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In a press conference at Jerez James Allison Technical Director of the Lotus F1 team was asked if he had seen anything of interest on the other new cars, his reply was certainly interesting “It’s a crap answer but I’ve not had time to look at any other cars but our own, bit there is one feature of the Caterham’s exhaust that I don’t think will be there when we get to Melbourne.”
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The feature in question is what appears to be a flow conditioner in the exhaust channel of the Caterham CT03. Lotus has near identical image to the one seen here as the Lotus pit lane photographer was stood next to Racecar’s when they were taken! The conditioner appears to guide the exhaust gasses toward the crucial area at the rear of the car floor which would give the blown diffuser effect. The element is coated in a ceramic thermal barrier coating and is likely to be made of metal not carbon fibre.
The design may fall foul of article 5.8.4 of the 2013 Technical regulations which state that.
Once the exhaust tailpipes, the bodywork required by Article 3.8.4 and any apertures permitted by Article 3.8.5 have been fully defined there must be no bodywork lying within a right circular truncated cone which :
a) Shares a common axis with that of the last 100mm of the tailpipe.
b) Has a forward diameter equal to that of each exhaust exit.
c) Starts at the exit of the tailpipe and extends rearwards as far as the rear wheel centre line.
d) Has a half-cone angle of 3° such that the cone has its larger diameter at the rear wheel centre line.
Furthermore, there must be a view from above, the side, or any intermediate angle perpendicular to the car centre line, from which the truncated cone is not obscured by any bodywork lying more than 50mm forward of the rear wheel centre line.
No formal protest can be lodged yet as in testing the full regulations do not apply.
Caterham has responded to the comments made by Lotus with team boss Cyril Abiteboul stating to Autosport magazine that “My understanding is that it is within the regulations, we tested it last year and nobody made any remark about it. We are quite flattered that James Allison is paying attention to what is happening at our exhausts. There are different ways of looking at it, and definitely we are outside of the cone. The purpose of testing is to test and to understand what is happening. One of the areas that everybody is looking at is to understand how the exhaust effect is working, and where it is going. Therefore anything that helps you better measure that is welcome, at least for the tests. We will see whatever clarification is made before the first race.”
Caterham could keep the turning vane outside of the exhaust cone by giving the exhaust exit a slight upward angle (as it appears to feature above) thus keeping most of the exit channel outside of the cone. But the exhaust plume could still pass through the channel and over the turning vane. The cooling hole above the exhaust exit could serve some purpose in this function.
A full technical analysis can be found here: Caterham CT03
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The SCO Group, it seems, has finally read the GPL; the company has announced
that it has suspended shipments of its Linux distribution. It does not do,
after all, to be claiming proprietary rights on code which has been mixed
into a GPL-licensed product. SCO stands every chance of losing its right
to distribute (at least) the kernel in any case; better to take the step
ahead of time.
Of course, other interpretations are possible. The company's Linux
shipments have, most likely, dropped to something approximating zero in any
case. SCO, having lost in the Linux marketplace (even before the lawsuit)
appears to wish to bring that whole market down in flames. It's hard to
come up with another motivation for statements like:
The SCO Group, the owner of the UNIX operating system, today warned
that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX and that legal
liability for the use of Linux may extend to commercial users. SCO
issued this alert based on its findings of illegal inclusions of
SCO UNIX intellectual property in Linux.
SCO has also sent an
unsettling letter to some 1500 companies worldwide.
As FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) attacks go, it is hard to be less
subtle than this. If you use Linux, SCO has just threatened to sue you.
So much for them not having anything against the Linux community. (The
company's posting of a page of
quotations from "Linux leaders" - such as noted kernel hacker Richard
Stallman - also gives a hint as to what their current attitude toward the
SCO has also trotted out the
Gartner Group to drive the point home.
System administrators must be admonished to submit open-source code
to inspection for potential violation of patents. An open-source
quality assurance process should determine and approve allowable
code for production systems. Such efforts may slow adoption of
Linux in high-end production systems of critical applications.
Of course, the SCO suit has nothing to do with patents, but it is time to
adopt procedures which "may slow adoption" of Linux just a little bit. Of
course, Gartner has no suggestions on how anyone might verify that a given
chunk of code does not violate anybody's patents. To top it off, Gartner states
"However, one thing is certain: The community process is fraught with
risk to users." (The report does also note, for what
it's worth, "In Gartner's opinion, SCO's claim that IBM
misappropriated trade secrets from AIX will be difficult to
SCO's action, which was once presented as a simple contractual dispute
between two corporations, has now been clearly exposed as an attack on
Linux itself. At some point, however, SCO is going to have to stop talking
and demonstrate some stolen source. If the company actually has something
to show, it's past time to put some cards on the table. As it is, SCO
gives the impression of trying to destroy the Linux community away with words
that have little backing in the real world.
Comments (29 posted)
[This article was contributed by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]
Finding a laptop that is Linux-compatible can be a daunting task. Buying
a laptop with Linux pre-loaded is pretty much impossible if you want to
buy from major vendors like Dell, HP, IBM or Toshiba. HP recently announced
a low-end Linux laptop for sale in Thailand. This sounded like exciting
news at first, but it turns out that the HP laptop is being underwritten by
the Thai government and won't be offered in the United States.
Dell and IBM have offered Linux on some of their laptops in the past,
but both companies have stopped doing so. Lindows.com -- not a major
company, but important in the sense that they have managed to put
machines with Linux pre-installed into some traditional retail channels
-- announced a budget Linux-based portable computer this year, but it's
not widely available (it's only available through one of Lindows.com's
resellers) and it's seriously underpowered.
So what is a Linux user to do? The only real options for Linux users are
to buy a notebook or laptop computer that comes with Windows
pre-installed, or to go to a smaller vendor that offers Linux on a
portable. A few of the vendors that sell Linux pre-installed on laptops
or notebooks are Emperor
Linux, Qli Linux Computers
There are a number of reasons why you probably won't see Linux being
offered by any of the big retailers anytime soon. For one thing, a
vendor like Dell or IBM has a hard time offering what Linux users really
want -- the most recent distribution on cutting-edge hardware. Lincoln
Durey, president and founder of Emperor Linux, said that when major
manufacturers have tried to offer Linux laptops they've tended to be at
least one revision behind a distribution -- and usually only offer a
choice of one or two distributions. And, when they have offered Linux they
didn't offer a dual-boot system with Windows as well, something Durey
says many of his customers are looking for.
Durey also noted that all or almost all major components of a laptop
will change every four to six months, which causes major difficulty for
anyone trying to test compatibility with Linux as well as Windows on
those machines. Ray Sanders, founder of Qli Linux, says that they're
"almost guaranteed" that sound, video, USB and integrated Ethernet will
work but "we never expect modems to work under Linux." Durey added that
"PCMCIA is a perennial nightmare." Of course, that's a chicken and the
egg problem. If the Dell, Toshiba and other big vendors started
demanding Linux-compatible parts, it wouldn't take long before their
upstream vendors responded.
It's not as if there isn't demand for Linux on laptops, though it's not
in the same kind of mass quantities that vendors like Dell are used to.
Durey says that most of the demand they see is from university and
government researchers or others who are buying a Linux laptop because
that's also what they use at work. In other words, demand is increasing,
but there still isn't a great demand from home users clamoring for a
Linux notebook, at least not relatively speaking. Sanders says that
Qli's sales of Linux laptops is "brisk," at least by their standards.
"In my mind, moving a couple hundred notebooks a month is fantastic,
whereas IBM and Dell need to move thousands of units to make it
worthwhile." Durey said that Emperor's sales have been growing by 12 to
15 percent a year, after the initial boom in 1999 when the company hit
If Linux is going to gain mainstream acceptance, it's going to have to
be available on laptops through normal retail channels. More and more
people are choosing to buy a laptop for home use instead of a desktop
PC, so it's vitally important that Linux be there if it's to catch on in
the desktop market. Wrestling Linux onto a laptop designed only to run
Windows can be a daunting task, and it certainly isn't something that
Linux newbies want to attempt. Until the demand reaches a higher level,
however, alternatives to installing it yourself will remain scarce.
Comments (23 posted)
Recently, the "Open Forum Europe" released a
in favor of software patents in Europe. Those signing on to
the statement included Graham Taylor "...as a representative of the
Linux/Opensource world." Of course, many people in the Linux community are
not particularly sympathetic to an expansion of software patents, so they
were something other than pleased with this "representation." Mr. Taylor
has since backed off
from any claims that he was representing the open source community. But
the question remains: who does
represent this community?
The Linux / free software / open source / whatever community does tend to
share a common set of beliefs. We wish to retain control over our
computers (and our lives). We have little tolerance for limits - technical
or legal - on what we can program. We have, through voluntary
contributions, created a vast commons of increasingly capable software, and
we intend to continue doing so. We respect technical excellence and
working code; we have less faith in words.
And, as a community, we have little patience with those who would position
themselves as our leaders or representatives. We are a very
independent-minded community that has managed to bring together a very
broad spectrum of people and get them all to work together in a productive
manner. But we are, as a community, not even remotely coherent enough to
be represented or led by anybody.
There is a certain Wild West charm to a leaderless, institution-free
community. We see an itch in need of scratching, submit our patches, and
ride off into the sunset. Our code speaks for us, and we need not tolerate
some bozo making statements we may not agree with in our name. It feels
On the other hand, we are a large community of highly talented people who
have changed the software industry, and, increasingly, we are creating the
software that runs the world. And, yet, our voice in political and
industry circles is tiny. Governments happily adopt free software, while
passing laws that make the software harder to develop and turn some of our
hackers into criminals. With few exceptions, the computing industry pays
little attention to free software in the development of its products.
Once you look beyond the actual code we have published, we are a marginal
force, dependent upon a handful of companies to pressure representatives,
obtain hardware information, and extract protocols for us. The partnership
with those companies has done the community much good, but we should not
confuse their agenda with ours. At some point, one can only hope that the
community will develop institutions that can express our common beliefs
with a louder voice. Creating those institutions is unlikely to be an easy
task for anybody who tries, however.
Comments (7 posted)
Page editor: Jonathan Corbet
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition
- Security: What is "unauthorized access"?; new vulnerabilities in the kernel, kopete, xinetd
- Kernel: The "must-fix" list, CGL shopping list; security modules; device classes
- Distributions: Vector Linux for Low-End Hardware, The LWN Distributions List
- Development: Imview for image viewing and analysis, new versions of: JACK, POE, Twisted,
PyKota, Tiki, VimZopeEditor, netRhythmbox, WaveSurfer, Mozilla, ScummVM,
Wine, AbiWord, GnuCash, KFLog, and Anjuta.
- Press: IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer, Red Hat on Fujitsu computers,
Oracle in China, Csound now open-source.
- Announcements: ActiveState Active Awards nomination, Ghostscript bug bounty,
Linux Migration Quick Reference, International Lisp Conference 2003 CFP,
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Posts tagged Arthur Laffer
Revisiting and Expanding the Laffer Curve
Tibor R. Machan
The Laffer curve is about how much imposition or other types of trouble people are willing to tolerate from their fellows. Arthur Laffer, a professor at the University of Southern California, is supposed to have drawn a bell shaped graph on a napkin once to show that up to the peak point of it people are likely to put up with the burden of taxation. The peak isn’t the same for everyone, but everyone does have such a peak.
In particular, then, the Laffer Curve concerns taxation, a form of extortion, which government uses to obtain funds to operate its undertakings. Reminiscent of how organized crime groups, such as the Mafia, operate, the government threatens heavy fines and jail so those being threatened hand over funds. Since, however, many governments, unlike the Mafia, can be voted out of office, the severity of the extortion has to be gauged with the possibility of eventual electoral resistance in mind. This is no easy task and can often go awry. Yet in most countries tax revolts are relatively rare since few people wish to risk losing their forms of life just so as to retaliate against the powerful forces of the state. This, again, is similar to Mafia type extortions in which the victim is given some benefits in order to be placated—e.g., protection from vandalism (the bulk of it initiated by the gangsters themselves).
Now the Laffer Curve is extendable into much more than the sphere of taxation-extortion. Any sort of government intrusion is subject to its insight. Censorship comes to mind—a certain amount of it will not be widely resisted. Government regulation, all of it a violation of the prohibition of prior restraint—is also subject to it since it is taken to be more trouble at times to resist than to comply with it. Indeed, statism as such is subject to the Laffer Curve analysis—in most societies it is not significantly enough resisted for it to subside, let alone disappear. People subjected to statist measures of any sort simply will not mount effective resistance because to do so may involve greater losses than gains and they are, after all, often able to circumvent it reasonably successfully by using their own intelligence or hiring expert help in the form of specialist in various branches of intrusive law.
Finally, the Laffer Curve is useful, also, to explain why there is not enough political resistance to statism and why only a small percentage of the population bothers to mount any, especially in advanced, developed countries where people live quite well, and where mounting resistance is quite costly, relatively speaking—that is, the possibility of success is small while the cost of the revolt is considerable. In undeveloped countries the situation is different, which helps explain why so often it is in such countries that we see rebellion and revolt against prevailing authorities and why there is frequent regime change in many of them. Put bluntly, the bulk of the population has little to lose from rising up against the state. That is not so in most developed countries.
The small percentage of citizens who will insist on making an issue out of nearly any measure of statism in developed countries will not manage to achieve regime change, of course, but it will keep the idea of it alive. Yet this itself can contribute to the ineffectuality of such marginal efforts, since the rest of the population may perceive the small resistance as sufficient and proceed without given it any aid or even much attention.
Is there a remedy or is this normal? In a sense it is normal—most people will put up with some trouble from others. They will accept a certain amount of intrusive noise from neighbors, being bumped on the sidewalk as they hurry to some destination, even some fender bender type auto accidents, let alone insults and humiliation. Minor thefts or assaults are rarely reported to the authorities.
However, what is not normal is becoming habituated to such tolerance for invasiveness from others. Most of us fear the consequences of such habituation—just as we fear being habituated to anything that harms us in the long run.
If it becomes evident enough, via education or the example from other regions of the world, that statism even in small increments has bad overall consequences, that things could turn out measurably better without it, the peak of the Laffer Curve may become more easily reached for the bulk of the people and the level of tolerance of statism could diminish considerably.
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Posted Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 9:09 AM
Remember those leaked emails that revealed former President George W. Bush was a painting aficionado? Among other paintings there were purported self-portraits of the former president in the shower and bath that caused quite a stir online.
Atlanta’s Fox 5 talked to Bonnie Flood, a Georgia art instructor who spent about a month teaching the 43rd president how to paint, saying she worked with him for around six hours a day. “He picked it up so quick, it was amazing actually,” she said. “His whole heart is in it.” His real passion, at least in the beginning, was to paint dogs. “I think he said he’d painted 50 dogs,” she said. But Flood said she later convinced him to expand his repertoire and paint more landscapes. Flood said she wasn’t sure what to call Bush, so she started calling him “43” because that is how he signs his paintings.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The main partners in the project, known as Vertiwind, are the Lille-based designer, Nénuphar; Technip, which is also involved with the HyWind floating turbine; and EDF Energies Nouvelles, the renewables arm of French utility EDF.
The project received a major boost recently when it was awarded a grant of EUR7 million under the French government's "Investing in the Future" program, which supports innovative renewable and decarbonised energy projects.
Vertiwind consists of a direct drive machine around 90 meters tall mounted on a triangular structure tethered to the seabed. Technip is responsible for designing the platform, mooring system and connection cable as well as on-site installation.
"Our concept offers the cheapest and most reliable floating wind turbine: no massive tower and nacelle, no yaw system, no pitch system, no gearbox, no complex blade geometry," said Charles Smadja, CEO of Nénuphar.
The low centre of gravity makes the machine more stable and minimises the gyroscopic effects, the company claims. It also means the floating platform is cheaper and the whole unit can be assembled quayside and delivered by tug boat, with no need for special cranes.
This allows shorter delivery and installation times -- up to nine months faster, according to Smadja -- and lower operation-and-maintenance costs, plus increased availability, compared to other offshore turbines.
"Eventually, Nénuphar's target price per MW is expected to be comparable with the current price per MW for the conventional bottom-mounted offshore wind installations, while it allows the development of wind farms in much greater water depths," the company says.
Nénuphar plans to build a full-size onshore prototype this year and to conduct sea tests of a 2MW offshore prototype under the Vertiwind project in 2013.
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A major New York City bank serves in a trust capacity for a family of more than 1,300 mutual funds.
The bank's method of recordkeeping was able to optimize operations. But it was also the bank's responsibility to engage auditors to prepare annual financial statements for each of the funds. The auditors needed to spend considerable time putting the records in order before they could issue their statements. The annual audit fee for all of the funds was over $8 million.
Business Logic designed a system that automatically transformed the operational data into double entry accounting records and produced camera-ready financial statements.
Business Logic's combination of accounting expertise and software development skills produced an efficient system that reduced the bank's annual audit fee by 75%.
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Religion makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise…..Well, except the healthy, wealthy, and wise parts. The myth that religion is good for you has become almost as popular as the idea that some smelly sand virgin conceived a god-child. The promulgation of this myth is part of an orchestrated effort by well-funded right wing pseudoscholars to help provide the pseudointellectual foundations for their theocratic wet dreams. But, most of the actual research findings are for minor league indicators of mood, very small effects on depressive symptoms, and associations with survival. Most of the associations are with indicators of public religious participation (gee, people who are well enough to get out and see their friends live longer and are happier, surprise, surprise). Some mood effects are also found for prayer and other forms of meditation. Frankly, I’ve become quite skeptical of most of the research in this area, particularly clinical type studies conducted by religious devotees (and it isn’t just Christians, there are Hindu and Buddhist nutters in spades). Yet another new article in ASR on this almost made me puke. It said nothing that couldn’t have been learned from Ellison, Gay, and Glass (1989, SF) and I can’t for the life of me see how it merited publication in ASR, except that the authors are religionists and heavily funded by Templeton–so they got hand-job reviews from other fundees maybe? ASA needs a policy on conflicts of interest.
I’ve been helping on a paper with Ben Moulton which shows some quite interesting problems with the “healthy” issue. What Ben’s findings show is that the positive correlation between survival and church attendance is only present among people who don’t have a college degree. Indeed, among college graduates, going to church kills you. You can see this in the graph of mortality risks above by church attendance and degree status. College graduates who went to church a lot were much more likely to die during a 10 year follow up than were college graduates who NEVER GO to CHURCH. This echoes similar findings on mental health outcomes from Scott Schieman, though you never see this issue amplified and Ben has had a very tough time with true believer reviewers at several journals. I was shocked to see a nice paper in JSSR showing that sectarian religious nutters have the highest mortality rates. Of course, this key finding is not presented in the abstract or amplified in the paper. I wonder how that one slipped past the Christianists? I’m sure if the author showed that sectarian christians have the lowest mortality rates it would have been a ringer for ASR.
Given the weakness and equivocality of the impact of religion on health in the United States, it’s interesting to see that the Division of Jesus in the United States Armed Forces has now been tracking the “spiritual fitness” of our troops. And, you gotta know that that their little spiritual fitness questionnaire was designed by some “social scientist”, right? After all, if our troops don’t believe in a great sky wizard, how will they have the will to kill them Muslims? I mean, there is no way a guy can do six tours in Iraqistan if he or she doesn’t believe in a higher power giving meaning and purpose to killing people for Halliburton! And, obviously, what the hack pseudoscholars really want to do is to prescribe jesus. You sick? Go to church! Pray to the lord Jesus! You don’t need Medicaid or Medicare or Obamacare or any of that godless communist moslem homosexual stuff, you need the lord jesus! Jesus makes you unhealthy, poor, and stupid. That’s what real research shows.
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Food Science: Growing to Meet an Ever-Changing Market
FoodScience Corporation (FSC) was formed in 1972 by Guido Orlandi and his wife Maria. The Orlandi family built the company principally on their passion for developing alternative therapies for humans and animals. The Orlandi family has made it their life’s work to provide exceptional, research-based innovative nutritional health care products for the well-being of people and their pets. The company has always believed in and dedicated resources to educating health professionals, retailers and its distributors worldwide. Demand for high-quality condition-specific human and animal health care products, has kept FSC leading the industry globally for more than 35 years.
The Market has Changed Over 30 Years
FSC is proactive in responding to an ever-changing global regulatory environment. In recent years, FSC has passed audits by, but not limited to, the FDA, APVMA and NPA to meet the highest regulatory standards for pet supplements in the U.S. and abroad. Roger Kendall, vice president of research and development, and Dale Metz, CEO, were both founding members of the National Animal Supplement Council. The cornerstone of NASC’s mission is to work cooperatively with state, federal and international government officials to create a legislative and regulatory environment that provides a framework that is fair, reasonable, responsible and nationally consistent.
Product Development and Innovation
FSC works closely with advisory boards comprised of leading health care professionals who use natural health care products in a clinical setting regularly. They help to formulate relevant products with focus on up-to-date, well-researched ingredients combined in highly palatable delivery systems that meet the needs of each individual market. In a financially conservative global economy with a glut of supplement brands to choose from, research, efficacy, product palatability and delivery systems influence consumer spending, compliance and repeat purchases. FSC meets these criteria not only for its house and private label products, but also custom formulations.
Benefit-Driven Health Care
“In 2007, our facility was capable of 17 million chews annually. With the significant growth in a major segment of our business we made a major capital investment in early 2010 to automate our chew line,” said Bill O’Connor, COO. “We are now in a position to handle the increase in our soft chew business with the new automated packaging machine and accessories, and we project we will produce 100 million chews in 2011 and meet our customers demand for innovative products. FoodScience Corporation is committed to protecting the environment, the health and safety of our employees, and the community in which we conduct our business.”
“It is FoodScience Corporation’s policy to seek improvements throughout our business operations to lessen our impact on the local and global environment by conserving energy, water and other natural resources; reducing waste generation; recycling and purchasing recycled products; and reducing our use of toxic products,” added Dale R. Metz, CEO. “We are committed to pollution prevention, continual improvement and meeting or exceeding all environmental regulatory requirements.”
Global Market Position
“Our company has a long history of providing proven quality supplements for both humans and pets that sell in various channels world wide,” said President Dom Orlandi, Jr. “We are seeking partners dedicated to providing products that ultimately improve the quality of life for companion animals, as well as leading the charge for consistent research, quality and integrity within our industry.
“Our retail and ethical branded products can now be found in more than 60 countries,” he added, “however, we manufacture, and in some cases, co-brand custom formulas for our partners that specifically meet the needs of their markets in terms of price points and formulations as well.”
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The San Saba ISD held a special Board meeting on Thursday, September 30th, in the high school library. The agenda was a presentation by Dr. Paul Troutman of the Texas Association of School Boards, who gave his findings of a recently completed District Facility Study commissioned by the SSISD Board of Trustees during the spring of 2008. Dr. Troutman’s information has been given to the TASA and they will draft it and send it to Superintendent Glaze.
Dr. Troutman gave his credentials and explained the following Facility Study as follows:
• Made analysis of buildings and sites;
• Identified problems, shortcomings, inadequacies;
• Gathered information from Superintendent and staff;
• Gathered information from faculty;
• Reviewed building blueprints;
• Made on-site inspections;
• Reviewed program profiles;
• Analized individual needs;
• Examined buildings, site, and neighborhood for safety;
• Reviewed classroom management and room size;
• Reviewed history of the area's population and enrollment; and
Dr. Troutman showed an aerial view of the 15.4 acre site.
Dr. Troutman’s findings included:
1. According to State standards, all three buildings (HS, MS, Elem.) are seriously overcrowded;
2. Improvements to Elementary building could exceed the amount to build a new structure;
3. Safety issues exist because of public streets throughout the site;
4. Offices for each building should be located at entrance;
5. Handicap accessibility needs improvement;
6. Classroom space is inadequate;
7. There are problems related to traffic;
8. Renovations would be costly;
9. Facilities are not in compliance with some State standards ;
10. Some buildings are deteriorating beyond repair;
11. Recommended setting up a plan with goals.
Those who attended the 2 1/2 hour meeting were: Superintendent Leigh Ann Glaze; Assistant Superintendent Ashley Stewart; President Darrin Barker; Vice President Marcie Maxcey; Secretary Bob Whitten; Board Members Elmo Davis, Angela Johnson and Kim Kirk; Dr. Paul Troutman and San Saba News & Star Reporter Alice Smith.
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I’ll admit, I’m not much of a history buff and was worried that I wouldn’t be able to relate to this movie. I pictured just another fictional film with no true history behind it. But that wasn’t Lincoln at all. This movie was based on true events and gave me a better understanding of what really happened during the last months of President Lincoln’s time in office. He truly was a great man with much heart, determination and immense compassion for every walk of life.
Besides being the story of who I believe was the greatest president of all time, the incredible talent showcased in Lincoln totally knocked my socks off. Daniel Day-Lewis, who shares a remarkable resemblance to Lincoln himself, gives viewers an Oscar worthy job in his role. The whole time I was watching the movie, I couldn’t stop thinking about how much he looked liked the pictures I had seen of Lincoln himself. I’m not sure there is anyone else that could have played this role and have it seem any more real.
As the Civil War was raging because of a country divided, the President struggles with the carnage of the war itself but also with his desire and dedication to bring freedom for the slaves. Determined for success on both fronts, he is literally brought to his knees.
His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was often criticized because she was outspoken and crass at times, she knows her role as the First Lady and she does her job well. Sally Fields really brought this character to life. The raw look at their marriage, her role as mother, wife and First Lady, it was a job well done and as she showed emotion, I could relate. Not to her job as First Lady, but as a mom and wife.
Although I’m really not sure of Tommy Lee Jones character, Thaddeus Stevens, I do know that Tommy Lee Jones did a fabulous job in this role. All through the movie I could tell that Thaddeus had a connection to the 13th amendment, but I never really could put my finger on it. He had such passion and conviction and really poured all of himself into freeing the slaves. At the end of the movie you’ll understand his drive and desire and the personal connection that kept pushing him to succeed.
Without going in too put detail and giving you any spoilers, all I’m going to say is this movie was phenomenal! The characters, the story, the setting, all of it…was touching and a total eye-opener for me. Lincoln will be released in select markets tomorrow November 9th and nationwide November 16th. Go see it! Really!
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Just like the baseball owners of years past, many human resource professionals and line managers are making mistakes in assembling their teams -- by misvaluing their employees. Now, more than ever, a holistic approach is needed to ensure that the right data is being selected, tracked, reported on, compared and used to improve talent management.
The reason the book and movie Moneyball have won many fans is not just that they tell a great underdog sports story of a small-market baseball team battling higher-payroll behemoths. It's that the story is about how markets value people, as much as it is about sports.
"These baseball players who we all think we know and understand are misvalued," Moneyball author Michael Lewis told an interviewer. "And if they can be misvalued, who can't?"
Indeed, human resources professionals and line managers at many different types of companies have made similar mistakes, in assembling their teams -- and their outcomes have been the same: "misvalued" employees.
While tools and approaches for selecting and developing talent abound in today's marketplace, it continues to be all too easy to make mistakes -- and those mistakes cost organizations real money.
In many ways, today's overabundance of employee-assessment instruments, performance metrics and available data makes it even more challenging to ensure that the talent pool is aligned with strategic business goals and prepared to drive steadily toward continued growth and prosperity.
When employee skills, traits, motivations and knowledge are out of sync with the requirements of the job, everyone loses, including the employee, his or her team, the organization and markets served.
Now, more than ever, a holistic approach is needed to ensure that the right data is being selected, tracked, reported on, compared and used to improve performance. Rising commodity costs, fierce competition and fewer consumer dollars put pressures on profits. Global leaders are responsible for ever-larger portfolios of products and teams of people, and they need transformative approaches to sustain and grow their companies.
To complicate matters, changing global demographics are making it harder to find high-performing employees with the right fit for changing job requirements, and the most talented "stars" are becoming increasingly elusive.
In a competitive job market, candidates with the highest potential are like baseball's free agents, being repeatedly tempted by recruiters and their own career aspirations to leave for better compensation. Regardless of the size of their budget, HR leaders should be making sure they are developing and rewarding the skills and employee loyalty that will truly help achieve their organizations' business goals.
Harnessing the Data
Our data-driven approach, called Quantitative Talent Management, is designed to enable HR leaders to harness and integrate all of the relevant information for talent management. QTM involves three components: data gathering, data analysis and information transparency.
We advocate a data-gathering approach similar to the Oakland A's embrace of quantitative analysis on a much larger scale than any other team in baseball at the time, as featured in Moneyball.
The A's took advantage of a wealth of statistical data to use new, more effective metrics. For example, although baseball traditionalists valued "batting average" as a measure of offensive talent, "on-base percentage" (which also accounts for walks) was actually a far-better measure of a player's contribution to victory.
The team also ignored the traditional dismissal of college statistics as inconsequential and saw that statistical analysis indicated they were surprisingly good indicators of professional performance. And, conversely, they recognized that some hallowed numbers -- such as fastball velocity -- offered more glamor than substance.
In business, too, there has been a data revolution. Companies have available a wealth of sophisticated tools to gather and convert data into intelligence regarding the workforce. Yet how many HR executives -- as they power their way through days filled with firefighting and tactical issues -- feel confident that they are thoroughly evaluating talent through use of the most relevant and effective metrics?
To take an obvious example: Is a salesperson measured by the revenues she brings in or the profitability of her sales? Or, are upstream measures such as frequency of customer contact and sales-cycle times, which are tracked in the CRM system, more important?
In decades past, data for performance evaluation was minimal. But today, organizations can drill down through reams of data -- gathered by human resources, on the shop floor, within service organizations, and from integrated processes that span the organization -- to find better metrics for managing talent.
Any single piece of data is, of course, meaningless by itself. Data analysis is required, involving comparisons between relevant data, in order to derive meaningful interpretations.
The A's were drawn to on-base percentage because of its relationship to winning. They studied 70 years of statistics to build an entire model of success. It was a model based not upon the characteristics of people -- such as size, speed, athleticism and leadership abilities -- but on skills.
In seeking to properly value talent, the leaders of the A's took a different approach, carefully and methodically separating championship skills from the player. In their model, as described in Moneyball, success (i.e., a championship) could be predicted by monitoring certain statistics, such as on-base percentage.
In turn, on-base percentage was found to result from specific activities (e.g., hits and walks), which arose from specific skills (in this example, plate discipline). Because evidence suggested that plate discipline might be more innate than learned, it was adopted as a skill to recruit for, even at the lowest levels.
Some of Moneyball's best scenes showed scouts exasperated with the directive to discount athletic qualities that stirred their romantic imaginations in favor of wonkier measures. But the new data-driven, albeit, less emotionally stirring, approach worked.
Such analysis may be trickier in business than baseball because of the vast variety of skills, activities, metrics and even definitions of winning. But trickier doesn't mean impossible.
For example, in production processes, Statistical Process Control or Theory of Constraint approaches use an analytical framework for turning facts into insights that improve performance. And these approaches guide the user to interpretations based on a deeper analysis of skills, rather than just results.
For example, they might focus on the location of bottlenecks in an upstream process, rather than purely on outcome data, such as how many units are completed per hour. These more sophisticated approaches to operational performance management facilitate construction of models that link success back to certain activities and skills.
So, why aren't companies applying the same principles in the HR department? Quantitative analyses can show which skills lead to success -- and which skill deficits lead to bottlenecks.
HR executives need to determine which skills are important by breaking down accepted metrics (e.g., widgets produced, billable hours, occupancy rates) into more actionable, skill-based components.
The final component of QTM is information transparency. That's nothing new to baseball, where all players live in a world of constant feedback, with statistics that show their performance in real time. That's good. Top performers want to know what the goals are and how they are doing.
And most businesses can do a better job of compiling and sharing metrics that depict employee value. If your data gathering and analysis efforts provide the metrics, it only makes sense to be transparent with the information they provide. Let your employees see the metrics in real time.
Benefits of a Quantitative Approach
For the Oakland A's, the Moneyball approach lowered talent acquisition and replacement costs. Oakland's cost-per-hire dropped significantly for both mid-career and emerging players. They could pay less for a mid-career free agent because plate discipline was undervalued in the marketplace. They could trade stars overvalued by the market, such as "closer" relief pitchers, for younger, less expensive, and/or better fitting talent.
And they could lower their risks in drafting emerging players because their advanced statistics could better predict future success.
The end result of the new focus was that the A's delivered baseball's highest ROI for talent, the most wins per payroll dollar.
Selecting Useful Metrics
We recently worked with a global retail company that operated on thin margins, and knew that in-person customer service was a key differentiator in competing with online rivals.
Traditionally, the company had recruited and rewarded store managers using a single metric: store sales. And, not surprisingly, employees responded to their incentives with excellent, yet sometimes counter-productive performance.
In short, although same-store sales grew, so did costs -- and profitability suffered. For example, purchases of back-office store supplies were not tracked, relative to depletions, and many managers ordered far more than they needed. One even leased an offsite storage facility because all of the extra supplies wouldn't fit in his back room.
An analysis of the store's data yielded information that was used to drive more effective performance. For example, stores with greeters had higher sales volumes. That was instructive, but , the QTM approach went deeper, to determine the activities that drove those sales.
In this case, the company realized the sales results were driven by customer engagement. Greeting was an important component of engagement, but so were other activities, such as initiating conversations and matching customer types to display areas.
The company also analyzed high-margin point-of-sale purchases, which revealed the importance of merchandising and suggestive selling skills.
In the area of transparency, the company revised its approach to incentive compensation by using individual data (rather than store data) to determine performance metrics. It identified managing costs and merchandise selling as valuable skills, and gave pay increases and public praise to employees with those skills.
These changes improved employee satisfaction, because managers now had tools to improve -- or at least recognize -- their limitations. The company was also able to lower its acquisition costs, because with better clarification of needed skill sets, it was more easily able to narrow its candidate pools.
Struggles with Attrition
In another situation, we worked with an inbound contact center interested in using QTM to improve its hiring processes. Like most contact centers, it struggled with employee attrition. Furthermore, new developments in the industry, such as an increasing focus on social media and a trend toward at-home employment, had the potential to change the skill set required for success.
Traditionally, the data used for talent management in this industry has been outcome-based: call time, hold time, calls per hour, resolution time and customer satisfaction.
But what really constitutes success in this arena?
Given the increasing adoption of self-service capabilities and an increasing focus on customer experience, a more important metric might be first contact resolution. And employees need soft skills to succeed at that. They must be able to listen and logically distill the call input into manageable resolution steps.
This client was using three tools in its interview process: a math assessment, a typing assessment and an in-person interview. After analyzing these tools against the employees' actual performance, we found that the in-person interview was the worst predictor of future success.
We also increased the organization's transparency. Although, like many call centers, it displayed site- or team-based metrics to ensure cultural continuity, it adopted the QTM approach by showing individual employees their own performance metrics. That gave each one a framework for improving performance and compensation.
The benefits of a carefully crafted, quantitative approach can improve hiring processes, employee engagement, and many other components of talent management similar to the way the use of "sabermetrics" transformed the Oakland A's.
Specifically, the increased focus on workplace analytics and transparency can result in:
* Lower cost-per-hire: Instead of overpaying for highly thought of, yet vague qualities such as an Ivy League education, a company can hire for specific traits, skills and competencies that may be undervalued in the marketplace.
* Better retention: Armed with knowledge of the abilities that predict future success ? whether success is defined as staying happily in the same job or moving up through the ranks -- companies can reduce hiring risks.
* Situational deployments: With a better understanding of which skills are needed in which situations, companies can better tap the right person for the right assignment at the right time.
* Improved Incentives: By showing individuals which skills contribute to corporate success, and how they are performing relative to those measures, companies can give employees the right incentives in real time.
And the Beat Goes On
The only constant is change. In a competitive marketplace that inevitably produces followers of winning approaches, the Oakland A's succumbed. After experiencing far greater success than their budget should have allowed, they saw the wealthier Boston Red Sox adopt a similar approach -- of assigning value for previously undervalued skills -- and go on to win their first championship in 86 years in 2004. The A's have still never won a championship since adopting this approach.
But there is no single championship in the corporate world. Some companies will lead, some will follow, and some will fail to stay in the game due to poorly structured performance goals and metrics.
The name of the game is change, and using a qualitative talent management approach allows companies to be flexible, dynamic and respond to volatile conditions in the marketplace. To stay on top of the game, companies must discover the most important information to track, which may be hidden within volumes of less relevant data.
And they must remain ever ready to adapt and make adjustments along the way.
Beth Bovis is a partner with A.T. Kearney, the global management-consulting firm. She has more than 18 years of global consulting experience with a focus on organizational transformation, talent management, SG&A functional excellence, offshore strategies and change management, and can be reached at (312) 223-6696. Adam Pressman is a principal at A.T. Kearney, where he is a member of the global retail industry practice and is one of the leaders of the firm?s Strategic Information Technology Practice. He can be reached at (312) 223-6103. Dan Gagne and Braxton Sisco are both managers at A.T. Kearney and members of the Organization & Transformation practice. Gagne has led engagements in multiple industries and specializes in restructuring and change management initiatives in both the commercial and public sector. Sisco has led engagements focusing on executive-level issues across strategy, organizational transformation and procedure for multiple industries, with significant depth in both the CPG and pharmaceutical/healthcare operations.
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So you think this whole programming thing is pretty cool, and you'd like to be a part of it, huh? One thing I often like to tell people right out of the gate is this: if you love programming, then this is the absolute best job you can have; it would be hard for me to imagine anything I would really rather do than create. On the other hand, if you just like programming, or are indifferent, this is the absolute worst job you could possibly find because you're entering into a competitive arena where obsession is almost a prerequisite. Software development is almost like a race, where your life is on the line, you're running as fast as you can, and you have no idea what the terrain in front of you looks like; but with almost total abandon you plunge ahead just as fast whether you face an open plain or cliff. Oh, and if you stumble, it's all over, and it's all your fault. Sound a little scary? It should, but don't let it discourage you; I just don't want to paint some wonderful storybook picture where you type happily away in fields of green with white puffy clouds in a crystal blue sky... The reality is it's probably raining, and your machine keeps crashing because of it; but this same sense of uncertainty, challenge, and pressure is what makes it so exhilarating.
Still reading? Wow, I guess you are serious about this! Ok, now that I've given you a glimpse of what's ahead, let's talk some tech, then talk about the fun.
What's it take to be a programmer?
I don't think there are any specific traits that exclude you from being a programmer, I honestly think just about anyone with a little (ok, maybe a lot of) desire can do it, it's just a matter of how much time you want to spend. That being said, I think there are several common misconceptions about skills that are a big plus. First off, you don't need to be some sort of math whiz to be a programmer; it's certainly important to understand the basics, and to feel comfortable with algebra, but that's about it. Of course, there are exceptions to this; for example, if you are interested in graphics or game programming, having stronger math skills will definitely go a long way. Another common misconception is that you need to be some sort of Spock logic monster; I've also found this generally to not be true as well, although once again, it certainly doesn't hurt to have a sense of 'order'. So, what traits are desirable? Being motivated by challenge is definitely a BIG plus, since you're basically entering into a game where you are challenged on every corner. It's also very important to be relentless in pursuing your goal, but at the same time being able to remain flexible enough to not be blinded by perceived limits. Finally, I think a helping of obsessive-compulsive disorder tops things off well, giving you that extra motivation to take things well beyond where any sane person would! :)
What about school (college)?
College is a great place to learn about fields, but technology is not one of them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I don't think school is important; on the contrary, I DO think school is important, but not to learn programming. What you should really focus on in school is learning to work together with others on projects, in particular learn how other people approach problems and how they differ from your approach. College also forces you to do things you might not normally consider doing; for example, I remember when I took 'Compiler Design', I thought to myself "Boy, this is about worthless! I'm never going to need to do this!", and guess what, most of the time I was right (although I have actually had to do this in the real world)! BUT, what I did learn is how to solve a completely different set of problems, and this knowledge translates to MANY different applications.
One other advantage that you get from college is networking; I'm not talking about that ethernet cable in your dorm room, I'm talking about meeting other people who share your interests, and will one day be working in the same industry as you. The programming industry in many regards is much like the film industry; when someone becomes involved in a cool project, they invite their friends to participate. If you don't know them, you're not going to get invited (hired), and college in many cases is where you meet them. Another aspect than cannot be overlooked is the whole education side of things; I mean, c'mon, they teach quite a bit more than tech, things like history, psychology, etc... And while these may not SEEM to directly relate to programming, you would be surprised at some of the sources of inspiration I've had.
First off, I would recommend getting your feet wet before making any life decisions here; as I said before, this line of work can be fun, but it can also be really miserable, so don't just jump in. The first thing to do is go to your local bookstore, and buy a book on programming... But there are soo many books, and what's with all these different languages? I would recommend sticking with one of the following languages: C or C++, Visual Basic, Pascal (Delphi), or Java. Stay away from any others, since they are probably not going to give you the same level of flexibility that these will, plus these languages will have the largest amount of books to choose from. But whatever you do, don't just pick a language now! We're just testing the waters out, right? We're not writing the next Microsoft Office, so this isn't important yet; and regardless of what anyone says, those languages are all very similar, and very powerful, with commercial applications being written with any of them. Ok, so we need to select a book, now here's the method I recommend... Pick out 2 books using each one of the languages I've mentioned above, and find a place you can check them out in the store. Go through each book, and just flip through it, looking in particular at the programming examples (source code) that is listed. Once you get a rough feel for each language, go on to the next book; make sure not to spend more than a couple minutes with any one book. After you've finished this, pick the book that you have the best feelings about; whichever language that book details should be the one you start out with. Now, go back to the bookshelf, and pick out a couple books just covering the language you've chosen... Take each book and read part of the first chapter; does it make sense to you? If not, toss the book and go on to the next; if so, then jump about halfway into the book, and read the beginning of a chapter from there - does it still make sense? Don't try to understand exactly what they're trying to explain, but see if it still seems to make sense to you. If so, then you have yourself a winner; just keep eliminating books using this method until you have one you're really happy with, and get ready for some reading.
The tools of the trade...
Let's face it, the right tools can make the job a whole lot easier; and no where is this as true than in software development. One upside is that Microsoft has made arguably the best development environment around; Microsoft Developers Studio. So, if you're using C or C++, Visual Basic, or Java, this is probably going to be the platform you'll be using. There are some free alternatives out there for some of these languages, so you might want to check them out, but for the most part they are nowhere near the tool that DevStudio is.
There's one other tool that is very important, and that's the code editor, or what you actually do all your programming in. DevStudio comes with an editor build in, and this is what many people decide to use; I personally don't like to be tethered to a specific development environment, so I prefer to use an editor called MultiEdit
, which I've been using for several years, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants a great
alternative to DevStudio.
Being the eternal optimist...
I've heard it said that the biggest optimist in the world is the software developer - no one in their right mind would possibly think that writing just about ANY program would be possible when you look at the 'big picture'. For example, look at all the programs up here on the website; how long would it take you to write them all? It's a pretty daunting prospect, isn't it? So how did I do it? By some sort of super-human drive to keep me plugging away, even though it seemed impossible? No way, even the biggest optimist still has their limits! The key is looking at things not as the whole, but as the parts; for example, how long would it take for you to make one of the programs on my site? It doesn't seem that impossible, does it?
To a large extent, that's what software design is all about; cutting up a project into nice little bitesized pieces... If you don't spend enough time, you're not going to be able to eat the whole thing, or worse, you'll choke on one of those big pieces! :) When you start off making your first 'real' program (ie, one that actually does something people might want), make sure to spend a reasonable amount of time planning out how you are going to do things, what order, and what you want the end result to be. If you do this, you will find that things go much faster than you thought possible, and much easier than you might have anticipated.
It's all about teamwork baby!
If you're planning to be a lone gun programmer, think again, 99.9% of the projects out there involve TEAMS, and as such you need to be used to working with, and relying on others in a project. Once you have your chops down on your own small projects, it's probably time to start looking into becoming involved in a team project of some sort. This could be a game, demo, or whatever; just make sure it's something that you're interested in, and that everyone else is into as well. There are several ways to find projects; you can join existing ones, look around for teams that are just forming, or even start your own. The important thing to look at learning from this is what it's like to work with others...
Reading is fundamental... And I don't think it's more apparent than in software development; if you don't like reading books, then consider doing something else, because they are key to you improving and realizing your potential. Ever wonder just how I can write so much software, in such a short period of time? There are three reasons; experience, brilliant people I've had the pleasure to work with, and the books I've read. I can't help you with the first two, but I can help you with the last one, so here are my top recommendations:
- Code Complete
- This is hands down a MUST for any software developer, regardless of what programming language they use! It covers many different practices and techniques related to coding style in a very unbiased fashion. Top notch!
- Rapid Development
- The followup to Code Complete, this book is geared more towards how to plan a project, spotting potential pitfalls, etc. Another solid book loaded with insight into what software development is really about.
- Dynamics of Software Development
- This book takes a different approach to development, focusing instead more on the team and its dynamics instead of the mechanics of programming. This is something often overlooked, and the results are apparent in many of the programs released these days. Make sure to check out his website, and in particular Teamworx; worth EVERY penny.
- The Mythical Man-Month
- This is really the book that started it all; even though it was written more than 20 years ago, almost everything in it still applies today.
- Programming Windows
- If you're going to be programming Windows (in C or C++), then you need to buy this book. Period. There is NO better book on Windows programming out there.
- The Art of Ware
- I'm a big fan of Sun Tzu, so I have to say I was thrilled when I saw this book. A very enjoyable read, with some very interesting lessons to be learned in applying the Art of War, to the Art of Software Development.
I also want to take a moment to point out something you might have already noticed; a large amount of those books come from Microsoft Press. There's a reason they're #1, and it's due in large part to the amount of time they spend trying to figure out how to do things better. In general, I've found just about every book from them to be insightful and well worth the cover price, plus they are written by people who are in the trenches, and know how things really work.
Hopefully this has given you some insight of what is required to be a programmer, not just from a technological standpoint, but from a psychological standpoint as well. I personally find programming very rewarding - there's nothing quite like seeing someone using something you've written to make their life just a little bit better. So, if you decide to pursue software development, I wish you luck, and hopefully in the future I'll get an opportunity to download something YOU write, from YOUR AnalogX site! :)
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Faulty foreclosure papers notarized
A foreclosure sign in front of a house in Miami, Fla.
TEXT OF INTERVIEW
Kai Ryssdal: There have been millions of foreclosures in this country since the recession started. Not all of them on the up and up. In the past couple of weeks, three mortgage lenders have had to stop foreclosure proceedings because the paperwork was questionable at best. State officials have started taking a closer look at what's been happening and, in some cases, calling in the Feds.
One of those officials is Jennifer Brunner. She is the Ohio Secretary of State. Ms. Brunner, thanks for being with us.
Jennifer Brunner:Glad to be here, Kai.
RYSSDAL: In a standard foreclosure, that is, in a legal foreclosure, there are a pile of documents -- they are attested to and signed and everybody knows in theory what's in them. What has your office discovered about what's been happening with a good share of foreclosures these days?
BRUNNER: My office has discovered that there have been a lot of shortcuts taken in notarizing documents that are required for foreclosure. At one financial institution, a group of eight notaries sit at tables and notarize 18,000 documents a month. What was described in the depositions was that the person who is signing the documents doesn't really have knowledge of what is in the those documents. In some situations, I've seen examples where one individual signs 2,000 to 5,000 documents a day with an e-signature.
RYSSDAL: No matter how fast you read, if you're signing 2,500 a day, you're not really sure what's inside those documents.
BRUNNER: I think it would be nearly impossible.
RYSSDAL: So far we've had Ally Financial, we've had JPMorgan Chase and then, just this past Friday, Bank of America, saying that they were going halt foreclosures in some 23 states across the country. It does sort of sound like there are more shoes to drop in this.
BRUNNER: It does. And what's very interesting is that on Sept. 27, Congress very quickly passed House Resolution 3808 (PDF) and it requires that state and federal courts honor notarizations from another state as long as they were lawful in that state. It seemed innocuous at first, but when you really look into it, and you look into what's happening out there with technology and mortgages, and see that there are states with very lax laws and allow for electronic notarization without even presenting in front of a notary. It seems very clear that there an attempt of the banking industry to flank what's being discovered by consumers with a lot of indignation.
RYSSDAL: This is, it seems to me, not to be pejorative, but a paperwork problem, right? We have people not knowing what they were signing, we had notaries doing things if not fraudulently, then out of neglect. It's a corruption of the paperwork, yes?
BRUNNER: It is, except I can't necessarily blame the notaries when you have situations like 18,000 documents processed by the eight notaries in the period of a month. That's a company policy. Those employees are doing what they're told to do. It's a paperwork problem, but it's a bigger problem that an institution that we depend on, that's publicly traded, would think that they can shortcut the laws of the states that they do business in.
RYSSDAL: Is anybody going to get their home back out of any of this?
BRUNNER: That remains to be seen. The home owner who's already been foreclosed upon, who's lost their home, who may go back and discover that it was done improperly, even against the law, would have the ability to file a motion in court under the civil rules to have the court review that case again. So I think it's a little soon in the process to see what the outcome will be, but it would be a good thing for everyone to come clean and everyone to work together to figure out how we can make it through this morass.
RYSSDAL: One of the reasons that capitalism works is because we are able to have faith in a transaction; that the seller has clear title to sell the property, and the buyer will get clear title to buy. That process has been corrupted in real estate in this country, at least in part by some of what's been going on.
BRUNNER: To put it really bluntly, that process has been corrupted by greed.
RYSSDAL: Jennifer Brunner is the Secretary of State of the state of Ohio. Jennifer, thanks very much.
BRUNNER: Thank you Kai.
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Oh zombies! You guys are so popular! How did you make an entire nation, no an entire world obsessed with your fictitious character? I Know why, and everyone knows why – we all really want the zombie apocalypse to happen. It isn’t a weird dream, everybody has fantasies of running through the streets mowing down the living dead, but let’s look at the real facts.
If there was a zombie apocalypse, the zombie infection would have had to be ridiculously contagious. Just getting infected from a bite wouldn’t be enough. The fact that the worlds strongest military power couldn’t kill a few brain-dead walkers would be an embarrassment. The infection would first have to start in the US military, not only that but the zombies would have to be smarter than the average television representation. The ability to drive vehicles or use weapons would be a must if we really wanted a world-wide zombie apocalypse. Soon the reality of a zombie outbreak doesn’t sound that much fun.
All speculation aside, zombies will take over the earth. We just need to wait until that day and always keep the zombie apocalypse emergency kit somewhere close. Check out below to see some of the essentials. [Via]Share This Infographic
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CMWEA Announces TV AD Contest
ST. CLOUD — Area high school students have been invited to participate in the 2013 “Make the Water Connection” contest.
Stearns County and Sauk Rapids students have the opportunity to make a 30-second television advertisement promoting ways that you can help conserve and protect water.
Students can work alone or in groups of up to four. The winning videos will be aired on Charter channel 19.
Three winning entries will get a $1,000 prize pack which includes $300 for the winner and $700 for their school.
Video submissions are due April 18. The contest is sponsored by the Central Minnesota Water Education Alliance. You can find rules and the official entry form on their website.
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Kerala Backwater Tourism
An article on holidays in backwaters of Kerala. Find out what all you can do besides boat cruise.
The backwaters in Kerala not only offer house boat tours but much more. The banks are the perfect place to enjoy a home stay experience that includes culinary enjoyment. Canoe trips and fishing are other options.
The home stay offers an insight into traditional Malayali lifestyle, their customs and daily habits. The accommodation will open a wonderful opportunity to understand the culture of the people. It will also open the doors to learn the culinary skills of making Malayali food - hot and aromatic. The stay also offers sightseeing opportunities in urban localities, quaint rustic settlements and nearby wildlife sanctuaries.
The brackish water lagoons, rivers and lakes all form this amazing network called backwater. The network extends and covers most of the state and encompasses many enchanting resorts, rural and urban settlements. The waterways are more of an indispensable hub of daily life and transportation system. Tourism is an experience of just this and the wonderful landscape of Kerala.
Nothing can be more relaxing than angling on the banks of these enchanting and serene waterways. For more adventure one can hire a canoe from the home stay and go with the tide in absolutely relaxed manner. In Kerala there is so much to experience without actually doing anything. Well almost!
The cruises available on houseboats are short as well as long distance. The cost depends upon the amenities offered and distance covered. Many houseboats are super luxurious with three star services. For those on budgets a boat ride can also be enjoyed on the local transportation boats or a ferry. Besides cruising, the tourists can also witness the numerous boat races that are held on these waters. This is an amazing spectacle with long exquisitely decorated boats oared by as many as hundred rowers.
Using the web one can avail the best package deals online. The major tour operators in Kerala offer varied backwater holiday packages to the tourists, The packages are usually three nights to ten day duration and cover many interesting places on the way.
The best season for touring Kerala is the August to March for exploration. For Ayurveda treatments the best time is from April to August.
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Just off Sixth Avenue, squeezed in next to the Museum of Modern Art, is a sliver of fallow ground just big enough to accommodate a convenience store or a few brownstones—or, come to think of it, a tower as tall as the Empire State Building. Skyscrapers have gotten skinnier, and three years ago, the architect Jean Nouvel designed an exhilarating mirage for this site, a slender, 1,250-foot ballerina of a building, corseted in steel beams and perpetually en pointe. The project—Tower Verre, he calls it—seemed like too flamboyant a fantasy for a cautious metropolis, and indeed the City Council approved only a stunted version, which demands a new design.
“We have to restudy it, without starting from zero,” Nouvel says. “I don’t think we have to revisit the essentials of the structure.” It may still be a twisting, sloping needle, enfolding new MoMA galleries in its base and rising to apartments with great glass walls slashed by tilting columns. Only now it can reach no higher than 1,050 feet, a toddler’s height taller than the Chrysler Building and 200 feet shorter than the Empire State. About this, Nouvel is by turns philosophical and resentful. “The past is the past,” he says with a shrug. A few minutes later comes the zinger: “What is surprising is that Manhattan should be afraid of verticality.”
Nouvel the person does not have the precise flash and lean grace of his architecture. He is a large, slow-moving man with a melancholy mien, who always seems to be in need of a nap. Conversing in English prods him into alertness, but in French, he relaxes gratefully, letting his mini-lectures trail off in baritonal mumbles. When I meet him at 100 Eleventh Avenue, the spangled new condominium he’s designed, his black-leather-on-black outfit camouflages him against the polished inky granite of the lobby, so that his great bald dome seems to hover in midair. In the white apartments he looms like a shuffling shadow. Like one of his buildings, he manages to appear conspicuous yet at home.
“I am someone who tries to be a contextual architect,” he says. “I’m always trying to figure out how to reveal the beauty of the surroundings.” That’s a provocative statement, given that he gift-wrapped Copenhagen’s new concert hall in brilliant blue fabric, made Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater levitate over the Mississippi waterfront, and transformed the low Barcelona skyline with a giant, glowing, tessellated phallus. Yet, glitzy as Barcelona’s Agbar Tower is, it does belong in the brightly hued, ostentatiously sexualized Spain of Pedro Almodóvar, and it does harmonize with the city’s extravagant landmarks: the colored fountains atop Montjuïc, and the corncob towers of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Família. Nouvel has a talent for finding contexts to embrace his idiosyncrasies, and then making the results seem inevitable. “All my work is a search for what I call the missing piece of the puzzle,” he says, deftly implying that Barcelona wasn’t complete until it received his multicolored lingam, and that midtown craves his Tower Verre.
The 53rd Street skyscraper will adapt to its new height, but Nouvel insists that it must stick to the original brief: “to complete this cultural neighborhood and to complete MoMA—with a hotel and residences, yes, but it’s mostly a cultural object. It has to keep the same ambition.” Some observers have wondered whether the design’s decapitation, combined with the financing drought of the past two years, would force the development company, Hines, to scrap the whole idea. But Robert Knakal, a commercial-real-estate investment-sales broker, suggests that the warming market makes it fairly likely to be built. (A Hines spokesperson will say only that “we continue to work on the project.”)
In Nouvel’s view, Tower Verre is not just another commercial high-rise but an emblem of its moment, a testament to the city’s self-renewing vitality, and a crown on its mutable skyline. “We’re in midtown,” he says. “A place where we have to make a real skyscraper. It emerges from the skyline and you say: Okay! That’s where MoMA is! It testifies to what the skyscraper is at the beginning of this century. It’s not a copy of what the twentieth century did. It brings new forms of expression. The corsetlike structure on the perimeter of the building, the way it follows setback rules with a dynamic form of ascent that’s not the habitual stepwise manner, a structure that erases the distinction between outdoors and in—these things tie this building to the culture of these last few years.”
Nouvel made his New York debut nearly a decade ago, breaching Soho with uncharacteristic modesty. With its industrial gray steel and splashes of red and blue glass, the condominium at 40 Mercer Street inflected the neighborhood’s industrial past with Sex and the City glamour. Then came 100 Eleventh, a boom-time straggler that puts to shame the past decade’s crop of generic tinseled boxes. If in Soho, Nouvel had to grapple with a powerful urban personality, in West Chelsea he can help shape an area that still hasn’t quite jelled. A wall of slightly tinted windows, angled like mosaic tiles, sweeps around Manhattan’s cocked hip. From the outside, the variously coated and tilted panes deconstruct the sunset, give the curving façade a glittering, disco-ball effect. Crescent-shaped rooms get wraparound views, segmented like a jigsaw puzzle by irregularly sized windows that fit together, with no solid wall in between. It’s as if the builders had removed the masonry, chunk by chunk, until there was nothing left but glass. A fragmented, distorted reflection of the façade enlivens the curving white glass surfaces of Frank Gehry’s IAC headquarters across the street, turning that end of the block into a friendly fun-house game between architectural superstars. “It’s an interference—an intentional interference—that makes me happy,” Nouvel says. “And it makes Frank happy, too, from what he’s told me.”
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SOFTWARE IN PRACTICE
One thing we've learned from history is that we don't often learn from history. The Risk Forum promotes learning from our collective mistakes by maintaining a live register of the bad things that have happened in complex systems projects.
Suppress your ego for a minute and further the cause of software engineering by telling us what went wrong, what you did about it and how we all can avoid your unfortunate scenario in future.
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Maintain the rage at The Rant.
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Where are written the big ideas, rules, principles, standards, processes and fundamental truths we accept as axiomatic?
Contribute to our recommended reading list and add your reviews of resources posted by others at The Read.
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
The continuing bright sunshine has brought many butterflies to the wing and a saunter round the meadow last weekend produced a good sprinkling of varieties.
The Large White butterflies were the most prolific, spinning in twos and threes in their mating dance before breaking off above the swaying grasses. Over by the east facing field edge field thistles were breaking from their tightly compact buds, opening nectar bars to the insects partial to its flavour. Above Old Man's Beard clematis vitalba smothered the elder and hazel, its tender stems and fronds showing buds, flowers and down covered seeds ready for release to the wind, all stages of its reproductive cycle present. Another name for it is Traveller's Joy which my Flora Britannica tells me is a name first coined by the 16th Century writer John Gerard. He wrote -
'it is called commonly Viorna quasi vias ornans, of decking and adourning waies and hedges, where peoplerauell, and thereupon I haue named it the Traueilers Ioie... These plants haue no vse in Phisicke as yet fount out, but are esteemed onely for pleasure, by reason of the goodly shadowe which they make with their thicke bushing and clyming, as also for the beautie of the flowers, and the plleasant sent or sauour of the same',
'The downy seeds of traveller's joy fill the air, & driving before a gale appear like insects on the wing.'
'Father Christmas' is a newer vernacular name and, like old-man's beard, refers to the fluffy seed-heads. This was interesting to discover as I had thought the name had derived from the down's ability to readily takw a spark for fire lighting. Another, 'Woodbine', is a general name applied to all species of native climbers. Apparently the dry winter stems can be smoked (giving other vn. names of 'boy's bacca' and 'shepherd's delight') and so this may be the origin of the brand name of the cigarette my Grandad smoked.
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Sunday, 18 July 2010
So I attacked the irises early on but was abruptly stopped by the sound of clashing wings and with the sound, a luminous green dragonfly erupted from the reeds in protest.
After a good half hour the dragonfly obviously had had enough of modelling and departed as quickly as it appeared.
So today I decided to evict it, but not before a photo shoot with the macro lens. Great little critters.
Friday, 16 July 2010
It went from this.....
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Tonight I crossed the ditch and quietly moved around the set aside pasture that provides a winter feeding ground for our local Barn Owl, before passing on and through a break in the hedge. Immediately I became a statue - feeding a few yards away was a leveret, totally preoccupied in its victuals.
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WEBB CITY, MO.--- Cardinal Scale is one of Webb City's largest businesses, and it's located near the North side of town.
"Most of the trucks that come in with our raw materials, they come in 1 or 2 routes, through Carterville or often they will come down Main Street in Webb City, which is kind of a crowded way of coming down the street," states Chuck Pittman, Cardinal Scale Truck Fleet Manager.
Their trucks will soon have a new route, that could make deliveries run more smoothly. Construction crews are nearly finished with work on Gene Hattfield Drive. It's a new access road into Northern Webb City.
"It's from East Road to North Main street in Webb City or D Highway. So it's about 3,000 feet," states Pittman.
A project Mayor Biggs says will impact many drivers on their daily commutes.
"This will get them off of Main Street in Webb City. There are times in the morning where you can see from Dorghty Street all the way North, and it's just a solid line of cars," states John Biggs, Webb City Mayor.
More cars using Gene Hatfield will have a trickle down affect for businesses like Cardinal Scale.
"It's definitely going to take some of the pressure off Main Street. Some of those turns are really tight on Main Street and this will be something to keep those flatbed trucks and 18-wheelers off old Main Street," states Mayor Biggs.
The $230,000 project was mostly paid for by Jasper County. The Environmental Protection Agency also helped by building a road bed for the pavement.
"The effort was a joint effort between the DNR, the EPA had their hands in it, Carterville did, Webb City, and Jasper County ultimately paid for the road," states Mayor Biggs.
City and county officials have been working for nearly 2 years towards building this road, which they say will be instrumental in bringing new businesses to the area.
"The city itself, now owns about 300 acres that can be developed. So we are in a position to make some good deals to the right developer," states Mayor Biggs.
The new road is named after a well known Webb City gravel plant owner. Gene Hatfield Drive is expected to officially open by the end of the week.
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AP - Key proposals from the Republican presidential candidates might make for good campaign fodder. But independent analyses raise serious questions about those plans and their ability to cure the nation's ills in two vital areas, the economy and housing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key proposals from the Republican presidential candidates might make for good campaign fodder. But independent analyses raise serious questions about those plans and their ability to cure the nation's ills in two vital areas, the economy and housing....
Four states down, and just two remain. Key Republican officials in Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan are coming out against a RNC-backed scheme to rig the electoral vote in Democratic-leaning states in order to boost Republican presidential candidates. That leaves just Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as the remaining blue states with Republican statehouses actively considering the idea.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton insisted on Wednesday that the State Department is moving swiftly and aggressively to strengthen security at U.S. missions worldwide after the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the consulate in Libya.
In probably her last appearance on Capitol Hill as America’s top diplomat, Clinton once again took full responsibility for the department’s missteps leading up to assault at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
I've often lamented the misguided political position of many free trade advocates in the House and Senate who are afraid to counter protectionist politics with a robust defense of trade liberalization, and instead use self-defeating mercantilism to deflect protectionist criticism.
Researchers believe that there will be a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV “within months”. Danish scientists are expecting results that will show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”.
Last week I blogged on the GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire and the candidate's responses to a basic question on the decline of US manufacturing jobs. Since then, several smart people have weighed in on the issue.
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What does the Title IX coordinator do?
The Title IX coordinator is responsible for oversight of:
Notification and Education
- dissemination of educational materials
- coordination of training for students and employees about their rights under Title IX.
- receipt and processing of inquires and complaints of alleged discriminatory behaviors that are in violation of Title IX.
- review of Title IX cases received in other offices
- partnerships with the following offices to safeguard students’ rights and responsibilities:
- collegewide student services
- human resources
- safety and security
- examination and review of Empire State College internal practices related to all aspects of Title IX
- remaining current with state and federal laws as they relate to Title IX.
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The sixties were a hot bed of sexy spies. One of those who left behind lasting memories was Diana Rigg's Emma Peel from the British ensemble show, The Avengers. Emma Peel, ne้ Knight, was an extremely independent woman whose husband, test pilot Peter Peel, died in a crash. The head of Knight Industries since the age of twenty-one when she inherited the family business upon her father's untimely death, Emma maintained a dazzling lifestyle. She drove a 1966 Lotus Elan and was a student of anthropology and an extraordinary bridge player who authored the article "Better Bridge with Applied Mathematics."
A yen for adventure, speed, and risk convinced Emma that she should join John Steed in his spy adventures after they met in a minor fender-bender. Steed was a handsome and urbane ministry agent who worked for the British government in a mission to "avenge crimes perpetrated against the people and the state." Emma joined forces with the other Avengers and became, for many viewers, the one to watch. Exuding intelligence and not at all hard on the eyes, Emma was a clever chameleon who invariably saved the day. Famous for wearing all black, Emma's trademark was her "Emmapeeler" catsuit, still much imitated to this day. When her husband Peter was found alive in the Amazonian jungle, several years after his plane crash, Emma left The Avengers to join her husband, who looked eerily like Patrick McNee's John Steed! Her parting advice was "Always keep your bowler on in times of stress and watch out for diabolical masterminds."
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The actress died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Screen siren Elizabeth Taylor, who was as famous for her eight marriages as she was for her legendary film career, has died.
Taylor, the biggest female star of Hollywood's 1950s golden age, was perhaps best known for her title role in "Cleopatra," where she began her long-running romance with Richard Burton. She won Academy Awards for her roles in "BUtterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf."
The American Film Institute selected Taylor No. 7 on their list of the 50 Greatest American Screen Legends (25 males and 25 females), behind only Marilyn Monroe, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn.
Her death at age 79 came just days after being declared in stable condition at a Los Angeles Hospital. The legendary actress and style icon had been checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles since early February with symptoms of congestive heart failure. After weeks of showing slight improvement, Taylor finally succumbed to the illness.
"We have just lost a Hollywood giant," said longtime pal Elton John. "More importantly, we have lost an incredible human being."
The two-time Oscar winner, confined to a wheelchair for the past five years, had battled a number of ailments including three hip-replacement surgeries, a benign brain tumor, and pneumonia.
Taylor is survived by her four children, 10 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren.
"Her remarkable body of work in film, her ongoing success as a businesswoman, and her brave and relentless advocacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS, all make us all incredibly proud of what she accomplished," her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement. "We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts."
Born in 1932 to wealthy Americans living in England, Taylor was marked for stardom from an early age. She took ballet at three and appeared in her first film, “There’s One Born Every Minute,” at age 9. That same year, she signed a contract with MGM to appear in “Lassie Come Home,” alongside fellow child star Roddy McDowall. The roles came fast, and at age 12, she was a bona fide star, earning a then-unthinkable sum of $30,000 for her role in "National Velvet."
The London-born actress was also famous for her many marriages. From her first marriage to hotel magnate Conrad Hilton at age 18 to her last trip down the aisle with construction worker Larry Fortensky, she wed a total of eight times. Two were to the love of her life, Burton. The marriage to Hilton lasted just one year, as did her union with Michael Todd, who died in a plane crash. She was also wedded to entertainer Eddie Fisher, politician John Warner and actor Michael Wilding.
Burton, who was married to Taylor from 1964-74 and then from 1975-76, played Marc Antony to Taylor's depiction of the Egyptian queen, launching a legendary real life love story.
"The most astonishingly self-contained, pulchritudinous, remote, removed, inaccessible woman I had ever seen," Burton once said of Taylor.
Following close friend Rock Hudson's public admission that he was afflicted with AIDS in 1985, Taylor dedicated her life to crusading for a cure for the disease. She used her celebrity to raise money for many AIDS-related charities and causes up until her passing.
Casting a shadow over her glamorous Hollywood image was Taylor's long struggle with addiction to painkillers and alcohol. She sent her fans reeling when she checked into the Betty Ford Clinic for the first time in 1983. During a 1987 stay, she actually met seventh husband Fortensky.
However, her strangest relationship was with late "King of Pop," Michael Jackson. The two first met in the early 80s and, after bonding over what Taylor described as "horrible" childhoods, the two were nearly inseparable up until Jackson's death in 2009.
Jackson would frequently dedicate songs with an "Elizabeth, I Love You," and there were even rumors that the pair had secretly married. Jackson had a shrine to Taylor built at his Neverland Ranch, where he showed her movies on a continuous loop 24 hours a day.
The family is planning a private funeral for later this week.
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Our group of two adults and four kids (aged one to three years) went along to Eltham Palace recently for a fun and informative day out with a Knights and Princesses theme. Fantastic costumed guides entertained the little ones in the beautiful grounds of the palace. Many of the kids had come prepared in their dressing-up outfits but there were plenty of props available so everyone could get involved.
First, a storytelling session was brought to life as children, picked from the small crowd, acted out a tale of chivalry. Next, we learned how youngsters served their lords and ladies in medieval times and then had a quick dance lesson. Finally, it was over to a knight for (super safe) sword fighting and jousting -using a trusty hobby horse!
While the under fives there were fascinated, activities are primarily aimed at older children. This is reflected in a £1 surcharge for over fives on Time Travellers Go event days. A good thing about Eltham Palace is that you can opt to pay only for entry to the grounds rather than both palace and grounds.
The next Time Traveller Go activities at Eltham Palace take place on 21 -23 Aug (Medieval) and 28-30 Aug (Gruesome!).
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PRESIDENT Barack Obama urged Americans to reject political "absolutism" and partisan rancor as he kicked off his second term with a call for national unity, setting a pragmatic tone for the daunting challenges he faces over the next four years.
Obama's ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol was filled with traditional pomp and pageantry, but it was a scaled-back inauguration compared to the historic start of his presidency in 2009 when he swept into office on a mantle of hope and change as America's first black president
With second-term expectations tempered by lingering economic weakness and the political realities of a divided Washington, Obama acknowledged the difficult road ahead even as he sought to build momentum from his decisive November re-election victory.
"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate," Obama said as he stood in the wintry cold atop a giant makeshift platform on the Capitol steps overlooking the National Mall.
Looking out on a sea of flags, he spoke to a crowd of up to 700,000 people, less than half the record 1.8 million who assembled four years ago.
Obama arrived at his second inauguration on solid footing, with his poll numbers up, Republicans on the defensive and his first-term record boasting accomplishments such as a U.S. healthcare overhaul, ending the war in Iraq and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
But battles are looming over budgets, gun control and immigration, with Republicans ready to oppose him at almost every turn and Obama still seemingly at a loss over how to engage them in deal-making.
SECOND TIME TAKING OATH
When Obama raised his right hand and was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, it was his second time taking the oath in 24 hours - but this time with tens of millions of people watching on television.
The president beamed as chants of "Obama, Obama!" rang out from the crowd.
Obama had a formal swearing-in on Sunday at the White House because of a constitutional requirement that the president take the oath on Jan. 20. Rather than stage the full inauguration on a Sunday, the main public events were put off until Monday.
A second inauguration marked another milestone of political passage for Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. An electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic convention as a little-known Illinois state legislator lifted him to the national stage, putting him on a rapid trajectory to the U.S. Senate and a few years later the White House.
Obama, 51, his hair visibly grayed over the past four years, sought to reassure Americans at the mid-point of his presidency and encourage them to help him take care of unfinished business. His wide-ranging speech touched on a variety of issues, including climate change and Middle East democracy uprisings.
Obama, who won a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney after a bitter campaign, opened round two facing many of the same problems that dogged his first term: persistently high unemployment, crushing government debt and a deep partisan divide. The war in Afghanistan, which Obama is winding down, has dragged on for over a decade.
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2014 Senate Preview: Can Republicans Finally Turn Potential Into Reality?
November 29th, 2012,
As the 2012 election fades into the history books, we begin our first look at the 2014 contests for Senate, House and Governor. Let’s start with the Senate, which will be the site of an intense battle for control once again.
Before looking ahead at the Republicans’ prospects to gain the six seats they need to win control of the Senate, it is first important — though for Republicans, painful — to look back at the past two Senate cycles.
In 2010, Republicans probably threw away three seats when they nominated weak candidates in Colorado, Delaware and Nevada. Then, in the just-concluded election, they threw away, at a minimum, two more seats in Indiana and Missouri (thanks to the disastrous candidacies of Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin). And that’s not counting other Senate races where different Republican candidates might have performed better or even won in Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and Virginia.
So instead of having a tied Senate, or a tiny majority for one side or the other, Republicans are in the unenviable position of needing to levitate out of a deep hole they’ve dug for themselves. Only then can they end Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) six-year (and counting) leadership of the Senate.
The 113th Congress is slated to open in early January with Democrats holding a 55-45 edge in the U.S. Senate. (The number includes two independents, Sen.-elect Angus King of Maine and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who will caucus with the Democrats.) This assumes that the composition of the Senate does not change; it’s always possible that a senator will leave office prematurely, perhaps to take another position — for instance, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) might join the Obama administration as secretary of state or defense.
Map 1: Senate seats up for election in 2014
At first blush, the 2014 Senate map presents some promising opportunities for Republicans. Of the 33 seats that will be contested in November 2014, Republicans only have to defend 13 while Democrats have to defend 20. And the Republican seats — as is obvious from Map 1 — are almost entirely situated in deeply Republican states. In 12 of the 13 states currently represented by Republicans on this map, President Obama won 45.5% of the vote or less in all except Maine (which he won easily).
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney captured seven of the 20 states where Democrats will defend seats: Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. Of those seven, only North Carolina, where Romney won by about two points, was even close at the presidential level. In the other six states, Obama’s best performance was in Montana, where he secured just 41.7%. Given that midterm electorates are typically smaller, older and whiter than presidential electorates — which generally will make them more Republican — and given that Democrats are dangerously exposed in several Romney states, Republicans have a multitude of juicy targets, while Democrats have few.
That said, let’s recall that at this time two years ago, Republicans also had an attractive playing field: They had to defend only 10 seats, while Democrats had to defend 23. And yet Democrats actually ended up netting two seats. Not to be overly cruel, but the GOP had to try hard to blow the Senate in 2012 — and their efforts were amply rewarded.
In order to capitalize on the new opportunities presented by the 2014 Senate map, Republican voters are going to have to make wiser choices in primaries than they made in 2010 and 2012. But has the party base learned its lesson? It is not at all clear, and efforts by the Republican leadership in D.C. to impose preferred candidates likely won’t be met well in many states in the next go-round either. At the same time, national Republicans will somehow need to prod their major 2012 donors to stay in the game, convincing them that they will get more bang for their bucks in ’14 despite all the wasted cash this cycle.
Perhaps more than anything else, Republicans will need a national wave, along the lines of what they had in November 2010 when, despite candidate problems in some states, they netted six Senate seats (seven if one counts Scott Brown’s special election victory in January 2010). For a net six close races to tip to the GOP in two years, it will take more than good candidates and favorable geography; the atmospherics of 2014 will have to be clearly Republican.
It’s impossible to say, at this point, what the national landscape will look like a year and a half from now, when the general election campaigns for most of these 33 seats will be starting in earnest. The state of the national economy is a big question mark, which will help determine whether President Obama is a boost or a drag down the ticket. We also do not know which senators will decide to retire, or whether any will be caught up in personal scandal. Nor do we know what will be happening in individual states; for instance, will a ballot issue or other local factor have some impact on a federal contest?
What we do know, though, is that a second-term president’s final midterm is frequently bad for his party. Chart 1 shows midterm election results dating back to the end of World War II; note that Presidents Dwight Eisenhower (1958), Ronald Reagan (1986) and George W. Bush (2006) all suffered significant congressional losses in their “sixth-year itch” midterm elections. So did Presidents Harry Truman (1950) and Lyndon Johnson (1966), who were only elected once but were serving their party’s fifth and second consecutive term, respectively, in the White House; President Gerald Ford (1974) also presided over big losses in what would have Richard Nixon’s final midterm. Bill Clinton, thanks to a booming economy and Republican overreach on impeachment, actually saw his party make small gains in the House in 1998 and play to a draw in the Senate.
Will there be a sixth-year itch to scratch in 2014? The odds are, yes. But how irritating an itch for the Democratic Party? That is completely unknowable at the dawn of the election cycle.
Chart 1: Gain or loss for president’s party, midterm elections 1946-2010
Of the 33 seats up in 2014, the 10 that do not look competitive at the moment — either in the primary or the general — are Republican-held seats in Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming, as well as Democratic-held seats in Delaware and Rhode Island. That doesn’t mean they won’t become interesting, but they aren’t as of yet.
That leaves 23 seats with at least some level of primary or general election intrigue.
Georgia: Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) is likely to face a primary challenge because he is seen by some Republicans as too bipartisan, even though he has a 92.5% lifetime rating in the American Conservative Union’s vote ratings. The challenge could potentially come from Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), who just lost a bid to become chairman of the House Republican Conference, or former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, a narrow loser to now-Gov. Nathan Deal in the 2010 gubernatorial primary who was last seen resigning from her position at the Susan G. Komen Foundation after Komen reversed its controversial decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. Chambliss had tough general election races in 2002 (when he unseated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland) and 2008 (when Democrat Jim Martin forced Chambliss into a runoff), but he probably wouldn’t have much trouble in a general election this time. However, it’s not impossible that a Chambliss primary loss, combined with a strong Democratic candidacy, could cause headaches for national Republicans.
Kentucky: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) appears well-positioned to hold off a potential primary challenge, and so long as he makes it through his primary he should be fine in a state where Democrats still have some statewide clout, but where Republicans dominate the federal delegation. There’s been some buzz about actress Ashley Judd challenging McConnell as a Democrat; it’s hard to say if there’s anything there, although one of Judd’s own relatives previewed McConnell’s likely line of attack on Judd if she runs: “She’s a Hollywood liberal,” Judd’s grandmother Polly Judd told the AP, while praising McConnell’s ability to produce for Kentucky.
Maine: So long as she runs for reelection, which seems highly likely, Sen. Susan Collins (R) would be safe. But what if she surprises and follows in the footsteps of her soon-to-be-former colleague, retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)? With Collins out of the picture, Democrats would probably be favored here, given that Sen.-elect Angus King’s (I/D) candidacy in the past cycle forced top Democrats, including Rep. Chellie Pingree (D), to the sidelines.
South Carolina: If one of the Palmetto State’s fiery bunch of Republican U.S. House representatives or another conservative wants to take on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) in a primary, the challenger might get a lot of outside help from the Club for Growth and other groups. Graham might not have done himself any primary favors when he recently suggested he might be open to government revenue increases as part of a budget deal with Democrats.
Texas: Sen. John Cornyn’s (R) term as National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman was difficult (partly because the party base refuses to listen to leaders like Cornyn), and it would not be a shock if he faced a credible primary challenge. However, he’s probably in a more commanding position than other threatened GOP senators. He hasn’t ruffled many feathers, and in a sense, he was fortunate one of his potential challengers — Sen.-elect Ted Cruz (R) — won his 2012 primary runoff over Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R). Had Cruz fallen just short, he might have kept campaigning, aiming at Cornyn.
Alaska: Given his fluky 2008 win in a very Republican state, Sen. Mark Begich (D) was always going to be in trouble. A candidacy by Joe Miller — the Republican who defeated Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the 2010 GOP primary only to lose to her write-in candidacy in the general — could help Begich survive. Gov. Sean Parnell (R) or Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) would certainly cause Begich more serious problems than Miller could. No Democrat is likely to have an easy statewide election for Senate in Alaska, but Begich has a fighting chance.
Arkansas: Prior to the 2010 election, Democrats held Arkansas’ state House, state Senate, three of its four U.S. House seats and both of its Senate seats. Now, Republicans control the state House and Senate, all four U.S. House seats and one of its two Senate seats — with Sen. Mark Pryor (D) up for reelection this cycle. This should be a top Republican opportunity. Potential challengers include Reps. Tim Griffin (R) and Steve Womack (R), along with Rep.-elect Tom Cotton (R). Pryor was unopposed in 2008, but the salad days for Razorback Democrats are completely over.
Colorado: Depending on the opponent, Sen. Mark Udall (D) could have a difficult race. At least for now, though, this is probably a second-tier pickup opportunity for Republicans. The growing clout of Hispanics is making Colorado an easier sell for Democrats.
Illinois: Sen. Dick Durbin (D) would be a cinch for reelection, but it’s possible he’ll retire. If he does, there’s a host of House members on both sides of the aisle who might attempt to move up. A Democrat would likely be favored to win the seat in any event, although the president’s home state elected Sen. Mark Kirk (R) in 2010. Even if Durbin retires, though, Republicans will probably have much better opportunities elsewhere.
Iowa: Sen. Tom Harkin (D) is another potential retirement. If he runs for another term, he’s a strong favorite. If not, Reps. Bruce Braley (D) and Tom Latham (R) could face off in a highly competitive contest. Rep. Steve King (R) is probably too conservative to be a successful statewide candidate, but Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) is another GOP possibility if Latham doesn’t run.
Louisiana: While she is a classic survivor in Red territory, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) will face another tough challenge in 2014, and she, like Begich and Pryor, must be categorized at the outset as an endangered incumbent. Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) is sometimes mentioned as a challenger, although there are many potential GOP candidates in a state where the Democratic Party is on life support. If anyone can pull out a reelection in difficult circumstances, though, it’s Landrieu, who possesses a famous Bayou State family name.
Massachusetts: If he’s on the ballot, Sen. John Kerry (D) would have no trouble getting reelected. If he isn’t, outgoing Sen. Scott Brown (R) would be a real contender to bounce back in a special or general election; Richard Tisei (R), a former state legislator who narrowly lost a challenge against Rep. John Tierney (D), is another Republican possibility. On the Democratic side, Gov. Deval Patrick (D) would be a possibility, as would several current and former members of the Bay State’s large Democratic U.S. House delegation.
Michigan: This seat only comes into play if Sen. Carl Levin (D) retires. It’s too soon to say much more than that, though Democratic Michigan can occasionally move Republican in midterm years. Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) and Rep. Gary Peters (D), among others, are potential contenders in the event of a Levin retirement.
Minnesota: After winning the narrowest of belated victories in 2009, Sen. Al Franken (D) has a decent approval rating in Gopherland, and he enters his first reelection bid as a slight favorite. We suspect he would trounce Rep. Michele Bachmann (R), who barely survived her 2012 reelection bid in Minnesota’s most Republican House district. Another possibility — one-time presidential contender and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) — will not be a candidate, having landed a lucrative job in association-land. The quality of the Republican challenger will determine much here. Minnesota has a reputation for being more Democratic than it actually is.
Montana: Outgoing Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) says he’s not “senile enough” to serve in the U.S. Senate, but we wouldn’t be shocked if, even after that memorable quip from the highly quotable governor, Schweitzer decided to challenge Sen. Max Baucus (D) in a primary. Or, Baucus might just retire. In any event, expect Republicans — still smarting from their stunning failures in November’s Senate and gubernatorial races — to make a play here. Perhaps Rep.-elect Steve Daines (R) could be a candidate, although he might be wise to stay where he is, lest he repeat the failure of his eastern neighbor, Rep. Rick Berg of North Dakota. Berg, an outgoing freshman Republican, tried and failed to move up to the Senate after only one House term, losing to Sen.-elect Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) in one of the past cycle’s biggest upsets. Interestingly, since the advent of popular Senate elections about a century ago, no Republican has ever been elected to this seat.
New Hampshire: While she enters this season as a clear favorite, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) could potentially be vulnerable if the temperamental Granite State again swings heavily to the GOP. We wonder if this state has changed its famous “Live Free or Die” motto to “Live Wildly or Die” — or maybe, given the all-women makeup of its top leadership, “Live Female or Die.” Just kidding, New Hampshire.
New Jersey: Whatever decision 88-year-old Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) makes about running for another term, Democrats should be OK here. A Lautenberg retirement could provide an opening for Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D), one of the nation’s most prominent city leaders, to run statewide. The only truly credible potential Republican candidate, popular Gov. Chris Christie (who will run for reelection in 2013), has his eyes on a bigger prize, we assume.
New Mexico: This Sen. Udall (D), Tom, is in an even stronger position than cousin Mark in Colorado.
North Carolina: Incumbency doesn’t mean much in Tar Heel Senate contests, which means that Sen. Kay Hagan (D) was always going to be vulnerable. As if to underline that, she occupies a seat in one of only two states (Indiana is the other) to switch back to the Republicans after supporting Barack Obama in 2008. House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) is a possible challenger, and the U.S. House delegation is overflowing with possible GOP opponents, too.
Oregon: Another 2008 freshman Democrat running for a second term is Sen. Jeff Merkley (D), who is hardly a household name anywhere. But it’s hard to figure out who might run against him in an increasingly Blue state. Oregon’s lone Republican House member, Rep. Greg Walden, is running the National Republican Congressional Committee this cycle, which would seem to take him out of consideration. This is probably a marginal Republican pickup opportunity.
South Dakota: Republicans scored a top-tier recruit when ex-Gov. Mike Rounds (R) announced his intention to run for this seat, which Sen. Tim Johnson (D) may or may not elect to defend. If Johnson retires, Mount Rushmore State Democrats will surely lean on ex-Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin to make a comeback; Sandlin lost a close race to Rep. Kristi Noem (R) in 2010.
Virginia: After publicly considering a potential return as governor, popular Sen. Mark Warner (D) has elected to stay in the Senate, and he will be very difficult to beat. Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) does not appear likely to run, and while one of the state’s eight GOP U.S. House members could give it a go, it would take a perfect storm of events — and a perfect challenger — to put Warner in peril.
West Virginia: A couple tea leaves point to the possibility that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D) will not seek reelection in the reddening Mountain State. Over the summer, Rockefeller challenged the coal industry over climate change, which isn’t a popular political move in a state where President Obama didn’t win a single county in part because of his perceived hostility to the coal industry. And then, earlier this week, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R) announced her plans to run for Rockefeller’s seat. Might she sense that Rockefeller, a West Virginia institution, will pass on a possible sixth term? Or might she be confident enough that she can beat Rockefeller even if he does run? Democrats do have some potential candidates if Rockefeller retires, such as Secretary of State Natalie Tennant or former appointed Sen. Carte Goodwin, but Capito, a moderate-conservative, is a strong challenger here, even if she’s not universally beloved on the right. (The Club for Growth and Senate Conservatives Fund, for instance, attacked her after she announced her candidacy.) The GOP has a good pickup opportunity here.
Overall, there are mainly question marks in the battle for the Senate, as one would expect this early in the cycle. The potential for a GOP takeover is there, but it is purely potential, and after the GOP base’s performance in the last couple of cycles, few will bet on them at the moment; they have a lot to prove about their grasp of practical politics in a demographically changing America.
We’ll assign formal ratings to these races later in the cycle. We think you’ll agree, there’s plenty of time.
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Note: This is a dialogue that has taken months to articulate, Numa and I have been talking about allyhood, groups and new modes of organising — important to remember this dialogue has no end — we are just certain about one thing, if any speculation around solidarity is not a dialogue, a mutual engagement then it holds no value.
Numa: When you suggested that we start discussing Islam, I wasn’t entirely sure where you wanted to go with this discussion/talk. Talking about Islam certainly hasn’t figured much in our conversations, so I was like, huh?, where did that suggestion come from? But thinking about it now, I recall what you said when you first introduced this idea of this series to me. The assumption made by many is that because we are South Asian women, we will be natural allies.
Well, to be fair, I think because of our melanin count we DO have some shared experiences/ similar experiences that made it possible as individuals to identify with each other. Of course, that’s just on an individual level and it wouldn’t necessarily be the same for myself and another person who looks like me (my mother for example).
Yes, there are differences, like religion. I was going to say, it is interesting that this is clearly a big signifier of difference in your geo-political location, where everyone is more or less the same race, but for me, it wasn’t the first difference that occurred to me. Growing up in a majority white space, and having been raised in a family that while Muslim, is not outwardly read as Muslim by most white people (I don’t wear a headscarf, my father doesn’t have a massive beard etc.), our main signifier is our clearly South Asian looks.
The other day, my father approached a traffic warden to ask about parking in the neighbourhood we were in and the traffic warden put his hands together in greeting (Namaskar), and asked my father whether he knew Shah Rukh Khan. Anyway, my point is that I think this kind of lumping all South Asians into one homogeneous mass, kind of rubbed off on me.
When I meet South Asian people here, we are kind of immediately connected by this bond of shared racism that we face, and intra-group tensions due to religious/regional differences, at least to me, are not something that I think about actively. It’s not like when I meet somebody white, and I immediately think, how will the fact that I am different to them influence the way they behave towards me.
In fact, I kind of feel like, whenever I meet anyone who is foreign/POC, there is this immediate connection that is forged because when you live somewhere where everyone else is nothing like you, anyone who is a little bit like you becomes a friend/ally.
Me: Yes don’t you know? We brown women are all alike! We have the same needs and if you squint really hard, we’ll look the same from a distance too! As you suggested one time, maybe we all come from the secret clone factories. But I digress. It’s fascinating you said “people of the same race” — while it is true — what is strange is, we don’t see ourselves as “races” rather as castes and communities, most of which are almost always on opposite ends. When I think back about my childhood ideas around caste and communities, they are so strongly influenced with the dominant Hindu nationalism, even though I don’t remember ever really believing in God or a religion. Hindu nationalism learnt firsthand from my immediate family who’d wish Pakistan would lose every time there was an India vs Pakistan match, watching the whole neighbourhood taking immense amount of pride when we’d hear the Pakistani soldiers shot during the Kargil war, seeing most people I know fly into a rage whenever Kashmir’s “integrity” into the Indian nation-state was mentioned, having people I looked up to in my family believe that the Godhra riots were “provoked”, having teachers constantly talk about “dignity in all labour” but saying that certain jobs like scavenging and garbage collecting are not for “people like us” in the same breath, being punished for playing with children from slums, being punished for publicly declaring my family as casteist — these are memories that I carry with my body. So while you may feel some sort of connection based on “shared oppression” — however you and the other person define that — or you may start organising, forming alliances based on some similar marginalisations, here, more often than not, even the people we’d categorise under “WOC” or “third world women” have such diverse ideologies, needs, histories and geographies of exclusion (which go both ways), that sometimes I see people allying themselves with [x] community in some far off country, rather than the person sitting next to them in the bus*.
Going to the example you gave, whenever I meet anyone who I think I can potentially work or associate with, usually I have to make sure our ideas of feminism(s), communalism and casteism are somewhat similar — otherwise I’d get stuck in the rut of Hindu nationalist feminism(s), where the imagined community and emancipation is only for the select few. As is customary, I have no answers, I’m just wondering how can we translate our friendship beyond just an individual level, when and if we want to organise around lines of race, nationality and/or ethnicity?
*Whether this alliance is problematic or not, isn’t my place to judge.
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Overconsumption of protein for beginners I feel, is an area that goes unmentioned.
From not paying any attention at all to protein intake, to suddenly going to the typical 1gram of protein to 1lb of bodyweight is overkill in my opinion (BROSCIENCE, YEH WHUT). Much less than that will suffice, saving the beginner money (If on shakes).
All of the posts so far are missing one key thing - in 1987 a Chinese scientist managed to prove that NO protein is required for muscle growth. The main factor for growth is actually FAT. I eat over 700 grams of fat a day and am huge! Why don't you all do some research before talking about something you have no clue about.
I bet you're huge. Also, I can see the bulging muscles in your avi.
"There's 2 kinds of people in the world, those that lift, and those that are afraid. "
agreed protein doesnt build anything...and u get it in EVERYTHING!!! I only focus on Carbs lots of them always the rest takes care of itself naturaly
seems like a good time to say "not sure if srs"
and people call me clueless. did you really just say you only pay attention to carbs and that you get protein in everything? that must be a complete joke cuz protein is not in everything carbs on the are in everything.
Muscle builder will try to eat around 3-4 foods a day. Many experts say that they eat 5 foods a day themselves, and many physicians suggest this to provide your system with a stable quantity of nutritional value, instead of filling yourself twice a day and then seated on your buttocks viewing T.V. You want to propagate your aminoacids around in these six foods. You should not consume 5 Whey protein drinks and 9 of meat for evening food and get over 125 grms of Protein in that food, just because you didn't eat any Protein for the whole day. A excellent muscle builder knows that he should provide his muscle tissue with a stable flow of Protein to develop, not go without food his muscle tissue and then package so much Protein in his system in one seated.
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by no means am I saying this article is the end all be all, but it touches on the idea that how much one should consume is relative to what their body's be previously exposed to, etc. i'm a believer in that personally - lol , i wrote the article
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Heya guys. It's an interesting thread for sure. Since I started lifting just eight months ago, I try to follow the 1g per lb of bodyweight rule and I swear by it. Unfortunately I'm struggling to put on weight - only managed 5 pounds since I started! I think trying to find the calories is much harder than meeting your protein requirements.
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What would you do for 32? Join us in Pledging to Get a Move On!
The transportation system in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) isn’t working, and we can’t accept it any more. It can be so much better.
CivicAction’s Your32 campaign is about building public support for a better regional transportation system and the need for new sustainable ways to pay for it - to give our political leaders the evidence they need to act.
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Please join us by making this pledge at your32.com – together our voice is stronger and demonstrates regional support for immediate action in combating congestion and getting a move on.
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Oiler Enterprises is the essence of experiential learning!
Any student at The University of Findlay is welcome to get involved with Oiler Enterprises in some manner, whether it as an
employee, manager or developer of a business. Students need not be in
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Oprah: What's the source of your drive to contribute to the world? It feels like an extraordinary force.
Richard: [Laughs] If anybody knows about that force, you do! I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is the only system that works, but it has its flaws; for one, it brings great wealth to only a few people. That wealth obviously brings extreme responsibility.
Oprah: That's not so obvious. You could decide to play all day: fly balloons, race around the world, stretch out on an island and drink tequila.
Richard: True. In part, giving back has to do with the way I was brought up and the fact that I've traveled widely and seen terrible situations in the world. To sleep well at night, those of us who are in a position to help must address these situations. I'd get far greater satisfaction out of, say, walking into a hospital I'd built in South Africa than I would by sitting on a beach. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to make a difference, and I don't want to waste that. I suspect I was also lucky to have parents who drove me from a young age.
Oprah: Did your parents inspire your creativity and courage?
Richard: They certainly encouraged it. They're also good examples of it. My mother has done everything from belly dancing to climbing mountaintops, and in her late 80s, she hasn't slowed down. She spends a lot of time with the Berbers in Morocco, teaching them English. We're still a very close family, and that closeness has given me lots of strength. My parents travel with me wherever I go. They were with me at the first Elders conference in South Africa.
Oprah: Where did the idea for the Elders come from?
Richard: In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community. My friend Peter Gabriel and I felt that the world needed a group of wise leaders to look up to—men and women who are beyond ego, who can look past their borders and take on global issues. That's why we created the Elders—a group of 12 respected people who can intervene in the world's conflicts. Before the Iraq war, I was involved in attempting to avert the conflict. I felt that the only way it could be stopped would be for an elder of great stature to persuade Saddam Hussein to step down and go live elsewhere, in Libya or Saudi Arabia—the same way Idi Amin [the late Ugandan dictator and president] was persuaded to step down. I had hoped we could avoid maiming and killing thousands of people and all the misery to follow. Nelson Mandela seemed to be the obvious elder to do that, since he'd already spoken out against the war. I talked to him, and he agreed to see Saddam if Kofi Annan [former secretary-general of the United Nations] would go with him and if South African president Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki gave his blessing. A week later, both agreed, but that same week, the bombing began. So the conversation between Hussein and Mandela never took place.
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Music is what God wants us to Do
This line, “Music is what God wants us to do…” comes from the song, “Anything You Want,” from the live CD Jason Mraz’s Beautiful Mess Live. I’m thinking of it because it caught my attention on Monday night during the opening concert of his Fall 2010 Tour (www.jasonmraz.com), which took place in my hometown, Utica, NY. My brothers and I went to the show to celebrate my youngest brother’s birthday.
Mraz is one of my favorite musicians and song writers (if not the favorite!). As a musician myself, I tend to be rather attentive to the music before the lyrics of any given piece. One thing that has always impressed me about Mraz’s work is the variety of the music. He can be very creative. He’s also an incredibly talented vocalist, one with a superb range and quality. Think opera singer who is also a great guitarist with a fantastic band.
Music is indeed a way to connect with God and become more aware of the beauty of the world in which we live. Mraz’s line about music as that which God wants us to do is so true. In recent years several theologians have returned to music as a medium of theological reflection. I’m thinking particularly of Catherine Pickstock from the University of Cambridge, but there are others. One young theologian who has done some work in this area is Brian Robinette of St. Louis University.
It’s curious that so many theologians are also musicians. Here I think of people like the current Pope, Benedict XVI, a well-respected systematic theologian in his own right, is also quite a classical pianist.
On the theme of music, christian speaker Rob Bell has done a rather insightful little video in his nooma video series on how he imagines God to be like a song – - the name of the video is “Rhythm.”
The next time you listen to some really good music, especially really good live music (I should mention I’ve seen Jason Mraz 9 times in concert so far – talk about good live music!), reflect on the way it makes you feel and where God might be in the midst of that. Think about what a gift music is to the world.
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Friday, June 3, 2011
What great books did you hear about/discover this past week? Share with us your FRIDAY FINDS!
Witch Eyes (Witch Eyes #1) by Scott Tracey
Seventeen-year-old Braden was born with witch eyes. He has the ability to see the world as it truly is: a blinding explosion of memories, anguish, darkness, and magic. The power enables Braden to see through spells and lies, but it comes at the cost of horrible pain.
After a terrifying vision reveals imminent danger for the uncle who raised and instructed him, Braden is lured to Belle Dam, an old city divided by two feuding witch dynasties. Rival family heads Catherine Lansing and Jason Thorpe are desperate to use Braden's powers to unlock Belle Dam's secrets, but Braden refuses to become their sacrificial pawn. His resolve is tested when he learns that Jason is his father—and that Trey, the enigmatic guy he's attracted to, is Catherine's son.
To stop an insidious dark magic from consuming the town, Braden must master his gift—even if the effort destroys him.
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A Toledo nursing home’s appeal of state censure for the sexual abuse of a partially paralyzed patient raises troubling questions about the ability of the Ohio Department of Health to monitor and regulate the care of some of our state’s most vulnerable residents. The state must do more to prevent problems in the 966 nursing homes it licenses.
Citing continued failure to protect residents from abuse, the state notified Liberty Nursing Center of Toledo in August that, barring major changes, it would lose its license. State regulators said the facility’s staff had failed to respond properly to an incident of sexual abuse.
A license revocation would close the nursing home. The Health Department will hold a hearing on the matter in Columbus this week, but such revocations are rare. Before this year, the state had revoked no licenses for five years; this year, it has taken steps to revoke three.
Considering its impact on patients and families, closing a nursing home should happen, as state officials say, only as a last resort. Even so, putting elderly and mentally ill patients at risk because of negligence or incompetence is just as serious.
In improving its oversight of nursing homes, the state should aim not to revoke more licenses, but instead to fix problems before they become crises. Persistent problems such as those at Liberty Nursing Center are inexcusable.
The Blade reported that the nursing home has a history of problems, and was designated a “special focus facility” by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In December, 2011, a motorist found a resident wandering without a coat two miles from the center. In 2009, two patients left the building and allegedly used cocaine and marijuana. In two other incidents, patients injured themselves by jumping out of a window.
Last July, a male resident diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, delusions, and sexually aggressive behavior entered the room of a partially paralyzed female. Nurses found him on top of the woman with his pants removed and her incontinence brief pushed aside.
Staff members determined the man had no sexual contact with the woman. The woman did not get a doctor’s examination. Liberty did not notify her guardians or the Health Department. Nor did it file an official police report.
Ohio must do better at monitoring and regulating nursing homes. Surveyors now inspect nursing homes about once every 18 months. They also investigate individual complaints by residents, family members, and others.
The state ought to determine whether it has enough surveyors. But more important, it needs to improve how it monitors problems, sanctions failures, and provides ways to administer care more efficiently and humanely. When necessary, the state should contract for temporary third-party management, with fees paid by the offending facility.
Consumers must do their part by making educated choices about nursing homes. To its credit, the state is helping citizens make better choices by posting information about homes online.
State government is ultimately responsible for making sure that Ohio’s most vulnerable citizens are not abused and neglected. That’s especially true when taxpayers support that care through programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Negligence and incompetence may force the state to revoke Liberty’s license. Some of its 100 residents have already moved out. In the future, the state must keep Ohio’s nursing homes running effectively and humanely with more-aggressive oversight and intervention.
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So let's play along with the silliness.
Never mind the LRO, since NASA is behind the coverup. Why have the other gov'ts who have mapped the Moon in detail not found evidence of the missing mission? Is it that big of a secret?
He does know there's not a Monolith at Tycho as well, right? It's a story. Right?
Don't know how I missed this when it was broadcast, but I was searching youtube, and came across this oddity of journalism.
As part of the "windup" for the Apollo 18 movie, Dylan Ratigan interviews (and I put that term, loosely) Stanton Friedman with expected results...you know, the usual "If it's the government, they MUST be lying to us", garbage.
Did anyone know that it was conceivable that there were "secret" moon missions?....Friedman "knows"....he is "pursuing the truth".
Good for a laugh just to watch Ratigan falling all over himself to give Friedman a "platform"....and Friedman is at his "classic" best (worst).
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Due to my slow internet connection i cannot watch it on Youtube
Is it the show where they claim the secret launch of Apollo 18 was made at Guiana Space Centre ?
Quote from wikipedia
"The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) is a French spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana. Operational since 1968,"
If it was mentioned, I didn't catch it...Is it the show where they claim the secret launch of Apollo 18 was made at Guiana Space Centre ?
It was pretty much "standard" stanton. (see what I did there ) He brags about the companies he hasn't worked for in many decades...talks about how you can't trust anything said by the government...shows a redacted page from something, and implies that it's because the big "G" is hiding something from us.
...and Ratigan does his best Art Bell impersonation, just acting completely credulous to the whole thing.
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pdf), and hilariously stating Copernicus was wrong.
Didn't he openly admit that he was shilling for the Apollo 18 promotional effort? See here:
(English is not my first language, so please excuse any mistakes and unintended ambiguities.)
If we were to be pedantic, they should have called the film Apollo 19, since the joint Soyuz mission was classified as Apollo 18.
The idea that a secret Apollo launch could be hidden from the public is way beyond ridiculous, yet Friedman stated that it "could" have happened.
Right there he loses all credibility.
Like he had ANY to begin with....
I can easily pass off Friedman as a nutjob that has no influence.
I love some of his arguments though. The government is keeping secrets, and uses secrets we know about as examples.
I'm more upset at this Dylan Ratigan guy. He's egging this whole thing on.
What the heck is this "according to a new film..."? Hey, idiot. It ain't a docudrama.
"More on these claims..."? What claims?
And what's this global government and who is paying for it?
I don't care if his show is one of the highest rated ones. It's not news.
This youtuber is a perfect example of the target audience.
What I want to know is, how did they have a secret moon mission when the whole apollo program was a ritual farce to begin with?
This is a 7 minute commercial for the film industry and Friedman's book.
If we have this secret global government, then why the concern that we don't have one entity to speak for Earth?
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St. Vital Catholic School is hosting a special student-created drama production called, Cool to Care Tour, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 30.
Viewings will begin about every 15 minutes between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. The last 'tour' will begin at 7:30 p.m.
This one-hour educational and entertaining event highlights social justice issues of concern to students and some Canadian youth who are cool for caring. This interactive production will take spectators around the school and around the world.
Student tour guides will lead small groups to scenes taking place in countries such as Africa to examine how inexpensive nets can prevent the spread of malaria and Mexico to consider how some people outside of Canada are living in a manner that cannot be sustained long term.
In addition to global child poverty issues, scenes also explore themes relevant to Canadian youth such as bullying and aboriginal issues.
If you are unavailable in the evening but are interested in a daytime viewing, please call St. Vital School at 937-2233. The school encourages $5 donations for adults and $2 donations for children. All money collected will be given to the food bank’s milk program and a school in Ecuador through Free the Children.
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This is the 12th point in a journey by motorbike in India to visit 16 confluence points. The story starts at 22N 86E and this visit follows on from 21N 81E. The next point in the series is 21N 83E.
From Raipur we took the NH 43 south west to Abhanpur and then a smaller road to Rajim. Rajim is 45 kms from Raipur. We approached the point from the west although I had planned to come from the north – all roads seemed to go further south than we expected. Soon after leaving Rajim we came across houses with slate walls and other walls of slate. This was very unusual in our travels. The slate became more and more common as we approached the point until we reached villages where many people were chipping away at pieces of slate to split and shape them. Turning east along a rough road we came upon the source of the slate – a large number of quarries some of which had been worked out and were now flooded. These quarries reminded me of the slate quarries on the west coast of Scotland which have long since closed. These quarries probably use very similar technology and have a similar safety record to those Scottish quarries of 150 years ago. The track led us through the quarries and after crossing a wide sandy river bed we eventually picked up a new dirt road heading the final 1 km north toward the point. The CP itself was on top of a small rise about 20 metres from a small side track. It was in a perfect position for its view and had a tree for shade. In the area around the point there was a lot of mechanical digging – we were not sure if this was for new quarries or for the new road that was being extended northwards.
Degree of Challenge:
2 – Disorientating roads, quarries and a river bed all conspired to make this a difficult approach – better to attack from the east west road 5 km due south of the point. (1= very easy - drive to the point; to 5= a death march – glad it is over)
2 –Different from the normal farmland if not exactly pretty!. (Scale: 1= not interesting at all; 5= take your breath away)
4 – Interesting to see this medium-scale quarrying operation and labour intensive manual slate dressing. (Scale: 1=dull; 5= most stimulating)
Another 2 point day! On leaving the point we headed north along the new road but it ended with the road building operation and we were told to take the same road south 5km until we hit another road and then head east to Figeswara. As usual we stopped several times to check the previous advice that we had been given. If we received conflicting advice then we would ask again till we were happy with a consensus! Despite there being small roads heading east we were advised to go north to Mahasamund and then take the NH 217 to get to our next destination Kharhial Road on the Chhattisgarh/Orissa border. Once in Orissa we had been planning to go on to Nuaparha but we called in at a hotel in Kharhial Road just 10 km short of Nuaparha. They were full and told us that Nuaparha had no hotels. But they did say that there was another hotel and we were mightily relieved when we found that the Hotel Koh-I-Noor had a room for us. The best in the house cost nearly £10. The owner and his son could not have been more helpful and arranged for us to have dinner at a “restaurant” a kilometre up the road. John jumped on the owner’s bike and I road pillion behind the owner’s son to the restaurant. This 13 year old boy entertained us at dinner and was very happy to practice his excellent English. In any case, by now, John and I had used up most of our stories and extra company was very welcome!
The story continues at 21N 83E.
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Posted on 20th Jun 2011 @ 6:30 PM
|New lamps for old, or brand new fixtures? (MAGAZINE)|
|There is a huge potential market for retrofit LED lamps that offer high performance at an acceptable price point, according to TIM WHITAKER.|
This article was published in the June 2011 issue of LEDs Magazine.
It’s generally accepted that if you started with a blank sheet of paper, you wouldn’t design LED lamps that look much like conventional incandescent or fluorescent lamps (either linear fluorescents or CFLs). This is because it’s difficult to match the thermal and optical characteristics of LEDs with the form factors of conventional lamps and their sockets. Even so, there is a huge potential market for retrofit LED lamps that offer high performance at an acceptable price point, and companies are racing to stake their claim. Literally minutes ago I received an email entitled “First 100-watt-equivalent LED bulb” – see below for more details.
However, retrofit lamps are not the only answer. Cree, for example, recently announced a series of LED luminaires that are designed to replace the types of ceiling troffer fixture into which one would place a linear fluorescent lamp. As described on page 9, in Cree’s luminaires a color-mixing chamber and ref lector system produce the desired light output, while a room-side heat sink is incorporated as a design element.
Back to retrofit lamps. Yesterday I received a press release entitled “Philips to unveil the world’s first LED replacement for the 75-watt light bulb.” The EnduraLED A21 lamp consumes 17W, but will not be available until the fourth quarter of 2011 in the US. So perhaps the word “prototype” should have been included in Philips’ press release. Several other companies might also disagree with the use of the words “world’s first.” The press release also says that the suggested retail price for consumers has not yet been finalized but is expected to be in the range of $40-45. Oddly, Philips did not give specifications except to say that the lamp has “been developed to meet or exceed Energy Star qualifications” for a 75W replacement i.e. 1100 lumens at 17W (65 lm/W), a color temperature of 2700K, a CRI of 80, and a 25,000-hr life.
In fact, Switch Lighting announced a 75W-replacement LED lamp several weeks ago (see page 16 and this issue's cover image). The design has some unusual features, namely outward-facing LEDs mounted on metal fingers, inside a globe filled with an inert liquid. This creates a socalled self-cooling environment inside the bulb, allowing maximum brightness with fewer LEDs, says the company. And just in time for Lightfair, Switch said it would show a 100-watt-equivalent A19 LED lamp that produces 1700 lm in neutral white, which is “the same beautiful white color as halogen track lighting,” said Brett Sharenow, Switch’s Chief Strategy Officer. He added that the company “will offer a warm-white version of the 100W-equivalent bulb in mid-to late-2012.”
These announcements indicate the performance levels that we can expect to see in the shops over the next 1-2 years, although retail prices will need to hit the appropriate levels. The ongoing improvement in lamp performance is enabled in part by LED makers who continue to push the limits of LED efficacy, for example Cree’s R&D result of 231 lm/W for a 4500K LED (page 10). Another factor is the development of more advanced LED fabrication processes, which are helping to improve yields and reduce costs, as our articles on pages 31 and 41 describe.
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The Attraction of Opposites
This week’s blog is from Patti Podesta, “Hannibal’s” production designer.
With the news this week that “Hannibal” has been renewed by NBC and that Season 2 will get deeper into the madness between Lecter and Will Graham, I thought this might be a good moment to describe how we developed the look of the series and the stylistic differences between its two main characters.
Bryan Fuller and David Slade are major talents, so coming into the project I was immediately aware that this was a chance to do something complex and haunting. In our first conversation, Bryan invoked the painter Francis Bacon as a reference for Lecter, and from David came a very striking image, the Blood-Stag; this is how it started. I assembled an array of paintings and photographs through which the three of us discussed realism and expressionism, architecture, qualities of light and palette. In addition to Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Todd Hido, Gregory Crewdson and the French painter Caillebotte. I included Wyeth for his anxious rendering of the Midwest and certain paintings by Edward Hopper. David’s photographic images were key in defining the look of the series.
What emerged from our discussions was a quartet of themes:
1. Hannibal Lecter’s world: He is a sadist, albeit an incredibly elegant one with a highly refined aesthetic. He creates for himself in an interior limbo, a “re-naturalized nature.”
2. Will Graham’s world: He needs a sanctuary from the intensity of his “gifts” and so surrounds himself in actual nature. He lives in the farmlands outside Quantico.
3. The FBI: Envisioned as ’80s Brutalist architecture. Such buildings can be found on the FBI campus in Quantio, VA, where there is also a new state-of-the-art forensics lab, which we would interpret in our own way. On a preliminary scouting trip to Toronto we found Scarborough University and David gave us treated photographs of the buildings with a cool, steely look.
4. The Midwest: classic American, horizontal with a kind of butterscotch light. Poignant landscapes. These qualities would disappear later in the series, as the cases move to the East Coast and deeper into Lecter’s world.
Bryan’s script cited Sir John Soane’s library in describing Lecter’s office. Soane was an English architect known for his neo-classical buildings and marvelous library, which redefined the idea of the categorical, displaying art and artifacts that he collected during his lifetime. I thought we could rework these qualities through Americana, using the style as Lecter’s pretense for “passing.” From a stack of images, Bryan singled out a photo of the old library room in the North Carolina State Building and Lecter’s office is based on this room.
We spun a backstory that he had purchased an historic building and updated the surfaces, leaving the architecture intact. It has to pass as a place of business, but is also his showplace, impressive and intimidating. Creating this set in the time we had was a daunting task. Our construction coordinator Dwight Doerksen, lead painter Jack McCullough and their crews were just amazing. Virtually everything on both of Lecter’s sets is custom… custom millwork, custom cabinetry, custom mixed stains. Set decorator Jaro Dick has great taste and knows where to look for special things, like Hannibal’s desk, an original Leif Jacobsen. Shopping for “the mix” that describes Lecter’s curatorial vision occupied Jaro’s team every day for 2 months. Dressing the set… the books alone took days and days. Of course they had to be organized by subject. I spent an entire day with an assistant creating a complex system of colored dots on the spine of 700+ sketch books that I decided Lecter would use for his patient notes… the dots identifying the patients and their conditions.
Lavish textures define all of Lecter’s spaces, creating the “hyper-nature” mentioned earlier. His home is an enclave; his kitchen is his performance space and reflects his orderly, highly visceral taste. It is a chef’s kitchen that conceals its transgressive activities. It envelops him (and his “guests”) in corporal surfaces while remaining strict. There is barn wood and zebrawood, top-of-the-line stainless appliances and travertine counters and backsplash. The center island is stainless with pale grey leather panels on the front and sides. Another custom-made stainless table evokes cook’s prep table/autopsy table.
Lecter’s dining room evolved into his most theatrical chamber. The walls are made from stacked wood moldings, a bit of genius that came from Bryan Fuller… he had seen such a wall at a restaurant… for ours, I chose moldings that had voluptuous curves or simple geometry. We stained the wood indigo blue, surrounding Lecter and his “audience” in the color of the night sky. Bryan also suggested a “living wall” for Lecter’s dining room, and I thought to use a huge landscape as a backdrop. I found an etching by Oscar Grosch and loved its gothic tone, but also that it would fall into abstraction for close ups, almost like an early Jackson Pollock painting. It was reproduced as wallpaper, with box shelves that house live herbs in containers. My art department had many conversations debating whether the olfactory effect was properly epicurean; we decided in the end that the intensity was pure Lecter.
Will Graham, by comparison, dwells in a world described by association, meaning that similar colors and shapes create a continuous flow through his space, with many windows connecting to a natural setting. It’s a sensual fish tank in which everything is held in a kind of ether. I found a farmhouse outside Toronto, untouched, habited by the original owners. This became our backstory for Will: he purchased the house and land and just moved in. He lives in the downstairs, so he can be aware of anyone showing up outside. We repainted it all: a deep, dull blue/green. Some of the furniture, paintings and books belong to the owners of the house (who are the most fabulous couple - he was a motocross champion in the ’60s, she paints). The rest of the furniture was accumulated by Jaro and is a conscious hodgepodge, unmatched, not theatrical in any way. Will lives there with his dogs, his motorboat parts and his fishing tackle. He does not have a computer and does not bring work home.
Lecter and Will compose a duality, and their settings illustrate two concepts of sanctuary. Theirs is not a symmetrical opposition, but a pair of complementary colors whose qualities smear onto one another. “This is my design.” Will utters this in every episode. Is he channeling Lecter? Or Bryan? Is he asking us to reflect on design and its many meanings? It’s a multifaceted statement that makes me laugh AND tense up whenever I hear it.
I had been designing a Stanley Kubrick exhibition that was to open at the Los Angeles County Museum on November 1, 2012. It was a project I had worked on for nearly a year, so I had an out point for “Hannibal.” During preproduction it became clear I would only be able to get the series started before I had to return to Los Angeles to oversee the exhibition. I would have liked to design more of the series, it was so provocative… although Stanley Kubrick is no slouch and designing his exhibition was a highlight of my career. “Hannibal” is a rare project in which one gets to work within a collaborative circle of highly intelligent and wildly creative people. I left the series in the capable hands of production designer Matthew Davies and the fabulous crew I encountered in Toronto. I watch the show every week and am left in its spell for days afterwards.
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Churchyards and cemeteries
One of my first research activities was to head for the two cemeteries in Amble on a mission to track down the Turner family plot to check some information for my cousin and to see if I could find the Henderson graves that my Granny Webb used to take me to on her weekly flower visit. I amazed myself by being able to head almost directly to the Henderson graves even though it must be over 40 years since I went with my granny.
Both visits surprised me by turning up a lot more information than I expected and bringing many old memories of family and townspeople back to the surface. Since then I have visited more cemetries and have some interesting monumental photos from:
- Amble West Cemetery
- Amble East Cemetery
- St. John’s church at Broomhill
- Chevington Cemetery
- St. Lawrence’s Church at Warkworth
- St. Paul’s Church at Choppington
- Lowick Church
Plan to start publishing some of the photos that have helped my research in the Christmas hols.
Others that I need information from include:
- Kyloe Church – privately owned, by appointment only
- Norham Church – figured out where it is but did not have time
My collection of war memorial photos so far includes:
- Radcliffe (at Amble)
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A rare Chinese bowl bought for about $3 from a yard sale in the U.S. sold for $2.2 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday.
The bowl, found in New York state, "was bought for a few dollars from a tag sale near the consignor's home in the summer of 2007," said Cecilia Leung of Sotheby's. "At the time, the purchaser had no idea that they had happened upon a 1,000-year-old treasure."
The previous owner displayed the bowl in their living room for several years before they became curious about its origins and had it assessed, Leung said. Sotheby's pre-sale estimates valued the bowl, which measures just 5 inches in diameter, at between $200,000 to $300,000.
The 'Ding' bowl is an example of Northern Song Dynasty pottery and described by Sotheby's as "remarkable and exceptionally beautiful."
The only other known bowl of the same size, form and almost identical decoration has been in the collection of the British Museum in London for over 60 years, according to Sotheby's.
The bowl was purchased by London dealer, Giuseppe Eskenazi, for $2,225,000, after a prolonged battle between four bidders.
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Many times during any given game, one asks themselves... "Should I defend, or attack? Are the tactics advantageous now, or do I need to create another threat/protect another piece? Can I snatch up a pawn or two without weakening my position and losing the material advantage?" However, I don't think most people (certainly I didn't used to) think of these things in terms of priorities. There are two priorities that are always highest on the list.
1) Protect your king. If checkmate can be forced on you, the game is over. This is always first priority.
2) Checkmate the other king. This, if it can be forced, can also save you the trouble of all your other problems.
After these two, all the other priorities kind of jumble together. Material advantage is a priority, but so is the initiative. Forcing pieces onto poor squares is a priority, but your pieces also have ideal destinations.
I have found a few examples of these types of decisions. The first example is a game of my own, which ultimately was won because my opponent did not keep priority number one in the forefront of his mind. Material remains even through the entire game; but, he becomes blinded by what he sees as a checkmating attack (priority number 2), and forgets about priority number 1: defending.
The threat of Qa3 in that game really does come out of nowhere. I feel this only emphasizes the idea that one must always be on the lookout for threats to the king (once again: priority number 1).
The next four examples are chosen because they share one trait: in each, one side's queen takes the other's unprotected g-pawn. In three, this action is safe: in one, it is not. The motive for this is normally to win a pawn, and therefore gain an advantage in material. In each case I will explore if this is worth it.
The first is simple opening theory in the Two Knight's Defense. White seems to think that he can obtain a quick material advantage. Black is allowed to develop enough that Black in fact wins material (or checkmates).
Black could afford to take the g-pawn because of the threat of checkmate. Now, if White takes priority #1 into account and simply plays 6. c3, he has defended and is absolutely fine. But overhastiness (and a greed for material) play against him.
The next game is one that also works against the player trying to swipe material. The game is not decisive, but in very quick timed games proper defenses are often missed.
The next game shows when taking the g-pawn is obviously NOT advantageous. I believe Nimzowitsch's opponent in this game was an amateur, and therefore must have been disproportianately tempted by the win of a pawn... But Nimzowitsch's advantage in development and excellent piece coordination punish swiftly and fiercely. And let's not forget, even if his piece coordination was a fraction of what it was... taking the g-pawn opens the g-file nine times out of ten. Even that compensation is sometimes enough to make one consider jumping on a material advantage.
Of course, one of the best players in the world vs. an amateur would normally prove to be an exceptional example of simple principles in action.
The next game, in contrast, is between two rather strong players. And where the first four examples showed very clear comparisons... where the material gain was worth it and where it was not... this last game shows White's capture on the kingside very much countered by Black's advantage on the queenside. This is the normal way of things... when prioritizing is unclear. I think the reason White's g-pawn capture is advantageous here is because of the proximity of the Black king, and also the wonderfully multi-purpose e-pawn; contrast this to Black's queenside push, which, while impressive in its own right, creates threats less serious than White's (checkmate and promotion).
And so ends my ridiculously long reflection on what important aspects to consider. A quick recap and list of some of the priorities:
1) Defend yourself from checkmate.
2) Checkmate the opponent
3) Maintain a material advantage
And, of course, positional moves, pawn structure, tactical exchanges, protecting pieces, moving the opponent's pieces, and also initiative, which I believe welds itself amongst all of these.
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Whether you're single or married, waiting to claim your benefits -- even by a year or two -- is likely to pay off in higher benefits over your lifetime. In today's low-interest-rate-environment, you'll generally earn a bigger return by delaying benefits than you are on your safe investments. But before you can make your own calculations, you need to understand the basics.
Editor Susan Garland and Managing Editor Rachel Sheedy of Kiplinger's Retirement Report took your questions about Social Security and how to maximize your benefits on Thursday, January 17. You can read the transcript below.
Welcome to today’s live chat about how to maximize Social Security benefits! We look forward to answering your questions.
Joining us is editor Susan Garland and managing editor Rachel Sheedy of Kiplinger's Retirement Report.
hello all...looking forward to your questions!
Thank you for joining us.
It seems more and more experts are recommending that people wait to claim their benefits -- even by a year or two. Rachel and Susan, what are some of the benefits in doing so?
Namely, for each year you wait to claim beyond full retirement age up until age 70, you earn 8% a year on your benefit...that can add up to tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime.
Also for couples, if the high earner delays his benefit, but then dies first, the lower-earner, surviving spouse can switch to a higher survivor benefit -- the survivor benefit equals up to 100% of the higher earner's benefit at the time he died if the surviving spouse takes it at her full retirement age or beyond.
Rachel, how does average life expectancy play into this?
Also, most people claim at the early age of 62. But your benefit will be reduced by 25% from what you would get if you waited to your full retirement age of 66 or so. Add the 8% yearly delayed retirement credits that Rachel mentioned plus accumulated cost-of-living adjustments, and you really can boost your income by delaying.
Thanks, Rachel and Susan. Particularly in today's low-interest rate environment, that extra income can make a big difference.
Here's a rule of thumb for couples, according to recent research: If just one spouse in a married couple is expected to live well beyond 80, the cumulative lifetime benefits will usually be highest if the higher earner delays claiming until 70.
The big X factor is no one knows how long they will live, and people tend to live longer these days. The biggest danger in retirement planning is living too long, not dying too young -- you don't want to outlive your savings. Using strategies to boost your Social Security benefits is one way to help ensure that you have the income you need when you are not in a position to go back to work.
Interesting. Thanks, Susan. Definitely something to keep in mind.
That being said, if you really need the money--or you think you will die relatively early in life, take the money.
Singles also need to really mull how long to delay. Couples have strategies they can use that singles can't.
Absolutely, Rachel. Thanks.
Alright, let's go ahead and take our first question from Anna
Social Security benefits are based on your top 35 years of earnings. So say if you only have 30 years of earnings, five years of zero earnings will be factored in, which will lower your benefit. Any year in which you earn even a little bit of money would replace a zero year.
If you have 35 years of earnings, continuing to work would affect your benefit to the extent that if that year of work had higher earnings than one of the 35 years currently being factored in it would replace one of those 35 years.
I'd like to address the singles question that Rachel raised. Even if you live to an average life expectancy, today's low interest rates make delaying one worthwhile. That's because when interest rates are close to 0% after inflation, as they are now, the value of future benefits is considerably higher than what you can receive if you placed the money in safe investments or an immediate annuity.
Alright, here is our next question from Stephanie.
You would be able to take your first husband's survivor benefits. Actually, if you stayed married to your second husband for more than 10 years, you can choose between a widow's benefit on your first husband and a spousal benefit on your second husband (if you second husband dies, you can opt for his survivor benefit instead--whichever is higher.)
To clarify, you cannot claim a widow's benefit on your first husband as long as you are married to your current husband--because you married before age 60. You can choose only if you get divorced or your second husband dies and you were married to him for 10 years.
Alright, let's go ahead and move on to our next question from Marilyn.
Up to 85% of Social Security benefits are taxed by Uncle Sam, and the threshold for benefits getting socked by taxes is very low. If you take Social Security benefits now while working, you likely would get hit with tax on the benefits. But depending on your income sources in retirement that could happen a couple years down the line too. I would project your taxes under both scenarios--taking benefits now with earned income and delaying benefits until you are drawing retirement income. Your tax bill in retirement is likely to be higher than you think.
And keep in mind that by taking benefits now, you give up two years' worth of delayed retirement credits.
Thanks, Rachel. Sometimes these Social Security taxes can come as quite a surprise.
It would be a good idea to have your accountant run through the numbers for you. The link to the story that Rachel just sent will show you how much of your benefits go into the formula that determines if your benefits will be taxed.
Alright, Shelly has a questions about SSI
Good advice, Susan. Thanks.
As you know, the SSI program will provide payments if you have a disability and a low income.
The site is www.ssa.gov/ssi
Thanks, Rachel and Susan.
Alright, our next question is from Don about the fiscal cliff
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Documents Reveal New Details About DHS Development of Mobile Body ScannersEPIC has obtained more than one hundred fifty pages of documents detailing the Department of Homeland Security’s development of mobile body scanners and other crowd surveillance technology. The documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom Information Act lawsuit brought by EPIC against the federal agency. According to the documents obtained by EPIC, vehicles equipped with mobile body scanners are designed to scan crowds and pedestrians on the street and can see through bags, clothing, and even other vehicles. The documents also reveal that the mobile backscatter machines cannot be American National Standards Institute “certified people scanners” because of the high level of radiation output and because subjects would not know they have been scanned. For more information see EPIC: Whole Body Imaging Technology and EPIC: EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of the Body Scanner Program).
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This Section is on Prayer and All Things Spiritual
- A Prayer for Sarah Palin
- An Intercessory Prayer for the People of the USA
- A Prayer of Repentance for the Roots of Abortion
- The True Strength of America
- Beautiful are the Praises that Arise from Sorrow
An Intercessory Prayer for the People of the United States of America
October 12, 2000
[For use in corporate or personal prayer]
"O Lord, how can your people know the way, when their leaders lead them astray?"
As Moses stood in the gap when your people had departed from your ways, worshipped a false god, and had fallen into immorality [Exodus 32-33], so now I stand today to plead the case of your people:
O Great Father, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Author of Life, Giver of the Holy Spirit — have mercy upon us.
We confess that we have sinned against you in so many ways that if we were to number them, many books could not contain the record. If you were to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth, you would be entirely just in your judgments of us because our sins are many. We have turned from your Word; we have pursued pleasure and not righteousness; we have been cowered by the threats of the enemy; and we have longed for the praise that comes from men rather than prefer the praise that comes from God alone. Forgive us, Father, for turning away from you towards this world and its false affections. We have many idols. We are guilty and without excuse, O God. But for your sake and for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, though you would be just to destroy us, you have called us to be a kingdom of priests to intercede on behalf of the world. Therefore, Lord Jesus, Father Almighty, Gracious Holy Spirit, I now plead the case on behalf this people.
Look, O Lord, upon the people of this nation. They are like sheep without a shepherd who have been scattered among the hills by the roar of the lion and the prowling of the wolf, [Ezekiel 34, Zechariah 10]. False teachers have arisen in the midst of the flock to betray and deny your Word. They all claim to be speaking in your name, and the sheep are confused. These "teachers" have taken the seat of Moses and put on the garments of the priest, but they have counseled with a council of lies - to the end that even the leader of this nation is surrounded by those who claim to speak for you, yet who also say it is all right to destroy the littlest ones who rest within the womb.
Is it any wonder, Lord, that your people are scattered, when wolves have entered the fold and put on sheep’s clothing in order to lead your people astray? How can the people know the truth when even their pastors and priests mislead them? The people are scattered and confused because they have not heard your voice through the shepherds, O Lord. They have not heard You speak with One Voice. They have heard the arguing of the scribes but not the Teaching of the One who has Authority.
Come therefore now, O Lord, and stand in the midst of your flock [Micah 5:4], to shepherd them, that they may have a choice, hear your word and obey it! Have mercy upon us, for your Name’s sake, Lord Jesus — that through us you may be exalted in the earth - that the shout of joy and the cry of "deliverance" may yet again be heard in this land! Let your Name be exalted with thanksgiving and showered with a chorus of praises because of the victory you work on behalf of your people! Let it be so, Lord, and let it be told among the nations!
Father, there is yet another reason to have mercy upon this people: for 40 years, a generation, a foreign king has oppressed them and has forced alien laws upon them. And for 40 years, frog mouthed spirits have been loosed against this people to indoctrinate them with the law of this king. These spirits have used gossip, intimidation, propaganda, and have disheartened your saints with a cascade of lies. All manner of things have been spoken against your people, falsely, because of you O Lord.
Hear, O Lord! It was not by the will of the people that you were dethroned. They did not remove you from the schools of this Land. They did not vote you out nor desire it; it was forced upon them. They desired their children to be taught of you, but it was forbidden. It was not by consent that they were forbidden from praying or speaking your Name in the schools of this land, yet they were impelled to attend these schools through the economics of the public purse. It was not with but against the will of the people that your Commandments and your Word were taken from the public places in our Land. When the people desired to acknowledge you and your ways, it was declared illegal. No Lord! It was by the oppression of a foreign king, who threatened this people with lawsuits and imprisonment if they disobeyed, that these things happened. This arrogant king, the devil himself, passed his laws through the courts to oppress your people. Your people did not choose these laws, Lord. Even today, if the people were free, they would choose today to acknowledge You as the only God, Sovereign Lord, and Leader of this nation. So, Lord, have mercy upon your people and rescue them from this foreign power and its evil ways.
Lord, it was not by choice nor by vote nor by Constitution, that murder became a right protected by the laws of this land. Even today, the majority of the people are against abortion for any reason, but their will has been thwarted continually by the courts of this foreign king. When they try to pass laws restraining the evil, their will is overturned. It was not by choice that parents were deprived of the right to intervene and even know of their children’s situation. It was not by vote, O Lord, that the perversions of lust became protected privileges of the state. The people of this land did not will these things. It is true, Father, that we allowed it, and for that we are guilty, but we did not choose it, it came upon us. Have Mercy, O God and deliver us, that we may again worship you freely and acknowledge your Name and establish your will by the laws of our Land.
Father, remember the sacrifices of those who tried to stop the murder of little ones made in your image - the murder of those waiting to be born. When some of them, your Church, took to the streets to raise up a cry of "repentance" and issue the prophet’s warning of "injustice," we were arrested and thrown into prison. Some were stripped of property; others treated like criminals and members of organized crime. Even the right to freedom of speech was taken away to protect the murdering spirit reigning through the courts of this foreign king. And when the rest of your people saw what happened, they were afraid to speak out. They were scattered. Forgive us Lord.
But remember also, Holy Spirit, how for 40 years, those who believe your word, and who have upheld your truth and your values, have been subjected to a catalog of lies from the mouth of the frog like spirits of deception. In the media, the mouthpiece of this alien king, evil is called "good" and good called "evil." License is promoted as liberty, and respect for life is vilified. Promiscuity is rewarded and purity is disdained. Those who want the freedom to pray, worship you, and acknowledge you as the Only true God and Savior are called "oppressors" and "intolerant." Those who honor your Name and your Righteousness are called "bigoted" and "mongers of hate." This did not happen just once, but daily. Just as your people in Egypt were subjected to the slavery of making bricks with straw under the taskmaster’s whip, so your people today are subjected daily to the whip of your enemies, who use the power of public slander to castigate and threaten.
Yes Lord, we have bowed under the whip. We have eaten at the fount of pornography and promiscuity, and we have fallen prey to the flood of lies, and for that O Lord, we are guilty. But we did not choose these things; they came upon us. The temptation of lust became our daily bread, and the false heralds of "freedom" declared it "good" for us. The courts of this alien king also declared that unholy and sinful temptations could not be censored or removed from the eyes of the people. The courts equated the freedom of worship with the license of sin. And daily, the assault upon our senses increases.
Yet in all this, the media still does not represent the majority of the people. The media serve the interests of the powerful few who intimidate even the legislators through a barrage of lies. The media do not reflect the will of the majority, Lord, yet constantly they try to manipulate the populace to uphold the values of this alien king. And your people are weakening, year by year, under the onslaught of the power of these lies. Your people are getting used to their slavery, Lord. Let us not become comfortable with slavery!
Therefore, O Lord, though we have sinned and surrendered to the powers of this age, we beg of you to have mercy upon us. For the sake of your Son Jesus, forgive us and deliver us from the oppression of the enemy, and restore our freedom, that righteousness may again reign through the will of the people over the courts and laws of this land. Give us courage and boldness to stand for you. Let our only King be Jesus, and may Jesus reign as King over this Land once again. Lord, we cannot save ourselves from this situation. Only You, O Lord, can deliver us.
Therefore, we beg of you Lord, Come! Give your people One Voice. Draw out from among your people the false shepherds and the wolves. Make a distinction between the true and the false, so that the people may clearly see —who is on the Lord’s side. Give authority and power to the shepherds who uphold your Word. And let the Spirit of unity and agreement reign in the true Church — that the world may know the voice of the Lord and discern it from the devil and his lies. Stand O Lord, in the midst of your Flock, this people in the United States, and gather them unto yourself. And then O Lord, Lead them that we may know your victory on this earth!
Father, hear us, for we ask this all in Jesus’ Name and for his sake.
Prayer by Jefferis Kent Peterson
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The Pentagon’s decision to shift the focus of its global missile defence from Europe to Asia has failed to shake Russia’s adamant opposition to the U.S. plans.
A top Russian diplomat said the scrapping of the final phase of the U.S. missile shield for Europe announced by newly appointed U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel did not address Russia’s concerns.
“This is not a concession to Russia and we do not see it as such,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Kommersant daily on Monday.
Mr Hagel said Friday that the U.S. planned to cancel the fourth phase of the European missile defence system, which called for the deployment from 2018 of more powerful missile interceptors near Russia’s borders. Moscow claimed the interceptors would have the capability to shoot down Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Instead thhe U.S. now intends to put additional ground-based interceptors in Alaska to deal with a potential threat from North Korea.
The Pentagon insists the proposed change in missile defence plans has nothing to do with Russia’s objections, but U.S. analysts said the move “has opened the door” to new arms control talks with Moscow.
However, Moscow does not think the shift in U.S. missile defence plans would reduce potential risks to Russia. For one thing, Mr Ryabkov pointed out, the U.S. is still going ahead with the deployment of land-based and ship-borne mobile interceptors in Europe, which posed a threat to Russia.
Secondly, the deployment of extra U.S. interceptors in Alaska would “significantly expand U.S. capabilities in the sphere of missile defences,” according to Mr Ryabkov.
“Our objections remain,” the Russian diplomat said ahead of his meeting Tuesday in Geneva with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller to discuss the issue.
Russian experts said the U.S. plans to set up additional 14 missile interceptors on its Pacific Coast on top of 30 interceptors already deployed in Alaska and California were really aimed at China, not North Korea.
“The missile defences the U.S. is building in the Pacific will be capable of intercepting a retaliatory strike from China, which has 50 to 75 intercontinental ballistic missiles,” said Academician Sergei Rogov of the Institute of U.S. and Canada.
The fact that Moscow articulated its strong objections to the U.S. missile defence “pivot” to Asia two days ahead of a visit by new Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia is another indication of stronger political bonds between the two countries.
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team germany wins solar decathlon
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest after already snatching the title in Solar Decathlon’s last edition in 2007.
After 9 days and 10 contests, Team Germany reached the highest overall scores, closely followed by Team Illinois and Team California. Dubbed “the big, black monolith,” surPLUShome is almost entirely covered with photovoltaic panels that managed to generate 19 kilowatts during one day of test runs—more than twice as much as some other Solar Decathlon contestants.
The Solar Decathlon—a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house. More about Team Germany's house
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PROBLEM: Formulating with animal proteins has grown expensive amidst the increasing prices of egg and dairy ingredients.
SOLUTION: Egg and dairy extenders and replacers can be used to develop reduced-egg and reduced-dairy formulas without sacrificing flavor, function or quality.
Ask any baker today and he'll tell you just about everything costs more than it used to. Ingredients that were $0.85 per lb. now are $1.50 per lb. Staple ingredients, such as wheat and corn, have doubled or tripled in recent months. Prices of fats and oils also have increased, pushed higher because of high energy costs and pressure from biofuels. Proteins have fared no better. In the last year, egg and dairy ingredients both spiked at the same time, sending purchasers and researchers into the market to find alternatives. Dairy prices have settled in recent months, but no one expects them to return to where they were. Whole egg powder still costs more than $3.50 per lb., and dried whites cost more than $5.50 per lb. for industrial users. When egg and dairy prices are high, industrial bakeries look to egg and dairy extenders and replacements for a solution.
In 2002, Natural Products Inc. (NPI) introduced a new line of ingredients under the brand name Scotsman's Mill™. These blended ingredients are formulated to address the problem of unstable and rising costs of animal proteins. Each Scotsman's Mill ingredient is a blend of soy and other functional ingredients, which provide the functional equivalent of the animal protein they are replacing or extending. Each offers a lower pricing structure and amazing cost stability. The first ingredient in this line was BLUE100 Whole Egg Replacer. NPI has since added IVORY100 Dairy Replacer and NOVA1000 Egg White Extender.
“Recently, NPI developed an industrial angel cake formula using NOVA1000 Egg White Extender, which demonstrates the potential for savings,” says Jon Stratford, sales and marketing manager, NPI, Grinnell, Iowa. “It also gives bakers an excellent idea how simple it is to incorporate Scotsman's Mill ingredients into their products and begin to save a lot of money.”
NPI began with the following industrial angel cake formula: “In our first trial, we simply reduced the dry egg whites by 35 percent (to 21.7 g) and incorporated 11.7 g of NOVA1000,” Stratford says. “The batter was slightly more viscous than the control and the volume was reduced by approximately 15 percent. Bakers will experience similar results on the first bench top trials.”
NPI ended up replacing 40 percent of the egg whites with NOVA1000 by making the following minor adjustments: Increased the cake flour by 15 percent, boosted the leavening system by about 10 percent, increased the salt and vanilla, and added extra water. The final 40 percent replacement had the same volume as the control, less shrinkage after depanning, and no difference in eating qualities, including no off-flavors.
These modifications result in a significant savings and stabilization of costs for industrial bakers currently using dried egg whites. “Bakers can replace between 35 percent and 50 percent of egg whites in leavened white cakes and angel dry mixes,” Stratford says. “For every 2,000 lb. of egg whites replaced by NOVA1000, we estimate the savings to be more than $5,500, given today's dried egg white prices.”
Visit NPI's Web site at www.npisoy.com for photos and to download the complete formula.
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TBR News.org – August 15, 2008
“Perceiving an opportunity to make mischief with Russia, the American government, through the State Department, the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy and other groups that are partially, or wholly, supported by the American government, fomented the so-called “Rose Revolution” in the former Soviet state of Georgia with cash and weaponry. Mikhail Saskashvili, a highly unstable Georgian politician, was lobbied into office as the president of Georgia . He is essentially very erratic, given to wide emotional swings that can cause him to act in an often dangerous manner.
Once their picked man was in office, the United States, in conjunction with Israel, (many top Georgian political leaders are Jewish) moved to develop as Georgia as a possible base of military operations against Russia, or most especially, Iran;, (a bete noire of Israel), to secure the vital oil pipelines across that country and to further their policy of containment against Vladimir Putin’s growing strength in Russia.
A Georgia , being armed and trained by both the United States and Israel , was then put forward as an applicant for membership in NATO. As expected both in Washington and Tel Aviv, this enraged the Russians. The Bush people and their allies have been gleefully gathering into the American-controlled NATO fold as many of former Russian areas as they can, to further annoy Russia .
A fake “missile shield” program was instituted in some of these countries whose dual purpose was to allow American attack, not
defense, missiles to be stationed on territory very close to Russia but also to further warn Russia against growing too strong militarily or attempting to interdict their own oil and natural gas into countries, under American control, that Russia might have disputes with.
Eventually, with Putin’s upgrading of the Russian military machine, it became obvious to Washington that some kind of a relatively safe military confrontation would be necessary. It was always the public posture of Saskashvili that he intended to take physical possession of former Georgian territories, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, by force. These provinces had broken away from Georgia when it became independent of Russia in the 1990s and Saskashvili was determined not only to reincorporate them into Georgia again (entirely against the will of their inhabitants) but to punish them for their independence..
At the time of the Russia/Georgia conflict, there were over 2000 US military personnel and special forces in Georgia
, training and equipping Georgian units with American weaponry, over 1000 Israeli troops
, mainly intelligence units directed at Iran, over 150 CIA operatives, and many official intelligence surveillance units designed to spy on Russian and Iranian military and civilian radio, satellite and other internal communications. Given the usual poor security chronically evident in such American units, the Russians were early-on well aware of these hostile, but muted, anti-Russian activities.
The savage Georgian artillery and armored vehicle assault on South Ossetia was not unexpected by the Russian military and armored and armored infantry units had been quietly moved into North Ossetia . American attempts to search for a possible Russian military build-up in the area closest to South Ossetia were thwarted by the maintaining of strict radio silence imposed on all Russian military units and unmanned ‘Georgian’ reconnaissance drones, supplied by Israel , trying to conduct surveillance were promptly shot down, over Russian territory, by Russian military aircraft.
In essence, the Russians sat and waited for the attack and when the terrified residents of South Ossetia fled to Russian protection when the unannounced cannonading of civilian areas by the Georgian Army (during which Russian military peacekeepers were killed) was in progress, they entered South Ossetia in totally unexpected force, engaged the Georgians and drove them out of the country. The Georgians assumed that the Russians would halt at the border with Georgia but were horrified when Russian armored units crossed the border in hot pursuit. Initially shouting defiance, a chastened Saskashvili fled into hiding and then, foolishly, declared war on Russia (a fact seldom reported in the American media)
In essence, Russia occupied both South Ossetia and Abkhazia,, at the frantic requests of their occupants and then struck deep into Georgia , driving the Georgian military in headlong flight. Also fleeing were American and Israeli military, diplomatic and intelligence personnel, causing Saskashvili to shout that he was being abandoned.
The Americans, and the Israelis, at the higher levels in the field and in Washington, were well aware of the pending Georgian attacks and did nothing to either support or hinder them, but a possible military confrontation by American and Israeli military units with the Russians was completely impossible, hence the American and Israeli frantic withdrawals.
Once this exiting had been accomplished, but not before, both American and Israel shook their fists at Putin and made loud warning speeches to their constituents but in essence, Putin had trumped Bush’s ace and he and the war party in America had lost disastrous face. The hitherto monolithic image of the United States as a dominant world military force has been so shattered that a realignment of international thinking is quite certain. And though face-savings pacts and agreements have been signed, in the end, the Russians will retain a large number of well-armed and armored peacekeeping forces in the separatist region of South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, and the forces would have a broader mandate in South Ossetia . Further, there is no prohibition against these area petitioning to become a part of Russia . In point of fact, there is every indication that such requests will be made and certainly will be accepted. Then, any attack by Georgia would be a direct attack on Russia and in that event, the consequences would be monumental in nature.
And if the CIA doesn’t give Saskashvili a fatal heart attack, as they have done before in such circumstances, he will recover his wind and again try to attack Russia . But America cannot just write a shattered and militarily helpless Georgia off as an ally, because of the oil situation. An America , starved for oil and now in fierce competition for the world’s remaining supplies, has almost no choice but to try to secure the vital Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline that is routed across Georgian territory.. This pipeline was constructed, at enormous cost, to bypass Russia and deliver oil to western countries. Now, With Russia armed and militant, the security of this pipeline is in serious question and it is this situation, rather than sticking American tongues out at Putin, that will determine the future. And on a lesser note, Israel has been ousted from its premier anti-Iranian base and is making strong representations to Bush to support their return to Georgia again. ”
For more background on the recent Georgian/Russian flare-up see the Harry Brunser Report.
See our Inside the White House archive:
A Complete Copy of the Voice of the White House from TBR News April 18, 2004- December 29, 2005
Last updated 19/08/2008
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During Monday's Question Period, MP Dr. Carolyn Bennett asked Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq to explain "why (the Minister's budget) cuts target the population with the worst health outcomes in Canada, the aboriginal people of Canada?"
Usually this question would be taken as a normal part of the drama that plays out during Question Period, with the Health Minister offering some non-answer that superficially addresses the Member's leading question. But this time things were different because it just so happens that Minister Aglukkaq is of Aboriginal heritage.
Enter the politics of race, ethnicity, and political representation in Canada.
Bennett's question is of pressing importance to the health and well-being of fellow Canadians and one of this country's founding peoples. Yet, before getting to the heart of her non-answer, Minister Aglukkaq felt compelled to shoot back, "Mr. Speaker, as an aboriginal person I take that type of line of questioning to be unacceptable." In other words, she pulled the proverbial "race card."
While our Philosophy 101 professors would be proud of our ability to point out the latently ad hominem character of Bennett's question which, figuratively speaking, plays the (wo)man instead of playing the ball (or at least does both), insinuating that Bennett's question was a racially or culturally inappropriate act is quite a stretch.
After all, Bennett is not only a family physician by trade, but she is also the Liberal's Critic for Aboriginal Affairs. Her position in her party makes it her public duty to demand answers for what she and Aboriginal communities see as a troubling line of deep cuts to the funding of Aboriginal disease prevention and health promotion programs.
If we take seriously the logic underlying the bizarre nature of Minister Aglukkaq's reaction, not only are we forbidden to question the Health Minister on her decisions related to aboriginal communities (merely because the Minister is an aboriginal person herself), but we are also barred from questioning Minister Bev Oda (Minister of International Cooperation) on Canada's record on the global protection and promotion of women's rights. Why? Well, because Oda is a woman, of course...
Does that make sense to you? Ugh, me neither.
Indeed, it would be interesting and probably most comical to hear Minister Aglukkaq fully explain why her being an aboriginal person makes it impermissible for Members of Parliament to ask her questions on her ministry's decisions related to aboriginal peoples. However, this exchange between the Minister and Bennett exposes something of greater significance to Canadian politics, namely, some of the issues associated with being a visible minority or aboriginal person while serving in public office. It is the latter that deserves more attention.
Our country features a constitutional and civic commitment to a kind of multiculturalism that is (in principle) free to express itself in all its dynamism and complexities, to the extent that such expressions do not violate the principles of equality, freedom and democracy. However, such latitude is not equally afforded to the Canadian politicians who physically embody this multicultural heritage and commitment.
I say this because the standard rule in contemporary Canadian politics is that if you are a visible minority or aboriginal person serving in Parliament or in a provincial legislature, you are, for political purposes, perpetually susceptible to having your cultural, racial or ethnic background unscrupulously used against you and/or the multicultural communities with whom you share a common ethnic heritage.
Let me explain. At present, Canadian understandings of the relationship between race, ethnicity and democracy are such that the prevailing mindset holds that a visible minority or aboriginal politician is absolutely incapable of discriminating against their own or other underrepresented communities by virtue of their minority status.
As such, when a politician who is a visible minority or aboriginal person happens to make public decisions or take policy positions that have a disproportionately adverse impact on citizens who share that politician's cultural background, we hesitate and often totally avoid asking legitimately critical questions. Instead, by way of example, we tend to think in the following way: A black MP's support for policies that adversely impact black Canadians cannot ever be discriminatory, because the member him or herself is black.
In other words, it seems that we have become so obsessed with maintaining shallow appearances of multiculturalism that we have misguidedly succumbed to the false logic that discrimination, prejudice and racism are the exclusive preserve of white people. If that were the case, the concepts of "uncle tom," or "self-hating" Jew, Native or Indian would not be as well-known as they presently are.
I am not at all suggesting that Minister Aglukkaq's heritage is consciously being manipulated to hamper critique on her ministry's policies respecting disease prevention and health promotion for aboriginal peoples. And I pray that I am not being misunderstood to be insinuating that Minister Aglukkaq is in any way a "self-hating Indian," as the deplorable term goes.
My aim is only to draw attention to the fact that visible minority and aboriginal politicians rightly or wrongly have to remain acutely aware of the race-based perceptions that are bound to arise when their decisions disproportionately affect people who share the ethnic background of the political representative.
In light of this episode, it does not seem that Minister Aglukkaq was ready for this political reality, as she took Bennett's question personal and by reflex sought to delegitimize it by suggesting that some line of the racially appropriate. This problematic invocation of the Minister's aboriginal heritage does much to hurt future legitimate claims of discriminatory action against aboriginal peoples and visible minorities across Canada.
In order for Canadian democracy to continue to flourish, we cannot be made afraid to ask a politician tough questions about the decisions they make when those decisions involve or deeply affect people from the same cultural or ethnic community as that representative. Regardless of her intentions, Minister Aglukkaq's reaction stimulates this fear. If we let such a trend persist we will quickly undermine pursuits towards fully actualizing a meaningfully multicultural society.
I laud Bennett for her question. She boldly countered the silencing instincts that usually kick in when addressing political representatives from visible minority or aboriginal backgrounds.
For the sake of all fellow Canadians, I hope that Bennett's stance can be looked to as not only an encouraging example of how to fight against the chilling effect of the "race card" in Canadian politics, but also a demonstration of why it can be most important for us to do so.
With our ever increasingly multicultural society, having our politicians (regardless of their race or ethnicity) pull the race card to deflect questions about their public record is not something that should ever be taken lightly. In fact, if we don't habituate ourselves to challenging such political gamesmanship, we leave ourselves vulnerable to politicians who won't hesitate to play us, the Canadian public, with a stacked deck.
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Cheating for Dummies: Your guide to smarter NCAA rule-breaking
Scandals at Oregon, etc. make it clear coaches have forgotten how to cheat
The simplest but most important rule schools must follow: always pay cash
Consider these seven rules a public service to dishonest coaches everywhere
Reading the nuclear bomb Yahoo! Sports dropped on the Oregon football program July 1, I couldn't help but think of Jerry Springer. Last year, the White Trash Whisperer appeared on Comedy Central's roast of David Hasselhoff. Comedian Jeff Ross, during his roasting of his fellow roasters, brought up the most embarrassing moment of Springer's former life as mayor of Cincinnati. "Who the hell pays a hooker with a personal check?" Ross said. "That's like -- paying a hooker with a personal check."
Oregon's program sits in the NCAA's cross hairs because the athletic department paid scouting service operator/recruiting middleman Will Lyles -- who essentially admitted to Yahoo! Sports that he acted as a street agent -- with a $25,000 check. North Carolina's football program has a date with the NCAA's Committee on Infractions because former defensive tackle Marvin Austin got too descriptive on Twitter. Jim Tressel is currently unemployed because of a series of e-mails. Bruce Pearl isn't coaching basketball at Tennessee because someone snapped a photo of a recruit at Pearl's house, which was inconvenient since Pearl told the NCAA the recruit hadn't been at his house. USC's depth chart is thinner than Kate Moss because no one bothered to pay off the wannabe agents who kept Reggie Bush and his family living the good life while Bush played for the Trojans. All these cases point to a serious crisis in college sports.
Coaches and administrators have forgotten how to cheat. These things used to be taken care of with a few hundreds rolled into a handshake and a job for mom at the tractor factory down the road from the school. Now, it's amateur hour.
This isn't rocket science, people. The NCAA has what amounts to subpoena power over current athletes and current university employees. That's it. The NCAA's rules don't apply to anyone else. That opens an almost infinite array of cheating opportunities completely undetectable by the NCAA's enforcement cops. If you get caught cheating, you got caught because you're incredibly stupid.
So, as a public service to dishonest coaches everywhere, I'm offering these seven simple rules that will guarantee your clandestine activities will never rise above the level of message-board wives tale. Just think of it as NCAA Cheating for Dummies.
This should seem simple enough. Cash is mostly untraceable. As long as it isn't deposited in unusually large quantities into the account of a player or a player's parent, the NCAA will not find it. Paper trails lead to trouble. When Oregon coach Chip Kelly agreed to pay Lyles for a bogus scouting service, Kelly probably didn't know that every University of Oregon transaction is published on the state of Oregon's website. He knows now. So don't use checks, wire transfers, gift certificates or any other form of currency. Don't even make anonymous donations to a handler's 501(c)3 charitable foundation, even though I know you basketball cheaters do this all the time. Simply use some of that green paper with Ben Franklin's face on it, and the NCAA will be none the wiser as long as you follow my other rules.
No major college football or basketball coach should have an e-mail address. If he does, he should never use it. That way, when a do-gooder such as former Ohio State player Chris Cicero sends an e-mail about the star quarterback and star receiver trading memorabilia for cash and tattoos, the head coach can be completely honest when he tells the NCAA: "I never saw that." If Tressel had ignored his e-mail during his Ohio State tenure, he'd still have a job. This rule applies to players, too. If an agent gives one of your players a South Beach shopping spree or a VIP night at some club that charges $12 for a Bud Light, make sure your players know better than to narrate in real time the receipt of impermissible benefits on Twitter or Facebook.
Keep the circle tight, and pay everyone in the circle. Why did Alabama get caught buying Albert Means from his high school coach? Because an assistant who was part of the scheme didn't get his cut and ran to a newspaper. Why did USC get savaged by the Committee on Infractions? Because Bush was too greedy to pay Lloyd Lake the $300,000 he owed him, and the geniuses in charge at Heritage Hall decided that instead of passing the hat among the boosters and paying the man, they'd take their chances with the NCAA. Millions of dollars, 30 lost scholarships and two lost bowl games later, any able-bodied student at USC has a chance of cracking the Trojans' depth chart this season. Why did Lyles flip on Oregon and spill his guts to Yahoo! Sports? Because he was supposed to get another $25,000, and Oregon didn't pay. Always, always, always pay everyone. Which brings us to rule No. 4.
I really can't stress this enough. If you deal with middlemen, one probably will blackmail you at some point. If you've followed these rules, you can blackmail him right back. The average street agent isn't going to report thousands in cash payments on his Form 1040. The NCAA can't subpoena a street agent's bank records and major purchase history, but the IRS can. Remind your middleman that while you may lose your job, you'll take him down with you with a strategically placed call to the 202 area code. An IRS investigation would allow the NCAA to piggyback and obtain public records to use against the street agent, so on top of the threat of fines and jail time, the street agent's business would dry up as other coaches shy away from another scandal waiting to happen. Besides, you won't be in hock to the middleman forever. The NCAA's statute of limitations is only four years.
Butch Davis' name doesn't appear in the NCAA's notice of allegations against North Carolina despite what appears to be widespread corruption in the football program. That's because Davis -- as far as we know -- built enough walls to keep himself from getting tarred. Young assistants, remember this and you'll go far. The head coach never meets the money guy. He never meets the handler. He never meets the agent runners. All business is conducted through assistants and lower-level employees. That way, no one can count phone calls between the coach and the handler on phone lines whose records are public because of state open records laws. We know exactly how many times Tressel corresponded with Terrelle Pryor's handler, Ted Sarniak, and we know exactly how many times Oregon's Kelly called or texted Lyles. Head coaches, whatever you do, DON'T SEND THE HANDLER A HANDWRITTEN NOTE THANKING HIM FOR "ORCHESTRATING" SOMETHING. I'm looking at you, Chip Kelly. Follow this rule, and you can escape a scandal by sacrificing an assistant or an athletic department employee. Just remember the sacrificial lambs always must get paid. How do you pay the sacrificial lamb? See rule Nos. 1 and 4.
Coaches, the NCAA knows about your bat phone. (Your wife probably does, too.) This is the personal phone you use when you want to get around the NCAA's worthless rule against texting recruits. If you get called to the carpet by the enforcement staff, they'll request the records for your work phone and your bat phone. That's why you need third, fourth, fifth and sixth phones. If you must violate Rule No. 5, take a lesson from The Wire and employ a disposable, untraceable-by-the-NCAA prepaid phone to call your favorite bagman, handler or fixer. To make sure this phone isn't traceable, see rule No. 7.
Because who the hell pays a street agent with a university-issued check? That's like -- paying a street agent with a university-issued check.
Greening gives Senators 2OT win over Penguins in Game 3
Bruins overpower Rangers, lead series 2-0
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The Zillow blog mentions that with the slow real estate market, the option to rent is a "good option for many." This market is creating more investor opportunities with buying rental properties, so as a renter, be aware of your rights. Check out the Fair Housing Act to understand the law regarding discrimination. If your application is turned down, find out why.
Read up on the state's landlord and tenant laws so you can be clear as to what's required if you want to break a lease early, or rent an apartment now.
Consider negotiating for start rent dates and security deposits. Educate yourself on what you can and cannot negotiate for. Get in writing all the agreed upon repairs to be done to the apartment or home you are renting.
And always, communicate clearly and respectfully with the landlord or property manager.
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Baby Cured Of HIV
After being placed on antiretroviral medications beginning 30 hours after its birth, a child born HIV positive was found to be completely free of the disease two and a half years later, offering hope for a potential cure for the roughly 330,000 infants born with the infection each year.
“Babies really seem to bounce back from things.”
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“That’s great! Now I can stop telling my baby that if he gets HIV he’s a goner.”
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“Infants these days have it too easy.”
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For most of Paul Ramirez's life, only those closest to him knew that he lived with a serious brain disorder.
Ramirez, of Pasadena, California, found out he had epilepsy when he was 22. Now 50, he's had seven grand mal seizures, which make him lose consciousness. Still, he often went years without having a seizure at all.
"I kept it private from extended members of my family. I never told my friends. I was ashamed of it," Ramirez said.
That changed in June. Ramirez was waiting to see his neurologist after a recent seizure. The doctor would help determine whether Ramirez should continue driving.
In the waiting room, Ramirez stumbled across a CNN.com story on his iPad. The story, published after U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson had a seizure while driving, explained how common seizures are and the reasons they can occur. It featured people living with epilepsy who talked about the impact the disorder had on their lives.
Reading the piece marked a turning point in Ramirez's life.
"It was the first time I had ever read a story that actually mirrored my own life," he said. "It was inspiring. It was encouraging. It gave me hope that there were others out there (like me)."
Ramirez immediately sent an e-mail to Nathan Jones, who was featured in the story. By the time the doctor appointment was over, Jones had responded. Ramirez and Jones, project coordinator at the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles, soon became fast friends, sharing stories over coffee and lunch.
A week later, Ramirez went to the foundation's office and met with the staff. He wrote an e-mail to his family and friends, telling them about his journey and his struggles with epilepsy. He also told them the Department of Motor Vehicles was looking into whether he should keep his license.
He was overwhelmed with support.
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Whenever someone finds themselves in a correctional facility they often do not have a resource that assists them in becoming better citizens. For the inmates at the Sampson Correctional Center, services are provided by the Community Resource Council (CRC) to help them be better family members and a responsible, law-abiding citizen.
The CRC is a volunteer group of church representatives that help provide assistance in stimulating positive citizen and community involvement and promoting volunteerism at correctional facilities across North Carolina. Chick Gancer is the current president of the CRC here in Sampson.
Gancer shared that the CRC began here in 1990.
“In addition to decorating the chapel that first year, we also donated books, clothing, shoes and food whenever the administration requested our help. We still do this today,” explained Gancer. “The community churches are our most important helper as they give money for our worthy projects such as the spring gospel sing and ice cream social for the inmates, employee appreciation meal and the annual Christmas dinner.”
The objectives of the CRC is to raise funds for these projects and others that will not be funded by the state. Gancer shared that the chapel was built at the Sampson Correctional Center 19 years ago from funds contributed by members of the community.
Over the past few years, the CRC has been very ambitious in taking on the project of refurbishing the chapel.
“After we appealed to our community for donations and funds from the CRC, carpet was donated, pews were cushioned and window dressings were put up. The chapel is a multi-denominational facility that is used by many of the 450 inmates incarcerated at the local facility.
Gancer stressed that it is important to remember that 98 percent of those who are incarcerated are released at some time. “It is our primary goal to affect a positive link between our community and the inmate population. There are many possibilities for service, from teaching skills to a group of inmates and spending time in prayer with an individual inmate to helping as a member of this council to raise money and plan projects. We encourage others to join us to help others,” remarked Gancer.
Milley Brewington is the newest member of the council and the only female.
“I feel like I am the little sister to this group and to the inmates we serve. I enjoy serving with my brothers in Christ,” Brewington asserted.
Other council member shared their thoughts and comments about the work they do as CRC volunteers, too, with all talking about the impact they hope to make.
The Rev. Louie Boykin stated that he had been on the council for five years and expressed his admiration for those who had previously served. He also said the love these members show to their fellow man are examples to follow. “God looks beyond the faults of the inmates and sees their need. I look forward to the joy and excitement shown by the inmates at these special projects and particularly at the Christmas dinner. Even though the inmates are in…God is not locked out, and he can and will reach out to them,” commented Boykin.
The Rev. Garland Mayes said it is simply rewarding to know that he can make a difference in the life of someone who has been incarcerated. “Jesus said, love thy neighbor as thy self. This is what we are attempting to do here with the inmates.”
“Anytime you can do something to help someone and you know they appreciate it, it makes you feel good. You can’t show to much appreciation. God chose me to do this work and has opened the door of opportunity for me to serve him in this ministry,” remarked Leroy King.
Willie Bennett expressed that being a council member was a worthwhile program and was rewarding as he worked with the inmates regardless of their individual circumstances. “I am overwhelmed with joy at the opportunity to serve my fellow man. To be a part of Christ and show the inmates and staff the love of Christ demonstrates and continues to show that in spite of ourselves, he is able to do great things through us.”
Several inmates shared their appreciation for the help show to them by the CRC. One inmate said that the CRC was made up of very special people. Another stated that the Christmas dinner was so very special because it was the only time when they got food other than what was provided by the center. “It is so nice to know that we have not been forgotten especially at this special time of the year,” expressed one inmate.
Gancer also shared that 300 New Testaments were given to the inmates by the Gideons during the Christmas dinner this year. Appreciation from the CRC was expressed to Donna Williamson, assistant superintendent in charge of prison program and to Tyrone Owens who coordinates CRC for all they do to assist the CRC is serving the inmates.
If anyone would like to assist or join the volunteers of the CRC they may contact any of the following volunteers: Chick Gancer, First United Methodist Church, 385-2306; Rev. Louis Boykin, Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church, Elizabethtown 990-1892; Rev. Garland Mayes, Union Grove FW Baptist, 990-4928; Leroy King, Union Grove FW Baptist, 919-621-9006; Roscoe Howard, Mt. Pleasant Baptist, 990-3335; William Bennett, Mt. Pleasant Baptist, 305-5012; Rev. Gerald Underwood, Andrews Chapel Baptist, 990-9693; Milley Brewington, New Bethel Baptist, 337-4765; Rev. Joe Evans, Christ Missionary Baptist, 214-5986.
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Sample upload allows for audio files to be uploaded from your computer to the Audiotool app. As well as this it is also possible to record from your computer microphone and/or to make a sample from any of the content present in the timeline of whatever Audiotool arrangement you are working in. You must be logged in to upload a sample, you can then go file > import sample to open the sample editor.
Once you have clicked on import sample the sample editor will then appear in the centre of the screen.
Across the top right of the sample editor it says import from beside this are three buttons, this is where you decide what are going to import, an audio file from your computer's hard drive, record from microphone or bounce from the timeline.
Import from file means that you can import a sample from your computer's hard drive. The sample editor will take a range of different file formats, MP3, WAV, AIF and more. Samples must have a sample rate of 44100 kHz and must be no longer than 30 seconds in length. NOTE: The sample editor will take a wide range of formats but please note that it will not take all version of all formats, for example it will not take compressed WAV files or any sample that does not have a sample rate of 44100 kHz.
Once you hit import from file a dialogue box will appear reminding you that you will be harming the Audiotool community if you upload copyright material.
Once you have confirmed that you will not upload any copyright material a browser window will appear where you can choose which file you want to upload.
Once you have selected a file for upload it will be loaded into the sample editor.
Import from Mic allows you to record from your computer's Microphone (or any microphone which is inputed into your computer). Like the other samples you are only able to record 30 seconds of Audio. There is the option to record with a metronome (metronome will not be audible when played back) and you can also open the Flash audio preferences as well as this it is also possible to preview the recording before hitting Use and loading it into the sample editor. When you are ready to record just hit the big record button and thats it.
Bounce from timeline allows for samples to be created from any of the content found in the timeline of whatever Audiotool arrangement you are working in. If you are bouncing from another users arrangement the sample must have a public license.
As default Audiotool will bounce whatever is between the timeline's IN/OUT markers but it is also possible to manually set the time-codes if you know exactly from where to where you want to bounce. You also have the option to pre-record two bars that will be automatically added to your recording. This is useful since it means that it will give you some extra space to play with when editing your sample.
The sample editor is where the sample will be loaded to once a sample has been imported from file, from mic or when bouncing from the timeline. The sample editor allows you to trim your sample and name and tag the sample so it can be found easily in the list later on Samples can be reloaded into the sample editor at any time, before or after they are synced with the database. Samples must be named and tagged in order to be uploaded, confirming that your samples does not infringe any copyright is also essential before uploading a sample.
Once you have hit done and the sample editor disappears your sample can be found in the sample pin in the menu panel. The bin contains all samples that are used in the arrangement as well as all samples which have been uploaded during the current session. Once in the bin the sample can be dragged to the timeline or the desktop and used the same way as any other sample from the library BUT the sample has not yet been uploaded to the Audiotool database, meaning that the sample has not yet been 100% uploaded to Audiotool. This has been done so that you can experiment with samples before deciding to keep them forever since once the samples have been synced with the database you will not be able to delete them, you will be able to modify them and re-sync them later but you will not be able to delete your samples once they have been synced with the database. If you close the document before syncing the samples the samples will be deleted.
As mentioned above, once a sample has been uploaded using the sample editor it will be sent to your sample bin. The sample bin is specific to the arrangement you are working in, the sample bin contains all samples present in your current arrangement as well as all of the samples that have been uploaded during your current session. Beside the sample in the bin there are 3 little buttons, these buttons allow for the sample to be reloaded into the sample editor, loaded into the projects sample bin or synced with the database.
Samples can also be synced from the file menu at the top of the Audiotool window, also if session is saved and there were unsynced samples in the bin the samples will automatically be synced with the database.
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Some photos of Lao people in and around Luang Prabang. Photos 1-9 were taken in 2005, while photos 10-20 were taken in the year 2000. You can see that Laotians now dress in a more westernised way compared to five years ago, when the country way less open than today. Most women however still wear the traditional sarong. Photos 19 and 20 were taken in April 2000, at the beginning of the dry season, when lots of children wait on the streets and throw water on passers-by.
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Helmet-to-helmet calls should be reviewed
The NFL has a serious problem: There are too many misinterpretations regarding how defenders can hit offensive players.
On Monday, Ravens safety Bernard Pollard(notes) became the latest player questionably penalized with a personal foul when he was flagged for an apparent helmet-to-helmet hit during the third quarter against Jacksonville. Like many of the recent calls on similar plays, Pollard’s penalty came at a critical juncture.
Early in the second half with Jacksonville leading 6-0, Pollard was flagged on a third-and-7 play. Instead of having to punt following an incompletion, Jacksonville kept the ball, took another six minutes off the clock and drove for a field goal and a nine-point lead. In an eventual 12-7 victory for the Jaguars, that field goal and the extra six minutes Jacksonville milked off the clock were crucial.
While replays show that Pollard’s helmet may have slightly touched the bottom of Deji Karim’s(notes) headgear, there was nothing flagrant about the safety’s actions. Pollard did not spear, launch or lead with the head. However, because of the NFL’s heavy emphasis on protecting defenseless players, too much power over the outcome of a game has been subsequently been put on a call that is virtually impossible to distinguish in live action.
Don’t get this wrong: The problem is not with the officials themselves. Calling this play is harder than interpreting a charge/block call in basketball. If you blink or are viewing the play at the wrong angle, you can get it wrong. That’s perfectly human.
This is also not to say that the emphasis is wrong. The league is correct in pushing defensive players to use better technique by leading with the shoulder rather than the head. However, this call needs to be subject to review. Yes, it’s adding another play to the seemingly endless list of situations that are reviewed, but this one is too important because it usually happens in too critical a moment. Just as it did Monday night, this usually happens in a critical third-and-long situation in close games where a blitz is called. Not only is the automatic first down a killer for the defense, but the 15 yards that goes with it is huge.
Practically the exact same play happened in the Oct. 10 Monday night game between Chicago and Detroit, when Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher(notes) was called for a 15-yard penalty. That play contributed to a touchdown drive for the Lions that put them ahead in the second half and gave them momentum.
The next day, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about the play. He said he had seen it. When asked if he was troubled about whether the league had gone too far in interpreting the rule, he started his answer by chuckling and then said, in so many words “no.” For Goodell, his viewpoint of these plays is mostly through the prism of safety rather than the impact they have on the outcome of games.
In fact, during ESPN’s postgame coverage Monday night, studio analyst Trent Dilfer (who is quickly becoming one of the best in the business) did a terrific breakdown of three such bad calls from this weekend’s games. The Pollard play was one of the three; all of them came in games decided by less than a touchdown.
Dilfer, a former quarterback who said he suffered 14 concussions in his career and certainly respects the need for safety, concluded that the call needs to be fixed. In a league where there is so much riding on each contest (playoff positioning and jobs for starters), the league can’t afford to have a blown interpretation of this call mean so much.
While there is a reasonable argument to be made that any call is subject to interpretation (holding by offensive linemen is a constant complaint among fans), the problem here is that the combination of 15 yards coming at such a critical point makes this call a game-changer. Leaving games up to interpretation isn’t good for the league.
As the winless Dolphins prepare to start another coaching search – with their eyes apparently on former Super Bowl-winning coaches Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden – Miami fans should be aware that the feeling is mutual. Both Cowher and Gruden have quietly planted seeds that they would like to return to coaching and are more than open to listening to an offer from Miami owner Stephen Ross. According to two sources in and around the team, former Dolphins quarterback and current CBS studio analyst Dan Marino has been telling Dolphins management that Cowher, an analyst partner, is geared up for a return. Cowher is also close with Ross confidant Carl Peterson. As for Gruden, he was in Miami for a Monday night game in the opening week and told more than a few folks that he’ll be ready to go next offseason.
The worst thing about watching Miami coach Tony Sparano endure the bad start that will eventually result in his demise is that he’s being left to take all the heat himself. Whether it’s Ross, general manager Jeff Ireland or former head of football operations Bill Parcells, no one else who is responsible for this mess is facing the music. Ross barely knows how to address the media, let alone answer questions about how the team will get better. Ireland hasn’t spoken publicly since April and talks roughly twice a year, ranking him as one of the three or four least talkative personnel executives in football.
[ Dolphins players: Doomed by by personnel choices vs. Tim Tebow ]
As for Parcells, who is working for ESPN, his effort to distance himself from the mess he created in Miami is disgusting. Parcells could have done a lot to take pressure off Sparano and even give him some help in the locker room this season (the players have all but quit on Sparano). In addition to Parcells’ biggest mistake of taking Jake Long(notes) over Matt Ryan(notes) in 2008, he drafted quarterback Pat White(notes) in 2009 and chose to select pluggers on defense and the offensive line (defensive lineman Jared Odrick(notes), linebacker Koa Misi(notes) and guard John Jerry(notes)) in the 2010 draft rather than, say, take a dynamic offensive threat such as tight end Jimmy Graham(notes). How badly did the Dolphins miss on Graham? The guy played in the same home stadium as the Dolphins.
However, instead of those guys standing up and taking the blame next to Sparano, they continue to hide. And you wonder why the Dolphins organization is so lost.
Bolts’ big weakness
Between the awful time management at the end of the loss to the New York Jets and the postgame whining from the likes of cornerback Quentin Jammer(notes), the San Diego Chargers have a serious problem they better address quickly. Their lack of mental toughness remains a huge problem. The main problem is coach Norv Turner, who is one of the league leaders at blaming other people or finding reasons why things go wrong. The sad part of that is Turner is a brilliant offensive play-caller, but when it comes to focusing and directing players, he comes up way short.
“I love 90, maybe even 95 percent of what Norv does,” one of Turner’s former quarterbacks said on Monday. “But when the pressure is on and something goes wrong, it totally sticks in his mind and distracts him. He won’t say it out loud, but he completely loses track sometimes of what he’s supposed to do next.”
“You saw it in the playoffs against the Jets two years ago and you saw it again on Sunday. Norv got completely out of his mind in the second half with the Jets’ adjustments. By the final drive, he and [quarterback] Philip [Rivers] were completely out of synch. They had 89 seconds left at the end of the game and they ran five plays. Five? You’re not talking about a mediocre play-caller and an inexperienced quarterback. These guys know what they’re doing. They should have been able to run seven or eight plays easy and Norv knows it.”
1. Green Bay Packers (7-0): Aaron Rodgers’(notes) stat line (125.7 rating, 20 TD, 3 INT) looks like something from a 7-on-7 tournament – not the NFL.
2. New England Patriots (5-1): They have won eight straight (and nine of the previous 10) in games played after the bye week.
3. San Francisco 49ers (5-1): Strange as it sounds, they could have the division sewn up by the time they beat St. Louis on Dec. 4.
4. Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2): Critical question this week is whether they have found a way to stop the spread offense.
5. Baltimore Ravens (4-2): It’s hard to believe in this team when QB Joe Flacco(notes) regresses the way he did against Jacksonville.
28. Jacksonville Jaguars (2-5): Nice win, but the offense is still a complete mess and it’s going to take a miracle for Jack Del Rio to stay.
29. Minnesota Vikings (1-6): Good opening act for rookie QB Christian Ponder(notes). Now we get to see Ponder and Cam Newton(notes) on display together.
30. Miami Dolphins (0-6): Looking back at it, that Tim Tebow(notes) miracle might do the Dolphins well in delivering Andrew Luck.
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Iranian and Pakistani Christians Freed From Imprisonment
From The New American
In both Iran and Pakistan, important victories have been won in the conflict between Christian faith and Islamic persecution. In Iran, after three years in prison awaiting execution for the “crime” of converting to Christianity, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has been freed. In Pakistan, a young girl wrongly accused of burning pages of the Koran has been released from prison and the Muslim cleric who planted false evidence has been arrested.
According to a report from FoxNews.com, the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — a watchdog group which has long championed Nadarkhani’s cause — announced over the weekend that Nadarkani has been released from his imprisonment after his charges were “lowered to evangelizing to Muslims, which carried a three-year sentence.” Since the 32-year-old Nadarkhani had already spent three years of his life in prison awaiting execution, he was released for “time served.”
Nadakhani was charged with “apostasy” — leaving the Islamic religion — on the basis of his conversion to Christianity. But the primary reason he became the victim of the animosity of the Islamic Republic of Iran was his service as the pastor of a 400-member house church movement: He was arrested in 2009 when he was trying to officially register the church with the government. After his arrest, Nadarkhani was taken before a judge and commanded to either renounce Christianity or face the death penalty. When he did not submit, he was sentenced to death in 2010.
When Iran faced international outrage over its intention to execute a Christian for his faith, the regime sought to sow confusion regarding the case. As reported previously for The New American, Pastor Nadarkhani not only faced a sentence of death for his beliefs, but the Iranian regime spread false accusations of rape and “Zionism” against him in an attempt to distract the Western media from the real reason for his plight. In some circles, those efforts almost worked:
For example, an article for the International Business Times reported both the false accusations against Nadarkhani, and the government’s denial of its intention to execute him.…
The author of International Business Times then declared that “If Nadarkhani were indeed guilty of rape and of Zionism, which could be the treasonous crime of spying for Israel, the death penalty would not be off the table. Both convictions are subject to capital punishment in Iran, and the death penalty is mandatory in rape cases unless the victim forgives the rapist.”
However, given the sudden appearance of these charges against Nadarkhani, long after he had, in fact, actually been convicted for apostasy — and not rape or espionage — treating the Iranian regime’s charges as anything other than a smokescreen does a disservice to the persecuted pastor.
When Nadarkhani was once again brought before a judge on September 8, supporters of the imprisoned pastor worried that the regime was preparing new false charges. As reported by FoxNews:
Nadarkhani was originally called to Saturday’s [September 8] hearing to answer to “charges brought against him,” leading to speculation that the new charges from the Iranian Supreme Court could be for a security-based crime, a charge often handed down to cover-up prisoners being held and sentenced on faith-based charges.
“While we praise the release of Pastor Youcef, we must recognize that Iran felt obligated to save face among its people and continue its pattern of suppressing religious freedom with intimidation tactics,” Tiffany Barrans, a legal director for ACLJ said to FoxNews.com.
“International attention to this matter saved this man’s life, but we must not forget the human right of freedom of religion includes the right to freedom of expression.”
And, in a country given to “public protests” which serve the agenda of the government, it is by no means certain that Nadarkhani has escaped the wrath of the Islamic Republic.
In the case of the girl who faced false accusations in another nation known for being a paragon of Islamic “justice” — Pakistan — her three-week imprisonment has now ended with a helicopter flight away from the prison in which she was being held: Even after it had been proven that the charges against her were false, the authorities apparently determined they could not protect her from Muslim militants unless she was spirited away from her jail cell. Her identity has thus far been concealed, on account of her age, but her youth was no protection from facing the false accusation that she had burned pages of the Koran — and facing imminent death on the basis of that accusation. According to the Associated Press, her release signals that she is one step closer to being completely cleared of the false accusation:
The release a day after a judge granted her bail is another step closer to ending an episode that has focused an uncomfortable spotlight on Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws, which can result in life in prison or even death for defendants. Many critics say the laws are misused to wage vendettas or target Pakistan’s vulnerable minorities like the Christians. …
Her lawyers say they will now push to have the case against her thrown out entirely.
“Her parents were with her when she was freed from the jail, and she has been taken to a safer place,” said a member of her legal team, Tahir Naveed Chaudhry.
The girl’s release came a day after a judge in Islamabad granted bail to the mentally challenged girl, a move hailed by the human right activists and representatives of Pakistan’s minority Christian community. Bail is rarely granted in blasphemy cases, and the decision signals a degree of sympathy that could result in all the charges being dropped.
Now, the cleric who planted evidence implicating the girl has been exposed by a member of his mosque; if that individual had kept silent — or joined the hundreds of Muslims who had surrounded her home, demanding “justice” — she might very well have faced ongoing prosecution for the false charge against her.
The absurdity of the entire case highlights the inherent injustice of trying non-Muslims on the basis of Islamic sharia law. The notion that an adult could be prosecuted — even judicially murdered — by an Islamic regime for “blasphemy” is absurd. That a mentally impaired teenage girl faced such a threat on the basis of a false accusation is appalling. When the charge was initially made, the child’s home was surrounded by hundreds of angry Muslims; in such an environment of hostility, intimidation, and violence, the contrast of creeds could not be greater.
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Gabriel was a 9 month old little boy, loved and adored by his Shona-speaking mother and out-of-work father; chubby and doted on. One evening he pulled a full paraffin lamp onto himself, the fuel and flames engulfed his body and worse still, as he opened his mouth to scream, he inhaled the flames. His whole body was burned, including his chin, lips, mouth and throat. He could not suck to breast feed, his lips are badly blistered, his chin exposed flesh and there was no point on his body where the doctor could put in an intra venous drip to give him fluids and nutrients. Jenny Mortleman, a burns ward volunteer of one month at Mutare Hospital in Zimbabwe, supplied a mini-medical starter pack and two days later demand to know why he has not been dressed and medicated.
One of the nurses told her that this was the procedure for this kind of burn. Two more days passed and on the third day that she went in, she saw he had been dressed, his whole body like a mummy, even his hands and feet. He was grunting in pain and his eyes kept rolling. She felt totally helpless. His mum desperately dribbled liquid off a spoon into his mouth, to try to rehydrate him. Through a translator she told Jenny how traumatic the ‘dressing’ process was and how she had collapsed during the experience.
Jenny wrote: “Like a coward (and a mother) I refused to even begin to imagine what it must have been like for her as the nurses took her baby, stripped off old clothing, burnt flesh, washed his raw body in betadine, covered him in cream and then dressed him. All of this on a single dose of over the counter Paracetamol.”
Burdened, she was unable to sleep at night, thinking of this little cherub, tossing and turning, feelings of anger at the injustice of it all, feelings of total desperation, questioning God and his reason. Then it came to her, they needed to use a syringe to feed Gabriel, like one does an animal that has lost its mother, so on Saturday she took some milk and yogurt to the hospital to at least try it out.
The mother and other mothers on the ward complained how Gabriel had cried all the previous night and all that day. They tried the syringe thing and laughed together as they realised how starving this little soul was as he consumed each drop placed between his lips. Jenny said; “He was so beautiful I thought he was a girl!”
With no spillage on his raw chin and in a position where the liquid could run freely down his throat, he could not get enough. And the best part was the wind he passed in satisfaction!
On Sunday night Jenny had fed the baby liquid egg, milk and sugar from a syringe. He seemed agitated and was moving his one arm up and down a lot. She thought that his bandages were bothering him as they were badly strapped and he was in pain.
On Monday August 27th 2007, a little angel Gabriel died.
The doctor said that he had inhaled the paraffin fumes and his lungs were damaged. Jenny wrote: “His breathing seemed fine to me. But then I am only a mother and have no medical experience.”
When she arrived at the ward that morning, she held his broken mother and they sobbed together. It was all rather bewildering. She wrote: “I am doing this ‘blind’ and this is my first loss. . . . “
Jenny is a single mum of three, working full day, fitting in the burns children and their requirements, and only being able to email when there is electricity. These days in Zimbabwe, that’s not often!
Before Gabriel, there were other stresses. Jenny wrote:
“Yesterday my heart wept ~ In trying to catch up with the doctor on rounds duty, I went to the hospital at 9am, not a usual time for me to go to the hospital. No delighted little squeals or little bodies came to meet me – which of late has been the usual routine. Two little girls, (who when we started helping, were bed ridden their burns so severe, had come along so miraculously, that they are now just waiting for skin grafting operations) both four years old ‘run’ to meet me and try help carry the parcels I have ~ but this day I was met by a tense silence. . . .
“Each child was in various states of undress, all wounds exposed, anxious expressions and a couple of tears. It was ‘dressing day’ and every child was taken individually by a nurse or two to the ‘dressing room’ where their burns are washed with betadine, then the burns cream (SSD cream) is applied and they are re-bandaged. It is a traumatic time for both child and mother. This process I appreciate is a necessity, but gives the true meaning to “being cruel to be kind!”
“It is so humbling to see an anxious child standing (if they are able) naked, with burns of various degrees, wounds from skin that has been removed from one area to graft on another, ‘bubbles’ of flesh exposed and ready to be treated, yet still able to smile and be excited by my arrival. Horribly heart wrenching.
Ten month old Merit recently had his legs amputated. Nothing prepared me for what I saw. A little boy lying naked, holding up exposed stumps, waiting to be dressed again. The doctor had not had enough skin to flap over and sew up. I now could see why. There was no skin, he was raw flesh on his groin area, the doctors have removed all burned flesh (to prevent rotting) and subsequently left him with raw little stumps. He still smiled at me as I talk to him; I was unable to even begin to comprehend the kind of pain he must be in. His mother, a single out of work mother of 10 month old twins, with no visiting relatives, already overwhelmed, still had to gently pick up her son and take him to the ‘dressing room’. . . all alone. Absolutely humbling. We complain if the milk turns sour! But we can make a difference and friends have – funding the operation, pain relief for him, antibiotics, creams and bandages, food and prayers. Merit still has a long road ahead of him, one of skin grafts, pain, and a life of being disabled but this need not be a handicap. Many of you know folk who are disabled but have grown into stronger, better people as somewhere in the healing process SOMEONE made a difference. That is our job.”
When I go to the hospital today, I pray and hope for a happier, more relaxed atmosphere, all freshly bandaged, full tummies and children as comfortable as we are endeavoring to make them. . . Jenny M
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” Romans 12:12
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Hawaii's blunders fueled birthers
President Barack Obama finally did what the state of Hawaii couldn’t: He released his long-form birth certificate, the Holy Grail for conspiracy theorists fixated on the idea that he was born somewhere other than the United States.
In taking the initiative to request the specific document from the state and then release it, the White House may have finally removed one of the key elements inadvertently fueling the birther movement — the state of Hawaii itself.Continue Reading
Time and time again, in its attempts to be helpful to its favorite son, the Aloha State has unwittingly fanned the flames of conspiracy back on the mainland.
Most recently, there was Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat not even a month into his new job, who announced late last year he would try to clear things up once and for all by releasing even more evidence that the president was born in a Honolulu hospital.
“Let’s put this particular canard to rest,” he told The New York Times in December.
But Abercrombie — who knew Obama and his parents in the 1960s — backtracked a month later, admitting he couldn’t produce the long-form birth certificate because of privacy statutes.
“There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document,” a spokeswoman said.
The governor’s failure to release the certificate echoed across the Internet, rocketing to the very top of Google’s popular searches list in late January, driven by an interview that celebrity journalist Mike Evans gave to a radio station in which he claimed Abercrombie told him “there is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii, absolutely no proof at all that Obama was born in Hawaii.”
Evans later issued a public retraction but the rumor didn’t die. World Net Daily and dozens of other well-trafficked websites and media outlets reported that Abercrombie couldn’t find the certificate — or that it didn’t exist.
The Hawaii follies were cited by Texas GOP state Rep. Leo Berman, who introduced a bill in the Texas legislature this year requiring presidential candidates to show proof of citizenship.
“I read different things that say he was born in Hawaii, and then I read the governor can’t find anything that says he was born in Hawaii,” he told POLITICO in February.
As far back as 2008, even before Obama was elected, Hawaii was raising as many questions as it was answering when it came to the facts surrounding his birth.
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Hello Everyone ^.^
I was just wonder how you get your vitamin B12? My mom and I just realized we aren't eating enough food with B12 in it and because it is commonly found in animal products (meat, dairy, eggs) I am not sure where else to really get it. I am not fond of taking supplements (a.k.a. I don't want to at all) so as stated above where do you get yours.
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Seaweed has some cobalamin (b12) in it, specially nori.
I supplement as I feel that it is the safer option. I think that you can get it from fermented food as it is made by bacteria.
There is sufficient in the world for man's need, but not for his greed.
I just found out that I'm low in B vitamins as well (and consequently white blood cells).
The only thing I've been consuming with B12 specifically is nutritional yeast. Legumes and peas have other B vitamins though. I was wondering if anyone tried marmite? I just discovered it today. I really don't want to put dairy into my body, but I NEED these vitamins. Have always been against supplementing, as what we're incapable of absorbing goes where it doesn't belong in the body. It just scares me.
This is so frustrating, it's cake to find options for vegetarians, pretty easy for vegans too, but raw vegan? It's like all we have left is supplements.
Edit: There is also no proof that seaweed has any b12 that is available to us, and some types can actually inhibit whatever b12 we may be getting.
IVE SEEN MANY SAY IT CAN BE FOUND IN SOIL SO DONT WASH YOUR GARDEN VEGIS , sorry caps on by accident . so if true that its in soil why not just mix some good organic dirt from a prepared area in yard with water then filter the solids out of water for a natural b12 drink ?????????
could even take say a big like 4 gallon stainless steel kettle / pot with lid , fill it with your choice of plant stuffs , leaves / grasses / etc , and let it decompose to soil that you use to make b12 water . question then becomes what would be best plant stuffs to make a b12 rich soil ?????????
Roman, the only reason it is found in soil is because it is in fecal matter. It's produced in the lower intestine. So, you'd be drinking poo-water. Not my first choice.
im not expert on the topic and even if was its a very seriously debated issue with to me no one having it completely figured out , but as far as i understand with or without creature waste matter in the soil there are some types of bacterias that create b12
Marmite is really nasty, IMO, my uncle likes it a lot though, but it's really salty...bleh
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But what about spirulina? It's algae, and you can buy it in tablets, then powder it up to add to smoothies or mix in with almond yogurt or drinks,
I heard the B12 in it isnt actually B12 though, but it's worth a shot, right?
B12 is really only found in bacteria- it comes from animal products because said bacteria live inside their intestines
Hey guys, thanks for the input.
I have since learned that one can find lots of B vitamins, including B12 in kombucha drinks, and water kefir drinks. Once I have a little money I'm going to get some water kefir grains and start growing away! It seems pretty simple and they just keep multiplying...
Oh, and they say there are also B vitamins in mushrooms.
When I was began researching the best diet for the human body I came upon eating raw vegan. "Now days it just makes sense." But anyhow, B12 was a subject that seemed to come up pretty often. So I kept searching trying to find if raw vegan was the optimal diet.
Well there's lots of topic considering B12. Some things I found on the internet was that the body produces it, but can't absorb it because it's too low in the colon or something to be absorbed before it exits from the body. Then I read something about fasting and B12 that made sense. If you fast and don't do enemas then you won't have as many BM's, so then B12 tends to stay in the body long enough that it eventually gets absorbed. "Which makes sense to me after everything I've read about fasting, health, and B12." But I've only found two references of it on the internet. I'll find the links. It's something I wanted to test for actually to see if my B12 levels went up after a fast. But I haven't done that yet.
And in a diet where we would be a gatherer I think we may end up unintentionally eating insects while eating grass and greens and such. And I think that would be another source where we would get B12 if we lived such a life. But I'm not gonna go eat insects though. And I don't think I'm gonna eat any vegetables that have poo on em enither though, for fear of parasites. But that's just me.
Something else I'm recalling atm is that many sources of B12 that are in plant foods like kombucha and others aren't the proper kind needed by the body. But I really don't know, it's just something I recall and you may wanna do your own research.
After everything I could find on B12 I've decided that I'll just get a B12 supplement and use it if I need it. And also do water fasting to increase B12 levels.
Here's that link. http://www.healself.org/Vitamin%20%20B12.html
I had another link, but it has changed and no longer has the water fasting info in it.
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Fasting can help with absorption of other things as well. I have read of someone with low iron doing a fast and their levels went up.
I supplement B12 as well. It is better to be safe than sorry.
There is sufficient in the world for man's need, but not for his greed.
Nutritional yeast can be a good source, though I'm not certain on how raw that is.
nutritional yeast only contains b12 if its supplimented with it ,
it does not occur naturally in the yeast
from what ive read anyway , and ive read it from many sources
So I have been adding alfalfa sprouts to my salad and last night I decided to do a bit of reading on the sprout and discovered that it actually contains vitamin B12! Yes thatís right B-12, apparently it is one of the few plant sources that contain this vitamin. I thought I would share this with you just incase if you did not know this already.
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Another fungal meningitis-related death has been reported in Michigan, bringing the total to 11. The 87-year-old Washtenaw County woman died Sunday, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health.
Her death was reported to public health officials today.
Michigan has reported 233 cases to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, including the 11 deaths, as part of a national investigation into contaminated preservative-free MPA steroid injections produced by a Massachusetts pharmacy. In addition to the 11, three additional Michigan residents died, but their deaths are being counted as Indiana cases because they sought treatment in that state.
Across the U.S. at least 656 people were sickened, leading to 39 deaths, according to the numbers released Monday by the CDC. Those numbers do not include Michigan’s latest death.
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Sesame Oil is good for Hair
Our busy lifestyle along with some contributors such as bad eating habits, environmental factors, lack of personal care, adversely affect the health of our hair. Many people follow a strict skin care routine because they want to look and feel beautiful with a glowing flawless skin. But, they don’t take care of their locks properly and this is due to several reasons- lack of time, having dull, dry or lifeless hair and last but not the least- they don’t want to spend their money and time on so called costly hair treatment. If you are also the one of among them then you can go for only one ingredient i.e. sesame oil. This oil is obtained from sesame seeds and it is well known for its vitamin E content. This oil is also known for its nourishing, rejuvenating, and healing properties. There are several varieties of sesame oil. Here are some advantages of using this oil in hair care.
Benefits of Sesame Oil for Hair
- Massaging your hair regularly will definitely give you soft, dark and shiny hair. This oil also helps prevent and treat the problem of hair loss, weak hair and graying of hair.
- Its nourishing and moisturizing effects can help you to get rid of issues like dry hair and scalp. Frequent massage with this oil helps combat excessive dryness and flakiness.
- You can also use a regular warm sesame oil treatment to increase the flow of blood to the scalp and this in turns promote new hair growth.
- If you have damaged hair (due to chemical or mechanical or by any other mean), then use this oil to regain their lost luster.
- Gently rub some oil on your hair and scalp with your finger tips. Leave on for some time and then wash your head with a mild baby shampoo. This step will help you get rid of rough and unmanageable hair effectively.
- It is fully loaded with antibacterial and anti fungal properties that helps prevent various types of scalp infections like dandruff.
- Natural damage control effect of this oil helps protect your tresses from the harsh effects of the sun and pollution.
- Use this good natural oil on a regular basis and say no to problems like split ends, weak hair brittle hair and several others issues alike.
How to Use Sesame Oil for Hair
Mix it with carrier oil like almond, olive or apricot kernel oil. Warm the mix and massage it on your head for a few minutes. Now, cover your head with a warm towel for some time. Leave the oil on for overnight. In the morning, use mild shampoo to wash your hair.
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Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its original goals: Artificial Intelligence.
This website is intended to host a variety of resources and pointers to information about Deep Learning. In these pages you will find
- a reading list,
- links to software,
- a list of deep learning research groups and labs,
- a list of announcements for deep learning related jobs (job listings),
- as well as tutorials and cool demos.
For the latest additions, including papers and software announcement, be sure to visit the Blog section and subscribe to our RSS feed of the website. Contact us if you have any comments or suggestions!
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But first a suitable background against which to view the relevant words, Let us say two different worlds, or two different modes of existence, what about Physical life, and Spiritual life. Now then how did you get into this physical world. Well you were born into it weren't you?. Now exactly how much contribution did you make to your physical birth, non whatsoever you owe your existence entirely to the activity of another, namely your human father
Our earthly parents has been the helper of God to create another man ahich shall exist through their human genes as it was part of God’s plan to every creation He makes to go abundantly according to their own seeds.
Likewise your arrival into the spiritual world (If you are to get there) will be due entirely to the activity of another, namely, the Lord our God, who will then be your heavenly Father. The water refereed to in v 5 of John 3, is of course amniotic fluid which is required to be born of the flesh referred to in the next verse. In fact using Hebrew parallelism, v 6 in given in order to clear up any doubt as to exactly what is meant by water in v 5.
While you have some good sense of water, it seem stll literal and must acknowledge farther meaning of ‘spiritual water’ which is a cleansing words that will justify and sanctify a believer.Matthew 12:47 7 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
To sum up therefore it is clear from the text that it is impossible to be saved, unless one is first born again into the spiritual world, thus enabling one to understand the way of salvation, and thereby to receive Jesus as ones own personal Saviour.. Born again can also be translated as born from above, that is born of God.
Agree, but my question is how will you explain that you had received Jesus as your personal savior?
Jesus said you did not know either meor my Father,If you know me you would know my Father too. (John 8:19)
All human life starts with conception.. A seed is planted, then some 40 weeks or so later on a child is born.. The child can do nothing in the physical world until after it is born into it.
The natural man needs to be born into the spiritual world, before he is able to receive the things of the Spirit of God, only then will he be able to benefit from what he reads. How is this done?
Well ones ability to participate in the spiritual world takes exactly the same order and sequence, firstly the Lord plants His seed (not the Holy Spirit) into a person, this is sometimes referred to as "Re-generation", that is, the making alive again of the human spirit, the spirit that died in Adam at the fall. The natural man is now able to understand the Word, it now makes sense to him, the period of gestation is not revealed, it might be a long time, or a short time, but re-birth, never, never, proceeds re-generation.
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I wonder if anyone can help me. My horse had to be put out in the fields due to an injury. He is supposed to be out 24hours a day for 6 to 8 months.
He is in a good paddock, with daily attention and care. This weekend I went there and he was as lame as he had ever been.
I had spocken to his vet last monday, when she went to see how he was doing. She told me he was much better from his tendons, and that everything was okay. So obviously when I got there and he was lame I immediatly called her and she came to see what was wrong with him.
It turns out he has a bad case of hoof thrush. He had to be given anti-inflamatory and antibiotics injections. The vet advised us to put him inside a box for one month and then turn him out again.
He has really bad hooves. I'm afraid that when he is turned out again his hooves get worse again. The fields are really wet. ..
Do you have any advice on how to keep a horse's hooves in good condition when the fields are wet? (there are "mini lakes" on the places where he walks =P)
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When the Tusten-Cochecton library was looking for women who had made a difference in their community, it didnt have to look very far. Just down the street lives Nora Eisenberg, author of the new novel about Iraq war veterans, When You Come Home. She was presented with the Insight award at a small ceremony at the library this past Sunday. (Nora will be reading from her novel this coming Sunday, March 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance in Narrowsburg, NY).
The idea behind the award, according to Laura Moran, programming director for three local libraries, was to honor women who have insight into issues that affect our local community and who work to make a difference. The project is ongoing and will honor more women in the future.
Like me, Nora is a part-time resident of the county but her advocacy in war-related issues has profound local impact. As a novelist, she puts a personal touch on a global issue: that of the returning veteran who has suffered a devastating but physically hidden injurya signature of modern warfare. Brain injury, a result of the new brand of explosive devices known as IEDs, is estimated by the Pentagon to affect as many as 360,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. At least a few of those injuries came home locally.
Awareness of the condition and extent of brain injury, war-related or not, is imperative for a community, or a family, seeking to help those affected.
Just last week, the actress Natasha Richardson died after a seemingly minor head trauma on a ski slope. Many of us have walked away from the same kind of fall, refusing medical attention. Now we see how foolhardy that apparent bravery can be.
Death is only one outcome of a brain injuryeven an apparently minor one. There are a host of neurological impairments that can lead to erratic behavior and lifelong impaired functioning. We recognize the veteran with artificial limbs but we do not recognize a brain-injured vet as easily. They can become fugitives from the outside world as their impairments limit their ability to function normally. Without the support of family and society, the results can be lifelong and devastating to the community as well as to the vet.
Dr. Eisenberg (she holds a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University) doesnt just write novels. She actively advocates for veterans as an essayist and public speaker and she has an impressive command of the material she writes about. She is a valuable asset for our community as we struggle to find ways to help the scores of veterans returning from this war. One of the recommendations she and others have espoused is pre- and post-deployment neuropsychological testing of the enlisted.
A generation ago, my family sent a half-dozen of its sons and daughters off to war in Europe and the Pacific. They all came back, most with injuries that seemed to heal with time and care.
My father, they said, was never the same. He saw action in one of the bloodiest up-close conflicts, on Guadalcanal, and had shrapnel embedded in his back that you could feel if you rubbed his bare skin. They said his bouts of drinking and violence might have been from the war. But nobody ever tested the theory, and the best he got from the VA was a new set of teeth and a grave at Arlington National Cemetery after he crashed his motorcycle into a truck at age 46. He wasnt wearing a helmet and they said hed been drinking. All I remember is the sight of his body seizing in a hospital bed from the pressure in his brain. It may have been building for a long time.
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month in the new lexicon of calendars. Do what you can to help the veterans and others you know affected by brain injury. And dont ignore, as I am prone to do, the seemingly minor traumas incurred by you or your family members.
- Cass Collins
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They wouldn't really tax munis, would they?
That question, in some form, will keep vexing municipal-bond investors and issuers alike until Congress decides on some combination of tax hikes and spending cuts. For now, a change to muni tax treatment is seen as a plausible outcome of deficit-reduction negotiations ahead of January's "fiscal cliff."
Any changes probably would accompany a jump in the top income-tax rate to 39.6%, from 35%, as well as spending cuts that could imperil economic growth. But since nobody knows how things will play out, investors are hard-pressed to take any action yet.
"This could take two completely different paths, and there's really no way to handicap this right now," says Ben Thompson, CEO of Samson Capital Advisors. "The higher tax rates would ironically help muni bonds, but the backdrop would be an extremely weak [economy], which would pressure municipal credit quality."
For now, investors should at least familiarize themselves with some of the proposals. The most-discussed one, floated in last year's American Jobs Act, involves capping the value of tax-exempt interest—munis' main selling point—at a 28% tax rate. If the maximum income-tax rate did indeed go to 39.6%, munis would be taxed at 11.6% (39.6% minus 28%).
So, investors could face a double whammy. Their tax rate might go up, and the percentage of muni interest they could claim as an exemption could decline.
There's also a proposal to cap the total dollar amount of deductions and exemptions. "In our view, the potential pressure on the muni market from this latter type of provision would be more severe than that from a cap on the maximum effective tax rate on deductions and exemptions," Citi strategists write. "This type of provision would, in effect, severely constrain the amount of tax-exempt bonds any individual can own."
Further complicating matters, Citi says: There's no clarity yet on precisely what constitutes tax-exempt income under current proposals. Is it coupon income? Amortized yield? Something else?
Already at risk is the federal interest-rate subsidy for Build America Bonds, a separate class of taxable munis conceived after the financial crisis began, to expand the lender base for stressed state and local governments. That subsidy, the cornerstone of the BABs market, could be reduced as part of the mandatory cuts under the fiscal cliff's doomsday "sequestration" provision.
Other variables involve whether old munis would be subjected to new tax rules or grandfathered in under existing ones, and whether tax-code changes would be applied equally to all muni bonds or differently to ones issued for special purposes, such as hospitals or housing.
Muni investors and issuers complain that their market is being picked on, despite myriad challenges already facing state and local borrowers, as well as the undersize comparative benefits of targeting muni tax treatment, rather than other, larger loopholes. But munis are a much more politically plausible target than, say, telling millions of American homeowners that their mortgage-interest payments suddenly aren't deductible.
Has the muni market started pricing in any likely January outcomes?
Unfortunately, even that's hard to tell, because investors have been pouring so much money into munis all year that it's nearly impossible to pinpoint other forces that might be influencing prices. Muni mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have had net inflows in 47 of the past 49 weeks. Last week, the inflows hit $1.8 billion, about three times the weekly average this year, even as muni yields reached all-time lows.
TREASURY-BOND YIELDS edged a bit higher last week, but remain firmly range-bound ahead of January's fiscal-cliff deadline. The 10-year yield rose to 1.693% Friday, from 1.581% a week earlier, and the 30-year yield advanced to 2.829%, from 2.749%.
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When playwright Jonathan G. Galvez was studying theater in college, a professor gave his class a typical drama studies assignment: Each student was asked to make a list of the types of roles he or she could play.
Galvez, who is Asian, said that while other students in his class listed typical archetypes – the buddy/best friend, the frat boy, the femme fatal, the mother, etc. – he was challenged by his teacher when he listed similar roles for himself. After his teacher questioned his ability to play these generic roles, an in-class argument ensued.
“In theater, you’re always told that you should play to your type. Play to the types of roles you’re good at,” said Galvez, who is currently working on his MFA at Hollins University. “But when it comes to people of color, we’re told to play to our race.”
‘Race is a matter of how you choose to look at it.’ – Jonathan G. Galvez
“The play basically looks at the stereotypes ascribed to Asian men, but also questions whether the Asian community is doing enough to combat those stereotypes,” said Galvez.
He said the play traces some of his own experiences in the theater world, where he has sometimes been typecast for certain parts and excluded from other roles.
The play also looks at the world beyond the stage and examines racial prejudice against Asians in the broader society. “Musical Theater for Asian Males (Only Edition)” was, for instance, partially inspired by the death of Danny Chen, a Chinese-American soldier who was serving in Afghanistan, where he was taunted and harassed by his fellow servicemen because of his race. Chen died in Afghanistan last October. It was initially believed that Chen committed suicide, but several of Chen’s fellow soldiers were eventually charged with criminally negligent homicide in connection with his death.
Many people believe Chen was murdered and that his death was a hate crime.
Despite the work’s somber genesis, Galvez said the play “pokes fun at certain stereotypes and reminds us that the concept of race, and how we define race, is a matter of how you choose to look at it.”
Galvez will perform “Musical Theater for Asian Males (Only Edition)” on Friday, Sept. 28 at 8:15 p.m. and again on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. The running time is 45 minutes. There is no intermission.
The rest of the Fest
Galvez’s play is part of a collection of works that will be performed this weekend at Art House Productions as part of the So Low Theater Festival. The festival will present one act plays from emerging playwrights.
Nine other playwrights will also showcase their latest work, including Mark Williams, Summer Dawn Hortillosa, Alana Jackler, Ismail Azeem, John Watts, Gabby Creery, Kate Kaiser, Daniel Wilson, and Ariel Seidman-Wright. Each writer will present his or her own work for the festival.
Tickets for each show are $6 and can be purchased at the door.
Art House Productions is located at 1 McWilliams Place, at Hamilton Square. For more information regarding the So Low Festival and performance scheduling, visit www.arthouseproductions.org or call (201) 915-9911.
E-mail E. Assata Wright at email@example.com.
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From the Google Books Library Project page:
“Our ultimate goal is to work with publishers and libraries to create a comprehensive, searchable, virtual card catalog of all books in all languages [My italics] that helps users discover new books and publishers discover new readers”.
So nothing too ambitious then…
Recently Google and the US publishers that sued them for their digitisation efforts agreed on a settlement.
There is a useful resource from the ALA and ARL called “A guide for the perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library project Settlement” available here. It isn’t clear whether this agreement will apply outside the US, but the most relevant piece of information for me was this:
” Google will make available institutional subscriptions that will allow users
within an institution to view the full text of all the books within the Institutional
Subscription Database (ISD). This database will include the books in the in copyright,
not commercially available category. This access will continue only
for the duration of the subscription; access will not be perpetual, in contrast to
when a user purchases access to an individual book, as described above.”
So, Google will be offering subscription access to the digitised version of some very significant Academic Library’s collections, this could be big news for all academic libraries, allowing us to potentially expand our eBook collections to millions of volumes of scholarly material.
There is a lot more information in the ALA / ARL report linked to above, recommended reading.
We visited many Libraries during our trip, public and academic, affluent and poorly funded. The New York Public Library was amazing for its scale and spirit, the large Academic Libraries like the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt were inspiring but this beautiful room is the Franke Reading Room, part of the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of the Art Institute of Chicago and it was my favourite.
The room is decorated with works of art from the collection of the Art Institute, which is Chicago’s main gallery and has a great collection.
It isn’t on the scale of the reading rooms of the New York Public Library or The State Library of Victoria, it felt much less grandiose and intimidating, and the rules were quite arcane (pencils only please!), but it was such a beautiful, intimate space I wished I had more time to sit down and study there.
More information here
Search together is a new product from Microsoft that is in the testing phase. People can collaborate on searching, storing results in a repository to be accessed by group members at a later time.
You need to have a Microsoft Live ID and it runs in Internet Explorer 7 so at the moment it mightn’t be practical for us but I thought the possibilities for both us as a librarian team and our Schools are quite exciting.
Found via ResourceShelf
ePrints contains the articles and presentations on the Science Information Literacy Project that I mentioned yesterday.
This project was led by academic staff from the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET).
Our questions were:
How effective is our embedded teaching of information literacy?
Do students show enhanced learning outcomes as they move through the Zoology undergraduate curriculum?
We compared years and undertook a longitudinal study of a single cohort across the three years of their course.
The results were positive for both questions.
This project was initiated by keen academic staff in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET). The main aims were to motivate and to assist schools in integrating generic attributes (GAs) into their curriculum. “Champions” from each of the SET schools were identified and recruited to simplify our communication and broaden our impact. We hosted several workshops with the champions, achieving another of our aims, to promote a cross-disciplinary community. The key outcome of relevance to Liaison Librarians was the design of a set of tools to a) map aspirations for developing specific attributes within each unit b) map the current practice of addressing/teaching these skills and c) map current practice for all units across an entire course – gap analysis. I’m hopeful that this set of resources, which I have on CD, may be applied to our Information Skills agenda.
Assoc. Prof. Sue Jones, Zoology Head of School, presented a paper on the project at UniServe in 2007.
Please contact me if you’re interested in more details.
Lorcan Dempsey’s blog this morning has a post quoting Paul Courant on info lit and scholarly literacy. There’s a link to Paul’s article/chapter in which he’s arguing that “our most important audience is already information literate and then some. Our interest should be in ensuring the production of something that we might call “scholarly literacy”, by which I mean the understanding of sources, methods, and their use that is at the heart of knowing what one knows and does not know.”
Thought you might be interested…
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Tag: "day" at medical news
American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...ich were involved in the study ran 84.2 percent at day
30, 63.3 percent at 1 year, 45.9 percent at 3 years, and 38.1 percent at 5 years. The research study appears in the first issue for April 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medici...
Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...lism, Dr. Buckley says. Whether genetics will one day
help a physician identify which drugs are most likely to have this impact is the focus of another federally funded collaborative study with the University of Iowa being presented at the schizophrenia meeting. "In this study," says Buckley, "we disco...
Vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts shows promise
...o. They received given intramuscular injections on day
1, month 2 and month 6. Participants were followed up for 36 months and underwent regular gynaecological examinations, sampling for HPV DNA and cervical smears. The incidence of persistent infection or disease with HPV 6, 11, 16, or 18 fell by 90% in...
Vigorously active adolescents are leaner, fitter
... fat. Adolescents averaged just five minutes per day
of vigorous physical activity across the five days, with black males having the highest average at 8.6 minutes and black females the lowest at 2.8 minutes. They averaged nearly 40 minutes of moderate activity daily. Not surprisingly, boys had less bo...
Liver may be source of 'good' cholesterol
... cholesterol, an unexpected finding that might one day
help scientists develop new treatments to raise levels of this heart-protecting molecule in humans. In the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues will report on a...
Soy and fish oil may help prevent heart attacks
...o, took the HRV of 58 elderly patients every other day
for two months to establish an HRV baseline for each participant. For 11 weeks, half of the study participants took a daily 2 g supplement of fish oil, which contains marine-derived omega-3 fatty acids, and the other half took a daily 2 g supplement...
Tissue engineering experts discuss orthopaedics applications
...edicine, said that laboratory-grown organs may one day
help alleviate the shortage of donated organs for ...Georgia Institute of Technology predicted that one day
tissue engineering and regenerative medicine will result in a revolution in the medical implant indu...
Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
...ssistant professor, who was harvesting mussels one day
from their rocky home at the ocean's edge. Li observed mussels being pounded by ocean waves, and wondered how they could cling so tenaciously to rocks by their thread-like tentacles. "I was amazed at the ability of these small mollusks to attach them...
ACHRI study finds CellCept improves survival in pediatric heart transplant patients
...two weeks post-transplant, ranging in age from one day
to 17.9 years, with initial immunosuppression of cyclosporine and either CellCept or azathioprine (AZA). They found that freedom from rejection after 12 months was 10 percent higher with those treated with CellCept (63% of CellCept patients versus 5...
Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...eatment group were treated with two to six hours a day
of patching over the sound eye combined with near visual activities such as playing with a GameBoy, homework, or reading, and one drop daily of atropine for the sound eye. Patients in the older treatment group (aged 13 to 17 years) were treated with ...
News briefs from the journal CHEST, April 2005
... in bronchoscopic and IP equipment, including half day
of lectures and questions-and-answers and a half day
of hands-on lab work. Following the educational program, repair costs dropped 84 percent, to $8 per...
Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
soon, in a remote village in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual battery of bloo...
Little answers to world's biggest problems
soon, in a remote village in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic examination will be complete including the usual battery of "blo...
Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...rary of many different protein sequences that some day
might help her and her colleagues develop a successful timed drug delivery system. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has screened a large number of molecules t...
Tamoxifen can reduce breast pain in prostate cancer patients
...ly per day, 50 patients to 150 mg bicalutamide per day
and 10 mg tamoxifen per day
for 24 weeks, and 50 patients to 150 mg bicalutamide per day
and one dose of radiotherapy at the sta...
Study challenges current treatment for mild asthma
...out as well whether they take a steroid drug every day
or only during asthma attacks. Changes in lung fun...tient less -- than if they took the steroids every day
as current NIH guidelines recommend. The multi-center study, known as the Improving Asthma Control T...
Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...med in 2003, is to find better treatments and one day
a cure for malignant brain tumors. In addition to its focus on research, the center provides a comprehensive program for patient care, and is the first center in the state to offer Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery, a knifeless approach to brain...
Prostate cancer therapy - study suggests new molecular screening theory
...fects but no benefit. More importantly, we may one day
be able to effectively target each individual patient with the therapy-type best for him."...
College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...r benefits have been associated with one drink per day
for females and one to two drinks per day
for males. It is critical for people to understand that when these messages say 'a drink,' they do ...
Alcohol magnifies the rewarding effects of smoking, even for light smokers
...test people who smoke just half a pack or less per day
to see if alcohol would increase smoking urges. We also wanted to see if their desire to smoke while they drink is related to the amount of alcohol they consume during a drinking episode." Researchers recruited 16 (11 males, 5 females) non-alcoholic...
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Even as Europe grapples with a debt crisis that threatens the whole region, and China attempts to put the brakes on a slowing economy - the U.S. election is commanding headlines around the world. Global citizens want to know who Americans will choose as their new leader. Because whoever wins in November will control the largest purse string in the world, and with it - the ability to shape the global economy.
If the polls are right, the 2012 election will be decided by a few crucial votes in a handful of hotly contested states. But far from being just a domestic ballot - Bruce Stokes at the Pew research Center says the U.S. election will have global implications.
"Oh absolutely, the Americans get to vote in this election but the world gets to deal with the consequences," said Stokes.
With a gross domestic product equal to about a quarter of the world's total output, no other country has a larger economic footprint. A common refrain among economists is that when the U.S. sniffles, the rest of the world catches a cold.
Desmond Lachman is a macroeconomist at the conservative leaning American Enterprise Institute.
"We saw that clearly in the 2008-2009 great economic recession, events that occurred in the United States banking system reverberated right through the globe," said Lachman.
On the campaign trail, both candidates agree a healthy U.S. economy is crucial to global stability. Both have assured Americans they have a plan to bolster the economy - starting with Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, who promises to level the playing field by getting tough on China.
"On day one, I will label China a currency manipulator, which will allow me as president to be able to put in place, if necessary, tariffs where I believe that they are taking unfair advantage of our manufacturers," said Romney.
Fighting to win a second term, President Obama says U.S. trade has increased significantly under his leadership. So has China's undervalued currency, which he says has risen 11 percent since he took office.
The key to a strong economy says Obama is to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. and he says Romney is the wrong person to do it.
"Keep in mind that Governor Romney invested in companies that were pioneers of outsourcing to China. Governor, you're the last person who is going to get tough on China," said President Obama.
But China is only part of a larger equation. The debt crisis in Europe has reduced demand for U.S. goods. Desmond Lachman says deepening problems in the 17-nation eurozone could further slow growth - worldwide.
"My expectation is that Europe, being the largest trading partner of the United States is going to pose real challenges to the United States in the years ahead," he said.
Lachman says Romney offers a more business friendly approach to solving the nation's chronically high unemployment. But the Pew Center's Bruce Stokes says given Obama's popularity in many parts of the world, the image of the U.S. could suffer under a Romney presidency.
"China, very interesting. I do think given Romney's rhetoric, there could be a short term hit to America's image in China. The big hit is going to be in Europe," said Stokes.
A recent survey by the Pew Center shows Western Europe overwhelmingly in favor of a second term for Obama: 92 percent in France, 89 percent in Germany and 73 percent in Britain. However, the president scored poorly in Greece where only 22 percent approved of his handling of the global economy.
Whoever wins, Lachman says there's a lot at stake, particularly if a divided Congress is unable to agree on drastic spending cuts at the end of the year.
"If things go wrong in the United States that would certainly have huge global ramifications, particularly right now with the rest of the world not being in good shape, the last thing they need is for the United States to be stumbling," he said.
History suggests the world will adapt to whomever America chooses. What is clear say experts is that the outcome will shape economic and geopolitical attitudes around the world for years to come.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to welcome everyone to this briefing today, convened by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, to address an issue of great importance in the promotion of religious freedom, religious registration policies in the OSCE. The Commission strives to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other commitments of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
As Co-Chairman, over the past decade I have observed a troubling drift away from a robust and vibrant protection of religious freedom in a growing number of OSCE States. I have become alarmed with how some OSCE countries have developed new laws and regulations that serve as a roadblock to the free exercise of religious belief. These actions have not been limited to emerging democracies, but also include Western European countries, with the definitive example being Austria.
Considering the gravity of this issue, I am pleased by the panel of experts and practitioners assembled today who have been kind enough to travel from Europe to share their thoughts and insights. Our distinguished panel includes Dr. Sophie van Bijsterveld, who is currently serving as Co-Chair of the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief, as well as a law professor at Catholic University in The Netherlands. Dr. Gerhard Robbers has also participated with the OSCE Advisory Panel of Experts, and is a professor of law at the University of Trier in Germany. Vassilios Tsirbas serves as interim executive director and senior legal counsel for the European Centre for Law and Justice, and he is based in Strasbourg. Lastly, Col. Kenneth Baillie is the commanding officer for the Salvation Army in Eastern Europe. He has experienced first hand registration laws which not only have impeded, but actually “liquidated,” a religious group, as he has been very involved with the Salvation Army’s ongoing action to register in Moscow.
During today’s briefing, the panel will provide critiques of religious registration policies throughout the 55-country OSCE region. In addition, panelists will provide the “big picture” of religious registration issues throughout that region; including States which formerly were part of the Soviet Union. I feel the upcoming dialogue will be very helpful in developing a better understanding of these “roadblocks” to religious freedom.
From what I have seen through the work of the Helsinki Commission, many of these laws are crafted with the intent to repress religious communities deemed nefarious and dangerous to public safety. Certainly after the September 11th tragedies, one cannot deny that groups have hidden behind the veil of religion in perpetrating monstrous and perfidious acts. Yet, while history does hold examples of religion employed as a tool for evil, these are exceptions and not the rule. In our own country, during the Civil Rights Movement, religious communities were the driving force in the effort to overturn the immoral “separate but equal” laws and provide legal protections. If, during that time, strict religious registration laws had existed, government officials could have clamped down on this just movement, possibly delaying long overdue reform. While OSCE commitments do not forbid basic registration of religious groups, governments often use the pretext of “state security” to quell groups which espouse views contrary to the ruling powers’ party line.
Another practice I have observed is the creation of registration laws designed on the premise that minority faiths are inimical to governmental goals, like respect for human rights and rule of law. Often, proponents of these provisions cite crimes committed by individuals in justifying stringent registration requirements against religious groups. Still, as I previously mentioned, the history of religious movements is one of good will and benevolence, not hate and misdeeds. Clamping down on the ability for a religious group to exist not only contravenes numerous, long-standing OSCE commitments, but also serves to remove from society forces that operate for the general welfare. The Salvation Army in Moscow is a lucent example.
In other situations, some governments have crafted special church-state agreements, or concordats, which exclusively give one religious group powers and rights not available to other communities. By creating tiers or hierarchies, governments run the risk of dispersing privileges and authority in an inequitable fashion, ensuring that other religious groups will never exist on a level playing field, if at all. In a worst case scenario, by officially recognizing “traditional” or “historic” communities, governments declare their ambivalence, and sometimes hostility, towards minority religious groups, which can serve as the catalyst for violence. The persistent violence against Jehovah’s Witnesses and other, evangelical groups in Georgia is a prime example.
Notably, religious registration laws do not operate in a vacuum; other rights, such as freedom of association or freedom of speech, are often enveloped by these provisions. Accordingly, it is with great concern that I convene this briefing to discuss religious registration roadblocks. My heightened level of concern is only equaled by my strong desire to encourage participating OSCE States to fully comply with their OSCE commitments.
In working towards this goal, I was pleased to learn of the Bush administration’s shared commitment to religious freedom. In a March 9, 2001 letter, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security, stated: “President Bush is deeply committed to promoting the right of individuals around the world to practice freely their religious beliefs.” She also expressed her concern about religious discrimination. In a separate letter on March 30th of this year, Vice President Dick Cheney echoed this commitment when he referred to the promotion of religious freedom as “a defining element of the American character.” He went on to declare the Bush administration’s commitment “to advancing the protection of individual religious freedom as an integral part of our foreign policy agenda.”
While some may construe the Administration’s “war” on terrorism as a move away from religious freedom, Mr. Bush has repeatedly made it clear, as he stated in his address to the country, “the enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. . . . Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.” His statement that “the terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself” demonstrates his distinction between terroristic acts and religion. Accordingly, it is my belief that this administration will not stray from supporting religious freedom during this challenging time.
In closing, the Helsinki Commission is greatly appreciative to our panelists for agreeing to come and share their thoughts on this critical issue. In addition, the Commission will continue to monitor the activities of governments in light of their OSCE obligations and encourage compliance. We will now proceed with the panelists’ presentations, which will be followed by an opportunity for questions.
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IBM has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, which offers cluster, grid and cloud management software.
Platform Computing solutions are designed to help clients create, integrate and manage shared computing environments that are used in computational and data-intensive applications such as simulations, computer modeling and analytics. IBM says that by combining Platform Computing’s software with its systems and software, it can better serve enterprise clients that are turning to technical computing to accelerate application performance, improve infrastructure flexibility and reduce time to results.
Platform Computing will be integrated into IBM Systems and Technology Group. IBM intends to support Platform Computing’s software on heterogeneous systems and continue to work with many of Platform Computing’s existing partners.
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High Speed 2
High Speed 2 overview
Here you will find regular updates and information on HS2 - a high-speed rail line from London to Birmingham - what it means for Camden and what we’re doing in response.
Please see the latest news for the most recent developments including the latest HS2 consultations.
We remain strongly opposed to HS2 and are doing all we can to ensure that the impacts of the scheme are minimised and the concerns of our local communities are heard at the highest level.
The impacts in Camden
The recommended route for HS2 would run from a rebuilt Euston station.
The borough will suffer a decade of blight, noise and disruption if HS2 goes ahead.
Construction work on the line would mean that:
- a minimum of 216 Camden homes are demolished - more than double the 107 homes set to be lost along the rest of the line
- a further 264 Camden homes are at risk of demolition
- at least 20 business premises, in Drummond Street for example, will be destroyed
- a variety of listed buildings and open spaces – including approximately 60% of St James’ Gardens - will be lost
- the Maria Fidelis School will be significantly impacted because of it’s location.
Study to assess and identify the cost of HS2 in Camden
The total cost to Camden is hard to quantify, but it has been estimated that it could be in the region of £1billion. Some of the costs, such as the demolition of hundreds of homes are tangible and are relatively easy to quantify. Others, such as the more general blight to the area caused by a project of this magnitude and the impact on people’s lives are less obvious, may only become apparent over time and are therefore more difficult to put a financial value on.
From an initial tendering exercise at the end of 2012 the Council was unable to make an appointment. A revised brief, that can be viewed below, was subsequently sent to selected consultants.
Following a re-tender, a consortium led by the London office of Lambert Smith Hampton (which includes Regeneris and Pell Fischmann) has been appointed to undertake the True Costs Study of HS2 for the Council. The team began work in January 2013 and the indicative timetable suggests the final study report will be published in April 2013.
Page last updated May 17, 2013 4:45 PM
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The U.S. Navy is still trying to free a minesweeper than ran aground Thursday on a coral reef in the Philippines. Efforts to free the 1,312-ton USS Guardian at high tide failed.
"Seventh Fleet ships remain on scene and essential Guardian sailors will continue conducting survey operations onboard the ship as needed until she is recovered. Several support vessels have arrived and all steps are being taken to minimize environmental effects while ensuring the crew's continued safety,” said U.S. Seventh Fleet commander Vice Adm. Scott Swift.
The accident happened Thursday shortly after the Guardian left Subic Bay. The 224-foot-long vessel was traveling though the Tubbataha National Marine Park en route to its next port call when it struck the reef. Philippines officials say it is unclear how much of the reef was damaged.
Seventy-two of the seventy-nine Guardian crew members were transferred to the USNS Bowditch and the MSV C-Champion after the accident. The 7 crew members will remain on board to monitor the ship. If conditions become unsafe, they will also be transferred to support vessels.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Click here for more World News
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Reform leader Rick Jacobs slams Israeli gov’t discrimination against non-Orthodox
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said American Jews should no longer acquiesce to Israeli state-sanctioned discrimination against women and non-Orthodox Jews.
"I would fight passionately for the right of Orthodox Jews to pray freely at the Kotel or anywhere else, so I can’t understand why we acquiesce when the rights of non-Orthodox Jews are denied by the Jewish state," Jacobs said to wide applause in a speech Tuesday at the closing plenary of the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, where Jacobs served as the scholar in residence. "This is a moment that calls for Israel and the world Jewish community to address equality for all streams of Judaism by the government of Israel."
Jacobs cited the case of activist Anat Hoffman, head of the Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center, who was arrested last month at the Western Wall for leading a women's prayer service while wearing a tallit prayer shawl -- an act that contravenes an Israeli law that has survived Supreme Court challenges.
"Yes, the Israeli Supreme Court has the authority to restrict the prayer of women and non-Orthodox prayer at the Western Wall. But why is this holy Jewish site run like an Orthodox synagogue? Why can’t there be space and time for both egalitarian prayer and for more traditional forms of prayer at this holy place?" Jacobs asked. "So long as Israel remains the only democracy that legally discriminates against the majority of Jews who are in the non-Orthodox streams, the Zionist dream of the ingathering of the exiles in a Jewish state for all Jews cannot be fully realized.
"It is time to end this discrimination once and for all," he said, adding, "When women are subjected to discrimination at the Kotel, it feeds other forms of discrimination by the ultra-Orthodox against women -- on buses and in other public facilities."
Jacobs also called on American Jews to ensure that Israel not become a partisan issue, saying the Jewish community's traditional bipartisan consensus on Israel must be restored following a divisive U.S. election campaign.
"The pro-Israel community must be large enough to include the IDF veteran campaigning for peace on the college campus, the AIPAC activist lobbying members of Congress, the human rights activist protesting unlawful seizure of Arab homes in Jerusalem, the West Bank settler and the Jew who protests the lack of religious freedom in the Jewish state," he said.
Approximately 3,000 people attended this year's GA held in Baltimore Sunday through Tuesday.
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Anyone aged 12 years or over who fishes for salmon, trout, freshwater fish or eels in England and Wales must have an Environment Agency Rod Fishing Licence.
A rod licence is required by law and allows you to use a rod and line to fish. Rod licences are issued by the Environment Agency and can be bought from any Post Office
in England and Wales or by paying online.
- often referred to as tickets or day tickets – are also required and give permission to fish in particular water or waters. They are issued by the owners, such as fishery owners, angling clubs etc.
Fishing in Hertsmere:
Oakmere Park, Potters Bar High Street, has two large lakes with freshwater fish.
You will need a permit from the Potters Bar and District Angling Club. Application forms can be collected from the Potters Bar Angling Centre, 248 High Street, Potters Bar, tel 01707 642947.
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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models have evolved the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) concept, established by the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM), to a new level that enables the continued growth and expansion of the CMM concept to multiple disciplines. Like the SW-CMM, EIA/IS 731, IPD-CMM, and other process improvement models, CMMI models are tools that help organizations improve their processes. This CMMI model is designed to help organizations improve their product and service development, acquisition, and maintenance processes. Concepts covered by this model include systems engineering, software engineering, and integrated product and process development as well as traditional CMM concepts such as process management and project management. Each CMMI model is designed to be used in concert with other CMMI models, making it easier for organizations to pursue enterprise-wide process improvement at their own pace. This CMMI model has a staged representation, which focuses on measuring process improvement using maturity levels. Maturity levels apply to process-improvement achievement across the organizational unit using the model.
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Russia raises Western ire in support of Syria
February 03, 2012
By choosing to back Syria President Bashar al-Assad and block a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a transfer of power in his country, Russia seems to be placing itself as a counterbalance to NATO interests in the region.
Rim Turkmani, a member of the external Syrian opposition and an astrophysicist at the Imperial College of London, goes so far as to describe the Syrian crisis as a "proxy war" between Russia and the West.
Since the beginning of the country's uprising in March, Moscow has supported the Syrian government with more than just rhetoric, reportedly concluding a $550m arms sales to Damascus.
In addition to using the arms sales to thumb its nose at talk of military intervention against Syria, Russia may also be looking to make up for lost revenue after sanctions prompted it to cancel missile sales to Iran.
Despite the cancellation, Russia has maintained its ties with Iran, a Syrian ally, by criticising the European Union embargo on Iranian oil.
All of this comes at a delicate time for Russia, itself having recently faced protests on the streets of Moscow over allegations of fraud in December's parliamentary elections.
Russia also seems to be positioning itself as a mediator between the Syrian government and the country's opposition - on the one hand supplying the state with weapons, on the other inviting the opposition to Moscow for talks.
The foreign ministry suggested on Monday that the two sides should meet in the Russian capital for "informal contacts" without any preconditions, an offer rejected by the opposition.
Turkmani said: "We rejected it because we don't see it as being part of a solution. The only thing that we will accept is negotiations that would lead a transition of power."
Russia is wary of endorsing international action in Syria, where it has a naval base at Tartous, near Latakia, after complaining that NATO and Western powers went beyond the UN remit in Libya, where fighting continues in some areas, and security is tenuous.
Moscow has gone so far as to say that Assad's opponents are compelled to share the blame for the thousands of deaths since the start of the uprising in Syria in March 2011, and that it would block Western-backed intervention in the country.
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Anglicans in Christchurch are talking about rebuilding a shared super-cathedral with Catholics, a move that would be unprecedented worldwide.
Christchurch Bishop Victoria Matthews has confirmed the controversial idea has been discussed informally but is reluctant to speak publicly for fear of killing the possibility.
"There are conversations about this going on, but those conversations are with ourselves," she told Fairfax Media.
The idea had not been raised officially and had yet to be broached with Catholic leaders.
"It's fair to say there are many individuals in the diocese who would welcome the idea," Bishop Matthews said, adding that while the ChristChurch Cathedral demolition was before the High Court, the "delicate conversation" had been put on hold.
If approved, it would bring Catholics and Anglicans together under the same cathedral roof for the first time in the world since the churches split in the 16th century.
The earthquakes, which also devastated the Catholic Basilica in the central city, had already ignited a spirit of co-operation between the denominations, Bishop Matthews said, with three churches allowing the other denomination to worship separately on their site.
New Zealand's Anglican Archbishop David Moxon said he had not spoken officially about the idea with Bishop Matthews, but said they had communicated by email when someone within his clergy suggested the city should rebuild only one cathedral.
Long-time Anglican Michael Earle asked how the two Christian churches could justify spending millions to repair or rebuild both broken cathedrals, when they were suffering dwindling congregations before the quakes hit.
"How is it in the best interests of the poorest people of our community to rebuild them both? We have a God-given opportunity to do something different here."
Catholic leaders, however, are already pouring cold water on the proposal.
Christchurch's Catholic Bishop Barry Jones struggled to visualise how the two church groups could combine into one building."The really important part is that a cathedral is the bishop's church by definition and how you would have a building that would serve as a church of two bishops, I don't know and I can't imagine it."
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Mark Halperin’s answers this week in TIME.
Why is Washington at a standstill over immigration reform?
Dealing with immigration is harder than a week-old bagel. Rewriting immigration laws requires the kind of bipartisan cooperation that remains elusive inside the Beltway. Exhibit A of the dysfunction is the colossal fight over the deficit and the debt ceiling. But immigration is a special challenge because of the host of questions it raises: how to control the Mexican border, how to invite attractive candidates for legal immigration, how to handle employers who rely on illegal workers and how to deal with the 11 million or so people who are already in the U.S. illegally.
Which party benefits most from this political stalemate?
Democrats, already dominant with the rising tide of Hispanic voters, stand to gain in the 2012 election and could lock in many Latinos to long-term party allegiance. Hispanics aren’t a monolithic bloc, but they are heavily aligned with the Democratic perspective, especially over a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are here now. So far, the GOP has bowed to the fervent anti-illegal-immigration sentiment in the conservative grass roots. No one has stepped up to replace George W. Bush or John McCain as a strong proponent of broad legal changes.
What happens in this vacuum?
State legislatures are hard at work passing new laws that crack down on illegal immigrants and those who harbor and employ them, although the courts have struck down some punitive provisions. Recent protests in Georgia, where a strict new law drew thousands of marchers to the state capitol, demonstrate how volatile the issue remains — and not just along the southwest border.
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Apps must not have names or icons that appear 'confusingly similar' to existing products
Google has changed its policies to address the problem of fake and copycat apps on the Google Play store.
Android has become increasingly popular in the past year, and is far and away the largest mobile games market.
Despite this, Android is low on the prioities list for most developers, and this means relatively little competition for the horde of fake apps and copycats that leech the success of the chosen few chart toppers.
But Android isn't just the cheap option for consumers anymore, and is being adopted as an OS to power the Ouya console, the Raspberry PI, and other devices.
All this developer attention means more eyes on Android's marketplace, making this an ideal time for Google to flush out the bilge.
"Developers must not divert users or provide links to any other site that mimics or passes itself off as another application or service," reads the new Google Play developer policy.
"Apps must not have names or icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps supplied with the device (such as Camera, Gallery or Messaging)."
Developers have been concerned for some time about the mounting courage of app scammers.
Just this spring, a fake Pokemon app made its way onto Apple's AppStore, which has a strong reputation of vetting before releasing them to consumers.
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The biggest security operation ever seen in Egypt was under way tonight as Cairo prepared to welcome Barack Obama for his landmark speech to the Muslim world after a warning of revenge against the US by Osama bin Laden
Unprecedented security measures are in place for Obama's big day in Cairo, of which the centrepiece is a 50-minute address at the city's university tomorrow. He will also hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak and tour the pyramids and a medieval mosque.
But as the president arrived today in Saudi Arabia, where he wants Arab gestures to coax Israel into revived peace talks, Bin Laden – in a broadcast – attacked US pressure for a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that had prompted the exodus of a million Muslims in north-west Pakistan.
"Obama and his administration have sown new seeds to increase hatred and revenge on America," the al-Qaida leader said in a message that was aired by al-Jazeera TV. "The number of these seeds is equal to the number of displaced people from Swat Valley."
Obama, however, will seek to reach out to 1.5 billion Muslims and Arabs in the much-awaited speech in Egypt, which has generated huge expectations about improving America's battered image across the region.
The president has to walk a fine line between improving that image and abandoning goals shared with the Bush administration.
"I thought it was very important to come to the place where Islam began and to seek his majesty's counsel and to discuss with him many of the issues we confront here in the Middle East," Obama said while standing next to 84-year-old King Abdullah in Riyadh.
The president has spoken of easing "misapprehensions" between the west and the Muslim world, where many have high hopes of the son of a Kenyan Muslim who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. "I am confident that we're in a moment where in Islamic countries, I think there's a recognition that the path of extremism is not actually going to deliver a better life for people," Obama told NBC News before he left Washington.
The White House has been working to lower expectations about the speech, which comes after visits to Turkey and Iraq, a Persian New Year video and a town hall meeting in Istanbul, warning specifically that it will not include detailed new initiatives. Iran's top diplomat in Egypt has been invited to attend.
Parts of Cairo were in a state of lockdown last night, with tens of thousands of police lining the streets and military helicopters circling overhead. Major traffic arteries were sealed off and businesses in many neighbourhoods have been ordered to shut and residents told to stay at home and not look out of their windows.
"No corner has been left out," said one security official. "There will be security members on roofs, in houses, everywhere."
The huge security presence – which has reportedly been bolstered by up to 3,000 CIA operatives – is provoking resentment in Cairo, where tomorrow's speech has already divided opinions.
"What they're inflicting on us is haram ," complained Mohammed Iman, a computer shop employee (haram carrying a range of meanings from "religiously forbidden" to a more secular "it's unfair, it's a shame"). "Our livelihoods are being assaulted, and for what? Obama will bring nothing to this country; if they spent a fraction of all this security money here on giving people bread then we'd all be much better off."
Iman's sentiments were shared by students at Cairo University, where exams have been suspended. "It's ironic they spend all this cash now repainting the railings and sweeping the pavements, but don't bother with us the rest of the year," said Salman Fuda, a 22-year-old undergraduate.
Obama's itinerary for the day will include trips to the Giza pyramids and the 14th-century Sultan Hassan mosque, as well as bilateral talks with Mubarak, who is facing a wave of opposition over his economic policies and ties with Israel and the US. Mubarak will not attend the speech, fuelling speculation that the 81-year-old's health could be fading. But members of the formally banned Muslim Brotherhood will be there.
Despite the grumbling, some Cairenes are taking advantage of the visit's business opportunities and looking to cash in on a localised bout of Obamamania.
Gamal Shosha began churning out T-shirts likening Obama to the pharaoh Tutankhamun as soon as he heard news of the visit. He has since sold 30 from his shop in the historic Khan al-Khalili market, as well as copper plaques inscribed with Obama's name in hieroglyphics.
"When the boy king Tutankhamun took power, he was young and there was a lot of unrest in the world," explained Shosha.
"Obama is also young and the world is very disturbed at the moment; we are hoping that – like Tutankhamun – he can bring peace."
• This article was amended on 4 June 2009 to make clear, regarding the quote from a shop worker, that meanings of the word haram are not confined to its use as a religious term.
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I'll be giving a demo at The 2012 Long Beach Comic & Horror Con on Nov.4th at 2:00. I will show you step-by-step how to prepare a digital template for comics using Adobe Illustrator. Learn basic tools and other apps to use. Bring your laptop and you can follow along and leave with your own template ready to create your own comics and graphic novels! This process will also work for InDesign, QuarkXpress and Manga Studio.
As a bonus, I will take you through the process from pencils,
Your entire physical and online sequential art portfolio should be no more than 9 to 12 pages. Any more and you're just boring the person. The physical portfolio should be the original 11" x17" art.
Target your portfolio to the publisher you are submitting to; which means don't show Marvel characters to DC Comics and vice versa.
Present a complete scene within 3 or 4 pages. Each scene should showcase a different mood - action, normal, romantic, quiet, horror,
Updated 05-04-2012 at 08:01 PM by Symson
Originally Posted by Symson
Pink Pearl, plastic, art gum, kneaded and erasers are the kinds most often used. You don't want to let your palm touch the paper while you're drawing. Hand oils and sweat harm the paper surface and can make it difficult to erase and to lay down ink. So you certainly don't want to buy an eraser that has oil in it.
Pink Pearl has a pumice - a volcanic ash from Italy - that helps the organic rubber erase and gives it an abrasive quality. The rubber and vulcanized vegetable oil (factice)
Wally Wood's 22 panels.
You can download a hi-rez version to print here.
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The widely publicised report of Hindus migrating to India en masse has blown up – with the Sindh chief minister taking notice – but conflicting accounts about the reason for their visit have emerged.
The CM wants a three-member committee to be headed by the minster on minority affairs report back in two days. Sources in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad said they could not comment because of the conflicting reports in the media.
The former head of the Hindu Panchayat of Jacobabad, Lal Chand Setlani, told The Express Tribune that on Wednesday, a renowned Maharaj of Jacobabad, Santosh Puri, along with his followers left for a Yatra (religious pilgrimage) to India. As the Maharaj has a huge following, a large number of people from Balochistan, Jacobabad and Kashmore had come to the railway station in Jacobabad to bid him farewell.
While his departure was portrayed as a permanent migration, Setlani said that only 11 of the followers accompanied the Maharaj. The rest were there to see him off.
The state of law and order and forced conversions in Sindh has made the situation “intolerable”, said Hindu Panchayat Jacobabad President Baboo Mahesh Lakhani. Kidnapping of Hindu traders and children for ransom and extortion is common, he said, but they are not just restricted to Hindus. But when people started playing with our honour, it became intolerable, he said.
“MK, a 15-year-old resident of Gharibabad Mohalla Jacobabad, was kidnapped five days ago and nothing has been done so far.” (see box).
Lakhani said that it was wrong to assume that every family boarding a train or bus for Lahore from Jacobabad was migrating to India.
He added that while Hindu families have migrated to India, they don’t get a red carpet welcome there. However, he criticised elected representatives of minorities. They either live in Islamabad or Karachi and the “hot weather of Jacobabad and other areas is keeping them away from us”. Other representatives from Jacobabad, such as Aijaz and Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, have supported them instead.
Ramesh Lal, who is the president of Hindu Panchayat Thull, was recently kidnapped by armed men near Khairpur and was kept hostage for 11 days. Lal said that while Muslims are also being kidnapped for ransom, the kidnapping and conversion of Hindu girls was simply intolerable.
According to Lal, most of the Hindu families have migrated from Jacobabad, Thull, Garhi Khairo, Buxapur, Kandhkot and other areas. However migrants usually go to Indore in India, where a large number of Sindhi Hindus are settled. They help them with accommodation and jobs. While most people go to India for religious pilgrimage, about 15% stay back.
Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, the patron in chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council, claimed that dozens of families were migrating to India every month.
It is believed that the families who have migrated are from the middle class who cannot afford to pay extortion money. According to Vankwani, hundreds of families migrated to India in the early 1990s but many returned in 2000. “The law and order situation was satisfactory till 2006 and the issue of migration arose again in 2010,” he said.
Sindh minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla said that the reports of migration are exaggerated. “If a Hindu girl is eloping with a Muslim boy of her free will, then what we can do,” he said. He responded to allegations of ignoring Hindus by citing the example of the recovery within 11 days of Ramesh Lal.
The president of the Hindu Panchayat of Karachi Division Amarnath Motumal said that the issues were being politicised. “Which community or sect is safe in Pakistan? Hindus are not migrating but they go on visit visas and come back. The issue is being exploited,” he said.
“First, we are Pakistanis and then Hindus. No one shares facts and figures of migrating families. One can’t cry that all Hindus are migrating when a few are moving for certain reasons. People want to live here. They are more secure here than in India. I know they come back after spending a couple of months there.”
With additional reporting by Sameer Mandhro in Karachi
Published in The Express Tribune, August 10th, 2012.
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Over at GreenProphet.com, I have been enjoying a writing stint covering more cultural issues across the Arab world. It’s been really fun and I’ve loved writing about the region’s growing environmentally-conscious cultural scene. I’ve spoken to Lebanon’s Trash Theatre which looks at how people (consciously and unconsciously) deal with garbage and the entire set, props and costumes are upcycled from trash the artists collected. 10453: A Story About Life in 1 km2 of Trash is a (B)IM project and will be touring the coast of Lebanon with IndyACT which is a local environmental organisation.
I’ve also written about Tunisia’s anonymous cartoonist ‘Z’ whose iconic pink flamingoes were inspired by his campaign to protect the bird’s natural habitat from Gulf-style development. That post in particular got some negative comments from people asking me whether I supported his more controversial work on Islam in his home country. I may not agree with everything he draws but I do support his environmental work and I also support his right to draw whatever the hell he wants. It’s a free country after all, isn’t it?
I also covered a short story by Qatari-based Autumn Watts in which she talks about the state of animal rights in Qatar and also the hidden animal cities across Doha. Her story ‘The Cities of Animals’ is a must read. In it she talks about the dark and abandoned places that animals such as birds, cats and horses learn to live and also harsh ‘kingdom’s of asphalt’ where they die. Here’s a snippet of the story and also what she told me inspired her to write it.
City of Birds
In Qatar, the birds have built their own hidden city. They live in the towers and stairwells of an abandoned palace. Their feathers carpet the ground. They build nests in the sinks of the empty bathrooms. Leave their clean, thin bones in the white sand of the courtyard. They say djinn live there, but this isn’t true. There is no room for djinn in that papery dusk of a thousand sleeping wings. The call to prayer wakes them, sends them winging aloft. I once stood in the wind of their passing. The blink of shadow and light.
Autumn Watts: “The Cities of Animals was inspired by a few things; for one, my Doha urban exploration with Kristin Giordano. The “bird palace” really exists; it was a beautiful, magnificent old derelict that we found our way into, only to discover hidden generations of pigeons living there undisturbed: layers and layers of feathers and nests and eggshells.
“Another thing was the terrible plight for street animals in Doha. I work with a local rescue organization called Cats in Qatar, which is entirely donation and volunteer driven. Street life here is extremely harsh, and there’s a shockingly high rate of abandoned animals, especially Persian cats. People will pay a lot of money to buy these status breeds, who are bred to be docile and human-centered, and then get tired of the cat or move away, and they dump them on the street. The poor things don’t stand a chance. Saluki dogs are another common dump–again, too many to count. And I’ve seen abuse injuries and other horror stories.
“But finally, what made this story crystallize was this line from Qur’an 6:38: “There is not an animal on Earth, nor a bird that flies on its wings, but they are communities like you”. Islam instructs compassion and care for animals, which is really beautiful to me. I think there’s a basic moral failing in what we’ve done, and what we continue to do, to animals and the environment–not just here in Qatar, but everywhere in the world. As a species, we’ve fallen short in so many ways, and there’s a deep, resigned sort of sadness in that.”
: Qatar bird photo via Kristin Giordano
:: For the full articles and more, you can follow my work at GreenProphet.com here.
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Australian parliamentary inquiry questions confessional seal
CWN – July 17, 2012
A legislative committee in Australia’s state of Victoria is questioning whether the government should honor the confessional seal.
The parliamentary committee is considering new laws to toughen requirements for reporting abuse of children. Soliciting public comments, the committee has prepared a questionnaire that asks whether priests should be required by law to report child abuse mentioned in the confessional.
Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne has warned that the Church cannot compromise on the inviolability of the confessional seal. Father John Walshe, chairman of Australia’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, said that priests would “universally” refuse to report confessional matter, reminding a reporter: “Priests have in the past history of the Church been martyred for refusing to break the seal of the confessional.”
Additional sources for this story: Priests could be ordered to report confessions of sex abuse to police (News.Com.AU) www.news.com.au/national/priests-could-be-ordered-to-report-confessions-of-sex-abuse-to-police/story-fncynjr2-1226428524648
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My artwork is a visual reflection on various, and often opposite, cultural realities that I have experienced during my life, from growing up in Mexico, living a couple of times in France, and becoming a citizen of this country in the year 2000 after being a permanent resident living in the Bay area for 20 years. I integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, ethnic stereotypes, ideological propaganda from various times and places, , American popular culture, etc. The art becomes a product of collisions between historical visions, ancient and modern, marginal and dominant paradigms - a thesis and an anti-thesis that end in a synthesis in the mind of the viewer. Often, the result is a non- linear narrative with many possible interpretations. Depending on the specific concept, I choose to work primarily with 2-D in different media: Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking (traditional and digital). Sometimes I work on Public commissions. In general I like to develop different bodies of work that may differ from each other in style, but would have similar conceptual basis.
For example, my codex books are based on the idea that history is told by those who win wars. Previous historic accounts are erased, destroyed or buried in oblivion. A new official story is invented in order to justify the new reality of events. Cultures are transformed and often completely destroyed by conquering ones. The world is endlessly re-mapped and re-named, with new rules and rulers in recurrent holocausts. New "world orders" come and go in the middle of ideological frenzy. The 20th century has been perhaps the most violent in the world's history, and the new Century does not seem to get any better. Human kind is in constant war with itself, perfectly capable of total destruction. This is the raw material for my art.
I depart from the conquest of the Americas ‹ which started in the late 15th century ‹ and the destruction of the written history of ancient cultures in meso-America. Only about 22 pre-Columbian books survived the fire set by the European priests and soldiers on all libraries found during the conquest war. Meso-America was one of the few places in the world in which written language was developed. It was the only geographic area in the continent with libraries like the one in the Aztec kingdom of Texcoco created by the king/poet Netzahualcoyotl. That library was described by indigenous historians as the largest ever created in the ancient world, with books full of historical, medical, astronomical and religious information that shaped the ancient world. Almost all is permanently lost, not only the books but also the written language.
Since from this perspective history is an ideological construction, I decided to invent my own account of the many possible stories ‹ from Cortez to the border patrol ‹ in my own visual language. I mix pre-Columbian mythology with Catholic icons, American comics and images of ethnic stereotypes. Recently I have added even more varied imagery due to globalization, and international wars. My codex books are made with the same bark paper (amate) used in the ancient codex books. I also have a series of large paintings on amate which are based on the same concept described above.
My large drawings (80"x 80") are based on satirical cartoons. With several possible influences (Goya, Daumier, Posada) they are very much developed in my own style. They comment on contemporary issues with humor. They are drawn with inexpensive materials: charcoal and pastel on paper and they are meant to have an ephemeral life in the art world. When I first started the series I did not wanted to make art, I just wanted to exercise my freedom of expression. I thought most of them would end up in the closet. To my surprise they were requested for exhibitions, and most of them have survived the test of time. I made a computer animation of one of these drawings, and sometimes I show it in an installation next to the drawing. I have started a new series of charcoal drawings in the year 2004 reflecting my anxieties about war, and post 9-11 xenophobic wave.
My etching series entitled "Homage to Goya", and more recently “Return to Goya” were started in 1983, and have continued until this year when I made two large prints based on his “Caprichos” and his Desastres”. The prints are almost forgeries of Francisco Goya's 19th century etchings known as the "Disasters of War," and The Caprichios.” Curators often display Goya's prints next to mine to trick the viewer, since they look alike (except for the contemporary elements included in my images, likeTV monitors, space shuttles, famous modern political and religious leaders, etc.). I witnessed a gallery patron going back to double check what he just saw and laughing when he saw that my etchings were not Goya's, but rather contemporary prints. The concept of this work is based on the question: How would Goya have portrayed events in the 20th century if he had witnessed it, if he had traveled in time? My etchings are my own version of the answer, without the pretension to compete with the old master (one of the etchings on this series is a self portrait with my small foot entering a gigantic Goya's shoe).
Other work series are a visual play on issues of good and bad taste as an expression of social class and cultural bias beyond subjective preferences. In one series I did some painting and drawing directly on fifty original 19th century European prints used for educational purposes with the biographies of the artists. I got them from an old book infected with fungus. I saved the good pages and gave them a “second life”. I overlaid on top of the engravings images of very diverse class and cultural origin, from pre-Columbian art to American popular cartoons, drawings for tattoos, etc. A byproduct of this experience is a sense of what I would call reverse anthropology or reverse Western art history. Instead of a European artist appropriating artistic expressions by cultures from former colonies (i.e. Picasso "appropriating" African sculptural forms to develop his cubist style like in the Mademoiselles D'Avignon, or Henry Moore "borrowing" from Aztec sculpture (Chac-Mool) to develop many of his pieces, or Frank Lloyd Wright "inspired" by Mayan architecture in some of his designs, to give just some few famous examples, and not to mention "high" art inspired by "popular" art) I ask the question: What kind of art would have been created if the opposite had happened? I have explored this concept with few other paintings on hand made paper, and a set of cans depicting “cannibal’s soup” including various recipes such as “Curator’s Liver,” Museum Director’s Tripe,” “Artist Brains With Rice,” Models Meat,” “Anthropologist With Noodles,” etc.
My latest works have been a series of paintings exploring issues of illegal immigration, racial stereotypes, and xenophobia in a post 9/11world. Focusing on this theme, I have a traveling survey of my work from the last 24 years organized by the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. The title of the exhibition, “Borderlandia,” is a mix of Spanish and English words that reflect my ongoing preoccupation with the borders people build amongst each other (political, social, cultural, ethnic, etc.). A comprehensive catalog of the show was published by the Art Center. The exhibition will travel to UC Berkeley Art Museum in the Spring, and ended at the Palm Springs Art Museum in Southern California
American, Born 1953, Mexico City, Mexico / Lives in San Francisco, California
Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 70’s, and also in Europe in the late 90’s, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world as well. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues. Through these seemingly harmless characters Chagoya examines the recurring subject of colonialism and oppression that continues to riddle contemporary American foreign policy.
Chagoya was born and raised in Mexico City. His father, a bank employee by day and artist by night, encouraged his interest in art by teaching him drawing and color theory at a very early age. As a young adult, Chagoya enrolled in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he studied political economy and contributed political cartoons to student and union newsletters. He relocated to Veracruz and directed a team focused on rural-development projects, a time he describes as “an incredible growing experience…[that] made me form strong views on what was happening outside in the world.” This growing political awareness would later surface in Chagoya’s art. At age 24, he immigrated to the United States and settled in San Juan, Texas. After eight months working as a union organizer for farm workers, Chagoya moved to Berkeley, California, and began working as a free-lance illustrator and graphic designer. Disheartened by what he considered to be the narrow political scope of economics programs in local colleges, Chagoya turned his interests to art. He enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a BFA in printmaking in 1984. He then pursued his MA and MFA at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1987. In 1995 he won a residency to live and work at Monet’s Giverny gardens outside of Paris, France; and in 1999 he had a residency at the Cité international des Arts in Paris. In 2000 Chagoya became and American citizen. His work has been shown nationally and internationally. In the fall of 2007 the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa launched a 25 year survey exhibition of his work that traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Palm Springs Museum in California.
Chagoya is currently a Full Professor at Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Metropolitan Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco among others. He has been the recipient of numerous awards such as two NEA artists fellowships; a Tiffany Fellowship; an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a President’s Award for Excellence from the San Francsico Art Institute; and a grant from Artadia, to mention a few. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA; George Adams Gallery in New York, NY; and Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. His prints are published by Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Co; Segura Publishing in Pueblo, AZ; Trillium Press in Brisbaine, CA; Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA; Electric Works in San Francisco, CA; ULAE in New York, NY; and Smith Andersen editions in Palo Alto, CA.
Enrique Chagoya quoted in Steven Nash’s, “Borders of the Spirit,”Triptych (October/November/December 1994) 24.
6th century and later addition
Photo credit: Werner Forman / Art Resources, NY
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When Steve Bertrando hired his goddaughter, Codi Caulder, to work at his new tire store in Landenberg six years ago, he wasn’t quite sure it would work out.
Women, he figured, weren’t quite adept at working in what many consider a man’s profession.
But Bertrando found that women actually performed better than men. Today, his business, All About Tires on Baltimore Pike, employs three young women, one of whom just had a baby.
“It’s funny with how the chemistry works out with the girls,” Bertrando said. “A friend of mine started a business with a partner a month ago and already they aren’t getting along. Everybody gets along really well here.”
Gina Compello, Casey Gray and Deyci Lopez combine for about 20 years of service at the tire store. All of them perform all of the physical labor required to lift and mount tires on cars and trucks.
“For a little 100-pound girl like (Compello) to pick up some of the things she picks up is amazing,” Bertrando said. “I wouldn’t want them changing a tractor trailer tire because that gets heavy, but passenger cars and light trucks, these girls can do it all.”
Dave Lerch, who joined with Bertrando seven years ago, said he’s noticed that women work better than men.
“They have a nice touch,” he said. “We get a lot of high-end cars in here, and guys tend to slap things up but these girls have more of a gentle touch. Some of the rims alone are worth $1,200 and the girls can handle it. They are more trustworthy and organized than men.”
Every one of the women at All About Tires can mount and balance four tires on a small car in about 13 minutes.
“They are the NASCAR of passenger cars and light trucks,” Lerch said.
Gray, who lives in Oxford, said she doesn’t mind the physical work.
“I’d rather be doing this than sitting in a big office with a cubicle,” she said.
Lopez, who lives in Landenberg with her two sons and newborn daughter, said she doesn’t mind manual labor. She worked up until her eighth month of pregnancy. She’ll return to work in January.
Bertrando said it took about two months to train the women. He taught them proper technique for tire installation and stressed safety.
Bertrando said he’s noticed more companies hiring women because they get along better than men on the job.
“One of our tire companies saw how good our girls worked together here and the first two hires they had were girls,” he said. “It’s a good dynamic. There’s not a lot of alpha male thing going on. The girls blend right in.”
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Michigan Home Sales Increase in 2008
We hear a lot of bad news about the real estate market, and the Michigan real estate market is supposed to be one of the worst in the country. Therefore, you might be surprised to learn that the number of homes sold in Michigan actually increased by +1.43% in 2008, from 99,552 homes sold in 2007, to 100,943 units in 2008 (data here). What makes that even more impressive is that nationally, home sales decreased by -13% in 2008 vs. 2007, and sales in the Midwest declined by -15% (data here).
Of course, the average home price in Michigan declined by -16%, from $140,724 in 2007 to $117,940 in 2008, but that's part of the recovery process - falling home prices eventually stimulate an increase in the number of homes sold, and that's what's happening in the Michigan real estate market.
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Justin Taylor posted a video of Tremper Longman discussing Genesis 1 and the historicity of a real person named Adam. His main claim seems to be that we shouldn't insist on the text requiring an actual historical person to have existed and that it's an overly literalistic interpretation that requires that. I read through the comment section, and I think a lot of people are making some mistakes both in interpreting what Longman is saying and in what it implies about his view of scripture.
Several points seem to me worth emphasizing.
1.Longman has denies neither plenary inspiration of scripture nor inerrancy. What he has done is deny a view that many people here take to be implied by (a) inerrancy or the plenary inspiration of scripture together with (b) a certain view of what Genesis 1 and/or other texts of scripture, when interpreted correctly, actually teach.
2. If Longman is incorrect about the matters (b) describes, then his view is compatible with inerrancy but incompatible with the correct interpretation of scripture. But lots of people have views incompatible with the correct interpretation of scripture, and we don't claim that they are therefore denying inerrancy. Do continuationists claim that cessationists are denying inerrancy (or vice versa)? No! They simply disagree with their interpretation of scripture. It would be another thing to say that a text really means something but that what it says isn't true. The Fuller Seminary view of scripture allows for that. Longman's doesn't.
3. Longman didn't actually say that Genesis 1 should be taken in such a way that there was no single Adam. What he said is that we shouldn't insist that it must be. He also didn't say that the same is true of other passage of scripture. It's possible, for all he said, that he thinks Genesis 1 doesn't necessitate a single Adam but other parts of scripture do. I get the sense from his language that he's more interested in recognizing that people can accept inerrancy and accept the conclusion of the consensus of science than he is at arguing that we ought to take any particular view of how to interpret Genesis 1.
He does say that insisting on the traditional interpretation is overly literalistic, but he doesn't actually go as far as saying that merely taking it that way is overly literalistic. He says that insisting on taking it that way is overly literalistic. There's a difference. One is insisting on keeping the borders of inerrancy intact rather than confusing them with heremeneutical issues. The other is insisting on a certain interptretation of a certain passage. He doesn't in this video do the latter. I'd have to hear more from him to know his full view, therefore, but I see no insistence that there was no single Adam. We ought, at least, to keep that in mind.
4. There are ways to fit the non-individual approach to Adam to the other texts people are citing. It does mean a somewhat unnatural reading of a few statements (such as Paul's comparison of the one man Adam and the one man Jesus), but it's possible to take those statements as true while not referring to an actual one man Adam but to the one man Adam in the Genesis account. I don't think this is the most natural way to take either the Genesis narratives or Paul's statement, but it's possible to take the Genesis narratives as true in the sense parables are true and Paul's statement as true in the same sense that it's true that the Good Samaritan helped the man that other passersby ignored. It's true that the Good Samaritan did this. It's just truth within a story. The character in Jesus' parable did that. It's just that he was telling a parable and not implying the existence of a real person who did what the Good Samaritan did.
Someone could take Genesis' early chapters in a similar way, teaching about how we are all fallen and how we all do what Adam and Eve did, thus in NT terms taking there to be an explanation of why there's a need for a savior, without believing there was a real individual person whom the Bible calls Adam and a real individual person whom the Bible calls Eve. So the other passages that Longman doesn't discuss don't necessitate denying scripture in other places. The fact that he only mentions Genesis 1 doesn't mean he'd have to say that someone holding the view he wants to make room for (but doesn't seem to endorse) is denying some other part of scripture. It just means he didn't address those other passages, and a fuller presentation of such a view would have to do that.
So, short of further information, I'm not seeing any justification for some of the claims I've seen in the comment section of Justin's post. Longman doesn't deny inerrancy or the plenary inspiration of scripture. He doesn't endorse the view he's making room for and doesn't say the traditional view itself is overly literalistic but just says that insisting on the traditional interpretation as the only possible one is overly literalistic. He doesn't comment on other passages but presumably could, and it's not as if there are ways to fit such a view with the rest of scripture without denying inerrancy. There's plenty of room for arguing about whether such a view is the best way to take various texts, but there's no room in my mind for claiming that this approach is a denial of a high view of scripture itself. It's just a denial of common interpretations that, together with a high view of scripture, would lead to the view of a historical individual Adam.
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In case you haven’t heard, podcasting is the new big thing. Podcasting is when you are able to get bits and pieces of “radio” — basically any audio, but mostly spoken word — over the web to play offline, perhaps in your iPod. The key thing is that anyone can create these broadcasts. Combine it with the distribution capabilities of RSS, and you are on to some really interesting possibilities.
In the same way that the old reality of “freedom of the press only applies to those who can afford a printing press” is meaningless in a web-ified world, the people are no longer captive to those with broadcast towers and FCC licenses.
What’s the third word in the new company’s name? Oh yeah, “Voice.” Interesting.
This is starting to get some pretty good buzz, mostly led by Dave Winer, a former fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center.
Jeff Jarvis explains Podcasting’s significance far more eloquently than I can.
As does Doc Searls.
PODcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as well.
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In the wake of war in a country that have been ravaged by destruction, sanctions and despotism for a generation. The tyrant is gone but the reason for the 2003 invasion was sketchy at best. Those responsible for the devastation are walking free but the losers have been tried and mostly executed. The country is now off the radar screen of newscasts. A “new world order” reign supreme in Iraq that was the 4th most corrupt country in the world. Now there are even fewer laws followed and the law of the gun is the law of the day. Car bombs and suicide bombers can strike at any time and do so frequently with more lost lives and devastation as a result. Concrete blast walls separate people and prevent in-sight. Yet over 20 million still lives here whereof a quarter or more in the capital Baghdad. This is about the Daily Life of the Iraqi’s those who could not leave. The life we in the west know so little about.
I first came to Iraq in 1991 as a UN weapons Inspector. In my spare time I walked the streets of Baghdad. The images I took then (1991-96) is of a city very different from today. Yet many people are the same, generous of spirit and welcoming of heart. A cup of tea breaks the ice and the curiosity and camera opens doors (some are slammed shut as well). In 2011 I returned and I will likely do so again to continue this long term portrait of a country in post war recovery
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The True Shame Of Class Warfare
November 22, 2010
By Robert Rohlfing
Karl Marx described in his 1848 Communist Manifesto the 10 steps or 10 Planks of Communism necessary to destroy a free enterprise system and replace it with a system of omnipotent government power, so as to effect a communist state. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will inevitably produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, he believed socialism will, in its turn, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism.
In America today this is done through a method known as "Class Warfare." This is done to attempt to divide Americans and has deep roots in Marxism. The Democrats have attempted to do this by trying to "shame" you if you oppose "Progressive" Ideology; time and again they fall back on the same rhetoric of saying that if you do not agree that you want grandma to be forced to eat dog food or that you want children to be forced to work in sweat shops when this is the farthest thing from the truth.
Many who are pushing forth this ideology hold true to these world views:
Agnosticism: Holds that truth is "unknowable."
Pragmatism: Is more concerned with what 'works' than with what's true.
Liberalism/Modernism: We must rethink and adapt our concept of God and truth to fit with modern culture and modes of thinking.
The common rule that is most apparent is that they believe that the Golden Rule is that "common good" trumps independent choice. Many are believers that you will only find salvation through collective means instead of independent merit. The primary word here is collective; everything revolves around this one word. It is believed that through independent choice you are not able to survive and as such power and control will need to be handed over to a central body.
Socialism, which is at the core of Marxism, believes that man is cruel and indifferent to man, but to advance mankind you have to create the divide that will allow for the indifference and cruelty to exist and that is through propagation of class warfare. When this occurs advancements of a free society are discounted such as the fact that through competition and choice the greatest achievements of our time have occurred. It is believed that due to the fact that some rise above others through their own enterprise and will that they have to be punished somehow, what is lost is the fact when you have a central body limiting choice you create an environment for stagnation. In doing so not only does the individual suffer but the collective suffers in kind.
Socialism and Marxism attempt to reduce the complexity of society to make it rational, and to eliminate inequity. Generally speaking, it succeeds only in reducing man, and eventually eliminating the dignity and grandeur of mankind. It completely corrodes all concept of the elevation of man, and of mankind.
As it was stated long ago, give a generation of children to those who would espouse a given ideology and you can transform the way of thought for years to come. This we have seen in our schools where many of these theories have been pushed upon our children; as a result young adults today have not been exposed to some of the faults and dangers that surround this way of thought. Through media older generations are bombarded daily in an attempt to transform their way of thought, and when you have the choice to an alternative the old practice of "shaming" is attempted to discredit the opposing ideology.
Class warfare is the vehicle that the modern Socialist/Marxist uses to create this divide so that we are led to believe that if you succeed in life you deserve not to enjoy the fruits of your success. They attempt to pass blame for this success off as exploitation when all along the way to that success mutual free choices have been made by all involved. No one forced an individual to work or purchase anything that those individuals used as vehicles to their success. The choice has always been in the individual to seek alternatives and through a free society these have been made available, unlike in a centrally controlled society where options are limited to a few approved designated choices.
Time and again we see those who would like to "shame" those who listen to Conservative talk radio, or Fox News, but what these folks do not like to point out is the fact that as an individual you are not forced or limited to just these choices. You have the freedom not to listen or watch these programs, and you have the freedom to choose alternatives unlike in many cases where central control prevails where you are forced to the approved programming.
Another example is the castigation of places such as Wal-Mart. As an individual you have the option in a free society not to shop at this store. With an open marketplace you have the opportunity to shop at a competing store such as Target; that is your choice as an individual. Under a centrally controlled society that Socialists/Marxists would like for you to adhere to, the individual choice in many cases can be taken from you so that the approved location for your purchases can be thought of as beneficial to the "common good." What is overlooked though is that by doing so you allow for your choices to be taken from you and that you will be dictated to what you are allowed and that is control in its basic form.
Class warfare, far from working to improve society at large, only works to limit the individual and mankind as a whole. Socialism though it is a grandiose dream by many only allows for stagnation through limitations. Marxism is the underlying theory that a classless society will occur despite the examples where it has been employed where distinct classes occurred, and the ability to rise from one to the other was not afforded on an individual basis but pre-determined instead.
To reach the end goal those Socialists/Marxists follow the "Progressive" ideology that is nothing more than window dressing to the root ideology. Class Warfare is the key tool used; that is, the attempted demeaning of those who disagree, and attempts at silencing the opposition. Few are fooled by these attempts and despite the attempts to do so the American public at large still resist this attempted transformation.
Through independent education and the freedom of thought, what is most ingrained in Americans of independence and freedom of choice and the resistance to being controlled or intimidated will never transition to the failed ideology of Socialism/Marxism.
The true shame of class warfare is that it does not unite people in a common cause, it only works to further divide, working in the opposite direction of those who attempt to utilize this tactic.
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This story was done through a partnership between The Huffington Post's Eyes and Ears citizen journalism program and Gotham Gazette. Gotham Gazette reporter Courtney Gross wrote the piece using stories from New Yorkers gathered through The Huffington Post and Gotham Gazette. Sign up here to join Huffington Post's citizen journalism team covering New York to be part of more of these stories.
Neat freaks, beware of Brownsville, steer clear of Morrisania and forget about Chinatown.
These are some of the neighborhoods that received the worst ratings for street or sidewalk cleanliness, according to data from the Bloomberg administration's Office of Operations.
To avoid litter-strewn streets stick to Bayside, Queens or the South Shore of Staten Island.
To some of you, these characterizations may come as no surprise.
Gotham Gazette and The Huffington Post asked you to send in photos and tales of nasty neighborhood trash. Many of you said Bushwick, the Bronx and areas of Upper Manhattan were centers of grit and grime.
A review of cleanliness scorecards for the last year and a half corroborated some of your claims. We found poorer neighborhoods afflicted with other environmental challenges were on the lower rung of neighborhood neatness. More affluent areas of the city were more likely to be trash free.
And you've noticed.
"I live in Spanish Harlem and I am always shocked at the difference in the streets there and those of the Upper East Side. Every morning I get coffee at Starbucks in the UES and see sanitation workers cleaning the streets daily. I only see them about once a week in my neighborhood," wrote one reader, who goes by tiffanykapri. The reader punctuated her message with an unhappy face.
About 93 percent of the streets in East Harlem were considered "acceptably clean" between July 2008 and December 2009. On the Upper East Side, more than 98 percent were.
This tale of trash festers all over the city.
Outer Borough Bust
There is the inescapable dog droppings ("It seems that no one cleans up after their dogs," one reader complained).
Or the constant search for a trashcan: "I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn and it is DIRTY! Despite numerous calls to 311 from all my friends and me to have trash cans placed in our neighborhood, we still only have one, which only just appeared about six months ago after years of begging for trash cans," another reader lamented.
One Mott Haven resident, who goes by missyfoosy, complained streets in the South Bronx have more than trash troubles:
"I lived right on Bruckner Blvd, considered the first block when you enter the Bronx from Manhattan. On the waterfront is the NYC Waste Transfer station that just renewed its lease for 99 years; to the north is I-87, which wafts truck exhaust and car fumes right into the neighborhood. Rodent infestations in the abandoned buildings make it impossible to walk the sidewalks at night; they are overrun. There is never enough trash bins nor the collection of that trash."
The community boards in the South Bronx have some of the dirtiest sidewalks in the city, according to data, collected monthly, from the mayor's Office of Operations. The only ones worse are in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville in Brooklyn.
Bayside, the South Shore of Staten Island and the Upper East Side boasted the cleanest sidewalks.
Street neatness has a similar story. The Bronx's Melrose and Morrisania and Brooklyn's Borough Park scored the nastiest ratings. (For a look at your community board, check out our breakdown.) Again, the South Shore of Staten Island was kept the cleanest.
Community leaders have plenty of explanations as to why their neighborhood may fall on the gritty or gleaming side of the city.
"People are passionate about their communities and people take pride in their community," said Jerry Iannece, the chair of Bayside's community board. "You see them sweeping their streets."
In other, more pungent neighborhoods, leaders say their litter problem could be ameliorated if they had more public garbage cans and if the sanitation department swung by more often. But, said Brooklyn's Community Board 16 District Manager Viola D. Greene-Walker, the problem goes beyond that.
"People, for whatever their reason, would rather instead of disposing their litter in their buildings as they are leaving, just take it outside and put it in front of the building on the sidewalk," said Greene-Walker, whose district includes Brownsville. "'Somebody is going to take care of it.' (It's) that attitude."
The city's Department of Sanitation says it treats every neighborhood equally.
"The Department of Sanitation makes every effort to keep New York City clean for all New Yorkers," sanitation department Spokesperson Kathy Dawkins said in an e-mailed statement.
Gotham Gazette requested statistics from the Department of Sanitation on the number of litter baskets per community district as well as the frequency of pick up. The department did not provide the information by the time of publication.
A Long Way from the 80s
Despite the disparity, New York has seen much worse. Since 1975 the city has been scoring the cleanliness of its streets, and in 1980, 53 percent of them were considered "acceptably clean" citywide -- an all time low.
Last fiscal year, according to the Bloomberg administration, 95.8 percent of streets were deemed "acceptably clean" -- the highest ever.
Even in Bushwick, which one reader called the "neglected underside of Brooklyn," community leaders say there has been a vast improvement.
"If you would have seen it the way it was when it was literally all lots," said Willie Morales, the community associate for Community Board 4 in Bushwick. "Compared to now, it is immaculate."
But that may not be the case for long.
This fiscal year, which started in July and goes to June, the Department of Sanitation has seen successive budget cuts and reconfigured trash routes to make better use of its time and money.
Since those cuts were enacted in July, almost 30 percent of community boards saw a decrease in their street cleanliness ratings.
"Current economic conditions had an impact on the city’s adopted budget," said Dawkins in a statement. "Litter basket collection is a priority and in spite of a painful $80 million budget reduction in fiscal year 2010, we will devote all available resources to servicing baskets in high-density, heavily trafficked areas as often as possible."
This year the department could face an even sharper ax. Cuts to the city in Governor David Paterson's proposed state budget threaten the city's recycling program and its regular refuse pickup. If the governor's plan goes through, the mayor has warned the city would do away with all street cleaning and all public litter baskets.
Those actions would put every community's cleanliness ratings down into the dumps.
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