Winooski Falls Market, a convenience store and deli in Keen’s Crossing, nearby employees and residents can grab a sandwich, salad, a gallon of milk, frozen chicken breasts, flour or Fiddle Faddle. But the only fresh produce on hand are a few bananas, apples and lemons.
The handful of ethnic food markets in town generally have a richer selection. On a recent visit, Namaste Asian Market on Main Street offered okra, sugar-snap peas, tomatoes, yams, duck eggs and a refrigerator full of mustard greens.
“To make a meal here [in Winooski], you really need to play piecemeal,” says Seth Leonard, a Winooski resident and new member of the Winooski Community Partnership, a volunteer, nonprofit organization seeking to revitalize downtown.
The longtime lack of a supermarket has motivated city officials to court various vendors over the years, including City Market. The leadership of the Burlington co-op was interested in a Winooski satellite as early as 2005, according to Harrington, who was City Market’s marketing manager when urban-development construction was beginning in Winooski. At the time, the developers of Keen’s Crossing included a roughly 4500-square-foot, ground-floor space inside the complex, intending it as an eventual grocery store.
Though that space is striking, it lacks a few key features — significantly, a loading dock. And so it remains vacant, other than the small portion occupied by the Winooski Falls Market, which opened two years ago.
When City Market announced plans last fall to build a second store, three potential sites were mentioned: Burlington’s South End, the Old North End and Winooski.
Representatives from City Market had already looked at the empty Keen’s Crossing space and found it inadequate to their needs. They’ve also looked at various other locations in town, but so far none has had the accessibility, parking or affordability to support City Market’s most immediate goal — to ease congestion at its Burlington store.
City Market’s recent study showed that better economic pastures — and more parking — lie elsewhere. “Our market study came back and said we should concentrate on the Pine Street area [in the South End],” says general manager Clem Nilan. While popular support for a Winooski market is high, residents of the other two locations are clamoring for their own City Market, too, he adds. Expanding into an area solely as a “goodwill exercise” might not fly with a bank or with the co-op’s members. “A lot of factors go into deciding this,” Nilan says. “A large project of this nature needs to take into account fiscal responsibility as well as the needs of any community of which we’ll be a part.”
When it seemed clear that City Market wasn’t heading north, angst poured out in dozens of messages on Front Porch Forum. “The City Market expansion possibility was really exciting for a lot of folks in Winooski,” says City Councilor Robinson. “Now we’re trying to figure out where we go next. One thing we’re really clear about is, we don’t want another convenience store.”
That view is echoed by Leonard, who works at Opportunities Credit Union and sits on the economic-development committee of the Winooski Community Partnership. (“The city of Winooski recently folded the job of community development director into a broader, more service-based position, so the WCP has taken up some of the slack with regard to economic development.”) The partnership is battling “the negative perception of Winooski [as] not being a great shopping base for a health-foods market of some kind, not being wealthy enough to support organic food,” he says. “Tens of thousands of cars pass through our city limits every day. We had $55,000 in sales at our farmers market [last season].”
Though Nilan points out that Winooski is not completely out of the running for an eventual store, Leonard and others are plunging ahead with their explorations. “There’s a bunch of people not waiting around for [City Market],” he says. “People need access to fresh food, and we can’t force a board of trustees to make a decision. It’s in all of our interests to solve this serious food and socioeconomic crisis. There is a human side to this,” Leonard adds.
In addition to identifying sites for a permanent market — for instance, the city owns a lot adjacent to the Champlain Mill that might be ideal — the city and its activists have been looking to other models around the state, as well as to urban innovations such as mobile vendors. “If we have to get all guerrilla about it, at least that’s a possibility,” Leonard says.
He has been working closely with a family that owns both a Fairfax farm and a vacant lot in Winooski, and says the farmers are poised to set up a produce stand in the city this summer, “three or four days a week.”
Seth Gillim, who moved to Winooski in 2010 with his family and serves as chair of the city’s planning commission, says it is important to embrace Winooski’s differences and challenges as opportunities. “The grocery that Winooski gets will probably be the first of its kind in Vermont. It’s not going to be a 30,000-square-foot [store] like City Market; it will probably be 8000 to 15,000 square feet and will cater to a variety of income groups and tastes,” Gillim predicts. “It just takes the right entrepreneur who is passionate about Winooski. This isn’t a desire of ours — it’s a need. We need somewhere to buy milk, dinner and some diapers for our kids.”
Winooski Mayor Michael O’Brien remembers when his mother shopped for groceries at Winooski’s IGA, which was sacrificed in the latest round of urban development. Though he says the city has talked to “several people” over the years about opening a market — to no avail — O’Brien sounds optimistic that the forward momentum and imaginative thinking of the new city council and community partnership will reverse Winooski’s poor grocery fortunes. “It’s a great opportunity for a market, and we’re looking at a flexible approach with a product mix and possibly multiple vendors,” O’Brien says. “Though, as of yet, there’s really nothing on the table.”
An eventual Winooski market might resemble those common in more urban areas. “Maybe what the future holds isn’t a grocery store per se, but maybe we become the best town in terms of corner markets,” Gillim speculates. “Maybe the future doesn’t look that different than the past.”
However it will look, Robinson hopes the city will have its market within three years. Leonard agrees. “From a social and political perspective, it is time for us to move on. We need to look inward for ideas and vision that will solve the problem,” he says. “Not that we won’t be recruiting someone from the outside.”
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Around TownOF OTTERS AND MEN ... The Palo Alto City Council had plenty on its plate this week, including changes to water and trash rates and the increasingly irksome topic of housing projections. But first, the sea otters. Yes, sea otters. In case you missed the Monday meeting, this week is Sea Otter Awareness Week. To commemorate the event, Councilwoman Gail Price read into the record an official resolution honoring sea otters as "a symbol of wilderness and an integral part of California's natural ecosystem." John Aikin, director of the Junior Museum and Zoo, noted that sea otters don't actually live in Palo Alto, but the city's open space preserves protect the near-shore habitat and, in doing so, support the otter population. "We are the nurseries that nurture that environment," Aikin said. "Working with rest of the communities in California to protect the sea otters is a good thing to do."
WHAT'S IN A NAME? ... If a Palo Alto police officer gets arrested, should the Police Department be required to release the person's name? That's the question that the city's independent police Auditor Michael Gennaco has been considering in recent months. His conclusion? Yes. The debate was triggered by a 2009 incident in which an off-duty officer rolled over his vehicle on the highway and was arrested for driving under the influence. The department had initially refused to disclose his name but confirmed his identity more than a year later (the officer, Eric Bulatao, paid a fine, was placed on probation and ultimately returned to the force). This week, Gennaco issued a report that recommends that the city adopt a policy for releasing names of officers who are arrested. Under his proposal, the city would be required to make "the fact of the arrest and the identity of Department members" known to the public. If the police chief, the city manager, the city attorney or the district attorney were to object to the disclosure, the "fact and reasons for the objection should be documented" under the proposed policy. If the officer were to be arrested by another law-enforcement agency and the city were to get a request to identify the person arrested, the Palo Alto police chief would inform the arresting agency of the request. "We believe the above draft policy recognizes the public's right to know when PAPD members arrest one of their own, which right should only be circumscribed for countervailing compelling reasons," Gennaco wrote.
END OF AN ERA ... When Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, concludes his 12-year stint in Sacramento next year, his departure will spell an end to a decade-long tradition that turns citizens in his district into lawmakers. Simitian's "There Oughta Be A Law" contest, which made its debut in 2001, allows residents to pitch ideas for new legislation. So far, 18 ideas have become laws, including, most recently, a proposal by Palo Alto police officers to ban sales of certain intoxicating cough syrups to minors. On Thursday, as Simitian kicked off the final contest, he invited his constituents in the 16th District to get involved. "My district is home to some of the most well-educated and civically engaged Californians," Simitian said in a statement. "It would be a shame not to put their good ideas to use." Residents can contribute their entries for the final contest at www.senatorsimitian.com/oughta.
HUZZAHS FOR HUMANITARIANS ... This Saturday, three civic leaders will be honored by the nonprofit Hidden Villa of Los Altos Hills, including Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa and Susan Ford Dorsey, a local leader in philanthropy. The third honoree is Norman Mineta, former U.S. secretary of commerce and secretary of education. Espinosa is the director of corporate citizenship at Microsoft and previously worked in the Clinton White House and at the U.S. Justice Department. He also worked as director of global philanthropy for Hewlett-Packard and oversaw the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in nonprofit organizations and schools around the world, according to a statement from Hidden Villa. Ford Dorsey, president of Sand Hill Foundation, serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations including Menlo School, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Monterey Bay Aquarium. The Josephine and Frank Duveneck Humanitarian Awards recognize inspirational leaders who exemplify the organization's mission and values through their environmental, social and educational activism. Among the organization's programs are a 66-year-old multi-cultural summer camp; environmental education for children; a community-supported agriculture program; and the country's oldest continuously operating hostel.
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By Robert Evans
GENEVA (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Laureate and anti-landmine campaigner Jody Williams called on the United States on Monday to join a worldwide pact banning the weapons and leave Russia and China among the few world powers who still reject it.
Williams, who in 1991 launched the grassroots drive which brought the Mine Ban Treaty into existence six years later, was speaking at a news conference before a week-long meeting of the 160 signatory countries to discuss how to improve the accord.
"Since (Barack) Obama has been re-elected as president, we are hoping that the United States will now put in writing what it is doing in practice," said Williams, noting that no U.S. landmines had been produced or deployed since the early 1990s.
"If it is doing it already, why not ratify the treaty?" asked Williams, a U.S. citizen who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work as head of the Geneva-based International Campaign to Band Landmines (ICBL).
This week's gathering at the United Nations European headquarters is formally a 15-year review of the pact which bans the production, deployment and export of landmines and provides for helping victims.
It obliges signatory states to destroy stock piles and clear mines on their territory, even if deployed by other countries during conflicts, and offers them financial support for this costly and often dangerous effort.
Since 122 states joined the accord when it was opened for signatures in 1997 in Ottawa, nearly 40 more have come in, including three over the past 12 years, taking the total to 160, or more than four fifths of U.N. members.
Poland is due to announce its ratification during the week-long meeting, a development that brings all members of the 27-nation European Union as well as the entire NATO alliance, apart from the United States, under the treaty umbrella.
When explaining past decisions to stay outside the pact, Washington has said it could not meet its national defense needs or security commitments to allies if it signed.
The Obama administration has indicated that it is reviewing its position and has sent an observer delegation to this week's meeting. U.S. officials say their country has already taken a strong lead in addressing humanitarian issues linked to mines.
They say the United States is the largest single contributor to funds for helping victims of the weapon, a fact confirmed by the ICBL, and has contributed over $2 billion in aid across 90 countries for the destruction of conventional weapons.
But there has been no sign from Russia or China that they may be reconsidering their stance. Both say they need the weapon to protect long land borders.
The ICBL says only India, Myanmar, Pakistan and South Korea -- all with sensitive frontiers -- are known to be actively producing mines, which were killing or injuring 12 people a day worldwide on average during 2011.
Last week the ICBL's annual Landmine Monitor said that this year only Syria had deployed the weapons, laying them along its borders with Lebanon and Turkey as it battles insurgents seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.
(Reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)
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The Chyron Corporation develops and manufactures on-screen graphics for the broadcast industry. The company was founded in 1966 by Francis Mechner and the late Eugene Leonard. The company's original name was Digitronics. They produced the first electronic scoreboard for the former Roosevelt Raceway
harness track in Garden City, New York.
In the early 1970s, the name was changed to Systems Resources Corporation and was located in Plainview, NY only a few miles from the company's present location in Melville. They began manufacturing dot-matrix (5x7) character generators (CG) for airport arrival and departure time displays. They also began manufacturing a clean-looking fixed-font (rom based) CG sold as the Chiron I. It featured the ability to record and retrieve lower thirds and full page text displays for news departments of TV stations as an alternative to art cards, slides or scrolling black felt.
As the newly developed IBM
and Memorex 8" floppy disk drives were not yet available for OEM purchase, the company built their own multi-track magnetic storage device, the VidiLoop, based on a two foot loop of computer tape in a thick clear plastic housing.
The Chiron II was an ambitious CG project that featured up to six loadable fonts (typefaces) with, for the time, very high video resolution. The display circuits were running so fast (27ns) that the fastest ICs available were used and had to be hand selected during manufacture as not all samples were up to par. It was also their first unit to incorporate a 16-bit mini-computer known as the DataMate-70. That processor's code base was used in the Chyron IV and 4100 series systems, which were the work horses of the mobile sports graphics industry from the late 1970s through most of the 1980s. Programs and fonts were loaded from loop or disk into computer style magnetic core memory. As the font data access needed to be done quicker than a single core memory could achieve, four core boards were used in parallel to provide faster access. It was also the first CG that had non-monospaced fonts with adjustable inter-row and inter-character spacing.
All of that capability came at a cost too dear for many small market TV stations, and so a spin-off of a project for NBC became the Chiron III (later IIIB); a less capable system that was adequate for many TV news departments was developed and sold. It became the first mobile graphics systems of ABC Sports under Roone Arledge. It was he who pushed the increased use of graphics in sports to what it is today; a significant portion of live sports entertainment. The III's success provided the impetus for the Chyron IV, which was a modernized and reduced package size Chyron II, suitable for mobile use. It quickly replaced the Chyron IIIs as the dominant sports graphics system.
Around 1975 there was an added investor who would provide much needed capital. The reorganization plan included a name change to capitalize on the product's name recognition. The name Chiron was already registered in California, so by changing the i to a y they were able to keep the familiar sounding name and became initially Chyron Telesystems and later still Chyron, Corporation.Close Up of Vignette
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Able to scare up a few bucks?
Just in time for Halloween, the owners of the home made famous in the spooky 1970s film "The Amityville Horror" are dramatically slashing the asking price on their Toms River, New Jersey, colonial, which was used for exteriors in the film.
The decision wasn't triggered by demonic activity, however. Apparently, another frightening "D" word was to blame.
"My husband and I are getting a divorce," said Odalys Fragoso, who bought the house with her husband Jose Fragoso in 2001. "It's not that the house is haunted or anything. We had wonderful times in that house."
The couple purchased the house for $795,000. Originally listed last year at $1.45 million, the four-bedroom, three-bath home is now going for $955,000 -- a bargain, according to the agent.
"If there were a curse on it, I wouldn't be in it," joked Donna Walesiewicz, the broker selling the 3,370-square-foot residence. "It is what it is, a nice old stately home."
It was also the perfect place for Hollywood producers, who used it as a double for the real Amityville house when shooting the 1979 movie. The film, based on Jay Anson's 1977 best-seller, featured buzzing flies, ghostly eyes, blood pouring from the walls and a satanic voice warning a visiting priest to "Get out!" The film starred James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Rod Steiger.
The story has its origins in the real-life tale of the Lutz family, who purchased a house in Long Island, New York, in December 1975. The Lutzes' reports of strange and horrific experiences became the heart of the book and film.
The "Amityville" franchise has since churned out an ample supply of sequels over the past 30 years, from a 3D version to a 2005 vehicle for Ryan Reynolds.
Fragoso's waterfront homestead, built in 1920, is nowhere near the Lutzes' old haunt -- about 100 miles and a state line away -- and is anything but scary.
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No, 3 goldfish in a 50 gallon tank is NOT OVERSTOCKED
. You could keep 4-5 fishes in it without problems
However, cleaning out the whole system is very, very bad. You're constantly exposing your fish to ammonia, and that's most likely what killed your moor and what is about to kill your other fish. You need to buy a gravel vacuum and start cleaning the gravel with that, take out about 50% of water every week, your tank isn't very big, so it needs weekly water changes (any tank does, basically, except for monster tanks).
You should also buy a water test kit for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH and test it every single day. If you can't do it, ask the person who cares for your fish, and DO NOT LET THEM FEED THE FISH AT ALL. You're the only one who should do that when you're home, and only once, and only a small, small amount or the tank will get polluted with ammonia again.
You need to let the system cycle, the best way to do that, is by monitoring the water quality and changing the water when the waste is in too high concentrations, ammonia for instance is very harmful in small concentrations, so I'd change it as soon as it reaches 0.5ppm. And again, ONLY 50% of the water!!
Buy some beneficial bacteria, it's usually sold in all pet shops, so just look for one that fits you
When I cycled my 83 gal, I used "fluid bio filter media" by Easylife, and my tank cycled in two weeks. This conditioner will also protect and strengthen your fish, and you don't need to use any other while you use this. There is also Stability by Seachem that I know people on this forum have also used successfully.
During the cycling process, you'll notice the ammonia slowly disappearing and nitrite showing up, this is still toxic, but not as dangerous as ammonia, so keep up with the water testing and water changes! After the nitrite go away, nitrates will show up, and these will gradually increase constantly and needs to be controlled with weekly water changes
After the tank has cycled, you should test the water weekly before water changes, and add beneficial bacteria to keep the ecology in the tank healthy and working
Your fish will probably perk up once you start changing the water, so if you can't buy the test kit and beneficial bacteria NOW, you can still change 40-50% of the water every second day until you're able to. BUT YOU CANNOT SKIP IT AND RELY ON WATER CHANGING ONLY!!!
So, good luck now, and keep us updated! Ask if you have any questions
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Montreal-based artist Maskull Lasserre (previously) recently completed a new body of work for an exhibition titled Fable at Centre Space gallery in Toronto that ran through January 19th. Lasserre is known for his incredible ability to carve anatomical forms of animals, people, insects and other forms out of inanimate objects such as doors, tables, pianos, and even instruments. In a two part interview with Liana Voia (part 1, part 2) the artist discusses the intent behind his work:
When the remnants of life are imposed on an object, and that’s true especially with the carving work that I do, it infers a past history or a previous life that had been lived, so again where people see my work as macabre, I often see it as hopeful, as the remnants of a life. Despite the fact that the life has ended, at least that life had a beginning and middle as well, so often by imparting these bodily elements to inanimate objects it reclaims or reanimates them in a virtual way.
The objects in Fable included a crow skeleton carved into a chair and axe, a vulture skull carved into two hand planes, a human ear carved into a violin and case, a rat carved into a door and rolling pin, and an incredible rhinoceros beetle taking flight from within an upright piano. You can learn more over on Center Space.
Outliers is an ongoing project by artist Maskull Lasserre (previously here and here) where shoes are outfitted with specially carved rubber soles meant to mimic the footprints of moose, Kodiak bears, deer, rabbits and other animals. The shoes are then worn in the snow leaving the impression to unsuspecting passersby that wildlife has wandered into urban areas including Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, and New York. See much more on his website. (via laughing squid)
Behold the breathtaking sculptural work of Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre who deftly extracts the most delicate anatomical forms of humans and animals from common objects. Lasserre was born 1978 in Calgary, Alberta and has lived in South Africa and Ottawa and now works and lives in Montreal. Via his website:
Lasserre’s drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday and its associated structures of authority, class, and value. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected.
His snake skeleton axe entitled Secret Carpentry is one of the most superb sculptural objects I’ve ever seen and don’t miss his work with computer software manuals, newspapers, coat hangers, and tree branches. Lasserre is currently part of a group exhibition at the Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (PFOAC) in Montreal through August 6, followed by a solo show in the same space starting in November.
I just spotted this new work-in-progress by one of my favorite artists Maskull Lasserre (previously). Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) is nearly perfect rendering of a human skull from a thick stack of outdated computer manuals. Looking at these particular titles I can’t help but think these books have been called to a much higher purpose.
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Salem, Oregon 97301
Willamette's financial aid process is merit-driven. The quality of a student's academic record influences the amount of scholarship and grant money that is included in his or her financial award. This means that strong students will receive scholarship recognition from us whether or not they qualify for need-based financial aid. The quality of one's high school curriculum, grades in college preparatory subjects and test scores will have the greatest effect on the amount of merit-based institutional dollars awarded.
For students with demonstrated financial need, the percentage of need that is met with "gift-aid" (scholarships and grants from all sources) will also reflect the students' academic standing within our admitted applicant pool. In other words, the stronger the student, the greater the scholarship award is likely to be.
Many of the same characteristics that we consider important in the admission process for building a talented and broadly diverse entering class also receive consideration in the financial aid process. Specifically, Willamette scholarship will recognize academic achievement, leadership, and outstanding talent in music, theatre or forensics.
Although Willamette has a significant financial aid budget, we are not able to fully meet 100% of the demonstrated financial need of all admitted students. As mentioned above, our scholarship resources are directed toward the strongest students in our applicant pool. We build our need-based financial aid packages around the student's merit scholarship (if he or she qualified), followed by need-based grants, student loans and work-study.
Willamette uses the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as the primary financial aid application. The FAFSA uses a federal formula that calculates the expected family contribution (EFC) for each applicant. When Willamette receives your FAFSA information we not only learn about your EFC, we learn about your eligibility for government and University need-based funds. The EFC is calculated by considering a family's financial strength, including income and assets. Other factors that are considered include the number of family members and the number of family members in college. Students with an EFC that is less than Willamette's costs are qualified for need-based financial aid.
In addition to merit-based scholarships, many students are eligible for additional need-based funds from University, federal or state sources. Applicants who do not qualify for merit-based scholarships may be eligible for need-based awards from these same sources.
Willamette uses the Free Application for Federal Student Aids (FAFSA) to calculate the expected family contribution (EFC) for each applicant and to determine eligibility for government and University need-based funds. For students with an EFC that is less than Willamette's costs, financial need exists, and the student is eligible for need-based financial aid. Here's a look at some of the Willamette University, state and federal sources of need-based aid:
Willamette University Grant and Jason Lee Award: Awarded by Willamette University to students who demonstrate academic potential, and financial need as determined by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Federal Pell Grant: Awarded by the federal government to students with the lowest Expected Family Contributions (EFC).
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant: Awarded to students with exceptional financial need—that is, those with the lowest family contributions who also receive Federal Pell Grants.
Oregon Opportunity Grant: Awarded to residents of Oregon based strictly on family size, income, and the number of family members attending college.
In addition to the strictly academic scholarships mentioned above, Willamette also offers some scholarships in particular areas of co-curricular talent or involvement. Talent Scholarships, which are offered in the areas of music, theatre, and forensics, require auditions and/or special recommendation in order to be considered. The Mark O. Hatfield Scholarship is offered in recognition of outstanding commitment to public service, and requires the completion of a separate application form.
Other merit-based scholarships are awarded in partnership with community organizations or in recognition of nationally competitive scholar designations. Included among thee are:
To renew need-based financial assistance (including institutional grants) in subsequent academic years, a student must submit the FAFSA by March 1. Students who file their renewal FAFSAs late risk being placed on a wait list for financial aid and possibly losing some or all of their University grant or scholarship funds.
First-year students entering Willamette are eligible for eight semesters of need-based financial aid and eight semesters of merit-based aid, as long as the student maintains full-time student status (minimum three credits each semester) and makes satisfactory academic progress as determined by the Academic Status Committee of the University. All academic merit-based scholarships have specific renewal criteria that are outlined in the initial written confirmation of the award sent to the student. In the rare instance of special circumstances that make an additional semester of need-basded financial aid necessary for a student to graduate, the students may appeal for one additional semester of need-based funding.
The amount of a student's merit-based scholarship award will be renewed annually as long as the appropriate GPA requirement is met. Need-based aid eligibility is re-evaluated annually, based on FAFSA data and other documentation as required by the Office of Financial Aid. The amount of Willamette University need-based grant aid may vary with changes in student and family income and assets. Assuming there are no significant changes in the family's financial situation, and assuming that the student meets the published application deadlines, the amount of need-based grant aid that a student receives should remain consistent each year.
Students transferring to Willamette will be notified by the University regarding the number of semesters of merit and need-based aid eligibility once the Office of the Registrar has evaluted which credits will transfer.
Students placed on academic probation by the Academic Status Committee are ineligible for financial aid. Appeals to this policy will be reviewed by the Director of Financial Aid.
Federal and state awards are contingent upon the availability of governmental funding. Willamette University does not guarantee replacement of reduced governmental aid.
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the same camera used by Roger Patterson for the PGF.
LATE MARCH 2012 EDITION
Before the next season of Bluff Creek adventures begin, I thought I'd better gather up some of the last loose ends from the previous season's efforts. Season Two of the BLUFF CREEK FILM SITE PROJECT is now completed (view the last episodes below), and we are working on plans for a major pow-wow of new investigations once the area up there is open again. Snow on the ridges and locked road gates usually keep us out until late June, and then lock us out again in late October. Loads of new information has poured in since we proved and verified the PGF site location, some of it very odd and confounding aspects of the Bluff Creek history. We've been told that Bob Heironimus was in Willow Creek in 1965, which is just too odd to blog about without further data. The investigation continues....
|The K-100 with the three-lens front turret. Patterson had the single-lens setup.|
|Ahm a gonna film me one a dem sum-bucks!|
|Little Bigfoot walks behind the K-100.|
|Interior of the camera. Click to Enlarge.|
Part 64. Check it out!
Part 66. Check it out!
Robert and Steven: some questions for a write up in the Bigfoot Times newsletter.
|Perez, 2007, Willow Creek. Photo by Streufert|
The many researchers who have made the varied claims of “their own” filmsite location seem to have suffered either the confusion of faded memories, or else a certain arrogance that their own “information” and “knowledge” were sufficient, despite a nearly total lack of verification and validation. Those like MK simply made up their own location, with no substantiation whatsoever save that the spot “felt” right to them, and they had heard some snippet or rumor that they felt must be accurate. We found, in trying to investigate this stuff, that there were MANY such snippets, and NONE of them could prove anything. What we saw was an oral history disintegrating into legend. We sought to correct that, and it truly was not easy to do. We sought to establish truth and reality, a real history, which are rare things in the field of Bigfooting, I’m sorry to say.
I have to say that the biggest enemy in this endeavor has been the presupposition of unfounded claims made by some researchers who never even bothered with proof and documentation. Just saying something is so is never enough. As in the case of MK, one false conception can lead to a thousand others following. Attention-getting? YES. It seems to be what drives Bigfooting the most, as we generally can’t seem to produce very good evidence of the phenomenon it give more weight to individual declarations, egotism, and imaginary and unsubstantiated claims to truth without real evidence. Everyone in this likes to call themselves “researchers,” but it is stunning how few of them actually bother to document and really study anything.
PEREZ: 7) In the blog site, it is stated, "Though the proof is not officially final..." Who makes it official?
ROBERT: Daniel--Steven, Rowdy and I had spent approximately 60 man hours of actual work time on the film site gridding the gravel bar for the map during October, 2011. This included compass work, some brush clearing, tree boring (determining ages of trees), gridding and flagging the site with north/south (Y) and east/west (X) axis points and lines, also drawing in the stumps, logs, trees, debris piles and root balls (artifacts) and double-checking our data on the ground (searching/walking/confirming/correcting). See the hourly breakdown by researcher below.
October 22 nd. 2011 total combined 22.5 hours
Robert - 7.5 hours
Steven - 7.5 hours
Rowdy - 7.5 hours
October 23 rd. 2011 total combined 22.5 hours
Robert - 7.5 hours
Steven - 7.5 hours
Rowdy - 7.5 hours
October 30th 2011 total combined 9 hours.
Robert - 5.5 hours
Steven - 3.5 hours
October 31st 2011 total combined 6 hours.
Robert - 6 hours
Approximately 6 + 9 + 22.5 + 22.5 = 60 hours of field work and another few hours transferring the data to the final map.
|The lower bend and root balls at PGF site area.|
Photo by Steven Streufert
As a park ranger, spending time in the forest is my profession. Being able to read my surroundings can be an essential skill. Though not all park rangers live and work in forests, I do. I spend a considerable amount of time in the outdoors and have taken it upon myself to feel more comfortable in them. I have also tried to better understand my home area.
Back to the film site.... I realize a lot of change can happen on a gravel bar in 44 years, but I also realize that certain landscape features like trees, stumps and logs will take time to totally disappear. Much of that is dependent on insects, fungi, the weather, topography and other factors. Nature has its way of making sure of that. If there were once big trees, then there should be the remains of either the big trees themselves or stumps, and some stumps can hang around for a good bit of time. If the downed logs and stumps were no longer visible, then there should be debris pile remains in their place, possibly in the form of logs and stumps. Stumps last longer than most logs. Different tree species break down faster than others. As an example, alders and cottonwoods will break down faster than firs. Determining the age of trees on the floodplain could also help us see the forest despite the 40-year-old newer trees. For the most part, the positions of the artifacts (logs, stumps, trees) shouldn’t change unless they were washed away, buried or hauled away by salvage loggers. All we needed were clear pictures, a good aerial view of the P.G. Film Site (compliments of Rene Dahinden's 1971 overview) to match some artifacts, as well as patience and time. With the photographs in hand, and a little determination, we were bound to find something. As it was, we did find something... a whole lot of somethings that looked an awful lot like the Rene 1971 overview.
PEREZ: 10) The big tree, what is the present diameter and circumference of it? And is it in your opinion still the largest tree in that immediate vicinity?
PEREZ: 14) Do you think you ruffled feathers with discounting Murphy's location and his physical filmsite model?
PEREZ: Anyway, those are my questions. Should you have additional comments, just jot them down as I would like to go to press with this soon. Best, Daniel Perez
|Daniels 2007 table at the Willow Creek PGF 40th Celebration Conference.|
There in the middle is Daniel's K-100 Kodak movie camera, very similar to ours.
|James "Bobo" Fay signed this card for Bigfoot Books.|
Kids visiting the shop LOVE this thing, as they love the Bobes.
And listen to a podcast episode from SAVAGE HENRY, a Humboldt humor magazine, to hear the "real" Bobo, complete with drinking games, here: Episode 10 of SHIT Talkin'.
Until next time, SEE YA!
ANGRY BIGFOOT SPEAKS!
No Me No Speak.
This blog is copyright and all that jazz, save for occasional small elements borrowed for "research" and information or satirical purposes only, 2007-2012, Bigfoot Books and Steven Streufert. Borrowings for non-commercial purposes will be tolerated without the revenge of Angry Bigfoot, if citation and a kindly web-link are given, preferably after contacting us and saying, Hello, like a normal person would before taking a cup of salt. No serious rip-offs of our material for vulgar commercial gain will be tolerated without major BF stomping action coming down on you, hu-man.
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DENVER — Looking to target multicultural consumers in today’s tech-savvy environment? If so, then you’ll be interested to know that, according to a recent study, African-Americans and Hispanics are adopting new shopping technologies at a faster rate than Caucasians.
According to the latest issue of "The Checkout," an ongoing shopper behavior study conducted by The Integer Group and M/A/R/C Research, African Americans and Hispanics are adopting new shopping technologies at a faster rate than Caucasians, with 18% of African-American shoppers and 16% of Hispanic shoppers using their mobile device to make purchases as compared with 10% of Caucasians.
African-American shoppers (21% versus 13% of Caucasian shoppers) use their phone to read product reviews and maintain shopping lists and Hispanic shoppers (20% versus 13% of Caucasian shoppers) use their mobile device to compare prices on products, according to the study. Despite smartphone penetration skewing lower among African-Americans and Hispanics than Caucasians, both are leading the charge by using mobile as a means to access the digital world of shopping aids.
"Basic mobile communication through SMS and mobile websites should be the points of entry. Mobile marketing to multicultural shoppers is a huge opportunity," stated Martin Ferro, senior account planner for Velocidad, a Hispanic promotional, retail and shopper marketing capability of The Integer Group.
Additional findings on mobile shopping from "The Checkout: "
Almost as many shoppers are using coupons from email and e-newsletters (49%) as they are from the Sunday paper (57%);
Men might be the traditional lovers of tech toys, but when it comes to using technology to enhance shopping, women are ahead of the curve; and
Having children in the household drives accelerated adoption of digital technologies to deliver shopping solutions for busy moms and dads.
"Digital shoppers are just shoppers," stated Ben Kennedy, group director of mobile marketing at Integer. "Digital shopping tools are illustrative of the continued blurring of the on- and offline spaces. Today's reality is that shoppers use whatever tools they have on hand to make them smarter, savvier shoppers."
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- Residential Market
- Light Commercial Market
- Commercial Market
- Indoor Air Quality
- Components & Accessories
- Residential Controls
- Commercial Controls
- Testing, Monitoring, Tools
- Services, Apps & Software
- Standards & Legislation
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Some might answer that in the case of coil failure, it’s cheaper for the owner to replace the coil that has failed rather than replacing two coils. That might seem acceptable for the owner initially, but it will cost more in the long run; the system will not run as efficiently as one in which the coils match. That’s especially true if the remaining coil is more than five years old.
Another problem is that mismatched coils can put additional stress on the cooling system, which may lead to premature failure. Then the owner could be looking at replacing the whole system, which probably isn’t going to make him happy. Installing matched condenser and evaporator coils makes sense, because customers will receive a reliable, efficient system that provides the highest level of comfort.
Losing EfficiencyA system that contains mismatched coils isn’t something that Pedro Portillo, president and lead service technician of ACU Air Heating and Air Conditioning, Conroe, Texas, likes to see.
“A system that is properly matched will operate at its fullest efficiency, providing the customer with a more comfortable environment at a lower operating cost,” he said. “If a system is not properly matched, customers are paying more than what they are getting — their electric bills are a lot higher.”
Portillo said that he sometimes sees contractors undersizing the condenser coil in order to get more efficiency out of the system. For example, if a house requires a 5-ton system, a contractor might install a 5-ton evaporator coil and a 4-ton condensing unit.
“According to some people, you do get a little bit more efficiency out of that. The problem I have seen out in the field is that the unit runs a lot longer, because it’s not able to keep up with the load. Then it becomes a real problem because the house is too big for that 4-ton condensing unit, so the homeowner isn’t getting the efficiency he or she is looking for,” said Portillo.
“Some contractors may use an undersized condenser unit to help reduce humidity,” he added. “The problem with doing so is that the condenser, in many cases, just isn’t large enough for the heat load the house produces. The condenser may lower the humidity, but it may not sufficiently cool the house for human comfort, or the unit will have to run for a prolonged period of time to cool the home. For these reasons, I disagree with the practice of installing an undersized condenser.”
Portillo said the best way to deal with humidity is to properly size the air conditioning system for the house. “Each system should be customized for the home in which it is to be installed. In some cases, it may be necessary to install a dehumidifier to help the air conditioning system reduce the humidity in the conditioned air. Also, a system which is properly sized will run more efficiently.”
Proper maintenance will improve the system’s ability to reduce humidity in the conditioned air. “The best way I can help my customers deal with humidity in their homes is by keeping their equipment in top operating condition by providing them with the best service and maintenance for their units: keeping the units properly charged with refrigerant, keeping the condenser and the evaporator coils clean, cleaning the drain lines, and properly sealing the airstream.”
Another reason experts cite for changing both coils if one fails is that today’s indoor coils are larger, which increases their efficiency. In addition, enhanced heat transfer surfaces such as grooved tubing and enhanced fin designs are utilized more often.
“If a system contains an older evaporator coil from a lower efficiency unit, it will not have enough heat absorption (or rejection for a heat pump) capability to generate the performance rating of the new condenser coil,” said Dan Arnold, director of Product Planning and Government Affairs, York International, Unitary Products Group, Wichita, Kan.
“In addition, the pressure drop through the expansion device, distributor tubes, and circuiting will not be optimized for the outdoor unit,” he said.
Arnold also pointed out that coils that are not optimized will not remove the amount of moisture they should, therefore sacrificing comfort as well as efficiency. Arnold added that heat pumps should never be mismatched, as an undersized indoor coil may not have enough internal volume to adequately handle the system charge in heating mode.
Potential ProblemsManufacturers want their coils to match mainly because this allows them to guarantee performance. Arnold stated that for an OEM of matched systems, the highest sales volume tested combination (HSVTC) must be tested, and the performance validated with a statistically significant number of systems tested.
“While we are allowed to computer simulate combinations other than the HSVTC, we actually test most matches in order to optimize system performance by determining the refrigerant charge and fixed-orifice size or TXV setting. This provides confidence to the end user that the system meets the published performance certified by ARI,” said Arnold.
If one coil is changed and its replacement is either smaller or larger than the remaining coil, the charge and expansion device may need to be adjusted in order to keep from flooding or starving the coil. In severe cases, a lack of superheat results in floodback to the compressor, which can cause compressor failure, noted Arnold.
He added that heat pumps should definitely have matched coils, because in the reverse-cycle mode the internal volume and heat transfer characteristics are critical. “Refrigerant floodback to the compressor, high-pressure lockouts due to undersized indoor coils, and problems due to differences in check valves on the indoor coils are all potential problems.”
In this business, the customer usually has the last word. Portillo said some of them just want him to fix what’s broken and that’s it. “I do advise them that they will get a lot more efficiency by replacing the condensing unit as well if the evaporator coil has failed. That’s especially true if the system is over seven years old. But everything comes down to money, and the customer is the one who makes the last decision.”
Portillo said that people are more educated about their cooling systems, especially in regards to efficiency, so more often than not, his customers will trust his judgment and replace everything if he suggests it. “All we do is advise the customers as well as we can, so they can make an informed decision. The way I personally look at it is the more my customers know about their equipment, the better the decision they can make.”
The ConsequencesFor those who read the manuals, manufacturers often place warnings in their literature that the company cannot be responsible for the performance of a mismatched system and that all combinations must appear in the ARI Directory of Certified Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps.
If that’s not enough to scare the installer into using a matched system, Arnold warns, “If a system is sold that will result in an SEER below the federal minimum of 10, then if it’s not an actual violation of the law, it is certainly against the spirit of the federal minimum energy efficiency standards passed by Congress in order to save energy for the benefit of the nation and the consumer.”
So the next time you’re tempted to replace one coil and not the other, or you want to undersize or oversize one coil, the consensus is: don’t do it. If one coil has failed, it’s probably only a matter of time before the other coil fails too. Then you will have to come back, open up the system, and charge the customer for additional labor and refrigerant recovery they already paid for the first time. That’s not going to make a good impression.
If the contractor’s goal is to leave the customer with a cooling system that is operating at peak performance, Portillo and Arnold suggest that the system’s condenser and evaporator coils should be matched perfectly.
Publication date: 02/24/2003
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CINNAMINSON - A group of abandoned rabbits went from homeless to homebound in two days thanks to the kindness of a township woman.
The Animal Welfare Association in Voorhees on Monday collected the bunnies from the home of Rose Ann Goins, the animal lover who took the creatures in last weekend after they were left in a storm drain near the Morgan Cemetery.
Goins' Purnell Avenue home was abuzz with activity as a news cameraman and shelter workers hovered over the two cages and carrier that held the hares, which ranged from babies to adults.
The rabbits had joined a household that already included a bichon frise named Sparky, a ferret, fish, hermit crabs, two finches, and an African grey parrot.
"Now my two daughters want rabbits, but it's worth it," said Goins, a stay-at-home mom to Kimberly, 14, and Genna, 9.
Save for some minor jealousy when Sparky's carrier became a temporary bunny quarters, the creatures and humans all got along fine, Goins said.
Kimberly named one of the white rabbits Britney Spears because the black markings around its eyes look like the singer's stage makeup. Goins dubbed another one Cadbury for its resemblance to the Easter candy mascot.
It all began Saturday night, when a neighbor found the rabbits.
"The neighbor called me because she knows I like animals. She said, 'There are like 20 rabbits, and hawks are circulating around them,' " Goins said.
Goins sprang into action, putting the word out on the Internet before deciding that the Animal Welfare Association would be the best option.
The organization has a dedicated rabbit section, which is a rarity, said Amy Burke, director of development for the shelter.
It's also a no-kill shelter, meaning the animals are euthanized only in the event of terminal illness but never for overcrowding, Burke said.
The shelter has a steady base of foster families to help with the overflow, she said.
The rabbits can be adopted for $50 each, or two for one if they've bonded. The fee includes spaying and neutering, which extend a rabbit's life and help keep the population down, Burke said. There's also an on-site veterinarian. For more information, contact the shelter at 856-424-2288 or www.awanj.org.
Burke said it's likely that the dumped rabbits came from the same set of parents, given their ability to multiply. A female rabbit can conceive 30 minutes after giving birth, she said.
"Rabbits breed very quickly, and the situation can get out of hand very fast for people," she said.
Cute baby rabbits often attract owners who aren't ready to take on the responsibility of bunny ownership, which Burke said involves a 10- to 12-year commitment, yearly vet checkups, and patience for litter-box training and a rabbit's chewing habit.
"Unfortunately, (dumping) is basically a death sentence because they're prey animals," she said.
In her 22 years in the neighborhood, Goins has secured adoptive families for many pets that had been left in the area, which she said is a dumping ground.
"It's very unfortunate," she said, "but at least they found homes."
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SANFORD — Voters will decide Tuesday on the direction Sanford will take in the near future when they decide whether or not to accept changes to Sanford’s charter as recommended by the Charter Commission.
In 2010, voters approved a referendum question to establish a charter commission to review the town’s charter and recommend changes or amendments that members felt were needed. The nine member commission began meeting in January 2011.
Over the next year and a half, the commission held 44 meetings, most of which were televised, two public hearings and a public forum, according to Charter Commission Chair Robert Stackpole.
The commission’s goals were to “develop a charter that thoroughly addresses the evolving needs of Sanford and positions Sanford to be the center of economic growth in York County.” Following a thorough review of the current charter, the commission brainstormed each article and discussed concerns and opportunities for improvement. The commission also sought input from citizens. The list of suggestions and ideas was prioritized and then narrowed down to ten focus areas and then consolidated to six focus areas.
Among those focus areas, according to an outline of the commission’s decision-making process, were the inefficiency of the current budget process, the declining number of town meeting members and an outdated government structure that is ineffective at promoting growth and lacks accountability.
Among the major changes being proposed by the charter commission is a recommendation that Sanford be incorporated as a “city” with a city council and an elected mayor. In 2006, a majority of voters voted in favor of incorporating Sanford as a city when the population reached 30,000. However, commission members pointed out that Sanford is the seventh largest municipality in Maine and that 12 “cities” in Maine have populations smaller than that of Sanford. Commission member Judy Gibbs pointed out at a Town Council meeting in March that an Internet search for cities in Maine would not include Sanford, but would include the City of Eastport that has a population of less than 1,500.
“Perception is everything,” Gibbs said, pointing out that Sanford is the hub and heart of York County and has all the services and amenities of a city. A city has more appeal to developers and would foster economic growth, she said.
Under the proposed changed, an elected mayor would be recognized as head of the City government for all ceremonial purposes and by the Governor for purposes of military law, but the Mayor would have no regular administrative or executive duties. The position would be roughly equivalent to the current town council chair. The proposed charter addresses the issue of the mayor’s duties and compensation.
The current finance committee of 11 members would be changed to a budget committee of seven members, to be appointed by the council and to include four members at large and three council members, under the proposed charter.
The proposed charter also eliminates Sanford’s current representative town meeting in favor of a budget validation process. All voters would have an opportunity to vote on the municipal and school budgets in a referendum vote, under the proposed change.
Sanford Charter Commission Chair Robert Stackpole said he has heard concerns that the elimination of Sanford’s annual town meeting would compromise the town’s system of checks and balances. However, he pointed out, a referendum vote on the municipal budget would provide those checks and balances.
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Finally! 38 years after George Carlin's comedy routine, "The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television", the eighth word has been born. The R-word stands for "Retard" which is now banned thanks to state house rallies in Massachusetts, Indiana and Ohio. Rallies included earnest do-gooders marching around with a dozen "differently abled", mentally challenged citizens who are no longer called retarded but were told they were offended by the use of it.
Thanks to the rally, you can hear the R-word shouted at least 900 times a day in middle school and high school hallways.
Welcome to banishment, "Retard"!
"The rainy spring retarded the growth of the lettuce and asparagus," observed Dad one Saturday morning.
"Dad!" gasped PC thug vegetarian daughter, "You're not allowed to say the R-word!"
"Heh, heh, heh, RETARDED!" laughed obnoxious little brother.
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Michael Bobelian, Contributor
I cover the Supreme Court, the law and its interplay with Wall Street
The DOJ’s filings in a federal court in New York describe emails, phone calls, and secret meetings – at swanky Manhattan restaurants to boot – among the publishers that, the government claims, led to a conspiracy to jack up the prices of e-books with Apple’s help. Even the late Steve Jobs makes an appearance in the government’s assertion of a conspiracy.
The case against the publishers (three of them have already settled) is full of irony on two fronts.
Had the publishers formed one giant publishing house through a series of mergers and acquisitions, this alternative-universe monopoly could have imposed higher e-book prices on Amazon without cozying up to Apple or partaking in an alleged conspiracy. In a way, the publishers are being punished for staying smaller and carrying less market power – presumably market characteristics antitrust enforcers welcome.
The second irony is equally paradoxical. Before the publishers instituted higher prices through their deal with Apple, Amazon controlled 90% of the e-book market. The allure of its fast-selling Kindle e-readers and the lack of viable competitors outside of the Nook (offered by Barnes & Noble) until the Apple iPad came onto the scene led to Amazon’s market dominance. Pricing its e-books significantly below its costs contributed to its near monopoly as well.
Such pricing schemes could be considered predatory under antitrust law. Yet, the DOJ did not bring such a case against Amazon. Nor did the agency try to curb Amazon’s monopolistic power over the e-book market at the height of the company’s dominance. Instead, the agency decided to pursue the less powerful publishers.
It’s not all the agency’s doing. Over the past three decades, the Supreme Court eviscerated large portions of antitrust law. These changes made it difficult to bring predatory action claims and shielded monopolistic behavior. The last big monopoly case, involving Microsoft, led to inconsequential changes at the software giant (its Windows operating system still controls 85% of the market) despite attempts to divide the company into smaller pieces.
All of this leads to a peculiar conclusion from an antitrust perspective: to face-off against a monopolist, a company shouldn’t bother trying to resist its overwhelming power by looking for a better business partner, as each of the publishers did with Apple. Instead, it should simply try to become one.
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Reduce Your Cost of Goods in Manufacturing
Date: 31 May 2012
Meet your Medical Device compliance plans
Date: 16 May 2012
Why OEE is typically the second step on the road to efficiency for bottling and packaging plants
It is generally acknowledged that the first step towards plant efficiency is to do the practical things, typically instigated by lean six sigma consultants. OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) is most effective when it is used to support, reinforce and further improve on this first step. However, there is sometimes a lack of understanding about its operation, objectives and outcomes, both generically and in an application specific context. Here, Richard Stone, General Manager of EmsPT, analyses the potential for the technique to be applied in bottling and filling plants.
Date: 02 May 2012
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November 3, 2012
By Charles Cuttone
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT IS KEY
Sermanni on youth soccer in the U.S.
Part of what U.S. Soccer was looking for in its new coach of the Women's National Team was someone who would get involved in and have input into youth soccer development, In hiring Tom Sermanni, the federation may have found that.
The affable Scotsman, who has several years experience working in the U.S. market in the Women's United Soccer League, already has some ideas on how player development in the U.S. needs to go.
"I think technical development is key," Sermanni said. "I think technical development in a youth player has to take priority over physical development. That doesn’t mean physical development gets completely ignored."
Though the U.S. has been the winningest team in the world over the past two decades, the knock on the squad of late has been that much of the world has caught up in terms of soccer ability, and that the U.S. need to improve the technical aspects of their game.
"When I speak to younger players and coaches, coaches usually say to younger players, ‘you have to train harder’," Sermanni explained. "What I believe for younger players what they need to do is practice better and practice as well as they can and practice on improving how they play soccer. How well they can dribble, how well they can pass, how well their touch is and how well their understanding of the game is, so rather than look at their training practices from a physical aspect, I think in youth development, looking at your training practices from a technical aspect and improving how you can actually play the game is most critical and it will continue to go that way.
"In the next generation of players, I think physical differences between teams is going to be null and void and therefore the technical differences and the ability to actually play and understand the game is going to become much more of critical focus."
Sermanni will take over the U.S. team officially on January 1, and he will work closely with Women's Technical Director April Heinrichs and with Women's Director of Development Jill Ellis.
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From a series of small annual meetings, the "New Voices on Primo Levi" symposium has grown to become one of the main international windows on the work of the Italian writer and scientist, held in collaboration with the New York University and the CUNY Graduate Center.
This year, in connection with the 90th Anniversary of Levi's birth, there are two important news: the collaboration with the recently born Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi in Turin, and the establishment of an annual concert featuring works on Primo Levi by contemporary composers.
On this special occasion Prof. Andrew Viterbi, scientist, inventor, educator, and philanthropist will open the symposium at the Center for Jewish History on October 25 with a personal reflection on Primo Levi, his cousin and friend.
The inaugural concert will feature the song cycle If This Is a Man, that the Israeli composer Tzvi Avni based on five poems by Primo Levi. The piece was initially composed for orchestra and soprano and has been recorded by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. That version premiered in New York in 1999 as part of the Interfaith Concert of Remembrance. The version for piano and soprano, featuring German virtuoso Rainer Ambrust and the prodigious Israeli soprano Sharon Rorstorf-Zamir, was created for this event. Following the concert Tzvi Avni will be in conversation with Juilliard faculty Samuel Adler
The line-up of prominent speakers include, among others, post-memory theorist Marianne Hirsch, anthropologist Talal Asad, life-time editor of Levi and author of one his finest intellectual biographies, Ernesto Ferrero, German comparatist Ernestine Bradley, world-renowned Israeli composer Tzvi Avni, Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, novelist and founding director of the New York University’s Center for Dialogues Mustapha Tlili, and Hebrew University Italianist, Manuela Consonni.
A rare appearance of Primo Levi’s Italian editor at Einaudi, Ernesto Ferrero, held under the aegis of the Primo Levi International Research Center in Turin, will offer the opportunity to come closer to the set of cultural and ethical references of Levi’s life, that has largely eluded his biographers. Dr. Ferrero is currently head of the International Book Fair of Turin. The Primo Levi International Research Center was created by Levi’s family and local government agencies to sustain the research on his writings and foster interest in the many intellectual debates he initiated.
A series of archival interviews with Primo Levi and a television single act drama based on one of Levi’s science-fiction stories will be presented in collaboration with RAI Corporation and RAI Teche.
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After more than two decades of creating some of the industry’s most memorable images, Matte World Digital, a leading visual effects facility specializing in matte paintings, has ceased operation as of early August 2012.
For years Matte World Digital was a driving force in the industry. Based in Marin County, California, the company was started in 1988 by effects producer Krys Demkowicz, VFX supervisor Craig Barron, and matte painter Michael Pangrazio. The latter two had been former colleagues at ILM, where they created matte shots Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back,
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When digital technology began to overtake the business seemingly overnight, Matte World changed its moniker (adding “Digital” to the end) and its methods.
Over the years, the facility built up a long list of credits, including Star Trek VI, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, and
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Hugo). In fact,
Hugo was Matte World Digital’s last major feature film.
In a lengthy farewell address on the company’s Web site (www.matteworld.com) that is definitely worth reading, the company cites a number of reasons for its closure: “In addition to rising costs of technology and R&D, studio cost-saving measures and competition from an increasingly global effects industry was making it difficult for a small company to survive. (Such pressures had already claimed companies like Orphanage, Illusion Arts and Asylum.)”
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Source deduplicationcan be used to ease traditional remote site backup problems by reducing the amount of backup data that needs to be transmitted. In this buyer's guide on source deduplication, you will learn about key features in source deduplication products, and we've also provided a quick reference chart that provides important details about major source dedupe products to help make your buying decisions easier.
Backups of remote sites and laptops have plagued IT departments for years. While remote sites typically have relatively small amounts of data in comparison to centralized data centers, the data that’s “out in the field” is often just as important as home office data. Because producers of data “at the edge” are often closer to a company’s customers, the data they create may be among the most important information a company has. But as important as the data may be, safeguarding it is often left in the hands of non-IT personnel or staff members with little or no training. In many cases, the person entrusted with backing up the site’s data lacks any significant computer experience and doesn’t understand the importance of effective backups. But the traditional choices for backing up remote data require quite a bit of computer-related knowledge.
Remote backup options typically meant running some type of backup software at the site that was connected to a removable media storage device, usually a tape drive. Managing those removable media devices is the biggest problem at many remote offices. Being certain that media is inserted, ejected, rotated and stored properly can be a challenge. Offsite storage of backup media is another issue, requiring pickup by a vaulting service or some other means of securing the media off-premises for each remote site. Some firms cut corners and skip shipping the media offsite altogether, while others simply put backup tapes in someone’s trunk or living room.
Mobile users add logistics to the remote-office backup problem. Those users may attempt to back up their data by using rewritable DVDs, solid-state “thumb drives” or USB-connected external hard drives, but those devices require a certain degree of expertise to use properly. And while they’re made to be transported and are less prone to environmental issues than tape, they’re often carried along with a laptop and can be lost or stolen just as easily.
None of these methods—whether they appear to be working or not—adequately addresses the issue of getting the data back to a company’s central site.
How source deduplication can solve the problem
Backup and recovery of remote-office data is still a struggle, but in the past five years there have been a number of developments that can take some of the sting out of securing remote data. All of the options available today do a better job than traditional methods, and most are far easier.
Source data deduplication has emerged as one of the most popular options as it not only takes care of backing up remote servers and workstations, but can efficiently ship the backup data to a central location using existing wide-area network (WAN) facilities.
Data deduplication—or dedupe—is a process that identifies and eliminates redundant data at a sub-file level. It doesn’t just find redundant files; it identifies redundant segments of data within and among files. There are two primary types of dedupe systems: target deduplication and source deduplication.
Target deduplication systems are disk systems that are used as the destination for backup streams delivered by traditional backup applications. When native, non-deduplicated backup jobs are received by the target system, the data is then deduped. The deduped backups can then be replicated to another target dedupe system for offsite storage.
A target dedupe system can be used to back up remote sites, but that would require some kind of target deduplication appliance at each site with the data then replicated to a central site. But purchasing a dedupe appliance for each remote site can be very costly. And the appliances can’t be used to protect laptops when they’re disconnected from the remote sites’ network.
Source deduplication doesn’t require special hardware, and remote office sites and laptop users can be supported using a single product. Source dedupe can provide both onsite and offsite recovery mechanisms for larger remote sites, even with very demanding data recovery objectives.
Source deduplication products can protect remote site data by significantly reducing the amount of backup data that needs to be transmitted. The products are generally easy to implement and use, but you’ll need to match their capabilities with your specific remote site backup needs.
This was first published in April 2011
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updated 09:15 am EST, Thu January 20, 2011
IFPI warns Internet music sales only up 6pc
The IFPI tried to raise alarm on Thursday with a warning in its latest annual report that digital music sales were slowing down. Sales through iTunes and other outlets climbed by just six percent worldwide and made up 29 percent of their revenues. The slowdown came both from a maturing of the digital music market but was also blamed on piracy.
The agency tried to blame piracy alone for drops in creative variety and output. Just a quarter of the top 50 artists worldwide in 2010 were new, it said. Local music was also reportedly hurt as countries like Spain not only saw their music sales fall, in Spain's case 22 percent, and none of its local music cracked the top 50. Roughly 17 percent fewer Americans were employed as musicians.
Revenue among the IFPI's labels has dropped 31 percent in the past six years, which it blamed almost exclusively on piracy.
Praise was also given to those countries that codified the IFPI's business model in law, such as France's Hadopi three-strikes law and similar steps in South Korea. Attempts to block The Pirate Bay were also praised. It hoped countries like New Zealand and the UK would follow suit and was pressuring Internet providers to act as enforcers despite safe harbor rights that exempted some from doing so, most often in the US.
Critics have questioned the accuracy of the IFPI's claims and have noted that its insistence on legal protection for its traditional business hasn't necessarily been effective. In France, piracy ncreased as the automatic traffic monitoring merely meant pirates had to use alternate methods or tougher encryption. Observers have also noted that IFPI reports have traditionally avoided exploring any other potential factors, such as in the quality of the artists its labels promote, the impact of the economic crunch on spending habits, or possible broader shifts away from music as a pastime.
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So. They're starting to call it a 'movement' this Cycle Chic thang. Good news. What started with one simple photo here in Copenhagen developed into this blog and then, two years later, it's all over the planet. Nice one. Splendid.
It has come to my attention that there is some good news and some bad news regarding the Cycle Chic 'movement' and I thought it necessary to respond.
The good news is that the very simple concept of riding a bicycle in your regular [preferably fashionable in my opinion, but not a prerequisite] clothes is being picked up by the press all over the world. This is a good thing.
The funny thing is that it's nothing new. Since Day One in bicycle culture, when the bicycle as we know it today was invented 120-odd years ago, people rode around in their regular clothes. The bicycle was a tool, a transport option and not much else. In many places, like here in Copenhagen, it still is. Imagine your relatives living in the years between 1890 and 1940. The odds are that they rode bicycles in their regular clothes.
It's great news that the bicycle is hot again. That we are on the cusp of what at Copenhagen Cycle Chic call Bicycle Culture 2.0. Good for the environment and C02 reduction yada yada, and great for creating liveable urban centres. Nicer places to live.
So the bicycle's return to the public consciousness after a half a century of car culture is good news for everyone, whether they're on a bicycle or not.
So what can be bad about that?
The Bad News
What I've been trying to say, between the lines, here at Cycle Chic for the past couple of years is that riding a bicycle is - and always has been - a rather simple thing. All you need is... a bicycle.
You have a closet filled with clothes, don't you? If you're walking about town, you'll wear them. You have clothes for hot weather and clothes for cold weather. Whatever clothes you wear as a pedestrian are suitable for riding a bicycle. You KNOW this. You were young once. You did it then.
So now that I've started a 'movement' [which is admittedly much better than a 'trend'] I've seen a sharp increase in the number of companies intent on selling 'cycling clothes' for urban, everyday cyclists. Whenever a trend or a movement appears, there will always be people keen to make some money off of it. Such is a market economy. Fair enough.
It seems ridiculous, however, when people attempt to overcomplicate a simple thing. If you fancy riding sports bicycles for long distances in your spare time, or you like racing bicycles, you will require 'gear'. I know this. I respect this.
If you want to ride a bicycle to work or the supermarket over short distances, you do not need 'gear'. Just open your closet.
I've touched on this issue a few times before.
- Cycle Chic Guide to Bike Commuting #2 - Cycle Clothing
- Cycle Chic Guide to Bike Commuting - #1 Choosing a Bike
- Terminology Folly.
A couple of episodes have come to my attention of late.
I've heard that a Shimano representative in the States walked into a bike shop with a new product. 'Cycling shoes' that were completely normal shoes, just with a Shimano logo. If you Google Shimano, like I did, you'll find out that they are a "International manufacturer and distributer of cycling and fishing equipment and accessories." I'm sure they make good cycling and fishing equipment, but hey... leave normal shoes to the normal shoes people.
Then there was an article in the New York Times yesterday, by a guy named Eric Wilson. Here's the opening paragraph:
There are many reasons why New York City commuters have been hesitant to bicycle to work in greater numbers: personal safety, the scarce availability of bike racks and the weather, among them. A perhaps more superficial, though still important, consideration is figuring out something to wear that will be both functional and professional looking. Or, at the least, something that will not show grease stains.
This is ridiculous. Pure bollocks.
Listen, according to the European Cyclists Federation there are 100 million daily cyclists in Europe. Alone in Copenhagen there are 500,000 cyclists each day. The vast majority wear their regular clothes because they're on their way to work or school. They have closets and they're not afraid to use them. They have happily not been subjected to this branding of cycling as a 'difficult' activity. It's quick, easy, convienent and enjoyable. A bit hot today? Slow down.
In this article from Reuters about how New Yorkers are getting on their bikes, we can read:
In keeping with the city's efforts to promote cycling, luxury apparel maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton asked students at the Fashion Institute of Technology to create chic yet affordable cycling gear.
"We want to do everything we can to raise the profile of biking in New York," Janette Sadik-Khan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, said at the news conference to announce the winning design.
"Having functioning, attractive gear so you can arrive at work looking stylish should be very encouraging," she said. "No one wants to show up at work looking like bike messengers."
Unbelievable. '...functioning, attractive gear'? Open your closets. Buy a chainguard. Fenders. Off you go.
Here's a Louis Vuitton 'cycling bag'. Or is it just a normal LV bag used by a girl in her normal clothes who just happens to ride a bicycle around?
Oh, and here's some 'cycling shoes' by Christian Louboutin. Not.
All hail the market economy, but not when it gets this silly and desperate. I'm quite sure that the established bike industry in non-bicycle cultures are worried. 'Big Bicycle' have carved out a niche for themselves over the past 40 years. Selling cycling as a difficult, expensive, sweaty sub-culture. Now they're faced with millions of regular people who just want to ride a bicycle. Um... let's slap a bike logo on some Chinese shoes... quick.
Okay, okay. The thought has occurred to me that it may be necessary with a transitional period in this new push towards Bicycle Culture 2.0. After decades of branding cycling as only a 'sport' or a 'recreational activity' and not much else, people in some countries may need a gentle shove in the right direction.
But then I remembered what I know about the marketing of bicycles at the turn of the last century. The bicycle came out of nowhere and yet people embraced it instantly and... rode around in regular clothes. Nowadays, when most people already know how to ride a bicycle, it's a bit stupid to sell 'cycling gear' to everyday cyclists.
Let's sell bicycles and bicycle culture. Let's make our cities nicer places to live.
But if someone wants to sell you 'cycling clothing' for riding to work or the supermarket, get the hell away from them in a hurry.
It's these people I refer to when I travel around giving lectures about 'Marketing the Bicycle to the Sub-Conscious Environmentalists'. Marketing good. Silly marketing bad.
In short: Men and Women of the Cycle Chic Movement! Reject the ridiculous marketing antics of would-be profiteers eager to sell you products you simply don't need! You already have established your style. Merely transfer it to the bicycle. Ride on.
Now back to the pretty photos.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio " Governments have levied taxes for centuries. Jolly Old England is no exception " taxation in England can be traced further back in history than some British royalty family trees. However, the same sweet April showers and warm westerly winds that inspired medieval English folks to religious pilgrimage may better correlate here and now to tears of taxpayers whose under-withholding resulted in unexpected tax due bills and sighs of relief from taxpayers who successfully and accurately filed on time.
It's anyone's guess whether any of the medieval English pilgrims seeking higher assistance did so due to tax woes. Fortunately, help for Ohioans with federal tax-related issues does not require a penitent, expensive trip to Canterbury, England. Most taxpayers can avoid a big tax bill next year quickly and simply by adjusting their withholding using the Withholding Calculator tool on the official IRS website, www.IRS.gov. And help for other tax ails is just a quick website visit, a phone call, or short drive away.
The official IRS website, www.IRS.gov, provides a comprehensive listing of Frequently Asked Questions, as well as links to tax forms and instructions which offer answers and solutions to many common taxpayer questions and issues. IRS customer service lines assist individuals (1-800-829-1040) and businesses (1-800-829-4933). Face-to-face help is just a short drive in Ohio to one of the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) in the state's major cities: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Lima, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown.
Services provided at IRS TACs cover a wide variety of issues, ranging from general account inquiries, to payments and payment arrangements, to tax law assistance, to solutions to tax issues. Offices are open Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Offices are closed for federal holidays; some offices are closed during lunchtime. A listing of locations is available at http://www.irs.gov/localcontacts/article/0,,id=98322,00.html.
And, whereas supplication to a martyr was the norm for aggrieved taxpayers of Geoffrey Chaucer's day, local taxpayers who have been unsuccessful in resolving a tax issue despite attempts to work the issue through the normal IRS channels of website, phone and TAC may simply contact the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service toll-free at 1-877-777-4778 to request free higher-level assistance.
No matter the occupation or calling " miller, clerk, lawyer, merchant, sailor, physician, farmer, laborer, cook, etc. " Ohioans with federal income tax-related questions and issues have options for assistance. No pilgrimage required.
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Friendship in old age
by Sergio Ríos Pérez
11/01/2012 - A few years ago, cartoonist Paco Roca saw how the advertising agency for which he worked rejected a drawing because there were some old people in it. They were “not very aesthetically pleasing”. The idea thus emerged for a graphic novel in which the main characters would be well into old age, from the first to the last. The result, Wrinkles [trailer, film focus], won the National Comic Award in 2008. Film director Ignacio Ferreras then decided to do a big-screen adaptation which was unveiled at San Sebastian, then presented at the Gijón Film Festival, before becoming the first animated film in the history of the Goyas to get a nomination (and win) for Best Adapted Screenplay (the title also won in the Best Animated Film category) and being selected among the 18 finalists for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
The story opens when retired bank manager Emilio is sent by his son to an old people’s home. There he will get to know the pragmatic Miguel, with whom he develops a sincere yet turbulent friendship, and many other old people, whose families only come to visit them at Christmas.
When Emilio experiences the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, Miguel helps him to hide them so they don’t send him to the dreaded floor for “the assisted”. Throughout this adventure, they will have to face up to the inexorable passage of time.
Made on a very limited €2m budget, Wrinkles uses splendid traditional 2D animation to tell a social drama involving loneliness and the abandonment of old people, although it is peppered with touches of humour (the scene of the gymnastics lesson in the old people’s home is priceless).
“It’s time to stop talking about animated filmmaking as if it were a genre. It’s a medium”, insisted the film’s producer, Manuel Cristóbal (Perro Verde), who goes against the cliché that animation is for children with a complex story rich in nuances, capable of making viewers laugh and cry without trying, with the simplicity of a well-told and beautifully directed story.
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AERODROMES AND NAVIGATION AIDS (AGA)
ACSA's AGA Department was created in 2005 in order to complement the technical areas the agency had been working with in the Central American region. One of the main tasks assigned to this department was to support the States during ICAO USOAP audits.
Based on the strategic objective of contributing to the aviation development of the region, ACSA's AGA Department was in charge of developing regulations and joint implementation procedures for aerodrome design and certification. These documents include:
In addition, another task the AGA department carries out in the Central American region is the coordination and secretariat of the Central American AGA Group of Experts. This aerodrome group of experts is formed by individuals of the different civil aviation authorities and its main goal is to develop tools necessary to comply with the safety requirements set in the Chicago Convention.
Two short-term goals this group has are to support the Central American States in the certification of aerodromes and to promote the compliance with the international standards set by ICAO and other civil aviation related organizations.
ACSA's AGA Department is committed to the organization's strategic objectives and it is continuously searching for strategies to contribute to the aviation development and to enhance safety in the Central American region.
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They say the devil’s in the details, and that’s certainly true for the 12-point agenda presented by state Senate Republicans for the legislative session that begins on Jan. 4, according to an analysis by Insight Communication’s cn|2 Pure Politics.
Click here for the full story; it’s definitely worth a read.
A few of the many revelations:
- If the legislature approves a plan to form an independent commission to review the state’s tax code, and if that review results in proposed legislation to change the tax code, the House Minority Floor Leader, a Republican, could introduce the legislation if the House Speaker, a Democrat, declines to do so.
- If the Senate GOP’s plan for electoral reform is enacted, candidates who raise less than $5,000 would be exempt from filing campaign finance reports. Now, the limit is $3,000 or less raised. Also, any candidate who raises more than $25K would be required to file campaign finance reports electronically. Now, electronic filing is voluntary.
- A bill that would require all legislation be made public at least 48 hours before a vote is held would also reduce the time governors have to propose their budgets, and require all revenue and spending bills to be passed by the legislature with enough time to override a potential gubernatorial veto.
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After an intense campaign that cost more than $75 million, California's voters have approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, dealing a huge blow to the gay rights movement and setting the stage for another round of court battles over the volatile issue.
Opponents this morning refused to concede the outcome, saying there may be as many as four million uncounted ballots.
"We are not in a position to call this. Really this is just fundamental,'' said Kate Kendell, executive director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. "We really need to wait until there is something authoritative issued by the Secretary of State's office. Until that happens, we do not feel it is appropriate for us to make our
While the Yes on 8 campaign claimed victory just before midnight, the numbers continued to play out in their favor this morning. Still, advocates of same-sex marriage had clung to hopes that a surge of support from uncounted votes could still overcome the ban.
But this morning, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, the measure passed with 52 percent in favor, and 47.9 percent opposed. There are an untold number of absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted, according to the Associated Press, but it will be hard to overcome the 5 percent margin. The San Francisco City Attorney's office says he plans to file the legal challenge in the California Supreme Court to
"I think the story is that a strong majority of Californians support traditional marriage and they want to see it protected," said Frank Schubert, manager of the Yes on 8 campaign. "I think the story is we ran a far better campaign than the other side. I think we had 100,000 people that gave of their resources and their time."
The measure trims the number of states in which gays and lesbians can legally marry from three to two. But in striking the most populous and culturally influential state from that list, social conservatives and religious leaders have scored a much broader victory, likely limiting for years the hopes of gay rights leaders to allow same-sex couples to marry across the United States.
For same-sex marriage supporters, it was a bitter loss, after major polls had consistently shown the measure losing through the fall.
In San Jose, Ronni Pahl, a member of one of the first two same-sex couples married in Santa Clara County, watched the returns
"It's bittersweet right now because we just watched the first African-American president elected. We were watching it with our African-American son, there were tears coming out of our eyes, and we went to look at what's happening at 8," Pahl said. "We're speechless right now."
In Santa Clara County, Proposition 8 was soundly defeated, losing by a 10 percent margin. The measure also trailed in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, as well as in San Francisco.
But as election evening wore on, that opposition was overwhelmed by more conservative areas of the state, particularly in the inland counties. The same-sex marriage ban had attracted more than 60 percent of the vote in Riverside County, and two-thirds of the vote in San Joaquin County, with more than half of precincts reporting in those counties.
And despite the decisive win of Democratic nominee Barack Obama, in California and the rest of the country, polls were wrong in another way: They had predicted that the tide of Obama voters would block Proposition 8 from passing. But even in Santa Clara County, Obama captured a much higher share of the vote than the proportion who voted against Proposition 8.
Schubert said the Yes on 8 campaign never trusted the polls.
"We've always felt that if we were tied going into Election Day, or a few points behind, we were going to win," he said. The decision "is something that I think will reverberate across the nation and around the world."
A constitutional bans on same-sex marriage was also approved in Florida — a state also won by Obama — and in Arizona. But for the gay rights leaders, this loss in California was more painful, because it marked the first time that voters rejected same-sex marriage in a state where it was already legal.
While the new constitutional ban goes into effect immediately, it's less clear what the effect will be on same-sex couples who married from June 16 through Tuesday. While Attorney General Jerry Brown has said he does not believe Proposition 8 is retroactive, that issue is likely to wind up back in the courts, as well as an anticipated challenge to whether it is constitutional for California to revive its ban on same-sex marriage.
The race began to tighten when the Yes on 8 campaign began running ads that suggested that churches could lose their tax-exempt status if clergy refused to do gay weddings and that second-graders would be taught about gay marriage.
The figurehead of those ads: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, proclaiming in a speech that gay marriage was now legal in California "whether you like it or not."
Yes on 8 supporters were feeling confident Tuesday night, even as the polls began to close.
"The momentum has really been with us," said Chip White, the press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign. "The trend has been in our direction ever since we went with that Gavin Newsom ad on Sept. 29."
David McCuan, a political-science professor at Sonoma State University, said the move to victory for the Yes on 8 campaign might have begun here, when a campaign pushing for passage of an initiative began to behave like a classic "No" campaign — by injecting doubt about the effect of a proposed "change" into the minds of voters.
Because gay marriage was so new in California, it allowed Yes on 8 campaign manager Frank Schubert to operate as if what was technically the status quo was actually a proposed change, and trying to inject doubt into the minds of voters about that "change."
Schubert "essentially ran a No side campaign on the Yes side of this ballot measure and that has made it more sophisticated and less faith-based message," McCuan said.
Given Obama's victory, "it's a stunning, stinging defeat," McCuan said. "This is a Democratic blue wave and standing out in one of the bluest of the blue states is this huge red result."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact Mike Swift at email@example.com or at (408) 271-3648.
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Farm Bureau president delivers pointed & passionate address to farmers & critics
American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) President Bob Stallman delivered an invigorating speech to members at the organization's 91st annual meeting in Seattle last week. Stallman issued a call to action to Farm Bureau members and a stern warning to critics that farmers and ranchers will no longer tolerate opponents' efforts to change the landscape of American agriculture.
Stallman's speech has garnered nationwide attention as many focus on the Farm Bureau to see what 2010 will bring.
Below is the speech in its entirety. It may also be viewed or listened to at the links at the top of the page.
Passage to Success
"American author Mark Twain said the search for success boils down to three words … Explore. Dream. Discover.
America’s history is marked by journeys of discovery. In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began an expedition that shaped our nation. Their journey started at a camp on the Missouri River near St. Louis.
After more than a year and a half…of not knowing what was around the next bend in the river or beyond the next ridge, they reached their objective -- the Great Pacific Ocean.
However, two weeks prior to reaching that goal, upon entering a wide portion of the Columbia River, Captain Clark mistakenly wrote in his journal: “Ocean in View. O! The Joy.” I guess you could say he jumped the gun.
We gather in Seattle this week to measure progress along our own Passage to Success.
Like Captain Clark on that day, we have not yet concluded our journey. And each of us … whether farmer, rancher, grower or producer … is striving to secure our passage to success in agriculture.
We have faced and will continue to face challenges along the way.
One example….the nonstop criticism of contemporary agriculture!
Studies still show that consumers profess their admiration for us. Unfortunately, that admiration does not always extend to how we do what we do.
Movies, magazine articles, undercover videos, all have sown seeds of doubt. Some members of our society question the values behind our tools and processes. They have begun to wonder about our moral compass.
Our mission of feeding our nation and our world, caring for the environment and respecting the rights of our neighbors has not changed from our grandfathers’ days. But the ways in which we carry out that mission have.
It is more vital than ever that we communicate about our values, that we convey how food production today is compatible with traditional ideals.
We hear much about “sustainability,” which in my book is the most overused and ill-defined word in the policy arena today.
The first sustainability for agriculture has to be economic sustainability.
Without that, farmers and ranchers will not be on the land to provide all the rest of the “sustainables” that some are demanding.
Profit weighs into our decisions. It must! But we also consider many other factors. How can we best care for our animals? How can we do a better job of respecting our natural resources? How can we provide assurances that we also share the core values of those people who consume the fruits of our labor?
We draw strength and guidance from those who traveled this path before us.
This past year, agriculture lost one of the giants of agriculture. Dr. Norman Borlaug blazed the trail that led modern agriculture to higher production, to more food for mankind.
Dr. Borlaug was the father of the green revolution. His work – in the field as well as the lab – saved millions of people from poverty and starvation.
He believed that the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. A Nobel Prize winner…recipient of our Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award…and many more accolades.
But he never forgot where he came from…he always saw his mission through the modest eyes of an Iowa farm boy.
I quote Dr. Borlaug: “I am but one member of a vast team (including) millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.”
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, the world will have to produce 70 percent more food in the next 40 years to feed an extra 2.3 billion people who will share our planet.
In order to meet that challenge, we must prepare for a second Green Revolution. Our continued use of modern, efficient farming practices will allow us to succeed.
And this battle cannot be won by creating more farmland.
Even worse, the Climate Change legislation before Congress will sharply cut the number of acres devoted to food production.
At the very time that we need to increase our food production, Climate Change legislation threatens to slash our ability to do so. The exact level of land that will shift to trees will depend on the price of carbon – a number nobody knows at this point – but USDA suggests we could easily be talking about 59 million acres.
That’s like setting aside every acre of land used for crop and food production in California, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
In today’s terms, that means eliminating about 130,000 farms and ranches that grow food and crops.
The United States would be less able to provide the world a viable hunger safety net. Food prices here at home would shoot up. The result? Less food security and our climate would not improve, not even by one degree.
I don’t know about you, but that is not the kind of American agriculture I want to leave behind for future generations.
The United States is one of the world’s most important food producing regions. We are blessed with temperate climate, quality soils, technical know-how and political and economic systems that help drive our productive capability.
I believe in the saying, if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
Unfortunately, the hard facts are, that for parts of the world, we cannot improve the depth of topsoil, create rainfall, make the climate more temperate, or ensure economic and social justice for farmers.
History proves that our nation is always ready to help in time of need. We have fed parts of Europe and Asia, just as today we focus on Africa and the Middle East.
The world will continue to depend on food from the United States of America. And as global citizens, we must address those needs. To throttle back our ability to produce food -- at a time when the UN projects billions of more mouths to feed – is a moral failure.
During this meeting, you can add your voice to those of your fellow Farm Bureau members who have already spoken out against the misguided climate change legislation under consideration.
Stop by our tradeshow booth, sign a petition and pick up a farm cap. Our message to Congress about cap and trade is clear – Don’t CAP Our Future.
Feeding the world is important, but we must also pay attention to the vocal chorus of well-fed but unsatisfied consumers here at home. We must work harder to meet both ends of the food equation. We must provide for wants as well as needs.
As I scan this hall, I see farmers who embrace all the tools of modern agriculture. I see people who choose modern organic production…I see folks who plant conventional seed and those who use biotechnology.
I see families who raise livestock in sheltered, climate-controlled conditions. I see feedlot operators. But also among our ranks here in Seattle, I see farm and ranch families who produce grass-fed beef, free-range pork and cage-free eggs.
These are the personal and business choices we have made about how best to serve consumers.
Farm Bureau reflects all of agriculture.
We are comprised of farmers of all different political persuasions using a variety of production methods, all while executing unique marketing strategies. We have farmers who drive different brands of trucks, and different colors of tractors. We need all of you.
Together, we produce the staples, the ingredients, the main courses and the side dishes…and let’s not forget dessert! It takes each and every one of us to put a meal on America’s dinner table – a table made of wood we produced – and covered with an all cotton tablecloth.
But, in doing that, remember that each of us fills but one square in a bigger patchwork quilt that is American agriculture.
It is a delicate balancing act, but in celebrating our farms and ranches, we must not disparage the labors and the values of our neighbors who provide for consumers in a different way.
Already, there are too many external forces tugging at our seams. Emotionally charged labels such as: monoculture, factory farmer, industrial food, and big ag -- threaten to fray our edges.
We must not let the activists and self-appointed – and self promoting -- food experts drive a wedge between us.
While we must be responsive to consumer demand, we must also stand beside each other. Today, it takes all of America’s farm and ranch families to get the job done.
Agriculture is a business. You have chosen this life, this lifestyle, this livelihood based on your devotion to the land, your values, and a unique call to stewardship. Those are key factors overlooked by critics who question our values and our abiding dedication to agriculture. Unless you experience it, there is no way to comprehend that we literally live our jobs. We can’t phone it in. We don’t punch out. And there are no comp days. Just as we feel strongly about agriculture, we share the same type of deep passion for our nation. Through thick and thin, we are all Americans.
Our country faces serious economic challenges. We are spending money as if there will be no tomorrow. We are mortgaging our grandchildren’s future to the hilt. The numbers are so large they defy comprehension…or maybe not!
I was speaking to a County Farm Bureau meeting last fall and described the budget deficit of 1.4 trillion dollars that had just been announced. I said I had a hard time understanding just how much money that is.
And then I asked, “Do any of you know how much that is?” And a little lady in the back of the hall shouted out….“Too much!” That, ladies and gentlemen, is the answer….too much spending….too much debt.
As we begin to emerge from this economic downturn, there is much work remaining.
That’s why the American Farm Bureau Board assembled a Deficit Reduction Task Force made up of members from across the nation. Each member brought to the table varied backgrounds from different regions, different professional experiences and different life stages.
In the past, Farm Bureau has been a strong advocate for a balanced budget. But in recent times our policy has evolved to focus more on the needs of agriculture – to ask government to do more for us.
Even so, over the last ten years, if the rest of our federal government experienced the same reductions in budget and spending as we have seen in our agricultural programs, we would have a balanced budget!
The question for us to answer: Should we revisit our policies and priorities given the fiscal and debt situation our country finds itself in today? That is why the Board approved this task force.
The Task Force offered a set of recommendations for you to consider during policy deliberations.
These recommendations included: Working toward a balanced federal budget and deficit reduction by 2019. Taking steps to make Social Security self-financing. And - while recognizing all citizens need access to basic medical care – we need to reform and support our private medical insurance system.
Again, these broad points and underlying specifics were offered to county and state Farm Bureaus as policy recommendations for consideration. I am hopeful that with your input and direction, we will have crystal clear direction on these issues by the end of this week.
This process is characteristic of how our organization works. We take a deliberate approach to the issues before us. We thoroughly debate our policy positions at the county, state and national levels.
In addition to being known as the Voice of Agriculture, we are also respected for our voice of reason.
Our country needs Farm Bureau’s steady hand now more than ever. Many of our fellow citizens are anxious. Many are angry.
There are a number of semi-organized movements taking shape across our land, led by citizens upset that their voices are going unheard. They fear a loss of control of their freedoms, their decisions, even their wallets.
I also like to think of Farm Bureau as a movement – but ours is a lasting movement … for 91 years now. The Farm Bureau movement is marked by dedication, optimism and activism. There is never any doubt that our members’ voices are heard.
That’s one of the big reasons our membership has grown – for 49 consecutive years.
It is up to us to share the strength of our character and the tradition of our values with our fellow citizens.
But, a line must be drawn between our polite and respectful engagement with consumers and the way we must aggressively respond to extremists who want to drag agriculture back to the day of 40 acres and a mule.
Our adversaries are skillful at taking advantage of our politeness. Publicly, they call for friendly dialogue while privately their tactics are far from that.
Who could blame us for thinking that the avalanche of misguided, activist-driven regulation on labor and environment being proposed in Washington is anything but unfriendly.
The time has come to face our opponents with a new attitude. The days of their elitist power grabs are over.
General George Patton was very quotable. He said that in times of war, “Make your plans to fit the circumstances.”
To those who expect to just roll over America’s farm and ranch families, my only message is this: The circumstances have changed.
Just one example…the Ohio Farm Bureau embraced this attitude by taking the fight to the enemies of modern animal agriculture. Ohio’s Ballot Issue 2 was a big win and one we must duplicate far and wide.
Farm Bureau members, I ask you the following questions:
Are we going to let animal rights activists destroy our ability to produce the meat that Americans want to eat? I say: No, we are not!
Are we going to stand idly by as the proponents of a bigger government choke us with regulation? I say: No, we are not!
Are we going to let the hysteria of doom and gloom climate change rhetoric diminish our ability to produce food for Americans and the rest of the world? I say: No we are not!
Can we…Can we stand up -- as did our forefathers -- and fight for a better future for this great country? I say: Yes, we can!
We must take up this new mission, even as we continue to carry out our traditional duties. America will be strengthened by our productivity. Our planet will be protected. And its people … all its people … will be better fed.
Our journey continues from this day. Our destination looms before us like an unexplored mountain range or the expanse of an unbroken prairie…with battles to be won and challenges to overcome.
Farm Bureau members, thanks to you, your organization is stronger than ever…in numbers…in grassroots strength…in influence.
Together…we hold in trust the future of our industry.
And through our involvement, we will succeed. Our passage to success is Farm Bureau.
Thank you for allowing me to serve as your president. It is an honor to lead this great organization.
God bless you. God bless Farm Bureau. God bless America."
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Dwelling Places: A Novel (Vinita Hampton Wright)
Vinita Hampton Wright
352 pp., $23.95
Betty Smartt Carter
So Wide and Deep
I learned a lot from John Banville's latest novel, The Sea. For instance, I can rattle off five new terms for bodily excretions, including "particles of nether-do"; I can diagnose a case of "grog blossoms"; and I'm aware that "ichor" refers not only to the liquid flowing through the veins of the gods but to that watery stuff that leaks out of a paper cut. I also know that "strangury" is a mystical-sounding word for slow urination (yes, this is a book about growing old).
Such discoveries mostly delight me, but others find Banville's writing pretentious and remote. "Banville's famously torrid affair with his thesaurus," writes Jessica Winters of the Village Voice, "has previously birthed erudite but emotionally delimited characters but The Sea nudges this pathos toward parody." It is true that if he paid a fine for every time he broke the writer's rule of ordinary language, Banville would have to mortgage his Booker Prize. It's unfair to say, though, that he dotes on words at the expense of human feeling. In fact, it's the preening language of The Sea that most reveals its hero, a man both vain and emotionally broken.
Max Morden is an art historian of no particular genius. ("As for us middling men," he says, "there is no word sufficiently modest that yet will be adequate to describe what we do and how we do it.") For years he's been "mired" in a monograph on the French artist Pierre Bonnard (18671947), famous for his many portraits of his wife Marthe in the tub: "Brides-in-the-Bath," Max's wife Anna calls him. At their oceanside home, Anna herself spends long hours in the bath, soothing the pain of her cancer. Max sometimes worries she'll drown accidentally: "I would creep down the stairs and stand on the return, not making a sound, seeming suspended there, as if I were the one under water." Guiltily, he half wishes she'd go on and get it over with, for both their sakes. When she does at last die, in the hospital, he finds himself drowning in grief, past ...
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USE DIAPERS FOR SLEEPING
I did this with both Brayden and Kaitlyn when first potty training. You can put your child in diapers or pull-ups for sleeping. A child can be daytime trained before nighttime/sleeping trained. Remember to think of potty training as a learning process, not a learning event--just like learning to walk.
As you get your child up and find the diaper clean and dry, you can switch him over to underwear. Brayden moved to underwear during naps within a week of starting potty training (age three), while Kaitlyn is over a month in for official potty training and still wears diapers during naps and sleeping. She sometimes wakes from naps clean and dry, sometimes not. She isn't consistent enough to be ready to move away from diapers yet (at least for me).
Another option is to use underwear or training pants in conjunction with the plastic cover like often used in cloth diapering.
TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF
I did this with Kaitlyn. Our first day of official potty training, we didn't do independent playtime. We just spent the day together with her by my side (except for sleeping). At first, I expected her to be able to hold it as long as Brayden. I didn't consciencely have that thought; I just realized after a couple of accidents that I was doing that. So I had her use the potty every thirty minutes. After a couple of days, she was able to hold it longer as she got used to not wearing a diaper.
We did spent the day together again for the next couple of days. After that, she was able to hold it longer and I was more aware of her individual potty needs and the times of day she really needed to use the potty to avoid accidents. We then went back to our normal routine.
KEEP POTTY BY CHILD
I like to use a small potty chair (although we will also sit on a big potty randomly). I like the small potty chair because:
- We can take it with us on road trips/vacations (like camping).
- We can haul it around the house with us so the potty is never far away.
- The child can get off and on by themselves.
While my child is first learning to use the potty, I like to carry the potty chair with us around the house. I put it on a towel so drips and spills land on that and not the floor (this is a necessity with a boy and a nicety with a girl). A lot of times when they are first learning, when they realize they need to use the potty, they need it immediately.
With Brayden, I put the potty chair in independent playtime with him. He would use the potty, then come tell me and we would clean it out. We did this during the initial learning phase, then we graduated to just having him come out to use the potty when needed.
USE POTTY AT REGULAR TIMES
I have my children use the potty at regular times of day whether they "need" to or not. Brayden (4.5) is old enough to regulate himself well, but I still have three times of day he must use the potty:
- In the morning
- Before rest time (previously known as nap time ;) )
- Before bed
He will use the potty at other times of day, but he does it as needed. I have him go before sleeping so he doesn't need to get up during the sleep time.
Kaitlyn also has regular times, but I have her go more often than Brayden. As she has gotten better about recognizing when to go, I have cut back on required times. Here are her current required times at 2.5:
- In the morning (I will note that for us, in the morning is before bath. It is a good idea to have your child go potty before bath no matter what time of day it is at)
- After bath
- Before independent playtime
- After each meal (eating fires up the digestive tract, so it is a normal time to need to use the bathroom)
- Before nap (after lunch and before nap is the same time)
- After nap
- Before bed
- Any time we leave the house
You can see that as they get older, I hand more control over to the child. I will ask Brayden if he needs to use the bathroom before we go somewhere. We never have had issues with him about needing to go in the car or in stores. If he was that way, I would require he use the bathroom before we left rather than simply asking. Sometimes he goes, sometimes he doesn't.
LEAVE DOOR OPEN DURING INDEPENDENT PLAYTIME
For Kaitlyn, rather than leaving the potty in the room with her, I leave the door open. We recently moved, so now the bathroom is right next to the room where we do independent playtime. In our old house, it was down the hall and around the corner. Since the bathroom is right there, I prefer to leave the potty in the bathroom.
I tried having her come out and tell me when she needed to go while leaving the door closed, but for some reason, with the door closed, she wouldn't come out (even though she is able to open it just fine). With the door open, she comes out, uses the bathroom, then comes and tells me. She is good about staying in the room with the door open, so be sure you have that level of obedience before trying this.
Another option is to use diapers during independent playtime.
EXPECT TESTING OF BOUNDARIES
Potty training hands a measure of control over to your child. If you want your child to wear underwear during independent playtime, then you have to allow your child the freedom to come out and use the bathroom if needed. Many children will test the boundaries of this new freedom. Don't get angry and don't stress out that all of the previous obedience training in your child's life to this point is now being washed away. It is totally normal for children to test boundaries. Just patiently help your child learn appropriate use of this new freedom. You will eventually get there.
When Brayden first started wearing underwear for naps, I just expected that he would come out of nap time to use the bathroom if needed. One day I went to wake him up and found he had an accident. He was asleep when I went in and I felt terrible that he had slept in his accident! I talked to him and told him if he needed to use the bathroom during nap, he could come out and use the potty. His eyes literally got big.
He spent several days trying this new privilege out. There were a couple of days he literally came out every 15 minutes to "use the potty." We worked through it and he was soon using the privilege responsibly.
The level of boundary testing will depend on your child. Brayden is by nature much more of a boundary tester than Kaitlyn, so he really tested it, while Kaitlyn has yet to (though I am sure now that I typed that she will start next week ;) ).
Potty training has a tendency to stress parents out. Try to just relax and take things as they come. I am much more relaxed with Kaitlyn than I was Brayden, and potty training is no longer something I dread. Remember your goals and tailor the process to your family's needs.
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INDIANAPOLIS – (Nov. 11, 2011) The Delta Dental Foundation has given the Indiana University School of Dentistry a $50,000 grant to operate the university’s Seal Indiana mobile program. The initiative brings vital preventative dental care to Indiana children in key underserved areas while enabling dental students to help alleviate disparities in access to healthcare. Gifts from the foundation to the school now total $250,000.
The Delta Dental Foundation will present a check to the IU School of Dentistry during one of Seal Indiana’s mobile clinic visits in Marion County on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 10:30 a.m. at Lawrence Township’s Skiles Test Elementary School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. The school is located at 7001 Johnson Road, Indianapolis.
Media are invited to attend the check presentation, meet the Seal Indiana team, and observe the team as it provides care to children.
Seal Indiana targets low-income, school-aged children experiencing barriers in accessing preventative dental services. Oral examinations, sealant application and fluoride varnishes are provided to the children by senior students within the School of Dentistry, working under the direction of licensed dental faculty.
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From the program’s inception in March 2003 to the end of September this year, Seal Indiana has served more than 23,000 children within the state at more than 1,100 sites including Title I (lowest income) schools, Head Start and youth programs, community health centers, and city shelters for homeless mothers and children. The dental team has provided 17,000 fluoride varnish treatments and placed 33,000 sealants on permanent teeth.
The Delta Dental Foundation has assisted Seal Indiana for the last four years, specifically with grants earmarked for clinical services for children without insurance whose families could not otherwise provide dental care. Foundation grants have made it possible for IU to provide services to youngsters in a third of Indiana’s 92 counties.
“Delta Dental Foundation has been a longtime friend and supporter,” said Dr. Karen M. Yoder, the IU dental school’s director of Civic Engagement and Oral Health Policy. “Its help has enabled Seal Indiana to identify underprivileged children who need dental care and to join hands with the Indiana Dental Association to find local dentists to provide those services, often at little or no cost to the families most in need.”
Seal Indiana works with Indiana Dental Association members and the Indiana State Department of Health to locate rural and urban children from low-income families. Preventative services are performed on site with portable dental equipment.
About Delta Dental Foundation
The Delta Dental Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization established in 1980, which serves as the philanthropic arm of Delta Dental of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The Foundation’s goals are to support education and research for the advancement of dental science, and to promote the oral health of the public through education and service activities, particularly for those with special needs. For more information, visit www.deltadentalin.com.
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Located on the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the Indiana University School of Dentistry is one of the oldest dental schools in the United States and has more than 11,500 living alumni who are pursuing careers throughout the nation and in about 30 other countries. The only dental school in Indiana, it has educated about 85 percent of Indiana dentists. For more information, visit www.iusd.iupui.edu.
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operates in Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and Brazil and is already among the largest banks in Mexico in terms of coverage. With more than 6.8 million savings accounts—holding $45,441 million pesos in deposits, and 9 million credit accounts—representing a credit portfolio of $25,357 million pesos, Banco Azteca continues showing dynamic growth in every banking variable of significance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Maryland DNA law being challenged in the Supreme Court helped lead to 43 convictions over the last four years. But state data shows most of the convictions could eventually have happened even without the new law.
Maryland has required people convicted of serious crimes to provide a sample of their DNA for years. The state changed its law in 2009, however, so that people arrested for certain violent crimes now have to provide DNA.
Those samples led to 43 convictions. But 29 of the convictions could have happened even if the state hadn't changed its law. State data says that's because those people were ultimately convicted of the offense their DNA was taken for.
The change is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.
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Fast Food Litigation
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 28, 2007
Lianne S. Pinchuk, an associate at Weil Gotshal, has an article today at Law.com comparing fast food litigation with cigarette litigation and summarizing the unpromising prospects of the former. The article highlights some of the obstacles to lawyers seeking significant damages from purveyors of fast food — including evidentiary burdens (particularly on the element of causation), and state statutes (the so-called “cheeseburger bills”) immunizing the food industry from certain types of liability. The Situationist would add a further source of protection for the industry: the widely held sense that blame for obesity belongs on those who eat the food, not those who manufacture, market, and sell it.
Pinchuk concludes her article this way:
Despite the lack of success of obesity-related personal injury cases thus far, it is important to remember that when allegations were first made against tobacco companies, the possibility of large verdicts seemed remote. It was only once the litigation reached the discovery phase and negative internal documents were revealed that large plaintiffs’ verdicts became possible. The Big Food cases to date have generally not led to discovery, and only Big Food itself knows what damning documents may exist. If they do exist and are discovered by plaintiffs lawyers, they may provide ammunition for more suits and increasing verdicts. Right now, however, fast food companies are enjoying more protections than tobacco companies ever did, and it appears that Big Food is not the next Big Tobacco.
The point is a good one and reveals a double bind for plaintiffs. If fast-food lawsuits are not viable because of the presumption that consumers are to blame, and if a key way that one can demonstrate the culpability of the industry is through a discovery process that is permitted only when one has a viable cause of action, then it may be that our attributions of blame reflect the failure of lawsuits as much as it is the case that the the failure of lawsuits reflect our assessment of blame.
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Theresa Maldonado to Lead the NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers
March 10, 2011
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Theresa A. Maldonado as director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) of the Directorate for Engineering. Maldonado, who has served in a number of leadership positions for the Texas A&M University System since 2003, began her term at NSF on January 3.
At the Texas A&M University System, which is comprised of 11 universities, seven state agencies, and a health science center, Maldonado most recently served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research. On the main Texas A&M campus in College Station, she also served as the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, as the director of the Energy Engineering Institute (EEI), and as a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Maldonado previously held other leadership roles at the University, the Dwight Look College of Engineering, and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station.
In her recent roles, Maldonado developed partnerships with industry, state and federal government agencies, and others for funding, technology commercialization, and regional economic development. She led the creation of a major research program in wind energy, including two research agreements with large international wind companies and the formation of a wind energy center under EEI. She worked with colleagues in Texas A&M AgriLife Research in developing a significant program in bioenergy. And she pulled together expertise from across the A&M System universities and state agencies in rapid response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Theresa brings a wealth of experience to the EEC division, from her many contributions to NSF, to her leadership in academic research and administration," said Thomas Peterson, assistant director for the NSF Directorate for Engineering. "Her division will benefit from her extraordinary and essential ability to balance the synergistic missions of advancing engineering education and engineering research centers."
Before joining Texas A&M, Maldonado spent more than a decade at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She rose to become a full professor of electrical engineering, with research in electro-optics and nonlinear optics, and she later served as Associate Vice President for Research and as director of the Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering Research and Teaching. Maldonado was recognized by the UTA College of Engineering with the Halliburton Award for Teaching Excellence (1992) and the Halliburton Award for Outstanding Young Faculty (1993). Prior to joining academia, she served as a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working on optical fiber components and systems.
Maldonado continues her research and technology transfer activities in energy technologies and systems. In addition, she is engaged with faculty in developing energy curricula at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including safety engineering, as well as in advancing strategies for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in engineering. She is currently serving on the National Petroleum Council Supply and Infrastructure Task Force, and on the National Academy of Engineering working group on Frontiers of Engineering Education.
Maldonado has had connections to NSF throughout her career. She is the immediate past chair of the NSF Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering. From 1999 to 2001 she served as program director of Engineering Research Centers in the NSF Directorate for Engineering, and she was recognized with the Director's Award for Program Management Excellence as well as with other awards for her service towards the CAREER and ADVANCE programs.
Maldonado earned the Ph.D., M.S.E.E., and B.E.E. with Highest Honors degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and she is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas. She was inducted into the Inaugural Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech in 1995. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of OSA, SPIE, AAAS, ASEE, and Sigma Xi.
EEC integrates disciplinary basic research and education into strategic frameworks critical to addressing societal grand challenges and to promoting innovation. Research included in the EEC portfolio spans both the physical and life sciences and engineering, from nanostructured materials to new device concepts, subsystems, and systems. Applications include energy, medicine, telecommunications, nanoelectronics, manufacturing, civil infrastructure, the environment, computer networks, cyber security, and others. EEC also supports formal scholarly studies in engineering education and on how people learn, and invests in faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, post doctoral scholars, and K-12 teachers.
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Apple Becomes Most Valuable Company Ever
Apple has dethroned longtime rival Microsoft as the most valuable company in history based on the value of its shares.
Apple's stock began a steady climb late last week and hit a new high of $664 (£422) a share during Monday trade on the Nasdaq exchange. It eventually closed even higher, at $665.15 (£423.48). It is now worth well over $620bn (£394bn).
The move upwards came amid rumours that the tech giant is poised to release new versions of its iPhone, iPad and Apple TV devices.
Its new market value - the price of its stock multiplied by the number of outstanding shares - eclipsed the previous record of $618.9bn (£394.1bn) set by Microsoft on December 30, 1999, at the height of the dot-com bubble.
Apple has actually been the world's most valuable company since the end of last year.
It is now worth some 53% more than second-placed Exxon Mobil.
However, analysts point out that the comparison to Microsoft does not take inflation into account.
In inflation-adjusted dollars, the software giant was worth some $850bn (£541.2bn) on December 30, 1999.
It is now valued at £163.6bn.
Apart from the iPhone and mini iPad, analysts are speculating that Apple plans to make a TV set to complete its suite of consumer electronics products.
However, the company usually refuses to comment on its future product plans until a few weeks or days before a launch. Apple's stock surge has made it a major part of many investment portfolios, often without the investors realising it.
The company makes up 4.7% of the value of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, which is used as the basis for many mutual funds.
China's largest oil company, PetroChina, could lay claim to having hit a market capitalization even higher than Apple's, because of the particularities of the Chinese stock market. PetroChina was briefly worth $1trn (£636bn) on after it listed on the Shanghai exchange in 2007, but only based on its price on that exchange, which is isolated from the rest of the financial world because of Chinese laws on foreign investment.
PetroChina's shares also trade in Hong Kong and on the New York Stock Exchange, and based on prices there, its market capitalisation never went as high as $500bn (£318bn).
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Clive Holden talks about his ongoing project Utopia Suite discussing his attraction to disco; disco music’s hidden politics and Ken Dryden in this interesting interview for The Memorandist blog. Read more at http://www.whitneylight.net/blog/
Saturday, June 27, 2009
A provocative exhibition by Winnipeg artist, Sarah Anne Johnson, winner of the 2008 Grange Prize.
In the 1950s, Sarah Anne Johnson’s maternal grandmother was an unsuspecting participant in a CIA research program. Seeking treatment for post-partum depression, she was subjected to a series of mind control experiments at the Allen Memorial Institute at McGill University, Montreal. In House on Fire, Johnson uses her artistic practice to explore this difficult history and begin to understand its effects on her family.
For more information visit the Art Gallery of Ontario at
Friday, June 19, 2009
Woodpile 33, 2006
Curated by Joan Stebbins.
Exhibition Dates: June 20 - September 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19, 2009, 7:30pm
Location: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
In hunter/gatherer, Toronto-based artist Vid Ingelevics brings together photographs from two of his most recent bodies of work; one of hunting platforms, the second of woodpiles. While both structures are ubiquitous throughout Canada, Ingelevics focuses his lens on those found in the countryside of Grey County, northwest of Toronto.
Such vernacular objects as woodpiles and hunting platforms, called tree stands by hunters, are embedded in the rural landscape in such a way as to become almost invisible. Ingelevics’ large-scale photographs capture these provisional and temporary landmarks in a project that draws into tension the paradox of documenting without historicizing, of recording sites of collective memory without disturbing them.
The subjects of Ingelevics’ project lie outside official, recorded history, residing instead in the oral traditions and stories that pass within families and communities of people. With no authoritative map documenting the locations of tree stands, and the methodologies of stacking wood bandied about not in the pages of how-to books but in woodlots, yards and kitchens, the photographs take on the presence of a pseudo-record, an unofficial archive and natural history of their own.
In the Ontario of Vid Ingelevics’ pictures, the tree stands are used by both urban and rural dwellers for whom hunting is a fundamental part of their identity, way of life, and understanding of the natural world. For many contemporary hunters, the pleasures of the hunt are to be found in the landscape, in wilderness adventure, in the skills needed to scout and stalk, and finally, in the kill itself. To many non-hunters, hunting is viewed as a macho, savage activity best shelved along with other primitive notions of survival. Ingelevics’ photographs bring us within range of this contested territory.
While wood heating is no longer necessary for survival in most industrialized countries, many people outside of urban areas have chosen not to abandon their woodpiles in favour of non-renewable resources. Wood burning for many rural people is an integral part of a contained and conserving way of life and the gathering of wood, splitting, stacking and burning of it is an annual, ongoing endeavour. Symbolic of heating and cooking, and the domestic realm of the gatherers, woodpiles unite us with nature in the preparation for winter. Building a woodpile is seen as a time-honoured art. Rituals are invoked, order is made out of disorder. In Ingelevics’ photographs, we see them take shape, much like the tree stands, out of specific needs and complex desires as highly individualistic but determinedly utilitarian structures.
The project of hunter/gatherer is a social history, a re-reading of the natural environment, the cultural impositions on it and their meanings. By photographing human activity in the rural environment, Vid Ingelevics contributes in a fundamental way to the still crucial dialogue about representations of nature and the landscape. For an artist who has focused his attention on such quotidian matter, Ingelevics reaches beyond the record into the lyrical space of the oral and informal exchange of knowledge. In doing so, he highlights the vital human experience of survival through social interchange.
Written by Kim Fullerton
Circulated by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Tom Thomson Art Gallery. For more information visit www.oakvillegalleries.com/current-centennial.htm
Saturday, June 13, 2009
You are invited to join us today for an intimate ARTIST TALK with SUNIL GUPTA. The lecture will be held in CAMERA and will be followed by a Q & A segment. After a short break we will be screening of GUPTA's documentary: I WANT TO LIVE, Dir. Sunil Gupta (India, 2009), 39 mins
Thursday, June 11, 2009
May 24 - August 30, 2009
Curated by David Harris
To mark Gabor Szilasi's 81st birthday, the Musée d'art de Joilette, in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, presents the Eloquence of the Everyday, an important retrospective of the work of the Hungarian-born Quebec artist. Structured around three themes - Hungary, Rural Quebec and Montreal - the exhibit brings together 130 photographs culled from diverse private and public collections both. These emblematic snapshots - some of which have never before been shown - form urban landscapes, architectural views and ambiance portraits testifying to Szilasi's indefatigable faith in the innately humanistic and documentary qualities of photography.
With his remarkable images of Quebec and Europe, Gabor Szilasi has produced, over the last fifty years, one of the most significant bodies of photographic work in Canada. Thanks to a European point of view rooted in the "savoir-faire" of Budapest's pictorial school, Szilasi has highlighted the specificities of the communities he photographed, creating touching documents that act as witness to the singular character of Hungarian and Quebecois societies of the latter half of the 20th century.
For more information visit:
Musée d'art de Joilette
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Mexican and Caribbean migrant farm workers in Canada
Lecture begins at 7pm
From among Vincenzo Pietropaolo's many long-term photographic projects, including his photography of the Italian-Canadian immigrant community in the 1970s, the processions of the faithful and the beautiful trees we live amongst, Harvest Pilgrims is a photographic project about the lives and experiences of migrant farm workers. Pietropaolo's images provide passage into a complex narrative involving commodity goods, families left behind, workers' rights, the realities of economic exchange, and the apples in Ontario fridges.
As the project description details, "Harvest Pilgrims is a series of photographs that chronicles the phenomenon of migrant farm workers in Canada, who come annually from Mexico, Jamaica, and smaller countries of the Caribbean, but who must return home every year at the end of the season. About 20,000 off shore workers, as they are referred to locally, are permitted to come every year, and Pietropaolo has been photographing them and recording the stories since 1984. He has visited in dozens of farms, and has followed some them to their homes in Mexico and Jamaica. Although they arrive as temporary workers, by coming every year they have become entrenched in the Canadian labour force, and are now the main stay of many traditional family farms in Canada, and increasingly, the larger corporate type farms. In fact, much of the harvest has become completely dependent on this transient yet permanently available work forcea vivid example of the globalized food economy. Harvest Pilgrims will be published as a monograph in September 2009, by BTL Publishers of Toronto."
Additionally, Pietropaolo has another forthcoming book, Invisible No More: A photographic chronicle of the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, due out in 2010 from Rutgers University Press.
Dylan Ellis Gallery @ Elevator Digital
42 Industrial Street
M4G 1 Y9
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia) on-line questionnaire, the Manitoba Version
What Would Manitoba Look Like Today if Louis Riel Had Succeeded?
He's many Canadians' favourite political hero/folk hero. What if Louis Riel had joined forces with Sitting Bull and the Dakota Sioux? Would the country still stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific? Was the Métis leader's vision of a homeland across Western Canada a utopian dream, in other words something desirable and also impossible? Would we have a different system of government today? Whose head would be on our money? Whose God in our constitution? The "Father of Manitoba" did speak of his divine direction, that God chose him as a prophet for his people. How many of our best leaders have this belief? Does it matter, if they lead us well? Louis Riel was executed for high treason. How many of our most visionary utopians have we lost in this way?
To complete the questionaire visit: you.utopiasuite.com
Who you'd include in your own Utopia Hall of Fame , and what are your own lost utopian dreams, hope-reviving epiphanies, shelved epic-heroic novel manuscripts, or dusty drawer brilliant blueprints. Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia) is part of Clive Holden's on-going, multi-year Utopia Suite project. The questionnaire results from the web + currently at several Winnipeg libraries will read and organized by Holden, and in response he will merge them with a variety of moving image media, to be presented throughout the Utopia Suite project. This will include a Manitoba segment in Holden's new Leader Series (watch for it in summer, 2009).
Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia) and the Utopia Hall of Fame originated as parts of Utopia Suite Disco , which encourages you to move as part of a renewed, process-oriented utopianism (think cinema, dancing, running like a kid, or nomadic cultures). Instead of static buildings and old notions of nation-building, the focus is shifting to organic and dynamic forms, modeled on the structures found in nature.
Utopia Suite Disco's dynamic media tile utopian portrait gallery and Feverish movement studies surround a wooden 'light hut' that has its own dance floor. This crude cubic room pulsates to a looping 60 minute disco + world music + soundscape magnum opus by Rotterdam composer Oscar van Dillen. You're invited to come visit, to walk inside the art, and then to move to break free of the chains of passive, politically inert despair.
This exhibition at the PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, presented by the WNDX Festival of Film & Video Art and circulated by the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, will include the following Utopia Suite segments: Utopia Suite Disco and Ken Dryden, as well as the on-going community outreach and utopian conversation: Y.O.U. (Your Own Utopia).
THE CELLULOID CLOSET
Dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (USA, 1996) 102 mins
ARTIST TALK with SUNIL GUPTA
followed by the screening of GUPTA's documentary:
I WANT TO LIVE
Dir. Sunil Gupta (India, 2009), 39 mins
Dir. Nigel Finch (UK, 1995) 99 mins
THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK
Dir. Rob Epstein (USA, 1984) 90 mins
A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Dir. Parvez Sharma (USA, 2007) 81 mins
Dir. Jonathan Demme (USA, 1993) 125 mins
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
Dir. William Friedkin (USA, 1970) 118 mins
Monday, June 8, 2009
We are excited to announce that gallery artist Gerald Pisarzowski has won the Power of a Smile Competition at CONTACT: Toronto Photography Festival 2009.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
THE CELLULOID CLOSET
Dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (USA, 1996) 102 mins
Based on the book of the same title written by Vito Russo, co-founder of GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), this documentary explores the portrayal of LGBT characters in Hollywood movies. Narrated by Lily Tomlin, The Celluloid Closet includes interviews with men and women within the Hollywood industry and explores both the portrayal of LGBT characters on film and the treatment of LGBT community members off-screen. The Celluloid Closet delves into issues of censorship and stereotyping and examines the role of popular culture in shaping perceptions of the LGBT community.
Friday, June 5, 2009
June 6 – July 18, 2009
RECEPTION for the Artist:
Thursday, June 11th, 5-8pm
ARTIST TALK and SCREENING:
Saturday, June 13th, 3 pm
The gallery is pleased to present “Mr Malhotra’s Party”, a series of photographic portraits by Sunil Gupta that address contemporary issues of gender and sexuality in Delhi, India.
Gupta’s (b. New Delhi, India, 1953) photographs, known for being political yet intimate, have chronicled the experiences of Delhi’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community since the 1980s. Gupta’s series entitled “Exiles” presented constructed documentary images of gay men in architectural spaces in Delhi. The faces of these men were shielded or cropped in order to conceal the individual’s identity. Gupta explains, “At a very basic level, gay men in India do not have an image. Literally,” He believes that “photography has a big role to play in providing us with an image of ourselves. And as a maker of photographs I see it as my role to make pictures that people can relate to.”
Now, almost thirty years later, people are meeting less in parks and secluded areas and more on the internet, and in “private” parties. Gay nights at local clubs in Delhi are always sign-posted as private parties in a fictitious person’s name to get around Section 377, a British colonial law, which criminalizes homosexuality in India. In “Mr Malhotra’s Party”, Gupta visualizes this latest queer space with a series of portraits of ‘real’ people who identify their sexuality as ‘queer’ in some way. These individuals confront the camera as they are now willing to identify themselves. They are situated in Delhi’s crowded urban landscape, where people live and work. They are part of the vernacular, the everyday, and proudly embrace their queer identity.
Gutpa was born in New Delhi, India, and moved to Montreal with his family in the late 1960s, where his interest in photography began to develop. In the late 1970s, he lived in New York, where he studied photography at the New School for Social Research under Lisette Model. Gutpa then moved to London, England, to continue his studies at the Royal College of Art. He now works as a photographer, writer and curator out of London and Delhi. Gupta works to promote a greater understanding of questions regarding representation, sexuality, access and cultural differences.
Gupta has published numerous monographs, including Wish You Were Here (Yoda Press, 2008) and Pictures from Here (Chris Boot Ltd., 2003). His photographs can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Fine Arts Museum, Houston; Arts Council of Great Britain; National Media Museum, Bradford, UK; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; amongst many others.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Photographs by Mark Ruwedel. With an essay by Jock Reynolds.
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008. 180 pp., Tritone illustrations, 14x11".
Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954) has photographed the American West for the past twenty-five years, revealing the narratives—both geological and human—contained within the landscape. This stunning book presents more than 70 prints from Ruwedel’s ongoing series Westward the Course of Empire, an inventory of the residual landforms created by the scores of railroads built in the American and Canadian West since 1869.
The grades, cuts, tunnels, and trestles depicted in Ruwedel’s photographs speak to a past triumph of technology over what was often perceived as hostile terrain, as well as to the desire and struggle to create wealth and power from the land. Long abandoned (and in some cases never completed), the railroads also evoke the futility of the enterprise. This book is thus a sublime yet restrained elegy to the land and to the follies and wonders of human ambition.
This book is also available as a limited collectors edition, which features a signed and numbered book with gilded page edges, a signed gelatin silver photograph printed by the artist all housed in an elegant custom made clam shell box. Ruwedel has chosen three different images reproduced in the book to accompany this rare special edition. Collectors can choose the print they prefer, subject to availability.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
We are in the last day of our special exhibition. Although it was only an 8-day show, it has been a terrific and popular adventure. Open for 24 hours/day since May 26th we have been visited by people who were at the original event, hundreds of fans and even a few visitors asking “who are those people in the photographs?”!
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House (University of Toronto), which proposed Mark Lewis, is the first institution in Canada to commission a new project by the artist. Barbara Fischer, the Commissioner/Curator for the Canada Pavilion is Director/Curator at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
Mark Lewis’s films for the Canada Pavilion combine documentary footage and dramatic action with his recent interest in the historical technique of rear projection, resulting in works that explore the history of place and the passage of time. The four autonomous works are presented together in a spatial syntax of oppositions that characterize some of the social tensions and spatial complexities that mark urban modernity as well as the conditions and potential of film as a modern medium. TD Centre, 54th Floor (2009) features a vertiginous view of the pulse of downtown traffic from the 54th floor of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic office tower in Toronto. In the film Cold Morning (2009), also shot in Toronto, Lewis shifts perspective by focusing on the actions of someone who lives and makes his home on the street during one of winter’s coldest days. With the medium of rear projection, Lewis elaborates the spatial dissociation more explicitly at the level of film itself. Set against the autonomous backdrop of pedestrian traffic within a public market, The Fight (2008) observes the to-and-fro of physical conflict without apparent resolution, while Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter’s Night, Skating (2009) follows the undulating narrative of lovers seemingly immersed in the open dream space of an urban skating rink.
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Mar 4, 2008
Are there negetive effects of using HGH with my HIV and meds? I have chronic disk issues and would like to help build muscle in the lower back and neck to help with the pain. Massages help the pain tremendously but I don't get them as often as I need. Is this a viable solution or something I should not look into any further?
Response from Dr. Frascino
Human recombinant growth hormone (hGH) is remarkable stuff. It's what makes the difference between becoming a super-sized world class basketball player and a pint-sized member of the Lollypop Guild. Originally used to treat kids with stunted growth, it has subsequently been tried in HIVers as a treatment for wasting, lipodystrophy and even immune reconstitution! Does it work? Well yes and no, and like many potential wonder drugs it has costs that can be both literal and figurative. Growth hormone has also been popping up outside the fields of HIV and endocrinology as a potential muscle enhancer and "fountain of youth" type agent. It's been a while since I've tackled this subject in this forum so I'll provide some basic information about hGH's use in the setting of HIV disease and then return to your primary question, OK?
Recombinant human growth hormone has been used primarily in the setting of HIV/AIDS to treat wasting. AIDS wasting syndrome (loss of lean body mass, i.e. muscle) was much more prevalent prior to the development of the newer more potent antiretrovirals that came into wide use in the second half of the 1990s. Weight loss can be the consequence of a number of underlying problems, such as lack of appetite, nausea, diarrhea, poor intestinal absorption, oral problems that make eating difficult, etc. Proper evaluation and management of these underlying conditions in combination with optimizing diet, the use of nutritional support and exercise can be remarkably effective in treating AIDS wasting. In addition, hGH can help some folks with AIDS wasting, particularly those who have a deficiency of naturally produced (endogenous) growth hormone. However, many HIVers with wasting are not significantly benefited from using hGH.
Use of hGH for lipodystrophy has also had mixed results. Benefits, when seen, are temporary. The high cost, risk of side effects (see below) and the only temporary nature of any beneficial effects have resulted in relatively low use of the product for this purpose. Mechanistically hGH is lipolytic, which means it does indeed dissolve fat. Unfortunately the fat reduction is not limited to the areas of abnormal fat accumulation (buffalo humps or protease paunches), but also extends to limb and facial fat. This effect can exacerbate lipoatrophic changes in the face (puppet face) and extremities (skinny legs and arms with prominent veins). This is yet another reason why many HIVers and HIV specialists are reluctant to use or recommend this product.
There has been some recent research out of San Francisco that suggests hGH may have some effect on immune reconstitution by reactivating the thymus gland and stimulating immune function in long-term HIVers. This research is very preliminary, but may help as we develop novel immune-based therapies going forward.
One of the major drawbacks of hGH, aside from its astoundingly high price tag, is its side effect profile, which includes: increased risk of diabetes, bone pain, fluid retention of the arms and legs, abnormal bone growth, carpel tunnel syndrome, nausea, diarrhea, flu-like symptoms and chest pain. In addition it has the potential to exacerbate cancers and lipoatrophy (fat loss in the face and extremities).
Returning to your specific question, there have been no formal studies to assess drug-drug interactions between hGH and antiretrovirals. Although certainly the folks in the clinical trials designed to assess hGH's effect in treating wasting, lipodystrophy, and immune reconstitution were on a variety of HIV medications. Therefore we have some clinical experience in using hGH and antiretrovirals together. As for a negative effect of hGH on the course of HIV, no. In fact the recent studies on thymic reactivation mentioned above suggest there may even be a potential positive effect in some folks.
Should you consider using hGH in an attempt to build up lower back and neck muscles to help with pain related to your chronic disc problems? No, I wouldn't recommend it. The potential risks would far outweigh any potential benefits.
You mention massages help the pain tremendously. This is a much safer and potentially infinitely more pleasurable therapeutic intervention, especially if you find just the right masseur! So why aren't you getting massages as often as you need them?? A talented masseur can not only work wonders on chronic neck and back pain, he may also help other areas of the body that might be "stiff," so to speak. So my advice is to leave the hGH for the Lollypop Guild. If you need to build muscle, find a studly workout buddy and hit the gym. If you want to relieve the back and neck pain, arrange for more frequent and extended massage sessions. A great massage can lead to a happy ending!
One more thing Cowboy: If you're writing from Texas, remember to gitty up and get out to the polls and vote for Obama today, OK? In fact I'll personally give a massage to any Texan cowboy who votes for him today. So Cowboy, will you be first in line at my massage table? Yes, you have to take your Stetson hat off, but the boots and spurs can stay on if you insist.
Happy Trails Tex, until.....
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To the Editor:
This letter is written in response to the recent articles about Honeywell’s dredging of Onondaga Lake.
O’Brien & Gere is one of the oldest and largest engineering and scientific companies in Central New York with more than 450 of our 900 employees working in Central New York. We have been a part of the Onondaga Lake remediation team (comprised of our skilled engineers and scientists, partners, local union labor, and nationally recognized technical experts) for more than 25 years. Protection of the environment and the health and safety of our employees and the community has and continues to be O’Brien & Gere’s number one priority and is fundamental to everything we do.
In line with this priority, comprehensive efforts to protect the public’s health and safety are an important part of the work we are completing to support the remediation of Onondaga Lake. As part of our work, we are responsible for the development and implementation of a comprehensive air quality monitoring plan that evaluates air quality on a continuous basis in the areas proximate to dredging operations and the sediment consolidation area. We have hundreds of employees involved, including a number of personnel who work on-site, 24 hours a day and seven days a week, to implement the air quality monitoring plan throughout dredging operations. While odors were detected during the first year of dredging, the monitoring data collected indicates that air quality levels associated with the project are well below the regulatory limits established for the project for the protection of human health.
This air quality monitoring plan is a part of the overall Lake remediation program that is being conducted in compliance with state and federal regulations and under the direction and oversight of the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the New York state Department of Health (DOH).
As a corporation that has operated in Central New York for 70 years, we are fully committed to the health and safety of our community, our employees, and the environment.
Christopher Calkins, Program Manager
on behalf of The O'Brien & Gere Onondaga Lake Remediation Team
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Element 14 surpasses 100k RaspBerry Pi orders
Raspberry Pi's tiny $35 Model B computer, which recently began shipping, has surpassed more than 100,000 orders maker element14 reported on Wednesday. While it was originally due to ship in February, a number of delays meant element14 was only recently able to resume production in full force. Orders placed on or before April 18 will arrive by the end of June, while those received after won't ship until July.
The company co-founder Eben Upton demonstrated the computer to 15 UK schoolchildren to show off its capabilities. He also hosted a tutorial on the web to show developers how quick it is to program the device.
The company plans to release a cheaper, $25 Model A, though it will do without USB ports or an Ethernet connection. Its ship date hasn't yet been announced.
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Guests staying at the Mill Street Inn in tony Newport, Rhode Island will almost certainly include a visit to one of the town’s famous mansions during their stay.
But you don’t need to travel to Newport to catch a glimpse of extravagance from a bygone era. Here are four famous homes worth visiting around the country.
Vizcaya, Miami, FL – The summer home to industrialist James Deering, this elaborate mansion is set on 10 acres overlooking Miami’s Biscayne Bay.
Falling Water, Bear Run, PA – Not a mansion per se, but this elegant Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece is perhaps the best-known home in the U.S. It is the only public, major Wright-designed house with all of its original details still intact.
Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA – This sprawling complex famously started out as a “bungalow” before ballooning into one of the most opulent and eccentric homes in the country. The Neptune Pool is adorned by an actual roman temple facade!
Pabst Mansion, Milwaukee, WI – One doesn’t necessarily equate PBR with high society, but Captain Frederick Pabst built himself quite a house–to the tune of $32.7 million in 2011 dollars.
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although initally i believed the book had promise, i became increasingly frustrated at the depth of detail, the commentator for Bellamys utopia, spent on explaining it. the overall structre is generally sound but can become tedoius. as for the world as bellamy envisons, well he can have it. give me the harsh, unequal, but despite this, real ninetenth century. as a vision good; as a reality no chance. but to be fair to bellamy he probably accepts this and this is why he artculates his philosophy through literature. a book that encourages you to think but it works best as a critque of the ninetenth century.
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William R. Smith, a career railroader who rose from coach cleaner to head the Canton Railroad Co. and was also a strong advocate for the port of Baltimore, died Saturday from complications of Parkinson's disease at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The longtime Ruxton resident was 83.
"Bill was a mentor to me and I always appreciated the confidence he had in me," said John C. Magness, president and chief executive officer of the Canton Railroad Co. "He had a bit of an edge and like Earl Weaver, could be tough but he was always right. It was a life well-lived."
"Bill was an energetic, detail-oriented person. He was a man who enjoyed new ideas," said Helen Delich Bentley, former maritime editor of The Baltimore Sun, who later became a congresswoman and federal maritime commissioner.
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"He expended a lot of energy trying to improve business in and through Baltimore. He never hesitated in going after a possible customer. He was there," said Mrs. Bentley. "When he assumed a task, he gave it his all."
The son of an oil company worker and a vaudeville booking agent, William Richard Smith was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated from West High School.
He served in the Army, where he attained the rank of corporal, and worked from 1947 to 1948 as a medical laboratory technician.
Mr. Smith then enrolled at Ohio State University, where he studied business administration on the GI Bill. He worked his way through college as a coach-cleaner for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
"He saw the power of the railroad industry and railroads became his transportation niche," said a daughter, Catherine Durkin of Ruxton.
After earning his bachelor's degree in 1953, Mr. Smith went to work in the freight traffic department of the Pennsylvania Railroad where he rose to sales manager.
He held freight traffic assignments in Cincinnati, Chicago, Fort Wayne, Columbus and Milwaukee before coming to Baltimore in 1958, when he was named foreign sales manager.
While working for the Pennsy, Mr. Smith honed his business acumen.
"I had a boss in Milwaukee who used to say, 'Use your imagination, use your imagination,'" Mr. Smith told The Baltimore Sun in a 1998 interview.
"Finally, one day I went to the library and got out a book on imagination. It's funny how much you can learn. I try to find out everything about a problem and then figure out what the practical solutions are. Then, I set out to do it."
He left the Pennsy in 1961 when he joined the Canton Railroad Co., a 39-mile industrial railroad that began operating in 1906. Canton Railroad was an offspring of the Canton Co. that was founded in 1828 by some of the same businessmen who established the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1827.
Mr. Smith's first job for the Canton was foreign sales manager, a position he held until 1970 when he left to become vice president of sales for the Dickinson-Heffner Real Estate Development Co.
He returned to the Canton in 1974 as vice president, a position he held until 1980. In 1976, he was elected to be a director of the Canton Co. and its three subsidiaries: Canton Railroad Co., the Cottman Co. and Canton Agency Inc.
Mr. Smith left the Canton in 1980 and for the next decade was associated with TDRC Corp., sales agents for an Atlanta rail car leasing firm that he founded with Robert W. Dale Jr., another Canton executive.
He returned to the Canton a third time when he was named president of the line from 1990, a position he held until retiring in 1997.
During Mr. Smith's tenure, made marketing and improving customer relations "top priorities," wrote Gary W. Schlerf in his 1996 book, "The History of the Canton Railroad Company: Artery of Baltimore's Industrial Heartland."
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Humanity, that most adaptable of species, is on the march. The hunter-gatherers who became farmers are now halfway down the road from being agriculturalists to urbanites. Arrival City brilliantly captures the breakneck pace of this "great migration", as the peasants of the poor world relocate to their own megacities – and ours. And it brings profoundly good news from the mean streets. These migrants move in hope from field to favela. Their new urban streets may not be paved with gold, but at least they are sometimes paved. They offer opportunity. And while disaster may await, life in the city is usually better, more healthy, more interesting and with a better chance of advancement. We should welcome the newcomers.
Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage and sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and optimistic narrative about our future. This is the perfect antidote to the doom-laden determinism of the last popular book on urbanisation, Mike Davis's Planet of Slums. While Davis produced a relentless cascade of terrifying facts, Saunders offers people, their hopes and dreams and triumphs. His story is rooted not in statistics but in the stories of some of the two billion people – a third of humanity – currently moving from rural to urban areas.
He maps a world of "arrival cities", the places where new migrants end up. They are often seen as fetid social sinks, drowning in people and their excretions. But Saunders sees them as the bubbling soup from which new opportunities are born. From Brick Lane in London to the back streets of Dhaka; from newly gentrified Watts in Los Angeles to burgeoning Istanbul, he finds not hellholes, but a rich brew of aspiration, entrepreneurship and impromptu social organisation.
These migrants are not passive victims. They are opportunists, taking a gamble on the future in an urbanising world. They are humanity at its best, not worst. So we meet Sanjay in Mumbai, who shares a bare concrete floor with three other men, so he can send his meagre earnings as a street hawker home to his family in rural Maharashtra. Then there's Pedro, brought up in a gang-ridden São Paulo slum, known only a decade ago as the most violent place on earth. He now lives a middle-class life of espresso bars, internet surfing and private schooling for the kids, in an apartment on the same street where the gangs once dumped the bodies of their victims.
This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities half a century ago. Certainly, it shares the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners to help rather than stifle those dreams.
To that end, Saunders sees "high-intensity" living – overcrowding, in the words of most planners – as a key to success in arrival cities. It encourages the cheap housing, business start-ups, social networking and sheer spontaneity that are key to taking the next step up.
Things don't always work out. When suburban neighbours turn their backs, the results can be frightful. He says the unmet demands of migrants in arrival cities triggered both the Islamic fundamentalist revolution in Iran in 1979 and Hugo Chávez's populist Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela a decade later.
But he finds numerous models for success, too. In Chongqing and Rio de Janeiro; in the thriving economies being built out of notorious slums such as Dharavi in Mumbai and Orangi in Karachi; in the rise of Britain's Bangladeshi migrants, which has enabled them to send money home to Sylhet, where the big new houses in the villages are known as Londoni houses.
This is the final century of global urbanisation. We can, Saunders believes, harness the optimism and drive of the new urban arrivals to make this last great migration "a force for lasting progress, an end to poverty, a more sustainable economy, a less brutal existence". This requires us to understand and embrace the migration, investing in the arrival cities and offering some common humanity in a good cause.
To those who see urban migrants as totems of soaring world population, he says cities are the places where rural peasants, accustomed to raising large families to work in the fields, learn the virtues of having fewer kids and getting them educated. Arrival cities are actually where the world's population stops growing.
To those who fear millions more poor migrants arriving in the rich world, he argues that we need them for their skills, youth and energy. As Europe's indigenous populations shrink and age, what future do we have without Brazilian waiters and Eritrean fruit-pickers, Mexican barbers and Indian academics and Filipino nurses?
To those who want to tear down migrants' slums, he says we should protect them instead. Few books can make rationalists feel optimistic and empowered for the future. This one does.
Fred Pearce's Peoplequake is published by Eden Project.
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South Africa national rugby union team
|Union||South African Rugby Union|
|Nickname(s)||Springboks, Springbokke, Boks, Bokke, Amabokoboko|
|Emblem(s)||the Springbok and the Protea|
|Captain(s)||Jean De Villiers|
|Most caps||John Smit (111)|
|Top scorer||Percy Montgomery (893)|
|Most tries||Bryan Habana (47)
(correct as at 25 November 2012)
|South Africa 0 – 4 British Isles
(30 July 1891)
| South Africa 134 – 3 Uruguay
(11 June 2005)
| England 53 – 3 South Africa
(23 November 2002)
|Appearances||5/7 (First in 1995)|
|Best result||Champions, 1995 & 2007|
The South Africa national rugby union team (known as the Springboks) represents South Africa in rugby union. They compete in the annual Rugby Championship, along with southern-hemisphere counterparts Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. They have won this championship on three occasions in sixteen years. They are currently ranked second in the world by the International Rugby Board, and were named 2008 World Team of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards.
Although South Africa was instrumental in the creation of the Rugby World Cup competition, the Springboks did not compete in the first two World Cups in 1987 and 1991 because of anti-apartheid sporting boycotts of South Africa. The team made its World Cup debut in 1995, when the newly democratic South Africa hosted the tournament. The Springboks then defeated the All Blacks 15–12 in the final, which is now remembered as one of the greatest moments in South Africa's sporting history, and a watershed moment in the post-Apartheid nation-building process. South Africa regained their title as champions 12 years later, when they defeated England 15–6 in the 2007 final. As a result of the 2007 World Cup tournament the Springboks were promoted to first place in the IRB World Rankings, a position they held until July the following year when New Zealand regained the top spot.
The Springboks play in green and gold jerseys, and their emblems are the Springbok and the Protea. The side has been playing international rugby since 1891, when a British Isles side toured the nation, playing South Africa in their first Test on 30 July. South Africa was coached by Jake White, who led the Boks to the 2007 World Cup title, announcing his resignation effectively from the end of 2007. His replacement's (Peter de Villiers) contract expired in 2011, following a 11–9 defeat to Australia in the Rugby World Cup quarter-final, who then stated he would not be signing a new deal. The previous captain was John Smit, who before he retired in 2011 played hooker for most of his career, although he has also been a prop, mainly in 2008 and 2009. Due to Smit being unavailable for the November 2010 Tests after surgery, lock Victor Matfield took Smit's place as captain for that tour. The current captain is Jean de Villiers.
Early years
First internationals
The first British Isles tour took place in 1891, with the trip financially underwritten by Cape Colony Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes. These were the first representative games played by South African sides, who were still learning the game. The tourists played and won a total of twenty matches, conceding only one point in the process. South Africa's first Tests were played, although South Africa did not exist as political unit until 1910. In a notable event of the tour, the British side presented the Currie Cup to Griqualand West, the province they thought produced the best performance on the tour.
The British Isles' success continued on their 21 game tour of 1896. The British Isles won three out of the four Tests against South Africa. South Africa's play improved markedly from 1891. Their forwards were particularly impressive, and their first Test win in the final game was a pointer to the future. For the first time South Africa had worn myrtle green shirts, which their captain, Barry Heatlie, borrowed from his Old Diocesans club. Rugby was given a huge boost by the early Lions tours, which created great interest in the South African press.
Rugby was so popular that in 1902 there was a temporary ceasefire in the Second Boer War so that a game could be played between British and Boer forces. The game had spread among the Afrikaner population through POW games during the Boer War, and afterwards Stellenbosch University became a training ground for future players and administrators.
In 1903 the British Isles lost a series for the first time in South Africa, drawing the opening two Tests before losing the last 8–0. In all, the tourists won just 11 of their 22 tour games. By contrast, South Africa would not lose another series—home or away—until 1956.
Paul Roos was the captain of the first South African team to tour the British Isles and France. The team was largely dominated by players from Western Province, and took place over 1906–07. The team played 29 matches; including Tests against all four Home Nations. England managed a draw, but Scotland was the only one of the Home unions to gain a victory.
During this tour the nickname Springboks was first used. There is often confusion as to the springbok symbol being worn before the name was invented, but this may be down to the fact the tour manager, J.C. Carden, spoke of having no 'uniforms or blazers' with the icon, though he did not appear to mean the jerseys. It was reported in the Daily Mail on 20 September 1906, seven days before the first match, that 'The team's colours will be myrtle green with gold collar... and will have embroidered in mouse-coloured silk on the left breast a Springbok'. Carden later stated:
|“||...No uniforms or blazers had been provided... That night I spoke to Roos and Carolin and pointed out that the witty London Press would invent some funny name for us if we did not invent one ourselves. We thereupon agreed to call ourselves Springboks and to tell Pressmen that we desired to be so named. I remember this distinctly, for Paul (Roos) reminded us that "Springbokken" was the correct plural. However, the Daily Mail, after our first practice, called us the Springboks and the name stuck. I at once ordered the dark green, gold-edged blazers...||”|
Newspaper reporters were to call the team "De Springbokken", and later The Daily Mail printed an article referring to the "Springboks". The team thereafter wore blazers with a springbok on the left breast pocket. Historically the term 'Springbok' was applied to any team or individual representing South Africa in international competition regardless of sporting discipline. This tradition was abandoned with the advent of South Africa's new democratic government in 1994. The trip helped heal wounds after the Boer War and instilled a sense of national pride among South Africans.
The South Africans crossed the channel to play an unofficial match against a 'France' team drawn from the two Parisian clubs: Stade Français and Racing Club de France. The official French team were in England at the time. The Springboks won 55–6 and scored 13 tries in the process.
The 1910 British Isles tour of South Africa was the first to include representatives from all four Home unions. The team performed moderately against the non-test parties, claiming victories in just over half their matches. The tourists won just one of their three Tests.
Inter war
By the first World War New Zealand and South Africa had established themselves as rugby's two greatest powers. A New Zealand Army match tour of South Africa in 1919 paved the way for a Springbok tour to New Zealand and Australia in 1921. The tour was billed as "The World Championship of Rugby". The All Blacks won the first Test 13–5, which included a try by All Blacks winger Jack Steel who had sprinted 50 metres with the ball trapped between his right hand and back to score. The Springboks recovered to win the second Test 9–5 thanks to a Gerhard Morkel drop-goal. The final Test was drawn 0–0 after being played in terrible conditions—resulting in a series draw.
The 1924 British and Irish Lions team to South Africa struggled with injuries and won only nine of 21 games. They lost all four Tests to the Springboks, but despite the results, the tour produced some attractive rugby. This was the first side to pick up the name Lions, apparently picked up from the Lions embroidered on their ties.
The All Blacks first toured South Africa in 1928, and again the Test series finished level. Despite playing most of the second half with only 14 men, with a dominant scrum and fly-half Bennie Osler, the Springboks won the first Test 17–0 to inflict the All Blacks' heaviest defeat since 1893. The All Blacks rebounded to win the second Test 7–6. After a Springbok win in the third Test, the Springboks needed to win the fourth to secure a series victory. The New Zealanders bought back Mark Nicholls for his only Test of the series, and their captain Maurice Brownlie told the team a week before the Test that "Under no circumstances whatever is anyone of you so much as to touch a rugby ball until we play the Springboks in the last test." Their tactics were successful and the All Blacks won 13–5 to draw the series.
Despite winning South Africa's second Grand Slam, the Springbok tourists of 1931–32 were an unloved team. They had a jumbo pack and a kicking fly-half in captain Bennie Osler. Their tactics of kicking for territory earned them criticism both in South Africa and abroad. It was successful however, the team winning against England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as defeating all their Welsh opponents for the first time.
In 1937 South Africa toured New Zealand and Australia and broke the deadlock with a series win in New Zealand. Their 2–1 series win prompted them to be called "the best team to ever leave New Zealand". Despite the All Blacks winning the first Test, the Springboks' won in the third Test 17–6 and scored five tries to none. The All Blacks' loss was considered a humiliation in New Zealand.
The British Isles toured South Africa again in 1938, winning more than half of their normal matches. The Springboks easily claimed the first two tests. But the tourists recorded a surprise win in the third Test, the first Lions win in South Africa since 1910.
Post-war era
Danie Craven was appointed coach in 1949, and started his coaching career with a bang. The Springboks won ten matches in a row, including a 4–0 whitewash of New Zealand on their 1949 tour to South Africa. Prop Okey Geffin helped kick the Springboks to victory—they won all four Tests despite the All Blacks scoring more tries in three of them. The 1951–52 team that toured Europe was considered amongst the finest Springbok sides to tour. The team won the Grand Slam as well as defeating France. Hennie Muller captained the side after original captain Basil Kenyon suffered a serious eye injury. The South African highlight of the tour was a 44–0 defeat of Scotland. The defeat of Scotland included nine tries, and was a record at the time. The team finished with only one loss, to London Counties, from 31 matches. In 1954, Australia toured South Africa for the second time and although they lost the series they were given a standing ovation after defeating South Africa 18–14 in a thrilling 2nd Test at Newlands. Wallaby Captain John Solomon was chaired off the field by two South African players. This was the first Springbok defeat for 15 years. During their 1955 tour to South Africa, the Lions won 19 and drew one from the 25 fixtures. The four-test series ended in a draw. In 1956 the All Blacks won its first series over the Springboks, in what Chris Hewett called "in the most bitterly fought series in history." Surprise selection Don Clarke from Waikato—nicknamed the Boot—kicked the decisive penalties in the final Tests.
South Africa had defeated France 25–3 at Colombes Stadium in 1952, and when France toured South Africa in 1958 they were not expected to compete. Georges Duthen described the mood of the French players before their first Test in 1958: "They were going into battle. A Battle for France. And they hadn't a hope..." France exceeded expectations and drew 3–3 with after a drop goal to French scrum-half Pierre Danos and unconverted try to South Africa's Butch Lochner. The French then secured a Test series victory in South Africa with their 9–5 victory in front of 90,000 spectators in Johannesburg. The French feared the South African forwards, especially their scrum, and focused much of their training before the series on improving the "South African" style of their forwards. The decisive moment of the match was French forward Jean Barthe's tackle on Jan Prinsloo near the French try-line prevented a certain try. The momentum then swung to France who scored drop-goals—one each to Pierre Lacaze and Roger Martine—to secure the historic victory.
Even before the apartheid laws were passed after 1948, sporting teams going to South Africa had felt it necessary to exclude non-white players. New Zealand rugby teams in particular had done this, and the exclusion of George Nepia and Jimmy Mill from the 1928 All Blacks tour, and the dropping of Ranji Wilson from the New Zealand Army team nine years before that, had attracted little comment at the time. However, in 1960 international criticism of apartheid grew in the wake of the The Wind of Change speech and the Sharpeville massacre.
From this point onward, the Springboks were increasingly the target of international controversy and protest. The All Blacks toured in 1960, despite a campaign based on the slogan of "No Maoris, No Tour", and a 150,000 signature petition opposing it. The Springboks avenged their 1956 series defeat by winning the Test series 2–1 with a Test drawn. The first match was won 13–0 by the Springboks with two tries to Hennie van Zyl. New Zealand journalist Noel Holmes said after the match "I hang my head in shame for having suggested that your forwards might be slow, even unfit." The All Blacks won the second Test 11–3 which they did so with a dominant forward pack and the tactical kicking of Don Clarke. The players selected for the third and fourth Tests formed the core of Springboks side for the next three seasons. The third Test was drawn 11–11 after a last minute sideline conversion from All Black Don Clarke. The deciding Test was won 8–3 by the Springboks with the decisive try scored by Martin Pelser.
Later that same year the Springboks themselves toured, and led by Avril Malan they defeated all four Home unions for their fourth Grand Slam. On a four-month, 34 game sweep through Europe they played a ruthless, forward-oriented game in which intimidation was a key part, and opposition players suffered a string of controversial injuries. However, they lost their final game 6–0 against the Barbarians in Cardiff, beaten when perhaps the Barbarians' pack played an uncharacteristically pragmatic game.
In 1962 the British Isles, won 16 of their 25 games on their tour to South Africa, but did not do so well in the Tests—losing all three. In 1963 the touring Wallabies beat the Springboks in consecutive Tests, the first team to do so since the 1896 British team.
Wales toured South Africa and played several games and one Test in 1964—their first overseas tour. They lost the Test against South Africa in Durban 24–3, their biggest defeat in 40 years. At the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) annual general meeting that year, the outgoing WRU President D. Ewart Davies declared that "it was evident from the experience of the South African Tour that a much more positive attitude to the game was required in Wales... Players must be prepared to learn, and indeed re-learn, to the absolute point of mastery, the basic principles of Rugby Union football."
South Africa had a disastrous year in 1965, losing on tour to Ireland, Scotland, Australia (twice) and New Zealand (three times) while winning just once against New Zealand. The planned 1967 tour by the All Blacks was cancelled by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union after the South African government refused to allow Maori players.
In 1968 the Lions toured and won 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but lost three Tests and drew one. Next year the 1969 Springbok tour to Britain and Ireland found a new spirit and confidence had developed in Home nations rugby, and the tourists lost two of their seven games in Wales—against Newport and a composite side from Monmouthshire. Wales nearly claimed their first win against the Springboks as the game ended 6–6. The Springboks lost the Test matches against England and Scotland, drawing the one against Ireland. Throughout the tour however, large anti-apartheid demonstrations were a feature, and many matches had to be played behind barbed wire fences.
In 1970 the All Blacks toured South Africa once again—after the 1967 stand-off, the South African government now agreed to treat Maoris in the team, and Maori spectators, as 'honorary whites'. The Springboks won the test series 3–1.
The Springbok tour of Australia in 1971 began with matches in Perth, then Adelaide and Melbourne. The Springboks won all three Tests, scoring 18–6, 14–6, and 19–11. As in Britain three years before however, massive anti-apartheid demonstrations greeted the team, and they had to be transported by the Royal Australian Air Force after the trade unions refused to service planes or trains transporting them. Although a tour of New Zealand had been planned for 1973, it was blocked by New Zealand Prime Minister Norman Kirk on the grounds of public safety.
The Lions team that toured South Africa in 1974 led by Willie John McBride was unbeaten over 22 games, and triumphed 3–0 (with one drawn) in the Test series. A key feature was the Lions' infamous '99 call'. Lions management had decided that the Springboks dominated their opponents with physical aggression, so decided "to get their retaliation in first". At the call of '99' each Lions player would attack their nearest rival player. The idea was that a South African referee would be unlikely to send off all of the Lions. At the "battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium"—one of the most violent matches in rugby history—JPR Williams famously ran over half of the pitch and launched himself at 'Moaner' van Heerden after such a call.
The 1976 All Blacks tour of South Africa went ahead, and the Springboks won by three Tests to one, but coming shortly after the Soweto riots the tour attracted international condemnation and 28 countries boycotted the 1976 Summer Olympics in protest, and the next year, in 1977, the Commonwealth signed the Gleneagles Agreement, which discouraged any sporting contact with South Africa. In response to the growing pressure the segregated South African rugby unions merged in 1977. Four years later Errol Tobias would became the first non-white South African to represent his country when he took the field against Ireland. A planned 1979 Springbok tour of France was stopped by the French government, who announced that it was inappropriate for South African teams to tour France.
The Lions toured South Africa in 1980. The team completed a flawless non-Test record, winning 14 out of 14 non-Test matches on the tour. But they lost the first three Tests before winning the last one.
The 1981 tour of New Zealand went ahead in defiance of the Gleneagles Agreement. South Africa lost the series 2–1, but the tour and the massive civil disruption in New Zealand had ramifications far beyond rugby.
South Africa sought to counteract its sporting isolation by inviting the South American Jaguars to tour. The team contained mainly Argentinian players, whose national team had struggled to attract strong international opposition. Eight matches were played between the two teams in the early 1980s—all awarded Test status.
In 1985, a planned All Black tour of South Africa was stopped by the New Zealand High Court. A rebel tour took place the next year by a team known as the Cavaliers. The team was not sanctioned by the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, yet consisted of all but two of the original squad that had been selected. For some of the tests, the team was advertised, inside South Africa as the All Blacks whilst at the others they were advertised as the New Zealand Cavaliers. The Springboks won the series 3–1.
In 1989, a World XV sanctioned by the International Rugby Board went on a mini-tour of South Africa. All traditional rugby nations bar New Zealand supplied players to the team with ten Welshmen, eight Frenchmen, six Australians, four Englishmen, one Scot and one Irishman.
From 1990 to 1991 the legal apparatus of apartheid was abolished, and the Springboks were readmitted to international rugby in 1992. They struggled to return to their pre-isolation standards, and in their first games after readmission the Springboks were defeated 27–24 by New Zealand on 15 August 1992 and also suffered a 26–3 loss to Australia the following month. Ian McIntosh was sacked as national coach following a series defeat to the All Blacks in New Zealand in mid-1994. In October of that year, Kitch Christie accepted an offer to take over from McIntosh.
South Africa was selected to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and there was a remarkable surge of support for the Springboks among the white and black communities in the lead-up to the tournament. This was the first major event to be held in what Archbishop Desmond Tutu had dubbed "the Rainbow Nation." South Africans of all colours got behind the slogan coined by Edward Griffiths, then CEO of the rugby federation: "one team, one country".
Wearing a Springbok shirt, Nelson Mandela presented the trophy to captain Francois Pienaar, a white Afrikaner. The gesture was widely seen as a major step towards the reconciliation of white and black South Africans. Mandela's enthusiasm and support for the Springboks is portrayed in the 2009 film Invictus. SARFU President Louis Luyt caused controversy at the post-match dinner by declaring that the Springboks would have won the previous two World Cups if they had been allowed to compete. The day after the World Cup victory, the Xhosa word for Springbok, Amabokoboko! appeared as the headline of The Sowetan's sports page.
A series of crises followed in 1995 through 1997 as it became clear that South African rugby was an unreformed element of the new Rainbow Nation. The team was also struck by tragedy, as Christie, who had led them to victory in all 14 Tests he coached, was forced to resign in 1996 after battling leukaemia for more than a decade. An on-field slump saw South African sides struggle in the new Super 12 and Tri-Nations competitions. Under new coach John Hart and the captaincy of Sean Fitzpatrick, the All Blacks won a Test series in South Africa for the first time in 1996. Fitzpatrick even rated the series win higher than the 1987 World Cup victory in which he had participated. The 1997 Lions completed their South African tour with only two losses in total, winning the Test series two games to one.
Coach Andre Markgraaff was fired in 1997 over a racial comment he made. Despite a successful career as a player, Markgraaff's replacement Carel du Plessis led the team to successive defeats in the British and Irish Lions 1997 tour and the 1997 Tri Nations Series. He was replaced later in 1997 by Nick Mallett, who went on to coach the unbeaten 1997 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and France in late 1997. In 1998 Mallett and new captain Gary Teichmann tied the then-existing record of the 1965–69 All Blacks for longest Test winning streak, winning 17 consecutive Tests, including the 1998 Tri-Nations. In the same year, South Africa mourned as Christie's illness claimed his life. The Springboks entered the 1999 Rugby World Cup competition with little hope. Reverting to a kicking game and forward strength, they showed they were still a force to be reckoned with, losing to eventual champions Australia in a tense semi-final at Twickenham.
New millennium
At Twickenham in November 2002 England defeated South Africa 53–3, which was their worst ever loss, after Springbok Jannes Labuschagne was red-carded after 23 minutes and the Boks played three quarters of the match one man short. An increasingly frustrated South African side began physically targeting England players during the match, with footage showing captain Corné Krige as a leader. In the 2002 and 2003 seasons, the Springboks also lost by record margins to France, Scotland and New Zealand. They defeated Argentina by only one point, and were eliminated from the 2003 World Cup in the quarter final round – their worst ever showing in a World Cup record of two gold and one bronze from five appearances.
During a pre-World Cup training camp, there was a highly publicised dispute between Geo Cronjé (an Afrikaner) and Quinton Davids (a coloured). Both were dropped from the team, and Cronjé was called before a tribunal to answer charges that his actions in the dispute were racially motivated. Cronjé was eventually cleared. Later, the Boks were sent to a military-style boot camp in the South African bush called Kamp Staaldraad (literal English translation "Camp Steel-wire", idiomatically "Camp Barbed Wire"). After the World Cup, then- coach Rudolph Straeuli was under fire, not only because of the team's poor results, but because of his role in organising Kamp Staaldraad. He eventually resigned, and in February 2004 Jake White was named as new national coach.
The Springboks then swept Ireland in a two-Test series and defeated Wales during their opponents' June 2004 tours of the Southern Hemisphere. Next came a win in the most closely contested Tri Nations in history—their only Tri Nations trophy since 1998. In November 2004, the Springboks went on a Grand Slam tour of the Home Nations. They were decisively defeated by England, and lost controversially to Ireland. They then won a hard-fought match against Wales, and prevailed comfortably against Scotland. The Springbok resurgence was honoured with a sweep of the major International Rugby Board awards. The Boks were named Team of the Year, White Coach of the Year, and flanker Schalk Burger Player of the Year.
In 2005 the Springboks defeated an embarrassed Uruguay by a world record margin. Zimbabwean-born new cap, Tonderai Chavanga, scored a record six tries in the match, surpassing Stefan Terblanche's previous record of five. The side finished second in the Tri-Nations that year, losing their final match to New Zealand. The springboks thought they had the match before Keven Mealamu scored the match winning try for the All Blacks in the 27–31 loss. The year ended positively with close victories away from home against Argentina, among others.
With several new players aboard, the 2006 Springboks defeated Scotland twice in South Africa, before a loss in a closely contested match to France ended their long undefeated home record. A very bad start to the 2006 Tri Nations Series saw them lose 49–0 to the Wallabies. The Springboks put together better games in the following two matches, losing in the final minutes in the second test against Australia. Answering the call from many South African supporters to play a more expansive style of rugby, coach Jake White fielded a far more adventurous team. They broke South Africa's five game losing streak by beating the All Blacks 21–20 at Royal Bafokeng Stadium—the first time a Test match had been played at this rural venue near Rustenburg. The All Blacks' defeat to the South Africans was their only loss of the year. The highlight of South Africa's tour to Europe was the 24–15 win over England at Twickenham, after a loss to Ireland and one to England the previous week. A South Africa XV also played a World XV on this tour at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester.
In July 2006, Springbok coach Jake White told the press he had been unable to pick some white players for his squad "because of transformation"—a reference to the ANC government’s policies attempting to redress the racial imbalances in national sport.
Rugby World Cup 2007
Grouped in Pool A at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France, they opened their campaign in Paris with a 59–7 victory over Samoa. Next up was England at the Stade de France, where the Springboks triumphed 36–-0. The third pool game against Tonga in Lens was more competitive and they narrowly won 30–25. The final pool game against the USA in Montpellier produced a 64–15 win.
Having won all their pool games, they advanced to the quarter finals to defeat Fiji 37–20 before accounting for Argentina 37–13 in the semi-finals. They prevailed 15–6 over England to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for a second time on 20 October 2007. Some members of the English media claimed that the match was controversial because they felt that an England try was disallowed by the Australian fourth official. The Springboks won the match joining Australia as the only other national team to have won the trophy twice.
After the World Cup
2008 was a mixed year for the Springboks. Going into the year as world champions, they were under pressure to perform. In January 2008, history was made when Peter de Villiers was appointed as the first non-white coach of the Springboks. De Villiers's first squad included ten of colour and managed two victories against Wales (43–17 and 37–21) and one against Italy (26–0) in Incoming Tours. They had an ultimately disappointing Tri Nations ending up last with only two wins. They did manage a historic triumph in Dunedin, a city in which they had never tasted victory in over 100 years. The Springboks did enough to beat Wales and Scotland before thrashing England on the end of year tour . This was good preparation for the upcoming British and Irish Lions Tour.
2009: A full trophy cabinet and a disappointing tour
The 2009 season began as one of the more successful in the post-apartheid history of South African rugby. The Boks' 2009 international campaign began with a closely fought 2–1 series win over the Lions. They followed it up with a convincing win in the Tri Nations, sweeping the All Blacks and losing only to the Wallabies in Brisbane. In the process, they added the Freedom Cup (against New Zealand) and the Mandela Challenge Plate (against Australia) to their trophy cabinet.
However, the Boks' busy year finally took its toll when they toured Europe in the November Test window. They lost their top spot in the IRB rankings with a loss to France, while a midweek side lost two non-Tests to Leicester Tigers and Saracens. The first-string Boks returned to defeat Italy, but were beaten by Ireland to close out the year.
On 6 November 2010, the Springboks had the honour of being the first Test team to play Ireland at their new home of Aviva Stadium. Because of the historic significance of this match, the Boks had agreed to wear their change strip to allow Ireland to wear their regular green. (Normally, the home team changes in case of a colour clash.) The match was the opener of their first attempted Grand Slam tour since 2004, with the Ireland match followed by encounters with Wales, Scotland and England. The Boks followed the tour up with a match against the Barbarians.
The Boks began their 2010 Test campaign on 5 June, defeating Wales 34–31 at Kings Park Stadium, Durban. Controversy arose prior to the game as Bath-based Butch James was withdrawn from the team at the last minute due to the refusal of Premier Rugby, which runs England's Premiership, to grant James permission on the grounds that the match fell outside the IRB-recognised June Test window. The victory over Wales was achieved without some of the regular Springbok stalwarts such as Fourie du Preez, Bakkies Botha, Schalk Burger, Pierre Spies, Bryan Habana and JP Pietersen.
Afer defeating Wales, the Springboks headed back to Cape Town to play against France on 12 June for their second international in 2010, which they won 42–17. The Springbok victory over the French was their first since 2005. Victor Matfield believes the victory will give the Springboks a psychological advantage over the French as they may meet in the knock out stages of the Rugby World Cup 2011. The crushing victory over the French was achieved through five tries with Pierre Spies, Guthro Steenkamp, and Francois Louw each scoring one try and Gio Aplon, the 75 kg wing, scoring two tries. Their final preparations for the 2010 Tri-Nations tournament includes two internationals against Italy. In the first test a lacklustre Springbok team beat Italy by 29–13. The Springboks acquitted themselves much better in the second test crushing the Azzuri 55–11.
The Boks were widely fancied to beat the All Blacks at Eden Park in Auckland in the first Tri-Nations test of 2010. The Boks had only previously won twice at Eden park, the last time being in 1937. However, the first test of the 2010 Tri Nations campaign turned out to be a nightmare for the Boks. They went down 32–12 and in the process conceded four tries. Since then, the Boks lost consecutive tests to again succeed both the Tri-Nations trophy and Freedom Cup to the world number one ranked All Blacks, as well as lose the Mandela Plate and second place IRB World Ranking to Australia.
2011 and the Rugby World Cup
The Springboks kicked off their 2011 test season with controversy, with 21 high-profile players omitted from the away leg of the 2011 Tri Nations, leaving only captain John Smit and Morné Steyn as regular members of the starting XV amongst a largely second-string side. Media sources claimed that the Boks players were simply being rested in preparation for the upcoming World Cup, thus creating outcry that the 2011 Tri Nations was being turned into a farce by the Springboks. The Boks subsequently lost both of their away games. The home leg saw the return of the first-choice players, and the Boks went on to lose to Australia in Durban, but win 18–5 against New Zealand in Port Elizabeth. The Springboks finished the 2011 Tri Nations with just a single win.
The South Africans entered the 2011 Rugby World Cup with a quiet confidence, even though they were drawn in the "Pool of Death" against Wales, Samoa, Fiji and Namibia. Despite a very close opening encounter against Wales, which was won 17–16, the Springboks went on to top their group, registering convincing wins against Fiji and Namibia before winning another close match against Samoa 13–5.
The Springboks then went on to face Australia in a highly controversial quarter-final match, ultimately losing 11–9. The South African fans and pundits went on to criticise referee Bryce Lawrence for "one-sided" refereeing, claiming that Australian openside David Pocock was allowed to "reduce the breakdown to a farce". Regardless, the defending champions were knocked-out at the quarter-finals.
Following the World Cup exit, several stalwarts of the 2007 World Cup-winning side and the 2011 squad went on to announce retirements or moves abroad. This included captain John Smit, influential lock pairing Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha, and scrum-half Fourie du Preez.
Apartheid and transformation
Even before the apartheid laws were introduced to South Africa in 1948 the Springboks had been an all white team. The team became a symbol of racial division within South Africa, and following the first open elections in 1994, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) instituted a policy of transformation in South African sport. In this context transformation can be defined as "a complete alternation of the appearance or character of South African rugby", and one aim is to transform the Springboks into a team more representative of South Africa's race and class.
South Africa's World Cup winning side of 1995 fielded only one non-white player (Chester Williams). This continued in the team's biggest matches of the 1999 and 2003 World Cups, and in the 2007 World Cup final the team fielded two non-white players (Bryan Habana and JP Pietersen). South African Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins considered the number of non-white players in the 2007 World Cup squad too low, and in 2008 the first non-white coach of the side was appointed. The political pressure on rugby coaches and administrators to select non-white players is strong; 16 of the 35 new Springboks appointed by former coach Jake White were non-white. ANC Minister of Parliament Butana Komphela expressed a view held by many politicians in the country when he said "Sport cannot be excluded from imperatives of empowerment and transformation." Currently, 15 of the 49 players in training for the World Cup are non-white.
Controversy over the emblem
Since the demise of apartheid the ruling African National Congress has wanted to replace the Springbok across all national teams, as emblem of the racially segregated sporting codes, with a neutral symbol that would represent a decisive break with a repressive past. The king protea as South Africa's national flower was chosen for this purpose, so that the national cricket team became known as the Proteas, for example. A similar change was envisioned for the national rugby squad's springbok emblem. Paul Roos's team had first introduced the Springbok in 1906, and it had promoted a measure of unity among white English and Afrikaans-speaking players after the two Anglo-Boer Wars of the late 19th century.
The Springbok was regarded as representing both the exclusion of players who were not designated white under apartheid legislation and, by extension, of apartheid itself. Although the Springbok was adopted briefly by the first coloured national rugby team in 1939 and by their first black counterparts in 1950, it became exclusively associated with segregated sporting codes afterwards. South African rugby officials in particular, and the national rugby team itself, have an historical association with racism from 1906 on. The first rugby Springboks initially refused to play against a Devon side that included Jimmy Peters, the first black player to represent England. Legendary official, national coach, and Springbok scrumhalf Danie Craven had acquiesced with government officials who had demanded that Māori players be excluded from visiting All Black teams. Craven had also indicated that the Springbok was exclusively tied to the white identity of the national rugby team.
As a result of political pressure the national rugby team jersey from 1992 on featured a king protea alongside the springbok. As portrayed in the film Invictus, pressure to replace the Springbok as emblem for the rugby team came to a head in 1994, just before the Rugby World Cup that would take place in South Africa. As a result of Nelson Mandela's direct interference, the ANC's executive decided not to do away with the emblem at the time, but to reappropriate it. After the national team won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, black rugby pioneer Dan Qeqe said that "The Springboks play for all of us".
In March 2004 the South African Sports Commission ratified a decision that the protea be the official rugby emblem on blazers and caps, with the concession that the springbok could remain on the team jersey. And in November 2007 the ANC's special conference at Polokwane again endorsed the need for a single symbol for all sporting codes. While detractors like Qondisa Ngwenya foresaw a loss of revenue from dumping the springbok emblem, others like Cheeky Watson urged the need for an alternative, unifying symbol.
South Africa play in green jerseys, white shorts and green socks. Their jersey is embroidered with the SA Rugby logo on the upper left corner and the flag of South Africa on the sleeve and traditionally has a gold collar. The strip is made by Canterbury of New Zealand and their current shirt sponsor is South African banking giant ABSA. The green jersey was first adopted when the British Isles toured South Africa in 1896. On their first tour to Great Britain and Ireland in 1906–07 the South Africa wore a green jersey with white collar, blue shorts, and blue socks. A replica shirt was worn in 2006 against Ireland in Dublin to mark the centenary of the tour. When Australia first toured South Africa in 1933, the visitors wore sky blue jerseys to avoid confusion, as at the time, both wore dark green strips. In 1953, when Australia toured again, the Springboks wore white jerseys for the test matches. In 1961 Australia changed their jersey to gold to avoid further colour clashes.
The Springbok nickname and logo also dates from the 1906–7 tour of Britain. The springbok was chosen to represent the team by tour captain Paul Roos in an attempt to prevent the British press from inventing their own name. The logo was not restricted to the white team alone, the first coloured national team used the springbok in 1939 and the first black team in 1950. After the fall of apartheid in 1992 a wreath of proteas was added to the logo. When the ANC was elected in 1994 the team's name was not changed to the Proteas like that of other South African sporting teams only because of the intervention of President Nelson Mandela. The movie Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon depicts this story.
In December 2008, the SARU decided to place the protea on the left side of the Boks' jersey, in line with other South African national teams, and move the springbok to the right of the jersey. The new jersey was worn for the first time during the British and Irish Lions' 2009 tour of South Africa.
Home grounds
The Springboks do not use a national stadium as their home, but play out of a number of venues throughout South Africa. The 60,000 seat Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg (known commercially as Coca-Cola Park) was the main venue for the 1995 World Cup, where the Springboks defeated the All Blacks in the final. Other regular venues for tests include Pretoria's Loftus Versfeld Stadium, DHL Newlands in Cape Town, Mr Price Kings Park in Durban, Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein, and the EPRU Stadium in Port Elizabeth. The Springboks played their first test match at Soccer City on 21 August 2010, a Tri Nations match against New Zealand.
The first South African international took place at Port Elizabeth's St George’s Park Cricket Ground in 1891. Ellis Park was built in 1928, and in 1955 hosted a record 100,000 people in a Test between South Africa and the British and Irish Lions.
The Springboks are said to have a notable advantage over touring sides when playing at high altitude on the Highveld. Games at Ellis Park, Loftus Versfeld, or Vodacom Park are said to present physical problems, and to influence a match in a number of other ways, such as the ball travelling further when kicked. Experts disagree on whether touring team's traditionally poor performances at altitude are more due to a state of mind rather than an actual physical challenge.
|Top 25 Rankings as of 15 April 2013|
|*Change from the previous week|
|South Africa's Historical Rankings|
|Source: IRB - Graph updated to 15 April 2013|
Rugby Championship
South Africa's only annual tournament is The Rugby Championship (formerly Tri-Nations) competed against Argentina, Australia, New Zealand since 1996. South Africa has won the tournament three times; in 1998 and 2004 and 2009. South Africa also participates in the Mandela Challenge Plate with Australia, and the Freedom Cup with New Zealand as part of the Rugby Championship.
|Tri Nations (1996 — 2011)|
|Rugby Championship (2012 — )|
Updated: 7 Oct 2012
World Cup
South Africa did not participate in the 1987 and 1991 World Cups because of the sporting boycott that apartheid brought against them. South Africa's introduction to the event was as hosts. They defeated defending champions Australia 27–18 in the opening match, and went on to defeat the All Blacks 15–12 after extra time in the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, with a drop goal from 40 metres by Joel Stransky.
In 1999 South Africa suffered their first World Cup loss when they were defeated 21–27 by Australia in their semi-final; they went on to defeat the All Blacks 22–18 in the third-fourth play-off match. The worst ever South African performance at a World Cup was in 2003 when they lost a pool game to England, and then were knocked out of the tournament by the All Blacks in their quarter-final. In 2007 the Springboks defeated Fiji in the quarter-finals and Argentina in the semi-finals. They then defeated England in the final 15–6 to win the tournament for a second time. In 2011 the Springboks were defeated by Australia 9–11 in the quarter-finals after winning all four their pool games.
Until the 1990s South Africa were considered one of the most successful rugby nations in Test match history, with a positive win-loss ratio against every Test playing nation including their traditional rivals, New Zealand. However, for the last twenty years whilst the Springboks have managed to maintain their positive win-loss ratio, they have failed to do so against New Zealand. South Africa are currently ranked number two in the world rankings. When the ranking system was introduced in October 2003 South Africa were ranked sixth. Their ranking fluctuated until victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup briefly sent them to the top of the rankings. Since then, the top two rankings changed ultimately remaining with the All Blacks since November 2009 when the Boks lost to France on their end-of-year tour and most recently regained second position after defeating Australia in Pretoria.
|British and Irish Lions||46||23||17||6||50.00%|
|South American Jaguars||8||7||1||0||87.50%|
See List of South Africa national rugby union players for a complete list of every player to have represented the Springboks.
Current squad
On 24 April 2013, the following players were awarded Springbok contracts for 2013:
- Caps updated 24 November 2012
Recent Call Ups
The following players have been part of the Springbok squad during 2012 but are not part of the current squad due to either injury or non-selection.
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by the International Rugby Board.
Individual records
South Africa's most capped player is John Smit with 111 caps, placing him joint-sixth with Philippe Sella of France on the all-time list in international rugby. Victor Matfield is the most-capped lock for any nation in rugby history, with all of his 110 appearances at that position; although Fabien Pelous of France retired with 118 caps, only 100 were as a lock. The most-capped back is Percy Montgomery, whose 102 caps made him the country's leader until first being equalled by John Smit and later surpassed by Matfield, but was regained by Smit. Montgomery also holds the South African record for Test points with 893, which at the time of his international retirement placed him sixth on the all-time list of Test point scorers (he now stands ninth). The most points Montgomery ever scored in a single international was 35 against Namibia in 2007—this is also a South African record.
Fly-half Jannie de Beer holds the world record for dropped goals in a Test match (5, during the 44–21 quarter-final win over England in the 1999 Rugby World Cup)
On 1 August during the 2009 Tri Nations tournament, Morné Steyn set a number of records during the second Test between the Springboks and the All Blacks. The Springboks won 31–19, with Steyn scoring all South Africa's points – 1 try, 1 conversion, 8 penalties. This gave him records for:
- Most points scored by any player in a Tri Nations match, surpassing Andrew Mehrtens (All Blacks vs. Australia, 1999).
- Most points ever scored by an individual in a Test against the All Blacks, passing Christophe Lamaison's 29 (France, 1999).
- World record for most points scored by a player who has scored all their team's points.
- South African record for penalties in a test (8) – beating the seven achieved twice by Montgomery.
- Steyn also holds the Springbok record for the fastest 100 points (8 Test matches)
Although statistics on the success rate of kicks at goal were not kept until the late 1980s, it is believed that Steyn also holds the record for most consecutive successful kicks at goal in Tests. He had a streak of 41 successful kicks at goal, which started during the Boks' Test against Italy on 19 June 2010 and ended on 6 November 2010 against Ireland.
The world's most-capped captain is John Smit, who has captained South Africa in 82 of his 110 Tests. The world's most-capped lock pairing is that of Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha, who have started together in 62 Tests. Smit also played 46 consecutive matches for South Africa, which is a record.
Notable players
Eleven former South African international players have been inducted into either the International Rugby Hall of Fame or the IRB Hall of Fame. Six are members of the International Rugby Hall of Fame only; two are members of the IRB Hall of Fame only, and four are members of both Halls of Fame.
Barry "Fairy" Heatlie, who played in the late 19th century and into the early 20th, was one of the early greats of South African rugby. He appeared for Western Province 34 times between 1890 and 1904, with 28 of them being Currie Cup wins. He also played six Tests for South Africa against the Lions in 1891, 1896, and 1903, and also captained the side to their only two Test wins of the 1890s. Arguably his greatest legacy to South African rugby is the green jersey; he is credited with introducing the colour for South Africa's 1903 Test against the Lions at Newlands. He was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2009.
Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive Tests between 1924 and 1933. Playing at fly-half, his first Test was against the touring British team in 1924. He also played in the series against the All Blacks in 1928, but most notably captained the Springboks on their Grand Slam tour of 1931–32 when they defeated all four Home Nations. His last Tests were the five played against Australia when they toured to South Africa in 1933. Osler was inducted to the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2007 and the IRB Hall of Fame in 2009.
Making his Test debut in Olser's Grand Slam winning team in 1931 was scrum-half Danie Craven. Craven played several positions including fly-half, scrum-half, centre and even number eight. However Craven was most famous for popularising the dive pass. As well as winning a Grand Slam with Osler's team, Craven toured with 1937 Springboks to New Zealand where they achieved their first series victory over New Zealand. His last act as player was captaining South Africa in a Test series against the Lions. Craven's involvement with the Springboks continued after his playing retirement, and he coached them to a 4–0 series win over the touring All Blacks in 1949. He was elected President of the South African Rugby Board in 1956, a position he held until the post-apartheid South African Rugby Union was formed in 1991. Craven was instrumental in the formation of the South African Rugby Union and became its first Executive President. Such was Craven's influence in South African rugby he became known as "Mr Rugby", was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 1997, and was in the second class of inductees into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2007; behind Rugby School and William Webb Ellis.
The man most credited with inventing modern number 8 play was Hennie Muller, inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 2001. He played 13 Tests between 1949 and 1953, and in the process won a 4–0 series victory over the All Blacks and a Grand Slam tour of Britain and Ireland. He was nicknamed Windhond (greyhound) for his speed around the field. When writing about the 1949 series against the All Blacks, Harding and Williams wrote: "(Okey) Geffin won the series, perhaps, but Muller made it possible." Of Muller's 13 Tests, he only lost one—against Australia in 1953.
Named South Africa's player of the 20th Century in 2000, Frik du Preez played 38 Tests between 1961 and 1971. Du Preez could play both flanker or lock and was one of the most dominant forwards of the 1960s, but was especially well known for his all round skills. Danie Craven said of du Preez, "To my mind he could have played any position on a rugby field with equal brilliance." He was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1997 and the IRB Hall of Fame in 2009.
Morne du Plessis played 22 Tests for South Africa between 1971 and 1980. His debut was at Number 8 in South Africa's series win over Australia in 1971. He went on to captain South Africa and became part of the only father-son pair to captain South Africa—his father had captained South Africa in 1949. He led South Africa to a 3–1 series win over the All Blacks in 1976 and a series win over the British and Irish Lions in 1980 by the same margin. Du Plessis would be inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 1999.
International Hall of Fame inductees Naas Botha, inducted in 2005, and Danie Gerber, inducted in 2007, both had careers interrupted by South Africa's sporting isolation in the 1980s and early 1990s. Botha made his Test debut against the South American Jaguars in 1980. Playing at fly-half, Botha played 28 Tests and scored 312 Test points before his international retirement in 1992. Botha contributed significantly to the Springboks 1980 series win over the Lions, and also played for the World XV in the IRB Centenary Match at Twickenham. Gerber also made his debut in 1980, and scored 19 tries in his 24 Tests before retiring in 1992. He scored a hat-trick against England in 1984, and played alongside Botha in the World XV team in 1986. In South Africa's first Test since the fall of apartheid, against the All Blacks in 1992, he scored twice.
Two players that straddled the amateur and professional eras were Francois Pienaar and Joost van der Westhuizen. Both first played for the Springboks in 1993. Pienaar was named captain in his first Test against France, and went on to captain the side to the 1995 World Cup. It was there he captained South Africa to the World Cup title, and received the trophy from Nelson Mandela who was wearing his number 6 jersey. Nelson Mandela later wrote "It was under Francois Pienaar's inspiring leadership that rugby became the pride of the entire country. Francois brought the nation together." Pienaar entered the International Hall of Fame in 2005, and was inducted into the IRB Hall in 2011 alongside all other World Cup-winning captains from the inaugural event in 1987 through 2007 (minus the previously inducted Australian John Eales). Joost van der Westhuizen also participated in the 1995 World cup victory, but went on to play in two more World Cups. Playing at scrum-half, van der Westhuizen played 89 Tests for South Africa and scored 38 tries. At the time of his retirement following the 2003 World Cup he was South Africa's leading try scorer and most capped player. He entered the International Hall of Fame two years after Pienaar, in 2007.
The newest Springbok player to enter the IRB Hall is John Smit, inducted in 2011 alongside Pienaar. The captain of the 2007 World Cup winners, Smit (as noted earlier) ended his international career as the most-capped Springbok in history.
The role and definition of the South Africa coach has varied significantly over the team's history. Hence a comprehensive list of coaches, or head selectors, is impossible. The following table is a list of coaches since the 1949 All Blacks tour to South Africa:
|Hennie Muller||1960–1961, 1963, 1965||44%|
|Boy Louw||1960–1961, 1965||67%|
|Izak van Heerden||1962||75%|
|Felix du Plessis||1964||100%|
|Ian Kirkpatrick||1967, 1974||60%|
|Johan Claassen||1964, 1970–1974||50%|
|Carel du Plessis||1997||37%|
|Peter de Villiers||2008–2011||62%|
|Heyneke Meyer||2012–||58.33% (as at 24 November 2012)|
Both World Cup-winning coaches, Christie and White, were inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2011 alongside all other World Cup-winning head coaches through the 2007 edition.
See also
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- South Africa vs Wales
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An architecture instructor-artist will provide an overview of historic buildings from an architectural view as well as points of interest you'll see on our afternoon narrated walking field trip.Lunch: Lunch in downtown Sarasota. Part of the charm of this program is choosing the cuisine you prefer, whether classic North or South American, Asian, French, Greek, Indian, Italian, Spanish, and many more.Afternoon: FIELD TRIP: Our expert-led walk will focus on significant architectural landmarks along a section of North Tamiami Trail including The Pagoda Building, designed by Victor Lundy for the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and built in 1956. Victor Lundy was a contributor to the Sarasota School of Architecture that combined influences of the European modernist movement with local materials and the desire to minimize the distinction between interior and exterior spaces.
We'll also explore the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center, designed by architect William Wesley Peters of Frank Lloyd Wright's firm and dubbed "the purple cow" and "the purple people seater" when it first opened in 1970.
We'll then take a bus to downtown Sarasota and continue our walking exploration highlighted by the 1926 Sarasota Times Building, designed by Dwight James Baum.Dinner: Enjoy dinner (catered by the hotel restaurant) in our private room.Evening: PRESENTATION: This preview of what to expect at the Ringling Museum Complex during our field trip tomorrow will include a video on John Ringling narrated by Hal Holbrook.Lodging: Lido Beach ResortMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
FIELD TRIP: We begin our exploration as an expert guides you through palatial Ca' d'Zan, described as "the last of the Gilded Age mansions" to be built in America. John and Mable Ringling greatly admired the unique architectural style of the Danieli and the Bauer-Grunwald hotels in Venice, as well as palaces that face the Venetian canals. This architectural style, called "Venetian Gothic," greatly influenced the Ca'Zan's design. A comprehensive six-year, $15 million restoration and conservation was completed on Ca'Zan in 2002.
The Ringling complex contains numerous wonders and we move next to the Circus Museum, established in 1948. Document circuses of the past and today as you view colossal parade and baggage wagons, sequined costumes, memorabilia and artifacts documenting the history of The Ringling family circus, John Ringling as the Circus King, and the greatest circus movie, The Greatest Show on Earth, was filmed in Sarasota.
Next is the museum's Tibbals Learning Center with an exhibition of circus posters. Ranging in size from window to barn sized, these colorful posters were plastered on buildings, walls and fences all across America and broadcasted in no uncertain terms that the circus was coming to town. The learning center also contains the world's largest miniature circus "the Howard Bros. Circus Model" a replica of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1919-1938, created over a period of more than 50-years.Lunch: We'll have lunch at Treviso, the museum's Italian restaurant.Afternoon: FIELD TRIP: We continue the afternoon at the extraordinary Ringling Art Museum. The incredible building housing the collection emulates the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. John Ringling engaged architect John H. Phillips to design the museum in 1925. Construction began in 1927, but was slowed almost immediately by the collapse of Florida’s land boom and later, Wall Street’s stock market crash. Financial misfortune and Mable’s death in 1929 might have ended the dream, but John Ringling instead gained a new resolve to complete the museum, borrowing money as needed, knowing that it would perpetuate the memory of his beloved Mable. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was officially opened to the public in 1931.
After leaving the Art Museum, explore the gardens and grounds at your leisure. All you see was given to the people of Florida, thus preserving for generations to come the exuberant lifestyle of America’s spectacular Roaring Twenties. The beautiful landscaped grounds contain over 400 species of exotic Florida trees, plants, flowers, sculpture garden figures, and Mable's historic rose garden.Dinner: Enjoy dinner (catered by the hotel restaurant) in our private room.Evening: EXTRACURRICULAR: Our entertainment this evening is viewing Cecil B. DeMille's magnum circus opus, "The Greatest Show on Earth" — filmed in cooperation with Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey, much of it in Sarasota. The movie, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1952, features lavish production values, actual circus acts, documentary footage, and "behind-the-rings" looks at the massive logistics effort that made big top circuses possible.Lodging: Lido Beach ResortMeals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Healing for the Holidays: Part 1—A Promise
Holidays… They’re “supposed” to make us think of words like thankful, merry, and happy. We’re “supposed” to associate holidays with a phrase like “Home for the Holidays!”
Holidays can create fresh memories of our loss and a fresh experience of pain and grief. The thought of facing another holiday season causes some people to wish they could sleep from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving until January 2. Loss is always hard, and at the holidays it can seem crushing. The thought of being in a festive mood for two months is just too much to bear when our heart is breaking.
A Note to Those Who Are Happy at the Holidays
Some of you might be thinking, “Bob. Don’t be such a downer. I love the holidays!” Awesome. I have no desire to diminish your joy.
However, your experience is not universal. For many of your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and relatives, the holidays are bittersweet. So keep reading…if not for yourself, then for others—so you can empathize with and care for those who need healing for the holidays.
A Promise to Those Who Long for Healing for the Holidays
Jesus understands. “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). I include this verse every time I autograph a copy of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.
In this one verse, Jesus gives you permission to grieve and permission to hope. Jesus is real and raw, just like life can be. He is also honest and hope-giving. His words, His life, death, and resurrection, give us healing hope.
The Apostle Paul offers the same message of sorrow mingled with healing. Sharing with Christians who had lost loved ones, Paul speaks of Christian grief—grieving with hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13).
In this first post in our blog “mini-series” I want to follow the lead of Jesus and Paul by giving you:
• Permission to Grieve: Hurting During the Holidays
• Reason to Hope: Healing for the Holidays
In subsequent posts, I want to journey with you through biblical, practical, relevant ways you can grieve and grow, heal and hope.
Permission to Grieve: Hurting During the Holidays—It’s Normal to Hurt
It’s normal to hurt. When you see the empty chair during Thanksgiving dinner, it’s normal to hurt. When you unwrap the ornament that was your loved one’s favorite, it’s normal to hurt. When you usher in a new year apart from someone you love dearly, it’s normal to hurt.
Loss and separation are intruders. This is not the way it’s supposed to be. God designed us for relationship—it is not good to be alone.
Jesus did not just talk about loss and grief, He experienced it. When Jesus saw Mary weeping over the death of her brother Lazarus, he was deeply moved (John 11:33). Coming to Lazarus’ tomb, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35).
On the cross, experiencing separation from His Father, Jesus cried out. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46).
If the perfect, sinless God-man Jesus wept over loss, then it is normal to hurt. If Jesus agonized over separation from His Father, then you have permission to grieve.
Paul did not just talk about loss and grief, he experienced it. Imprisoned and separated from Timothy, his son in the faith, Paul writes, “Night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I might be filled with joy” (2 Timothy 1:3-4).
Toward the end of his life, almost totally alone, Paul recalls, “At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me” (2 Timothy 4:16).
Memory is a great blessing—and can be a great curse. The memory of relatives separated from us by death, divorce, or distance is a legitimate source of great pain and a legitimate reason to hurt.
Reason to Hope: Healing for the Holidays—It’s Possible to Hope
It’s possible to hope. In the midst of Paul’s grief over being deserted and betrayed he also said, “But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength” (2 Timothy 4:17).
At another point of candid grief, Paul shared that he “despaired even of life” and “felt the sentence of death” (2 Corinthians 1:8-9). Yet, he also knew, “This happened to us that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9). With Christ you have reason to hope for healing for the holidays. Loss is not final or fatal. It’s possible to hope.
Jesus, forsaken by His Father because of our sin, was raised from the dead by His Father. Even more (if you can say “even more” about the resurrection!) He is now seated at the right hand of the Father! Reunion. Relationship. Oneness.
Separation is not final with Christ. It’s possible to hope because our God is the God who raises the dead. He can resurrect your hope.
The Rest of the Story
You may be thinking, “That helps to know that I have permission to grieve, but what do I do with my hurt during the holidays?” And you may be asking, “I’m glad for the promise of healing for the holidays, but how do I find it?” Great questions. We’ll journey together in subsequent posts to find God’s answers for life’s losses.
Join the Conversation
Shakespeare said, “Give sorrow words.” What words would you give your sorrow over your hurt during the holidays? What glimmers of hope and healing are you seeing this holiday season?
Help for Your Healing Journey
For additional help on your healing journey, learn more about God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting.
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For three late September days in a traffic-clogged New York City, the famous and the powerful gather at the Clinton Global Initiative annual conference to share charismatic thoughts and large-scale commitments to address issues in global health care, education, poverty alleviation and energy and climate change. Attending the conference this year as a facilitator in the energy/climate change track, I heard inspiring words throughout each day from the likes of Bill Gates, William McDonough, Lester Brown, Tony Blair, T. Boone Pickens, Michael Bloomberg, Bono, Wesley Clark, Van Jones, and no less than three of the past four Nobel Peace Prize winners: Al Gore, Muhammad Yunus, and Wangari Maathai.
?But it was a line from Rocky Mountain Institute founder and energy efficiency guru Amory Lovins that, to me, best reflected the spirit of this conference — and conveyed a key message for anyone involved in meeting the world's energy challenges in these most troubled and perilous of times. Describing Ford Motor's 2006 hiring of CEO Alan Mulally, who had spearheaded Boeing's decision to focus on energy- efficient aircraft with the Dreamliner and other projects, Lovins said Mulally had come to Ford with "transformational intent." ?
?The Clinton conference, of course, took place against the backdrop of Wall Street's financial crisis playing out just a few miles downtown. We are in a time of staggering superlatives — a US $700 billion bailout package, a 777-point stock market drop, and a 19-square mile ice sheet (the size of Manhattan) breaking loose in northern Canada one month ago. In every facet of life — population, health, education, energy, environment, and now, financial markets, we face big, big challenges. But size alone will not create the solutions. We need transformational intent. ?
?The intent of Muhammad Yunus, the microcredit pioneer and founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, was changing the thinking around how to assist those at the base of the economic pyramid in one of the world's most impoverished countries. "We have to get out of the mentality that the rich people will do the business, and the poor people will get the charity," he said. "Don't call me a philanthropist. I'm a businessman." For more than 30 years, Grameen has extended micro-loans to more than 7 million people, more than 95 percent of them women. It has helped transform rural economies not only in Bangladesh, but through microfinance institutions supported by the Grameen Foundation in 25 other countries, including the United States. ?
?When it comes to energy, as Albert Einstein said, the serious problems we face today won't be solved by the same minds that created them. Offshore drilling won't solve our energy challenges, nor will Senator John McCain's proposed 45 new U.S. nuclear plants by 2030. "More of the same, only bigger" will not get it done. If we're going to address climate change in any meaningful way, shift the geopolitical dynamics of imported oil, and rebuild our beleaguered economy based on clean energy, we need dramatically new ways of doing things. ?
?The good news is that transformational intent is present and moving forward in thousands of clean energy, transportation, and green building initiatives around the world. In Israel and Denmark, where Silicon Valley entrepreneur Shai Agassi's Better Place aims to create nationwide all-electric car networks in both countries, with more to follow. In China, where the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE) non-profit is working with Duke Energy and GridPoint to deploy smart-grid technologies on a large scale. In Abu Dhabi, where the Masdar Initiative is constructing the world's first 100 percent renewable-energy-powered city of 60,000 people. And in Denmark again, where Social Democratic Party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt says her nation intends to be the world's first carbon-neutral country (it's already 30 percent clean-powered today). ?
?Here in the U.S., Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz is investing US $3 billion in a 900-mile transmission line to bring wind power from southern Wyoming to the populations of Las Vegas, Phoenix and southern California. In the Pacific Northwest, Clean Edge and Climate Solutions are releasing a study, Carbon-Free Prosperity 2025, that maps out a transformative vision for the clean-tech future of Oregon and Washington. Google is investing in concentrating solar power, geothermal and other technologies to fulfill its tranformative mission: make clean energy cheaper than coal. In Newark, New Jersey, 39-year-old mayor Cory Booker is working with the Apollo Alliance and others to make his working-class city a model of green-collar jobs, cleaner transportation, and green buildings. And T. Boone Pickens, dubbed "the John Madden of new energy" by Tom Brokaw at the Clinton conference because of his current media ubiquity, is proposing massive changes in the way we generate electricity and power vehicles.
??I don't agree with all of the Pickens Plan, but its dramatic scale and ambitious targets for wind energy are great examples of what I'm talking about. I'm glad he's out there, with Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, advocating a dramatic new energy direction. Like the people driving the examples cited above and so many more, Pickens has transformational intent. We need it today in our financial system, and we damn sure need it today — and tomorrow — if we're going to have any hope of building a sustainable energy future. ?
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who canceled an overseas trip this past week due to a stomach virus, suffered a concussion after she fainted, the State Department said Saturday.
Clinton, who has said she plans to step down shortly, fainted after she became dehydrated due to the virus, the department said in a statement. She is recovering at home and being monitored by doctors.
“She will continue to work from home next week, staying in regular contact with department and other officials. She is looking forward to being back in the office soon,“ the statement said.
No other information was provided and a spokesman for the department declined to comment.
Clinton was due to testify in congressional hearings Thursday on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack against a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Her condition may cause the hearing to be postponed.
Clinton was scheduled to go to North Africa and the Persian Gulf region on Monday before she became ill. She apparently caught the virus during a recent visit to Europe.
Clinton has said she does not intend to serve in President Barack Obama's second term. The White House is expected to nominate her replacement and a new Defense secretary later this month. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is also planning to step down.
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Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman meets with World Horse Welfare to highlight how the truth behind horsemeat is no laughing matter
World Horse Welfare chief executive Roly Owers met with Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman on Friday 1st February to discuss the emerging horse crisis in England and Wales - and the terrible welfare abuses of the horse slaughter trade.
“Horsemeat is no laughing matter. Where there is horsemeat, you can bet there has been suffering,” said Roly. “Horses suffer on long distance journeys across Europe to slaughter, or as we have discovered even in Britain, they may suffer needlessly during slaughter while the number of horses slaughtered in Britain has almost doubled since the recession.”
In what they are calling an emerging ‘horse crisis’, Britain’s major welfare charities have identified 6,000 horses at risk of needing to be rescued or given new homes in England and Wales this year, have warned government and the public that taking in even a fraction of these would overwhelm charity resources. The drop in horse sales prices combined with indiscriminate overbreeding has led to greater numbers of horses not getting the care they need, being fly grazed or tethered, or taken to the slaughterhouse. Government figures show that around 5,100 were slaughtered in the UK in 2009 rising to more than 9,400 in 2012.
“There is a role for slaughter in the UK, but it must be done humanely, according to the law, and the Food Standards Agency needs to improve its tools of enforcement,” said Roly. In light of footage revealed by Sky News of illegal welfare abuses of horses at a slaughterhouse in Cheshire, World Horse Welfare is calling for mandatory CCTV in slaughterhouses that take horses (sign the petition).
World Horse Welfare and other welfare charities are also pressing for tougher laws to encourage responsible horse ownership and so prevent more suffering. In Europe, the charity has been pressing the European Commission for a short, maximum journey limit for horses transported long distances across Europe to slaughter, so saving them from the immense misery and suffering of travelling for days on end with injury, disease, exhaustion and dehydration.
All of these issues were discussed on Friday with George Freeman MP today who said:
“When you understand the tragedy behind horse meat, there is very little to laugh about. We have good laws that protect the welfare of animals at slaughter and we need these properly enforced – CCTV can help with that. But clearly people have to take responsibility for their animals, especially such powerful, intelligent and long-living animals as horses. It is unacceptable that people can breed them or buy them and then not care for them. We need tougher laws to address fly grazing and an enforceable way to link a horse to its owner.”
Roly Owers continued:
“I have no doubt much of the horse meat from Europe is the product of great suffering. We need at the very least a 9-12 hour journey limit in line with scientific evidence that shows how bad these long distance journeys are for horses. But we must look at ourselves too. The reason many horses in Britain end up in slaughterhouses in the first place is because people breed too many of them despite having no ability or desire to care for them. This unthinking breeding of poor quality horses must stop.” Owers.
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Sightings with Unaided Eye
as of Apr 16, 2003
- Nancy, my cousin in Jamaica had a sighting of Planet X last night. Too much clouds and light polution where I live to see anything
as yet though. He said "I saw the star you are talking about, the May event. I saw it last night. A bright red star."
- We have an exceptional clear night here, so I went to my local park (less light pollution). I looked to the area and did see a fuzzy,
indistinct area that seemed to sparkle every now and then. I´m no expert and I really want this to be a hoax, but I keep getting this
feeling and more so when it blinked in and out. I have to add that this feeling has never let me down in the past.
- I have this seen below Tauri as your sighting page says. This was not Aldbaran seen earlier this evening. I am still worrying and not
sleeping. Skies very clear here in Ethiope, so no mistake. I am yachtsman also. The planet is very big! We have rumours too that
unrest among tribesmen sighting this occurs, here in Ethiope.
- I told my sister in law about zetatalk and how I saw Nibiru with my binoculars. Five days later she happened to stop in and we got
to talking and she said she saw it with unaided eyesight, no problem. She lives in Santa Monica, California. She had clear skies out
there, Probably because she lives near the ocean and she has an ocean breeze. She saw it, no problem, with her regular eyesight. She
said it was red. I can't see it where I am anymore, clouds, fog, rain all last week.
- Nao falo ingles (I don`t speak english). Peguei as coordenadas do site ZetaTalk, Neste Momento sao 3:00 AM na cidade de mar del
plata (Argentina) e vejo a olho nu uma nuvem vermelha no local obtido por Sentinels Map no site cyberspaceorbit.com. Nao tenho
como fotografar o objeto mas tentarei fazer o possivel para fotografa - lo com a ajuda de um fotografo profissional. Manterei
contato com voces assim que possivel. Uma pessoa em Sao Paulo (Brazil) vai procurar pelo planeta x no proximo sabado e obter
melhor informacao com o mapa de Sentinel.
- Carlos, in Argentina
- My name is Marcos, and Carlos is my friend in Argenina. We are observing since last Tuesday a distant red cloud near Orion
Constellation in southern skies. At this moment I am going to an incredible place in the countryside of Brazilian territory. The place
has the best sky available in South America to watch carefully the stars. I believe in Planet X! It believe it is inbound and will trigger
the pole shift on Earth. Next Saturday I will carefully watch every inch of the area given by Sentinal Map in cyberspaceorbit.com. I
think that the reddish cloud may hid the mysterious planet and its moons. The place where I will examine the red cloud is the best
available in southern hemisphere. I am determined to get real evidence about it. I am not putting this information on this board to
get attention or be famous. I am helping you to solve this facinating cosmic puzzle. Pardon my friend Carlos, he does not speak
English. I think his last posts could be the beginning of many coming sightings in the south hemisphere. I will psot new information
about the red cloud as soon as I return probably next Monday. This is a serious and relevant message. This [godlikeproduction]
board is fantastic and deserves incredibly credit in every subject topic.
- Marcos, in Argentina
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Say what you like about 2011: it certainly wasn’t boring. While earthquakes and financial catastrophe grabbed the headlines, for designers it was the year when the small screen assumed dominance, as audiences went mobile and smartphones and tablets came of age as arenas for design.
In line with this, the role of the designer is shifting away from the traditional tasks of creating posters and logos – visual identities – into something altogether more holistic.
And the pace of change shows no sign of slowing as 2012 gets under way. “It seems to me there’s a tipping point, where you’re going to see a massive online power shift. We are starting to see brands demanding sites of branded experience, rather than a typeface or logo,” says Simon Manchipp of design studio SomeOne.
Social media have been vital to this shift. “The opinion of someone you’ve never met in a country you’ve never visited is more important than the brand itself – you can’t have a conversation with a logo,” Simon says.
In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, Wieden+Kennedy and AKQA have created a Nike campaign featuring portraits of competing British athletes with messages in their handwriting. The hashtag aims to encourage viewers to make their own pledge
This conversation has been rapidly becoming less one-sided in recent years, but social media is now so crucial to brand identity that it’s even reaching into shops, where brands are installing systems offering real-time social media commentary, adds Tom Philipson of branding, graphics and interior practice Your Studio.
Tom adds that 3D technologies will continue their steady march into our everyday lives. “As headsets like the Sony HMZ-T1 Personal 3D Viewer get smaller and cheaper, expect to be submerged into your favourite brand’s 3D world,” he says.
This could be the year that 3D goes mainstream for branding events, too. Jaw-dropping examples of 3D projection-mapping such as Studio Output's virtual living room for Sony PlayStation (above) or The Neighbourhood's animated Christmas tree are getting creatives very excited indeed. Projects that merge electronics, programming and design are likely to be making waves in 2012, driven by tools that are designed to be easy to learn for relatively non-techie creatives, such as Arduino, VVVV and Processing.
Sporting themes are set to dominate a lot of creatives’ moodboards this year, but there’s no escaping the fact that 2012 also has a darker side: economic, social and political uncertainties are key themes.
These unsettling influences are particularly marked in illustration, says fashion illustration guru Amelia Gregory of Amelia’s Magazine. “A feeling of restlessness is prevalent in illustrations which draw influence from the spectre of war and the darker end of literature. Look out for strange and hellish scenes,” she says.
Illustration from Asger Juel Larsen Spring/Summer 2012 show at the last London Fashion Week by Gareth A Hopkins for Amelia's Magazine
The flip side of this is a clear trend towards escapism, as a rash of yetis, sea beasts and unicorns caper through illustrators’ frames, and hints of psychedelia and surrealism start to infuse more designs.
“Many illustrators are playing around with collage, presumably in response to the vast amount of imagery already available to plunder and refashion as one’s own,” Amelia says. “Quite often the resulting images take on a surreal edge, creating an escape from the everyday.
“On a lighter note, a lot of illustrators are being influenced by the bold graphic patterns, primary colours and globular shapes of the 1980s. Fun and playful subject matter and typography seem fitting at this time of global uncertainty.”
Illustration by Milly Jackson from Ramil Makinano’s S/S 2012 collection at the last London Fashion Week for Amelia's Magazine
The Olympics will dominate this summer, but while bold colours are ‘in’, garishly bright will thankfully not follow suit.
The rising popularity of screenprinting has led to a renewed fascination with techniques, such as lino printing and etching, and more demanding methods like chromolithography, while hand-drawing is as prevalent as ever.
The US presidential election in November could be a particularly interesting event this year for graphics and illustration. In 2008, Barack Obama won the visual identity contest hands down, harnessing the contributions of thousands of illustrators, and inspiring Shepard Fairey’s iconic ‘Hope’ poster.
This time round will see everyone from the Tea Party to the Occupy movement weighing in, seeking to distil complex policies into digestible messages that could go viral: expect to see the battle of ideas waged through posters and infographics.
Here, again, the images that reach the masses will be those that harness the power of social media, this time by going viral. Let battle commence.
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Clarity Media develops several online puzzle players and tools. One recent development is a one player sudoku based game. Use the rules of sudoku to place valid numbers in the grid, and see if you can beat the computer.
Depending on the difficulty level you choose, the computer is more or less likely to make a mistake. You also have a time limit per move, and things get really tricky when you only have a few seconds to place a number when the grid is filling up. What can you score?
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Admissions spike at paediatric hosptials
HCM CITY (VNS)— Paediatric hospitals in HCM City have been overloaded in recent months because of the breakouts of multiple diseases like dengue fever, respiratory illnesses, and hand-foot-mouth disease, doctors said.
Nearly 7,000 children are brought to the HCM City Paediatric Hospital No.1 every day, Nguyen Thanh Hung, the hospital's deputy head, said, leaving doctors exhausted.
The number of children admitted with dengue fever this month is up 10 per cent compared to the same period last year, Dr Le Thi Bich Lien, another deputy head, said.
It now has 57 children with this disease, including 20 who are on IV fluids in the emergency room, she added.
Dr Tran Anh Tuan, head of the hospital's respiratory diseases ward, said there were 300 patients daily in the first few days of last week.
The Paediatric Hospital No.2 gets around 5,000 children for diagnosis every day, with 1,750 of them being hospitalised, leading to a serious shortage of beds.
Two or three share a bed in the infectious diseases ward.
Of the 1,750 admitted daily, nearly 400 have respiratory problems like bronchitis and asthma, Dr Tran Thi Thu Loan, head of the respiratory diseases ward, said.
Dr Do Chau Viet, head of the infectious diseases ward, said many of his patients are in serious condition.
Pham Mai Dang, deputy head of the Paediatric Hospital No.2's general planning office, said the recent weather changes caused a spike in the outbreak of diseases. —VNS
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I'm using this neat script for searching on my website.. but the thing is i have saved sentences with norwegian special charachters to my db, and when these are printed with this script the æ ø å's shows up like "?" instead. I am using charset=iso-8859-1 in the <head> tag
and charset=iso-8859-1 in the <script> tag
all other special characters show up as they should, its ONLY those who goes thru the search script that doesnt show up as they should.
I really hope someone understands my problem and could come with some input since i really want to use this on my site
Thanks for the reply!
When I did what you told me, the search part worked! I could search after special characters, and they showed up .. but all other special characters that is in my index.php suddenly went to "?".. how come? :S since they showed up when i used the iso88-59-1, they should show when i use the uft-8 too? i dont really understand why this happens?
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"Everyone also is anticipating or being extremely careful of what is going to happen next. How are the terrorist, how are the extremist groups going to react to the withdraw of American forces?"
— Nazar Janabi, formerly of the Iraqi Minister of Defense, on the U.S. troop pullout in Iraq.
John Hockenberry for The Takeaway: Six years after the United States-led invasion, Iraqi forces have taken formal control of the capital, Baghdad, and other cities following with withdrawal under deadline of June 30 of American troops from urban areas. Iraqis have been celebrating the handover. Some gathered in parks to party into the night. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has designated today as National Sovereignty Day and declared a public holiday. However, there has been a recent rise in violence. Four U.S. soldiers died on the eve of the handover and bombings in recent weeks have killed around 250 people. Joining me now is one of Iraq’s most senior voices, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Al-Bayati. He joins me on the phone from Stockholm, Sweden. Ambassador, thanks so much for being with us.
Would you say that this is a holiday and people are celebrating? Or is there more of a sense of nervousness that now it’s really up to the Iraqi forces to demonstrate their ability to keep people secure inside the country?
Hamid al-Bayati: It is a day for celebrating because Iraqis feel now the Iraqi security forces are stronger, they are better trained and better equipped, and take responsibility for the security rather than to leave it to American forces. I think after six years of the great job that the Americans did for the Iraqi people to get it off the brutal dictatorship of Saddam and having them in the reform cities. And hopefully by the end of 2011 they will leave back home.
John Hockenberry: Mr. Ambassador, what do you make of this, one of your citizens, her name is Taghreed Karakoly in Erbil, Iraq, who spoke with us earlier this morning. She doesn’t feel very secure at all. Listen:
Taghreed Karakoly [on tape]: With all this chaos in Iraq I cannot understand why they are leaving now without fixing all the problems they did in Iraq. That is all. Now everything is ruined. Everything is not stable and I cannot understand how come Iraqis can handle this alone.
John Hockenberry: Mr. Ambassador, she moved from Baghdad to Kurdistan saying it was the only place that was safe. What would your message be to her?
Hamid al-Bayati: My message is that the statistics show, whether it is American, Iraqi or other statistics, show that violence in Iraq has decreased by over 90 percent. This is all over Iraq. However there are certain areas, there are areas with violence. The recent attacks, of course, the terrorist and the loyalists of Saddam and insurgents, have proven that without the U.S. forces the Iraqis wouldn’t be able to take responsibility, one thing. The second thing for them is the U.S. forces withdrawal. The pretext for what they call insurgency, or any kind of violent thing in the government, will be withdrawn. They will have no reason why they are fighting the government and they are fighting the Iraqis. That is why they are planting car bombs in the city. For the long-term the Iraqis must take responsibility for security and peace in the country.
John Hockenberry: Mr. Ambassador, some military analysts this morning have described the relationship between security forces in Iraq and security forces that still remain as a kind of symbiotic relationship, that the Iraqis are free to call on the Americans as a kind of emergency force, a 911 force. Does that deliver the message that Iraqis can handle it themselves if everybody knows that if something serious happens the U.S. airplanes will be called in, the U.S. troops will be called in and the humvees will be all over the city again?
Hamid al-Bayati: It happened in the last provincial election last January when the U.S. forces were backing the Iraqi forces, but the Iraqi forces did a great job. The elections went smoothly. And no violence happened in the whole country. But the U.S. forces there were ready just in case if they were called in. I believe that the security, Iraqi security forces will be able to maintain security and protect the people. We will see if we need the American forces. According to the SOFA agreement they will be staying in the country until the end of 2011. I hope that they will never be needed until they leave the country.
Todd Zwillich: Mr. Ambassador, this is Todd Zwillich, and I wonder, for the longer term you say the Iraqi forces are going to be capable of securing the country. In the shorter term, are you bracing for a real flare-up in violence now that there will be a little bit of a vacuum, maybe not a little bit, as U.S. forces withdrawal? Are you confident that in this short term that Iraqi forces will be able to handle any flare-up in violence without immediately having to call the Americans back in?
Hamid al-Bayati: Well, we have to admit there were some spikes of violence and some attacks recently, but as I said, it’s well-planned by Al Qaeda and by Saddam’s loyalists who try to prove that by withdrawing the forces from the cities the Iraqis wouldn’t be able to maintain security. However, the government is confident that Iraqi forces are capable to maintain security. We will see in the next few weeks what will happen. I’m confident that situation will go well and I think the Iraqi forces now are capable of maintaining security and to face any kind of violence by Al Qaeda.
John Hockenberry: We’ll certainly see that. Mr. Ambassador, why so little progress on establishing an official oil law to deal with the oil resources that are just being auctioned today in Iraq?
Hamid al-Bayati: Well the fact that the Ministry of Oil is now announcing that the first ever bidding process start for oil fields is a good indication that the country is moving from the military situation and the confrontation with the terrorists to the building and re-establishing of institution. However, we know there is a problem with the law, but the Ministry of Oil is confident that they can go ahead with contacts. This will give the country enough money and will increase the production of oil to help all over the country for reconstruction. This is a new stage in Iraq and even our relation with the U.S. is going to be transferred from military cooperation to reconstruction and all kinds of economic relations.
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Ferguson wants state co-operation
- From: AAP
- November 08, 2012
ENERGY Minister Martin Ferguson says he's determined to work co-operatively with the states to reform the energy market, particularly on expanding the use of gas.
"I'm not going to pick a fight on this because this is too important," Mr Ferguson told reporters after launching the federal government's Energy White Paper in Melbourne on Thursday.
Gas, along with electricity reforms, will be high on the agenda at next month's Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting, Mr Ferguson said.
Unless the governments work together, win community support and attract gas investment, "we are all losers", he said.
"This is about supply and demand and potential impact on price," Mr Ferguson said.
Mr Ferguson, who's called for more privatisation in the energy sector, says Australia's energy sector remains a lucrative investment opportunity for overseas investors.
"The private sector sees Australia as a safe haven for investment," he said.
"We've got around $170 billion in LNG alone and about $270 billion across resources in energy."
The minister said his recent trip to an energy suppliers and users conference in Tokyo had affirmed his belief.
"There's still a lot of interest in Australia," he said.
Mr Ferguson also said while nuclear power was a proven form of clean energy, its high cost of production meant it would not be on the government's agenda any time soon.
"We've never had to think about nuclear, because how do you compete (with) opportunities for coal-fired power, and more recent opportunities for developing the gas industry and now the renewable sector," he said.
The minister released the federal government's energy white paper in Melbourne earlier on Thursday, calling it a roadmap for a transformation of the sector.
Mr Ferguson said competitive pricing, efficient resource allocation and innovation were key elements of Labor's commitments to open and transparent energy markets.
"This is what will drive Australia's economic and income growth, while ensuring we protect those who are most vulnerable in our society," he told a business lunch.
Among the white paper's recommendations are price signalling for peak demand and tools like smart meters to influence consumers' decisions about their power use.
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State and local leaders will meet Nov. 3 in Colorado Springs to discuss jobs.
Billed as a “Jobs Renaissance” the goal of the summit is to share concrete ideas on how the state can create new jobs, said Karl Dakin, one of the event organizers and executive director, Sullivan chair for free enterprise at Regis University.
The jobs summit is co-hosted by the Coalition for a Prosperous America, a national organization that works on regulation and policy that affects businesses. About 50 folks are expected for the round-table discussion which will focus on creating jobs, revitalizing manufacturing and increasing economic growth.
“I want to put forth some ideas, changing how we do things, so those ideas can be mixed and matched with others and see if we can move in the direction of creating jobs,” Dakin said.
In 2010, job losses in El Paso County were more common than job gains, according to the Southern Colorado Economic Forum at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Construction lost 1,514 jobs, manufacturing lost 863 jobs; professional technical services lost 659 jobs and wholesale lost 499 jobs. Fred Crowley, director of the forum, will be on hand at the summit to discuss his findings and discuss ideas about how to revitalize the region.
Dakin said the Colorado Capital Congress, a public forum run through Regis University, has identified regulations that stymie business growth. For example, an antiquated regulation of the books limits the number of small investors into a business to 35. Changing that rule could allow entrepreneurs to seek small dollar amounts from more investors, which could help get more small businesses off the ground, Dakin said.
“We are looking to change the rule so more people can do a small dollar investment,” he said.
The goal of the summit, he said, is to stir the pot and inspire change.
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The fight to block construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through east Texas stepped up Monday as protesters locked themselves to machinery.
Dozens of others formed a "human chain" to keep heavy machinery from moving around the proposed pipeline's path in Cherokee County, said Ethan Nuss, spokesman for the Tar Sands Blockade group.
Three protesters at another location suspended themselves from 50-foot pine trees with their life lines anchored by the construction equipment, Nuss said.
Cherokee County sheriff's deputies used "pain compliance" measures, including pepper spray, to remove the four protesters locked to the machinery, Nuss said. The four were dragged away "very aggressively and painfully" and arrested, he said.
Two others were arrested when they tried to block a cherry picker crane to remove the protesters from the trees, Nuss said. A 75-year-old woman was among those pepper sprayed and arrested, he said.
"Some peaceful protesters doing nothing more than holding signs by the road were violently pepper sprayed," said group spokesman Ron Seifert.
All of the blockade protesters were removed from the construction sites by 2 p.m. and 12 of them were arrested, he said.
Meanwhile, a sheriff's spokesman confirmed six arrests, but provided no other details.
TransCanada, the company building the pipeline, did not immediately respond to CNN calls for comment Monday.
"Today's Day of Action is in solidarity with local landowners struggling to protect their water and land from TransCanada's toxic tar sands pipeline," the protest group said in a written statement Monday.
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Matthew Tucker, a son of a Payless Shoe Source employee was awarded a Two Ten Footwear Foundation Scholarship to use towards his college education. Matthew is one of the many grateful scholars that have sent letters to thank us and to tell his story.
"At age 16, I was diagnosed with Kallman's Syndrome. Kallman's Syndrome is like an umbrella for many different conditions. The conditions I have are: Unilateral Kidney, Anosmia, Bi-Manual Synkinesis, Growth Hormone Deficiency, and Testosterone Deficiency. When I was diagnosed as a freshman in high school, I was only 4 foot 11 inches because my body was extremely deficient in growth hormone. I have to get daily shots of the synthetic growth hormone called Humatrope.
The monthly cost of Humatrope is over $6,000. My parent's insurance company pays 90% and it is up to them to pay the other 10% until their deductible is met. I am 19 years old and in order to stay on my parent's health insurance, I have to remain a full time student. With the expense of Humatrope, it would be more difficult for my parents to pay for my college tuition. But thanks to generous organizations such as Two Ten, I have been able to attend my first year of college.
I know that I am lucky to have had this opportunity to go to college and I want to say that I really appreciate the Foundation's faith in me. I have worked very hard this semester to make sure that your money was not wasted, and will continue to work hard until I get my degree."
Two Ten Footwear Foundation has awarded nearly $15 million in scholarships to 6,300 deserving students, like Matthew, from the footwear industry since its inception in 1969. Two Ten offers two kinds of scholarships. To learn more click here.
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Jacksonville is preparing to open its new emergency communications center. The new building will house the police department, the fire department’s training classrooms, 911 dispatch, and a safe room for severe weather.
The FEMA storm shelter has 10 inch thick walls with bars inside up to the ceiling. A cement roof 6 inches thick can withstand an E-F 5 tornado. The whole building is something the City of Jacksonville is very proud of.
The FEMA safe room can shelter 535 people during severe weather and protect the 911 dispatch center from losing communication. Classrooms and conference rooms for fire training help expand education of other agencies to better serve the community.
David Jones with the Jacksonville Fire Department says, "It's no different than a scene. When you get out there you have fire, EMS, and police all working together."
The facility offers a much larger space for the police department with room to grow, and has a K-9 pen with kennels.
Mayor Gary Fletcher says, "The entrance into the police department is much more inviting to the public. The foyer gives the public has quicker access to the department for people who come in with issues."
The police department has locker rooms, a debriefing room, gym, and garage for collecting and analyzing evidence. Cpt. Kenny Boyd says the improvements bring the department to date and into the future. “Everyone wants the latest and greatest tools to work with, so I feel like it will help us on our recruiting."
The two departments say the new building makes it easier to do their jobs and elevates their performance, creating a work environment they're excited and proud of.
Mayor Fletcher says, "When you move into a new building you see nothing but smiles."
The construction of the new emergency communications center cost $6 million. The safe room isn't quite ready yet, so Jacksonville emergency responders want to remind people to sign up for Code Red Alerts to receive text or voice messages about severe weather in the area.
The old police department building will still house the courts.
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What's the best hydrangea variety?
Posted by JM
on 2008-07-29 06:55:00
I would like to plant some hydrangeas in my backyard (zone 8). I was told by a landscape designer to stay away from Endless Summer because it was a weak variety. He recommended a Dooley hydrangea. The problem is I have been unable to locate any locally. I have found some very healthy looking Mini Penny hydrangeas. Does anyone know if these are vigorous plants? Should I keep looking for the Dooleys? Thanks!
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Set during the Spring and Autumn Period of ancient China, the story tells of the power struggle between the states of Wu and Yue. A swordsman from Wu challenges Yue. Fan Li, an advisor in Yue, finds a young maiden called Qing to take up the Wu swordsman's challenge. Qing is an expert swordswoman and she defeats the Wu swordsman with ease.
It is revealed that Qing learnt her skills while playing mock sword duels with a white gibbon. Fan Li allows Qing to train the soldiers of Yue in swordsmanship and Qing gradually falls in love with Fan Li. King Goujian of Yue finally defeats his rival King Fuchai of Wu after enduring hardship and humiliation. Fan Li is reunited with his lover Xishi, who has been working as a spy in Wu. Qing feels that Xishi is a threat to her relationship with Fan Li and wants to kill her. However, she is taken aback by Xishi's beauty and hesitates. Qing accidentally hurts Xishi with her inner energy while thrusting her sword towards the latter, even though the blade did not touch Xishi at all. Xishi clutches her bosom in pain and the expression on her face is later described to be "so beautiful that it will take away the soul of any man who looks upon her". This later gives rise to the Chinese phrase "Xizi clutching her bosom" (西子捧心), which refers to a woman's beauty being enhanced when she is in a state of agony.
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By Ariane de Bonvoisin
Why do some of us initiate change and follow-through, while others never do?
I’ve had the privilege of interviewing thousands of people navigating change for my book The First 30 Days.
For some, they’re navigating a career change or a shift in their relationship, for others it’s a health diagnosis or a change in their finances. And for others, it’s an inspired course of action they are passionately pursuing to change the world. So, I’ve been able to be the detective, always on the lookout for why some people are good at change while others take “the elevator straight into the basement!”
I am often asked, “What is the one thing that really makes the difference?” If I had to pick one thing, it would be optimism. Optimism in the context of creating and navigating change is about using a different set of beliefs. It is about once and for all choosing empowering beliefs about ourselves, who we are at our core and how we see our potential -- not what limits us. Optimism is about cultivating the belief that life is on our side, always, no matter what, and that life is conspiring for us, in the direction of our growth. Finally, optimism is about believing that regardless of whether we are pursuing a change that is ultimately termed “successful” by society or not, something good will come of it.
Optimism also comes from believing in something bigger, in our spiritual essence. It is a reminder that we have an infinite amount of Grace supporting us, if we fully trust it to be there for us and stop trying to take control. Optimists can navigate the darkness and the uncertainty, and find rest and safety in fixing their focus on God, The Divine, Beingness, Grace, whatever we want to call it. That part never disconnects from us, although we often hide from it.
People who are true change agents have always believed in something greater than themselves. They know they are not alone as they journey through life.
When everything around you is changing, look for that part of you that never changes, that is calm, detached, that is witnessing your life, that is guiding you at all times. Busyness is one excuse that gets in the way of this connection, and yet, this connection is always the answer we are craving. As we step up to become true Architects of Change, answers do not come from a full and overwhelmed mind, they come from a peaceful and calm state of being.
Do whatever you can to cultivate this part of you daily. A yoga class on the weekends doesn’t quite count. Find daily quiet time, reconnection, prayer, setting intentions, journaling, contemplation, doing nothing, reading, purifying the mind and body. This should be first on our to-do list, not what we get to if and when we have the time. Our courage, commitment and passion to create change will have a very different foundation if calmness, presence and optimism are what feed it every day.
Ariane de Bonvoisin is the CEO and founder of First30Days.com, a New York City-based media company focused on all types of life changes, and the author of The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Making Any Change Easier. She holds degrees from London School of Economics and an MBA from Stanford.
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For example, Rumsfeld was asked whether there was a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Simple question, right? You could answer by saying, "Yes, the Taliban presence has increased." Or "No. Everything's pretty much the way it was four years ago."
Here's what Rummy had to say: "Are there still Taliban around? You bet. Are they occupying safe havens in Pakistan and other places? Certainly, they are. Is the violence up? Yes. Does the violence tend to be up during the summer, in the spring, summer, and fall months? Yes it does. And it tends to decline during the winter period. Does that represent failed policy? I don't know. I would say not."
Brilliant. According to Rumsfeld, the Taliban are a seasonal problem, kind of like heat rash. And he even threw a few follow-up questions at himself. But, bottom line, he didn't answer the question. Which raises another question: Why is a 74-year-old man who holds one of the most important jobs in America, responding to questions from U.S. senators like a teenage boy caught with a Playboy magazine under his mattress.
"Is this your magazine, son?"
"Is it a Playboy magazine? Yes. Was it under my mattress? You bet. Do I tend to pick it up more at night, in the morning, late evening? Yes, I do. Will it be under my mattress tomorrow? I don't know. I would say not."
My parents wouldn't have (okay, didn't) let me get away with that kind of crap, so why are U.S. senators letting the Secretary of Defense play semantic games with issues of grave national consequence?
Rumsfeld later claimed that the senators would have "a dickens of a time" finding evidence of him painting a "rosy picture" of the situation in Iraq. It was a lie so bold and bald-faced it took your breath away. Within minutes, examples of Rumsfeld's rosy verbal pictures were all over the Internet.
So why does this man still have his job? I'll let Rummy answer: "Do I still have a job? Yes, certainly. Do we know why? No. Is this just nuts? I would say yes."
Bruce VanWyngarden, Editor
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(CNN) – President Barack Obama labeled presumptive challenger Mitt Romney's comments that took credit for the auto industry's recovery as an "Etch A Sketch moment."
"I think this is one of his Etch A Sketch moments. I don't think anybody takes that seriously," Obama said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" that aired Thursday, referencing the now infamous language used by a top Romney adviser in March.
On Monday, Romney said "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
The former Massachusetts governor and all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee said it was his view that the auto companies should go through a managed bankruptcy before government intervention.
"And frankly, that's finally what the president did. He finally took them through bankruptcy," Romney told WEWS-TV in Cleveland.
However, in 2008 Romney penned an op-ed in the New York Times with the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" that is often cited by Democrats and the Obama re-election campaign as proof Romney would have allowed General Motors and Chrysler to fail.
"People remember his position, which was let's let Detroit go bankrupt," Obama said in Thursday's interview. "Had we followed his advice at that time, Chrysler would have gone under and we would have lost a million jobs throughout the Midwest."
Romney's op-ed argued against federal loans for ailing automakers, and instead suggested a process that would allow them to "shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs."
"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye," Romney wrote.
More recently he said Obama "got to the same place I had suggested" by putting the companies through bankruptcy. But he also accused the president of "crony capitalism" because of protections issued to unionized autoworkers during the process.
GM and Chrysler accepted $80 billion in federal loans as part of the auto bailout, a portion of which came under the George W. Bush administration. Economists argue the federal loan ensured a successful bankruptcy process.
In February, GM announced record annual profit, and regained its position as the world's largest automaker.
– CNN's Gabriella Schwarz and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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Videos on ORBIS’s work saving sight in developing countries have been added to the ORBIS website. The series, “Uncover the Truth About
Blindness,” covers each of ORBIS’s priority areas:
Vietnam, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean and the
Each video focuses on one patient treated for blindness in that particular country or region and brings to life the scope and impact of ORBIS’s sight-saving work in that area. The videos can be found both in the video gallery as well as within each of the country sections on the website.
If you would like to order a DVD of the entire series, please send your request to firstname.lastname@example.org. DVDs are provided free of charge.
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Follow these professional business attire tips for both men and women because we are judged by the way we dress.
Do you ever wonder where all the dress rules have gone? Depending on when and where you are on any given business day, the words “distant past” might come to mind. It’s difficult to decide if people don’t know what to wear to work or if they have lost sight of the relevance of appearance to professional success.
The Queen of England is reported to have told Prince Charles, “Dress gives one the outward sign from which people can judge the inward state of mind. One they can see, the other they cannot.” Clearly, she was saying what many people are reluctant to accept; that people judge us by the way we dress. In all situations, business and social, our outward appearance sends a message.
Try going to a busy restaurant at lunchtime. Look around you at what people are wearing and see if you don’t make judgments about who they are, their line of business, their personalities and their competencies. Think about how you feel when you are dressed in your usual business attire as opposed to casual dress. Your choice of business apparel speaks to your professional behavior and credibility. It is important to understand how to dress for business if you wish to promote yourself and your organization in a positive manner,
How you dress depends on four factors: the industry in which you work, the job you have within that industry, the geographic area in which you live; and most importantly, what your client expects to see.
Professional Dress for Men
In men’s clothing, fashion does not change significantly from season to season but business attire is about being professional and not about being fashionable. It’s about presenting yourself in a way that makes your clients feel comfortable and confident with you. Dressing for success is still the rule. The professional businessman should keep in mind these few points when deciding what to wear to work.
Choose a conservative suit in navy, black or gray either pinstripe or solid. The quality of the material speaks as loudly as the color and can make the difference between sleaze and suave.
A solid white or blue dress shirt with long sleeves offers the most polished look. The more pattern and color you add, the more the focus is on your clothing, rather than your professionalism.
Ties should be made of silk or a silk-like fabric. Avoid the cartoon characters and go for simple and subtle if you want to enhance your credibility.
Socks should be calf-length or above. Make sure they match not only what you are wearing, but also each other. A quick glance in good light before heading out the door can save embarrassment later in the day. Check for holes as well if you’ll be going through airport security and removing your shoes.
Shoes should without question be conservative, clean and well polished. Lace-up shoes are the choice over slip-ons or flip flops. Don’t think for a minute that people don’t notice shoes. Many people will look at your feet before your face.
Belts need to match or closely coordinate with your shoes. Once again, quality counts.
Keep jewelry to a minimum. In a time when men sport gold necklaces, bracelets and earrings, the business professional should limit himself to a conservative watch, a wedding band and maybe his college ring.
Personal hygiene is part of the success equation. Freshly scrubbed wins out over heavily fragranced any day of the week. Save the after-shave for after hours, but never the shave itself.
The finishing touch for the business man is his choice of accessories: briefcase, portfolio and pen. When it comes to sealing the deal, a top of the line suit, a silk tie and a good pair of leather shoes can lose their affect when you pull out the ball point pen you picked up in the hotel meeting room the day before.
Professional Dress for Women
When women entered the workplace in the 1970′s and 1980′s in greater numbers than ever before and began to move into positions which had traditionally been held by men, many of them believed that they needed to imitate male business attire. The result was women showing up at the office in skirted suits or coordinated skirts and jackets with tailored blouses finished off with an accessory item that looked very much like a man’s tie. Happily those days are gone. While the business woman may now wear trousers to work, she does it out of a desire to appear professional and at the same time enjoy the flexibility and comfort that pants offer over skirts. Her goal is no longer to mirror her male colleagues.
The same overall rules apply to women’s work attire as apply to men’s. Business clothing is not a reflection of the latest fashion trend. A woman should be noticed for who she is and her professional skills rather than for what she wears. Her business wear should be appropriate for her industry and her position or title within the industry.
Start with a skirted suit or pants suit for the most conservative look. A skirted suit is the most professional. With a few exceptions, dresses do not offer the same credibility unless they are accompanied by matching jackets.
Skirts should be knee-length or slightly above or below. Avoid extremes. A skirt more than two inches above the knee raises eyebrows and questions.
Pants should break at the top of the foot or shoe. While Capri pants and their fashion cousins that come in assorted lengths from mid-calf to ankle are the latest trend, they are out of place in the conservative business environment.
Blouses and sweaters provide color and variety to woman’s clothing, but they should be appealing rather than revealing. Inappropriate necklines and waistlines can give the wrong impression.
Women need to wear hose in the business world. Neutral or flesh-tone stockings are the best choices. Never wear dark hose with light-colored clothing or shoes. Keep an extra pair of stockings in your desk drawer unless the hosiery store is next door or just down the street from the office.
Faces, not feet, should be the focal point in business so chose conservative shoes. A low heel is more professional than flats or high heels. In spite of current fashion and the sandal rage, open-toed or backless shoes are not office attire. Not only are sandals a safety hazard, they suggest a certain official agenda.
When it comes to accessories and jewelry, less is once again more. Keep it simple: one ring per hand, one earring per ear. Accessories should reflect your personality, not diminish your credibility.
Business attire is different from weekend and evening wear. Investing in a good business wardrobe is an investment in your professional future. For those who think it’s not what you wear but who you are that creates success, give that some more thought. Business skills and experience count, but so does personal appearance and that all-important first impression.
Article from Official Blog of Carmen Castro
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