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TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- Maryland's prison agency says its crackdown on cell phone smuggling is showing results.
The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said Monday that the number of cell phones found in the prisons dropped 32 percent in fiscal year 2010 from fiscal year 2009.
The agency says it found a little over 1,100 cell phones last year compared with nearly 1,700 the previous year.
The agency made stopping contraband a priority three years ago.
Secretary Gary Maynard says the improvement reflects department efforts including more than $1 million spent on new detection technology in 2009.
He says the agency also hired an investigator whose sole focus is cell phone cases.
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Origin: Realm of the Looking Glass
A Mirror of Whispers is a living spirit free to roam throughout mirrors in a certain dwelling, able to spy on the inhabitants and become wise with the observance of human life. They are fashioned in an egnimatic place called the Realm of the Looking Glass, where the objective contents of thoughts are harbored (according to Magil). They are presumably used for the dispensing of knowledge; Viper Manor is equipped with a spirit and a few mirrors for this purpose. In Lynx's quarters, the spirit manifested itself in the prominent mirror by appearing as a talking statue of Venus in the reflection. It provided information on the whereabouts of the key to the treasure vault and also tapped into the memories of Magil and Kid (though it could be consulted for less noble ends). Unbeknownst to the Radical Dreamers, Lynx had previously set up the Mirror of Whispers to betray the thieves. As it attempted to draw Serge in, however, it felt guilty and shattered itself in defiance. The Radical Dreamers briefly lamented its loss, and moved on.
In the original Japanese, the mirror invites Kid first, who tells Serge to try instead. Serge barely gets a hand in before Venus seems to break herself, revealing that she is a servant of Lynx.
The Mirror's Insights
Before long, the jet black surface of the mirror is filled with what looks like Regionna. One by one, shadows of trees, houses, and people materialize... The mirror focuses in on a young woman, surrounded by small children. The children are dirty and poorly dressed, but they're all smiling and playing happily nonetheless. Then, abruptly, the building they're in bursts into flames. Armed troops are all around. Everyone scrambles for a way out, but... Against her will, the young woman is abducted. The children, however, meet a much darker fate... Time passes. After the fire has burnt the building to the ground, the mirror shifts focus to a small girl covered in soot, crying behind the charred remains of her home. She lets loose a bloodcurdling scream into the open sky, as her right eye narrows like a cat's...
Once the light has faded, we're treated with a scene of a vividly colored, beautiful courtyard... Amidst a number of trees' shadows, a boy and a girl are sitting and playing. Somehow I know that the boy is Magil. Even as a child, his trademark spirit shines through. The girl, however, looks strangely familiar. Where have I seen that face before... perhaps that painting in the study? They're talking happily together. We're too far away to hear what they're saying, though. Then all of a sudden, he says something with a serious look suddenly in his eyes. Although surprised, the girl listens to what the boy has to say, and then nods. The two press their hands together, linking fingers. It looks as though they're making a promise of some sort. What could this be about?
On Kid's Measurements:
Kid's measurements!" bursts out of my mouth with a big smile. I duck out of the way as Kid begins to slap and punch me, desperately trying to keep my eyes on the mirror. Suddenly, its surface begins to ripple. Could it really know this much? Boy, this is going to be good... Slowly, numbers start to form on the dark surface. "66... 5... 9..." 66, 5, and 9? What kind of measurements are those? Momentarily catching her attention, Kid also stares at the numbers, scratching her head. After a moment, Magil offers a simple answer in an apathetic monotone. "Height, shoe size, ring size." What!? Oh man, what a gyp...
"In that case, I'd like to know about your past." After a moment of silence, the statue's reflection starts to speak in a very humble tone. "You have interest in my past?" "Yeah, what in blazes are ya?" Kid interrupts. "Well, it's probably been three hundred years already since I was crafted in the Realm of the Looking Glass," the statue's soft voice explains. "The Realm of the Looking Glass?" I ask. "It's the flip-side of this world... a world which harbors the objective contents of thoughts," Magil quickly answers. "Passing through the hands of many owners, I traveled far and wide throughout many lands..." "So how did ya end up here?" Kid asks. "I came here with a kindred spirit, but now... I am alone." "Furthermore, now that I am without others of my own kind, I have begun to fade... I am so lonely..." Tears trickle down the statue's face as it begins to weep quietly. "If we come across any other mirrors like you, we'd surely come back and tell you," I say, trying to comfort it. "Thank you so much... your kindness shines, truly." The Venus statue bows its head deeply, and with that, the reflection returns to its normal appearance. "Indeed. We have yet to explore much of this mansion," Magil says, heading for the door.
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Home Remedies For Toothache
If you have a toothache and are too lazy to go treat it professionally, you should know some home remedies for toothache. A toothache, depending on the severity, can be fixed at home using one of many potential remedies. If the toothache cannot be fixed using the home remedy, its severity can at least be reduced.
- One of the simplest ways to reduce the impact of the pain of a headache is to use clove oil. Clove oil is a natural pain reliever, and prevents the bacteria from a toothache from spreading. Make a mixture of two parts of olive oil with one part of clove oil (thereby diluting the clove oil, which may cause a burning sensation in the mouth if used undiluted). Dip a cotton ball in the mixture and place it in your mouth on the side of the pain, biting into it with your mouth. You should feel the pain begin to reduce immediately.
- If you don't have access to clove oil, you can easily use garlic instead, which is another great home remedy for a toothache. Crush a medium sized piece of garlic as fine as you can to turn it into a paste, and add a tiny amount of salt to it. This paste should be applied directly to the tooth that is causing your toothache, as garlic is renowned for its medicinial properties.
- Another home remedy for a toothache is to take a sip of neat, undiluted whisky (or rum). Keep it in your mouth, swishing it around the tooth that is causing the toothache, taking care not to swallow it. Alternatively, you could simply keep the whisky or rum in the area where the toothache is for as long as possible. This will cause the tooth and its surrounding area to get numb, thereby temporarily getting rid of the pain.
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Goodie Garden and Merryweather Plumbing and Heating Company. There were four apartments upstairs in this building where the following people lived: Bill and Ida Merryweather, Warren and Eva Cox, Frank H. Merryweather and family, Dr. Jake Bergstrom and Claire. It was taken down to make space for the railroad depot. It was rebuilt as the Victory apartments, Froyd apartments in 1917.
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149 U.S. 593
13 S.Ct. 1011
37 L.Ed. 862
May 15, 1893.
J. Alex. Preston, for plaintiff in error.
Atty. Gen. Miller, for the United States.
Mr. Justice GRAY delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a suit, brought November 1, 1888, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland, under the act of March 3, 1887, (chapter 359,) by Nicholas S. Hill, a citizen of Maryland, against the United States, for the use and occupation of land for a lighthouse.
The petition alleged that the plaintiff, since February 14, 1873, had been seised and possessed in fee simple of certain tracts of land in Baltimore county, in the state of Maryland, fronting upon Chesapeake bay, (as shown upon a plat, and specifically described in a deed of that date to him from Thomas Donaldson, copies of both of which were annexed to the petition,) 'with all the riparian rights attached thereto under the law of this state;' that since his acquisition of said land and rights 'a valuable part thereof has been used and occupied by the United States government' for 'the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse, known generally as the 'Miller's Island Lighthouse," 'without any compensation to your petitioner for such use and occupation, and without the consent thereto of your petitioner of his predecessors in title;' and that 'by the use and occupancy by the government as aforesaid of his property he has been prevented from using the same within the limits above mentioned, and from erecting buildings thereupon, and using the same for fishing and gunning purposes.' The plaintiff 'claims, as damages, for the use and occupation of his said property as aforesaid, the sum of $9,999 from November 1, 1885, until November 1, 1888, and prays the judgment and decree of this honorable court thereupon on the facts and the law.'
The United States pleaded three pleas:
(1) A former judgment. The plaintiff replied that there was no such judgment, and the United States joined issue on the replication.
(2) 'That the land referred to and described in the petition filed in this cause is submerged land, and part of the bottom of the Chesapeake bay, one of the navigable waters of the United States; and that the said defendant, under the law, for the purposes of a lighthouse, has a paramount right to its use as against the plaintiff or any other person.' To this plea the plaintiff demurred.
(3) 'That the defendant did not commit the wrongs alleged.' The plaintiff joined issue on this plea.
On June 22, 1889, the circuit court over ruled the demurrer to the second plea, and gave judgment thereon for the United States, with costs, and filed a written opinion, which is published in 39 Fed. Rep. 172.
On June 27, 1889, the circuit judge filed findings of facts and conclusions of law, which are copied in the margin.1
The act of March 3, 1887, c. 359, § 7, provides that 'it shall be the duty of the court to cause a written opinion to be filed in the cause, setting forth the specific findings by the court of the facts therein, and the conclusions of the court upon all questions of law involved in the case, and to render judgment thereon. If the suit be in equity or admiralty, the court shall proceed with the same according to the rules of such courts.' 24 Stat. 506. But in the case at bar the only judgment entered, and upon which this writ of error was sued out, appears to have been given for the United States on the plaintiff's demurrer to the second plea, which presented an issue of law only, upon which the findings of fact can have no possible bearing or effect. It would seem to follow that the findings of facts cannot be taken into consideration by this court upon this recoir. But this is comparatively unimportant, because those findlings do but state in greater detail the facts alleged and admitted by the petition, the second plea, and the demurrer to that plea.
The land in question upon which the United States have built and maintain a lighthouse is below low-water mark, and under the tide waters of Chesapeake bay. Both parties assume that by the common law of England, which was the common law of Maryland, the title in land below high-water mark of tide waters was in the king, and upon the Declaration of Independence passed to the state of Maryland, and remained in the state after the adoption of the constitution of the United States, except so far as any right in such land was surrendered to the United States by virtue of the grant to congress of the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, including as a necessary incident the exclusive right to regulate and control the building and maintenance of lighthouses for the protection of navigation, and except, also, so far as any right on such lands has been lawfully granted by the state of Maryland to private persons.
By the statued of Maryland of 1862, c. 129, article 54 of the Public General Laws of the state was amended by adding the following sections:
'Sec. 37. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable waters of this state is hereby declared to be entitled to all accretions to said land by the recession of said water, whether heretofore or hereafter formed or made, by natural causes or otherwise, in like manner and to lide extent as such right may or can be claimed by the proprietor of land bounding on water not navigable.
'Sec. 38. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable waters of this state is hereby declared to be entitled to the exclusive right of making improvements into the waters in front of his said land. Such improvements and other accretions, as above provided for, shall pass to the successive owners of the land to which they are attached, as incident to their respective estates; but no such improvement shall be so made as to interfere with the navigation of the stream of water into which the said improvement is made.
'Sec. 39. No patent hereafter issued out of the land office shall impair or affect the rights of riparian proprietors, as explained and declared in the two sections next preceding this section, and no patent shall hereafter issue for land covered by navigable waters.'
The plaintiff contends that the entire title in the land below high tide, with the right to improve and build upon the same, remained in the state after the adoption of the constitution; that by the statute of 1862 the title to such land, at the place in question, or at least the exclusive right of building thereon, was vested in the plaintiff; and that the title or right so acquired by him was his private property, which, by the fifth amendment of the constitution, could not be taken by the United States for the erection and maintenance of a lighthouse for the public use, without just compensation.
The United States, on the other hand, assert, and the court below had held, that the United States, upon the adoption of the constitution, acquired the paramount right to the use of this submerged land for a lighthouse, without making any compensation therefor; and that any title or right conferred on the plaintiff by the subsequent statute of the state was necessarily subject to this paramount right of the United States.
The question thus presented is of such importance to the United States, as well as to owners of lands bounding on tide waters, that it becomes this court, before expressing any opinion upon it, to inquire whether the courts have jurisdiction to determine the question in this form of proceeding against the United States.
The whole effect of the act of March 3, 1887, (chapter 359,) under which this suit was brought, was to give the circuit and district courts of the United States jurisdiction, concurrently with the court of claims, of suits to recover damages against the United States in cases not sounding in tort. U. S. v. Jones, 131 U. S. 1, 16, 18, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 669.
The United States cannot be sued in their own courts without their consent, and have never permitted themselves to be sued in any court for tort committed in their name by their officers. Nor can the settled distinction in this respect between contract and tort be evaded by framing the claim as upon an implied contract. Gibbons v. U. S., 8 Wall. 269, 274; Langford v. U. S., 101 U. S. 341, 346; U. S. v. Jones, above cited.
An action in the nature of assumpsit for the use and occupation of real estate will never lie where there has been no relation of contract between the parties, and where the possession has been acquired and maintained under a different or adverse title, or where it is tortious, and makes the defendant a trespasser. Lloyd v. Hough, 1 How. 153, 159; Carpenter v. U. S., 17 Wall. 489, 493.
In langford v. U. S. it was accordingly adjudged that, when an officer of the United States took and held possession of land of a private citizen, under a claim that it belonged to the government, the United States could not be charged upon an implied obligation to pay for its use and occupation.
It has since been held that if the United States appropriate to a public use ladn which they admit to be private property, they may be held, as upon an implied contract, to pay its value to the owner. U. S. v. Great Falls Manuf'g Co., 112 U. S. 645, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 306, and Id., 124 U. S. 581, 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 631. It has likewise been held that the United States may be sued in the court of claims for the use of a patent for an invention, the plaintiff's right in which they have acknowledged. Hollister v. Manufacturing Co., 113 U. S. 59, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 717; U. S. v. Palmer, 128 U. S. 262, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 104. But in each of these cases the title of the plaintiff was admitted, and in none of them was any doubt thrown upon the correctness of the decision in Langford's Case. See Schillinger v. U. S., 24 Ct. Cl. 278.
The case at bar is governed by Langford's Case. It was not alleged in this petition nor admitted in the plea, that the United States had ever in any way acknowledged any right of property in the plaintiff as against the United States. The plaintiff asserted a title in the land in question, with the exclusive right of building thereon, and claimed damages of the United States for the use and occupation of the land for a lighthouse. The United States positively and precisely pleaded that the land was submerged under the waters of Chesapeake bay, one of the navigable waters of the United States; and that the United States, 'under the law, for the purpose of a lighthouse, has a paramount right to its use as against the plaintiff or any other person;' and the plaintiff demurred to this plea. The circuit court, instead of rendering judgment for the United States upon the demurrer, should have dismissed the suit for want of jurisdiction.
Judgment reversed, and case remanded to the circuit court, with directions to dismiss it for want of jurisdiction.
Mr. Justice JACKSON, not having been a member of the court when this case was argued, took no part in its decision.
Mr. Justice SHIRAS, dissenting.
When the fifth amendment of the constitution of the United States declares that 'private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation,' a compact or contract of the highest degree of obligation is thereby established between the American people of the one part and each and every citizen of the other part. In and by that constitutional provision every citizen agrees that his property may be taken for public use whenever the nation, through its legislative department, demands it; and the United States agree that, when the property of the citizen is so taken, just compensation shall be made.
Whenever a case arises in which that constitutional provision is invoked, two questions present themselves: First, is the property dealt with the private property of the party claiming it? and, secondly, has it been taken by the United States for public use?
If the property to be affected is not that of the claimant, of course his appeal to the constitutional protection will be vain. But it is equally plain that the question of title is not one to be decided by the party claimant, or by the legislative or executive departments of the United States. That is a judicial question. Accordingly if, in a given case, it is either admitted or proposed to be shown that the property concerned belongs to a party before a court having jurisdiction to deal with the subject, then the only question that remains is whether such property has been taken by the United States for public use. In such a case the United States cannot, by a plea denying the plaintiff's title, make it the duty of the court to dismiss the plaintiff's suit. Such a denial cannot be treated, in face of the constitutional compact, as an exercise of sovereign power, whereby the right of the citizen to assert his property rights is forbidden, but it merely raises a judicial issue, to be determined by the court.
If the court shall determine that the property in question is the private property of the claimant, then the second question comes up,—whether the United States have taken it for public use.
If it shall appear that, in point of fact, the United States have not taken the plaintiff's property for public use, and that all that the plaintiff has to complain of is that some persons, known or unknown, but claiming to be officers or agents of the Unites States, have committed a trespass upon his property, and it does not appear that the acts complained of were in pursuance of any law of the United States, or that they have been ratified by the United States, by taking possession of and occupying the property for public use, then the plaintiff's case will fall within the doctrine of Langford v. U. S., 101 U. S. 341, and must be treated as an attempt, under the assumption of an implied contract, to make the government responsible for the unauthorized acts of its officers, those acts being themselves torts.
But if it shall be shown or be admitted that the United States, by law, either authorized their agents to appropriate the property of the plaintiff, or have ratified the action of their agents by taking possession of the property and subjecting it to public use, then the constitutional duty of the court is to pronounce judgment for the plaintiff, and to award him just compensation.
These views do not overlook the wellsettled doctrine that unless and until congress shall, by adequate legislation, provide a legal remedy, private rights against the government may be in abeyance. But when congress, in obedience to the behest of the constitution, has provided such a remedy, then there is no legal obstacle to the plaintiff's recovery. That congress has provided such a remedy is seen in the act of March 3, 1887, (chapter 359,) whereby it is enacted that the court of claims, and, concurrently, the district and circuit courts of the United States, 'shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable.'
This legislation perhaps originated in the regret expressed by this court in Langford's Case, that 'congress has made no provision by general law for ascertaining and paying this just compensation.' That was a suit brought in the court of claims, under section 1059 of the Revised Statutes, in which there is no remedy provided for claims founded upon the constitution of the United States, and was, in the language of the court, the case of 'an unequivocal tort.'
The later case of U. S. v. Great Falls Manufacturing Co., 112 U. S. 656, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 306, is, in some respects, like the present one. It was there held that it was clear. 'that these property rights have been held and used by the agents of the United States, under the sanction oflegislative enactments by congress; for the appropriation of money specifically for the construction of the dam from the Maryland shore to Conn's island was, all the circumstances considered, equivalent to an express direction by the legislative and executive branches of the government to take this particular property for the public objects contemplated by the scheme for supplying the capital of the nation with wholesome water. The making of the improvements necessarily involves the taking of the property; and if, for the want of formal proceedings for its condemnation to bupblic use, the claimant was entitled, at the beginning of the work, to have the agents of the government enjoined from prosecuting it until provision was made for securing in some way payment of the compensation required by the constitution,—upon which question we express no opinion,—there is no sound reason why the claimant might not waive that right, and, electing to regard the action of the government as a taking under its sovereign right of ancient domain, demand just compensation. In that view we are of opinion that the United States, having, by their agents, proceeding under the authority of an act of congress, taken the property of the claimant for public use, are under an obligation imposed by the constitution to make compensation. The law will imply a promise to make the required compensation where property, to which the government asserts no title, is taken pursuant to an act of congress, as private property to be applied for public use. Such an implication being consistent with the constitutional duty of the government, as well as with common justice, the claimant's cause of action is one that arises out of implied contract, within the meaning of the statute which confers jurisdiction upon the court of claims of actions founded 'upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States."
Having distinguished the case from that of Langford, the court proceeded to say: 'In such a case it is difficult to perceive why the legal obligation of the United States to pay for what was thus taken pursuant to an act of congress is not quite as strong as it would have been had formal proceedings for condemnation been resorted to for that purpose. If the claimant makes no objection to the particular mode in which the property has been taken, but substantially denies it, by asserting, as is done in the petition in this case, that the government took the property for the public uses designated, we do not perceive that the court is under any duty to make the objection in order to relieve the United States from the obligation to make just compensation.'
It will be noticed that this decision, in terms so applicable to the present case, was made before the act of March 3, 1887, in which, for the first time, an express remedy was given for 'all claims founded upon the constitution of the United States,' and in 'respect to claims for which the party would be entitled to redress against the United States, either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty, if the United States were suable.'
In the present case, although no express proceedings have been instituted by the United States to condemn the property for public use, yet it is admitted in the pleas that the United States have taken possession of it for a public use or purpose; and by various acts of congress, of which we can take judicial notice, large sums of money have been granted to construct and maintain the lighthouse on the site in question.
The opinion of the court seeks to withdraw the case from the operation of the constitution and the act of 1887, and to bring it within the decision of the Langford Case, by contending that, because the United States by their pleas deny the plaintiff's right to recover, the acts complained of are thereby shown to have been sheer torts, and therefore expressly exempted from judicial cognizance. I am unable to see the force of this reasoning. The statute having provided that all claims founded upon provisions of the constitution shall be enforceable, surely a district attorney of the United States cannot by a mere plea, not denying the plaintiff's title to his land, but claiming that the land is legally subject to a servitude in favor of the United States, which exonerates them from making compensation, deprive the plaintiff of his right under the statute to have his claim adjudicated. Can it be possible that, after congress, in recognition of the constitutional provision and of the repeated suggestions of this court, has provided a legal remedy, a subordinate legal functionary can by a plea, either of matter of fact or of law, defeat the beneficient purpose of congress, deprive the plaintiff of his remedy, and convert the United States, against their will, as expressed in the constitution and the act of congress, into a wrongdoer? I cannot accept the proposition that, by a plea putting the plaintiff upon proof of his claim, the United States thereby escape from their constitutional coverant, and nullify the statute which provides a remedy.
The question presented by the second plea in the court below is, no doubt, one of difficulty and importance, which, if and when it comes before this court, will demand serious consideration; but that question is waived by the opinion of the court, and any discussion of it in this opinion would be out of place.
I therefore have a right to assume that the property of the plaintiff below, though held subject to the right of eminent domain, is entitled to the protection of the constitution; that there is no kind of private property, whatever may be its nature or origin, that can be taken for public use without just compensation being made.
Hence it follows that the court below erred in overruling the demurrer to the second plea. I think the judgment of the court below should be reversed, and the cause be remanded to the circuit court to proceed therein in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred upon it in such ample terms by the act of March 3, 1887.
Findings of Facts.
(1) I find that copies of the plaintiff's petition were, in compliance with the requirements of the act of March 3, 1887, (chapter 359,) duly served on the United States district attorney and the attorney general of the United States, and said law in all respects complied with.
(2) In find that the plaintiff, since February 14, 1873, has been seised and possessed in fee simple of the tract of land described in these proceedings, and known as 'Miller's Island,' and of all the riparian rights attached thereto under the laws of the state of Maryland.
(3) I find that no part of the fast land ineiuded in the deed of the plaintiff has been used or occupied by the United States; but that a site for the rear range light of Craighill channel, situated about 200 yards from the shore line of the plaintiff's land, has been occupied and used by the United States; that the said site is submerged land in the Chesapeake bay, one of the public navigable waters of the United States, and within the ebb and flow of the tide, and in water about 2 feet deep at low tide.
(4) I find that Craighill channel is a channel in Chesapeake bay, constructed by the United States, and used by ocean vessels in their approach to the port of Baltimore; and that the lighthouse constructed by the United States in the year 1874 on the site in question is an important and necessary aid to the navigation of said channel.
(5) I find that theUnited States took possession of said site for the purpose of building the lighthouse in question, without condemnation, or the payment of any compensation to the plaintiff or any other person, in the year 1874.
(6) I find that the land of Miller's island, belonging to the plaintiff, was heretofore used and is chiefly valuable on account of the gunning for geese, swan, and ducks, and for the fishing privileges with nets; and that since the erection of the lighthouse adjoining the shore the value of the land has decreased greatly; and that the plaintiff's testimony tended to show that said decrease is due to the erection of said lighthouse; and that the island formerly rented for $3,000 per annum, but since the erection of the lighthouse the rent has decreased to $500 per annum.
Conclusions of Law.
That the legal title to the site of the lighthouse in question is in the stae of Maryland, subject to the riparian rights of the plaintiff under the act of 1862, chapter 129, of the Laws of Maryland.
That under article 1, § 8. Const. U. S., which provides that congress shall have the power 'to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes,' both the title of the state of Maryland and the riparian rights of the plaintiff are subject to the paramount right of the United States to use and occupy the site in question for the purposes of commerce, which includes navigation, without condemnation or compensation; the submerged land forming the site of the lighthouse being, as to such a use by the United States, public, and not private, property.
I therefore overrule the demurrer of the plaintiff to the second plea of the United States, and I do give judgment under said plea for the United States, with costs, to include what has been actually incurred for witnesses and for summoning the same and fees paid to the clerk of the court.
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A girl confided to her friend that
a proposal for her marriage had 'been received by her parents and that she was
yet to be consulted before a decision was made. After congratulating her for the
matrimonial prospects, the friend inquired the name of the suitor and then burst
into a hilarious laughter when it was given to her much to the embarrassment of
The boy appeared to be popularly known by a funny
nickname which was attached to his name. There was nothing that the boy could
do about it. It stuck firmly as if it was stated in his Birth Certificate. The
girl could not fancy herself being known in the community as Mrs. of the husband
bearing that funny nickname. Her children too who were to follow from the marriage
and would include daughters would suffer bearing that funny surname!
the girl's dislike welled up in her for any boy with that nickname when she had
not even known or met the boy yet. It would however be silly on her part to give
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arrangements made by the parents for each to assess each other's liking, she felt,
or she thought that she felt. much to her relief, that she did not like him after
all, as she had prayed even before having seen him, though to all others in the
family he was a suitable young suitor with an average likeable stature and complexion,
apart from his other good merits. She tried hard not to link her dislike of his
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Of the fact that opposite powers are not of the same boldness, and that the occasions of temptation are not under their control.
We ought also not to be ignorant of this, that they have not all the same fierceness and energy, nor indeed the same boldness and malice, and that with beginners and feeble folk only the weaker spirits join battle, and when these spiritual wickednesses are beaten, then gradually the assaults of stronger ones are made against the athlete of Christ. For in proportion to a mans strength and progress, is the difficulty of the struggle made greater: for none of the saints could possibly be equal to the endurance of the malice of so p. 369 many and so great foes, or meet their attacks, or even bear their cruelty and savagery, were it not that the merciful judge of our contest, and president of the games, Christ Himself, equalized the strength of the combatants, and repelled and checked their excessive attacks, and made with the temptation a way of escape as well that we might be able to bear it. 1478
1 Cor. x. 13.
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books about: carroll
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
A Time for Reason
I was blown away having read //From Eternity to Here//. Here is an aoristic stroll through eternity from the perspective of a theoretical physicist. Unlike "Time" by Eva Hoffman, //From Eternity to Here// is an exhilarating journey through time, "The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time," says author Sean Carroll. Sean Carroll propels the reader through a sensuous ride through time. He ...
A Tangled Tale.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses
Storey Publishing, LLC
can't go wrong with this one!
This book was the only one chosen for sale in the well known cheese supply store in Seattle. The owners praised it. I was pleased to find it at a lower price on Amazon! Easy to read format and easy to follow directions. Very informative.
Phantasmagoria And Other Poems
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
We're talking the best of Carrol here.
This poem, writen in five line verses, ranks right up there with Alice in Wonderland. The poetry of Homer with the wit of Dr. Suess. I would suggest this book to anyone who likes poetry in any form.
Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion
Great read - and money goes to a great cause
Nobody has ever won 7 consecutive conference titles or played in 7 straight BCS bowl games before Pete Carroll did it at USC. This is a great look into the philosophy that made this extraordinary level of success possible. For the football fan, it relives moments from some of the great victories at USC, as well as coaching experiences in the NFL. It also talks about the implementation of the ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Into another World
The story of Alice in Wonderland 1 and 2 is a well thought story that brings you to a place of "nonsense". The way Lewis Carrol wrote it has to do a lot about politics and the way of reality. Alice always thinks what's the point of a book that shows nothing interesting whatsoever? Well later on she discovers that there are a few reasons why s some things are not nonsense. These are some of the ...
General Books LLC
Reminds us that math can be FUN
Math is fun, but the rhetoric of most 'taught' (probably an overstatement) math (and, by extension, logic) is so incredibly dry that the forest is rarely seen for the bark on the trees. But here Carroll, with tongue lodged firmly in cheek, turns the rhetoric (and by extension, the way we think about math problems) on its ear, and the result is an often incredibly funny approach to math and ...
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated
Unconventional account of world history
I am a practicing attorney with a background in history. Having just read Tragedy and Hope, I found that it presents a fascinating survey of world history that is different from that found in college textbooks and other conventional versions of history. Unlike such conventional accounts, Quigley does not merely explain what has happened, but he explains why it has in the way that it has. ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Public Domain Books, 1997
I could just see the movie playing in my head as I read. every detail was visible it was amazing! I loved this book!
The Hunting of the Snark
Carroll's Short and Sweet Chaucer Imitation
The Hunting of the Snark seems to be a very, very short imitation of The Canterbury Tales. The first chapter (titled a fit) introduces all of the occupations of all the different people going on a journey. However, instead of going on a general pilgrimage and telling tales along the way, their trip is very specific to hunting. The Baker actually attempts to tell a story, but the Bellman (who ...
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Sean B. Carroll
W. W. Norton & Company
How little changes make big changes
Another gem by Sean Carroll.The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution focuses on one key question: how do "small" evolutionary changes lead to big, complex designs in organism forms? It boils down to long time periods, many offspring, and selection pressures. Carroll uses profound examples, including the evolution of the eye, to show how study of genetics has ...
Alice In Wonderland
The Artwork Really Brings This Classic to Life!
Almost everyone knows the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland. They've either read the book or seen the movies but none of the former publications quite bring Lewis Carroll's story to life like Camille Rose Garcia. The artwork in this story is fantastic! Every page pops and pertains to the scene being described in a nearly perfect fashion. After finishing this version I could not help wondering ...
From The Teeth Of Angels
Main Street Books
Occasionally a novel speaks to fundamental issues that transcend insight and enjoyment. This one did it for me. I don't like Sci-Fi or fantasy, but Carroll's work tears the fabric of reality and goes to one's unexpressible fear and longing to address primal concerns, not unlike the effect fairy tales have on children. Yet he does it in a world where the natural laws as I understand them apply. ...
Twilight of a Queen: A Novel
An Exciting and Immersive Tale
Twilight of a Queen is historical fiction, and also more of a romance than I expected it to be, not that I minded that. The story changes perspectives between many of the characters, good and bad alike. I sometimes don't like that style, but actually enjoyed it in the case of this novel. The characters have many dimensions and this is part of what makes this novel so great. It is so often that ...
Validation is a wonderful gift!
I found this book to be exquisite and highly readable. It has enlightened me on parts of church events that I somehow missed when I gave up about 40 years ago - but now have returned to 'take the best and leave the rest' - the timing for me is exceptional. There were many things that I knew and just as many as I did not - and of course I identify with James Carroll to a great extent - and am ...
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Dr. Sean B. Carroll
Excellent introduction to the science of evolution
I could not put this book down. I devoured all but the last two chapters (biochemistry). Get it, read it, free your mind the way these remarkable men did. I especially enjoyed the chapter on Charles Walcott.
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created ...
St. Martin's Press
The Likeable, Peculiar Man from Wonderland
It has become part of our received knowledge that Lewis Carroll, author of the Alice books, liked being with little girls, and liked photographing little girls without their clothes, and that for all we may enjoy Alice's adventures, we have to wince at their author's being a pedophile. I have heard a presenter classify him in that category in a medical presentation on child abuse, for instance. ...
The Young Wan
A GOOD SOLID FUN READ - FROM HILARIOUS TO BITTER/SWEET
Not having read the Agnes Browne trilogy, this was my first exposure to the author. I, infact, did not realize that it was a prequel to other books, having picked this one up purely by accident. What a lucky find for me? I cannot remember when I have enjoyed a work as much. The author is a natural story teller, quite a fine writer and has the ability to make his characters jump off the page. ...
Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll (Wordsworth Library Collection)
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Everything you need
I bought this book from Colombia. It was shipped perfectly, and the book arrived in great condition. As a book it's everything you could ask for: great illustrations and the complete works. Nice presentation. And you get all of this for such a low price. Very good edition.
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History
An Incredible History
This is how your review will appear: An Incredible History, May 20, 2010 By Stanley C. Diamond "Stanley C. Diamond" (phila, pa. usa) - See all my reviews This review is from: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History (Paperback) It is a while now since I first read James Carroll extremely informative book, Constantine's Sword. I was not sure that the seemingly ...
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Faith and Wellness in Congregations
This site was created to help you and your congregation work towards creating a healthier community.
The places we work, live, learn, play and worship influence our food choices and our physical activity opportunities and, as a result, they have an impact on our health. Over the past two decades, these environments have changed drastically, often in ways that make it much harder to follow a healthy lifestyle. For example, fast food and other unhealthy options are often cheaper and easier to find during our daily routines, and neighborhoods may not have safe areas for kids to play actively outdoors.
Within our congregations we are faced with a number of challenges – and opportunities – around healthy decision-making. Congregations have significant, but at times underused, assets such as: kitchens, playgrounds and gyms, land for gardens, and food expertise, as well as values, beliefs and traditions, which could be used to improve access to healthy food and physical activity.
You have the power to change your immediate environment to make healthy choices the easy choices for everyone. Using the Congregational Health Index or "CHI" is a great place to start. By examining the facilities and practices of your congregation, you can identify strengths and weaknesses as well as plan improvements to enhance your faith community's health.
Hopefully, the changes you adopt inside your congregation will carry over into other settings that influence your congregants' lives, and into the community through your community ministry, outreach or social justice work. May your wellness work become part of who you are and serve as an example to others.
Click here for information on how to Get Started with the CHI. Haga un clic aquí, para el Índice de la Salud de Su Congregación. Click here for a copy of the CHI in Spanis
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Kara Hanson in the Irish Journal on research to evaluate the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm): “Tapping into the private sector distribution chain can have a major influence on which antimalarial treatments are available and their price and quality in just a few months.” The Lancet study (and Comment co-authored by Anne Mills) were also covered by BBC News.
David Schellenberg tells Associated Press (in Washington Post, Miami Herald and almost 300 other outlets in the US and worldwide) it is too early to judge if AMFm has succeeded following the Lancet study, criticism of the programme and discussions over its future: “More people might be inadequately treated if this program is closed. But this approach will not work everywhere.”
Peter Piot in the Independent on why tackling disease is key to solving global poverty: “By establishing the 8 MDG pillars, we have made them easier to understand, measure and evaluate. But this resulted in oversimplification… The danger is that issues are considered only in isolation. This is not real life.”
Virginia Berridge speaks to FT about Richard Doll, ‘the man who kicked our butts’: “[Richard Doll's work was part of] the one-nation citizenship idea carried through from the war.”
Punam Mangtani speaks to BBC Asian Network about her research into breast cancer among British Asians (from 02:26 and 03:02): “The mortality rates are not rising for breast cancer but the incidence rates look as though they are going up and going up faster than they are in the general population.”
Catherine Pitt discusses her recent analysis of donor funding for newborns in a Healthy Newborn Network blog.
Research led by Rosa Legood into HPV “test of cure” following pre-cervical cancer treatment covered by Medical Breakthroughs, Science Codex and other online publications.
Tony Fletcher in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel on the final findings of the C8 Science Panel around the health risks of C8 exposure in the Mid-Ohio Valley: “We had to collect a lot of data and it did take a lot of time. We reviewed 40 different diseases. It was a mammoth undertaking.” Covered by various US titles.
Peter Piot speaks to the Lancet about Marleen Temmerman following her recent appointment to a senior position at WHO: “Her strength is that she can combine the science and the research with politics and policy.”
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SNR: K5, D7000 and A580 at the top
The tendency of the Use Case scores has a direct correlation with the SNR measurement. The metrics for the top three sensors (K5, D7000 and A580) are identical from ISO 100 to 3200. After 3200, the K5 takes a noticeable advantage, but mostly because of the smoothing it applies to the file.
If these three sensors show very similar metrics, those for the a55 and the EOS 60D show more noise. In the case of the a55, SNR loss seems to correspond to the 1/3-stop loss mentioned on some forums. The loss of light induced by the semi-transparent mirror is certainly the origin of the problem. The a55 and EOS 60D have a comparable noise output, both sensors almost 2 dB inferior to the top three sensors. The difference is important, as 2dB means 2/3 stop.
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A startup that creates innovative ways for groups to send money to each other, Akimbo, also enables Facebook users to easily share funds with their friends, with all transfers free of charge and occurring instantly.
The social-savvy platform has a traditional financial-transactions back end. In order to share money with friends, Facebook users must register with Akimbo, link their bank accounts, and reveal their mailing addresses.
Akimbo says it “turns shared expenses into shared experiences.” For example, Akimbo’s iPhone app can be used to pay friends back for concert expenses. When transferring them money, users can attach pictures from the concert to the Akimbo transaction. These pictures can then be published to Facebook when the transaction is submitted.
Users will start seeing Facebook wall posts like, “John just paid Suzy back for dinner,” in their News Feeds. It may feel a bit strange to see public posts about money changing hands, but the transaction amounts won’t be included — just the fact that money changed hands, along with any associated message, photos, etc.
How viral will public financial transactions become? Public displays of shared activities with shared economics could become the norm, with the money part adding sizzle to normal sharing activities. Facebook users may be intrigued by social activities and money exchanges, and check out Akimbo, leading to a viral loop for its products.
Akimbo users can also share money with non-Facebook friends via email addresses and phone numbers that identify them as fellow Akimbo users.
Akimbo Card has a real-world business model to go along with its social mechanics. The company provides customers with prepaid debit cards and uses traditional automated clearinghouse infrastructure to route funds between user accounts and to store merchants.
The company also just announced a way to share five prepaid “sub-cards” with other people. Sub-cards can be given to babysitters, used as kids’ allowances, etc. Sub-card users spend the money from single Akimbo accounts, instead of Akimbo transferring money to five different bank accounts.
Akimbo is really pushing this size of friend group — five maximum on the cards — to bring social mechanics to traditional prepaid debit cards. Money is transferred to Akimbo, and then spent via the Akimbo cards.
Readers: Do you feel comfortable sharing money across the Facebook platform?
Note: Readers who are interested in trying out Akimbo Card can get $5 added to their accounts by using the promo code “allfacebook” while registering.
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March 9, 2011
The Gibson Scale
The sheer volume of anti-Semitic spoutings and sputters in the past couple of months poses a serious question for Jews: When should we laugh? When should we worry?
When should we fight back?
The problem is one of priorities. It is so tedious to drop everything we’re doing and lavish attention on some offhand derogatory comment. On the other hand, it is easy to become inured to the babble. Sometimes a drizzle means a storm.
What we need is a standard way to assess the severity of the anti-Semitism, a unit of measurement, like watts and APGAR and Richter. A standard unit can serve as a shorthand early-warning system to us all. The people who keep track of such things can let us know, immediately, alphanumerically, just how much the latest anti-Semitic outburst should worry us. Unless someone has a better idea, I say we call the unit of measurement a Gibson.
The Gibson scale measures the severity of an anti-Semitic remark from 1— think Woody Allen in “Annie Hall” imagining he heard someone say “Jew eat?”— to 10 — think the vicious hate-filled images on al-Qaeda and Hamas “educational” materials that inspire the murder of innocents.
I’m not sure who gets to actually do the rating. It would be terrible for this to turn into a turf war between competing Jewish acronyms, and even worse if Jewish defense organizations used the fear of anti-Semitism to grab donor attention. I suggest a rottentomatoes.com or metacritic.com aggregator approach, where many professionals can rate, and the average appears on a Web site, thegibsonscale.com. Conveniently, I just bought that URL.
So, let’s move from theory to practice.
Charlie Sheen: 2 Gibsons
The actor Charlie Sheen’s reference to “Two and a Half Men” producer Chuck Lorre as “Chaim Levine” seems to be a one-off. I don’t believe Charlie Sheen hates Jews. I believe he hates a Jew. The last time I checked, that’s allowed. Sheen is also nearing the perigee of a spectacular flame-out, fueled either by too much booze, too much coke or just too much Charlie Sheen. If you heard Sheen last week on “The Howard Stern Show,” you wouldn’t be worried for Jews, you’d be worried for Sheen’s parents
John Galliano: 4 Gibsons
In a drunken hissy-fit, Christian Dior designer John Galliano spewed hate at a couple in a French café, then a video surfaced in which he said, “I love Hitler.” Now he will stand trial in French court on charges of making “public insults based on … origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity.”
Galliano was fired, made an apology and faced the wrath of actress Natalie Portman. For all that, this was garden-variety claptrap from the potty mouth of someone whose followers are looking for fall fashion, not political marching orders.
Julian Assange: 5 Gibsons
Assange is the WikiLeaks mastermind who claimed that a cabal of powerful Jewish journalists is behind the smearing of WikiLeaks. What’s spooky here is that Assange’s legions of followers are conspiracy-minded in the first place. Add the word Jew to the mix, and their overheated imaginations can fill in the blanks. On the other hand, whatever credibility Assange did have with most journalists and admirers went down several notches when the cutting-edge anarchist reached for the most stale of stereotypes.
Glenn Beck: 7 Gibsons
Sorry, Fox News fans, but the network’s highest profile broadcaster moves the needle into the light-red zone. In the past few months, he has launched diatribes against billionaire George Soros that regurgitate every Euro-trope about the International Jew. Lately, Beck compared Reform Judaism to “radicalized Islam.”
This is no Chaim Levine. Beck has a politically engaged following that hangs on his every word. He has sold 4 million books, reaches millions more through his Web site and has the bully pulpit provided him by Roger Ailes (interesting question: how many Gibsons accrue to Roger Ailes as Beck’s enabler?).
The only thing that pushes Beck’s Gibson rating down are his TV ratings: They’re down, too. Beck has lost a million viewers from his peak (though he still has more than all his competitors combined), and The New York Times’ David Carr puts the blame for that on what appears to be Beck’s nonstop shrill, panicky, End Times rants.
In other words, Glenn Beck appears to be losing it.
And there, I suppose, is a lesson the Gibson scale can teach us: Anti-Semitism is the last stop on the way to Crazy Town. A 1996 study by the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mortimer Ostow determined that the more one held anti-Semitic beliefs, the more likely he was to harbor psychotic thinking. (The opposite was true as well: The less you believe in anti-Semitic stereotypes, the less of a nutter you are.)
“In the presence of a sense of disorganization and chaos, societies congeal into fundamentalist groups that require a mythic enemy,” wrote Ostow. “These groups tend to cultivate apocalyptic paranoia. Under those circumstances, anti-Jewish sentiment and discrimination become active persecution.”
Apocalyptic thinkers like Beck need an enemy to kill so society can be reborn. That’s what shoots Beck to the top of the charts, with Assange behind, though with a bullet.
As for Sheen, Galliano and Gibson, the Jews are the least of their problems. And they are the least of ours.
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Immersing in language, culture
The UCLA Confucius Institute celebrates opening of three Mandarin immersion programs in elementary schools.
By Basheer Alas for the Daily Bruin
The UCLA Confucius Institute held a ceremony Monday night to formally inaugurate three new Mandarin immersion programs in schools in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.
Known as Confucius Classrooms, the programs aid in the institute’s goal to promote Chinese language and culture, said Susan Pertel Jain, executive director of the institute.
Since its founding in 2007, the Confucius Institute has provided teaching and language centers to eight schools, said Xiaojie Ma, program coordinator for the Confucius Institute.
Monday’s event was held at the UCLA Faculty Center and attended by Chancellor Gene Block, along with principals and students from the schools in the program.
In a short public address, Block said the classrooms provide an enriching cultural experience and embodied a commitment to helping students succeed in a changing global economy.
Dressed in traditional Chinese attire, 6-year-olds introduced themselves in Mandarin and sang a song. The event also included traditional Chinese music and dance performances.
Confucius Classrooms are sponsored by Hanban, a nonprofit, non-governmental organization in China. The classrooms will take language immersion further by promoting partnerships with several schools in China, Ma said.
Students from Los Angeles schools will be able to interact with students in China via email to improve their Mandarin skills, Ma added.
Though the L.A. students are too young to visit China themselves, Ma said she hopes there will be an exchange of teachers and visits from the other schools’ principals.
Programs at elementary schools such as Broadway and the Norton Space and Aeronautics Academy are particularly effective because younger students are fast and effective learners, Ma said.
Broadway Elementary School in Venice began its partnership with the Confucius Institute and offered its first two Mandarin immersion programs in 2009, said Susan Wang, principal of Broadway.
The classes, which consist of students learning Mandarin for half the school day, soon expanded to six classes because of increased demand, Wang said.
Joyce Cliff, a 6-year-old student at Broadway, participated in a demonstration of the students’ Mandarin skills at the event. Cliff practices the language every day for an hour with her mother, who came with her to the event.
“My favorite part is learning to count,” Cliff said.
The Los Angeles County School for the Arts, located on the Cal State Los Angeles campus, has been offering Mandarin classes for three years now.
Promoting intercultural exchanges is the best way to prepare students for the 21st century, said Principal George Simpson.
Of the three schools, Norton Space and Aeronautics Academy in San Bernardino is offering Mandarin for the first time.
Mandarin is an exciting addition to an already established Spanish immersion program, said Jan Gustafson-Corea, principal of Norton Academy.
“Language and culture play a huge role in developing kids for the future,” Gustafson-Corea said.
Published: Tuesday, October 04, 2011
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Pilot makes emergency landing at Martha's Vineyard Airport
File photo by Lynn Christoffers
The pilot of a chartered, twin-engine Piper Chieftain aircraft, flying from Nantucket to White Plains, New York, with nine passengers on board, smelled what he thought was smoke and made an emergency landing at Martha's Vineyard Airport at about 8 pm on Monday.
The plane landed safely. Airport emergency crews found no sign of fire. Martha's Vineyard Airport manager Sean Flynn said he closed the airport for about 20 minutes.
Airport fire crews, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians from surrounding Island towns responded to the initial call of a strong smell of smoke in the cockpit and a possible fire onboard an airplane. The order to stand down met with considerable relief, Mr. Flynn said.
"The pilot did the correct thing, which was to find the closest airport and land at it," Mr. Flynn told The Times, in a telephone call shortly after 9 pm, Monday. "He landed safely and did a fantastic job. And all is well with the folks that were on the airplane."
Mr. Flynn said the passengers, including one baby, remained calm. There was no evidence of fire in the plane but there was a strong, unidentifiable odor. Mr. Flynn said a mechanic will inspect the plane to try to identify the source of the odor.
"After removing the passengers, the pilot, and the aircraft from the runway where it landed, we inspected the runway and reopened it, and all is well," Mr. Flynn said.
The aircraft was operated by the charter company Fly The Whale, a division of Lima NY Inc., according to a report published in The Inquirer and Mirror.
"Our pilot flying a Nantucket to White Plains flight in one of our Piper Chieftains noticed a smell that might have been caused by an electrical issue," Fly The Whale's chief operating officer Michael Siegel told the Nantucket weekly. "He correctly decided to make a precautionary landing at Martha's Vineyard airport. The landing was textbook and uneventful."
A majority of the passengers continued on to White Plains aboard another Fly The Whale aircraft, Mr. Siegel said.
Correction: An earlier online version of this story incorrectly referred to the Piper Chieftain as a twin-engine jet. It is a prop. The photo that accompanied the story pictured the wrong aircraft.
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The highest-resolution-yet temperature map and images of Saturn's icy moon Mimas obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including unexpected hot regions that resemble "Pac-Man" eating a dot, and striking bands of light and dark in crater walls.
I am sorry you are so miserable. “Depression” means literally “being forced downward.” This can happen even when you don’t consciously have any feeling at all of being “on top.” So I wouldn’t dismiss this hypothesis out of hand …
I would seek out one or two people who seemed amiable and would make myself useful to them … I would raise animals and plants and find joy in their thriving. I would surround myself with beauty --- no matter how primitive and artless --- objects, colors, sounds. I would eat and drink well.
When the darkness grows denser, I would penetrate to its very core and ground, and would not rest until amid the pain an light appeared to me, for in excessu affectus Nature reverses herself. I would turn in rage against myself and with the heat of my rage I would melt my lead. I would renounce everything and engage in the lowest activities should my depression drive me to violence. I would wrestle with the dark angel until he dislocated my hip. For he is also the light and the blue sky which he withholds from me.
Anyway, that is what I would do. What others would do is another question, which I cannot answer. But for you too there is an instinct either to back out of it or to go down to the depths. But no half-measures or half-heartedness.
With cordial wishes,
As ever, C.G.Jung
É extraordinário reparar quão certas estão as previsões tecnológicas e quão erradas as previsões das mudanças sociais.
A good example of what happens to dogs when people are taken out of the picture lies in Russia’s capital city. Feral dogs have been running around Moscow for at least 150 years. These aren't just lost pets that band together – these dogs been on their own for awhile, and indeed, any poor, abandoned domesticated canine will meet an unfortunate fate at the hands of these territorial streetwalkers. Moscow's dogs have lost traits like spotted coloration, wagging tails and friendliness that distinguish domesticated dogs from wolves – but they haven’t become them. The struggle to survive is tough for a stray, and only an estimated 3% ever breed. This strong selective pressure has led them to evolve into four distinct behavioral types, according to biologist Andrei Poyarkov who has studied the dogs for the past 30 years. There are guard dogs, who follow around security personnel, treating them as the alpha leaders of their packs. Others, called scavengers, have evolved completely different behaviors, preferring to roam the city for garbage instead of interacting with people. The most wolf-like dogs are referred to as wild dogs, and they hunt whatever they can find including cats and mice.
But the last group of Moscow's dogs is by far the most amazing. They are the beggars, for obvious reasons. In these packs, the alpha isn't the best hunter or strongest, it's the smartest. The most impressive beggars, however, get their own title: 'metro dogs'. They rely on scraps of food from the daily commuters who travel the public transportation system. To do so, the dogs have learned to navigate the subway. They know stops by name, and integrate a number of specific stations into their territories.
This dramatic shift from the survival of the fittest to the survival of the smartest has changed how Moscow's dogs interact with humans and with each other. Beggars are rarely hit by cars, as they have learned to cross the streets when people do. They've even been seen waiting for a green light when no pedestrians are crossing, suggesting that they have actually learned to recognize the green walking man image of the crosswalk signal. Also, there are fewer "pack wars" that once were commonplace between Moscow's stray canines, some of which used to last for months. However, they remain vigilant against the wild dogs and wolves that live on the outskirts of the city – rarely, if ever, are they permitted into Moscow. When politicians thought to remove the dogs, their use as a buffer against these animals was cited as a strong reason not to disturb them.
Moscow's exemplary dogs show how different traits help dogs adapt to different ecological niches – whether it be brute strength for hunting in the truly feral wild dogs or intelligence in the almost-domesticated beggars. Some wonder if the strong selection for intellect will make Moscow’s metro dogs into another species all together, if left to their own devices.
North Korea's ideology is not merely a nationalist-tinged communism of the old Yugoslav variety. It is a race-based worldview utterly at odds with the teachings of Marx and Lenin. And yet, the outside world continues in the illusion that North Korea is a hard-line Stalinist state. True, the nation's first leader, Kim Il Sung, was installed by Soviet occupiers after World War II. It is also true that the personality cult of Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong Il bears superficial resemblance to the cults of Stalin and Mao. Yet look closer, and it's clear just how different North Korean ideology is. Not for nothing was the country almost as isolated during Soviet times as it is now in the post-communist world.
North Korea's race-centric ideology was inspired by that of the fascist Japanese who ruled the peninsula from 1910 until the end of World War II. Having been taught by their colonizers to regard themselves as part of a superior Yamato race, the North Koreans in 1945 simply carried on the same mythmaking in a Koreanized form. This can be summarized in a single sentence: The Korean people are too pure-blooded, and so too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader. This paranoid nationalism might sound crude and puerile, but it is only in this ideological context that the country's distinguishing characteristics, which the outside world has long found so baffling, make perfect sense. Up close, North Korea is not Stalinist -- it's simply racist.
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When folks think about Rev War stuff in the Winchester area they might think of Washington’s Office (though it’s French & Indian War), Daniel Morgan, Lord Fairfax (as one might expect… a Loyalist during the Rev War) and so on. Just to the east, in Clarke County… between Boyce and Berryville… folks get another dose of the Rev War. Well, sorta. The marker for Morgan’ home, “Saratoga”, for example, brings the frontier-esque general to mind (again), as well as Hessian POWs used to build Morgan’s house (… and there are more houses built by Hessian manpower, in this area and as far south in the Valley as Augusta County). It’s a tease for anyone in search of Rev War history, but… it is here. There’s also more here… but you have to know where to look.
Cemeteries might be a good starting point… with the graves of men like Richard Kidder Meade and Edmund Jennings Randolph. Not only were they Rev War vets, but they served alongside (literally) Washington himself!
But… there’s more. In that same cemetery as Gov. Randolph, there is another grave… that of Thomas Taylor Byrd (and… yes, of THAT Byrd family).
A son of William Byrd, III, of Westover… and grandson of William Byrd the diarist (I spent several weeks in a course at William & Mary reading that diary… great insight into the early history of gentry in Virginia), Thomas T. Byrd’s sympathies in the Rev War were more aligned with those of his Loyalist father.
In a letter to his father, Thomas wrote, in February, 1776…
My Lord Dunmore expressed a desire to have me with him… His Lordship has done me the honour to appoint me Major to a Corps that he is raising here, which I shall acquit myself to the best of my Abilities for the Confidence of his Lordship has been pleased to repose in me.
Thomas’ brother (Francis Otway Byrd), on the other hand, didn’t follow the same path. Though an officer in the British Navy, he resigned at the beginning of the Revolution in preference to independence. Appointed early-on as an aide to General Charles Lee (and some references state that he served as aide to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, as well), by 1777 he was made lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Virginia Continental Dragoons. It appears, perhaps for having gone against his father’s wishes, he never received money from his father’s estate.
Such stories help remind us that divided loyalties among Virginia families was not confined to the Southern Unionism that we see during the American Civil War, but is deep in the history of some of the most famous families of Virginia… and most certainly among the “FFV”.*
Ah, but back to Thomas… because there’s still more of interest in his story. As he pointed out in his letter to his father, Thomas was of value to Lord Dunmore.
In fact, Dunmore convinced British Gen. Henry Clinton that Virginia might still be “saved” by efforts to raise loyalist regiments (specifically, two regiments… one “white” and the other “black”). Byrd was named as commander of Dunmore’s black regiment… the “Ethiopian Regiment“, comprised of freed slaves. Granted, it wasn’t just the name of the regiment that was quirky (considering these slaves were likely either descended from West Africans or were West Africans themselves), but also the concept of “freedom” to slaves. Dunmore intended that freedom be granted to the slaves of the “rebels”, but not the loyalists… a distinction that slaves of Loyal masters did not make. On the ironic side, it was very much so when we consider the mid-18th century slave-holdings of the Byrd family… but more on that in a bit.
In short, Dunmore obviously knew where to hit the Patriots where it hurt… compromise slavery… cripple the economy that compromise the rebellion. Sounds familiar in a similar instance, less than 87 years down the road… I know…
The months ahead for Byrd’s regiment proved harsh. Following defeat at Great Bridge, Dunmore’s troops were forced to ships off the shore of Norfolk and, aboard ship, combined with a lack of provisions and overcrowding, small pox ran rampant. Though Dunmore regained a foothold in Portsmouth in February, Gen. Charles Lee (yes, Thomas Byrd’s brother, Otway, was present in opposing forces) forced Dunmore back to his ships within the month. Dunmore’s forces were inevitably forced to give-up the idea of landing again, and made their way via ships to New York City, in August, 1776.
Byrd’s Ethiopian Regiment was subsequently disbanded (most likely because it had been decimated by disease), though some of the men from the regiment continued to fight on the side of the British. Even so, the very idea of the British promising freedom to escaped slaves appears to have pushed Thomas Byrd’s father over the edge. As he was already in the midst of an incredible debt crisis, the threat of losing his slaves (most of which had been mortgaged at this point, because of his financial state), even prompted the elder Byrd to offer military service to the Patriot cause. After it was rejected, seeing no way out (the situation is explained quite well in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War), William Byrd took his own life in January, 1777.
Thomas Byrd’s story, on the other hand, didn’t end with the disbanding of his regiment. Though he appears to have lost his rank (perhaps because it had not been formally recognized in the first place, within the British command structure), he was appointed an aide/captain to Col. Edmund Fanning, of the King’s American Regiment. Furthermore, by July 1780, he was listed as commanding the 3rd Battalion, of the 60th Regiment of Foot (Royal American). Apparently present at the surrender at Yorktown, in October 1781, Byrd opted not to return to Virginia, but resided in England for a few years after. In time, he sought to return to Virginia, and realizing a return to the Tidewater was not in his best interest (former Loyalists didn’t go over so well), he took up residence on the land that he had inherited (land which had been given by “King” Carter to his grandaughter… Thomas’ mother… Elizabeth Hill Carter Byrd), in Frederick (now Clarke) County. Less than a year later, he married Mary A. Armistead, of Gloucester County and began settling into a home known as ”The Cottage”. In the years that followed, Byrd expanded his land holdings as well as his family. Thomas died in August, 1821.
Sadly, his story remains tucked away in references in books, though it clearly holds potential for greater venues, and could add another interesting facet to the story of the Shenandoah Valley. Perhaps in time it will find its way, at the very least, to a roadside marker near the Old Chapel.
*FFV = “First Families of Virginia”. Another example of divided families can be found in the story of Edmund Jennings Randolph, who of course, was also mentioned above. His father, John, remained Loyal, and even returned to England. Yet, Edmund’s uncle, Peyton Randolph, favored independence and was the first president of the Continental Congress.
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NEW YORK—As Hurricane Sandy continues to track northward along the East Coast in the Atlantic, officials in New York City are gearing up to protect the city from potential flooding and high winds.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo updated the city and state Sunday morning with the announcement that most public transportation, including subways and commuter rails, will begin to shut down at 7 p.m. Oct. 28.
“The transportation system is the lifeblood of the New York City region, and suspending all service is not a step I take lightly,” Cuomo said in a statement. “But keeping New Yorkers safe is the first priority, and the best way to do that is to make sure they are out of harm’s way before gale-force winds can start wreaking havoc on trains and buses.”
Buses will begin shutting down at 9 p.m. Service will be gradually curtailed and totally shut down by 3 a.m. on Monday morning.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), rain is not expected to begin in New York City until after 11 a.m. on Sunday, with heavier rain not expected until Sunday night into Monday. While the storm may not hit New York City directly, the heavy rain will likely bring flooding to low lying areas.
Evacuation of Zone A, which includes Battery Park, Coney Island, and portions of Staten Island, has been ordered and declared mandatory.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who announced the evacuation shortly before noon Sunday, said 65 shelters have been set up in public schools around the city. “If you don’t want to stay in your home and don’t have another safe option, they are available for use. They provide a safe place to sleep, they provide meals, and they have space for pets so bring your pets with you,” Bloomberg said the previous day.
The shelters have backup generators and have increased staffing.
East River Ferry service will be suspended starting on Saturday night and the Staten Island Ferry will run with delays until further notice.
Schools will be canceled on Monday and could be canceled Tuesday and Wednesday.
City offices will not be open on Monday.
Bloomberg said the storm will likely peak Monday night, and city officials expect a storm surge of 6 to 11 feet.
“Tomorrow you’re going to wake up and the weather is going to be a lot worse,” he said.
The mayor ordered all events at the city’s parks to be stopped by 2 p.m. on Sunday and the parks to be closed by 5 p.m.. Bloomberg also told New Yorkers hoping to surf during and before the storm not to do so.
New Yorkers looking for additional information are encouraged to go to nyc.gov or call 311, and only call 911 for emergencies.
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Since no one else wants to comment about the Pope, I thought I’d just drop in for a moment for some retrospection about Benedict XVI, the Nazi Pope, who is going into retirement. Back in 1979, I learned that Joseph Ratzinger and I had something weird in common (other then our people being in camp together)– a devotion to the Hermann Hesse novel, the Glass Bead Game. I had first read the book that year, and one of the masters at my college prep school happened to mention the influence that the book had over a certain percentage of German Catholics. I loved the book, and I spent about 18 months trying to self-teach myself German so that I could read it in the original. I re-read the book regularly, but I forgot that the future Pope had such a fascination until 2005, when he picked the name Benedict. In the Glass Bead Game, one of the most significant characters is a Benedictine priest. When the name was selected, many people speculated why the new pontiff selected that name, but few except for Hesse fans seemed to realize the connection between the new Pope and Hesse’s book. I’m convinced when the proper history of this pope is written, it will have to be written in conjunction with a close study of the Glass Bead Game and its influences on the pontificate. I only mention this because in the Glass Bead Game the Game Master, also named Joseph, who is essentially the Pope of the Glass Bead Game Order, resigns his pontificate to go walk in the woods. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that this Pope is resigning. What is surprising is how few people seem to know how influenced this pope was by Hesse, and how much that influence was likely to impact the ending of this pontificate. Shane out.
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Feature Article of Thursday, 19 April 2012
Columnist: Thompson, Nii Moi
In recent years, the IMANI Center for Policy and Education has played a critical role in at least keeping the public aware of certain important national development issues.
The Center’s latest attempt at promoting public awareness on free secondary (second-cycle) education, however, has proven to be a disastrous exercise in disinformation and fabrication of facts.
They seemed to oppose the idea even before they had understood the issues. The result is a hasty series of sloppy analyses, statistical blunders, and an ever-shifting position that has ranged from an irrational obsession with cost to a perverse glorification of schools under trees to a mishmashof claims that are remarkable more for their internal contradictions than their contribution to policy education.
We need policy education, but it must be based on facts, not fiction. It's time to set the record straight.
IMANI’s written positions on the matter, besides public statements by its analysts, are contained in the following submissions between March and April 2012: (1) Does the NPP’s free Secondary Education Policy Add up?; (2) IMANI's Alternative Costing of the NPP's Free SHS Policy; (3) *Free*SHS: The *Precious*Facts and Figures; (4) *Free*SHS: The *Costly*Facts and Figures; and (5) Strategic Issues and Facts: Why Free SSS Wont Solve the Problems in our Educational System.
I will address each in turn:
‘Does the NPP’s free Secondary Education Policy Add up?’
Contrary to the claim in this article, the NPP never proposed free secondary education “sometime between 2007 and 2008”. Indeed, the Party’s 2008 manifesto had exactly two short sentences on its secondary education record and general plans for the sector; neither sentence mentions free education.
It was the CPP that proposed and expounded on the idea in its 2008manifesto, only for it to be lifted by the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo in 2011. And even then, the public ignored it for the election gimmick that it was until the BBC, in an interview with Nana Addo, forced the issue of financing. Nana Addo’s inability to address it convincingly only showed how tenuous his relationship to the idea was and remains.
A major weakness in the IMANI write-up is the use of two external data sources (UN Population Division and UNESCO) and the Fourth Ghana Living Standards Survey (based on 1998-1999 data), and then “extrapolating” (their word) from the data to get enrolment and other figures that proved to be wrong.
On the basis of this extrapolation, they concluded, for example, that there are 1.2 million persons of secondary school age enrolled in 415 public secondary schools and 100 private ones.
But government's 2012 budget statement(p.141) saysstudent enrolmentin both public and private secondary schools in 2010-2011 was728,076. That is 60.0% of the IMANI figure. That means the “average annual expenditure of $258 million at secondary school level” computed by IMANI was nearly 65.0% (or US$101.5 million) higher than it should be. The figure for the number of public and private secondaryschools in Ghana is no better. The Anamuah-Mensah report of 2002, which served as the basis for the 2007 education sector reforms, reported 474 public secondary schools as of 2000. The 2010 Education Sector Report lists 493public secondary schools and 71 private ones. Since the figures are based on GES surveys, the actual number of public secondary schools therefore is higher – and certainly not 415. Ditto private schools. This meansthatthe number of additional schools (and the associated cost)required for free secondaryeducationis less than implied in the IMANIanalysis.
It gets worse. IMANI uses average household expenditure on secondary education of US$175.00 from GLSS 4 to derive an “initial cost” of US$151 million, using what it calls “elementary arithmetic." This cost then “balloons” to US$1.1 billion “at a constant rate of recurrent expenditure” (whatever that means). No timelines are given.
But average household expenditure in any of the GLSS series applies to both public and private schools, which explains why “school and registration fees”, for instance, could be as high as 51.2% (GLSS 4) and 42.9% (GLSS 5). For public secondary schools, where “school fees” (or tuition) are free and registration fees are nominal, theirshare of overall expenditure isthereforemarginal.
IMANI’s government cost, therefore, is over-estimated by the share of household expenditures which goes to private school and will not be borne (in whole or in part)by the public fiscus. (GLSS does not publish the disaggregated figures, and the correct information can only be gleaned from administrative data).
Perhaps, the most preposterous claim in the article is the following: “From survey data, the additional amount of wages earned by senior secondary graduates over junior secondary graduates does not translate into enough tax-take to offset additional expenditures on secondary education over a 4-year horizon.”
Two questions arise: What in the world were they trying to say, and what is the empirical basis for such aconvoluted assertion?
The following research finding might better illuminate the relevance of secondary education toindividual andnation:
“…while increased education appears to have a positive effect on welfare, it thus seems that a primary education is not itself sufficient… The benefit gained from having some [JSS] education is not large…. The strong positive effect of post-JSS education, in contrast, suggest clearly that this is useful in the fight against poverty” (Source: Canagarajah and Portner, quoted in Thompson and Casely-Hayford 2008, “Financing and Outcomes of Education in Ghana” – available on the internet).
In response to IMANI, the Centre for National Affairs (CNA) on March 22, 2012provided alternative costing to free secondary education in Ghana, but it too had problems with the average household expenditure: It did not only fail to recognize that it comprises expenditures for both private and secondary schools, but it appeared to have used a 2012 exchange rate to dollarize the 2006 figure of GH¢244 reported in the GLSS 5, resulting in an artificially lower figure of US$148.
'IMANI's Alternative Costing of the NPP's Free SHS Policy'
In aresponse to CNA titled 'IMANI's Alternative Costing of the NPP's Free SHS Policy' IMANI conceded, if only grudgingly, that it should have used local and more recent data sources but took issue with the what it called “too many gaps in [CNA’s] analysis”. It disputed the US$148 figureand proceeded to rectify it (or so it thought), using what it proudlycalled“a truly robust treatment ... [that] would have projected to 2011 in Ghana Cedis before commencing the dollar conversion” (whatever that means). Alas, the figure of US$256.00 that this supposedly robust treatment produced was also wrong.
Throughout the GLSS 5 report, cedis were converted to US dollars using the exchange rate for June 2006, which was ¢9,176.48 or GH¢0.92.The GHc244 would thus beUS$265.2, not US$256.00(which was alsoused in subsequent IMANI reports, with wrong conclusions).
With such a basic error in computation – and householdexpenditure on secondary educationstill undifferentiatedbetween public and privateschools– all other calculations, including the billion-dollar cost scenarios, in the rejoinder were also necessarily wrong, despite valiant efforts by IMANI to dazzle the reader with all sorts of equations and formulations.
'Free SHS: The Precious Facts and Figures/ Free SHS: The Costly Facts and Figures'
In subsequent write-ups,IMANIshifted from miscalculations to outright misrepresentation of alternativeor opposingviews. On April 3, 2012itissued “*Free*SHS: The *Precious*Facts and Figures”, presented in a Q&A format where theIMANIostensibly had all the answers and only needed to retrofit imaginary questions to them.
When that failed to gain media traction, they edited and repackaged it as “*Free* SHS - The *Costly* Facts & Figures.” With a new heading and introduction,and a little bit of aggressive media marketing, this version gained some public attention.
Along the way, IMANI’svice president reportedlytold a round-table on free secondary education that “it is not a problem to go to school under a tree”. He offered the following justification: “If the teacher is sufficiently motivated, because many big people today - ministers, doctors etc - went to schools under trees, passed out and today are big people in society. The issue is not the tree. It is the quality of tuition that you are getting at that point. So for me the issue is really not quantity, its quality.”
In other words, a“sufficiently motivated”teacher standing in the rain, surrounded by stray animals, floating laboratoriesorlibraries(if they have any), and cold and presumably distractedstudents,is better than a purposeful government effort to modernize and expand educational facilities and opportunities for allGhanaian children. This is worse than cynical; it is devious.
The "Costly Facts" write up was heavy on bombast and thin on facts, with a style that was smug and shrill, often taking gratuitous pleasure in trivializing otherwise serious issues. We are told, for instance, that freesecondary education would notbefree after allbecause government will use "ourmoney"to fund it. That’s like saying the services of traffic wardens are not free because the government uses “our money” to pay them.
Using the straw man’s approach to argument, they ask the following bogus question, for example,in order to justify a flawed pre-existing view: “…didn’t Dr. Kwame Nkrumah provide free secondary education to Ghanaians?”
And then they answer: “This is another piece of disinformation making the rounds. The CPP NEVER introduced free post-middle education. What was implemented was free basic education....”
Fact is, nobody – certainly not the CPP – has claimed that Nkrumah provided free secondary education. The CPP's Seven-Year Development Plan, which was aborted by the 1966 coup,statesthat basic education became free in 1952 and compulsory in 1961, and then notes the following: “...by the end of the Seven-Year Development Plan secondary education will also have become free.”Teacher training and university education werealready free.
Clearly, if there is any “disinformation”, it is coming from IMANI and nowhere else. There’s more. IMANI claims that “we already spend a quarter of our money on education” and that with a “free SHS” we can “easily top 40%, and a 20% budget deficit”. This of course is false, a cynical misrepresentation of facts. Total government spending in 2012, as outlined in the government’s budget statement, is given as GH¢18,983,200,000.00, with GH¢2,871,680,218 (or 15.1%)going to education. Even if we double the amount for education, that would give us 30.2% (not 40.0%) of the total budget. With a projected budget deficit of only 4.8% in 2012, one also wondershowthat rises dramatically to“20%”. Wherethendid IMANI get its figures?
Besides such egregious fabrications, the write-up is filled with muddled arguments that alternate between demonizing the state as "clunky” and “leaking" while at the same time trusting it to handle “merit-based”scholarships for“proficient students”. It makes reckless and misleading assumptions about how the policy will be implemented without asking its proponents how they would in fact do it. The CPP, for instance, has never said it would abolish all fees and have government take onparental responsibilities.
'Strategic Issues and Facts: Why Free SSS Wont Solve the Problems in our Educational System.'
But the problem doesn’t end there.IMANIlater released an “unpublished paper” that sought “to further clarify [its] position” but only succeeded in cloudingthe issues further. Thevery title, “Strategic Issues and Facts: Why Free SSS (sic) Wont (sic) Solve the Problems in our Educational System”, is problematic because none of the advocates of free secondary education have claimed that it would “solve the problems of our educational system.”
In fact, for the CPP, free SHS would form part of broader educational and public sector reforms to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. It is NOT designed to be a panacea to our educational problems. That’s IMANI’s fiction.
The rest of the paper is more emotional opinions than empirical facts. Indeed, IMANI seems blissfully unaware of the many authoritative materials that exist on Ghanaian education and can enrich their understanding of the issues. Instead, they choose to define problems in the sector as they wish and then propose solutions to fit their wishes. That's cynical and manipulative.
The following are a few good sources that might be of interest to those interested in the state,direction and potential of education in Ghana: The Education Management Information System (EMIS) produced by the Ministry of Education; the education sector annualperformance reports; the Anamuah-Mensah Report (Meeting the Challenges of Education in the Twenty First Century); the NPP Government’s White Paper on the Anamuah-Mensah Report; Education Strategic Plan, Volumes I and II; ESP (2010-2020); National Inclusive Education Policy; the CPP’s 2008 Manifesto (see section on “Social Policy”); the Seven-Year Development Plan (see section on Education, Manpower and Employment); and of course the government’s annual budget statements. In addition, a paper on “Financing and Outcomes of Education in Ghana” authored by me and Leslie Casely-Hayford (2008) is free on the internet.
Whither Free Secondary Education?
It is true that how government finances any policy, including free SHS, is of great importance and must be debatedby decision makers and the public alike, but money is not everything. When policies are made, plans are drawn and costed from those policies and where financing gaps are identified, as they often are, a Program to Eliminate the Gap (PEG) is included as part of the implementation strategy. If we wait before every pesewa we need is in the bank, we will never develop. IMANI's inordinate obsession with cost (with all their miscalculations and deliberate misrepresentations) ignores the fact that if we have all the money in the world but can't plan well, it won't make any difference in our educational system; we will waste it. Conversely, if we can plan and manage our resources, including time, well, we can do more with less.
Thisrequiresa sound strategy grounded in fact, as any good policy should. For example, a simple switching of teachers' distance education classes from Fridays to Saturdays would result in nearly 20,000 teachers being available to teach on Fridays and thus addressing one of the major issues in education quality: teacher absenteeism. This is a documented fact, not some fluffy opinion. And it can have the greatest impact with the least cost, if any.
Many of those opposing free SHS often also insist that we should address the issue of quality before expanding access and participation. But the two are not mutually exclusive, and they can and are in fact best pursued together. Education quality is adiffuse and complexinstitutional challenge that exists in all jurisdictions,not just in Ghana. It requires continuous and innovative solutions. It is folly to think that it can be isolated and dealt with separately for the benefit of a few before being extended to the rest of the school population, for the system that proves successful for the few will collapse once it is expanded for the rest.
Similarly, means testing,which IMANI isnowadvocating,whether for education or anything else, cannot be done in isolation. It must form part of a broader social policy strategy designed to help the vulnerable in society, including those who cannot feed or house themselves.
And, yes, for that we will have to use "our money".Common sense requires that!
Can Ghana afford free secondary education? Uganda, a country with only 40% of Ghana's income, is already in its fifth year of free universal secondary education (USE).
Yes, we can, but only if we overcome the self-doubt, the cynicism and the gratuitous disinformationby those who should know better. Development is more than theincremental acquisitionof material things. It is also about the ability, the willingness, of a people to dream big, to pursue that which others dismiss as impossible – to change society in sweeping and fundamental ways. We need visionary policy makingnot pessimistic policy posturing. Whatever the financial cost, free secondary education will more than pay for itself through a better educated citizenry (including more tertiary education), higher labor productivity, increased household incomes, abigger national income, and of course a globally competitive economy.
Significantly, “imani” in Swahili means “faith”. It’s time we hadmore of itin ourselves!
Credit: Nii Moi Thompson.
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Washington-(June 17, 2010) -- Following an 18- month study of college sports finances, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics released today a report that calls for financial reforms in college sports. It includes three principles for reining in spending.
Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports also finds that expenditures in big-time college sports grew 38 percent – nearly twice as much as spending on academics – from 2005 to 2008. The ten public institutions that spend the most on college sports are on pace to exceed $250 million annually in athletics expenses, on average, in 2020.
The report is particularly timely given the shifts in athletic conference affiliation that have dominated the news over the past weeks, which have been based at least in part on the desire to increase revenues to cover accelerating spending. This gives new urgency to the finding of a survey sponsored by the Knight Commission last year, in which a majority of university presidents agreed that current spending trends cannot be sustained and that leaders must work together to address escalating costs.
“There is every reason to believe that the current direction of big-time college sports is leading us to even greater imbalances in the fiscal priority for athletics over academics,” said Knight Commission Co-Chairman William E. “Brit” Kirwan, chancellor, University System of Maryland. “In last year’s survey, presidents asked for measures that could keep athletics spending in check and that would apply to all schools. These recommendations achieve those objectives. We now need presidents and their boards to support them.”
The Knight Commission’s blueprint for financial reform offers these three principles for reform:
- Requiring that financial reports be public and transparent;
- Rewarding institutions that make academic values a priority; and,
- Treating athletes as students first and foremost—not as professionals.
The Commission recommends that the financial reports filed by each institution with the NCAA should be made public, and include an additional measure comparing spending in athletics and academics.
“Academic reform in intercollegiate athletics began in earnest when graduation rates were first shared publicly,” Kirwan said. “We believe the same will be true for financial reform when there is far greater transparency on athletic expenditures.
“These big-time sports budgets are beginning to have a significant impact on college students, and financial data ought to be transparent and readily available to students, parents, trustees and taxpayers who have a stake in the spending.”
A second recommendation involves rewarding practices that prioritize academic values. The Commission believes teams should not be able to compete for a championship if they have failed to reach core academic benchmarks. The Commission recommends that teams only be allowed to compete in postseason championships if they achieve an Academic Progress Rate (APR) that predicts at least a 50 percent graduation rate of athletes under the NCAA’s graduation measure.
“The Commission first advocated for a 50 percent graduation rate benchmark for postseason eligibility in 2001, and the NCAA has adopted policies that have moved toward that goal,” said Knight Commission Co-Chairman R. Gerald Turner, president, Southern Methodist University. “Now, it is time to finish the job. The Commission believes tournament slots, and the financial rewards that accompany them, should be reserved for teams that meet legitimate academic standards.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan released an official statement in support of the Knight Commission’s recommendation: “With this report, the Knight Commission has shown once again its steadfast commitment to protecting educational priorities and strengthening accountability in intercollegiate sports. I join the Knight Commission in calling for stronger eligibility standards for postseason play. Whatever the exact benchmark—I’ve proposed a 40 percent graduation rate cutoff that would increase to 50 percent—the NCAA needs to strengthen its use of the Academic Progress Rate (APR) index to protect the interests of student athletes and the integrity of their parent institutions in a more rigorous and timely fashion.”
The Commission also recommends that revenue distribution be more closely tied to the academic values. The report calls for the NCAA to create a new revenue distribution fund called the Academic-Athletics Balance Fund. All Division I institutions would be eligible if their teams have APR scores that predict at least a 50 percent graduation rate, and if they appropriately balance investments in athletics and education. The Commission recommends that this new fund be created by reallocating revenue currently awarded for success in the men’s basketball tournament.
Since Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions spend the most on athletics, a similar fund should be created for FBS members only, by redistributing Bowl Championship Series revenue. The Commission recommends that an equitable portion of bowl championship revenue be provided to each FBS conference to administer using the same eligibility criteria.
“The growing emphasis on winning games and pursuing TV contracts feeds the spending escalation,” said Knight Commission member Carol Cartwright, president, Bowling Green State University. “To preserve the integrity of college sports, we can no longer base rewards so heavily on winning but instead on maintaining the right balance between athletics and academics. We urge our presidential colleagues on the NCAA Board of Directors to adopt this plan.”
A series of recommendations centered on treating athletes as students first and foremost also have financial implications, including:
- Limiting the length of the football postseason so it does not extend into the start of the second academic term,
- Reducing the length of seasons and number of events, and
- Preventing the use of athletes’ identities to promote commercial entities or products.
Former professional basketball player and Knight Commission member Len Elmore said, “Our objective is to ensure that pursuit of revenues to support intercollegiate athletics does not infringe upon athletes’ rights and their academic priorities.”
The Commission also recommends a number of cost-saving measures, including: examining scholarship offerings, such as a decrease of eight to 10 football scholarships in the Football Bowl Subdivision and limiting the number of non-coaching personnel.
Restoring the Balance is the third major report released by the Knight Commission in its 20-year history. To read the statements of support from higher education leaders and to learn more about the specific recommendations, access video clips, visit restoringbalance.knightcommission.org.
An interactive multimedia, website of the report is available at restoringbalance.knightcommission.org.
About the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics
The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics was formed by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in October 1989 in response to more than a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports. The goal of the Commission was to promote a reform agenda that emphasized academic values in a climate in which commercialization of college sports often overshadowed the underlying goals of higher education. More information about the Commission’s history including prior reports can be found at www.KnightCommission.org.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation advances journalism in the digital age and invests in the vitality of communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation focuses on projects that promote informed and engaged communities and lead to transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
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Donations Sought for RAD
Greenville Police Chief Daniel Busken is hoping to encourage the community to chip in toward efforts to protect women against rape.
Donations will go to the RAD (Rape Aggressive Defense) training program at the police department.The city of Greenville has seen a rise in incidents of rape since last year, having 25 reported this year as compared to just 19 last year. And, according to Busken, rape is one of the most unreported crimes. The F.L. Young Foundation has offered the department a $5,000 grant toward the $10,000 needed for training and equipment, with Altrusa International providing $1,000 and the Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association providing $500. If you’d like to donate to the program, contact Busken at 903-457-2913. Additional information about RAD is available at www.rad-systems.com.
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New Delhi: A Special Air India flight carrying 320 passengers from Egypt's capital Cairo arrived in Mumbai on Monday afternoon.
The flight mostly carried women, children and stranded tourists. Abhay Pathak, the Air India regional manager, Gulf, West Asia and Africa, said that the 747 Boeing aircraft, which has a capacity of 423 passengers, took off from Cairo on Sunday night at about 10 PM for Mumbai.
It was a huge relief for all the passengers who landed in Mumbai. Passengers told CNN-IBN that Cairo airport was no different from a crowded Indian railway station.
"We have already provisioned all passengers at the Cairo airport and I am told 300-odd family members of the Indian embassy boarded the flight. Another 300 Tata Group workers and their family members are waiting to be evacuated," he said.
Authorities say that more such flights can be operated if the chaos deepens or if there are attacks on Indians or their properties.
"We are taking steps to bring back people who want to come back to India. We have advised Indians to avoid non essential travel to Egypt," said SM Krishna, Foreign Affairs Minister.
"We are closely monitoring the situation in Egypt. It’s an internal matter of Egypt, a country with which we have cordial relations," he further added.
Earlier, there were reports of hundreds of Indian passengers being stranded at Cairo's airport on Sunday as flights were cancelled or delayed, leaving them unable to leave because of a government-imposed curfew in the capital.
Egypt was in the grip of increasing lawlessness on Sunday as gangs of armed men helped free thousands of prisoners and looters rampaged malls, banks and jewellery stores, even as many army men doffed uniforms to join the uprising against Mubarak's 30-year rule that has claimed at least 150 lives in six days.
In 1990, during the time of the Gulf War Air India entered the history books evacuating more than 1 lakh Indians from the desert outside the Jordanian capital Amman. This time it's Egypt but no evacuation on that scale is either planned or envisaged. In fact the government is shy of using the word evacuation.
There are about 3,600 Indians in Egypt of which 2,200 are in Cairo. Some Indian tourists are stranded in Sharm-el-Sheikh and efforts were underway to transport them. There are no reports of any Indian having been injured or assaulted since the unrest began on Tuesday.
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vyalar Ravi said, "There are around 3000 Indian and they are ready to come back. We are helping them to come back from Egypt."
Another flight is expected to take off from Cairo later on Monday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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JAMMU/NEW DELHI: Two Pakistani aircraft on Wednesday flew close to the international border in the Jammu sector, triggering an air defence alert of the Indian Air Force.
The two low-flying Pakistani light aircraft were detected close to Indian territory and were sighted by BSF troops deployed in the R S Pura Sector in Jammu, Indian Air Force sources said.
"Their movement and approach were picked up by our sensors and radars," they said.
Thought the aircraft were flying in Pakistani territory, it was a breach of agreement between the two sides barring flying of fixed-wing aircraft in 10 km area from each side of the international boundary, they said.
"As per its standard operating procedures (SOP), IAF responds in such situation looking at the level of threat posed by the aircraft," they said, without giving details.
The SOP could range from activating its surface-to-air missile batteries to scrambling of fighter aircraft located close to the area.
Assets such as the airborne early warning and control systems ( AWACS) and the aerostat radars and chain of ground-based radars allows the IAF to look beyond its boundaries.
The issue, the sources said, would also be taken up with Pakistani authorities through the external affairs ministry.
In the last three years, Pakistan's military aircraft, helicopters and spy drones or unmanned aerial vehicles have violated Indian airspace on 23 occasions.
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LONGMONT -- It's the year that "Trick or Treat" was paired with "What's that smell?"
"I was embarrassed whenever I opened the door," admitted Marika Baris, who lives near Pace Street and Colo. Highway 66. "It was like 'Get in, fast!'"
Normally, northeastern Longmont is used to strong smells. The area does border a number of farmers' fields, after all, not to mention the city's wastewater treatment plant. But not this strong for quite this long.
How long? Most folks estimate it started sometime in late October and kept going at least until Nov. 10's snowstorm, with some possible milder resurgences since.
How strong? Depending on the neighbor, it smells like "rotting cabbage," "burning dairy farm manure," or even "like something died."
And it's not imagination. Jim Coffman, who works at the wastewater plant, caught a whiff while driving in from Colo. 66.
"It's pretty strong," he said. "It's overwhelming."
But what is it?
First, it might be best to start with what it isn't.
It's not the wastewater plant. That one's certain. Calls did come in after the smell was first reported, Coffman said, but a check found nothing broken or out of place.
It's not Jim Hamm Pond. Well, probably not. The city is dredging the pond, and the decomposed plant life can release quite a whiff -- but visits to the pond found only a relatively light scent; maybe a contributor, but not likely to be the whole cause.
It's not from Greeley. Most agree the scent's strongest near Colo. 66 and Pace; besides, any wind strong enough to carry a stink that far would create its own problems.
"Greeley would have to bring their feedlots here for it to smell that bad," joked Gary Seghieri, whose home on Bellingham Place is just off Colo. 66.
While no one's pinned down the exact spot, Coffman's pretty sure he's nailed the source. It's definitely manure, he said, possibly a pile that was stored without ever bring spread. Whatever the reason, he said, it was amped up well beyond the usual levels.
"People can live with a manure smell, but that stuff is pretty strong," he said.
Bob Hamblen, the director of the Boulder County Extension Office, said storage by itself probably wouldn't account for the power -- if anything, he said, the power of the smell might go down as the ammonia dissipated. But a liquefied manure might be sharper, he said, especially if it were from chickens or pigs rather than cattle. (If accurate, that would square up with a visitor one neighbor had from Iowa, who said the odor reminded him of swine.)
"Whatever that farmer is using, he's going to be getting corn that's about 60 feet tall," said Seghieri, who used to work on a family ranch in northern California. "That stuff had to be pretty near radioactive."
"We've all suffered through it, so let's hope he has a good crop."
Hamblen said he couldn't be absolutely sure of the cause, but that it would make sense for it to go down after rain and snow -- the water would dilute the ammonia that creates the smell, he said.
Meanwhile, the neighbors are glad for a respite.
"I was just so grateful," Baris said. "If you're sitting out on your deck and you have to run back in the house, something's wrong."
Scott Rochat can be reached at 303-684-5220 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Celerinus as Reader.
Argument.— This Letter is About the Same in Purport with the Preceding, Except that He Largely Commends the Constancy of Celerinus in His Confession of the Faith. Moreover, that Both of These Letters Were Written During His Retreat, is Sufficiently Indicated by the Circumstances of the Context.
1. Cyprian to the presbyters and deacons, and to the whole people, his brethren in the Lord, greeting. The divine benefits, beloved brethren, should be acknowledged and embraced, wherewith the Lord has condescended to embellish and illustrate His Church in our times by granting a respite to His good confessors and His glorious martyrs, that they who had grandly confessed Christ should afterwards adorn Christ's clergy in ecclesiastical ministries. Exult, therefore, and rejoice with me on receiving my letter, wherein I and my colleagues who were then present mention to you Celerinus, our brother, glorious alike for his courage and his character, as added to our clergy, not by human recommendation, but by divine condescension; who, when he hesitated to yield to the Church, was constrained by her own admonition and exhortation, in a vision by night, not to refuse our persuasions; and she had more power, and constrained him, because it was not right, nor was it becoming, that he should be without ecclesiastical honour, whom the Lord honoured with the dignity of heavenly glory.
2. This man was the first in the struggle of our days; he was the leader among Christ's soldiers; he, in the midst of the burning beginnings of the persecution, engaged with the very chief and author of the disturbance, in conquering with invincible firmness the adversary of his own conflict. He made a way for others to conquer; a victor with no small amount of wounds, but triumphant by a miracle, with the long-abiding and permanent penalties of a tedious conflict. For nineteen days, shut up in the close guard of a dungeon, he was racked and in irons; but although his body was laid in chains, his spirit remained free and at liberty. His flesh wasted away by the long endurance of hunger and thirst; but God fed his soul, that lived in faith and virtue, with spiritual nourishments. He lay in punishments, the stronger for his punishments; imprisoned, greater than those that imprisoned him; lying prostrate, but loftier than those who stood; as bound, and firmer titan the links which bound him; judged, and more sublime than those who judged him; and although his feet were bound on the rack, yet the serpent was trodden on and ground down and vanquished. In his glorious body shine the bright evidences of his wounds; their manifest traces show forth, and appear on the man's sinews and limbs, worn out with tedious wasting away. Great things are they— marvellous things are they— which the brotherhood may hear of his virtues and of his praises. And should any one appear like Thomas, who has little faith in what he hears, the faith of the eyes is not wanting, so that what one hears he may also see. In the servant of God, the glory of the wounds made the victory; the memory of the scars preserves that glory.
3. Nor is that kind of title to glories in the case of Celerinus, our beloved, an unfamiliar and novel thing. He is advancing in the footsteps of his kindred; he rivals his parents and relations in equal honours of divine condescension. His grandmother, Celerina, was some time since crowned with martyrdom. Moreover, his paternal and maternal uncles, Laurentius and Egnatius, who themselves also were once warring in the camps of the world, but were true and spiritual soldiers of God, casting down the devil by the confession of Christ, merited palms and crowns from the Lord by their illustrious passion. We always offer sacrifices for them, as you remember, as often as we celebrate the passions and days of the martyrs in the annual commemoration. Nor could he, therefore, be degenerate and inferior whom this family dignity and a generous nobility provoked, by domestic examples of virtue and faith. But if in a worldly family it is a matter of heraldry and of praise to be a patrician, of bow much greater praise and honour is it to become of noble rank in the celestial heraldry! I cannot tell whom I should call more blessed,— whether those ancestors, for a posterity so illustrious, or him, for an origin so glorious. So equally between them does the divine condescension flow, and pass to and fro, that, just as the dignity of their offspring brightens their crown, so the sublimity of his ancestry illuminates his glory.
4. When this man, beloved brethren, came to us with such condescension of the Lord, illustrious by the testimony and wonder of the very man who had persecuted him, what else behooved to be done except that he should be placed on the pulpit, that is, on the tribunal of the Church; that, resting on the loftiness of a higher station, and conspicuous to the whole people for the brightness of his honour, he should read the precepts and Gospel of the Lord, which he so bravely and faithfully follows? Let the voice that has confessed the Lord daily be heard in those things which the Lord spoke. Let it be seen whether there is any further degree to which he can be advanced in the Church. There is nothing in which a confessor can do more good to the brethren than that, while the reading of the Gospel is heard from his lips, every one who hears should imitate the faith of the reader. He should have been associated with Aurelius in reading; with whom, moreover, he was associated in the alliance of divine honour; with whom, in all the insignia of virtue and praise, he had been united. Equal both, and each like to the other, in proportion as they were sublime in glory, in that proportion they were humble in modesty. As they were lifted up by divine condescension, so they were lowly in their own peacefulness and tranquillity, and equally affording examples to every one of virtues and character, and fitted both for conflict and for peace; praiseworthy in the former for strength, in the latter for modesty.
5. In such servants the Lord rejoices; in confessors of this kind He glories,— whose way and conversation is so advantageous to the announcement of their glory, that it affords to others a teaching of discipline. For this purpose Christ has willed them to remain long here in the Church; for this purpose He has kept them safe, snatched from the midst of death—a kind of resurrection, so to speak, being wrought on their behalf; so that, while nothing is seen by the brethren loftier in honour, nothing more lowly in humility, the way of life of the brotherhood may accompany these same persons. Know, then, that these for the present are appointed readers, because it was fitting that the candle should be placed in a candlestick, whence it may give light to all, and that their glorious countenance should be established in a higher place, where, beheld by all the surrounding brotherhood, they may give an incitement of glory to the beholders. But know that I have already purposed the honour of the presbytery for them, that so they may be honoured with the same presents as the presbyters, and may share the monthly divisions in equalled quantities, to sit with us hereafter in their advanced and strengthened years; although in nothing can he seem to be inferior in the qualities of age who has consummated his age by the dignity of his glory. I bid you, brethren, beloved and earnestly longed-for, ever heartily farewell.
Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050633.htm>.
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Arnold Sheldon DenkerArticle Free Pass
(born Feb. 21, 1914, Bronx, N.Y.—died Jan. 2, 2005, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), American chess master who , was a top chess player during the 1940s and later a respected administrator and promoter of chess. Denker began playing in the U.S. chess championships in 1936 and won the championship in 1944 with a 91% winning score, which was surpassed only by Bobby Fischer’s 100% in 1963–64. Denker successfully defended his championship in 1946, the same year that he set a world record by playing 100 opponents in 7.33 hr. He was known for his aggressive style of attack and continued to enjoy success in international tournaments but became increasingly involved in chess organization, serving as president of the North American Zone of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and on the boards of the American Chess Foundation, the U.S. Chess Federation, and the U.S. Chess Trust. Denker was named International Master by FIDE in 1950 and was made an honorary grandmaster in 1981. In 1992 he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame, and in 2004 the U.S. Chess Federation named him a dean of American chess; he was only the third person to have been awarded that title.
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Could the xanax be having an opposite effect on him?
Side Effects and Other Considerations
Xanax may have a paradoxical effect in some dogs, and cause excitement or exacerbate aggressive behaviors. Long term treatment carries a risk of physical dependence. Withdrawal symptoms include sensitivity to light, vomiting and shaking. Dogs are kept on Xanax for very short periods of time at the lowest possible dosage, to avoid physical dependency.
PoodleMaMaKat wrote:I am not an expert in veterinary pharmacy but I can tell you what I know.
Benadryl and Xanax (along with other benzodiazepines like Valium) are known to actually cause the opposite reaction in children and pets. They can actually make people hyperactive instead of tired. Robaxin is not known to cause this reaction in humans.
My feeling is Valium is unlikely to work given Xanax did not help. They are in the same family of medications, although some properties are slightly different, they work by the same mechanism. It may be worth a try if the Robaxin doesn't work, however my feeling is you may not have any luck.
Clomicalm and ACE are related structurally but do work in slightly different ways, although I’d have to pull out my pharmacology book to tell you the difference. It is possible that Clomicalm may work if ACE didn’t. Clomicalm is actually the least sedating of the tricyclic antidepressants. Amitriptyline is much more sedating (at least in humans) but comes with other side effects such as dry mouth and constipation. I’ve had a dog on Amitriptyline and I can tell you he was groggy.
Robaxin is used as a muscle relaxer that also causes sedation. In humans this sedation can be significant. It appears the vet is using medications that have the side effect of sedation to calm Nemo down. The good thing about Robaxin is if he has pain the Robaxin MAY be helpful, although this won’t help keep him quiet.
Just an FYI, the Robaxin (aka Methocarbamol) may change urine to a dark greenish color, so don't be alarmed if this happens!
Hope this is helpful
CinderDee wrote:I have an idea...how about Neurontin? You can also take it with Tramadol. That may calm him down.
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I’m reading Studs Terkel’s famous oral history book called “Working.” It’s a collection of over 100 interviews with people of different professions. As the front cover says, “People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.” Everyone from a gravedigger, to a studio head, to a policeman, to a prostitute, to a piano tuner.
It was published in 1972 and one of the most fascinating parts of the read is the way that jobs have changed in the last 40 years. Certain professions don’t even exist anymore, and many others are now a far, far cry from what these people describe. But equally fascinating are the ways in which things haven’t changed. The human element remains. People are people and humanity endures.
Tonight while reading a section about a telephone solicitor in Chicago, I got the idea for this blog. The woman’s job required her to cold-call people all day long on behalf of a big newspaper, soliciting people for subscriptions. It was a high pressure job and she would be told to lie to potential customers if needed. She would tell them for instance that their money would support a charity for the blind, anything to fill her quota of subscriptions and keep her job.
When describing her guilt at taking money from people in the poorer sections of town, she said:
“A lot of them were so happy that someone actually called. They could talk all day long to me. They told me all their problems and I’d listen. … They were so elated to hear someone nice, someone just to listen a few minutes to something that had happened to them. Somehow to show concern about them.”
I’ve been pretty lonely away from the stage this year for various personal reasons and lately I find myself in an endless loop of: check Twitter, check Facebook, check my email, check Instagram, check Twitter, check Facebook, send a text, check my email, text again, check Instagram, post a pic, status update, and on and on and on…
And why? In a nutshell it’s because I’m craving connection. To use the same words from the quote above, I want “someone just to listen for a few [seconds] to something that had happened to [me].”
Don’t we all? We use social media and other modern connection tools for so many different reasons, but I have to believe that this idea is at the core of why we do it.
The lesson I need to take from this? Lend people your ear. Listen to them. Hold a little space for them whenever you can, give them a few seconds or a few minutes whenever you can spare it. We are all connected and these connections lie far, far deeper than Facebook or a text or an email. Although it’s not a bad start if we can use those things in the right way.
And this goes for everyone. Strangers, friends, hell even your enemies. The danger of social media is that we can insulate ourselves in a bubble with only the people we agree with. But it’s the “us against them” mentality that’ll be our undoing. People are hurting. People are scared and lonely and confused and misinformed and everyone gets trapped by their own ego. Everyone. Even you.
Show yourself compassion and show it to somebody else today.
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Study: 62% of banks fail to disclose fees
Consumers will factor rising fees into their decisions about where to do business -- but they can't if banks and credit unions won't divulge the data, a consumer advocacy group says.
This post comes from Matt Brownell at partner site MainStreet.
A new report (.pdf file) from the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (USPIRG) finds that just 38% of banks and credit unions responded to a request for their fee data, despite a 20-year-old law mandating transparency.
The 1991 Truth in Savings Act requires full disclosure of a bank's fees, including ATM fees and monthly maintenance fees, but when USPIRG researchers requested fee schedules from 391 banks and credit unions in 21 states, just 38% of them disclosed their fees on the first request.
Making multiple requests raised that number to 55%, but 23% of banks flat out refused to disclose their fees and the rest provided insufficient or irrelevant information. Post continues after video.
What makes this widespread disregard for the law particularly troublesome is that bank fees are on the rise. New financial regulations have prompted many banks to do away with free checking accounts altogether, while fees for ATMs are also increasing. It stands to reason that fees will therefore become a larger factor in a consumer's decision to bank with a given institution, yet more than half the time the banks are not upfront about what they charge.
So what is to be done? Given that researchers' requests were often answered with outdated pamphlets and binders, the organization proposes that the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau extend the stipulations of the Truth in Savings Act to the Internet by requiring banks to post their full fee schedules on their websites.
"The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has an important opportunity to make markets work better for consumers and good actors in the marketplace," the organization said in a statement. "It should make bank account fee disclosures more transparent by enforcing the current law and improving the law’s disclosure requirements."
In the meantime, consumers interested in knowing their bank's fee schedule should be persistent -- and if that doesn't work, you can always take your business elsewhere.
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IT IS not the train running late but the station, prompting the State Opposition to ask for a please explain.Ballarat's new train station, set to be built in Wendouree, will not open until 2009, a year later than first announced.Now Opposition public transport spokesman Terry Mulder has asked Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky, to explain why."Ms Kosky has failed to inform Ballarat residents that the new Wendouree railway station will not be ready for passengers for up to a year,'' Mr Mulder said. He said Ms Kosky needed to explain why 27,000 residents in Alfredton, Lake Wendouree, Learmonth, Miners Rest and Wendouree would need to wait for the new station to open.The project was announced in September 2006 and was to be ready by 2008, Mr Mulder said."Ms Kosky's failure to award the construction contract on time to ensure Wendouree station opens in 2008 will be familiar to Ballarat rail users who are used to Labor being unable to operate local trains on time, despite a six-minute window before short distance services are counted as officially late,'' he said."This new station is a simple project.''Stephen Moynihan, a spokesman for Ms Kosky, said the project had been announced and funded."It has taken some time to get the correct contract and design work done,'' he said."We want to make sure we get the project right."Mr Mulder also said all Ballarat trains needed to extend to Wendouree while all trains which ran through to Ararat should also stop at the new station.Ms Kosky recently announced Melbourne civil engineering firm Cut and Fill Pty Ltd as the successful contractors for the project.
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Google began rolling out its ambitious new social-networking project Wednesday with the premise that “online sharing is awkward.” The process may even be broken, Google surmises. But the Internet search giant is here to fix it. “We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships, and your interests,” the company said in announcing the initiative on its blog. “And so begins the Google+ project.”
Circles. Sparks. Hangouts. Huddle.
These four words make up the backbone of Google+, an ambitious attempt to rework the way we interact with content on the Web and our real-life social networks—our parents, our best friends, our co-workers.
To introduce this concept to the masses, the company has undertaken a so-called limited field trial wherein certain members of the tech media—deemed influencers by Google—were given a number of invites to loop in the people they interact with most. The result: waves of coverage throughout the tech press touching on everything from the case for its soft launch period, the lessons learned from its failed Buzz product—Google’s first foray into social networking—and how Google+ can find success. (Fifteen members of the Newsweek/Daily Beast team got their invites, but we’re going for a longer-term impression after a few days of playing around.)
Here’s what those who have tried Google+ are saying:
A keystone of the new Google+ project is Circles—groups of friends a user has divided up into categories like Friends, Family, or Co-Workers. It is here that The Guardian’s Charles Arthur sees the most promise. “That’s really neat, I thought; this is a clever way to categorise people, and stop what I do or say from bumping into each other,” he writes. But quickly, Arthur realized our networks—mostly based on email contacts, at this point—are extensive. “Quite quickly the Circles dashboard starts looking like the cabin of a 747—all those buttons and dials,” he writes, “and one gets the uncomfortable feeling that you’re never quite going to be finished with doing it.” The New York Times notes the same thing: “It is meant for sharing with groups—like colleagues, roommates, or hiking friends—not with all of one’s friends or the entire Web.”
The team working on Google+ clearly examined the missteps of Buzz in addressing the value it would place on privacy. As you may remember, Buzz launched to much acclaim as a Facebook killer. But quickly, users realized that opening their email networks to the world brought with it unforeseen implications. Google+, on the flip side, “sports a clean, well-designed user interface that arguably offers greater privacy protections than Facebook,” writes Declan McCullaugh at Cnet. He points to examples that make the point: simplified privacy settings, no requirement for a real name, enhanced privacy choices on profile information, and a clear sense of who sees what content you’ve published. Lauren Weinstein of People for Internet Responsibility adds that Google+ “treats us as adults able to determine our own relationships and sharing preferences,” whereas Facebook treats us like sheep. That’s bad news for Facebook, which may be hoping to hang on to those wary of that company’s neverending issues with privacy.
Writing at SearchEngineLand, Greg Sterling calls Google+’s interface “familiar and relatively intuitive,” even if that takes some getting used to. “There are some subtle differences in how you invite friends and so on,” adds Matt Rosoff at Business Insider, “but the MAIN page—the page that shows up when you click your +name (I’m ‘+Matt’) in the black Google toolbar at the top of Google’s search page, and that serves as headquarters for all your Google+ activities—looks almost EXACTLY like Facebook.” There’s the stream (News Feed). The “Share what’s new…” status bar that looks strikingly like Facebook’s, “What’s on your mind?” And there’s the profile—offering a Facebook-like format complete with a profile picture in the upper lefthand corner of the page. The Web comic xkcd skewers these similarities in three comics frames posted online Wednesday. “You should join Google+,” one stick figure says to the other. “What is it?” “Not Facebook!” the first answers. “What’s it like?” asks the second. “Facebook!” “Oh what the hell,” says the second. “I guess that’s all I really wanted.”
Poynter, the journalism institute, says Google+ “creates new ways for people to discover news and other content on the Web.” It does this, the organization says, through its “stream” and “sparks” features. The former looks much like the News Feed on Facebook, where users get updates from friends and media outlets they’ve interacted with. The latter lets users pick subject matter that most interests them, which in turn will be delivered back to the Google+ user—content that user has already deemed worthy of his or her time. But overall, this focus on creating a much more customized means of delivering relevant content could set Google+ apart from Facebook and Twitter one day—if executed correctly.
Talking to AllThingsD, Google’s Bradley Horowitz says Google+ is no product—Orkut, Blogger, Buzz were products. No, Plus is a project, meaning it’s “much broader in scope” and will affect Google as a whole. “That’s why it’s Google+, almost the smallest modifier on Google itself that you can imagine,” he says. “We already have literally billions of users using these services at Google with the inefficiencies we have today, and we think this will delight these uses and create a common way for them to connect to other people and ultimately on the net.”
The regrettable footprints from Google’s missteps with Buzz are everywhere—from the company’s decision to roll Plus out slowly to tech pundits cautioning we look out for reviews that seem too aspirational. On ZDNet, Andrew Nusca offers a warning that implores folks to tread cautiously when reading these reviews, and to “take things you read with a grain of salt.” Once it opens up to the public at large, he writes, “give it a shot. Decide for yourself. Then ask yourself why you’d need to read a review about a social-networking service in the first place.”
Have you been invited to Google+? Do you know somebody who has? Share your early impressions in the comments.
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U.S. law enforcement officials on Tuesday said 24 suspected hackers had been arrested in a sting operation spanning four continents that targeted online financial fraud of stolen credit card and bank information.
In a two-year investigation, FBI agents posed as hackers on Internet forums, watching as other hackers swapped methods for breaching data security walls and creating fake credit cards that would work for Internet and in-person purchases.
The probe prevented $205 million in possible losses on over 411,000 compromised consumer credit and debit cards, U.S. authorities in New York said.
Eleven people were arrested in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office said. The thirteen others were arrested in countries from Britain to Japan, the authorities said. Officials in Australia also conducted searches.
"Clever computer criminals operating behind the supposed veil of the Internet are still subject to the long arm of the law," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
During the operation, the FBI said, it not only monitored the hackers' activities but also contacted "multiple" people and institutions hit by the hackers and showed them how to repair their security breaches and protect themselves in the future.
No credit card companies or banks were named in Tuesday's court documents.
The 24 people arrested were all men aged 18 to 25. Some face up to 40 years or more in prison if convicted on conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and access device fraud charges.
The FBI operation centered around a "carding forum" that it had secretly created in June 2010, and was in charge of running unbeknownst to its participants, authorities said.
The forum, called "Carder Profit," was essentially an online market for registered users to exchange stolen account numbers. It was shut down in May.
Two people were arrested in the New York area and were later released on bail after appearing in Manhattan federal court.
One of the men, Mir Islam, known online as "JoshTheGod," was charged with trafficking in 50,000 stolen credit card numbers. Authorities said Islam had admitted to helping emerging hacker outfit UgNazi, which said it had launched a cyber attack against the microblogging platform Twitter last week. [ID: nL1E8HLIDA]
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Olympic bid: financial fairytale or nightmare?
Raising the flag at the 1948 winter olympics in St Moritz (RDB)
Early estimates of how much it would cost to stage the Winter Olympics in Switzerland, and the potential economic benefits they would bring, are being carefully scrutinised - but not everyone is convinced that the figures will prove accurate.
Opinion has become polarised in the build-up to a March 3 vote on whether canton Graubünden should bid for the 2022 edition. Optimists believe the Games would inject much needed economic impetus while pessimists dwell on who foots the bill if things go wrong.
History shows that initial budgets have a habit of spiraling out of control while the success of such an event hinges on a number of unpredictable factors, such as the weather.
The number crunchers have been out in force attempting to make sense of it all. But the calculations are fiendishly difficult at such an early stage and require a fair amount of guess work.
On the (official) cost side, the bid (CHF60 million), transport and sporting infrastructure (CHF1.5 billion), security (CHF250 million) and running the event (CHF2.46 billion) adds up to just short of CHF4.3 billion ($4.7 billion).
Just over CHF1.3 billion would be provided by the taxpayer. The rest would be made up by the International Olympics Committee (IOC), commercial investments, ticket revenues, sponsorship and the future sale of temporary structures.
The maximum added value (mostly jobs, revenues, taxes) to the Swiss economy between the potential award of the Games in 2015 and their completion in 2022 has been calculated at CHF4 billion by a recent report commissioned by the Graubünden 2022 bid committee.
The Euro 2008 football championship, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria, generated SFr1 billion of added value to the Swiss economy, according to the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
The Winter Olympics would be a larger scale event than Euro 2008, with more infrastructure spending. Switzerland also lost out on staging one semi-final and the final of Euro 2008 to Austria.
All going well, every franc invested by the Swiss taxpayer in the Winter Olympics would generate another 3.3 francs for the national economy – a kind of fiscal stimulus package, particularly for the canton of Graubünden which has suffered a crippling fall in tourism in the last few years.
Added to that, the positive legacy of Switzerland’s image, particularly among tourists, advances in technology and innovation, and improved infrastructure could then add an unquantifiable economic bonus in the future.
This was brought up by Sports Minister Ueli Maurer during a debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.
“Big events as a rule generate less immediate money than businesses had expected,” he said. “But in the long run, such events always pay off if you take care to plan them well and not invest too much money.”
So far, so good – but the official estimates have generated suspicion among some inhabitants, who smell a rat.
Only the most ardent opponent of Switzerland’s Winter Olympic bid would bring up the examples of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics that took 30 years to pay off debts, or of the 2004 Athens edition that added another hole to the sinking Greek economy.
Bringing up the spectre of preparations in Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, where costs have escalated five-fold from original estimates, would also be harsh because the Sochi venue is being built from scratch.
But research from the University of Oxford last year revealed that every winter and summer Olympic Games since 1960 had exceeded the bidding budget by an average of 179 per cent.
Admittedly, initial budgets have become much more aligned to the final cost since 2000 and the winter versions over-run by only half as much as summer Games. But the Oxford study still offers a warning for future bidders.
“The data thus shows that for a city and nation to decide to host the Olympic Games is to take on one of the most financially risky type of megaproject that exists,” it states.
Who pay what?
Swiss government: CHF30 million for the bid, CHF250 million security and SFr1 billion other costs
Canton Graubünden and host communities: CHF300 million (subject to a vote on March 3)
IOC: CHF560 million
Private investments in infrastructure: CHF500 million
The remainder is to be made up from event revenues (sponsorship, ticket sales, sale of temporary infrastructure after the Games).
(Source: Graubünden 2022 candidature committee)
Jürg Stettler, an economist at Lucerne University - and a contributor to the Graubünden 2022 report - admits that the calculations were derived from a “close to best case scenario”.
“It was sometimes difficult to differentiate which infrastructure investments had already been planned and were brought forward as opposed to those that were completely initiated by the Games,” he told swissinfo.ch.
The report lists a number of risks that could throw its calculations into disarray. These include adverse weather conditions, rising accommodation and land prices, loss of trust from the Swiss public, disappointing sponsorship revenues and costs overshooting.
But Swiss former Nordic combined Olympic champion Hippolyt Kempf, now an economist with the Federal Sports Office, believes that there would be few alarms.
“The investments that Switzerland needs to make are small and are not that risky compared with other countries that have held the Games,” he told swissinfo.ch. “I am sure that we would come close to achieving the projected figures.”
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by Mark Scheinbaum
May 29, 2012
PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION: THE REWARDS ARE OUTPACING RISKS
COCOLI, Panama, May 29, 2012 -- Just the fourth and final phase remains to complete the gigantic expansion of the Panama Canal by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), and the entire nation is feeling optimistic that the rewards in commerce and revenue will outstrip the huge financial risks the cpountry has taken.
Last week, along with members of the American Society of Panama, we got to see from the Cocoli side of the Canal - across from the Pedro Miguel Locks - areas which by the end of 2014 are expected to be underwater, perhaps for eternity. It was my first comprehensive look behind the scenes of the project since a similar visit in the early days of the "third system of locks," expansion more than two years ago.
Below this article, there are links to information about the millions of metric yards of earth, billions of dollars spent, and some specifics about the contractors from United States, Panama, Brazil, Canada, Italy, France, Costa Rica, Germany and many other countries. But it might be more productive, for those not following all the details of the world's largest public works project in decades, the overall scheme of things in which this historic expansion occurs.
First, I am gun-shy about naming a price tag, although I have seen reliable numbers that say this is a $5- to $7-billion project. From a more inclusive business perspective, the actual ACP project cannot and should not be separated from several simultaneous Panamanian projects, all of which are reaping huge sales for two U.S. heavy-equipment manufacturers, Caterpillar and John Deere, and many more construction equipment makers. Just the same, risking that much money in a time when a global recession has crippled economies around the world and one of the leading shippers, China, says its economy is quickly slowing down, requires courage and not a small amount of faith - and Panama has both.
The ancient, crumbling highway from the Atlantic port of Colon to the Pacific metropolis of Panama City has been renovated; next to it, the high-speed toll road from Panama to Colon has been completed and now again expanded. A spur is being completed all the way to Tocumen International Airport.
Also, the traffic-mangling and ear-bursting construction of the first-ever Panama Metro - both underground and elevated commuter trains - is 20 percent finished. Two new international airports are being built ... and on it goes.
So, let's say the Panama Canal Expansion is a $12-14 billion, long-term upgrade and renovation consortium for the Republic of Panama, which has successfully resisted most of the current global recession.
Today, the typical "Panamax" ship (the largest ships designed specifically to traverse the Panama Canal) carry approximately 4,500 20-foot shipping containers when fully loaded. The longer and wider locks in the "third generation" of locks will allow "Post-Panamax" ships, already sailing the seas, to cross the Isthmus of Panama with 12,500 containers.
Today's average toll for a ship traveling through the Panama Canal of $250,000 will jump to nearly $1 million for these leviathan ships. That's a big reward for the ACP.
And a big risk?
"Frankly, we know there will be bigger and larger ships in the future. They are already out there now," said ACP spokesman Luis Ferreire, my guide on the inspection tour.
"You can't say we would never have to expand again, and we are using designs which allow for that contingency," he quickly added, "but we think the revenue stream will be solid because - let's face it, these super, super gigantic vessels were never designed to use the Panama Canal anyway... . They stay at sea longer, and go further than ever before. With such huge cargo capacity, particularly for non-perishables, their costs to the end users stay down."
Even with those limitations, many expert believe that just the 12,500 vs. 4,500 TEU-per-load container factor will cut shipping costs, and hopefully prices to the consumer - from customers of Wal-Mart to Japanese and European cars, even after higher tolls are absorbed.
The United States and many of its aging port facilities have also been part of specific ACP information tours, seminars, friendship visits, trade missions, and projected expansion schemes with promises that a bigger Panama Canal means more money.
Since neither the attractive cruise ship ports of Miami and Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale) or Palm Beach are huge container players compared to say Jacksonville or New Orleans, Port Manatee at the lower mouth entrance to lucrative rail-head Tampa Bay is positioning for more Panama induced trade.
Port Manatee believes it actually becomes the closest viable transshipment point to the expanded Panama Canal, and also to renewed trade with Cuba if and when embargos are lifted, and its Port Authority has geared up for the 2014 new Canal completion by digging a deepwater channel to 42 feet Berth 12, and expanding that berth to 1,600 feet in length. That will allow container ships to cut eight hours off the round-trip journey to the nearby Port of Tampa. At a cost of well over $40 million, and help from the state and federal government, Port Manatee is also upgrading highway crossings and storage and indutsrial infrastructure to accommodate the anticipated traffic from the expanded Canal.
An estimated $750 million is being spent as part of a Master Plan for the Manatee area to improve shipping and harbor and connecting road and resource infrastructure. What's good for Panama could be good for Florida and Manatee County.
In Houston, shipping interests have been big promoters of the Canal Expansion not only for its potential as an oil and gas customer - a role being expanded monthly - but because of the large confluence of rail lines, which bring air freight, rail, truck, and Houston Shipping Channel cargo into play in the fourth largest metropolitan area in the United States.
The projected 2014 completion date for the canal expansion is a bit iffy, but politically it is important to the ACP and its arms-length civilian surroundings of Panama to complete the project within the 100th anniversary year of the completion of the Panama Canal by the United States in 1914. As of now it looks as if the "official" rededication will occur in December, 2014, even if all the new areas are not yet completely functional..
Planners believe that environmental issues have been addresed in ways never anticipated a century ago. Three "holding ponds" will successively re-use and filter water in each new lock three times before releasing it into the next chamber, until pristine water is released and allowed to flow into the Pacific Ocean. Dredging and anti erosion projects along Lake Gatun and to the Atlantic Coast are also considering the welfare iof wildlife, the threat of water pollution, and are aiming for sustainable environments at all levels of planning.
Historically, ACP scholars are trying to map, photograph and restore as much of the old "Canal Zone" heritage as possible, within the limitations of entire mountains (but they call them "hills") having been leveled, blasted, and chopped to silt and sand. Even the old Borinquin (Puerto Rican) Highway which wound along the west side of the Canal, and villages such as Cocoli will be retained - at least in the name given to an overflow spillway and reservoir system.
Perhaps most surprising to many of the non-VIP tourists going to the Miraflores Panama Canal Visitors Center, with its restaurants, interactive displays and simulators and gift shops, is the lasting durability of the portions of the Canal from a century ago. Many of the redundant systems, floating steel lock doors, pumps and hydroelectric generators are still functioning.
Indeed, many have been modified and upgraded, but even with the current construction, it is largely "business as usual" along the Panama Canal.
Resources:: Additional data, news releases, photo sites, and engineering notes are available at:
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by Beth Zimmerman
Executive Director, Pets for Patriots
As anyone who has ever owned a dog or cat will tell you, pets have amazing impacts on our lives. They comfort us when we’re feeling down, make us smile with their playful antics, and even upset us sometimes when we think they’re misbehaving. Think of your favorite pair of shoes that, to your dog, looks like the perfect chew toy; how would he know they cost a month’s worth of kibble?
For most of us, pets add meaning to our lives. But for others, a pet can deliver a greater sense of purpose and provide a real lifeline to someone in need.
Pets for Patriots is a 501(c)(3) charity build around the simple premise that in one single act we could save two lives. We connect hard-to-adopt shelter animals that are otherwise destined to die – adult dogs and cats, large dogs and special needs pets – with veterans, soldiers in transition and wounded soldiers who would benefit from a companion animal. But we don’t stop there.
Pets for Patriots helps these heroes find their new pet friends.
To help ensure that these adoptions are sustainable and that, once adopted, these new best friends aren’t sent back to a shelter, we provide access to reduced cost care for the life of the adopted dog or cat. It is in this spirit that we value our partnership with HALO for Pets, which is providing generous, ongoing pet food discounts to veterans who join our free program. Coupled with access to reduced cost veterinary care, we believe we’re building a strong foundation towards our ultimate goal of ending animal homelessness through military pet adoptions.
Today there are over 23 million veterans at various ages and stages of their lives. For many returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury and other psychological illness often accompany their more visible physical wounds. Incidents of alcoholism, substance abuse and even domestic violence are not uncommon in soldiers who are trying to cope with the realities of war. Veterans of prior conflicts aren’t immune to these challenges, either, although the sheer number of newly returning veterans with significant disabilities is daunting.
These issues, and the more typical feelings of isolation that often mark a soldier’s return to civilian life can make re-integrating to society very difficult. There is help available – and it has four paws, whiskers and a tail.
HALO is providing generous, ongoing pet food discounts to veterans who join our free program.
The benefits of companion pets are real and proven. People feel less lonely and depressed in the company of an animal, and many pet owners say they feel as close to their dog or cat as they do to the human members of their family. Pets have great physical benefits, too. They boost our general activity and motility, reduce cholesterol, blood pressure and triglyceride levels, and even help heart attack victims recovery more quickly.
For our veterans, a pet might be their most trusted friend. Dogs and cats are great listeners; with them our soldiers can confidently share stories of their service, secrets they keep from loved ones or unspoken fears. And the commitment required to care for a pet can restore a sense of purpose for a veteran who might have wondered if he or she still has a reason to live.
Pets for Patriots helps these heroes find their new pet friends through partnerships with not-for-profit shelters in their own communities. We provide educational information, access to reduced cost care and products and, in time, we plan to offer discounts for other pet-related resources in veterans’ neighborhoods. We’re all about helping veterans stay connected or even reintegrate with those around them, which is why our community-based model is at the core of our mission.
While it’s important to know what we are, it’s just as important to know what we’re not. Our organization does not provide service animals, and veterans whose needs require a specially trained pet will find that we’re not the right fit for them. But for those men and women who are coping with moderate physical or psychological issues, who are feeling lonely or isolated, who want a pet to help fill the void in their family when they are deployed, or who simply want the unconditional love and companionship of a dog or cat, we stand ready to help. It’s not just our mission, it’s our passion.
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Did you know March 11 is Johnny Appleseed Day? When I was small, every school child in the United States was taught about John Chapman, the nurseryman who traveled the early 19th-century American frontier planting apple trees and distributing seeds to the settlers and Native Americans. We learned that “Johhny Appleseed” was a conservationist, humanitarian, herbal healer, and philanthropist.
What they didn’t tell us in grade school was that the apples that grew on those seed-grown trees were much too sour for snacking or baking a pie, too sour for anything except turning into hard cider. As Michael Pollan put it, Johnny Appleseed was popular and legendary with American frontier settlers because he was “the guy bringing the booze.”
So for Johnny Appleseed Day, I had it in mind to bake an apple sourdough that included hard cider. I did use hard cider the first time I made it, but I like this version with sweet cider a bit better. The dough is still plenty sour from the high proportion of sourdough starter. The sweetness of the chunky walnuts and cider-soaked dried apples is a welcome contrast.
The instructions are written for the bread as I made it; however, in the future I would probably proof the boules right-side-up on a couche rather than upside-down in a floured basket. I used (dark) buckwheat flour for dusting the basket, to contrast with the white flour I used for the stenciling, but I think I’d prefer to have the unstenciled area completely flour-free, to showcase the rich chocolate brown crust color that results from the buckwheat flour in the dough.
Yield: 1700 g (two large loaves)
- Elaborate sourdough starter: varies according to your starter and feeding schedule
- Soak apples, and toast and cool nuts: 1 hour
- Mix final dough: 15 minutes
- First fermentation: 2 hours, with folds at 40 and 80 minutes
- Divide, preshape, shape: 20 minutes
- Proof: 2.5 hours
- Bake: 50 minutes
Desired dough temperature: 77F
- 400 g flour
- 80 g buckwheat flour
- 80 g whole rye flour
- 280 g water
- 16 g salt
- 480 g mature 100%-hydration sourdough starter
- 100 g dried apples, very coarsely chopped
- 240 g (1 cup) sweet apple cider
- 200 g walnuts, very coarsely chopped
- Soak the apples in the cider for one hour, then drain them. (Drink or save the drained-off cider for another use.)
- While the apples soak, toast and cool the walnuts.
- Place flours, starter, salt, and water into the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low speed until the ingredients are incorporated, about 4 minutes. The dough should have a medium consistency, and it will be very sticky.
- Continue mixing in low or medium speed until the gluten is moderately developed. This may take about 5 minutes, but will depend on your mixer.
- Add the apples and nuts, and mix in low speed until they are evenly distributed through the dough.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled container. Ferment at room temperature for 2 hours, with folds at 40 and 80 minutes.
- Turn the dough onto a lightly floured counter. Divide the dough in half and shape each piece into a light ball. Cover and let them rest for 20 minutes.
- Shape each piece of dough into a tight ball. Place each one seam-side-up in a linen-lined basket dusted with buckwheat flour. Cover and proof for 2.5 hours.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven, with baking stone, to 475. You will also need steam during the initial phase of baking, so prepare for this now.
- Cut an apple stencil from a piece of paper.
- Before baking, lay the stencil on the top of each loaf. Using a strainer for even dusting, dust flour over the top of the loaf, then carefully remove the stencil.
- Make several slashes in the bread to compliment the stenciling.
- Once the loaves are in the oven, reduce the heat to 450F. Bake for 15 minutes with steam, and another 25 minutes without steam, until the crust is a deep chocolate brown. The oven may be turned off for the last 5 minutes of this time. Then leave the loaves in the oven for another 10 minutes, with the door ajar, to help the loaves dry out.
- Cool on a wire rack.
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From the Media
“The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become.a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.”
“By deciding yesterday to exclude Ross Perot from this year’s debates, the commission proved itself to be a tool of the two dominant parties rather than guardian of the public interest. This commission has no legal standing to monopolize debates, and it is time for some more fair-minded group to get into the business of sponsoring these important events.”
- New York Times editorial, 1996
“In dictatorships, it’s common for political insiders to hinder or even silence non-establishment challengers. To do that in America, which supposedly champions open elections, is outrageous and intolerable. But that is just what the Commission on Presidential Debates has done.
- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel editorial
“The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.”
- Phil Donahue
“I’m for more open debates.I think the very concept of an elite commission deciding for the American people who deserves to be heard is profoundly wrong.”
- Newt Gingrich
“I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. I don’t want to see us achieve victory based on the fact that we are better at rigging the game than other people.”
- Alan Keyes
“if broadening participation in the debates increases public participation in our political process, that can only be good for America.”
- Oliver North
” We really ought to stop trying to manipulate history before it’s happened.”
- Clarence Page of The Chicago Tribune
“The debate commission is a corrupt duopoly.”
- Steve Forbes
“I’m trying to forget the whole damn experience of those debates. ‘Cause I think it’s too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They’re rehearsed appearances.”
- Former President George H. W. Bush
“Where did these people come from to be final arbiters of free speech?”
- John Culver, a former US senator and CPD director.
“It’s fundamentally undemocratic. It’s awfully close to corruption.If this group can arbitrarily rule that a billionaire who gets 20 million votes and qualifies for $30 million in election funds can’t participate then God help the rest of us.”
- Jesse Jackson, after Ross Perot was excluded from the presidential debates in 1996
“The American people are the losers because the real issues never are aired by the candidates.”
- U.S. Representative Ed Markey, (D-MA).
“The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.”
- John B. Anderson, former Republican Congressman and independent presidential candidate
“The CPD events sent the message that their [youth] concerns don’t matter. While seniors and social security each were referenced more than 60 times during three debates in 2000, neither teenagers nor college students were mentioned at all. The kicker? Every debate occurred on a college campus!”
- Jeff Milchen, former director of Reclaim Democracy!
“Competition is healthy in all things. Third-party candidates in presidential debates will have the effect, ultimately, not of weakening the two-party system, but of strengthening it.”
- Michael R. Beschloss
See our overview of the presidential debates and the need for reform.
Thanks to OpenDebates.org for providing many of the quotations collected here.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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His next unanimously appraised piece was Edward Scissorhands (1990) - thought by Depp to downplay his unwanted pretty-boy reputation. Johnny depp worked at pirates of Caribbean Hollywood movie. The success of this movie established his well known choice for odd and unusual roles - essentially carving a niche for himself as a serious and somewhat dark performer who always surprises audiences with his choice of roles.He is a good Male actor in hollywood film Industry.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Hiking the Long Trail before the snow flies
All photos by Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson/Emberphoto.com.
“Canada to Hazen’s Notch? Sure, count us in!”
That’s the answer my wife, Emily Johnson, and I gave when her sister, Leah Johnson, and Leah’s beau, Richard Savory, asked us to join them for the first few days of their open-ended hiking journey south. We hadn’t seen Leah and Richard for months, and winter was fast approaching, making this trek on the Long Trail impossible to turn down.
We headed out on a calm, late-September morning. Arriving at Journey’s End — the northern terminus of the trail — we were quickly reminded of how fortunate Vermonters are to have one of the world’s greatest backcountry trail systems. Just 30 minutes into this adventure, we felt deeply immersed in the rugged wilds of the Green Mountains; our world was all towering trees, rocky ledges, moss-covered boulders and fern-filled grottoes.
At a scenic overlook along the U.S./Canada border, we sliced up smoked bluefish and rye bread — fuel for a big day ahead — and glanced at our trusty map. It was published by the Green Mountain Club, whose volunteers and staff have been the primary stewards of the 273-mile Long Trail since 1910. The corridor now boasts a great number of shelters, signs, bridges and side trails along the way.
Heading south that first day, we were distracted by numerous unique mountain vistas that we rarely get to see. Pushing on, we passed up several cozy shelters, opting for an overnight bivouac on the summit of Jay Peak. We reached our destination under the subtle glow of dusk.
Not long after a starlit dinner, the whisper of wind eased us into a pleasant night of sleep on the mountain. At sunrise, we awoke in a cloud bank and then drifted off again. A short while later we finally woke to rays of the rising sun streaking through the clouds. Big Jay, just south of Jay Peak, appeared to be floating in midair. We had a round of hot drinks, packed up and moved on.
South of Jay Peak and the comfortable Jay Camp shelter, where we stopped for water and breakfast, the Long Trail finds its groove in the upper-elevation hardwood forest that defines much of the corridor. Being among the aging trees, with a kaleidoscope of color overhead and the elaborate roots of the yellow birch underfoot, we felt as if we were traveling through the storybook fantasylands of our childhoods. Mushrooms clung to nearly anything rotting. Late-season flowers dotted the forest floor. Signs of deer and moose were abundant. Ravens and hawks soared overhead.
Buchanan Mountain was our last high point — and a great spot for lunch — before we wandered down the trail for several miles toward Hazen’s Notch Camp and a fine northern view. At the cabin, we met a friendly couple who were also heading south. They were taking the rare approach of hiking the entire length of the Long Trail in one straight push, and had on hand all their food for the trip. Their packs weighed twice as much as ours, but, they noted, got lighter with every meal.
Dinner, some good laughs and a few rounds of Boggle occupied our evening. We didn’t talk about the fact that, the following day, we would part company with Leah and Richard and end our time on the trail — for now. As there was limited space in the cabin, Emily and I left our fellow hikers to it, and we fell asleep under the protective covering of our trusty rainfly, within earshot of a mountain stream.
It was my birthday the next day, and waking to the sounds and smells of a light morning rain was a true gift. Within minutes the rain had passed, and we heard signs of life in the cabin. The forest was dripping, the foliage fluorescent. Someone passed me a hot café mocha.
It’s hard to beat life on the Long Trail.
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Bills Introduced to Repeal Medical Device Tax
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It’s a bipartisan mission in Congress to repeal the 2.3% medical device tax.
The Hill covers the House bill co-sponsored by 180 members:
That tax took effect at the start of 2013, and is expected to raise a few billion dollars a year in tax receipts for the government, and $30 billion over 10 years. But opponents of the tax say it will hinder innovation and job creation in the medical device industry.
"Placing a new tax on the backs of U.S. medical innovators and entrepreneurs who employ more than 400,000 Americans is not a prescription for economic growth or job creation," said Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), who sponsored the bill. "In fact, companies have already laid off thousands of employees as a result of this onerous new tax, and more jobs will be lost now that this tax is in effect.
"Repealing the medical device tax eliminates barriers to medical innovation, ensuring patients have access to life saving technologies and reduces the burden on tight R&D budgets, spurring job growth in the industry," said Rep. Ron Kind (Wis.), the leading Democrat on the House bill.
Reuters reports on the Senate bill:
Senators from Minnesota, Indiana and Pennsylvania, where many big medical technology companies are based, are among those who have been pushing for a repeal.
"In order to compete in the global economy our medical device businesses need a level playing field," said Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, home to Medtronic Inc, one of the biggest medical device makers.
Since the tax applies to device sales and not profits, small businesses in the medical device industry will be especially affected. Also, when you add this tax to the high U.S. corporate tax rate, American medical device manufacturers become less globally competitive.
Since the tax covers devices that are used on animals, vet costs will also rise.
Last year, a repeal bill passed the House but stalled in the Senate. Let’s hope there’s a better result with these bills.
[H/T United Liberty]
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WASHINGTON -- After a campaign that’s been about jobs, jobs and more jobs, the next president will be faced with a world full of problems that have little to do with improving the American economy. These are issues that often bear a geographic name: Afghanistan, Benghazi, Iran, Syria, Israel, or with out-thinking and overcoming those who seek to harm Americans.
These are the issues for the commander in chief role of the Oval Office, and while they’re often thrust upon a president more than sought, they will go a long way toward determining how history will view a presidency.
The two major party candidates, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, both generally back the same course on many of the major issues. Both would withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, for example, albeit at a slightly different pace. Both hope tough sanctions will force Iran to halt its nuclear program, while both reserve the right to use force as a last resort. Obama even joked at their last debate that Romney’s solutions consist of nothing more than speaking louder when saying the same things.
Romney early in the campaign appeared more hawkish. But as they near Election Day, Romney’s worked to avoid being tarred as trigger happy. “We can’t kill our way out of this mess,” he said in the last debate.
They do differ on some key issues. Romney wants a defense buildup, including an increase in ships for the Navy that Obama ridiculed. Romney vows a close alliance with Israel.
Here’s a breakdown of where they stand on some of the major issues of national security and foreign policy. Issues relating to possible defense spending cuts because of the pending sequestration are not included because both candidates seek to avoid implementation of those automatic cuts.
Obama sees slowing the growth of Pentagon spending as part of a greater effort to reduce projected budget deficits. As that slows, and the economy grows, he projects that military spending will drop from more than 4.2 percent of gross domestic product to 2.6 percent of GDP by 2022 .
Romney proposes that military spending should never fall below 4 percent of GDP.
He also proposes building 15 news ships a year for the Navy, with a goal of increasing the total from 286 ships today to 350. That’s more than the existing plan to add nine ships a year to raise the total to 298 ships, and more than the 310 to 316 ships the Navy said it needs to handle its missions.
Obama plans to turn over the lead in combat missions to Afghan security forces by the end of 2013, and to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of 2014. His timeline is the same as has been adopted by NATO and the international community.
Romney wants to complete the transfer of combat missions to Afghan forces and withdraw U.S. combat troops by the end of 2014. He would give the U.S. military more say over the pace of withdrawal.
Obama says economic sanctions are both having an impact and maintaining international support in the drive to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. He reserves the right to use force as last resort to stop Iran.
Romney supports sanctions but would strengthen them. He also reserves the right to use force as last resort.
Obama maintains the American relationship with Israel is “rock solid,” pointing to joint military exercises, missile defense support, and the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 as evidence. Obama maintains “the United States will always have Israel’s back when it comes to Israel’s security.”
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YWCA York provides American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim classes with instruction to help swimmers of all ages and abilities develop their swimming and water safety skills. It is designed to give students a positive learning experience.
Learn-to-Swim teaches aquatic and safety skills in a logical progression. The objective is to teach people to swim and to be safe in, on and around the water.
YWCA York has openings available for its toddler and pre-school swim program. Classes available include Parent & Tot for children 6 months to 3 years as well as 3- and 4-year-old semi-private lessons.
Call now for day and evening classes. Basic YWCA membership is required. To register or for more information, contact Kathy at (717) 845-2631 ext. 114 o r email@example.com, or visit the YWCA York online at www.ywcayork.org.
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Okay, so we are in disagreement. What is your definition of Christianity? I was making my case for my definition, I just want to see you explicitly state yours and give your case for that definition. After all, part of the purpose of conversing is to meet someone with, to use a metaphor, better kung fu than you, and copy them. Not just agreement and/or arguement.
Okay. I would say divinity of jesus H is part of it. But just having that particular belief does not make one a xian, I think. The extra beliefs on top of that matter. If believed jesus H was god/son of god, but also that Abraham, Krishna, Mohammed, joe smith and L Ron Hubbard were also all god/ sons of god, could you still call me a xian? How about if I also believed in reincarnation? I'd say no. All that other stuff negates the title of xian.
In xianity - or any religious, political, philosophical system - it is not only important to believe certain things to hold the title. It is also important to not
believe other things. If you call yourself a xian, there are certain things you cannot
believe. You cannot believe that the gods of the hindu pantheon are actual gods or are benevolent. You cannot believe Satan is equally powerful as yhwh. You cannot believe Mary was an alien from Alpha Centauri. You cannot believe yhwh corrected the teaching of jesus H through Mohammed.
I know mormonism is not as wildly divergent as calling L Ron Hubbard a messiah. But I think it is divergent enough to say, it ain't xian. On a scale of xianity, I would illustrate thusly:
what is illustrated are the 3 religions' relative distance to xianity, not each other. I think lds is closer than the other two, but I would still say it's not xian. I know some things about mormonism, and I've read parts of the book of mormon. But I would not say I am expert enough in it to argue the point exhaustively.
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What Are The Various Benefits Of The Hair Laser Brush
Hair and scalp problems are considered as the most notorious problems for whom it is difficult to find the solution. The most sought after solution for these problems these days has been found to be the laser hair brushes. There are a number of advantages of suing these types of brushes and are mentioned below.
- They have been considered the most successful alternative to drugs and surgery. They have been found to have no side effects ad have been clinically tested worldwide. The result as being clear and they are deemed as the best solution. hair laser brush stimulates growth and nourish your hair with maximum efficiency.
- Initially these types of brushes were used only in clinics. They were tired and tested in the USA and UK clinics for more than 10 years. Today they have become so simple and easy to use that you can use them in your private space such as a bedroom. They have captured the market because they do not have any complexity and hassle in their usage. They are light weight and can be stored anywhere conveniently.
- They have been considered as the one time investment and lifetime achievement thing. You do not have to make the trips to the hair salons, clinics and hair treatment dermatologists. They are cost effective as you have to pay once for their buying and save a lot of time. Millions of dollars are spent in the hair health products and supplements by the consumers and they do not realize that they are just wasting their money.
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Making Your Career As A Radiologist
Alternatively radiologist technicians are also known as a medical radiation technologist, radiographer and x-ray technician. These technicians’ works with the x-ray equipments to take internal photographs of the patient’s bone and organs. They develop images and further prepare them to analyze by the physical.
Choosing a carrier in the field is a good move as you can get huge opportunities and good income out of your career choice. A radiologist is one of the most important parts of the radiological procedures and also plays vital role in tracking and performing examinations for the patients. Working as a technician you ay directly dealing with the patient. Theradiologytechnician.org
They also operate machines which are used to take x-rays for further diagnosis by he physician’s a radiologist technician you are the one of the most responsible people who assures the comfort and safety of the patient.
In many states x-ray technicians are referred to as sonographers. The main highlight of choosing this career is that you directly become eligible for holding different positions. With gaining training and experience you can also become radiologist specialist who performs angiographies scanning and MRI. You an even attains further senior posts like chief radiologist technologist and supervisor.
This carrier is one of those who are highly booming in the field of medical industry. There are lots of demands of radiology technicians in the medical field which is likely to be increasing in the future. After finding employment you can be confident enough to get good earning income as a radiologist.
Smoking with E-Cigarette- Enjoy The Fun
Electronic Cigarettes have changed the experience of smoking. They contain the materials that is free from tar, nicotine vapor and odorless and do not contain any harmful ingredient as contain in traditional cigarette. The function of E-cigarette is simple and easy.
All E-cigarettes are provided with a refillable cartridge, an atomizer and a battery, the cartridge is filled with the liquefied solution of nicotine. While inhaling, a device is activated on which transfers a wave to the heating account inside of a device known as an atomizer.
This atomizer heats up rapidly asides from vaporized the liquefied solution of nicotine reproduce the vapors that imitates the action and look of smoke. http://www.ecigaretteco.co.uk/ is the popular site of E-cigarette in UK.
Understand the working of e-cig
Many people observe that the e-cigarette is the best stop smoking assistance and surely a good replacement therapy of nicotine accessible in the market. This is the perfect way to quit smoking for the smokers who have desires to do it. Also, it is recommended that the amount of nicotine used in e-cigarettes is really much healthier for people who smoke on a regular interval. http://www.ecigaretteco.co.uk/.
As every person knows that the E-cigarettes are free from the tobacco products, hence they used it as smoking cessation devices. The major benefit of the E-cigarette over the traditional or normal cigarette is that it is free from the tar which is most harmful chemical that causes cancer. E-cigarette is the healthier and effective alternative for the smokes who have desire to quit smoking. There is no any amount of tobacco contained in the E-cigarettes or smokeless cigarettes.
It contains the healthy propylene glycol, the scent and the liquefied nicotine solution and creates the water vapors while smoking it. These kinds of smoking device is really much beneficial in quit the bad habit of smoking or addiction to drug as this is also cheaper than the traditional cigarettes.
TestoFuel: -Increase Your Muscle Size With Natural Testosterone Products
Testosterone is considered as the holy grain for the growth of the muscles. Testosterone is one of the vital hormones in building up muscles in the human body. Additionally this hormone also determines the building up of muscle size. The more the level of testosterone in your body more quickly you will be able to increase the size of your muscles. So how can you boost up your muscle growth? TestoFuel is the answer to this question as it contains all the natural food ingredients that boost up the muscle growth.
Benefits of Testo fuel are as under
Testofuel has all the natural five important testosterone boosting food for building up muscles and they are ginseng, Vitamin D, Fenugreek, D-Aspartic acid and pure oyster extract.
- Testosterone helps in increasing strength and size of muscles.
- It helps in lowering the body fat
- Testosterone increases the endurance and sex drive
- It helps in improving mood
- It decreases bad cholesterol levels.
How effective is this product?
There is nothing in this world that can provide instant results and neither Testo fuel is a magic pill testofuel natural supplement. . Certainly Testo fuel is not for everybody. Teens don’t need to have this product as at this stage testosterone is naturally built up in the body.
If you are older and loves to work out and are passionate about body building than Testo fuel is the right product for you which you can go for buying immediately. This product is completely safe as it has all the natural ingredients. Try this product at least for three months because the body takes some time to build testosterone. You can also have some best deals on the purchase of Testo fuel packs.
FitBit Reviews- Advantages of the Fitbit Sleep Tracker and Ultra Wireless Activity
The FitBit is a tracker that is motivation and a great fitness tool. This device is capable of tracking various different statistics that will assist you excel in your fitness and daily routine and acquiring goals. This device consists of altimeter that is capable of identifying when an individual is climbing the stairs since it has 4 motion sensors. Also, it is able to monitor the small movements of an individual when the gadget is placed near to the body even when an individual is sleeping. You can know about this device from the FITbit Reviews.
A Complete overview about the benefits
It also comes in the useful wrist band so that an individual can wear it at the time of sleep comfortably. You can track your every movement in a daily routine. Following are some movements tracked by the FitBit Ultra Device. FitBit Reviews.
- Number of times you woke up in the night
- Total hours of comfortable sleep
- Calories burnt
- Number of stairs taken
- Distance covered
- Steps taken
This gadget also comes with the online software without any charge that assists you to track your goals and progress visually over time. Also, you can examine its benefits from the Fitbit Reviews. You will be capable of tracking following things by using this device.
- Earn badges
- Observe your statistics in graphs and compare the information over any provided time frame
- Percentage of fat, carbs and protein
- Calories eaten
- No monthly charges
- Establish weekly targets
- Receive assistance and motivation from a forum
- In online challenges, compete against your friends
You do not even need to join manually the Fitbit and its software. At any time if you go within the fifteen feet of your PC this device will sync up automatically and your data/information will be transferred and downloaded to your account of fitbit as the fitbit is a wireless gadget. You won’t forget to upload it by hand by doing this automatically which makes it simpler to accomplish your targets.
Why Ageless Male Reviews are considered the safest way of dealing with the testosterone Problems ?
How To Obtain the Genuine Ageless Male Reviews
Decreasing testosterone issues are complicated issues and you need to deal with care and precision with them. This problem is becoming more and more widespread these days and you need to be perceptive enough to get the right solution for you. There are certain points to be kept in mind if you are looking for the finest remedy to curb this problem.
Talk to your doctor
Before taking any step consult your doctor as he is the expert in this field and not you. He may find it helpful to conduct a number of examinations and medical tests so that to gauge your exact position and status. Normally it is best practice to go to the specialists in this field and they will give you the accurate information on this topic. Ageless Male ReviewsThey will also suggest you the best remedy and the finest way to practice those remedies.
The Only Benifical way of increasing your Testosterone Level
Natural Way- The doctor may suggest you to eat high protein foods, exercise regularly and have low fats in your diet. This is one of the best ways of increasing the testosterone and losing weight can do wonders. Research has shown that obese and overweight people have more chances of depleted testosterone. Minimize alcohol consumption, proper sleep, regular exercise and eating lots of fruits and vegetables can help you in increasing the testosterone level.
But these days humans have become so busy that he has no time for this and he takes the life as it is running. So to overcome this problem the natural testosterone increasing supplements have become an asset for the men who are facing this problem. You can find these supplements at your nearest stores or you can plan to buy them online. These supplements are more than just supplements and have a wide segment of benefits.
Industrial deafness claims solicitor
Industrial deafness is very popular medical problem and is increasing day by day. This is the problem of hearing loss. The hearing loss may be temporary or permanent. You can make claim in both the cases. Sometimes, the industry owners do not accept your claim and do not give you compensation amount. They may prove you wrong or ignore your claim. What should one do in such a condition? You do not have to worry, there is a solution of this problem.
You have to find solicitor for yourself who will help you in getting the claim without facing any problem. Solicitors work on the condition of do win do pay. This means that you have to pay the solicitor only if he or she succeeds in claiming and getting the right compensation amount. If you are unable to prove that the hearing loss is due to the bad working condition or due to the faulty machinery then solicitors are right professionals to seek help.
They are the legal professionals who are qualified and experienced persons in getting claims in case of injury or industrial accidents. They prepare you documents for the claim and show you in the court with your right. They help you in deciding the compensation amount depending on the severity of problem or type of hearing loss problem. They also keep in consideration how much you have suffered during working time in industry. What are the fees you are paying for its treatment? Finally they get success in this and you will get compensation amount.
You can find Industrial deafness claims solicitor online. Some of the organizations provide their free services very first time. Search for such solicitors whose fee is lower than others are. You have to mainly focus on their efficiency rather than the price. Check whether they have helped anyone earlier, how early they got success.
How to lower cholesterol naturally
This question is asked mostly that how to lower cholesterol naturally by those people who are suffering from the problem of high cholesterol. Whenever you feel high cholesterol level then your doctor or health care specialist suggest you to take statin drugs. You will definitely get relief but only for few hours then same problem starts again and the side effects caused by drugs may lead to dangerous results like deaths. Therefore, it is necessary to know how to lower cholesterol naturally.
Follow these tips and see the positive results without any harm to your body. Eat fish that consists of omega-3 fatty acids at least 2 times in a week if you are a non-vegetarian. If you cannot eat fish directly then go for its supplements available in the market in the form of pills and capsules. Take the pills or capsules as per recommendation. Implement the low cholesterol diet plan at your home. Go to doctor for check up and test your cholesterol level regularly (i.e., once in a week). Know your progress or improvement in cholesterol amount so that you cannot under estimate your health and your disease. If you feel only one symptom of this then also consult your doctor. As you know, prevention is better than cure. So do not let the cholesterol level raise. If you are a diabetic patient or have some other serious disease then ask your doctor before implementing any change in diet or your lifestyle.
Do not stress yourself for any reason. Exercise regularly and avoid fast food. Lower the cholesterol level naturally has one main benefit that there are no side effects to your body and you will get relief from it in very less time as compared to drugs and medication. Your health will get improved overall and you will remain healthy and disease free.
National Resuscitation Program (NRP) is created by the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP).
NRP is an educational program that teaches resuscitation of a newborn child to those persons or healthcare professionals who are involved in taking care of the newborn at the time of delivery. These persons are nurses, physicians, clinicians, respiratory therapists, etc.
Emergency medical services also get improved with the help of NRP program. The aim of this NRP exam is that one should know which equipment is to use and how which is required for resuscitation of a newborn baby.
In this course, you are introduced to the basic skills and concepts required for neonatal resuscitation. Before attending this course, students have to pass the NRP exam conducted for this. This exam will hold online. Once you have passed the exam, there is limited time of 30 days to join the course. You are provided with certification by NRP after completing the exam.
The certification is given online and immediately after completing the exam successfully. Anyone can participate in this online exam from anywhere and this exam is cost effective. This NRP exam checks your knowledge on causes, preventions, cures, treatments and management of neonatal asphyxia.
After completing the course, a physician should able to fulfil the needs of those children who are born under premature conditions. This course is also compulsory for nurses so that child will not get harmed because such children are more fragile than normal children are.
In addition, the nurse must be able to help the baby’s parents if they are feeling depressed. Completing the examination successfully does not mean that the person can perform neonatal resuscitation. The level of competence should be checked or determined. It is the responsibility of hospital that every staff member should have proper knowledge of neonatal resuscitation.
Capsules For Body To Lose Weight
Earth is planet of human. Some of them are fit and healthy but some of them fight with many problems. It is said that a healthy brain is situated in healthy body so eat fresh and healthy. According to the input, we always get corresponding output. Just like our body if we eat healthy and maintain it as result our body always stays healthy. Products available in the market contain many dangerous ingredients.
These harmful ingredients cause problems increasing weight; unhealthy body, lazy mind etc. are some serious issues. Increasing fat now a day, is common. With the advancement of technology, machines can replace human. These machines are reducing human hard work and daily routine activities. After the increment in weight people move towards gyms and yoga classes. After not getting desired results in limited period they consume drugs and powder.
By consumption of drugs, people can reduce weight without any kind of exercise or workout but these are scams.
To see these problems one product is discovered named as Alli. For more information check http://6dayweightlossoncall.com for detail. These are the tablets, which reduce fat. Lipase is the name of the enzyme which is found in the gut.
These enzymes help to cut the fat material and divided it into smaller components. And mix that smaller piece into blood and increase fat. This tablet breaks the process of cutting and mixture and drags those fat materials through the lower intestine and move out.
It increases the fat reducing power. http://6dayweightlossoncall.com gives information about usage of the product. It is part of your diet when you eat food. Alli tablets should take it with your food. FDA (food and drug administration’s) in 2009 after research proof that this drug has no any side effects and but the thing to remember is not take this tablet without overweight. If you want further detail then go to online window.
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Labor unions are asking a federal judge in Detroit to block part of Michigan's right-to-work law from taking effect in late March.
The lawsuit filed Monday is the second to challenge the law in recent weeks. It prohibits requiring workers to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.
Unions say the law can't apply to private-sector employees because it overreaches into any area controlled by the National Labor Relations Act. AFL-CIO lawyer Andrew Nickelhoff also says the law is an unconstitutional attempt to control workplace activities in federal areas such as dockyards.
An earlier suit challenges how the law was rushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature.
Supporters of right-to-work laws say they give employees greater freedom of choice. Opponents say they undermine the ability to unionize.
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Too many people misunderstand the purpose of the COTUS. It is intended to preserve the rights of the people and to SPECIFICALLY delegate SOME of THEIR power to the government. The whole point is FREEDOM. Some things were foreseen as likely ways that the government would abuse the power GIVEN to it by TAKING powers RESERVED (reserved, that means belonging to and kept) to the people.
The type of weapons is irrelevant. The issue is one of a particular freedom that had been stolen before and was feared to be stolen again.
The most important line in the COTUS is:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The current state of affairs is sadly far removed from the intention. The National government was supposed to do what is directly spelled out in the COTUS. DIRECTLY spelled out. It is specifically NOT supposed to do those things specifically spelled out.
Everything else. EVERYTHING ELSE is reserved to the people or to the states.
Specifically in regards to firearms, the COTUS is clear that the issue of firearms is OFF THE TABLE. There should be NO National level prohibition regarding firearms. NONE.
Still happily answering to the call-sign Peetza.
You do not HAVE a soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body.
He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose.
-Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.
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psych-facts: Thought of the day: Respect VS. Love →
It’s human nature to love and want to be loved. Its an aspect of our humanity that has been analyzed and discussed numerous times but is one of the hardest feelings to decipher. I think I heard it asked on a beauty pageant ” Would you rather be respected or loved?” Yes, being loved is nice, but respect should come first. You don’t need everyone to love you. Respect is the best foundation in any...
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As time passes, the reason for your anger will fade. But the things you do in...
Have compassion for others when they cannot see what is obvious to you
Everyone mistakes the limits of their vision for the limits of the world
Everybody’s got a dark side, but we’re worth it
Take me for better or for worst, but don’t take me for granted
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Air France will reduce its freighter capacity by 20 percent as part of a cost-cutting and efficiency program aimed at returning to profitability.
Air France Cargo will cut its fleet of three Boeing 747-400 and two Boeing 777 freighters to four aircraft. It is likely to dispose of one of the 747s rather than the newer 777s. The cargo unit also “will step up efforts initiated three years ago to reduce costs and improve economic performance,” Air France said.
Air France Cargo will fully integrate with its Dutch partners KLM Cargo and Martinair. It said it will seek synergies in its domestic and overseas stations but did not give details.
Once Europe's leading all-cargo operator, Air France Cargo has steadily reduced its exposure to freighters by transferring them to KLM’s lower-cost subsidiary Martinair.
KLM Cargo also has slimmed to two 747-400 freighters as it also switched aircraft to Martinair, which now operates six 747-400s and seven MD-11 freighters.
Air France-KLM’s cargo loss widened to $88.4 million in the first quarter from $11.7 million a year earlier. Lufthansa Cargo, by contrast, booked a first quarter profit of $24.7 million against $83.2 million in the same period in 2011.
Air France-KLM’s cargo revenue shrank 8.3 percent in April from a year earlier on 3.3 percent less capacity. Parent Air France plans to restructure its short- and medium-haul passenger network and trim its payroll by at least 2,400 over the next three years by not replacing staff. It also will unveil plans to lay off “excess staff” in the second half of the year.
Europe’s largest airline aims to eliminate $3.75 billion of debt and operating costs and increase productivity by 20 percent over the next three years. The carrier, which had an operating loss of $442 million last year, is targeting break-even by 2014.
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The International Chamber of Shipping has announced that it will be making its publications on best practices for shipping companies available as eBooks.
ICS will be using the eReader technology developed by Witherby Seamanship Group (WPG), which is now being widely used by many other bodies producing maritime publications, including the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
The ICS publications to be made available as eBooks from April 2013 will continue to be published on behalf of ICS by Marisec Publications and will only be available from maritime booksellers.
The initial ICS publications to become available as eBooks will be the ICS Bridge Procedures Guide (4th edition), the ICS Guide to Helicopter/Ship Operations (4th edition) and the ICS/ISF Guidelines on the Application of the ISM Code (4th Edition). Other ICS publications will be made available as eBooks when new or revised editions of print versions are published.
The ICS eBooks will be available as single user versions (with the same recommended retail price as the existing print editions) or as network versions whereby a customer will have access to five copies of the eBook for just twice the cost of the single user version.
Full details of prices can be obtained from maritime booksellers.
Many ICS publications on best practices are an essential complement to international maritime regulations adopted by IMO, and are required reading by companies and seafarers involved in maritime operations.
ICS Director External Relations, Simon Bennett, explained: “As well as responding to the demand from shipping companies to produce ICS publications as eBooks, we believe that by using the proven WPG system it will be helpful to ship operators for our books to sit alongside IMO regulations, as well as useful advice produced by other maritime bodies, in electronic form.”
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January 8, 1975 - Kingston, Jamaica.
Quote From Sean Paul:
"Life is a gift and you must treasure it. We're all here for a certain period of time, and we're definitely gonna leave one day."
Born Sean Paul Henriques, Sean Paul grew up in a multi-ethnic household. His father is Portuguese-Jamaican, and his mother is Chinese -Jamaican. She is a noted painter and both parents were talented athletes. Sean Paul followed in their footsteps when he played water polo on the Jamaican national team and also represented his country in swimming competitions. Following graduation from college Sean Paul worked as a chef and then as a bank teller, but music is his first passion.
As a teenager Sean Paul made important connections with the internationally known reggae group Third World. In 1996, after recording a couple of singles on his own, Paul hooked up with rising producer Jeremy Harding of 2 Hard Records. The result was Sean Paul's single "Baby Girl" that became a huge Jamaican hit. He had additional Jamaican hits, but by the end of the decade Sean Paul was aiming for international success.
Trivia Fact About Sean Paul:
Sean Paul's mother encouraged his interest in music by purchasing a $30 keyboard for him when he was 13.
International Dancehall Star Sean Paul:
In the year 2000 Sean Paul's single "Hot Gal Today" reached the top 10 on the Billboard Rap Singles chart. This helped his album Stage One to reach the top 100 on the R&B/Hip Hop albums chart and reach #2 on the Reggae Album chart in the U.S. The awareness of Sean Paul as a rising star around the world helped set the stage for his second album Dutty Rock.
Dutty Rock was released in 2002. It proved to be Sean Paul's breakthrough to pop audiences. It was also a breakthrough for the dancehall reggae sound. The single "Get Busy" went all the way to #1 on the pop singles chart and 3 other singles landed in the top 20. Dutty Rock received the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album of the year in early 2003.
It took 3 years for Sean Paul's next album The Trinity to appear. The title refers to 3 elements - dancehall, reggae, and hip hop - that make up the sound of Paul's music. The album opened at #7 on the U.S. album chart and in a few short weeks, the album's first single "We Be Burnin'" was in the top 10.
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At a meeting last night to mobilize the LGBT community and allies Council Member David Catania announced that on October 6 he would introduce a bill to legalize marriage between same-sex couples in the District.
"We are going to do it now," Catania told the crowd. "We are going to do it now, not for ourselves, but for the young people who are 20 years-old, 16-years-old, 13-years-old."
Ten of 13 council members will co-introduce the bill on Tuesday. Mayor Adrian Fenty has has said that he will sign the bill.
After the bill passes the Council and is signed by Mayor Fenty, it will go to Capitol Hill for a 30 legislative day congressional review period.
The community meeting kicked off with an amazing and inspiring speech from Rev. Eric Lee, President/CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference-Los Angeles. Rev. Lee, a leading African-American and heterosexual advocate for marriage equality, stressed that the issue is one of social justice. He equated the LGBT community's movement for marriage to DC's quest for voting representation in Congress.
DC began recognizing marriages from other jurisdictions in July.
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Property on the Costa Brava
The Costa Brava is a coastal region situated in the northeastern area of Catalonia, Spain. The area is famed for it’s beaches and so has become a very popular destination for tourists. There is more to the region than this though, as it has a rich heritage of cultural history after Salvador Dali took up residence there, as well as beautiful architecture and Roman ruins.
Destinations and Regions in Costa Brava
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Murray Darling Basin report soothes irrigators
Irrigators have praised a new report that recommends fewer cuts to water use in the Murray Darling Basin. A joint parliamentary committee headed by the federal independent Tony Windsor has proposed a way of saving the system without the pain to farmers. The report has slammed the Murray Darling Basin Authority for sending shockwaves through river communities for no good reason.
Source: PM | Duration: 4min 18sec
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Irrigators say a new report on the Murray-Darling Basin will go some way in soothing anger across the river system.
The report by a joint parliamentary committee shifts the emphasis from deep cuts in water allocations to efficient farming and infrastructure.
The federal Independent Tony Windsor headed the inquiry and is promising a new way of saving the river without the pain to irrigators.
But his proposal of reducing water buybacks has already put environmentalists offside.
As Jason Om reports.
JASON OM: The consensus among irrigators was that the Murray-Darling Basin Authority wasn't listening.
So Tony Windsor and his committee set off across the region to hear for themselves.
TONY WINDSOR: That it was very obvious that the Authority hadn't done a good job in terms of discussing the issues with the community.
JASON OM: His report comes up with a different way.
TONY WINDSOR: There is a way through this that does achieve the win/win outcome.
JASON OM: That means more focus on the towns and people who rely on the basin and greater emphasis on water efficiency.
Of the report's 21 recommendations, one strikes at the heart of the Gillard Government's approach, and that's water buybacks.
SHARMAN STONE: We are so needing to have that non-strategic water buy-back stopped now.
JASON OM: Sharman Stone is one of the committee's Coalition members.
SHARMAN STONE: That is gutting our irrigation systems. We can invest much more in environmental works and measures. We identified so many of those.
JASON OM: Danny O'Brien from the National Irrigators Council likes what he hears.
DANNY O'BRIEN: Tony Windsor and his bi-partisan committee have struck the right balance here. They've clearly listened to communities; a far cry from what the MDBA went through last year and they've delivered a good set of recommendations.
JASON OM: What will Tony Windsor's report do to community anger?
DANNY O'BRIEN: Well I think we're seeing already some of the comments I've had in feedback from my members that people are glad that they've been listened to.
JASON OM: Is it possible to restore the river without farmers having to cop that pain?
DANNY O'BRIEN: Look I think we all accept from an irrigators point of view that there will be water going back to the environment. Frankly one of the things that was missed in the guide is that irrigators have been giving up water, there'd be barely an irrigator in the basin who hasn't lost water, mostly uncompensated over the last 10 or 15 years.
There will be more and we think that the Government purchasing it is a respecting our property rights and that's only fair. As long as it continues to come from willing sellers.
JASON OM: Andrew Gregson from the New South Wales Irrigators Council thinks the findings will soothe the anger along the river.
But with the final plan due next year, he's wary that the process is far from over.
ANDREW GREGSON: It will certainly have a calming effect because people will see that the concerns that they've raised have been listened to. The real proof however comes when the draft basin plan is released, to see if the Murray-Darling Basin Authority have listened, have had time to listen and has had time to incorporate what it is that the Windsor inquiry has said.
JASON OM: Environmentalists are opposed to any halt to water buybacks.
Arlene Harriss-Buchan from the Australian Conservation Foundation says the buybacks are the most efficient way to save the basin.
ARLENE HARRISS-BUCHAN: We're very, very concerned about this threat to the buyback of water entitlements. Buying back water from willing sellers is the most efficient and effective way of recovering water for the environment.
Buyback has put real water back into our rivers and delivered real benefits for the taxpayers. So we think that the Government should absolutely reject any request and any recommendation to slow down or to stop that buyback.
JASON OM: So what would happen to the river if the Government agreed to the recommendations in the Windsor report?
ARLENE HARRISS-BUCHAN: If the Government stopped the buyback of water from willing sellers, it would seriously slow down the rate at which water is recovered for the environment and it would certainly cost much, much more to recover the required amount of water.
JASON OM: Tony Windsor's committee has avoided the furious debate over the minimum amount of water needed to be returned.
The basin guide recommends at least 3,000 gigalitres; a figure now uncertain.
TONY WINDSOR: We haven't suggested that there is an appropriate level.
JASON OM: It's an issue that caused the key Wentworth Group of Scientists to break away from the basin plan process.
Members of that group have declined to be interviewed by PM.
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Jason Om.
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By Elise Labott
The State Department has put a multimillion-dollar bounty on the heads of two Americans who the United States claims belong to an al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, CNN has learned.
Posters and matchbooks in Somali and English emblazoned with the names and pictures of Omar Shafik Hammami and Jehad Serwan Mostafa tout rewards up to $5 million each for information leading to their arrest or conviction. Both men are on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List.
The rewards are being offered through the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program.
Hammami and Mostafa are members of Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, and "have made significant contributions to this terrorist organization's media and military activities," according to a State Department statement on the rewards, obtained by CNN. They are both are believed to be in Somalia and speak English, Arabic and Somali.
A senior FBI official said the United States has information that both men "had a persistent interest in targeting U.S. interests" and are "believed to be involved in planning attacks on U.S. persons or property." But it is unclear what specific attacks against Americans, even ones that have been thwarted, these men have taken part in. Officials said that information is classified.
Hammami, a 29-year-old Alabama native, moved to Somalia in 2006. The State Department claims he joined Al-Shabaab there and received training from Islamic militants, rising through the organization's ranks to command a contingent of foreign fighters. Officials say he was also a "propagandist" for the group, helping to recruit English-speaking youth through writings, rap songs and video statements.
An Alabama court indicted him in 2009 on charges of providing support to a terrorist group.
In July 2011, the Treasury Department placed him on a blacklist prohibiting Americans from doing business with individuals and groups threatening stability in Somalia.
Hammami has been engaged in a public rift with Al-Shabaab over the past year. Last March, he first expressed concern about his safety in an extraordinary Web video. He has since criticized the group's leaders for corruption and living extravagant lifestyles with money fighters collect from Somali residents, and for fighting only in Somalia while ignoring global jihad.
Hammami's family has said they fear for his life.
But the senior FBI official told CNN that Hammami's current status with the group is "immaterial" and that the reward is based on the actions he has already taken to threaten U.S. interests.
"We still believe he is an individual of great significance to the activities that are going on in Somalia with Al-Shabaab," the official said.
Mostafa is believed to be either 27 or 32. He was born in Wisconsin before moving California, where he attended college. He traveled to Somalia in 2005, where officials say he led foreign fighters for Al-Shabaab and served as a media expert and recruiter. He was indicted in California on charges of providing material support to Al-Shabaab.
Al-Shabaab was labeled a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department in 2008. The group was responsible for the July 2010 suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, that killed more than 70 people, including a U.S. citizen, gathering to watch a World Cup final soccer match. Al-Shabaab is also believed to be responsible for numerous other attacks in Somalia that have killed international aid workers, journalists, civilian leaders and African Union peacekeepers.
In February 2012 the group's leader, Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed and al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released a video announcing the alliance of the two organizations. The Rewards for Justice Program is already offering up to $7 million for information on seven other Al-Shabaab leaders.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the rewards before leaving office. Officials said they hope the rewards will generate new leads from both Somalia and in Somali-American communities in the United States. In addition to the posters and matchbooks, U.S. officials will be talking with local media in Somalia to reach people that may have information about the men's whereabouts.
It is rare for the United States to offer a reward for an American citizen. The most notable previous reward offered for an American was $1 million for Adam Gadahn, who has served as senior operative and spokesman for the core al Qaeda organization.
Officials said that in addition to their leadership roles with a terrorist group, the men are of great interest because of their work trying to recruit other English-speaking youth.
"Anytime we have U.S. citizens who are trying to affiliate with groups to obtain experience and training and have the opportunity to bring back that lethal experience back to the United States, it's a concern," a State Department diplomatic security official said. "There is no question the cases against these two guys are based on their activities to date. However, we have a continuing interest in terrorist activates in Somalia right up to now. And these men serve as very powerful images for radicalization and recruitment."
The new bounties raise the question of what the United States will do with the men once they find them. The Obama administration drew fire from Congress and human rights groups for killing two Americans who belonged to the al Qaeda branch in Yemen. In September 2011, U.S. drone strikes killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a firebrand preacher from New Mexico who began running propaganda for al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula and rose to become a senior operative in the group, and Samir Khan from North Carolina, who created an English-language Internet magazine for the group
Both officials said the Rewards for Justice Program - administered by the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security - is not involved in drone programs and the intent of the reward is to obtain information that will lead to the men's apprehension and prosecution.
"The purpose of the program is to gather information to bring these guys back lawfully," the senior FBI official said. "We want to bring these people before a court."
The Rewards for Justice Program pays large sums of money for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who plans, commits or attempts international terrorist acts. Earlier this year, President Obama expanded the program to include payments for information about people involved in transnational organized crime or foreign nationals wanted by any international criminal tribunal for war crimes or genocide.
The program has a track record of gaining actionable intelligence. Since its inception in 1984, the program has paid more than $125 million to more than 80 people who provided information that put terrorists behind bars or prevented acts of international terrorism worldwide. The program was central to the capture of Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai; Ramzi Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and others.
Under the Rewards for Justice Program, a $25 million reward was offered for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.
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Students Help Shape Upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Case
Anne Juterbock '05 came to law school thinking she might use her B.S. in Business Management in a transactional practice. But like so many who come to Moritz, she found that opportunities can reshape thinking.
Anne had Professor David Goldberger for Constitutional Law during her first year of law school. That led to work as his research assistant and participation in his Civil Law Clinic. In the past year, she has helped him with Cutter v. Wilkinson, as well as an article for the Election Law @ Moritz project in which he listed her as a co-author - "typical of his willingness to give credit to others," she says.
Cutter v. Wilkinson involves prison inmates who sued the State of Ohio, claiming they were denied access to religious literature and ceremonial items under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. The statute, which was enacted by Congress, requires states to accommodate prisoners' religious beliefs unless the prison officials can show that there is compelling reason not to accommodate the request. The Sixth Circuit invalidated the statute as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause. The prison inmates sought Supreme Court review.
"This case is an important case because it should clarify the power of state and federal government to lift governmental burdens from religious exercise of all prisoners without violating the Establishment Clause," says Professor Goldberger. "The case may also define the degree to which Congress may condition its appropriations to state governments based on their willingness to comply with the congressional funding requirement."
Ohio Solicitor and Moritz Professor on leave Douglas Cole, who briefed and will argue on behalf of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, counters that the case is about prison safety. "We believe that prison wardens are in the best position to make decisions about the security implications of various kinds of prisoner requests, and that the federal government should not be foisting a 'one-size-fits-all' solution on the states."
Anne believes the complexity of the lawsuit has given her a better understanding of how a multitude of issues can fit together in a single case. She is, for the first time, considering a career in litigation.
| Professor Goldberger with the press on the Supreme
Court steps following the McIntyre v. Ohio
Elections Commission argument
Regardless of career choice, Anne has expanded her research skills and has become a more expressive writer. She says Professor Goldberger explains the legal theory behind every research assignment he gives. He is always encouraging and systematically provides important feedback about her legal analysis.
Practically, she has mastered the Establishment Clause and, with fellow student Jaime Klausner, drafted the in forma pauperius petition that accompanied the initial petition for certiorari filed in the Supreme Court.
Watching Professor Goldberger up close, Anne says that it is clear that his first and overwhelming interest is in serving his clients' best interests. "In a case as high profile as this," she says, "there are outside interest groups who try to persuade counsel to emphasize their issues. That's not what's important to Professor Goldberger." Observing him over the past year has also given her a clear sense of how much time and effort goes into preparing a case of this magnitude.
A strong advocate of skills training, Professor Goldberger has involved students in other important cases, including McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, which also reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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EUPORA – On Oct. 28, 2012, after a lengthy illness, James Creyer Pogue of Eupora went to his Heavenly home at North Mississippi Medical Center in Eupora surrounded by his loving family. James was born May 15, 1927, in Mathiston to Robert Lee and Irma O’Neal Pogue. The youngest of five children, he grew up learning the value of hard work, the importance of family and the enjoyment found in sports, particularly football. Leaving high school at the age of 16, he enlisted in the United States Army where he served in the 3rd Infantry Division. After basic training, James was sent to Germany where he was assigned to the Army's Motor Pool in Transportation and Operations. He was eventually given the duties of transporting German prisoners to the Hall of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, to stand trial for war crimes. After three years of service in the Army, he returned home to Eupora to complete his high school education. At this time, James volunteered for burial detail, where he would meet trains that brought American fallen warriors home.
While enrolled at Eupora High School, he was selected to be captain of the Maroon Yahoo football team. Upon receiving a football scholarship, James enrolled at Mississippi College to further his academic education. After college, he went to work in Aiken, S.C., at the Savannah River Plant as a supervisor in the Health Physics Division. In 1964, James and his wife, Carolyn, made the decision to move their family to Webster County to operate the family farm. Of his accomplishments, he was most proud of introducing Hybrid Bermuda grasses and registered Santa Gertrudis cattle into this area of the state. For many years, James planted the original Bermuda pastures for Mississippi State University and surrounding states. He loved this great nation and wished to give back to it and to leave the land better than he found it.
James' legacy is one of a man who was a warrior, a cattleman and a farmer who was generous and was quick to share a story. However, his greatest source of pride was his family. James would often say he could not imagine where in his life he would be without his loving wife of 57 years, Carolyn Carter Pogue. He was a proud and loving father of daughter, Patti Pogue Swindle (Wade), of Eupora; his three sons Bobby, Matt (Linda), all of Eupora, and Lance (Dixie) of Batesville; his grandchildren, David Pogue (Mia) of Eupora, Jamie Swindle Walker (Steve) of Mantee, John Swindle (Chastity), Lee Swindle, Daniel Pogue, Jennifer Swindle, Luke Pogue (Lauren), Maggie Pogue Ballard (Nick), Chet Pogue, all of Eupora, and Tyler and Meleah Pogue of Batesville; his great-grandchildren, Carson, Connor and Nealy Swindle, Gracie and Eian Pogue, Jayden Ballard and Carter Pogue, all of Eupora, and Corinne Walker of Mantee. James also leaves a nephew, Jimmy Crick, and niece, Carolyn Crick Lane, of Eupora, Tonya and Joe Huffman, his special caregivers, and family, and Tyler Huffman of Eupora as well as his cherished and loving dog, Sassy.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Lee and Irma O’Neal Pogue, and his four sisters, Louise Pogue, Nell Pogue Crick, Ruth Pogue, Alice "Bob" Pogue Wood, and nephew, Billy Pogue Burgess.
James was a member of Tomnolen Baptist Church.
The family will receive visitors today, Oct. 30, 2012, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Oliver Funeral Home in Eupora. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, at Tomnolen Baptist Church in Tomnolen. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. followed by the service at 2 p.m. Graveside services will follow at Greensboro Cemetery in Webster County. The Rev. Willie Weddle, Bobby Pogue and Luke Pogue will officiate at the services. In the words of General Douglas MacArthur, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
Pallbearers are grandsons, David Pogue, Steve Walker, John Swindle, Lee Swindle, Daniel Pogue, Nick Ballard, Chet Pogue and Tyler Pogue.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to The Baptist Children’s Village, P.O. Box 27, Clinton, MS 39060-0027.
Oliver Funeral Home of Eupora is in c harge of arrangements.
Beatrice Brown Roberts
HUNTINGDON, Tenn. – Beatrice Sanders Brown Roberts, 92, passed away Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital. She was born Oct. 22, 1920, in Decatur County, Tenn., to Robert Asberry Sanders and Cora Beatrice Hooten Sanders. She was a member of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church and a retired employee of Publix Shirt Corporation.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today in the Chapel of Dilday-Carter Funeral Home in Huntingdon, Tenn. Bro. Bryan Oakes and Bro. Phillip Halters will officiate. Interment will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery near Buena Vista, Tenn.
She is survived by two sons, Kenneth David Brown and John W. Brown, both of Tupelo; three daughters, Sandra Sue Moody of Huntingdon, Tenn., Pat Azlin of Cordova, Tenn., and Janice Porter of Union City, Tenn.; three sisters, Orville Nanney of Henry, Tenn., Frances Chandler of Torrence, Calif., and Marjorie Davenport of Decatur, Ala.; 12 grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, John Gray Brown; her second husband, Ted Roberts; a son, Bobby Gray Brown; two brothers, Kenneth Sanders and Bobby Lee Sanders; and two sisters, Genora Cloar and Gladys Lankford.
Pallbearers will be Burton Moody, Jonathan Moody, Jace Porter, Billy Azlin, Patrick Brown and Ricky Barger.
The family will receive friends from 8 a.m. to service time today.
MICHIE, Tenn. – Johnny “Ringo” Brewer, 56, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. He was formerly of Burnsville.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Cutshall Funeral Home Chapel in Glen. Burial will be in Antioch Cemetery. Cutshall Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home in Glen.
Memorials may be made to the Antioch Cemetery Fund.
An online guestbook can be accessed at www.cutshallfuneralhome.com.
TUPELO – John Lee McKinney, 82, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at the V.A. Medical Center in Houston, Texas, after a lengthy illness. He was born July 4, 1930, to Lee and Hattie McKinney in Shannon. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1971 after 20 years of honorable military service. He loved spending time with his family, watching baseball and helping out with handyman projects.
A graveside service will be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Tupelo Memorial Park with the Rev. Gerald Gann officiating. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
He is survived by his sister, Laverne Clayton (Ray) of Mooreville; his son, John Robert “Bobby” McKinney (Terre) of Houston, Texas; his daughter, Mary McKinney Ward (Col. David Ward) of Woodbridge (Ft. Belvoir), Va.; four grandchildren, John Stewart of Houston, Texas, Brooks McKinney Castaneda of Houston, Texas, Catherine Ward Messer of Fairchild AFB, Washington, and Michelle Ward of Charlottesville, Va. (University of Virginia); and two great-grandchildren.
His wife, Josephine Yarbrough McKinney, preceded him in death.
Pallbearers will be Ray Clayton, his brother-in-law; Col. David Ward, his son-in-law; John Stewart, his grandson; Mike Castaneda, his grandson-in-law; and Robert Lee Cayson, his nephew.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday at Pegues Funeral Home on Jefferson Street.
Memorials may be made to Eggville Free Will Baptist Church, 1153 Road 1498, Tupelo, MS 38804.
MILWAUKEE – Annie Hereford Sandlin, 94, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wis. She was formerly of Pontotoc. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Kenneth I. Roberson Funeral Home of Pontotoc.
VINA, Ala. – William Howard Blackburn, 74, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at ECM Hospital in Florence, Ala. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Deaton Funeral Home of Red Bay, Ala.
MEMPHIS – Elenor Lynette Taylor, 75, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, at her home in Memphis. She was formerly of Marshall County.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Mt. Vernon Cemetery at Waterford. J.F. Brittenum and Son Funeral Home in Holly Springs is in charge of the arrangements.
DUMAS – Wanda Rea Brock, 63, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at her home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ripley Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Dumas Baptist Church.
Harold Herl Sr.
HERNANDO – Harold Lee Herl Sr., 77, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven. He was born March 11, 1935, in Conneaut, Ohio. He was a graduate of Ashtabula, Ohio, High School. He was a retired member of the Civil Service and U.S. Navy after 20 years, earning his bush pilot wings. He taught jet engine repair in Saudi Arabia for two years. He was a member of the VFW. He was a Mason, a Scottish Rite Shriner and a York Rite Shriner.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Parker Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Bruce with Bro. Richard Donahue officiating. Burial will be in Bruce Cemetery. Parker Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one daughter, Kay Brewer (Bernie) of Hernando; one son, Robert Gordon (Nicci) of Hernando; four sisters, Beverly Spencer (Howard) of Kingsville, Ohio, Janice Fandren of Erie, Pa., Lois Smith (Glenn) of Elyria, Ohio, and Patricia Hoover (Ross) of Schertz, Texas; three brothers, Richard Herl (Christine) of San Diego, Calif., R. Norman Herl (Roseann) of Kingsville, Ohio, and Larry Herl (Mary) of Girard, Pa.; five grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Vaughn Ceile Gordon Herl; a son, Harold Lee Herl Jr.; and his parents, Harold and Freda Brydle Herl.
Pallbearers will be Bryon Crain, Kenny Dancy, Tommy Daniel, John Gordon Harrison, Tim Hudson and David Thomason. Michael Meadows will be an honorary pallbearer.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Twin Oaks Funeral Home in Southaven and from noon to service time Thursday at Parker Memorial Funeral Home in Bruce.
Online condolences may be made at www.parkermemorialfuneralhomes.com.
TAYLOR – James Carothers, 60, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Serenity-Martin Funeral Home of Oxford.
BIG CREEK – Oliver Henry Poe, 84, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at his home. He was born Nov. 2, 1927, in Big Creek. He was a farmer, a member of Big Creek Baptist Church and a Mason for more than 50 years.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Pryor Funeral Home Chapel in Calhoun City with the Rev. Chris Conley, Joel Denley and the Rev. Jimmy Vance officiating. Burial will follow in Chapel Hill Cemetery at Big Creek. Pryor Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Bobby Jo Denley Pope; two sisters, Mary Nail Yandell of Arkansas and Ruth Weir of Tennessee; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry Poe and Cora Johnson Poe; a sister, Edna Poe; and a brother, Frank Poe.
Pallbearers will be Gilbert Denley, Michael Denley, Heath Denley, Gary Denley, Joel Denley and Peter Mallory.
Honorary pallbearers will be Steve Mallory, Randolph Dismuke, Alfred Parker, Jamie Taylor, Larry Taylor, Henry Lee Taylor, William Wright and Jamie Wright.
Visitation will be from noon to service time today at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at pryorfuneralhome.com.
MANTACHIE – Alton Edgar “Jack” Horton, 92, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at his residence in Itawamba County after an extended illness. He was born in Belden on March 27, l920, one of 13 children of Tim Horton and Ethel Stafford Horton. He served his country in the U.S. Army during the World War II era. He married Opal Earlene Parker on June 25, 1941, and she died May 15, 1993. He was a master mechanic all of his life, retiring after 17 years with Truck Center in Tupelo. He was skilled in repairing anything from automobiles to motorcycles to heavy equipment and he was an expert welder. He was a longtime attendee of the Union Grove Church of God of Prophecy. He loved his family, his friends and his God and was constantly filled with the Holy Ghost. An adventuresome man even until just before his death, he enjoyed storytelling, visiting with family, friends and his customers all over Northeast Mississippi, restoring antique cars, gospel singings and Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Services with military honors will be at 2 p.m. today at Union Grove Church of God of Prophecy with Bro. Billy West officiating. Burial, with Bro. Ryan Napatoli officiating, will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from noon to service time today at Union Grove Church of God of Prophecy.
Survivors include his daughter, Virginia Horton Nanney of Mantachie; his son, Tommy Horton (Peggy) of Mantachie; his grandchildren, Monica Mathis (Lee), Wade Nanney (Ginger) and Cary Horton (Amanda), all of Mantachie, Gary Horton (Tina) of Tupelo and Mark Horton (Tanya) of Smithville; his great-grandchildren, Brandy Graham (John), Britny Aberle (Darrell), Jesse Nanney, John Nanney, Miranda Horton (Justin), Mary Beth Horton, Samantha Horton, Victoria Horton, Sierra Horton and Josh Estes; his great-great-grandchildren, Gavin Romansik, Hope Graham, Braden Graham, Meagan Graham, Madison Aberle and Braxton Aberle; a sister, Ruby Bell of Baldwyn; five brothers, Jessie Horton, Franklin Horton and Daniel Horton, all of Baldwyn. Harold Horton of Goshen, Ind., and John Horton of Joyner, Ark.; special caregiver and daughter-in-law, Peggy Horton; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his siblings, Junior, Vernon and Bill Horton, Mary Horton and Evelene Dugard; a son-in-law, Jim Nanney; and a great-grandson, Brandon Allen Henry.
Pallbearers will be Tom Stafford, Darrell Bounds, Stevie Humble, Randy Harmon, Gerald Harmon and Todd Patterson.
Memorials may be made to the Union Grove Cemetery Fund, c/o Mike Mitchell, 170 Drive 1772, Saltillo, MS 38866.
Condolences may be emailed to email@example.com.
OKOLONA – Dorothy Pearl Conaway Shaw, 54, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at her home at Wren. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Williams Memorial Funeral Home of Okolona.
CORINTH – Rebecca “Becky” Coley Dillingham, 71, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at her home.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today at Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery. McPeters Inc. Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 31 CR 754, Corinth, MS 38834.
Condolences can be left at www.mcpetersfuneraldirectors.com.
CORINTH – Mildred Purvis Wood, 91, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at Cornerstone Health and Rehab.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at McPeters Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Henry Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from noon to 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
MYRTLE – Robert Lee Parks, 75, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Serenity Funeral Home of New Albany.
ABERDEEN – Minnie Neely, 92, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, at Care Center in Aberdeen. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Williams Memorial Funeral Home of Okolona.
GUNTOWN – Gwendolyn Diane Flemings Moody, 59, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Pontotoc on July 14, 1953, to Whitmon and Dora Flemings. She was a member of West Side Baptist Church. She enjoyed cooking, flowers and collecting wind chimes.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at The Saltillo Chapel of W.E. Pegues with the Rev. Ray Ware officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband of 15 years, Billy J. Moody of Guntown; two sisters, Martha Wilson (Lavert) of Saltillo and Shirley Sanders of Tupelo; a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Ann Collins, and her parents.
Pallbearers will be her nephews.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Saltillo Funeral Home.
NEW ALBANY – Keenah Keys Dye, 51, died Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, at home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Foster & Son Funeral Home of Ripley.
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Raphael Luzon was driven from him home in Benghazi, Libya, during an anti-Jewish pogrom in 1967. Today he’s the head of Jews of Libya, UK. And he tells the Jerusalem Post that Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council of Libya, asked him to come home to Libya and run in elections. The rebel leader reportedly says he wants Libya’s politics to be open to women and Jews.
We’ll have to wait and see how this pans out, but it wouldn’t even happen as a cynical public relations stunt next door in Egypt.
This reminds me of something Lebanese political analyst and publisher of NOW Lebanon Eli Khoury said to me years ago: “When political theories fail in the Middle East they fail hard. People who believed in them have a tendency to support a total opposite point of view later.”
Let’s hope it’s true. If Qaddafi’s cruel decades in power have managed to discredit one-man rule, socialism (in the Russian rather than Scandanavian style), anti-Westernism, and anti-Zionism, Libya just might be okay.
Originally posted at PJ Media.
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Mostly men tend to wear clothes that have a functional
purpose. Today menís fashion is a growing industry allowing men to look great
and enjoy functionality in their clothes. One item that should be in the
fashionable man s wardrobe is the mens cashmere scarf. Men are taking to
wearing mono colored scarves around their neck with shirts, jackets and even
suits. As long as the material is cashmere or pashmina scarf, if it is the
right color and length can make the dreariest of outfits look good. In fact since
so many men wear colors such as blue, black and grey, many colors can be tamed
well with them to add a difference to the ensemble.
Often understated, winter scarves are the most flattering
winter accessory for men. In addition to ability to make you look luxurious,
winter scarves are there, letís not forget, for function too. Winter scarves
will save you the undesirable feeling of cold breeze crawling down your neck
and cut away any chance of having snow sliding in your shirt. With that said,
donít wear winter scarves only when itís freezing outside. Winter scarves can
successfully be worn even in early autumn as an elegant accessory that will
surely give you a sense of specialty.
Any cashmere scarf will make any boring looking guy seem
fashionable and casual, perhaps that is the reason why menís cashmere scarves
tend to be accepted before.
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Mens cashmere scarves are available in the often knitted
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With may prominent designers coming out with their own
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wardrobe. So if you are thinking of wearing something stylish, why not try
adding this to add flair to your look?
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Closing The Store Gives a Different Perspective
You never have such great 20/20 hindsight as when you’re packing the contents of your store into dozens and dozens of cardboard cartons.
Here are some things I know now that I didn’t know then:
- We bought too many copies of many titles. Being a store that deals heavily with remainder product certainly added to the temptation to seize the day when a title was offered at 75-80% off, but remainders and overstock are remainders and overstock for a reason.
- Once you have the above principle firmly in your mind, you’re still stuck with those excess quantities; mainly because…
- …The barrel of sand theory: Your inventory is like a large barrel of sand. You are constantly pouring new sand in, and people are constantly scraping sand from the top, but very few people dig deep into the barrel to see what’s near the middle or near the bottom.
- I should have accelerated the discount percentages as we were closing. We got a lot of traffic from two newspaper stories, and contented ourselves that the 50% discount was sufficient, when in fact, it might have created more buzz — and caused us less packing to do — to go to 60% and 70% on some items.
- Unlike a true liquidation, we’re not totally closing the business, since we still have one location; so we tempered the discount percentages somewhat, but the cream of the crop stock had long been picked over.
- We were a full year in shut-down mode. Once we realized we were staying through Christmas we reactivated the new release section. Keeping a small core section of bestsellers — not part of the sale — at regular price was a waste of time. If people wanted to respond to the new titles the industry was offering, the store wouldn’t be closing.
- If you don’t have people lining up to buy your fixtures, you’re basically stuck with a load of scrap metal. You know the possibilities for those fixtures, but people aren’t lining up to open bookstores right now, are they?
- Having learned a lesson with my parents’ furniture, I know that paying to store the fixtures wouldn’t happen. Right now we’re being offered free storage for everything.
- Giving away the cash registers probably made the most sense. They were old when we got them 20+ years ago. Newer ones are being modified because of the 1-cent-piece being discontinued.
- Go for fruit. Seriously. When you’re closing and you look back, the fruit of ministry that took place in your store is all you have to remember. We had some encouraging things happen, but only a couple of recorded salvation stories. In-store evangelism should be the goal of every store owner and staff member. I wish we had pressed this goal further.
If anyone is interested in pictures of the store fixtures in question, and lives anywhere in Ontario to make it practical, let me know. We also have some great remainder stock that you can no longer access, and I’d make sure you didn’t get more than two copies of any given title.
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Emirates started its service to Canada on 29th October 2007, operating three weekly non-stop flights from Dubai to Toronto and vice versa, the maximum number of weekly flights it can operate under the current Air Transport Agreement between Canada and the UAE. Those flights have been operating at near capacity, consistently averaging over 90% seat occupancy. We would like to invest further in Canada, by moving to a daily service between Toronto and Dubai and going forward operate to other points in Canada.
The outdated restrictions on flights between Canada and Dubai, which are almost unique anywhere in the world where Emirates operates, have resulted in incredible unmet demand for direct passenger and cargo services. To help meet some of that unmet demand, Emirates launched the double-decker A380 on the Toronto-Dubai route on 1st June 2009, demonstrating its strong commitment to the Canadian market. This is the first A380 service to Canada and makes Toronto one of only two cities in the Americas with an A380 service.
Dubai - A Strong and Growing Export Market
In 2008, the UAE was the largest merchandise export market for Canada in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
- Canadian exports to the UAE reached CAD 1.5 billion in 2008, a year over year increase of 29% and are expected to continue growing robustly.
- The emirate of Dubai alone accounted for approximately 79% of Canadian exports to the UAE in 2008.
- There are over 130 Canadian companies currently active in Dubai.
- Passenger and cargo traffic between Canada and the UAE – and Dubai in particular – is growing rapidly.
- Canada and the UAE recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Trade and Investment, a recognition of the tremendous potential for growth in commerce between Canada and the UAE.
Unfortunately, Canada’s trade relationship with the UAE is constrained by the lack of flights between the two countries. While the Canadian government promotes ‘open skies’ type agreements, many of its own have been concluded with countries which are less valuable export markets for Canada.
Consider Canada’s trading relationship with the countries with which ‘open skies’ type agreements have been reached since November 2006, compared with UAE/Dubai:
|Country||Canadian exports in 2008 (in millions CAD)||Total trade in 2008 (in millions CAD)|
|United Arab Emirates||1,463||1,793|
As the table demonstrates, Dubai alone is a significantly larger export market for Canada than most of the other listed countries, with the exception of South Korea.
Canada did recently sign a new ‘open skies’ agreement with the European Union, but it remains to be seen if any carriers will take advantage of this opportunity to offer additional or increased flights. In contrast, Emirates remains ready, willing and able to increase flights immediately.
A New Tourism Source Market for Canada
Canada’s tourism industry is suffering, with inbound traffic from traditional markets showing substantial decreases. For example, according to the Canadian Tourism Commission, in February 2009 trips to Canada from Asia were down over 15 per cent on a year over year basis. Provincial governments and tourism operators are desperately seeking to open new source markets, including the UAE.
UAE tourists are some of the most sought after in the world, spending on average CAD 10,000 per person, per week when on vacation. The average vacation stay for an Emirati in the USA is one month, though many will stay for up to eight weeks.
All that potential exists for Canada, but is being lost because of existing flight restrictions. As outlined in the table below, other countries have opened their doors to increased Emirates services and the economic and tourism benefits that follow.
|Country||Emirates Weekly Flights (Summer 2010)||Flight Restrictions*|
Emirates’ Request & Canada’s Opportunity
The strong commercial, tourism and economic potential of Emirates for Canada cannot be fully realised without an enhancement to Emirates’ flight frequency entitlements under the Air Transport Agreement between Canada and the UAE. At a minimum, Emirates is seeking the right to operate at least daily flights between Dubai and Toronto. Going forward, Emirates recognises the strong potential for additional services to other Canadian cities such as Calgary and Vancouver - as well as a second daily service to Toronto. Dubai has become a global economic player, providing a wide range of opportunities for Canadian businesses. Increased Emirates service between Canada and Dubai would further promote trade, investment, tourism and employment, generating substantial economic and social benefits to Canada and its citizens.
There is overwhelming support for increased Emirates service from provincial governments, municipalities, airports, tourism stakeholders and business associations.
Emirates has already invested heavily in Canada – and we would like to increase that investment substantially at no cost and with no risk to the Federal Government, but at benefit to Canadian travellers and exporters – and in the overall Canadian national interest.
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Building projects are often costly affairs, whether they're as small as a deck or as big as a house. Most folks would welcome any approach that would save them money.
Yet many doing their own projects may not know about a borough program that would do just that shave thousands, perhaps, from a project's bottom line.
It's called an owner builder certificate, a piece of paper exempting the holder from borough and city sales taxes.
Brian Springer, who runs a small residential electrical supply business in Homer called Electric Outlet for its owner Steve Shank, said he tries to alert his customers to the borough's owner builder tax exemption program.
"I'm amazed at how many projects are done (by owners) with no contractor who don't know about it," he said. "I'm finding people with $5,000 or $10,000 projects who don't have a clue."
Once, while explaining the advantages of the owner builder certificate to one customer, he said he noticed a woman standing next in line listened intently. Springer said she apparently was at the tail end of a house construction project that had gone well beyond estimated costs. The realization that she might have saved thousands had she known about the program sent her from the store in tears.
"That's indicative of how important this is," he said. "I have a sense the borough doesn't want to advertise this. There's no promotion. It's totally up to the contractors or businesses, or people like myself to let the public know. I ask. They say they don't know."
Springer figures that in Homer, where the sales tax amounts to 5.5 percent, any job over $2,000 makes the certificate worth the $100 fee.
The tax on $2,000 worth of purchases could be as high as $110 in Homer if the sum was spent on several separate purchases. A single $2,000 purchase, however, would be subject to the $500 tax cap, and cost a buyer in Homer just $27.50 in sales tax.
Nevertheless, for projects costing several thousands of dollars, the tax exemption cards are well worth the $100 borough fee, said Troy Tankersley, accounting supervisor for the borough's sales tax division.
Though the program has been around since about 1994, the borough hasn't actively advertised the owner builder card, he acknowledged. But then, neither has it actively promoted the existence of other tax exemption vehicles, such as those for nonprofit organizations or resellers of goods and services, he added. But they are laws on the books.
The idea behind the tax exemption, which obviously loses the borough some sales tax revenue, is that projects such as additions to homes result in higher assessments and thus bring in added property tax revenues.
"We're trading sales tax for real property tax," Tankersley said. "That's the goal."
Not all projects are eligible. Add a deck or redo the siding and you're fine, he said. Building a doghouse or adding flowers to the lawn, however, won't get you a tax exemption.
The holder of an owner builder card doesn't necessarily have to draw the designs and pound the nails himself. A contractor can be hired to do the actual work, but the cardholder must purchase any goods and services for the project, Tankersley explained.
In 2003, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly adopted a host of amendments to the borough's complex sales tax code. Among them was a reduction in the fee from $200 per card to $100 per card. Another change added services to the owner builder card's list of things eligible for tax exemptions. Prior to 2003, owner builder cards only made goods eligible for exemptions, Tankersley said. That was deemed to be unfair given that contractors essentially doing the same things were getting exemptions on both goods and services.
According to the borough code, building construction materials and services are exempt from the borough sales tax under certain conditions. What is required is that materials become part of the permanent structure; that materials or services be bought by the owner of a residential or other building for a specific building project; and that the building owner obtains an owner builder tax exemption certificate (card), which must be presented at the time of each sale.
Owner builders may apply for the tax exemption certificate on a form provided by the borough. Certificates are valid for one year from the date of purchase and are basically project specific, Tankersley said. That is, if you are adding an arctic entry to a home, say, and later decide to add a deck to the same property, one card would suffice. Two different projects on different properties, however, would require separate cards and the payment of separate fees, he said.
To be exempted from sales taxes, goods purchased for a project must become part of the project; for instance, lumber that becomes a wall. Tools, however, are not eligible, Tankersley said.
Misuse of the owner builder card can result in immediate cancellation and surrender of the certificate and retroactive denial of the tax exemption. Sales taxes formerly exempted would be collected.
Since the fee was lowered and services added to the owner builder card exemptions, the number of people applying has risen, Tankersley said. That's been especially true in Homer, where Spenard Builders Supply has been an avid promoter, informing its customers of the tax exemption possibilities, he said.
Response to the amended tax code was slow at first and resulted in few added applications last summer. But this year, applications are increasing. The borough has issued 152 of the cards so far, Tankersley said. So many applicants were showing up expecting cards to be printed out almost immediately that the administration had to adopt a policy whereby new owner builder cards are only printed and issued just once a week. Tankersley said issuing the cards requires bringing up and examining assessment and other records, which involves some time and effort. Nowadays, applications must be in by noon on Tuesdays and the cards are generally ready by Wednesday.
Application forms for the tax exemption owner builder cards can be found on the Kenai Peninsula Borough's Web site under Sales Tax. Look for a list of forms.
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Dec 10 2008 By Isaac Ashe
A BICYCLE made for tunes is riding into Loughborough on Friday, December 12.
The customised Velo-Rel-La, designed and built in the town by artist Lisa Cheung as part of Loughborough Univeristys Radar Arts, is a customised music station, powered by pedal power.
The music station will be available for people to try out in Churchgate between 12pm-3.30pm - where people can either select a favourite song or ride the bike to power the music equipment.
The bike will then undertake a tour of private parties in the area.
Spokeswoman Joanna Mardell said: This Friday artist Lisa Cheung will be launching Velo-Rel-La, a mobile music station powered by a bicycle.
Velo-Rel-La refers to Cinderellas pumpkin carriage where the white stallions become four cyclists.
It uses the green technology of bicycle-power to generate the electricity needed. It also refers to the past, simple technologies of wind up power of gramaphone and music boxes.
This is a Radar commission and Lisa has been developing the project over the last three weeks whilst in residence at Loughborough University.
The Velo-Rel-La unit will be transported around Loughborough to community centres, the university and various squares and streets playing music chosen by guest
It will act as the music system for parties, festivals, tea dances and dance lessons. Energetic volunteers are invited to help cycle the music station to its destination, as well as through cycle-generated-power, produce the electricity to power the CD players, turn-table and speakers.
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In this day and age, everything is game. Music, art, food, clothes, and just about anything can be fused, creating a different result. Belly dance is no exception.
The world is getting smaller and smaller. We have what we need at our fingertips. Information hits us like bullets, and keeping up is a challenge.
Once upon a time, different dances stayed in their region. A performer from Africa would dance in front of an audience in Chicago, for example, and the crowd would just be in awe. It was the real deal. The peformance would have been difficult to reproduce in America.
Now, with the way we travel and technology, one can learn how a certain dance is done in Africa. For the most part, we have more time to do things we like in this society. We don't have to struggle to get the job done. Jumping on a plane, taking lessons from someone in Africa, coming back to the states to teach it and being able to talk to the teacher in Africa, via internet is the way things get done. Take your pick at any other type of dance. The result is the same.
Everyone wants to have their shot in creating something new and fresh. Something that will keep the audience on their feet and wonder what the hell just happened on that stage. As entertainers and dancers, we want the audience to go home and talk about what they saw. This brings us up to what has been going on. In case you may wonder, dancers are fusing different moves. The result, Flamenco Gypsy, Gothic Tribal, Hip Hop Belly Dance, and Flamenco Belly Dance. I know I'm missing a big list of others, but you get the idea.
Belly dance has had its changes as well throughout the decades. There are some who embrace change and those that do not. Tribal belly dance is a newer form of belly dance, but even as we speak, there are some different elements being added to it. There is gothic belly dance and there are other Tribal dancers who add elements of hip hop.
Recently, our dance troupe did a Hip Hop Belly Dance fusion routine. We chose costumes that were not Tribal and not traditional belly dance. We wore punk leggings, denim cut shorts, fish nets for the arms, colored extensions for the hair, skull and cross bones for the cut off tank top, and 80's style jewelry. I'll say this much, we broke the scene that was on stage. We were different and well, mission accomplished.
Does fusion work? Ask the women who know more than one type of dance. They will tell you that it does. It keeps things fresh and alive. It keeps creativity on the move. Music has certainly not kept to the rule, so why should dancers? Furthermore, there is more unity. A group of Flamenco dancers will welcome a group of belly dancers to perform at their event. At a belly dance performance, you will probably see a woman dance to a fusion of both Flamenco and belly dance.
Those who are traditional may question and be the worst critics of fusion. Even to this day, it makes me sad when I see how instructors put one another down. When I was looking at the Turkish traditional dances, it seemed that most instructors argued that if you were not from that region, you shouldn't be talking.
A dance, is a dance, is a dance. A 1,2,3 a 4,5,6 to the beat of your imagination, 7&8. Fusion is the craze!
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This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
What we saw last week from verses 13-18 is that God has gone the extra mile in seeing to it that we have strong encouragement to hold fast to our hope in him. He wants us to have encouragement and the encouragement he wants us to have is the assurance that all his promises will come true for us and that our future is firmly in his hand for our good.
So he not only makes promises to his children, but he takes an oath and swears that he will bless them, and only that he swears by the highest and most precious reality in the universe, himself (v. 13). So there are two things, not just one—a promise and an oath—that secure our hope. Let's pick it up at verse 18 and then move into today's text. It says that he took an oath "in order that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge in laying hold of the hope set before us."
In other words he wants us to have strong encouragement to lay hold on the hope he has sworn will be ours. The promise and the oath are meant to give us the deep confidence that we WILL inherit all that he promises us in Jesus. So he wants us to experientially "lay hold of" it. What does it mean to be told that God has secured a future for us with promise and oath and that we are to "lay hold of" it? What does "lay hold of" mean in real life experience?
How to Lay Hold of God
It means bank on that hope. Trust in it. Feel secure in it. Be satisfied with it. Long for it the way you long for the coming of the dawn after a long, dark, scary night. There are at least five practical things you can do to move your heart toward "laying hold of your hope."
1. Meditate from the Bible on how sure your hope is in the presence of God.
2. Pray earnestly that God would open your mind and heart to this greatness and this certainty and incline you to hope in him.
3. Consider how much Christ has suffered for your hope.
4. Consider Christians like yourselves who have laid hold on hope in Christ. For example, in 1934, when twenty-eight-year-old John Stam, missionary to China, was being led away to execution by the communists with his wife Betty, someone on the road asked, "Where are you going?" John laid hold on the hope set before him and said, "We are going to heaven."
5. Help each other do all these things in your small groups. Exhort each other every day to lay hold on hope.
This is God's will for us—to have strong encouragement to lay hold on our hope.
Now this week the writer keeps on fighting for our encouragement and our laying hold on the good future God has promised and sworn. But he turns from the promise and the oath to give us another image that he hopes will stick in our minds and give us solid assurance about our future.
The image is the "anchor."
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope [literally: omit "a hope" and refer "sure and steadfast" to the anchor] both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
What is the anchor in this image? It says, "This hope we have as an anchor." But let's be precise. You can use the word "hope" in at least three ways: 1) a subjective feeling or conviction in the soul ("I hope to go to heaven."). 2) An future objective reality that you hope for ("Heaven is my hope."). 3) A person or event that makes your confidence sure ("Jesus' death is my only hope of escaping judgment."). Which of these three is meant in verse 19 when it says, "This hope we have as an anchor"?
The answer is given in the preceding verse 18. It says, we are to "have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge in laying hold of the hope set before us." The hope is something "set before us." It is the future objective reality that we hope for. It is heaven and the blessing promised in verse 14 and the sum of all the good that God has sworn to be for us in Jesus.
This is the anchor of verse 19 which continues verse 18: "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul." In other words: What anchors our soul is not our subjective confidence, but the sure objective reality that God has promised. This is our anchor. And this is what we are to lay hold of.
The Certainty of Our Hope
So the writer's point is that what we are hoping for is absolutely sure. He uses three descriptions of the anchor to stress this. In verse 19b he calls the anchor (the hope), "both (1) sure and (2) steadfast and (3) one which enters within the veil." The anchor is sure, certain and safe. The anchor is steadfast, firm and reliable. The anchor is lodged within the veil. This is a reference to the veil that hung across the inner sanctuary of the tabernacle and concealed the arc of the covenant where God in his glory met with the high priest once a year as he brought a blood sacrifice to atone for the sins of the people.
So what's the point of saying that our hope is an anchor lodged in the heavenly holy of holies where God's glory dwells? Verse 20 fills it out. This is where Jesus has gone as a forerunner for us (which means we will enter with him someday). And he has gone as a high priest. Not in the order of Aaron and Levi—who (1) had to offer sacrifices for themselves and for the people (5:3; 7:27), and (2) who died and had to be replaced year by year (7:23), and (3) who offered the blood of bulls and goats which could never take away sins (10:4). But Jesus entered into the holy of holies once for all with his own infinitely precious blood and his own indestructible life so that his atoning work for us is perfect and lasts for ever. This is what verse 20 means when it says that Jesus "has become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
So our anchor—our promised future—is sure; it is steadfast; and it is the finished and purchased work of Jesus our High Priest.
So last week the writer helps us hold fast our hope by telling us that it is based on two unchangeable things: God's promise and God's oath to bless us forever. This week he helps us hold fast our hope by telling us that our promised future (our hope) is "an anchor of the soul" that is sure and steadfast and as complete and binding as the work of Jesus in shedding his blood for our sins and taking it himself into the presence of God to plead the case of those he purchased.
What Is the Anchor of Your Soul?
Now here is the burning question for me. Is the anchor of my soul as firmly attached to my soul as it is to the altar of God? In other words is the picture here of an anchor with its hook and chain bound unbreakably to the altar of God in the holy of holies so that nothing could loose it from that end, but with the rope just hanging out of heaven in the air? Is the only point of this text to say "Take hold of the loose end of this rope and you will have safety and firmness and assurance"?
Would that give you the sense of security and confidence and hope and firmness that last week's text and this text seem to be about? What was the point of an anchor in those days? It was to keep you from being blown by the wind or swept by the tide into destruction—out to sea or on the rocks. But what if someone said: I have fitted your boat with a good solid heavy anchor that will grip any sea-bottom, only have not made it fast to the boat. Would that give you encouragement?
I don't think that is the image the author has in mind here. When he says in verse 19 that we have an "anchor of the soul" I think he means that the anchor is firmly anchored in heaven, and the anchor is firmly attached to the Christian's soul.
The Textual Basis of My Interpretation
Here are my four reasons for thinking this, which I pray will give you a deep sense of God's sovereign care for your perseverance and hope and encouragement. You are not left to yourself to hold on the storms of life.
1. Recall Hebrews 6:9. The writer had just warned against drifting away from God and committing apostasy and being judged. But then he said in verse 9, "But beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation." The better things are perseverance in faith and patient obedience—in other words "holding fast to their hope." And he says that this "accompanies salvation." That is, it belongs to God's children as part of their salvation. Persevering in hope and laying hold on our inheritance and banking on it and being satisfied in it and living by the power of it "belongs to" (literally: "is had by") salvation. That's part of our salvation. Salvation is not merely an anchored rope dangling from heaven for us to hold on to with our own strength. Better things belong to salvation, including the holding on. That too is a work of our salvation. The anchor of our souls is bound to us as well as to heaven.
2. Recall Hebrews 3:14 where the writer says, "We have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end." Not: we WILL become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast." But: we HAVE become partakers of Christ if we hold fast. In other words, holding fast to the rope anchored in heaven is an effect and proof of belonging to Christ, not a cause of it. We must hold fast. But we can hold fast only because we are held fast (see Philippians 3:12). We have become partakers of Christ—evidence? We hold fast to our hope. Christ's power in us sees to it that it happens. The anchor of our souls is bound to us as well as to heaven.
3. Recall Hebrews 3:6. The writer compared Christ to the maker and master of a house, and compared Christians to the house itself. Then he said, "Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end." Note, it does not say that we WILL become his house if we hold fast to our hope. No, it says that we ARE (now!) his house if we (in the future) hold fast to our hope. So holding fast is not the cause of our being Christ's house, but the proof of it. Belonging to his as his new creation, and being owned by him because of his purchase and being indwelt by him as his home—all this secures our perseverance. It is not created by perseverance. The anchor of our souls is not a rope hanging in the air waiting for our weak hands to grasp and hold. That would be no security. The anchor of our soul is as solidly bound to us as it is to heaven.
4. Consider Hebrews 13:20-21. What the writer shows there is that when Jesus purchased our salvation by his "blood of the eternal covenant"—the new covenant (Luke 22:20; Jeremiah 31:33; 32:40; Ezekiel 11:19; 36:27; Deuteronomy 30:6)—what he obtained for us was not just heaven, but the faith and hope that it takes to get to heaven. The blood of the new covenant obtained the promises of the new covenant, and they included the promises to "cause us to walk in his statutes." Which means that holding fast to our anchored hope is not our self-securing work, but God's blood-bought work in us to bring us to heaven.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, 21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever."
If I am going to hold fast to my well-anchored hope, then I will need some sin-conquering help from God. And that is what verse 21 says I get: "[God] is working in us that which is pleasing in his sight "—namely, our holding fast to the well anchored hope. And notice the next three words: "through Jesus Christ." That means that our High Priest, our never-dying, Melchizedek-like High Priest obtained by the blood of the eternal covenant not just firm attachment at one end of the anchor, but at both ends. It is firm in heaven, and it is firm in us. This is the salvation he obtained by his blood: the hope of heaven, and the holding fast to get there. We are not left to our own weak hands to hold on. The anchor of our souls is bound to us as well as to heaven.
God's Plan Is Coherent
So what we have seen is that God is not inconsistent. He does not exert himself with promises, and oaths, and the blood of his Son, and the eternal priesthood of Jesus simply to anchor down one end of our security while leaving the other to dangle in the air. The salvation Jesus obtained by his blood was everything it takes to save his people, not just part of it.
So we are prone to ask, Why does the writer encourage us to hold fast to our hope (verse 18)? If our holding fast was obtained and irrevocably secured by the blood of Jesus, then why does God tell us to hold fast?
The answer is this:
What Christ bought for us when he died was not the freedom from having to hold fast but the enabling power to hold fast.
What he bought was not the nullification of our wills as thought we didn't have to hold fast, but the empowering of our wills because we want to hold fast.
What he bought was not the canceling of the commandment to hold fast but the fulfillment of the commandment to hold fast.
What he bought was not the end of exhortation, but the triumph of exhortation.
He died so that you would do exactly what Paul did in Philippians 3:12, "I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus." It is not foolishness, it is the Gospel, to tell a sinner to do what Christ alone can enable him to do, namely, hope in God.
So I exhort you this morning with all my heart: reach out and take hold of that for which you have been taken hold of by Christ, and hold it fast with all his might.
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“Somewhere you are” seems to be a very reasonable authentication factor in 2012. A few weeks ago my Android’s Google Maps app prompted me to turn on my Wi-Fi to better locate me. My GPS was on and had a good location but Google was going the extra mile (or better stated – extra meters) by triangulating local Wi-Fi signals (Street View collected that for a reason).
So if Google wants to authenticate me based on my location compared to my typical routine they probably will have a valid factor for 90% of my trekking around this planet.
My gasoline pump asks for my Zip Code to process my credit card. My Zip Code is the same as that of the querying pump so it seems potential exists in that use case too. I know that typically the Zip Code question is "Something you know" but think about the actual location and likelihood it is me especially considering we are collocated in the same Zip Code and I have been there many times before.
Other factors will probably similarly be added with the changes in technology and virtual presence. “Something you do” might be one for example. My typing rhythm and keyboarding differs from many (e.g. lots of backspaces).
I am sure there will be some opportunities for factors in 10 years that we cannot conceive of today just as my Google Maps Android tracking was unconceivable to me 10 years ago.
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I think we all have to stop watching television. I realize this is a tremendously stupid thing for me to write as I seek work writing for television. Still. I think I’m right about it.
Tonight, saddened by the election results as they came in from Wisconsin, my wife and I turned to the reassuringly empty-headed entertainment of a Criminal Minds episode followed by a Flashpoint* episode. As I watched the programs I had an odd sense of looking through the hypnotically familiar dramatic structure to the underlying messages I was receiving.
Understand that both episodes were the sort that the far right would see as having a left-leaning bias. In both cases the perpetrators, whose misdeeds required the attention of our heroes, were somewhat sympathetic. In the former, a woman who had lost a child in an auto accident was overcome with grief, feeling that her child was forgotten and her sorrow unheard. In the latter, men who had lost their homes, their jobs and their life savings, one of whom had lost his wife to a financially inspired suicide, used a threat of violence in an attempt to get a high-powered, ruthless money manager they held responsible for their woes to apologize on camera. In both shows our heroes stopped these – what? Anti-villains? – from completing a final act of violence and brought them to their senses enough to take them into custody rather than shooting them down. In both cases the series regulars showed empathy and understanding.
Given the power of the televised medium to bring complex ideas to a widespread and disparate audience, both of these story-lines had the potential to change the way people think. How are those who suffer losses treated by those around them? Is society really comfortable with an economic system that constantly rewards those who profit from the labor of others while allowing the hardworking men and women on whose backs the economy is built to lose everything?
The far right would say that just raising these issues is an indication that the entertainment industry is rife with bleeding heart liberals. There are those who would say that the last thing they want to see in their law enforcement officials is empathy, sympathy or a desire to handle violent criminals with dignity and respect.
The underlying message of a story, though, does not lie entirely in the elements that story contains. No, the underlying message is always revealed in the outcome presented. Who prevails? Who is brought low? Who remains when the smoke clears.
Most of you are well enough acquainted with television as it currently functions to know that the broken woman on the killing spree is captured, the men pushed to the point at which they sought to make their point with
violence unsanctioned violence are taken away in handcuffs. The law enforcement teams prevail. The unfeeling culture that allowed all this to happen goes on unaffected, save for the brief, thrilling or frightening moments of suspense spent awaiting an outcome which can only be one of two things: the perpetrators are caught or the perpetrators die, shot to death by the ‘heroes’. The callous high-finance administrator goes on with his life.
As long as we watch hour long television dramas, we allow ourselves to be constantly inundated with a dangerous cultural indoctrination. Law enforcement is always on the side of good. No matter how valid one's grievance is, no matter how one is victimized by society, one must find a way to express it within the system or else one becomes instantly a villain. The status quo will be maintained.
As long as we allow ourselves to be fed this message time and again, night after night, we will continue to believe it. We will allow the injustices, the indignities, the inhumanities perpetrated daily upon us and upon our fellow humans because we will believe that to speak out, to speak up, to disturb the implacable calm in any way will make us worthy only of the dark end of a sniper rifle’s barrel or a grey cell and a fenced yard. Taking any action will give us away as crazies, psychos or schizos.
Our nation, our culture, our society is deeply flawed. Income inequality has reached shameful levels. Poverty spreads as a plague. The worship of capital has overgrown and overpowered the love of humanity. I do not believe solutions to our problems ever lie in violence. Solutions to problems, particularly ongoing, systemic problems do require change, though. They require fundamental change, new ideas, shocking, radical approaches that cannot be conceived by people who are trained to self-censor such critical exercises through an unspoken but constantly reinforced belief that just thinking about shaking things up will make them a S.W.A.T. team’s target or an enemy of the state.
Entertainment is designed to capture the imagination. Revolution requires that we set imaginations free.
If we wish to alter the status quo, it starts with us listening to our neighbors, our spouses our hearts, our consciences and yes, even our inner voices. This does not make us crazy. It makes us caring, active humans. None of that can happen until we turn off the television.
*For the record, I LOVE Enrico Colantoni as an actor. I think he would be a huge star if he had a more memorable name. I think the moment he moved to Los Angeles he should have changed his name Rickey T. Colon.
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Volume 21, Number 11
Battle of St Paul
“FREE GAZA MOVEMENT”
Breaking Gaza's Seige
The Infamous Three G's
Outrageous Gift Offer
Goodbye to Bush Offer
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY NOTES
Quo Vadis Culture Wars?
US Nuke Threat
Bush Seeks Legacy
Globalization v. Democracy
Jeffrey M. Smith
Eleanor J. Bader
Abortion & Life
Eleanor J. Bader
The American War in Pakistan
Bailout & Election
Bush Economic Legacy
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As Congress convened to reach a deal on a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street’s failing investment banks in Washington, DC, a human face was put to the crisis. In Boston, at 3:45 PM on Thursday, September 24, tears were streaming down Ana Esquivel’s face, her two grandchildren in her arms on the front steps of her house, as a constable delivered an eviction notice. The family’s belongings sat in large bags outside the front door. They had hastily packed up what few belongings they could take in the minutes before the constable arrived.
But they were certainly not alone. Outside, 40 protestors chanted and almost stopped the constable from arriving that afternoon. “Shame, shame,” they chanted, as the police arrested four activists chained to the front steps, clearing the path for the constable to deliver the eviction notice. (The four protestors have been released on bail and all face trespassing charges.)
“We are bearing witness to an immoral act,” said Steve Meacham an organizer for City Life/Vida Urbana, a tenants’ rights organization based in Jamaica Plain that has done 11 eviction blockades this year. City Life has been at the forefront of a growing movement in Boston, to start fighting back against evictions and giving people a right to stay in their home. Lately, the city has turned up the heat on eviction blockades. On September 5, an eviction blockade in Roxbury ended with four activists arrested by police after a standoff that lasted more than an hour. (None of them were charged.)
Ana, 51, and Raul Esquivel, 55, have considered Boston their home for the last 22 years. They are immigrants—Raul is from Guatemala and Ana from the Dominican Republic. They bought their home at 21-23 Rowe Street in March 2006 with hopes of renting out one-half of the house to pay the mortgage. Their bank, Deutsche Bank, had valued the property at $498,000—a gross inflation of the actual value. Last year, the Esquivels began falling behind on their payments. They asked Deutsche Bank to refinance. Unfortunately, in a matter of months, the value of their house had dropped to $285,000, making refinancing no longer feasible. Their monthly payments rose from $3,200/month to $4,200/month, an increase that Ana and Raul, who both work, could not afford.
Deutsche Bank, a leader in Massachusetts foreclosures this year, foreclosed on the Esquivels’ house on January 21, 2008. They were to be evicted by July 15. At the time the Esquivels had no lawyer and, until finding City Life, no support to keep their home. The couple found City Life and a way to fight the bank. Despite all this, Deutsche Bank refused to negotiate with the Esquivels. Raul’s sister even offered to buy the house back at market value, but the bank refused and continued with the eviction.
“We didn’t think any bank would give us a mortgage they knew we couldn’t afford,” stated Raul prior to the blockade. “But they did. We believed their promise to refinance, but it never happened.”
From YouTube video posted by Aaron Tanaka
From YouTube video posted by Aaron Tanaka
By Thursday morning, options fading, Ana and Raul went to court hoping to secure a restraining order against the bank, but to no avail. They returned home just before noon, the time when the constable was to deliver the eviction notice. The Esquivels were happy to see so many supporters around their house, but were still quite visibly worried. Noon came and went and the constable didn’t show.
“We’re taking a stand against bank evictions, not just for ourselves, but for the whole Latino community,” stated Raul Esquivel in a press release. “So many people are being evicted who shouldn’t be evicted. We didn’t know our rights when we went to court with the Deutsche Bank. Now we do.”
At 12:30 PM, Meacham got word that the bank was backing off, meaning the Esquivels were guaranteed another 48 hours and the weekend. Then, curiously, another paddy wagon showed up. The police weren’t going anywhere, but they were not happy either. “This could be me,” said a police sergeant at the scene, shaking his head. “This could be any of us.”
At 1:00 PM, the bad news arrived. “The constable is still coming,” announced Meacham. “He will be here at 2:30.” The protest started again. Sprits were high. The activists chained to the front steps spoke out. “Where is the city saying, ‘This has to stop,’” asked Soledad Lawrence, who was later arrested.
The constable didn’t arrive until 3:10 PM. Many protestors who had left earlier returned with friends. Ana grabbed the bullhorn to address the crowd, “We might lose today to the banks,” she said. “But we have our dignity…and that’s more than a house.” Eventually word came that the constable was not backing off and the inevitable unfolded.
The Esquivels are only one family in the midst of a national foreclosure crisis. Investment banks have taken advantage of many families like theirs, who were sold predatory home loans for short term profits that the bank knew they would not be able to pay back. These types of practices, going mostly unregulated by the government, exemplify the greed of these organizations.
In Massachusetts over 30,000 households face eviction in the next year. It is up to local communities to fight this struggle. When banks refuse to negotiate, and politicians refuse to listen, it is only our neighbors and local organizations that can turn the tide.
Jeffrey Reinhardt writes for the Boston Independent Media Center.
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ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16 in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; convention @adc. org http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5-day Seminar at the University of Havana, plus visits to a co-op and educational and medical institutions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.org; http://www.globaljustice center.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; email@example.com; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process in the U.S.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People’s College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from across the continent to learn skills and build one big union.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13, the 11th Annual Peacestock will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers, and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; firstname.lastname@example.org; http://www. peacestockvfp.org.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations, and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference.
Contact: email@example.com; http://yeacamp.org/.
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Court Decision of the Day: NYC's Taxis Don't Have To Be Wheelchair Accessible
Most of today's news has, understandably, revolved around a certain Supreme Court decision. But judges in other places have been busy too. Today, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that New York City's lack of wheelchair-accessible taxis does not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. The court ruled that the industry remains private, even though the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission "exercises pervasive control."
It's a real loss for disability advocates. In New York, 98 percent of taxis are not wheelchair accessible, and the ruling means the city's new fleet of taxis (aptly named the taxis of tomorrow) are more likely to stay that way.
It's a big victory for the Bloomberg administration, but at least one big impediment to its borough taxi plan still remains: a separate suit brought by the taxi industry, and backed by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, arguing that the city should have first gotten City Council approval for its borough taxi plan, before repairing to Albany. It is only after that legal question is settled that the city will be able to auction off those 2,000 yellow taxi medallions and thereby close gaping holes in this year's, and next year's, budgets.
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“A global manufacturer has to be willing to look at its product portfolio and participate in all aspects of the market,” Canadian Solar VP of US Sales and General Manager Alan King told Breaking Energy recently. Canadian Solar, despite its name, has an expanding presence around the world and is a NASDAQ-traded company determined to survive the fallout from falling panel prices.
There is a place for both large-scale utility projects, several of which Canadian Solar has in its development pipeline, and for small-scale domestic projects or mid-scale distributed generation. The second class of projects offer ideal opportunities for differentiation in company products that otherwise become commoditized – low-voltage solar panels with customized appearances could help Canadian Solar panels stand out from the competition.
In addition to a diversity of projects, the company is targeting a geographic diversity of markets, including the African and South American markets identified by a number of industry analysts and boosters as the next major markets for solar. The US and Canada continue to offer opportunities, King said, while in budget-crunch Europe the focus will be maintaining the market.
Key to growing the US market has been the participation of Chinese panel manufacturers and their contribution to cost compression. While that has driven a number of firms out of the business, and King warned more would follow, he also argued that the market would be half if its current size today in the US if panel prices had not dropped so dramatically in the past three years.
Grid parity with fossil fuels is already being hit in some areas where power is expensive, and solar will continue to emerge as a competitive source of generation as prices continue to slip – albeit more slowly – in 2012 and efficiencies increase.
Read more about solar grid parity here.
Slapping tariffs on Chinese panels is not going to help the market reach grid parity, King said, noting that the country is following historic precedent in moving toward increased consumption of the goods it has previously manufactured for export. In line with broader trends, China could consume more solar product output than the US in 2012, even as it remains a net exporter, King said.
Eyeing the broader solar market, which is in a widely discussed shakeout that has claimed high-profile victims in American manufacturing, King said that “once things begin to settle out, there will be survivors, and those survivors will be stronger.”
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It’s almost the end of the year and there have been many things in tech that have been making news in 2011. Yes, it’s time for the first edition of Adi’s Year in Tech News. This is my selection of some of the tech news stories that happened in 2011.
In January, the we had the Consumer Electronics Show(CES), where we saw the likes of Samsung and Panasonic showing off their 3D TVs. In addition to that, we saw the introduction of the second generation of Intel’s Core i3, i5 and i7 processors and the Sandy Bridge chipset. Graphics Giant nVidia also introduced the Tegra 2 CPUs for superphones. There were also many tablet PCs that were on show at CES 2011, all fighting to be a true iPad killer. I am of the opinion that 3D is great when it is done right or used on the right type of TV. For example sports events in 3D are a classic case in point of 3D done wrong. However wildlife documentaries in 3D are an example of 3D done right.
In addition that, the Egyptian protests were in the tech spotlight. For five days, the people of Eygypt were disconnected from the internet
In February, we came to the end of an era as the last group of IP version 4 addresses were assigned. It should not be long before we see the torch being passed over to the IP version 6 addressing standard. In fact, if you are running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Linux, or Mac OSX, then there is a good chance that you have been using an IPv6 address without even knowing it.
In march, we saw the launch of Apple’s iPad 2 tablet PC. It became the second of Apple’s iOS devices to sport the A4 CPU with 1GHz processor, and the third to sport front and back cameras for their Facetime video calling standard.
In April, we saw Sony’s PlayStation Network(PSN) and Qriocity services being severely hacked. Hackers were able to hack into the network and get access to the user names, passwords and personal credit card details of tonnes of PSN gamers and music fans. To apologise, sony gave everyone a welcome back package where users could download 2 games(from a choice of 5 for free) I choose Little big planet and Wipeout HD.
In May 2011, Google Announced a new type of laptop known as the ChromeBook. It’s a laptop made specifically to run Google’s Chrome OS. Chrome OS is a cloud-based operating system where there is no traditional desktop environment that you would see in a Windows laptop or MacBook laptop. Instead, you would have an environment where the web browser is the operating system. The ChromeBooks would also have a so-called jailbreak mode that would allow people to go into the code for Chrome OS and change it to their needs. It would also allow them to install Windows on the laptop.
In addition to that, the very popular Angry Birds mobile game had been made available for Google’s Chrome web browser, it’s safe to say that many people will be spending some time popping some pigs on their laptops for a long time to come.
In June 2011 the annual gaming expo known as E3 took place in California USA. Many of the big and smaller games developers were out in force showing off the games that they tend to release both in the short and long term. In addition to that, we finally got a glimpse at the long-awaited Duke Nukem forver and the much-anticipated WiiU console, which had an iPad-like screen.
In July 2011, I started my podcast network, the MHF Tech Network. You can subscribe to it by searching for MHF Tech in the iTunes Store. This network is your go-to source for your regular dose of tech.
In August, we saw a company called Evernote acquire Skitch, the company behind a very popular piece of screenshot making software. In addition to that, Skitch became freeware(software that is available for free). Hopefully, we should see Skitch being ported over to PCs.
In September, Google also shown its hand and got into the social network space. They launched their own social network now known as Google Plus. It has video conferencing and had the idea of having different circles for different groups of people. For example, you could have a circle of family members, a circle of university friends and a Circle for people you know at work.
Alongside the launch of Apple’s iPhone 4S and a white iPod Touch, October was quite a sad month. I was up late one night working on some stuff for this very site, and I started getting a lot of tweets, facebook and other social network activity regarding Steve Jobs. At the time, I was at home when the activity came in. I figured out that it would be best to go to the source of the news. I logged onto Apple’s official site and it was to my sadness and shock that I found out that Steve Jobs had passed away.
We also saw the introduction of a piece of legislation in the USA known as the Stop Online Piracy Act. I for one think that this legislation will basically kill off the american’s right to freedom of speech which is a breach of the first amendment of the american constitution. I also think that the debate on this legislation will continue for a few months to come.
In November the hacker group known as TeamPois0n were able to breach the security of the united nations. They found out the user names and passwords of 1000s of employees. Of those employees, many of those user accounts had a blank password field and stored in plain text. In addition to that, we saw the code for Google’s latest version of the Android operating system known as Ice Cream Sandwich become the latest of many operating systems available to be open source.
December is in my opinion the best time to buy software such as Acronis True Image(a backup solution), games from Valve’s Steam store. In addition to that, I also launched an awesome competition where you can win a Drobo!
So, there you have it! These are just a selection of some of the tech news stories from 2011. Of course, there were many other stories. For example, Microsoft showed off a developer preview of Windows 8. As well as showing it off, they released this developer preview to the public..I am running it under virtualisation using Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and it is running OK at this time. I was able to run Steam and play Crazy Taxi on it without a problem. That being said, I am not going to pass judgement on Windows 8 until it is finished and released to the public.
With that, I want to wish you all a happy new year for 2012.
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Hybrid cars still a rarity in the Northwest
We may think about driving hybrid cars, but very few of us actually buy one.
A poll by of Washington and Oregon drivers by Seattle-based PEMCO Insurance finds less than 2% say they own a hybrid.
However, more than half of the drivers in Washington (56%) and Oregon (59%) say they'd consider buying a hybrid the next time they shop for a car.
PEMCO's Jon Osterberg found the results surprising here "in the Northwest, where the 'green' mindset is common."
When it comes to buying a hybrid, the poll indicates money is the prime motivator. About two-thirds of Washington hybrid drivers and half of Oregon hybrid drivers said they were more concerned with saving money on gas rather than cutting down on pollution.
What would convince Northwesterners to buy a hybrid?
Pollsters found rising gas prices, a 5% drop in hybrid costs and tax breaks would provide the most motivation.
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The Atari Punk Console, a tiny synthesizer based on the ubiquitous 555 timer chip, is the first build de rigueur for any budding electronic wizard wanting to build musical devices. With just a handful of caps, resistors, and a pair of pots, the APC is a fabulously fun and easy build made even cooler by [Pat]‘s addition of a joystick.
The circuit of the Atari Punk Console consists of a 556 chip – basically two 555s put into the same package – and a pair of potentiometers to control the frequency and output of this very basic synth. Since most joysticks are just two pots arranged on an X-Y mount, [Pat] thought it would be cool to control his APC without twiddling knobs, and instead sweeping a joystick around.
After acquiring an old Microsoft joystick from his local Goodwill, [Pat] wired up his Atari Punk Console to the joystick, using the ‘fire’ button to turn the output on and off. The result is everything between a low machine gun-like tone to a nasal square wave that will hopefully keep pace with your chip-based audiophile friends.
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A lawsuit is being filed today in federal court in California to overturn a Draconian provision in Proposition 227 that endangers teachers and school administrators and forces them to choose between their livelihood and their students.
"Proposition 227 hangs over teachers' heads like the Sword of Damocles," said Carole Shields, president of People For the American Way Foundation, which is co-counsel in the lawsuit. "We should all be horrified that teachers might be forced to lose their jobs, sacrifice their families and even have their homes taken away."
At issue is one section of Proposition 227, which earlier this year virtually abolished bilingual education for California's 1.4 million schoolchildren whose parents come from foreign countries and who have limited or no proficiency in English. That one section states that teachers, administrators and school board members who run afoul of Proposition 227 "may be held personally liable for fees and actual damages" by any parent in a civil lawsuit.
The author of Proposition 227, Ron Unz, has publicly confirmed that teachers and administrators could face financial ruin under the statute. "There is a real possibility that some administrators and teachers will lose their homes and be forced into bankruptcy over this," Unz told the Los Angeles Times.
The challenge facing educators is that parts of Proposition 227 are not clearly defined. For example, the law states that classroom instruction must be "overwhelmingly in English," but does not explain what "overwhelmingly" means. Indeed, some school districts have defined "overwhelmingly" as 60 percent, while other districts have defined it as 100 percent.
"The ultimate victims of this provision will be children," Shields said. "Teachers must be able to focus on the needs of schoolchildren without fear of a lawsuit."
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which is being filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, include the California Teachers Association, the Association of California School Administrators, the Association of Mexican American Educators, the California Association for Asian-Pacific Bilingual Education, the National Association of Bilingual Educators, Irella Perez, Norma Steiner, and Kristen Worthman, all of whom are teachers, and Emily Palacio, a school administrator.
The lawsuit alleges that Proposition 227 threatens teachers' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights and impermissibly imposes the threat of significant personal harm based on excessively vague standards. It states that the individual plaintiffs might occasionally use Spanish in the classroom out of the necessity to gain the trust and confidence of their students, which in turn is a critical component of teaching them. The lawsuit further states that the teachers fear being subject to personal liability or other harm if they use Spanish or any non-English language in the classroom. The plaintiffs' "right to communicate with (their) students is chilled by Section 320 and (they are) unable to conform (their) conduct to the requirements of Proposition 227 because it is impossible to ascertain what is required or prohibited by that statute," the lawsuit states.
Tim O'Brien, Deputy Director of PFAWF's California office, said that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are not attempting to argue the merits of Proposition 227. Rather, he said, they need clear standards on how the statute should be implemented, and they need to know that if they make a mistake, they will not face potentially devastating lawsuits.
"If parents are unhappy with a teacher's performance in the classroom, there is a remedy," O'Brien said. "That remedy involves speaking with the school principal or, if necessary, seeking action from the elected school board. Allowing an individual parent to target school teachers for legal action invites chaos and does nothing to make our schools stronger."
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LST-824 was laid down on 28 September 1944 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 8 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Harry W. Groot; and commissioned on 30 November 1944, Lt. Jesse D. Jones, USNR, in command.
During World War II, LST-824 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto from April through June 1945. Following the war, she performed occupation duty in the Far East until late September 1945. The ship was decommissioned on 15 May 1946 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. The tank landing ship was redesignated Henry County (LST-824) (q.v.) on 1 July 1955 after counties in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Recommissioned on 5 September 1959, Henry County performed extensive service with the Pacific Fleet and, commencing in 1965, participated in operations in the Vietnam theater. Later decommissioned again, Henry County was transferred to the Malaysian Navy where she served as Sri Banggi (A-1501).
LST-824 earned one battle star for World War II service and four for Vietnam service.
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Washington (CNN) - Hawaii would like for so-called "birthers" to stop asking to see President Obama's birth certificate.
The state passed a law on Wednesday that allows state agencies to ignore repeated requests to view government records, including the president's birth document. Hawaii's Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed the legislation into law.
This will impact requests from a fringe movement dubbed the "birthers." Adherents question President Obama's constitutional eligibility to be commander-in-chief, suggesting he was not born in the United States despite proof that he was born in Hawaii in 1961. CNN and other news organizations have thoroughly debunked the rumors about the president's birthplace.
Hawaii has released a copy of the president’s birth certificate – officially called a “certificate of live birth” – and the hospital took out ads in two Hawaiian newspapers announcing the 1961 birth.
But adherents to the “birther” theories persist. Army surgeon Lt. Col. Terry Lakin subscribes to the “birther” theory and faces a court martial for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan unless the president shows his birth certificate. He disputes that the Hawaii birth certificate is real.
“I believe we need truth on this matter,” he said in an interview earlier this week on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360.
In recent testimony to a state senate panel considering the new law, Hawaii Director of Health Chiyome L. Fukino said her office receives about 50 emails a month requesting access to the president's birth certificate.
Fukino cited a small group of individuals "who engage in a pattern of repeated requests" in a transcript of her testimony provided to CNN. "We believe having to respond repeatedly to essentially the same request or a variation of the request all centering on whether or not President Obama was born in Hawaii is a frivolous use of department time and resources."
And in a recent WABC interview before she signed the bill, Hawaii's Republican governor said the birth certificate issue “is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country.”
“And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health,” Lingle said. “ … The president was in fact born at Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that's just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and email and want to make it an issue. And I think it's, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this."
"It's been established he was born here,” the governor added. “I can understand why people want to make certain that the constitutional requirement of being a, you know, natural born American citizen … but the question has been asked and answered. And I think just we should all move on now."
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Student debt in New York state on the rise
Student debt levels rose by five percent last year according to a study by the Institute for College Access and Success.
The national average debt for graduates with a bachelor's degree hit $26,600 for the class of 2011, but college students in New York state are graduating with an average debt of around $800 less.
Debbie Cochrane from the Institute says the state sits in the middle of the pack and ranks nineteenth in the country for student debt.
Cochrane also says there is greater disparity in New York between community and private, non-profit college loans.
There's a real difference between the public college graduates in New York, and the private non-profit graduates in New York, in that public college graduates tend to have about $20,000 to $21,000 in student loan debt, whereas students graduating from the non-profits have about $30,000," Cochrane said.
Two-thirds of all 2011 graduates left college carrying loans ranging from $3,000 to more than $50,000.
The Upstate Economy
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South Korean absent from ceremony
LONDON -- A South Korean soccer player who held up a sign with a political message after a victory over Japan did not get a bronze Sunday when the Olympic medals were handed out in a ceremony to the rest of his team.
Midfielder Park Jong-woo is under investigation by the IOC and soccer's governing body, FIFA, for displaying the sign with a slogan supporting South Korean sovereignty over disputed islets that are claimed by both his country and Japan. The largely uninhabited islets are called Dokdo by South Koreans and Takeshima by Japanese.
The International Olympic Committee and FIFA are reviewing evidence a player displayed a flag with a slogan that supported sovereignty of disputed islands between South Korea and Japan.
The IOC and FIFA have statutes that prohibit political statements by athletes and players. Olympic officials had asked the South Korean Olympic Committee to take action against Park and that he not be present at the ceremony.
When the men's soccer medals were presented at Wembley Stadium following Mexico's 2-1 win over Brazil in the gold-medal match, only 17 of the 18 South Korean players were on the field for the ceremony. Park was not among them.
The IOC had begun an investigation into Park's actions, and FIFA said it has opened a separate investigation to discipline the athlete.
South Korea defeated Japan 2-0 in Cardiff, Wales, on Friday, hours after President Lee Myung-bak raised diplomatic tensions by traveling to the islets. The presidential visit prompted Japan to recall its ambassador from Seoul.
Photos of the player holding a sign on the field during the celebration by South Korea were passed along to FIFA to determine if any further disciplinary action will be taken, the soccer governing body said.
South Korea stations a small contingent of police officers on the islets in a show of control, but Japan maintains that the rocks are its territory. Tokyo renewed the claim last month in an annual defense report.
During his visit Friday, Lee reportedly told police officers there that the islets are "worth sacrificing lives for," according to the presidential office.
Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said it was "incomprehensible why (Lee) would make this trip at this time,"
On Aug. 15, South Korea will commemorate the peninsula's independence in 1945 from 35 years of Japanese colonial rule.
Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press
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“Look. There’s my doves.”
Shelby and I were sitting on the back porch, talking, when two pairs of doves flew in and started pecking at the spilled safflower seed on the ground around the bird feeder.
“Your doves? Mom, those aren’t your birds; they’re Nature’s birds.”
She is, of course, right. I can’t lay claim to nature’s creatures, but while they’re in my yard, they’re referred to as “my birds.” We enjoy quite a varied lot of avian visitors – much more than just the flocks of sparrows and house finches that crowded the feeder when we first moved in. My plantings of trees, shrubs, and gardens have attracted daily regulars – robins, jays, my wren, goldfinches, chickadees, nuthatches, hummingbirds, cardinals, and Earl the downy woodpecker, (I have no idea if it’s the same woodpecker I see every day; all woodpeckers are named Earl); occasionally there will be a red-winged black bird, grosbeak, or flicker.
And my crows. Given they’re my favorites, it’s odd I haven’t given them names, except The One with the Broken Crower. Though it chatters constantly, I’ve never hear it “caw”; instead it lets out a series of clicks, and a gurgly trilling call that sounds like a lawnmower badly in need of a tune up. I have a lot of admiration for crows. They and their kin - the raven, magpie, and jay are extremely intelligent birds; perhaps the most intelligent in the bird world. There is a flock of about 200 that roost in winter in the huge pine tree behind our across-the-street neighbor's yard. In spring, they break into their family units. Crows usually mate for life, and it is not unusual for their young to remain with the parents for a few years. The four that are constantly in my yard this year are probably parents and their grown offspring. They are clowns, always doing something entertaining.
Spring always brings a lot of migratory birds that stay for a brief time before continuing on their journey to more northern grounds. A flock of warblers that hung around for a week in April announced that this was going to be a season for the birds.
began with a promise. At the nursery, the pair of green herons returned to the pond for the third year. The species of birds at the nursery is much more diversified than in my yard in town. Its woods, fields, and pond habitats are also home to wild turkeys, great blue herons, cedar waxwings, indigo buntings, scarlet tanagers, orioles, and birds of prey – the hawks, owls, and turkey vultures. Nearly forty acres of prime nesting ground to choose from, and there are always a few that insist on building their nests in the most inopportune places. Robins and chipping sparrows are the worst offenders.
Last year, I took this picture of a chipping sparrow’s nest, nestled right in the center of a potted perennial – which seems to be a favorite nesting place for these little birds.
This year a robin built its nest on one of the big metal racks on which we keep the perennials; there's a robin's nest somewhere on the racks every year. Three pretty blue eggs lay in the nest in the busy area Mrs. Robin chose. It's a wonder how she manages to hatch the eggs and raise her babies among the constant disturbances.
At home, another pair of birds chose an inopportune place to raise their young. We watched Mr. and Mrs. Blue Jay busily making a nest outside our back door, way at the tip of one of the maple branches. Every time the wind blew, part of their construction job toppled to the ground. But they were diligent, working hard from morning ‘til dusk. They finished sometime the following day – apparently just in the nick of time. Mrs. Jay was already sitting on the nest when I got home from work, while the Mister brought food to her.
nearly broke my heart. May’s promises were dashed by one of the stormiest months we’ve had on record. The blue jays quickly abandoned the nest soon after it was built. Jays, I’ve read, are secretive nesters. With its close proximity to the porch, I think there was too much activity going on around them for their tastes. Although Mrs. Jay was already sitting on the nest before they departed, I don't think she'd laid eggs yet – when the wind brought down the nest, it was empty.
The baby robins on the perennial rack at the nursery grew big and fat. Sadly, an animal - we think a raccoon - got to them. Determined, Mama Robin built another nest on a different rack (I am really going to have to sit her down sometime, and have a talk with her about her poor choice of nesting places). Three more babies looked as if they were nearly big enough to fledge when a storm hit. Sustained winds of 70 miles an hour blew the plants off the shelves, taking the nest with it. The babies didn't survive.
It also destroyed the chipping sparrow's nest I discovered the week prior. Again, this nest was smack-dab in the middle of a pot, tucked in the center of the plant. I quickly put the pot back on the shelf when I found it contained three bald babies, and hoped Mama wouldn't abandon it because it was found. She didn't. A storm hit, and blew the pot over, scattering the babies on the rack. They were still alive; we gently scooped them up with gloved hands, and put them back in the nest, thinking surely the mother wouldn't return this time. She did. Unfortunately, the same storm that did in the robins, took the chipping sparrows too.
These racks get a lot of traffic: customers browse, pick up plants to purchase, and then the shelves are restocked. Daily. Yet everyone, seeing the nesting birds, gives them a wide berth, trying not to disturb them. For weeks this goes on, only to have it destroyed in a very short period of time. It seemed so unfair. It got worse…
At home, I witnessed one of my crows die. I watched as he fell 30 feet from the above-ground electric wire, hot after the storms. Within seconds his companions came to investigate. One of them nudged it with his beak as if to say, “Get up! Get up!”
On a drizzly, gray morning a few days later, still sad about my crow, I sat on the front porch drinking my coffee before getting ready for work. A bird kind of half hopped, half flopped into the center of the street. The manner in which it was hopping and flopping made me think it was injured – a blackbird, maybe. I left the porch to go see what might be wrong with it.
When I got closer, I discovered it wasn't a blackbird, but what I’m almost sure was baby crow! It was a caricature of a baby bird covered in blackish-gray fluff except for its featherless, bald face containing those too-big-for-its-head bulgy eyes that all bird babies seem to have, and black cartoon feet nearly as long as its body. It appeared to be much too young to be out of the nest.
Keith, getting ready to go fishing with his friend, saw me from the garage, and came to see what led me to crouch down in the middle of the street, still in my pajamas. He got his gloves and moved the baby bird to the grass. The baby hopped/flopped to the center of the driveway just as Keith’s friend rounded the corner. I waved my hands frantically to stop him from pulling in the driveway, and moved the little bird to the garden.
The entire time I was getting ready for work, I worried about the little crow. Was it its mother that died earlier in the week? Would the father and older siblings take over the mother's duties, and care for it as I read they sometimes do? My remaining three crows were nowhere in sight. Was this little guy even related to my crows?
It was getting late, and I had to get to work. On my way out the door, I told Shannon to make sure the baby didn't hop into the street again, and to keep the dog away from it.
From the nursery, I called the nature center as soon as it opened. The naturalist I spoke with was not optimistic after I described the baby as being a big ball of fluffy feathers. Fledgling crows are nearly as big as, and look exactly like adult crows; it's difficult to tell them apart. The little guy in my yard looked more like a Looney Tunes character than an adult crow. She said though, that baby birds grow extremely fast, and perhaps the other crows would feed it until it was able to fly. She offered to try and find a certified wild bird rescue person to foster it, but added they were overwhelmed with all the recent storms.
The over-cast drizzly day turned hot and humid. My crows had flown to the maple, and Shannon called to them, imitating the sound the baby made. One of the crows answered back each time Shannon called "gaaak-gaaak". This is not a new thing, actually. She's played back and forth with a crow a few times this summer. She "caws", it'll "caw" back; they'll go on like this for 5 to 10 minutes, until they both tire of the game. Whether or not the crow was answering its baby's calls that Shannon imitated, or if it was just continuing their game, I don't know. Mid-afternoon, she called me, sobbing into the phone, to tell me the baby died.
In retrospect, I should not have told her to keep an eye on the baby. She was too diligent in keeping it under her watchful gaze. If the other adult crows had any inclination to fly in and tend the baby, I'm sure her presence kept them from doing so.
The girls and neighbor kids buried Perry in the yard, using a brick with his name inscribed as a headstone. I’m not sure where they came up with the name “Perry” unless it’s in homage to Perry Crowmo, the great crooner of the bird world.
Despite making a bad pun about his name (I couldn’t resist), Perry’s death affected me more than I thought it would – more than it should have, perhaps. I became almost desperate to see a fledging bird safely leave the nest.
July lifted my spirits. My friend from Texas, knowing I was distraught about all the bird casualties of the summer, surprised me with a photo documentary.
Spotting a nest in a rather exposed location on the wooden beam of an awning near his office, he photographed a dove from the time she started nesting, to the successful fledging of her two babies.
This tenacious creature and her young survived Hurricane Alex, 4th of July fireworks, the raising and lowering of the flags each day on either side of the overhang , and sidewalk pedestrians passing directly under the nest. He wrote, “Through summer heat, hurricane wind and rain and cars and people and whatever else, the sun rose, a determined mom raised her young, and it's going to be okay.”
While he was taking pictures of the dove, at the nursery we were anxiously watching yet another robin who built her nest on one of the perennial racks.
Her eggs hatched, the babies grew, and the forecast predicted stormy weather ahead. The storm hit during the night. The first thing I did when I got to work the next morning was check on the robins. The nest was intact, but one of the babies had fallen out. With Mama Robin loudly scolding me from her nearby perch on the overhead sprinkler head, I scooped up the baby, and put it back in the nest. There was no need – within a day, the nest was empty, and we had three fledging robins learning to fly.
This post could have ended here (and probably should have, given its length). After-all, I got my happy ending, right? “There you have it”, my friend had written. It’s all okay.
But what about my birds?
brought my crows’ numbers down to two. The One with the Broken Crower was missing. Was he a juvenile who has moved on to his own territory? Or did he suffer a demise similar to the crow on the electric line? I missed his weird, noisy chatter; the yard seemed too quiet without it.
One evening, Shannon called me to the window. “What kind of bird is this?” she asked.
Looking at the fluffy ball of feathers in the sand cherry next to the house, “It’s a baby robin!” I exclaimed.
Shelby was doubtful. “Are you sure it’s a robin, Mom? His chest is spotted, and not very red.”
“He’s still young”, I said. “It’ll get redder when he gets older.”
All three of us watched quietly at the window as Mother Robin flew to the bush with a worm in her beak, then flew away when she saw she had an audience. We closed the shade to give her some peace. I wondered how long the baby would stay in the bush…and how many days the cats would have their noses pressed against the window, refusing to budge. The cats must have been disappointed; within a half an hour the mother and baby were gone.
I’m always thrilled to witness one of Nature’s miracles. Seeing a baby robin in my yard may not be the greatest miracle nature has to offer; after all, robins are a dime a dozen, right? They are here in abundance anyway; the robin is our state bird. But it is pretty miraculous taking into consideration that on average, only 40 percent of American Robin nests successfully produce young. Of that 40 percent, only 25 percent of robin young survive to fledge. Fewer than half of crow couples successfully raise young past the fledging state. As a whole, songbirds have a high mortality rate: one in four survives their first year.
: The nests of summer are all empty. Trees are starting to put on their showy, Technicolor autumn garb, as flocks of Canadian geese fly overhead in V formation. In the not too far distance, the familiar rattling sound of a broken lawn mower makes me smile.
Dove photographs courtesy of Chris Davis.
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The Skinny on Being Skinny
Unhealthy calorie restriction in the running community
Photo by puuikibeach, licensed through the Creative Commons
I’ll admit it: I like to restrict calories.
Well, I don’t “like” to restrict calories; I do it because I want to maintain my ideal racing weight. Too many calories could add pounds, which would hamper my running ability—right? Actually, it just makes me hungry and think about food constantly; I bonk while training and make slow fitness gains with frequent setbacks. I am diligent about packing fuel for training runs, yet almost always fail to consume adequate amounts—a vicious cycle of disordered eating.
Many women, and quite a few men, too, chronically engage in this behavior, believing it will make them faster, leaner and more attractive. Charging uphill, after all, is easier with less weight, while muscle damage is reduced on the trot down the other side. Women who weigh less than 1.9 pounds/inch in height and men who weigh less than 2.1 pounds/inch tend to be better climbers—less likely to feel as though they’re doing a squat workout with a child on their shoulders.
Rationally, I understand that being 5’6” and 120 pounds. is an acceptable weight for a female, but I have intense trepidation of adding just one pound. If I’ve kept my calories to a minimum, I feel svelte and proud. While pro athletes regularly undergo weigh-ins and body-composition evaluation by physicians hired to keep their bodies primed for competition, I have no such data to keep me in line; I have only a scale, nutrition labels and pessimistic thoughts. I have a propensity to compare my physique to other women runners, often ignoring my actual performance in favor of my visual expectations for myself.
What to do about this terrible business of finding our optimal weight for performance without disturbing the body’s wellness? Be aware that trying to decrease weight when you’re already close to optimal size often leads to illness or injury. If you don’t maintain adequate caloric intake to match the stress of training, you’re likely to lose muscle mass. Severe calorie restriction can also lead to malnutrition; symptoms include fatigue, weak muscle contraction, anemia, frequent injuries, brittle bones, sleep disturbances, fertility complications and slow recovery from training.
When a woman under-eats, her menstrual cycle and energy levels can experience drastic, negative consequences. Estrogen production is halted under high levels of bodily stress, putting a woman at increased risk for osteoporosis and injury. In fact, restricted calorie intake is a higher risk factor than low body fat in and of itself; recent studies show that as long as calorie consumption is adequate, women can healthily maintain low body-fat percentages equal to athletic men.
Evaluating body composition—the ratio of fat to muscle—is more valuable than considering weight alone. Exercise often increases our weight, due to muscle development and increased blood volume; fitness levels can change drastically without the scale registering anything. Consuming adequate protein can help you lower body fat while maintaining muscle mass.
Though not every runner experiences the perverse inclination to severely restrict calories, many do. In a culture abundant with excess, it can feel exhilarating to be in control and lauded for your ability to resist. I’m overwhelmed by guilt if I stray from my diet of fiber and sugar-free protein bars. A competitive spirit can easily turn into extremism and self-imposed dogma—the idea that nothing is ever enough. Not enough miles, not enough intensity, not enough races.
This excess can creep up insidiously. Our obsessive behavior, often positively reinforced by an environment that venerates competition, has become a psychological myopia. Perhaps the quick fix is having a professional tell you to eat more; the truth is many of us would like to feel good about eating an occasional cheeseburger or ice cream cone.
Opening conversation about something so stigmatized could help alleviate the prevalence of disordered eating in the running community. Understanding that a few extra pounds could actually promote health and strength, leading to faster times and fewer injuries, will hopefully help eradicate the issue. Constant anxiety is cumbersome; replenishing your body should come naturally, not because of what you did that day, but because if your body is asking for food, it needs it.
I remind myself that indulging in “normal people” food a few times a week will make me a better runner–and less of a pain in the ass to take out to dinner. Instead of sitting rigidly and picking away at pieces of fat, or pretending I’m not hungry enough to eat the entire meal, I breathe and engage in a small inner dialogue: “It’s OK, you are getting stronger and will be happier.” Permit yourself to eat by reminding yourself of why you’re running and racing in the first place: joy.
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But while Santorum may have made plenty of cash following his staggering loss, he’s come back to politics for more. If there’s one leadership trait Santorum has in spades, it’s his resilient and dogged persistence. Despite being largely ignored by the media and by much of the Republican establishment up until the final hours before the Iowa caucus, Santorum indefatigably plugged along through all 99 counties in Iowa, holding more than 350 town halls. “He was unbelievably disciplined,” says Michael Genovese, the director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University and an expert on the presidency. “Nixon kept coming back, defeat after defeat, and Lincoln lost more elections than he won. There’s something to be said for that kind of resilience. He’s a workhorse.”
In a job that demands superhuman stamina like the presidency, such persistence could pay off for Santorum were he to win the nomination, which looks less likely following a poor showing in New Hampshire. Discipline is also an admirable trait for the role. Yet perhaps Santorum’s strongest leadership attribute is that he taps into a deeper sense of purpose. Almost everything the Catholic candidate believes is rooted in a set of moral values, and the idea that such principles underlie his actions and political views has helped attract followers and appeal to evangelical voters. Whether or not you agree with those values—some of them are even to the right of plenty of conservatives—there is a coherence to his platform and a consistency to his beliefs.
With the possible exception of Ron Paul, Santorum could very well win the “least likely to flip-flop” award in the current GOP field. Santorum has the reputation of being a strong-willed and quick decision maker who makes up his own mind. While that can be detrimental if enough facts or differing views aren’t considered, it also stands in contrast to the more deliberative—some believe too much so—style that has been a trademark of President Obama’s.
There’s a saying often used to describe surgeons: “Sometimes wrong, never in doubt.” For many voters, and for many Santorum supporters, the same kind of exacting, convictions-driven, self-assured approach is precisely at the heart of Santorum’s leadership appeal.
Jena McGregor writes the Post Leadership blog for the Washington Post.
Read more in this series:
Ron Paul’s best leadership trait | Rick Santorum’s best leadership trait
Newt Gingrich’s best leadership trait | Mitt Romney’s best leadership trait
Rick Perry’s best leadership trait | Jon Huntsman’s best leadership trait
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May 18th, 2005 11:24 PM
Become server more protected running from the LiveCD like knoppix or bartcd?
If it is so what should I use?
Is it practicaly to do that?
// too far away outside of limit
May 19th, 2005 12:15 AM
I would say no. Most of the live CDs are not made for that purpose. First of all... they boot from a CD which is read only. Since its a read only filesystem with a (in many cases) small ramdisk, you are unable to patch. That is, unless you install to the hard drive.
They are not updated quite as frequently as the major distros where you can just burn a new CD when a security vulnerability has been patched. Plus, to have to download a 500-700MB ISO every time you need to patch... that'd be a pain in the arse. Most security patches are pretty small and can be downloaded pretty quickly.
These live distros are specialized. They are meant for a specific purpose. Evaluation of a distro, forensics tools, security tools, etc. Seeing that they are crated with just a couple of purposes in mind, they are not very flexible. You can't just say... I'm going to add a mail server service to this box... download the necessary packages and then install. You have to find a live CD distro that meets your exact needs.
I've seen a honeypot and firewall live distros that boot from CD. IMO, this is a great idea. You load the config from a flash drive or floppy. They fit one specific purpose. Some honeypots just emulate devices and services on the network and log that data to a syslog server. If someone were to compromise that box, they own your honeypot/net. If they can't make any changes... then its easy to detect/recover. They can't install a rootkit or try to delete the logs. Just reboot and find the flaw in your setup. Make the necessary changes and you're good to go. It is often desireable to change the configs for different services, but to not allow changes to the operating system. Since it is read only, you only allow changes on your ramdisk or where you are saving/loading the configs. After your configs are set, you can even just mount that removable media in read only... that will make the whole filesystem read only. Just allowing the ramdisk for swap, etc.
is a firefox extension that gives you stats on how long you have quit smoking, how much money you\'ve saved, how much you haven\'t smoked and recent milestones. Very helpful for people who quit smoking and used to smoke at their computers... Helps out with the urges.
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Hiding the Violence: 'Silver Bullet' on the streets of Chicago
Education Secretary Arne Duncan may be right that no "silver bullet" will cure the ills affecting the nation's education system, but the "silver bullet", the metaphor used by Duncan in making his point, is in fact taking the lives of youth across America. In particular, the deadly city streets of Chicago, where minority youth are dying weekly.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger has ordered the American flag at St. Sabina Church hung upside-down - a historic sign of distress - to symbolize the growing death toll among the city's youngsters.
So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered -- more than one a week -- and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren't getting the attention they deserve.
Had 36 kids died of swine flu this year, "there would be this great influx of resources that say, 'Let's stop this, lets deal with this,' " Pfleger said.
Instead, because violence is driving the epidemic, "We're hiding it. We're ignoring it. We're denying the problems," he said.
Duncan, who now serves as President Obama's secretary of education, said "all hell would break loose" if these killings took place in one of the metro area's upscale enclaves.
"If that happened to one of Chicago's wealthiest suburbs -- and God forbid it ever did -- if it was a child being shot dead every two weeks in Hinsdale or Winnetka or Barrington, do you think the status quo would remain? There's no way it would," he said.
Yet the problem has only worsened since Duncan publicly shared his observation. With about a month left in the school year, Chicago's public schools have topped the number of students slain in the 2007-2008 and 2006-2007 school years -- 27 and 31, respectively.
Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said scuffles among youth have become more violent and a conflict that 20 years ago would have warranted a pushing or wrestling match now sometimes results in gunfire.
"There's simply too many gangs, too many guns and too many drugs on the streets," he said. "We've got a problem with some of our young people are resorting to use of weapons and violence to solve any type of conflicts they may have."
Weis said he concurred with Duncan's remarks from two years ago and bemoaned that society had become desensitized, almost to the point of acceptance, by the violence in some of America's major cities.
"That is a very sad state of affairs," he said.
Not all officials are convinced that the level of violence against children is unique to Chicago.
Mayor Richard Daley said the numbers appear worse in his city because the public school system considers teenagers students even after they drop out.
"The rest of America doesn't count them. You're a dropout forever. We don't think they're dropouts. They're students," he said.
He further said Chicago's problems are no worse than those in any other American city.
"It's all over, the same thing," he said. "You go to a large city or small city, it's all over America. It's not unique to one community or one city."
Despite Daley's remarks, CNN has learned that none of the city's 36 victims this year was a dropout.
Also, Daley's statistics on the number of youths killed in other cities don't appear to match reports from American cities.
Los Angeles, California, notorious for its gang problems, is larger than Chicago. It has reported only 23 child slayings this school year. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is about half the size of Chicago, but it has witnessed only a ninth of the child slayings: four this school year.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have put forth their plan for REFORMING AND STRENGTHENING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Perhaps our nation's school children would be better served if they first identified the root causes of violence in America's schools -- educators who are lying to the American public -- (from under-reporting violence to inflating graduation rates, to fudging test scores). Without this identification and a resulting plan of corrective action, reforming and strengthening America's schools for the 21st century will fail, and the nation's children will continue to be murdered both on the streets and in schools.
Additional reading: How Schools Cheat
Watch how Chicago is struggling with the violence (Diane Latiker, founder of the community group 'Kids off the block' began a memorial on a vacant lot in Chicago).
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Unincorporated Business Entities - LAW 7582-3 Hours
A study of the relation of principal and agent, including that of master and servant, and duties as between the parties themselves and as to third persons. Creation, nature, and characteristics of a partnership; partnership liability; rights and duties of partners among themselves; rights and remedies of partnership creditors; and dissolution of partnership are also covered.
Spring 2013 Section 001
Professor James McNeill, III
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Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison.
The brief video of their Friday encounter, which spread online Monday, did not capture her words. But fear appears written on her face. In her whisper, Liu expressed concern that she and her family would suffer for the activists’ audacious move, Chinese dissident Hu Jia told reporters days after the rare visit.
Yet Hu and other activists believe that such visits are the key to Liu's freedom. She has been under house arrest since her dissident husband, Liu Xiaobo, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize more than two years ago. Human rights groups have decried his 11-year prison sentence for subversion, which was imposed after he penned a call for democracy, and they call his wife's confinement “completely illegal.”
“Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years, solely for what he had written.... These are not crimes. Liu Xia has never been charged with anything, and yet she too is treated like a criminal,” said Marian Botsford Fraser of the freedom-of-expression group PEN International.
Activists are pressing for more people to visit Liu Xia to increase the pressure on the government over her case. Rights activists in China and abroad have used Twitter to provide a detailed map to her apartment, which was created and published by the Hong Kong newspaper Mingpao.
The plight of Liu Xia and her husband echoes that of blind activist Chen Guangcheng and his family, who were imprisoned in their home after Chen exposed forced abortions in Shandong province.
Chen ultimately escaped and took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing before leaving China for the U.S. with his wife and children. Before his dramatic exit, scores of visitors tried to visit Chen in captivity, including actor Christian Bale, whose scuffle with plainclothes police was caught on video.
Some have tried to reach Liu Xia: In October, Reporters Without Borders released a short video of her, seen smoking in silhouette at her window, and said the difficulty in obtaining even that was “indicative of the isolation imposed on her and the danger to which anyone trying to approach her home is exposed.” In December, reporters from the Associated Press succeeded in reaching her while guards were away, and recorded her first interview in years.
“I really never imagined that after he won [the Nobel Peace Prize], I would not be able to leave my home. This is too absurd. I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this," a tearful and trembling Liu told the reporters.
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Leavetaking of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
The Gospel of Luke 12:32-40
The Lord said, "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."
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Consumer Spending - February 2011
Retail sales increased less than expected in January and were revised down slightly for November and December.
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, total retail sales increased 0.3 percent and core retail sales (excluding gas, autos, and building supplies) increased 0.4 percent in January. Retail sales in previous months were revised down slightly, showing an increase of 0.8 percent in November and 0.5 percent in December.
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The pace of retail sales on a year-over-year basis remained largely unchanged from rates in December.
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the pace of growth for retail sales increased 7.8 percent in January on a year-over-year basis.
- Core retail sales (excluding gas, autos, and building supplies) remained at 5.1 percent for the second consecutive month.
Sales tax collections increased strongly on a year-over-year basis for the Sixth District.
- Sales tax revenues for the Southeast were up 4.9 percent in December compared with a year earlier. The rate of sales tax collections for the District as a whole has been increasing since July 2010.
Although sales tax collections continue to improve across the District, sales tax revenues are still relatively low for most District states.
- All Sixth District states had year-over-year increases in sales tax collections in December. Georgia had the largest increase (5.4 percent) while Louisiana had the second largest (5.3 percent).
- Sales tax collections increased 5.1 percent in Florida while Alabama and Tennessee both had increases of 4.5 percent compared with a year earlier. Mississippi posted a modest gain of 3.3 percent.
Consumer confidence in the United States and the South increased in February.
- According to the University of Michigan's preliminary report, overall consumer confidence increased in February but remains below pre-recessionary levels.
- The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index for the South Census region also increased in February and is in line with the overall U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index.
Tourism activity in the District has shown a modest increase over the holidays, and contacts in the industry are optimistic about the outlook.
- Overall, holiday activity for leisure and business travel was up moderately over the previous year.
- Across the District, hotel occupancy and convention bookings have increased slightly compared to a year earlier and cruise traffic remains strong. According to STR Global, five of the six District cities listed in the top 25 hotel markets have occupancy rates above the national average in January.
- Restaurant activity has also increased modestly as the economy and consumer confidence improves.
- The outlook for 2011 among District tourism contacts is positive for continued recovery.
Gaming tax revenues in Mississippi increased slightly in December.
District-assembled vehicle sales in January increased 18 percent from a year earlier, slightly above the nation's pace.
- District-assembled vehicle sales in December increased 18 percent from last year, slightly above the total U.S. vehicle sales.
- The increase in the District was led by Hyundai-Kia, increasing 24 percent, and GM, increasing 22 percent.
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40m vertical with manual tuner at base
Just wanted to get a quick opinion on a future antenna install for 40m. I'll have a vertical pole 30'-34' tall, with two radials at 90 degrees from each other at a max length of 35', unless bending one is optional, then I can go well over that.. Unfortunately, that's all I'm able to do though. So with that there, I figured, instead of using a coil at the base, I have an mfj-901b manual tuner that I was going to put in a water/weather-proof container at the base of the antenna, tune it for the center freq of 40m, and be on my way. How does this sound?
That should work, any chance of making the vertical ground mounted? Then you might be able to get more radials out on or just below the ground, they don't have to be that long either because they won't be resonant, just put lots of them down.
Marconi Antenna --- Quarter-Wavelegth Vertical
A 33 foot vertical with 33 foot radials is resonant at: 7.091 MHz, CW/Digital portion of 40 meter band (USA).
~ 37 ohms (Z) feed point impedance.
At 80 meters, the height becomes more substantial
At 160 meters, a 1/4-wave vertical is comparable to the commercial AM broadcast stations --
that use tower section for the antenna's driven element.
Last edited by W9GB; 08-05-2012 at 05:31 PM.
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I thought I was ground mounting it, unless I'm just getting confused? hah. Well, here's a picture of my house and what I have to work with. If the length doesn't matter to much, I can burry (an inch or two) a few out into the yard?
These are other neighbor's yards on either side and to the rear?
Originally Posted by KF5JAK
You are overestimating the length of the radiator (already stated).
Yes, you can put lots of short radials, or coated rabbit/chicken wire down. Keep them straight, avoid 90 degree turns. Just add another short radial from the base. (vs a longer bent single radial)
Yes, you can put a layer of dirt over it, but don't bury it deeply. If you use landscape staples, you can tack the wire down into short grass, and within a few weeks or a season it will "disappear".
If you are only using it on 40m, skip the tuner and just trim the radiator for lowest SWR. You should be able to get it to 1.5:1 or better. The base resistance will probably be higher, and you may get a very close match to coax (due to the added ground loss).
ps 20 gauge bare or enameled wire can be bought in large spools rather inexpensively. It is strong, hard to see, and makes good radial wire. Just use a lot of radials. Random lengths are ok. Dog fence wire is pretty cheap and will work, but the 20 gauge on spools (see Amazon or EBay) is cheaper.
Last edited by K1DNR; 08-05-2012 at 05:50 PM.
Id put a hygain av-640 on the center of your roof, guyed to the edges of your roof at 2 elevations. that would work fantastic. It already has a counterpoise, no radials needed. Will work far better then your current proposal. 2nd choice would be a Hustler 4/5/6BTV mounted the same, but with radials going over the roof.
Ok, so, that did answer my question about the radials and the tuner, thanks K1DNR, and yes, those are others yards around my house (the red/brown roof). However, if it would even be worth it, I'd like to tune it to 80m every now and then. KF6ABU, that would be great! Trust me, if I didn't live with other "non-hams," there would be antennas everywhere. But I have to keep it neat to avoid whining from the others on the lease.. I had thought of getting the 5BTV, but I don't have the money right now to buy anything. If I did, I would already of ordered the 5BTV.
I made an assumption you had to operate under stealth conditions. A QW vertical for 40m might be tough to tune with most auto-tuners on 80m. But it really depends on what you end up with installed at your location.
Originally Posted by KF5JAK
You could add some thin "invisible" wires symmetrically on the top - and top load the vertical. This would bring the series resonance (and the SWR dip) of the vertical to a point that would be easier to tune on 80m and also less lossy than tuning the 40m vertical alone. The wires would be connected at the top, and have insulators at the ends. Use strong mono-filament fishing line (60lb) to tie them off, and to guy the mast. You want them to be symmetrical and opposite (e.g. two wires directly opposite each other and exactly the same length) so the current cancels. (or add wire to the top, run to the house or a tree and create an inverted-L for 80, put a trap at the top to have a true dual band antenna, or clip the "extension" on when you want 80m, and remove or clip or short the extension to the base of the vertical when not needed)
Take a look at the ON4UN Low Band DXing book for a lot of ideas and information on the performance of verticals at 40m and below. Lots of info on short verticals and a chapter on low band antennas in small spaces.
Last edited by K1DNR; 08-05-2012 at 08:24 PM.
Yes, the 32-34 foot vertical should be tunable to 40 meters, and it will probably work easily on 15, too. 31 feet would be a good length for use with an autotuner at the base for 'all band' operation.
A lot of short radials is better than one or two long ones. On 40 meters, 25' is long enough over normal ground. On my 43 foot vertical, I have about 20 radials, lawn-stapled to the ground. I think 6 are 43 feet long, 6 are 25 feet, and the rest are 12 feet. It works very well on 40,30,20 and 17, poorly on 160,80, 15, 12, and 10 , but it does work there. Radials are the key to success.
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Is Your Gold Really There?
- Rumours are swirling that there are much shenanigans in the gold market. How confident are you that the physical gold you bought is really in the ETF vaults? Are the LBMA and COMEX defaulting on their physical deliveries? Can they fulfil all their contractual obligations to deliver physical gold? Many have doubts and the number of doubters is rising. Mineweb reports :
It doesn’t just seem to be GATA which nowadays is questioning whether the volume of gold held in ETFs and in official reserves is really there – or perhaps there is more than one title to what is actually in the world’s gold vaults? Would a run on gold bullion thus create panic among the Bankers?
Banking has run for centuries with the banks themselves only keeping on hand a fraction of the money owed to depositors with the balances loaned out and not always immediately available, if indeed it is even there at all, so when there is a run – like that on Britain’s Northern Rock last year – the bank concerned can find it tough to keep its head above water. Northern Rock, in the event, needed to be bailed out by the U.K. government.
There are plenty of theories that the gold markets also operate on a similar principle - or perhaps worse. Not only may the banks not hold the amounts of physical gold they say they do, say the doubters, having loaned much of this to third parties, but there are now analysts and observers expressing doubts over the actual title to the gold that is still seen to be in the vaults, feeling that perhaps some of it has been sold several times over. Central Banks, for example, seem to hate being questioned over gold loans preferring to duck the question and keep any such arrangements under wraps, although most will admit to gold swaps and loans being made – but little or no detail.
It may be no coincidence that the recent surge in the gold price which burst it through the $1,000 barrier followed shortly after Hong Kong demanded repatriation of its gold held in London banks and reports suggest that Germany is also looking for its foreign-held physical gold to be returned from overseas repositories. Has this created shortages of physical gold which holders are now trying to cover?
The latest commentator to express doubts is Paul Mylchreest in his Thunder Road Report. Mylchreest has calculated that, using GFMS figures, that data on the volume of gold traded on the London market (about 90% of gold traded worldwide), if put in its proper context, does not tally with his estimate of the amount of gold that is held in the form of bars which conform to “London Good Delivery” standard.
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Radiation oncology clinic: (573) 882-8644
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What is the IRS Form 8283?
Federal tax law allows you to claim a deduction for the value of all property you donate to a qualified charity during the year provided you are eligible to itemize deductions. Generally, any nonprofit organization that promotes religious, literary, educational, scientific, humanitarian or other charitable causes will qualify. However, if the combined value of all property you donate is more than $500, you must prepare Form 8283 and attach it to your tax return.
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For example, if you donate used clothing, the IRS suggests you reference the retail price that thrift stores in your area charge for similar items. But if you donate a used vehicle, you must reference a reputable used-car price guide that factors the make, model, year, mileage and overall condition into the price rather than using the price that dealerships in your area charge. Some property donations, such as a rare piece of art, may require you to obtain an appraisal from an art expert.
TurboTax ItsDeductible Online is a free tool that helps you track your donations and determine their IRS-approved value. When you use TurboTax to prepare your taxes, you can import this information directly from ItsDeductible into your tax return.
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The appraisal must be done by someone who holds some expertise in the type of property and must be signed and dated no more than 60 days prior to making the donation. The appraisal must also include a description of the property and its condition. The appraiser must also sign Part III of your Form 8283.
To complete the remainder of the form, you must have the name and address of all organizations you made donations to, descriptions of all property, information on how you initially acquired the property, the amount you paid for each item and their respective values at the time of donation. If you maintain adequate records of your donations during the year, Form 8283 requires minimal time to complete.
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Preparation of Form 8283 does not guarantee that you can deduct the entire value of your property donations in the current year. For most of the organizations you make donations to, the IRS limits your combined annual deduction to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income. In the unlikely event your deduction is limited this year, you can always deduct the excess on one of your next five tax returns.
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Every piece of software might cause problems for a small minority of people who use it This is because there is no way for developers to account for the myriads of other software and configurations present on the systems of the end users. Many many times the problems are due to incorrect configurations or incomplete uninstallations of other software. Other times there is malware or spyware at the root of a problem. I personally feel that the more paranoid you are and the more changes you make to Windows like turning off services and blocking elements, and also installing mostly needless "security enhancements", the more likely you are to have problems somewhere along the line. It's why I have learned to avoid most security forums like Wilder's and others. The great majority of Dragon's users, including me, have had absolutely no problems at all.
I wouldn't say that using security enhancements necessarily creates a higher risk of problems (perhaps a higher risk of inconvenience), but that using security enhancements without knowing exactly how they work and why they work in that way, might cause issues since the user has done something wrong or hasn't done anything at all when expected to do something. But then again we have bugs and such but I wouldn't say that they are specific to security enhancements.
May I ask what "needless" security enhancements are you implying at in this context? I've so far not come across any needless security enhancements in the situation where needless has it's original meaning.
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More than 1,500 New Yorkers gathered today in Manhattan to mourn the death of a 32 year-old gay man, who was shot down on Friday just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn in an apparent act of anti-gay bias.
Another Transphobic Headline from NY Post
The New York Post is at it again.
The paper, which has sordid history of publishing salaciously inaccurate and defamatory stories about the LGBT community, yesterday ran a story discussing criticism of Chaz Bono for his recent comments about his transition. Only, instead of showing respect for gender identity and expression, the paper referred to Chaz and Stephen Ira, the transgender son of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, as “she-men.” This language may seem like just a terrible attempt at juvenile humor, but the truth is that slurs like this dehumanize all people in the transgender community. The New York Post is telegraphing to its readers that transgender people shouldn't be treated with the same respect as others.
The Post has been the subject of previous GLAAD Calls to Action. Last summer, we called the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid out for its offensive critique of “The Kids Are Alright” in which the writer, Andrea Peyser, took cheap shots at families led by same-sex couples. We’ve also taken action against the paper for juvenile and defamatory treatments of LGBT issues in the past, and back when we had a "Best and Worst" list, the post was on the "Worst" side of it on several occasions.
We thank all of you who brought this to our attention, and others in the media (including Instinct Magazine) for also calling out this blatant transphobia. GLAAD attempted several times to contact editor Ian Mohr (who you can also call at (212) 930-8500 or e-mail at email@example.com) regarding this horrible headline, but (surprise) we have not yet heard back. We encourage you to write or call the paper to condemn this type of transphobic rhetoric.
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So in 2005 the Sony Playstation came out with the eye toy. This opened up
avenues for some fitness style games to encourage a exercise training program.
Kinetic was the front runner offering the gambit from aerobics to tai chi style
balance routines. By using the camera the game would register movement you made
on the screen. This wasn't bad, but left a little to be desired in a smaller
living room with any type of decor on your walls.
Now once again we see the gaming industries stepping up to the plate, this
time with the Nintendo Wii. They opened their initial bundle with Wii sports
that introduced their gamers to the interactive controls. Now they are
attempting to venture into fitness, this time with a new type of controller
that is called a "balance board".
They are launching Wii Fit; it is supposed to offer a full range of balance
and aerobic style activities. It goes with the concept to registering your
weight distribution on their new controller. From its demo, I saw everything
from push ups, yoga, dancing and the hula hoop.
So this leads me to the question:
With all of the new technologies coming up, do you think this type of video
game can indeed get people off their couch and start exercising?
That's cool. I like it. I think it helps, but I doubt the serious couch potatoes will get up a buy Wii Fit. Someone will though and that's all that matter I guess. It's better then sitting and playing video games.
With all the new technology coming out these days, its impressive to see how this is evolving.
Here is a link to a youtube video that demos the new Xbox Kinect.
I think its great.
I can atest to at least some success from WiiFit.... we did a biggest loser competition at my workplace last fall and I started using WiiFit at that point... I ended up going from 176 lbs to 140 lbs and getting second place in the competition.... WiiFit didnt do all that but it got me started. and helped a lot w/ tracking my progress. I definitely noticed improvements in different areas (i could do a lot more pushups, longer planks, etc...) But most of all it just got me started w/ a more active lifestyle. After the contest I did Couch to 5k and have been off and running since having done quite a few 5ks, 2 10ks, 1 10 mile run and some fun mud runs... Now working towards completing a half marathon but wouldnt be here at all if i hadnt got started back then. I only occasionally hop on WiiFit now but its nice to see my levels havent changed much since the last time...
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President Barack Obama warned Tuesday of diminished emergency services, longer airport security lines and other problems if Congress fails to reach agreement on avoiding the harshest impacts of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to begin March 1.
With firefighters, police officers and other emergency responders standing behind him, Obama said that "people will lose their jobs" if the forced cuts are allowed to take effect.
The cuts -- known as sequestration in Washington jargon -- won't help grow the economy or achieve jobs, Obama said, calling those goals the top priority of his administration.
He listed a litany of possible impacts intended to inspire public outrage at the potential new reality caused by the spending cuts, such as fewer police and firefighters on the streets, reduced military readiness, less border security, and criminals going free because federal prosecutors will have to close cases.
"Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays at airports across the country," Obama continued. "Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings."
However, top congressional Republicans shot back that Obama can prevent harmful reductions in essential services by targeting other areas that his party believes reflect bloated and inefficient government.
"To keep these first responders on the job, what other spending is the president willing to cut?" House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio asked in a statement, echoing a theme also asserted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.
"Surely the president won't cut funds to first responders when just last year Washington handed out an estimated $115 billion in payments to individuals who weren't even eligible to receive them, or at a time when 11 different government agencies are funding 90 different green energy programs," McConnell said in a statement. "That would be a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice by a President who claims to want bipartisan reform."
At the White House, Obama said the mechanics of the forced spending cuts prevented such decision-making.
"If Congress allows this meat-cleaver approach to take place, it will jeopardize our military readiness, it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research, it won't consider whether we're cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day," Obama said. "It doesn't make those distinctions."
Senate Democrats have proposed replacing the imminent cuts with a combination of more tax revenue from millionaires, ending agriculture subsidies and reducing defense spending after the end of combat operations in Afghanistan.
House Republicans, who control the chamber, reject any increased tax revenue as a solution, setting up another in a series of congressional showdowns over spending and taxes that dominated Obama's first term.
Obama repeated his call from last week for Congress to agree to a temporary respite from the forced spending cuts while possible negotiations continue on a larger solution.
He also complained that Republican ideas so far for avoiding forced budget cuts "ask nothing" from the wealthiest Americans or big corporations. He added that the GOP prefers having the reductions take effect instead of having "a single tax loophole" disappear for those who don't need it.
"None of us will get 100 percent of what we want," the president said. "But nobody should want these cuts to go through because the last things our families can afford right now is pain imposed unnecessarily by partisan recklessness and ideological rigidity here in Washington."
Republicans were forced to concede on their steadfast opposition to increased taxes by agreeing in early January to higher rates on top income earners as part of a deal to avoid some of the harshest impacts of what was known as the fiscal cliff, which included the forced spending cuts of sequestration as well as automatic tax hikes.
That agreement put off action on the sequester cuts, which were mandated by a 2011 agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling.
The purpose of the deep cuts to all discretionary programs and the military was to motivate Congress to reach a comprehensive deficit reduction agreement that would replace them.
However, such a deal has proved impossible, leading to the imminent application of $85 billion in spending cuts for 2013 and almost $1 trillion over 10 years.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other officials warn that the cuts will have a dire impact on government operations and military readiness. The Pentagon would absorb about half of the reductions.
In a letter to Congress last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller said "sequestration will require immediate and significant reductions" to the agency and its operations.
"Because sequestration calls for across-the-board cuts, the FBI would be required to do less in all its programs, including against Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups, as well as the growing and sophisticated threats from cyber attacks, foreign intelligence, and national and transnational criminal activities," Mueller's letter warned.
For example, he noted, sequestration would mean cutting 2,285 FBI employees.
The GOP opposes any increase in tax rates or other steps to bring in more tax revenue, saying the nation needs to reduce the cost of government.
"We should close loopholes and carve-outs in the tax code, but that revenue should be used to lower rates across the board," Boehner's statement said. "Tax reform is a once-in-a generation opportunity to boost job creation in America. It should not be squandered to enable more Washington spending."
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The United States has reiterated that its planned missile defense system for Europe, aimed at Iran, will not threaten Russia’s strategic missile deterrent. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned Wednesday that Moscow will take counter-measures against the U.S. system being developed with NATO.
The Obama administration is again reassuring Russia about the missile defense plan but also saying the project is going well and will not be limited or changed.
The comments from the White House and State Department followed a speech by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in which he renewed threats by Moscow to counter the program by putting missiles near NATO countries and possibly leaving the new U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction accord, or New-START.
U.S. plans for missile defenses in Europe to counter what is seen as an emerging threat from Iran have long been an irritant in relations with Moscow.
In 2009, the Obama administration scrapped plans for a system of radars and interceptors based in Poland and the Czech Republic for a less-ambitious project with sites in Poland, Romania and perhaps other NATO countries.
But Wednesday’s televised speech by Mr. Medvedev made clear Moscow’s concerns remain. He revived a threat to counter the U.S. plan with missiles in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad and said the dispute could be “a basis” for Moscow leaving New-START.
A White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said Russia has been assured repeatedly the envisaged system does not and cannot threaten Russia’s large strategic arsenal, and that the United States will not in any way limit of change the program.
State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said a U.S. offer to bring Moscow into the anti-missile program stands and that the administration remains committed to improved relations overall. “We’ve seen these comments before. Again, our focus is on cooperation, is on making clear to Russian authorities that this is in no way a system that directed at Russia. It’s directed as I said to a threat to our allies in Europe, and in Russia, in fact from Iran," he said.
Arms control expert Bruce MacDonald, a senior adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace, says Moscow is understandably sensitive about any potential threat to its strategic deterrent which, he said, helps define its big-power status.
But the former White House and Congressional aide said Russian concerns about the missile defense plan are largely not valid. “The Russians have a lot of respect for our technological capabilities, and they tend to be, I think, hyper-sensitive on this issue. And they are imagining things that are just extremely unlikely to happen. We’re not going to suddenly develop a huge missile defense system. On the very remote chance that we would, they’d have plenty of time to accommodate or respond to it, since this would take a long time," he said.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was very disappointed over the Medvedev remarks which he said are inconsistent with the strategic relationship Russia and NATO have agreed to pursue.
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New York was flooded with excitement this past weekend as Pope Benedict XVI made his first visit to the city. People came from all over the country to be a part of this historic event (and to possibly catch a glimpse of the Pope-mobile!). Benedict used the trip to encourage the Catholics of our nation in their faith, in an almost evangelistic manner. The thing that interested me, however, was the focus of his message.
The Times wrote:
Before a crowd of nearly 60,000 people at Yankees Stadium, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday ended his first visit to the United States as leader of the Roman Catholic Church with a reminder to the faithful that “obedience” to the authority of the church is the foundation of their religious faith.
Obedience to the church as one of the foundations of Catholic faith is not anything new. For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has propagated this message. And let’s face it – it often comes as a breath of fresh air, for good reason, to those raised on the endless infighting and revisionism of American Protestantism. But what struck me most was the effect of this message on the people hearing it. The Times quotes some the responses. Here is one that stood out:
Efrem Menghs, a phone company salesman from Columbus, Ohio, said the experience had made him a better person. “I will look back and say I’m glad I came to this event,” he said. “I did something for God.”
I could say a lot about why I object to the Pope’s statement, but this response by Efrem brings up one of the most important reasons I disagree: it makes Christianity all about us. It is about our obedience, our action, our faithfulness, etc. The Law always casts its light on us. It, like Janet Jackson, asks, “What have you done for me lately?” The sad thing is our answer is never enough.
St. Paul writes, For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them” (Galatians 3:10). That is, the Law demands total and complete obedience. It demands perfection. So if it is up to us, as the Pope’s message implies, then the result will always be the same; we would be cursed.
Thankfully, St. Paul goes on to explain the true foundation of our faith. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree” (Galatians 3:13).
In other words, obedience is the foundation of the Christian faith, but it is Jesus’ obedience, not ours. That’s where our hope lies. The rest is just details…
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MOSCOW — All that were lacking were the tutus in a demonstration of Russia’s main battle tanks at an arms exposition outside Moscow in which the machines were made to dance a “tank ballet.”
Russia’s weapons exporting company, Rosoboronexport, in the news recently over criticism of sales to Syria, sponsored the show, called “Invincible and Legendary.” The tanks performed twice at the Engineering Technologies 2012 exhibit for potential government buyers from developing countries and
military attaches in Moscow. Over the weekend, the show opened for the public and was caught in this amateur video posted on YouTube (above).
Later this week, Russian Technologies, the parent company of Rosoboronexport, plans to release a professional video that will be used to promote the weapons system, a spokeswoman said.
In the opening movements, the T-80 and T-90A tanks maneuver to techno music. There is a brief tango interlude. For the classical portion, the Russian arms company enlisted a ballet director from the Bolshoi Theater, Andrei Melanin. He choreographed the machines, which range in weight from about 42 to 47 tons based on their configuration, to excerpts from “Carmen,” the opera by Georges Bizet.
The Russian tanker crews seem to coax their machines into delicate, even coquettish advances on other tanks. They pair up and separate, lower their guns like lances and charge at one another. At one point, two tanks twirl in a creaky, diesel-smoke-belching embrace.
The tanks, and at times a self-propelled artillery piece, are maneuvering on a square 30 yards by 30 yards at an airfield used for military exhibits in Zhukov. (That explains the mockup of the Russian space shuttle, the Buran, in the background.) The self-propelled artillery is an MSTA-C 152-millimeter howitzer.
Mr. Melanin emphasized the challenge that the tight space posed to the tank crews. The drivers could not hear the music; instead, Mr. Melanin shouted orders over a radio.
This was not the first tank ballet put on by the Russian military. Here, in 2010, T-80s dance with their barrels cocked like the elevated legs of swirling ballerinas. This performance, also choreographed by Mr. Melanin, opened with Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.” The Tchaikovsky composition’s cannon shot was performed by a tank firing a blank through its 125-millimeter main gun.
The ballet moves, in fact, illustrate a feature of Russian tanks often highlighted in public demonstrations: the ability of the computerized turret hydraulics to stabilize the main cannon. This capability fixes the weapon at an azimuth relative to a distant target even as the tank bobs or turns underneath; the Russians have claimed particular skill in designing these systems.
In the 2012 video, it can be seen at 2:32 and at 2:46 as three tanks pirouette with their guns fixed in place.
Russia exported about $13 billion worth of weapons in 2011, and the industry emphasizes advertising and presentation by attending expositions and air shows and publishing glossy brochures about Russian weaponry. Russia’s largest arms customer is now India.
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Sidewalk Begun At So. Deerfield
FERA Project Recalls Start of Similar Work in 1869
SOUTH DEERFIELD- The sidewalk project which is one of the items on the FERA
program from the $2000 allotment given to Deerfield for November, has created
unusual interest. The sidewalk starts at the driveway of the home of Edward
Rice and it is hoped will extend to Sprout's Crossing.
About 65 years ago Mrs. Samuel Billings, mother of the late Charles Billings
and grandmother of Mrs. Edward Dodge and George Billings, went on a visit in
Canada. On her return Mrs. Billings aroused the interests of her neighbors to
better the town by the building of a sidewalk such as she had seen on her visit.
The neighbors met together including some of the following families: Sprouts,
Baldwins, Phillips, Jacksons, Billings and others. A "sidewalk association"
was formed with officers. Every August a "sidewalk dinner day" was
held. The men gathered with teams, shovels and energy and labored strenuously
first building and then later filling in with gravel to prepare for the winter.
This day was looked forward to by young and old. The women set the tables under
the trees and served a tempting meal after which reports from the association
This lasted for many years. Thus the embryo of the sidewalk had started in
1869 now to be carried on. It is noticeable that although the women were supposed
to be more home loving than the modern women, civic pride was uppermost in their
mind then as now.
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