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The Murals of the Outer Sunset
Inspired by the upcoming whale mural to be located at the Sunset Cooperative Nursery School, a project initiated by the Save The Waves surfing and ocean-environment organization, I decided to explore the rest of the Outer Sunset and to see what other murals we have out here. Murals are a part of San Francisco, especially in a neighborhood such as the Mission. I was hopeful that I would find bountiful and beautiful public art right here in our own neighborhood.
I found further inspiration from one of the Bulletin’s columnist, Allison Baltzersen and her “Allison Walks” way of exploring every street of the city. I modified her ethos and hopped on my bike to cycle every named street (as compared to the numbered streets) of the Outer Sunset.
I started at the intersection of Sunset and Sloat boulevards, then went down to the Great Highway, turned right and came up Wawona Street to Sunset. I turned left to get to Vicente Street, then went back down the hill to the Great Highway. I did this all the way until I got to Lincoln Way, zigzagging up and down the hill, and keeping my eyes peeled for murals along the way.
The end result was an extremely enjoyable way to spend my Saturday, but it also made me proud of how much public art we have in our overlooked neighborhood. In almost four hours of biking and taking pictures, I found 20 murals. Not too shabby.
There are a number of other murals near Ocean Beach, including those in the Beach Chalet and the Outer Richmond, but that project will have to wait for a future date.
Unsurprisingly, most of the murals take inspiration from our western border, Ocean Beach.
I have my favorites, which I am giving special attention in this article, but they are all pretty spectacular. Look through them and you may find some of your own favorites. And be sure to check out the Google Map at the bottom, which shows the location of all the murals so you can find them for yourself. If I forgot any, leave a comment and I’ll be sure to go snap a picture or two and add it here.
The best Sunset District murals
The Pizza Place on Noriega
The Pizza Place, at Noriega Street and 46th Avenue, has incredible murals. On the east-facing wall is a mural that seems almost cubist, and shows a jazz club. The mural predates the Pizza Place, but the owners have done wonderful things to complement it. I talked with Cindy, one of the owners of the Pizza Place, about the motivation to expand the mural.
“A lot of our customers were having trouble finding the restaurant,” Cindy confessed, “and installing a sign is actually really expensive to do. So we went with a mural instead.”
Nicole Andrijauskas, one of the employees of the restaurant at the time the newer murals were painted, is an artist and agreed to do something “funky and full of color” to add some character to the street. The end result is brilliant. They have added a huge pizza (obviously), as well as winged pints of beer on the east side. On the north side, above the awning, is an imaginative beachscape with surfing meatballs and suntanning strips of bacon. Awesome.
The Ortega Hub
I made up this name for a two-block stretch along Ortega Street, from 38th Avenue to 40th. It applies to three consecutive buildings, each with its own mural: A.P. Giannini Middle School, the Ortega Branch of the San Francisco Public Library and Sunset Elementary School.
Giannini’s mural probably is one of my favorites, as it shows the narrative of the destruction of the city in the 1906 earthquake and fire, and how Giannini, the school’s namesake, loaned money to the city to help it rebuild. The Ortega Branch of the library is being rebuilt, but the still-standing structures nearby have some lovely beach scenes. Sunset Elementary School has a wonderfully diverse mural-scape, with two sections of tiled murals and a huge ocean scene across the front entrance.
The Queen of the Beach
Just a few houses away from where the Great Highway splits and forms La Playa is one of the most colorful and memorable houses in the neighborhood, if not the entire city. It is home to Carol, the “Queen of the Beach,” a legend in her own right, and the house fits her reputation.
The southern wall of the house is covered in a beautiful mural of our city’s namesake, St. Francis, but the mural is just the beginning of the experience. Her front entrance and garage are full of little treasures. A few years ago, while walking past the house with my mom, we bumped into Carol, who invited us inside for a full tour. We spent almost two hours in her house and in her backyard, in awe. It’s a really spectacular place.
The rest of the murals from the neighborhood
I saw murals at residences, nursery schools, playgrounds, restaurants — you name it. Enjoy this more scattered perspective of the neighborhood’s murals.
Here’s the map, with each mural demarcated with a blue pin. You can zoom in and manipulate the map, like you would with any other Google Map.
View Murals of the Outer Sunset in a larger map
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The Effects of Npas4 and Sema4D on Inhibitory Synapse Formation
Basic & Clinical
During development, hundreds of proteins direct the formation and maintenance of synapses (connections between brain cells) that shape the proper circuitry of the brain. As synapses form, eliminate, and re-form, a precise balance between the inhibitory and excitatory synaptic inputs must be attained for accurate brain function. Mutations in the proteins that regulate synapse development give rise to defects in these processes and have been suggested to be responsible for disorders of human cognitive function such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Dr. Greenberg and colleagues have identified an activity-regulated gene Npas4 that encodes a protein required specifically for the formation of inhibitory synapses. However, the molecular mechanism by which Npas4 selectively controls the formation of inhibitory synapses remains unknown. This project will use mice deficient in Npas4 to gain insight into this process. Genome-wide screens will also be carried out to identify the genetic program that Npas4 regulates to promote inhibitory synapse formation. Special attention will be given to those genes that map to regions implicated in ASD by human linkage and association studies as they will be considered ASD candidate genes. The researchers hope to gain insights into the experience-dependent molecular processes responsible for ASD, and ultimately uncover therapies and cures for this devastating disease. What this means to people with autism: To understand the causes of ASD and ultimately identify treatments and cures, it is important to understand the genetic and environmental cues that govern synapse development and create the proper balance between inhibition and excitation in the brain.
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Mom's Day Off is an opportunity for all moms throughout the area to take a break and spend a day on the slopes skiing or snowboarding at a reduced price. All proceeds from the day go to the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center (SVRCC) in Bennington, to help support cancer treatment.
All moms need to do is come to Bromley and show the ticket office a picture of their child to get a discounted $15 lift ticket. They'll be able to enjoy the fresh air and great conditions at Bromley, take home some free giveaway items, and have a great time. Several of the physicians and staff from the cancer center and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) breast care program will be there as well, so you can meet them.
Someone asked me recently why Bromley Mountain started Mom's Day Off. Basically, we're a family-oriented ski mountain. All of our trails lead to our comfortable base lodge, so it's easier for families to ski safely and to find each other even if they're on different trails. We offer lessons that cater to adults or children and their particular needs. We have the Junior Instruction Ski Program (JISP) to help your kids learn to ski or snowboard in a safe, structured environment.
When Fred Pabst, Jr., formed Bromley 76 years ago, he wanted it to be a special place to ski in New England. In fact, we're the only major ski mountain in New England with a southern exposure,
But it's not the only thing that makes us special. For those who work here and those who ski and snowboard here, Bromley offers a sense of security, comfort, loyalty, and community that you won't find at any other mountain resort.
So, to come back to the question, we do Mom's Day Off because it's a way for us to reward that loyalty and the trust that moms and other parents place in us when they come to Bromley, whether they hit the slopes with their families or send their kids to our ski school. It's our way of offering Mom, arguably the hardest worker in any family, a chance to take a breather. It's our way of telling southern Vermont how much we love being a part of this community. And, it's our way of letting others know how important we think it is to support our community resources like SVRCC.
This is the second year all of the proceeds from Mom's Day Off are going to the cancer center at SVMC. Like Bromley, the physicians, clinicians, and staff at SVRCC understand what it is to be a part of a smaller, rural community where people know each other and expect to be treated as an individual person.
At SVRCC, every patient is treated with extreme compassion and has the full dedication of the staff.
The quality of the medical care is excellent as well. The cancer program at SVMC is accredited by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) and the breast care program is accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). Both programs are administered by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS). SVRCC also offers clinical trials of the newest cancer treatments, so you don't have to travel to New York or Boston to get the most innovative medical care.
So moms, come on out on Friday, Feb. 8, to have a great time and to support the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center. Leave the kids in school and enjoy a day on the slopes and in the lodge with a friend or two. You deserve it!
Michael van Eyck is the director of marketing at Bromley Mountain Resort in Peru, Vt. "Health Matters" is a weekly column meant to educate readers about their personal health, public health matters, and public policy as it affects health care. To learn more about the SVMC Cancer Center, visit svhealthcare.org. To learn more about Bromley Mountain Resort and Mom's Day Off, visit bromley.com.
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The ATGP is intended to operate as a pupil/school improvement programme, to support young people who face educational disadvantage. The aim will be to recruit outstanding graduates who have a desire to help reduce the impact of poverty on educational attainment by working in schools facing challenging circumstances.
Under the ATGP, graduate trainees would be employed to teach in a school on a reduced timetable while following an approved training programme designed to enable them to meet the Qualified Teacher Status Standards. It includes provision for a period of pre-employment training in order to provide participants with additional support needed on a demanding programme.
Trainees would be required to have a range of skills including high level communication skills, strong leadership qualities, and the ability to work effectively and to see matters through despite difficulties. They would be expected to deliver improvements quickly and effectively.
The Minister said:
“As well as helping trainees gain Qualified Teacher Status, the ATGP will offer the flexibility to implement a targeted, intense employment-based training programme to help address educational disadvantage and improve school performance.
“We’re looking for high calibre graduates to undertake employment-based teacher training to work alongside the rest of the school workforce to help raise standards in Wales”.
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Protein/Zone Block Allowance Confusion
Last Updated Aug 2007
Q: I have had HUGE success with the Zone. I lost 70 lbs. and at 38 (soon to be 39)I
and healthier than I was before we had our three wonderful children over the past 4
am 5'9" and currently weigh 165 with a 27 inch waist and 37 inch hips. My goal is
my weight another 15 lbs. and my waist to 26 inches and hips to 36 inches.
When I punch my goal numbers into the Zone calculator, it generates a 77 grams/day
allowance and an 11 zone block/day allowance. According to my conversions, the 77
day allowance equates to only a little over 2 ounces of protein per day, whereas
the amount of
protein needed to meet the 11 Zone Block allowance equates to significantly more
Can you please help me to understand what is wrong with my thinking?
A: More than 70 percent of the weight of protein is water. This is why 1 ounce of
grams) contains only 7 grams of low-fat protein. Therefore 77 grams of protein
you to eat about 11 blocks of low-fat protein during the course of the day.
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Monkey Business Story Detail
While in a monastery, Gwen is asked to pose by a Monk so he can draw her in his illuminated manuscript. But using Magic, he makes Gwen disappear into his book which the Duke then runs off with. William and Roderick take chase and recapture the book (and Gwen) and lose the Duke in the monastery's maze.
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The other day we thwarted an attempted legal putsch aimed at trampling the Knesset’s sovereignty in favor of the political considerations of a national minority. The deceptive scaremongering campaign against the Boycott Law, undertaken while ignoring the legislation’s clear instructions and justified aim, was met with the firm stand of Knesset members. We voted in favor of the law and safeguarded democracy.
The State of Israel’s duty is to defend itself and its citizens. If in the past the main battlefield was military, today the campaign is much more complex. Economic strength, academic prowess and cultural wealth constitute a vital element in the power of every state. The Boycott Law is meant to safeguard the national strength of us all.
In essence, the law entrenches the right of each one of us to receive proper compensation for damages incurred as result of being boycotted only because of one’s area of residence or workplace. The law prevents those who call for boycotts against Israel and its citizens from reaching into the public coffers and receiving funding at the expense of tax funds paid by the very citizens facing the boycott.
The law draws a clear line between a legitimate political debate and the exploitation of Israeli democracy in order to undermine the State’s sovereignty, its economy or its academic institutions, whether these are located in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or Ariel. This is the law’s justified aim, and there is no wonder that the leading Western democracies, headed by the United States, already adopted similar moves and even harsher sanctions against those who seek to boycott them.
Against this backdrop, we should view with special gravity the opposition’s attempt, with the backing of a handful of attorneys, to prevent the law’s approval on the basis of seemingly unconstitutional grounds. The attempt to curb a democratic process and thwart the majority’s decision via controversial legal opinions and threats to petition the High Court of Justice reflect the Israeli Left’s inability to accept the path chosen by most of people here. This is a dangerous process where the minority attempts to force its views upon the majority by using the legal system, and first and foremost the Supreme Court.
A radical minority of judges who represent a post-Zionist agenda are trying time and again to force their worldview upon us after it was rejected by a large majority of the public. The law was declared by its foes as “unconstitutional” while, as we know, Israel doesn’t even have a constitution.
The small group of attorneys who seek to run the State created a sort of virtual “constitution” from thin air, while aiming to disqualify – on the basis of vague rules that it changes in line with its needs – legislation passed in the Knesset via a proper procedure and as an expression of the sovereign’s desire. It is not the law that is flawed, but rather, the anti-democratic move undertaken by its objectors.
The attempt to prevent the affirmation of the Boycott Law yet again proved the need to facilitate genuine change in our legal establishment – a change that will bring the Jewish and Zionist character back into this system.
Likud Knesset Member Yariv Levin chairs the Knesset Committee
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Government Information Services of the Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources is committed to providing information and reference assistance to the VU community and the citizens of the First Congressional District of Indiana. Valparaiso University was established as a selective federal depository library of the U.S. government in 1930 and continues in selecting about 24% of the documents offered to libraries. In addition, VU is also a depository for the state of Indiana.
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If you use pastebin as much as I do then you will think this tool is as cool as I do. Pastebin is a online site which allows users to copy and paste snippets of code in order for share them with other people and get feed back.
In Linux circles its commonly used for posting error logs or some other sort of problem so that other users in a IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel may view to problem and perhaps offer suggestions. There are many sites like pastebing including dpaste and pastie to name a few. So why should your care about this? Well in many situations you may be not be able to do a simple copy and paste from your servers logfiles or you maybe in some other sort of terminal to terminal situation. The example I will use is this:
At some time Xorg during its update process can break the X session in your distro. Many times users will be unaware and use their package managers to update to the newest version, then when they go to log in to X they get a crash, or no screens found or some other sort of error. In such situations the user may go to the IRC channel of their Distribution and ask for help. When the other users in the channel say “pastebin your Xorg log” the poor guy will say to himself, “How the *heck* am I going to do that”. Well wgetpaste is the answer. Its a breeze to install, the source is available here.
The usage is very simple:
All we are doing here is outputting a log file with whatever arguments we need in to wgetpaste. Going back to the Xorg example I used the cat command to read the Xorg log file, I then used tail with the -n switch which defines the number of lines I want to use, and then piped that in to wget paste. Wgetpaste then chooses from a random list of sites and posts to whichever one it chooses. Now you can simply give the link to whoever needs it in order to review your error. The resulting post on the dpaste site would look like this:bash, CLI, error, Linux, networking, shell, wgetpaste, xorg.conf
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Clery Act Report
This report is part of the University of Minnesota's compliance with the “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act” (informally known as the "Clery Act"). The report for the Minneapolis Campus and St. Paul Campus are included together in the Safety and Security on Campus brochure.
Statistics from the past three calendar years are publishing in the Safety and Security on Campus report. Statistics are compiled by the University police department in consultation with the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments and a wide range of University personnel called Campus Security Authorities.
More information on the Clery Act
Fire Safety Report
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (PL 110-315) became law in August 2008, requiring all United States academic institutions with on campus student housing, to produce an annual fire safety report outlining the fire safety practices, standards, and all fire-related on-campus housing statistics. The Fire Safety Report for the Minneapolis Campus and St. Paul Campus is included in the annual Safety and Security on Campus brochure.
The Safety and Security on Campus brochure is published annually by the University and made available to all current and prospective students, staff and faculty.
For your convenience, this brochure is available in a downloadable, printable PDF document. To request a copy of this brochure or to request this publication in an alternative format, contact UMPD at 612-624-2677.
Safety and Security on Campus Brochure (Clery Act Report and Fire Safety Report)
University System-wide Reports
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The Law Day Essay Contest is for York County High School students in grades 9-12. The goal of the contest is to encourage the young people to give thought to current social and legal issues and to express their views on these issues. Winning essays are published in local newspapers and the winning students, along with their sponsoring teachers and their parents are invited to the Luncheon.
The Law Day Poster Contest is for York County 7th and 8th graders. The themes are usually taken from the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Law Day themes. Posters submitted are selected/judged on the basis of: age appropriate artistic excellence; effectiveness in expressing the theme; originality in approach to characterizing the theme, and creativity. The winning posters are displayed at the Luncheon where the winning students along with their sponsoring teachers and parents are guests.
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Spring and fall are both beautiful seasons, but for some people they are the time when allergies flare up and cause a lot of misery. This is also when you start seeing a lot of prescription and over the counter nose sprays and eye-drops around the house.
These products work great when used as directed, but the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) warns that they are poisonous if swallowed. It only takes less than a fifth of a teaspoon to seriously harm a child.
Parents and caregivers often leave these products out where curious toddlers can find them. Since they do not come in child-resistant packaging little ones can easily open them.
Eye drops injured more than 4500 children under the age of 5 from 1997 to 2009. Nasal sprays injured more than 1,100 children in the same age group during those years according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC.)
The eye drops in question work by causing blood vessels in the eye to constrict. The nose sprays work in a similar fashion by constricting vessels in the nose. Visine is one of the most popular eye drop brands purchased and Afrin, Dristan and Mucinex nose sprays are often used for nasal allergies.
All these products contain a class of drugs called imidazolines. The active ingredients are tetrahydrozoline, naphazoline, or oxymetazonline. When applied as directed, the drugs only affect the area where they are used - such as the eyes or nose. If any of these chemicals are swallowed, then they quickly affect other areas of the body.
"Generally, symptoms can occur in as little as one hour, peaking at eight hours, and resolving after 12-36 hours," a CPSC briefing paper notes. "Even though the symptoms resolve in a relatively short amount of time, ingestion of imidazolines can result in severe life-threatening consequences, such as decreased breathing, decreased heart rate, and loss of consciousness that require hospitalization to ensure recovery."
The CPSC has asked for a new rule that requires child-resistant packaging for eye drops and nose sprays but that hasn't happened yet. If the rule should be finalized, manufacturers will still have at least a year to comply.
Right now, there are lots of these products in use and in homes where small children live. The FDA has a list of suggestions to help avoid accidental poisoning.
- Store medicines in a safe location that is too high for young children to reach or see.
- Never leave medicines or vitamins out on a kitchen counter or a child's bedside.
- If a medicine bottle has a safety cap, relock it each time you use it.
- Remind babysitters, houseguests, and visitors to keep purses, bags, or coats that have medicines in them away and out of sight when they are in your home.
- Avoid taking medicines in front of young children because they like to mimic adults.
Many parents or caregivers probably aren't aware of how dangerous these products can be if swallowed. It's a good idea to take a walk around the house and make sure that there aren't any sitting on the counters or in a drawer where little hands can reach.
A list of products containing the drugs mentioned above can be viewed by clicking on the link below.
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~ B.M. Bower, Chip of the Flying U
I loved vintage and historical fashion for its own sake long before I started writing historical fiction. These days, I've even been known to let the question of fashion influence me when deciding what time period to set a story, if there are no more important considerations—giving it a nudge of a few years into another decade or toward the other end of a decade, just so I could picture my female characters wearing certain styles that I like better! I like to have a bit of an image in my head, even if I don't actually describe people's clothes.
Descriptions of characters' clothing can add wonderful historical flavor and authenticity to a story, so long as they're handled the right way. Beginning each chapter with a head-to-toe inventory of what someone is wearing will get old quickly. But casual mentions of clothes within the flow of a story, especially if they relate to a particular occasion or activity, can really give you the feeling that you're seeing and becoming familiar with life in that particular period. Personally, I've found that it's nice to have a basic, working knowledge of fashion from the time period of your story before you start writing, so when you have occasion to mention clothing you can do it naturally, instead of stopping to do rushed research. Then afterwards while polishing the story you can do more specific research, if you like, and fill in the finer details.
One thing that I've found to be a challenge when researching historical fashion is finding resources that focus on what ordinary people wore. Books, fashion plates and magazines provide plenty of information on the cutting edge of fashions set in the cities—which is fine, if your characters are wealthy or live where they have an opportunity to follow the latest fashion. But if you're writing about middle-class families in small towns or on the frontier who dress simply and practically for everyday life, you've got to dig deeper to find descriptions or images of their clothes. The best resource of this kind that I've found so far is Calico Chronicle by Betty J. Mills. (This book has more of an emphasis on pre-Civil War fashion, though it covers from 1830 to 1910. ) And once you get into later decades and past the turn of the century, there's another valuable resource—a visual one. By this time photography was becoming more common, and you can find lots of informal snapshots from the Edwardian period in addition to the posed studio portraits of earlier years. These days, great places to find historical images online are antique-photo blogs like this one (there are many more linked in its sidebar) and historical Flickr groups. Bliss for the history buff...or anyone who just loves those beautiful dresses.
How much do you think about what your characters are wearing when you write historical fiction? What have you found to be the best research resources?
To read more entries in this A-Z series, click here.
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The difference between sudden cardiac arrest and heart attacks
The new year brings a lot of resolutions to exercise. And sometimes the cold weather also means more snow shoveling. All that exertion can be harmful to people with abnormal hearts by leading to sudden cardiac arrest. Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, director of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, talks about the difference between sudden cardiac arrest and a heart attack and what those at risk can do.
By Meredith Cohn, The Baltimore Sun
January 27, 2011
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Staff of Life in Western Tanzania
Samson Kwizera has been working for the International Rescue Committee in Tanzania since 1998, first as a guard, then as a food-distribution clerk and storekeeper. Since 2002, he has been meals supervisor at the Mtendeli refugee camp.
“You must be sure the rations are prepared on time,” he says, adding that he oversees 11 helpers. “I must supervise the mixing to ensure fairness and take inventory.”
The IRC runs the nutrition program in four Kibondo district refugee camps, providing services for the malnourished and at-risk, including pregnant and lactating women and HIV-positive individuals. The IRC also provides health and psychosocial assistance to approximately 60,000 refugees, mostly Burundian, and some 300,000 Tanzanian nationals, while also maintaining educational, recreational and reproductive health activities for refugee youth between the ages of 12 and 19.
Throughout the camps, the IRC employs refugees as staff. When these staff members choose to repatriate, the IRC provides them with references to help them in their job searches in their countries of origin.
“The knowledge I have been provided through training, like infant-feeding and management of malnutrition, has helped me,” says Kwizera.
In addition, the IRC promotes the safety of women and girls and gives them as many educational and capacity-building opportunities as possible. Niyonkuru Ester is one such youth who benefits from the vocational training. “I am learning sewing and getting comfortable with the skill,” she says. “I have been learning for six months now, training to be a tailor.”
In 2007, the IRC will focus on short-term skills training for adolescents, both in and out of school, to provide them with marketable skills of use upon repatriation to Burundi. (Currently, UNHCR promotes repatriation for Burundian refugees.) Already, IRC-sponsored youth centers have helped 909 adolescents become involved in income-generating activities and skills training.
IRC’s Tanzania program will continue its efforts to build refugee capacity, increase educational opportunities, increase awareness and prevention of gender-based violence, and provide comprehensive health care and counseling to the refugees residing in western Tanzania.
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Trade Operations Management Diploma
- In today’s economy the trade sector plays a critical role in life of the business organization. The trade operations is becoming more a more complicated and rivalry. The need for a holistic view to manage the trade operations is crucial. Trade operations Management major is a help to get a comprehensive set of skills knowledge to manage the different aspects of trade operations masterly.
- Management of Distribution Institutions
- This course examines the needs of consumer goods and services companies selling through wholesalers and retailers business-to-business firms working through independent distributors and sales representative firms retailers seeking to improve efficiency in an increasingly competitive marketplace and intermediaries seeking to preserve their role in an increasingly fluid channel structure.
- Integrated Marketing Communications is a term used to describe a holistic approach to marketing communication. It aims to ensure consistency of message and the complementary use of media. The concept includes online and offline marketing channels. Online marketing channels include any e-marketing campaigns or programs, from search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click, affiliate, email, banner to latest web related channels for webinar, blog, micro-blogging, RSS, podcast, and Internet TV. Offline marketing channels are traditional print (newspaper, magazine), mail order, public relations, industry relations, billboard, radio, and television.
- The course focuses on commodity exchanges functions and operations. The course also introduces the student to technical and fundamental tools to deal with the derivatives in major commodity exchanges.
- This course will present innovative, proven methods for determining whether a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy for changing the way a company provides service (by adding new technology, processes and procedures) will realize the return on investment projected. Throughout the course, measurable data-containing examples will be provided on how CRM theory is applied with great success by various corporations. Objectives will focus on the scientific reasons why people resist change, a process to deal with that change, a process to measure the results in an on-going manner and how to tie in and measure those results to a company’s bottom-line.
- This course presents an overview of international trade theory and policy. The purpose is to explain how economic theory and policy analysis can help the student to understand the economic opportunities and challenges of international trade.
- The purpose of this course is to provide an understanding of retail management concepts, technology, and their impact on competitive edge of retail businesses. This course aims to deal with the managerial, strategic and technological, operational and tactical dimensions of retail business.
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A Remedy for Summer Anger & Irritability
If you were going to try one new recipe to keep your cool this summer, try rosewater lemonade. The heat of summer can provoke anger and irritability, especially when a person is dehydrated from sweating, spending long hours under the summer sun or up late at night socializing. Altogether, these strains on your body may make it all too tempting to fight with your loved ones. Fortunately, you can recover your composure and find relief with cooling, refreshing beverages like rosewater lemonade.
When the thermometer seems relentless, the key to a kinder personality lies in the understanding that summer is a firey season of aggravated Pitta. When provoked, Pitta generally reacts with irritability, resistance, and aggression. Pitta people have a basic need for sweetness and beauty. When overheated, Pitta needs a gentle yes to calm them into a more amiable easiness. They respond best to cooling, calming balms like sitting under the moon, in the shade of a tree, and sweet foods with a pleasant aroma. Rosewater Lemonade brings sweetness and beauty into the day, calming their agitated mind. The mere smell of a rose cools their anger and criticism. Knowing this about Pitta helps you to please and nurture yourself or a loved one, rather than provoke them.
Rosewater relieves and cools inflammation. It's great for spraying on your sunburned skin or summer rashes, but it also heals and soothes internal tissues as well. It has a mild astringency that tones tissues, including the digestive tract.
Lemons cool the skin because they help you sweat. Lemons cleanse the blood of impurities, aid digestion and quench thirst. Although lemons are heating in the digestive tract, they are a cooling astringent in the blood. Sour taste focuses a scattered mind and helps nudge your thoughts from the head back to the heart, the seat of kindness. For an even more Pitta cooling effect, add lime instead of lemon and maple syrup instead of raw sugar. Kapha may prefer honey.
A wonderful, refreshing substitute for iced tea. It is inspired by a Tunisian drink with lemons and orange blossom water, which we discovered at Cafe Baraka of Central Square, Cambridge, MA.
Rosewater is the water leftover from the production of rose essential oil. It has an uplifting rose fragrance. As Ayurveda students, we sprayed ourselves with rosewater mist on hot days to keep cool. Rosewater is available in most Indian and Middle Eastern grocery stores.
Mix all ingredients together. Served cool as a lemonade or frozen as a sorbet.
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For a more Pitta cooling effect, add lime instead of lemon and maple syrup instead of raw sugar. Kapha may prefer honey and Vata, agave.
Yummy and medicinal! How we like it! Rose water is gently astringent, toning tissues and reducing permeability. It has a pleasant anti-inflammatory and cooling effect beneficial for illness, fever, rashes and heat conditions. It's cleansing and purifying effects, along with those of the lemon in this recipe lend positive results for clearing blood and digestive impurities and reducing toxicity throughout the body. This drink also has an antimicrobial quality which makes it useful for balancing digestive flora and reducing infections and bacterial overgrowth. Drink up!
- Addie McDermott, Earth Roots, Asheville, NC, 07-26-10
I have twice made this drink with the addition of tokma seeds which have been soaked till they bloomed out and were soft; it's a fun addition to the drink, but I'd be curious what are the ayervedic/medicinal/physiological effects of this?
- Sarah Alibabaie, Troutdale, OR, 07-31-11
Is there a way to make this with using rose essential oil instead the fresh rose petals? Thanks!
- Terri Turner, Bossier , LA, 08-05-12
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1959: Scientific American
In December 2008, Scientific American reprinted the following climate change article from its July 1959 issue: "A current theory postulates that carbon dioxide regulates the temperature of the earth. This raises an interesting question: How do Man's activities influence the climate of the future?"
Scientific American | Carbon Dioxide and Climate
1970: Environmental Quality: The First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality
Transmitted to the US Congress; August 10, 1970
Extract from the President's Message, by President Richard Nixon: "The basic causes of our environmental troubles are complex and deeply imbedded. They include: our past tendency to emphasize quantitative growth at the expense of qualitative growth; the failure of our economy to provide full accounting for the social costs of environmental pollution; the failure to take environmental factors into account as a normal and necessary part of our planning and decision-making; the inadequacy of our institutions for dealing with problems that cut across traditional political boundaries; our dependence on conveniences, without regard for their impact on the environment; and more fundamentally, our failure to perceive the environment as a totality and to understand and to recognize the fundamental interdependence of all its parts, including man himself.
It should be obvious that we cannot correct such deep-rooted causes overnight. Nor can we simply legislate a way. We need new knowledge, new perceptions, new attitudes -- and these must extend to all levels of government and throughout the private sector as well: to industry; to the professions; to each individual citizen in his job and in his home. We must seek nothing less than a basic reform in the way our society looks at problems and makes decisions." (p. vii)
Extract from the report:
"Carbon Dioxide -- An Earth Warmer?
The atmosphere's energy, which determines weather and climate, is derived primarily from visible solar radiation absorbed by the earth's surface and atmosphere. The absorption of that energy tends to raise the temperature at the surface. The earth's surface maintains its thermal balance (keeps from overheating) by radiating energy back to space at longer wavelenghts. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere absorbs incoming visible radiation, but in amounts too small to have any appreciable effect on the radiation reaching the lower atmsophere and the earth's surface. However, carbon dioxide is virtually opaque to some long-wave radiation that is emitted by the earth's surface. Thus, when carbon dioxide concentrations increase, heat loss through radiation from the surface is reduced--the "greenhouse" effect." (p. 95)
UCSB | Message to the Congress Transmitting the First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality, August 10, 1970
ERIC | The First Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality
ERIC | (pdf) Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works, 91st Congress, Second Session, August 11, 1970
1993: State of the World
"Even a casual survey of the planet's physical condition shows the costs of burning fossil fuels are rising on many fronts. At some point, the economic costs of deteriorating forests, dying lakes, damaged crops, respiratory illnesses, increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, and other destructive effects of fossil fuel use become unacceptably high. Basic economics argues for a switch to solar energy. Rather than wondering if we can afford to respond to these threats, policymakers should consider the costs of not responding. If the eventual consequence of failing to respond is catastrophe, the answer is obvious"
WorldWatch Institute | State of the World 1993 (p. 20)
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The bodies of the men killed in the Pike River Coal Mine disaster might not be recovered for years, if at all.
The devastating news was revealed to the families of the 29 victims at a meeting in Greymouth on Thursday evening with Solid Energy after the conditional purchase had been confirmed.
Solid Energy will pay an initial $7.5 million for the assets with up to an additional $25m to be paid depending on whether the mine is reopened and the level of production.
The government welcomed the sale, saying "it's committed to the recovery of the bodies, as long as it means no further risk to human life".
While Solid Energy is compelled to take all reasonable steps to recover the remains of the men who died in the November, 2010 blasts, it warns "there's only a five to 10 per cent chance of this happening".
Company boss Don Elder told Fairfax it could take up to eight years to determine whether the mine was commercially viable and if they would go into the mine.
Recovery will only occur if it is "safe, technically viable and financially credible", receivers for the mine, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), said in a statement.
Pike River Coal Limited was placed in receivership on December 13, 2010 following the fatal explosions.
Spokesman for the families, Bernie Monk, whose son Michael, 23, died in the mine, told the New Zealand Herald they had "got a reality check".
Mr Elder told the newspaper that if there was one thing that had been confirmed by the tragedy, it was that the West Coast geology and mining conditions were among the hardest in the world.
The sale was conditional on a number of mostly procedural matters including transfer of the mining permit and is a positive step towards determining the future of resource development at the mine, Minister of Energy and Resources Phil Heatley said in a statement.
"Solid Energy will be expected to take all reasonable steps to recover the remains of the men in the Pike River mine in conjunction with any commercial mining at Pike River in future, provided such an operation is safe, technically feasible and financially credible."The final settlement of the sale is expected in July, PwC said.
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In its not motorized version, the driver is installed with before on a Bicyclette whose stays and aft wheel are replaced by a frame with a pair of side wheels. It controls the machine with the handlebar and the brakes, and possibly has levers of shifting of speed. It also provides driving energy while operating the pedals; a chain ensures the transmission between the pedals and the axis of the aft wheels on the same principle as for a bicycle.
The back takes again the design of a Pousse-pousse, with a seat or a bench posed on the frame. This part can be covered with a hood or a rigid roof to protect the passengers from the bad weather.
In its motorized version, the front part is built starting from a motor bike or of a Scooter; the engine is one 2-time in general. In practice, the construction of these machines is now the specific design object and their production is industrialized. The majority of the autorickshaws are equipped with a body without doors with Pare-brise, thus protecting the driver in addition to the passengers.
At the origin of the retreat of the use of the Reef tackle S, this means of transport is very much used in all the Asia of south-east, and in particular in India (where it is called rather rickshaw ) and in Malaysia (where it is called rather trishaw ) and in the adjoining countries.
Many drivers of these machines provide a function of Taxi, and live of this trade. The majority of them cannot buy them-even to them work tools and thus rent it at companies. Even when the machine does not belong to them, he generally work on their account or gather in companies according to the same principle as the companies of automobile taxis.
However, of the companies start to invest on the market of the family autorickshaw or company, proposing a range of machines increasingly close to the Automobile and small Fourgons of delivery in their philosophy of use.
With Kolkata, there manually exist also drawn rickshaws by the rickshaws-wallahs. This means of transport is the object of polemical sharp and profits from a rigorous regulation.
Rickshaw and autorickshaw in India
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May 23, 2013,
- American Lung Association
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- American Association for Respiratory Care
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center
- Alpha1 National Association
- The National Emphysema Foundation
- National Lung Health Education Program
- American Thoracic Society
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- United Network for Organ Sharing
- COPD International (patient support site)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a condition in which there is limited airflow in the lungs. The disease develops and worsens over time, and although it is not reversible, its progress can be slowed with therapy.
Although patients can breathe in normally, changes in the small airways cause the walls to narrow during expiration, making it hard to breathe out. In many patients with COPD, the small sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged are destroyed, gradually starving the body of oxygen.
COPD is associated with a set of breathing-related symptoms:
- Being out of breath, at first when doing physical activities, but as lung function deteriorates, also at rest
- Chronic cough
- Spitting or coughing mucus (phlegm)
The ability to exhale (breathe out) gets worse over time.
The two major diseases in this category are emphysema and chronic bronchitis, both covered in this report. The third, less common disease, is obstructive bronchiolitis, an inflammatory condition of the small airways. Asthma shares some of the same symptoms, but is a very different disease. People can have asthma and COPD at the same time.
Because smoking is the most common cause of both emphysema and chronic bronchitis, these conditions often develop together and frequently require similar treatments and approaches. When chronic bronchitis occurs together with emphysema, it is often difficult for a physician to distinguish between the two.
Emphysema is a disease marked by destruction of the alveoli, grape-like clusters of air sacs at the end of the smallest airways (the bronchioles) in the lung. It generally takes the following course:
- The walls of the alveoli become inflamed and damaged. Over time they lose the ability to stretch and shrink (elasticity), and pockets of dead air (called bullae) form in the injured areas.
- The pockets interfere with the normal working of the lungs by narrowing the airways, trapping air, and making breathing out more difficult.
- The ability to breathe in is not affected. Until the late stages of the disease, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels remain normal.
Chronic bronchitis is defined as coughing and overproduction of mucus for at least 3 months, during at least 2 consecutive years. In chronic bronchitis, the disease process is generally marked by the following characteristics:
- Inflammation of the bronchial tubes (from smoking, air pollution, etc.) causes the production of mucus, which clogs the airways and makes breathing difficult.
- The mucus is cleared through coughing. Both constant coughing and inflammation can damage the bronchial tubes. The tubes swell and thicken, leaving less room for air flow.
The lungs are two spongy organs surrounded by a thin, moist membrane called the pleura. Each lung is made up of smooth, shiny lobes. The right lung has three lobes, and the left has two. About 90% of the lung is filled with air; only 10% is solid tissue.
When a person inhales, air travels through the following pathways into the lungs:
- Air is carried from the windpipe (trachea) into the lung through flexible airways called bronchi.
- Like the branches of a tree, bronchi divide into more than a million smaller airways called bronchioles.
- The bronchioles lead to grape-like clusters of microscopic sacs called alveoli.
- In each adult lung there are millions of these tiny alveoli. The thin membrane of the alveoli allows oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass to and from capillaries.
- During deep inhalation, the elastic alveoli unfold and unwind to allow this exchange of gases to occur.
Capillaries, the smallest of the blood vessels, carry blood throughout the body. Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body, and return carbon dioxide to the lungs. White blood cells are the critical infection fighters in the body.
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Three Alaskans have been indicted on charges of trafficking in hundreds of pounds of walrus tusks taken from a remote Eskimo village in exchange for such items as cash, guns and marijuana, prosecutors said on Thursday. Full story
A pair of polar bear cubs, Gregor and Aleut, romp around their new home at Germany's Nuremberg Zoo. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
The Berlin Zoo has set up a condolence book for the celebrity polar bear, who died over the weekend at age 4. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
A string of events – starting with his mother’s rejection at birth – propelled the polar bear to global fame, sparking “Knutmania” in Germany and beyond. CNBC’s Melissa Francis reports.
US, allies launch military strikes inside Libya; Radiation found in food as Japan rushes to curb crisis; Americans step up to relieve suffering in Japan; Knut, Berlin’s beloved polar bear, dies; As ‘Supermoon’ looms large, many ponder meaning
NBC’s Lee Cowan visits the Inuit village of Point Lay, Alaska, where thousands of walruses have unusually beached themselves, leaving scientists thinking that global warming may be to blame.
The polar bear cubs Aleut and Gregor enjoy the outdoors under supervision of mother Vera at Nuremberg Zoo on March 24, 2011 in Nuremberg, Germany. The two Polar Bear twins are named Gregor and Aleut and were born on December 2, 2010 at the zoo. (Photo by Hans-Martin Issler/Getty Images)
Polar bear Malik swims with her four-month old cub for the first time in a large outdoor enclosure with a huge pond at the Aalborg zoo on March 19, 2011. It was awaited with anticipation how long it would take for the little polar bear to throw himself into the water for the first time. Malik was fa
Polar bear twins 'Aleut' and 'Gregor' play in the water next to their mother 'Vera' at the animal park in Nuremberg, Germany, April 20. The zoo expects two cubs to attract a large number of visitors on Easter weekend.
April 20, 2011, Nuremberg, Bavaria;, Germany: Polar bear twins Aleut and Gregor are the newest attraction at the animal park in Nuremberg, Germany. The zoo expects a large number of visitors over the Easter weekend to come and see the cubs.///Polar bear twins Aleut and Gregor play in the water. Cred
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This book is the result of a study carried out under the United Nations University Project on Resource Use of Frontiers and Pioneer Settlements. A major aim of the project was to determine the ecological impact of pioneer settlement; specifically, which settlement patterns minimize the destructive effects on the environment. The project included an appraisal of the economic, political, and cultural factors bearing on frontier settlement, and an examination of the different interdependent variables involved from biophysical parameters to government action and policies- to discover which combination of these factors are likely to result in successful settlements.
The project (1983-1987) included in its activities several international symposia and indepth case-studies of pioneer settlement areas in the humid tropics of Africa, Asia, Central and South America.
Colonization and Environment: Land Settlement Projects in Central America presents the findings of a study undertaken in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama of patterns of tropical land colonization and government policies and management practices regarding land settlement.
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Plenty of political concerns have been raised over President Barack Obama's decision to scrap plans to deploy a missile-intercept system in Poland and the Czech Republic. "It's better these days to be a U.S. adversary than its friend," lamented the Wall Street Journal in a Friday, Sept. 18, editorial, implying that the U.S. caved in to Russia in abandoning the missile system. But just because Russia had furiously opposed the missile shield on its doorstep doesn't necessarily mean building it would have been a good idea. The military rationale for Obama's move is hard to argue with.
Viewed from the perspective of defense priorities, what the Administration has done is shift resources away from building a costly, immovable and as yet unproven shield in central Europe to counter the potential threat of Iran's developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, instead allocating them to deploying ships carrying proven interceptor systems nearer to Iran to counter the current threat of its medium-range-missile arsenal.
Among other advantages, the ships can sail freely in international waters to meet evolving threats without obtaining consent from host countries (the Czech parliament, for example, had yet to approve the deployment of the now canceled system). What's more, they can perform missions other than missile defense, and they are considerably cheaper. "This system gives us a much more significant and robust capability to adapt to the threat as it actually emerges," Marine General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday, Sept. 17.
Part of the furor over Obama's decision results from the fact that ever since President Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, a.k.a. Star Wars) 26 years ago, the notion of a global missile shield has become an obsession for many of his ideological acolytes. They tend to view any retreat as surrendering to the forces of evil, even though Obama's decision was blessed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates who had originally recommended the European scheme in 2006 while serving as Defense Secretary to President George W. Bush. In justifying the move, Gates and others cite intelligence reports that Iran ostensibly the key target of the European shield is emphasizing shorter-range missiles that couldn't be shot down from Poland.
Even the New York Times proclaimed in a front-page headline Friday that Obama's decision "Scales Back Reagan's Vision," although, as the Times reported in 1991, that was done by the first President Bush. "President Bush's decision to reduce the goals of the 'Star Wars' program from an impenetrable shield to a limited defense against missile attacks is a milestone in the government's slow rejection of Ronald Reagan's grandiose aims," the paper reported 18 years ago. That was back when SDI morphed into a scaled-down version dubbed Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).
The U.S. has spent well north of $100 billion in the effort to create a technological shield to protect its mainland from incoming missiles much of it on long-forgotten and never used systems such as Nike, Nike Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel and Safeguard. The grandest of these, the Safeguard system, was built nearly 40 years ago in Nekoma, N.D. Huge earth-moving machines dug up 1.75 million cu. yd. of rich, black loam from the 470-acre site. Contractors built the base with 160,000 cu. yd. of concrete and 12,000 tons of steel. They crowned their work with a partly buried, 123-ft.-tall pyramid containing the system's key radar. Each of its four "eyes" had sprinklers to wash away any potential radioactive debris from collisions between the nearby nuclear-tipped interceptors and incoming Soviet missiles.
The government shut the system down after just four months in service, because of its high cost and doubts about its utility. At least when sea-launched interceptor systems are stood down, they can sail away to new assignments.
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by Alison Weisburger Anyone following Alaskan news in the past few weeks has undoubtedly heard about the saga of the Russian fuel tanker Renda and its journey to deliver fuel to ice-bound Nome. For those who are not up to date on the story, it began back in November when a massive storm prevented Nome from receiving its last barge delivery of home heating fuel, diesel and gasoline for the winter. By the time the weather calmed down, Nome was already iced-in and it was confirmed that there would be no final fall delivery. At that time, it looked certain that the community would run out of fuel in the spring.
The only proven method to deliver fuel to Western Alaska in the winter is with aircraft hauling the fuel one airplane load at a time, consuming a vast amount of time and money. In response to the impending crisis, Sitnasuak Native Corporation, the native village corporation of Nome, was able to negotiate a deal with Vitus Marine LLC, an Alaskan-based shipping company, to secure the double hulled Russian tanker Renda to pick up and deliver the fuel. This will be the first-ever winter fuel delivery from the water in Western Alaska. The tanker will be accompanied by a U.S. Coast Guard’s icebreaker, the Healy.
After traveling around 250 miles a day from a diesel fuel pickup in South Korea, then stopping in Dutch Harbor, Alaska to collect gasoline, the Renda is now on its way to Nome with the cutter Healy. Although the fuel delivery mission is not yet complete, there are already several lessons to take away from this incident about the realities of the Arctic environment, the necessity for advanced Arctic shipping capabilities, and the importance of multi-level cooperation.
First, the storm in November that prevented a routine barge delivery to Nome serves as a reminder that the Arctic environment continues to be not only harsh, but also extremely volatile. The Arctic remains a place where weather patterns can have a severe impact on commercial activities and ultimately the fate of remote communities, and where there may not always be the technological capability to overcome these hardships. Even if adequate solutions are found to manage the consequences of unpredictable weather, as in this case, they are by no means straightforward or easy. The path through the Bering Sea to Nome will be dictated by day-to-day decision-making based on weather patterns and ice conditions, either of which can change on a dime and complicate the mission. That’s not to mention that any ship operating in the region must have a contingency plan in case of a fuel spill in ice-covered waters – which, if it occurred, would likely involve a complex clean-up operation and potentially devastating impacts on the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
Another glaring lesson from this event, already commented on by Jason Evans and Alex DeMarban in the Alaska Dispatch and Mike Ahlers for CNN, is that it highlights the limitations of the current U.S. icebreaking capability. The U.S. Coastguard has three icebreakers, however the two Polar class icebreakers are currently out of commission. The third, the Healy, while a larger and more modern design, is without the full capabilities of the others and does not have the space required for carrying fuel deliveries. Furthermore, its draft is too deep to get within one mile of Nome’s shore. Although the cutter was coincidentally on hand and able to help accompany the Renda, its home port is in Seattle and not in Alaska. The Nome mission has lengthened the deployment of the U.S. Coast Guard crew aboard the Healy, and delayed scheduled repairs to the ship – possibly affecting its scheduled missions for next summer. In contrast to the limited U.S. fleet, Russia has twenty-five icebreakers, Finland and Sweden have seven each, and Canada has six.
Perhaps the most important lesson from this story, although subtle, is the successful cooperation that occurred between private and public entities, internationally, and intergovernmentally, that enabled the mission to go forward. It was largely the collaborative efforts of two private entities, Sitnasuak and Vitus Marine, to find a solution for the impending fuel shortage in Nome. They were able to collaborate across international borders in Russia, and then proceeded to get the U.S. government involved. Both the state government of Alaska and the federal government have a role in the mission through multiple departments including the Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Alaska Department of Conservation. This event has highlighted that the Arctic region consists of a web of interconnected actors that often function on vastly different levels for diverse purposes, but nevertheless need to effectively collaborate when there is an urgent situation.
If the Renda reaches Nome and delivers the fuel successfully, as is planned by late Sunday or early Monday, it will be a cause for celebration. Not only is this delivery critical for the community of Nome, but it also marks an historic accomplishment of winter shipping in Alaska. However, it should also serve as a time of reflection on the lessons that can be taken away from the mission and a reminder of what factors need to be taken into consideration in the future as activities in the Arctic region intensify.
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|February 28, 2013 02:22 PM EST|
TIVERTON, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 02/28/13 -- Earlier today the Federal Government announced next steps in plans to engage the private sector in the management of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) Nuclear Laboratories.
Bruce Power applauds this important step taken by the Federal Government today to ensure this important component to Canada's energy sector is sustainable for the long-term by bringing in private sector rigour, expertise and efficiency.
The model being proposed by the Federal Government represents a unique, public-private model based on a government-owned, contractor-operated approach. As Canada's only private sector nuclear operator, Bruce Power will continue to participate in the process as a customer that relies on services from the AECL Nuclear Laboratories.
Canada's nuclear industry is a reliable source of affordable electricity that keeps prices low for our families and businesses, while protecting the air we breathe. Over the past 11 years, through the Bruce Power public-private partnership model, the company has secured $7 billion in private investments into public assets, revitalizing the Bruce site to its full operational potential. This has supported the phase out of coal electricity in Ontario, which is one of the largest climate change initiatives in North America.
About Bruce Power
Bruce Power operates one of the world's largest nuclear sites and is the source of roughly 25 per cent of Ontario's electricity. The company's site in Tiverton, Ontario is home to eight CANDU reactors, each one capable of generating enough low-cost, reliable, safe and clean electricity to meet the annual needs of a city the size of Ottawa. Formed in 2001, Bruce Power is an all-Canadian partnership among TransCanada, Cameco, Borealis Infrastructure Management (a division of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System) as well as the Power Workers' Union and the Society of Energy Professionals. A majority of Bruce Power's 4,000 employees are also owners in the business.
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National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006 (ICPSR 20004)
Alternate Title: N-SSATS, 2006
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is designed to collect information from all facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide substance abuse treatment. N-SSATS provides the mechanism for quantifying the dynamic character and composition of the United States substance abuse treatment delivery system. The objectives of N-SSATS are to collect multipurpose data that can be used to assist the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and state and local governments in assessing the nature and extent of services provided and in forecasting treatment resource requirements, to update SAMHSA's Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS), to analyze general treatment services trends, and to generate the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and its online equivalent, the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator. Data are collected on topics including ownership, services offered (assessment and pre-treatment, substance abuse therapy and counseling, pharmacotherapies, testing, transitional, ancillary), primary focus (substance abuse, mental health, both, general health, and other), hotline operation, methadone/buprenorphine dispensing, languages in which treatment is provided, type of treatment provided, number of clients (total and under age 18), number of beds, types of payment accepted, sliding fee scale, special programs offered, facility accreditation and licensure/certification, and managed care agreements.
These data are freely available.
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies. National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2006. ICPSR20004-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-02-14. doi:10.3886/ICPSR20004.v2
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20004.v2
This survey was funded by:
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies
Scope of Study
Geographic Coverage: United States
Date of Collection:
Unit of Observation: facility
Universe: All 17,143 active treatment facilities on the Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) at a point six weeks prior to the survey reference date of March 31, 2006. Facilities added by state substance abuse agencies or discovered during the first three weeks of the survey were also included in the survey universe.
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
Data were collected by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, and prepared for release by Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc., Arlington, VA.
N-SSATS is a point-prevalence survey. It provides information on the substance abuse treatment system and its clients on the reference date (March 31, 2006). Client counts do not represent annual totals. Rather, N-SSATS provides a "snapshot" of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients on an average day.
N-SSATS collects data about facilities, not individual clients. Data on clients represent an aggregate of clients in treatment for each reporting facility.
N-SSATS attempts to obtain responses from all known treatment and prevention facilities, but it is a voluntary survey. There is no adjustment for the approximately 5 percent facility nonresponse.
To protect the privacy of respondents, financial data originally collected have been removed from the public use file. These modifications should not affect most analytic uses of the public use file.
For users who wish to calculate client counts and admissions, instructions are available on the N-SSATS Series page and at How to calculate N-SSATS client counts and admissions using SDA.
Sample: The Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (I-SATS) provides the sampling frame for N-SSATS. Two categories of treatment facilities in I-SATS may be distinguished. The largest group of facilities includes those that are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved by the state substance abuse agency to provide substance abuse treatment. The second group represents the SAMHSA effort in recent years to make I-SATS as comprehensive as possible by including treatment facilities that state substance abuse agencies, for a variety of reasons, do not license or certify. Many of these facilities are private, for-profit, small group practices, or hospital-based programs.
Mode of Data Collection: mail questionnaire, telephone interview, web-based survey
Response Rates: N-SSATS questionnaires were mailed to a total of 17,143 facilities believed to offer substance abuse treatment services. Of these facilities, 11.9 percent were found to be ineligible for the survey because they had closed or were not providing substance abuse treatment on March 31, 2006. Of the remaining 15,109 facilities, 96.6 percent (14,577) completed the survey. However, 401 of these facilities were deemed to be out of scope, and an additional 405 facilities reported client counts included in or "rolled into" other facilities's counts and whose facility characteristics were not reported separately. Therefore, the final sample size was 13,771 (91.1 percent). The percentage of respondents who completed the mail survey was 40.7, while 22.7 percent completed the survey via telephone, and 36.6 percent completed the survey using a Web-based questionnaire.
Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Original ICPSR Release: 2007-12-20
- 2012-02-14 Updated the queston text to fix minor typographical errors previously present. Also, updated the variable order so that it coincides with the questionnaire order and is consistent with other years in the N-SSATS series.
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Newbie with questions about plants / Snails
Hey guys, new member here so first up's a little info about myself.
Recently started getting back into aquariums for the first time since I was young. Did some research and found (to my amusement) that it's much more than add water, dump in fish and viola.
I have a 20 Gallon tank right now, that I put in a couple tetras to start. One died during the cycling, but now a few months later everything's pretty stable. Finally got a real test kit yesterday (Instead of the strips) and happily I say it's got 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and about 20ish mg/L nitrates.
So now, on to the next part and the questions.
I decided instead of just the fake plants, I wanted to have some real ones in there too. I bought three anubias from the LFS, and they're doing great. They've grown a bit, seem to have taken root in the gravel. The only problem is they seem to have had some snails in them. At first I thought it was kind of neat, but now they've muliplied like crazy and are all over.
Will the snails be hazardous to the tank at all? They seem to love sucking any little bits of algae off the walls of the tank, so its nice and clean without needing any scrubbing, but there are so many of them its a little irritating. BTW they're long-ish conical shaped. Kinda like tiny ice-cream cones. I'll post a picture if I can figure out where I left my camera.
The second thing is nitrates: Is a water change the only way to reduce the nitrates? I'd been doing water changes w/o a gravel vac (don't ask why, I don't know) and finally got one and vaccumed out all the random gunk that was sitting in the gravel. I don't know if the nitrates are part of that or not, but the practically black water I ended up with in my bucket seems like it's good to not have in the tank :)
Third would be plants: I'd love to get more plants, to add more decor to the aquarium, and maybe be able to aquascape it a bit, instead of having a little bit of rock and three random plants in there. MOre places for the fish to swim through, hide, etc. I know I'd need more lighting, but i've also read about C02 injection. When do you know if that's needed, and how does one set it up for a small tank such as mine?
The other thing is the benefit from plants. Are there any? Obviously since they use CO2 and make oxygen it'll keep the fish happily breathing, but do they suck out any bad parts from the water? Or just look real nice? :)
Sorry for the long post and probably silly questions, but this seemed like a good place to come.
1. Plants reduce nitrates
2. You should clean your tank once a week
3. Do you want a fish to take care of the snails
4. Yes that black gunk causes nitrate
1) the snails are great cleaners but i do agree with you they will breed like mad i have mystery snail and they clean most of the crap(anything) on the bottom of my tanks,
2) yes the only way to decrease nitrates is by weekly water changes, useing the vac is a good idea, this will help get rid of it all
3) i dont know much about co2 hopefully someone elae can give you a hand on this one, i have plants in my tanks and dont use co2 just the external filter and a good light is all i use,
no worries to the length the more info the better we can help you
Originally Posted by OscarFan
I know I :should: clean the tank once a week, and i've been doing it now. Till I got the gravel vac I was just changing out the water. Bad idea I know, but i'm fixing it now :-P
And yes, if there's a fish that would eat up them snails, that would be pretty cool. Right now I have a 2 bleeding heart tetras, another that I can't remember the specific name of, and a litte freshwater crab. The basic beginner fish I guess haha. So something that could help w/ the snails but not attack the rest of my fish would be awesome.
another question about plants: does gravel work ok for most plants? My anubias are doing fine in it, but I dont want to try to add more plants if the gravel isn't a good base for it. Do I need some actual substrate soil stuff? And if so, how's that effect cleaning the gravel?
1. Theirs a lot of fish that eat snails. I reccomend A small loach of some sort
2. I think gravel is fine except with moss
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Dear Parents of Japan,
You do not know me personally, but perhaps you have seen me or a person like me at a local restaurant. I am not of Asian descent. I am Anglo-Saxon.
If you have noticed me, you might have been curious about my experiences in your country. You might have wondered where I was from or what it was like to live abroad. Or perhaps you gave no thought to me at all.
Even if you have taken no notice of my presence, your child has . . .
Japan has many lovely customs. Wonderful and mysterious historical assets can be explored in any town. People are polite and gracious. Most make wonderful guests or hosts. Japanese people tend to be pleasant and hide their true feelings (even to a fault). People take pride in their job and community. These are all wonderful cultural aspects of the land of the rising sun.
As a foreigner, I find myself amused and bemused by much of what Japan has to offer, but there are times when agitation is at the forefront of my emotions. Sometimes I find myself feeling like I was brought here as a source of entertainment, dare I say a carnival freak show.
Eating out is generally pleasurable, but when I do it, I always seem to get placed next to a family with a small, inquisitive child. Without fail the tiny child will become drawn to me as if in some mystic trance. He will sway back and forth behind the safety of his seat, peering over the edge at the strange creature that sits only a few feet from his very touch. Some tiny tots become so enthralled at the sight that they find themselves straddled across their seat for a better show.
These curious children that spy me and become enticed by me pick up on the fact that I am not within the norms of their cultural schema. The children are trying to redefine it and decide where I fit. I’m sure their thinking goes a bit like this:”Is that a human? I think so. Is that a female? All signs point to yes. What am I missing? (Five minutes pass.) I’m still missing something.”
Most of the time parents just ignore their gawking child as he stares me down in hopes of catching a glimpse of my forked tongue. But there are those rare gratifying moments when I feel parents do understand that social decency transcends ethnicity and scold their overly inquisitive children by simply saying, “Minaide. Shitsurei da!” (“Don’t look! It’s rude”). And wouldn’t you know it? Those children stop staring and go back to enjoying their outing.
I often find myself asking, “Why don’t all Japanese parents teach their children to not be rude little turnips?” I’m human too, deshō?
Of course, I can think of a thousand excuses to defend a child’s uncomfortable glare — I am fabulous, after all. But, how many of my meals have to be ruined by a dancing pony trotting inches from my head as a child snakes around the back of my chair? Am I so amazing that even stuffed tiny horses must encroach upon my personal space?
Gawking is rude, period. It’s even ruder when accompanied with a pink prancing pony! Parents should set good examples and teach their offspring how not to be intrusive and downright rude to people, regardless of ethnicity.
The biggest question I find myself asking is, would those same Japanese parents tolerate their child climbing over the back of his seat to stare down a Japanese person eating?
I am not blind to the fact that we all find ourselves discreetly stealing glances at the unusual. We’re human, after all. But while glances are tolerable, gawking is shameful.
The next time you see me in a restaurant, take notice of your child’s behavior and how being intently observed is affecting me. We all deserve respect, even if we are outsiders. Don’t you agree?
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Equitable access to sexual and reproductive health for marginalized adolescents in Argentina
Date: Tuesday 30 October 13.30–15.00
In Argentina there are equity gaps in access to health care among different regions of the country. This inequality relates to different factors: economic and social, but also cultural and of gender-related. The aim of this paper is to show the difficulties faced by adolescents of low resource sectors in accessing sexual and reproductive health care (SRHC). The paper combines the results of a study performed in a low resource neighbourhood in Buenos Aires with the findings obtained from other studies in different Argentine provinces.
Results show that gender autonomy, which is usually a challenge for young girls of poor neighbourhoods, is an important issue at the moment of considering health care access options. This approach gives a broader perspective to the traditional concept of access to health, especially SRHC, including cultural characteristics of the population and gender inequities.
Studies performed in different implementation stages of the Reproductive Health Program of Buenos Aires City, verify a change in the orientation of the programme over the past five years. This change has tended to prioritize an approach associated with gender and sexual and reproductive rights, facilitating the construction of a new reproductive health paradigm. Its implementation has changed the attitude of health professionals, improving the access of adolescents to sexual and reproductive health care. In conclusion, shaping public policies based on gender and reproductive health rights, facilitated by training health professionals and generating space for discussion among them, constitutes a valid strategy to improve accessibility and reducing gender inequity.
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''Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue Ribbon Fly Fishing Guide'' Book by Ian Rutter
Tennessee is a beautiful state that offers an abundance of rich history and great trout fishing, and Tennessee Trout Waters: Blue Ribbon Fly Fishing Guide is the premier angling resource for Tennessee's diverse trout waters. From the most effective fly patterns and techniques to whether the water is suitable for a canoe, drift boat or motor boat, this complete guidebook by Ian Rutter is packed full of valuable information that will assist every angler regardless of whether they're a tourists or long-time resident. This book also has detailed maps of every tailwater, mountain stream and lake that holds trout, as well as public access points and boat ramps are highlighted to help anglers know where to get on the water. Detailed maps and color photographs. 86 pages.
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“Letter V.—TO W. W. PHELPS, ESQ.” Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps. Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate (Kirtland, Ohio) 1, no. 6 (March 1835): 95–96.
LETTER V.—TO W. W. PHELPS, ESQ.
Dear Brother: Yours of 6th ult. is received and published in this No. It contains so many questions, that I have thought I would let every man answer for himself; as it would occupy a larger space to answer all of them than would be proper to devote at this time. When I look at the world as it is, and view men as they are, I am not much surprised that they oppose the truth as many, perhaps, and indeed, the more I see the less I marvel on this subject. To talk of heavenly communications, angels’ visits, and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, now, since the apostles have fallen asleep, and men interpret the word of God without the aid of either the Spirit or angels, is a novel thing among the wise, and a piece of blasphemy among the craft-men. But so it is, and it is wisdom that it should be so, because the Holy Spirit does not dwell in unholy temples, nor angels reveal the great work of God to hypocrites. You will notice in my last, on rehearsing the words of the angel, where he communicated to our brother—that his sins were forgiven, and that he was called of the Lord to bring to light, by the gift of inspiration, this important intelligence, an item like the following—“God has chosen the foolish things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen;” &c. This, I conceive to be an important item—Not many mighty and noble, were called in ancient times, because they always knew so much that God could not teach them; and a man that would listen to the voice of the Lord and follow the teachings of heaven, always was despised, and considered to be of the foolish class—Paul proves this fact, when he says, “We are made as the filth of the world—the off-scouring of all things unto this day.” I am aware, that a rehearsal of visions of angels at this day, is as inconsistent with a portion of mankind as it formerly was, after all the boast of this wise generation in the knowledge of the truth; but there is a uniformity so complete, that on the reflection, one is led to rejoice that it is so. In my last I gave an imperfect description of the angel, and was obliged to do so, for the reason, that my pen would fail to describe an angel in his glory, or the glory of God. I also gave a few sentences which he uttered on the subject of the gathering of Israel, &c. Since writing the former, I have thought it would, perhaps, be interesting to give something more full on this important subject, as well as a revelation of the gospel. That these holy personages should feel a deep interest in the accomplishment of the glorious purposes of the Lord, in his work in the last days, is consistent, when we view critically, what is recorded of their sayings in the holy Scriptures. You will remember to have read in Daniel—“And at that time, [the last days] shall Michael stand up, the great prince, who stands for the children of thy people;” and also in Revelations—“I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets.” Please compare these sayings with that singular expression in Heb. “Are they [angels] not all ministering Spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” And then let me ask nine questions: first, Are the angels now in glory, the former prophets and servants of God? Secondly: Are they brethren of those who keep his commandments on earth? and thirdly, have brethren & fleshly kindred, in the kingdom of God, feelings of respect and condescension enough to speak to each other, though one may be iu heaven and the other on the earth? Fourthly: If angels are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation, will they not minister for those heirs? and fifthly, if they do, will any one know it? Sixthly: Will Michael, the archangel, the great prince, stand up in the last days for Israel? Seventhly; will he defend them from their enemies? Eightly will he lead them, as they were once lead; and ninthly, if so, will he be seen? These questions I leave without answering, because the reasoning is so plain, and so many might be brought, that, they must be at hand in the heart and mind of every saint. But to the gospel, and then to the gathering. The great plan of redemption being prepared before the fall of man, and the salvation of the human family being as precious in the sight of the Lord at one time as at another, before the Messiah came in the flesh and was crucified, as after the gospel was preached, and many were found obedient to the same. This gospel being the same from the beginning, its ordinances were also unchangeable. Men were commanded to repent and be baptized by water in the name of the Lord: and were then blessed with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit being thus given, men were enabled to look forward to the time of the coming of the Son of Man, and to rejoice in that day, because through that sacrifice they looked for a remission of their sins, and for their redemption. Had it not been for this plan of salvation, which God devised before the fall, man must have remained miserable forever, after transgressing the first commandment, because in consequence of that transgression he had rendered himself unworthy the presence of his Maker. He being therefore cast out, the gospel was preached, and this hope of eternal life was set before Him, by the ministering of angels who delivered it as they were commanded. Not only did the ancients look forward to the time of the coming of the Messiah in the flesh, with delight, but there was another day for which they sought and for which they prayed. Knowing, as they did, that the fall had brought upon them death, and that man was sensual and evil, they longed for a day when the earth might again rest, and appear as in the beginning— when evil might be unknown upon its face, and all creation enjoy one undisturbed peace for a thousand years. This being sought for in faith, it pleased the Lord to covenant with them to roll on his purposes until he should bring it to pass—and though many generations were to be gathered to their fathers, yet the righteous, those who should, in their lives, embrace the gospel, and live obedient to its requirements, rise and inherit it during this reign of peace. From time to time the faithful servants of the Lord have endeavored to raise up a people who should be found worthy to inherit this rest, (for it was called the rest of the righteous or the day of the Lord’s rest, prepared for the righteous;) but were not able to sanctify them that they could endure the presence of the Lord, excepting Enoch, who, with his people, for their righteousness, were taken into heaven, with a promise that they should yet see that day when the whole earth should be covered with glory. Moses labored diligently to effect this object, but in consequence of the transgressions and rebellions of the children of Israel, God swore in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest; and in consequence of this decree, and their transgressions since, they have been scattered to the four winds, and are thus to remain till the Lord gathers them in by his own power. To a remnant of them the gospel was preached by the Messiah in person, but they rejected his voice, though it was raised daily among them. The apostles continued to hold forth the same; after the crucifixion & resurrection of the Lord Jesus, until they would hear it no longer; and then they were commanded to turn to the Gentiles. They however labored faithfully to turn that people from error; that they might be the happy partakers of mercy, and save themselves from the impending storm that hung over them. They were commanded to preach Jesus Christ night and day—to preach through him the resurrection from the dead—to declare that all who would embrace the gospel, repent, and be baptized for the remission of their sins, should be saved—to declare that this was the only sure foundation on which they could build and be safe—that God had again visited his people in consequence of his covenant with their fathers, and that if they would they might be the first who should receive these glad things, and have the unspeakable joy of carrying the same to all people; for before the day of rest comes, it must go to all nations, kindreds and tongues. But in consequence of their rejecting the gospel, the Lord suffered them to be again scattered; their land to be wasted and their beautiful city to be trodden down of the Gentiles, until their time should be fulfilled. In the last days, to fulfill the promises to the ancient prophets, when the Lord is to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, he has determind to bring to light his gospel, to the Gentiles, that it may go to the house of Israel. This gospel has been perverted and men have wandered in darkness. That commission given to the apostles at Jerusalem, so easy to be understood, has been hid from the world, because of evil, and the honest have been lead by the designing, till there are none to be found who are practising the ordinances of the gospel, as they were anciently delivered. But the time has now arrived, in which, according to his covenants, the Lord will manifest to the faithful that he is the same to-day and forever, and that the cup of suffering of his people, the house of Israel, is nearly fulfilled; and that the way may be prepared before their face he will bring to the knowledge of the people the gospel as it was preached by his servants on this land, and manifest to the obedient the truth of the same, by the power of the Holy Spirit; for the time is near when his sons and daughters will prophesy, old men dream dreams, and young men see visions, and those who are thus favored will be such as embrace the gospel as it was delivered in old times, and they shall be blessed with signs following. Farther on the subject of the gathering of Israel.—This was perfectly understood by all the ancient prophets. Moses prophesied of the affliction which should come upon that people even after the coming of the Messiah, where he said: and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord,to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. Connecting this with a prophecy in the song which follows; which was given to Moses in the tabernacle—remembering the expression—“in the latter days”—where the Lord foretels all their evil, and their being received to mercy, to such as seek the peace of Israel much instruction may be gained. It is as follows:— “I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them. They shall be hurnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.” But after all this, he will judge their enemies and avenge them of theirs; for he says: “If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh.” After all this—after Israel has been restored, and afflicted and his enemies have also been chastised, the Lord says: “Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land and to his people.” I will give a further detail of the promises to Israel, hereafter, as rehearsed by the angel. Accept assurance of my esteem as ever.
|Abstract||Letter from Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps. Cowdery continues his history of the beginnings of the church.|
|Publisher Original||F. G. Williams and Co.|
|Digital Publisher||Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University|
|Owning Institution||Brigham Young University|
|Subject||Book of Mormon--History;|
|Geographic Place Name||Kirtland (Ohio);|
|Keywords||Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844; Phelps, William Wines, 1792-1872; Cowdery, Oliver; angels; plan of salvation; Messiah;|
|Source||Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate (Kirtland, Ohio) 1, no. 6 (March 1835) : 95-96.|
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Diesel Mechanic Schools
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Feeding and care of Baby Capybaras
Our babies are taken from their mothers at the age of 7 to 14 days of age. Special care
must be taken to assure their survival.
Life begins in a confined area. They spend the first few days in a heated cage with
plastic over the wire and covered with dry towels. They have a pan of warm water on
one end of the cage. From day one they are given warm milk with sugar added to the
milk with Puppy Chow sprinkled over the milk. We use the calf milk replacer from the
feed store. Food is placed in the pen, it consist of fruit and vegetables chopped. Corn
on the cob is by far their favorite food.
As soon as they are eating and drinking which is usually a few days they are then
placed in the yard. As babies they need a source of heat and a heat lamp will be fine.
Any type of housing will work. We place hay in their house as they do like to nibble
that too. Water is a must and any type of watering pan will do. A wading pool, wash
tub, or even old bath tubs work well.
PLEASE make sure your pen area is secure. Any weak area will be found from day
one. They are not climbers, but they really do like to crawl under or push out on any
fence. They will run and hit the fence. They will run the fence too. It will take them a
day or two to get used to their new home. Whistles and talking to them will help to
calm them if they are nervous. The more you react to them the sooner they will bond
They love grass and the fruit and vegetables and need them as their mother teaches
them to eat well. They need lots of fiber. Their stools may get runny but that is okay,
it is what they are eating.
Milk is given to them until they decide they do not want it, usually 5 to 6 months of
age. This is their growing time. We supplement cattle creeper feed to the babies as
well as the adults. They will learn to eat from a dog feeder.
Good nutrient and clean water will result happy, healthy young capybaras.
Heat in the winter, shade in the summer is their favorite luxury in life. They need
enough room to room and play.
If you want you can give them a bottle, it takes a little work but they will suck one. A
regular baby bottle is great.
Capybaras are very family oriented creatures. They do not do as well alone, but with a
friend or¦ other animal to bond with it will be content. In the wild they travel in groups
as a family, usually 15 to 20.
Since my babies are taken from the mom at the age of 7 to 14 days it is very important
for their well being that one needs for have a simple guideline for success in raising
All babies must have milk- warmed up to 6 to 8 months of age. They will gradually
wean themselves from the milk.
Put a tablespoon of sugar in the warm milk in a gallon. (As soon as they are
Drinking really well you can start decreasing the amount of sugar)
I have started using Gerber cereal in the milk.
Capys will suck a bottle. Only a little at first and will increase as they are used to the
It is very important to wash the milk from their mouths and skin after they suck the
The babies are taken from their group, placed in a pet carrier and they are scared to
death, very nervous and confused. Be careful if you decide to reach in the carrier to
get them out¦. They will bite.
Do not let the capys out unless it is within a pen. They will run ...they are very fast. It is
best to put the carrier in the pen and open the door. You may have to dump it out
because it will hide as far back in the carrier as it can get.
Remember....¦ this wild animal will go in all directions to get away. It will hit the fence
several times, settle and start walking the fence to find a way out. If they have a
source of water that will be the first place it will go. If there is a sign of danger in the
wild capys escape to the water. They will hide under and around objects.
Do not concern yourself if they do not eat for a day. Give them a corn on the cob and
they will start eating.
Any fruits/veggies are fine for them to eat. They need to be fed twice a day with treats
around for them to snack on if they get hungry
They rest a lot during the day and are more active in the evenings.
They often have runny stools do not worry as it is what they eat.
Do not grab them by the hind legs as you might dislocate a leg. Hold them with your
hand and arm under their belly and hand under their neck. Cuddle them and they will
Mary Lee Stropes
Shad EE Shack Farm
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By Martina Liebsch
In a little house, like any other in the street, around 30 people from different nationalities live together, all for different reasons of need. Sr Mercedes Lopez is the head of the Caritas funded “Hogar del Migrante” – the home of the migrant. She has been responsible for the centre since 2004 and has worked for the Church with prisoners since 1995. This pastoral work is called “Pastoral of Hope”, as she explains to me while we stand in the little chapel of the house and shows me the logo of her congregation: Broken chains and walking feet.
“This is the perfect symbol for my work, ” she says.
Among the people staying at Hogar del Migrante, there are migrants coming out of the local prison. Some of them were caught by the police while trying to traffic drugs. Other people there come from remote areas of the country for urgent medical treatment and have nowhere to stay. Some are simply just stranded and need a home. Over the past few years, Sr Lopez says more than 300 people must have passed through its doors.
The centre helps with the rehabilitation of prisoners. For example, Carmela came from Spain to Peru to work as a drug carrier. She was arrested by the police. She received support from the centre while in prison and is staying with them now as she serves out the rest of her sentence on parole.
There are people in the migrants’ house from Peru, Spain, UK, Germany, Cuba and sometimes Colombians too. Some of them have children. One of the mothers has a Spanish husband who is a drug addict and in prison. The young manwants to go to a rehabilitation centre to get rid of his addiction and live with his family when he is released from prison.
Sr Lopez says that people who come to the house must respect the rules and must participate in the activities, like cleaning and taking care of the house, they mustn’t use drugs and they should respect each other. She says who does not is out, otherwise it would not work.
While they are there, Mercedes and the staff try to regulate their situation with the embassies with whom they are in regular contact, to see how and when they could go home.
“We survive from year to year, through the help of Caritas, the work of volunteers, donations from friends and department stores, support from some embassies and the Bishops’ Conference,” says Sr Lopez.
Msgr. Miguel Irizar, President of Caritas Peru and Bishop of Callao, emphasizes the importance of the spiritual aspect of the work and the little chapel in the house is an oasis of peace. The centre also cares for the children of this poor area of the city. They are offered lunch every day in the same structure.
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FINGLAS, PATRICK (fl. 1535), Irish judge, was appointed baron of the exchequer in Ireland by Henry VIII in or before 1520, and afterwards, by patent dated at Westminster 8 May 1533, he was constituted chief justice of the king's bench in that kingdom in the place of Sir Bartholomew Dillon. He resigned the latter office in or before 1535.
He wrote 'A Breviat of the getting of Ireland, and of the Decaie of the same.' Printed in Harris's 'Hibernica,' edit. 1770, i. 79-103. It appears that the original manucript of this work is in the Public Record Office (State Papers, Henry VIII, Ireland, vol. xii. art.7). It is described in the calendar as 'An Historical Dissertation on the Conquest of Ireland, the decay of that land, and measures proposed to remedy the grievances thereof arising from the oppressions of the Irish nobility.
[Ware's Writers of Ireland (Harris), p.93; Liber Hiberniæ, ii. 30, 49; Cal. of State Papers relating to Ireland, 1509-73 (Hamilton), pp.3, 9, 14, 161.]
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NORMAN — Monday’s state Senate committee vote to effectively kill a Senate bill that would let cities like Norman adopt tougher anti-smoking rules is a victory of sorts for the tobacco industry.
But it’s also a victory for convenience store chains and grocery stores with multiple locations throughout the state. Those entities don’t want to have different sets of rules depending on what cities and counties want. It’s much easier, they say, to deal with one set of regulations.
Gov. Mary Fallin had joined with anti-tobacco groups, YMCAs and other healthy lifestyle groups in pushing for the proposal. Oklahoma is one of only a handful of states where local laws can’t be any tougher than the state’s rules. Legislators approved that measure in 1987.
None of our local legislators served on the Senate General Government Committee which voted 6-2 against the proposal. The entire Senate and House won’t get a chance to act as killing Senate Bill 36 ensures the proposal is dead for the next two years.
The bill’s defeat is a major setback to healthy living advocates, the tobacco settlement trust and healthcare workers. Oklahoma needs some lawmakers who put public health ahead of business concerns.
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Question: I had been formally trained in piano quite a long ago for a short duration of time. I have not been so much in touch with it since then, but I have always been into music.
Recently I have gotten interested (very much) in music theory and will pursue it if I get a chance to do so. In the meantime, I would like you to tell me where I can find material to study music theory. I want to read and learn everything there is to it. Please let me know. And just to give you an idea of how capable I could be, I'm just going to list out some things that I can do:
1. You play a note on the piano and tell me what note it is... then you ask me to sing out some random note... I will need less than 5 seconds to do that, and I will get it right every time.
2. Interval identification and scale/mode identification by ear.
So now you should be in a position to suggest appropriate theory topics for me to read. Please, please let me know.
Albert's reply: This is an excellent question, since it reveals what I consider to be an underlying misconception about the nature of music theory. Most students tend to view music theory as something apart from music, and this subconscious attitude reflects itself in students' typical inability to identify essential harmonies in the music they play or their failure to perform even a cursory formal analysis of their music.
Most piano students play notes without understanding them. This severely limits their ability to learn music as well as to interpret it.
We need to answer the question, "What is music theory?" Music theory is how music is composed, literally. It's how music is put together, and understanding the composer's decisions helps put us into the mind of the composer and thus makes us better able to play the music.
I believe what is most important is not purely analytical music theory, but applied music theory. The piano is the most important instrument for learning music theory since it offers polyphony (multiple voices played simultaneously) and dynamics (soft, loud, and everything in between and beyond).
It's easy to learn to associate chords and chord progressions with piano keys. This is a far more effective way to learn music theory than simply analyzing the written score and labeling the chords.
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Alternative lenders in Chesterfield County would be prohibited from locating next to residential property if a proposed policy is approved.
The proposal also would require alternative lenders to maintain a minimum separation of a mile from one another. These financial institutions would be barred from five areas designated for revitalization.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors is expected to act on the proposal Wednesday.
The proposal defines alternative financial institutions as businesses that provide short-term, high-interest personal lending services. They don't include banks, credit unions or savings and loan associations.
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The National Press Commission (CNP), the print media regulatory body has suspended Notre Voie, a privately-owned pro-opposition daily newspaper for four publications. The suspension took effect from 19 May 2012.
According to the Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) correspondent, the decision of the regulatory body follows the publication of material that the commission says amounts to distortion of facts.
The newspaper in its 12-13 May, 2012, edition published an article headlined It is more than a year now since the regime imprisoned them; let us not forget them for genuine reconciliation to take place, they must be freed!!!
and illustrated with photographs captioned "H.E Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, overthrown by the UN-French coalition on April 11, 2012".
The regulatory body in a swift response described the article as containing "distorted facts." The commission therefore, invoked Articles 47 and 70 of a 2004 media legislation, to impose the sanction against the pro-opposition newspaper.Source: allAfrica.
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In March, my colleague Leslie Kaufman wrote about an innovative solar financing plan taking root in Palm Desert and other California locales, in which homeowners can avoid the high upfront costs by paying for a solar system gradually, through higher property taxes.
Sonoma County appears to have taken the model to its most ambitious level. The county has just begun a program that is notable both for its hefty $100 million price tag, and also for including energy efficiency and water conservation measures along with solar panels.
“This is the very best program of its kind in California,” said V. John White, of the Sacramento-based Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, in an e-mail message.
Palm Desert’s program covers energy efficiency and solar, but the city has chosen not to include water conservation because it already installs low-flow shower heads and other water-saving features free, according to Patrick Conlon, who directs Palm Desert’s Office of Energy Management.
Sonoma is suffering from a drought, so saving water is crucial. Eligible improvements include low-flow shower heads and toilets, as well as better irrigation systems.
Bill Stewart of SolarCraft, a solar panel installer in Northern California, said that the Sonoma program had already helped business to pick up after several gloomy months.
The program “just started a couple of weeks ago, but we’ve signed up three to four customers,” he said. Usefully, he noted, the application process is fairly simple.
Sonoma sent out its first check on Wednesday — $25,000 for a solar installation on a home. The county finances the upfront costs of the solar panels (or efficiency or water improvements), and the homeowner pays the money back gradually, with interest, through increased property taxes. The interest rate is currently around 7 percent in Sonoma.
As Leslie Kaufman explained in her article, “The advantage of this system over private borrowing is that any local homeowners are eligible (not just those with good credit), and the obligation to pay the loan attaches to the house and would pass to any future buyers.”
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HAMPTON — The same books on witchcraft, ghosts and astrology that have caused a stir at Forrest Elementary School have been hidden from Tarrant Elementary students the last few years because librarian Lagoldia Williamson found them ``questionable.''
Williamson said she placed the books behind a counter ``out of view'' of students sometime after she started working at the school in 1987.
``Whenever I have something questionable I have somewhere special'' to put it, she said.
T he books were listed in the library's filing system and available for students to check out, but no one ever did, she said. And had someone asked for them, Williamson said she isn't sure if she would have handed them over.
``I really don't know what I would have said, '' she added.
Forrest and Tarrant are the only schools in Hampton that have reported having the controversial books in their libraries, Charles Stallard, coordinator of library media and technology for the school system, said. Each set is made up of eight books that were published in 1977 and bought by Hampton schools in 1981. A Forrest parent has asked that the books be banned because he believes they are too explicit in describing such subjects as voodoo and tarot card reading.
School librarians are given great latitude in deciding what books to have in their collections, but they are supposed to turn over rejected books to administrators so that they might be recycled or placed in another school, said Stallard.
``She did not tell me this,'' he said of Williamson's decision to place the books behind the desk. ``This would not be policy.''
Billy Cannaday, assistant superintendent for instructional services, said he is concerned that one person, whether it's a librarian or teacher, can make such decisions about library materials.
``I think we have to review that policy so we don't abdicate some parent or student's right to know before having a chance to review any given written work,'' he said.
Williamson said she didn't remember when she pulled the books from the shelves of her library but that it could have been as early as 1988.
She said she didn't read the books but was shocked by the subject matter, which, coupled with the fact the books were getting old, was enough reason for her to remove them from circulation.
She initially intended to do something with the books other than put them under the counter after a parent library volunteer told her she couldn't censor them. She'd had the idea of eventually making a final decision about what to do with them, but never did.
``I intended to examine the books but just didn't get around to it,'' she said. ``I have read the books since and I really feel they are very informative and they don't pose any problem to anyone. They are more explanatory.''
Tarrant Principal Ira Luck said he was unaware that Williamson had placed the books out of view. He said he expects his staff to follow the guidelines of their jobs, but he would not comment on whether Williamson took the proper action, saying he didn't have all the details.
Laura McMillan, coordinator of library services for Virginia Beach schools, said it's not unusual for librarians to set aside books, because they are the ones who must defend their collections.
``I believe every librarian has a cache of books somewhere they feel are just not appropriate,'' said McMillan, who wrote a doctoral dissertation on library censorship. ``I certainly would not condemn anyone for that at all. But strictly speaking, it is censorship. We can't hide it behind any other term.
``It's a real tightrope to walk, to be a librarian, it really is,'' she said.
The books were removed from the Tarrant Elementary and Forrest Elementary libraries for review by school administrators after the Rev. David A. Wade, whose son attends Forrest, filed a complaint in November about the content of the books. Wade said he won't be satisfied until the books are banned from all Hampton schools.
A Forrest committee, made up of a librarian and two teachers, reviewed Wade's grievance and supported the books on grounds that they were relevant to today's world, reflected problems of society and represented different viewpoints on controversial subjects, in accordance with Hampton school guidelines. Wade appealed that decision to Cannaday, who will settle the issue.
Cannaday has sent Wade a list of books in the Forrest library - including the Bible and other religious publications - to show there is a balance of materials available to students.
Cannaday said he is still waiting for a response from Wade, but Wade said the list did not change his mind about wanting the books banned.
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Few places in India are as colourful, charismatic or spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the Ganges in Varanasi. The city of Shiva is one of the holiest places in India, where Hindu pilgrims come to wash away a lifetime of sins in the Ganges or to cremate their loved ones. Varanasi, previously named Benares and Kashi (City of Light) – it was renamed after the Varuna and Asi Rivers, which meet here – has always been an auspicious place to die, since expiring here offers moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and death). The city is the beating heart of the Hindu universe, a crossing place between the physical and spiritual worlds, and the Ganges is viewed as a river of salvation, an everlasting symbol of hope to past, present and future generations. The magical but sometimes overwhelming city is where the most intimate rituals of life and death take place in public on the city’s ghats. The accessibility to the practices of an ancient but still living religious tradition is what captivates many visitors, and a walk along the ghats or a boat ride on the river is one of India’s most absorbing experiences.
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4.6 Data Collection
The data that was collected for this research was carried within the context of an online ethnography, and was completed in a few phases. The first phase was carried out in the form of participant-observational ethnography of the Metafilter community. I became an active participant within the community, and followed every MetaTalk thread, as well as a large number of Metafilter threads where there were high levels of community participation. This heavy phase of data collection lasted for about eight months, where I spent an average of six to eight hours a day online, at different times of the day. I also relied heavily on the extensive archives to fill the gaps of what users were discussing, to gain a sense of history for the site, as well as to flesh out and back up various things I was witnessing.
Buy a Shirt
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The earliest Christian communities met in small groups, inside of their homes and were nourished by the Word of God in order to fulfill their mission as disciples of Christ. In that light, the community of Elon CCM attempts to accomplish the same thing within our own small groups. We come together to share our struggles, our joys, and the meaning of the Word of God in order to be better prepared to live out the Mass on Sunday and our faith journey everyday. We will go in depth into Scripture to discover the meaning of the authors and what it means to each today's community.
Small groups or bible studies are a wonderful way for us to reflect on our faith and share it with others. Groups are usually no more than 6-8 students in size, and they regularly meet once a week. We discuss various things, including how to live out our faith on campus, Scriptures for the upcoming Sunday Mass, and books of the Bible. The groups and meeting times have been set, and the schedule is shown below. Each group is led by a student leader, called a Shepherd, who are also listed below. Feel free to contact any of the Shepherds to join their group. You can also contact Kayleigh Johnson for more information.
All Freshmen Small Group (co-ed)
Shepherds: Meg Taylor and Thomas McGuire
When: Thursday, 8:00pm-9:00pm
Where: Lindner 110
Co-ed Upperclassmen Small Group
Shepherd: Paddy Merrill and Jordan Cottle
When: Tuesday, 8:00pm-9:00pm
Where: Newman Center
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The health care overhaul is poised to pour billions of dollars into an insurance industry thirsty for customers, according to health care consultant PwC.
The massive federal law aims to cover millions of uninsured people and will take a major step toward that goal in 2014, when the government starts offering tax credits to help many Americans buy coverage through online exchanges. Those exchanges will act as virtual marketplaces for customers to comparison shop for the right coverage.
PwC estimated in a report released Tuesday that 12 million people will find coverage on these exchanges in 2014 and pay a total of $55 billion in premiums for coverage. It projects that those totals could rise to 29 million people and $205 billion in premiums by 2021.
PwC says most of this money will be new, but some will represent premiums shifted from other parts of the insurance market. For instance, the total may include people who had coverage through their employer but switched to buying a policy on the exchange.
The actual numbers also will depend on how many states decide to expand Medicaid coverage like the overhaul requires. Medicaid is the state and federally funded program that provides coverage for the needy and disabled. The Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that individual states could opt out of this expansion.
Nevertheless, the exchanges and the subsidies will present a "huge market opportunity in health care," said Ceci Connolly, managing director of PwC Health Research Institute.
Private health insurance — offered by companies like UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Aetna Inc. — is the main form of coverage for people under 65 in the United States. Insurers have struggled in recent years to increase their enrollment as companies clamped down on hiring or cut jobs and reduced the number of people covered by their plans.
The overhaul's exchanges will open the market to customers who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private coverage.
"These are the people who've been crowded out of the insurance market through the relentless drive to increase premium and pass along higher cost of health care to the consumer," said Sheryl Skolnick, an analyst who covers health insurers for CRT Capital group. She wasn't involved with the PwC study.
The overhaul will tax health insurers, and it restricts how they set up their coverage. But it also provides what Skolnick called "the last great frontier for health plans to add membership."
"All the bad news (from the law) is pretty obvious, but the good news isn't, and until it is, it's not going to be fully reflected in the stock market," she said.
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"Our children are punishment for what we did to our parents."
FRED LOOMIS BROKE HIS PARENTS' HEARTS when he met Louise, Mrs. Loomis. He fell in love with her, and she was a Catholic. And that just about destroyed his parents. They were free-thinking New Englanders. They were Puritans at heart. And to them the Catholic church was the very seat of ignorance and darkness and superstition. People kneeling in the dark and praying to some statues. Their hearts were utterly broken that their son, whom they had brought up better, would go off and do this. And so, he had to leave town. He was a disgrace to his family. They were in mourning because he had married a Catholic. And he moved out to Lake Wobegon. He was our druggist. And to see him fill prescriptions and sell orthopedic appliances and bandages and such, you would never guess that he'd been such a black sheep back East.
He had two children, Fred and Louise, they had, they had a girl named Francis who took orders, the order of St. Clare, and went off to a cloister, and thereby fulfilled the ideals of her parents who were Catholic - Fred had decided to become a Catholic - and they had a boy named Max who grew up and was a little older than me; who grew up and went off to school and wasn't quite sure what to do with himself, and then he came back home and he broke his parents' hearts.
Our children are punishment for what we did to our parents. He broke his parents' hearts by falling in love with a Lutheran. She was a Tollefson, Christina Tollefson, she was coaching a girl's softball team, she was tall, she had blonde hair, she wore cutoffs and a sweatshirt and he saw her and his heart went out for her. He fell in love with her but she was there with her boyfriend and so Max didn't do anything about it, but then she saw, he saw Christina shove this boyfriend, and there was something about the shove that told him, "That's not a boyfriend, that's her brother." So he finagled an introduction to a girl named Karen who was a friend of Christina's and who was giving a party and they were there at the party in Lake Wobegon and Christina was standing in back of the house. It was dusk and she was drinking a beer. She saw a young man come walking across the yard towards her, smiling and holding out a hand, and before she could say anything, he put his right foot into a hole in the lawn, and he staggered forward and he cried out in pain, "Awwwww."
There was a hole there that Karen's dad had meant to put a pine tree in and he'd filled it with water, but he'd forgotten the pine tree. It was a terrible moment. He was embarrassed because here it was right in front of her he'd done the dumbest thing a person could ever do and he was humiliated. But she kind of liked him. She liked him an awful lot. And you know it isn't our intelligence that leads us to fall in love with each other. We're not drawn to each other on the basis of intelligence. When we are attracted, there's a kind of a dumb look that comes over our faces and it's that that we see in each other. Seeing other people at their dumbest is what romance and marriage are about.
So they fell in love and, of course, the Loomises were devastated. Mrs. Loomis went off to Father Emil to ask if insanity is a possible grounds for annulment. "Yes, it is," he said, "but you should talk to the young people first."
Fred was so distraught, he got in his car to drive back to Amherst to put flowers on the graves of his parents. And between here and Minnesota, on a perfectly clear day on a straight stretch of road, he ran his car off into a tree, and he was crippled and in a wheelchair. Came back, lived in the house as a recluse after that.
Mr. Loomis said to Max, she said, "It's - I have nothing against her because she's a Lutheran. Some of my best friends are Lutherans. But it's that you're Catholic, and she's a Lutheran, and so your children are going to be nothing at all."
"Well, mother," he said, "We'll bring up our children to respect both faiths, and when they're mature they'll chose what they want."
But to grow up respecting a faith is not the same as to grow up in a faith, clinging to a faith, holding onto it for your life.
They moved away to Minneapolis, and they went to a Catholic church for a while and then they went to a Lutheran church and then they split the difference and they went to a - sort of a - liberal Catholic church where people played guitars during mass and sang songs that sounded an awful lot like they were singing the praises of Coca-Cola. A church at which people hugged each other for a long time afterward, and they brought up their children in this warm and nurturing environment, exposing them to art and to good music and to books and to stories and friends coming in and out, it was a lovely, lovely home.
Their children were raised in this beautiful environment, and just a couple of weeks ago, their oldest boy, Max junior, came home and broke his parents' hearts. He came home and announced that he was a Republican. He came back.. He was wearing a shiny suit that they had never bought for him. They never bought their children suits, here he was in a suit. His mother reached over and touched it, it had a strange sheen to it. She'd raised her children in all-cotton clothes, this was polyester.
"What is this?" she said. "Well," he said, "It holds a press better. It's easier if you have to travel around the country in this thing, it doesn't get wrinkled."
"Where're you traveling to? I thought you were in school. You're just about to get your degree. Your major in music..."
"No," he said, "I've decided to drop out. I'm not interested in music anymore. I'm going around for the Republican Family Coalition, and I'm organizing students for Dole."
"Noooooo, OHHHHHHH, Oh, but we thought that you loved music. How can you do this? Ohhhh, honey, please, please don't."
He said, "I know that you and dad mean well, but well-meaning people have brought this country to the very edge and I've been reading a lot about this in the last couple of months, and I want to be among the people, who are gonna make things right.
"Oh please, don't," she said, "don't honey. Just think about..."
He said, "I have thought about it." He said, "I didn't know who I was until I became a Republican."
Well, I don't know how they'll ever get over the shame of it. Goodness knows, their hearts are broken. But that's a part of being a parent. Our children regularly come back and they break our hearts. They've always done it. But it's not the worst thing. If your heart is broken, and you experience sorrow, it does make you kinder to strangers and to children. Having had your heart broken, you look around you, and you take care of any child in your vicinity. And you know, when one story ends, another story always starts.
That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
-- Garrison Keillor, excerpted from monologue, March 4, 1995
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
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[FPSPACE] Iranian sounding rocket
robot at esper.com
robot at esper.com
Mon Feb 26 13:10:26 EST 2007
Concur with Allen.
Years ago (Nov/Dec 1998), I had done a back o' the envelope
calculation per request of ABC News, as to whether the Iraqis under
Saddam could, with a Scud-B, lob half a tonne of sand with a small
bursting charge high enough to pose a threat to the nascent Space
Station. (Readers may recall this was in the context of the Clinton
impeachment trial and the missile strike on Saddam's intel assets
around Baghdad.) As I recall, I found that the sand bubble would top
out at 180-190 kilometers in a straight-up shot. Therefore no threat
to ISS. Not even to intel birds.
The minimum quantity (500 kg) of sand was driven by the minimum
dimensions of an expanding shell of sand dense enough to assure that
a few grains hit per cross-sectional square meter of target. At LEO
speeds, running into an individual, temporarily stationary, grain of
sand generates about half again (1.5X) the impact energy of a M-16
bullet. The cloud dimension in turn was driven by the available
timing precision of satellite orbits and of guidance technology.
Timing and guidance are where the big payoffs are - intuition
suggests that a 2X improvement in timing leads to a 4X-8X reduction
in required throwweight.
So with a 150 km apogee, it seems to me the Iranians are no more
capable today than the Iraqis were 9 years ago. I confess I'm
surprised at this modest result. This "space launch" was a PR stunt
for the easily misled. But who do they think their audience is? Are
they taking a page from the /National Lampoon/ ? (Famous cover: "But
This Magazine Or We'll Shoot This Dog!") Sometimes, the Iranians'
strategy seems to resemble the PeepReps' strategy. Does the emperor
Robert G Kennedy III, PE
---- Original Message ----
>Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:03:46 -0800 (PST)
>From: Allen Thomson <thomsona at flash.net>
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Iranian sounding rocket
> I think it's just a Shahab-1 (Scud B). Maybe a Shahab-2. See
> Note that the reported 150 km altitude is what would be expected if
>a Shahab-1 with a standard ~1,000 kg payload were launched straight
More information about the FPSPACE
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Fact Check: UK report criticizing wind is off base
A recent report being circulated in the United Kingdom casts some doubt on wind's ability to serve as a reliable source of electricity generation. Not surprisingly, its assertions seem largely questionable or off the mark. Stated in general terms, they are as follows:
Allegation: Wind turbines will generate on average 30% of their rated capacity over a year.
Fact: First, A conventional utility power plant uses fuel, so it will normally run much of the time unless it is idled by equipment problems or for maintenance. An average capacity of 40% to 80% is typical for conventional plants.
A wind plant is "fueled" by the wind, which blows steadily at times and not at all at other times. Although modern utility-scale wind turbines typically operate 65% to 90% of the time, they often run at less than full capacity. Therefore, an average capacity of 25% to 40% is common, although they may achieve higher average capacities during windy weeks or months.
While average capacity is almost entirely a matter of equipment reliability for a fueled power plant, it is not for a wind plant—for a wind plant, it is a matter of economical turbine design. With a very large rotor and a very small generator, a wind turbine would run at full capacity whenever the wind blew and would have a 60-80% average capacity—but it would produce very little electricity. The most electricity per dollar of investment is gained by using a larger generator and accepting the fact that the average capacity will be lower as a result. Wind turbines are fundamentally different from fueled power plants in this respect.
Second, the average capacity for wind turbines in the U.S. has improved consistently (15% every two years on average) and is in the 30% + range--see analysis by utility consulting firm Black & Veatch here (see specifically figures 5-4 and 5-5).
Allegation: While wind proponents say "the wind is always blowing somewhere," sometimes it is calm throughout the United Kingdom.
Fact: First, the statement "the wind is always blowing somewhere" applies to geographic areas quite a bit larger than the United Kingdom. The area covered by the Midwest Independent System Operator, which runs the utility system throughout several states in the upper Midwest, for example, is five times the size of the U.K. A number of studies by the government, system operators, and utilities in the United States indicate that when wind resources are aggregated over a large geographic area, nearly the entire energy output of the wind plants can be counted on for meeting power system capacity needs.
Second, no individual power plant operates 100% of the time. Predictability is what is needed for the utility system as a whole to deliver electricity reliably, and wind farms are generally quite predictable, because their output can be forecast and because that output changes slowly over time compared with conventional power plants that can suffer instantaneous outages. A noteworthy example of this advantage of wind's predictability occurred in February 2011, when millions of electricity consumers in the state of Texas experienced rolling blackouts because of the sudden loss of over 50 fossil-fired power plants totaling over 7,000 megawatts (MW). At the same time, wind plants continued to produce the approximately 3,500 MW they had been forecast and scheduled to produce, enough to power millions of typical homes.
Large coal and nuclear power plants frequently break down with no warning, taking 1,000 MW or more offline instantaneously. That is very difficult for grid operators to deal with--they must maintain expensive, fast-acting reserves 24/7/365, as such an outage can occur at any time. In contrast, changes in wind output occur gradually and are usually predictable, allowing grid operators to use slow-acting, non-spinning reserves that typically cost 40 times less than the fast-acting reserves needed for other power plants. Additionally, because the variability of wind energy is smaller than other sources of variability on the power system, particularly the large variability of electric demand, most of wind’s variability is canceled out so that adding wind to the grid only slightly increases aggregate power system variability.
Allegation: Periods of low wind are frequent in the United Kingdom, occurring on average every six days and lasting for an average of five hours at a time.
Fact: That data indicates that low winds occur about 3% of the time. That’s amazingly low–certainly not worth complaints! The 3% low wind time is considerably less than expected from a wind plant in a high-performing project in a great wind resource area, which is estimated to be at least 10% of the time.
Allegation: During periods of peak demand in the U.K., wind farms were producing only 6% of their rated capacity (due to low winds).
Fact: This may be true--in the U.S., wind farms normally generate somewhere between 10% and 40% of their rated capacity during periods of peak electricity demand. As mentioned earlier, though, the power system is designed to draw on a variety of different types of power plants, and no power plant operates 100% of the time.
Allegation: The U.K.'s pumped hydro storage capacity is not enough to rely on during periods when the winds are low.
Fact: This is essentially irrelevant. European countries like Denmark, Spain, Ireland, and Germany have successfully integrated very large amounts of wind energy without having to install new energy storage resources. In the U.S., numerous peer-reviewed studies have concluded that wind energy can provide 20% or more of our electricity without any need for energy storage.
How is this possible? The secret lies in using the sources of flexibility that are already present on the electric grid. Every day, grid operators constantly accommodate variability in electricity demand and supply by increasing and decreasing the output of flexible generators – power plants like hydroelectric dams or natural gas plants that can rapidly change their level of generation. Thus, the water kept behind a dam or the natural gas held in a pipeline may be thought of as a form of energy storage, with operators using this energy when it is needed and "storing" it when it is not. Grid operators use these same flexible resources to accommodate any variability introduced by wind energy.
A tremendous amount of flexibility is already built into the power system. Demand for electricity can vary by a factor of three or more depending on the time of day and year, which nationwide translates into hundreds of thousands of megawatts of flexibility that are already built into the power system. Because these power plants and other sources of flexibility have already been built, it is almost always much cheaper to use this flexibility than to build new sources of flexibility like energy storage facilities. While continuing advances in energy storage technology can make it more economically competitive as a provider of utility system flexibility, it is important to remember that resources like wind energy can already be cost-effectively and reliably integrated with the electric utility system without energy storage.
Fact sheet: Wind Energy and Energy Storage
Fact sheet: Wind Power: Clean AND Reliable
Fact sheet: Wind, Backup Power, and Emissions
Wind Power Myths Debunked, article by Milligan et al from Power Engineering magazine
AWEA Manager of Transmission Policy Michael Goggin and Senior Outreach Engineer John Dunlop provided valuable assistance on this article.
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
The Ninth Circuit issued an interesting Fourth Amendment decision last week on the subject of reasonable suspicion, in United States v. Valdes-Vega. The "reasonable suspicion" standard dates to Terry v. Ohio, where the Supreme Court upheld limited, investigative seizures on less than traditional probable cause. Instead, following Terry, reasonable suspicion justifies the police in stopping and detaining someone for investigation sufficient to confirm or dispel their suspicion of criminality. A reasonable suspicion, the Supreme Court has held, requires "some objective manifestation that the person stopped is, or is about to be, engaged in criminal activity."
In Arvizu v. United States, however, the Supreme Court, reviewing another Ninth Circuit decision, made clear that lower courts must consider the "totality of the circumstances" when evaluating reasonable suspicion. Court should not "divide-and-conquer" each fact, however common or innocent each fact may prove in isolation, if reasonable suspicion is supported by the evidence in the aggregate. This understanding of reasonable suspicion has given the police a lot of discretion to stop and investigate individuals without proof of criminality, so long as prosecutors can compile a list of non-criminal factors that, considered as a whole, made the police reasonably suspect criminality. Critics have challenged this standard as giving the police too much discretion with too little judicial review.
In Valdes-Vega, the Ninth Circuit may have pushed back, perhaps fairly hard, against this reasonable suspicion standard. This case involved a vehicle stop and drug seizure in California, about 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Interestingly, the police observed Valdes-Vega speeding and driving erratically, but they could not stop him to cite or arrest him for traffic violations, because the police here were federal border agents. So, the agents needed to articulate a reasonable suspicion of criminality to stop the vehicle. In arguing that the agents reasonably suspected drug or alien smuggling, the Government highlighted Valdes-Vega's erratic driving, the proximity to the border, Valdes-Vega's decrease and increase in speed near a closed border checkpoint, Valdes-Vega's use of a large truck with Baja California plates, the history of smuggling in the area, and the agents' training and experience. The district court found reasonable suspicion for the stop. But the Ninth Circuit disagreed, concluding that reasonable suspicion on these innocuous facts would permit seizures based on "'broad profiles which cast suspicion on entire categories of people without any individualized suspicion of the particular person to be stopped.'" The Ninth Circuit Blog recently commented on this opinion: "The Ninth, we hope, is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the 'border exception' swallowing all Fourth rights in the West."
Truthfully, the dissent in Vades-Vega did make a good point on the law that the majority seemed to violate precisely Arvizu's no-divide-and-conquer approach to reasonable suspicion analysis. And maybe this case simply reflects "liberal" Ninth Circuit judges vying for yet another Supreme Court reversal. But on the other coast too, in cities like New York and Philadelphia, critics of the reasonable suspicion standard are challenging police "stop and frisk" programs as too discretionary, abusive, and inefficient. Courts in those jurisdictions also may be attempting to toughen the reasonable suspicion standard. Are these judicial decisions, backed by vocal criticism of police action in certain communities, just blips on the Fourth Amendment radar, or a sign of coming changes to the reasonable suspicion standard, such as an increased emphasis on arrest efficiency?
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Perhaps a peripheral point, but it trips me up. It seems that only the stop of the vehicle was at issue since the search of its interior was based on consent, and the validity of the consent seems to have been unchallenged. Nor does there seem to have been any dispute that the agents had probable cause to believe that the vehicle had violated traffic laws. In commenting on the traffic-law violations that the agents had observed, the court wrote, in footnote 6: "Ordinarily, an officer’s observance of a traffic violation, by itself, is sufficient for a vehicle stop . . . . But Border Patrol Agents, unlike state and local law enforcement agents, do not have authority to arrest or cite individuals for traffic violations." Yet, even if no statute authorized the agents to make an arrest under otherwise applicable traffic laws, in Virginia v. Moore, the Supreme Court held that an arrest made in excess of statutory authority but otherwise consistent with Fourth Amendment standards is perfectly valid for constitutional purposes. Isn't this point sufficient in itself to reject the Ninth Circuit's holding?
Chapman University School of Law
Posted by: Larry Rosenthal | Aug 2, 2012 6:34:29 PM
Good point regarding Moore, Larry, which I also wondered as I read that same footnote. I skimmed the Government's brief, and it does not argue Moore. Maybe therefore the court just buried the issue in that footnote so it could attack the reasonable suspicion issue? But the dissent did not raise Moore, either. So perhaps the court did not perceive the issue or saw some distinction from Moore--here, the *agents* weren't authorized to cite or arrest for the offenses, instead of the offense itself not being authorized for arrest?
Posted by: Brooks | Aug 2, 2012 7:13:35 PM
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During the past 25 years under CITES and CMS, governments have agreed to take special conservation measures for an increasing number of bird species. However, many countries still allow exports of species without knowing whether this use of wild populations is sustainable. It is therefore important for range countries to review regularly the commercial trade in species listed under CITES Appendix II. Also, for many of the species listed under the CMS Appendices, inter-governmental Agreements and action plans have not yet been planned or concluded.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) both incorporate lists of relevant species (as Appendices) for which particular conservation actions need to be implemented by contracting parties. For both CITES and CMS, Appendix I species are agreed to be of global conservation concern, with governments agreeing to prohibit all international commercial trade in wild birds of such species listed under CITES and to adopt strict protection measures for those listed under CMS. Appendix II species are agreed to have an unfavourable conservation status (CMS) or otherwise to benefit significantly from international co-operation in controlling their international trade (CITES) or in their conservation (CMS). Hence, governments are obliged to regulate and manage the import/export of Appendix II species listed under CITES, and to conclude agreements with other range states to conserve Appendix II species listed under CMS.
In an effort to protect groups vulnerable to over-harvesting, such as parrots and raptors, the number of bird species included in CITES Appendix II increased considerably up to the mid-1980s (see figure). However, many countries still allow exports of species without knowing whether this use of wild populations is sustainable. It is therefore important for range countries to review regularly the commercial trade in species listed in Appendix II and in some cases, prohibit the international trade through national export bans or by moving species to Appendix I.
As with CITES, the biggest changes in the CMS species-lists have taken place in Appendix II (see figure). A number of international Agreements have been adopted under CMS for its Appendix II bird species. For example, the listing of waterfowl in 1979 led eventually to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) in 1995, which entered into force in 1999. The listing of albatrosses in Appendix II in 1997 enabled the subsequent adoption of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP), which entered into force in 2004. However, for many of the species listed in the CMS Appendices, inter-governmental Agreements and action plans have not yet been planned or concluded.
Compiled 2004, updated 2008
BirdLife International (2008) Species lists form a key part of several conventions and need to be reviewed and updated regularly. Presented as part of the BirdLife State of the world's birds website. Available from: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/casestudy/201. Checked: 24/05/2013
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The weeks after Thanksgiving can be a dismal time for music lovers. Carols and other seasonal music come blaring from speakers in every department store and radio station like a scourge. Musicians put out holiday albums, and any good music out there seems to get buried under the commercial juggernaut that is Christmas.
It's too much, too early and threatens to turn even the cheeriest into a humbug.
But the lengthening shadows and shortening days of winter should be a boon for music.
There is a spirit to the season. Each year takes on significant baggage, and by December, the earth is cold, barren and in need of a fresh start.
Each year, the knowledge that a new beginning is around the corner comes bursting through the doom and gloom.
San Juan College's Concert Band filled the Little Theater with that spirit.
The concert began with a piece titled "Troika," from the "Lieutenant Kije Suite," by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. It set the mood perfectly.
Prokofiev's music today is performed around the world and renowned for its brazen edginess, a true creative accomplishment in the face of the repressive Soviet regime under which it was created.
The "Lieutenant Kije Suite," is not one of those risky pieces. It is an apology piece
Although written as an apology, the piece is no less great.
"Troika," was written to illustrate a small sleigh, called a troika in Russian, rushing through the silent, snowbound birch forests.
The college's concert band captured the feeling of gliding through winter perfectly. Their playing was focused, unrushed and featured some standout performances in the flute and brass sections.
Among the concert's standout pieces was "Fantasia for a King, variations on "Good King Wenceslas,'" by Robert Thurston.
The piece featured some excellent playing from its french horns and low-end brass. Their rich, round playing filled the Little Theater with a sense of warmth.
"Fantasia for a King," also featured a wonderful oboe solo that hit all the instrument's strengths. When played poorly, the oboe sounds like a dying duck.
When played well, it is almost indescribably beautiful. On Friday evening, the oboe's lightly reedy, piercing, gentle and melancholic tones were the perfect contrast to the brass section's warmth.
But Friday evening did not just focus on alternatives to typical holiday music. Vocalist Lindsay Clark sang a medley of "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas," "Chestnut Roasting on an Open Fire," and "We Need A Little Christmas."
Clark's voice was a reminder that Christmas classics are not bad, it's how they are typically sung. She filled the theater with warmth and her voice lent the songs a touching sense of nostalgia.
Friday evening's "Spirit of the Season," was a reminder of how great holiday music can be, and a preview, perhaps, of what to expect from the Dec. 14 and 15 production of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah."
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Hair repair tools from the experts
Happy Holi everyone. It is the spirit of Holi that makes us want to throw caution to the wind, to dab, daub and drench ourselves in colours till we are almost unrecognizable.
But if you love your hair and are worried about the harsh metallic chemicals in the colours from damaging your lovely curls, the silky shine, or undulating waves, we have great tips to ensure your hair remains as gorgeous after Holi as it was before.
Dr. Arvind Poswal, a Hair Transplant Surgeon and Medical Director from Dr. A’s Clinic in New Delhi shares these amazing precautionary tips with everyone who wants to prevent hair damage during Holi.
1. Oiling: Before you spray on any colours ensure that you have oiled your hair well. A head massage with warm caster, a mixture of jojoba and rosemary oil or coconut oil a night before Holi is typically recommended. The oil provides hair with nutrition which is requireed when hair gets dry because of the colours.
For sensitive scalp skin, a few drops of lemon juice should be added to the mixture to avoid any hair infection because of the chemicals in the colour. After the festival, for every day for a week or two it is vital to keep applying hair oil so that the hair is provided nourishment continuously.
2. Shampooing: After playing Holi, the colour needs to be rinsed from the hair with a mild shampoo and conditioner. After this step, for further nourishment olive oil and honey need to be applied.
3. Careful Washing: Wash your hair with plain water until all the colours come off. Use a mild herbal shampoo to ensure any colour in the scalp is also washed off. Be careful not to wash your hair twice on the same day, just to get rid of all the colour. This will only make your hair drier. It’s always good to apply hair oil in the night and wash it in the morning with a mild shampoo. In such a case applying hair repair serum can also be used on semi wet hair.
4. Covering: Using a hair-band, scarf, bandana or a shower cap to cover your hair keeps it from getting tangled, torn or damaged due to artificial colours.
5. Hair Gel: To counter the effects of the harmful colours, it is good to apply hair gel. The greasy, oily nature of the gel doesn’t allow colours to stick on to hair and can be easily washed off later. Again, repetitive washing of hair should be avoided.
6. Tie up hair: Keeping the hair open increases the area of exposure and allows the colours to settle down on every strand. So tie up your hair and worry less.
7. For oily hair: Use a mild shampoo with lukewarm water. The conditioner should be a mix of lemon juice and water and should be applied to the roots of your hair.
8. Dandruff protection: Do keep your hair covered with a cap as the chemicals in the colours can strip off the natural sheen from your hair and can make it very brittle. So if you do decide to play with your hair open use only natural colours.
9. For dry and curly hair: Choose a good cleansing shampoo and conditioner which doesn’t have a lot of perfume and colours in it.
10. For colour dyed hair: Strictly avoid using synthetic colours as they will cause severe damage to your hair. Apply oil generously on your hair before playing. Wash your hair with a mild shampoo, condition it and then finally apply hair repair serum.
Top Tip: To avoid any severe hair damage use herbal colours as they are easily available in the markets. They can also be prepared at home with flowers, herbs, leaves, and other ingredients easily found in any kitchen.
Dr Poswal shares some of her recipes for your benefit.
Green Colour: Dried Henna leaves, powdered and soaked overnight for wet colour or mixed with wheat flour or refined flour for lighter shades. Vegetables like spinach and coriander can also be used after grinding.
Red Colour: Use either red sandalwood powder or vermilion. Dried rose petals, soaked red hibiscus flowers or grated beetroot are also other alternatives to choose from.
Blue Colour: Flowers like Jacaranda or blue Hibiscus when ground can turn into beautiful blue holi colours. For a wet blue colour, use the crush berries of Indigo tree, add them to water and get the desired shade of blue.
Yellow Colour: Gram flour mixed with turmeric powder is the ideal substitute.
Bright Saffron: Soak a few stalks of Saffron in two table spoons of water. Leave for few hours; Grind it to make a fine paste. Keep adding water until you get the desired colour. The cheaper option would be to mix a pinch of sandalwood powder, especially the one from Ujjain, in one litre of water for an instant and beautiful fragrant Saffron colour.
Jet Black: Boil Amla in an iron vessel and leave it overnight. This produces the base black colour which
can be diluted later for the desired color. Juice extracted from black grapes can also be used. But it’s important to dilute it in order to remove the stickiness.
Wonderful Wet Magenta: This can be obtained by slicing or grating beet root and then soaking it in 1 litre of water. If you want a deeper shade, leave it overnight.
Dazzling Yellow: One teaspoon of Haldi is to be added to two litres of water and stirred well. This can be boiled to increase the concentration of colour and further diluted. Also the other option is to soak 50 marigold flowers in 2 litres of water. This should be boil and left overnight to get a perfectly bright colour.
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This is the real reason superheros prefer to punch things.
I always wondered why the computers that superheros used, were so big, or seemed to be controlled just by a few large buttons.
To see what I mean , take a look at this pic of the Superfriends and their computer in the Hall of Justice.
That thing is MASSIVE, and has very little in the way of a keyboard or mouse that would require them to touch it.
And looking at the picture, you can see how the are all too scared to even really approach it.
So, I am now convinced that this is one of the major causes of Superhero violence in the Marvel & DC universes.
Sure, it is great having powers and super strength. But if you could not play WOW, or tweet, or facebook, or surf for porn, whatever, then how would you feel?
I bet you would soon want to hit someone.
Really really hard.
Superpowered folk are not really fans of violence – they just really want to be able to play flash games & poke their friends on facebook like everyone else.
I think there is something in that for all of us, don’t you?
UPDATE: In response to this comic, to valiant twitterers have joined in the fun and linked me to their comics, which also make fun of Superheroes and computers. These are great and I thank them both very much!
Click the images below, to enlarge
This one, from @powerscosmic :
And this one from @DJBogtrotter :
Before you go off to check out more cool sites on teh interwebz, take a minute to enjoy these videos.
First, relax & enjoy the classic intro to the Superfriends cartoon.
Also, take a look at this video, which shows just how scared Superheros are of computers!
Does this count as proof??
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The spring is truly a wonderful time of year accented by warmth and growth. As the sun becomes more present in the sky, your garden starts to bloom with fresh flowers and vegetables cultivated from organic heirloom seeds. Your children can start playing outside more, enjoying the swing set or simply riding a bike around the neighborhood with friends. However, as we mentioned a few weeks ago in this blog, the spring can bring some brutal weather along with it.
While we gave you tips on how to deal with unexpected spring storms in a previous post, there are ways to prepare for this type of weather way ahead of time. Here are some things you can do to be prepared before nasty weather catches you off-guard:
Risers – Purchase some risers to elevate your items that are stored in a basement area. These can be simple plastic pallets – just something water-resistant that will keep your items dry if a small flood occurs in the lower portion of your home. For those who live in single level homes (or homes that are flush with the ground) make sure you are extra careful when flash floods are forecasted.
Insurance – If you live in a severe storm-prone area, reevaluate your home insurance with an agent and consider purchasing extra protection for flood and other storm-related damage. On this same note, keep your personal documents regarding coverage, citizenship and finances in an area safe from water damage and prying eyes.
Plan – Develop an emergency plan for your entire family in case a storm or emergency situation separates you from each other. In case you cannot meet up due to worsening situations, establish a contact person who lives out-of-state. A lot of times, phones won’t work well in the storm-affected area, but will work when calling long distance. This way, you will know if your family is safe.
These are some simple guidelines to follow when preparing your home and family regarding spring storms. Make sure you look for more information about emergency preparedness in the spring.
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Exotic One-Handed Melee
1. See Damage Increases by Size to calculate the damage for a weapon larger than Medium or smaller than Small.
2. Weight figures are for Medium weapons. A Small weapon weighs half as much, and a Large weapon weighs twice as much.
3. When two types are given, the weapon is both types if the entry specifies "and", either type (player's choice at time of attack) if the entry specifies "or", or each end of the double weapon is a different type if the entry specifies "/".
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Batons are twirling sticks used in performances of marching bands, and now for bludgeoning the living daylights out of people. Easy to spin, it's little more than a club. A club with STYLE.
Because it is so easily handled you may use Weapon Finesse on a Baton as if it were a light weapon. In addition you may not hold a baton with two hands, as it is too short. You gain a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks made while using the baton, a +1 increase of DC to fascinate a create by bardic music or spell, and a +1 Dodge bonus when fighting defensively as you draw your enemies eyes away from you and onto the twirling baton.
A baton gives a +1 bonus to Perform (Dance) checks, which stack with each other, as long as it is being used.
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Classes are getting harder, homework keeps piling up, and you can't stand sitting in class. When you wonder if schoolwork is getting you down, the first place you might think to look is at your grades.
But they are only one measure of how you're doing. Just as important is how you feel about schoolwork.
Change the things you can
Are you bored because you learn quickly?
Take this little quiz:
Do you dread going to school because you're sure you'll go through another day feeling that you're not "good enough?"
Do you feel discouraged and left behind by your classmates because it takes forever to finally finish your homework?
Are you bored because you learn new material quickly and breeze through your assignments?
If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, schoolwork is getting you down. But you can do something about it!
Believe that YOU can turn this around.
The first source to turn to for help is you. That's right, YOU. That's where it has to start. Believe that you can turn this around.
Everyone learns in different ways and at different rates. And some of us need an extra boost to help us make it.
Get help figuring out what to do next from someone your feel comfortable talking to. This can be a teacher, school counselor, parent, older brother or sister, aunt, grandfather, or older friend.
The kind of help you need depends on what your schoolwork problem is....
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I'm looking for a software library with a scope similar to "numerical recipes", but implemented in a modern programming language. "Modern" in this context means to me: object oriented (not C or Fortran), running in a virtual machine with garbage collection (not C++), and with support for functional programming. Examples therefore would be: F#, C# from the .NET framework, Scala and to a lesser extend Java (no functional programming yet).
"Scope" means that it should cover all algorithms that are taught in, say, a general, one or two year(s) long introduction to numerical analysis, starting with linear algebra, up to partial differential equations and stochastic processes.
In addition I am interested if any research group using high performance computing uses a language that fits the description, and if not, why not. It is "common knowledge" in the software industry that one should no longer worry about performance problems of languages running in a virtual machine compared to languages compiled directly to machine code, e.g. Java versus C++. Any experience from high performance computing that affirms or contradicts this would be interesting to me, too.
Addendum after reading the first three answers (rather than commenting them individually): My motivation for asking about these "modern" programming language is this: It takes some effort to learn a programming language, much commercial software is written in Java, often not because Java is designed for the kind of problem people have to solve, but because there are many programmers out there that know Java, there is a big open source community, and, finally, "nobody gets fired for choosing Java" (paraphrasing "nobody gets fired for buying IBM"). This outweighs the fact that Java is often clearly not the best choice from a pure language point of view. A software library in a "modern" programming language could attract more people (maybe more contributors if it is open source), for this reason, than a library in a much better suited, but less known, programming language.
Edit: To a certain extend the Sage project and software is what I was looking for, although it employs Python as a higher level language which I don't think is a good choice. (http://www.sagemath.org/)
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The Gräfenberg Spot, or G-Spot, has been surrounded by controversy ever since its ‘discovery’ only decades ago. Some women may have one about an inch or so (2-5cm) up in the front wall of the vagina.
The G-spot is believed to be an erogenous zone which when stimulated can lead to high levels of sexual arousal and powerful orgasms. Despite all the hype many couples struggle to find any evidence for its existence.
A recent (2010) study of 1,800 women in the Journal of Sexual Medicine has found no proof for it. The research team at King’s College, London suggest the G-spot may be a figment of women’s imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists. So what does that leave us with?
Let’s take a look at our pelvic anatomy by focusing on the similarities between men and women. First, let’s tick off the anus. Men and women are identical here and both sexes can enjoy anal stimulation, given appropriate lubrication and a sensitive lover.
Next, we both have genitals (penis/clitoris) so oral and manual masturbation techniques can be effective for both sexes (note: mental arousal is needed before physical stimulation can lead to orgasm — this is crucial to understanding female sexuality since women’s sexual arousal is not as automatic as men’s tends to be).
There is also a difference in size of the genital organs. The male genitals — at least the parts we can see outside the body are much bigger. A man’s penis (when erect) must be a hundred times bigger than a woman’s clitoris…
Of course, inside is a different story. Both organs reach back into the pelvis and include muscles of the pelvic area of the body (basically in between the hips). When you are sexually aroused, the external organ becomes erect but also you have an erection of the muscles internal to the body (erectile tissue) that become engorged when a person is sexually aroused.
If you were to stimulate the person in this pelvic area when they are already engorged and physically aroused, this would stimulate their internal erection. For a man you have to stimulate his internal erection through the anus because there is no other opening. In fact, there is also a male G-spot, which is the prostate gland and accessible by penetrating a man anally. Some women do enjoy sharing physical intimacy with a partner but even so I wonder how many women explore that one…
For a woman, you have two options. The anal option is similar to that for a man except women don’t have a prostate gland. There is also the option of stimulating her internal erection through her vagina. The vaginal opening is the one absolute difference between the sexes. However, unless you want a baby there is no need to be overly distracted by the vagina.
“The vagina of the female is not matched by any functioning structure in the male, but it is of minimum importance in contributing to the erotic response of the female. It may even contribute more to the sexual arousal of the male than it does to the arousal of the female.” (p592 Sexual behavior in the human female 1953)
The vagina is part of the birth canal and so it has very few nerve endings. A woman is unlikely to be able to feel a man’s penis inside her even if he is built like a horse.
I have only become aware of my own physical arousal (swollen and moist) since around my mid-thirties. I have also around this time experienced physical orgasms from vaginal fisting and from anal sex. Both would stimulate an internal erection and these experiences are the closest I have ever come to what other people may be calling a G-spot orgasm.
Vaginal fisting is a misleading term since, for me at least, it does not necessarily involve putting the whole fist inside the vagina. My partner uses the fingers of one hand to penetrate my vagina. Some women orgasm during childbirth, which is presumably a similar experience to vaginal fisting.
The success of the G-spot myth is not simply down to men’s enthusiasm for intercourse. To explain their orgasms during intercourse, women have also leapt on an alternative to the clitoris. This illustrates just how few women identify with clitoral stimulation and female masturbation.
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OGDEN --A grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help 10 college students from across the country conduct research at Weber State University this summer.
The NSF has awarded WSU more than $146,000 to support undergraduate research opportunities in and around the Great Salt Lake ecosystem. Each student selected will receive a stipend of $3,250, along with $700 to cover research expenses. In addition, some money will be allocated to pay for students to travel to national research conferences to report their findings.
Applicants had to submit transcripts, two letters of reference and an essay on why they were interested in the program. The NSF grant asks that special consideration be given to African American, Hispanic or Native American applicants because those groups are underrepresented in science disciplines.
Three out of the 10 researchers selected each summer may be WSU students.
The selected students will spend 10 weeks at WSU. John Cavitt, co-director of the program, said, "They'll be conducting master's level research in a short period of time." Students will also take courses and workshops on the fundamentals of scientific research and take field trips to different parts of the Great Salt Lake ecosystem.
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"James Still at his cabin on Dead Mare Branch, on his 80th birthday, July 16, 1986;" Tom Eblen
Today in the Rural Poetry Series we turn to the work of James Still (1906-2001), a poet born in Alabama but at home in Knott County, Kentucky. From there, Mr. Still composed a series of novels, short stories and poems that dramatically altered (and advocated for) Applachian literature. His fiction masterpiece, River of Earth (1940), dramatizes the pull between rootedness and mobility--lessons learned first-hand. Mr. Still joined the struggle for miners' rights in the 1930's while also completing graduate degrees at Vanderbilt and the University of Illinois; he worked in the Civil Service, in the cotton fields, and even as a bible salesman. His range of experiences were capped as a Sergeant in World War II, stationed in Egypt.
From these wanderings, Mr. Still's most fortuitous connection came with his friendship to Don West, an activist, educator, founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center--and an excellent poet himself. Mr. West suggested Knott County, which led to James Still's work in the library and local schools, and his eventual connections with The Hindman Settlement School and its Appalachian Writers Workshop.
Many years ago as a young poet, I had the chance to attend the Workshop at Hindman. Though perhaps not explicitly referred to as such, it was clear we all were in "James Still Country." His whereabouts were the subject of anxious and excited updates, and the reverence in the packed auditorium for his reading was palpable and deeply moving, a foundational example for me of how the arts can transform local culture.
While a follow-up article will elaborate upon the Hindman Settlement School and the Appalachian Writers Workshop, I'd like to share a poem of Mr. Still's that is inseparably linked to his home place.
I shall not leave these prisoning hillsThough they topple their barren heads to level earthAnd the forests slide uprooted out of the sky.Though the waters of Troublesome, of Trace Fork,Of Sand Lick rise in a single body to glean the valleys,To drown lush pennyroyal, to unravel rail fences;Though the sun-ball breaks the ridges into dustAnd burns its strength into the blistered rockI cannot leave. I cannot go away.
Being of these hills, being one with the foxStealing into the shadows, one with the new-born foal,The lumbering ox drawing green beech logs to mill,One with the destined feet of man climbing and descending,And one with death rising to bloom again, I cannot go.Being of these hills I cannot pass beyond.
While this poem can be found in From the Mountain to the Valley: New and Selected Poems, the United States of Poetry series also offers this video of "Heritage" shot among the grounds surrounding his cabin:
This season has been an exciting one for Mr. Still's many readers. To commemorate the ten-year anniversary of his passing, The Hindman Settlement School recently hosted A Celebration of James Still featuring talks, readings, musical performances and the exciting release of Mr. Still's final novel: Chinaberry. The novel is edited by one of Appalachia's finest contemporary writers, Silas House, and is now available from The University of Kentucky Press.
Here's an excerpt from Tom Eblen's excellent article in The Lexington Herald-Leader on the book's release:
Unlike his other writing, Chinaberry is not set in the Eastern Kentucky mountains. It takes place in the wide-open cotton and cattle land of rural Texas nearly a century ago, and in Still's native Alabama.
Chinaberry is about the epic journey of an unnamed boy of 13, who often seems much younger. He leaves Alabama with family friends for a summer of picking cotton in Texas. During the next three months, his life is transformed.
"I think it's a love story on so many levels," House said. "It's a love story between the author and childhood, between a person and a place. I think there's a palpable love for Texas in the book, and for a way of life that's gone forever."
At the heart of the story is the relationship that develops between the boy and the Chinaberry ranch's owner, Anson Winters, and his second wife, Lurie. Anson virtually adopts the boy, treating him as a replacement for the young, handicapped son whose death he still grieves.
"What's so brilliant about the book is that (Still) doesn't make any judgments; it's a psychological thriller in a way," said House.
The celebration at Hindman was also punctuated by the re-release of Heritage, a collaboration between James Still and dulcimer/banjo player Randy Wilson. Appalshop and June Appal Recordings have made this material available for the first time on CD, with more information available here.
Folks should also peruse the Fall 2010 James Still special issue of Appalachian Heritage, a journal closely associated with Mr. Still and also with current and emerging voices in Appalachian literature.
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AMD is unveiling a new low-power version of its six-core “Istanbul” Opteron processor for servers which debuted in June
. Complementing its 55, 75 and 105W variants, the Opteron 2419 EE
rounds out the lineup with an ACP rating of just 40W and is aimed at two-socket servers for dense computing and virtualization environments where price/performance per watt is key.
The new Opteron EE has the same Istanbul silicon as the rest of the 2400 series, but it runs at a slower 1.8GHz. The processor still boasts 6MB of L3 cache, the same HyperTransport speed, and the same virtualization features, though; so for customers who have power constraints it comes as a good alternative while still providing superior performance than comparable quad-core Opterons.
The new 45nm CPU has been designed for Socket F (1207)-compatible platforms, it is expected to cost $989 in 1000-unit tray quantities, and should end up competing with Intel's 60W Nehalem-based quad-core Xeons.
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Call for Public Debate on Embryo Research
posted on 06 July 2003
The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has today (Sunday 6th July) condemned 'macabre experimentation on aborted human foetuses' and called for a full public debate on the ethics of embryo research. The Cardinal, who has urged the Catholic community to join today’s day of prayer for Human Life and become 'active witnesses to the cause of dignity and life for all', commented:
'We must ask ourselves, what sort of society have we become when we legislate to ban cruelty to foxes but allow the creation, and then destruction of a human life in a test tube? To my mind, and I believe it is a view shared by the majority in our country, human dignity demands that we halt macabre experimentation on aborted human foetuses.
'Today we are asked to pray for Human Life. I would ask all those who care for the unborn to do this and more and become the voice of those who cannot speak for themselves.
“Public witness is a valuable way of expressing our deepest beliefs. We only have to look at the success of the Jubilee 2000 campaign and the growing momentum behind the current Trade Justice movement. The lesson is clear. If we speak with one clear voice against the exploitation of the unborn, if we become active witnesses to the cause of dignity and life for all, we can make a difference. But the longer we remain silent the further the boundaries will be pushed.
“It is no longer enough for oversight of this rapidly expanding area of scientific development, much of which is commercially driven, to be vested solely in an un-elected body of experts (the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority) no matter how eminent. It is time now for people’s instinctive respect for human life to be heard and for there to be a constructive and informed debate at the level of the general public.
“Otherwise, we risk a wholesale intellectual and moral disengagement from these issues of enormous significance for us all, as human beings. We all have a responsibility to take this ethical debate seriously and to engage with the moral dilemmas which today, are shaping tomorrow's world.
' As Pope John Paul II said recently, 'Human life cannot be seen as an object to do with as we please, but as the most sacred and inviolable earthly reality. There can be no peace when this most basic good is not protected. To [the list of world injustices] we must add irresponsible practices of genetic engineering, such as the cloning and use of human embryos for research, which are justified by an illegitimate appeal to freedom, to cultural progress, to the advancement of mankind. When the weakest and most vulnerable members of society are subjected to such atrocities, the very idea of the human family, built on the value of the person, on trust, respect and mutual support, is dangerously eroded. A civilization based on love and peace must oppose these experiments, which are unworthy of man.' (World Day of Peace Message, 1 January 2001)
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Look, as long as MS pushes their own software as default programs out of the box, the vast majority of windows users will use them. Only about 10% of Windows users use Firefox instead of IE. And a far greater percentage use WMP and OE. And all of those programs allow hackers direct access into the operating system. That is a Windows security hole. If not, then why is it that Mac users remain almost completely safe when Windows users are so often beset with viruses and spyware? The final, obvious, word is that OS X is relatively secure while Windows is so very not... It's great that some people know to use non-MS programs and to use the right anti-spyware and -virus software but normal computer users don't have a clue about any of that. They expect that when they buy a computer it will have everything they need to run well out of the box (at least so much as a TV or a car). Apple provides that level of quality and service. Microsoft and PC hardware companies do not.
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some story first: Alice and Bob both have public/private key pairs. Now Bob wants Alice to sign his public key id. Alice agrees but only when Bob signs the public key id of her. Is this something ...
How does GPG (or other programs using the OpenPGP file format) verify that it has succeeded with decryption (for symmetrically encrypted data)? Is something appended to the clear text so there exist ...
RFC 4880 may be full of information, but it can be incredibly vague at times, so im looking for someone who actually knows the answer to this. Given this public key: ...
RFC 4880 describes the version 4 signature packet, tag 2, as ...
The difference between a digital signature and a MAC is non-repudiation. A message with a digital signature proves that only the sender could have signed the message, whereas a message with a MAC ...
As sort of a follow up to my (currently) unanswered question, if it is correct, how do i properly calculate and format the packet that actually stores the data being encrypted? I thought I knew what I ...
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The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Audubon Society. It engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone, from beginners to experts, can be a “citizen scientist” in this way. This year’s event is scheduled for today through Monday.
The Central Kentucky Wildlife Refuge is encouraging everyone to join in the fun this year, either at home or at the refuge. Jane and J. P. Brantley, the refuge’s education directors, will be counting at the Fred Loetscher Bird Blind 9 a.m. Saturday., and anyone interested is welcome to join them there to see how it’s done, then do their own count in their own backyard on another day or days.
Participants count birds for as little as 15 minutes on one or more days during the four-day period. They tally the highest number of birds of each species seen together at any one time and report them to the event’s website (www.birdcount.org). It’s free, fun, and easy — and it helps the birds.
In 2010, more than half of the participants surveyed considered themselves beginner or intermediate birders. They submitted more than 97,300 check-lists, reporting more than 900 species and creating the continent’s largest instantaneous snapshot of bird populations ever recorded.
The Central Kentucky Wildlife Refuge is a 500-acre preserve, located 13 miles from Danville (on Carpenter Creek Road just off Ky. 37) in the Parksville knob land and bordering a stretch of the North Rolling Fork. It includes five main trails (one over a knob), a bluebird trail with a dozen bluebird boxes, four ponds, a bird blind, an education center/pavilion, and an observation gazebo. The refuge, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2005, is a non- profit organization and relies on donations and volunteers for upkeep. For more information, go to www.ckwr.org.
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Customs 2013 is a programme which gives the national customs administrations of the EU, together with the European Commission, the opportunity to co-operate in areas of common and high interest. It runs from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2013 and provides a legal and financial base for
- Reinforcing security and safety within the Community and at the external border;
- Strengthening the fight against fraud and protecting the financial and economic interests of the Community and Member States;
- Increasing the competitiveness of European business by speeding up customs procedures partially through the creation of a European paperless electronic customs environment.
The EU has to be a strong economic and trade partner in the world economy. Customs have an important role to play to ensure the competitiveness of the European trade environment. The increased trade volume crossing the borders, the complexity of the modern supply chain, the number of parties involved and the speed with which goods are exchanged today make the work of Customs administrations more complex. Trade facilitation aims at minimising the burden placed on trade in relation to customs legislation and procedures. The application of a new Modernised customs code and the implementation of a paperless customs environment should contribute to this broad objective of trade facilitation. In doing so, there should be a balance between trade facilitation and the protection of the EU against illicit traffic.
Strengthening security and safety
The operating environment and the role of Customs are continuously evolving. Customs continues to play a key role in the collection of customs duties and the application of tariffs. However, the current Customs work is increasingly linked to the security of the Community and in particular with securing the external border, the prevention of money laundering and trade in counterfeit goods.
Customs has a role in protecting the EU from entry of goods that might endanger the safety or health of the European citizen. Customs have to deal with an ever larger number of control issues, involving environmental, health protection and security issues. It concerns for instance the trade in drug precursors, checking of radiation levels, and importation of prohibited foodstuffs. Customs is developing a rapid information system to advise all Customs offices of potential high risk cargo.
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From a judging FrontBurnervian:
I saw a number of the posts regarding the photo ID law and felt compelled to respond now that I’ve experienced the process as an election judge:
1. The request for a voter registration card or photo ID is entirely reasonable when you have voting for several precincts at 1 location, such as Reverchon Park. We had approximately 10 precincts. If you don’t have your voter registration card, there is no way of knowing which line you should be in. With the registration card, the clerks can put you right in the proper line because they know what precinct you are voting in. Without the card, a voter can wait for 30 minutes, get to the clerk, and as each clerk may only be handling 2-3 precincts, the voter could be in the wrong line and have to go to another line and repeat the process all over again.
2. I cannot speak for every precinct, but the notion that precinct workers or judges are trying to suppress votes is far from reality. First of all, I think almost all election volunteers take the process seriously and want people that are registered to vote to get their ballots Every now and then an early voter would try to vote twice or some other irregularity would occur, but they are quickly addressed, and if there is any issue, the voter can always sign a provisional ballot. Of course, each deviation from the norm takes time for the election clerks / judges, and that is why the lines can be long and move slow.
Bottom line – when there are several hundred people waiting to vote, if everyone cooperates and bring their registration cards, the process moves much faster. I would bet that less than 40% of voters bring their cards with them.
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* In today's cultural marketplace, truth is often hard to find. How can we live abundantly and triumphantly in a sin-sick world? Drawing on Jeremiah's letter to the Babylonian exiles, Parshall examines issues such as evangelization, marriage, sacrifice, and other topics to open your eyes to the poverty of the world's message---and the richness of God's Word. 176 pages, softcover from Moody.
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The book is filled with a wide range of topics that relate to the world we live in today. The author, who is a well known radio talk host, uses biblical principles to write about how Christians should react and relate to what is going on in the world around us. I gave this book 4/5 stars for a couple reasons. My first reason is it has lots and lots of words! I know that is what makes a book but sometimes the paragraphs would just go on and on! Another reason is how complicated some of the paragraphs felt as I read through them. I had to reread some of them just to get to the point of what was being written. On the positive side I did walk away from the book with a better understanding of how important it is to read your Bible every day.
I would like to thank the publisher for the copy of this book I enjoyed reading. I gave an honest review based on my opinion of what I read.
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Based on writings in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, the prophet Jeremiah’s instructions from God to the Israelites in Babylon, and other historical teachings Parshall builds her theses that we should be evangelists and also be involved in the culture. The “Market Place of Ideas” can be a trap and needs truths that God’s people understand.
The author discusses issues prevalent in today’s society that are “bad ideas leading to bad choices with even worse consequences.” Followers of God need to actively counteract these ideas instead of being influenced by them. These include present day behaviors involving marriage, the family, materialism and the life of unborn, for example.
A clearly thought out presentation, Buyer Beware can motivate people to consider better solutions to social problems. The author presents practical actions that range from easy to more difficult, but can impact the culture for good. Jeremiah’s message was to ‘work for the good of the city where you live’, because that brings peace for everyone as God desires.
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Media Contact: Dave Lavallee 401-874-2116
National expert on Title IX, sports to speak at URI Dec. 10
Program will allow audience to provide comment to federal panel
KINGSTON, R.I. -- November 20, 2002 -- Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Womens Sports Foundation, will present "Title IX and Sports: Rooting Out Misconceptions and Having Your Say," Tuesday, Dec. 10 at the University of Rhode Island.
The program, which is free and open to the public, will run from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 271 of the Chafee Social Science Center on the Kingston Campus.
"The students who planned the program wanted to create a dialogue among individuals who disagree over Title IX and sports," said Christine Wilson, assistant director of student leadership at URI. "We usually speak only to those with whom we agree about controversial issues, but we hope this program will attract people with many different opinions and experiences with Title IX."
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.
The first part of the program is a teach-in with Lopiano, a woman The Sporting News called one of the "100 Most Influential People in Sports." Before her work with the Womens Sports Foundation, she served as the director of womens athletics at the University of Texas and the president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. She sits on the executive board of the United States Olympic Committee Executive Board.
She earned her bachelors degree at South Connecticut State University and her masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California. She has coached college mens and womens volleyball and womens basketball and softball.
As a student-athlete Lopiano participated in 26 national championships in four sports and was a nine-time All American at four different positions in softball. She is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame, National Softball Hall of Fame, Texas Womens Hall of Fame, and Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame.
The second part of the program is an open forum modeled after the regional meetings being run by the National Commission on Opportunity in Athletics.
Audience members will have a chance to voice their opinions and discuss their experiences related to Title IX and sports. The opinions will be submitted to the commission, which the U.S. Department of Education appointed to collect information to analyze issues and obtain broad public comment on Title IX.
The program is sponsored by the URI Student Athlete Advisory Committee, Student Senate, Ram Choices and the Rhode Island Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
For more information or to make arrangements for individuals with disabilities, contact 401-874-5282.
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My wife, Angie, and I saw “2016: Obama’s America” recently while in the Denver area. I hope that every citizen will take the time and be open-minded enough to see the movie, too. It was produced by Gerald Molen, the producer of the Academy Award-winning “Schindler’s List.” The author and co-director is Dinesh D’Souza, an intellectual, a distinguished author and journalist, a conservative and an honest man in every respect.
I have spent a lifetime in service to our country. I have known many who died in service to our country and I almost lost my life, too. Spending more than six years as a prisoner of war gave me time to think about our country, with all of its blessings, and, yes, its flaws — and my responsibilities.
In my lifetime, we truly have been remarkable and exceptional. We have been a force for good throughout the world. We have led the way and helped remove dictators and tyrants, and we have sacrificed so much national blood and treasure in those causes. We have given millions the opportunities of freedom and independence. We, unlike any other nation, have come to the aid of those suffering in natural disasters.
I am proud of our country, the goodness of our history and our continuing efforts to correct our flaws.
President Obama is the antithesis of the America I have known — the America for which I have willingly accepted personal sacrifice, extreme challenges and hardships, and lost many friends doing the same thing.
Obama’s re-election would mean a majority of the voters have chosen to give away the freedom and opportunity for which countless thousands have sacrificed and paid the ultimate price. If he is re-elected, the blood of our demise as a vibrant, exceptional and generous nation will be on our hands, and the ghosts of those who sacrificed so much for us will be stirred.
Those who allow this by their own lethargy and those who vote for Obama will have chosen to steer our country toward darkness, unlike anything anyone living today has ever experienced.
It is time to grow up and vote for the founding principles of our country and to vote with intelligence, not emotion. Obama’s America will not be able to do the great things of the past that made us exceptional — the greatest force in history for freedom, economic growth, innovation and generosity. Obama’s vision of America is based on economic and social policies and philosophy that never have worked, but have been tried repeatedly in modern history and failed.
His re-election would be a disaster for us all, especially for our children and grandchildren. His re-election would be an insult, a crime and a tragedy to all of us — and those consequences, and the mentality behind them, have been in the spotlight recently at the Democratic National Convention, where lies and absurdities prevailed. I hope you took the time to watch the spectacle.
I think of our granddaughters, triplets now almost 3 years old. I consider a vote for Obama an extremely abusive act toward those little girls, one that I will not take lightly. We Americans have always passed along a country that is better, more prosperous, more noble and more generous, economically and militarily stronger, more moral and rational, and more willing to lead and sacrifice for freedom and the freedom others deserve, than we inherited.
Voting for Obama is a vote to abandon our history, our heritage, our character, our obligations and our future. I am reminded of our Founding Fathers, of the sacrifices of so many that made my America possible, and how such a vote would do great harm to those adorable little granddaughters and my country.
I recently received some thoughts from a dear and courageous old friend from our difficult days in Hanoi, who, like me, was watching the Democratic National Convention. I agree with him totally and wanted to share his thoughts:
“If those folks really do represent half or more of the electorate, then this certainly is not the America I grew up in — as a poor kid, with an opportunity to better myself, through my own intelligence and hard work. It is a socialist/communist country that will rapidly kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, to soon thereafter become perhaps the largest poverty-stricken, Third World country on the planet!
“If that is my future, then I resent it and I’m offended by it (for all the good that will do ...). Anyone who is eligible to vote and doesn’t do so in November will absolutely deserve the government their inaction secures for us all! For my part, however, having lived in a communist prison for nearly six-and-one-half years, I will resist, in every way possible, with all means at my disposal, until my dying breath!”
To that, I say amen, and God bless you!
This election is too important. Those who would vote for Obama want the government to run our lives. They wish for the producers in our country to support the takers and looters who contribute little to nothing. They revel in envy and class warfare (something that is foreign to me). If you watched the convention speakers, you have seen them denigrating the country I love, the religion I grew up with, the hard work, the traditions and history I treasure, the independence and freedom that have been America, and the honor of those who sacrificed so much for us.
This is a destructive crowd that is seemingly — and maybe emotionally and immaturely — hell-bent on destroying the country I love.
Please see the movie “2016: Obama’s America.” Share this with friends, family and loved ones. Those among you who disagree with me, take a chance on enlightenment and see the movie. If you have not read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” you should. Written in 1957, the book describes an America where the “takers” (those expecting the producers and government to give them everything, to share the profits of their endeavors) demand more and more and the bureaucrats and politicians comply — and America descends into darkness.
I heard interviews with Democratic delegates on the Wednesday night of the Democratic National Convention saying profit should be outlawed. You will be amazed at how accurately “Atlas Shrugged” reflects where we are heading tomorrow if Obama is re-elected. We must defeat Obama. I say again, my tolerance for his supporters has ceased to exist, as likely will a few friendships. But, that is OK.
Wake up, America. It is almost too late.
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TAMPA BAY, Florida -- Before the American Red Cross can help people potentially affected by Issac, they have to prepare volunteers and shelters.
Four-hundred volunteers have come from as far away as Alaska, with more expected over the next couple days. They're putting together shelter kits, monitoring Issac's path, and helping with decisions about where and when to open up shelters in schools, churches, and other locations. They serve a big region, going as far south as Charlotte County.
As volunteers coordinate the best way to help people impacted by Isaac, they say their own planning is only made better by yours.
"Expect a lot of flooding, and prepare now," says Janet McGuire with the American Red Cross' Tampa Bay Chapter. "We're going to have power outages, so make sure you have everything stocked up."
Volunteers and staff will be looking to alerts that you can get as well. You can download the free Red Cross Hurricane App onto your iPhone or Android. The app also provides shelter locations and other information you might need to get through a storm.
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THURSDAY. JUNE 28th. IN CONVENTION
Mr. L. MARTIN resumed his discourse, contending that the Genl. Govt. ought to be formed for the States, not for individuals: that if the States were to have votes in proportion to their numbers of people, it would be the same thing whether their representatives were chosen by the Legislatures or the people; the smaller States would be equally enslaved; that if the large States have the same interest with the smaller as was urged, there could be no danger in giving them an equal vote; they would not injure themselves, and they could not injure the large ones on that supposition without injuring themselves and if the interests, were not the same, the inequality of suffrage wd. be dangerous to the smaller States: that it will be in vain to propose any plan offensive to the rulers of the States, whose influence over the people will certainly prevent their adopting it: that the large States were weak at present in proportion to their extent: & could only be made formidable to the small ones, by the weight of their votes; that in case a dissolution of the Union should take place, the small States would have nothing to fear from their power; that if in such a case the three great States should league themselves together, the other ten could do so too: & that he had rather see partial confederacies take place, than the plan on the table.
This was the substance of the residue of his discourse which was delivered with much diffuseness & considerable vehemence.
Mr. LANSING & Mr. DAYTON moved to strike out "not." so that the 7 art: might read that the rights 1 of suffrage in the 1st. branch ought to be according to the rule established by the Confederation."
Mr. DAYTON expressed great anxiety that the question might not be put till tomorrow; Governr. Livingston being kept away by indisposition, and the representation of N. Jersey thereby suspended.
Mr. WILLIAMSON. thought that if any political truth could be grounded on mathematical demonstration, it was that if the States were equally sovereign now, and parted with equal proportions of sovereignty, that they would remain equally sovereign. He could not comprehend how the smaller States would be injured in the case, and wished some Gentleman would vouchsafe a solution of it. He observed that the small States, if they had a plurality of votes would have an interest in throwing the burdens off their own shoulders on those of the large ones. He begged that the expected addition of new States from the Westward might be kept in 2 view. They would be small States, they would be poor States, they would be unable to pay in proportion to their numbers; their distance from market rendering the produce of their labour less valuable; they would consequently be tempted to combine for the purpose of laying burdens on commerce & consumption which would fall with greatest 3 weight on the old States.
Mr. MADISON, Sd. he was much disposed to concur in any expedient not inconsistent with fundamental principles, that could remove the difficulty concerning the rule of representation. But he could neither be convinced that the rule contended for was just, nor 4 necessary for the safety of the small States agst. the large States. That it was not just, had been conceded by Mr. Breerly & Mr. Patterson themselves. The expedient proposed by them was a new partition of the territory of the U. States. The fallacy of the reasoning drawn from the equality of Sovereign States in the formation of compacts, lay in confounding mere Treaties, in which were specified certain duties to which the parties were to be bound, and certain rules by which their subjects were to be reciprocally governed in their intercourse, with a compact by which an authority was created paramount to the parties, & making laws for the government of them. If France, England & Spain were to enter into a Treaty for the regulation of commerce &c with the Prince of Monacho & 4 or 5 other of the smallest sovereigns of Europe, they would not hesitate to treat as equals, and to make the regulations perfectly reciprocal. Wd. the case be the same, if a Council were to be formed of deputies from each with authority and discretion, to raise money, levy troops, determine the value of coin &c? Would 30 or 40. million 5 of people submit their fortunes into the hands, of a few thousands? If they did it would only prove that they expected more from the terror of their superior force, than they feared from the selfishness of their feeble associates. Why are Counties of the same states represented in proportion to their numbers? Is it because the representatives are chosen by the people themselves? So will be the representatives in the Nationl. Legislature. Is it because, the larger have more at stake than the smaller? The case will be the same with the larger & smaller States. Is it because the laws are to operate immediately on their persons & properties? The same is the case in some degree as the articles of confederation stand; the same will be the case in a far greater degree under the plan proposed to be substituted. In the cases of captures, of piracies, and of offences in a federal army; the property & persons of individuals depend on the laws of Congs. By the plan proposed a compleat power of taxation, the highest prerogative of supremacy is proposed to be vested in the National Govt. Many other powers are added which assimilate it to the Govt. of individual States. The negative proposed on the State laws, will make it an essential branch of the State Legislatures & of course will require that it should be exercised by a body established on like principles with the other 6 branches of those Legislatures. -- That it is not necessary to secure the small States agst. the large ones he conceived to be equally obvious: Was a combination of the large ones dreaded? this must arise either from some interest common to Va. Masts. & Pa. & distinguishing them from the other States or from the mere circumstance of similarity of size. Did any such common interest exist? In point of situation they could not have been more effectually separated from each other by the most jealous citizen of the most jealous State. In point of manners, Religion, and the other circumstances which sometimes beget affection between different communities, they were not more assimilated than the other States. In point of the staple productions they were as dissimilar as any three other States in the Union. The Staple of Masts. was fish, of Pa. flower, of Va. Tobo. Was a combination to be apprehended from the mere circumstance of equality of size? Experience suggested no such danger. The journals of Congs. did not present any peculiar association of these States in the votes recorded. It had never been seen that different Counties in the same State, conformable in extent, but disagreeing in other circumstances, betrayed a propensity to such combinations. Experience rather taught a contrary lesson. Among individuals of superior eminence & weight in Society, rivalships were much more frequent than coalitions. Among independent nations, pre-eminent over their neighbours, the same remark was verified. Carthage & Rome tore one another to pieces instead of uniting their forces to devour the weaker nations of the Earth. The Houses of Austria & France were hostile as long as they remained the greatest powers of Europe. England & France have succeeded to the pre-eminence & to the enmity. To this principle we owe perhaps our liberty. A coalition between those powers would have been fatal to us. Among the principal members of antient & Modern confederacies, we find the same effect from the same cause. The contintions, not the Coalitions of Sparta, Athens & Thebes, proved fatal to the smaller members of the Amphyctionic Confederacy. The contentions, not the combinations of Prussia & Austria, have distracted & oppressed the Germanic 7 empire. Were the large States formidable singly to their smaller neighbours? On this supposition the latter ought to wish for such a general Govt. as will operate with equal energy on the former as on themselves. The more lax the band, the more liberty the larger will have to avail themselves of their superior force. Here again Experience was an instructive monitor. What is ye situation of the weak compared with the strong in those stages of civilization in which the violence of individuals is least controuled by an efficient Government? The Heroic period of Antient Greece the feudal licentiousness of the middle ages of Europe, the existing condition of the American Savages, answer this question. What is the situation of the minor sovereigns in the great society of independent nations, in which the more powerful are under no controul but the nominal authority of the law of Nations? Is not the danger to the former exactly in proportion to their weakness. But there are cases still more in point. What was the condition of the weaker members of the Amphyctionic Confederacy. Plutarch [ 8 life of Themistocles] will inform us that it happened but too often that the strongest cities corrupted & awed the weaker, and that Judgment went in favor of the more powerful party. What is the condition of the lesser states in the German Confederacy? We all know that they are exceedingly trampled upon; and that they owe their safety as far as they enjoy it, partly to their enlisting themselves, under the rival banners of the pre-eminent members, partly to alliances with neighbouring Princes which the Constitution of the Empire does not prohibit. What is the state of things in the lax system of the Dutch Confederacy? Holland contains about 1/2 the people, supplies about 1/2 of 9 the money, and by her influence, silently & indirectly governs the whole republic. In a word; the two extremes before us are a perfect separation & a perfect incorporation, of the 13 States. In the first case they would be independent nations subject to no law, but the law of nations. In the last, they would be mere counties of one entire republic, subject to one common law. In the first case the smaller States would have every thing to fear from the larger. In the last they would have nothing to fear. The true policy of the small States therefore lies in promoting those principles & that form of Govt. which will most approximate the States to the condition of counties. Another consideration may be added. If the Genl. Govt. be feeble, the large States distrusting its continuance, and foreseeing that their importance & security may depend on their own size & strength, will never submit to a partition. Give to the Genl. Govt. sufficient energy & permanency, & you remove the objection. Gradual partitions of the large, & junctions of the small States will be facilitated, and time may effect that equalization, which is wished for by the small States now, but can never be accomplished at once.
Mr. WILSON. The leading argument of those who contend for equality of votes among the States is that the States as such being equal, and being represented not as districts of individuals, but in their political & corporate capacities, are entitled to an equality of suffrage. According to this mode of reasoning the representation of the boroughs in Engld which has been allowed on all hands to be the rotten part of the Constitution, is perfectly right & proper. They are like the States represented in their corporate capacity like the States therefore they are entitled to equal voices, old Sarum to as many as London. And instead of the injury supposed hitherto to be done to London, the true ground of complaint lies with old Sarum: for London instead of two which is her proper share, sends four representatives to Parliament.
Mr. SHERMAN. The question is not what rights naturally belong to men 10; but how they may be most equally & effectually guarded in Society. And if some give up more than others in order to attain 11 this end, there can be no room for complaint. To do otherwise, to require an equal concession from all, if it would create danger to the rights of some, would be sacrificing the end to the means. The rich man who enters into Society along with the poor man, gives up more than the poor man, yet with an equal vote he is equally safe. Were he to have more votes than the poor man in proportion to his superior stake, the rights of the poor man would immediately cease to be secure. This consideration prevailed when the articles of Confederation were formed.
The determination of the question from 12 striking out the word "not" was put off till tomorrow at the request of the Deputies of N. York. See opposite page & insert the Speech of Doctr. F in this place. 13
The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that Service
Mr. SHERMAN seconded the motion.
Mr. HAMILTON & several others expressed their apprehensions that however proper such a resolution might have been at the beginning of the convention, it might at this late day, I. 14 bring on it some disagreeable animadversions. & 2. 15 lead the public to believe that the embarrassments and dissensions within the Convention, had suggested this measure. It was answered by Docr. F. Mr. SHERMAN & others, that the past omission of a duty could not justify a further omission that the rejection of such a proposition would expose the Convention to more unpleasant animadversions than the adoption of it: and that the alarm out of doors that might be excited for the state of things within, would at least be as likely to do good as ill.
Mr. WILLIAMSON, observed that the true cause of the omission could not be mistaken. The Convention had no funds.
Mr. RANDOLPH proposed in order to give a favorable aspect to ye. measure, that a sermon be preached at the request of the convention on 16 4th of July, the anniversary of Independence; & thenceforward prayers be used 17 in ye. Convention every morning. Dr. FRANKn. 2ded. this motion After several unsuccessful attempts for silently postponing the 18 matter by adjourng. the adjournment was at length carried, without any vote on the motion.
1. The transcript uses the word "rights" in the singular.
2. The words "taken into" are substituted in the transcript for "kept in."
3. The word "greater" is substituted in the transcript for "greatest."
4. The words "that it was" are here inserted in the transcript.
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A Buddhist Twist on Persuasion
by Chris St. Hilaire, WowOWow.com, Oct 11, 2010
Author and strategist Chris St. Hilaire reveals six ways to unify people for a common goal.
Long Beach, California (USA) -- I’m on a mission to change the way the world views persuasion. Despite the fact that we use persuasion in nearly every conversation – at work, at home, with friends, in stores and restaurants – this basic communication skill has gotten a bad rap.
Say "persuasion" and people think "used-car salesman." Yet whether you’re trying to convince your teenager to drive safely, your spouse to take a few days off work or your colleagues to try your latest strategy, you’re using persuasion all the time. And chances are, you’d like to be better at it.
True persuasion isn’t about arm-twisting or manipulating. It’s not about tricking people or bullying them. It’s about unifying people around a goal. Unity is the key, and the way to get there is by looking Eastward, toward the Buddhist concept of the ego. According to Eastern thought, inside each of us is a constant struggle between the ego that says, "I’m different. I’m special," and the spirit that knows we’re all the same. The ego wants to separate from others; it’s fear-based. The spirit wants to unite. When you’re trying to persuade, coming from the spirit – from a place of unity and inclusion – is the most effective approach. The following six New Persuasion strategies will make your listeners feel safe, included and eager to unify around your goal.
Put your ego aside and focus on the egos of others. In order to persuade, you must first make sure your listeners feel safe and included. So use the first five minutes of any meeting to put others at ease, not to impress them with your own wonderfulness. If it’s your coworkers, thank them for taking a few minutes out of their hectic day to meet with you. Ditto if you’re calling on a new client – and mention something positive about their organization or their personal accomplishments. (You’ve researched them first, of course). That teenager? Bring food. No one’s too old for ice cream, and they can’t argue if their mouth is full. At least for a few minutes.
Focus on the goal, and let others define it. Confusion and discord make people feel anxious and threatened, and unity makes them feel safe. People unify around a goal. Positive persuasion means letting the goal evolve from the group, not simply presenting your idea. To do this, ask, "What’s our goal? What are we trying to accomplish here today?" Let people give you the answer, and repeat what they say to make sure you’re all on the same page. Give people choices (first making sure you’ll be comfortable with either choice). Use their points to support your goal, and tie points together using other people’s suggestions. Finally, boil the goal down into one or two simple sentences that everyone agrees with. Now they’re invested – it’s their goal too.
Aim for the undecideds. Most people think of "undecideds" in terms of politics, where undecided voters often make the critical difference. There are undecideds in every group, and they are always important when you’re aiming to persuade. Undecideds typically see both sides of an issue to a fault – they truly cannot make up their minds. Winning them over requires subtlety. You can’t just go around the room urging the undecideds to take a stand. Instead, you must let them witness the action from the sidelines, especially the way you handle people who disagree with you. The more inclusive and evenhanded you are when dealing with your opposition, the more the undecideds will trust you because they’ll see that you can listen to all sides. You may never win the support of every single person in the room, but you don’t need to. You just need to win enough undecideds to sway the majority in your direction.
Use third-party validation to bolster your plan. If you’re making a presentation, third-party validation will help your listeners overcome their natural fear of being the first to support your idea. The validation can come from a colleague ("Marissa over in sales was especially excited about this product"), clients ("The reason we have so many good quotes on our website is …") or statistics ("According to the Times, this sort of promotion can increase sales by 25 percent in the first month"). Risk makes people feel vulnerable, and third-party validation makes your idea less risky.
Don’t say no; say, "Let’s try this." There are plenty of bad ideas out there, often bursting from the lips of your colleagues or clients (or family). Understandably, none of them wants to hear you say no. No is a rejection. It makes people feel threatened. Buddhism advises never to swim against the tide, but instead, to redirect it. Rather than nixing a bad idea, make sure you and the other person agree on the goal, then suggest other ways to achieve it. Add to their plan, don’t destroy it. If your client wants you to run an ad touting exaggerated claims for his product, don’t say no. Instead suggest an ad with quotes from satisfied customers. If your husband wants to have a party and you can’t stand the thought of all that prep, redirect the idea and add to it. First, agree with the goal ("I’d love to see those guys!"). Then, redirect it ("How about if we all go to the game together that night?"). Open up the discussion and keep adding ideas until you find one you both like.
The New Persuasion is all about recognizing that other people have egos, points of view and great ideas that will make your idea stronger. Learn to persuade through unifying, and your life will become less stressful and a whole lot more satisfying.
Chris St. Hilaire is the author (with Lynette Padwa) of 27 Powers of Persuasion: Simple Strategies to Seduce Audiences and Win Allies (Prentice Hall Press). He is an award-winning message strategist who has developed communications programs for some of the nation’s most powerful corporations, legal teams and politicians. The first marketer in the courtroom, Chris is the founder of Jury Impact, a national jury consulting firm, and M4 Strategies, a California-based messaging firm that specializes in influencing public policy. Chris’s persuasion advice has been featured in Investor’s Business Daily, and he has provided legal and political commentary in USA Today and on national news broadcasts, including NBC, C-SPAN and Fox News. He lives in Long Beach, California. Visit the book’s website by clicking here. Author photo by Jason Wallis.
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The Marmet Technique is the most widely used form of hand expression. Developed by Chele Marmet of the Lactation Institute, the technique was designed for long term expressing. This is the most cost effective way to express milk. You only need your hands and a clean container. It’s also just as effective as a breast pump.
To begin, wash your hands and procure a clean bowl or jar with a wide mouth. You will use the same techniques to stimulate the let-down reflex that you would ordinarily use for a breast pump. That is looking at pictures of your child, applying warm towels, massaging the breasts, eccetera.
1) First, using only your first two fingers and thumb, place them around the areola about an one inch or so from the nipple. Your fingers should be positioned about noon and 6 (if you want to use a clock face as a guide) and look like a C shape.
2) Next push straight into your chest.
3) Then roll the fingers forward to empty the milk ducts. Avoid pulling or squeezing. This should activate the let-down reflex and milk should squirt into your bowl.
4) Repeat the process several times until the milk duct appears dry. Then rotate your fingers to another position (say 3 and 9) and repeat steps 2 through 3 until you have emptied the breast.
You can use both hands on each breast but not two hands on one breast.
Take collected milk and put it in a freezer or refrigerator ready container if the one you used initially is not.
Even if you don’t plan on using the Marmet technique as your main way to express milk, it’s still important to know how to use it. You may need to relieve engorgement or you may need to entice a sleepy/sick baby to eat by expressing a little milk. It’s also great for squirting breast milk into an infected eye or bottom or for nipple care.
If you prefer to watch the technique in action, there are several online videos that can show you how it’s used.
Article by Laura Weirich
Laura Weirich has been married for four years and has two sons. She's been breastfeeding for nearly two years and currently tandem nurses her toddler and infant. A big proponent of breastfeeding, she's been educating her friends and family about the benefits of breastfeeding and helping other women along the way. When she's not nursing, she chases a toddler all day, washes cloth diapers, tries to catch a few zs and reads up on the latest research about children.
Laura has written 33 awesome articles for Natural Family Today.
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State Bar Advises Attorneys Oct. 29 on How to Deal With Stress
Albuquerque, N.M. – Recognizing that stress could lead to compromises in competent representation, the State Bar is offering a continuing legal education seminar to address the issues attorneys face in dealing with the stress related to today’s economic environment. An Attorney’s Guide to Dealing With Stress in Tough Economic Times will be held Oct. 29 at the State Bar Center in Albuquerque. The State Bar Committee on Women and the Legal Profession and the Lawyer’s Assistance Committee are co-sponsoring the continuing legal education event.
Special guest speakers include the Honorable William F. Lang, former Chief Judge of the 2nd Judicial District Court.
Topics will include recognizing and dealing with stress, ethical consequences, and positive techniques for dealing with stress. In addition, attorneys will share personal experiences.
More information may be found at http://www.nmbarcle.org/additionalfiles/907/CLE_CommOnWomen-1029.pdf.
The State Bar of New Mexico was organized in 1886 and is composed of more than 8500 members. Its purposes are to aid the courts in administering justice and preserving the rule of law, and to foster a high standard of integrity and competence within the legal profession.
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By William Fulton, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: William Fulton is vice president for policy and programs at Smart Growth America, and a former mayor of Ventura, California. The views expressed are his own.
Earlier this month, Global Public Square addressed a critical issue at this moment in American history, as towns and cities nationwide look to bounce back from the recession.
“Why are U.S. cities going bankrupt?” is a question everyone should be asking, but the real answer isn’t necessarily as straightforward as the one Fareed Zakaria suggested. Or perhaps it might be even simpler, depending on how you look at it.
It’s true that pensions are an increasingly visible strain on city budgets. As the former mayor of Ventura – a California city that is not going bankrupt – I can attest that rapidly rising pension costs are a huge problem. But there are other, more fundamental factors driving cities to bankruptcy. Dealing with the underlying causes of poor revenue creation and out-of-control debt accumulation is a more nuanced – but ultimately more effective – solution to our country’s economic woes.
The way in which we plan and build our towns and cities has a direct impact on how well they do. Financial resiliency and prosperity is woven into the very fabric of cities. Where businesses go, where houses go, where roads go, where sidewalks go, where farms and natural spaces go – all of these things collectively affect a community’s economic performance and the cost of providing services there. Put things closer together, the services cost less. Put things farther from each other, the services cost more for the jurisdiction and its taxpayers. But in the case of many American towns and cities, we haven’t always planned and built in this fiscally conservative way – and that’s one of the biggest reasons why cities are struggling today.
When sprawling new development happens, it’s easy to mistake that for prosperity. New buildings and wide roads look great when they first meet the eye. But over time, distant development costs more, gradually bleeding taxpayers and putting the hurt on municipal budgets.
Think about it. Every time a new, spread-out subdivision is built far away from existing infrastructure, somebody has to pay for a bunch of roads that serve a small number of residents. And sewer and water lines too. And fire trucks that must travel farther to serve fewer people. And police cars. And ambulances. And school buses. And dial-a-ride buses. And – in many parts of the country – snowplows.
The cost is enormous. One study in Charlotte, North Carolina, found that a fire station in a low-density neighborhood serves one-quarter the number of households and at four times the cost of an otherwise identical fire station in a less spread out neighborhood. That sort of inefficiency adds up and multiplies as you take into account the hundreds of services cities must provide. What seems cheap on the one hand isn’t always when you look at it over the long haul.
Cities can sometimes stay in the black temporarily by approving new development and getting new revenue to pay for the costs. But that’s really just a Ponzi scheme. When a real estate bust hits – as it did starting in 2008 – there’s no more new development to subsidize sprawling development, and cities start to run in the red. That’s partly what happened in Stockton and San Bernardino.
There’s no silver bullet to fixing financial issues, especially ones as endemic as those facing America’s towns and cities. But planning for the long-term, investing in existing communities, building in a fiscally prudent way and examining changes to real estate market demand are essential first steps.
Balanced budgets don’t just happen. They happen because someone took the time upfront to check the costs and to evaluate what we can afford and what will add the most value. When we do a better job building with the future in mind and investing in what matters, rising pension costs and other secondary concerns will be more manageable.
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NIST Physicists are Finalists for Service to America Medals
For Immediate Release: September 16, 2008
Contact: Michael Baum
Two physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been named finalists for the 2008 Service to America Medals, presented by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in federal civil service.
NIST Fellow Judah Levine is one of five finalists for the Career Achievement Medal, which will recognize “a federal employee for significant accomplishments throughout a lifetime of achievement in public service.” Levine has worked for three decades at NIST’s Boulder, Colo., campus in the Time and Frequency Division, helping create a system for synchronizing time that is used by financial markets and computer networks and accessed more than 2.5 billion times a day.
NIST scientist Joshua Pomeroy is one of four finalists for the Call to Service Medal, which will “recognize a federal employee whose professional achievements reflect the important contributions that a new generation brings to public service.” At NIST’s Gaithersburg campus, Pomeroy has employed highly charged ion beams to reduce the size of magnetic sensors used to read data on disk drives. The work promises further miniaturization in data storage.
Pomeroy and Levine are among the 29 finalists chosen from nearly 500 nominations submitted by federal agencies. The medal winners will be announced at an evening ceremony on Tuesday, Sept. 16. More information on the medals and the finalist citations may be found at http://servicetoamericamedals.org/SAM/finalists08/.
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Server sprawl is a situation in which multiple, under-utilized servers take up more space and consume more resources than can be justified by their workload. Common causes of server sprawl include the purchase of a large number of inexpensive, low-end servers and the practice of dedicating servers to single applications. Server sprawl may be confined to a single server room, but it can in some cases be spread across multiple facilities in widespread geographical locations, especially in cases where one company has acquired another one or where two companies have merged.
According to Tony Iams, Senior Analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, NY, servers typically run at 15-20% of their capacity. Businesses are increasingly turning to server consolidation measures, such as the use of blade servers, as a means of cutting unnecessary costs and maximizing return on investment (ROI).
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The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)
Description: A family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia, assist in the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white calf. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, coldly refusing it the milk it needs to survive. In accordance with an ancient ritual, a musician is summoned from a distant village--the calf's last hope.
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Sep. 6, 2011 In Leigh syndrome, infants are born apparently healthy only to develop movement and breathing disorders that worsen over time, often leading to death by the age of 3. The problem is that the mitochondria responsible for powering their cells can't keep up with the demand for energy in their developing brains.
Now, researchers reporting in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have discovered a new genetic defect that can lead to the disease. The findings were made by sequencing a subset of about 1,000 genes encoding proteins active in the mitochondria in just two individuals with Leigh syndrome.
"This shows the huge potential of sequencing technologies to improve diagnosis," says David Thorburn of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia. "It's an all-comers approach that can be applied to individuals, even with no family history."
Leigh syndrome is the most common recognized mitochondrial disease of childhood, and the new genetic discovery adds to a growing list of about 40 genes known to cause Leigh syndrome when mutated.
The gene they uncovered encodes an enzyme active in mitochondria known as MTFMT (for mitochondrial methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase). (Mitochondria carry DNA of their own and their operation depends on a combination of proteins encoded locally and others encoded in the nuclear genome of a cell and imported.)
The MTFMT enzyme encoded in the mitochondrial DNA is responsible for converting a transfer RNA (tRNA) into a form used to initiate protein translation. Without that enzyme, mitochondria fail to translate proteins efficiently leading to the symptoms recognized as Leigh syndrome. Studies in patient skin cells showed that the defects in translation could be corrected by replacing the MTFMT gene.
Although it isn't clear in the case of Leigh syndrome whether a precise molecular diagnosis will necessarily lead to therapies, the current findings represent a meaningful advance.
"It can be very reassuring to families to have a definitive answer," Thorburn says. "They are often referred around from one doctor to another. A diagnosis at least provides some closure to the diagnostic odyssey even without a treatment."
Diagnosis of the disease along with its specific genetic cause can also be informative about the risk a couple has of having another affected child, he adds. The diagnostic information can help in decisions about whether and how to pursue alternative means of having children, for instance through the use of donor sperm or eggs.
In addition to their clinical implications, the new findings offer insight into the biology and evolution of human mitochondria. Mitochondria originated from bacteria that were engulfed by another cell, and their use of the modified tRNA to initiate translation is a relic of that microbial past.
"It's not clear why this requirement would have been maintained," Thorburn says. "It means that if mitochondrial proteins enter the circulation, say after a traumatic injury, they are mistaken for bacterial proteins, triggering a systemic inflammatory response."
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GenealogyThe web links below are in alphabetical order by subject. We have no control over the content, accuracy, or timeliness of the sites to which we link, nor for sites accessed through secondary links. Please Contact Us if you find a link that needs updating. Thank you.
A free online library of cemetery records from thousands of cemeteries across the world. Membership may be required for some website links.
Browse the issues of the Colfax Gazette from 1893-1932 on the Chronicling America website or search other historic U.S. newspapers.
A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
Search passenger lists of those who immigrated from 1892-1924 into the Unites States and use other genealogical resources.
A free website sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provided to do record searches, learn from tutorials and download free basic genealogical software.
This large subscription database can be accessed for free by library patrons from the Whitman County Library’s website. It includes census records, revolutionary war records, and indexes of books and articles.
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E-mail AskALibrarian@secstate.wa.gov with the name of your ancestor and the date and place of death in Washington State, and they will scan the persons obituary and send it to you via e-mail.
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Above, you see the Jeep parked by the Cemetery (wire fencing), with the same mountain formations in the background as above, by the Notom sign. Those are the south view of the Waterpocket Fold in Capital Reef National Park. You have to really want to see them, to get this view.
Inside the wire fence, each grave is marked (and was protected earlier) by the wooden fences. Above is one, below is another.
Even more interesting to me, perhaps, were the two gravestones with more recent markers:
This was a young man who died at 13 years (1883-1896), John Christian Smith. His father was Jorgen Christiansen - a Danish immigrant (Danish surnames are a story in themselves). In the Wayne County History Class I attended the first Friday of our Utah visit, this year, we learned much of the Mormon Danish settlers in the county of this time period. [Note: I'm not Mormon, but I am 1/4 Danish - so I was especially interested]
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Managing Summertime Heartburn
Summertime means picnics, barbecues, and celebrating the warm weather with friends and family! However, if you suffer from heartburn, barbecued meat and high-fat snack foods may trigger this uncomfortable condition. The exact cause and therefore the best treatments for heartburn and acid reflux are complex and debatable.
In order to digest food, the stomach releases hydrochloride acid (HCL). Between the stomach and the esophagus is the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) muscle, which opens to allow food into the stomach, and then closes to keep the stomach acid from flowing back up the esophagus. If this muscle becomes weak or doesn’t function properly, stomach acids can move into the esophagus, creating the burning sensations of heartburn.
Acid reflux is often considered a problem of too much HCL. However, having too much stomach acid is very rare. In fact, stomach acid levels decline as we grow older. For most it’s not an issue of excess stomach acid – as most of us have low to normal levels – but of keeping the acid from rising into the esophagus.
Although it’s still unclear exactly what causes the LES muscle to weaken, one theory is that the stomach becomes overburdened with the task of digesting food because it does not have enough stomach acid. Without sufficient stomach acid, the food is not being broken down and nutrients are not being effectively delivered to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine that attaches to the stomach. Nutrients are then not delivered adequately into the small intestine where they can be absorbed into the bloodstream. The stomach continues to fill with acid, pepsin, and bile, working hard to break down all the food present. This causes the stomach to expand and become overwhelmed, pushing the gastric juices up, essentially backing up into the esophagus, resulting in acid reflux and symptoms of heartburn.
Other causes of acid reflux are linked to the nervous system. Certain factors may cause abnormal nerve or muscle function in the stomach. These abnormalities can cause impaired motility, which is the inability of muscles to act spontaneously. In this case, the stomach muscles do not contract normally, which causes delays in stomach emptying, increasing the risk for acid back up. Abnormalities in the esophagus itself can account for a large percentage of symptoms. Smoking has also been linked to weakening of the LES muscle.
Over the counter heartburn medications and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) work by turning off many of the “acid pumps” in the stomach’s acid-producing cells. However, proton pump inhibitors like Prevacid, Prilosec and Nexium seriously impair your digestion by significantly reducing the amount of acid in your stomach, impairing your ability to properly digest food. Stomach acid also serves an important purpose for immunity because it kills food-borne pathogens. By reducing your levels of stomach acid with heartburn medication, you increase your risk of food poisoning. Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria responsible for most ulcers and inflammation of your stomach lining, is also a contributing cause of the symptoms of acid reflux. When you suppress the production acid in your stomach, you minimize your body’s ability to kill this dangerous bacterium. Chronic use of OTC heartburn medications can thereby turn into an aggravated cycle as the integrity of your stomach’s environment becomes steadily compromised. Studies have also shown that low stomach acid disrupts calcium metabolism and iron absorption, and may contribute to osteoporosis and iron deficiency anemia. To further complicate the problem, your overall health may worsen because you aren’t getting all the important nutrients from your food. Clearly, normal levels of stomach acid are vital to good health and should not be compromised or reduced.
This summer, try to avoid or minimize high fat meats and deep-fried foods, which tend to sit in the stomach longer. Don’t eat large meals; instead, opt for small meals and snacks. Also avoid acidic fruit, especially tomato products like ketchup and salsa. Try not to overdo it on alcohol, caffeine, or carbonated beverages. Eat your main meal earlier in the day when you are more active, have a lighter meal in the early evening and do not eat before bed.
If you are a loyal antacid user, decrease the dosages and frequency slowly instead of quitting immediately. After you have reduced or stopped medication, try an over the counter betaine hydrochloric supplement. If you have a current ulcer, you should not take hydrochloric acid. It is best to do this under the supervision of a knowledgeable health care practitioner. Normalizing your stomach acid will enable your body to better digest your food, and will help protect your stomach from H. pylori bacteria, as well as bring relief from your heartburn symptoms. An alternative method to try is deglycyrrhized licorice (DGL). This demulcent herb heals and soothes the esophageal lining. The use of “bitter”, and herbal tincture containing a combination of bitter-tasting herbs is an ancient folk remedy for signaling your entire digestive system to make the appropriate juices and enzymes in anticipation of a meal. Bitters can be found at your local health food store. Take a small amount 10 minutes prior to your meals. Over time this will retrain your entire digestive system to a normal natural secretion pattern.
In addition, to improve and strengthen your overall digestion, I recommend including zinc, enzymes and herbs known for digestive health benefits. It’s best to use an integrated formula, complete with enzymes such as Amylase, Alpha-galactosidase, protease, phytase, invertase, and lipase, as well as deglycyrrhizinated licorice and ginger. I also suggest adding probiotics to your daily routine. Probiotics contain good bacteria that may improve your digestive health.
Eating our favorite summertime foods doesn’t mean that we have to suffer for it! By focusing on strengthening your stomach environment with herbs and supplements, weaning yourself from heartburn medication when necessary, and moderating acid producing foods, the indulgences of summer can be enjoyed without remorse. And with the hot summer sun out, remember to drink lots of water!
About the author
Dr. Isaac Eliaz, a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine since the early 1980's, is a respected author, lecturer, researcher, product formulator and clinical practitioner.
To learn more, please visit www.dreliaz.org.
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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
The process of normalization often confuses newcomers to digital audio production.
Stuck in that "same old chords, same old progressions" rut? Key Chords helps guitarists discover new chords and new chord progressions. Ever study music theory? With Key Chords, music theory 101 is built in. No complicated formulas, theories, Aeolian what?
Welcome to Neal's Intervallic studies for the guitar. My goal here is to teach players to break away from the usual linear and scalar pattern approach to the guitar. I always found it more musical when using a wide intervallic style of playing like Eric Johnson and several Fusion Jazz Players. So for now, I have placed a few examples below to get you guys started. Enjoy! Here is a couple of video examples on my youtube page using some of these techniques.
Dear Friend, If you follow this simple plan, you'll immediately and dramatically improve your playing, guaranteed. But first, let me give you a real- life example... How long do you think that Brett Favre (Super Bowl winning QB of the Green Bay Packers) would have lasted if he said something like... "I really don't want to work out. I don't like it.
General Tips Published on October 19th, 2011 | by Caesar (Kuwait Music) Open chord shapes are a great way to make your guitar sound harmonious and “full”.
Songwriting Exercises by Joel Mabus Scaffolding Stuck?
About the Performers Bob Grillo , a native New Yorker, studied with Al Peterson, then Sal Salvador. At a New York gig in 1960, he met James D’Aquisto, who was a bass player and an apprentice to John D’Angelico. He visited D’Angelico’s shop on Kenmare Street and ordered a blonde New Yorker, which was finished in November 1961. After ten years of touring, Grillo’s guitar needed cosmetic repairs, and D’Aquisto re-lacquered and re-bound it in 1970.
By Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan In some music business schools, they still give students assignments that go like this: “Assume that you have one million dollars. Make up a marketing plan on how to promote a band.” Here’s a realistic assignment: “Go to MySpace. Pick a band. You have zero dollars.
In a recent “ Open Mic ” we asked you, “Which music-related sites do you visit regularly?” This article is a summary of the great suggestions given in the comments to that article. You can make the list even longer by commenting on this article. Music Education Sites
Download all the free jam tracks now! A lot of them anyway - 83 of the jam tracks for guitar players are available here on the one page. If you want more information on each track then go to the page that the jam track is from for music theory and other information. Taken from the Play Guitar Blues 01 page:
L’application permet à chacun d’exprimer toute sa musicalité à travers une interface ludique et accessible à tous, et de partagez des compositions personnelles !
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The Snaggletooth fish is a powerful predatory fish that can be found in the deep water between Australia andNew Zealand. Some people joke asking if this was just a science experiment gone wrong, mainly because they resemble the South American Payara fish so much.
Snaggletooth fish are known to grow up to a little over 2 feet long in length !!! They are scaleless, black with luminous purple color on its sides and has a very large mouth with long pointed comb like teeth . They are equipped with a luminous red chin barbel that is long and slender they use to lure prey into striking distance and they feed on mid-water fishes and crustaceans.
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Travel to Austria : Vienna
An idle stroll around the Innere Stadt, the core of the historic city. For much more, see Rolf Toman, ed., Vienna: Art and Architecture (1999).
Here's that core, as shown in a model built in the early 1850s by Eduard Fischer. It's in the Historical Museum of the City Of Vienna and shows the city just before its wall was removed later in the decade and replaced by the Ringstrasse or ring road. The Danube Canal is on the left. St. Stephen's Cathedral is far and away the dominant building in the city. On the right, the gardens of the Hofburg or Habsburg palace are prominent, with the palace to their left, marked by a prominent courtyard. Just inside the city wall and at the lower right, the temple-form Theseum stands in a patch of trees.
The Donau Kanal was originally a branch of the Danube. About 1870 it was canalized. Its general course and relationship to the main river is like a bow to which the bowstring of the river is tied. The river, or bowstring in this metaphor, is about eight miles long.
From the top of St. Stephens, the city spreads southwesterly far beyond the line of the old wall. The Michaelerkuppel or dome of the Hofburg is on the far right. Closer to the skyline there is a pair of domes, dark with light-colored ribs. They mark the city's twin museums of art history and natural history. The massive building between and slightly below them is the national library.
The main facade of St. Stephens was finished about 1230, but these things are hardly ever really finished, and the four decorative gables on the side were added in the 1850s, when less was definitely not more. (The previous picture was taken from the tower on the right here.)
The Albertine Choir, from the 14th Century, is named for Albrecht II.
Nave, with vaulting from about 1450.
The famous pulpit, from about 1480. The material is sandstone; the amazingly realistic figures are of Saints Gregory, Jerome, and Augustine.
Outside the cathedral, it's just a minute's walk to the Graben, a focal point for shoppers. The central monument, from 1693, recalls the retreat of the plague 14 years earlier, in 1673.
Store fronts can be understated but elegant, as here on the nearby Kohlmarkt.
A particular favorite is the caryatid.
They often come in pairs.
Or double pairs.
The male form is the Atlantes. On the left: "He hurt my feelings!" From the right: "Now what's he sulking about?" Or maybe it's all bafflement at the Hotel Habsburg, now as defunct as the empire itself.
Vienna was heavily rebuilt in the 19th Century. One of the new buildings at that time was a grand city hall, which replaced this building, known now simply as the Alte Rathaus, or old city hall. It's on Wipplingerstrasse and only a two-minute walk from the cathedral. The facade is from the early 18th Century, though the building dates to 1316.
Across the street from the old city hall, this is the former Bohemian High Chancellery, designed by Fischer von Erlach and completed in 1714.
The opposite side of the old chancellery, facing the Judenplatz.
The Hofburg was the Habsburg residence from 1278 until the disaster of 1914. Here is the entrance facing the Kohlmarkt. It's the Michaeltor, under the green copper Michaelerkuppel. The sculptures in the foreground, all of Hercules, were done by four different sculptors who might as well have been brothers. The gate itself was finished as late as 1893, but Ferdinand Kirschner, the designer, worked from an old engraving.
A minute's walk to the east and you're in the Josephsplatz, with an equestrian figure of Joseph II, son of Maria Theresa. In the background is the Austrian National Library, formerly the Hofbibliothek, designed by Fischer von Erlach and completed in 1726 with an image of Minerva riding in her chariot, a quadriga. To the sides are two golden globes, one representing the celestial and the other the terrestrial. Atlas and Gaea support them. It's not a bad juxtaposition, since Joseph tried to be an enlightened monarch.
We've passed under the Michaelertor and entered In Der Burg, the palace yard, with a statue of Francis I. The buildings are both from the 17th century: the Amalienhof on the right and on the left the Leopoldinische Trakt, later the residence of Maria Theresa and Joseph II.
We've crossed the yard to look back at the dome and, below the old imperial chancellery, later the residence of Francis-Joseph.
Panning slightly to the right to the oldest building of the lot, the Schweizerhof, remodeled in 1550. The building is much older than the name, which originated in the 18th Century, when Swiss troops worked for the husband of Maria Theresa.
The Swiss Gate, from 1552, is an early example of the classicism that in later centuries would become a mania. The columns are inlaid with metal bands.
High on the old imperial chancellery are the arms of Charles VI, Maria Theresa's father. The statue of Francis I is by Pompeo Marchesi.
Here, from the Art-History Museum, is a bust of Francis made in 1816 in Milan. Francis was the nephew of Joseph II, who was none too impressed by the boy, who was hardworking but a plodder, and obstinate. As Francis II, he grew up to be the last Holy Roman Emperor; as Francis I, he was emperor of Austria (a title he adopted after Napoleon had done something similar in France). He was also simply Francis, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia.
Immediately to the south of the old palace is the Neue Burg, completed just before 1914. The open space is the Heldenplatz, or Hero's Square, built in the 1870s.
The inscription, dated 1893, acknowledges Francis-Joseph.
Close-up of the figure in the previous picture. He's Prince Eugene of Savoy, French by birth but in the service of the Habsburgs by choice. Fighting the Turks during the siege of Vienna in 1683, he launched a career that took him to the rank of field marshal by age 29.
That's nothing! Facing him in the square is the Archduke Karl, who became field marshal general of the Holy Roman Empire in 1796, at the even tenderer age of 25. This statue and the one of Prince Eugene were both by Anton Fernkorn; the pose here shows Karl raising the regimental flag as he leads his forces against Napoleon's armies in the battle of Aspern.
Behind Karl is the Theseus Temple, designed by Peter von Nobile to accommodate a sculture by Canova of Theseus conquering a centaur. The statue was commissioned by Napoleon but acquired by Francis I, who placed it in this specially constructed building. About 1890 it was moved to the Art-History Museum.
Here it is, an allegory of reason conquering passion, or from the particular viewpoint of the Austrians, of their victory over Napoleon. Whack!
The south side of the hero's square faces this classic Outer Gate, the Ausseres Burgtor, designed, like the Theseum, by Peter von Nobile and completed in 1824. The inscription, "Justice is the foundation of kingdoms," was the motto of Francis I, whose notion of justice, however, corresponded almost perfectly to his subjects' willingness to obey him.
The east or opposite facade of the Neue Burg, from the Burggarten.
Loosely, something like "The collective love of the people sustains these buildings."
In the garden, a bronze statue of Francis-Joseph.
A bust of him faces his grandfather Francis I in the Art-History Museum. Francis I had ruled for many years, from 1792 to 1835, but Francis-Joseph outdid him, reigning from 1848 to 1916. The ultimate civil servant, he was meticulous, had an excellent memory, as little imagination as his predecessors, and a determination to preserve the privileges of rank.
Outside the palace, the Vienna State Opera faces the Ringstrasse that replaced the old city wall in the 1850s. Francis-Joseph opened the building in 1869, but only the facade survived World War II. The rest was rebuilt.
Facing the palace across the Ringstrasse is a matching pair of museums. This is the art museum, designed by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer. Opened in 1889, it houses a collection that was begun in the 1550s by Ferdinand I, the brother of Charles V. The figure at the top is Pallas Athena.
A detail from the facade of the Natural History Museum.
The opposing figures.
In between the two museums is Platz's bronze of Maria Theresa, by Caspar von Zumbusch, 1888; it's an odd placement, since in her Catholic piety she could have had little interest in the implications of natural history.
Behind the museums, the enormous Habsburg stables, built 1725 but altered in 1850; now a cultural center.
St. Charles Church was commissioned by Charles VI, designed by Fischer von Erlach, the designer of the royal library, and consecrated in 1737 to commemorate the end of an attack of the plague. The columns, reminiscent of Trajan's in Rome, recount scenes from the life of St. Charles Borromeo, who as archbishop of Milan had dealt with an attack of the plague in 1576 and who had become the patron saint of plagues. The columns have been interpreted both as the pillars of Hercules, symbolizing civilization, and as echoes of peaceful Second Century Rome.
Also on the Ringstrasse, the New City Hall, completed in 1883 to a Gothic design by Friedrich Schmidt.
One of the grand staircases.
The Festival Hall.
Close by the Gothic city hall, the neoclassical Parliament of 1883, designed by Theophil von Hansen, a Dane who had worked--no surprise--in Athens.
Another Athena, this one by Carl Kundmann.
Vienna University, by Heinrich von Ferstel.
Another von Ferstel project, the Votive Church, completed on the Ringstrasse in 1879 to mark the escape of Franz Joseph from an attempted assassination.
We've worked our way around toward the western end of the Ringstrasse. Here: the Central Telegraph office, with K.K. signifying Kaiser und Konig, that is to say Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. The title is analogous to the old British Queen-Empress and King-Emperor.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, walking through Austria in 1934, saw the same initials on a slip of paper given to him by a count helping Fermor visit a gallery. The card had said K.u.K. Kammerer u. Rittmeister i.R, or Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and retired Captain of Horse." Fermor wrote of "regiments disbanded and the horses dead long ago. The engraved words croaked loud of spent glories." (A Time of Gifts, 2005 , p. 137.)
The Stock Exchange, completed in 1877 by Theophil von Hansen, architect of the Parliament Building.
The Rossauer Kaserne, the Horse Forest Barracks, was completed as part of the city's defenses in 1869. After World War II it became the headquarters of the Vienna police. Other agencies have come along, including the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, based here.
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United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) was founded in 1949, when parents of children with cerebral palsy came together looking for help, answers and information. The spirit of that watershed moment has permeated UCP’s policy efforts from the organization’s inception.
Since its founding, UCP has been a voice for issues important to people with disabilities. In the 1950s and ’60s, UCP raised awareness about horrific living conditions in state institutions, leading to the liberation of thousands of people with disabilities from institutional living nationwide. Not only did UCP shine a light on this injustice, its affiliate network created new housing and support solutions to ensure greater independence and full citizenship for people with disabilities.
That combination of advocacy, strategic policy direction and providing services that maximize independence is the hallmark of UCP’s efforts to this day.
We’re still pushing for civil rights protections and public policies that ensure fair and full citizenship for people with a spectrum of disabilities. We hope you’ll join us!
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Every Little Step
Broadway doc is one singular sensation. (Man, you could repeat these lyrics all day.)
Every Little Step
Directed by James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo
When you think about it, Every Little Step is a mind-bendingly meta experience. On its surface, it’s a simple, straightforward documentary that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the casting of a big Broadway musical. And what musical would that be? A Chorus Line. Sounds familiar. What’s that about? Well, A Chorus Line offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the casting of a big Broadway musical.
We live in an age when reality shows, docu-reality shows and reality show competitions have largely taken over the airwaves, simultaneously expanding and diminishing the territory once owned exclusively by documentary films. Given that we can see show business stripped bare every week on “American Idol” or “Dancing With the Stars” or “America’s Got Talent,” what interest does a filmic documentary about A Chorus Line hold? Heck, if we wanna stick exclusively with reality shows about auditioning for musicals, we can choose from "Grease: You're the One That I Want!" or “Any Dream Will Do” or “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” or “Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.” What sets Every Little Step apart?
For starters, there’s the musical itself. Every dancer in the world wants a part in A Chorus Line. Not just because it’s a legendary, Tony-winning stage extravaganza, but because it’s about them. It’s about dancers. It’s about their lives. It’s about their struggles. It’s about the emotional roller coaster they subject themselves to in auditioning for a role—even one as lowly as a member of the chorus line.
The original stage version was put together by choreographer Michael Bennett, who conceived of the production by recording a dozen hours’ worth of conversations with his dancer friends. Those original reel-to-reel recordings are interspersed throughout the auditions depicted in Every Little Step. Many of those conversations are reproduced verbatim in the book for A Chorus Line, proving that this musical is no mere show biz confabulation. The show went on to form the perfect storm over Broadway, attracting the assistance of famed composer Marvin Hamlisch and legendary Broadway producer Joseph Papp. It danced away with nine Tony Awards in 1975 and captured a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
As Every Little Step walks us through the laborious process of casting a triumphant 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, it details the creation of the musical itself. This is crucial, not only because of the fact that the original performers were essentially playing themselves on stage, but because many of those original creators are working on the revival. The countless hopefuls (around 3,000) lined up on the sidewalk of 42nd Street will be dancing and singing and acting their hearts out for Bennett’s longtime collaborator Bob Avian. (Bennett himself passed away in the ’80s.) They’ll also be doing it in front of some of the original cast members. Imagine, if you can, the pressure on some young actress trying out for the role of “Connie” while Baayork Lee looks on. Not only did Lee originate the role on Broadway, giving her a certain provenance, her conversations with Bennett provided all the background on the character, a spunky but undersized Asian-American gal trying to muscle her way onto the Great White Way. Lee is Connie. It’s like auditioning for the role of Mozart while standing in front of Mozart. Like I said, very meta.
Believe it or not, it’s a year and a half between the first cattle call and the raising of the curtain on Broadway. As the months roll on and the hopefuls are slowly culled down to the last few shining stars, Every Little Step starts to suffer just slightly under the shadow of “American Idol” et al. We’re intimately familiar with this process by now: The emotional backstories, the tension of the competition, the cracking under pressure, the tears of the losers, the dreams of the winners. Fortunately, Every Little Step doesn’t go out of its way to manufacture interpersonal drama. There are no catfights here, no comic relief performers, no evil judges, no gals in bikinis. This is all about the show. And it shows. Whether or not these performers make the final cut is in some ways irrelevant. These people are dedicated, addicted even, to the art of the dance. And few (very few) will ever get the chance at a starring role. But they all know each other. They’ve all been through this process of acceptance and rejection a thousand times or more. (Unlike the amateurs on “American Idol.”) The sense of camaraderie these professional performers have is palpable. Win or lose, each is starring in his or her own real-life version of A Chorus Line.
The story of A Chorus Line is the story of Broadway—its highs, its lows and the ever-shining promise of the spotlight. The story of Every Little Step is the story of A Chorus Line—which, as we just established, is the story of Broadway. If you’re looking for a documentary about the casting of a Broadway musical about the casting of a Broadway musical, Every Little Step fits the bill with emotion, energy and sly, self-referencial verve.
Every Little Step; Directed by James D. Stern & Adam Del Deo; Unrated; Opens Friday, 6/12.
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Electric MINI E Gets Big Thumbs Up in UC Davis Field Trial Study - VIDEO ENHANCED
MINI E meets 90 percent of participants' daily driving needs
DAVIS, CA - June 13, 2011: The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group today released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users - including over 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010. The report shows that the participants found the cars to be fun yet practical, easy to drive and recharge, and many said they would buy an electric car in the next five years, according to UC Davis researchers.
As battery electric vehicles (BEVs) enter the commercial marketplace for the first time, the results of this year-long study by the UC Davis Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center provide valuable insight into new ways that consumers value BEVs.  The UC Davis study is part of a whole set of studies being conducted by the BMW Group on electric vehicles, which includes research in China, Germany and the U.K.
Through online and telephone surveys of the participating households, and diaries and in-person interviews with a subset of more than 40 households, the UC Davis MINI E research team examined user behavior, infrastructure use, costs, environmental benefits, and other aspects of electric driving.
Among the key findings of the study are the following:• 100% of respondents said BEVs are fun to drive and practical for daily use
• Respondents said the cars met 90% of their daily driving needs
• 71% of respondents drove less than 40 miles/day; 95% drove less than 80 miles/day
• 99% of respondents said home charging was easy to use
• 71% of respondents said they are now more likely to purchase a BEV than they were a year ago while only 9% said they are less likely.
• 88% of respondents said they are interested in buying a BEV or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in the next five years
• By the end of the lease period, MINI E drivers overwhelmingly thought that the electricity for charging their BEV should come from renewable resources such as solar, wind and hydropower, and were strongly opposed to using coal to generate electricity for their vehicles.
Click PLAY to watch testimonials from 2010 test in New York
Compelling combination of "clean and fun"
UC Davis Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center director Tom Turrentine said the study highlights three new and potentially significant ways that drivers value BEVs. First, the MINI E meets drivers' desire for a vehicle that is both environmentally friendly and fun to drive. Drivers loved the vehicle's quick acceleration and quiet operation.
"What we heard over and over again in our interviews is how fun it was to drive. That's in part because it's a MINI and in part because of the feel of electric drive," Turrentine said.
Second, drivers find value in using electricity as a fuel and in mastering their individual energy use through efficient driving behaviors. "The combination of limited onboard energy and extreme efficiency make BEVs the premier appliance for people to experience energy use," says Turrentine. Additionally, the drivers learned to appreciate the car's powerful regenerative braking function, which returns energy to the battery and allowed them to drive using a single pedal for acceleration and braking.
Third, drivers like to develop their clean driving territory. "Drivers start talking about the MINI E as a special way to explore their region. They of course can go anywhere in their gas car, but they like to talk about where they can go in their MINI E," Turrentine says.
"Range anxiety" not a big issue for experienced MINI E drivers
While range is often held up as a limitation of BEVs, the MINI E's range of around 100 miles was acceptable to most drivers most of the time. "We found that households adapted their driving around the capabilities of the vehicle and even explored ways to maximize the use of the MINI E," said Turrentine.
By studying the MINI E drivers' usage patterns and need for range, researchers were able to determine that strategic placement of charging stations could allow drivers to reach most of their desired destinations using a BEV that has a range of 90 to 100 miles. Most charging occurred at home, at night, and 99% of respondents said home charging was easy to use.
BMW Group prepares†2nd phase of its EV strategy with BMW ActiveE
"The MINI E studies are extremely valuable for us as they show that electric cars are already today offering an attractive mobility solution to a broader spectrum of customers.† While reducing the tail pipe emissions to zero, the MINI E provides the fun that users expect when driving our products. The results of the UC Davis study have a direct impact on the development of all BMW Group electric vehicles to come," says Ulrich Kranz, head of project i, BMW Group.† "BMW Group now is developing the next generation of full electric cars, with the BMW ActiveE test fleet coming into the market in 2011 and the series production BMW i3 following in 2013."
Click PLAY to watch the original MINI E promo video
The all-electric BMW ActiveE will be available in select US markets beginning in late 2011, for a two-year lease at $499/month, with a $2,250 down payment. Details can be found at www.BMWUSA.com/ActiveE.
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Anyone who has recently moved to New York has probably found themselves face to face with a housing crisis, so to speak, of a very personal sort: the premium on space makes for a very distinct kind of culture shock.
Well, industrial designer William Lee—a recent transplant from San Francisco—decided to do something about it: he's partnered with Manu Garza of architecture and design studio et al. collaborative to "challenge the limitations of urban space."
"LEAN" is the first product of their collaboration. It's a simple, geometric shape that functions as a chair (when placed against a corner) or a coffee table when resting on the ground.
The dual-function piece is characterized by its origami-like form, something like a pyramid that's been cut in half, with one side turned inside out... if that makes sense.
I've seen leaning chairs before—and frankly "LEAN" looks like something I could make with a bit of plywood and spare time—but I'm kind of digging the product photography. Clearly, anyone who might boast such a palatial abode would probably forgo the uncompromising angles of "LEAN."
Alternately, it's a different take on minimalism from et al's previously seen "fLume" lamp.
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REVIEW DATE : January 25, 2013
PROS: Citizen science at its best. Has proved successful in finding new planets and planet candidates. Lets you participate in cutting-edge astronomical research. Good planet-hunting interface.
When I first reviewed the Planet Hunters Web site in January 2011, the project was in its infancy. The site and its navigation had some bugs to work out. But it had a compelling yet seemingly quixotic premise: That a group of volunteers, peering in Web browsers at graphs of stars' brightness based on public data from NASA's Kepler planet-hunting telescope, might be able to discover planets that Kepler's own search algorithms may have missed.
Two years later, that concept has been borne out beyond any skeptic's wildest imaginings. In September 2011, Planet Hunters announced its first two planet candidates, and soon after announced several more. The project's first confirmed discovery—a planet circling a binary star in a quadruple star system—came in fifth on CNN's list of the top 10 science stories of 2012.
In January 2013, the project announced a second confirmed planet—a Jupiter-sized world orbiting in the so-called habitable zone of a sunlike star—as well as 42 new planetary candidates, including 15 in their respective stars' habitable zones. These worlds—ranging in size from about 2.5 Earth radii up to slightly larger than Jupiter—are too large to support life as we know it, presumably being gas giants, they may well have large moons.
Planet Hunters volunteer Kian Jek was recently awarded the Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award, the American Astronomical Society's most prestigious award given annually to an amateur astronomer, for his work on behalf of the project. Kian, one of the two hunters credited with Planet Hunters' initial confirmed discovery, is one of a small cadre of skilled volunteers that have supported the Planet Hunters science team—who, although professionals, also volunteer their time to work on this project— by vetting and cataloguing potential planetary candidates, modeling stellar and planetary systems, keeping tabs on exotic variable stars such as “heartbeat binaries” and dwarf novae, as well as tracking unlisted eclipsing binary systems in which a pair of stars orbit each other in our line of sight, each eclipsing the other in turn.
PC Planet Hunting
Planet Hunters is a collaboration between Yale University and the Zooniverse, a Web hub that hosts a number of citizen science projects. It got started with astronomy projects, the first being Galaxy Zoo, in which the public was enlisted to classify galaxies in images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; it's since added others such as Moon Zoo and Solar StormWatch. Nearly half of the 14 Zooniverse projects are astronomy related; of the others, one of them, Cell Slider focuses on identifying cells for cancer research; others are related to tracking wildlife, climate science, and studying the ancient Greeks. Although Planet Hunters isn't officially connected to the Kepler mission, there are close ties and cooperation between the two.
150,000 Points of Light
Kepler uses the “transit method” for planet hunting, searching for tiny dips in a star’s brightness caused by the passage (transit) of a planet in front of the star. Kepler repeatedly (every 29 minutes) images the same star field near the constellation Cygnus showing more than 150,000 stars, using a photometer to precisely measure each star's brightness. These readings generate light curves—plots showing variations in a star's luminosity over time. A transit shows as a string of data points descending below the star's light curve. Kepler uses search algorithms to find transits in its data—so far it's credited with more than 100 exoplanet discoveries, and has published a list of more than 2,700 planet candidates.
But Kepler monitors a huge variety of stars: some of constant brightness, others that flicker erratically or pulsate like clockwork. Eclipsing binaries—two stars that orbit each other and periodically eclipse one another—often show transits similar to those from planets. Although Kepler's planet search algorithms are very good at detecting prospective planets, they don’t catch everything, and the human eye has been shown to be better at detecting anomalies in some pattern-recognition tasks than a computer. That's where Planet Hunters comes in. Having multiple participants view each image greatly improves the odds of not missing a world.
Keep Reading: The Planet Hunters Site
In order to access Planet Hunters' features, as well as get credit on the site for any discoveries, it's necessary to register: a free, painless process that allows access to the other Zooniverse sites as well. After a video and tutorial, you're ready to hunt.
Planet Hunters runs on Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer 9 (it doesn't run with IE8). The site is also optimized for use with Safari on an iPad, although there is no Planet Hunters mobile app.
Regardless of browser, to search for planets, you click on the Classify link. A graph showing a star's light curve over a roughly month-long period appears, as well as some facts about the star. Vertical and horizontal sliders let you zoom in on the graph. You're asked several questions: whether the star is quiet or varies in brightness; whether there are any transits (if so, you're asked to mark them); and whether you want to comment on the star. You can “collect” the light curves; most hunters have at least one collection of possible transits they've found. Once you're done, Planet Hunters serves you up another light curve. This process is well designed and by and large works without a hitch.
Site navigation has greatly improved since I first reviewed the site. That said, there still are some issues. For example, you can comment on a light curve if you see something notable, and see other people's comments for the current quarter, but you can't read comments on the star from previous quarters of data (except the first). This may become an issue in cases where a light curve shows an apparent planetary transit, and it would be helpful to see what others have said about the light curve.
Another issue is with the pages listing planetary candidates. You can view light curves of stars (either that you've classified, or an overall list) in which Planet Hunters has found potential planets, but sometimes you will see the same star listed multiple times. Many of these (unofficial) candidates have since been claimed as official candidates by the Kepler project, and one list of candidates stored on an Excel spreadsheet downloadable from the site doesn't seem to be integrated with the rest of the candidates on the Web page. And now that Planet Hunters has started claiming official candidates in published and submitted papers, it may be confusing to distinguish between these and the informal candidates.
With the announcement of 42 official Planet Hunters candidates came the assurance that the candidate pages would be updated to reflect these additions. Participants can hope that the project will iron out the other kinks in the candidate pages when this is done.
Planet Hunters isn't for everyone. Transits are rare: for one to be seen, a star has to have planets close to it, and the planetary system must be exactly edge-on to us so that a planet would pass in front of the star. Numerous planets have already been found in Kepler data, including most of those easiest to find. Looking at hundreds of graphs isn't everyone's idea of fun. But many of the light curves—particularly of variable stars—are remarkable in their own right, having an almost artistic beauty.
I've been a very active participant in the site nearly since its inception, and have classified many thousands of light curves. I've come across many interesting objects, including a few unlisted eclipsing binary stars, several light containing transits that were later announced as candidates by the Kepler team or other researchers rather than Planet Hunters, and I even among the people cited for having reported one of the 42 potential planets that were recently announced.
The Search for Other Earths
Now that there are several years of data, though, the possibility of finding longer-period planets, including ones in their stars' habitable zones, has become greater. This was borne out in January 2013 not only by the Planet Hunters announcement that included 1 confirmed planet and 15 planet candidates in the habitable zone, but by the 461 planetary candidates announced by the Kepler project the same day, some of which were in their stars' habitable zones, including four worlds just a little larger than Earth.
The idea that the Sun is a star, and that other stars may have their own planets, goes back at least to the ancient Greeks. The Copernican revolution cemented this concept, but not without backlash: In 1600, Italian philosopher and monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic; among his offenses was the assertion that there were “…countless suns and countless earths all rotating around their suns.” It wasn’t until the late 20th Century that the search for exoplanets took off in earnest. The first was discovered in 1995; more than 800 have since been confirmed.
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Letting your child to understand every moves and actions may cause reactions and consequences is important. First step is to giving them appropriate punishment and consequences for any rule breaking actions they have. Parenting Ideas has an article on 6 tips for effective and consequences – Related, Respectful, Reasonable, Strong, Swift, and Short-term:
… The first was designed by Stephen Glenn, the author of “How to Raise Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World.” It involves the three R’s of logical consequences: related, respectful and reasonable.
Related. Related simply means related to the behavior. If a child violates curfew, making him stay late at school or mow the lawn is not related. The temporary loss of the privilege of going out is related.
Respectful. We need to avoid two things here: The first is humiliating the teen-ager; the second is inconveniencing the adult.
Reasonable. “You are grounded for life and will never see the light of day again’’ is unreasonable. `”Your behavior and choices have caused you to lose the privilege of going out tomorrow night’’ is reasonable…
Parenting Your Teenager: 6 Tips for Effective Discipline and Consequences – [Parenting Ideas]
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HAYS, KS -- Dr. Howard Reynolds, curator emeritus of botany for Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History, will present a special lecture at 7 p.m. Friday, March 22, in the museum's Engel Education Center.
Reynolds, also a professor emeritus of botany at FHSU, will lecture on "Patagonia: Land of Giganotosaurus."
The lecture is in conjunction with the current traveling exhibit at the Sternberg, "Jurassic Park: The Life and Death of Dinosaurs," which features a full-mount fossil cast of the Giganotosaurus, a large predator first discovered in 1993, in Patagonia, South America. The creature is a predecessor of the Tyrannosaurus rex and is larger than the largest Tyrannosaur ever discovered.
The fossil of the Giganotosaurus was more than 80-percent complete.
The lecture is free to members of the Sternberg Museum and is $1 for non-members.
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As our knowledge and understanding of shale plays (both gas and liquids) deepens every day, it becomes increasingly evident that in order to maximize potential returns, an integrated approach to shale plays is important. Geologists, engineers, geophysicists, petrophysicists, and geochemists need to talk to each other to develop a deeper and more complete picture of what is really happening with the reservoirs as well as the larger trends.
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This article first appeared in Italian. To read the original click here
It’s unfair, everyone knows, to blame the sins of the father on the son – and thirty year old Saverio Costanzo must at least be aware that his surname carries a history like a trademark. Mediaset, da daa da daan, P2, the shirt with moustache etc. etc. [Translator's Note: Maurizio Costanzo, his father, has had a long illustrious career as one of Italy's most prominent broadcasters]. So when Saverio won the Golden Leopard prize at Locarno, hands up who in Italy, modern and prey to cronyism as it is, didn’t think straight away of the most powerful tele-journalist (together with Mr Vespa, obviously).
But after, watching his film, Private, and hearing him, the prize winner and proud director of this gem, talking about it, you’ll be convinced that there’s a real talent, and whether he’s been aided by his surname or family is irrelevant, because he’s made a first-class work, both from the point of view of content and direction.
Shortly after his twentieth birthday, and freshly graduated in Communication studies, having added to his CV radio presenter, screenwriter for telefilms on RAI [the Italian State broadcaster], and a couple of advertisements, he landed in the United States, where he dedicated himself to documentary, working first as an operator, then assistant director and finally director, after which he returned to Italy where he put to use the fruits of his trans-atlantic apprenticeship, filming the docu-fiction for TV Sala Rossa [Red Room] set in the Umberto I polyclinic in Rome.
Three years later, his big screen debut arrives in the form of Private. Set in Palestine, it is a metaphor for the great conflicts and the forced cohabitation that these generate. “The idea isn’t original, but comes from a true story that happened in the Gaza strip, and recounts the ‘coerced’ cohabitation that started in 1992 when the house of a Palestinian intellectual, an English teacher, head of a secondary school, was occupied by the Israeli army, because a settlement was to be built five metres from his house. In the film we changed lots of truths from the real story, naturally, to make a film”, explained Costanzo when presenting his film in Bologna last January. A sort of documentary then, or in Costanzo’s own definition, a psychodrama (“I call it ‘psychodrama’… maybe Moreno [Editor's note: Jacob Levi Moreno, founder of the 'Spontaneous Theatre'] would take it badly, because we didn’t specifically adopt his pyschological method, but I call it that because inside the film there’s lots of the new psychodrama”).
“For security reasons” it wasn’t possible to film in Palestine, and as a result Costanzo and his crew had to fall back on Calabria in Southern Italy. One wouldn’t notice the trick if you didn’t already know, as the external scenes are limited (and the Calabria of Private could well be Palestine, Lebanon, Greece, Albania, … – one face, one race – a poor, dusty, mediterranean country, arid from the sun). “Probably had we been in Palestine or in Israel,” continues the director,” we would have been distracted by checkpoints, by armoured cars. Staying in this house and having nothing outside except Calabria forced us to find the narrative subterfuges not only in the writing phase [Editor's note: Costanzo did, though, spend six months in Palestine/Israel collecting material], but also during the shooting, and they [the actors] had to give to the living room, and the bedroom, the air of Palestine or of Israel, they had to refill it with the spirit of their own country.”
And there you have the ‘psychological method’ adopted by Costanzo to prompt his protagonists, an intense Mohammad Bakri and a splendid Lior Miller in the front line, as well as Tomer Russo, Areen Omari, Hend Ayoub, all the way down to the children to call forth their own emotions, to give the film a realistic character and to remove it from its Italian-ess (the crew, as well as the location, were all Italian): “In general in the cinema you give reference points to the actors as to where the cameras are. We ignored the rules, giving the actor a space like a theatre, a free space in which they could move and then it was for us, with a very light technology, with the camera on our shoulders, who went to look for the emotion. And because the script was in Arabic, and we didn’t speak a word of Arabic, it was a bit like a continuous translation, that, with the movement of the camera, we tried to make for ourselves. We weren’t so interested in a cinematographic language – even if the film has a certain cinematic style/form – we were more interested in a human language. We wanted the people to be the protagonists, not the director. It’s because of this that I say the film isn’t a director’s film: the emotions aren’t constructed through technical details, with wide shots, with close ups… you can build them by getting an actor to improvise. I think it’s one of the few films [...] where there’s no close up. Our work was to collect the emotion in each scene. Yes sometimes we had a face, but if at other times we had a back, that back also had, in some way, something to say. Bakri acts with everything, he doesn’t only act with the face, and his voice. So we used these tracking shots without interrupting the emotional flow that had to be prized over the technical level, and then editing we had the third writing of the film – the first was the screenplay, then the shooting, and thirdly the editing – to search for what the eye must, out of habit and logic, see, and that’s a shot, a reverse shot, an action, a movement [so that] the action is not too static”.
So the actors were asked to be themselves during the shooting, following a script yes, a stage-managed narrative, but fundamentally expressing their own emotions, their lives as Palestinians and Israelis, and each one acting in their own language apart from a word of English here and there, when the two groups, the family on one side, and the soldiers on the other, meet each other or collide with each other inside this living space. With the crew and the director following them with the camera, not understanding a word; as Costanzo admits, almost moved, during his description of those days in Calabria, “even though we didn’t understand, I mean we knew the sense because we had written it, but because we didn’t understand Arabic or Hebrew, we managed to be touched, and it was like a small miracle”.
All the characters are consciously stereotyped, “monochromatic, without shades”; the intent is to make them “become a metaphor for something else”, to come to a point in which they become symbols for all conflicts and the film ceases to relate “to the Territories, to Israel, but rather relates somewhat to all wars. We [Editor's Note: as well as Saverio, Camilla Costanzo, Sayed Qashua and Alessio Cremonini were co-scriptwriters for the film] while writing partly immagined that we were writing an Italian story about the Nazi occupation. We didn't want to tie in with the cultural identity of the [occupied] territories, trying to universalise the emotions. The fear for example doesn’t have to be the fear of a Palestinian child, but can be simply fear, so whether French, German, or Palestinian it doesn’t change”.
The predominant presence in the film is that of the family, and Mohammed Bakri has the principle role within the family, as his character would have in real life: it’s the father in fact that takes the decision on which the whole story is based. When the Israelis invade the privacy of his house, of his family, the father “holds that peaceful resistance, meaning remaining in the house, is a life lesson for himself and his children, that in this way they won’t hate themselves, they won’t hate the Israelis, or their parents. He believes that at the moment that you become a refugee, you’ll hate for t
he rest of your life not only those who forced you to leave your own house, but also yourself”. A pacifist then, that, with the fear and idealism of pacifists, carries out his own personal revolt against the occupation, not only of his house and his land, but also of his very existence and that of those dearest to him.
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Ford has partnered with State Farm to implement a system where the driver’s behavior can be directly sent to the insurance company via a 3G or 4G smartphone. The information collected can help determine the driver’s insurance premiums. Instead of calculating insurance costs based on statistical analysis, State Farm wants to know the customer’s actual driving behavior, such as how often they drive, how fast they go, and how far they drive each time.
The collaboration would be implemented on Ford’s current dashboard platform, SYNC. Unlike similar programs offered by other car insurance companies, Ford drivers can instantly track their behavior using a SYNC app and transfer the data to State Farm with a smartphone. There’s no need to install a physical module for a duration of time, and then sending the gadget back to the company.
Spokesperson at Ford commented that people who drive the national average of 1,000 miles per month can look to save 10 percent on insurance premiums, and low-mileage driver could save up to 40 percent.
Mike Wey, Senior Vice President of State Farm, expressed that, “We’re excited to have Ford as a partner in this effort. State Farm is always looking for better ways to serve our customers.”
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